The First Yamen of the Great Song Dynasty

Satisfied with wine and food, Shi Jin and Lu Zhishen bid farewell to Gao Ming and went back to Liangshan Army's garrison.

Gao Ming sent money, all the heroes donate their money, besides, he has resumed his status as Gao Yanei, not the penniless Sun Xiaowu, so the money is naturally generous.

Shi Jin took over the heavy burden, the village master deserved to be the village master, and he was very kind to these brothers.

Before leaving, Lu Zhisen said: "By the way, I apologize to Cui Niannu on behalf of the Sajia family. I scared her today." Shi Jin thought for a while, "Count me in."

Gao Ming smiled, "Don't worry, I will definitely bring it."

Standing at the entrance of the hotel, he waved to the two people who were leaving, and watched them go.

Shi further turned his head three times, and kept saying to Gao Ming, "Hurry up and go back, don't send it away."

Seeing Gao Ming turn around and return to the carriage, he reluctantly continued on his own way.

As soon as he got into the carriage, Hua Rong said, "Call Shi Jin to your side, and you won't be afraid that one day you will offend him and he will put a knife on your neck again?"

"Now that we've talked, and I haven't concealed the place where I lied to him, why did he put a knife on my neck? It's almost like he went through fire and water for me!" Gao Ming said: "It's not very good to have a loyal person by my side. Is it time to move, Qinggong is very convenient to find out information, but martial arts is not very good. Wouldn’t it be good to have Shi Jin, a person with strong martial arts, to protect me? You will also save yourself from being so tired, one more person, one more guarantee.”

It's okay not to talk about this, but when I mention this beauty, I'm even more unhappy, "If you want Shi Jin to protect you, what should I do?"

"You have your own business in the imperial army, how can you protect me all day long."

It means to call Shi Jin in so that he can protect him all day long?Hua Rong didn't believe in evil anymore, he always felt that the kick just now was not that simple, so he mentioned Guo Sheng and Lu Fang again, "That's right, I still have my own business, such as teaching my two apprentices to archery or something."

"They haven't come yet, so they're apprentices?" Gao Ming clicked his tongue indifferently.

"You don't want to?" Hua Rong looked at him playfully, "If you don't want to, just say it, and forget about it."

Gao Ming laughed and said, "Will I be as narrow-minded as you? You can teach me whatever you want." When he was in Liangshan, he only counted Shi Jin's tattoos, and Hua Rong was as angry as a puffer fish. He would not Like Huarong.

"I'm narrow-minded?" Hua Rong felt that he had to settle the old score, "Who was the one who said the word 'coax me' in an open and honest way? If you don't coax me, don't tell me a word. Is this called being arrogant? "

Being exposed, Gao Ming saw Hua Rong looking at him with a smile on his lips, and said, "Okay, don't hurt each other, don't mention Shi Jin and Guo Sheng and Lu Fang, should we fight because of them?"

"Of course not."

"If you don't want to, don't mention it. You don't know whether to beat Wang Qing or not. I'll talk about it after the fight. Maybe it's the year of the monkey."

As soon as Hua Rong heard it made sense, when Shi Jin finished beating Wang Qing, he had already made up with Gao Ming if he was not even. Who would care if Shi Jin was Shi Jin or not.

He smiled, "That's right, let's go back."

Gao Ming also nodded with a smile, when the atmosphere was just right, he suddenly heard Hua Rong say: "By the way, I haven't asked you what you are doing at Cui Niannu's place?"

"I'm going to talk about the business." Gao Ming said solemnly: "I swear to God, it's really a business, but it's still in the planning, so it's inconvenient to tell you."

Huarong smiled trustingly: "Well, I believe in you, and I'll wait to see your results."

Seeing that Gao Ming said so seriously, there is no reason for him not to believe it. He believed in his intuition that there was nothing between Gao Ming and Cui Niannu, and they were probably talking about something like a monument of merit.

Shi Jin is still a little more hateful.

Gao Ming secretly breathed a sigh of relief, fortunately Hua Rong believed in him.

