Chapter 10: Bickering
"Good dog, I don't sleep in the middle of the night, what are you hiding here and eavesdropping?" Yang Hao grabbed Xiao Si's collar and asked.
"Childe is really good kung fu! The small ones are so light on their hands and feet that you can hear them. Xiao Si cocked his thumb and flattered with a hippie smile.
Xiao Yu chased him out with a feather duster, and Xiao Si hurriedly fled to the flower garden in the courtyard to stand still.
"Sneaky little thief, don't run, see if I don't break your legs!"
"It's half a master's person, and it's too unseemly to play with us subordinates." Xiao Si stood behind a clump of peony flowers and laughed fearlessly.
Xiao Yu's face was red to the root of her ears, she really wanted to chase after her and beat Xiao Si, but she also knew that she couldn't catch up with Xiao Si by her own legs and feet, and if she forced him to say something unpleasant, it would be even more boring.
"Well, there's nothing to be embarrassed about." Yang Hao comforted Xiao Yu, turned around and asked Xiao Si, "Say, what's the matter?" ”
"His Royal Highness King Ying sent someone to inform him, and the ball game will start at the end of the day. The location was changed to include the stadium in front of the Light Temple. ”
"Oh, when did you come to know?"
"Last night, the first moment of ugliness. I, I saw you sleeping, so I ...... No need to bother. Xiao Si glanced at Xiao Yu with bad intentions.
"Got it, get out!" Yang Hao knew that if he didn't send him away, maybe he would say something ugly. Xiao Yu threw the feather duster towards Xiao Si, Xiao Si dodged it slightly, and while running out, he shouted: "I'll go prepare the horse, you can sleep again, it's still early." ”
"Childe...... Look, this ......" The little fish jumped to his feet, his face flushed with anger.
"Don't worry, he knows the measure and won't talk nonsense." Yang Hao went to the flower bed to pick up the feather duster dropped by the small fish, and quipped: "The family was really robbed, did you take this thing to dust others?" ”
The little fish "fluttered" and burst into laughter. Yang Hao patted her: "Go back to sleep." ”
"And where are you going?" Xiaoyu wrapped Yang Hao's hand and refused to let go.
"The three watches are lit and the five watches are the time when the men are working hard." Yang Hao chanted loudly, untied the entanglement of Xiaoyu's hands and strode towards the practice room.
As soon as he walked into the practice room, the muscles on Yang Hao's body immediately came to life, and the hard work of the "Dull Overlord" for more than ten years was not in vain, with swords, guns, swords, halberds, bows, horses, and shooting, especially with guns, long guns, short guns, and double guns. Once this gun is in its hands, it is like having magic power, and it will never stop until it exhausts itself. This feeling is very wonderful, Yang Hao even wondered: Is this gun already spiritual after a long time, and while people use it to achieve their wishes, it is also using people to fulfill their wishes?
Xiaoyu also rushed over, and she carefully wiped the tables and chairs in the dressing room. There is a charcoal stove for boiling water under the eaves of the dressing room, the water is ready-made, and the copper kettle used to boil the water is also cleaned, but the small fish still washes the copper kettle inside and out with water.
When the kettle creaked on the charcoal stove, Xiaoyu was standing under the eaves of the porch and quietly watching Yang Hao play with the spear.
It is said that the flower spear is not of great significance in actual combat, but it is very beneficial for moving muscles and bones. Seeing that Yang Hao was sweating hotly, Xiaoyu wrung a handful of hot towels and sent them up. Yang Hao wiped a handful of sweat indiscriminately, it was too hot, he took off his bare shoulders after three times and five divided by two, and easily picked up a pair of short guns on the weapon rack.
Xiao Yu folded the clothes he took off in half and hugged them in his arms, leaned down and gently smelled the sweat on the clothes, and there was a trace of warmth in his heart that he had never felt before.
Yang Hao's favorite weapon is the double gun, but he has never been able to let go of the dream of getting on the horse and galloping the frontier in his heart. Therefore, he worked more on the spear suitable for horse combat.
Three days ago, he went out of the city to hunt with a group of friends, and met Duan Yuming, the commander of Yingwangfu, under the recommendation of his friend Yin Tongxiang and Qi Mo, the son of Yangshan. Duan Yuming revealed that after this autumn's "Autumn Ceremony", the emperor will preside over a martial arts competition and select a group of young talents to join the Jinwuwei and Shence Army as officials.
Jin Wuwei, the royal guard, wearing gold armor, escorted by Luan, is as expensive as a golden dragon.
The Divine Army, the pillar of the empire, the division of a hundred battles, the power of the world, like a tiger.
