Bow shooting, held every autumn, the field is divided into two kinds of connoisseurs and play tickets, the so-called experts are mostly the powerful people on weekdays with money to train a team dedicated to the bow competition, and the play tickets are mostly the sons of the powerful families to form a team to compete with each other, to not serious, there will be no danger.

Chen Guoren loves bowing, not only because of the excitement of bowing and the beauty of competition, but also because Chen Guo prohibits gambling on weekdays, but every year when the bowing competition will be opened with a top line of betting activities, but all the betting process and norms are formulated and supervised by the government, and individuals are not allowed to set up private gambling games, and violators will be severely punished. Of course, most of this kind of gambling is to collect money for the imperial court, but at the same time, it also stimulates the enthusiasm of the people to participate.

It can be said that in addition to the Spring Festival every year, the autumn bow is the most anticipated by the people, not to mention that Chen Guo also gave the academy government and various industries a holiday for this reason, and a large number of people on vacation naturally poured into the bow field to watch the game, and those who have spare money can even gamble, not to mention how much it tastes.

Acacia sat in the carriage leaning on Li Yunluo, the streets outside the carriage were full of people, more lively than the Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, these people are not qualified to watch the game of the ticket boys, most of them are going to the game of the experts, some people have the money to buy a ticket to go into the door to see, some people can't buy a ticket to the door to bet, there is a free special storyteller at the door to slow down a beat to say the game just a few times, until the result is out of them They will follow the joy and sorrow.

"Are these connoisseurs all raised by families?" Acacia is the first time to watch this kind of competition, and it is fresh.

Li Yunluo nodded and said: "Ordinary people can't afford to raise experts who beat bows, after all, they need a field to practice every day, and they need to match a good horse, a good saddle and a good club. ”

"Then if the team raised by the family wins more, is there a reward?"

Li Yunluo took a bite of melon seeds, and said fragrantly: "If you win more games, the court will be rewarded, but most of them are family bets, if your team wins, you can also make a lot of money." ”

"It's a way to make money." Acacia sighed.

"But isn't it, you have to know ......" Li Yunluo leaned into Acacia's ear and said: "This is just a gambling game set by the imperial court, not counting those casinos that are secretly opened in private, there are no rules to the top in that place, how many people have died because of this, but the imperial court has caught so many times, and then they turned a blind eye, making private gambling everywhere, and they can't catch it." You don't know how hard it is to catch gambling games that are privately run by the government. ”

"But the other party's martial arts are strong?" Acacia asked on purpose.

"Where!" Li Yunluo pulled Acacia and whispered: "They all rely on the family behind them, and there are even royal relatives." ”

Private casinos have existed since ancient times, but Chen has banned private gambling since the founding of the country, and there are almost no private gambling houses in the two generations of the founding of the country, and all the people can only save two handfuls of luck in the days when the bow is opened, and the domestic atmosphere is very good, and there are few things that go bankrupt overnight. But with the succession of the first emperor, he was heavily punished several times when he was young, but in the middle and old age, relying on the prime minister and credulous family, those bad habits slowly emerged in the same way, and it was impossible to prevent it.

Waiting for the ascension to the throne today, if you want to turn the tide, there must be a fierce battle in the future, after all, how can the royal family who tasted the sweetness throw the meat in their mouths, they want to get more power, as well as more money.

Acacia suddenly lost interest in today's bowing, the family's own bowing team, their own private gambling game, even if there is court supervision, it is just a decoration, where is this gambling luck, it is clearly betting on which family is making money this year, which is the turn, betting on his team is right.

"Let's not go to see those connoisseurs, there are too many fancy and vulgar ones, let's go see the sons of the family, maybe we can find a wishful husband for Xiaohongdou when the time comes." Li Yunluo pinched the tip of her acacia nose and laughed wantonly.

Lovesickness is an afterthought, isn't this kind of day just right for young boys and girls to know each other? Otherwise, no matter how good a son is, no matter how soft the girl is, she will not be able to separate the front and back courts, and there will be too few opportunities to see each other, anyway, she will be accompanied by the eldest brother in the family, and the adults in the family will not be afraid of any ugly things. It can be seen that in the eyes of the family, in addition to the days when the teenagers are playing, it also means that the girls go on a blind date, and they are also open-minded.

The carriage got closer and closer to the horse farm where the bow was held, not far from the outskirts of Beijing, which was originally a Hu enclosure that was expropriated by the imperial court for unknown reasons, and after generations of expansion, this enclosure was large enough to hold four juju competitions at the same time.

Acacia quietly looked out the window, they walked through a safe passage, there were soldiers on both sides, only the other side was a place where civilians were waiting for the opening, it was crowded from a distance, and the sound of commotion could be heard from afar, which was more lively than watching the dragon boat race, no wonder even Meng Huoran was so active.

