bastard returns

She gave Ning Ruhai a drink, and at the same time looked in Tang's direction with some trepidation. The seat there was always reserved for the most prestigious people, even if Ning Ruhai had an official position, she could only sit at the bottom. Reminiscent of the last time Venerable Lingxu came to give Tang's pulse a special visit, Shen couldn't help beating her heart. She had suspected that Tang Yingyao had an important relative, but now looking at the battle, it turned out that this matter is still true No way!

At this moment, a group of people came towards Ning's family. Ning Yuan squinted his eyes and saw that Si Kongxu was walking in the front, and there was a group of servants behind him.Ever since the matter of Ning Ping'er, although the Ning family didn't say anything publicly, they knew in their hearts that they had formed a relationship with Sikong Xu. Now seeing the fourth prince, he seemed to be walking this way on purpose, and his expression seemed to be uneasy. What good intentions, Ning Ruhai didn't hide or hide, so he had no choice but to bow down and salute, "My minister sees the Fourth Highness."

"Lord Ning, you don't need to be polite." Unexpectedly, Sikong Xu looked very amiable, as if he had no old grievances with the Ning family at all. He raised a pair of handsome eyebrows, his eyes were slightly calm like the sea, looked at Ning Yuan, and said : "The third son is satisfied with the arrangement of the hall?"

Ning Yuan didn't know why, "Why did Your Highness say that?"

Sikong Xu pointed to the Tang family and Ning Xin'er on the high platform, "This hall knows that they are the third son, your mother and younger sister, so we specially asked people to add two more seats on the high platform so that the two can be in the final stage." It’s a good place to watch the dragon boats, if the third son is interested, you might as well go up with the hall, your place has already been prepared in the hall.”

Ning Yuan's heart skipped a beat. He originally thought that Huyan Yuanchen arranged for Tang Corporation and Ning Xin'er to be there, but he was still muttering how Huyan Yuanchen had such a great ability to arrange Tang Corporation and the others into the first-class seats. Who knew? Listening to Sikong Xu's words now, it turned out to be his handwriting.

What kind of wishful thinking is he planning? Could it be that he wants to use Tang Corporation and Ning Xin'er to blackmail him?

Won't.Ning Yuan shook his head and waved away his own thoughts. Under the watchful eyes of everyone, Sikong Xu didn't have the guts to do so, and since Sikong Xu is here, then Sikong Yue must also come. His Highness stayed in Jiangzhou for so long , but I have been waiting to catch his Sikong Xu's mistakes, not to mention that on the day Ning Ping'er was sunk in the pond, Sikong Xu already knew that he had several handles on him. Personality, it is impossible to do things that hurt the enemy one thousand and self-damage eight hundred.

"No." Ning Yuan looked up at Tang, and said, "I am a junior at home. Since my mother and younger sister have received His Highness's favor and hospitality, I can't forget my duty. I will stay with my grandmother and stay with my grandmother." Good morning, father and mother."

"In this case, it's really a pity." Sikong Xu showed a perfect smile to Ning Yuan, "This hall still wants to take this opportunity to get closer to the third son, but there is no rush, we still have opportunities in Japan." After finishing speaking, Sikong Xu nodded to Ning Ruhai again, and led a group of people up to the high platform.

The maidservants serving on the high platform hurriedly put down what they were doing to salute. Tang also stood up and bent down. Sikong Xu waved his hands and flattened their bodies, but walked up to Ning Xiner, squatted down, and asked in a soft voice. Said: "little sister, how old are you?"

"I won't tell you!" In the end, facing Sikong Xu's handsome face that made many girls' hearts flutter after seeing it, Ning Xiner not only refused to buy it, she even lowered her eyelids and made a face at him, and then quickly hid After Tang's back, he still didn't forget to poke his head out and slap him with the tongue twice.

"You child, why are you so rude!" Tang shi was afraid that Sikong Xu would blame her, so she hurriedly scolded Ning Xiner, but Sikong Xu waved her hand, "It's okay, Tongyan Wuji, miss is just a child's heart." After speaking, he sat down on one of the two chairs at the front.

