auspicious time has come

Chapter 216 Bullying Children

"In two days, it will be Aunt Yongyang's birthday. According to His Highness, do you want to go out of the palace to congratulate her?" the princess asked.

Not long ago, Princess Yongyang was reprimanded by the sage because of envoy Xiao's intercession, and she has stayed behind closed doors since then.

The prince thought for a while, and said: "My aunt doesn't like to make noises, and my father's temper has become more cloudy and cloudy due to the troubles of the emperor recently. At this time, it is not appropriate to celebrate everywhere - just like in previous years, I sent someone to Just send it as a birthday present."

The princess should come down.

The two walked arm in arm in the garden, talking slowly.

……

Knowing that the prince and princess had no objection to leaving the palace, the teachers and students in the East Palace hit it off and set the time for leaving the palace tomorrow.

In the morning, Princess Jiayi first went to Ji's house to meet with her teacher.

When leaving Ji's house, besides Heng Yu, Ning Yu and Gu Tingnan were accompanying her.

And not long after they went out, they happened to meet Pei Wushuang who was wandering in the city, adding another fierce general to the group, which inevitably made the noise even more noisy, and the places they went were also lively places.

Tired from shopping, I found a restaurant where I could listen to music and had lunch. Princess Jiayi, who had to take a lunch break at such a time in the past, didn't look tired at all, and was still full of energy, tireless and not sleepy. Can go on.

Thinking of the agreement between the two before leaving the palace, Heng Yu took people out of the city.

The carriage stopped on the outskirts of the city, and Pei Wushuang got out of the carriage following Gu Tingnan, looking at the endless farmland in front of him, he said puzzledly: "Ah Heng, what are we doing here?"

She thought she was going out for a late spring ride, flying a kite or going boating on the lake.

Why did Ah Heng bring the little Princess to this farmland?
"Come and enjoy the scenery." Heng Yu replied with a smile, took a light breath, and said, "Have you heard it? It has a fragrance."

aroma?

Pei Wushuang sniffed, but couldn't figure out why.

Turning his head again, he saw that the teacher and the student had walked towards the ridge of the field side by side.

"Teacher, is this Sugu?" Princess Jiayi raised her hand to touch the ear of the grain, and said curiously, "It's exactly the same as the picture in the book."

Hengyu nodded: "Yes, after the autumn harvest, the hulls will be corn."

"Do you still need to remove the shells one by one?" Princess Jiayi exclaimed, "How long will it take to work?"

"Plowing and sowing in spring, husking in autumn, weeding insects, preventing drought and waterlogging, every grain is the fruit of hard work." Heng Yu looked at the two old farmers who were sitting by the ridge not far away to enjoy the coolness, and said: "Farmers go out early and return late. Working in the fields is the source of two meals a day in various places."

Princess Jiayi listened carefully, looked sideways at the two old farmers, and then turned her gaze back to the fluffy ears of grain, with a look of thought in her eyes.

Seeing that she was looking at it seriously, the maid at the side suggested with a smile: "Can I take it off for you to take a closer look?"

Princess Jiayi shook her head, looked at the ears of grain she held in her hand, and said, "It's not yet harvest time, wouldn't picking them at this time be destroying the grain and wasting the painstaking efforts of the farmers every day?"

Then, he turned to Hengyu and asked, "Teacher, how many grains can one ear of millet produce?"

This question seemed a bit tricky, but she felt that the teacher must have the answer.

Hengyu looked at the little girl holding the ear of corn in her hand, and replied seriously with a smile: "There are different kinds of millet planted in different places, and different climates, so the harvests are different. As far as the common early millet is concerned in recent years, each ear is as few as ninety, densely packed. There are hundreds of them. In the future, if we can improve the cultivation and planting methods, there may be a possibility of thousands of grains per panicle.”

Princess Jiayi's eyes showed amazement: "One ear can produce more than a hundred grains of rice, and it can be boiled into a bowl of gruel... Maybe it can save a person's life during a famine."

As he spoke, his eyes became brighter: "... If you can really have a thousand grains per ear, then it will be a great merit!"

