Chapter 106: Snow Field Cavalry Shooting
This kind of case, which only has a few teeth left to identify the source of the corpse, is not unusual to become a headless case that cannot be solved, after all, there are too few clues left.
It's just that this is the first case he solved after he took office as a judicial officer in the same state, and if it ends in failure, it will be really depressing, but what can be done to be depressed?
At this time, something happened to distract him.
This day was a rest day, and early in the morning, Lu Jinping was still sleeping in bed. Ye Qingqing had already gotten up and was sweeping the snow in the yard, when the porter came and laughed with Ye Qingqing about one thing. Ye Qingqing's face was full of unhappiness, and her small mouth was pouting. After thinking about it for a long time, the boss reluctantly entered the house and came to the bedside, opened the curtain, sat on the edge of the bed, looked at the sleeping Lu Jinping, and after a while, he reached over and shook his shoulder, shouting: "Sir!" Wake up, sir! ”
After shaking it several times, Lu Jinping opened his eyes in a daze, saw that it was her, and turned around and fell asleep again.
Ye Qingqing said: "Don't sleep, that woman told you to go hunting, it's what Yunzi is called in Tubo, waiting in the front hall." ”
Lu Jinping sat up with a snort, and he didn't have time to wipe his saliva, and said, "Yunzi is here?" Where is she? ”
Ye Qingqing was even more unhappy, pouting and saying, "I told you, the front hall." -- Look at how happy you are. What's so good about that Tibetan woman, she is rude and willful, and she doesn't know how to be polite......"
Lu Jinping had already gotten past her, got out of bed, began to get dressed, and said with a smile: "Look what are you talking about?" Friends, what do you care so much about? It's not looking for a daughter-in-law. Besides, when the water is clear, there are no fish, and when people are observed, there are no friends. Can't be too smart. Making friends is also a rare confusion. Moreover, they are from the Western Regions, after all, they are different from those literati in the Tang Dynasty. I think it's good to be straightforward. ”
"It's good, it's good, they can meet us at every turn, and you are still very good with their envoys." Ye Qingqing got up and served him to get dressed, and muttered over and over again.
"In my eyes. There are no envoys, only friends. We have experienced the earthquake of life and death together in Huashan, and we are friends of life and death. As for the rest, I'm not in the picture. ”
"In that case. So what are you doing with this robe? She's here to hunt for you, why don't you change your outfit for a short fight? ”
"Oh? Hunt? Lu Jinping's eyes brightened, "Why didn't you say it earlier?" ”
Ye Qingqing glanced at him angrily: "I didn't say it earlier?" As soon as I came in, I said it, you didn't hear it yourself. ”
"Really? Oh, I probably didn't hear it when I was in a daze just now. Lu Jinping said with a smile.
"It's not like you didn't hear me. As soon as you hear her name, you forget everything with joy! Ye Qingqing pouted and said.
Lu Jinping twisted her tender little face affectionately, and said, "Okay, is it possible that you are still jealous of her?" ”
"Jealous? What does it mean to be jealous? Ye Qingqing looked at him in confusion.
Lu Jinping then remembered that although the word jealousy began in the story of Li Shimin and Fang Xuanling in the Tang Dynasty, it had not been used as a synonym for jealousy between men and women in the Tang Dynasty, so Ye Qingqing didn't know the meaning of this word, so he smiled: "It's just that I'm not happy that I'm with her." ”
"That's what it means, then of course I'm not happy, ah no, of course I'm jealous!" Ye Qingqing is serious. "I'm just not happy that you're with her, she is a barbaric woman from Tubo in the Western Regions, she is not worthy of our lord, and it is impossible to get the emperor's canonization in the future. Isn't that the lord in trouble? The master still expects you to carry forward the Lu family and restore the glory of your ancestors. What if the Lady is not canonized? ”
Lu Jinping was dumbfounded, it seemed that Ye Qingqing didn't know what jealousy was at all, and he didn't eat Yunzi's vinegar. All she thinks about in her little head is who is suitable to be her young grandmother's master, not herself.
No wonder, she had just turned fourteen. Under the information blockage of ancient women, they are far less precocious than women in modern society, so at this time, unless it is the order of their parents to marry, otherwise. Even the relationship between men and women is still ignorant, so where can we talk about jealousy.
Lu Jinping said: "Don't worry, I just treat her as a friend, I didn't think of looking for her as a daughter-in-law." ”
"Really?" Ye Qingqing suddenly became happy.