Tang also dragged Ning Xiner to sit down, still feeling a little uneasy, if it wasn't because Ning Xiner wanted to watch the dragon boat, she might not have planned to leave the house at all.However, Ning Xin'er was obviously not affected by the surrounding atmosphere, she still fumbled around with great interest, and when she finished eating the apple in her hand, she took the Duanyang cake from the maid and continued to eat.

After this little episode, the Ning family also sat down in the area that belonged to their family one by one, but the aunts inevitably started to discuss, saying that Tang's status was the same as theirs, why should they be treated so well, even The old lady had to sit down, it was really unfilial, but Ning Yuan didn't think there was anything wrong with it, Tang and Ning Xin'er were not welcome in Ning's mansion, so naturally there was no need to be humble at this moment, not to mention it was Sikong Xu's arrangement Well, even if these people have opinions in their hearts, they can only chew their tongues from below, and dare not bring them to the surface.

Shen Shi has been thinking non-stop since she sat down. She heard from Sikong Xu's words just now that Sikong Xu seemed to be doing this just to build a relationship with Ning Yuan. Don't complain, if Sikong Xu gains power in the future, it will definitely cause some troubles to the Ning Mansion, but if someone in the family can get close to Sikong Xu and resolve this unhappiness, it will cure Shen's heart disease, so She unconsciously turned her head to look at Ning Yuan, with a little more seriousness in her eyes.

The dragon boat competition will not start until noon, and there is still a period of time at this time. Ning Yuan went to see how the dragon boat is getting ready, so he asked Ning Ruhai and Shen Shi for a vacation, got up and left the seat, and came to all The dragon boat rowers were at the place where they were preparing for the final race, and they saw Wang Hu's group at a glance. Wang Hu was wearing a special navy blue mandarin jacket, and he was making the final pre-race mobilization to a group of soldiers below with a rough voice. , Huyan Yuanchen was also standing there, bare-naked and strong upper body, with open arms, letting Zhou Shi and Yan Fei rub medicinal wine and gauze on his arms.

Ever since Huyan Yuanchen was entangled by Wang Hu and fell down several times, and was defeated every time, it was rare to arouse the competitiveness of this foreign prince, and he actually asked Wang Hu for advice on this matter. In terms of melee combat skills, of course, due to the limitations of his physique and age, he is still no match for Wang Hu despite all his strength, so that his arms are still a little strained, and he has to apply medicinal wine every day.

"Hey, the third young master is here!" Seeing Ning Yuan appearing, Wang Hu waved his hand boldly, and the group of soldiers immediately bowed in unison, and said loudly, "I've seen Mr. Ning!"

After this period of contact, Wang Hu completely understood that Ning Yuan's personality was completely different from what Ning Xiang said in his mouth. What kind of smooth and scheming character is this person? In addition to his sharp mouth, he also has a straightforward personality. Very well, although he couldn't figure out why Ning Xiang would say that, but it was logical to change the address of Ning Yuan from "boy" to "third young master".

Huyan Yuanchen glanced at Ning Yuan, moved his arms and said, "Why are you here? Could it be that you don't trust us?"

"There are too many things I'm worried about." Ning Yuan looked at Zhou Shi, "Aren't you going to tell me about my mother and Xin'er?"

"I knew you were going to ask this." Before Zhou Shi could open his mouth, Huyan Yuanchen interrupted him, walked up to Ning Yuan and said frankly: "I originally planned to hide it from you and make a joke for your mother and your sister. It’s a good place to watch the dragon boats, but I never thought of putting them in such a conspicuous place, it’s just that your Fourth Highness bumped into them when I picked them up.”

"You also know that I'm still a foreigner after all. Since your Fourth Highness wants to be a landlord, it's inconvenient for me to do it for you." After Huyan Yuanchen finished speaking, he shrugged his shoulders helplessly.

