Bend Over [ 折腰 ] - Chapter 64

[Chapter 63 4]

Lu Litai position is conspicuous, everyone is watching, Xiao Qiao knows how many pairs of eyes are looking at him at the moment, seeing Adi greeting himself offstage, in view of his identity, in order to avoid suspicion, only looked at him back and smiled, and did not show too much emotion, but the color of encouragement in his eyes was unmistakable.

At this moment, Xiao Qiao heard the direction of the steps, and there was a sound of footsteps that seemed to have rhythmic clogs stepping over the stone steps, so he turned his head and looked at it.

On the steps of the Deer Li Terrace, a gradually clear figure of a concubine appeared.

She recognized it. It was Emperor Sue.

Emperor Su’e only lifted the skirt slightly, and climbed the steps, followed by two maids on the left and right, and the concubine’s figure reflected the blue stone steps, swaying gracefully, and was walking in the direction of Lady Xu.

When she got closer, she was stopped and stopped.

The guards of Lulitai came over and told Lady Xu that Lady Su of Zuo Fengyi had arrived and begged to see the old lady.

Lady Xu had already caught a glimpse of Emperor Su’e, but she did not move, nor did she turn her head to look, only asking her to come over.

When Zhu Shi heard Zuo Fengyi’s wife Su Shi, Huo Ran turned his head, and sure enough, he saw that Emperor Su’e was standing there, and his face suddenly sank.

The guards went back and released Emperor Su’e. Emperor Su’e came to Lady Xu and bowed down to her first.

Madame Xu smiled slightly and told her not to be polite.

Emperor Su’e paid homage to the Zhu clan again.

Zhu Shi Urn said, “Get up.” Although you are a widow, you were also the Duke of Zuo Fengyi in the past, but I am just a contemptuous woman in Ichigo, how can I receive such a great gift from you. As

she spoke, her face twisted slightly to one side.

Emperor Su’e still had a smile on her face, got up and finally turned to Xiao Qiao, who was sitting on the right hand side of Lady Xu, and said with a smile: “After the last time Lu Nu said goodbye, I often missed my sister and looked forward to seeing my sister again.” Today’ wish was granted.

Xiao Qiao also smiled, nodded slightly, and said, “Lady Meng remembers, I am very grateful.” When

the two of them were talking, Lady Zhu said, “When did you come to Yuyang?” We didn’t even know a shot in advance, which showed that we were sluggish.
Emperor
Su’e said busily, “Madame doesn’t know.” Lu Li is a hero conference, I have a nephew named Su Xin, a lieutenant of Zhongshan, riding out of the crowd, I had the honor to come to the meeting. I came this time, first, to cheer for my nephew, and second, although I had not set foot in Yuyang for many years, I often remembered my grandmother and wife in my heart. Therefore, I also took this opportunity to visit my grandmother and wife. Yesterday’s late arrival, hate can not immediately go to the house to visit, and afraid of disturbing the grandmother and mrs. rest, is not dare to go to the door, thinking that this morning to come here to visit, is also cheap. Madame Zhu’s

lips ticked slightly, and she did not say a word.

In the middle of the school field, the field set up for the riding and shooting competition has been circled, and at the starting point, the thirty-two samurai each stepped on their horses, with their arms bent on the bow, eager to try, and were preparing to obey the orders to leave.

Emperor Su’e pointed to a young man in purple robes with tall arms in the middle and smiled: “He is my nephew Su Xin, although he is not a few years younger than me, he has been practicing in the Zhongshan Army for several years, and this time he has worked hard to fight, and he has also been appreciated by his superiors, so he has the honor to come to Yuyang to offer skills, and he laughs generously.”

Little Joe glanced at it.

Su Xin was in his early twenties, tall and armed, riding a black horse, with a gorgeous saddle, inlaid with gemstones, shining in the sun, and was very conspicuous among the samurai. He sat high on horseback with his head held high, looking confident.

Madame Xu also looked at it and nodded, “Also a young hero.”
Emperor
Su’e was busy thanking her for her praise, and after a slight hesitation, he took a step toward Lady Xu and raised her feet, but she listened to Lady Zhu: “I didn’t know that you were going to come this morning, so there was no seat for you here.” I see the next head riding and shooting is about to give the order, you have come to cheer for your nephew, can you not go to the Basalt Platform to take a seat? XuanwuTai

is located next to lulitai and is specially designed for the noble women who come to watch the battle in Yuyang City.

Emperor Su’e stopped, stared at Zhu Shi, and then smiled: “Thank you Madame for the arrangement.” So I went down. Later, I went to visit my grandmother, Mrs. Yu. Saying that he would bow to Lady Xu and Zhu Shi again, and say goodbye to Xiao Qiao, he turned around, took the maid, and still went with him.

