Chapter 2 Becoming an Official (Third Top) At this moment, Liu Hongji also saw the old man, and immediately walked forward to meet him. He stood with his hands on his heart, took a step forward, raised his fists to his eyebrows, and bowed twice.
Then he retracted his outstretched eyebrow-level hands and touched his forehead, bowed a third time, and said: "Junior Hongji pays homage to Shibo!" Finally, he touched his heart with his hands, took a step back, and looked at the other person's face (Note 1)
The person who came here had a straight face and straight body. He first accepted his big bow, then put his hands on his heart, hugged his chest, bowed slightly, and replied with a smile: "I have been looking forward to your arrival every day since I was ordered to collect food.
, I want to take care of you and return home safely, so that you can have an explanation for your father. I didn’t expect that you are so late!”
"My nephew is thinking that during this Eastern Expedition, the army will definitely lack good horses, so he went to the outside of the Great Wall for a trip! I was delayed for a while on the way. I hope Shibo will forgive me!" Liu Hongji smiled and added in a low voice.
"It's great that you can come, why bother to take the risk of going to the bitter cold place outside the Great Wall!" Li Yuan reached out and patted Liu Hongji on the shoulder, sighing: "When we parted, you only reached my forehead, but now you are much taller than me.
The truth is that new branches sprout from an old tree, and the rotation of old and new branches is the way of heaven. I am not convinced. Who is the strong man who came with you? Can you introduce me to him?"
"It's a friend my nephew made on the road. His surname is Li Mingxu and his given name is Zhongjian." Liu Hongji replied with a smile, turned around and waved to Li Xu, and ordered in a low voice: "Zhongjian, please see Mr. Tang quickly."
Li Xu had long deduced from the exchange of greetings between Liu Hongji and the old man that this person must be Tang Gong. Undoubtedly, only someone who was one generation higher than Liu Hongji would bow to him with a big bow, and only the other party would be qualified to bow to him with a big bow.
Prime Minister Ping Yi, who was one level lower than Yi, was still a person. He had never seen an official with such a prominent position since he was a child, so he was flustered for a moment. He didn't know how to meet each other without being rude, so he had to stand aside in a daze.
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Hearing Liu Hongji's call at this moment, Li Xu knew that he could not hide, so he stepped forward, bowed flatly, and said: "Li Zhongjian has met Mr. Tang in the upper valley. I wish Mr. Tang good health!"
Tang Gong Li Yuan turned sideways, clasped his fists in return, then looked Li Xu up and down, and asked with a smile: "Are you from the Li family in Shanggu? Do you have any connection with General Han Fei?"
"Going back to Mr. Tang, according to the top genealogy, the younger generation should be the 24th generation great-great-grandson of the Flying General." Li Xu thought for a while and replied in a low voice. The nervousness made his voice sound a little hoarse, and there was also a faint trace on his forehead.
Sweat comes
"Wrong, wrong!" Tang Gong Li Yuan smiled and shook his head.
Hearing this, everyone looked at each other in confusion and didn't know what was wrong, but they heard Li Yuan laugh and add: "Boy, you shouldn't come to see me with ordinary courtesy. You and I are from the same clan. According to seniority, you and Jiancheng, Shimin
We should be brothers!”
"Don't pay homage to Shibo yet!" Liu Hongji pushed Li Xu hard on the back and ordered
At this time, even a fool could hear the closeness in Li Yuan's words. Li Xu smiled awkwardly, took a step forward, and met Li Yuan again with the courtesy of a junior like Liu Hongji, and apologized: "
The younger generation is so confused that they don’t know that an elder from the same clan is standing in front of them, and I hope Shi Bo will forgive me!"
Li Yuan no longer avoided this time. He stood up straight and accepted the great gift. He bowed and bowed in return, and said with a smile: "You don't know that we are from the same clan. What's the crime? Since you are the nephew of the younger generation, what will happen to you in the future?"
If you need anything, just tell me!"
"Shibo has something to say, how dare I disrespect my order!" Li Xu bowed again and thanked the senior for taking care of him. The two of them smiled and recounted a few lines of genealogy, and soon made it clear about each other's seniority. According to the genealogy, Tang Gong Li Yuan was The seventh-generation grandson of the former Liang Emperor Li Hao, and the Liang Emperor Li Hao was the sixteenth-generation direct descendant of Li Guang. Therefore, Li Yuan was the twenty-second generation descendant of Li Guang. When it was built, the people of the world were the twenty-third generation. , exactly the same generation as Li Xu
After narrating the genealogy, Li Yuan was greatly relieved. He took Li Xu's hand and asked with a smile: "I never thought that since the Han Dynasty, my descendants of the Li family would be able to reproduce such a superb shot. Which hero did you learn from? Can you tell me about it?" Know?"
