120. First inning game
Hua Wushan and Hua Wuji hurried two steps, greeted the emperor next to the imperial palace, and walked into the imperial tent together.
"Sister Yiyi, I saw you smiling there from afar, what is the matter, tell me too." The twelfth prince, Hua Wuxiang, was by the emperor's side.
"No, nothing." This matter was handed over to the seventh master alone behind the emperor's back and Hua Wulin, and when he saw that the emperor Yilan was embarrassed, he quickly denied it.
"General Qiu Qiu will tell the sixth and twelfth masters, for those papers, the seventh master almost put his life into it." Where is the seventh princess willing to follow, and asked with red eyes. Accompanied by the emperor to Guguo Gong, Wei Yuanhou and several other old generals looked at it curiously, and the atmosphere was very strange for a while.
"Ahem." Yilan's face burned when he saw it, "I just put forward the idea that I can make a monocular into binoculars, and the two eyes can observe together to achieve a three-dimensional effect, so that I can more accurately predict the location of the enemy and the enemy." Yilan replied in a low voice, "But I didn't think I could make it, in fact, I won't do it, I just drew the general principle." ”
Hua Wuxi, Gu Guogong and other generals showed surprised expressions when they heard this, and they all looked at Hua Wuji.
"Hmph, you're embarrassed to say, it's not good for you to find anyone, if you don't hand over the drawings to him, he's also an idiot, and he's really tired and sick, so he didn't want Xiao Qi's life." The emperor scolded with a smile.
"I, I just wanted him to be bored in the house, find him something to do, I didn't think it would be like this." Ylang eagerly pleaded.
"And you, aren't you sick, it's only been a few days? Who gave you permission to come here today? The emperor shook his head helplessly, seeing the children sick, it was always sad to be a father.
"It was the sixth master who allowed it, it was him, he brought me here." Yilan was very unkind and immediately betrayed Hua Wulone, which made everyone laugh.
"Lao Qi, I really didn't expect this to be done by you, I've already seen the thing, it's amazing." Hua Wushan did not hide his surprise and praise, and patted him on the shoulder, "Why didn't I know that you still had this ability, it really made the sixth brother embarrassed." ”
"I carried the sixth brother on my back and caught chasing the shadow, the ghost hand and they studied it for a long time, and the hard work finally paid off, and I hope the sixth brother will not blame them." Hua Wuji said politely.
Hua Wushan shook his head and said with a smile, "What's the matter, there are a lot of things that carry me in the house now, and it's not bad for this one." "Look at Ylang with appreciation.
The emperor looked at the two brothers and was very happy.
"No, is there something wrong with the third master?" Yilan thought of something, pulled the flower and asked quietly.
"No, the third brother is quite stable over there, I'll talk to you about this matter in detail." Hua Wushan refused to talk more, and Yilan stopped asking.
An attendant came to ask if Marseille would start at once, if it was all ready.
Such a grand royal polo match, naturally the emperor personally presided over it, and the emperor took everyone to a specially built high platform on the side of the arena.
Seeing the emperor arrive, everyone knelt down and shouted long live, and for a time the sound shook the mountains and rivers, and the scene was grand.
The official of the Ministry of Etiquette read out the edict that had been drafted on behalf of the emperor, to the effect that the polo activity is a traditional project before the Royal Dragon Boat Festival, which is intended to encourage the children of the royal family to never forget the hardships of seizing the country on horseback, and to have the ambition to protect the family and defend the country, to study hard and practice hard, and to strengthen the physique.
After reading the edict, the chamberlain Zhao Qishou took out a plate, which was neatly stacked with more than a dozen jade pendants with ordinary texture but made exactly the same, "The emperor has a decree, I hope you will go all out in the competition, and the winner will be rewarded with a jade pendant." Zhao Qishou shouted.
"Your Majesty." Everyone who was already in the stadium responded loudly, and when they saw the emperor waving his hand, everyone got up one after another and stepped on their horses.
This is the beginning of the first round of the competition.
To Yilan's surprise, the game was also played in a two-goal format, with one goal on each side of the field. There were eight players per team, twice as many as four per pair in today's polo matches, and the field was so wide that the goal was a little blurry from the sidelines.
The referee of today's kick-off is General Wan Huhai Wan, with his order, the game began, and the two teams of people and horses held clubs and rode horses back and forth in the field. Every time the ball is hit from a distance, everyone turns the horse's head and tries to catch up, the horse's chirping, the greetings between the players, and the cheers of everyone on the sidelines, accompanied by the turf flying in the field, is spectacular.
For a while, someone scored a goal, accompanied by a crisp gong, there were bursts of applause from the sidelines, and the person who scored the goal also raised the club and waved it to salute the audience.
In order to prevent injuries to horses and riders due to overwork, a polo game is divided into several rounds, each of which is not long, and the characteristic thick incense sticks are lit to mark the time.
When another goal was scored on the spot, the first game came to an end. The riders rode back to the sidelines to change their horses.
"Father, let's go to the tent and see." Hana Gogo helped his father back to the tent.