Ning Yuan nodded. In fact, he came here to confirm. Seeing that this matter was just Sikong Xu's temporary idea, and not something he had planned earlier in the morning, he breathed a sigh of relief. At the same time, he was secretly thinking about it. I really don't understand what kind of wishful thinking Sikong Xu is planning, and I have to ask my mother to take my sister to be more vigilant in the future.

"Third young master, don't worry, these brothers have been practicing for so many days, and today they are bound to take down the leader and give the lord the defense a face!" Wang Hu wrapped his arms around Huyan Yuanchen's neck with one hand, and beat his chest loudly with the other. Very confident.

When Ning Yuan returned to the river and sat down, it was not long before the dragon boat competition officially started, and the places around where people should sit were also full of people.Among the officials present, Cao Guichun and Ning Ruhai had the highest official positions, so the Ning family and the Cao family were tied at the front, but compared to the Ning family's somewhat nervous and expectant expressions, the Cao family seemed very careless, as if they had decided to take this year's leader into their pockets. In general.

The reason why the Cao family can get the leader of the big competition every year is not that the oarsmen they recruited are better than others, but that their helmsmen are too powerful.In addition to controlling the direction of the whole boat, the helm of the dragon boat can even control the whole boat to change the angle slightly by observing the current and wind direction to a certain extent, so as to move forward at the fastest speed, and the Cao family is It just so happened that there was such a very powerful helmsman, even though the Ning family recruited Kongwu strong men from the barracks to row the boat every year, he was slower than him no matter what.

Sure enough, Sikong Yue also arrived at the scene after Sikong Xu, sitting on that high platform, and holding a masked young man in his arms.In the presence of a large audience, Si Kongyue let the boy sit on his lap like this, and at the same time stretched a hand from below into the hem of the boy's clothes to caress, as if he was afraid that others would not see him, but considering his identity, No matter whether it is an official or a commoner, out of consideration for themselves, even if they saw it, they pretended not to see it.

The young man must have been beaten up by Sikong Yue, his face was flushed, his cherry lips were slightly parted, his whole body hung on Sikong Yue's body, panting coquettishly, from time to time he whimpered softly, making Sikong Yue's animal desire go wild, stretching out in his clothes The other hand moved more violently, and there were sticky and slippery sounds.

"Your Highness..." Su Che hugged Sikong Yue's neck, nibbling his ears with his teeth, pretending to be compliant with his flirting, but his eyes did not linger on Sikong Yue at all, but fell on Sikong Yue beside him. on Xu.

However, no matter how affectionately Su Che looked at him, Sikong Xu seemed not to feel his gaze at all. Not only did he not turn his head, but his eyes kept looking down the high platform, with an inexplicable smile on his mouth.

"Your Highness..." Su Che snorted again, and the voice was even louder and more charming. Sikong Yue thought that Su Che was calling him, but his bones were shattered by Su Che's voice, thinking that this beauty deserves to be called Call him Hua Kui. If there weren't too many people here, I really wanted to strip him naked immediately, and hold his slender and white waist to rectify the Fa on the spot. Thinking of this, Sikong Yue pushed his finger harder, and the finger that penetrated into Su Che's body touched him. A piece of soft meat, and he rubbed it vigorously, Su Che's feet convulsed uncontrollably, and he almost fell off Sikong Yue's legs.

But even after it was done like this, Su Che's eyes still didn't move away from Sikong Xu's body. He was very puzzled, his cry just now was so obvious, Sikong Xu must have heard it, why didn't he turn around to look With a glance at him, he couldn't help but follow Sikong Xu's gaze and look down, but what he saw was a scholar in a blue gown.

Cyan gown?Su Che is not stupid, he suddenly thought that whenever he and Sikong Xu made preferential proposals recently, Sikong Xu would make him dress up as a scholar in a blue gown, and seeing the way Sikong Xu looked at the scholar, there was even a hint of love in his playful eyes. With a trace of...concentration?

That's right, those are focused eyes. Who is that scholar? He has been by Sikong Xu's side for a long time, but this Fourth Highness has never looked at him with such eyes!