Lu Jinping nodded and changed the topic: "Since you're going out hunting, let's quickly change my hunting outfit." ”
Although Lu Jinping is already an official from the seventh grade. But just became a pawn, and in the collection of money to redeem the previous antique furniture, so there is no money to buy the so-called hunting special clothing, Ye Qingqing quickly found him a set of short clothes, the Tang Dynasty has introduced the northern nomadic Hufu, that is, narrow cuffs tights, commonly known as "short fights".
After washing and changing clothes, Lu Jinping pushed the door and came out. A gust of cold wind blew, not only shivering, but when I looked up, I saw a silvery white world all over the yard, and the ground was already thick with another layer of snow. It's just that the snow on the path to the gate has been swept out. It seems that it should be swept by Ye Qingqing, because the maid-in-law, mother-in-law and other attendants are in the front yard, and he and Ye Qingqing are the two in the inner house.
"It snowed last night?" Lu Jinping looked at the silver in the courtyard in amazement and asked happily.
"Yes, it goes down in the middle of the night, and it doesn't stop until it's almost dawn."
"It's amazing!" Lu Jinping admired that he had never seen snow in the south before he crossed over, let alone seen such an overwhelming half-foot thick snow.
"yes, looking at the gloomy sky, maybe it's going to snow today. It's better to go another day, otherwise it will snow, let alone hunting, and I'm afraid I won't even be able to see the road. ”
"It doesn't matter, it's snowing heavily, and the animals have nowhere to hide, maybe it's a good time to hunt, - by the way, you have good martial arts, how about this archery skill?"
Ye Qingqing was a little embarrassed: "I haven't practiced archery, only sleeve arrows." At most, it can shoot a foot away, and if it goes any further, it will not be lethal. ”
"It doesn't matter, Yunzi, they should be able to shoot arrows, they came from Tibet, and archery on horseback on the grassland is a basic skill. Moreover, in Huashan, I saw that Yunzi used a soft whip called 'Guduo', which could throw out stones and hit far away, looking at the momentum, I was afraid that it was not worse than a bow and arrow. ”
"That's useless, at most it's just for cattle and sheep when grazing."
Lu Jinping didn't tell her much, knowing that she had prejudices against Yunzi. So he walked out, walked through the patio, and came to the courtyard gate out of the inner house, and saw the maid in the front yard sweeping the snow on the ground with a big broom. Seeing him come out, he hurriedly smiled and greeted, "Sir!" At the same time, he stood still, waiting for him to pass.
Lu Jinping nodded, and when he came to the flower hall, he saw Yun Zi and his brother Yun Vulture happily discussing hunting. I saw Lu Jinping come in. Yunzi hurriedly got up and said, "Sir! Last time, I said okay, let's find time to hunt, it just so happens that you can't rest today, and it snows heavily, it's a good time to hunt, and the beasts have nowhere to hide in the ice and snow. That's why I'm here to hunt you. Let's go! ”
Lu Jinping said: "Okay, but I've never hunted, but no, it's all up to you." ”
"Rest assured, hunting is simple. I teach you. Soon it will be. ”
"Okay, do you want me to bring some people along?"
"No, these people in your house are basically waste, and hunting is useless. You just come with me, the ten Tibetan warrior guards I brought are all one in a hundred. And very good at hunting. Just take them with you. ”
Ye Qingqing raised his eyebrows: "I'm going too!" Where the lord goes, I will go! ”
Yunzi squinted at her, and wanted to say no, but she knew that this was Lu Jinping's personal maid, and the relationship between the two was extraordinary, and if she stopped it, she was afraid that Lu Jinping would be unhappy. And he was silent.
Lu Jinping said: "Okay, where am I going." I'll kiss Xiao Qingqing and follow him. ”
Hearing Lu Jinping's words, Ye Qingqing smiled proudly and grimaced at Yunzi. Yunzi pretended not to see it.
Lu Jinping was afraid that the two girls would pinch up, so he quickly changed the topic. Ask Yunzi: "What about your master?" Is he going or not? ”
"My master is not going. He had no interest in hunting, and said that his family did not kill. ”
"That's right. Let's go, then. ”
After saying that, Lu Jinping immediately ordered to prepare the horse, prepare dry food and drinking water at the same time, take Ye Qingqing, and lead the horse out. I saw that there were already ten Tibetan warriors outside the gate, all wearing strong suits, very powerful. Two of them also had two majestic falcons on their shoulders. The crooked pointed mouth and cold gaze make people shudder to look at.
