Chapter 425: Racecourse Competition
You're worried that we'll not be able to leave in three days, aren't you? Leng Yifei asked lightly.
Yang Muyun's body shook slightly, and he looked at him, "How did you see it?" β
"Compared to you, our Xuanniao Guards understand the tricks of these Tartars better," Leng Yifei's lips hooked slightly, "Sain Polo is the second person in the Syros Sect after Yexian, he is in our hands, these Tartars have scruples, and they will not act rashly." Once Sain Polo is released, the situation will be reversed immediately. β
Yang Muyun's face was solemn and silent.
There was a shout of cheers all around, and the Mongol warriors shouted trumpets to carry the thick tree trunks into the camp.
"See, they've already started preparing to make siege equipment," Leng Yifei's eyes flashed, "The three days you and Lord Yu have fought for are too little." β
"It's better than nothing," Yang Muyun sighed, "My Daming border town has a slack armament, and its combat effectiveness is not the same as that of the Taizong era, and it can't be rectified overnight." Even if it's a few days late, you'll be underprepared. β
"National affairs are not something that small people like us can control, even adults can't," Leng Yifei glanced at him, "Thinking about how to get out safely in three days is something you and I should consider." β
"If I am alone, I may still have some chances," Yang Muyun muttered: "Brother Leng is seriously injured, and Lord Yu doesn't know martial arts, so I have to think hard about how to get out." β
"You don't have to think about my affairs," Leng Yifei said: "I don't care how Lord Yu gets out, as long as I can take you out, I will do it even if I only have one breath." β
"Oh?" Hearing him say so resolutely, Yang Muyun couldn't help but be stunned.
"You won't have to worry about my injuries in three days," Leng Yifei's gaze sharpened, "I promised my junior sister that I would bring you back safely." β
"Was it Lin Meier who asked him?" Yang Muyun's heart moved, and he looked at Leng Yifei, "Brother Leng, I already have a wife, and it is impossible to ...... with Miss Lin."
"I'm not interested in your private affairs," Leng Yifei interrupted him coldly, "My junior sister likes to follow you, that's her business, you don't have to explain it to me." β
Yang Muyun only closed his mouth.
"You can't bully her, let alone make her sad, otherwise you'll ......" Leng Yifei's eyes flashed with a fierce color.
Yang Muyun couldn't help but shudder, and forced a smile on his face, "As far as I know, Brother Qiao seems to be interested in Miss Lin as well." β
"It's impossible between the two of them," Leng Yifei said coldly: "No one can force senior sister to be with someone they don't like, even if Qiao Ziliang is my senior brother." β
"Brother Leng and Miss Lin's ...... The love of the same family is really extraordinary. Seeing his calm face, the smile on Yang Muyun's face froze.
Leng Yifei snorted coldly and did not speak.
Yang Muyun laughed dryly, and didn't know what to say to him.
A burst of laughter like a silver bell floated over, and Yang Muyun looked sideways. I saw Yuan Qi'er wearing a round pointed felt hat, with a long string of tassels hanging on the brim, wearing a short jacket with a diagonal placket, a long skirt reaching to the knees, and a pair of small boots. Agadorji followed closely beside her, smiling all over his face.
Today, Yuan Qi'er seems to be in a particularly good mood, talking and laughing with Agadorji, looking like a couple who get along very sweetly.
"It seems that Agadorji really likes Yuan Qi'er." Yang Muyun had heard Suomjiya, the maid beside Yuan Qi'er, say that the younger brother of the Mongolian Great Khan was very interested in Yuan Qi'er. Yuan Qi'er didn't seem to hate him, and talked to him very happily. With this in mind, he no longer avoided Yuan Qi'er's gaze.
From a distance, I don't know what Yuan Qi'er said to Agadorji, Agadorji stepped aside and shouted loudly. Yuan Qi'er looked around with beautiful eyes, and saw Yang Muyun sitting on the grass looking at her, smiled, raised her slender legs and walked over to him.
Yang Muyun's heart jumped, and it was too late to avoid her gaze, so he had to bow his hand to her from afar, and said stubbornly: "The county lord ......"
"You were here," Yuan Qi'er said with a smile, "I said how to look everywhere and you couldn't find it, it turns out that you hid here." β
"What is the county lord looking for me to do?"