"Eh? How do I see your relieved look?" Hua Rong said with a smile, "Are you afraid I'll ask you?"

Gao Ming curled his lips, "What am I afraid of, I am doing things right."

Hua Rong chuckled, and didn't continue to chase, he was not in a hurry, just click it.

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The polo competition was put on the agenda, and the contestants were selected from the Imperial City Division and the Forbidden Army.

This is an opportunity to show his face in front of the palace. Those who know current affairs recommend Huarong. After he occupies a spot, the rest will be shared by others.

A few days before the competition, the field was poured with tung oil, so that no matter how you run, there is no dust. In addition to this basic requirement, a pergola was set up around the polo field.

It goes without saying that the official family sits in the best seats with the crown prince and King Yun. Surrounding them are the viewing seats for clan relatives and ministers, and a little bit further away is the place for female relatives. The only difference is that there is a separate passage for entry and exit. A bead curtain was set up in front of the pergola.

But through the bead curtain, you can still vaguely see the princesses and noble ladies in brocade clothes.

Of course, instead of being called princess now, she has to be called Emperor Ji, and the princess has to be called Zongji. When Gao Ming was in Liangshan last year, this was one of the few changes in the court.

Gao Ming thought it was unlucky when he heard it before. The homonym of Di Ji and Di Hung had a bad meaning.

The folk acceptance is not high, except in official documents and courts, many people are still used to addressing them as princesses and princesses.

At this moment, there were many princesses and princesses sitting behind the bead curtain, and they all looked at the polo players entering the arena with great interest.

"Hey, is that a Xuanjun horse?"

"Yes, yes, hehe, just like the rumors, Uncle Wang really found such a husband for Sister Puning Zongji."

"Does Uncle Wang hate Sister Puning?"

These words were passed to the ears of Puning Princess, the son of King Shao, her eyes turned red, and she tightly squeezed the handkerchief in her hand, her knuckles turned white.

At this time, her husband Xuan Zan also entered the arena on a black horse, and she couldn't look directly at it. When she heard someone whispering that it was the county horse of Prince Shao's mansion, she wished she could find a crack in the ground and sneak in.

Ugly, ugly, too ugly, what evil did she do in her previous life.

The royal father must hate her, and hated her to the bone to choose such an ugly husband for her.

Gao Ming's viewing seat is on the left hand side of the emperor and the others, which is quite a good position. Yan Qing is good at sumo wrestling and cuju, and didn't play because he was not sure about riding a strong horse. Watching the game with them.

When he saw Hua Rong enter the arena, he quickly smiled and waved to him.

Murong Yanze next to him grinned, "As for what, he lives in your house and sees you every day, why is he so excited?"

Seeing that Hua Rong is so handsome, you must be jealous, but Gao Ming continued to wave at Hua Rong regardless of what Murong Yanze said.

Hua Rong obviously saw him too, he was facing the emperor in the arena and was not moving around, but he turned his head slightly to this side and smiled at Gao Ming.

Seeing that Hua Rong saw him, Gao Ming was satisfied and stopped waving. He just looked back at him with a smile on his face. They didn't cut off their sight until the order was issued and the players on both sides took their positions.

Gao Ming only paid attention to Hua Rong just now, and now the ball game officially started, he noticed the others.

There was one person in particular who was so eye-catching that it was hard not to pay attention.

Gao Ming had only one thought in his mind, who is this person, he looks too amazing, no one is playing polo here, it is clearly King Kong playing polo on horseback.

I saw that man's face was like the bottom of a pot, his nostrils were upturned, his hair was thin and yellow and curly, his body was huge, and he walked eight feet.

With such an appearance and being able to show his face in front of the palace, his background must be unusual, so Gao Ming asked Murong Yanze, "Then, who is that person?"

He didn't even describe who he was going to ask, Murong Yanze already understood, "Shao Wang's son-in-law Xuanzan."

Ugly County Ma Xuanzan?This is also a Liangshan hero, and his ranking is not low, at forty.

The reason why he was able to play polo here was that Gao Ming went to Liangshan for a while and disrupted the original direction. Therefore, Ma Xuanzan, the ugly county, was not captured by Liangshan, let alone joined the gang, but was able to continue here. Eye.

