Everyone was looking at Lin Qiantan, Lin Qiantan unhurriedly took five taels of silver from Ping Lang's hand, Qi Wangfu and Prime Minister's Mansion, she didn't vote for any of them, and planned to bet on her own people just like Chen Jingrou.

"I'll go to the Chu family." The people of the Lin family are not within the scope of what she thinks of as "their own family", and what she is talking about is naturally only the Chu family. Lin Qiantan threw the silver in her hand into the bamboo basket.

A crisp "clang" sound had just fallen, and the little eunuch who was holding a brush and recording casually spoke up: "Miss Lin Qi can consider changing the candidate, this son of the Chu family just accidentally broke his foot and did not participate in the horse race."

Chu Jiang is injured?

Lin Qiantan looked up slightly in surprise. The two little servants who came with the little eunuch also nodded in agreement, and they did see Chu Jiang take off his shoes and socks and call Lang Zhong to rub his legs and bones. Lin Qiantan thought, seeing him just now, he was fine, how could he say that he was injured?

Lin Qiantan hurriedly asked what was going on.

The little eunuch said, and there were still two or three points of provocation in his eyes: "His Royal Highness Jinhua was just about to fall off the horse, and Gongzi Chu helped her." At this time, His Highness personally called someone to serve him. This leg bone injury, the most taboo thing is to rely on youth to not take it seriously, this Chu Gongzi is a blessed person......"

Lin Qiantan then understood.

Today, King Qi held such an event, and Jinhua would come to join in the excitement with reason. Not only to meet your sweetheart, but also to relieve the depression in your heart.

She likes Chu Jiang, and it is not surprising that she will do something under the initiative to pursue.

But this little eunuch is also interesting, what does this tone with some ambiguous remarks mean? Do you think you can provoke her to anger in this way?

The little eunuch was naturally a person from the palace, and King Qi called a group of chamberlains, including him, to come out of the palace to help. His heart was on Jinhua's side, although Jinhua did not instruct him to demonstrate against Lin Qiantan, Chu Jiang's justified fiancée, he still made his own opinions, thinking that he could rely on these to curry favor. Although the imperial concubine is depressed at the moment, she has two sons.

Lin Qiantan would not pay attention to such an almost childish provocation. The little eunuch was also bored.

The little guy from hell glanced at the little eunuch meaninglessly, and a trace of sympathy flashed in his eyes, as if the little eunuch was already a dead man at this moment.

The little guy follows the yin tenacity closely, and is very clear about some of the thoughts of the yin tenacity. This one, but his master's future plaything, maybe there will be a chance to make it for a concubine, this little eunuch is bold enough, it's almost dead.

The little guy agreed in his heart, and was about to open his mouth to imply that Lin Qiantan should vote for his master, but Lin Qiantan spoke first.

Since Chu Jiang doesn't participate, who is she going to bet on?

Lin Qiantan naturally didn't want to vote for the Qi Palace, the King of Qi was a good woman, and she was not much better than the four princes, and she had harassed Zhang Yan who was now in distress before. Zhang Yan said that the King of Qi once wanted to take her into the mansion.

As for the tenacity, Lin Qiantan also didn't want to vote.

She then looked around, quickly glanced around the crowd in the distance, and saw the second dog of the Wang family who was talking to the son of the Gu family, rolled her eyes, thought, and threw the five taels of silver to Wang Yuanzhao.

A few men and a eunuch were done, and they left with a basket of money in a short time. Only the little servant in the underworld turned his head to look at Lin Qiantan, his eyes flickering.

Lin Qiantan, Chen Jingrou and Gu Qingxuan continued to speak their own words until the horse race over there began......

Including Qi Wang and Yin Ren, a total of about thirty people participated in the first round of the competition. Everyone knows that this game is a contest between King Qi and Prime Minister, so most of them will not compete with these two people for the limelight.

However, there are always people who do not take the usual path, just like the allusion says, everyone says that Chu people do not wear shoes, so no businessman is willing to go to Chu to sell shoes, Wang Yuanzhao is the weird person who does the opposite.