"I want you to talk to me,
Yuan Qi'er walked over to him and sat down next to him, "I'm very bored right now." β
"Isn't there that Second Highness with you?" Yang Muyun moved his body and moved away from her, "I see that you are very happy with him!" β
"He," Yuan Qi'er's pink cherry lips pursed, "I've been entangled around people, and I can't catch up, it's really annoying." β
"Zizikβ" Agadorji held two four-foot-long wooden staffs with a horizontal and oblique end in his hand, and ran quickly towards Yuan Qi'er. "Zizik, I've been looking for you everywhere, how did you get here?" When he saw Yang Muyun sitting next to Yuan Qi'er, his face sank.
"Second Highness......" As soon as Yang Muyun opened his mouth, he listened to Yuan Qi'er's pretty face, intercepted Yang Muyun's words, and glanced at Agadorji coldly, "Can't I find someone to talk to me?" β
"Okay, why not?" Agadorzi handed over a wooden staff in a curt, "Zizik, do you think this stick is what you like?" β
Yuan Qi'er didn't pick it up, her eyes turned to Yang Muyun on her side, "Muyun, do you know how to play polo?" β
"Polo?" Yang Muyun grew up in Jiangnan since he was a child, and he had only heard that this kind of extremely unrestrained sport was very popular in the north, but he had never seen it, so he shook his head, "The county lord ......"
"Call me Qi'er!" Yuan Qi'er blinked her eyes and corrected.
"Qi'er?" Agadorji was amazed when he heard this.
"I forgot to tell you," Yuan Qi'er smiled, "I gave myself a Chinese name, called Yuan Qi'er." Turning to Yang Muyun, "Do you think this name is good?" β
"Hmm......" Yang Muyun didn't know how to answer, and glanced at Agadorji who was becoming more and more gloomy on his face.
"Did you have a Chinese name? Why did you never tell me? Agadorji said.
"What did I tell you?" Yuan Qi'er snorted her delicate little Yao nose and said angrily: "Only Mu Yun knows, he is Han, so I will let him call me by the name of Han." Without waiting for Agadorji to get angry, he grabbed the stick, got up and said to Yang Muyun: "Muyun, let's go, let's go play polo together." β
"But," Yang Muyun smiled awkwardly, "I won't play polo!" β
"I'll teach you!" Yuan Qi'er stretched out her hand and grabbed Yang Muyun, "It's very simple, as long as you know how to ride a horse, you can learn to play polo." β
Yang Muyun's hand was held by her soft and smooth little hand, her face was red, and she was about to shirk it, only to hear Leng Yifei say on the side: "You just go, I don't need you to take care of me here." β
"Teach Yang Qian total polo skills, why do you need to come to Zizik in person, I will teach him." Aga Dorji grabbed Yang Muyun's arm, couldn't help but say, pulled him up and left, so that Yang Muyun's hand was taken off Yuan Qi'er's grasp.
Yang Muyun had no choice but to let Agadorji pull him towards an open field.
Polo is a horse sport popular in the Tang Dynasty, with a strong spectacle and competitiveness. Polo is a solid ball, made of cooked cowhide as the surface, and filled with soft things such as wool and cotton. It is slightly larger than a human fist, and the ball surface is very smooth, and it is generally painted in color, which is very beautiful, so it is also called "color ball", "painting ball", "seven treasure ball" and so on. The stick is a tool used by a player on a horse to hit a polo ball, about four feet long, and the tip of the stick is bent back like a glaive to form a rung, which can block the rapidly rolling polo ball. The body of the staff is often carved with exquisite patterns according to personal preference, so it is also called "painting stick" and "moon stick".
Polo was popular in the Tang, Song and Yuan dynasties, and the Mongols who established the Yuan Dynasty were born from a horseback people, and they were particularly fond of this sport. The court of the Yuan Dynasty also held polo matches on two festivals, the Dragon Boat Festival and the Chongyang Festival. Yuanren Fu Ruojin once said in a poem: "The whip is a quick shot, the left and right fold like a whirlwind, the meteor blows in the clothes, and the lightning suddenly gives birth to horsehair." It can be seen that the grand occasion of playing polo in the Yuan period.
After the Mongols withdrew from the Central Plains, the enthusiasm for playing polo remained undiminished, and if there was nothing to do in the army during the march and war, the army carried out polo sports. Yang Muyun is a scholar, although he has practiced martial arts, but he grew up in Jiangnan since he was a child, and he rarely rides a horse, how can he get in touch with this sport.
