Chapter 14
This scene today? Ming Yue looked around, so many pro-royal and important ministers’ families had brought their girls with them, and there hadn’t even been this kind of battle for His Majesty’s selection. In His Majesty’s harem, there are mostly daughters of minor officials with low official positions, such as Princess Hui.
If this matter reaches His Majesty’s ears, I’m afraid it will not be easy. And remembering that some time ago, my father said that the previous dynasty had rewarded several civil officials with canes for urging His Majesty to establish a crown prince early, Mingyue said that this was a very sensitive time.
At this sensitive time, Mingyue was able to see through it and clapped her hands together, coming closer to them: ”I see, this is called cupping! No wonder the Empress Dowager’s private words have made a scene that is known all over the city, at the expense of the previous dynasty still praising that virtuous person for being so good to King Yu, praising him without a word, rewarding him for anything good, and helping him to open up a marriage.”
“Hush!” Concubine Hui didn’t move and looked around for a moment to make sure no one heard before she was relieved. She whispered, “If Fourth Highness is a smart one, he shouldn’t focus on the minutiae of the first concubine.”
“Then what if he’s not smart?”
Rong Xiangmian said, “If he is not smart, what difference does it make to marry him as a full consort or side consort? Neither will have a good end.”
This was said with a smile on her face, but it made Ming Yue shudder to hear it.
King Yu was different from King Yun, his birth mother had a blood feud with the Empress, and the Yu family had a blood feud with the Yongan Marquis. Although so many years had passed, looking at the Empress’ battle, she was not planning to treat him well.
“What if he is really a stupid person?” Mingyue worried for her.
Rong Xiangmian laughed, “If you and I can see things, can’t King Yu see them? If he doesn’t have this insight, how can he recover Western Qin?”
That day’s encounter at the City God Temple made Rong Xiangxian more certain of this point, that King Yu was not a reckless man.
In the middle of talking, Rong Xiangxian smelled in front of the table, giving her majesty a salute: “Your Highness, can my daughter’s sister be returned for a while?”
“What? You have something you like?” Consort Hui and Yan asked.
Rong Xiangwen nodded, “The next lottery is a gilt tiger car, I want to win it for my second sister’s child to play with.”
Concubine Hui pushed Xiangwen and said, “Go.”
Mingyue immediately followed, “Don’t come see me if you lose!”
The Rong family’s siblings, plus their sister-in-law, all went down to the field. A family of tall, good-looking and good, today everyone came in polo uniforms, waist and wrists, head and hair, boots, hem flowing, heroic. Six people riding six high head horse entrance, that scene, end of the sensation.
Among them, Xiangwang was the most popular. He was already young and vigorous, and at a young age, he had made a war achievement and won a promotion based on his own skills, and at this moment, his look of determination, matched with his good skin, made those girls in Jinling City who had not yet left the court, have a good heartbeat.
“You guys look! General Xiao Rong is looking over!”
“Who is he looking at? I’m afraid it’s not looking at you!”
“What nonsense? General Xiao Rong doesn’t even recognize me.”
The girls covered their faces with handkerchiefs and quietly discussed. The bystanders were not idle either.
“Ooh! This is the first time I’ve seen this kind of scene. With the Rong family in the battlefield, I’m afraid General Qi is going to suffer!” The Seventh Imperial Uncle sighed and pointed to Xian Yang, “The third one from the left is the fourth girl of the Rong family.”
Of course, Zhou Xianyang knew that, and he stared at her wrist: she wasn’t wearing a bracelet. Did she not like what he gave her, or was she afraid of breaking it?
Fighting against the Rong family was a team of clean-cut youths with an imposing presence. With General Qi at the head, his youngest brother Qi Ming in the capital as the second, the rest are all generals of the Qi family army.
While the Rong family’s team has many women, the Duke of England has only one son, and Great General Rong has only left one boy, many people in the outside world joke about the Duke of England’s family’s yin and yang.
A young soldier general, because he was familiar with Rong Xiangwang, could not help but provoke, “Little General Rong, you brought so many female family members, are you here to strike a bow or to pick a show?”
As soon as these words came out, the Qi family’s army was ready to let loose a big laugh, but Rong Xiangwang’s face had already been put down: “Bullshit! Stuff your filthy words back into your dog’s stomach!”