Chen Jing said softly: "What do you think...... Who will win? ”

In a thirty-man race, there is of course only one winner. It's one thing for them to vote, but they may all have other ideals in their minds and think that person has a chance to win.

Lin Qiantan pointed to the second dog who was the pioneer and walked in front of a horse of average color, and said with a smile: "Whoever votes for it is naturally whoever it is."

Chen Jingrou followed her fingers and looked over, and after saying a sentence or two, Wang Yuanzhao pulled the people behind him away a little.

Gu Qingxuan smiled: "King Qi wants to save face for the left minister, this second prince is really interesting, and he deliberately pressed the Qi Palace." After all, Gu Qingxuan couldn't help but bump into Lang Xiaolu, the young man who was immediately heroic over there. She has never seen what her fiancé looks like, and it is human nature to appreciate the beautiful opposite sex. I saw that the person's expression was flying, and there was a kind of precipitation and simplicity in his eyes, although the clothes that did not look particularly bright made him easy to be ignored in the crowd, but at this time, Gu Qingxuan clearly saw from the person's face a momentum that seemed to shake something in the depths of her soul even more.

They are not ordinary boudoir daughters, but also because of their respective fathers and brothers, they have been nurtured since childhood, and they are not the same as other girls on the scene, but they just think that this young man is good-looking and superb riding.

At first glance, the king of Qi and the prime minister were arguing, and the king of Qi won. And although Yin Ren showed the same not weak riding skills, it was indeed difficult to surpass King Qi. But he didn't have to win.

So at this time, it is meaningful for a person to run out and act as an arrow target to attract everyone's attention.

After running down a lap, everyone saw that the arrogant and ruffian young man of the Yan Guo Mansion had won the first place unexpectedly.

And King Qi only narrowly defeated Yin Tough by half a horse's head......

King Qi's eyes widened angrily, staring at Wang Yuanzhao, Wang Yuanzhao didn't care, and he also achieved his goal.

In this way, as long as there is one of them standing in the way, it doesn't matter who wins or loses in the Qi Wangfu and the Prime Minister's Mansion. There is no eternal antagonism between people. He didn't mind teaming up with Yin Ren to make King Qi win less refreshing.

Lin Qiantan didn't mind either. Balancing the Qi Palace, the Prime Minister's Mansion, and even using other forces to achieve the purpose of containment, may be the most profitable for her.

At the moment, King Qi was angry and angry, but he still maintained his basic demeanor. Not only can you not get angry, but you also have to say a few words to find face for yourself.

At least that smell of two-way confrontation and saber-rattling has been weakened a lot.

Lin Qiantan sat on the grass pile in the distance from beginning to end and watched the game. She guessed the result from the moment Wang Yuanzhao rushed out.

But there are also things she didn't guess.

Before the game, the betting lottery was full of people who bet on the past to say that there were thousands of 800 people who bet, and everyone either followed the trend and chose to stand in line early between the Qi Wangfu and the Prime Minister's Mansion, or they chose their familiar relatives and friends.

Because they are all given color heads, there is also a little bit of gambling pleasure. Wang Yuanzhao was embarrassed in the Wang family, and he didn't mess with those princes and grandsons. After the whole game, except for Lin Qiantan alone, no one else voted for him!

Therefore, the basket of silver money that was carried away from them was carried back as it was, and it became Lin Qiantan's trophy.

She is not short of money, but for the word "money", the more the merrier.

One person said less than three or five taels, more than hundreds, and accumulated thousands of taels out of thin air, Lin Qiantan snickered in her heart. Her five taels of silver were worth it.

However, to her surprise, Wei Jiayin also came, but she did not vote for her share of the lottery to Wang Yuanzhao. As far as she knew, among the thirty or so people, there were no people from the Wei family, or any relatives of the Wei family.

Since the last time she was separated from Wei Jiayin, Lin Qiantan obviously felt that she seemed to be avoiding herself, intentionally or unintentionally. Although she didn't know why, she politely didn't debunk it. I thought that if there was any misunderstanding in this, it would be better to solve it earlier.

