The sunlight outside the tent was crisp and fine, making the hearts of the hostile people walking inside seem to be a little more peaceful.
Not far away was the pasture where the horses were running, and there was a circle of people in a circle, and there were young men in the circle who were trying to gallop. When Li Bo saw this, he seemed to have a smile in his eyes. He pointed to the crowd and said: "This winter, which is the days that have just passed, there has been heavy snowfall in the Ganmeng area, and the grassland has been severely damaged, and the grain and grass stored by everyone will be unsustainable until February." Not only the grass sand racecourse, but also within a radius of 500 miles, there are more than 100,000 border people. The situation on the grass is probably better, and there are people starving to death elsewhere. My brother is ashamed to live in one place, known as heroes, and he cannot stand idly by. That grain and grass were robbed by me in this situation. I am afraid that most of the reason for this disaster is that your general Zhang Wuwei stopped trading horse grain with the herdsmen on the horse farm in October last year, in order to exclusively cut off the trade of horses in this area. "
He looked at Chen Cheng with deep meaning - why do you think he did this? Zhang Wuwei is a private party cultivated by the prince Jiancheng, and there are many good horses in this Ganmeng area, and most of the buyers of these horses are Tang Jun, but now they are mostly purchased by the prince Shimin. ——The Li family that you have worked hard to support is not monolithic, and there may be a bloody chaos in the court soon. Li Bo looked at the outdoor sunshine and somehow sighed in his heart. He really doesn't want to get involved in the disputes between the powerful and the strongman, no. He didn't want to kill or be killed, unless it was for self-protection, but in this world, why do he always have to force himself to protect himself? He looked at the herdsmen cheerful in the sun and thought to himself, why should everyone be proud of rape? These herders are not strong - or should I say, they are not strong in organization and killing, they are scattered, horse herders, born in heaven and earth, long in heaven and earth, people who pasture heaven and earth, and who die in heaven and earth, are also people with their own skills. Although they sometimes carried knives and killed in self-defense, or even in self-defense, they never organized an army to kill people for the sake of killing. Thinking of those slaughtering battle formations, Li Bo's chest felt as if he had been punched by some evil in the sun. In the eyes of others, he may be strong, but he really doesn't want this so-called 'strong', he doesn't want to kill, he just wants to be free, and the world has been messed up enough by those "strong people".
I only heard him sigh softly, "So, those grains and grass still saved some border people." These people can still laugh and have fun in the sun like this at this time, and more than half of them are worshipped for the grain and grass. We didn't spend much of that grain on the 'grass on the sand,' but most of it was used to relieve these shepherds. There are more than 40,000 loads left, and I have sent someone to re-send the broken leaves. I know what you are talking about and the importance of Beiting, but I can't watch the border people around me starve to death and die without help. Their lives are not lighter than others, not to mention that this disaster is half natural and half man-made, and it was caused by Zhang Wuwei of your imperial court who banned the trade of grain and horses. I am not saying this to you to explain anything to you, but to say that there is always a reason to do it in life. And I, the five brothers of Jing Tieshan, are not weak people, and they will watch the people around them starve to death indifferently. "
The corners of his lips curled slightly, "So-if you have any plans, just make a move if you want." "
The scene progressed and stalled. Everyone looked at Chen Cheng, he came alone, did he dare to shoot at Li Bo at his doorstep?
Chen Xi was also looking at Li Bo, he knew that Li Bo was not lying, maybe he shouldn't have made a move, but the so-called history, isn't that the case, for its process, many people must sacrifice. Xia violated the ban with force, but he was the one who wanted to defend the 'forbidden'. That 'ban' may not be good, not perfect, but in this world, there are too many heroes, Chen Shi thought, dust to dust, earth to earth, heroes to the first war, leave a 'ban' and a legal net for all living beings in this world, this is a mundane world, can't resist the pull of many strongmen, can only be left to a strong man to draw, if necessary, he must clear obstacles for that destined strongman.
His hand rested on the flute on his side. Maybe, he has to make a move?
