Hanhou

The two horses are evenly matched, regardless of their physical strength or speed.

Everyone in the livestock farm rushed to hear the sound, and seeing the situation in front of them, they didn't care about being surprised. The first reaction was to fetch the lasso, and if something went wrong, they immediately forcibly separated the two.

Wei Yue and Li Danghu each tightened the reins, clamped the horse's belly with their legs, seized the moment when the horseman stood up, and exerted force with both hands suddenly.The neighing of Ao Lilu came to the ears, and the war horse was forced to turn around, and separated, with its front hooves stepping on the ground, and white air from its mouth and nose.

The accompanying knights arrived one after another, seeing the familiar scene with helplessness on their faces.

It wasn't that they deliberately delayed, but that the mounts of Wei Yue and the others were too fast, and they ran forward with their hooves spread out, and ordinary war horses couldn't catch up at all.In addition, the mounts of the two are both top horses, and when they bite together, the momentum is really amazing. My own mount is not willing to approach at all, and it is useless to pull the rein.

These days, the two war horses fought almost as soon as they met, kicking and biting, vowing not to give up regardless of the winner.

Fortunately, the two were of equal strength, and Wei Yue and Li Danghu were on the side. There were indeed injuries, but they were all minor injuries.

The two horses were separated, Zhao Jia let the teenagers and children disperse, jumped over the fence with one hand, and walked quickly to Wei Yue.

"I've met the third son." Zhao Jia cupped his hands, turned his gaze to Li Danghu who was at the side, and asked, "I don't know who this son is?"

He vaguely had an answer in his heart, but he still needed to verify it.

Before Wei Yue could speak, Li Danghu got off his horse neatly and said with a smile, "Longxi Li Danghu is the prefect of Shangjun."

"I've seen Mr. Li." Zhao Jia cupped his hands again.

"There is no need to be too polite." Li Danghu took two steps forward, looked at Zhao Jia carefully, and suddenly patted Zhao Jia on the shoulder forcefully, and said, "When I was in Shangjun, I heard from the master book that the method of taming cattle, the new plow Both the columbine and the columbine are good things, you have made great contributions!"

"Mr. Li praised it absurdly. The method of taming cattle has existed in ancient times. Jia found it in the agricultural book of the previous dynasty. The new plow and columbine cart were made by craftsmen. Jia only mentioned it briefly, and he dare not take credit for it."

After staring at Zhao Jia for a while, Li Danghu looked strange, and suddenly said: "Sure enough, I grew up with A Yue."

Zhao Jia looked up in astonishment.

What do you say?

Wei Yue handed over the reins to Wei Wu, and smiled at Zhao Jia, "Don't worry about it, Ah Duo is just praising you."

Praise?

Zhao Jia looked at Wei Yue, turned a few corners in his mind, and inexplicably came up with a thought: besides his natural blackness, does the third son of Wei have some other characteristics?

Li Dang is the head of the household in the army, with a hearty disposition and no airs of nobleman, and he can get along well with the young and strong in the army.After a brief exchange of pleasantries, Zhao Jia led a tour of the livestock farm, saw the cattle, sheep and camels brought back from this trip, and walked to the place where children and teenagers practiced archery.

Pulling out a few wooden arrows from the grass figurine, and scanning the marks left on the target, Li Danghu turned around and smiled at Wei Qing, who was holding the bow and arrow: "This is a Yi bow, can't you draw a strong bow?"

According to Zhao Jia's order, most of the teenagers and children had already left, Wei Qing and Zhao Ponu stayed temporarily to clean up the wooden arrows on the ground and the target.They were familiar with Zhao Jia and Wei Yue, but they were very unfamiliar with Li Danghu.Hearing his question, he subconsciously looked at Zhao Jia.

"A young man Ji is still young, so he can only use the Yi bow. Po Nu can already use the ox horn bow." Zhao Jia explained to Li Danghu, and at the same time signaled Wei Qing and Zhao Po Nu to step forward and try shooting a few arrows on the spot.

Li Guang's archery skills are superb, and he has the ability to pierce Yang with a hundred steps.Li Danghu, as the eldest son of Li Guang, has obtained his true biography.If they can get one or two of his advice, both Wei Qing and Zhao Ponu will benefit a lot.

In addition, if Wei Qing can get advice from Li Danghu and get to know each other well, maybe history can try to turn around and avoid the bad thing that Li Gan stabbed Wei Qing and was killed by Huo Qubing.

"Steady your arms."

Having seen Wei Qing and Zhao Ponu shoot bows, without Zhao Jia asking, Li Danghu walked up to the two of them, patted their backs with his big hand, and pointed out the essentials of archery.