She was on the top of the hill, and she couldn't notice so many people below. Wei Jiayin stood down, but it was not difficult to see her from the low slope.

Wei Jiayin couldn't bear the unhappiness in his heart, and felt angry when he thought that his friend had betrayed him. And what made her angry was not only the incident in the White Horse Temple. There are some things that I didn't feel at the time, and when I look back on them, I will only find something inexplicably wrong.

Lin Qiantan didn't think about it that much. After a few rounds of horse racing, she bet on this one for a while, and bet on that one for a while, anyway, Chu Jiang didn't get out of the game, she just picked those who looked pleasing to the eye and gave silver.

Wang Yuanzhao just heard that there was a young lady who had a very unique vision and gave him the color head, but before he could ask who it was, he was called by his own father. Wang Shanya came late, and when he arrived, the first round of the competition was already over. He didn't bet.

"You're not afraid to get me in trouble." Wang Shanya naturally heard about the results of the game. On the surface, he was scolding, but the glint in his eyes clearly said the word "proud".

Emperor Tianlong is not in Beijing, and there is no peace outside the capital, and these two families in Beijing are quite powerful, so it is best not to make trouble. He is different from his father Wang Qun......

The son's limelight is just right.

Wang Yuanzhao pouted: "If you can't even deal with this little thing, you don't have to be the Duke of Yan Guo, you can pass on the throne as soon as possible, and you won't be embarrassed."

If someone else said this, Wang Shanya would probably be displeased, but this person is Wang Yuanzhao......

Wang Yuanxuan came in at the right time, he didn't hear the front, he only heard Wang Yuanzhao disrespectful to his father, but his father was not angry at all......

Wang Yuanxuan silently lowered his eyelashes. The father's heart is also too obvious.

The first round of the game is over, and there are others in the follow-up, and Wang Yuanxuan will also have to compete against each other. He wanted to prove in front of his father that he was no worse than Wang Yuanzhao, a wild species. He came to ask Wang Shanya to come over and take a look.

Wang Shanya didn't have anything important to say to Wang Yuanzhao in a hurry, so she followed Wang Yuanxuan. It's a pity that the more he succeeds, the more he delays things, not to mention the first place, he didn't even squeeze into the top three.

Wang Yuanzhao didn't care about him.

He was left alone, so he went to find a tree and climbed it, and sat down to watch.

Without the big Buddhas of King Qi and Yin Ren, the performance of each player in the following games is still normal. The second prince here had just won a game, and over there, Gu Xiaowei put the Qi family's face on the ground and stepped on it......

Naturally, as usual, you still need to negotiate with the spectators.

Wang Yuanzhao looked at it, bored and sleepy. He simply closed his eyes and used his ears to carefully identify the movements around him.

He heard the sound of horses' hooves kicking on the grass, shouts and cheers, and the footsteps of people approaching his place.

When the man under the tree had walked only three or five paces away from him, he opened his eyelids and glanced lazily.

It's Chu Jiang.

The good son of Yushu Linfeng is indeed good-looking, no wonder even Lin Qiantan likes him. The corners of Wang Yuanzhao's lips were hooked, revealing a smile that seemed to be happy but not pleasant.

He and Chu Jiang have some contacts in private.

As soon as Wang Yuanzhao came to the capital, among the children of the nobles of Wang Sun who first came into contact, there was the name of Chu Jiang.

He admired Chu Jiang's ability, and also admired Chu Jiang's rich background but he was willing to work hard with his own skills. However, the first time I knew such a person was indeed because of Lin Qiantan.

And Chu Jiang also has pure appreciation for Wang Yuanzhao.

is that the other party is the same girl he has a crush on, and this girl is not only his cousin, but also his fiancée.

Wang Yuanzhao sat up straight again and looked under the tree. Chu Jiang had already looked up at the people on the tree.

Wang Yuanzhao has always been sensitive to the hostility of others, and the unconscious precaution and unkindness in Chu Jiang's eyes were felt by him.

