"The lower official knows that if it is with my sister, Weiliang will never be able to turn over again, and Weiliang knows that this is all due to the prestige of the senior master of the military department. And the grace of the seventh lady to help each other, the villain can only thank the family, there is no better expression, Mrs., you must not refuse. ”

Yahuan got the meaning of Lirong, stepped forward to take the package, the small package looked ordinary from the outside, compared to its weight is too heavy, Yahuan did not fall to the ground when she started, and quickly and carefully hung on the saddle.

The Seventh Lady didn't want to stop longer, but just said to Wu Weiliang, "It's just a matter of words, why should Master Wu be polite." However, Master Wu moved his family to Youzhou to take up a post, and he should be more careful in the future. ”

Wu Weiliang agreed again and again, and when he saw someone coming up on the mountain road behind him, he hurriedly said goodbye, his body flashed, and he disappeared into the bushes on the side of the road.

Lirong returned home, it happened that the other sisters did not return on horseback, she and Yahuan hurriedly entered their own inner room in the back house, the master and servant closed the door and opened the package to see, and they were stunned all of a sudden.

The outer wrapping skin was very ordinary, and it looked inconspicuous when hung on the saddle, but inside there were six barefoot gold ingots wrapped in three layers and five layers, each of which could not be said to be five taels or eight taels, and there was also a thin gold bracelet.

By this time the sunlight had bypassed the window, and although the room was not lit, these things were still shining.

"Wow! He really took out all his belongings! Xiao Yahuan said.

Lirong scolded her in a low voice, "You whisper to me!" Youzhou Yantun government-private joint venture, no oil and water, is he willing to do this? Besides, did the words of the Ministry of War Shangshu Mansion be said to him in vain? ”

She felt that her tone was a little hard, so she took the thin gold bracelet and stuffed it into the close-fitting maid ring and said, "Remember, don't wear it in the house." ”

Yahuan was overjoyed, took the bracelet and put it in her close-fitting clothes, a county catcher, and the income from a hard year was only worth seven taels of silver. "Ma'am, husband, but I'm going to go home and I'll be back soon."

Seeing that the seventh lady nodded, Yahuan hurriedly went out.

Lirong decided that she would not go to the direction of Cuiwei Palace and Meridian Valley these days, otherwise she was worried that every time she always acted separately from her sisters in the family, it would cause these people to be strange.

Xue Lian came back from Meridian Valley once, and as soon as she entered the house, she first ran to the kitchen to grab her mouth and eat, as if she hadn't eaten for a long time.

She said to the ladies in the house, "These days with Mrs. Lu, my stomach is so good!" ”

The sixth uncle Gao Shenxing and his wife are worried in Ziwuyu, it is impossible to see the delicacies of the mountains and seas every day, and even the meat is not suitable to see, so the food after the Lu family goes can be imagined, she has expressed her dissatisfaction in private several times.

Everyone giggled when they heard this, and Xie Jinlian said, "Xuelian, next time you think about it, change Ju'er back and change the taste." ”

"Mrs. Lu is a vegetarian on the one hand, and she has to go to Meridian Valley every day to practice horses, which is really hard, and even she has lost a lot of fat!" Snow Lotus replied to Liu Yuru.

……

Outside the Meridian Valley, Lu and her two maids met Yang Lizhen while training horses, and Lu was first surprised that her former maid was unharmed, and then surprised by the way she was dressed, because she saw the change in Yang Lizhen's identity.

Then I felt incredible that she had entered the Cuiwei Palace and the Prince's Palace.

The meeting between the master and servant a few months ago was a little dramatic at this time. Yang Lizhen was also surprised by the reversal of Lu's identity, because she was now the side room of the Qianzhou Assassin Shi Gao Xing.

When she found that Yang Lizhen was retching from time to time, Lu Shi said to her intimately, "Sister! Who would have thought that you and I would have such an enviable experience! It's better to wait for us to return to the Qianzhou Thorn History Mansion together after we have raced. ”

Yang Lizhen was a little disgusted with the words "master and servant" said by the other party, and in the short time after the two met, the Lu family had already said it more than once.

She asked, "Sister, why do you have such thoughts?" ”

Lu Shi said, "Sister, you really don't know?" If Lord Thorn Shi learned that you were pregnant with his flesh and blood, he would be so happy! The eldest lady in the house, Qing Ruoying, only knows how to chant Buddha every day and doesn't care about everything, and Cui's has never gone back at all, and it seems that she will never go back. The third lady's stomach has not moved. As long as my sister goes, the Assassin's Mansion is not the world of you and my master and servant? ”

Yang Lizhen's face changed suddenly, and she realized the threat that the appearance of the Lu clan brought to her.

