On the wasteland next to the Wang family's mansion, the wild grass was cut down more than a month ago, and the ground was trimmed, except for a few vegetable beds opened up by the big and small sisters, the rest of the places have already emerged green grass, forming a grassy lawn around the mansion, and horseback riding here is an excellent place.

When Wang Yuan dragged the black horse to the door, Li Xin'er was already galloping around the house on the grass on a jujube red horse. There are a lot of ornaments on the women in Tang costumes, and there are five or six tassels on the placket and shawl alone, and the tassels are flying when the horses are running.

Wang Yuan's eyes were greedy and began to rub his hands, Huang San pulled the reluctant dark horse to the bluestone in front of the door, and Wang Yuan stood on the bluestone and was eager to try.

"Erlang, be careful, this horse has a strong temperament, don't fall down." Huang San admonished.

Wang Yuan's mouth responded, and he turned over with a stirrup, and his body stepped steadily. Sitting on the horseback, Huang San cheered loudly, and was about to praise it, when he suddenly saw the black horse sighing in the sky, and his front hooves raised and stood upright.

Wang Yuan fell backwards without paying attention, and in a hurry, he reached out and grabbed the protrusion of the saddle to stabilize his body, so that he did not fall off the horse. Just came and scolded: "This brute." Then he saw the black horse rush out, and rush out like a gale, and in an instant it was a few feet away.

"Be careful." Huang San screamed in horror, and Wang Yuan, who was lying on the horse, only felt the wind whistling in his ears, and his body was turned up and down, and Huang San's words could still be heard there.

The black horse scurried hundreds of steps, Wang Yuan couldn't control it, just let it rush to the south in a daze, suddenly the pond in front of the pond stalk lay in front of him, Wang Yuan peeked at the heart of the horror, busy regardless of life and death to pull the reins, the horse was unrestrained, the head was pulled to one side, but the four hooves rushed up to the pond ridge, suddenly on the pond ridge stood impressively, Wang Yuan on horseback like a kite with a broken line flew up with teeth and claws, fell into the water with a pop, and was wet and embarrassed when he landed.

Wang Yuan cursed while swimming from the water to the shore, and heard someone on the shore laughing, looking up, Li Xin'er was riding a horse leisurely, pointing at Wang Yuan, and laughing loudly.

Wang Yuan vomited blood angrily, climbed ashore silently, and turned his eyes to look for the black horse, only to see the black horse grazing not far away as if nothing had happened, baring his teeth and lifting his lips as if he were hanging children.

"Thou brute shall tame thee today." Wang Yuan scolded angrily, and ran towards the black horse despite the wet all over his body.

Li Xin'er gloated and said: "Husband, you can't tame this kind of fierce horse, it's better to change a horse, my horse is good, I have a very docile temperament, or let's change it, forcibly tamed it, breaking your arms and legs is not a joke." ”

Wang Yuan ignored it and slowly approached the black horse, the black horse glanced at Wang Yuan with his eyes, Wang Yuan took three steps back and kept a certain distance. Wang Yuan gritted his teeth with hatred, the horse has an IQ, this horse is obviously teasing himself, his eyes turned and pretended to walk away, and suddenly his body burst out and shot to the side of the black horse, the black horse was shocked and jumped up and ran but Wang Yuan had already grabbed the reins.

The black horse galloped out, dragging Wang Yuan to gallop behind, so that within a few breaths, Wang Yuan had to let go, otherwise he would be dragged to the ground. Gongsun Lan's crisp voice sounded: "Borrow the power to get on the horse." ”

Wang Yuan woke up when he heard this, pulled the reins in his hand, and took advantage of the strength of the black horse to get rid of it, and flew up on tiptoe, lying on the horse's back like an octopus, holding his hands and feet, and crawling to the position of the saddle.

The black horse was furious and jumped and screamed, trying to throw Wang Yuan off the horse. Gongsun Lan said again: "Tighten the reins, clamp. Tighten the horse's belly, relax the upper body, how it jumps, you swing with its strength, don't come hard. ”

Wang Yuan did as he said, only to feel that the black horse under his crotch was beating and spinning endlessly like clockwork, his body was jolting up and down like a flat boat on the stormy waves, and the food in his stomach was about to vomit, which was extremely uncomfortable.

