"Chai Lingwu and Wang Xuance can continue to practice martial arts with me, but as for Yang Yuzhi and others, I still hope that His Highness can recall them to the Tanshan Library and let them study."
Luo Shixin said seriously.
Li Yuanji stared at Luo Shixin in astonishment and said, "You came to me specifically at this time just to tell me this?"
Luo Shixin nodded solemnly.
Li Yuanji put down the report in his hand, sighed and said, "Shixin, has anyone ever told you that you are actually not suitable for lying?"
Luo Shi started to believe, with a look of astonishment on his face.
Li Yuanji continued: "From the time you came in until now, your eyes have lingered on me no less than eight times, and every time you looked at my cuffs, collar, legs and feet.
Don’t you just want to see what’s under my clothes?
I'll show it to you now."
With that said, Li Yuanji opened his sleeves, revealing a bright sleeve armor, stared at Luo Shixin and asked, "Can you see clearly now?"
Luo Shixin nodded awkwardly.
Li Yuanji said angrily: "Tell me, whose idea was it, and what did you see?"
Luo Shixin said in embarrassment: "Your Majesty..."
He didn't want to betray his brother or deceive Li Yuanji, so he didn't know what to say.
Li Yuanji said speechlessly: "Stop hiding it for them. You, Luo Shixin, are not a complicated person, so you must have been taught by others to test people like this."
Luo Shixin hesitated and said, "It was Hou Junji who noticed something was wrong with the princess's bicycle frame and guessed what might happen. His Highness did not inform us. In order to avoid ruining His Highness's plan, he specially asked me to come over and take a look.
"
Li Yuanji said angrily and funny: "You picked Su Dingfang cleanly."
Luo Shixin is not a little guy, how can Hou Junji be able to command him?
Currently, the only person who can command Luo Shixin is Su Dingfang, who is a comrade with Luo Shixin.
Su Dingfang treated Luo Shixin with sincerity, and Luo Shixin admired Su Dingfang's brain, so the two got along very well.
If Su Dingfang asked Luo Shixin to do something, Luo Shixin would usually not refuse.
Therefore, the person who instigated Luo Shixin to come here for testing must be Su Dingfang.
Luo Shixin felt embarrassed and embarrassed when he heard this, but said nothing.
Li Yuanji did not continue to embarrass Luo Shixin, and sighed: "Okay, since you have seen through it, I will tell you the truth. Nothing big happened, but there are some thieves who think they can provoke me, and I want to do this here
I'll try it during the next spring plowing. I want to give them this opportunity, and then lure them all out and catch them all in one go."
Luo Shixin's expression was grim, and he said in a deep voice: "Is there really someone who wants to do harm to His Highness?"
"unfavorable?"
Li Yuanji sneered and said, "Let's talk about it if you can get close to me."
Luo Shixin's expression slowly became serious, "I will call all the troops to come and protect His Highness."
Li Yuanji shook his head and said with a smile: "It's better not to use it. It's just a few thieves. If you come over, you might scare them away. Then it will be difficult for me to catch them out."
Luo Shixin hesitated for a moment and said solemnly: "I will stay here and block the arrows for His Highness when necessary."
Li Yuanji felt warm in his heart, but he said: "I'm wearing armor. Although it's just chain mail, it can't be penetrated by sharp arrows. What are you wearing?"
Wearing an official robe, someone can shoot you right in the eye with an arrow. If you stay here to block the arrow for me, aren't you sending yourself to death?"
Luo Shixin said firmly: "I am not afraid..."
Li Yuanji said with a smile: "I'm afraid, I don't want to lose a general of my Tang Dynasty because of a few petty thieves. If you really want to do something for me, just go back and tell Su Dingfang not to act rashly.
Change, you just go and protect the princess’s carriage immediately, and save the princess and the child in her belly.”
Luo Shixin wanted to say something more, but Li Yuanji followed closely and said: "I
But I’ve entrusted my wife and children to you, so don’t let me down.”
Trusting your wife and children is more important than just protecting one person's life.
Luo Shixin suddenly had nothing to say. He clasped his fists and saluted, "Even if I die, I will protect the princess and your highnesses!"
Li Yuanji nodded with satisfaction and signaled to Luo Shixin that he could go down.
Luo Shixin didn't waste any more words and hurriedly got out of the carriage.
When they returned to Su Dingfang and the others, Hou Junji was the first to come up and ask, "How is it? Is Your Highness..."
Before Hou Junji finished speaking, Luo Shixin said in a deep voice, "Your Highness asked us to protect the princess and the child in her belly..."
Just one sentence is equivalent to saying countless words.
Hou Junji immediately stopped asking.
Su Dingfang and Xie Shufang's expressions suddenly became solemn.
"Who is so bold as to dare to take ideas from His Highness?"
Su Dingfang asked in a deep voice.
At this time, he no longer had the time to pay attention to Luo Shixin and test why Li Yuanji was exposed.
Luo Shixin shook his head and said: "I don't know, Your Highness didn't say anything. But I have accepted the errand that Your Highness has given me, and I promised Your Highness that I will protect the princess and the child in her belly with my life."