Yang Hao had long wanted to leave the lifeless right guard, and when he heard the news, he was naturally overjoyed.
Duan Yuming specially told that the emperor likes to look at details, in order to make it easier for him to see the moves of everyone, the competition will be held in the ring, the ring is narrow, so naturally the short weapon has the advantage, so he suggested that the three of them have more work on short weapons recently. It's not fast to grind the gun.
"Ouch!" Yang Hao suddenly played off a gun.
"What's wrong, Childe?" Xiao Yu hurriedly ran forward to support Yang Hao, "It's okay, it still hurts in that place." I didn't pay attention just now, but I was fierce again. ”
Xiao Yu helped Yang Hao into the locker room, let him lie on the back of the chair, and then unscrewed the cork of the medicinal wine bottle. I poured a handful of medicinal wine, rubbed it twice in the palm of my hand, wiped it on the red and swollen area, and kneaded it gently.
"Ouch, you're light." Yang Hao shouted, "You can also save some use of this medicinal wine, the imperial doctor Wang got it from the palace, ten taels of silver a bottle." ”
"Hmph, your life is worth ten taels of silver." The little fish poured another handful in the palm of his hand.
"Xiao Yu is right, no matter how expensive the medicinal wine is, can it be more expensive than your life?"
Both of them had their backs to the door, and at some point, Qi Yu stood at the door with Ling'er. The little fish seemed to have been stung by a wasp and hurriedly straightened up. Yang Hao jumped up in fright and hurried to get dressed. Halfway through his clothes, Yang Hao came to his senses and scolded himself: "What's going on? It's like being caught and raped in bed. ”
Qi Yu sneered and said nothing, Xiao Yu also came to her senses at this time, and hurriedly brought a chair to help her sit down. Yang Hao stood awkwardly awkwardly, like a schoolboy who had made a mistake, not daring to sit or speak.
Qi Yu picked up the tea that Xiaoyu made for Yang Hao on the table, sniffed it and took a sip, and praised it: "This is the tea made by the little fish girl, it's really good, Ming'er also pointed at Ling'er, her tea-brewed ......" Qi Yu's words were not finished, but Ling'er was already cold and turned her face to look outside.
"Yes," Xiao Yu replied softly, looking at Ling'er with some flattery, "I can't give advice, let's learn together." ”
Ling'er snorted coldly, and said with a thorn in her words: "Madam said that it was good, so why should you be modest, Sister Xiaoyu." ”
Qi Yu put down the tea bowl and beckoned to Yang Hao: "Come here, I'll see where the injury is." ”
Yang Hao squatted down obediently and took off his clothes.
"Yo, Little Fish Girl's tea is good, but the massage technique is too rough. How can this skin color be a flower, blue and purple, and the massaged place should be a red color. ”
Xiao Yu was nervous for a while, and hurriedly said: "What the girl taught me is that the slave and maid should go back and ask the royal doctor in the palace for advice." ”
"Don't, we have ready-made masters. Ling'er. ”
Ling'er snatched the medicinal wine bottle from Xiaoyu's hand, put the palm of his hand against the mouth of the bottle, flipped the bottom of the bottle face up, poured a little medicinal wine in the palm of his hand, and then rubbed his hands violently, until the palm of his hand was slightly warm, and then gently pressed the palm root on the affected area, kneading while pressing, Yang Hao felt an incomparable Shutai. Ling'er's massage technique is indeed better than that of Xiaoyu.
"My father joined the army when he was young, and when he was old, he was left with injuries, and he used to rely on Ling'er massage at home. Her methods are as good as those of famous doctors, no worse than those imperial doctors who only read dead books. ”
"Well, it's really good, Ming'er also asked her to point out the little fish."
"Yo, what you said is light, this is not easy to learn. Ling'er has been learning for four or five years, how long do you want Xiaoyu to learn? I think it's better to let her swap things with Xiaoyu and let her serve you specifically. ”
"Nope."
Yang Hao and Xiaoyu shouted out in unison. When the words came out, both of them felt embarrassed, and Xiao Yu was even more ashamed and his face was flushed.
"Yo, it's really heart-to-heart." Qi Yu lowered his face coldly, "What does this mean, the master and servant are unwilling?" ”
"Girl's grace." Xiao Yu said without humility or arrogance, "Madame asked Xiao Yu to serve her son well, without her old man, Xiao Yu would not dare to leave without permission." ”
"Madame, I'll tell you."
"This ......" Xiao Yu was anxious and looked at Yang Hao pitifully.
"If the girl doesn't want to, please say it directly, it's all a family, and you don't have to hold back if you have something to say." Qi Yu forced his gaze at Xiao Yu.
Xiao Yu was speechless for a moment and hung his head.