"Knowing the essentials is not enough, you need to practice hard." Li Danghu cherished his talents, took off his strong bow from his horse, stepped back thirty steps, and personally demonstrated to Zhao Puonu and Wei Qing.

The bowstring is fully drawn, and the arrows shoot out like shooting stars.The strength is so strong that it penetrates the bull's-eye, and half of the arrow appears behind the target.

Wei Qing and Zhao Puonu walked up to the target, pulled out the arrow, looked at the marks left by the target, and thought that one day they would be able to drive such a strong bow, and couldn't help but feel burning in their hearts.

"You are all talented, as long as you are diligent, your archery skills must be outstanding." Li Danghu put away his strong bow and smiled at the two of them.

Wei Qing and Zhao Puonu looked at each other, respectfully agreed.

When the two left holding the wooden arrow, Zhao Jia thanked Li Danghu.

"It's just a little effort, you are too polite. They already have talents, and it's a pity to bury them." Li Danghu waved his hands and smiled, "How is your archery?"

Zhao Jia smiled, picked up the ox horn bow, stood in front of Li Danghu, and shot three arrows in a row.If you can't penetrate the target, the arrow hits the bull's-eye.

Observing Zhao Jia's habit of archery, Li Danghu said, "Have you been taught by Ah Yue?"

"Indeed." Zhao Jia nodded.

Wei Yue taught him how to write and how to shoot arrows.Even though he studied with Hu Bo later, the habits formed at the beginning can't be changed, and those who are familiar with him can see it at a glance.

"Ah Yue's archery skills are really good, just a little behind mine." Li Danghu raised his right hand, making a distance of one knuckle.

Wei Yue raised her eyebrows and looked at Li Danghu, shook her head, smiled without saying a word.

Li Danghu folded his arms around his chest, raised his chin and said, "Not convinced? You lost to me in the martial arts arena back then. A Weng and Wei Shijun are both witnesses."

"That happened when I was ten years old." Wei Yue said.

Li Danghu's family has a long history of learning, his childhood toys were bows and arrows, and his father is a cheater, he has always been the best among his peers.In contrast, Wei Shang prefers to slash with a sword. Ten-year-old Wei Yue's swordsmanship can be crushed. Compared with archery, he is indeed no match for Li Danghu.

"Win is winning, losing is losing, it has nothing to do with age." Li Danghu insisted not to let go.

"How about one more comparison?" Wei Yue raised her eyebrows, her temperament becoming more and more warm.

"I like it very much!" Li Danghu grinned.

Li Guang was often transferred, from west to east, he almost served as the prefect of the border counties of the Han Dynasty.Since the age of ten, the number of times the two met gradually decreased, and it was difficult to have the opportunity to compete. The only two or three times were basically tied. Li Danghu always suspected that Wei Yue was not using all his strength.

Previously, they wanted to compete in a horse battle, but the blades of the two hadn't met yet, and the mounts fought together first.Nowadays, compared with riding and archery, there is no need for horses to hedge, so there should be no problem.

Zhao Jia knew Wei Yue's archery skills, and had just seen Li Danghu open his bow, so he was looking forward to this match.Immediately, Qing Zhuang was summoned to clear a piece of pasture as quickly as possible, and set up more than 20 grass targets one after another for the competition between the two.

"This will inevitably be boring." Li Danghu came over, pointed to the target in the distance, and said, "Stand a few more times, and the distance will be farther away. Ah Yue and I will shoot the bow together, how about it?"

Wei Yue nodded, and said to Zhao Jia: "Aduo, is there any wooden planks in the warehouse? Have someone make an archery target and set it up three hundred paces away."

"Three hundred steps?" Zhao Jia paused.

This distance is close to the limit of the horn bow.

The so-called limit does not mean that the bow and arrow cannot be shot further, but that beyond this distance, the arrow's accuracy will deteriorate, making it difficult to accurately hit the target, and the lethality will also be greatly weakened.

However, since Wei Yue said so, he was naturally quite sure that Li Danghu did not object, which proved that it was not a problem for him either.Zhao Jia turned around and asked Qing Zhuang to go to the storeroom to get wooden boards, and made targets according to Wei Yue's request, setting up a board every fifty steps.

During this period, Li Danghu kept asking for further distance, and Qing Zhuang continued to move forward with the target on his shoulders. From 350 steps, [-] steps to [-] steps, the distance became farther and farther, and the target surface became smaller and smaller. The last two stood directly at four A hundred paces away.

After the target was set up, Qing Zhuang immediately spread out to the left and right.

