Chapter 123 Xiaowu

Fangniang led Yuan Xiucai downstairs. As soon as she crossed the threshold, she chased a drooping maid on the ground floor and said urgently, "Sister Fang Niang!"

"Little Five?" Fang Niang was stunned when she heard the sound and hurriedly stopped. "You are not waiting by my wife. Why did you run out?"

"My wife thinks that everyone in the building today has a dark color and wants to change the wine halo makeup into Feixia makeup, so she ordered me to invite Sister Fang Niang to go." The maid named Xiaowu ran to Fang Niang and awned with a smile. "I just went up and asked, but I didn't expect that Fang Niang's sister happened to come down. At least she asked me to catch up!" As he spoke, he spit out his tongue, showing a look of happiness.

Fang Niang suddenly became embarrassed: "But Qilang ordered me to take Shouzhen Taoist priest to find Twelve Lang!"

"I just saw Twelve Lang going over there. At this moment, he must not have gone far. Why don't you look for it yourself?" Xiao Wu looked up and down at Yuan Xiu and saw that her dress was simple. Compared with the girl who went to the banquet today, she looked very poor, so he was a little contemptuous and took Fang Niang's hand and said, "After the meeting, the banquet is about to open. Half of today's banquet is for my wife. If Fang Niang doesn't go, my wife will annoy me. , what should I do? Sister Fang Niang must help me with this!" What she said was that the wife would annoy her, but how could Yuanxiu and Fangniang not hear the meaning?

Fang Niang frowned and looked at Yuanxiu apologetically: "Taoist priest, this..."

"What does Twelve Lang look like? I'll find it myself." Yuanxiu heard that the woman mentioned by Xiaowu should be the beauty that Du Qi wanted to show off, and Fang Niang might be good at painting Feixia makeup, so the beauty wanted to change her makeup, so she had to call her to serve her. She thought that Du Qi spoiled the beauty tightly. Although Fang Niang got Du Qi's order, she would obviously waver. Yuan Xiu has seen a lot about this kind of favor and arrogant thing in the palace, and he doesn't care about his identity and disdains to compete with a beautiful girl.

"Twelve Lang is handsome. Today, he is wearing a Dai-color robe, embroidered with black branches and patterns. In addition, he is tied with calamus brocade belts on his waist." Seeing her consent, Fang Niang quickly said, "It's best to recognize the little man who follows him - Xi Yan is wearing an indigo round-neck robe today, and there are scars on the ear - Taoist priest can rest assured that they will not go far."

Yuanxiu nodded, and Fang Niang followed Xiaowu to the building. Shouzhen asked timidly, "Can you wait here? I'll look for it?"

"No, the upstairs is boring, and I'm just about to walk." Yuan Xiu waved his hand.

The Qujiang River is still extremely noisy, but now it is a little abrupt and deserted as the crowd moves with the dragon boat.

A few snow-white egrets passed the water happily, leaving a line of ripples, and immediately flew into the Ting in the distance.

The two walked in the direction pointed by Xiao Wu for a short time. After turning over a cluster of green trees, they saw a large area of white and green on the shore. Next to them, a young man in Dai was behind him with his back and his forehead in the other hand seemed to be a little drunk. The wind blew from the pool and brought a drunkenness. Far from the teenager, there stood a 15- or 16-year-old servant, wearing an indigo round-neck robe.

Yuan Xiu stopped and tilted her head to look at the little man. She found that although his ears were covered with hair hanging down, she could still see a scar and almost climbed on her cheek. She looked at Shouzhen and Shouzhen. She walked slowly to the little man and called for a wash inkstone.

The little man turned his head strangely and said, "How does the little path commander know my name?"

"You are Xiyan, so the Langjun over there is the 12 Lang of the Du family?" Shouzhen asked softly.

"My Langjun's surname is indeed Du, Xing 12." Xi Yan looked at her and then at Yuan Xiu, noticed the direction they came, and suddenly said, "Are the two Taoist masters distinguished guests in Guanlan Building? I don't know what's wrong with looking for my husband?"

Shouzhen looked at Yuanxiu and asked without answering, "What is your Langjun doing standing there alone? But did you drink too much?"

"Lang Jun was just pulled to the micro snow platform under the Zheng family and drank two altars of earth cave spring for 15 years." When Xi Yanfang said this, he saw that Du Furi put down his hand covering his forehead and turned around. It was because Du Qi blocked too much wine. His face was slightly pale, but his eyes were bright. Even under the bright sun of the Dragon Boat Festival, it was still burning like a torch. He did not guard the truth, but immediately put his eyes on Yuan Xiu and nodded slightly.