Why did Chu Jiang come here, Wang Yuanzhao also had a little idea in his heart.

When Chu Jiang knew that Lin Qiantan threw his head to Wang Yuanzhao, he felt uncomfortable. And this matter, coincidentally, was said "unintentionally" when Lin Bixiang and Princess Jinhua were chatting.

He knew that those two people were not well-intentioned, but he couldn't help but be fooled.

*

Although Chu Jiang said that it was right to break his foot, where was it so weak that he couldn't even get on the horse? It's just because he was entangled by Jinhua and couldn't get out.

For a moment, the two men just looked at each other, and neither of them spoke.

In the distance, a group of teenagers were riding horses and competing for the ball, and King Qi and the others had already sat down to drink wine and eat meat together. The beauty sits in her arms, and the rhythm of the piano hovers in her ears. Even from a distance, Wang Yuanzhao could hear it.

It's like a silent confrontation, the two are more momentum, and each is waiting for the other to speak first. However, Wang Yuanzhao had excellent patience, Chu Jiang thought that he had lost, sighed, and took the lead in opening his mouth. He had a feeling that if he didn't speak, Wang Yuanzhao might not speak all the time.

"Why is the second son sitting alone in such a place?"

Wang Yuanzhao thought for a moment and pointed to the teenagers who were playing in front of him. They were only a few years younger than him, and Wang Yuanzhao only thought of the time when he was twelve or thirteen years old in Qianshi Village and played with Lai Haozi and the others through them.

He was just thinking about how he should arrange a group of old friends who came from the village.

Qianshi Village is on the edge of the river, and the family has always made a living by fishing and soliciting customers - at least on the surface.

When he was a child, he often pulled Lai Hezi with him to help entertain guests, and his feelings were naturally extraordinary.

Because of this, they have seen too many people coming and going, as long as they are not mediocre people, he has left some impressions.

Having said that, he suddenly remembered that his mother was not very good that year, and it happened that a female doctor who practiced medicine passed by and stayed at the Wang family to give his mother a pulse.

This female doctor probably never dreamed that she had been seen in a hurry seven or eight years ago, and the children of that year would actually write her down.

At that time, my mother took the medicine prescribed by the man and got better.

Chu Jiang also followed Wang Yuanzhao's line of sight, and saw that a few aristocratic teenagers didn't know why, and suddenly argued with two or three young men who looked poorly dressed.

Chu Jiang's brows furrowed.

Soon there were people around to persuade them, and the quarreling teenagers quickly dispersed.

Chu Jiang said: "It seems that it is to dispute a Keju for fun."

The two groups of people who seemed to be mixed up were also playing their own games. It is said that the game of hitting a ball with a hockey stick on a horse is said to have been introduced from overseas. Just now, those children of the family seemed to have accidentally broken the ball, so they went to compete for the ball of another group.

Chu Jiang deliberately used the scrum to speak: "Originally, people had a good time, but someone kicked sideways and ruined their fun of playing ball."

Wang Yuanzhao said with a smile: "I'm afraid that Gongzi Chu didn't see it, just now it was obviously the fourth prince of the Weizhou Hou family who took the lead in robbing the ball, and the Hou Shizi of Jining and the sixth prince of Li next to him were all persuaded to die, how could they be beaten to death with a stick."

Chu Jiang said again: "How did the second prince know that they had persuaded him?" Maybe it's a bad idea next to me, thinking about how to bully others. ”

Wang Yuanzhao smiled again and said something more.

Dressed in gorgeous clothes, their backgrounds are naturally not low. And those who don't seem to have any good clothes are, of course, the children of some poor officials in the DPRK and China.

The new ones slowly got rid of their inferiority complex and dared to compete with the powerful. Those few people with good backgrounds who don't look down on those inferior people whose ancestors have been slaves for three generations compete with them.

Of course, Wang Yuanzhao could hear that Chu Jiang's words meant something. However, he didn't feel that he had malicious intentions between Chu Jiang and Lin Qiantan and had done anything destructive.

insisted on saying that there was, that is, he secretly took away a small piece of Lin Qiantan's clothes, and he still keeps it.