"Is your eldest brother going to end up today?" Acacia turned his head and asked?

Li Yunluo raised her chin and said arrogantly: "Of course, if he loses what promised me, he can't miss one thing." ”

Acacia pursed his lips and was happy, thinking that Meng Huoran didn't know if he would run a lap today, no wonder Li Yunluo was so keen on bowing, those strangers couldn't understand it, but if it was an acquaintance's acacia who was interested, whether it was Yingzi or wolf bèi, it was estimated that they could talk about it for a long time after bowing.

"I don't know if the fourth prince will play." Li Yunluo suddenly sighed and said.

Meng Huoran, Mo Li, Zhuang Jinyuan, Fu Ninghuai and the four princes of Kyoto are all talented and good-looking sons, and they can be regarded as the wishful husbands in the minds of the girls over the years. It's just that among the four people, the reason why Mo Liang can be selected is more because of his face, because even if Mo Liang can be selected, his family is already a burden with minus points.

"My eldest brother can't tell." Acacia didn't hear Meng Huoran say that he wanted to go.

"The first two years were all up, and only the second son of Mo didn't come in the first two years." Li Yunluo seems to have a lot of regret when she says it.

Acacia lowered her head, she didn't come in the first two years, the first year was because Chen Xi was sick, and the second year was because she was unwell, this year was the first time she came to see this, she didn't want to come at first, but Meng Huoran really made sense of Meng Chen, and she had no excuse. I didn't expect Mo Li to come.

Since the paddock can be divided into four fields, then of course there will be a place for these girls who are difficult to go out to move around at will and watch the game safely, but such places are also divided into three, six, nine and so on, and the family members below the fourth rank of official position only have a vacant land to use, but the families with titles can even get a simple tent, not to mention the golden branches and jade leaves like the county lord.

When the carriage actually entered the paddock, Acacia opened his eyes, behind the originally towering house number, a large area of grass and tents and high pedestals, and in the distance a neatly repaired open space was being carefully tended by slaves who seemed to be waiting for the game. According to the guidance of the fence officials, the county lord and the carriage of the Ding'an Bo Mansion drove to their specific position, and only men were not allowed to sit with women, so Meng Huoran had to send the sisters to the tent so that he could go to find his companion.

"Cut, it's useless to follow the elders."

Acacia was looking at the mountains in the distance and the white clouds on the horizon, and only then turned her head when she heard Li Yunluo say this, two delicate girls accompanied a lady on the side of the road and didn't know what she was talking about, the big one was holding the lady and coaxing with a smile, and the small one couldn't shed tears, so it was pitifully tight. These two people still have the impression that they are the relatives of the prince and young master Qiao, but Lord Qiao's wife died early, thinking that the lady is not the mother of the two girls......

Think about it at the beginning, the eldest brother and they also peeped at other girls' girls for the marriage of the eldest sister, but two years later, the two girls of the Qiao family were not very close to the future brother-in-law of the Zhenguo General's Mansion, and there were no tricks that Lang You's sister intended to play, but I heard that the eldest sister of the Qiao family was already talking about marriage.

"Is the princess here today?" Acacia asked with a smile.

The county lord shook his head and said disdainfully: "I came a few years ago, but then I found that I didn't come if I was bored. ”

This is not surprising, if you all know that there is a fake in the bowing competition, then you will not be interested in watching it, as for the competition of the young people of the family, it is also fun to watch, the elders are in the place to look restrained, no wonder He did not propose to come together, to let the girls follow the two brothers.

"However, the year is not as good as a year, if you continue to fool around, sooner or later the people will lose interest, see what about these families who spend a lot of money every year to train the bowers!" Li Yunluo said with some loss.

Acacia looked at the happy smiling faces outside the window, and felt a little regretful, after all, how many generations of activities have been passed on, and it can be regarded as having fun with the people, but if such a lively activity is polluted by power and money, not many people are willing to persist after a long time, maybe there will be no one except gamblers in the future.

"Oh, why are you here?"

Acacia came to a group of girls as soon as the carriage grew, it was really a rare opportunity to show themselves, today's girls' riding outfits are really purple and red, each with its own subtlety, but Acacia himself was originally considered to have carefully selected clothes in it to look a little plain, but fortunately, the appearance of Acacia is here, no matter where it is impossible to hide the crowd, often a smile can attract countless attention.

Meng Xintong also took Meng Chenxi down from the carriage, Meng Huoran saw so many girls coming, and hurriedly said goodbye to the eldest sister, and then touched the top of the acacia's hair and fled with some wolves. Meng Duanfang wanted to stay for a while, but how could Meng Huoran let him go, and even pulled the belt to the end.

"Cousin, really, we're the beasts of the flood." Meng Qizhen looked at it from afar and shouted dissatisfiedly, and the girls immediately snickered.

