The 12th (9th) of the first lunar month
Li Sanlang didn't expect to challenge his aunt, Princess Taiping, according to common sense, women do not participate in this grand event, and naturally I have never heard of any princess who also raised a bow team. In previous years, Princess Taiping had never sent a team to participate, but today's sudden participation is indeed surprising. Li Sanlang thought about it, so many things that happened before were more or less related to Princess Taiping, could it be that there was any conspiracy in today's competition? Thinking of this, he couldn't help but feel a little worried in his heart.
Princess Taiping said to Zhang Changzong: "In fact, this bow team is not from the palace, in order to please the palace, it is all done by the palace housekeeper Anfu. ”
Zhang Changzong smiled respectfully and replied: "With Princess Taiping's driving age, she is thriving, and I don't think anyone should object to this matter." After that, his eyes fell on Li Sanlang, as if to ask for his opinion. Li Sanlang was inconvenient to refuse, so he said: "Since my aunt is willing to participate, then Saburo is happy, and there is no reason to refuse." ”
Taiping said coldly: "That's good! Let's get started! ”
With that, An Fu waved his hand, and his bowing team entered the field in an orderly manner, and the two sides lined up in the midfield, forming a circle, ready to play at any time. Chen Xuanli glanced at his opponent, his face was very unfamiliar, he had never seen it in the bow competition before. After looking around, his eyes finally fell on one of them, not because of the special appearance of that person, but his posture with a cane, it stands to reason that the team raised by Princess Taiping should be a selection master, and there will be no indiscriminate people, but the man's cane posture is not skilled at first glance, and his ability to ride a horse with a cane is also very uncoordinated, and he seems to be a novice. This is interesting, what is the purpose of Princess Taiping arranging a novice to end up? Li Sanlang also seemed to notice the man, and he also felt very strange, so he and Chen Xuanli exchanged a look.
Zhang Changzong raised the order flag, ready to announce the start of the game, the man directly put away the cane, put his hand into his arms, Li Sanlang, Chen Xuanli's eyes have never left this person, at this moment the person's actions are even more confusing to the two, what is the intention. The man also noticed that the two of them were staring at him, but this did not affect him in the slightest to continue to put his hand in his arms, Li Sanlang finally saw what he took out of his arms, Li Sanlang immediately shouted: "Beware! While shouting, he grabbed Chen Xuanli next to him and jumped down from the horse, and with Zhang Changzong's order, it was not the start of the game, but a loud "bang"!
Li Ke was shocked by the sudden situation in front of him, he would never have thought that such a thing would happen, and hurriedly pulled Chen Wuji to run towards the field, this loud noise could frighten the horses on the sidelines, for a while the horses were frightened, galloping wildly, many contestants fell off their horses, smoke rose from the middle of the field, and there was chaos in the field.
Li Ke's goal is extremely clear, and the only thing he has to do now is to save Li Sanlang, and he has no time to take care of the chaotic crowd and horses around him. Li Ke quickly came to the middle of the field, the air was filled with a large amount of saltpeter and sulfur smell, unusually pungent, Li Ke's eyes were a little blurred by the smoke, he was tripped by the person on the ground, he hurriedly lowered his body to check, that person was one of the prince's bowers, his nose and mouth were bleeding, and there was no breath, this time he suddenly became more nervous in his heart, and he went crazy rummaging through a pile of people looking for Li Sanlang. Chen Wuji was also panicked, regardless of the injuries on his body, he also shouted and searched at the same time, but there was no response for a long time. The longer the search, the more nervous they became, and even their hands and feet trembled a little, they didn't want Li Sanlang to have any accidents, and beads of sweat began to emerge from Li Ke's forehead.
The smoke gradually dissipated, and the forbidden army of the Royal Horse Farm basically controlled the order of the scene, and everyone had gradually calmed down from the panic just now, but Li Ke still did not find Li Sanlang, at this time, Chen Wuji yelled: "Found it, here!" Hearing this, Li Ke hurriedly jumped over, it turned out that Li Sanlang and Chen Xuanli were pressed under a fallen horse, Li Ke hurriedly probed the pulse of the two, fortunately there was still breath. So Li Ke and Chen Wuji pushed the horses that were pressing on the two of them away.
As soon as the horse moved away, Li Sanlang coughed, presumably because the horse was pressed on his body just now and caused a moment of suffocation, but now it finally eased up, but Chen Xuanli did not move, Chen Wuji hurriedly took out the kettle he carried and splashed the water on his face, Chen Xuanli trembled all over his body, and also woke up. Li Ke motioned for the two of them not to move, he groped their muscles and bones along their bodies, and finally took a long breath and said, "It's okay, the muscles and bones are fine." ”
Li Ke and Chen Wuji then helped the two of them up, Li Sanlang suddenly had a salty mouth and spit out a mouthful of blood, all three of them were shocked, Li Sanlang shook his hand, indicating that it was okay. Chen Xuanli immediately knelt on the ground, and said with tears in his eyes: "Li Sicheng is a great grace to save his life, Chen Xuanli has nothing to repay in this life!" Li Sanlang shook his hand weakly and whispered: "You and me, why do you say this!" With that, he struggled to help Chen Xuanli, who was kneeling on the ground.
Li Sanlang turned around and looked at the more than 20 people lying on the ground, presumably it was already a lot of bad luck, the two of them were fortunate to react in time, and they blocked a horse in front of them, so they escaped this catastrophe, but the others were... Seeing this, Li Sanlang couldn't help but burst into tears, gritted his teeth and said, "Why is this?" ”
Li Ke replied in a low voice: "It should be the Demon Thunder." Li Sanlang had never heard of this, and repeated it again in a low voice.