Zhang Jiuchang and Ma Yang were both standing on one side. They knew that Li Bo did not want and did not need their help. The sun is slightly tilted, it is only April, the day is still a little short, and the sunshine that has been shining for a day seems to be a little light, adding a touch of warmth to the warmth. The surrounding grass and fields are vast, is this battle necessary?
Shi Zhen next to him suddenly said: "Today, but it's a good day on the grassland, what's the matter, let's talk about it tomorrow, it's only another day, it's okay, right?" Now so many people are happy, second brother, Brother Chen, everything will be discussed tomorrow, and don't add to everyone. "
As he spoke, he intervened between the two. Li Bo was stunned, he didn't expect the fourth brother to intervene at this time. Chen Cheng was also stunned, looking at the people in the festival in the distance, today is really a festive day. I only heard Shi Zhen smile and said: "The time of 'an arrow flying a red bow as a medium' is about to start, so don't be afraid of the scenery." Young Master Chen, let's take a look at the most chic groom pick in our Gammon area. "
As he spoke, he smiled and bowed to Chen Cheng.
Chen Cheng thought for a while, nodded slowly, maybe it was not a very good solution at this time, about this matter, he still had to think about it, coercing Li Bo to be powerful, Yu Li Bo to righteousness, and to be able to resolve this matter peacefully, this is the blessing of a hundred lives in the border court. Thinking of this, he sighed softly.
Shi Zhen looked at Li Bo again, and Li Bo also nodded. Shi Zhen smiled on his face: "Then everyone is gone." When he spoke, his eyes looked at a person from a distance, it was an eighteen or nineteen-year-old girl standing in the distance, it was Li Yongrong.
She was out of her tent, looking here nervously, looking at ... This young man. Shi Zhen looked at her as if he had guessed something, and sighed in his heart, Li Yongrong's mood has changed in the past few days, and with his 'leopard eyes', what is there that he can't understand? Although he didn't know what was going on, he only guessed that he also guessed the feelings in Li Xiaomei's heart, who was not very good at hiding her thoughts.
Then he looked at the fifth brother who followed behind, and sighed low for him in his heart.
"An arrow flying a red bow as a medium" is the most anticipated program at the annual horse racing festival. The annual horse racing conference, in addition to allowing experienced shepherds to exchange the weather, pastures, livestock prices, and current affairs around them, the main function of the horse racing conference is to give young men and women an opportunity to interact. It's been another winter, and young men and women who have fallen into lovesickness can get together without scruples to talk about their hearts, and those boys and girls who don't have a crush on them also have the opportunity to choose their lovers. These are just the stars and flowers of the grassland, giving people some pleasing double shadows and chasing and playing, although warm, there is no suspense, and it is not exciting. Every year on the evening of April 21, when the sun is about to set, "an arrow flying red" is the most important highlight of this horse racing festival.
At that time, all the young men attending the meeting would stand scattered in the innermost layer of the crowd, while those daughters who were usually somewhat shy had the opportunity to gallop at this time. I saw them put on their best clothes, put on the best jewelry in the house, ride a good horse red or blue, and circle around the field. Their backs were sprinkled with sunlight, and the horses' hooves stepped on the fine grass and flowers, showing the strength and grace of their prairie women. Then.
The older people on the outer side of the circle will have a smile on their faces, and they will suddenly remember when they were young; And the young heart is full of joyful anticipation, waiting for a miracle in his life.
This is the only opportunity of the year for those girls who are usually a little strict and shy to show their hearts. Each of them will hold a bow in their hands, a small arrow in their right hand, and circling around the field, and after showing off their slender figures, they will hold the bow flat in their left hand, hold the arrow in their right hand, and shoot it 'off', and the arrow will shoot at her lover.
The arrows of their arrows are no longer sharp arrowheads, but are ground into a small hook with fine iron, which is not used to hurt people, but to hook people, and the man who is shot is her husband. How could such a legend, such a pick-of-the-son-in-law, not become the expectation of the grassland men and the attention of the old and young in the venue?
