Chapter 32: And Ti Linlang
The five-day contract with Princess Taiping has expired.
The sundial on the Xuanwu Gate of the Imperial City accurately pointed to the beginning of the hour, and Xue Shao's horse just stopped in front of the Xuanwu Gate. Although he doesn't have a watch now, out of professional habits, Xue Shao has long developed a strong sense of time, like having a clock in his mind that will never stop.
However, there is one person who has a more "sense of time" than Xue Shao, and she obviously arrived early.
"Why did you come, this palace has been waiting for you for a long time!" Princess Taiping split her head and covered her face.
Xue Shao smiled slightly, "Weichen has always been punctual. If Your Highness doesn't believe it, you can send someone to check the sundial. ”
"Humph!" Princess Taiping snorted coldly angrily, Bengong Zhilu said that you are not mistaken, but can't you come earlier, could it be that you don't want to see Bengong at all?
It's really a little childish, Xue Shao can't help but feel confused. took a closer look at Princess Taiping, this little girl is probably difficult to come out and hunt once, she really has done enough. She sat on top of the phoenix, but she was dressed in a hunting suit, wearing a man's martial arts, and a beautiful sword hanging from her waist. Looking at that plane, it really looks like I'm ready to go into battle and fight a good hunt myself.
The pearl of the two saints wants to go hunting, and the pomp and circumstance cannot be small. There were more than 100 ironclad guards, dozens of eunuchs, envoys and cooks and miscellaneous servants.
As early as three days ago, the Queen of Heaven sent a large number of palace forbidden troops to encircle the hunting ground. Within three days, they had to drive as much of their prey into the hunting grounds as possible, as well as guard against the invasion of prey.
The Yulin Army is a newly formed army after Li Zhi came to power, with a total of 6,000 people and horses of the two guards of the left and right Yulin Guards, full-time guarding the Imperial City Forbidden Palace, and is the closest to the emperor to guard the front of the Imperial Army, so it is also called the "Imperial Forest Army". The predecessor of the Yulin Army can be traced back to the earliest early Tang Dynasty, which was the North Gate Yingtun that garrisoned the Xuanwu Gate of the Forbidden Palace, known as the "Yuan Cong Forbidden Army"; Taizong Li Shimin divided the North Gate Yingtun into two parts, the left and right camps, known as the "flying horse"; In the hands of Li Zhi, he selected the elite from the flying horses to form a new left and right Yulin Guard, and the leader was called "Yulin Lang".
However, people are more accustomed to using "flying horses" to call the Yulin Army, which is independent of the traditional Tang Dynasty soldiers and horses and twelve guards, each of which is the elite of the elite who are carefully selected, supported by the state's high salaries and generally only recruit the children of the scholars, and there are few civilians.
The main task of the Yulin Army is to guard the Forbidden Palace, and occasionally go out on orders from the emperor, and it is the emperor's direct henchmen. Of course, it is also their duty to accompany the princess on hunting. There are poets in the Tang Dynasty who left poems, "The hound knows the slope, and the palace concubine knows the flag." The double rabbit in front of the horse rises, and the feather forest is Xuan'er. It is to describe the scene of the Yulin Army accompanying the royal family to hunt.
The reason why Xue Shao took the initiative to accompany Princess Taiping out to hunt was that he wanted to have this addiction, and secondly, he wanted to take the opportunity to get acquainted with Xue Chuyu, who served in the Yulin Army.
"Xue Shao, this palace is going to compare with you again today!" Before she officially set off, Princess Taiping made another move, "You and I each lead a team of men and horses, each marked with different arrows, to see who has more prey!" ”
"Wechen is happy to accompany you!" Xue Shao said with a smile, "I don't know what kind of color Her Royal Highness the Princess has prepared today?" ”
"Hmph, do you want to gamble again? This palace won't fool you! Princess Taiping was straightforward, "I bet with you that day, but this palace was scolded by the queen mother!" ”
"I see, Wechen is really ashamed!" Xue Shao said with a smile, "It's better for Weichen to resign from this official position!" ”
"You dare!" Princess Taiping's little face was stiff, and she rolled her eyes prettyly, "That's what this palace got in exchange for being scolded for!" ”
As soon as these words came out, Xue Shao and some people in front of him couldn't help but want to laugh. Princess Taiping is really innocent and innocent.
"Don't laugh!" Princess Taiping's face turned red slightly, and she quickly changed the topic, "Listen! The Xue Chuyu you wanted, this palace found it for you. Just let him bring a few sergeants with you! ”
"Your Highness." Xue Shao smiled and said, "Then, what about Xue Chuyu?" ”
"Call him!" Princess Taiping said to the left and right.
After a while, a horse stopped in front of Princess Taiping's phoenix, and immediately jumped down a young general in gold armor and red robes, clasped his fists and bowed, "Weichen Xue Chuyu, see Her Royal Highness Princess Taiping!" ”
Xue Shao glanced at Xue Chuyu, about twenty years old, about one meter eighty-one to one meter eighty-three in height, his physique was strong and not fat or thin, and there was a faint sense of masculinity leaking out, it can be imagined that under his beautiful armor, there should be a strong and strong tendon meat. As soon as Xue Chuyu stood there, it was like a war spear made of fine iron firmly inserted into the ground, quite heroic and domineering. In addition, he is also quite handsome, with thick eyebrows, big eyes, and Zhou Zheng, and his skin is quite fair, not as bronze and dark as ordinary sergeants.
