The emperor of heaven ordered the princes to return to the table, and continued to feast with Tubo Zanpu, and the dancers in the dance workshop presented new rehearsals of Hu Ge and encouragement.
After a while, when the singing and dancing were over, the sound of drums was heard all around again. Everyone stopped their cups to look around, and a carved gold ball the size of a bronze mirror was suddenly hoisted high from several long red silk threads in the arena. While galloping, he bent his bow and set up an arrow, and the arrow went like the wind and hit the golden ball right in the middle.
The golden ball was split by an arrow, and two snow-white khatas floated down. The woman bowed behind her back, but she took off the rein and stood on the horse's back. She stretched out her hands and accurately picked up the falling khatas.
Amidst the applause from the crowd, she could see her horse speed slowing down before reaching the main stage, turning over lightly, dismounting and folding a khata double-folded, holding it up to shoulder level, and sending it to Chi Lang Lunzan, with a crisp smile, said: " I heard that Tubo has a custom of presenting khatas to honored guests, and Zanpu is welcome to come to the Central Plains!"
Chi Lang Lunzan accepted her salute with a smile. She placed the khata in front of the seat, and presented the khata to Princess Jingsheng: "Welcome the princess back to court!"
Concubine Yin Gui, who was accompanying the Emperor of Heaven, said with a smile at this time: "It turns out that it is Caiqian, she is the only one who has many strange tricks."
The Emperor of Heaven also laughed and said, "Well, my horsemanship and archery skills just now are pretty good."
Yin Caiqian said: "Your Majesty, the men in our celestial dynasty are galloping and unrestrained, and the women are not inferior to others. Caiqian wants to use the Juju venue to perform flower shooting orders for the emperor and Zanpu, so as to cheer up the wine!"
This flower-shooting order is a game often played by the children of the official clan in their spare time. It combines archery, riding, fancy bowing and word orders. It is also very interesting. The Emperor of Heaven said: "Just the game is not enough, I order you to compete What do you think about one game?"
Yin Caiqian said: "That is the Shuanglong grab order, Caiqian obeys the order!"
The Emperor of Heaven asked: "Who do you want to invite to grab orders with you?"
Yin Caiqian thought for a while, then raised her eyes and said, "Climbing is about climbing high mountains, and competitions are about looking for masters." As she spoke, she stepped forward and bowed in front of Ye Tianling: "The fourth highness's archery skills are among the best in the army. Caiqian is bold, please enlighten me, Fourth Highness!"
Ye Tianling was slightly taken aback, there was an uproar in the field, and there was a lot of discussion immediately, no one thought that Yin Caiqian would dare to call out to Ye Tianling.
Ye Tianling sat at the table, and after she finished speaking, she remained silent and did not answer. Yin Caiqian's almond eyes were bright, and she raised her head to look at him with burning force. There was a little shyness in the depth of the brilliance, and Ye Tianling was deep. His eyes looked at her lightly, there was only bottomless darkness in them, without any emotional fluctuations at all.
The Empress Dowager asked him: "Ling'er, people are calling for you, why don't you respond quickly?"
Hearing Ye Tianling's words, Fang stood up and bowed lightly to the queen mother, and said softly: "The grandson obeys the emperor's grandmother's order." When he raised his eyes, they fell on Qing Chen, and Qing Chen was also looking at him Then, the moment his eyes met with the light shadow of a slight smile on the corner of his lips, it floated clear in the sunlight, then disappeared in the quiet place of his eyebrows and eyes, and looked aside.
Luanfei touched the long table in front of him with his fingers, and suddenly said to Qing Chen in a low voice: "Sister, let's kill her prestige in the end, and we can't make the Yin family too proud."
Hearing what she said, Qing Chen raised his eyebrows slightly and asked, "Do you want to form a team with His Highness Fourth?"
Inside the Yin family, there is Concubine Yin in charge of the harem, and outside there is King Zhan, who is famous far and wide. It is no longer a matter of a day to test and compete with the Feng family. And Luanfei and Yin Caiqian have always been at odds, so naturally she will not let her monopolize the scene here, and now they want to use Ling Wang's strength to suppress her. Luan Fei nodded and said: "That's right, this is a good opportunity." Then he said softly to the Queen Mother: "Queen Mother, it's okay if you don't cooperate well with the flower shooting order. My sister and I will help the Fourth Highness, okay?"
Qing Chen was quite helpless, but he also secretly thought that Luan Fei was smart, and no one had anything to say about taking advantage of the Queen Mother's orders. With a master like Ye Tianling in the team, it was almost a sure win. Sure enough, the Empress Dowager ordered them to go, Ye Tianling had already mounted the horse and entered the arena at this time, she didn't seem to care who to partner with, she just nodded to them and waited for Yin Caiqian to invite someone to compete.