"This junior learned the art of archery randomly and was taught by three or four people!" Li Xu smiled sarcastically and replied in a low voice. In an instant, he changed from a commoner to a junior of Tang Gong Li Yuan, which made him feel very uncomfortable. From head to toe, every pore on my body felt numb, and my legs were as heavy as lead.
"The first person to teach the younger generation the art of archery is named Sun, taboo Anzu!" Thinking of Sun Jiu, who treated him like his own nephew, Li Xu felt a burst of warmth in his heart. In a hurry, he didn't notice, Li Yuan, Jiancheng and the two Their brows furrowed slightly, obviously this name had given them a great shock.
"The second person to teach the juniors the art of archery is a hero from the Xi tribe, named Asilan. The third teacher is a coppersmith who lives outside the Great Wall from the south of the Yangtze River. His surname is Wang, and he has never told the juniors his name. It's not easy for juniors to ask questions!" Li Xu looked at Tang Gong's inquiring eyes and added nonchalantly that he didn't know the name of the coppersmith master who taught him the most about martial arts. Anyone who heard this topic would think it was a big joke.
"If your surname is Wang, you must be from the Wang family in the south of the Yangtze River. You are from a well-known family. No wonder you can reproduce the magical skills of your ancestors!" Li Yuan summed it up for the other party with a smile. He just frowned and smoothed his eyebrows quietly when he heard the three words "Sun Anzu". down
"Tang Gong has given me the prize. It was just the second round of arrow competition, and the junior has already lost to the second young master!" Li Xu shook his head and answered modestly.
This sentence made Li Yuan shake his head repeatedly, "Don't be too modest. I was here first and watched you from a distance for the first round. Shimin has already lost. If he knew himself, how could he dare to compete with you?" Second round!”
Although it is the family tradition of the Li family to suppress oneself and promote others, this sentence is too modest. Not only did Li Xu dare not even say it, Jiancheng, Shimin and Wan'er raised their heads with dissatisfaction on their faces, especially Li Shimin, who was young and competitive. His eyes were so angry that if the person making this judgment was not his father, the little guy would have rushed up to argue with him.
"You are dissatisfied, aren't you?" Li Yuan looked at Shimin's face and asked with a smile.
"My son is convinced that he lost in the third round. This jade should belong to brother Zhongjian." Li Shimin ran to Jiancheng, picked up the jade as a bet, and replied loudly, "in the second round, brother Zhongjian intended to give in, and my son also knew that he lost." But in the first round, he and I both hit the target..."
"We each have a draw and a win, so it should be a draw!" Li Xu quickly waved his hands, saying that he did not dare to accept the jade that Li Shimin lost to him. Before he finished speaking, he heard Tang Gong say again: "But on the surface, it is true. Go and take the target." Come here and let me tell you why you lost in the first round!"
Before Li Shimin could take action, a servant ran up and carried the target back for him. Li Yuan lovingly touched his son's forehead, bowed down, pointed at the arrow hole on the target, and asked in a low voice: "In the first round, before you release the arrow, It took about three breaths to take aim, but Zhongjian raised his hand and shot immediately. I don't know if my father is right or not?"
"That's true!" Li Shimin thought for a moment and replied in a low voice.
"If the two armies meet and you two are enemies, what will be the result of this shot?" Li Yuan asked Shimin with a smile.
Li Shimin's little face immediately turned red, and after hesitating for a moment, he finally admitted that his father was right, nodded, and said in a voice as thin as a gnat: "My arrow hasn't even been shot yet, Brother Zhong Jian has already taken my arrow with one arrow."
life!"
As soon as these words came out, Li Xu was also shocked. When he learned to shoot, he was taught by others and shot by himself. If he couldn't do it, he would practice hard. He never thought about the meaning of "drawing the bow and shooting". Li Yuan listened.
After teaching my son, I realized that there are so many ways in it. Thinking of this, I couldn't help but steal a few glances at Mr. Tang. The more I looked at him, the more I felt that this man had a treacherous mind.
"The second arrow, your arrow was blown away by the wind after it was released, and Zhongjian looked up at the branches before raising the bow!" Li Yuan continued to summarize with a smile.
