Volume 2 Northland Dragon Chapter 72 Ball Game
Li Wei kowtowed, and turned around and walked out of the hall with Guo Hong, and a few small envoys followed with wine jars next to him.
Guo Hong's nose twitched, the wine bowl and the jar were smeared with medicine, and he secretly sneered in his heart.
These little envoys were all scapegoats, and Guo Hong found that the amount of medicine was very small, not enough to frighten the horses, so it should just be a reason, and his attention was focused on the twenty generals on both sides.
Li Xiao was very excited, he was the first time he had a close encounter with a polo player of the Shence Army.
He toasted one by one, and each of the generals sat down and kept restless, but they were masters, and quickly took control of the horses, and drank the wine in one gulp.
Li Xiao came to the last person in the right army, Guo Hong looked at his second brother-in-law Gao Biao up close and winked at him.
Gao Yu was a little puzzled, but he still smiled slightly.
Just when he was drinking with Li Wei, a horse next to him suddenly stood up, and then a pair of front hooves fell heavily towards the second prince!
Guo Hong had already taken precautions, grabbed Li Wei's clothes, and pulled him aside like lightning.
The horse was startled, and then rushed towards the two, and the man on the horse danced wildly with the club in his hand, and seemed to lose control, but hit Li Wei's head.
Guo Hong pulled Li Wei to a short body, dodged the blow, and then jumped into the air, kicked hard with his back, and hit the horse in the head!
I heard it hiss, and it fell to the side, throwing the horse far away.
There was an uproar inside and outside the field, no one expected that a little envoy would be able to kick the startled horse down!
Guo Hong escorted the frightened Li Wei back to the Pavilion Hall, and the emperor was also shocked and asked Guo Hong: "Li Jingchao, how did you do it?" ”
Guo Hong replied: "The slave maid has been learning medical skills and martial arts from strangers since she was a child, and she used Taoist real skills just now. ”
On the side, Liu Jieyu also rushed over to see her son, she hugged Li Wei and said to the emperor: "Li Jingchao has profound internal skills, he is a master of the truth, and the concubine can't see the depth, so he shouldn't be treated as an ordinary envoy." ”
The emperor became interested and asked, "What is the real skill you have practiced?" ”
"The Book of the Yellow Court."
Everyone in the hall listened to the whispers, this "Huang Ting Jing" is the subject of the Taoist exam, and no one has ever heard of anyone practicing real skills.
Guo Hong looked around and said: "It is the true method of the "Huang Ting Jing" left by Patriarch Wei Huacun, which is different from what has been passed down in the world. ”
"Maybe write it down?"
Guo Hong nodded, the emperor was overjoyed, so he asked people to send the four treasures of the study, Guo Hong came to the desk and sat down, picked up the pen and wrote.
The Emperor couldn't wait to get up and walk over to watch, and the five guards behind him followed.
Guo Hong finished writing a piece of paper in a short time, and his penmanship was a little clumsy, but everyone didn't dare to laugh at him, because no one could understand the handwriting on it!
"No need to write it, what does the text mean?" The Emperor asked.
Guo Hong stopped writing when he heard this, got up and saluted: "The avenue is profound, and the slave and maid are only shallow in learning, although they understand the meaning in their hearts, they can't express it in words." ”
"What is this word?" The emperor picked it up and showed it, and asked with a frown.
Everyone shook their heads, and the chief of the inner regular servant Wang Guichang hesitated, and whispered: "It seems to be the ancient script before Yin Shang, and the slave maid heard that Pei Xiu, the servant of the household department, is proficient in this way......"
The emperor immediately ordered Pei Xiu to be summoned, and then asked Tutu Shiye, the lieutenant of the right army, to come over.
After Tutu Shiye went to the palace, he threw himself to the ground, and he paused his head again and again, saying that he was dead.
He was a close confidant of the emperor after he ascended the throne, and the emperor couldn't let him be too cold, so he waved his hand and said, "Get up, tell me what's going on."
