The third day of the festival is the last day of entertainment held in the imperial court, and the first event held in the afternoon of the second day of the morning is sumo. In the Taiji Palace www.biquge.info civil and military officials, internal and external envoys gathered together.

In front of the Wude Palace, a three-foot high platform was erected, and red felt was laid on it, and this was the place where sumo wrestling was.

Invited officials who like to enjoy sumo wrestling are scattered under the three-sided porch that surrounds the high platform. The customs of the Tang Dynasty, whether it was the palace concubines in the palace or the female relatives of the people, did not shy away from meeting foreign guests, so many concubines and concubines were also crowded among them.

Sumo wrestling is a type of wrestling that has something in common with the steppe tribes' wrestling techniques, so in recent years the Turks and Tufan have been strong in this regard.

In the Tang Dynasty, playing polo, bowing, sumo, safari and so on were all common games of the wealthy and wealthy, and Fang Yiai and Changsun Run were both fanatical sumo lovers, so Fangfu and Changsunfu all had bowing hands, juju hands, and sumo wrestlers.

The sumo wrestlers in the house are the most powerful, Princess Gao Yang often watches sumo performances at home, and later slowly likes this sport, so there are not only male sumo wrestlers in the house, but more than a dozen female sumo wrestlers around Gao Yang, and the courage is far better than that of ordinary men.

In recent years, the first place in sumo wrestling has been won by the guards, the Tuban team, and the house, and the other teams have rarely won the prize.

In the first match, someone from the house came out, and the opponent was a sumo wrestler from the eldest grandson's house.

There are both male and female sumo wrestlers in the house, and the first to appear is a female sumo wrestler.

Ahn and later only watched sumo wrestling matches on TV, but he didn't know much about the rules of sumo wrestling, so he didn't participate in sumo wrestling tournaments, but driven by curiosity, he still asked Xue Rengui next to him the rules that sounded like sumo wrestling.

Xue Rengui is a master of sumo wrestling, and he is also the leader of the guard team participating in the sumo competition, so he is naturally very familiar with the rules of sumo wrestling, and he said eloquently:

！ This sumo wrestling can be used almost any part of the body, neck, shoulders, hands, arms, chest, abdomen, waist, knees, legs, feet, you can use pushing, falling, catching, pulling, flashing, pressing, tripping and other actions to control the enemy, when fighting, you can not grab the opponent's waist and lower parts, you are not allowed to pull the opponent's hair, ears, twist, hit, kick, kick the opponent.

Also, when fighting, you should never leave the range of the game, except for your feet, any part of your body is next to the ground. If two people fall at the same time, the one who falls to the ground first loses, and if you can push the other person out, hug it, and throw it out of the felt carpet, it is a big win. ”

An He nodded, and the two watched the game with interest again.

On the stage, Princess Gaoyang's female sumo wrestler landed cleanly and neatly landed a back wrestler, throwing a sumo wrestler in the eldest grandson's mansion out of the circle, from her skillful kung fu, domineering strength, and vigorous posture, it can be seen that her sumo wrestling skills are really extraordinary.

The female sumo wrestler who appeared first in Fang Fu was obviously not the most clever sumo wrestler, and when An He thought of this, he couldn't help but say to Xue Rengui:

"It's no wonder that everyone below says that the wrestlers of the house have the potential to win the championship, just by looking at the female sumo wrestlers who came first, you can know how good they are. With sumo wrestling alone, it's hard to find their opponents. ”

Xue Rengui said:

"That's natural, but Keju and Juju are all a team of people to participate, and the guards are limited by the strength of the whole team, so I'm afraid it will be difficult to win the first place, and if you want to win glory for the guards, you must go all out to sumo, even if you can't win the first place in the whole team, you have to take the first place in the individual."

An He nodded lightly and said:

"Hmmm! I'll admit that their sumo wrestling skills are good, but they may not be able to beat you! ”

Xue Rengui laughed and didn't say anything, he was still very sure of his servant skills.

Xue Rengui's first match was against a sumo wrestler in the eldest grandson's mansion, both of them were strong, tall and burly, Xue Rengui was more experienced, but that person was young and vigorous.