When Li Bo, his brother and Chen Cheng approached the crowd, people smiled kindly at them. Anyone can see the goodwill and respect of the herders on the grassland for their five brothers. The five of them had no airs, chatting with acquaintances from time to time and joking with familiar young men. Someone laughed and asked Li Bo: "Will my little sister shoot her long-awaited arrow this year?" "
Li Bo was not annoyed, and said with a smile: "Although I am her brother, you also know her temperament, but I can't control her." Whether she can shoot her arrow or not depends on whether the young man present has hooked her soul. "
Everyone laughed loudly, including Qiao Hua, who was a little blushing on his face.
Mr. Gu, who had just recovered from the alcohol, also came to the pasture and was a little surprised by everyone's straightforward joke. Although the world was turbulent at the end of the Sui Dynasty, the rules of the Han people were still the rules, but he had never seen such a straightforward way of marriage.
Someone next to him laughed and said, "As long as the little sister comes out, the person she has a crush on will not be caught." Not to mention anything else, just her ability to pierce Yang in a hundred steps, isn't it a trivial matter to shoot a person in the heart? "
It turns out that this "one arrow flying red" also has a special rule, as long as any girl can shoot an arrow in the heart of the man she likes, then that man must marry her. Also, marrying such a woman is a glorious honor in any case. Everyone listening next to them laughed. Chen Cheng was a little stunned, and looked into the field, only to see that the girl who had already been three, three, five, and five led the horse to the field, most of them were half red-faced, I don't know if it was because of nervousness or shyness, but she was really more graceful and beautiful than the dignity of the Guanzhong woman. A young man next to him was joking with his companion: "I think the Fu family girl will probably shoot you today." "
The companion laughed, "Shoot me?" Shoot me and I will flash. Be sure to flash. "
The young man wondered, "What are you flashing? Such a good thing, haven't you thought about it for a long time, and if you shoot you, you will lose you? "
The companion smiled and said, "It's not that you don't know, Fu Hua's archery skills are not good, far inferior to her craftsmanship in making mare's milk, I don't have to flash anything - I must flash under her arrows." I was afraid that she would accidentally panic, so I shot this arrow at others. "
Everyone who heard it couldn't help but laugh.
The laughter was interrupted, because a girl had turned over on her horse, circled around the field three or five times, and shot an arrow at a strong young man in a blue cloth robe. Her arrow was quite accurate, it hit the young man's hat accurately, and it wouldn't have been a little more off. In the midst of everyone's clapping, the young man's face turned red, and the woman's face was even more red, but it could be seen that the young man was also very happy. The person next to him smiled and said: "This Zhao Hailong and Ah Mei have been interested for more than one day, and they have always been afraid that the family will be poor and dare not kiss each other, but I didn't expect that Ah Mei was forced to be the first to express her position." Look at his kid happy. "
Chen Cheng listened and watched, although he didn't do anything, slowly a warmth seemed to rise in his heart. These days, he has been running around for days to investigate this robbery, and he has not had a single birthday. Until today, under this sun, in the pasture, I feel that life is still so simple and beautiful.
Gradually, the corners of his lips were no longer just closed arrogantly, but also laughed together, although it was still silent, but the smile also had a different kind of warmth and handsomeness in his long eyebrows and eyes.
At this time, there were more and more girls on the field, and many girls who were embarrassed at the beginning were encouraged by other female companions, and they also took the stage to pick up the bows and arrows they were not usually good at and shoot at the happiness they longed for. I only heard the cheers on the field, and occasionally some people laughed lowly: "Shot wrong, shot wrong!" But a girl shot an arrow at an old man. The old man pulled the arrow off his clothes, returned it to the girl with a smile, and said with a smile from his toothless mouth: "Even if my son was shot, I am afraid that he is twice as old as you." The girl blushed and muttered something, but no one heard clearly, and the whole audience was filled with laughter.
