Chapter Seventy-Eight: Violent Games

All who should have come came, Li Shimin said a few words to a few close ministers across the stands, and then asked the men who bowed on the field below to continue, and returned to their seats alone, for being arranged to sit under Li Tai's head, he didn't mention half of the objection, he didn't bring a concubine and a female companion, but he was not lonely, and greeted him left and right, even Li Tai could chat for a few words.

Yi Yu was very unimpressed with him, but she sat at the table next to him, and could always hear his voice chattering in her ears, so she looked at the people and horses running back and forth on the field, trying to divert her attention, just like someone likes to read a book while squatting in a thatched house, so that she doesn't think about what it is.

On the long side of the racecourse, the boundary is marked with a column, a one-person high pillar is planted with colored flags, the yellow is the side, the green is the corner, the east and west sides are set up a wooden wall, among which there is a net pocket, one side is hung with yellow silk, one side is hung with green silk, two groups of about 20 people, tied with yellow and green forehead bands to distinguish the team, riding a horse, running from east to west, and then from west to east, aiming to hit the ball into the opponent's mesh, behind the horse's buttocks is a layer of foggy white dust, It's like this group of people is going to disappear and fly into the sky.

The first person to catch the ball, waving a long glaive staff in his hand, shouted the slogan that Yu Yu couldn't hear clearly, grabbed the ball and pumped, every time someone pumped the ball away, there was a commotion in the stands, "buzzing", "uproar", one after another, the atmosphere was full, obviously these two teams have their own supporters.

Yi Yu is a layman, watching the man and horse rush, not looking for any fun, but the heart has always been hanging, jumping much faster than usual, especially when the batsman draws the stick, she always feels that the next stick will break the head of the person next to her, and then when a group of big men squeeze together without slowing down, the most thrilling, one is not good, a horse falls, that is, a whole piece of people turn on their backs.

Hearing is better than seeing, she had thought that this bow was very violent, but when she saw it with her own eyes, she realized that it was more exciting than she imagined.

Just after seeing a sharp swing and the wooden staff rubbing his scalp against the top of the head of a man with a yellow forehead band, Yi Yu finally couldn't help but turn his head and asked Li Tai softly: "They ran so fast, what if someone was knocked down and injured?" ”

She didn't worry about it, hitting the bow was a very injury-prone exercise, but today's two teams in the palace are the two most powerful teams in Chang'an City, this has just started playing, and it has warmed up before, and it is not easy to go wrong.

"If there's an injury, change people." Li Tai shifted his gaze from the crowd on the field to Yi Yu's face, saw the melancholy in her eyes, remembered that it was the first time she had seen this scene, thought about it, and said:

"These people are all cavalrymen from the army, most of them have experience in marching and fighting, and their courage is better than ordinary people."

The implication is that this group of people has fought and is bold and not afraid of being hurt. Yi Yu was silent for a while, felt that the point was not here, and looked left and right with his peripheral vision, all of them were faces that could not hide their excitement, and then looked at the group of people on the court, it was not difficult to find that the more fierce they hit and the tighter they chased, the more excited the people in the stands became - this is the real reason why they are "bold".

Just thinking like this, there was an accident at the bottom, a horse rushed too violently, turned around when it turned around, directly threw the person on the horse out, rolled on the ground five or six times, can be able to hit a pillar, fainted, the rest of the people are still chasing the small ball, heard the eunuch who judged the score shouted to stop, only to find that someone had an accident, and then, as Li Tai said, two or three palace people quickly ran up to carry the person away, and another substitute with a yellow forehead belt rode a horse from the southwest corner of the field.

And everyone in the stands, seeing this incident, looked disapproving, and Yi Yu looked cold in his eyes, so he simply withdrew his gaze and stopped looking.

Li Tai saw that she was looking good, so he suddenly lowered his head and pinched the red light fruit and ate it one by one, his fine eyelashes drooped, and he looked a little excited, and he couldn't figure out why, so he said:

"Feeling bored?"

Yi Yu was about to answer, but there was someone faster than her: "Fourth brother, seeing their lively fight, I feel itchy, why don't we go down and have a fight?" ”

She didn't have to look back to imagine that Li Ke's face was bluffing and smirking, Li Tai didn't say anything, and the first thing to respond was Li Chen, who was separated by two tables:

"Okay, I can't wait, our brothers will go down too, I got a superb horse last month, this time I made a special trip to the palace, wait just so that you can see and understand"

"Good horse?" Li Kuanzheng coaxed Li Qian to eat longan, leaned forward, turned his head to look at Li Chen, who was dancing with flying eyebrows, and said, "What a good horse, is there a background?" ”

"Naturally," Li Tan smiled very proudly, looked at Li Tai again, and said with some provocation, "The fourth brother's feathered divine horse was sent this time?" Wait for the competition, and you will know how good it is. ”

Seeing that he deliberately sold Guanzi, Li Kuan was not in a hurry to know what kind of BMW he had gotten, and turned to Li Tai, who was not consciously provoked, "What, did you send a horse into the palace?" ”

A few days before the spring, the princes who have the heart to compete in the bow will send their beloved horses into the palace one or two days in advance, and even their respective horse masters, carefully serving, this livestock is more comfortable than people.