Li Ke continued: "It is somewhat similar to the method of ambushing alum fire, taking sulfur and nitrate, placing it in a tank according to the proportion, and using fire as a guide to obtain this power, but Li has only heard of this thing in the Western Regions and has never seen it. ”
Li Sanlang was taken aback and muttered to himself: "Western Regions? He turned around and whispered to Chen Wuji: "Hurry up and inform Zhang Jiuling to thoroughly investigate the nitrate and sulfur records in this divine capital, including the entry and exit records and the existing inventory records!" Hurry up! ”
Chen Wuji knew Li Sanlang's intentions, and replied, "Huh! Then he turned and walked away quickly.
Li Sanlang slowly walked to the sidelines under the support of Li Ke, at this time Princess Taiping was sitting on the chair, An Fu knelt in front of her and trembled, seeing Li Sanlang coming over, Taiping shouted at An Fu: "You dog slave!" Say it! What is the case? ”
An Fu's whole body trembled, and said, "The villain... The villain should be damned, and the villain doesn't know why! ”
Li Sanlang asked An Fu: "Where did this Juju man come from?" ”
Anfu hurriedly replied: "Both... It's all recruited by villains privately! ”
Chen Xuanli held back his injuries and shouted, "The person you recruited, why didn't you investigate thoroughly!?" ”
Li Sanlang continued: "If you recruited it, then you admit that you arranged the explosion? ”
Princess Taiping preemptively shouted again: "Bold minion, don't you recruit it truthfully!" ”
An Fu's face was flustered, and he said in a trembling voice: "These people are indeed secretly recruited by the villain in recent months specifically for the matter of bowing, but the villain really doesn't know about the explosion!." ”
Li Sanlang was about to speak, but Princess Taiping suddenly stood up, pulled out the blade of the guard on the side, put it on An Fu's neck, and said sharply: "You slave, trap me in injustice, quickly and truthfully invite me, or this palace will make your body different!" ”
An Fu was shocked when he saw the blade on his neck, and hurriedly waved his hand and said, "The villain really doesn't know!" ”
"Huh", Princess Taiping actually cut down from Anfu's neck, and suddenly blood flowed in, Anfu fell down in response, and stopped moving after a few convulsions, all this happened too fast, ordinary Li Sanlang, Li Ke and others didn't have time to react, things had already happened, the important thing is that they thought Taiping was just intimidating, and they didn't expect to really kill this person.
Taiping continued to say loudly: "This slave is trapped in this palace for injustice! It should be slaughtered! ”
Li Sanlang relieved himself from his consternation, and said to Taiping: "Auntie's matter is not appropriate, so she killed her so hastily, what if someone says that my aunt kills people and kills her mouth?" Besides, the explosion has not yet been investigated, so there is no clue? ”
Princess Taiping immediately threw away the blade in her hand, and said with a frightened face: "San Lang is reasonable, this palace was so angry for a while, he actually made this mistake!" This palace will go to His Majesty to confess his guilt. Just about to leave, he turned his head and said to Li Sanlang: "Don't worry, Sanlang, the loss of your personnel and horses today will be compensated by this palace." After that, he didn't wait for Li Sanlang to answer before turning around and leaving.
Seeing Taiping leave like this, Li Sanlang looked at An Fu, who had died underground, and had mixed feelings in his heart, not knowing what to say. At this time, the corpse that sounded the earth-shattering thunder was also carried to Li Sanlang's side, Li Sanlang looked down and saw that the corpse had already been blown up to the flesh and blood, and it was impossible to identify it, Li Sanlang could only sigh when he saw this, Li Ke walked to Li Sanlang's side and whispered: "This Taiping princess's play is so good!" Although these words are small, Li Sanlang can hear them clearly, but what can he do at this moment? I could only look at the figure that was too far away and sighed, and said no more.
Zhang Changzong said loudly: "Today's incident happened suddenly, and the gangsters are waiting for the opportunity to commit murder and destruction, but the competition with the Wan Fan Bow must continue, in order not to damage the prestige of our Heavenly Empire, the competition will be conducted first, and this matter will be investigated later." He paused for a moment, saw that no one objected, and then said: "It stands to reason that this time the competition with the Wan Fan should be fought by the prince's account, but now there are heavy casualties, and I have no choice but to choose another team. In the following view, in addition to the prince's account today, the most outstanding person in the bow should be the Liang Wang team, and it is tentatively scheduled to play! Do people have objections? ”
Suddenly, the other teams were already afraid, naturally no one dared to respond again, Li Sanlang was thinking at this time that it was no longer a matter of bowing, and he naturally had no other objections, what he was worried about was that there must be no mistakes in the future, otherwise he would have shown the power of the court in front of the ten thousand clans, but he was smiling and generous, and lost his awe.
Wu Jiang suddenly heard this, his heart was overjoyed, he was still thinking about going back and couldn't explain to King Liang, things suddenly took a turn for the better, how could he care about what happened just now, so he said loudly: "Show the power of my Heavenly Empire, we are duty-bound, we are willing to fight!" ”
Zhang Changzong saw that everyone had no objections, so he said loudly: "Then it is decided that the warriors under the account of King Liang will fight on their behalf." Now that the official competition is approaching, the forbidden army will quickly clean up this place in preparation for the event! ”
"Whoa!" The crowd took the order.
Li Sanlang walked up to Zhang Changzong and said: "I feel very strange about this matter, Your Majesty is here, we must strengthen our precautions!" ”
Zhang Changzong glanced at Li Sanlang and said softly: "Of course! Xie Li Sicheng reminds! Then he turned and left.
Li Ke looked at Zhang Changzong's figure walking away, and whispered to Li Sanlang: "This matter is by no means simple, there must be a plan behind it, we must be cautious!" ”
Li Sanlang nodded lightly after hearing this!