"Yes." Hengyu looked at the farmland: "Food is the most important thing for the people, and those who work hard on farming will have immeasurable merit."

Pei Wushuang and the others who were not far behind the two looked at the teacher and the student beside the field, and felt differently in their hearts for a moment.

For some reason, it was just two girls standing there, one big and one small, but looking at them at this moment, it made people feel inexplicably hopeful.

Pei Wushuang also looked into the distance, his eyebrows and eyes stretched.

This scene is indeed worth appreciating.

If you calm down and sniff carefully, you can smell the aroma in the air, which is the sweet smell of grain growth.

A group of girls, big and small, walked and talked and laughed for a long time among the fields.

When she was leaving, she got into the carriage. As soon as Princess Jiayi sat down in the carriage, she blinked and reminded Hengyu: "Mr.

"I'll never forget it." Heng Yu smiled and opened the curtain of the car, and told Cheng Ping who was riding outside the car: "Uncle Ping leads the way to the Pinghe River in the western suburbs."

At the end of each month, Ma Zhe and his team gather here to practice Cuju.

Seeing Hengyu coming over, a group of teenagers who were playing fervently in the Cuju field under the willow tree by the river were not at all surprised, and waved their hands to greet her.

"Ah Heng, long time no see!"

"Ah Heng is wearing a skirt today, I'm afraid I can only look at it!"

"Now we, Ah Heng, are the princess' teacher, so we should be more calm and quiet."

The teenagers were joking and joking.

Although most of them are descendants of nobles and dignitaries, Princess Jiayi is a daughter and is still young, so she seldom appeared in front of the disciples of officials and eunuchs, so no one recognized them at this time, and they were only brought by Ma Zhe and the others as Hengyu. Which little lady.

The teenagers were sweating profusely at the cuju field in the late spring afternoon. Heng Yu and others stood in the shade of the willow tree and watched. Princess Jiayi showed surprise from time to time and clapped her hands in applause.

It is adjacent to the ** River, and the official road is not far away. Occasionally, pedestrians will stop to take a look at the lively scene here.

A carriage stopped as it passed by, and a young man in a stone blue gown got out of the carriage.

The boy was followed by two servants, one of them recognized Princess Jiayi at a glance, and said in surprise, "Mr. Lord, that is the little Princess!"

The young man looked over unexpectedly, and saw that it was indeed Princess Jiayi, so he walked forward.

Princess Jiayi also saw him, and her eyes lit up for a moment: "Uncle Shaoling!"

This is the younger brother of her concubine, the Liulang of the Jin family, Jin Shaoling.

"Why is the little princess here?" The young man's face was warm and smiling.

"Aniang and my father allowed me to go out of the palace with the teacher." Princess Jiayi replied in a low voice.

teacher?

Mr. Jin Jialang subconsciously looked at the girl beside her.

Seeing him looking over, Hengyu raised her hand and saluted with a smile: "Jin Liulang."

The girl's facial features were bright, but her complexion was calm and indifferent. Mr. Jin Jialang was inexplicably lost for a moment, and then raised his hand to return the salute: "I think this must be Mrs. Ji."

Hengyu nodded.

At this time, Pei Wushuang's exclamation suddenly came from not far away: "Ah! Ah Heng, be careful!"

Hearing the sound, Jin Shaoling and the others raised their eyes and saw a kick ball flying towards them.

Jin Shaoling subconsciously stretched out his hand to protect Princess Jiayi.

However, in the next moment, the girl standing in the same place in front of her turned around, and the pink and lotus-colored embroidered white orchid skirt whirled, raised her leg and firmly intercepted the kick ball, and the colored ball spun a few times on her feet As soon as he let go of the girl's embroidered shoes, he was kicked back by her feet——

The kick ball flew back the same way, and Ma Zhe raised his hand to catch it.

At the same time, the girl's soft skirt just fell back onto the grass along with the embroidered shoes.

There were applause from all around.

"Pretty!"

"This girl's movements are smooth and smooth, but she doesn't lose to those gentlemen!"

Faced with these praises, the girl showed no shyness or modesty on her face, instead she raised her jaw slightly, and her friends in the Cuju field smiled complacently.

