Chapter 35: The Covenant of the School Field
"I wonder what His Highness thinks of the young man surnamed Lan?" Jing Kun said lightly.
Zhu Quan stretched out his hand to take the hard-boiled hot egg handed by Ma Sanbao, gently wiped it on his eyes, and recalled Lan Yu's fierce murderous aura and superb riding skills, and suddenly said: "This kid seems to be a man in the military, and he is ruthless. ”
Jing Kun nodded and smiled: "This person is the rising star among the famous generals, the famous Lan Yu." ”
Zhu Quan recalled Huang Zicheng beside the crown prince Zhu Biao, and Fang Xiaoru's hostile gaze towards him, and said in his heart: "Could it be that Fang Xiaoru met with Lan Yu and came to me?" At this time, he already understood the danger he was in, and his sense of vigilance was already strong.
Jing Kun muttered: "Now looking at the emperor's administrative measures, it is to raise the text and slightly suppress the martial arts, the Chinese official and military general of the dynasty have always had a heart disease, even if Fang Xiaoxiao and Lan Yu know each other, it is estimated that they will not have much friendship." Tonight, he invited Lan Yu, most likely for the sake of Your Highness, you and King Yan. Speaking of this, he paused slightly, and suddenly smiled: "Although Your Highness's riverside actions tonight are a little disgusting to Meng Lang, but since it is a coincidence of Fang Xiaoru, maybe it is a blessing for Sai Weng to lose his horse." ”
Zhu Quan heard him say this, and couldn't help but smile bitterly in his heart, and said in his heart: It will be me who will be disciplined tomorrow, not you, of course you said so.
"A few days ago, the old man saw that King Yan behaved and spoke, and then listened to His Royal Highness's narration of the accompanying reading, and King Yan's light-hearted handling of things. This Zhu Di is by no means easy to match, but I am afraid that the old and spicy deep place is better than the current emperor in the past, and he will undoubtedly be a fierce opponent of His Royal Highness in the future. I wonder how His Highness plans to get along with him? Jing Kun asked lightly.
When Zhu Quan heard him say this, he thought of Zhu Di's personality, and his heart was also slightly cold, recalling the situation he was in now, he suddenly had a strange thought, and said in his heart: Looking at today's situation, Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang naturally supports Zhu Yunwen, but Zhu Di and I have our own plans. It's like the situation in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", Zhu Yunwen has the emperor's help, and naturally now has an overwhelming advantage, like Cao Cao. Although I have Mr. Jing and Qin Zhuofeng, Jing Jun, Sima Chao and others to help, most of the capable people under me are not as good as Zhu Di, and Liu Bei is a small general. Zhu Di is naturally stronger than himself, but he can't fight the emperor's Sun Quan alone. Recalling "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", the example of the two families of Zhongsun and Liu uniting to resist Cao during the Battle of Chibi, I couldn't help but believe what Zhu Di said in the imperial study that day, and supported each other.
Thinking of this, Zhu Quan couldn't help but say: "Looking at today's situation, it is best to join the sun to fight Cao." Turning his head to look at Jing Kun's incomprehensible expression, his heart jumped, and he suddenly said in his heart: I can't even write "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" now, even if Mr. Jing is well-read, I'm afraid it is unheard of. Thinking of this, I recalled the scene when I participated in the taekwondo competition before, and the best situation for myself when I participated in the competition was that the two strong opponents happened not to draw the lottery with the same group as themselves, and met in the other group in advance, and at the same time as they sat on the mountain and watched the tiger fight, they understood their strength, and let one opponent help them eliminate another opponent, and the remaining one also fought hard until they were scarred, so it was much easier to deal with. How can they draw a set of "lots" for the death battle? The best thing is to let them despise themselves, stop seeing themselves as a threat, and let them go. Attaching importance to any opponent, but doing his best to let the opponent despise himself, isn't this exactly the psychological tactics taught by his former coach Li Zheng when he played?
Thinking of this, Zhu Quan suddenly smiled and said: "It seems that now it is best for us to secretly show favor to King Yan, and then pretend to be submissive to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and Zhu Yunwen's kid, so that they don't feel that I am a threat." In the future, when they lose both sides of the fight, they will reap the benefits of the fisherman. ”
Jing Kun never thought that Zhu Quan would be able to say such something beyond his expectations, and couldn't help but look at him blankly, speechless for a long time.
As soon as the words came out, Zhu Quan's mind flashed, and he suddenly understood why Jing Kun said just now that he was messing around with Lan Yu on the street today, which might not be a good thing in Fang Xiaoru's eyes. As a prince, he disregarded his identity, on the bank of the Qinhuai River, fighting with people in front of everyone's eyes, if this matter reached the ears of Huang Zicheng, Zhu Yunwen and others, wouldn't it seem that he was a prodigal prince with no ambitions? The best thing is that today's incident is purely an accident, which is naturally incomparable, and Zhu Quan can't help but laugh when he thinks of this.
Jing Kun had already settled down at this time, and said in a deep voice: "It's just that Zhu Di, the king of Yan, is probably Huang Zicheng, Fang Xiaoru is such a scholar who is so foolish, His Royal Highness gets along with him, and he should be humble and compromised, but he can't overdo it, and the drama is too much, but it is self-defeating." ”
Recalling Zhu Di's chameleon-like superb acting skills, Zhu Quan completely agreed with Jing Kun's opinion in his heart, and said secretly: This kid is also a talented acting school, but he must grasp the proportions well.
