Chapter 105 Wonderful Ball Skills
The Taishi Bureau usually has few affairs, and the work is very leisurely, and An He hasn't been to the Taishi Bureau for a long time. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
But as a person who was used to going to work every day in later life, he always stayed at home, and An He was very unsure, so he decided to go to the Taishi Bureau to have a look.
Thinking that his five-grade official uniform was still in Xu Jingzong, An He went to Xu Mansion to meet Xu Jingzong.
An He read the history books, and the evaluation of Xu Jingzong in the books was not very good, saying that he was unprincipled, and he loved money and was lustful.
An He thought to himself: For such a boss to leave empty-handed, he will definitely not get a good face.
So An He did what he liked and prepared a valuable gift before going.
Although Xu Jingzong's character is not good, he is a smart man, and he is already a five-grade contractor at a young age, and I heard that this kid can predict earthquakes, and he is deeply appreciated by the emperor, maybe the future official position is still above himself.
So I deliberately wooed An He, looked at An He's gift list, and was more satisfied with this young man in my heart, thinking:
"Don't look at his young age, this kid is very good at doing things."
Because the Taishi Bureau is a Qingshui Yamen, the people in the Taishi Bureau usually can't take care of themselves, so they have money to give him gifts!
This is also one of the reasons why I rarely go to the Taishi Bureau.
Xu Jingzong intended to stay with Anhe to eat at home, although Xu Jingzong was his top boss, Anhe didn't want to make friends with such a person, so he excused himself and went home.
Back in his house, An He changed into the official uniform of the five-grade Cheng Lang under the waiter of Qingyun, and took a look at the bronze mirror, the clothes fit quite well, the light crimson official uniform, the gold belt, and the jade-inlaid head, and the person also looked more and more vibrant.
Qingyun on the side couldn't help but admire:
"Ah Lang wears this dress, and he looks more and more handsome and chic."
An He smiled and continued: Yes, who will make my foundation good!
An He walked out of the house and walked towards the Taishi Bureau, and when he walked to the grassland of Sinong Temple opposite the Taishi Bureau, he saw two teams of people playing ball, one team playing ball and the other team playing polo.
Foot ball is a bow, and polo is a bow.
Light cavalry was prevalent in the Tang Dynasty, and the imperial court focused on training light cavalry with high speed mobility and long-distance running.
At that time, the Tibetan envoys learned that Tang Taizong liked polo, and specially gave him a polo as a gift. However, Li Shimin didn't want the Tubo people to know his true intentions, so he pretended not to like it and burned the polo. But since then, the game of polo has become popular throughout the Tang Dynasty unconsciously.
Nowadays, the royal family has built polo fields in various palaces, and some dignitaries have also built polo fields near their mansions, and the polo fields they built are slightly wider than the modern standard football fields, but the length is slightly smaller, and the total area is similar to the size of a football field, but the construction quality is extremely elegant.
In order to make the ground smooth and flexible, no grass grows in summer and no freezing in winter, some giants even spend a lot of money to splash buckets of oil on the court.
With such a lot of effort, it can be seen how the upper class at that time liked to play polo, and their obsession with polo was no less than the love of modern people for football, and even more so.
However, ordinary people can't afford to buy horses, and there are few opportunities to ride horses, so they are not good at equestrianism, so they play foot ball.
Ann is not so different from equestrians, and is not very interested in the team that plays polo.
As a veteran fan and a member of the college football team, Anhe was immediately attracted by the team playing Keju, stood aside and watched with interest.
There are a total of 12 people who play Keju, divided into two teams, six people are a team, one of them has thick eyebrows and big eyes, a straight nose and a square mouth, a face like a crown of jade, and a red silk tied on his head, who looks like he is about thirty years old, and his feet are as flexible as hands, he controls the ball, dribbles past people, volleys, and a series of actions are chic and skillful, and soon surpasses the other team by four or five balls.
An He was looking at He and was energetic, and suddenly the ball was kicked away by a player on the field, and it fell right at An He's feet.
This ball is not inflated, but six pieces of leather sewn into a ball, and the middle is stuffed with something soft and elastic such as hair, and a little weight is added in the middle to prevent the ball from being too light and difficult to control.
An He looked at it, it was similar to a modern football, so he walked to the side of the ball, did not lean over to pick up the ball, but picked it up on his toes, picked the ball over his shoulder, and stopped the ball steadily.
An He clasped his sleeves with both hands, controlled the ball with both feet, and showed his ball skills, only to see the ball flying up and down, toes, insteps, edges, knees, ankles......
The ball spun around like a meteor in front of his feet, dazzling to see, but never landed.
Suddenly, he jumped extremely chicly, flicked his feet, and with a "snap", the ball flew back to the field, and the people on the field were all masters of kicking football, and they all cheered loudly.
The man with the red silk on his head saw An He, who had displayed such a wonderful ball skill, and the feet were not leather boots, nor mango shoes, but a pair of high-toothed clogs with high soles, and he was even more shocked that his mouth opened wide and couldn't close it.
It is not easy to play such a good game, and there is actually a pair of high-toothed clogs under his feet, and the difficulty is even more conceivable, this kid has such good kung fu!
He intended to try Anhe's ball skills again, walked forward, and shook the ball with his foot a few times, and suddenly tiptoed, and the ball that seemed to be stuck to his toe rose into the air and flew straight into the sky, and he didn't see how hard he kicked the ball so high.
At this time, the ball that seemed to be going straight into the clouds fell from the sky, and it was about to hit An He's body, with his ability to control the ball, how could he not know the landing point of the ball, it seems that when he kicked the ball into the air, he chose this landing point.
An He noticed that something was wrong, and when he looked up, he saw the ball falling in the air, An He's feet froze, a pair of high-toothed clogs flicked up towards the boots, and the whole body spun up, and the crimson wide court dress spread out in all directions because of his rapid rotation like a red lotus blooming from the water.
An He flew out with one foot, hit the ball, and the ball flew out in response, turning into a long rainbow and penetrating into the "Merry Eye".
"Merry eye" is the goal, the stadium has a goal on the left and right, the shape of the goal is like an archway, but it is much shorter than the archway, the goal is made of wood painted with red lacquer, there are moire cornices on both sides, there is a pointed ball at the top of the middle, there are some styles of Western Regions architecture.
Below it is the goal, which is as tall as a man, similar to a modern goal, but depending on the style of play, not all balls have to go into this goal to score.
This goal is not topped by a beam, but by two beams, and between the two beams, there is a smaller goal, shaped like a window in the wall of some ancient garden.
This hole is called "Merry Eye", and in some difficult games, the ball must penetrate the hole to win, and it is several times more difficult to shoot into this "Merry Eye" than to shoot into the larger goal below.
Anhe's volley was accurate and powerful into the goal, and he was on the side of the pitch, which made it even more difficult to shoot due to the angle.
For a while, the people on the field and those watching the game outside the stadium couldn't help but cheer.
When the person with the red silk wrapped around his head saw his volley, his eyes couldn't help but glow: "What a young man, you can't underestimate him!" ”