"Uncle, isn't my teacher amazing?" Princess Jiayi boasted proudly.

Seeing that the boy did not respond, she called again in doubt: "Uncle?"

Jin Shaoling suddenly came back to his senses and looked at the little girl: "What's wrong?"

"I'm talking to Uncle. Did Uncle see my teacher's interception just now?"

Jin Shaoling nodded and looked at Hengyu again: "I see."

Seeing Hengyu looking over, he took a step forward and said: "I heard that Mrs. Ji is good at kicking and judging, and today I know that the rumors are true."

Heng Yu smiled nonchalantly: "It's just a joke on weekdays, it's a joke."

"General, it's Master Ji."

Wang Jingyong, who was driving his horse on the official road, saw Hengyu by the river, and quickly reminded his general.

When Xiao Mu turned his head to look, he saw the handsome young man in green shirt talking and laughing with her.

Seeing this scene, Vice General Wang suddenly became alert, and subconsciously said: "General, do you want your subordinates to go over—"

Xiao Mu: "No need."

Although Wang Jingyong was anxious, he could only answer "yes".

Xiao Mu got off his horse.

Wang Jingyong: "?"

Is it such a "no need"?
"Aheng, it's Xiaohou!" Pei Wushuang hurriedly said to Hengyu when he saw the person walking over.

Heng Yu looked at it, quite surprised.

There were so many people, she saluted as usual, without showing a sense of over-familiarity.

Xiao Hou saw it in his eyes, although he felt it was reasonable, it was inexplicably not very useful.

Just now Pei Wushuang had already called out his identity, at this time Princess Jiayi stepped forward in surprise, and confirmed to Hengyu in a low voice: "Teacher, is this Xiao Jieshi?"

She had also seen it from a distance at the palace banquet before, but after a lot of people, she couldn't see it clearly at all, so it wasn't really seen.

"It's Xiao." Xiao Mu raised his hand, "I've seen the Princess."

Princess Jiayi hurriedly avoided, and said with a smile: "Emissary Xiao needn't be too polite, it's going to hurt me."

Over there, when Mr. Jin's family saluted Xiao Mu, he declared his family name.

Xiao Mu's eyes moved slightly: "It turned out to be Mr. Jin Liulang."

He is somewhat familiar with this name—mainly because the elder brother of the Ji family had previously speculated that the Crown Princess might have intentionally matched Heng Yu with her.

There was admiration in the young man's tone: "Xiao Jie envoy's prestige is like a thunderbolt, and it's my luck to see you today."

Hearing him claiming to be so, Xiao Mu, who suddenly became an elder, was silent.

He really wasn't very old either.

Today's teenagers are too polite.

"Shaoling, you're here too!" A young man ran over from the Cuju field, wiped his sweat and said, "I just saw you, do you want to play together?"

Jin Shaoling smiled: "Where am I your opponent, I don't want to make a fool of myself."

"It's not the main match, it's just for kicking and playing, let's go!" The young man enthusiastically pulled Mr. Jin over, and was about to walk on the field.

Ma Zhe also came over: "Zhao Wu and the others are too tired to get up. It just so happens that there are two people missing. Ah Heng, this is your friend? Can you play cuju, do you want to play together?"

While he was talking, he looked at Xiao Mu with a smile - but why did he feel that this "friend" Ah Heng looked familiar?As if seen somewhere.

"He." Heng Yu glanced at Xiao Mu, and said with a smile: "He said before that you children should not be bullied, for fear that you will go home and cry if you lose."

When Ma Zhe heard this, he immediately showed surprise, straightened his waist and said: "Then we must compete!"

After saying that, he cupped his hands to Xiao Mu and asked for a fight: "I wonder if this gentleman can enlighten me?"

The young man refused to admit defeat, and while maintaining his demeanor, he even wrote his competitive spirit on his face.

The man standing with his hands behind his back on the opposite side slightly nodded his head when he heard the words: "Yes."

Ma Zhe's eyes widened even more - looking at Beijing, he has never seen such an arrogant person in terms of Cuju!
Then he raised his hand and turned sideways to make way: "Please!"

