It was just getting light the next day when Li Tai woke up and got up.
Traveling to this ancient society, there are naturally various inconveniences in life, but at least the work and rest have become normal. Moreover, this young body is full of vitality, and it is not comparable to the bodies in later generations that have long been weighed down by unhealthy lifestyle habits such as staying up late.
"Please, sir, do you want to wash up now?"
He had just put on his clothes and stood up, when a soft voice of inquiry sounded outside the curtain.
Li Tai turned around and saw a nervous young woman standing at a loss by the small window inside the door.
Judging from her hair style, she is said to be a young woman. She looks to be in her youth, her face and skin look a bit rough, she has an oval face, and her facial features are pretty good.
Wearing a plain cloth skirt with narrow sleeves, it can't be said to be exquisitely tailored, but it still outlines some graceful curves of a young age. Her slightly withered hair is tied into a thin bun on top of her head.
In Li Tai's memory, the hair buns of the female relatives of the same clan were as dark, thick and shiny, delicate and beautiful.
"Who are you? Why did you come into my room?"
When he woke up and saw a strange woman standing in his room, Li Tai felt a little embarrassed and raised his hands to tighten his clothes.
"Yes, Mr. Six, the boss, summoned the slave. He came in last night and saw that the master was asleep. He didn't dare to harass..."
Hearing what the young woman said, Li Tai remembered that Gao Zhongmi had made a drunken talk last night, blaming himself for bringing down his own father and son, and wanted Li Tai to breed heirs as soon as possible under his care.
The Sixth Duke in charge that the woman mentioned was Gao Zhongmi's family member, his name was Gao Bailing. He probably heard this drunken talk and chose a woman from the mansion to send it to him.
Thinking of this, Li Tai felt even more embarrassed. He waved his hand and said, "You can go out first. I'm not used to being served by strangers here."
The woman was originally embarrassed and nervous, but when she heard Li Tai speak to expel her, her expression suddenly became panicked, and she knelt on the ground with a plop. Before she could speak, tears were already rolling down her face.
Li Tai ignored the strange woman's happiness and sorrow and walked out directly. When he looked up, he saw his family Li Zhusheng and Gao Bailing standing outside the corridor chatting.
"Thirteenth Lang got up so early?"
Gao Bailing was in his fifties, and his beard and hair were already gray. When he saw Li Tai walking out of the room, he quickly greeted him. He looked up and down and said with emotion: "It's great to be young!"
The thirteenth member of the Li Tai clan, after hearing this, said angrily: "Lao Liu, you are really a lao Liu! I went to sleep on the bed, who knows what you stuffed into my room! That woman's return to the original place is
, my hands and feet are strong and I don’t need anyone else to keep me company!”
He knew his own family affairs, and even when he was in the Shayuan Camp, he stayed separately from Li Zhusheng and the others, for fear of saying something he shouldn't have said in his sleep. Before he completely assumed his current identity, he was absolutely
I won’t have close daily contact with people of this era.
When Gao Bailing heard Li Tai's unkind tone, he felt embarrassed and embarrassed for a moment. He stamped his feet and said, "Is it because the maid is ugly and clumsy in skills that disgusts Thirteenth Prince? I'll teach her a lesson..."
"It has nothing to do with anyone else! I suddenly entered a strange situation, and I don't know if I am safe. I just have some leisure time. Uncle, he was imprudent in his speech after drinking, and you, an old man who should be stable, came to join in the fun and make me embarrassed."
Li Tai replied casually, then turned to Li Zhusheng and said, "Are those young men awake? Take advantage of the cool weather early in the morning to practice grabbing the palms."
"I'll call them over!"
After hearing this, Li Zhusheng laughed and made a teasing gesture to Gao Bailing, who was embarrassed, and then strode away.
Li Tai ignored how Gao Bailing arranged the woman in the room, and walked to the side vegetable garden. There were several servants weeding in the ridges in the vegetable plot. When he saw Li Tai approaching, he wanted to say hello, but Li Tai waved his hand to stop him.
He stood under the vines and waited for a while. Several young followers came trotting here, bringing with them several long hardwood poles. The long poles were soaked in water to increase their weight and toughness.
Li Tai didn't waste any time, he took a long pole and started stabbing it.
Initially, the term "horse spear" specifically refers to a spear used in horse warfare, and it would not be called a spear without a horse. However, as the name became more popular, the long-bladed spear used in infantry combat was also called a spear. Because it is longer and heavier than ordinary spears, it is also called "horse spear".
Horse racing has higher requirements on arm strength and skills.
A training method derived from this, grabbing the palm, has also become a popular fighting skill in the army. In the Southern and Northern Dynasties, a game called grasping the palm was also popular, which was a gambling game similar to Shuanglu. Although
There is only one word difference, but they are not the same thing.
In the biography of Yuchi Jingde of the Tang Dynasty, it is recorded that Yuchi Jingde competed with Qi King Li Yuanji to win the championship. Li Yuanji held the championship on a leaping horse, while Yuchi Jingde captured the championship three times in an instant, showing Yuchi Jingde's superior martial arts.
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Li Tai didn't have many war horses to use here, and the venue couldn't be used. After shaking his jab for a while and flexing his muscles, he then simulated basic movements such as jab, poke, block, etc. on the flat ground.
After all, fighting skills are not as exciting and beautiful as martial arts performances. Killing the opponent with one move is the biggest goal. Doing too much will only consume your physical strength.
Therefore, the exercises are mainly based on basic killing movements. To lay the foundation for beginners, they must practice stupidly. After practicing one movement tens of millions of times, various techniques for using force, sparing strength, borrowing force and unloading force will naturally be developed.