Li Tai paused for a moment, and before he could say anything, someone interjected again: "Sixth brother, what you said, the fourth brother's riding skills are the best in our life, can't you play with us if you don't send a horse into the palace, fourth brother, let's have a game?" ”

This is the fifth prince Li You, this person is a well-known fun-loving person who likes to hunt, his mother is one of the four concubines, Concubine Yin, talking and doing things, naturally wanton, waved his hand at Li Chen, and then turned his head to look at Li Tai, this is good, three pairs of eyes looked, the words were blocked, Li Tai had to join in the fun.

If it was two quarters of an hour ago, Yi Yu heard this group of princes pulling Li Tai down to bow, maybe he still had the mind to watch the excitement, but just now he saw the thrill and violence with his own eyes, and heard that Li Tai didn't like to bow down, thinking that he was not good at this, so he didn't want him to join in this excitement, but it backfired, and Li Tai actually nodded.

Li You said suspiciously: "It's not allowed to go up and go through the motions like in previous years, let's come back this time, five balls, which side is full first, which side wins." ”

"Yes."

Li Tai was simply this time, which surprised Li Chen and Li Kuan, Li Ke is expression was more natural than the two, he stretched out his hand to summon the chamberlain, and ordered: "Go to the other side and ask, just say that our brothers are going down to have a competition, are you interested in coming together." ”

Li Chen frowned and added, "Don't make up the numbers, tell them not to come early in the morning if they have bad riding skills and poor eyes, so as not to disturb the fun." ”

The attendant went around the back, trotted to the west stand to shout people, the east stage everyone heard Li Ke they were going down to try a game, and they became lively, there were only a few adult princes, the prince did not come, although the eighth was sixteen, it was a big and small man, but the sixth Li Tan looked down on their skills, so he sent them away, and then from the old 2 to the seventh, it was exactly six people, a team of people, no fighting.

"I'm with the third brother," Li Chen and Li Ke are brothers, so it's nothing, but the next sentence makes Yi Yu feel a little underwhelmed, "The fifth brother also comes to our side, and you can make up the rest by yourself." ”

Scraping together? When this is picking up rags, Yi Yu looked at Li Kuan, who was still prying Li Tai with Li Zhen just now, this is unknown to me or foe, and then look at the young Jiang Wang Li Yun, who was sitting not far away, with a weak face, how can he feel that Li Chen's guy is as shameful as when he was in the eastern suburbs racecourse two years ago.

"Okay, I haven't played with my fourth brother yet." Li Kuan said.

"Hehe, I'll be with the Four Emperor Brothers." Li Yun touched the small round collar on the neck ring, said to Li Yan, and glanced at Li Tai quickly.

The five of them agreed, and their eyes looked at Li Tai again, and they heard him knock up and down, and it was still the same two words-"Yes." ”

"Haha, that's good, I'll talk to my father when everyone is ready." Li Chen said, and went to Li Ke's table, muttering something that others couldn't hear clearly, maybe arrange a match, after all, in a serious bow competition, there are six to twelve people on one side.

Yi Yu frowned secretly, and asked Li Tai with his eyes: Are you really compared to them?

Seeing her doubts, Li Tai raised his eyebrows, and was called by Li Kuan to turn his head to speak, and also discussed countermeasures or something, after all, it is not a blind fight, the batter, the chaser, and the one who runs the interference line are all assigned.

Seeing his attitude, Yi Yu put his mind at ease, and then doubted, this person never does things that he is not sure of, should he pretend to be a pig and eat a tiger? But the two have known each other for so many years, and she really hasn't heard that he likes to play this.

Li Shimin in the north stand noticed their movements, just glanced at them a few times, and then let them make trouble. Concubine Yang replaced Gong E, personally poured him wine on the side, and laughed something. Not to mention the prince, these princesses also like to bow very much, seeing that Li Tai and Li Ke have made up their minds, some people left the table and discussed with each other a few words, but they had another game.

"Miss Lu," Yi Yu was pondering Li Tai's thoughts, heard the call of the person behind her, turned around, and saw the two tables behind her, Du He moved to the side to take a seat, several princesses and princesses gathered together, and it was Princess Linchuan who called her.

"It's rare to see them so interested," Lin Chuan smiled, which made people feel gorgeous, and the gold-leaf peony flowers on the top of his head were full of light, flashing jade eyes, "We are ready to add back the color head, do you want to come?" ”

"Color?" That is to bet on the outcome of the game, who said that the border city is the best bet, in this Chang'an City, there is a group of people who like to gamble the most in the world.

"Yes, "Chengyang habitually picked his chin to look at Yu Yu, his face was much better than when he smashed the plate just now, "It's to guess which side can go five balls first," she knocked the wine glass on the case, took a bracelet from her wrist and put it on the case, Yu Yu looked at the surprised eyes of a few people on the side, and knew that it was not a bargain, sure enough, she heard Chang Sun Xi say helplessly:

"The princess took out all the Xiyang warm jade, is it to ask us to arrive at the house?"

(Thanks to ~ silent and Shibi)