Chapter 35: The Hero's Sacrifice

After the exam, Lu Weimang unexpectedly failed the economics. But fortunately, she excelled in other subjects, so she successfully got the top three in the class, was able to follow her master to participate in the activities of the Hero Festival, and allowed her family to accompany her, just in one place, just as an audience.

The Heroes Festival is a grand event of Daqian, just outside the city of Kyoto at the foot of the mountain scenery on the large grassland, there are mountains and rivers, the terrain is open, usually Kyoto people go to the green place, but now it is surrounded by a team of disciplined ironclad soldiers, the whole mountain and the whole grassland, as the summer festival activity range.

At this time, only the family members of officials who have the status to participate in the summer festival are eligible to enter this area. At the official beginning, there will be people around to watch, applauding and applauding the people in the arena, at this time, as long as the rules and regulations are on the periphery, the ironclad army will not deliberately drive away.

Every year, the summer festival is presided over by the emperor himself, and the activities include competitions, heroic festivals, singing and dancing performances, and other events.

Among them, there are a variety of competitive activities, such as poetry, pairing, pot throwing, charades, etc., and martial arts such as horse riding, archery, polo, juju, wrestling, hunting and other items.

However, at the beginning of the founding of the country, the blood of the sons and daughters was surging, coupled with the fierce performance and ornamentation of horseback riding and archery, so the martial arts competition project was generally more able to attract more people's attention.

Even the saint will come to the scene of Wubi from time to time, and watch it in person on the high platform outside the venue.

Every year at the Heroes Festival, a group of young men who are brave enough to crown Kyoto will emerge, and those who are sought after by the people, and those with outstanding achievements can even enter the eyes of the saints, and they have been on the rise since then.

Therefore, in Kyoto, students who had the opportunity to participate in the competition, such as military warriors and others, are now gearing up and eager to try.

In late spring and early summer, the willows are shady under Jingshan, the grass is green, the weather is bright but not hot and dry, it is the time for the good sons and daughters of Kyoto to gallop freely.

Lu Weimang and Qin Xuan side by side, walking in the Guozijian team, this heroic festival, Guozijian sent a total of forty people, there is a polo team, a juju team, and similar to Lu Weimang, the seeded players who compete for the championship of the single competition.

Lu Weimang was assigned to participate in the number array competition. Qin Xuan is also a member of the Guozi Jian Juju team.

The spectator seats in the distance were already overcrowded, and most of them crowded the spectators of the polo team and the Keju team, and those who couldn't squeeze into these two pairs would be scattered to the side to watch the wrestling, equestrian, and archery competitions.

Fortunately, this event covers a very large area, so the various competitions can be held at the same time without interfering with each other.

Father Lu and Chengyang Changfeng naturally wanted to go to the equestrian team to watch the competition, but their sister had a game today, so it didn't seem to be very popular on the spot. As a result, in the audience, I saw a burly giant man dressed in a green moon and white robes, with two brightly dressed two young men who were obviously the sons of nobles. made the literati and officials present look sideways.

Lu Weimang...

Fortunately, the game started quickly.

Because it was outdoors, the examiner simply built a high platform, lined up all the ten questions, and hung them up with scrolls like calligraphy and paintings, showing the questions to everyone. This scroll is tall and the handwriting is clear, not only the people in the audience can see it clearly, but also the audience with slightly better eyesight can also see it clearly and silently participate in answering the questions.

In the middle of the venue, there are several rows of low tables with pen and ink and manuscript paper, which can be used for people to calculate and answer questions.

Everyone answers the questions at will, and the first to complete the ten questions, and all of them are correct, wins.

The first few problems are ordinary equations that only require a lot of calculations, the middle is like a binary equation, and the last is an application problem. For example, how deep is the well, chickens and rabbits are in the same cage and other topics.

