Chapter 297 Painting a Horse

Cui Shusheng, Linqing County, has a poor family, a simple house, and a dilapidated wall.

On this day, when I was studying at home, I suddenly saw a horse lying among the weeds in the courtyard, with black skin and white lines, and uneven tail hair, which seemed to have been burned by the fire. Drive it away, and the night will come back, and I don't know where it came from. Cui Shusheng had a good friend who was an official in Shanxi. He wanted to visit him, but he didn't have a mount with him, so he rode a dark horse and set off to Shanxi and told his family, "If the owner comes to look for a horse, I will borrow it."

During the journey, the dark horse's four hooves were like the wind, a hundred miles in an instant. It was tireless and did not eat much. He ran on the road with a long strength, thousands of miles away, and arrived in half a day. When he came to Shanxi, Cui Shusheng led his horse through the market. The audience gathered and praised it. They all said, "Good horse, good horse."

When the king of Jin heard about this, he wanted to buy a dark horse with a lot of money. Cui Shusheng was worried that the owner would be angry and did not dare to sell it. In a blink of an eye, half a year later, he did not see the owner come to look for the horse, so he sold the dark horse to the royal palace with 800 taels of silver, bought another mule and rode back to his hometown.

A few years later, a lieutenant of Jin Wangfu was ordered to go to Linqing County to work. The mount under his feet was the dark horse. As he entered the boundary of Linqing, the black horse Huer broke free from the reins and fled east. The captain then chased him to a house. The head of the household was surnamed Zeng, and the dark horse broke into the hall, and then disappeared.

The captain went to the hall to search and saw a picture of Chen Ziang's horse painted on the wall. In the picture, a dark horse, the appearance was exactly the same as his own. The tail of the dark horse in the painting was burned by candlelight, and the hair was uneven.

The lieutenant pondered slightly and suddenly realized that he dared to love his own dark horse, which was changed by the horse in the painting.