He has a spatial ability and saves three children on his escape route.

Chapter 88 Big Black Digests Food

Before the city gates closed, Wen Yuxia and her two servants drove a mule cart out of Xinchuan County and stopped the cart at a pavilion about ten miles away from the city gates.

"Miss, I'll go check ahead," Bei Yi said anxiously, noticing that it was getting darker.

"Go!" Wen Yuxia's voice came from inside the carriage.

The veterans and warhorses from Pingyuan Pass were still waiting for two hours, their arrival uncertain. Not only was Bei Yi anxious, but Wen Yuxia herself was also growing impatient.

Xia Yichen had high hopes for these warhorses; they absolutely couldn't be harmed. Wen Yuxia sat in the carriage, but her heart soared into the distance with Bei Yi.

"North Second, you should go take a look too," Wen Yuxia's voice came from the carriage again a quarter of an hour later.

Wen Yuxia's martial arts skills were even higher than Gu Jiusi, the master of Bei Er and the others. She was left alone on the mule cart, and Bei Er wasn't worried at all. He simply said, "Miss, please be careful. I'll be right back," and then flew away.

The wait was long, but finally, Wen Yuxia heard Bei Er's excited shout, "Miss, the warhorses are here!"

Then Bei Yi's voice rang out: "Miss, the Duke of Zhenguo has personally escorted the warhorses to Xinchuan County."

Bei Yi and Bei Er used their internal energy to transmit their voices. They were still quite far from Wen Yuxia, so far that Wen Yuxia had to strain her ears to barely hear their faint shouts.

Wen Yuxia quickly scrambled out of the carriage, jumped off the mule cart, and leaped into the pavilion. With hundreds of horses galloping towards them, she was in for a world of trouble if she startled the foolish mule.

Wen Yuxia suddenly remembered the song she loved to hum in her past life, and was about to sing a few lines to suit the occasion, when she heard, "Clop clop clop clop clop, clop clop clop clop clop," the rapid sound of horses' hooves approaching from afar.

Hundreds of horses came to a stop in unison. Bei Yi and Bei Er leaped off their horses and ran to Wen Yuxia's ear, saying, "Miss, the Duke of Zhenguo has arrived."

Still somewhat excited, the two women retreated behind Wen Yuxia after reporting, reminiscing about the scene of the old soldier leading them on horseback.

A densely packed herd of horses, each crammed with people. Wen Yuxia glanced around briefly but couldn't make out the Duke of Zhenguo's features. She only sensed the imposing presence of the young man riding the lead horse.

She slightly lowered her body, performed a curtsy, and said in a clear voice, "Greetings, Duke Zhenguo,"

"Please rise, my benefactor," the young man leaped off his horse, offering a helping hand, but his words stunned everyone present.

Wen Yuxia was the first to come to her senses. She boldly looked up and stared directly at the boy who was much taller than her, and spoke without hesitation: "Bai Mu, it's you!"

A smile appeared on Lu Mubai's face: "Bai Mu is a name I came up with on the spot. Lu Mubai is my name."

He explained to Wen Yuxia apologetically that he hadn't dared to reveal his real name back then, fearing that the Third Prince and others would discover his whereabouts.

Wen Yuxia said with a faint smile, "The Duke of Zhenguo and his soldiers have traveled a long way to get here. They must be tired. Let's go to the horse farm first, settle in, and then catch up."

“Alright,” Lu Mubai said without any hesitation, taking Wen Yuxia’s hand and inviting her to ride with him. Bei Yi and Bei Er, as if in their old ways, drove the mule carts at the very back.

Knowing that the warhorses would arrive that evening, Gu Jiusi and Nan Er and the others waited at the entrance of the horse farm. Upon seeing the galloping horses, Nan Er and the others jumped up and down excitedly.

"Warhorse, how majestic!"

"The all-black one, look at its eyes, so arrogant!"

"Hehe, this horse sneezed at me, it likes me,"

……

The veterans busied themselves leading the horses to their stables, while Nan Er and the others chattered amongst themselves as they fed and watered the horses.

Looking at the feed in the manger, Lu Mubai said apologetically, "My benefactor, I didn't have much fodder on my end, so I only brought you grass seeds. I didn't expect you to have prepared everything so early."

Pingyuan Pass originally had two hundred warhorses, and Xia Qianchen reserved another one hundred for him. Adding the one hundred sent to Wen Yuxia, four hundred horses require a considerable amount of fodder per day.

The camp was running low on fodder, and the veterans firmly refused to take more from the camp, only bringing enough fodder for the horses to eat on the road.

Lu Mubai had originally thought the horses would go hungry tonight, but Wen Yuxia had already made arrangements; the horse feed here was no worse than the horse feed in their military camp.

"Lord Zhenguo, please just call me Miss Wen," Wen Yuxia said with a faint smile.

Lu Mubai laughed and said, "Don't call me Duke Zhenguo. I'm a few years older than you. Just call me Brother Lu. By the way, Miss Wen, what's that red stuff in the manger?"

"The red one is a sweet potato, which I found on my way out of the famine. The horse feed is made of sweet potatoes, soybeans, sunflower seeds, rice, and fried dough. I also prepared fruit for them after their meals."

Wen Yuxia pointed to the bamboo baskets piled up next to her, which were full of apples and pears of poor quality, and said calmly.

"Fruit after a meal? That's really unusual," Lu Mubai exclaimed in surprise. He had never heard of feeding horses fruit before. And Wen Yuxia was even feeding the horses rice! Lu Mubai bent down to examine the horse feed with some disbelief.

Veteran Qin Ling leaned over and said with a grin, "This is the first time I've ever seen a horse eat so happily. Duke Zhenguo, you'd better watch carefully and tell Xiao Zhou and the others to feed the horses like this when you get back."

Wen Yuxia said modestly, "This is just an experiment, and we don't know if it will be effective yet. Brother Lu, you can try adding some coarse grains to the horse's feed when you get back."

She keeps stallions here, so a balanced diet is essential. She also relies on these stallions to produce foals, so their food cannot be neglected.

The warhorses in the military camp are usually fed mostly hay, with a little bit of coarse grain added occasionally; there's no need to feed them anything too refined.

“Okay, I’ll have someone cook some brown rice and soybeans mixed with hay when we get back,” Lu Mubai nodded and said.

As everyone was talking, a black horse suddenly neighed. Lu Mubai turned his head, looked, and said with a laugh, "Big Black has eaten too much. Old Qin, take it to digest its food."

Big Black was a strong stallion, the leader of the herd, and also the gluttonous one. He wouldn't stop eating until his belly was completely full every night.

Moreover, after it has eaten its fill, it will call the groom to take it for a walk...

Wen Yuxia smiled and shook her head. It's just a horse; it's nothing like the magical thing Lu Mubai made it out to be. She maintains her figure by taking a slow walk for half an hour every night.

Lu Mubai didn't say much. He believed that once Qin Ling returned Dahei to the horse pen in half an hour, Wen Yuxia would believe that what he said was true.