Chapter 14: On the Polo Ground (1)
"Your Majesty has arrived. Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info" The shrill report of the inner supervisor sounded, and the emperor was supported by people, surrounded by several heads of the family led by Su Jin, and came to the stand.
The courtiers and all the ladies in the stands all saluted to the emperor, and Nalan Rui, who was supported by the princess, was particularly prominent.
"The third child. The emperor waved his hand and motioned for everyone to sit down, "I see that your face is not very good, why are you still here?" Wang, you should persuade you." ”
"It's just a skin wound, it's not in the way. Nalan Rui smiled and patted the back of the princess's hand, stopping her action of pleading, "Erchen was supposed to play this time, but now that he can't go up, he wants to see more, where can the princess persuade him to live?"
"Sit down. The emperor sat down with the help of someone, and when he saw that Nalan Rui was still standing and replying, he said, "Add two cushions to Lord Rui's seat." As he spoke, he pointed to the brocade cushion placed on his throne and asked him to bring it to Nalan Rui.
Seeing the emperor's move, Nalan Rui just smiled, but Li You, the head of the Li family who had just sat down on the side, had a changed expression, his face was slightly dark, and his expression was unpredictable.
After Nalan Rui sat down, the emperor asked again, "How is Su Lan doing now?"
The grandstand of the Su family was already close to the emperor's seat, Su Lan stood up, walked in front of the emperor, bowed and said, "The minister is fine, Your Majesty Lao is worried." When she raised her head, she looked at the emperor with a smile, and looked carefully at the dark green under the emperor's eyes.
The emperor didn't say much, but told her to go back and sit down as if he was comforting, but he asked someone to add a brazier to her, which made everyone speculate again.
"Alright, let's get started. The emperor's eyes narrowed slightly, leaning back on the back of the throne, and said slowly.
Historically, this polo match has to be divided into three games, and the children who participated in these three games are also from different backgrounds, and the most important thing has always been the last one, and the people who can play this game are either the people of the Nine Families or the royal family, or the Nine Families also need to be the younger generation in the family who are highly valued, and most of them are sons-in-law.
Although Su Lan was not injured, she was not very comfortable, and her image in Chu Jing had always been flamboyant and chic, and she was willful and reckless, so at this moment, she ordered her subordinates to move a small couch, leaned on the circle chair, and lazily gossiped with Su Jun, and did not carefully look at the form of the polo field below, and her posture was very leisurely. I don't know what Su Jun said, Su Lan laughed extremely presumptuously, in this situation where everyone had no intention of watching the game, it was quite eye-catching, causing Su Jin, who was sitting in front of her to drink tea, to frown and glare at her.
At this time, an exclamation sounded in the stands, Su Lan also stood up, looked carefully at the field, and saw a person on the side of the red team, connecting three people, snatching the ball hard, taking the lead, sweeping the ball to the center of the blue team's net bag with a stick, the action was very good-looking, and quite fierce, all in one go, and the people who watched it also felt quite happy.
"It's the best ball of the day. Su Jun smiled and handed Su Lan a cup of tea and told her to come back and sit down, "I'm afraid this talented man is going to make a lot of young ladies fall in love." ”
"I think this person is quite fierce and fearless, I don't know whose son it is. Su Lan also smiled, "I'm quite interested in him." ”
Su Lan's voice fell, and Li Yuan, who was behind him, bowed out of the stands. The field was fierce for a while, and the red team's side was even more vigorous, and after a cup of tea, the man actually scored two goals in a row, and it didn't take long for the second game to end, and naturally the red team won without suspense. Li Yuan also quietly returned to Su Lan's side, and the people around him didn't seem to notice what he had done at all.
Su Lan glanced back at him, and Li Yuan leaned over between her and Su Jun, and said in a low voice: "That person is Liu Yucheng, the son of Liu Bin, who is the same as the eldest prince, and is the son of Liu Bin, who is also a soldier in the military department. ”
Su Lan nodded after hearing this, and was about to say something to Li Yuan, when she heard the emperor call this Liu Yucheng to come forward and listen to the reward. This step forward to listen to the reward is not really on this stand, but just standing on the imperial steps under this stand to ask the emperor to take a closer look. Su Jun also got up to look at the man, and when he sat down, Su Lan smiled and asked, "Brother can you take a closer look?" Is he a beautiful boy or a strong man?"
"Well, it's a black one. Su Jun smiled, "But looking at his slender and straight figure, he doesn't look like his father." ”
"Ah Yuan. When Su Lan heard this, she ordered, "Go and check this person carefully." ”
"Liu Bin's son. Su Jun looked at Su Lan, "What are your ideas?"
"Wait, brother. Su Lan shook her head and was not ready to say to him, "Maybe this person will be of great use in the future, not only for me, but also for my brother." ”
The big drum in the field was beaten violently, and the drum beat was quite rhythmic, and the sound was agitated, and the sleepy people in the stands were cheered up. Su Lan spread out her palm, which was already full of sweat, she couldn't help but shake her head, secretly scolding herself for being too poor in psychological quality, and unconsciously nervous when the first drum beat sounded.
The shoulder was vigorously shaken, and the warmth of Su Jun's palm seemed to be felt by her through the mink fur, she raised her head and looked into Su Jun's eyes, which were warm and soft, calming her down. rubbed Su Jun's big palm with his cheek as if he was a child, slowly closed his eyes, and only heard Su Jun sigh softly: "With my brother here, what are you afraid of?"
Su Lan then opened her eyes, nodded slowly, and looked at Su Jun with a surprisingly obedient gaze.