Knowing that Wei Yue and Li Danghu were going to test riding and shooting, everyone in the farm surrounded them one after another.Even the children who were herding sheep nearby were attracted. They drove the sheep to the fence, hung their arms on the railings, and looked forward on tiptoe.

Zhao Xin and Gongsun Ao surrounded Zhao Ponu, Ah Mai, Ah Zhi and other boys gathered around Wei Qing, listening to the two explain the archery essentials they learned from Li Danghu.

In the middle of the speech, suddenly heard a noise, Ah Gu pointed to the front, and said loudly: "Let's talk later, the third son and Li Gongzi are competing in riding and shooting!"

The teenagers and boys stood up one after another, scrambling to climb up the wooden fence.

Three of them crawled slowly, and were directly picked up by Gongsun Ao and Zhao Xin, and either put them on the stakes or put them on their shoulders.For a boy whose height and strength are increasing rapidly, a weight of thirty to forty catties is nothing at all.

Wei Wu and the scouts blew their horns, and the desolate sound spread throughout the farm.

The soldiers of Shangjun and Yunzhong counties drew out their short knives, struck the scabbard vigorously, and cheered for Li Danghu and Wei Yue.

The two mounted their horses, with their strong bows in hand, and their quiveres full, standing on their backs.In the sound of the horn, the war horse neighed, and at the same time the people stood up, like two bolts of lightning galloping out from the starting point.

"it is good!"

Seeing this scene, Jun Wu and Qing Zhuang applauded loudly, Zhao Jia stood by the fence, affected by the atmosphere, the blood in his chest also boiled.

After galloping for a few meters, the speed of the horse did not slow down at all.

Wei Yue and Li Danghu loosened the reins one after another, controlled the horse with only their legs, aimed at the first archery target, and drew the bowstring on the horse's back.The arrow flies like a shooting star and hits the bull's-eye accurately.

The speed of the war horse was getting faster and faster, and the wind whizzed by.

The two kept firing their bows, passing one target after another, and the arrows pierced into the bull's-eye one after another, all with perfect accuracy.For the most powerful ones, half of the arrow body penetrated into the grass target, leaving only the tail of the arrow slightly shaking.

"it is good!"

The young men and the army burst into applause, and the teenagers and children were also excited, waving their fists and shouting loudly.

The bay red horse moved closer to Zhao Jia, put its head on his shoulder, and seemed to want to run around too.Zhao Jia patted the horse's head with his hand, poured caramel from the cloth bag, handed it to the bay red horse's mouth, and said with a smile: "You can't outrun them, eat the candy."

The bay red horse swept away the caramel and continued to hit Zhao Jia on the head.Zhao Jia didn't know whether to laugh or cry, so he simply hugged its neck and ran along the mane on the horse's neck, not allowing it to make trouble.

Wei Qing'e knew that Zhao Jia had returned, and brought Wei Xia to the livestock farm.Looking from a distance, he found that the young and strong women who were patrolling were not there, and the surroundings of the sheepfold were empty, and he subconsciously frowned.

"Girl, look over there." Wei Qiuce immediately stepped forward and pointed in the direction where the crowd gathered.

At the same time, there was another burst of applause. It turned out that Wei Yue and Li Danghu shot at a target [-] paces away at the same time, turned their horses' heads, and aimed at a target further away.

"Someone is riding and shooting?" Wei Qing'e was curious, and rode his horse over.

When Sun Mi saw Wei Qing'e, she immediately asked Qing Zhuang to find Zhao Jia.

"Sister is here?" Zhao Jia was comforting the bay red horse, when he heard that Wei Qingmo was coming, he looked up and saw the girl sitting on the horse, he immediately raised a smile and beckoned.

"Sister, here!"

Wei Qing'e dismounted from his horse, took advantage of the path that Qing Zhuang and the woman made way, walked quickly towards Zhao Jia, and climbed over the fence neatly.

"Is the third young master competing with arrows?" Seeing the dark horse galloping in the arena, Wei Qing asked.Finding that the opponent's archery skills were comparable to Wei Yue's, he let out a curious "Huh".

"Yes." Zhao Jia smiled and pointed to Li Danghu who was galloping past, "The one who is competing with the third son is the eldest son of Li Taishou in Shangjun."

"The eldest son of the prefect of Shangjun? No wonder." Wei Qingmo said.

Like Wei Shang, Li Guang has been in the frontier for many years, and few frontier residents don't know his name.