Always love to laugh, fast-talking General Rong suddenly lost such a big fire, the other party was startled. General Qi was known to be bad, too late to stop, immediately reprimanded his subordinates: “Shut your filthy mouth, the daughter of the State Duke’s House is also you worthy of chewing and talking about? What election? What are you talking about?”
The man realized that he had said something wrong, and immediately apologized by clasping his fists on the horse: “General Xiaorong, my mouth is stupid, for the sake of killing the enemy together, take it easy on me this time, right?”
General Qi also immediately said in a friendly manner, “Rong family’s eldest son, eldest lady, third girl, fourth girl, sixth girl, I apologize for this unintelligent thing to you. He’s from Yangzhou and speaks and acts out of order, so I’ll go back and punish him!”
Rong Xiang Gu remotely clasped his fist that way and did not say anything.
This little episode was considered to be over for the time being.
The one who said the wrong thing is called Shi Wei, is under the Qi family, the family entered the capital by virtue of the war. Because he said the wrong thing, the Qi family’s army thought to give way to the Rong family’s girl on the horse racecourse, as a kind of apology.
Who knows the drums together, the Rong family and horses, such as dragons and tigers, long cross and out, that the first polo was Rong Xiang Gu’s club captured, then has been in the hands of the Rong family transmission, they work well together, General Qi’s team, from beginning to end, even the ball did not even touch a bit.
Rong Xiang Gu grabbed the ball in front of the goal, strangled his horse and stood, when he stopped sharply, one hand held the reins, one hand swung the club to hit the ball into the hole, all in one go, the action of running clouds and flowing water, attracted the applause of the whole hall, and the drums sounded like thunder.
“This little brother Rong, quite like the style of General Rong back then.”
“General Xiao Rong is really something!”
Men and women, young and old, were all excited that Great General Rong had such an outstanding child.
Following that, boos came from all directions, booing the Qi family’s army for being beaten by a couple of thousand-dollar males without any power to fight back.
On the court, losing was not terrible, what was terrible was losing spinelessly . General Qi shouted: “Are you dreaming? Where is your usual vigor?”
Shi Wei explained, “I wanted to give them a goal.”
“Giving up a goal to the Rong family? How dare you! You can’t even win if you give it your all!”
Hearing the boss say this, the Qi family army no longer dared to take the enemy lightly and took out the momentum of the battlefield to salvage the situation.
The Qi family army was fierce, and the Rong family’s youths were good polo players, the next match became very violent and exciting. Unfortunately, throughout the entire half, the initiative was in the hands of the Rong family.
Those who said that the Rong family girls were dressed like men, at this moment, seeing them in the spring sunshine, galloping their horses, powering over the men, valor, also shut their mouths.
After all, General Qi is fighting in Yangzhou, polo is just an occasional entertainment, there is no tacit understanding of these siblings of the Rong family who play together.
Seeing that the first half of the ball game was over and the Qi family army was behind by a full 5 goals, General Qi could not sit still.
Qi Ming reminded him, “Big brother, make a change! How about inviting King Yuh to assist?”
“What are you thinking? The ball is playing like this, and you still have the face to call for King Yu to come and help?”
Shi Wei busy said, “Precisely because of this situation, Yu Wang’s ball skills if you can save the day, is not more appear Yu Wang’s ability! It’s just the right time to let the princes and marquises of the capital see that our Highness is much stronger than the ones they know!”
However, the Rong family didn’t replace anyone, and no one in the Qi family’s army was injured, so replacing someone like this would only be laughed at. The ball could be lost, but it must not be disgraced.
General Qi tilted his head and glanced at King Yu, wanting to probe his meaning first.
Only to see that King Yu was sitting on the moon watching platform, looking at him with a smile on his face, seemingly waiting to see what he was going to do. With this look, he definitely wouldn’t come down to help.
He then remembered that when he greeted His Highness when he first arrived at the stadium in the morning, His Highness had said that he wasn’t feeling well today, and that he hadn’t even brought his polo uniform with him and wasn’t going to come down.
General Qi was even more reluctant to ask for help, when a youth walked over. A few of the Qi family members were busy walking over.
“Xiao Bei?”
“His Highness sent you?”
“Are you good at polo?”
The young man called Xiao Bei was in his early twenties, dressed in rough cloth and kudzu, if not for his acquaintances, he really couldn’t believe that he was the closest guard beside Yu Wang, and was even taken care of by Yu Wang as if he was his younger brother.
