After receiving the order, Xiao Xianghua immediately raised a smile, and the boys and girls exited together in a polite manner. When they were about to go out, Xiao Xianghua did not forget to call Lin Wanwan: "Cousin Wanwan, aren't you coming? I agreed with you.
Taught you how to ride a horse."
Xiao Ronghua and the twin sisters also said together: "Come on, come on, cousin, let's play together."
Mrs. Yuan smiled and waved her hand: "You guys go together quickly and leave Xiao Yu'er to play with her brothers and sisters."
Lin Wanwan glanced at the little guy, smiled and said: "Okay."
"No, I want to follow my mother." Xiao Qingyu immediately hugged Lin Wanwan's waist.
Lin Wanwan hugged her gently and asked, "You don't want to play with your cousins anymore? You don't have children to keep you company when you follow your mother."
Xiao Qingyu held her maid Rongrong beside her with one hand and said firmly: "As long as Rongrong stays with me."
Lin Wanwan then said: "Okay, then you will follow mother."
After speaking, he looked at Xiao Yuan and said, "Sister-in-law, I will take Xiao Yu'er with me."
Mrs. Yuan chuckled and said, "It's up to you. If you don't mind the kids being noisy, just take them with you. I'm just afraid you won't have enough fun. These little things are very noisy."
Lin Wanwan said: "No."
After saying that, he hugged Little Qingyu and bowed before retreating. Several boys and girls were already waiting outside the wing. When they saw Lin Wanwan leading Little Qingyu out, they were not surprised. Anyway, there were slaves following them, so they were not afraid of the children causing trouble.
"Cousin Wanwan, let's go there together."
"good."
The group of people soon came to a large field in the backyard of the Taoist temple. There were already people running horses inside, and the young man and young lady of Magistrate Lu's family were also there, each surrounded by a group of people.
This is the effect of being a county magistrate from an aristocratic family. If someone from a poor family rises up, the boys and girls from these old aristocratic families will not support him at all, and as the chief of Wu County, the county magistrate from the Lu family will not
Same.
This kind of reputation of wealthy families can continue for a while, although Li Shimin followed the Sui Dynasty's system of selecting scholars through the imperial examination, just to pick some good talents from poor families to fight against the wealthy families.
But in fact, due to the anonymous imperial examination system of the Tang Dynasty and the prevalence of writing papers and petitions, the probability that a poor family could defeat thousands of troops at this time was still extremely low.
When taking part in the imperial examination, the children of aristocratic families have the best educational resources and an intricate network of contacts. Without anonymity or transcripts, do you need to think too much about who the examiner will select?
After that, Li Shimin's daughter-in-law Wu Zetian came to power. In order to deal with the power of the aristocratic families and consolidate the political power, she killed many aristocratic families, and these families gradually became lonely.
Now, it is the last prosperous period of the family.
Sitting on the horse, Lu Ying'er quickly saw Lin Wanwan who stood out from the crowd. She rode over and looked at Lin Wanwan condescendingly and said, "Let's compete."
Lu Ying'er has always been brooding over the fact that she lost to Xiao Qingyu in three games of checkers and was robbed of the limelight by Lin Wanwan in playing the piano. When she met Lin Wanwan, she naturally thought of winning back the victory elsewhere.
Lin Wanwan held Xiao Qingyu and stepped back two steps: "I'm sorry, I can't ride a horse, so I can't accompany you."
Lu Yinger shouted in surprise, as if she had heard some big joke: "What! You don't know how to ride a horse?"
In the Tang Dynasty, nobles who were good at martial arts and could not ride a horse were indeed rare.
When Lu Ying'er shouted, the other ladies and gentlemen in the room looked over, with a mixture of contempt, surprise, and disbelief in their eyes.
Xiao Xianghua and the others already felt embarrassed for Lin Wanwan, and they blurted out in defense: "My cousin has lived in seclusion in the mountains with masters since she was a child. She doesn't know how to ride a horse because there is no place to practice. She will learn now."
"Haha." Lu Ying'er glanced at Lin Wanwan, pinched the horse's belly, and left the place, her face glowing with excitement.
She felt very happy to be able to embarrass Lin Wanwan.
Xiao Xianghua persuaded in a low voice: "Cousin, don't worry, Ying'er has such a character. She comes from a good family and has a high status. She never takes others seriously, and it's not just for you."
"Yes, yes, Cousin Wanwan, don't take it to heart. I am often criticized by her. If it weren't for my brother... well, we just ignore her anyway." Xiao Ronghua said immediately.
Lin Wanwan smiled and said: "It's okay, I don't care."
In fact, compared to the girls of the Tang Dynasty who valued reputation and honor more than their lives, Lin Wanwan really didn't care about this.
"Okay, then, sisters, you can go and play by yourself. I will take cousin Wanwan with me first."
"We don't have anything to do. With that person here, we can't have enough fun playing polo today, so we just stay with cousin Wanwan!" Xiao Liwei said.
In the end, the four girls became Lin Wanwan's equestrian teachers, guiding her from the sidelines. Lin Wanwan rode this relatively short "horse" and trotted slowly along the edge of the racecourse. Kunlun followed closely, protecting her at all times.
Xiao Qingyu had been taken far into the pavilion by the racecourse by Yun Shang, and she and Rongrong were playing house together.
Originally, everyone was in peace, but because of Lu Ying'er's relationship, those boys and girls insisted on being mean and trying to squeeze Lin Wanwan's horse. The two sons of the Xiao family stayed aside and pretended to be deaf and dumb.
Xiao Xianghua and others tried to persuade him, but they still went their own way and were very angry.
"Cousin Wanwan, let's learn this today. This group of people is too chaotic. We won't make fun of ourselves. In the future, when there are few people, we will practice on the road."
Lin Wanwan felt something come after riding for a while, and even had the illusion that she had mastered equestrian skills. Her all-round improvement in physical fitness made it easy for her to control the horse.
After just taking a look at the people in the field, Lin Wanwan finally gave up the idea of continuing here, accepted Xiao Xianghua's suggestion in a good manner, and returned the horse to the other party.
"You go ahead and play, you've been busy teaching me today."
Xiao Xianghua got on his horse, looked at the group of people who had just made trouble, and said, "Cousin Wanwan, let me vent your anger."
After saying that, he ran over to the horse and said to the group of people: "It's boring to run around like this. How about we play a game of polo?"
"I'm afraid of you!"
"Since we are competing, we must win." A girl in pink clothes next to Lu Ying'er took off a hairpin from her head, raised her chin slightly and said, "I will use this gold hairpin, what about you? Don't use gilded hairpins.
If you use your goods to fool people, you are not worthy of comparison with me."
"Hahaha! Can you get anything good?"
Lin Wanwan turned her head and whispered to Yun Shang. A trace of surprise flashed across the latter's face, but then she reacted, bent her knees slightly, took out a Carpenter Tan double-sided portable mirror from the package she had been carrying, walked forward and said loudly
: "This is the glazed mirror that came out of the imperial palace in the Western Regions. My wife said that I could use it as a lottery."
As Yun Shang opened the mirror, the two mirrors shone brightly in the sun, dazzling them, and frightened all the noble boys and girls.