Wei Qing'e came to the livestock farm to inquire about Zhao Jia's going out of the fortress, but now is really not a good time.Anyway, the man has returned safely, so you can ask anytime you want, so the girl put aside her thoughts, relaxed, looked at the galloping horse with Zhao Jia, clapped their hands and applauded together when they saw something wonderful.

When Zhao's livestock farm was full of noise, Lan Ji and other Xiongnu envoys stepped on their horses, and they were not far from the border county.

At the same time, the memorial to King Linjiang was sent to Weiyang Palace again, and the team dispatched by Changle Palace entered the kingdom of King Linjiang and was about to arrive at Jiangling, the capital.

Yunmei and a girl surnamed Fang were both given to King Linjiang.

Before leaving Chang'an, the two were summoned by the Queen Mother,

Empress Dowager Dou didn't say much, but asked them to serve Liu Rong wholeheartedly, and each gave three pieces of silk, a gold hairpin, and a piece of beautiful jade, and let them go back to their residence.

Fang Ji meditated silently looking at the gold hairpin, beautiful jade and silk, as if her whole being was cut off from the outside world.Yunmei didn't care to pay attention to her strangeness, she asked several other girls, and when she learned that only the two of them were summoned by the Queen Mother, she couldn't help but feel agitated and became more and more anxious.

The next day, while the other girls were still asleep, Yunmei and Fang Ji were woken up by the palace servants, packed their bags, and boarded the carriage to Jiangling.

The team set off from Chang'an, traveled fast along the way, and passed post stations without stopping. When they arrived at the destination, Yunmei and Fang Ji were a little haggard.

Unaccustomed to the climate in the south, Fang Ji caught a cold and became ill, and her body became hot at night. Thanks to Yunmei's careful care, she finally turned the corner.Although he recovered from his illness, he was a little out of shape, and he didn't see the beautiful shadow before.

The eunuchs in the team checked and decided to move Fang Ji to another carriage.

When Yunmei helped tidy up the clothes, Fang Ji remained silent.It was not until before leaving that he held Yunmei's hand and delivered the gold hairpin to her.

"What?" Yunmei was taken aback.

Fang Ji firmly held her wrist, and whispered in her ear: "In Changle Palace, I met a palace maid with the same surname, and she told me Linjiang Wang Renhou, it's not lucky to go here, please, I will return in a few years Home."

Hearing Fang Ji's words, Yunmei froze on the spot.

"Amei, I don't want to go outside the Great Wall and I don't want to stay in the palace. I want to go home. I want to see Ah Weng and my mother. I want to see my brother, brother and sister." Fang Ji's voice was hoarse.

"you……"

"Amei, if you also want to go home, follow my method." Fang Ji leaned into Yunmei's ear and whispered a few times, "If you don't want to, keep this golden hairpin, it will always be useful in the palace."

After saying that, Fang Ji let go of Yunmei's hand, turned around and left the carriage, and never looked back.

Yunmei sat in the carriage, motionless for a long time.

She finally understood why Fang Ji's behavior had changed so much, and finally understood why the two of them rode in the same carriage, and only Fang Ji caught a cold and fell ill.

Holding the gold hairpin, Yunmei was in a complicated mood.

To be honest, Fang Ji doesn't need to tell her the truth, she just needs to keep silent and wait to go home.Now, at the risk of being accused, telling her the way to get out before entering the palace, it might not be possible for someone else to do it.

However, even if she knew this method, Yunmei couldn't use it.

From Bianjun to Chang'an, and then from Chang'an to Jiangling, she experienced much more than the previous 15 years.

The two family members given to the princes and kings were seriously ill one after another, and the queen mother alone could not explain it in front of the queen mother. The eunuchs and palace people who took care of them along the way were all inseparable.

If things come to light, neither she nor Fang Ji can escape.

The carriage staggered and soon arrived at Jiangling City.

Yunmei took off the gold hairpin from her hair and put it away with Fang Ji's.Then he took out the silver hairpin that was kept close to him, and carefully placed it in his hair.

The eunuch who was traveling with him opened the curtain of the car, saw the silver hairpin on Yunmei's hair, his eyes flickered, but he didn't say anything.Just cheer her up, she will enter the Linjiang Palace today.

"From now on, everything depends on the family members themselves."

"I understand, thank you elder."

When the car curtain was lowered, Yunmei closed her eyes and said to herself: "I will live a good life, I will live a good life."

One day, she will see A Weng, A Mu and A Tao again, fulfilling the promise she made when she left the cloud.

In Linjiang Prince's Mansion, Liu Rong put down the bamboo slips, got up and walked to the window, looked at the sky with dark clouds, and thought about the news from Chang'an. There was a young man with a weak crown, and the twilight had already appeared on his handsome face.