"Jun, the princess likes this?"

"How is it possible? Prince Shao liked it himself, and forced his daughter to marry him. Princess Puning cried so much that she almost went blind. It is said that she has been sick since she got married. I don't know how it is now. If I marry such a husband, I will either take medicine Kill him, or commit suicide."

"It's understandable." Feudal arranged marriages killed people.Gao Ming vaguely remembered that in the original book, the prince waited to see Xuan Zan and married his daughter to him, but not long after the marriage, the princess died of depression, and he made him ugly to death.

After that, Shao Wang seemed to wake up and repent, and began to alienate Xuanzan again, which made his official career not smooth.

In the final analysis, this matter was purely due to Shao Wang's illness, and Xuan Zan didn't think he would really dare to marry the princess, the princess was the most pitiful, he was forced by his father into an ugly county horse, and passed away with hatred.

Murong Yanze leaned closer to Gao Ming and said in a low voice: "Now it is rumored that Princess Puning was born to someone else, otherwise my daughter would not be pushed into the pit of fire by my father."

"I think the Princess must want to sing a song right now."

"What song is it?"

"It's called "The Husband Is Dead to Go Out."

"Is there such a song?" Murong Yanze had never heard such a rough title, and couldn't react for a while.

"Yes, let me hum a few words for you: other people's husbands are good and good, but my husband is dull and dull. Standing up like a tree stump, sitting up like a burning rock. The sun is setting and the mountains are shaded. It's hard to be safe in this house I wish the house would be burned down by fire, and the tiger would bite the man. The turtledove calls for sunshine, and the crow calls for death. If a dead person kills my husband, he can go out.”

This Tujia folk song reflects the independent spirit of women who are not afraid of the power of their husbands, have the courage to liberate themselves, and dare to pursue happiness.

Yes, it is like that.

Murong Yanze couldn't hold back his laughter, but he couldn't laugh out loud on this occasion, so he held back until his stomach hurt, "Stop singing soon."

Yan Qing on the side smiled and said, "I've already learned it."

"Don't go out and sing, even if you sing, don't say I taught you." Gao Ming said.

The way they muttered, talked and laughed was clearly seen by Hua Rong on the court, and he couldn't help but feel uncomfortable. The unhappiness in his heart turned into the strength of his playing, and he hit the polo so that it flew away. Go out, go straight to the opponent's goal, and score another point.

When Gao Ming heard the cheers, his attention was drawn back to the court. Seeing the goal was Hua Rong, he almost jumped up excitedly, "That's great—Hua Rong—"

Hua Rong was riding on the horse, when he heard Gao Ming's call, he stopped and looked at him with a smile.

Just at this time, a gust of wind blew the bead curtain, Princess Puning saw the handsome man on the horse through the gap of the bead curtain, and asked in a daze, "Whose husband is that?"

"It's not anyone's husband, it's just an officer of the Forbidden Army. There was someone named Hua Rong just now. It should be his name."

Princess Puning subconsciously read the names on both sides, and accidentally saw the ugly thing in his house, turned his head angrily, and for the first time had a vicious thought in his heart, why didn't he get injured in the head by a polo, and died Woolen cloth.

At this time, a sound of exclamation attracted Princess Puning's attention back to the field, but she didn't want to see that it didn't matter. Just as Xuan Zan was looking at her, she felt the dazzling impact through the bead curtain.

Ugly, brutally ugly.

And the frightened cries of the sisters around proved that it was not her eyes that were the problem, but her husband was so ugly that everyone was angry.

Gao Ming was happier to see Hua Rong scoring again than he was playing himself.

When the game was over, Hua Rong, as the winner, stepped forward to accept the emperor's award. Gao Ming looked at him with a smile on his face and winked at him secretly.

Hua Rong and other golfers went down after accepting the award

Because the officials prepared banquets for all their golfers in the hall, they had to take off their protective gear and hurry over.

