Chapter Twenty-Seven: The New Saddle
"Your old Liu family is smoking from the ancestral grave, why did you kid enter the eyes of the military advisor!" Fang Qi sat opposite Lu Chen, looked at Liu Jing who was standing behind Lu Chen, and teased with a smile.
At this moment, someone outside the steward's room asked in a loud voice, "Is your Excellency inside?" ”
"Come in!" Lu Chen spoke, followed Liu Jing to open the door very consciously, and saw that it was his own father, and there was the steward Cao Lin standing next to the father, and the father was followed by two craftsmen holding small wooden boxes in their hands, obviously Liu Laosan's status has also risen, and even the steward Cao Lin greeted Liu Laosan with a smile.
Liu Laosan took two craftsmen into the steward's room with a wooden box, and Cao Lin also followed behind, but the things were ordered by Lu Chen to be made, Cao Lin naturally wanted to make a good impression on Lu Chen, and went to supervise the work in person.
The two wooden boxes were placed on the table, Lu Chen picked them up and looked at them, the workmanship was very fine, don't look at it as a temporary build, but it can be seen that the craftsman and the blacksmith have put their hearts into it.
"Strategist, what is this thing for?" Looking at the straps and stirrup buckles that Lu Chen was holding in his hand, he asked curiously.
"Fetch a saddle!" Lu Chen ordered someone to take a saddle over, Lu Chen bolted the stirrup belt through the saddle to the saddle, and then asked someone to take the stirrup over, and then put it on the stirrup belt, and then asked for a hammer, directly buckled the "child and mother buckle" to death and then smashed it.
"Old Fang, try to see if you can pull it away!" Lu Chen put down the hammer and motioned for Fang to use the force to pull the stirrup belt to see if he could pull the stirrup out.
"Okay!" Fang Qi held the stirrup in one hand and pulled the pedal strap in the other, wringed his arms, and shouted, "Open!" I dragged the straps and stirrups to both sides, but after dragging for a long time, my face was red, and I didn't pull it away.
"Strategist, I can't pull it open!" Fang Qi also boasted that he was powerful, and the strength of his arms was also one or two hundred catties, and he couldn't pull the stirrup belt and stirrup, so he scratched his head a little embarrassed and said.
"Hehe, you and Lao Meng drag it together, as long as you two can't pull it away, this thing will be done!" Lu Chen smiled and pointed at Meng Ji, who was laughing at Fang Qi on the side.
"Strategist, I'm afraid I'll break this thing for you!" Meng Ji was much stronger than Fang Qi, so he said with some embarrassment.
"Don't worry, you two won't be bad! Come on! Lu Chen handed the two stirrups to Meng Ji and Fang Qi respectively, and motioned for the two of them to pull hard at both ends.
As a result, both of them blushed and didn't pull them away.
"It's done!" Seeing that Fang Qi and Meng Ji couldn't pull it apart together, Lu Chen knew that the child-mother buckle and stirrup belt were done, "Let's go!" Go back and show Dashuai! ”
Lu Chen motioned to Cao Lin to continue to instruct the craftsman to make stirrup belts and buckles, and then took the finished product back to Li Xiuning.
When Lu Chen returned to the school field with Liu Jing and a few people, he saw that on the school field, two school captains were fighting on horseback, one was using a horse lance, and the other was using a long-handled Xuanhua axe.
Lu Chen is also the first time to see a live cold weapon horse battle, and he has seen this kind of horse war on TV before, but he really saw it and found that the TV was too fake, how can there be so many bells and whistles in the horse battle, which basically belong to the straight line, as long as one party can't bear it, it is estimated that even people and horses will have to be cut down.
The two fought for a long time, and then they each put away their weapons, turned their horses' heads, and began to run in the direction of the arrow target. Quiver! Quiver! The sound of a few feather arrows hitting the target spread in the school field, and then the soldiers began to report the target, and the archery skills of the two were almost the same.
"That's fucking amazing!" The two looked at each other and laughed, then turned the horse's head, and came to Li Xiuning to turn over and dismount.
"Marshal, give me 3,000 cavalry, and I can chop off the head of the Turkic Khan!" One of the rugged-looking tall lieutenants said in a loud voice with a somewhat excited expression.
"I only need two thousand five!" The slightly shorter captain next to the captain said directly.
As a result, without waiting for Li Xiuning to speak, Meng Ji next to him said: "Lian Xiude, Peng Zun, why did you just come back and hear you two bragging?" ”
"Oops! The Strategist is back! What kind of treasure did the military advisor bring back? Peng Zun, who was a little shorter, saw at a glance the craftsman holding the wooden box behind Lu Chen, and asked with a fanatical expression.
"I can't use it for you this time, this is for the big handsome!" The military advisor said to Peng Zun with a smile.
"Let's just say that the military advisor will not run to the blacksmith himself for no reason! The feeling is to give the treasure in person! The tall Lian Xiude smiled and teased Lu Chen.
Lu Chen is not annoyed, but he likes this atmosphere very much, barracks! It's all men who have something to say, how good, there are a lot less fancy intestines, and it's very comfortable!
"That's it! Dashuai values it so much, why do you have to prepare something different for Dashuai, don't you? Lu Chen said in his mouth, and asked people to bring the lacquered stirrup belt and stirrup, this is a pair that Lu Chen asked the craftsman to create alone, and walked several times with gold water, the shiny golden stirrup, plus a stirrup belt carved with peonies, and even the stirrup buckle used for connection were all walked through with gold water.
"What is this?" Li Xiuning naturally had never seen this thing, but just looking at the workmanship, he knew that Lu Chen had put a lot of thought into it, and Li Xiuning was still a girl after all, how could she not like beautiful things, so there was excitement and surprise hidden in her eyes.
"Whoever you hit will find out in a moment!" Lu Chen smiled mysteriously, and then ordered Lu Qiuming to take Li Xiuning's saddle.
Li Xiuning's saddle is naturally finely made, the red saddle, with the stirrup belt and gold stirrup of red carved roses specially made by Lu Chen, suddenly gave the saddle a sense of grace and atmosphere.
"It's beautiful!" Looking at the saddle, Lu Qiuming couldn't help but admire.
"Please also try this saddle, if there is anything wrong, it can be improved!" Lu Chen naturally saw Li Xiuning's eager expression, and pushed the boat down the river to invite.
"Then try it!" Li Xiuning was not hypocritical, he directly moved the saddle and got on the horse, and with a "drive", the jade lion "slipped", and spread joy in the school field.
Looking at Li Xiuning's heroic figure on the horse, Lu Chen couldn't help but think of the famous anti-Japanese general Qi Jiguang's "Go Immediately":
"The north and the south galloped to report the main situation,
Jiang lace moon smile life.
Three hundred and sixty days a year,
Most of them are Heng Ge horses. ”
The artistic conception of this poem is similar to Li Xiuning at this time, the dignified princess of the Tang Dynasty, but she has to fight for the Tang Dynasty in the south and the north and guard the border passes.