The stirrups seemed to be covered with frost. Li Yuan stepped on them twice, and his boots slipped out of the stirrups. A soldier quickly stepped forward to help him, but he pushed him and staggered. The third time, he simply refused.
Stepping on the stirrup, he grabbed the brown hair on the horse's neck and climbed onto the war horse. The good Turkic horse was grabbed by its owner and roared.
He patted his mount and followed Mai Tiezhang and others towards the school grounds in the south of the city.
"Brothers, let's see how the commander deals with this kid!" Mai Jie stepped forward and greeted the soldiers loudly.
"Let's go and watch the fun!" The five hundred soldiers shouted in unison and went to the school field to cheer for their coach. The food guards also refused to show weakness and lined up to follow closely. Comparing the two, they were neat and tidy.
On the contrary, the military appearance became more neat. Everyone knew that Liu Hongji had no chance of winning, but his challenge to the Mai Iron Rod was purely to stand up for his brothers. Therefore, the brothers in the food protection army would rather watch him be knocked off his horse by the Mai Iron Rod.
I want to give him one last prestige.
"Brother Zhongjian, do you think Brother Liu can win?" Li Shimin chased after Li Xu and asked uneasily. Liu Hongji wanted to calm down the matter, so he took the risk to challenge Mai Tiezhang. He saw this clearly.
But is the cost of doing so too high? Why didn't Father try his best to stop this unwinnable competition? Li Shimin felt his head swell. The answer was clearly right in front of him, but he couldn't grasp the key.
"Brother Liu will definitely win!" Li Waner loudly answered for Li Xu. Her father's tenacity at the last moment when mounting the horse made her feel very sad. In recent years, the Li family has turned from prosperity to decline, and what has father endured?
How difficult it is, daughters often experience it more deeply than sons.
The noisy crossroads returned to its original peace in the blink of an eye, and the crowds dispersed. The people around quietly opened their doors a little, and peered out to observe what was going on outside. No one knew the reason for the fight between the soldiers, and they didn't care much about it.
.But God bless the soldiers, they changed the place to take action, and everyone did not suffer the same disaster.
"His father, whose house is that? How did it get smashed like that!" A middle-aged woman pointed at Qin Ziying's door against the crack of her own door and asked in a low voice.
"Old Qin's family, it is said that he is an official!" The patched head of the household sighed and replied. The ugly wife and the near land are the treasures of the family. Looking at the experiences of the Qin family, he firmly believes in the motto passed down from mouth to mouth.
shift.
"It seems that the eldest brother of the Qin family is still here! Over there!" Behind the couple, a child pointed to the empty street and said.
Only then did the couple notice that there was a man standing in the middle of the street, wandering towards the dilapidated gate as if he had lost his soul. At the door, the little lady of the Qin family, who usually did not appear much, stood leaning against the door, as if looking forward to it.
Waiting for my husband to come home.
At home, Qin Ziying walked towards his smashed door step by step. He kept holding his hands tightly, and his nails had dug into his palms without realizing it. Qin Ziying hated it. He hated himself for why he only focused on studying and not practicing in the early years.
Martial arts. Otherwise, it would be him who challenged the old thief Mai Tiezhang to fight today, not Liu Hongji, who had nothing to do with the matter.
"Ziying!" He Ruolan shouted in a low voice. Once upon a time, she naively thought that the nightmare was over. However, she did not expect that since this nightmare had come, it would follow her for the rest of her life.
Qin Ziying didn't answer. He lowered his head and picked up the rubble and wood at the door of his house one by one and threw them to the corner. This was his home. Others could throw things at the door, but he couldn't. Some of the stones were too big.
, beyond the range of his physical strength. He put the stone down unsteadily, then lifted it up, bit by bit, and moved the rubbish blocking the door to the side.
The wind carried the remaining winter snow across the treetops, and the whistling sound was full of despair. This winter is about to pass, and the sun has slowly begun to brighten. But those frost-stained branches, I don’t know if there will be a chance to wait again
The branches are full of flowers.
"Zi Ying, I'm sorry!" He Ruolan choked and said. The humiliation of Mai Tiezhang was sad, but what hurt people more was Yu Wenshu's provocative words. 'There is no point in fighting for a future for a prostitute.' I originally thought that
Marriage is about two people staying together until they get married, but I didn't expect that there would be so many entanglements in it.
Hearing his wife's sobs, Qin Ziying regained his composure somewhat. He straightened up, stretched out his hand to straighten He Ruolan's long hair that was messed up by the cold wind, and comforted him in a low voice: "Don't cry, the door is broken, let's buy another house.
Let’s find someone to repair it. When the war is over, we’ll move back to Longyou!”
"Zi Ying, I didn't expect you to pay so much!" He Ruolan finally couldn't bear it anymore and cried bitterly on her husband's shoulder. The Qin family will be ashamed of this! But what did she do to hurt others?
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry," she said incoherently, but she didn't know where she went wrong or why God was so unfair to her.
"Lan'er, it's okay, it's okay. They won't come back again. Brother Liu will definitely win, definitely!" Qin Ziying gently patted his wife's back, feeling the pain in his heart like a knife.