Affair? ”
"I just called the envoy from the Imperial Horse Workshop to come over, saying that the wine bowl and jar were smeared with the medicine that shocked the horse."
The emperor passed on a few more people, and the statements were all consistent, a sneer appeared on his face, he walked to Tutu Shiye's side, and asked in a low voice, "What benefits did Concubine De give you?" ”
Tutu Shiye also said in a low voice: "Don't dare, the lieutenant of the slave's right army was given by His Majesty, not by Concubine De." ”
"What's the name of the man who scared the horse?"
"Surname Zhao ......"
The Emperor stopped asking, and turned back to his throne.
Tutu Shiye wiped his sweat and withdrew from the hall, walked to the team that was going to compete, and asked, "How is Zhao Yuhou?" ”
The medical officer replied, "It's okay, I'm just afraid that I won't be able to play." ”
Tutu Shiye called the medical officer aside, whispered a few words, and then asked people to go to the palace to report to the emperor, saying that there was a shortage of one person on his side, and whether he could choose someone to fill it.
The little envoy who reported after a while came back and brought someone over, it was Guo Hong.
"Your Majesty ordered me to come to the right army to participate in the competition."
When Tutu Shiye heard that it was the emperor's will, he didn't dare to object, but he secretly complained in his heart, feeling that there was no need to compare.
The emperor had more than a dozen eunuchs or generals who were good at polo, which was a common practice in the palace.
Tang Jingzong was killed by Su Zuoming and others who played polo together.
But what are the masters around the Emperor Dazhong, the lieutenant of the right army naturally knows in his heart, and he will never include the young man in front of him.
Guo Hong saw what Tu Tu Shiye was thinking, but he didn't care.
Since he knew that Ma Yuanzhen was the culprit who killed Wuzong and the Empress Dowager, he instinctively wanted to trouble the other party, even if it was good to make him deflated, so he took the initiative to ask Ying.
What's more, he has watched two games, knows the rules, and has some skills, although he has never played polo, but he has ridden He Deng's white deer in the mountains, which is without a saddle!
Of course, he can't compete with the ball skills, but he didn't intend to play fairly with the people of the left army.
Guo Hong walked to Gao Biao's side, grabbed him and whispered a few words, Gao Biao's face flashed with surprise, and finally nodded fiercely.
He is thousands of miles tall and strong in martial arts, but because he is Guo Zhongwen's son-in-law, he has not been promoted, today the lieutenant said that if he wins, he will be promoted to a level, and he has long been determined to win in his heart, but he didn't expect an accident, and now the peak is turning, of course, he has to take a chance!
The Royal Horse Fang sent a high-headed horse from the Western Regions for competition, Guo Hong rode it and swayed from side to side, and the crowd watching whispered, and there were voices of disapproval and suspicion everywhere.
The Shence military officer put down the ball, and the two soldiers jumped out and rushed over together.
Guo Hong seemed to be riding a horse for the first time, and his horse turned in a circle but did not move forward, which caused everyone to laugh.
Ma Yuanzhen smiled at Tutu Shiye beside him: "Everyone (the emperor) still cares about the old slave, this time ten people against nine people, I'm afraid it's difficult to lose!" ”
Tutu Shiye's face twitched, the eunuch loves wealth the most, and the Guo family's grange has not been covered yet, if it is exported like this, it is really unwilling.
He still had the hope of what would happen in his heart, and his eyes were firmly on the game in the field.
Guo Hong finally controlled the horse a little, this time it was still a little too big, he didn't expect that with the use of medicinal bait, the horse was so difficult to tame.
After the palace knew that he was good at healing, the Provincial Drug Administration Bureau provided a lot of traditional Chinese medicine, which he had recently secretly prepared by himself, which could tame fierce beasts such as tigers and leopards.
But maybe it's because the medicine is incompatible, and the effect on horses is much worse.
And this is a fierce horse for racing, which is difficult to tame in itself.