Another horn sounded, accompanied by the neat hooves of the horses, Su Lan took his eyes off Su Jun and looked at the polo field at his feet, his eyes as thick as ink were already filled with anger.
Six players from each of the red and blue teams played, and all twelve of them wore black riding uniforms and wore red and blue turbans to distinguish them. The six members of the red team are Zheng Yu, Su Qi, Xiao Wenyuan, Shen Yi and Zhao An, and the sixth prince Nalan Jin is the team leader. The six people on the blue team are Xuan Xi, Li Chenghao, Zhang Ping, Qiao Anyi and Fu Dongyang, led by the Nine Emperors Nalan Jun. In the ninth family, the Wang family has not played for several years because there are no men of appropriate age in the clan, but the other eight families are all young men with high status in the clan, and among these people, Su Qi seems to be a little weaker. Although the Zhao and Fu families are not the ninth family, they are also famous families that have lasted for a hundred years, and their status is also quite high.
Next to the Su family stand is the Li family stand, Li You said to Su Jin with a smile: "I remember that the Su family played the year before last was the second son of your family, and last year he was the eldest son, why did you change the little son of the Hou Mansion this year?"
"It was supposed to be Arashi. Su Lan smiled slightly, "It's a pity that I was injured yesterday, so I can only ask my younger brother to play." ”
Li You saw Su Lan's answer, but he also smiled, and he didn't want to continue, but he heard Su Lan say: "Coincidentally, the Ninth Master also replaced the East Palace this time, so I don't feel so sorry if I don't play." "Originally, the third master and the prince each led the team, but now that the third master is injured, the prince will not play. Su Lan didn't understand the emperor's intention of wanting the two of them to play from the beginning, after all, it was already tense at the moment, and if it was really the same scene, it would be chaos without thinking about it.
Li You listened to Su Lan's half of the sentence, and really felt a little choked, but she was young, and she couldn't deal with her words, but she seemed quite ungraceful, and Su Jin didn't seem to hear it, and didn't want to control Su Lan, thinking about this, he could only smile awkwardly at Su Jin and stop talking.
At this moment, there was a heavy gong sound, and the six masters and nine masters in the field faced each other, and each leaned over to probe the small ball in the field, ready to kick off.
Another heavy drum sounded, and the sound of horses' hooves overpowered all the noise around them.
This polo began.
The sixth prince, Nalan Jin, struggled to lean his body, and the ball reached under his pole first, he took advantage of the situation to lie on the back of the horse, quickly brought the ball forward, and Zheng Yu and Su Qi behind him quickly stepped forward. I saw Nalan Jin pick up the club, and the ball went directly to Zheng Yu's stick, and the ball was fast, bringing up all the way to the yellow sand from the field.
After receiving the ball, Zheng Yu directly lay sideways on the horse, staring behind him out of the corner of his eye, while Su Qi faced him and swung his club to protect him. At this time, Qiao Anyi had already met him, and leaned directly to hit Zheng Yu's ball, Zheng Yu turned around on the horse at a very strange angle, and the ball flew to Su Qi's club, and Fu Dongyang on the other side also outflanked him, Su Qi collided with him directly, the ball lost control, straight forward, Xuanxi looked at this vacancy, and immediately flew to grab it, at this time Zhang Ping also stepped forward to grab the ball, but was forced by Xuanxi's horse speed, but it was blocked there, the two front hooves of the crotch mount were already volleyed, Xuanxi's club swept from the horse's hooves, and directly grabbed the ball and ran to the red team's net, without even looking at Zhang Ping, Zhang Ping tightly pulled the reins and pulled the horse's head to the other side, took a few steps back before he could stabilize the horse.
The field is not close to the stands, everyone only feels that this field is very intense as soon as it starts, and it looks tight, and five or six people in the middle of the field are entangled around the small ball, and before they can see the action carefully, they see Xuanxi almost hanging on the side of the horse and flying out, and Zhang Ping was swept aside. This kind of thing is really common on the polo field, and Xuanxi rarely rushes to kill so fiercely, naturally no one goes to see Zhang Ping.
Xiao Wenyuan and Zhao An struck Xuan Xi from both sides, forcing him forward, Shen Yi went head-on to hook him with the ball, Xuan Xi quickly fell back to the center from the side of the horse, and could avoid Shen Yi's blow, but he threw the ball up, intending to attack the goal directly, Nalan Jin in the back immediately flew to block, was hit by the ball to the club, and lay directly on the back of the horse, but in the end blocked the ball under the horse, and was taken by Xiao Wenyuan, who was back on the defense. Xiao Wenyuan took the ball forward, shook the Nine Emperor Nalan Jun, and threw the ball to Zheng Yu, Zheng Yu took the ball forward, and Zhang Ping faced it head-on, but Zheng Yu did not dodge, only rolled the ball directly forward, straight to Zhang Ping's belly, Zhang Ping had to go sideways to block, and when he swung the club, he called someone to help, Qiao Anyi, who was defending on his flank, stepped forward, because of Zhang Ping's action, the ball grazed his horsetail, Zheng Yu's horse head was almost attached to Zhang Ping, and he directly threw him on the horse, and the probe rod was drawn to the ball, refusing to let Qiao Anyi, who had already rushed over, take the pole and fall, but it was able to sweep Zhang Ping's horse back legs, and when Zheng Yu straightened up suddenly, Zhang Ping was taken directly and turned a corner, and the ball rolled aside.
Zhang Ping was frightened twice, but he woke up and realized that something was wrong on the field today, these people seemed to be coming towards him, and the fight was so fierce as if they were disregarding their lives, even Xuanxi, who was also doing his own thing on the Polo Field, was also abnormal, and he was a little panicked in his heart, and he only felt bad.