"Forget it, Ling'er has been with you for a long time, you can make it easy. The life of a small fish, and it is not a joke to make a mess if you are frizzy. If you're pregnant, it's right to move less and feed more, but that doesn't mean you have to stay in the house all day. We can't see each other at night, we always have to meet during the day, you come over during the day, or I go over, and let Ling'er give me a massage. If you have a small injury or illness, it will be fine on its own in two days, so why bother your mother. ”
After Yang Hao finished saying this big string of words, his heart suddenly jumped non-stop, this was the first time he had confronted Qi Yu head-on, although Yang Hao was sure that Qi Yu would not have any objections, but the tension in his heart was still difficult to eliminate for a while.
Qi Yu was silent, it was the first time that she was dismissed by Yang Hao in front of outsiders, she was naturally a little unhappy in her heart, what made her even more worried was that with this first time, the second time, and the third time would follow, but what could be done? Yang Hao can refute his own face, can he still refute his face?
The two people across the table did not speak first, and confronted each other patiently. Qi Yu knew that the final result of the confrontation would definitely be to give in to herself, and what she needed now was to find a chance to break the deadlock.
Yang Hao picked up the tea bowl on the table, his hands trembled slightly, and when he brought the tea bowl to his mouth, he suddenly remembered that this bowl of tea had been drunk by Qi Yu.
"Ling'er, change a bowl of tea, I've drunk that bowl, I'm afraid someone won't think it's clean." Qi Yu said with a straight face.
Yang Hao smiled, and in front of Xiaoyu and Ling'er, he decided to give Qi Yu a step down, so he drank the tea.
There are three meals a day in the Xining Hou Mansion, breakfast is set at the beginning of Chenshi, lunch is at the beginning of noon, and dinner is at the end of Shenshi, which is the rule set by Yang Qing before his death. Mrs. Zhang has never changed her nostalgia for her deceased husband, but her habit is to go to bed late and get up late, and she usually can't get up until the end of the morning, so she never eats breakfast with Yang Hao.
The maid Jasper set the meal, but she couldn't find where Yang Hao's family was, so she looked around the garden, only to hear that the four of them were in the practice room, so she rushed over to invite the four of them to dinner.
When Biyu entered the door, it happened that Yang Hao drank the bowl of tea that Qi Yu had drunk, and Qi Yu's face also turned from cloudy to sunny, and she asked Biyu to take breakfast to the practice room to eat.
Xiao Yu and Ling'er helped set up the square table, one stood beside Qi Yu to serve, and the other stood behind Yang Hao to listen to the errand. Qi Yu pointed to the chair on Yang Hao's right and said to Xiao Yu: "It's all a family, you can sit there when you eat in the future." Xiao Yu looked at Yang Hao and didn't move, the words that Yang Hao replied to her just now made her see hope, and at this time her waist was straighter than usual. Yang Hao pointed to the chair on the left and said to Ling'er, "You can sit too." Ling'er looked at Qi Yu and didn't move.
Qi Yu "giggled", she pulled Xiaoyu with one hand and Ling'er with the other, and said, "Sit down, with your two Dharma Protector Vajra guarding, can we still eat?" ”
After the meal, Ling'er brought tea and served the two to rinse their mouths, while Xiaoyu was busy cleaning up the cups and plates.
Xiao Si stood at the gate of the courtyard and looked into the house, looking impatient.
"Come in." Qi Yu beckoned to him. Xiao Si stepped in two steps, "Kowtow to Mrs. Ru." Qi Yu was very helpful when he heard the words "Mrs. Ru", and asked with a smile: "Is there something wrong with looking for the master?" ”
"Please change your clothes, it's time to get ready to enter the palace."
"Enter the palace?!" Qi Yu looked suspicious, and then complained, "Why didn't you say it earlier, it's not good to delay." ”
"It's not a big deal, His Royal Highness King Ying held a ball game and invited me to come over to play." Yang Hao stood up as he spoke, and asked Xiao Si, "Are all the things ready?" ”
"It's all right." Xiao Si said, opening the baggage he was carrying: a narrow-sleeved jersey with dark embroidered gold edges, leather knee pads, wrist pads, cowhide black boots, a tiger helmet, and a bow stick (ball stick) under his armpit.
"Let's go!" Yang Hao picked up his clothes from the hanger and walked out.
"Alas, alas, alas, you stop." Qi Yu caught up, sniffed on Yang Hao's body, pinched his nose, and turned around to beckon Xiaoyu: "Hurry up and serve Gongzi to take a bath, how can you see people with this smell." ”
"Isn't it a stinky sweat on the court? Trouble with this. Yang Hao walked out of the courtyard as he spoke.