Emperor Su’e left, Lady Xu looked as usual, Zhu Shi showed a hint of contempt at her back, and snorted faintly in her nose.

Xiao Qiao looked at her, and there was no expression on his face, and his heart was inevitably surprised.

No one had felt the lethality from the Zhu clan more deeply than she did, so she was not surprised that the Zhu clan finally made such a move that almost drove out Emperor Su’e.

I was just surprised that this Su Nu, who really didn’t pick out the wrong place in the slightest, would actually attract Zhu Shi’s unpopularity.

Zhu Shi spoke with a gun and a stick, unceremoniously.

It seems that in her mind, in addition to herself, Su Nu is also a disgusted object of the top of the platoon.

At this time, the noise in the school yard slowly stopped, and the whole audience held their breath and looked at the thirty-two mounted samurai in the riding and shooting field.

Little Joe knew that the game was about to start, and he didn’t have time to think about anything else, concentrating on watching the battle, looking for his brother’s figure.

At the sound of the trumpet, the thirty-two rode in unison and set off, scrambling to the end of the golden bell a hundred meters away. At first, the thirty-two horses went their own way, and when they rushed out for nearly twenty or thirty feet, the horse’s head gradually parted back and forth, and the samurai who rushed to the front of the red horse took a bow and aimed at the golden bell, followed by the white horse samurai swept away with a stick, and the red horse samurai leaned over to avoid it, and the two of them fought together.

According to the historical rule, each person is limited to three feather arrows, and if the feather arrow is not shot, or falls to the ground, it is considered to be out.

Since some people have made a start, the remaining samurai have followed suit. Moreover, the rules are also allowed. Everyone wants to stop the opponent, and they rush out of the encirclement early to shoot the first golden bell. And the tight drum beat of the rushing rain, in the cheers of the sergeants watching the battle on the school grounds, the vicious fight between you and me and you chased me was launched on the racecourse. Soon, one after another, some people were defeated and fell.

Halfway through the journey, less than half of the original thirty-two horses remained. The rest were either wounded or taken away with their bows and arrows, or had already shot three arrows but had not won the bid.

Qiao Ci’s usual weapon was the Double Halberd. He was intoxicated with martial arts from childhood, practicing hard every morning and evening in the small school yard at home, cold winter and heat, wind and rain, and born with a pair of martial arts bones, over the years, handy, crotch this Wei Yu sent him a green horse is also a horse that is one of the thousands, although riding for a short time, but quite spiritual, today’s people and horses are one, the road is not halfway, and there is a hidden tendency to get out of the shadows.

They defeated a samurai who chased after him from behind in an attempt to take away his bow and arrow, and finally shot the opponent off his horse with a halberd.

This is the third opponent he has defeated.

The martial arts style in Wei Shao’s army has always been fierce, and although the Deer Li Conference was a martial arts contest between the brotherly military camps, all of them were real guns and swords, and the samurai protected themselves with armor.

Qiao Ci was the youngest of the warriors and was handsome, and many of the soldiers in the school also knew that he was the brother of the female monarch, and the horses had just set off to attract everyone’s attention. Halfway through the race, he saw that he was excellent in riding and excellent in martial arts, and defeated the three samurai who were fighting him in succession, and the shot was quite restrained, not like some other samurai, bent on victory, shooting fiercely, and attacking the opponent’s key points. Seeing him and the other party fighting on the horse for more than a dozen rounds, and finally suppressing each other, the backhand changed the head of the halberd to hit the other party and fell off the horse, and he couldn’t help but feel respect and began to cheer for him.

Adi’s heroic posture and everyone’s style won the applause of everyone in the school field. Little Joe rejoiced,My heart was more nervous. His eyes were wide open, closely following the back of his galloping horse, both hands clenched into fists, and he did not even dare to blink his eyes.

After Qiao Ci shot down the samurai, he immediately clamped the horse’s belly. The crotch of the green horse also sensed the idea from the master, galloped at full speed to the finish line, quickly surpassed the first few people in front of him, just when he was holding the bow and arrow, under the attention of the whole audience to shoot the first arrow, a knife wind in his ear, obliquely split down a large knife, Qiao Ci hurriedly closed the bow to avoid, turned his head to see a samurai who caught up with him, a black purple robe, his eyes flashed, and he was hidden, it was Su Xin from Zhongshan.

Su Xin took a second stab. Qiao Ci immediately drew out his double halberd to meet him, and the two of them came and went in the midst of the earth-shaking shouts of the soldiers around them, and in the blink of an eye, twenty or so moves had passed.