I only heard the laughter in the audience getting louder and louder, it turned out to be a little chubby girl, sixteen or seventeen years old, her technique was not good, and she was afraid of shooting the wrong person, and she didn't dare to pull the bow in her hand, so she kept shooting arrows into the grass a few steps away from the crowd, so she had to pick them up again and again. She shot wrong once, and the laughter in the field became even happier, and a few naughty young men knew who she was going to, but they wanted to joke with her, and shouted: "Girl, shoot here, just shoot here, brother owes you a hole here." "
Everyone laughed, the more the girl laughed, the more panicked, the more mistakes she made, a few times she was almost right, but a few young men had deliberately surrounded her lover. Her lover was also anxious, and several times she had to break out of the crowd and stand in front, but she was held down by a group of giggling young men. The young man was not too anxious, with a anxious and embarrassed smile on his face. I saw that the little girl was covered in sweat, and finally her lips were bitten a little white, which made people feel a little pitiful. A few mature adults were about to drive away the young men who had been joking, but they saw that she had strangled her horse and slowly leaned towards the few young men who were surrounding her lover. When she walked to her, she almost pointed her bow at the chest of her lover, and with a gentle pull, the arrow hooked the clothes in the heart of her lover, and now it was called - never give up. The people next to him laughed loudly, a pair of lovers blushed, and the young man next to him laughed loudly: "If you want to say that there are so many fairies on the field, it is still the sister of Brother Wang's most accurate archery skills, and she hit the red heart with one shot!" "
Li Bo also laughed and had fun with everyone. There was sudden silence in the field at this time, and the people who didn't see it in front didn't know the reason, but they immediately heard people's whispers, and those voices were full of excitement and excitement, only to hear someone say softly: "The little sister is also on the horse, and the little sister is also on the horse!" "
There were still people next to him who didn't believe it, saying, "Every year she says she wants to get on the horse, but she doesn't get on every year." Make it up! "
The person who spoke first pushed him: "If you don't believe me, if you don't believe me, don't you see it, isn't it her who is holding the black spot over there?" "
I saw a herdsman in the distance leading a big dark horse to the sidelines, but he didn't see the girl come out. The herdsman seemed to have expected that he would become the focus of the audience, and his face was full of pride.
The unbelieving man glanced at the dark horse, stuck out his tongue, and said in surprise: "Ah! Sure enough, it's Li Xiaomei's sunspot! "
Li Bo also seemed to be stunned, he didn't seem to expect that the girl would really get on the horse today, which good man did she fancy?
I saw that in the midst of the audience's breathlessness, a girl wearing a long floral dress walked out of a tent not far away, she was not a little flustered like other girls, and the whole person was calm. One of her faces may have lost her expression because she was too excited, and she looked surprisingly calm. Others didn't know her psychology, and muttered: "After all, it's my little sister, and she is still walking so steadily at this time." "
Li Yongrong walked in the sunlight, stepping on the fine grass and flowers and fine sunlight on the ground. I saw that the young men in the inner circle seemed to be breathing tightly, and those guys who had been shot had more or less regret in their hearts, right? I regret that I have lost this opportunity. Even those girls' faces showed envy, and the little girl has always been a legend on this grassland. Everyone looked at Li Xiaomei, how could it be so beautiful! The setting sun did not hesitate to give Li Xiaomei a suffocatingly beautiful long skirt and a golden raincoat. Do you still think that the heartbeats of the young men in the field are not fast enough, the heartbeats of nineteen and twenty people are secretly combined, if it is not daytime, but night, it will probably sound like a drum, right? Li Xiaomei has a slender figure, and the cuffs of her narrow-sleeved top still have a long red ribbon tied to each of them, and the two red ribbons dance in the air with a little breeze, looking at the expressions of the young men, the ribbon clearly brushes everyone's eyes as if wriggling. Li Xiaomei's steps are vigorous and fine, light and elastic, and each step makes people willing to turn into the sun, grass, flowers, and dust under her feet. The long skirt originally had eight long seams, which were made by her ingenuity, and as she moved, the skirt floated down delicately, like a myth, a spring dream. Chen Li's eyes were also stunned, he recognized this girl, somehow, he seemed to mention it lightly in his heart, which had never been moved for more than 20 years.
Then, he heard a tighter breath in the back of his neck. He tilted his head slightly and glanced back with the peripheral vision in his eyes, and saw that Qiao Hua's neck seemed to be red, and his breathing was extremely tense.