But when they approached, they found that the little county lord was standing beside Acacia, and after being stunned, he immediately put away his laziness and gathered in one place to salute Li Yunluo.

Li Yunluo was the most impatient with these, waved her hand and said, "Okay, you have a few sincere ones, and I can't stand it." ”

Many girls turned pale, and even some of the young ones showed horror, tears rolled in their eyes, and only Shu Wanxuan replied with a smile: "The county lord is sympathetic to us, but the etiquette cannot be wasted." ”

Li Yunluo raised her eyebrows and glanced at her twice, snorted and raised her hand, and the girls stood up.

The girls of the Meng family gathered with everyone at this time to greet each other.

"Let's go, go to my tent." Li Yunluo was the most impatient with this, so she took Acacia's hand and went to her tent.

Acacia was pulled and couldn't help it, so she had to talk to the eldest sister.

"How did you meet that one...... When I look at it, I feel that my legs are weak. Meng Qizhen grabbed Meng Xintong and grimaced.

Meng Xintong saw that there were many people, so he said lightly: "The two of them are already good, and today it is our Sanniang who the county lord went to find." ”

"It's very emotional." Shu Wanxuan interjected beside her: "I think it's the whole of Kyoto, that is, Sanniang and the little county lord are the closest." ”

Meng Xintong glanced at Shu Wanxuan, she was worried about her eldest sister's marriage, so she asked Meng Qizhen to inquire about the county lord's brother, although she was not a compatriot, she was no stranger to the county king's mansion.

"Cousin, I think Sanniang won't be with us for a while, why don't you and Chenxi walk around with us?" He Shuyao seems to be in a good mood today, and she is a little closer to Meng Xintong.

Meng Xintong didn't answer, just looked down at Chenxi, but Meng Chenxi was most impatient with a group of women chattering, so he shook his head gently.

"It should be all the way over, tired of her, or let her rest, otherwise she should fall asleep after watching Ju in a while." Meng Xintong politely refused.

Except for Meng Qizhen, who had some regrets, the rest of the people didn't feel anything.

"They don't mean what they say!" As soon as he entered the tent, Meng Chenxi suddenly said: "I don't know my sisters anymore." ”

Meng Xintong touched the top of his sister's head and said, "People will grow up, and they will always change." ”

"But the eldest sister and the third sister haven't changed!" Meng Chen sat aside angrily, took the book from the bookcase and flipped through it.

Meng Xintong looked at his sister and felt funny, but when he thought of lovesickness, he became worried again.

"Hey!! Who do you think this is? ”

Opposite the female dependents is the place where the teenagers gather, although they also have tents, they are willing to gather in twos and threes to sit on the dry yellow grass blowing the cold wind, freezing so that their noses are red, Zhuang Jinyuan doesn't know where to find the dead branches, piled them in one place so that Fu Ninghuai lit the flames, and took out the sweet potato chestnuts from the bag brought with the car and threw them into the fire, and after a while, they crackled and exploded happily.

"What's yelling, who?" Zhuang Jinyuan patted the ash on his face, and when he turned his head, his eyes lit up, "Hey! Didn't this kid say no? ”

"If he comes, we'll win today." Fu Ninghuai also turned around, showing a rare smile.

Meng Huoran and Meng Boliang hurriedly greeted them, and many teenagers around them also stopped talking and looked towards the way they came.

"You're finally here, why didn't you come two years ago, but this year you're free?" When Meng Huoran saw the door of the carriage, he couldn't help but say at the door.

The door curtain was lightly raised, and a small guy jumped out of the carriage and then pulled up the curtain to reveal the handsome face of Mo Li that made people fall in love at first sight.

"It's time for Brother Meng to laugh." If others say this, Mo Liang will ignore the theorem or not, it can be seen that Meng Huoran Mo Liang has somehow become good-tempered, and got out of the carriage while talking.

"You're Mohedge?" A head leaned to the side, and his face looked stern as if he wanted to seek revenge.

When Mo Liang saw him and Meng Huoran again, he said, "But the second son of the Meng family?" ”

Meng Duan Fangzai looked at him carefully, snorted dissatisfiedly, and was slapped by Meng Huoran before saying, "Exactly!" ”

Mo Liang saw that he was not angry, so that he didn't know when he offended this person.

Zhuang Jinyuan stepped forward at this time, hooked his shoulders and talked for a long time, Mo Li mostly just listened and didn't speak, but let Er Xi take his case out and drink tea slowly.

"You ......"

Mo Liang raised his eyelids and saw that Meng Duanfang was sitting on his side again at some point, and the rest of the people estimated that they were going to check the riding gear and prepare to play.

"Something?"