Su Xin was the eldest brother of Emperor Su’e, and because Emperor Su’e’s eldest brother was much older than her, there was not much difference in the age of her aunt and nephew. Ten years ago, when Xingxun had not yet entered Luoyang, his aunt Emperor Su’e had first married Liu Li and was famous in Luoyang, and the Su family had also been beautiful for a while. So far, the court has fallen, and the children have withered away. Su Xin was proud of his talents, because he was good at riding and shooting, he came from afar today, just to become famous in the Lulitai War, he shot fiercely after he set out, wounded several people in succession, killed a road, saw Qiao Ci brave, and in his heart he regarded this white-robed young general as a fierce enemy, seeing that he rushed to the front, he was about to shoot arrows, where he was willing to let him take the lead, and struggled to catch up with him to hinder his momentum. The two fought like this for twenty or so times, Qiao Ci became more and more courageous, Su Xin gradually lost, saw another samurai behind him, anxious, gave birth to a plan, Qiao Ci fell down, he suddenly shouted, his face was painful, his body was shaky, as if he was injured and about to fall off his horse.

Qiao Ci immediately closed his hand, not wanting to blink, but Su Xin drew a short knife from the side of the horse’s belly that had been hidden beforehand and had not been used, and waved it at Qiao Ci. Qiao Ci saw the sharp edge and quickly dodged, but suddenly, he still did not completely dodge, one side of the arm was slashed by a sharp blade, fortunately wearing armor, but the sleeve was also cut out of a hole, a pain, looking down to see that the blood had flowed out, staining the white robe on his body.

It is already some distance from Lulitai. But Little Joe still vaguely saw that the situation was not right. His heart skipped a beat, and he ignored the side, got up from his position and ran to the guardrail, watching with his eyes wide open.

Qiao Ci and Su Xin fought a big battle, obviously they were about to be overwhelmed, but Su Xin suddenly deceived, but instead made Qiao Ci hang up the lottery, and the soldiers on both sides immediately cheered. Su Xin did not hear it, and after forcing Qiao Ci away, he gritted his teeth and turned the horse’s head violently and rushed towards the finish line. Approaching, he aimed ahead, drawing his bow and firing his arrows.

The first arrow was fired, but it did not hit. The survey brushed past the rope where the golden bell hung.

Su was frustrated and hurried to take the bow again, aiming and preparing to shoot a second arrow.

However, at this moment, another feather arrow decorated with white feathers had already caught up from behind, breaking through the wind beside him, and shooting straight at the golden bell dozens of meters away like a rushing thunderbolt.

The arrow was fired by Qiao Ci behind him.

There was a moment of silence in the school grounds, and countless pairs of eyes stared at the arrow of white feathers.

The feather arrow tore through the air resistance, ran to the end, impartially, passed through the rope, and finally nailed into a blocking target.

The rope broke, and the heavy golden bell could not be suspended, and the golden bell shook a few times and fell on the next side of the gong.

The sound of “Dang” made a clear and long metallic crashing sound.

Su Xin froze, watching the white-robed young general gallop by like the wind from his side, and when he reached the end, he turned over and dismounted, hurried to the target, pulled out the feather arrow, and then jumped on the high platform, raised the feather arrow, and waved in all directions.

The school yard erupted in thunderous applause. The group of Yuyang noblewomen on the Xuanwu Platform even looked at Qiao Ci and exchanged ears one after another.

Little Qiao’s heart, which had originally hung in his throat, finally fell at this moment.

Under the illumination of the autumn sun, she saw Adi standing on a high platform with his arms raised in the distance, white robes and silver armor, full of spirit.

In the huge school yard, at this moment, almost everyone was cheering and shouting for his heroic posture.

Little Joe’s excited nose was sour, and he couldn’t help but raise his hand and cover his nose and mouth.

Wei Shao was standing on an observation platform not far from the high platform at this moment. His gaze moved away from the spirited teenager on the high platform and looked at the deer platform opposite.

He saw her standing against the railing, her hands covering her face, and it was obvious that she was about to cry with joy.

The corner of Wei Shao’s lips ticked slightly. Suddenly, he subconsciously glanced at his eldest brother Wei Yu, who was not far from him.

Wei Yu was looking in the direction of Lu Litai. He tilted his head slightly, as if he were out of his mind, as if he were caught up in some kind of erratic thought.

In the big school yard, Qiao Ci on the high platform is the focus of attention of thousands of people. Near him, the great general Li Dian, who had witnessed the whole process, was saying to Gongsun Yang that this young man had a benevolent wind. In time, it will become a great instrument.

No one would pay attention to this casual glance from Wei Yu.

Wei Shao’s eyes narrowed, and his look was flat.

[End of This Chapter]