These questions are not difficult for Lu Weimang at all, she looked at a question at first, went back to calculate one, and then simply took the charcoal notebook she carried with her and stood in front of the question to answer the question on the spot.

In less than two quarters of an hour, Lu Weimang went to the gong erected after the tenth question to ring the gong, indicating that he had finished answering.

The people who were still counting in the audience looked up in astonishment and looked at the person who struck the gong.

Although there were not many people participating in the counting competition, there were still one or twenty people in the field. And most of them are somewhat nerdy literati.

At this time, when they saw Lu Weimang and a young girl striking the gong, they stopped what they were doing and walked to the referee at the gong.

The referee obviously knew Lu Weimang's person, so he said directly aloud, "Lu Weimang is the first to strike the gong, and then let her show the answer and the explanation process." If there is no objection in the field, the number one leader today is Lu Weimang. ”

Explaining the topic in public is also a rare time to watch in the counting competition, so the audience who were originally sitting upright gathered around, and Lu Weimang also climbed on the high platform with the topic erected and explained it to the people below.

Inexplicably, I feel like a teacher teaching students.

Lu Weimang didn't care so much, he only explained his calculations and ideas in a simple turn, and wrote his answers on top of the hanging questions every time he finished a question. The crowd listened attentively, and did not stop it.

The calculation at the beginning is easy to say, the chickens and rabbits in the back are in the same cage, Lu Weimang is replaced by A, B, C, D, and directly substituted into the calculation, which made everyone in the audience have some straight eyes, knowing that Lu Weimang's explanation is completed, drawing conclusions, and writing down the answers, everyone in the audience is still blindfolded.

But it doesn't matter, after Lu Weimang wrote down the solution process and answer to the last question below the question, the referee applauded and stood up, "Okay, the leader of our array competition is this Lu Weimang's little friend!" ”

Everyone in the audience applauded, although I didn't understand, but it was very powerful, the solution was fast and smooth, I seemed to understand it just now!

Lu Weimang held the bronze championship cup issued by the referee, with two words written on it, stood on the stage, and ate with the referee to accept the cheers and celebrations of everyone.

"Okay," after the cheers, the referee pressed down with his hands, "If you want to continue the discussion, these problems will be hung here before they are presented to the Imperial Court tonight, and they will be guarded by armor soldiers, whoever wants to come up and see the process of solving the problems, you can do it, just don't get started." For the rest of you, you can go to the side of the polo team and have a good time, so please feel free to do so. ”

As he spoke, he bowed his hand to Lu Weimang, and walked off the stage, looking at the direction he left, he seemed to want to watch the polo team game.

Lu Qingshan took his two sons to greet Lu Weimang, who walked off the stage with the championship cup, "My daughter is really majestic today, what you said on stage just now, although I don't understand, but Daddy thinks you said it very well, easy to understand, and several contestants next to him nodded frequently." It's really a fight for Daddy! ”

As he spoke, he quietly took the championship cup in Lu Weimang's hand.

Cheng Yang and Changfeng wanted to take it over to take a look, but they were stopped by him with his height advantage, "Okay, I have time to look when I go back." Several of my father's former colleagues also came to participate in the heroic festival, but no junior in their family could participate in the competition, so they could only stare at others. This championship cup is taken by the father and let them touch it, which can be regarded as letting them be happy together. ”

As he spoke, he was about to leave with the championship cup, obviously his legs had taken a few steps, and his mouth was still chattering, "Girl, you can take your two younger brothers to the side of the polo team to watch the game after the game, and you can come when you go for your father!" Haha..."

The three sisters and brothers saw their father's tall figure, ran away with lightning speed, turned around, and looked at each other.

"Okay, what game do you want to watch, Sister A, I'll take you to see it."

Lu Weimang shrugged.

Having a fun father is to take on the responsibility of the eldest sister.

"Polo!"

"Polo!"

Lu Weimang knew. So he led his two younger brothers, and he didn't need to inquire much, but only walked towards the place where the cheers and scolding were the loudest, which was the venue for the polo team.

