I didn't boast like this, you must know that there were five hundred ingots of horseshoe gold and ten thousand taels of silver in the treasury before; Later, the king of Han rewarded him with 100 taels of gold and 1,000 taels of silver. Now there are only two hundred taels of gold and five thousand taels of silver left, and nearly half of them have been used.

Steward Xiao also had to remind: "In the competition after the autumn, the bounty plus the money for buying arrows will cost about 100 gold, or even 200 gold." ”

Now I have removed half of it, and I haven't lost it like this!

Xining nodded: "Oh, I thought I miscalculated, it seems to be about the same." Then save some flowers. ”

What do you save, it's almost gone!

In the ninth month of the lunar calendar, the cold dew has passed, the frost has not yet arrived, and the weather seems to be finally cool.

Although the weather was too hot this year and the grain harvest failed, after handing over the grain, it was barely enough to eat. There's nothing to do now, just wait for the winter, the next spring.

So at this time, the township will drag their families to the nearby county to catch the market. Sell the surplus food, buy some necessities of life, and by the way, look at the beheadings of those death row prisoners who asked for beheading after the autumn.

But this time there is a new program, and that is the archery competition.

Three days before the game, the city gate posted a board, and the rules were clearly written and understood. There were also officials holding gongs and drums, beating and shouting: "From now on, within one month, all arrows that come in will not be allowed to be taken out of the city." If you can shoot the arrow target and can't drop it, buy it for Shiwen. ”

Some good deeds have discussed what it means that arrows in the city are not allowed to be taken away during this month.

The answer is that for the sake of the fairness of the game, if you cheat on the arrows, you simply buy all the arrows, and if you have any objections, you can check them.

Archery is not a test of knowledge, where is the cheating to say?

It seems that the county lord is also a layman and doesn't understand anything.

The outside arrows are twenty wen and ten wen, but they are relatively rough. I heard that in order to compete, the county lord also deliberately set up a blacksmith shop, which can be purchased by all registered people in Linyi County, with a limit of ten arrows per person. Counting up, excluding labor, ten cents is simply at least five cents for nothing.

Now that the regulations have come out, then how happy the county lord is, after all, the county lord is here, even if she doesn't give money, she has to give arrows.

Hienin leaned back on the cushion and flipped through the book. Since she arrived here, she has been lying down and leaning almost every day, who told her that this place is still mainly kneeling and sitting, and it is really better to lie down than to be comfortable.

Jing'er came in with a plate of peaches and put it on the low table: "County Lord, this is a tribute from the king, and it was just brought back by Steward Lin." ”

The peaches are huge, one is half a pound. I also gave two, and one is still a little broken. This era is not as good as later, three hundred years later, Yang Guifei wants to eat lychees, and she has to transport them thousands of miles and overnight.

Jing'er looked at the county lord and guessed which one the county lord would eat first. If you eat rotten food first, then it proves that you are prepared for danger in times of peace, and bitter first and then sweet. If you eat good food first, then you are greedy for pleasure.

Five days later, the pigeon flew into the loft and a man grabbed the pigeon and took a bamboo tube tied to its feet. Walk into the room and hand the bamboo tube to a person sitting at the table.

The man opened the bamboo tube, took out a ball of paper from it, and looked at the fly-headed letters written on it. Then he picked up the pen and wrote down the words on the bamboo slips on the table.

After another incense stick, this secret report was in the hands of the great chamberlain.

The Ouchi attendant reads out: "Taste the bad first, then the good, exhaust the bad, and leave the reward." ”

King Han was stunned for a moment, and suddenly smiled: "She tasted it all." ”

Xining picked up a bad one and took a bite into the place where the peach was okay.

Then she picked up the other with her other hand and took a bite: "It's still sweeter to rotten peaches." ”

So he ate the rotten peach, and the other one also took two bites: "I can't eat it, Jing'er, you can eat it, it will be bad after a while." ”

"Thank you, county lord!" Jing'er took the peach and ate it. It's a lucky thing to be able to eat tribute, so you may dislike eating two bites. And the master has eaten, so he can reward it to show his respect for the king of Han. Otherwise, you will give the slave and maid to eat, and you will be able to grasp the handle.

After eating the peaches, Jing'er said curiously: "Today's competition, it must be very lively there, but the county lord let them go, but the county lord didn't go to see it." ”

It's really lively, and the street was originally from all nearby villages to catch the market, plus you can also see beheadings. Now with the competition, there are undoubtedly more people.

Many craftsmen, small traders, and vendors carry their burdens to sell. Many people who are performing arts in the rivers and lakes are also taking advantage of this time to put on a posture.

Xining said with a smile: "I'm afraid of being lively, but it's you, why don't you go and take a look?" ”

Jing'er complained a little: "If the slave and maid also go to see it, there will be no one in this house." ”

The county lord actually gave the people of the mansion two hours off every day to go shopping and watch the game. And now it's the start of the game, so we all go to see the excitement, and only come back when we see that it's almost time to come back.

"There won't be no one! I don't believe you. Xining shouted outside: "Is there anyone, there is someone!" ”

"Whoosh~" Three people in black flashed in, one ran in through the door, and the other jumped out of the window.

All three of them put their hands on the handle of the knife, and looked around nervously to see if there was anything abnormal.

Forget the dead of these overseers...... Jing'er rolled her eyes.

Xining smiled and said, "It's okay, I just want to ask you why you didn't go out to watch the game today." If you are good at kung fu, you might even be able to win a prize for archery. ”

The three dead men clasped their fists at each other: "You have a heavy responsibility, don't dare to slack off...... Thank you for the county's main body for your compassion, and you don't dare to leave your post without permission......"

It's still good to see a few dead soldiers around, Xining nodded: "That's hard, I'll go to the kitchen to prepare some wine and roast meat later, and let them take them back to eat when they get off work." ”

I knew that as soon as the county lord called, there would be good things, and the dead soldiers thanked them, and then "swished" where they came from and where they went back.

Xining looked at the two of them still jumping out of the window, and felt funny, is it really used to jumping out of the window?

Because there were so many people participating, the competition took three days.

On the first day, all ten arrows hit the target to be selected, and those who are selected can keep the arrows and keep them for the next round.

If you don't make the cut, you will buy all the arrows. If you can't shoot and want to sell the arrow, you can pick it up and continue shooting, and all the arrows that can't be missed will be bought for ten cents.

In order not to affect the game, a few targets were set up next to it for people to shoot, and after shooting, the money was counted.

Wait a month to get the arrows away, and some people can't wait so long that they simply sell the arrows.

For a time, spending money was like running water. Ten thousand copper coins have been prepared for a long time, and at the end of this day, there is not much left.

On the second day, it was time to select, and a red circle was drawn on the target, and all ten teams were shortlisted in the red circle.

The third day is the final round, which is a number of rings.

Everyone looked forward and wanted to see the county lord, but the county lord didn't see it until the third day. In the end, I learned that the county lord was going to present the award on the last day, so he came over.