After these ninety-nine people saluted the princess, with the order of Chang Gonggong, today's horse selection officially began. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Two little eunuchs pulled out two curtains from both sides of the hall to separate the princess from the ninety-nine people, so that they could not easily see the princess's honor, which can be regarded as a common practice in the palace to keep it mysterious and for security reasons. The princess hasn't had much expression since she entered the Zhongyuan Palace, her whole face seems to be stiff, and even the every move of the filial son Jiang Ge just now has only paid a little attention to it for a while and has no words, neither praise nor scolding, so that people can't guess what she is thinking in her heart.

Lu Xiaoyu kept looking at the princess behind the curtain, always feeling that she had seen her somewhere, but she couldn't tell where she was. Lu Xiaoyu and Yang Xiangwu once thought that Lu Xiaoyu was really pitiful of the princess's beauty.

In fact, the princess of this selection of horses has long been prepared and locked in a brocade box, and now Chang Gonggong took out the key to open it. Chang Gonggong casually looked at a candidate below while opening the brocade box, Lu Xiaoyu's sharp eyes had already seen that the person was a gorgeously dressed son who was not accompanied by his family but a servant, and it seemed that this person should be a second-generation official. Looking at the eyebrows between him and Chang Gonggong, Lu Xiaoyu was sure that the exam questions in this brocade box must have been memorized by this candidate for a long time.

Sure enough, after making eye contact with Chang Gonggong, the face of the son, who thought he had not been noticed, suddenly became radiant, and he looked like he was bound to win.

Father-in-law Chang also took out the first scroll of paper and asked the princess with a smile: "Your Royal Highness the princess, our family will announce the first exam question." ”

The princess remained silent, only nodded slightly.

"The candidates below listen carefully, the first question of Her Royal Highness the Princess is listening to the sound and distinguishing the position. I will introduce you to the format of the competition, and please accompany your family members to the side room to watch the competition. ”

It turns out that there are two halls on both sides of this Zhongyuan Hall that can be rested, which was originally a place to supervise whether the ministers of the previous dynasty have deserted, but now after the princess is in power, it is rarely useful here. Because the first question of today's exam is limited by the venue, the candidates' families are set aside, so that the contestants will not be disturbed and will not engage in favoritism.

As soon as Chang Gonggong finished explaining the rules of listening to the sound and distinguishing the position, the candidates all had surprised expressions, and even people like Lu Xiaoyu and Yang Xiangwu who were not afraid of heaven and earth shook their heads. It turns out that listening to the position is a group of two candidates, which is determined by drawing lots, and then both sides are blindfolded, each holding a whip, as long as the opponent is hit with three whips, it is considered a victory, and the loser is directly sent out of the palace without a chance to try again.

In this way, the competition is not only the ability, but also a lot of luck, if the opponent is weak, it is naturally a good chance to win, if the opponent is strong, you can only consider yourself unlucky, there is no room to turn over. Lu Xiaoyu and Yang Xiangwu saw that the other forty-eight candidates were all ready to try, but the two of them looked at each other and didn't know what to do.

This listening and discernment is very strange to the Southern Chu people, but it is very common for the Western Xia people. When their ancestors rode horses to fight the world, they relied on a war horse and a pair of whips. At the end of the practice, you don't need to look at the place to fight, and you can directly identify where there is danger and need to attack. Therefore, playing with a whip is a necessary skill for a good man in Western Xia, and among the fifty people, except for Yang Xiangwu and Lu Xiaoyu, they are all good players.

Seeing that Lu Xiaoyu, who was a family member, was about to be taken to the side room next to him, Lu Xiaoyu cast a look of help to him, Lu Xiaoyu compared his mouth, "Don't panic, I'm here." ”

Hearing Lu Xiaoyu say this, Lu Xiaoyu's nervous mood relaxed by half, but he still couldn't take it lightly, this was not a joke, half his life was lost with a whip. Yang Xiangwu is not as nervous as Lu Xiaoyu, anyway, he has thought about it, when the time comes, he will leave directly if his skills are not as good as others, anyway, he has figured out the layout and guard distribution in the palace all the way in, and when the time comes, he will directly sneak in and steal the treasure, and being a horse is not what he has to do as a bad old man.

Chang Gonggong took out a wooden box with a hole in the middle, a bit like the box we used in the lottery, and placed the number paper from one to twenty-five, two for each number. Lu Xiaoyu chose the second number, Yang Xiangwu drew later, the two of them wanted to draw together, so that one of them would definitely win, but the matter was willing to be the last one to compete on the twenty-fifth for Yang Xiangwu, the pressure was great, Yang Xiangwu and Lu Xiaoyu were in a dilemma and looked at each other with bitter faces.

Soon the venue was arranged, and the first round of listening and positioning competitions began, and the one who came up was the son who had just made eye contact with Chang Gonggong and another very strong man.

Father-in-law Chang held two blindfolds in his hands, and he walked up to the boy and said with a smile: "Don't peek at the blindfold carefully." Then he turned his back to the princess's gaze, and glared at a very small hole in the blindfold, which he had just pierced with a needle, and though it was a very small hole, it was worn on the eye enough to see every move ahead. And when Father-in-law Chang handed another eyepatch to the strong man, he deliberately wiped it with his hand on the blindfold, and said to him with the same smile: "The young man is really strong, our family is optimistic that you can win this game." ”

The strong man thought that he had won Chang Gonggong's appreciation, and became eyebrows fluttering, patronizing the auspicious words of thanking Chang Gonggong without paying attention to the pungent smell on his eye patch, and only realized that something was wrong when he wore it on his eyes. However, the rules of the game are that once you put on the blindfold, you must not take it off, and the person who takes it off will be directly regarded as admitting defeat. So the strong man had to endure the stinging sensation in his eyes, and picked up the whip in his hand and pointed it at the boy in a fancy suit.

At the beginning of the competition, the strong man directly challenged the young man in the Chinese costume, raised the long whip and hit it forward, the whip was nearly three meters long and as thick as two fingers, and if he was hit, he would fall to the ground directly. Fortunately, a small hole was opened in the eyepatch of the young man in the fancy clothes, if he hadn't seen the other party's actions in advance at this time, he would have suffered this blow.

Although the strong man was burly, his mind was delicate, and when he heard the boy in the Chinese costume dodge his whip, he gave another whip in the direction he was dodging. At this moment, the young man in the gorgeous costume was forced into a corner and had nowhere to escape, his arm was cut by the whip in front of his face, and his sleeve was cut by a whip, and his face became very ugly in an instant. Chang Gonggong, who was watching from the sidelines, was anxious when he saw that the young man in Huafu was deflated, but he couldn't think of a way to help him, so he could only be anxious next to him.