On the viewing platform, Concubine Yin just looked at Ye Tianzhan, Ye Tianzhan smiled slightly, stood up, and said: "It's not interesting to have too many boys and girls, why don't I and Fourth Brother accompany them to shoot orders together."
He smiled elegantly, and what he said was reasonable, but in this way, everyone felt something different in the field. At this moment, the Emperor of Heaven seemed to say casually: "Hao'er, go and lead Zhan'er and Caiqian to the next game. Ling'er is good at archery, don't let them be bullied."
As soon as these words came out, Yin Guifei's expression changed slightly, and Feng Yan's expression also moved. The prince is injured, but the Heavenly Emperor still arranges it like this. The meaning is obvious. The prince will take over the kingdom of heaven in the future, so no one can make trouble.
The prince said: "My son obeys the order." He got up and entered the arena under the worried eyes of the princess.
Concubine Yin immediately smiled and said: "Your Majesty, looking at them reminds me of my youth, when we used to play the game of shooting flowers."
The Emperor of Heaven said calmly, "I remember that you were a master of archery back then."
Concubine Yin said: "Don't concubines often lose to the emperor?" The Emperor of Heaven smiled and said nothing.
Qing Chen caressed Yun Cheng's mane, watching the subtle changes in the situation from a distance, a game made so complicated, both bored and a little funny. She tilted her head with a smile, and accidentally saw a mocking sneer on the corner of Ye Tianling's lips. When her eyes fell, he suddenly turned his head. raised eyebrows.
Luanfei saw that the other party had made an appointment, and said: "I guess they must be Yin Caiqian who shot the order, His Royal Highness the Seventh Highness grabbed the order, and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince received the order. How should we deal with it here?"
The game of shooting flower orders is usually formed by the cooperation of three people in each group. Several hollow colored balls for shooting are hung high around the field. Under each colored ball is a gold medal with different flower orders written on it. Outside the arena, the official first gives the first sentence of the flower order, and the person who shoots the order will shoot the corresponding colored ball according to this. When the colored ball falls to the ground, the second person will follow up with the order. The party who misses or shoots the wrong shot must meet the next sentence of the order to be eligible to grab the order. When grabbing the order, use the long stick of Juju, and pass the ball to the person receiving the order as quickly as possible. Quickness and dexterity are key. The most important thing for the person receiving the order to catch the ball with his bare hands is to be good on horseback, but if he can't make a final sentence after receiving the order, he still has to hand over the colored ball to others. Such interlocking links, each link pays attention to tacit cooperation, tests allusions and poems, and finally, according to the number of colored balls obtained, the one with the most wins.
Qing Chen had played flower shooting orders several times in the palace, and after thinking about it, he said: "The Fourth Highness is determined to use shooting orders. You come to receive the order, my horse is fast, and I am quite familiar with His Highness's bowing technique, so come and grab the order."
Luan Fei whispered to her with a smile: "The prince has an injury on his arm, my sister is letting me go, but His Highness Seven's bowing skills are very powerful, but I will definitely give my sister three points, we have a good chance of winning."
Qing Chen glared at her lightly, she pursed her lips and blinked, making Qing Chen a little dumbfounded, suddenly felt a solid gaze from beside her, and when she looked, she saw a slight light in Ye Tianling's black eyes The light swept across in an instant, and I heard him say lightly: "Follow my horse on the field later." After speaking, he rode the horse into the field first.
The other party's arrangement was exactly as Luan Fei expected, and Ye Tianzhan didn't seem very surprised when he saw that his opponent was Qing Chen, he sighed faintly, and smiled handsomely under the sun, his eyes bright like spring.
Everyone in Tubo has never seen the game of shooting flowers, and everyone is waiting to see. I saw that the colored balls that had been prepared long ago were pulled by the red silk and began to spin. After the three-way drum on the side drum, there was a golden bell and jade sound, and the officer chanted loudly: "Swear to ride through a thousand cities with iron riding." The horses in the field galloped lightly, two The arrow shadows flew at the same time, the colored balls fell in response, and Yanyue's long poles competed back and forth.
But seeing the green grass flying flowers, the colors are colorful, the fast horses shoot feathers and arrows, and the ball flies to the moon with a long pole. Among them, there are light clothes like jade, and frequent witty remarks, which dazzle the people who are looking directly.
Yin Caiqian dared to challenge Ye Tianling, her archery skills were really extraordinary, she was brisk and precise, although she was overwhelmed by Ye Tianling first, she never gave up her pursuit. Qing Chen rode Yuncheng and followed Ye Tianling closely. After three arrows, she felt that every shot of Ye Tianling would land in front of her horse exactly. .
As the flower order turned faster and faster, everyone in the field became more and more anxious. Every shooting order, the wind gallops and the clouds gallop side by side, like the wind and clouds passing by, and the streamer flickers lightly. Outside the field, only two white shadows can be seen galloping and following each other. .
