CHAPTER XXIX
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The Mid-Autumn Festival is approaching, His Majesty the Emperor, who has always been idle, suddenly became enthusiastic, waved the wolf, covered the jade seal, and issued an edict that a month-long martial arts competition will be held on August 15, one to celebrate the joy of the Mid-Autumn Festival, and the other to congratulate the prince on the wedding.
Overnight, it seemed that the whole country was rushing into Beijing, and the capital was overcrowded, and the inn teahouse was full.
The venue for the preliminary round and semi-finals of the competition was set up in the martial arts arena ten miles outside the city, which was one of the garrisons of the Sujia Army, with 50,000 soldiers.
The martial arts field is located in the small plain at the bottom of the valley, surrounded by mountains on three sides, covering a very wide area, the southwest direction is the camp of 50,000 garrisons, and the open place in the southeast direction is originally a racecourse, and now it has been used as a temporary foothold for the princes and nobles, and the tents are lined up on it, and the size is different.
Surrounded in the middle was a large domed tent, in addition to the four statue-like people at the door, there were twenty guards with knives around them in shifts, each with four big words written on their faces, "Do not approach without an order", chilling.
Needless to say, with such a tight defense, it is naturally a resting place for today.
There are only two small tents within a radius of ten zhang of the holy tent, and Su Jie is honored to be the owner of one of them, and in the other one, there is a graceful and luxurious queen mother!
At first, Su Jie was taken aback when she was first led to this tent by the palace people, and asked twice if there was anything wrong with the arrangement, and when the chamberlain pinched her throat and replied twice, "The slave is an errand according to His Majesty's will, and there is no possibility of mistakes, Her Royal Highness the princess can live with peace of mind", she reluctantly believed it.
After the chamberlain left, Su Jie stood sideways in the open space in front of the tent, raised her eyes to look at the two tents, one large and one small, not far away, and the sonorous and powerful guards with knives, couldn't help but shake her head, and then laughed bitterly.
It's really a great grace!
How can her little body withstand this pampering?
Su Jieben is not a person who likes to join in the fun, even if this competition can be described as a national event, she also feels bored about it, and she is not as comfortable as reading two vulgar folk picture books at home!
However, the emperor seemed to have expected it, and before he traveled, he deliberately issued a holy decree to the Dingguo Mansion, and made it clear that he wanted her to go with the holy car, I really don't know what kind of medicine he sells in this golden gourd! Therefore, Su Jie had to "happily" drive out of the capital with the saint and live in this tent, and she had to live until the results of the semi-finals came out.
A companion is like a tiger, who knows what the hell the tiger living next to him is doing!
After meditating in the tent for a long time, she couldn't think of any deeper meaning of the emperor's move except for attracting her unnecessary attention and unwarranted fame.
The reborn Su Jie has never been a mediocre person, and naturally she will not do such a worrying thing.
It is a day to be fearful, it is a day to tremble, it is also a day to be calm and calm, since you can't figure out what the Sacred Heart is, why not wait and see what it changes?
Whatever!
Thinking of this, she was so happy that she led her horse out of the camp. She had come to this camp with her father and brother, so she naturally knew where there were good scenery worth seeing.
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Su Jie stretched her waist half-leaning on her upper body, letting the evening breeze pass her face, and her long hair danced like ink.
Well, there is a smell of vanilla in this wind, mixed with a little earthy fragrance, which is many times better than the black smoke miasma in the city!
The disc-like sunset slid down the mountain, and night fell.
"Princess, it's not too early, let's go back to camp early!"
Twilight got up and whispered a reminder in her ear. Su Jie opened her eyes, but she was stunned, as if she didn't know where she was, and after her eyes blinked for a long time, there were signs of loosening.
Refusing Twilight's support, he bounced up on his hands, patted the dirt in his palms, and took one last glimpse of where the sun had set, and turned to lead the horse.
Not far from the camp, it was a hill that was neither high nor low, and it happened to face west, and it was a good place to watch the sunset in the evening, and I had been here before, but it was not as constrained as it is today.
Su Jie untied the reins tied to the tree and stroked the long horse's face lovingly.
This is a sweaty foal only five years old, covered in silver-white fur, like a noble princess when she stands tall, but sometimes she is a little naughty, but Su Jie likes to be tight.
If you think about it carefully, this horse has something to do with Lin Yi.
Five years ago, Lin Yafu, the general of the Northwest, had taken advantage of the emperor's birthday to send a batch of good horses into Beijing to congratulate the emperor on his birthday, and then the emperor borrowed flowers to offer Buddha, and selected five of these horses to reward the famous generals, and Su Yuanzhen got a mare covered in silver. Who would have thought that two months after this mare brought back, she would give birth to a foal with the same silver and white body!
It turned out that the mare had conceived a pony in her womb before she was tamed.
I have to sigh the tenacity of life again.
This hair that can reflect the sun's rays is very much loved by Su Jie, so it also made it recognize its owner, and it has been kept in the stable in the house for five years, and it was only pulled out of the martial arts field this time.
"Sydney, let's go back." She named the foal Sydney, the pear of Sydney stewed in rock sugar.
Su Jie's loving voice poured out shallowly, and at the same time, when she put her palm close to Sydney, Sydney also lowered her neck and took the initiative to lean her head against her palm and rubbed it up and down in response, and then shook her neck covered by a smooth long mane and snorted, thinking that she was in a good mood.
Seeing this, Su Jie smiled and patted its long face, turned to the side and stepped on the stirrups and turned over, when the corner of her eye caught a glimpse of Twilight Snow also got on the horse, then her legs gently clamped the horse's belly and went forward.
Sydney is also noble and elegant when she walks.
When I returned to the camp, the sky was completely dark, and a big fire was set up in the center of the camp, which was already lit at this time, and the blazing fire illuminated the world, and the rich sons in brocade clothes gathered together in groups of three or five, carrying the wine jar, drinking, talking, and laughing louder and louder.
When Su Jie arrived at the entrance of the camp, a guard came up to greet her, and after handing over Sydney to the visitors, she led Twilight Snow around the campfire and walked towards the middle of the camp.
The first event is going to start tomorrow, after all, there hasn't been a martial arts tournament of this magnitude in five years, and it's no surprise that some people can't sleep tonight with excitement.
At night, the tents lit up are like big lanterns placed on the ground, but along the way, many tents have not been lit, and I think they are going to join in the fun by the bonfire.
Su Jie led Twilight, followed by two guards on the left and right, holding torches to light the way.
"Hmm...... Ahhhh......h Well...... Good swelling ......"
The sudden sound made the group stop suddenly, and Su Jie followed the voice, this delicate and charming moan/moan happened to come from the tent on her left.