Chapter 12: Table Fight
"Oops!"
Yuanshu was slammed to the ground, and his sword fell to the side, and he got up from the ground in disbelief.
Zhao Zhen smiled and withdrew his sword.
This was the fourth time that Yuanshu had been defeated at his hands.
"You'd better practice for a few more years and then try it with me." Zhao Zhen said.
Yuan Shu snorted, he couldn't figure it out, could it be that swordsmanship was really just a difference in strength?
There is obviously a kind of skill and speed that can be won by skill, just because his uncle is a few years older than him, he is doomed to lose?
For a long time, Yuan Shu has repeatedly challenged Zhao Zhen but has repeatedly failed.
Yuan Shu analyzed for a long time, and the two of them had similar living environments and eating habits.
If you want to talk about hard work, he rarely sees Zhao Zhen practicing swords, he keeps practicing hard all day long, why can't he win him?
Don't...... Is it because he often goes to Chunfeng Tower?
No, it's not.
It's a place for pleasure, and no matter how you think about it, it has nothing to do with improving your swordsmanship.
Suddenly, a spirit: Zhao Zhen often goes to Li Qi's mansion, is there to study swordsmanship!
Thinking of this, Yuan Shu patted the soil on his body and followed Zhao Zhen to the Zheng Guogong Mansion.
Zhao Zhen saw that his nephew was also coming, and he was surprised:
"Why are you free to come here today? Don't go horseback riding and archery? ”
"I want to know, what do you do every time you come here? Why are you so much better than me when you don't practice swordsmanship? Yuan Shu said indignantly.
Zhao Zhen smiled proudly: "This thing depends on talent, you may be able to defeat me if you practice for another ten or eight years."
Listening to his self-righteousness, Yuanshu was on fire in his heart.
Opening the door, Zheng Guogong saw that the emperor's eldest grandson had also come.
"His Royal Highness the eldest grandson is also here?"
Yuan Shu looked at the sky and said, "It's noon, come to eat, can't you?" ”
Li Chengzhu, who was in the courtyard, was fighting birds, and when he heard that the eldest grandson of the emperor and the nine princes had come to the mansion together, he hurriedly said to the kitchen, "Don't cook my food, I'll go out." ”
The subordinate was puzzled, "Why is this?" ”
Li Chengzhu waved his hand: "You don't know, this pair of uncles and nephews don't deal with each other." The last time I ate at our house, the table was lifted. ”
It turned out that Zhao Zhen and Yuan Shu ate together in Zheng Guogong's mansion last year.
During the period, they didn't agree with each other and actually fought, and at that time, the plate fell to the ground and pierced Li Chengzhu's buttocks.
Thinking about this, Li Chengzhu had palpitations, the two royal family members fought, and his ass suffered, and he couldn't complain at all.
When his wife heard about it, she didn't want to get involved in it, and said to her subordinates, "Don't be mine." ”
This is only the second time that Yuan Shu has come to the Zheng Guo Mansion.
As for the famous fight last year, the reason is also very simple, it is just a struggle with Zhao Zhen over the issue of 'sweet tofu brain is delicious or salty tofu brain is delicious'.
Motoshu entered the hall, and the furnishings were the same as the last time he came, but the strangely shaped table caught his attention.
The table was at least three meters long, wide at one end and narrow at the other.
It wasn't until he ate that he understood that the whole family was sitting at this end of the table, and there was only one Li Lin at the other end of the table.
Li Qi's parents recently went to Huashan and have been on a business trip, and the family is a lot lonely.
The second uncle and second aunt are not there.
So there were left on the dinner table: Zhao Zhen's uncle and nephew, Li Lin and Li Qi, as well as Zheng Guogong and Ji An.
Zheng Guogong gave Ji An a look, asked him to sit next to Li Qi, and squeezed Zhao Zhen to Li Lin's side.
However, over the years, Zhao Zhen has long been accustomed to sitting with Li Qi, so he pulled Ji An aside and sat next to Li Qi.
On the contrary, Yuan Shu felt that it was too strange for a bunch of people to be crowded together, so he moved his seat towards Li Lin.
Li Lin raised an eyebrow at him, and Yuan Shu didn't look at him.
The more he is like this, the more Li Lin thinks he is cute.
I don't know why, from the first time I saw Yuanshu, Li Lin always wanted to tease him.
However, since the last time he played polo, Yuanshu rarely took the initiative to talk to her.
