Radishes and grapes are both genuine Don hippopotamuses.

The shoulder height of radish is about 160m.

The shoulder height of grapes is slightly shorter, about 150m.

The two mares that Skulucci chose for Ogata and Atachi are both excellent horses with docility, physical strength and leg power.

How docile are Ogata’s radish and Amachi’s grape?

It is so docile that anyone can ride it.

Ogata didn't do anything to the radish, and the radish bowed its head meekly to Ogata, letting Ogata go up and down its back. It was as if there had never been a "previous owner".

Grapes are as docile as radishes.

But riding such a docile horse, Atachi still has not been able to control it to pace slowly until now.

"Let's do it again." Ogata said.

"Well..." A-Machi, who was sitting on Putao's horse, took a deep breath, then lightly tapped Putao's horse's belly with his heel.

Both Carrot and Grape are well-trained war horses. After A-Ting tapped its belly with its hind heel, they immediately gave their trunks a slap, and then walked forward slowly while supporting A-Ting.

After Putao carried A-Machi forward, A-Machi immediately shook his body violently on his horse like a sailor on a ship facing a storm and swaying along with the deck.

In order to maintain the stability of her body, A-Machi immediately clamped the saddle and belly of the horse under her butt with her legs.

"Don't clamp your legs so tightly!" Ogata on the side immediately corrected, "Clamp your legs so tightly, the inner side of your thigh will be rubbed very painfully. If you wear it for a day, it will definitely bleed."

"But if I don't clamp it tightly, I will fall off!"

Emotionally sighed helplessly.

Until now, Omachi still hasn't figured out "how hard to clamp the saddle and the horse's belly so that it doesn't fall off."

Ogata was almost overwhelmed by Omachi's stupid fucking talent of opening doors for stupid people and her stupid horse riding talent.

However, he would not blame A-Machi out loud.

After all, people have their own strengths and weaknesses.

Everyone has areas where they happen to be very untalented, and areas where they are very talented.

"Let's take a rest first." Ogata said, "I've been practicing for a long time. Let's take a rest and drink something."

Upon hearing Ogata's words, Omachi immediately rolled off Tao Tao's back as if he had been granted amnesty.

After his feet touched the ground, Amachi felt the same sense of freedom and pleasure as if he got off the boat and landed on the ground.

Amachi got seasick while taking a boat ride.

When riding a horse, I can't get the hang of it.

If A-Machi had not been in a carriage before and had not experienced motion sickness, Ogata would have really doubted that A-Machi had no talent for riding transportation...

A-Machi led Putao to a big tree not far away, tied the horse's reins to the trunk, and then sat down on a big rock next to it.

"I didn't expect riding a horse to be so hard..."

As Machi muttered, he raised his hands and gently rubbed the skin on the inner thighs that was a little sore from the saddle.

"The nomads over there in the Tang Dynasty live on horseback. They ride horses every day. Don't they all have thick calluses on the inside of their thighs?"

"do not know."

Atachi's question directly hits Ogata's blind spot in knowledge.

"You can ask Scrooge and the others." Ogata continued, "They are people who often ride horses."

After rubbing the burning flesh on the inner thigh with gentle force, A-Machi finally felt a little better.

Omachi let out a long breath, then looked up at the slightly cloudy sky above his head, showing an expression as if he was in a daze.

"...Where do you think we should go from here?"

Atachi suddenly asked this question.

"Why do you ask this suddenly?" Ogata asked.

"There are no clues here in Qina Village." A Machi couldn't hide his disappointment on his face, "Where should we go to find Xuanzheng and Xuanzhen next?"

After helping the villagers of Qina Village to deal with the incoming group of Cossacks and settling in the village temporarily, Ogata and A-machi took advantage of various opportunities and asked everyone in the village who could still speak well.

, the villagers who have not been asked before if they have seen Xuan Zheng, Xuan Zhen.

Just yesterday, they asked the last person.

The end result is nothing.

Qina Village was the last village that Aiyaka could bring Ogata and the others to.

Since Qina Village has gained nothing, Aiyaka can't help him. From now on, it will be up to Ogata and the others to find other villages and try their best to find Xuan Zheng and Xuan Zhen.

clue.

However, as soon as A-Machi finished speaking, Oubon suddenly showed a free and easy smile.

"A-Machi, I always feel like you've been showing very negative emotions lately."

Ogata raised his hand and touched the left side of his neck, which was covered by the scarf.

"Is it because when you gave me a bath before, you saw the skin on the left side of my neck and felt that the 'immortal poison' in my body began to spread again, so was my mood affected by it?"

Atachi did not answer Ogata's question and just remained silent.

But her silence was tantamount to a disguised answer.

"A-Machi, do you know a truth?"

"What truth."

"If you worry about something happening, it's more likely to happen."

"What kind of truth is this?" Ating frowned, "Is there any basis for it?"

The basis of this sentence is "Murphy's Law".

Ogata said silently in his heart.

Ogata had learned the related concepts of "Murphy's Law" in a book in his previous life.

Murphy's Law is a psychological effect and is known as one of the three major discoveries of Western culture in the 20th century.

If its specific contents were laid out in detail, it would take at least a thousand words.

In Murphy's Law, an important concept is: if you are worried about something happening, then it is more likely to happen.

Naturally, Ogata would not explain the details of "Murphy's Law" to Atachi in detail, so he just casually said:

"I heard this from a certain nihilistic monk who seemed to be an eminent monk when I first got out of the feudal clan. I think this sentence makes sense, so I keep it in mind."

"A-Machi, don't you think this sentence makes sense?"

"If you think about your past carefully, haven't similar things happened to you before? You are always worried about something, and then that thing actually happens in the future."

"No." Ating opened her big innocent eyes and shook her head.

Ogata: "..."

I can't continue talking.

Atachi's "No" words directly made Ogata not know how to proceed with the topic.

After coughing a few times to cover up his embarrassment, Ogata said seriously:

"All in all you don't have to worry about the future all the time."

"There will always be a way."

"As for where we should look for Xuanzheng in the future, the clues about Xuanzhen and the others are actually very easy to handle."

"Since Aiyaka and the others can no longer help, then we can ask the people from Qina Village for help."

"Qina Village should have a different social circle than Kuma Village."

"We can ask the villagers of Qina Village to help take us to villages we have not been to before."

"If we ask them for help, they will definitely not refuse us."

"As long as you keep your feet on the ground and slowly look for clues, you might be able to meet someone the next day who happens to have clues about Xuanzheng and Xuanzhen."

Although Ogata spent a lot of words to comfort A-Machi, and A-Machi tried his best to smile in response, there was still a faint sadness in the depths of her eyes that had not dissipated.

Seeing that Atachi still didn't seem to cheer up, Ogata fell silent again.

After a long moment of silence.

Ogata suddenly reached into his arms and took out a pistol.

A pistol that is completely different from Kasumi Nagi's.

A flintlock large-caliber pistol with a large red dot on the barrel.

"A-Machi, you have nothing to do now, how about we practice using this new gun together?"
To be continued...