Her pregnancy has nothing to do with the hated Qianzhou Thorn History, but with this Lu family involved, the stake is great.

This may affect the good life she has dreamed of more than once, and make it come to naught. How can a prince be ashamed of a woman who has an affair with him, and the history of the assassination of the same remote state capital is unclear?!

If the prince learns about this, he may not be too embarrassed by a assassin. However, she, a small, lowly palace person, will never have any more bright future.

To the east of Cuiwei Palace, the construction of the Meridian Valley will soon be completed, and the low-key luxury of the royal outer garden has long been revealed.

And from the beginning of its construction, the place where Yang Lizhen jumped off the cliff was covered by those pavilions and pavilions, and the past seemed to be as if it had never happened.

She said lukewarmly, "What are you talking about, why don't I understand?" Don't forget, now you are a Lady of Thorn History, not the mother of the son of a Honglu Temple pawn. ”

Lu Shi knew that the other party was quietly reminding him not to be open-mouthed, because the past related to him and the situation of the people concerned were all in the hands of others.

……

For the next ten days, the women of the Shangshu Mansion of the Yongning Fang Military Department concentrated on the final practice before the horse competition.

In order to familiarize themselves with the track, they went out of the city together, starting from the starting point outside the Tonghua Gate, and rode horses every day.

Wherever they feel tired and thirsty, they can get off their horses and go to the government-run stands and tea shops along the way, where they can sit down to drink tea, rest for a while, and get good contact with the people left behind by the county government.

All the tolerances in Chang'an and Wannian counties recognized them, because in the entire Chang'an, it was impossible to find a mansion where so many beautiful ladies rode horses at the same time.

They only had to see this group of people with beautiful faces from afar, and the scale of their followers, to recognize them at once.

When there were still ten days before the competition, Honglu Temple reported in the early dynasty that the news that Chang'an was going to hold a horse racing event had somehow crossed the ocean and spread to Silla.

Kim Ha-ye, the thirty-two-year-old queen of Silla, had planned to go to Chang'an to participate in the grand event, but because of the border troubles, the war was in full swing on the road through Goryeo, so this plan had to be canceled.

But she gathered more than 1,000 craftsmen from all over the country, and in a short period of time, she made a generous gift for the event in Chang'an.

It is a number plate for each participant according to the four categories of the competition.

This was a surprising situation, because none of the people who were preparing for this race had ever thought of it.

At this time, I think that these license plates are really timely!

Because no matter where the track, especially the starting point of the competition, it is impossible to have every participant lined up, and the participants must always have a first and last.

With the number plate, these ladies and ordinary participating women only need to press the number and enter and exit their places.

The crown prince Li Zhi was very satisfied with Silla's move, which reflected from the side how grateful the Queen of Silla was to the Tang Dynasty for sending troops to intervene in Goryeo's rude invasion of the country.

And this batch of small license plates has undoubtedly improved the specifications and grades of the first women's Marseille.

Lord Tang Jian, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, immediately arranged for the distribution of license plates, and there was not much time left before the start of the competition.

A waiter from the Ministry of Rites who was at the bottom of the fourth rank personally brought two entourages to Yongning Fang, and they made a special trip to give signs to the ladies of the Shangshu Mansion of the Ministry of War.

That's when people learned what these signs looked like.

The number plate of the first group where Liu Yuru is located is a round gold plate with a diameter of two inches, hanging with a velvet rope, the edge of the brand is one point thick, the middle is as thin as gold leaf, the middle of the front is engraved with the word "Qi", and the back is engraved with a sentence in Silla language.

Shilang said that this is the meaning of "Chang'an Women's Marseille Head Group". The whole gold medal weighs about three taels, and there are fifty-one gold plates in total.

"How much gold does this cost!" Xie Jinlian said with emotion.

And Liu Yuru guessed what the identities of the six people in front of the "Qi" license plate she was holding.

The second set of plaques is silver, the same size and shape as the gold medals. The numbers sent by the squire ranged from the twenty-fifth to the thirty-third, and among them were the Meridian Yu Lu clan.

It happened that the housekeeper's eldest lady Ju'er secretly ran back to fight the tooth sacrifice, and by the way, she took the brand to the Lu family.

Lu Shi took his shiny "thirty-three" silver plaque, and then looked at the fourth group of bamboo plaques of Ju'er and Xuelian, and he gave birth to a sense of superiority.