"You goblin, why are you distracted by this hall?" Sikong Yue's words with a low chuckle pulled back Su Che's thoughts, Su Che suddenly felt a heat all over his body, and the flower stem was already held by Sikong Yue's rough palm, And being rubbed vigorously by him, Su Che suffered from pain, and kept begging for mercy while grabbing Sikongyue's shoulder, causing Sikongyue to smile lewdly.

"Dangdangdang!" There was a sound of gongs and drums, and an old man in official uniform climbed up a high ladder, knocked on the gong in his hand, and said loudly: "Fathers and folks! The annual dragon boat competition will be held soon. It's time to start, now invite the participating fleets to enter!"

As soon as the old man finished speaking, the soldiers blew the ox horn horns lined up by the river. Along with the sound of these horns and the cheers of the people on both sides of the river, dragon boats with different carvings on the prows and colorful dragon boats slowly rowed in. After entering the river, they were lined up at the starting point, and each dragon boat was almost full of strong men with thick arms. They also wore clothes of the same color as the dragon boats to distinguish them from other fleets.

The race schedule of the Dragon Boat Competition is not long, only [-] feet in total, just like in ordinary competitions, whichever dragon boat can reach the finish line first with the fastest speed will be the leader of this year.

"Third brother, I hope that the dragon boat you run can really compete against the leader, and don't disappoint father." At this moment, Ning Xiang could no longer hold back the joy in his heart. He had waited for so many days. The purpose is to take a good look today, what kind of expression Ning Ruhai will have when the dragon boat organized by Ning Yuan not only fails to win the leader, but gets the last rank.

Ning Ruhai, who has always been very face-saving, is enough to make him aggrieved to be ranked second every year. If he takes the last place, he will beat that little bastard dozens of boards angrily.

In any case, as long as he could see Ning Yuan deflated, he would be happy.

"Second brother Cheng, you are auspicious, I will naturally not disappoint my father." Ning Yuan pursed his lips and smiled, Ning Xiang also hummed twice, and stopped talking.

More than a dozen dragon boats have already lined up, and a flag bearer on the shore raised his yellow flag high and waved it twice. When the flag bearer waved the yellow flag downward vigorously, the rowers who had already been ready to go received the signal , Qi Qi danced the oars in his hands, and the dragon boats shot out of the water like sharp arrows.

Because the shore is far away from the center of the river, people on the shore can't see the appearance of the rowers at all. They can only rely on the pattern on the bow of each dragon boat and the color of the crew's clothes to distinguish.From the very beginning of the competition, I saw a blue dragon boat and a red dragon boat clinging to each other and advancing side by side, leaving the other dragon boats behind in a short time.

"Father, one of the first two ships belongs to our family." Before Ning Yuan could speak, Ning Xiang hurriedly said to Ning Ruhai: "Did Father see that 'dragon spit beads'? Look at how brave it is! " Pointing to the red dragon boat, Ning Xiang said to Ning Ruhai who was nodding frequently while supporting his beard: "Based on this momentum, maybe our government can really win the leader this time."

Ning Yuan gave Ning Xiang a slightly strange look, "It's strange, third brother has never seen the dragon boat in our house, how do you know that the dragon spitting beads is ours?"

"What's the matter." Ning Xiang rolled his eyes, "Father was busy with everything and didn't pay attention to the dragon boat, but I was curious, so I went to the dock to see it."

"So that's how it is." Ning Yuan pursed his lips and smiled, and didn't say much, but that smile fell into Ning Xiang's eyes, and he felt a little strange for no reason.

At this moment, something happened to the two dragon boats that were advancing side by side on the river. The red dragon boat, which was going faster than a line, suddenly turned to the right and stopped going straight. The helmsman desperately seemed to be correcting the position of the rudder, but the whole dragon boat not only drifted further and further, but also took a big turn and turned around on the spot. Even the dragon boats that followed closely behind all went ahead one by one, and soon fell behind.

The helmsman must have been in a panic. Seeing this situation, he stood up and fiddled with the rudder behind him vigorously, but in the end, under the stunned eyes of the oarsman and the people on the shore, he broke the whole tiller.

