Chapter 19: Sure enough, it was him
"Weisheren, who is this? DID YOU KNOW? Pei Xingjian asked, pointing to a name on the roster.
"Leoian?" Wei Yuanzhong stepped forward to look at the roster and thought for a while, "I don't know who he is, this should be the descendant of a low-level official in Chang'an City..."
Wei Yuanzhong also had no impression of this person named "Liu Yi'an", but remembered that this was a person in Chang'an City who came to sign up alone, and belonged to the children of the official eunuchs who were not recommended.
"Leoian?" Cen Changqian also read out this person's name, and after thinking about it for a while, he couldn't seem to remember who this person was, and he also wondered why Pei Xingjian was interested in such an unfamiliar name.
"Well, you guys go get busy, and you'll know who this person is in a while!" Pei Xingjian gestured to the two colleagues.
"Could it really be him?" After Cen Changqian and Wei Yuanzhong were busy, Pei Xingjian said secretly in his heart.
Pei Xingjian knew this name, but he didn't dare to confirm whether it was the descendant of the best friend he knew, if this person came to the competition, it would be good if he didn't get a ranking, if he got a good ranking, then he would definitely cause some turmoil.
Pei Xingjian, who felt a little bored just now, seemed to be in good spirits, and his tired demeanor was gone, and he was thinking about how to make a choice if this person behaved well as he expected.
Pei Xingjian resisted the urge to check on this person in the samurai queue waiting for the competition, he had to come up with a solution first.
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There are only ten contestants left, and in order of ranking, it is finally the turn of this person named "Liu Yi'an", Pei Xingjian feels a little uneasy.
"The one who plays below, Liu Yi'an, Chang'an people!" One of the military officials presiding over the event on the stage shouted loudly.
Following the official's voice, a tall young man in a white tight-fitting beard came out of the queue waiting for the game, leading a large white horse behind him.
"It's really him!" After seeing the face of this contestant, although Pei Xingjian expected it, he was still a little touched, and it was not surprising that the person called "Liu Yi'an" was the contestant he thought.
At this time, it was Liu Yi who played the game, and he secretly ran out to participate in the first martial arts competition this time without telling the people in the house.
Liu Yi signed up with his own table word "Yi'an," because Liu Yi has not yet performed the crown ceremony, this word is not only known to people in the house, only some people who are familiar with Liu Xianli, and often come to Liu's mansion know, so when Liu Yi signed up, no one knew that he was Liu Xianli's son.
But Pei Xingjian, who is still Liu Xianli's best friend, knows Liu Yi's expression, so when he saw this name at first sight, Pei Xingjian had a hunch that this person would be Liu Yi, and sure enough, when he saw the person who appeared, it was really Liu Yi, Liu Xianli's youngest son.
Although Liu Yi is very different from the past in terms of hair and dress, Liu Yi, who has no makeup, is still recognized by the careful Pei Xingjian, but Pei Xingjian has not drunk Liu Yi's identity, he has already decided to see how Liu Yi is doing, if Liu Yi performs very well, he will definitely create opportunities for Liu Yi.
Liu Yi, who was standing on the field preparing for the game, didn't know that Pei Xingjian, one of the referees, was thinking about this, and he, Liu Yi, who had crossed over, didn't know Pei Xingjian. Liu Yi didn't see Pei Xingjian come to the house after he woke up in a coma, but after the martial arts began, he knew that one of the two examiners was Pei Xingjian. Liu Yi learned from his eldest brother Liu Mai that Pei Xingjian had a good relationship with his father, but he didn't know how familiar Pei Xingjian was with his father, whether Pei Xingjian often came to his house, and whether Pei Xingjian knew him. He originally thought that as the youngest son of Liu Xianli, and he did not perform the crown ceremony, there was nothing sensational before, and no one would know about him, and because the edict of the imperial court specifically stated that as long as his surname was correct, he did not care whether his ancestors were guilty, so although he maintained a cautious attitude after signing up for the competition, he also dressed up, and the registration was also before the deadline, and the schedule was on the last day, and he didn't care much about someone recognizing him.
At the beginning of this martial arts, after Liu Yi went to sign up without telling his mother, he also made some preparations, and ordered Liu Ben, an entourage next to him, to find a place outside where he could store his horses, and when the people outside the house were not paying attention, he would lead his mount out of the house and store it there for his own use.
There were only a few people in the mansion who were watching, and they didn't seem to be dedicated, and after two days, these sergeants all stayed together by themselves, chatting about things, and didn't care about the people in Liu's mansion at all, and no one followed the Liu family who went to the street to buy things.
Liu Yi brought out the horse from the side door, and sent people in and out of the house several times, but no one noticed.
After the martial arts began, Liu Yi also slipped out of the house every day, with his skills, it was easy to sneak out of the house without being known, there were Liu Ben and Liu Quan in the house to cover, no one noticed, even his mother Zhang didn't know that Liu Yi went out of the house every day to watch the game.
After watching the competition for so many days, Liu Yi has been full of confidence in his skills, and the hundreds of warriors who have participated in the competition, although there are a few people who are not bad, but Liu Yi understands that they are far from his usual level, he has decided that he will also retain his level in the preliminaries, not to show all his stunts, and after entering the finals, he will show his skills to the end, which will have the effect of shocking the four seats, and make the emperor and empress who may come to watch the game pay attention to him.
After Liu Yi came on the court, he hugged his fists and bowed to the position where Pei Xingjian and Cen Changqian, who were the chief examiners, and then bowed to the people around the competition venue who were watching the excitement.
An officer from the military department stepped forward to take the reins of the horse from Liu Yi's hand.
"The first item, foot shooting, ten arrows..."The sound of the beginning of the game sounded, the first round is the level of foot shooting of the test school players, the range is fifty steps, because the next is mounted archery, the players use their own horses to participate in the competition, so the horses are also a game, but they are temporarily led by the officials of the military department during the foot shooting.
Liu Yi usually practiced archery in Fuzhong for a distance of more than 100 steps, even if it was mounted archery, it was about this distance, and Liu Yi didn't take him seriously at all in the 50-step foot shooting of the martial arts exam.
It's just that in foot archery, there are many players who have good results, and there are many full rings, which does not reflect the difference in the performance of archery, and the main thing is mounted archery.
The contestants were playing immediately, and the noisy voices of the crowd of spectators on the field were also lightened, and most of the people held their breath, waiting to see the performances of the players on the field...;