Zhao Ji is very satisfied with the performance of the players on the polo field today, but Shao Wang's son-in-law Xuan Zan is really not good-looking. He obviously scared the female relatives a few times. He just glanced at it and clearly saw Murong Guifei and several other harem Beauty, her beauty paled.

But Shao Wang, who was sitting by the side, seemed to be very satisfied with this son-in-law, smiling and stroking his beard from time to time.

Shao Wang is the younger brother of Zhao Ji. Although he is not a compatriot of the same mother, his relationship was good when Zhao Ji was still the king of Duan. After he became the emperor, his relationship has not changed. The main reason is that Shao Wang is straightforward and Zhao Ji likes him very much. point.

It's just that Shao Wang's aesthetics is so straightforward, and he found such a son-in-law for his daughter.

Zhao Ji couldn't remember how many times he asked Shao Wang, "Do you really like this son-in-law?"

"Does it need to be said?!" Shao Wang's love is beyond words, "I am a father-in-law, of course I am satisfied with my appearance."

Shao Wang has no son, only a daughter, so the son-in-law treats him as half a son.

Look at his son-in-law's strong and strong body, his strong head, his eyes like copper bells, his big blessed nose, and his fat and strong mouth. From a distance, how manly he is, he is so much stronger than those little white faces. where it goes.

There's a guy named Huarong on the field, he's not good looking, he's ugly to death.

Zhao Ji felt that he still had aesthetics, and Xuan Zanru could not be called dignified no matter what, he looked at Shao Wang silently for a moment, thinking, this is Shao Wang's family business, so don't worry about it.

The other polo players all retreated, only Xuan Zan, because he was the son-in-law of King Shao, returned to the field after taking off the polo protective gear, and walked towards this side under the guidance of the eunuch.

Zhao Ji's eyes hurt a bit when he looked at him. As an emperor with profound artistic attainments, he has been pursuing beauty and enjoying beauty so far, so he really doesn't want to look at Xuan Zan more.

When he saw Murong Yanze, Gao Ming, and Yan Qing, he immediately felt that these two young faces were like jade, and their eyes were much more comfortable. "Come on, follow me to the banquet and have a drink with the golfers." Then he said to Xuan Zan said: "The county horses come too."

A group of people arrived in the hall where the polo players were entertained. The emperor warmly greeted the polo players, went deep into it, exchanged polo skills, praised several key players, and awarded gold, silver and silk.

In a joyful and peaceful atmosphere, the officials finished their condolences and returned to the harem, while Gao Ming and other courtiers also dispersed and went out of the palace to return to their residences.

After the official banquet was over, there was another drink between the two polo teams, and a restaurant was reserved outside the palace, and all the people had to go there.

Gao Ming is not a golfer, and he is not familiar with the Imperial Army, so he separated from Hua Rong and went home first.

As a result, the whole afternoon, it was almost evening, and Huarong still didn't come back, so he sent Shi Qian to look for it.

Soon, Shi Qian brought the news, "General Hua is at Princess Puning's mansion. Although I didn't see it with my own eyes, I saw General Hua's horse tied outside the door. I can't be wrong."

Gao Ming couldn't sit still anymore, why did he go to Princess Puning's mansion?Immediately asked someone to prepare a car and drove over there, after the notification, he was led directly into the front yard of the mansion to meet Hua Rong.

Sure enough, I saw Hua Rong in the courtyard, he hugged his shoulders, with a look of displeasure.

Upon seeing him, Gao Ming asked anxiously, "Why are you here? I'm going to Kaifeng Mansion to report the disappearance."

The anger on Huarong's face subsided, and he turned to smile and said, "You care about me so much? Did you come here specifically to find me?"

"What do you think? Isn't this nonsense." Gao Ming snorted, "I'm afraid you'll be in the limelight today, and there are so many dignitaries at the scene, so someone will tie you up to get married. Quickly explain why you're here."

"Who can tie me up." Hua Rong said: "On the way back, a carriage was startled and came straight at me. I dodged, but still scraped together. It was Puning Zongji's carriage. I was not hurt, and I was going to leave, but the county horse suddenly started to find fault, saying that I was really so good at archery that I called Xiao Li Guang, and some other nasty things."