Xiao Mu raised his feet and walked towards the Cuju field.

Heng Yu stared dumbfounded—is he so free today?

Deputy General Wang, who inexplicably understood the intention behind his general's move, felt a little sad in silence - the general worked hard to make himself look younger.

"Where are the others?" Pei Wushuang didn't care about the movements on the Cuju field, and ran to Wang Jingyong's side and asked in a low voice.

Wang Jingyong took a step away silently, and said with a deadpan expression: "I'm chant scriptures with my wife at Lingque Temple."

If you ask why he exposed his companion's whereabouts so easily - he is not good at lying, and he doesn't want to be pestered and questioned by this Miss Pei.

As for whether this move would bring trouble to his companions, Vice General Wang didn't care.

"Lingque Temple..." Pei Wushuang jumped with joy.

"Aheng, I'm going to burn incense in the temple!" After leaving these words, Pei Wushuang took the envoy into the carriage, and soon disappeared.

Seeing this, Gu Tingnan walked to Wang Jingyong's side, and said casually, "Going out of the city to offer incense?"

This time, Vice General Wang didn't dodge it, but straightened his back even more straight: "Accompany Madam to the temple to fulfill her vows. Madam will hold fast and recite scriptures in the temple for three days. I will go back to the city with the general."

After answering, he couldn't help frowning.

Why did he say such a lot of things that can be solved with just one word "um"?

This feeling of uncontrollable words and deeds made Vice General Wang a little flustered, and he forced himself to look calmly at the Cuju field.

Gu Tingnan nodded knowingly, and accompanied him to watch the Cuju field with a smile.

Looking at it like this, I couldn't help but "tsk": "Isn't this just bullying children?"

It can be seen from the first half that there is no suspense about the outcome.

After losing two games in a row, Ma Zhe, who was so tired that he could only bend over and support his knees and gasp for breath, wanted to cry without tears—he admitted that his voice was a little louder when he said "please" earlier!

What is the background of this person!
Looking at the young man who took the sweat towel from the attendant and left the Cuju field while wiping his sweat, Ma Zhe resisted the tears that rolled in his eyes.

I think he has been in the Cuju circle of the capital for many years, and he has never lost so powerlessly!
"I... I just heard Mr. Jin Liulang call that man Xiao Jieshi!" A young man ran over and said to him.

Ma Zhe's slumped crying face disappeared in an instant: "... what?!"

Xiao Jieshi? !

"I said, why does it look familiar? I saw Xiao Jie envoy from a distance in the street when he entered Beijing before!...Why didn't they say it earlier? It made me lose so badly for nothing!"

The young man resentfully said: "Isn't it reasonable to say it sooner or later? Could it be that if you know your identity earlier, you can win the opponent?"

"If I had known earlier that it was Xiao Jieshi, I wouldn't have beaten him to death!" Ma Zhe wanted to cry again as he spoke.

Killing countless enemies on the battlefield, isn't "killing" them the same as killing chickens!

Wuwu really is bullying a child, Ah Hengcheng does not bully him!

……

That night, Princess Jiayi returned to the East Palace and told the princess what she had seen and heard all day with great interest.

"...While watching Cuju, I also met Xiao Jieshi! Xiao Jieshi was also invited to play, and kicked those people to pieces! They almost couldn't help crying when they lost! So did Uncle Shaoling Unlucky, I made a team with Mr. Ma Shangshu's family..."

"What are you talking about, I heard it all outside." The prince walked in and said with a smile.

The princess smiled and got up to salute.

"I've met my father!" Princess Jiayi stepped forward and took hold of one of the prince's sleeves, and said with undiminished interest: "My daughter is talking to A Niang about today's Xiaojie envoy's Cuju in the western suburbs."

The crown prince looked at his daughter after hearing the words: "Xiao Jieshi... is also good at kicking?"

　Try to make up some updates that were left behind when I asked for leave. Good night everyone-don’t be good night, and then recommend the new book [Song Tan Ji Shi] of Song of Thorns. It will be on the shelves in a few days. It’s very fat, go read it!Jing Ge said that after she was put on the shelves, she would have to be more alert, so she went to watch and supervise.

　　


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