Su Dingfang nodded and said, "As human ministers, this is what we should do."
Speaking of this, Su Dingfang looked at Xie Shufang and Hou Junji and whispered: "Since His Highness does not allow us to intervene and only allows us to protect the safety of the princess and the child in her belly, it means that His Highness has arrangements, and we cannot
Go to summon the tribe with great fanfare.
In this case, you call the leaders of the tribes in your house and let me make arrangements."
Xie Shufang and Hou Junji nodded in unison.
Luo Shixin also nodded.
Soon, the leaders of the four tribes were called to their side for various reasons. Su Dingfang whispered some orders while shouting.
After everything was arranged, the four people talked and laughed while paying attention to their surroundings.
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On the ground of Huangzhuang, people from the Ministry of Rites have already set up an altar.
The altar is made of loess and is not high. There is an incense table on it and three animals are offered to it.
Since it is a sacrifice in the suburbs, it is a suburban sacrifice. Even if it is linked to spring plowing, there is no way to build a higher altar, so we can only worship on a small earth bag.
Li Yuanji led the officials to offer sacrifices to God, and then began to hunt spring oxen.
Hunting spring cattle is also a process of worshiping the God of Agriculture.
The person who beats the spring cow must bring the Nuo noodles of Gou Mang God and use a wicker whip to beat a cow made of paper. The cow's body is stuffed with grains. When the person beats the spring cow, the spring cow will be beaten to pieces, so that all the grains inside will flow out.
Only after you come out can you complete this ceremony.
What this ceremony pursues is a good harvest. When all the grains in the cow's belly flow out, it means that there will be a good harvest this year.
So in order to have a good harvest in the new year of the Tang Dynasty, Li Yuanji brought Nuo noodles, put on weird clothes, took a wicker whip, and whipped a paper cow fiercely amidst the sound of blowing and drumming.
This behavior may seem silly, but everyone involved had a solemn look on their faces. No one smiled playfully, and no one said they were stupid.
After the paper cow was beaten to pieces and the grain inside flowed all over the ground, everyone, led by the Heavenly Official of the Ministry of Rites, shouted "Good harvest".
When the shouting reached its peak, Li Yuanji took off his Nuo noodles, rushed to the scene with all the civil and military officials, and all the female dependents. He lowered his head, supported the pears, drove the old scalpers, and started the formal plowing.
I was busy from morning to evening. Except for a short break at noon, I was plowing the fields.
I didn't stop until sunset.
Except for big-bellied women like Yang Miaoyan who received certain care, most people
They were all as tired as a dog and panting like an ox.
Li Yuanji also looked like he was about to collapse from exhaustion. After returning to the carriage, he returned to normal, and at the same time he became alert.
Li Xiaochang didn't take action on his way here, so he could only take action on his way back.
Li Xiaochang probably also wanted to wait until everyone was exhausted and too tired to move before taking action.
In that case, even if there are many people guarding him, they may not be able to protect his safety.
The carriage swayed out of the Imperial Manor, and when it reached a gentle slope, the sound of a crossbow being struck suddenly rang out.
"Protect Your Highness!!"
The moment Yu Wenbao heard the crossbow being struck, he immediately shouted loudly.
The guards immediately surrounded the carriage.
Although Su Dingfang and others did not shout, they and their subordinates immediately gathered together, quickly rushed to Yang Miaoyan's carriage, and formed a human wall in front of Yang Miaoyan's carriage.
Although they did not carry many weapons and did not wear armor, they did not waver at all when they blocked Yang Miaoyan's carriage.
"It's the Eight Bull Crossbow!"
The powerful crossbows in the army can pierce the carriage and the people in the carriage with one strike.
However, after the crossbow machine was sounded, no crossbow gun flew towards the carriage, and no crossbow gun flew towards the team marching on the official road.
Instead, there were crossbows flying across the low slope.
"There are assassins! There are assassins!"
At this time, some people who were frightened reacted and started shouting loudly, so more and more people flocked to Li Yuanji's carriage.
Li Yuanji opened the curtain of the carriage and stared coldly at the gentle slope.
"Your Highness, please dismount and hide, and then come out after the assassin is captured."
Liu Jun blocked the window of the carriage and warned nervously.
Li Yuanji said calmly: "No, I just want to see who wants to assassinate me!"
Liu Jun's face turned bitter. He turned around and wanted to persuade him, but then he heard someone shouting from the short slope.
"There is an ambush! We can only kill by force! Whoever kills Li Yuanji will be given a national surname and a hundred thousand households!"
As the shouts of death fell, a group of about a hundred soldiers rushed down the gentle slope.
A tall, burly figure, covered in black armor, riding on a horse suddenly appeared on the gentle slope. He bent a bow and arrow in his hand, and shot hard at the soldiers who had their backs turned to him.
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Then, more and more black-armored cavalry appeared, each with their bows and arrows bent, and they fired fiercely at the soldiers.
Li Yuanji didn't know when he got out of the carriage and stood quietly on the shaft of the carriage, watching everything coldly.
"Strangle them all! Leave no one behind!"
The black-armored cavalry who was the first to show up shot two arrows, then lifted the saddle on his horse and rushed down the gentle slope.