"Then you come into the mansion to make an appointment?" Gao Ming blinked his eyes, "Of course it's not suitable for an appointment, Yubijian?"

"Hmph, I'll teach him how to watch Huarong archery today!" Huarong hugged his shoulders and hummed.

Gao Ming sighed and said, "One more thing is worse than one less thing. Why bother to delay going home for dinner."

Hua Rong was about to speak when he heard someone behind him say in a huffy voice: "So you're still here? I thought you escaped! Hmph!"

Gao Ming looked back, and saw Xuan Zan coming over with a bow in each hand, and threw one of them to Hua Rong, "Try it first, and lose when the time comes, don't say there is something wrong with the bow."

Gao Ming found that watching Xuan Zan from a close distance is more impactful than watching it from a long distance, and the unsightly index is doubled.

Xuan Zan also saw Gao Ming, "Who are you?"

"Hui Junma, I am Gao Ming, Secretary of the Imperial City, and a friend of Hua Rong."

Xuan Zan looked Gao Ming up and down, and then said, "I've heard that there is a man named Hua Rong who is good at archery in the martial arts school of the Imperial College, and the nickname of Xiao Li Guang was given by Gao Yanei. I don't have any other requests today. If Hua Rong loses to me, you take back this nickname, and he is not allowed to call it that in the future."

Why? !Gao Ming smiled: "Nicknames are the same as names. They are called by others. Now that they have been called out, even if I take them back, I can't control the people talking about them." Rong will lose."

The last sentence is the key point, how could Huarong lose, so it doesn't matter whether the promise is taken back or not, because it is unnecessary.

Xuan Zan snorted, "I don't care, if Hua Rong loses, he can't continue to be called by this nickname. Parachutist Li Guang is not such a badass as him."

Gao Ming discovered that Xuan Zan's eyes were not upturned, but his nostrils were turned upside down. Isn't he too contemptuous of others?

They haven't discriminated against appearance yet, and he even discriminates against Hua Rong.

Hua Rong was about to speak out of anger, but Gao Ming stopped him, and praised him with a smile: "The reason why we call him Xiao Li Guang is not because of his appearance, but because of his archery skills. Otherwise, shouldn't he be called Li Guang?" Sai Panan, and your name should be Sai Zhangfei."

A broken county horse, what a cow, sarcasm and sarcasm others, I still keep you.

Hua Rong was annoyed at first, but seeing Gao Ming speak for him, he was not annoyed at all, and looked at Xuan Zan with a smile.

He didn't know why Xuan Zan was so hostile towards him, but no one is afraid of anyone, just talk about strength, "Let's not waste time, let's compete quickly."

Xuan Zan also wanted to speak with strength, so he walked straight ahead, then turned his head, "Follow me."

The three of them and some entourage followed Xuan Zan to an archery range.

It turned out that His Royal Highness Shao Wang had taken a fancy to Xuan Zan's good arrow skills, and Xuan Zan had grown in his aesthetics, so he resolutely recruited Xuan Zan as his son-in-law.

Archery is Xuan Zan's housekeeping skill, and he has always been proud of it.

But no matter how proud he is, the princess doesn't even look at him. It's been almost a year since he was married, and he hasn't consummated the house yet. On the wedding night, when he just entered the bridal chamber, the princess started crying and beat him out. Since then, he has never entered the princess's room again.

Everyone said that the county director was sexual, and he had a bad attitude towards others since he was a child.

He has always comforted himself in this way, but today, by accident on the street, the princess's carriage collided with Huarong's carriage, and he realized that this is not the case. The princess can laugh, but not at him.

Huarong was just a stranger, so the princess smiled at him, still in front of him as her husband.

Xuan Zan was not only furious, but he couldn't be more angry when he heard the people next to him say that this Hua Rong was called Xiao Li Guang, and he was good at arrows.

This Huarong is also violent, and he followed him after a few words of provocation.

Xuan Zan clenched his bow, he must ruthlessly trample on Hua Rong Xiao Li Guang's signboard today, and let the princess see who is the real archer.