Wang Yuanzhao thought for a while and didn't speak again. Chu Jiang felt as if he had taken back a city, and his heart suddenly became more comfortable.

Honestly, it's just a horse racing bet. If he doesn't play, Lin Qiantan will naturally choose a familiar person to bet on at will.

There's not much to say about that.

But Lin Qiantan repeatedly had contact with the son of the Wang family in front of him, and it was difficult for him not to be jealous. He can't control himself, since the marriage was decided, he has become possessive of his cousin, who was not very controlled in the past, and he can't wait to marry and go home and hide.

They both looked into the distance together.

After a while, when the teenager playing with the ball in the distance didn't hit the ball, Wang Yuanzhao spoke again, but this time he was talking about Jinhua.

Chu Jiang was facing the big tree, and he didn't see Jinhua and Lin Bixiang walking towards this side together. Wang Yuanzhao reminded him: "Your Highness is here."

Chu Jiang looked back and saw that it was really true.

Chu Jiang sighed, and it took a while to send Jinhua away. Looking back at the tree, where else is Wang Yuanzhao's figure.

The wide meadows are still full of people racing horses from time to time.

Chu Jiang turned around and looked, as if he could still see Lin Qiantan sitting with the young ladies of the Gu family and the Chen family in the distance, and he didn't walk over.

*

When Wang Yuanzhao climbed the tree just now, Lin Qiantan had already noticed it.

Chu Jiang came later, and she was even more in her eyes.

Over there, one of the two was on the tree with Erlang's legs crossed, and the other was standing under the tree in a serious manner. The two sides said that they didn't know anything, and after a full quarter of an hour passed, Lin Qiantan saw Jinhua coming. Subsequently, Wang Yuanzhao took advantage of Chu Jiang and Jinhua's conversation to jump to another tree with a method as light as a swallow. And so on, he didn't even let Chu Jiang notice that he had left. As for Jinhua, he didn't see a person on the tree at all.

Chen Jingrou, who was beside her, pushed her and told her that someone was coming over there. Lin Qiantan glanced at it, it was the female official Qu Fu who had met before, and her eldest cousin Chu Pei, who was her blood relative.

Only then did Lin Qiantan think of what method Jinhua used to "detain" Chu Jiang. It should be using the identity of the princess to bring out Chu Pei, who has not been out of the palace for a long time.

In order to meet Chu Pei, it's no wonder.

Qu Fu and Chu Pei deliberately found a few of them.

Lin Qiantan's study with Gu Ping may not be clear to others, but for Qu Fu, it is not difficult to know.

Gu Ping's late wife is surnamed Qu. She and the old man also have some informal mentorship.

The article written by Lin Qiantan, Qu Fu accidentally read it, and I appreciated it very much. In addition, she has seen so many faces, and Qu Fu pays attention to Lin Qiantan.

Lin Qiantan wanted to join them as a female official, and she was naturally very clear.

Chu Pei also asked Chu Jiang about this, but Chu Jiang, who is usually easy to talk, is the only one who is stubborn in such a matter.

Qu Fu said: "Although it is a bad idea, you may not need your father's consent. Nowadays, the person who has the final say in the court is yin, if you don't mind, you might as well go his way. ”

Regardless of the character of Yin Ren, he is very sincere in employing talents. Especially for women's talents to be recognized, it can be regarded as a place worthy of affirmation.

This point, without Qu Fu to tell, she has a deep understanding. Speaking of the sentence "Who said that women are inferior to men", it is still taught by yin tenacity.

Qu Fu saw that she was not very interested, and she didn't care, and still sat upright and talked to her. After a while, she left, but Chupe stayed.

Chen Jingrou and Gu Qingxuan saw Chu Pei's appearance and knew that she had something to say to Lin Qiantan, so they both stood up very knowingly and went to the side to avoid suspicion.

Lin Qiantan smiled, looked at Chu Pei, and wanted to know what Chu Pei wanted to say to her.