"You...... You stay away from my Sanniang in the future! Meng Duanfang held back for a long time, and then took advantage of no one to whisper a warning: "Don't think I don't know, you injured your leg two years ago, you went to my sister's yard first, and then you also sent a lot of things to Sanniang through my brother, my brother is a Ma Daha can't see it, but I look out, you look at Qinggao's cold appearance, and you are uneasy and kind to my Sanniang!" ”

Mo Liang reacted at this time, two years ago, he and Zhuang Jinyuan were chased and killed by someone and inadvertently entered the second room of the Meng family, and happened to enter the courtyard of Acacia to ask for help, but he didn't expect this kid to know, and even he later borrowed Meng Huoran's hand to send things to Acacia Many times, this kid also knew. It's just that he didn't expect that Meng Huoran thought that he was just expressing his life-saving grace to Acacia twice in this way, but this kid seemed to be more sensitive.

For a while, Mo Liang suddenly felt a little irritable, he didn't think clearly about his own mind, why did one or two of them keep him away from Acacia during this time, and then think about Acacia's attitude towards him, only to feel that if it was a piece of ice, it would be covered up, but this girl didn't say anything, and I don't know if she was really innocent or didn't have a mind for him at all!

"Did you hear me speak?" Meng Duanfang was anxious, and decided that Mo Liang did not agree, so he pulled Mo Li's sleeve and said: "My mother has recently started to find Sanniang's mother-in-law's house, Sanniang saved you, you can't take revenge and ruin her future." ”

"What? Looking for your in-laws? Mo Li, who just felt that he hadn't guessed anything in his mind, suddenly became anxious, he took care of this little girl for the master for so many years, and searched for so many things with his heart, how can he say that the little girl has returned to others, he is going to stay away, why? When did he ever make a loss-making deal!

"Yes, yes, I don't know what my father and mother think, Sanniang is obviously still young, what kind of in-law is she looking for, I see, it's better to stay for two more years, it's a big deal for me to raise her......" Meng Duanfang originally just wanted to warn Mo Li, who knew that he felt sad when he said it, although he was bullied very badly in the past two years, but it was his sister-in-law, why should he say that he would give it to others, he was not rare enough, this year he entered the academy and rarely saw Sanniang, sometimes he could dream of her smiling badly, When I woke up, I wanted to run home and quarrel with this stinky girl, how could I say that if I want to get married, I will get married? Even if it hasn't been a few years since he waited, maybe he was admitted to the academy and came out of the academy, and he wouldn't be able to see Sanniang.

Mo Liang reacted, thinking that Ding Anbo and his wife knew about the matter of Jiang's father-in-law that day, in order to prevent extraneous branches, they simply set up a marriage for Acacia, just in case, so looking at his thoughtful cousin I am afraid that there is no chance, Ding Anbo will never marry Acacia to such a person or such a family.

Mo Liang couldn't stop smiling bitterly, so he had to pour a cup of bitter tea.

"Who made me her cousin, if I were her cousin......"

"What about cousin?" Mo Li's eyes said coldly.

"Off...... What a you are! It's none of your business, stay away from my sister! Meng Duanfang ran away as if he had been stabbed and burned his eyebrows.

Click!

A crack appeared in the cup in Mo Li's hand.

"Annoying!" I didn't expect there to be one at home!

"Amitabha!! The donor is really angry. ”

Mo Liang threw the broken cup with his hand, and as soon as it flew to the back of the man, it exploded, and the tattered fragments mixed with tea leaves and residual tea almost rushed towards the man, but the man was not in a hurry and waved his sleeve with his hand, and all the qiē was thrown aside, not a drop of water.

"You're a monk who came to a place like this."

Touching Guangguang's head, the big monk said with a smile: "Have fun with the people, why can't the big monk come." ”

"You're an outsider, what are you happy about?" Mo Liang was not interested in drinking tea, so he asked Erxi to clean up and stand up.

The cold Tianda monk was still wearing a thin monk's robe, and he didn't seem to feel the cold at all.

"Where can we be born without joining the WTO? The donor is in love! The great monk waved his sleeves and laughed loudly.

"Whatever you want." Mo Liang took a step and was about to go into the distance.

"Does the donor really not think about it?" The big monk touched his thick chin and squinted his eyes.

"I said before, I won't be your apprentice, let alone a monk, and now it's even more so, the master doesn't have to entangle." Mo Li's footsteps did not stop.

"What if the poor monk doesn't ask Gongzi to become a monk now, but just wants to accept Gongzi as an apprentice?" The great monk said.

Mo Liang paused, although the great monk was weird, but he was even the royal family who wanted to invite back to teach knowledge, and if he could get his blue eyes, he would definitely get a big boost in his official fortune in the future, but ......

"The master's kindness, Mo Liang is ashamed, please ask the master to find another good apprentice."

The great monk just looked at Mo Liyuan far away, and couldn't help but recite the Buddha's name, saying: "The bitter sea is endless, and turning back is the shore!" ”