Chapter Twenty-Six: The Horse Race
In order to thank Yuan Lingjun for his rescue, Princess Cao made a special trip to visit with Huiyan with gifts. The couple got off the bus at the annex and happened to meet Yuan Lingjun, who instructed the servants to carry bamboo baskets into the museum.
"Fourth sister, fourth brother-in-law, you came just in time, I invited you to eat melons, and the old mansion of the Lu Mansion brought a lot of fresh melons and fruits. It's not an easy time to come. β
Yuan Lingjun threw the horsewhip to the man, and the servants carried all the bamboo baskets full of melons and fruits into the annex, and Yuan Lingjun followed behind.
In the courtyard of the annex there are two hazel trees, lush and green, a few birds are crying in the branches, jumping up and down, and under the trees are placed a four-person stone table and several stone couches, which are covered with soft cushions.
The princess and her wife sat down on the stone couch, and the maidservants served tea and pastries.
After waiting for a while, Yuan Lingjun came out lazily, she changed into a regular dress sprinkled with pomegranate flowers, long hair and shawl, yellow eyebrows, and a bit of girlish cunning in her childish spirit.
"Hey, wash the melons and fruits sent by the Lu Mansion, I want to entertain my sister and brother-in-law." Yuan Lingjun sat down, and the pomegranate flowers on the skirt covered the stone couch, which had a bit of spring artistic conception in the early winter of depression.
Princess Cao hurriedly waved her hand, saying that she didn't need it, but the maidservant had already brought the melons and fruits.
"Speaking of which, this time, thanks to Liudi's early warning, my husband and wife were able to avoid the disaster. Princess Cao waved her hand, and the maid who came with her brought a wooden box.
"So many, is it all food?" Saying that Yuan Lingjun was going to open the box and see, the old lady was afraid that the guest would be embarrassed, so she hurriedly hugged the box down, Yuan Lingjun pounced on the air and glared at her dissatisfied, "This is not good." β
The maids covered their lips and smiled, Princess Cao and Hui Yan also looked at each other and smiled, she didn't expect Liudi to love food so much.
Yuan Lingjun sat down stupidly, held a fruit and nibbled on it, "Sister said thank you for something, just raise your hand, if you want to thank you, thank your husband." β
"What do you mean by that?" Hui Yan looked at Yuan Lingjun, who was busy gnawing melons, incomprehensibly, and obviously solved his doubts through her reminder.
"Thisβninety thousand!" "The minister is here." Ninety Man took a step forward, his hand already gripping the hilt.
Yuan Lingjun said lightly: "I hate it most when others listen to the corner of the wall, so I went to invite the one who climbed the wall to come down for tea." β
As soon as the words fell, a muffled snort was immediately heard from the shade of the tree on the other side of the high wall, and everyone's eyes fell on the place where the sound came from at the same time, and a small pebble bounced down the wall, and one rolled to the feet of Princess Cao. The shot is 90,000, his black knife never leaves his hand, it is rare to see him unsheathed, and the small pebble just now is just a warning to the people who are watching.
Knowing that someone was following and watching, the couple could no longer force their composure, and only sat for a while before hurriedly leaving.
Princess Cao was taken aback, the people they were watching in the open were in the dark, and the princess's mansion might already be under the control of those people. Who sent it? Princess Cao was puzzled.
The red-billed parrot paced gracefully on the windowsill, stopping to look at its owner, occasionally calling a large straw bale or two to invite pets. Yuan Lingjun sat under the window in a gloomy manner, drooping his head, and didn't have time to take care of it.
"Is there any incense killing you brought?" Yuan Lingjun asked.
Kun Jiao thought for a while and replied, "The lord has been suffering from frequent illnesses recently, so you should take care of your jade body and drink less spirits." Let's go to the wine shop and buy some fruit wine and come back. β
"Fruit wine is for children, and I'm not a child anymore. You don't have to sell wine, let me think about it, and stand down first. β
Kun Jiao promised, closed the door and retreated.
When Kunjiao walked away, Yuan Lingjun sat cross-legged facing the window, dragged a book basket and opened it, but there was nothing inside. Yuan Lingjun flew up violently and kicked open the book, and then rolled on the ground with his feet in his arms, crying out in pain again and again.
Xu Chao's bribery and embezzlement case book and Yuan Ling are closely related, Lu Yaoxue induced her in the letter: Xu Chao's mansion in the East China Sea is gorgeously decorated, the roof is inlaid with pearls and green feathers, the Dongzhu presented by the officials is the size of a baby's fist, the red coral is three or four feet high, and the goose burned by the chef is also more flavorful than that in Changshan Palace.
She took a fancy to the big pearl of the East China Sea on Xu Chao's house, the news spread everywhere, many officials gave her pearls to flatter, Xu Chao was eager to return to work, so he played an impeachment to the imperial court, and impeached Yuan Lingjun for accepting bribes, the emperor was furious, and privately scolded Xu Chao for being nosy, or detained Yuan Lingjun in the name of corruption and bribery, and sent to Tianguan County to serve as a farmer for reflection.