Luan Fei is beside the horse, fast and pretty, circling around with the prince, each in purple clothes and yellow shirts wins the podium, bright and elegant intertwined and coquettish. Once Qing Chen got the ball, she immediately stepped forward to meet it, galloping over and leaning over with her skirt fluttering, like a butterfly wearing a flower, the fragrant wind blowing by, and she has already copied the flower order in her hand.
In this way, the other party lost two orders in a row, and Qing Chen received another order. Suddenly, he felt that his subordinates were tense, and the figure around him flickered slightly. Ye Tianzhan appeared in front of him with a suave smile, and the stick touched the ball like lightning.
Qing Chen knew that his dribbling skills were very good. Once the ball was under his stick, it would be difficult to get it back. The long stick slashed to the side of the ball, but when the two sticks intersected, Ye Tianzhan felt like sticking on the stick, Qing Chen Chen couldn't control it, and was about to let go of the stick, but Ye Tianzhan raised his hand to give it away, and handed the stick back to her in an instant.
Qing Chen was stunned, seeing that Ye Tianzhan's handsome eyes seemed to be full of joyful spring light, he smiled and signaled her to continue, she also smiled back at Ye Tianzhan, but avoided the stick with her hand, this order no longer fights.
"Wan Dian Chun, Yi Zhi Xiu."
The two arrows whistled lightly, and they hit the flower order almost at the same time, and the colored ball fell. Fei and the crown prince prancing into the air, rushing forward, will win or lose in the end.
Unexpectedly, the two arrows intersected at a high place, Yin Caiqian lost to the strength of Ye Tianling's arrow, the feather arrow that was supposed to fall outside the field changed direction and flew into the field.
The horse was frightened and stumbled, between lightning and flint, the prince's horse speed suddenly accelerated, he stretched out his body and raised his hand to hold Luan Fei, and suddenly pulled him up, Luan Fei took advantage of the situation to loosen the reins, and landed in front of the prince's horse as light as a swallow . She looked down in shock, and was actually holding the flying flower order in her hand. Suddenly she smiled "puchi", looked at the prince with beautiful eyes, and presented the flower order: "Your Highness has won, and Luanfei admits defeat!" .”
The crown prince took the flower order, he seemed to have some difficulty when he raised his hand, he frowned slightly, but looked down at Luan Fei with a smile on his head.
Yin Caiqian and the others galloped forward, staring at Luanfei without hesitation, with hostility in their eyes. Luan Fei turned a blind eye and only thanked the prince with a smile.
As a result, the two sides ended in a tie. Although Chilang Lunzan is a foreigner, he is proficient in Chinese and has always admired the Chinese culture. A glass of strong wine, personally respect the six people.
Chilang Lunzan paid respect by doing first, the crown prince and Ye Tianling returned the gift with wine, and drank it all in three gulps. Although Luan Fei and Yin Caiqian were a little hesitant in the face of strong alcohol, they both had some tolerance for alcohol and drank the wine one after another.
Qing Chen knew that he could not drink after getting drunk once, so he hesitated to take this big glass of strong wine. Forced to take a sip, the wine was like a knife, and it was choking hard in her throat, burning like a scorching fire. She had been galloping for half a day, and she felt a little flustered. , couldn't help frowning secretly.
But according to Tubo etiquette, it is extremely impolite to refuse the first cup of wine. Seeing that Chilang Lunzan was looking at her, in front of the ministers of civil and military affairs of the two countries who could not retreat no matter what, she raised her phoenix eyes slightly and her heart sank. Drink the wine. Unexpectedly, he was blocked by Ye Tianling beside him, and heard him say: "Zanpu, Princess Qingping is not good at drinking alcohol. According to the rituals of my dynasty, this wine can be drunk by others. I don't know what Zanpu thinks?"
Chi Lang Lun Zan also saw that Qing Chen really couldn't drink alcohol, and said with a smile: "When you go to the country, do as the Romans do, please, Your Highness!"
Qing Chen smiled gratefully at Ye Tianling, and Ye Tianling took the wine cup in her hand, raised his head and drank it. Chi Lang Lun praised: "Good drink!"
Tubo people make friends with wine, and they are honest and forthright. When he was bowing just now, he was very interested in befriending Ye Tianling, turned around and returned to pour wine, raised his hand and said, "I will respect the Fourth Highness again!"
Ye Tianling did not change his face, nor did he refuse, took the wine cup and saluted Chilang Lunzan slightly, drank it again, and as soon as the glass was lit, the Tubo warriors around applauded loudly, and they all admired such a heroic blood in their hearts.
Chilang Lunzan was very happy, and said to the Emperor of Heaven with his hands on his chest: "Your Majesty, the wine is strong and the love is strong. Tubo and Tianchao are brothers in love, and we wish to have a good relationship forever!"
The Heavenly Emperor Longyan was very happy, and led his officials to hold a cup to drink with the Tubo guests, wishing the great event of the friendship between the two countries.