After seven or eight rounds of fighting between the two sides, Xue Rengui had a "goose wing fall", put the opponent to the ground, and also qualified for the promotion amid the applause of the house.

Sumo wrestling matches don't last long, and each one is enough to decide the winner in a very short period of time, even for sumo wrestlers with similar kung fu, and one miss is an instant defeat. What a big battle of 300 rounds, that is simply unthinkable. In this way, it didn't take long for the finalists to be clear.

Xue Rengui advanced to the finals, and there were seven other places, with three seats occupied by the Fang Mansion, two seats by Tubo, one seat by the guards, and one seat by the Changsun Mansion. The sumo wrestler raised by the eldest grandson is a Turkic, so it can be regarded as a foreign aid he invited.

In the previous Lin election process, Li Xiaojiu and many important ministers and dignitaries were drinking in the palace, and did not come out to watch, until this time, on the stone steps of the white marble of the Wude Palace, the Huangluo umbrella cover came out of nowhere, and the emperor, ministers, and relatives of the emperor came out to watch the battle.

As soon as the emperor came out, everyone present stopped what they were doing, saluted and greeted each other, and took advantage of the gap to peep at the ceremony, and from a distance, he saw Wu Mei and Princess Gaoyang behind Li Xiaojiu.

Princess Gaoyang looked around, as if she was looking for something, An He saw it, and quickly lowered her head, and when he lowered his head, he found that there seemed to be two eyes staring at him, An He raised his head slightly, and met Princess Gaoyang's eyes that seemed to be smiling. An He was caught by her, and she was not embarrassed.

The embarrassment in her heart revealed on her face, such a young man's attitude, Princess Gaoyang saw it, and a smile suddenly appeared in her eyes.

Li Xiaojiu sat down in the stands, beckoned everyone to sit down with a smile on his face, and ordered, "You can start." ”

The first pair to play was Xue Rengui and a Tibetan player. The Tubo man is a military attache next to an envoy of Tubo in Datang, and he is also a first-class horn master in China, sumo wrestling is popular in Datang, and after he arrived in Datang, he also knows very well about this kind of sumo wrestling.

Last year, he won the third place in the sumo tournament, but unfortunately, he met Xue Rengui this year. Xue Rengui is best at bowing and sumo wrestling, he is famous, the champion of the three armies, and the Tibetan players naturally dare not despise it.

Xue Rengui made up his mind to show his skills in the sumo tournament, and he went all out as soon as he made a move. The Tubo player knew all about the famous sumo wrestlers in the Tang Dynasty, and in his impression, only a few sumo masters in Princess Gaoyang's Mansion were his fierce rivals, but he didn't expect to kill Xue Rengui halfway.

Xue Rengui's style of play is different from that of the sumo masters of Princess Gaoyang's Mansion, although he pays attention to technique, but he pays more attention to using his strong physical fitness to hedge with him, and this is the best way for the Tubo people to fight against him.

The Tubo people were anxious to win, but Xue Rengui disrupted his offensive rhythm, and finally Xue Rengui "fell by the trend", his footing was unstable, he knelt on one knee, and lost the game.

Next is the sumo wrestler on the Changsun Mansion against the players of the Fang Mansion, and in the end, the foreign aid invited by the Changsun Yun was grabbed by the female sumo wrestler who was stronger than the man in the Gaoyang Princess Mansion and lifted it high, and threw it directly out of the arena, which can be said to have won the most enjoyable one.

Since then, the sumo wrestlers on the eldest grandson's mansion have all been wiped out, and the eldest grandson Wuji is not interested in polo, sumo, and juju these entertainment activities, although he is not satisfied with the eldest grandson run playing polo, juju, and raising sumo wrestlers, thinking that he is not learning and unskilled, but Mrs. is extremely doting on this little son, and every time he scolds him, Mrs. tries her best to protect him, and then the eldest grandson Wuji also figured it out, these are better than him spending all day drinking outside, causing trouble, so he let it go.

The eldest grandson run in the audience originally wanted to pass this sumo wrestling tournament and grow a long face in front of his father by the way, but he didn't expect that a single servant did not enter the finals, and the eldest grandson ran like a deflated ball, his head drooped down like a bean sprout.