This scene was really too funny, soon there were bursts of rustling laughter from the crowd, and then the laughter became louder and louder, and finally became a whole.

By this time, the dragon boat competition has already decided the winner. Without the opponent of Hongzhou, Qingzhou is completely singing triumphantly and marching all the way. Spinning around in place, he didn't make any further progress.

None of the people sitting in the Ning Mansion had ever seen the dragon boat run by Ning Yuan, so after hearing Ning Xiang's words, they all thought that the red boat belonged to their mansion, and they all showed regretful expressions for a while.

"Ah..." Ning Xiang also opened his mouth wide in feigned surprise, looked at Ning Yuan with great regret, and then said to Ning Ruhai, who was ashen-faced: "Father, please calm down, this is just an accident, and the third brother is also the number one. The rudder of the boat will be broken if there is something sloppy about handling the dragon boat this time, father, you must be..."

"It's a good luck for the child to live up to his fate." But Ning Xiang hadn't finished speaking, but Ning Yuan stood up quietly at this moment, and saluted Ning Ruhai: "Congratulations, father, congratulations to father, our house's boat has taken the leader."

"You...what did you say?" Ning Ruhai obviously didn't understand the situation. He really didn't know which ship was the Ning Manor's ship before. He also asked Ning Yuan, but Ning Yuan kept it secret and said To give him a surprise, because of what Ning Xiang said just now, he really thought that the Ning Mansion was the last place for the first time, and was about to lose his temper with Ning Yuan full of shame and anger, but which Ning Yuan said something like this to make him Monk Zhang Er was puzzled by what he said.

"What nonsense are you talking about!" Ning Ruhai yelled: "Our mansion's boat is clearly the last one, where did the leader come from!"

"Father, calm down." Ning Xiang added fuel to the side with a triumphant smile, "I think the third brother must have been too stimulated for a while, and he dare not accept such a result, and he is a little delirious."

"Wait?" Ning Yuan straightened up, looked at the pitiful red dragon boat in Hexin, with a surprised expression on his face, "Father, I didn't say that one was the dragon boat from our house, Yuan'er Didn’t I tell you before that I would give you a surprise, since it’s a surprise, how could it be so useless, and the rudder broke halfway through the row.”

"You, do you mean..." Ning Ruhai widened his eyes, and immediately turned his head to look at the cyan dragon boat that took the leader. The dragon boat had already exploded, and after such a long distance, he could still see A group of oarsmen howled and embraced each other, and the strong man playing the drum at the bow was also waving his hands vigorously to this side.

"Could it be that Vice Commander Wang played the drums on the boat that captured the leader?!" Because the finish line is not far away, Ning Ruhai could see the faces of those people on the boat clearly. When he saw Wang Hu, he immediately understood. , "That blue ship is our ship!?"

"That's why I want to congratulate my father. This year's Nine Suns Festival, it's our family's turn to go to Beijing to celebrate the emperor's birthday." Ning Yuan bowed down again, "As for the red dragon boat that is angry and spitting pearls, it does not belong to our family. It belongs to Governor Cao's family." After speaking, he did not forget to glance at Ning Xiang.

Ning Xiang was already staring blankly at the red dragon boat at this time, and then at the Cao family who were sitting beside him in complete silence, feeling dumbfounded.

071 Angry Flood Dragon Transformation

"Impossible, the bow of our mansion is clearly..." Ning Xiang said incredulously, but was interrupted by Ning Yuan, "Second brother, do you want to say that the angry dragon spits out beads? That is indeed the original pattern of our mansion's bow , but unfortunately Dudu Cao took a fancy to it a few days ago, and I saw that Dudu Cao really liked the bow, so I gave it to him."

"Okay, it's really good, hahaha!" Ning Ruhai was overjoyed, this was the first time a dragon boat from the Ning Mansion won the ringleader, so he was naturally very happy.