Although the bamboo sign is also exquisitely made, with numbers scalded with fire paint on the top, and beautiful brown patterns around it, what is highlighted from it is the difference in each other's identities.

Women, because of their different choices, have different values, such as silver and bamboo.

In fact, who is better than whom?

Her surname Lu is not to mention that she has a cheeky face to be a small person with a four-grade thorn history, that is, she enters the Qinglou and becomes a dusty woman, and she is not willing to be a wife to a mud-legged villager, even if he is offered like an aunt and grandmother.

Lu Shi was full of interest, took his two maids, Ju'er, and Xuelian, and went to the open field outside the Meridian Valley to practice horses, and tied the silver medal that belonged to him to the saddle according to the rules of the real race.

As soon as I ran, the sign shone silver in the sun.

But when they returned to their village lodgings in the evening after a day of practice, Lu realized that his silver medal was missing.

……

Fifty-one gold medals, three hundred and twenty silver medals, eight hundred and eighteen bronze medals, and one thousand sixty-two bamboo medals.

After Gao Jun learned this figure from the eldest grandson, he did not calculate how much gold and silver it cost to make these brands like Xie Jinlian. It's a little strange why Kim Keye, the queen of Silla, knows all about the details of Marseille in Chang'an in such a short period of time.

From the end of July, when Prince Li Ji decided to hold this event, until the sign of Silla was delivered, and the time for the Silla rush system was removed, then almost after the registration of the four groups ended, the specific number of participants had been known by Silla State, and there was still zero.

This move of Silla certainly expressed their gratitude to the Tang Dynasty for sending troops to help.

But the news of Chang'an leaked so quickly, for Gao Jun, who was the secretary of the military department, he felt a little shocked and inexplicable.

What if it's not just a horse race, but a major event involving the safety of the military?

Silla Queen Kim Ke is not simple, who said that she didn't take this opportunity to show Silla's grasp of Chang'an news?

In connection with the Tang army's war in northern Goryeo at this time, how much of the Tang army's strategic intentions she mastered, even Gao Jun was a little unsure.

Gao Jun was a little furious, and secretly ordered Changsun Run to investigate.

Soon, the eldest grandson Run came to report to the military department Shangshu that the problem came from Honglu Temple. The Pawn Guest Department is a second-class pawn Ma Xun.

On the day when the registration of each group ended, Ma Xun revealed the specific news to the Silla envoy who crossed the sea and came to Chang'an in the early stage.

At present, the messenger of Silla is still stranded in Chang'an, and he uses the method of flying pigeons to transmit these accurate numbers back to Silla.

The eldest grandson said to Lord Gao. At this time, the Silla envoys were staying at the post house of the foreign envoys in the Shojeongbo, and it seemed that they would not leave until after the tournament was over.

For the things jointly handled by the Ministry of Rites, the Ministry of Households, the Ministry of War, Honglu Temple, and Chang'an Wannian, Gao Jun, a member of the three grades, should not cross the department to investigate the responsibility of a second-class pawn who is a foreigner.

Therefore, when Lord Chu, the regular attendant of Tongzhi Sancai, mentioned this matter in court and praised Ma Xun, Gao Jun saw that even His Royal Highness the Crown Prince was very satisfied, and he also had two words of praise for Honglu Temple, so he didn't say anything.

Just thought to himself, "Fortunately, I didn't let Ma Xun go to Longxing Ranch to be a pastoral supervisor, otherwise it would no longer be a secret that there are a few sheep there." ”

Compared with the cumbersome affairs of the military department, Ma Xun's matter can be big or small in Gao Jun's eyes, and he will soon stop remembering, he encourages the women in the family from time to time to never look forward to the future in the competition, just work hard, and then he will come to the scene to cheer them up.

However, the morning before the competition, a concert from Quanzhou disrupted Gao Jun's plan.

……

Quanzhou Haiyi occurred eight days ago on the day of Renxu.

At this moment, people in the urban and rural areas of Quanzhou have already fallen asleep, but the roar of the waves has awakened many people from their sleep.

In the chaos of the moment they had just woken up, they could discern what the sound was coming from the darkness, as if thousands of troops were rushing towards them.

Immediately afterward, the closed window was pushed onto the bed by the waves, and the salty water rushed in without a single gap, and soon filled their room.

The men screamed and called out to their families, "It's Haiyi!" Hurry up and ......"

The women groped for their children by the bedside in the dark, but as soon as they called for the children, they were immediately flooded.

Quanzhou Bay is shaped like a gourd, and there are two forks of rivers entering the sea.