At that moment, they got on their horses and galloped towards the outside of the city.
They went to the West Mountain, where the jungle was not too dense and the grassland had a wide view, which was more suitable for hunting on horseback, and both places could hide both the jungle and the grassland.
After galloping for an hour, he arrived at the hunting ground that Yunzi was optimistic about.
Ten warriors rode their horses to drive away the prey hidden in the jungle and grasslands. In ancient times, there was no awareness of animal protection, and the weapons of hunting were also backward, so there was no way to hunt animals on a large scale, so this era can be regarded as a paradise for wild animals. It looks particularly conspicuous in the snowfield.
The vulture drew his bow and fired his arrows in succession, and it was true that the arrows were not missing, and in a moment he shot down seven or eight prey.
Lu Jinping couldn't help but smack his tongue, this kid looked stout, and thought it was just a hard work, but he didn't expect that the bow and arrow were so skillful and accurate, no wonder the Tubo army and the Tang army were almost evenly divided, and his bravery and good fighting could be seen from the cloud eagle.
Ye Qingqing didn't do it, pouted and said: "Say that you came to hunt together, knowing that our lord doesn't know how to hunt, so what's the point of patronizing and playing by himself?" If I knew we wouldn't be coming! Have fun yourselves! ”
Yun Zi was a little embarrassed, smiled apologetically, and glared at his brother Yun Ying: "I obviously said that I would accompany the lord to hunt, and you are done, so what is the lord fighting?" ”
Yun Vulture hurriedly put away the bow and arrows, and said to Lu Jinping with a smile: "I'm sorry, I forgot about it as soon as I hunted." I'm not fighting, sir, come on! ”
"I won't, it's fun to watch you fight." Lu Jinping smiled and said.
"It's really fun to play that yourself, come, I'll teach you!" After that, he ordered the following warrior to take a bow and said, "Sir, this bow is relatively soft, you can't estimate your strength, and you can't pull the hard work, so use this bow." After that, he handed it to Lu Jinping.
Lu Jinping took it, followed Yunzi's example, and pulled the bow, feeling okay, and he could fill it with all his strength.
Yunzi began to teach him how to draw a bow and release arrows, gesturing as he spoke. After Lu Jinping learned for half an hour, he was already able to shoot arrows in the direction he hoped to shoot more proficiently. Although the amplitude and advance of the shot cannot be judged proficiently, the general direction of the shot is accurate. It's just that Lu Jinping didn't shoot any of the prey that was chased by the samurai.
It's easy to understand when you think about it. These animals are fast running, not dead targets. If you want to shoot fast-moving prey, you can't do it by practicing archery for half an hour.
Yunzi saw that he was a little discouraged, and his eyes rolled. Said: "In this way, I let the prey run a little slower, you chase and shoot, chase from behind, shoot in a straight line." This is more certain. ”
After that, as soon as Yunzi raised his hand, there was already a soft whip folded in half, which was the bone commonly used by the Tubo shepherd girl for grazing, and took out a round stone the size of a pigeon's egg from the embroidered bag around his waist and put it in the middle of the soft whip, slashed it in the air a few times, and flew out towards a running stag in the distance, and the stone drew an arc and accurately hit the front crotch of one side of the stag.
The buck suddenly rushed forward and rolled on the snow a few times. I struggled to get up and run forward, and then I fell again, and stumbled forward. It's already a lot slower.
Yunzi said to Lu Jinping urgently: "Quick! Catch up and kill it with an arrow! ”
Lu Jinping chased after him, and the stag clearly sensed that danger was approaching, but it was injured in its front leg and it was difficult to run. Lu Jinping chased after him, and he had already reached behind the buck, took an arrow and drew a bow, aiming at the buck's back.
The two were almost next to each other, and Lu Jinping thought to himself that if he did this, he would not be able to shoot. That's rubbish.
However, just as he was about to release the arrow, the stag seemed to know that the end was coming, and simply stopped running. Crawling on the ground, he looked back at Lu Jinping, his eyes were full of sadness and pain, and he could even see the crystal tears in his eyes.
Lu Jinping froze, and his horse automatically stopped, standing next to the stag. Lu Jinping kept pulling the bow and aimed it at the stag, but he didn't release the arrow for a long time.