Xiao Bei waved his hand, “I’m fine on horseback, but polo stinks, don’t count on me.”
“Then what are you doing here? Come closer to see our jokes?” Shi Wei asked.
Xiao Bei laughed, “His Highness asked me to bring you a few words. You can’t beat the Rong family in polo, but in the art of war, other than General Xiao Rong, I’m afraid that the rest of the British Duke’s House is not your match. You should use your strengths to attack the enemy’s weaknesses, don’t fight hard.”
The rest of the people were listening in a cloudy manner, but General Qi understood. He glanced at King Yu and cupped his fists to thank him.
He was the one in authority, just now the situation on the field had changed suddenly, and the inferior start had made him disorganized. They are just pawns in this polo, tired of running for their lives, but King Yu sits on a high platform and sees more macroscopically and calmly.
Qi Jia Jun immediately gathered his brothers together, “Do you still remember how you won that battle at Yang Guan?”
The rest of them immediately understood: “Sounding the east and striking the west.”
“What about the battle at Lingquanyi?”
“Waiting for the enemy with an escape.”
General Qi then laid out the tactics for them in terms of previous victories, and the soldiers and generals immediately understood.
Once on the field again, the situation was suddenly reversed, and the field was no longer as intense as before.
However, the ball was always struck at an unexpected time and angle, from where the eyes of the crowd were focused, and was suddenly struck to an extremely cold position. There often happened to be a Qijia army there to receive it, and then the ball went in.
“It’s not easy, in order to win over the Rong Family, the Qi Family Army is using the Art of War.” There were people in the army who immediately saw it.
Rong Xiangwang quickly reacted, but how could he not be as sophisticated as the other side when he was communicating with his brother and sister-in-law and sisters on the horse about these things on the formation.
The number of goals scored by the Qi family army slowly caught up.
Rong Xiangxian said, “Xiangwang, you are the only one here who knows the art of war, so it’s impossible to win against them. Don’t be carried away by them, just use the dirt method of staring at people, one person stares at one, and die biting and not letting go, let’s see what they can do.”
“Good!” The remaining few heard this and immediately assigned the stares one by one.
Rong Xiangwen was in charge of staring at Qi Ming, she had a target, but she could not always intercept his ball, and as she saw that she was getting closer and closer to the goal, she gradually got impatient, and collided with Qi Ming’s horse, and fell down from the horse.
Qi Ming busy pass the ball to his teammates, dismounted to see Rong Xiangwen. Seeing that she quickly got up from the ground with a flip, he laughed and said, “Miss Xiangwen, don’t be anxious, it’s just a ball.”
A soldier general ran by with the ball from the side and said, “I let you guys have it in the first half, I really think the Qi army can’t beat you!”
When Rong Xiang Gu heard this, was he not annoyed, and immediately rolled Qi Ming’s eyes and quickly turned on his horse again, charging straight at that person.
And Rong Xiang Gu just took advantage of that person’s distraction to talk, has intercepted the ball, immediately passed to Xiang Wen , so that she can complete the door strike.
After Rong Xiangwen scored, she turned her horse around, glanced triumphantly at the soldier general and Qi Ming just now, and rewarded them with another blank stare.
Qi Ming sat on his horse and cried and laughed, “I really haven’t seen such a fiery girl.”
The ball game had almost reached the stage of physical combat, with both sides going back and forth, the chips alternately rising, drawing hoots and hollers from the crowd. Liu’s and Long’s have long been unable to sit on the top, stood to the edge of the stage, a moment of joy stomping feet, a moment of chagrin pounding hands.
Unconsciously, both sides have tied the chip count, and the game time is almost over, to the most tense time.
Both sides are deadly staring at each other to tear, not let the other side of the ball can easily close to the goal, see the time will be over, Shi Wei was Rong Xiang Gu and Rong Xiang Wang, two of the package, he simply towards the goal far from the vigor of a blow, spell a luck.
The goal is only feet wide, the ball hit the goal board bounced out high, towards the left side of the Rong Xiang see fly, how can not catch.
Suddenly, only to see Rong Xiang see wrist fling, throw the club to the back, as if the back of the long eyes, back precision strike, the club will be the ball straight into the net pocket of the door hole.