Liu Hongji's hope of winning was very slim. Although Qin Ziying was not proficient in martial arts, he knew it well. Although Mai Tiezhang was old, his reputation for half of his life was not chosen in vain. I think he had killed more than thirty people on his own back then.
The bandits were unscathed, and the entire Sui Dynasty was shaken. A person's strength may weaken as he gets older, but experience in battle battles often makes him stronger and stronger with time.
Hearing her husband mention Liu Hongji, He Ruolan slowly stopped crying. Now is not the time to vent her grievances. Others are competing for her husband, and her husband is hiding at home. Rather than being a gentle and considerate good husband, she hopes Qin Ziying is
A wonderful man who dares to do something. The Qin family of Longyou should not be ashamed of this. They will one day be proud of Ziying.
Raising her head, He Ruolan looked at Qin Ziying's slightly thin shoulders again, and whispered: "You go and cheer for Brother Liu, I will take care of it here!"
"Lan'er! I..." Qin Ziying wanted to say something that would never betray her to reassure his wife, but his lips were gently pressed by a soft stick.
"I know you!" He Ruolan had tears on her smiling face, "Just like you know me! Go ahead, I'll steam the cakes and wait for you to come back!"
The figures of the two couples slowly disappeared behind the broken gate. After a while, a horse appeared at the gate with a man on the horse, running quickly out of the city.
"Hey, these days, when you are a young official, there are still people who bully you!" Someone commented lowly in the wind.
The further they walked toward the school grounds, the more regretful General Zuo Wuwei Mai Tiezhang felt. The school ground in the south of the city was specially opened for the Zuo Wuwei soldiers by Li Yuan who mobilized young men last winter. Considering that Mai Tiezhang was older and was a refined man,
Li Yuan also specially built a pergola with wood and bamboo on the general platform so that he could rest while training. But today, he was confused and competed with Li Yuan. It was not a good thing to defeat Liu Hongji, a junior.
.If he accidentally kills the other party, I am afraid that the Mai family and the Li family will have a blood feud from now on.
And the cause of all this is just a *! Mai Tiezhang glanced at Yuwenshu next to him bitterly and thought to himself. He vaguely remembered that it seemed that it was General Yuwenshu who first proposed the three skills of singing, dancing and playing piano during the banquet.
. And it seemed that Yu Wenshu was also the one who made him furious twice. Thinking of this, he regretted his recklessness even more, and even the hand holding the riding crop became weaker and weaker.
But now the arrow was on the string, and he had no choice but not to send it. I don't know whether someone deliberately informed him, or whether the news spread quickly. The generals of Zuowuwei rode their horses in twos and threes and ran towards the school ground. General Mai has been there for almost ten years.
I haven't fought anyone yet, and many people want to see the old general take the general's head out of a million troops. The show is right in front of you, who will miss it after hearing the news?
"Tell the brothers to show some energy and don't make people laugh!" Li Xu turned sideways and ordered the warrior Xun under his command. The latter nodded slightly, turned his horse and rushed towards several groups of brothers. Listen.
Upon receiving the order, the two brigades of infantry and the first brigade of cavalry quickly cheered up and walked through the school gate with an attitude that was twice as serious as during usual training. Although their number was far smaller than that of the government soldiers who came to watch the excitement,
In terms of momentum, he is not inferior to his opponent at all.
"Brother Zhongjian thinks Brother Hongji has any hope of winning?" Li Shimin took a few steps forward and asked without giving up. He believed that since Li Xu and Liu Hongji had been dating the longest among all people, he should also have the most respect for Liu Hongji's martial arts.
clear.
"I'm not sure, but General Mai doesn't have a strong fighting spirit!" Li Xu thought for a while and finally gave a reassuring answer. General Mai doesn't have a strong fighting spirit. This is what he came to through repeated observations.
Conclusion. Through the art of observing people taught by Xu Dayan, Li Xu even vaguely felt that the old general Mai Tiezhang did not want to compete with Liu Hongji at all now. But the news had spread, and no one on both sides had the opportunity to withdraw voluntarily.
"Really?" Li Shimin's eyes suddenly lit up. When two strong powers are fighting, the most taboo is for someone to be soft-hearted. When Li Yuan explained the art of war and strategy to the children, he had instilled this point of view into him many times. If the facts are really as Li Xu said,
In other words, Liu Hongji's chances of winning will greatly increase. But if Liu Hongji really knocks out General Mai? It doesn't seem to be a good outcome!
While the three teenagers were thinking wildly, Li Yuan slowly walked over with a few personal guards. Tang Gong's face was still as haggard, but his eyes were much more lively than before.
"Zhongjian, you have been dating Hongji for the longest time. How is his martial arts better than yours?" When no one was paying attention, Li Yuan approached Li Xuma and asked in a very low voice.
"No matter the enemy experience or martial arts, the junior is far behind. Only in riding and shooting skills, the junior can barely compete with Brother Hongji!" Li Xu thought about it carefully and answered seriously. After answering, he felt
When he saw someone tugging at his leather armor quietly, he turned his head slightly and saw Wang Yuantong's anxious face from the corner of his eye.
Tang Gong Li Yuan would not ask these topics for no reason. When he asked at this time, he must have thought of a way to solve the current dilemma. Li Xu shook his head, not daring to be humble, and truthfully told the difference in martial arts between the two. (Unfinished)