"Xue Chuyu, this palace orders you to bring eight sergeants today, form a fire with Xue Shao, and compete with the people and horses of this palace to try hunting!" "Fire" is the smallest establishment in the Tang Army, with ten people in one fire. Princess Taiping said vividly, "If you win, you and Xue Shao will each reward a good horse; If you lose, you will be fined three glasses of white water! ”
A good horse? Xue Shao's heart suddenly bloomed, I began to like Princess Taiping a little bit! The most likely place in the world to have a purebred bloody horse is, of course, the royal palace supervisor!
"Wechen obeys!" Xue Chuyu promised loudly, turned around and walked in front of Xue Shao and bowed with his fists, "I've seen Xue Gongzi!" ”
Xue Shao smiled and returned the salute, "The general doesn't have to be polite, we are brothers of the same clan." ”
Xue Chuyu knows how to be strict in the palace when he is on an errand in the palace, and he has been looking at Xue Shao's feet when he is giving gifts, and when he heard Xue Shao's words, he raised his eyelids slightly and glanced at him quickly, and he was still hugging his fists, and his voice was as official as a CCTV announcer, "Don't dare to do it." ”
It's a bit arrogant. Xue Shao returned the salute with his fists in disbelief and didn't say much, turned his head to Princess Taiping and said, "Your Royal Highness Princess, where are your people?" ”
The corners of Princess Taiping's mouth curled, and she clapped her palms proudly, "Where is Linlang?" ”
A pair of men's palace maids dressed in white hunting clothes and wearing soapy scarves, with swords and bows, rode out of a group of palace maids in the same costume and came to the front of the car, and both fell off their horses and bowed neatly-
"Slave and maid, see Her Royal Highness the Princess!"
Everyone suddenly had a little dazzling hallucination, how could these two palace maids be exactly the same as if they were reflected in the mirror? Not only is it the same look, height and dress, but even the movements and the speed and tone of speech are exactly the same!
"Twin phoenixes?" Xue Shao also thought it was very interesting, these two palace maids were almost seventeen or eighteen years old, and they had the same graceful, charming and charming figures, like two lotus flowers side by side.
"Xue Shao, the queen of heaven Niangniang made a special trip to the ten shooters in the palace, and the palace will use this fire shooter to compete with you!" Princess Taiping said with a smile on her face, "These two siblings are the leaders of the shooters, and the palace has just given them a new name, the elder sister is called Lin'er, and the younger sister is called Lang'er." Can you tell which of them is the older sister and who is the younger sister? ”
Xue Shao smiled slightly, "What's so difficult about this!" ”
"Bragging!" Princess Taiping pointed her hand at Linlang, "If you can tell the difference, this palace will be rewarded!" If you are wrong, you will be fined three glasses of water! ”
"Okay." Xue Shao said with a smile, "Your Royal Highness Princess, Wei Chen only asked Xiao the last question, and he could tell which of them was older and which was younger. ”
"You ask." Princess Taiping was very curious and said, "But they will definitely not answer." ”
"That's nature." Xue Shao dismounted and walked in front of the two palace maids, known as the "leader" of the shooters.
The main purpose of the shooter is to ride a horse to accompany the royal family when hunting, and also participate in hunting, so you must have excellent bow and horse kung fu. The Tang people have a poem: "Shoot the maid of the palace with red makeup, and put the new bow in their own hands." When they got on the horse, they gave wine, and the men knelt down to thank the king. It describes the scene when the archer palace maid dressed as a man and accompanied the royal family to hunt.
Out of professional sensitivity, Xue Shao had already discovered from the twins that there was a familiar aura that made him feel familiar-evil qi!
There is no doubt that their skills are definitely not weak, and it is very likely that they have killed people and killed a lot. They are definitely not ordinary "shooters", but the personal bodyguards sent by Wu Zetian to Princess Taiping.
Xue Shao circled around the two sisters, her figure was really good, her buttocks were especially first-class, plump, round, straight but not fat, and her slender legs were very likely to make most men want to get into it.
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Xue Shao expressed his emotion in his heart, and then stood in front of the twin little beauty "Linlang" with a special temperament.
Linlang's face was expressionless, his eyes were looking at his nose and nose, and even his eyes were slightly empty, just like Xue Shao was air that did not exist.
Obviously, well trained.
Xue Shao smiled slightly, pointed to the one on the left, and said, "You're a sister, right?" ”
Linlang is still expressionless, like two ice sculpture beauties.
But it doesn't mean that they don't show "micro-expressions." ”
Xue Shao smiled, turned around and walked to Princess Taiping and bowed, "Your Highness, Weichen probably knows which of them is the elder sister and who is the younger sister." ”
"Speak quickly!" Princess Taiping said curiously, "If you guess wrong, this palace will punish you for drinking the three major drinks!" ”
Xue Shao smiled, "Your Royal Highness Princess, the one that Weichen has identified just now is my sister Lang'er!" ”
"Ugh! ......" Princess Taiping was a little stunned, and Bengong didn't know if he guessed right or not...... "Lang'er, you take a step forward!" ”
The palace maid who had been identified by Xue Shao stepped forward, "Yes, Your Highness." ”
Sure enough, I guessed it right.
There was a lot of exclamation all around, and everyone thought in unison, this should be confused, right?!
"Your Highness, it seems that Weichen's luck is not bad!" Xue Shao said with a smile.
"You laugh so nastyly!" Princess Taiping seemed to be a little unconvinced, her eyes were dripping, and she suddenly smiled, "This palace said that it would reward you, but it didn't promise a reward!" - Okay, I'll reward you with three glasses of white water! ”.
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