Yuan Lingjun inadvertently grabbed Xu Chao's handle. She had secretly sneaked into Xu's house to snoop, trying to steal the pearls, leaving Xu Chao's empty box, and didn't pay attention to let Xu's house find clues, and hid under the bed of Xu's mansion orchid room in a hurry, and was pleasantly surprised to find a box of Persona scrolls.
Xu Chao was not bad for her to be imprisoned, the monarch's father only confiscated the big beads, and those account books were still in his hands some time ago, and they were loaded into the annex with his peers, and suddenly disappeared at this moment.
Yuan Lingjun jumped up from the ground as if he was burning his buttocks, opened the door and shouted, "Ninety thousand, ninety thousand." β
Ninety thousand, who thought something had happened, hurriedly stepped into the atrium. The partition was rudely pulled open from the inside, and Yuan Lingjun shouted while putting on his shoes.
"Get the old crazy horse out there, I'm going to tame it. Hurry up, run to the pavilion and we'll be back. Yuan Lingjun urged.
The lake is as calm as a mirror, and in the clear reflection, several yellow cranes fly by, the dew has not yet dispersed, and thin raindrops float in the air.
A red-maned horse galloped out of the annex like a madman, rushing east and west, startling passers-by in panic.
Yuan Lingjun grabbed the horse's mane tightly, swaying on the horse's back, her body was uncertain, and she almost fell down several times, she didn't care at all, and kept shouting: "Run, run!" Let me see what you're really capable of. β
Ninety thousand were afraid that she would fall from her horse, and several of her followers rode their horses to catch up.
Yuan Ling didn't realize the danger and vigorously added a few lashes. The envoy of the Yue clan did not coax people, and it was indeed a fierce horse, with four hooves furious, galloping forward like a lightning speed, the sound of the wind whining in his ears, blowing Yuan Lingjun's cheeks painfully, his ears were ringing, and his entire lower body was suspended under the horse's belly, swinging in the air. Let the people behind look panicked.
"Lord! Hurry up. β
Yuan Lingjun couldn't hear the shouts behind him clearly. Ninety thousand urged the whip to gallop, but the mount under the seat could not match the speed of the good horse, and the distance became farther and farther, and in the blink of an eye, there was no human figure to be seen.
The red-maned horse was a little tame under Yuan Lingjun's strong control, and it didn't seem to be arrogant, he walked slowly and calmly, carrying Yuan Lingjun slowly. The ground is covered with a thick layer of dead leaves, and the dew still adheres to the leaves. Yuan Lingjun kicked the horse's belly hard, and looked back, and the people had already chased after him.
"Ninety thousand, keep up." Yuan Lingjun whipped and urged again, and galloped along the river beach in the direction of Changting.
After a while, a long pavilion standing alone by the road fell into view. Yuan Lingjun retracted the reins in time, jumped off the high horse, and led the horse on foot.
It's so cold, I don't feel like I'm riding a horse, I sweat when I run, my whole body is comfortable, and the depression that has been pent up for many days is vented in one go. Yuan Lingjun raised his eyes and led the horse for a few steps, this is the destination.
Several willow trees outside the long pavilion are tied to horses, the fire in the pavilion is faintly jumping, several old and young people sit around the fire, talking eloquently, it is the travelers who are in a hurry to keep warm here, and a few others are far away or leaning or sitting under the pillar.
The entourage all followed, and Yuan Lingjun threw the reins to one of the entourages, "Ninety thousand, let's also go and roast the fire." As he spoke, Yuan Lingjun tightened his sleeves and walked towards the long pavilion with his back to the river. A thin cloud of smoke rose from the exhaled breath of his lips, obscuring the view in front of him.
Stepping on the "creaking" dead leaves, several people came to the long pavilion, and the entourage tied the horses and guarded them outside the pavilion.
"The little lady is in such a hurry, is she also in a hurry?" The middle-aged man who first saw Yuan Lingjun greeted her, and the rest of the people also looked at her one by one.
Yuan Lingjun's whole body was cold, as if he would be cold into an ice cube in the next moment. She unceremoniously squeezed into the roasting army, rubbed her hands quickly, and then covered her face and rubbed it, finally relieving herself.
Looking up, seeing that the eyes of several people fell on him, Yuan Lingjun smiled, "You guys go on, I'll listen to it too." β
As soon as she said this, several people couldn't speak, and the pavilion fell into a long-term embarrassment, only the pyre was beeping and burning.
A person leaning on the porch suddenly looked at Yuan Lingjun, and her searching gaze made her spine cold, as if there were thousands of ants crawling on her body. Yuan Lingjun shouted 90,000, ran away from the long pavilion in a panic, got on the horse and whipped urging, the red-maned horse was completely ambushed, raised his hooves and galloped, but was quickly caught up by a horse behind.
"They've seen me, why are you running?"
"Who are you? I don't know you. Yuan Lingjun stared straight ahead, not daring to glance to the side.
The man laughed and did not answer, but raised his whip lightly, and his wide sleeves flew up, and the horse rushed out like an arrow off the string.