The servants were respectfully more cautious than usual, and served the food over, but fortunately, Zhao Zhen and Yuan Shu did not put up any shelves.
"Two highnesses, please bear with me if you don't take care of them."
Zheng Guogong said sour and kind words, looked at the uncle and nephew sitting opposite him, remembered the dream last night, and felt a little sad and cold.
Zheng Guogong took a closer look at Yuan Shu's appearance, Yuan Shu looked good, his nose was straight, and his eyebrows were slightly indifferent, this kind of appearance was definitely a person with great ambitions, although he was still a teenager, the competitive spirit he exuded was particularly obvious.
"Grandpa, I heard that the people who support the third prince and the sixth prince in the court today are arguing fiercely." Li Qi asked Zheng Guogong.
Zheng Guogong hurriedly waved his hand: "This is a major national matter, don't discuss it in vain." ”
Zhao Zhen laughed:
"Old man, I don't mind, what are you afraid of?"
Yuan Shu also felt that it was nothing, and said:
"If I had to choose, my third and sixth uncles wouldn't either."
"And who do you choose?" Li Qi asked.
Yuan Shu pointed directly at Zhao Zhen opposite: "I choose Uncle Nine." ”
As soon as these words came out, Zhao Zhen was flattered.
Yuanshu continued, "Although I don't like you, in terms of ability, you are actually above everyone. ”
Zhao Zhen looked at the nephew in front of him with a smile and did not speak.
Zheng Guogong nodded and faced Yuan Shu: "The two highnesses are usually fighting, but in the final analysis, blood is thicker than water. Family affection is more important than victory or defeat. ”
Yuan Shu raised his face to look at Zheng Guogong, who had gray hair, and he felt that his words seemed to be deliberately aimed at himself.
Zhao Zhen and Li Qi started chatting again.
Yuan Shu looked up and down the house, and everything was normal except for this table.
I also heard that Zheng Guogong couldn't get too close to Li Lin before, and thought it was a joke, but it turned out to be true.
In his eyes as an outsider, it is impossible for Li Lin, who is sitting alone at one end of the table to eat in such a strange way, not to care at all.
However, Li Lin sat on the side very calmly, looking at everyone as if he had become completely accustomed to it.
"Yuanshu, you can't lose your temper at dinner today, our table is very expensive." Li Qi said.
Zhao Zhen hurriedly agreed: "Speaking of which, Yuanshu is already sixteen years old, and he loves to fight and kill, so just find you a beautiful wife to take care of your temper." ”
"Uncle, if you want to find it, you should go first!" Yuan Shu said unmoved.
"I don't want to get married yet." Zhao Zhen said with a smile.
"Don't want to get married, run to Chunfeng Tower every day?"
Yuan Shu retorted: "I should find you a wife to break your legs!" ”
"What? Do you want to go too? Do you want me to take ...... with you?"
Before Li Qi finished speaking, he was slapped on the head, and Zheng Guogong couldn't listen anymore.
"You stinky boy! How old is Yuan Shucai, you actually instigated him to go to that kind of indiscriminate place! ”
Li Qi covered his head and nodded repeatedly.
Zhao Zhen smiled and said to Li Qi: "I also think it's inappropriate, he probably doesn't have any preference for women now."
Li Lin was disgusted by this kind of conversation, and lowered his head to fiddle with his chopsticks.
Yuanshu had been expressionless, but he asked an unprecedented question.
"Actually, I've always had a puzzle, the two of you don't get married, and you're tired of being together every day, and you go to Chunfeng Tower together, you won't have a habit of Longyang, right?"
As soon as these words came out, everyone present was petrified.
This incident even stimulated Zheng Guogong's brain, and he glanced at his grandson with suspicion.
Li Qi hurriedly waved his hand: "Grandpa, don't think about it!" ”
Dinner.
Li Qi was dragged to the ancestral hall and knelt down.
"You say, are you as good as Longyang?" Zheng Guogong asked.
"Wronged, grandpa, I'm a normal man."
"Before that, you and Miss Dong Jia's marriage? Why didn't you get married? ”
"Grandpa, that's the woman's repentance, people have a favorite person, it has nothing to do with me......"
Before he finished speaking, Zheng Guogong actually cried.
"If that's the case, we'll be doomed."
Li Qi couldn't cry or laugh, and knelt in front of Zheng Guogong:
"Grandpa, don't worry, I really, really like women."