"No wonder Brother Zhongjian's arrows are not affected by the wind!" Li Shimin suddenly realized it and happily added that the frustrated expression on his face because he was judged to have failed disappeared in an instant, and was replaced by surprise after hearing the news.
"The situation on the battlefield is ever-changing, and any slight mistake can be fatal!" Li Yuan was a very qualified father. He pointed to the arrows still on the target and ordered with a smile: "You put both arrows together."
Once you pull it off, you will know how far apart the shooting skills are from those of Zhong Jian!"
Li Shimin followed his father's order and stretched out his hand to pull out the arrow. He missed the arrow and pulled it away from the target. Li Xu finally hit the bull's-eye with the arrow, but he pulled it again and again, shaking it again and again, until the tip of the arrow was broken.
, and then reluctantly pulled it out
"If we are one hundred and twenty steps away, and both of us are wearing heavy armor, and you shoot the arrow, it will only scratch Zhong Jian's itch, but Zhong Jian's arrow will be enough to knock you off your horse!"
"Son, learn from me!" Li Shimin stood up, bowed respectfully to his father, then held the jadeite in both hands and raised it in front of Li Xu: "Brother Zhongjian's shooting skills are much better than mine. I am convinced that I lost!"
"I'm older than you, and I have greater natural strength than you. I don't understand other things, so we're still tied!" Li Xu replied with a smile, still refusing to accept the lottery offered by the other party.
While the two parties were exchanging their thanks, Liu Hongji, who was standing nearby and watching the excitement, suddenly clapped his hands and said loudly, "In my opinion, it is Mr. Tang who really deserves this honor!"
Everyone looked sideways when they heard the sound, and then heard Liu Hongji add with a smile: "The people of the world don't know the reason and can't do it. Naturally, Zhong Jian can do it but doesn't know the reason. It can't be considered that the game is completely won. It's because of Shi Bo's words.
The juniors and others will benefit a lot, so of course this jade should belong to Shibo. When our shooting skills surpass Shibo in the future, it won’t be too late to win it back!"
After everyone heard this, they all applauded. Li Shimin immediately brought the jadeite and presented it to his father, Mr. Tang. Before he could refuse, Liu Hongji said with a smile: "When my father mentioned Shibo's arrow that shot the peacock's eye, the younger generation also
I thought it was just rumors, but after listening to Shibo's talk about arrows today, I was sure that it was true! "One sentence attracted everyone's attention again. Li Waner was the most impatient, and immediately pulled Liu Hongji's sleeve and asked him to tell him something.
Father's Story Liu Hongji glanced at Li Yuan and saw that he didn't have an unhappy expression. He smiled and said, "That was the story of Uncle Shi going to his aunt's house to propose marriage twenty-eight years ago..."
When Dou Yi, a prominent family in the Sui Dynasty, selected a son-in-law, hundreds of young men came to choose him. Each of them came from a noble family, and his family background and character were among the best. In order to show that he was fair, Dou Yi ordered two people to carry him.
He fanned the peacock screen to the yard and asked the young men to shoot arrows at the peacocks. They agreed that the one with the best archery skills would be his son-in-law. As soon as he finished speaking, Li Yuan jumped out of the crowd and fired two arrows in a row. Each arrow hit the peacock once. The young men thought they were inferior and could not do it.
Dare to shoot again, so Li Dou and his family became friends of Qin and Jin
"That happened many years ago!" Tang Gong Li Yuan was listening to the past of his own youth as if listening to other people's legends. The cunning old man Dou, with the colorful screen, was a young man who was as prosperous as the nephews and nephews in front of him.
Sixteen, or seventeen? I don’t seem to remember. When I vaguely raised my bow, there was a glimmer of concern behind the window screen in the distance...
That Yingying glance is enough to make you go all over the world for it
Note 1: This action is the whole process of the Han ritual of the big bow. The flat bow performed by Li Yuan in the Han ritual below makes Liu Hongji a junior of Li Yuan, so he bowed to Shibo with a big bow, and Li Yuan returned the flat bow in the Han ritual, which is basically a kneel down.
, there are four types of bowing, big bowing, flat bowing, and cupping of fists, in descending order of severity. Kneel down and worship usually only to respect ancestors.
Note 2: Historically, Li Yuan and Li Shimin were both very brave men. When Li Yuan was guarding Shanxi, he used two thousand troops to prevent the Turks from going south. In the wars at the end of the Sui Dynasty, Li Shimin would go forward in every battle to directly capture the core of the enemy.
At that time, the Chinese people's thoughts had not been castrated. In addition to the feminine power, many people had masculinity in them.