But Wang Yuan gritted his teeth and supported it, he heard that when taming a horse, he must not let the horse fall down many times, otherwise it will be more and more difficult, this is the horse is explosive temper, Wang Yuan's stubborn temper was also provoked, and he scolded in his mouth: "Beast, I have consumed it with you today, and I have to ask you to obey." ”

I don't know how long it took, the strength of the black horse's jumping and spinning slowed down significantly, the horse's body was wet and sweaty, and everyone and the horse were out of breath. Finally, the black horse seemed to stagger and slowly stopped, standing still in place. Wang Yuan stuck out his tongue and scolded: "Brute, you don't have the strength." ”

As he spoke, the reins on his hands were also loosened, and his two sore thighs were also relaxed, and at this moment, your black horse rushed out, and he actually took advantage of Wang Yuan's slack to run wildly. Wang Yuan shouted angrily and hurriedly clamped. Tighten the horse's belly, although he was tired to death after tossing just now, he also mastered some skills to prevent falling immediately, he simply relaxed the reins, and his legs also relaxed his strength, and his body swayed up and down on the saddle, but it seemed to grow on it.

The black horse was very stubborn, and ran endlessly along the grass around the Wang family's mansion, from the sun was still a few feet high until the sky was dark, and everyone in the Wang family was a little helpless to stand on the edge of the house with lanterns and watch the people and horses consume each other in circles and circles, staring at each other speechlessly.

Finally, when it was all dark, the black horse finally couldn't run, and stopped with a snort, Wang Yuan's buttocks and thighs were burning, grinning in pain, jumping off the horse and sighing: "Why are you doing this?" I'm guilty if you're uncomfortable, so it's time for you to be out of the question. ”

The black horse stretched out his head and rubbed on Wang Yuan's body, Wang Yuan was overjoyed: "This is convincing, isn't it?" ”

The black horse shook its head and stood still, Wang Yuan laughed, stretched out his hand and stroked its neck: "Yes, those who have the ability have some tempers, look at you like this, you must be a good horse, and you will follow me from now on." I'll give you a name, you're grumpy, how about calling you a powder keg? ”

The horse couldn't object to this nondescript name, so he could only accept it silently, Wang Yuan turned over and got on the horse, and slowly came to the door along the wall, everyone in front of the door was very happy to see Wang Yuan taming the black horse, and it was inexplicable to hear Wang Yuan's name for the horse, and I don't know what this powder keg is.

The next morning, Wang Yuan got up early, the two felt that the two legs were sore and painful, extremely uncomfortable, knowing that this was the sequelae of yesterday's horse taming, scolded a few words and did not move, washed and ate breakfast, and then took out the 'powder keg' and rode up to the Hanlin Academy to 'work'.

Listening to the sound of the horse's hooves on the bluestone street, Wang Yuan's mouth did not close along the way. After entering the Daming Palace and arriving at the Hanlin Academy, after all the masters arrived, Wang Yuan found the old master Lu Yuanji, the chief of the Hanlin Academy, and secretly asked him for leave.

Lu Yuanji stroked his white beard and said, "Do you want to take leave?" I was going to talk to you about poetry in the morning, but Mr. Peng wrote a poem yesterday, and I wanted to gather in the morning to discuss this poem. Besides, it's been a long time since you entered the Hanlin Academy, and I haven't seen your new work come out yet, so I want to see it. ”

Wang Yuan said with a smile: "There is indeed something urgent, and I need to go out of the palace." How about talking about poetry in the future? ”

Lu Yuanji said: "Tomorrow, you will also come up with a new work for us to appreciate, my Hanlin Academy has no poems for three days, and others will gossip about us." ”

Wang Yuan was secretly amused, and he didn't have time to think about it in order to take leave, so he agreed to come down. At that moment, he hurriedly left the palace, rode his horse and galloped home, and when he arrived at the door, Huang San was already waiting with seven or eight of the servants he bought yesterday.

Seeing Wang Yuan coming back, Huang San hurriedly said: "Erlang, tell us to go with you, what are you doing?" Such a big battle? ”

Wang Yuan said: "Put on the cart, carry dozens of bags of rice in the warehouse, and, do you know where to sell pots?" To the cauldron. ”

Huang San said: "What do you want to do?" ”

Wang Yuan said: "Why do you ask so much? When you get to the place, you don't know, pot stove firewood and rice, it is best to buy some meat. ”

The second monk Huang Sanzhang was puzzled, scratched his head and said: "There must be a pot in the blacksmith's house at the south gate, and firewood can be bought in the market, but the meat is difficult to buy. ”

Wang Yuan said: "You go to find these things, you need ten cauldrons, at least a few carts of firewood, and buy dozens of catties of meat and eggs, and then go to the gate of Xicheng to find me." ”

Huang Sanleng said: "Erlang, are you going to give porridge?" ”

Wang Yuan smiled: "Even if you are still smart, don't rub it off, hurry up and prepare, I will take a few people to find a suitable place first." ”

Huang San hurriedly agreed, and took four servants to drive the cart out, while Wang Yuan hurried out with the remaining male and two female servants, and went straight to the West City Gate.