"Congratulations, Master!" Yan led a group of aunts to stand up and bow their knees to congratulate, and even a group of officials sitting behind them also stood up and saluted, "Congratulations, Lord Ning! Congratulations, Lord Ning!"

"Happy together, happy together, everyone happy together!" Ning Ruhai smiled like a flower, chatting with everyone non-stop.Compared with the liveliness of the Ning Mansion, the Cao Family's side is much more desolate.The governor Cao Guichun still maintains the movement of holding the teacup and lifting the tea cover, no matter the wives, concubines or servants around him, they dare not show their air, and all of them have worried expressions.

Every year in the dragon boat competition, it is common for the Cao family to take the capital of the leader. Cao Guichun himself never thought that the boat would capsize in the gutter. He couldn't believe his eyes, so he froze there for a while without moving.He has even thought about what kind of congratulatory gift he will present to the emperor when he enters Beijing this year, and what kind of tricks he will play in the dragon boat show. From the perspective of entering Beijing, all these have come to naught?

is this real?

"Master." Mrs. Cao reminded him in a low voice beside her, "Master, you have to get ready to go to the stage. You have to go up on this occasion to present rewards to the leaders."

That's right, Cao Guichun remembered again, according to the rules of the Dragon Boat Competition, after the leader is determined, the person with the highest official position in Jiangzhou City will present the silver reward to the leader, a total of 200 taels of gold. The mansion won the first prize because Cao Guichun presumably received the gold voluntarily, so he always omitted the reward link, but this year is different, because the eldest prince Sikong Yue is here, and the person who awarded the silver reward naturally became Sikong Yue. It is such an honor for Cao Guichun, who has always been overjoyed, to be able to receive the reward from the chieftain from His Royal Highness!But now all of this is gone, not only gone, but as the governor of Jiangzhou, he has to stand aside dryly, watching His Highness award this glory that belongs to him to others!

Thinking of this, Cao Guichun's face turned red. He had been an official for many years, and he was rarely so embarrassing. Be calm, it's none other than Ning Ruhai who took the leader, Ning Ruhai who is in charge of Jiangzhou's military power, and Ning Ruhai who has the title of earl, whether you want to offend or not, be normal, be normal.

After calming down for a while, Cao Guichun squeezed out a smile, got up and walked towards the awarding platform that was set up early in the morning.

At the end of the big competition, all the dragon boats were docked, carried by the oarsmen and lined up in order of nouns in front of the awarding platform. The dragon boat of the Qilin Tengyun in Ningfu was naturally in the front row, and Wang Hu blushed. Standing with a group of oarsmen, seeing Ning Ruhai leading the Ning family over, he gave a military salute very high-spirited and put on a lot of pomp.

Ning Yuan walked behind, seeing that Ning Ruhai was busy greeting Wang Hu and no one was paying attention to him, he turned his face slightly, and said to Zhou Shi who had just walked behind him: "Is everything done?"

"Young master, don't worry, the moment I won the championship just now, I arranged everything." Zhou Shi said in a low voice, "Because I don't worry about others, I will do it myself, and no one will say anything."

"Very good." Ning Yuan looked at the crowds piled up on the river bank, "Now is the time when there are many people here, so we can't let go of such a good opportunity for a large audience."

Ning Ruhai stood still by the awarding platform, and saw Si Kongyue walking down from the stands first, and said as he walked, "It's wonderful, it's really wonderful, now only the dragon boat competition in Jiangzhou can be so hot. On the emperor's birthday, I still don't know how lively the big competition among the leaders in Huajing will be. Lord Ning, I hope you can make persistent efforts and bring back a leader. This hall will definitely speak to the emperor and let you be promoted class!"

"Hehe, Your Majesty is serious. This time the dragon boat was actually managed by my incompetent dog Ning Yuan. I didn't spend much effort on the matter. It was pure luck, luck." Ning Ruhai said politely.

"Oh?" Sikong Yue raised his tone, and looked at Ning Yuan again, "Young Master Ning? You really surprised the hall more and more."