In the next ten days, Zhu Quan followed Qin Zhuofeng to practice martial arts every day, and entered the East Palace every three days to accompany him. He had a foundation in martial arts, and he was making rapid progress at this time, but the fly in the ointment was this horseback riding and archery, but it was not in a short period of time, and he could only barely sit on the back of the "dark clouds covered with snow" and trot. With the help of Qin Zhuofeng, practicing the unique qigong he taught, although "Qianqingkun Hougong" has reached the first level of the realm, his strength has increased greatly, and he can pull Sima Chao's four-stone strong bow to perfection, but unfortunately the accuracy of the arrow is much worse.
As for entering the palace to accompany the emperor's grandson Zhu Yunwen, he was not interested in the things that Fang Xiaoru taught him at all, and after listening to Jing Kun's explanation of Zhu Yuanzhang's intention to arrange his own companionship, he simply ignored the perfunctory things in class and slept when he had the opportunity. Now that he understands the truth in his heart that he should be a hidden blade, he will no longer rush to provoke Zhu Yunwen in terms of speech and etiquette.
On this day, the sky was bright, and Zhu Quan rode the "dark clouds covering the snow" and Xu Ying on horseback. In a small car next to him sat Jing Kun with a leisurely expression, but the two sergeants with bright armor next to the car were Jing Jun and Sima Chao, and at this time, he had been "exceptionally promoted" by Zuo Hong, the partial general who was responsible for guarding the palace, to the captain of the personal soldier team guarding King Ning.
The group waited out of the palace, and under the leadership of Xu Ying, they walked towards the school field in the south of Yingtian City. It turned out that today was the end of the month, and Zhu Quan and Yan Wang Zhu Di met on the school field.
Half an hour later, I came to the gate of the school field, only to see two rows of sergeants standing on the road on both sides.
At this time, the sergeant who led the sergeant to guard the gate of the school was a "general flag", although he did not recognize Zhu Quan, but saw that he was wearing a regimental dragon supplement uniform made by Huang Aya, knowing that it was the prince who arrived, he immediately led the sergeant to kneel on both sides of the road.
Xu Ying suddenly frowned at this time, and suddenly whispered, "I won't go in today." Without waiting for Zhu Quan to answer, he spurred the horse away.
When Zhu Quan saw her leave suddenly, he couldn't help but wonder, and said in his heart: This girl likes to join in the fun on weekdays, but today I heard that I met with Yanwang Zhu Di on campus, but I left?
Xu Ying led the horse and walked on the long street, but it was difficult to calm down in her heart, and said secretly: He and Brother Lan are both extremely strong people, and today I hope not to have a dispute with Zhu Di, the king of Yan. recalled that Zhu Di also came to his home to meet his father Xu Da every once in a while, and recalled the way he looked at him, he couldn't help but blush slightly. Changed his mind and said: Today, he and Zhu Di competed in the school field, and I was only afraid that it would be inappropriate, so it was better to avoid it. I made up my mind and walked slowly towards my house.
Jing Kun got out of the car and whispered to Zhu Quan: "Your Highness, today the old man has an appointment with the old monk of Daoyan. After confessing his sin, he got into a small car and headed for the river in the city.
Zhu Quan led Jing Jun and Sima Chao to walk in the middle of the road, when suddenly there was a roar like the sky cracking in the distance ahead, as if thousands of people were roaring at the same time. At this time, the three of them couldn't help but be shocked when they heard such a noise.
As soon as I entered the military field of the school, my eyes suddenly opened up. I saw that in front of me, there was a wide open space with dozens of slopes, horses neighing and people roaring, and hundreds of cavalry and a few more infantry were divided into left and right sides, each occupying a large open space for drilling. The cavalry rode and swung their swords, clashes came and went, but the infantry was armed with spears, machetes and shields constantly changing formations, brandishing weapons to assassinate and chop. In the dust, the sunlight reflected on the armor and weapons scorched the eyes. A javelin-like figure with armor piercing his armor led a red horse of a divine steed slowly through the infantry formation, scolding in foul language and waving the whip in his hand, mercilessly whipping the soldiers who were not fierce enough and not loud enough.
Zhu Quan raised his eyes and saw the red horse ridden by the young general and his roar, a bit like the blue jade fighting with him by the river, turned his head to look at Sima Chao and Jing Jun who followed his horse, couldn't help but feel angry, and said in his heart: I didn't expect this kid to be a lively general, commanding thousands of sergeants, in comparison, our team is simply unsightly.
The three of them were watching the army drill, and suddenly there was a long horn horn sound in the direction of the north gate of the school field, and with the sound of the horn, a hundred people entered from the north gate, and one person dressed in yellow clothes took the lead. The more than 100 sergeants led behind him had a vigorous gait, a mighty expression, and distinct clothes, which were different from the sergeants trained in the school field.
Lan Yu heard the long trumpet, turned his head to look at the group of men and horses, and hurriedly turned over and dismounted and ordered the sergeant beside him to gather the team, but he knelt on one knee and greeted the man who led the team on horseback.
Zhu Quan saw from a distance that the figure of the person seemed to be Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang, and he hurriedly rode his horse to hurry, dismounted at Lan Yu's side, and bowed to the ground.
Zhu Yuanzhang rode his horse to the front, and when he saw that Zhu Quan was also here, he couldn't help but show a slight surprise on his face, and asked, "Quan'er, why are you here today?" ”
Zhu Quan was about to answer, but saw a young man in cowhide light armor beside Zhu Yuanzhang bowed down and said: "Tell my father, Brother Quan is making an appointment with his sons today, and he will compete in this school to test the martial arts of archery and horses." It was Yan Wang Zhu Di who spoke.