Crowds of people, layers of people, Cheng Yang and Changfeng stood at the back of the crowd, a little stunned and couldn't walk.

"Sister, it's okay if you don't go to the archery competition."

Changfeng swallowed, and the wall in front of him felt that there was no gap for them to squeeze into.

Lu Weimang frowned, "Counting the game ended quickly, the polo team has just started, and if you go in at this time, you can watch almost the whole game." Wait, let me see how I can get in. ”

Lu Weimang began to observe the surrounding environment. This polo team plays a very large area.

To the north is the VIP platform of the powerful, on which are all kinds of wealthy relatives, sitting on the top, guarded by guards, so you can't get by.

The human walls on the east, west and south sides are too high, it seems that there are more than a dozen steps in the stands, Lu Weimang can climb up and squeeze it regardless of his image, but Chengyang and Changfeng are obviously not suitable.

There are no nearby trees around here, so you can look at it from a high vantage point.

Lu Weimang thought for a while, "Let's go, let's go north." ”

Lu Weimang wanted to go to the junction of the north and the east and west to see if there was a chance to fish in troubled waters. After all, there are crowds of people on one side, and there is a VIP area with a relatively small number of people on the other, and the buffer zone in the middle of these two sides may be able to accommodate the three of them.

This place is really big, Lu Weimang felt that he had walked hundreds of meters north along the edge of the field, and he had not yet seen the end.

"Hey, that kid!"

A voice came from behind, and Lu Weimang turned his head in response.

Two horses slowly stepped forward behind them. The people who sat right away were the three princes and General Huo who they saw in Guozijian that day.

However, today, General Huo shaved off the messy beard on his face, revealing a thin and cold, angular face, and even a faint hint of youth. is much younger than Lu Weimang's mind, she thought she was in her thirties, but now it seems that she is in her twenties.

If it weren't for the familiar voice just now, Lu Weimang almost didn't dare to recognize it.

"I've seen the third prince, General Huo."

Cheng Yang and Changfeng also hurriedly saluted.

"What are you messing around here? Wait a while, don't you think there are more ironclad guards than just now? ”

The voice is majestic, and the feeling of not being angry and self-assured.

Lu Weimang raised his head and looked around, only to find that it seemed to be more than just now.

"I just buried my head in walking, and I didn't notice it."

Lu Weimang explained embarrassedly.

"Coming to see a polo match, too late?"

Lu Weimang didn't want to explain more, so he nodded directly and admitted, "Yes, it's late, I can't get in, I wanted to see where I could squeeze in loosely..."

"Follow me."

After finishing speaking, Lu Weimang was helpless and followed behind.

In this case, she can also watch it. But I've said it all here, and now I don't see it, it seems even worse.

After a few steps to the north, sure enough, the VIP seating area appeared. But there is no hole that Lu Weimang imagined to exploit, and the black-armored defenders here are quite strict.

The defenders saw General Huo coming on horseback, and stepped forward to greet him, because they were some distance away, and saw General Huo's chin pointing to them, and a soldier came over to invite the three sisters and brothers over.

Getting closer, General Huo's horse appeared even taller, and Lu Weimang even felt that he had walked under the horse's hooves, completely shrouded in General Huo's horse.

"I can't see it clearly, so let's sit here and watch."

Lu Weimang saluted knowingly, "Thank you, General Huo." ”

For this kind of big person, it is to follow the arrangement of others to appear inconspicuous.

"Hmm."

When Lu Weimang got up and looked up again, General Huo and the three princes beside him with a deep face had already walked away.

"Sister?"

"It's okay, General Huo's gesture is convenient for us, let's go in, wait for the royal car to come later, maybe the fight on the field will be more exciting." We've got a good eye today. ”

After speaking, he took his three younger brothers, under the guidance of the iron guard, and sat under the VIP platform, the first row.