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A few people who were full of food and drink, each took several bottles of medicinal wine from Li Xiao, and after packing a few jars of good wine, they had to take Li Xiao to the event together.

When Li Xiao heard about the event, he thought that a few noble sons were going to take him to participate in some high-end and high-grade sword activities, and thought that they were going to take him to the heavens and earths of Chang'an.

As a result, Cheng Wu, Xue Wu, and Liu Si and Liu Si, the four sons, wanted to take him to hunt.

Hunting was a favorite activity of the children of the nobility in this era. If you make a ranking of their activity interests, then the safari must be ranked first, and the second is estimated to be playing polo, and then it is estimated that it is drinking showers, gambling and the like.

Hunting is not entirely an unprofessional behavior, Chang'an nobles like to hunt, up to the emperor, as well as the princes and princesses, down to those relatives, but where the family is a little rich and powerful, which one does not like to hunt.

Even the emperor held important hunting games several times a year.

Even the more than 600 soldiers in the world, one of their important training content is hunting, using hunting to train military formations and test soldiers.

Cheng Xue and both of them are in the Yulin Army, while Liu Liu and Liu are both in the Lantian Wei Mansion, both of them are brave and young men of the younger generation, and they are all skilled in bows and horses.

This season is not as fat as the prey in autumn, but according to Liu Si's words, after eating and drinking, it is time to go to the mountains for a walk to eliminate food.

The nobles of Chang'an like to hunt, and even regard hunting as a kind of socialization, making friends and calling friends, presiding over safaris, riding horses, carrying bows, leading dogs and eagles, and carrying a group of dog legs, whistling in the mountains, tossing for a day, returning with prey, and holding a lively drinking party, there is nothing more comfortable than this.

Basically, as long as you take care when you go on a safari and don't trample on the crops of the people, then no one will have any opinion.

Today, Xue Cheng and a few others are also prepared, Lanxi is in the belly of the northern foot of the Qinling Mountains, which is not far from Chang'an, but it is indeed an ideal place for hunting.

When they came, they brought their own hunting teams with them.

"The most important thing in this hunting is not that you have good archery skills, but that you have to have good hunting dogs, and raising a good group of hunting dogs will definitely make you return with a full load when hunting, and even let you take the lead when you compete with others."

Speaking of these, Liu Sigongzi is also the head of the road, this son of Liu County Ling is now on an errand in the inner house, and he is a seven-grade guard, in fact, this kind of guard is just a birth step for the children of these honorable officials, and the vast majority of those noble children in Chang'an are taking this path.

When I was young, I studied in Guozijian, and then at the age of seventeen or eighteen, I entered the inner three guards as a guard, and after a few years, I was able to get a real errand in the Twelve Guards Mansion. The fourth son of Liu is named Liu Wen, the Liu family is a famous family in Hedong, and the poetry is an heirloom, but those century-old scholars are not as weak as ordinary scholars from poor families, they are often both civil and military, riding and archery This is a compulsory course, and hunting is a compulsory course.

Liu Wen has an excellent team of hounds, which is said to be unmatched in Lantian now.

Liu Si and Liu Jun said unconvinced, "You just rely on more dogs, in fact, my dog's skills are better." ”

Over there, Cheng Boxian answered, "Let's talk about the polo game, today my family has invited a few powerful polo offerings, and today's polo games in Chang'an, I see that no one can compete for the limelight over my Cheng family." ”

The aristocracy loved to hunt, but also to play ball.

However, there are not many horse teams that can be raised, and there is a very strong polo team in Lu Guogongcheng's Jinfu, an excellent polo team, not only excellent horses, but also excellent polo players, and those star players will be scrambled by all parties, known as the supply.

There are many polo teams in Chang'an City, and every year each polo team will hold a competition, which is the most lively time, often when the last few teams are played, and even can cause countless people to rush to watch.

Li Xiao has always heard of the name of polo matches, but he has never seen this kind of competitive sport that is popular in Datang. However, Datang is still martial, it is normal to like to play polo, although Lanxi does not have a polo team, but there is also a juju, which is equivalent to football, and the rules are a little different, but they are roughly the same.

Ordinary people can't afford to buy good horses and play polo, so they play Keju, and people with a little money also ride mules and donkeys to play polo, and it is even said that there are aristocratic women in Chang'an City who specialize in riding that kind of pony to play women's ball.

Whether it is playing polo or hunting, it is actually a rich man's game, just like golf in later generations, and ordinary people really don't play it.

said that he wanted to hunt, Li Xiao only had a yellow horse, and he was not fast or good, and now he only traveled occasionally, as for hunting bows, hunting knives, and hunting clothes, they were even more useless, and there was no hunting dog they liked to compete with, let alone having a hunting dog team.

"It's not a thing, it's on my brothers, you can just ride a horse."