Li Tai's body has been worked hard since he was a child, which saves him the boring practice of starting from scratch, but the growth of arm strength and skills still requires continuous practice. Once he puts it down for a long time, the feel of the arm and the skills of exerting force will become rusty.
The few young people who practiced with him were all loyal servants who had been with him since childhood, and they also had a tacit understanding with each other. Some of them interfered by raising poles, and some grabbed the poles with their bare hands, simulating various possible fights on the battlefield.
scene.
Because of the length of the horse's pole, it will suffer more interference and require more skills on the battlefield. Especially without the high-speed mobility brought by horses, the advantage of long weapons will turn into disadvantages.
Fighting against an opponent ten feet away is the most basic fighting skill. Although it is simple to say, it is difficult to implement. Li Tai and the others practiced fighting for more than a quarter of an hour, and they were all sweating profusely.
"Yantou has the strongest arms, Xiaoyong has the strongest jumps. He has the ability to eliminate both diseases, and his methods are refined. If you really want to mount a horse and fight, I am no match for you."
Li Tai wiped the sweat from his face and commented with a smile while walking around the vines.
These young people all took the surname of their master. The oldest, Li Yan, had a protruding forehead and a protruding mouth, and his name was quite vivid. He had just turned twenty. After hearing this, he was surprised and said: "Alang is willing to admit defeat? He usually calculates his strength."
Even though you are tired, you are also very tenacious!"
Li Tai knew that his personality and habits must be different from those of his predecessor. After hearing this, he smiled and said: "In the past, winning or losing didn't matter in the village fights, so we strived for the best. Only after the real experience of entering the battle did we realize that within a small area, life and death can be the same.
Don't push yourself if you are full of enthusiasm. We are currently in Kansai, and there is no familiar scenery anywhere. Whatever bad qualities you have in the past, you should restrain yourself."
"Alang is really much more stable, as if he has grown up overnight. In the past, even if the elders of the clan gave this advice, they would just refuse to respond..."
Li Quji, whose martial arts was most favored by Li Tai, was somewhat endowed with both civil and military skills. He not only studied Confucianism and Confucianism with the family leader Li Xiao, but his martial arts skills were also among the best among his companions. Although he was a servant, he was actually no different from an adopted son.
If they had not followed Gao Zhongmi and rebelled into the Western Wei Dynasty, Li Tai and his father would have planned to find a position for Li Quji in the county as the leader of the township army next year.
At the end of the Northern Wei Dynasty, aristocratic families established themselves as a wealthy family. Direct descendants of the wealthy families would rather live in seclusion than serve as county officials. However, if they wanted to ensure the stability of the family business, the necessary force was unavoidable. Therefore, adopting a fake son to serve in the county was also a workaround.
Methods.
A few people rested here for a while, and a servant hurriedly came to report that breakfast was ready. So they washed themselves with running water from the ditch in the vegetable garden, and then went to the dining hall together.
"Uncle, have you woken up yet?"
Seeing Gao Bailing standing in front of the corridor, Li Tai asked.
"My lord is still sleeping, please leave Thirteenth Prince alone and don't wait."
Gao Bailing leaned over and smiled, and then said: "He Lan, the Chief Minister of the Duke, is waiting in the front hall. Please handle the naturalization matters for Alang."
Li Tai nodded and walked into the dining hall. He saw seven or eight maids standing in the dining hall, ranging from girls in their teens to forty or fifty years old. They were plump, thin, beautiful and ugly, creating a striking scene of their own.
After a brief look, Li Tai guessed that the old guy Gao Bailing wanted to test his xp, so he glanced at the old servant.
Gao Bailing leaned over and laughed dryly and said: "In the past, the rich family did not give the young master maidservants, because they were afraid that the young master would lose control of his sexual nature and make slaves to disturb the young man. The thirteenth son has already grown up, so naturally he can be exempted from restraint, and he can serve him daily. After all, he is a considerate woman.
, well blended.”
Li Tai knew this rule. In his memory, his predecessor had no female companions growing up. Even if he was cleaning the house, he had to wait for him to go out before he could enter the room. This was naturally because he was worried that the adolescent boy would be addicted to pornography before his body was fully developed.
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From this, we can conclude that many people in ancient times considered Long Yang to be elegant, probably because they were suppressed during adolescence, resulting in distorted physiological interests.
"Then there's no need for so much service. Just keep two people and leave the others."
Li Tai casually clicked on two little girls with sallow skin standing on the side, while the others waved their hands and retreated.
His original intention was to think that the child was too weak to be used for anything else, for fear of being disliked and abused, so he arranged for him to do some light work like cleaning the room, but seeing Gao Bailing's surprised and understanding look on his face, he knew that this old guy didn't have any good intentions.
, but I didn’t bother to explain anymore, so I sat down to eat.
Breakfast is a mutton bone soup, with a dozen lychee-sized dough soaked in it. When you bite into the dough, you will find the soup and meat filling, which is full of flavor. This kind of glutinous rice balls with meat filling is called Lao Wan.
It can be shaped or steamed.
Li Tai got up early in the morning and had already exercised a lot. He ate two large bowls of Laowan without any soup left, and then he felt full. He turned around and saw the two little girls hanging their heads and pinching the corners of their clothes, swallowing secretly.
, so he ordered another bowl to be served.
"After eating, go into the dormitory and lie down in the sun."
Li Tai stood up, pointed at the bowl of prison pills and said to the two little girls, and then walked towards the front hall.