A group of people came to the small school yard in the backyard. There was no such a place at first, but the county horse loves archery, so they picked up a few houses and temporarily changed the school yard, so the school yard is not big and the pile is not far away.

When Hua Rong saw such a narrow venue, he lost interest, "No matter how you plan to compare, this is too close to the target."

"It's close, you may not be able to hit it." Xuan Zan said: "If one shoots ten arrows, as long as one shot is slightly off the target, it will be considered a loss."

There is a bit of wind at night, which will affect the direction of the arrow. It is also difficult to hit the bull's-eye with ten shots.

At this time, in the ear room next to the school grounds, Princess Puning and Shao Wang were standing in the room watching the situation in the school grounds.

Shao Wang roughly guessed why his son-in-law would suddenly attack Hua Rong, and couldn't help admonishing his daughter, "You, you are married, how can you still laugh at other men, what does your husband think?"

Unexpectedly, as soon as the words fell, she saw her daughter looking at him with grief and indignation. There seemed to be a raging fire burning in her eyes, and it also seemed to be emitting a cold air like thirty-nine ice.

She worked hard to face Xuanzan's face, and when she met other people who didn't hurt her eyes, she felt happy from the bottom of her heart, so what's wrong with smiling? !She doesn't have any other dirty thoughts, why can't she laugh? !She felt that she was just out of politeness, while Xuan Zan and his father thought badly about her.

King Shao cleared his throat, "Father knows that you don't like county horses, but father still said the same thing, you have to change your eyes, the current atmosphere in Tokyo is really beyond evaluation, no one appreciates rough real men .”

If you like it, marry it. Wouldn't it be good for you to marry Xuanzan? !Princess Puning tried her best to keep calm, after all, the education she received from childhood did not allow her to say anything against her father.

"Father, according to my opinion, Huarong's arrow technique may not be under the praise, maybe it will be even better, if not, he will bring himself to humiliate himself today."

"You don't understand anything. Take your time." Shao Chao's daughter shook her head.

She really didn't understand, she just didn't want Xuan Zan to win.

In the school grounds, servants came with quiver, each with ten arrows.

Gao Ming could see that Hua Rong was very disappointed. Obviously, the difficulty of the opponent's setting was too low, even if he won, it would be meaningless.

At this time, Huarong suddenly took off the hair tie, tied it to his eyes, then took out an arrow and put it on the bowstring. While Xuan Zan was still fiddling with the feather arrow, he had already shot an arrow first. .

This hits the bullseye.

Xuan Zan first saw the arrow in the bull's eye, and hurriedly said, "It hasn't started yet!" But then he saw that Hua Rong was blindfolded, and couldn't help being stunned.

At the moment of stupefaction, Hua Rong opened his bow again and shot one accurately, which was still a bull's-eye.

Shao Wang, who was watching inside the house, was dumbfounded for a moment, and looked straight at the school field outside the window, and saw that Huarong, not only did not intend to stop, but was repeating the actions of holding arrows, bowing, and shooting arrows.

Those arrows flew out of his hand, one after another, they all hit the bull's-eye without missing a beat.

It wasn't until the last shot was over that Hua Rong took off the blindfolded headband, and said to Gao Ming, "It's no fun, let's go." After finishing speaking, he threw the bow to the servant of the princess mansion, and strode out.

Xuan Zan's mouth opened and closed, trying to say something, but unable to say, "This, this..."

Although Xuan Zan hasn't fired an arrow yet, everyone including Xuan Zan himself knows that he actually lost.

A crushing defeat.

Gao Ming glanced back at Xuan Zan's mouth that was as surprised as a fish out of water, raised his eyebrows, and chased after Hua Rong with a smile.

Hua Rong raised his chin slightly, "How was my arrow technique just now?"

"It's as good as before." Gao Ming only had one word in his mind: Handsome.

"This is the end?"

"Tell me, how do you want me to praise you?"

Hua Rong thought for a while, "Do you like watching me shoot arrows?"

"like."

"That's enough, let's go back." Hua Rong smiled contentedly.