I saw Li Xiaomei walking to the horse, without getting on the stool, and gently patting the horse's neck, the horse seemed to be used to hearing her words, so she lowered her head slightly, and Li Xiaomei had already turned over on the horse's back. The horse had high shoulders and a thick back, making the girl even more graceful on it. She is not only graceful, there is a kind of pretentiousness in her figure that ordinary women no longer have, only to see that she does not look at everyone, took the reins from Uncle Li's hand, and gently took the reins, and the horse had already run into the field with a gentle step. There are no other girls in the field - who else will compare with Li Xiaomei to this pink hussar? The horse seemed to know Li Xiaomei's state of mind, so he first ran carefully in the field, running the field all over the place, and then ran away in circles, making Li Xiaomei's long skirt fly. The people in the field just wondered, the little sister has already mounted the horse, why didn't she shoot this arrow. If you don't shoot, does it have to challenge the endurance of everyone in the field?
Even a few old people who had been accustomed to the world for a long time couldn't help but widen their eyes and straighten their necks gently. Li Xiaomei doesn't seem to be able to make up her mind, after all, she is proud and a girl, and she has a natural arrogance of a girl, so it is still a little difficult for her to take the initiative to express her feelings. The wind was blowing, and she was also thinking in confusion: Is she really going to shoot this arrow? She asked herself over and over again: After all, there is only one side, but that side seems to have been indispensable in her heart. If she doesn't shoot this arrow, she may never have a chance; But if she shoots, does the person she wants to with like her too? Li Xiaomei's heart was hesitant, she suddenly bit her lip - no matter what, she still had to shoot this arrow, and she had to shoot it accurately, this was probably the only chance in her life with that man. She has always had absolute confidence in her archery skills, and somehow her palms were full of sweat - but he - and his brother seemed to have a lot of unclear male affairs. Li Xiaomei's heart was overturned, and suddenly, she saw her brother's calm and understanding eyes in the crowd, and her heart seemed to be settled, as if she had taken a reassuring pill. She hadn't looked at the man with long eyebrows and thin eyes imprinted in her mind since she came on the field, and at this time, she was going to look at him carefully, to see if she was deceived by memory, night, or some other illusion, and she was already in love with just one side. Then she looked at Chen Xi, Chen Xi's face was facing the sun, her thin eyes narrowed slightly, and under the long and broken eyelashes, there seemed to be countless things that Li Xiaomei wanted to explore and soothe her with her life. That face - how to say it, it glowed slightly golden in the sunset, and every trace of hair was seen in Li Xiaomei's eyes that pierced Yang in a hundred steps. Li Xiaomei suddenly felt a beat and pain in her heart, it was him, it was him! I saw her picking up a bow in her left hand, an arrow in her right hand, a baby in her left hand, and a Mount Tai in her right hand, gently stretching her ape arm, aiming at the bullseye,—— this arrow could not be light or heavy, and it had to be shot right in his heart. With a gentle release, Li Xiaomei's little arrow flew towards her fate with the sun.
Chen Shi only felt that the sun was suddenly dazzling at that moment, and then, in the light, something flew in that he was a little afraid and couldn't figure out where it came from. Then, he hesitated for a moment, and saw him flash intentionally or unintentionally. In the midst of the cheers, the little arrow was stared at Qiao Hua's collar behind him. Qiao Hua seemed to be still in a dream, but Li Xiaomei shouted in her heart, "No! ——Why did she shoot the wrong arrow for the first time in her life? – He did it intentionally, he did it intentionally! ——Li Xiaomei thought bitterly and angrily in her heart. She knew his skills, how could he refuse his newly released feelings like this? Li Xiaomei only felt that her chest was full of ice and charcoal for a while, and the sadness and frustration that she had never had in her life poured into her heart together.
In Li Bo's eyes, a point of worry was added. Shi Zhen looked at Chen Zhen with an angry face, everyone was laughing, Qiao Hua was like in a dream, and Li Xiaomei, suddenly - without saying a word, galloped away!