The field is extremely wide, 500 paces long and 300 paces wide, with a huge wooden plank erected on each side, on which is painted with a color map, and there is a hole in the middle of the ground near the plank, which is in the shape of a bell, which is larger than a ball. Flags were planted all over the stadium, and flags were hunted and danced in the wind, making the whole scene very imposing.
"Ah," Agadorji gestured
On the goal, "You just have to hit the ball into the hole, you have scored a goal, the game of polo, is more than who scored more goals, the more goals scored the win, understand?" β
Yang Muyun nodded, squinted his eyes and looked around the field, and said: "But I have never played this polo, I am afraid that I will laugh generously, so forget it." β
"Don't be cheap," Agadorji's eyes flashed, "I have seen Yang Qianzong's ability, the army of ten thousand horses is flying back and forth, and no one can stop him if he captures one person in his hand, how can he be afraid of this little polo?" Seeing Yuan Qi'er standing beside Yang Muyun, her chin raised slightly, "The man who can make Qi Qike fall in love must be extraordinary, Qi Qike, I will compete with him, you won't disagree, right?" β
"Since His Second Highness is so interested, he and I should accompany him." Yuan Qi'er said with a light smile.
"What, you and him?" Agadorzi's eyes widened.
"What, scared?" Yuan Qi'er's beautiful eyes flickered, "Didn't you still swear to compete with him?" β
"Zizik," Agadorji's face sank, "why do you have to go with him?" β
"I like it." Yuan Qi'er smiled, didn't say much to him, and stretched out her arm to wrap her arms around Yang Muyun.
"Qi'er......" Yang Muyun wanted to shake off her arm, but she was glanced at by her eyes like autumn water, and her heart softened, so she held it.
Looking at the way they looked at me, Agadorji's eyes were about to erupt with fire, and he just wanted to have a seizure, but he forcibly held back, and slammed his club on the ground with his hand. said in a calm voice: "Since you want to compete, you have to have a lottery, and if I lose, I'll give you my horse!" With a snap of his fingers, one of the guards brought a horse over.
Yang Muyun raised his eyes and saw that the horse's fur was black and shiny, his hooves were snow-white, and his body was taller than ordinary horses. There are few horses in the Mongolian steppe that are so majestic and tall, and this horse looks like an outlier.
"How?" Seeing his astonishment, Agadorji said proudly: "This is the Western Domain Horse, I named him 'Dark Cloud Cover Snow', such a horse is not to mention your Ming Kingdom, even in our grassland, it is quite rare." β
"Is His Royal Highness Ma Er, such a good one, really willing to use it to bet on polo?" Yuan Qi'er couldn't help but be moved, the people on the grassland cherish horses very much, especially BMW, who loves more than their own lives. Agadorzi used it to bet on polo with people, which really surprised her.
Yang Muyun sighed a few times, shook his head and said: "Such a divine horse is rare in the world, if it is worth a lot, it is not an exaggeration, the Second Highness took out such a big bet, I have nothing here that can match it." β
"I don't want you to gamble with any priceless treasures," Agadorji looked at Yuan Qi'er and raised his voice and said, "If I win, you will leave Zizik and not be with her again." β
"I'm ......," Yang Muyun looked sideways at Yuan Qi'er.
"This horse was given to you by the Great Khan, and you love it like a treasure," Yuan Qi'er's long eyelashes twitched, "How can you make such a rash bet?" β
"In my eyes, you are the most precious," Agadorji slowed his voice, "I can give up everything for you." β
"You're here again," Yuan Qi'er frowned slightly, "I'm not an object, how can I ......" Speaking of this, her arms tightened. She looked up in amazement and saw Yang Muyun smiling at herself.
"Since His Royal Highness has spoken out, how can Yang not admit it?" Yang Muyun arched his hand, "Although Yang doesn't know this skill, he will do his best." Second Highness, pleaseβ"
"Good!" Agadorji patted the back of the 'Dark Cloud Covered Snow' horse, "Just say this to you, and when I play later, my horse will be temporarily given to you to ride!" β
"No need," Yang Muyun waved his hand, "How can Yang win people's love, even if my horse is not as good as the divine horse of the Second Highness, it can also be a race." β
Agadorji made a few heaps, and as soon as he turned over on his horse with his staff, and with a movement of the reins, the horse snorted, shook off its hooves and galloped into the middle of the field.
"He was going to give you that horse to ride, why didn't you?" Yuan Qi'er glared at him in disgust, "How can an ordinary horse compare with that horse, and you can't play polo......"
"Aren't you going with me?" Yang Muyun smiled faintly, "What am I afraid of with you by my side?" β