Chapter 41: Thoughts Surge
During the Shangyuan Festival, Mingsa traveled with Yi Shu, Gu Ting and Sang Li, and the two pairs of men and women who were as dazzling as the bright moon attracted the attention of many passers-by along the way.
The streets and alleys are also full of incense car treasure covers, beads and emeralds, jade bridle red tassels, endlessly.
Some of the hawkers are carrying carts, some are displaying market goods, some are storytelling, and some are talking and chatting in the wine shop.
People who focus on the festival are mostly burning incense and setting off fireworks, setting off fireworks, golden snake electric switch, with the roar of fireworks, like a golden snake can instantly go to more than ten zhang away, the flame is like a long eagle spreading its wings, and colorful, a flying fire chaotic planet color.
Looking at the thick mountains and rivers from a distance, the verdant color seems to be about to slip down.
Sang Li walked all the way, deliberately pulling Gu Ting to Minsa's side all the way, she was bent on matching the golden boy and girl, but she didn't see how smelly her face was.
Still Shu didn't know when the little devil met Gu Ting, and Sang Li looked like he was trying his best to promote them, did they have any friendship that they didn't know?
Gu Ting was a little uncomfortable, but he had always been polite, and he would not let Minsa feel any embarrassment, as for the stinky face that was still mentioned, Mingsa was a little used to it, he put on a resentful face to show himself at every turn, and he was so festive today that he didn't bother to take care of him, so Mingsa took care of himself and Sangli Gu Ting enjoyed the beautiful scenery on the road.
"Minsa, there will be a feast at the foot of Longshou Mountain in the evening, and you will go too." Sang Li said that on the night of the Shangyuan Festival, the lord would hold a feast and invite the nobles of the imperial city to drink and celebrate together.
"I don't know." Minsa responded.
"Mingsa is the county lord of Yanzhou, and he is a distinguished guest, so he must be among the invitees." Gu Ting said affirmatively, and then he looked at the face of still Shu who was mourning all the way, and said, "Since you are staying in the mansion of still Shu, you can go with him." ”
After listening to this, Minsa turned his head and glanced at still Shu, which happened to be intertwined with still Shu's gaze, but he avoided it without care, Minsa scolded him angrily in his heart, and he didn't know what kind of bar he always carried with himself.
"Yes, Minsa you have to go, it is said that the princess of the Western Regions brought a lot of shows that we haven't seen tonight, it must be very exciting." Sang Li said expectantly.
"Princess of the Western Regions, who is it?" Minsa asked.
"You don't know, a while ago, the Western Regions dedicated the princess to the lord's uncle as a concubine, oh yes, you haven't arrived at the tomb yet."
"The lord has a lot of concubines, right?"
"A lot?" Sang Li said and giggled: "I, the uncle of the lord, don't even have the queen and queen, let alone the concubine, this princess of the Western Regions was sent to the door, and I don't know if it counts." However, since she was sent to Yunling, she has been living in a post house outside the imperial city, and she has not even entered the imperial city a few times. ”
"Ah, why then?" Minsa was a little surprised. Even in a place as small as Yanzhou, the lord of the country has more than a dozen favorite concubines, not to mention the queen of the world, which is a symbol of the stability of the harem. Why is this Lord of the Tombs...... He also looked to be in his forties.
"It's not my uncle's infatuation." Sang Li said, but was attracted by the excitement of a large number of people, and hurriedly pulled Minsa over, and did not finish his sentence halfway.
A stage is being set up in the area where a lot of people are gathering, and an archery competition is being held.
The body of the bow is made of bamboo lining horn pieces, and the ends of the bow are tightened with tendon strings, and the strength is fifty strings. The arrows are sat on wicker poles, and the tail is made of eagle feathers, and it is three feet long.
The rules of the archery competition are: players shoot the same number of arrows at the target from a specified distance to determine the winner.
And the arrow target is even more ingenious, not the ordinary center of the ten rings, but on the screen to draw a five-color giant tail of the peacock, each shooter can send two arrows, two arrows in the peacock eyes, get a hundred taels of gold.
More than a dozen people have tried it here, and the archery skills are not up to the mark, but they have gathered a lot of popularity, and people are waiting to see if there is a warrior who can shoot through the peacock eyes between the screens in the distance.
"Still, aren't you very skilled in archery, show your hand." Sang Li shouted. attracted the eyes of the people around them to look at them, and when they saw two pairs of jade-like people standing here, they were immediately full of anticipation.
Still said that he wanted to shirk it, so he didn't want to participate in such a boring game, but the surrounding crowd was already in a commotion, and turned to look at the little devil, and saw that there was some expectation in her eyes, so he responded in his heart.
But this unconscious Sang Li said again at this time: "Brother Ting, you can also try, I really look forward to seeing you and still Shu face off, have you two never decided the winner?" ”
It's really a mess, Gu Ting thought to himself, still Shu was depressed all the way, it must be related to Mingsa, at this moment, Sang Li didn't open which pot to mention, let himself and still Shu have a showdown, he hurriedly shirked and said: "Brother Shu's archery skills are unbeatable, I can't compare." ”
"Brother Ting, it's all here, how can there be anything more than it, come on." At this time, he still spoke, and his tone was unquestionable.
Mingsa only understood at this time, and he was still angry with Gu Ting all the way, but Gu Ting looked humble and unconcerned, it was really glorious, which was like this still speaking, and he was very cautious.
Still saying this, Gu Ting couldn't excuse himself, so he had to take a bow and arrow.
"Brother Shu, please first." Gu Ting said.
He put the bow and arrow on the ground, aimed at the bullseye of the peacock's eyes, and then put down the bow and arrow with a sly smile, and said with a confident look: "Let's go first, the eyes are as big as the tip of the arrow, if I come first, the difficulty will be doubled for the court brother." ”
Gu Ting ignored his shouting, so he concentrated on the arrow, bent the arrow and bow into a full moon, and then with a tom sound, the bow and arrow had been shot out confidently, drawing a perfect arc in the air, and then pierced into one of the eyes of the peacock on the screen as steadily as a mountain.
The surrounding people suddenly burst into joy, applause and cheers, and his face was even more ugly at this time, he knew that Gu Ting had always been a martial artist, but he had never conspired with him on the battlefield, nor had he studied martial arts, but he didn't expect his archery skills to be so exquisite.
"It is worthy of being the eldest brother of Jihou, and it is indeed the talent of my pillars of Yunling!" Sang Li clapped his hands happily and couldn't stop praising Gu Ting's archery skills.
Gu Ting looked at him and made a gesture of invitation.
Still Shu took a deep breath, put up the bow and arrow, his eyes narrowed into a slit, Minsa felt the awkward atmosphere, thinking that still Shu must shoot this arrow into the peacock's other eye, otherwise he was not sure what to do.
As a result, to everyone's surprise, he still did not shoot the other eye, but steadily pierced the arrow into the bow and arrow that Gu Tinggang had already inserted into the screen, and then pierced straight into the eye that had been shot through.
The onlookers cheered even more, they had seen such wonderful archery there, which was really unique in the world.
Sang Li had already jumped up in admiration, she kept patting her shoulder, and she couldn't even say words of approval.