Ning Yuan immediately pretended to be terrified and bowed down. At the same time, he felt two very unnatural eyes falling on him. After straightening up, he looked back along those two eyes and found that it was the two people behind Sikong Yue. Staring at himself, Sikong Xu's eyes were full of mischief, making Ning Yuan elusive. The other person, Ning Yuan, did not know. It was a slender young man behind Sikong Yue, who blocked half of the picture just like Ning Mo. Looking at his face, his eyes were full of anger.

When did I offend such a person?Ning Yuan didn't understand why the young man showed such unkind eyes to him, but before he could think about it, the young man had already moved his gaze elsewhere.

"Your Majesty, please present the rewards to this year's leader in front of all the common people." The old man in official uniform, who presided over the beginning of the competition, bowed and brought up a tray covered with a red cloth. The cloth was lifted, and there were twenty ingots of shining gold neatly placed on it, and twelve ingots were neatly stacked. Even though the common people were separated by officers and soldiers and couldn't get close to them, such a large amount of gold was still impressive. Eyes are straight.

"Let this year's leader be rewarded!" Sikong Yue took the plate of gold loudly, and handed it to Ning Ruhai. Ning Ruhai hurriedly took it, but turned around, and handed the plate to Ning Yuan.

Ning Yuan was taken aback for a moment, apparently not expecting what Ning Ruhai was planning.

"Take it." Ning Ruhai is obviously in a good mood, and it is rare to face Ning Yuan with a happy face, "You have done a good job with the dragon boat, and there is no shortage of money in the house. These rewards are bestowed on me by my father." Here you go."

Ning Xiang stared straight at the side, it was 200 taels of gold, converted to 2000 taels of silver!This is such a huge sum of money for the young master who only has 15 taels of silver for a month, and Ning Ruhai actually gives it as he pleases?And he gave it all to that kid, and he didn't even have a share?

How did Ning Xiang know that Ning Ruhai did this purely for his own face. Officials like them value face more than money. Today, because Ning Yuan helped him increase his face, he will do it too. After making a show, it was only 200 taels of gold, and it was given to Ning Yuan. First, he did have merit today, but he also wanted to present a scene of fatherly kindness and filial piety in front of Sikong Yue and many people around him. Gain a good reputation.

With 200 taels of gold, there is no more cost-effective deal for Ning Ruhai than this to embarrass himself in front of most of the people in Jiangzhou.

Ning Yuan definitely has no reason to be as polite as Ning Ruhai. In fact, he has to take care of his own life as well as Tang's. The money he collected from Xia Zhu's house in the past half a year has been running out. When it was time to spend money, the 200 taels of gold came in a timely manner, but Ning Yuan thought about it, but he didn't accept all of it himself, but allocated half of it and asked Zhou Shi to give it to Wang Hu.

Wang Hu was originally full of envy, but Ning Yuan made this mess, which made him puzzled like Monk Zhanger for a while. As for the soldiers behind him, they all stared straight at the yellow golden fierce voila.

Ning Yuan said: "Although I was lucky enough to win the leader today, Yuan'er dare not live alone in this great merit. For the 100 taels of gold, I asked Vice Commander Wang to accept it on behalf of all the soldiers. If you really want to reward meritorious service today, you It is the first achievement."

"This... this..." Wang Hu slapped the gown on his body and rubbed it. He didn't know what to say for a while, and he took the 100 taels of gold when the paddlers behind him pushed him hurriedly. , couldn’t stop saying: "Thank you, Third Young Master." Then he turned around and said to the group of soldiers behind him: "Take this bounty back, everyone drinks and eats meat tonight, we must have a good time!"

The soldiers had been waiting for this moment, they were always bold, and they didn't expect that there were so many dignitaries here, so they immediately applauded in unison.

Seeing Wang Hu's flattery towards Ning Yuan, Ning Xiang hated him even more, and couldn't help scolding Wang Hu a thousand times in his heart. This idiot with a simple mind and well-developed limbs had promised himself well at the beginning that he would be merciless for him. Playing tricks on Ning Yuan, it's only been a few days now, and all the elbows have been turned over. It's really a stupid thing with eyes open to money, it's useless!