Ylan pouted, looking at how relaxing she was in the sun, and watching them gallop on horseback, Ilan was also a little eager to try.
There was a short break between the two rounds before I sat down, and the second game started immediately. By the end of the second game, the score on the court had been fixed at 1-3.
"How about Ylan-Ylang, you want to try it too?" Looking at the restless Yilan, the emperor smiled.
Yilan blushed a little when he was said to have hit, and twisted it, "Father, the weather is so good today, it's hard to get out of the palace, don't you want to ride a horse in the grassland for a while?" Proper exercise can be good for the health of the father. ”
"Huh." The emperor smiled heartily and turned his eyes to Gu Guogong, "Lao Du, look at the children in this game, they are not as good as we played back then." ”
"Yes, now these children are already good at running on horses, how can they compare with us back then." Gu Guogong was very emotional.
"Why didn't you say that Han Lao Er didn't see him again, didn't he say that he was coming?" The emperor said suddenly, facing Zhao Qishou, "Don't let people go to see it yet." ”
As he was talking, another old general stepped in, "Han Yu participates in the emperor." After saying that, he gave a military salute.
"Look, he's already dressed up, it seems that he can't play today." Looking at the person kneeling on the ground, dressed in a standard-bearer uniform, several old generals and the emperor burst into hearty laughter.
Chengping Hou Han Yu, that is, the father of Han Jing, the head of the third prince's guard, but he usually doesn't get close to the sixth master, so Yilan hasn't seen him.
Han Yu looks like he is only fifty years old, and he doesn't seem to be older than the emperor and Gu Guogong, but Han Jing's age is obviously much older than Hua Wushan. It is estimated that Han Jing is his eldest son, could it be that the heir to the title will also be a dangerous prince guard? Thinking that Han Jing was not inferior to the extraordinary skills of chasing the wind on the battlefield at that time, Yilan immediately thought highly of Han Jing by several points.
Here Yilan turned his thoughts, and several old generals over there had already finished their greetings, and their eyes were all over.
"Who is this?" Han Yu looked at Hua Wulone. The people who can accompany the emperor are people with noble status, and most of them have known each other since childhood, but in Han Yu's eyes, Yilan is a face, but she is not a palace maid, and even Hua Wulin takes good care of her, and in his impression, Hua Wulan is not a person who dares to show his obscene and trivial 'merry' style in front of his elders.
"Haven't you seen her?" Gu Guogong looked surprised, "Then you have to get to know each other, your son's current errand in Fancheng was thought up by this little girl."
"Yilan has seen Chengping Hou." Hearing that Gu Guogong was introducing himself, Yilan hurriedly took the lead and saluted. This time there was no military salute, but a blessing commonly used by women, with low eyebrows and pleasing eyes, charming and lovely.
"This?" Chengping Hou was stunned for a while, and did not call Yilan, who bowed his head and bent his knees.
Still Hua Wulu couldn't see it, and helped Yilan up, "Master Han, don't doubt it, it's true, it was she who proposed to select special soldiers among ordinary soldiers at that time, and many subjects, including those obstacle props used in Fancheng training, were designed by her. Hua Wulone's tone was a little cold, he was very distressed to see Yilan saluting there for so long, and Yilan never had to get up from the chair when he saw him.
"Alas, Lao Han, you are blind this time, this girl is very powerful, but Lao Du was also deceived by her when I first met her." Gu Guogong hurriedly played a round.
Chengping Hou didn't really want to despise Yilan, on the contrary, in the letter with his son, he admired Yilan's behavior very much, and his old face was slightly red at the moment, hugging his fists and saying, "General Qiu, it's Han Yu who is rude, don't blame the general." ”
"Sister Yiyi, it seems that my father is going to play, but my father has not participated in the Dragon Boat Festival polo game for many years, and now it is difficult to find an opponent for a while, do you want to compete with my father?" The Twelfth Prince, Hua Wuxiang, squeezed between Yilan and Hua Wuxiang, squeezed his eyebrows and said.
caused everyone present to frown.
Yilan was also embarrassed, and she couldn't figure out that Hua Wuxiang was already married, and she had to squeeze between herself and Hua Wulin every time.
"Xiaoxiang, Yilan is sick, how can she ride a horse, and besides, she doesn't know how to polo, it's too dangerous to play rashly." Hana Gogo easily slipped Hanagosue aside.
"Sister Yiyi's horse is much better than yours, and polo is not difficult for her, but it's you, it's good not to fall off like you did ten years ago." Hua Wuxiang immediately jumped to her feet to refute and turned over the old accounts.
Hua Wu's loneliness is called an embarrassment.
"Father, it's rare to be happy, a few of our brothers accompanied our father to evacuate and evacuate." Hua Wuji said on the side.
"Good, good. Old Han, a few of our old men formed a team, and they also killed the majesty of these yellow-mouthed children. "Over the years, when has Emperor Hua Jianrui enjoyed the children's joy around his knees like this, he was a little excited and couldn't help himself.
Hua Wuji was sickly, lazy and arrogant in the image of several old ministers, and his performance made several people a little strange, but seeing that the emperor was happy, it was not easy to refute, and they supported it one after another.