Cheng Wuniu patted his chest angrily and said, "Brother will give you a good horse, and hunting horses must have good endurance." ”

Li Xiao was polite, Liu Si had already said to him over there, "What are you polite to Cheng Wu, who doesn't know that their Cheng family has a big business, well, their family is very good in Helong, and every year the horses that come from over there, their family has to account for three points." ”

Helong, is the Tang Dynasty's Hexi Longyou region, this place should be regarded as Gansu, Qinghai, Ningxia, and southern Shaanxi in later generations, it has always been a place to get out of the horse, the so-called Hexi horse, Longyou horse, Hetao horse, and even the Qinghai dragon horse of Tuyuhun are produced in this area, one of the most important horse-producing places in the Tang Dynasty, and through the Hexi corridor, there are also big food horses and Dawan horses from the Western Regions.

Da Shi is the Arab Empire, and Da Wan is naturally the place where sweat and blood are born.

Li Xiao really didn't expect that the old Cheng family still had such a big piece of wealth, although I don't know if the figure of one-third is an exaggeration, but since the old Cheng family can intervene in this area, then his family is really not short of horses.

"A hunting horse, if it dies, it will be twenty or thirty." Liu Si also pouted on the side.

"Twenty or thirty horses are also horses, Brother Liu, what are you going to do for San Lang?" Cheng Wu replied to Liu Si.

Liu Wen glanced at Li Xiao a few times, "I'll send San Lang four or five hunting dogs and an eagle." ”

Xue Chuyu immediately patted his cousin on the shoulder and said, "My cousin is excited now, and he has lost his blood." ”

Cheng Wu didn't give up, "This hound and eagle can't be too bad, and they can't fool people." ”

"Don't worry, I'll give the dogs I trained myself to San Lang, and the eagle, which I also boiled out myself, is an absolutely good thing."

Cheng Bo gave a good horse, and Liu Wen sent a hunting dog and an eagle.

At that moment, Xue Chuyu also said that he would give Li Xiao a set of hunting guys, hunting bows, arrows, and knives. These are not forbidden reloading, and private individuals can hold them. A set of such guys is not cheap.

Liu Si and Liu Jun said that they would buy a set of hunting clothes for Li Xiao, "Hunting suits made of rhinoceros leather, armbands, wrists, legs, belts, and leather boots are all available." ”

"Brothers, how can I be embarrassed."

"My own brother, why do you have to see the outside like this, if you see the outside like this, then we are embarrassed to take this wine away."

After explaining to Old Man Zhao, Li Xiao left early, anyway, Xue Wu is a VIP customer, and they have to be specially entertained, not to mention that they want to accompany him to hunt, or to accompany him to the big sword, Li Xiao also has to agree.

In fact, Li Xiao still prefers to go to the Great Sword, on such a cold day, it is really idle to go hunting and drink cold wind in the mountains.

Cheng Wu directly gave Li Xiao one of his spare horses, the horse was black, that is, there was a crescent white under the neck, and there was also white hair on the four hooves. Cheng Bo also gave this horse a name, called Dark Cloud Treading Snow.

But Li Xiao doesn't like this name very much, you are a martial artist, why do you take such a literary name. He looked at the horse, and it looked like a little black dog that his family had raised. The dog also had a pinch of white hair under its neck, and the feet were also a little white, and the dog he kept calling Little Bear.

"In the future, you will be called Little Bear, obedient and obedient, and let you eat and drink spicy food every day in the future."

Cheng Boxian also gritted his teeth before giving his own horse to Li Xiao, this horse, which can be used as a war horse, is skillfully trained, and is worth at least eighty strokes. If he hadn't been scolded by Liu Wen, he would still be reluctant.

But now listening to his dark clouds and snow turning into a bear, he can't bear it anymore.

"My third brother also, this horse has a name, called Dark Cloud Treading Snow, and this horse was originally a trained war horse to eat finely, five meals a day, and eggs and bean cakes to eat every day, it is best to get some carrots for him to eat, and remember to add some salt. He can't eat spicy food! ”

He stretched out his hand to touch the neck of the bear, this horse is tall and big, but it is actually very tame, he can't see that it is a war horse, but this tame appearance, he likes it very much.

"Fifth brother, he will follow me in the future, I think it's better to call him Xiao Hei."

"Saburo, this is a mare."

"Is there anything wrong with a mare called a bear?"

Cheng Wu retreated in defeat and retreated helplessly, and Liu Si and the others laughed.

"Alright, Saburo mounts your bear, let's go hunting in the mountains." Xue Wu was afraid that if he continued to talk, Cheng Boxian would vomit blood, Cheng Wu was a well-known horse lover, and now he gave his beloved horse to Li Xiao, and as a result, Li Xiao changed his name to Little Bear, and let this horse eat and drink spicy, and people couldn't bear it.

There are no aristocratic children in the Tang Dynasty who can't ride horses, and even many women can ride horses, even civil officials.

There are very few people who make sedan chairs, especially the children of the nobles, if they can't ride horses, then don't mix in this circle in the future.

Fortunately, Li Xiao's body was originally good at riding, and it really felt excellent when he rode the bear.

After trotting two laps, I felt like I was changing from Baoshi to Bao Shijie.

"Drive!"

The excited Li Xiao couldn't help but clamp the belly of the horse and ran away.