The cheers of the paddlers heated up the atmosphere a little bit, but in the crowd of ordinary people not far away, some people whispered suspiciously. They pointed to the red dragon boat placed at the end of the dragon boat team and said: : "Why does that dragon head look so dragon-like?"

Because the red dragon boat is placed at the end and is the closest to the surrounding crowd, many people turned their attention to the "angry dragon spitting beads" on the prow of the red dragon boat after hearing people talking about it. , more and more people echoed: "That's right, it's not like, it's actually a dragon."

The common people all gathered together, and both the voice and scope of the discussion became bigger and bigger. The people in the periphery heard such news in front of them, and they couldn't wait to squeeze forward to see with their own eyes whether the thing on the bow of the boat was a dragon. It was still a dragon. The crowd, the soldiers who had been maintaining order and separated the common people, immediately shrank back in a circle, and such a big movement naturally alarmed the people who were laughing together in the center.

When those discussions buzzed into his ears, Sikong Xu, who was still being polite to Ning Ruhai, suddenly withdrew his smile, turned around and walked up to the red dragon boat, and when he took a closer look, his face immediately became gloomy.

When the others saw this, they also came forward one by one. After looking at the "dragon head" of the dragon boat, no one spoke immediately. Sikong Xu shook his sleeve robe vigorously and snorted, while Ning Yuan lowered his eyes. , while most of the people looked at Cao Guichun who was not far away with a look of watching the show.

Since Cao Guichun stood aside, he didn't notice what happened around him at all. All he could think about was that he was the last one this time, and it was a pity that he lost the opportunity to enter the capital. Unexpectedly, the Cao family is in great trouble now.

"Cao Guichun!" Sikong Yue yelled angrily, and Dudu Cao shook his body and broke away from his thoughts. Seeing that the crowd had reached the dragon boat for some reason, he hurriedly trotted over and said respectfully to Sikong Yue: "Mr. What are your orders, Your Highness?"

"Order?" Sikong Yue's tone was filled with annoyance, "You should immediately explain to the hall clearly what's going on. Could it be that you, a little captain, have the intention of treason!"

Cao Guichun was taken aback by Sikongyue's words of "rebellious heart". Although he didn't understand why, he followed the direction Sikongyue pointed and looked at it carefully, but bowed in confusion, " Your Highness, there is nothing wrong with this dragon boat, and the bow of the boat is also exquisitely carved, but the master craftsman at Jiangzhou Dockyard carved it himself."

"No problem?" Sikong Yue said angrily, "You're old and dazed, take a good look at the claws of that 'Jiao'!"

Cao Guichun was taken aback for a moment, and then his eyes fell on the front paws with the pattern of "angry dragon spitting beads". His face turned pale in a flash, his legs trembled, and he collapsed on the ground with a plop, trembling. Kneeling in front of Sikong Yue, he said anxiously: "Your Highness...Your Highness is clearly aware, I am an official, I don't know why this is happening! I am wronged, I am wronged!"

It’s no wonder that Cao Guichun didn’t frighten his ass, because in the pattern of "angry dragon spit beads", on the pair of high-spirited claws under the dragon head, there should be only four claws, but the dragon claws with five claws are carved. It's just that the fifth claw is small compared to the other four claws, and its appearance is uncoordinated. If you don't look carefully, it is extremely easy to be ignored.

Everyone in the Great Zhou Dynasty knows that four claws are Jiao, and five claws are dragons. Neither the noble ministers nor the nobles are allowed to use dragons as decorations. Anyone who violates it will offend the royal family.

Although the dragon boat competition is collectively referred to as "dragon" boats, because of the dignity of the royal family, it is absolutely not allowed to use the dragon shape as the head of the boat, so there will be auspicious animal heads such as the head of the dragon, the head of the unicorn, and the head of the crane. , that is, to draw auspicious omens, and there is no taboo, but this time the dragon boat of the Cao family, the prince with the head of the dragon, unexpectedly appeared "True Dragon"