At this moment, the stag seemed to see the unbearability in Lu Jinping's heart, and seemed to see life in it, stood up with difficulty, limped and continued to walk forward.
Yunzi was very surprised, came over on horseback, came to Lu Jinping's side, and said, "Why don't you release the arrow?" Shoot fast. Haven't learned it yet? ”
Lu Jinping sighed, let go of the longbow, handed it to Yunzi, and said, "It's quite pitiful, why should it hurt a life." ”
"You, you elm head, come out to hunt, you still pity these beasts, what are you fighting for?"
Ye Qingqing, who was following behind, immediately glared and said: "Our lord is kind-hearted and can't bear to kill, this is a good thing, whoever is like you, gets happiness from hunting and killing, just shouldn't be!" ”
Yunzi ignored her, just looked at Lu Jinping, who looked very weird, and said, "You don't kill?" Then why do you still eat beef and mutton? ”
Lu Jinping smiled and said, "It's not that I don't kill, I just thought it was quite pitiful just now, so I didn't shoot it with an arrow." It's not the same thing as killing. ”
Yunzi turned his head to look at the stag that was limping away, and said: "Its front legs have been seriously injured by me, if you don't kill it, I'm afraid that it won't be able to avoid the killing of those jackals, tigers and leopards, and it will die sooner or later!" ”
"That's not something I'm thinking about. It seems that I was not born to be a good hunter. It's better for yourselves. I'll just watch. ”
Yunzi said: "Obviously I came out to play with you, if you don't play now, just we hunt, what's the point." She rolled her eyes a few times, "Why don't we stop hunting, let's race horses?" ”
"Horse racing? All right. But I'm not very good at equestrianism. ”
"It's okay, I'll let you run a stone's throw first, and then I'll chase you. Let's aim for that hill over there and see who gets there first. ”
When Lu Jinping heard that she was going to let herself run a distance of an arrow before chasing her, she suddenly aroused her competitive spirit and said, "Okay! In that case, let's take a look! ”
After that, without waiting for Yunzi to answer, he whipped his horse and galloped towards the hill.
This is a relatively flat snowfield, although the snow is relatively deep, but the horse's hooves are flying, and it is still relatively fast. In the blink of an eye, he ran out of the way. Yunzi laughed: "Okay, I'm here to chase you!" ”
Immediately rode his horse and galloped after him.
The two horses galloped forward one after the other, and the distance gradually shortened.
Lu Jinping was in a hurry, and the horse whip kept whipping the horse's buttocks, but this horse racing did not work by whipping the horse's buttocks. In that case, it would be too simple. Lu Jinping is not good at equestrianism in the end, and he can't compare to Yunzi, who grew up on horseback since he was a child.
Just halfway through the run, Yunzi had already caught up with Lu Jinping, and said with a smile: "Hurry up!" Come on! As he spoke, he galloped past Lu Jinping, and under the snowflakes, he ran towards the hill, running farther and farther.
Lu Jinping was very discouraged, looked at her back and muttered: "The horse has lost its front hoof!" Fast! Throw her on a big heel! ”
As soon as he said this, the horse stumbled. It's just not Yunzi, it's him.
Lu Jinping's horse obviously tripped over something and fell forward, and Lu Jinping was caught off guard and fell directly into the soft snow from his horse. Fortunately, the snow was very fluffy, and most of his whole body was inserted into the snow.
Lu Jinping was struggling to climb out of the snow, when suddenly, he heard a crisp sound, followed by a scream.
When he crawled out, he couldn't help but be surprised, because he saw a streak of blood on the snow, scattered into a fan. Two middle-aged men in white capes are retreating. One of them, holding a single knife, had broken off his right arm and had fallen to the ground, blood still gushing out. The single knife in the other hand had already been cut in half, and the other half was knocked away, falling far away a few feet away.
Opposite the two of them, there stood a young girl, masked with a white veil, only revealing her eyes as bright as stars, white clothes like snow, hair fluttering, holding a sword in one hand, and the long sword was like a pool of autumn water. This long sword was obviously the murder weapon that cut off the middle-aged man's arm, but there was no blood stain on the sword.
When Lu Jinping looked at the woman in white, he couldn't help but be overjoyed and shouted, "Xiaoxiao! ”
This woman is the girl in white who rescued Lu Jinping from the earthquake on Huashan, the amnesiac woman Xiaoxiao. (To be continued.) )
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