He saw that the two generals had rushed far away, so he rode his horse and chased after them.
Drums rumbled outside the stadium, and cheers and shouts resounded in the sky.
Everything in front of me seemed to slow down, and the positions of everyone else on the field were reflected in my heart.
Guo Hong jumped out of the horse, suddenly stopped the general of the left army pushing the ball, and with a swing, the ball crossed under the opponent's club and flew straight into the distance.
Gao Biao was anxious, and was chasing the opponent on his horse, when he suddenly saw the ball fly in front of his horse, and subconsciously stretched out the pole to block it and rebounded.
Guo Hong had already arrived, swept past Gao Yu, and shouted, "Rush! ”
Gao Biao remembered what the other party had just whispered: "Tell you to rush forward, let's go side by side, hit the ball back and forth, and rush past the opponent to intercept!" ”
He didn't have time to think about it, and galloped with the horse.
The emperor stood up from the throne, he saw that Guo Hong and Gao Biao were only a foot apart, lying on the horse side by side, and the generals of the left army who went up to intercept were passed smoothly by the two, and they arrived at the opponent's goal in a blink of an eye.
Where have everyone seen such a pleasing cooperation, and they applauded in unison.
Guo Hong knew that the scorer would be rewarded, so he passed the ball to Gao Biao and shouted: "Shoot!" ”
Gao Biao was full of confidence at this time, he was a marksman, and he had the ability to kill two birds with one stone, so he shouted loudly, swung and slammed, and the ball flew out like a meteor!
"Entered!"
The audience cheered.
In the next 20 minutes, it became a performance by Guo Hong and Gao Biao, and Ma Yuanzhen's face jumped and jumped, and he couldn't wait to eat the two.
Tutu Shiye didn't want to mention how cool it was in his heart, but he didn't dare to show it.
After a while, the game ended, and Ma Yuanzhen was silent with a calm face.
The lieutenant of the right army didn't dare to mention the bet, and turned around to gather the generals to pay homage to the emperor, but Ma Yuanzhen's voice came from behind him: "Brother Xian, go back to my house to get the land deed." ”
Tutu Shiye hurriedly turned around and said, "Big brother, it's still not necessary." ”
"Ma is willing to gamble and lose, my face is bad because I lost inexplicably, this little envoy came out of nowhere, and it is so powerful!"
Tutu Shiye also chimed in: "Yes, it's indeed a little weird. ”
The two glanced at each other, and their hearts sank, and they exchanged glances.
The two are world friends and share weal and woe, and they both secretly have doubts about Guo Hong's origins and are determined to investigate them carefully.
The emperor in the palace accepted the generals and bowed down, awarded the reward, and even the left and right gods and armies were rewarded together, and the crowd immediately cheered.
At this time, Pei Xiu also arrived in front of the palace, and the emperor showed him the words written by Guo Hong.
"Your Majesty, the minister once saw the Yu tablet in Hengshan, and it was this kind of text."
"In this way, it is the ancient script of the Three Emperors and Five Emperors."
"Congratulations to Your Majesty, in a few days it will be the Shouchang Festival, and this kind of text should be auspicious at this time!" Pei Xiu had an idea, and a sycophant slapped it down.
The emperor laughed and said, "Pei Qing is right, it's time to celebrate!" ”
He instructed: "Spread the decree, Li Jingchao is brilliant, he has won my heart, he is given green, and he is full of internal nourishment, except for the doctor of the Provincial Medicine Bureau in the palace (under the eighth grade)." ”
Tutu Shiye's heart suddenly moved, and he asked the little envoy beside him: "Li Jingchao is a relative of Li Duju?" ”
Li Jingchao and the Right Army both judged Li Jingshi's name to be very similar, and he felt as if he had heard of it.
The little envoy whispered a few words to him, Tutu Shiye looked happy, and said: "I see, I didn't expect Li Duju to have such a nephew, I have to ask him when I go back." ”