Yuanxiu hesitated for a moment, nodded to him, and said, "Bong Yuanxiu."

Xi Yan was guessing their identity and intention, but he was shocked to hear the word Bengong. Du Furi had already guessed it and was not surprised. He bowed his hand and said, "I have seen you!"

Yuanxiu looked at him carefully. He was not famous among the teenagers in Chang'an, but was praised by her nursing mother Xue and Wei Huafei, the daughter of Wei Xiang, as the son of the family with amazing archery talent. Perhaps because he was good at riding and shooting, he especially showed a straight figure when he was polite. The so-called crane mantis, its The posture is as pretentious as the rising rock pine. Compared with the floating dust of Cui Fengwu and the arbitrary publicity of He Yijian, there is another kind of restrained and gentle state. However, unlike the prince's gentleness, he teaches people to sit in the spring breeze and feel close to those who see it, although Du Furi's expression is gentle and etiquette is flawless, he has a sense of independence.

"When I was in the palace, I heard Wei Huafei mention that the talent of the twelve arrow skills of the Daodu family was amazing, and there was no false hair." Yuanxiu said this and observed Du Furi's expression, but saw that he looked indifferent and arched his hand and said, "Concubine Hua is overreputed. I heard that Xue, your master's wet nurse, is Mrs. Xue in red in Chang'an in the past. Her riding and shooting is exquisite, which can be the first girl at that time. If concubine Hua has seen Mrs. Xue's ten arrows, she will definitely praise it!"

Seeing that he turned the topic to Xue, but did not deny Wei Huiduan's praise, Yuan Xiu's eyes suddenly lit up: "So, your archery skills are really good?"

"Do you come here for the words of Concubine Hua?" Du Furi smiled slightly. Wei Du's family is the same family in the south of Chang'an City. Du Furi's late mother Wei Yi is Wei's cousin, the father of Wei Huiduan. Although he doesn't like to travel, he always knows something about his cousin. The Wei girl was personally sent to the banquet by Princess Yuanxiu at the cherry banquet. Many families in Chang'an have already I have heard that some people even said that Wei Huiduan can be hired as Concubine Hua to enter the Hanliang Hall, which is also because of Princess Yuanxiu's beautiful words in it - now that Yuanxiu has changed his face and ran to find herself for Wei Huafei. It seems that her cousin seems to be doing well in the palace?

After all, saints have always loved Princess Yuanxiu...

Yuanxiu shook his head: "I originally thought that the Duke of Ying would also come to Guanlan Tower to find him."

"If you want to find your uncle, why don't you go to Jing'an Square?" Du Fu said warmly, "My uncle has always lived in the workshop. Even visitors only have it once every few days, and he never stays outside."

"I want to ask the Duke of Ying for a thing, and I don't want the saint to know for the time being." Yuan Xiu said lightly.

Du Furi nodded, and he didn't ask what was going on. He raised his hand and called Xi Yan: "You take your master out of the Hibiscus Garden..."

"Go to Jing'anfang at this moment?" Yuanxiu shook his head and stared at the ring on his finger, showing a very interested look, "Why don't twelve Lang make another appointment with the Duke of Ben for me - can you see the twelve Lang's archery skills?"

"Today is the fifth banquet, and I didn't go out with my bow." When Du Furi heard the words, he did not refuse directly, but he was a little sorry.

This is not difficult to beat Yuan Xiu: "It doesn't matter. If you eat rice dumplings today, how can there be less scene of shooting powder? Do you think there should be preparations in Guanlan Building?"

Powder group shooting was originally a play in the palace, and then gradually spread out, and people competed for the effect. Specifically, it is to make powder ball horns in the plate, take a small bow and shoot it, and those who win it will get food. The so-called horn millet is a zongzi. It is steamed with yellow rice soaked in ash juice and wrapped in bamboo reed leaves and cut into powder balls. Not to mention the size, the surface is slippery and difficult to focus on. The arrow is crooked at a touch. If there is no skill, it can't penetrate the powder even if it is hit, but if it is more powerful, it is easy to overturn the food plate. Therefore, although it is a game, it is easy to take it. Pinching is extremely demanding, but the Chinese can take arrows and chew the powder balls through the arrows as food. Although Yuanxiu has seen this game, she has never learned archery before and has always been watching.

At this moment, Du Furi pushed away without a bow, but she remembered.

Du Furi listened, but was not surprised and said, "Do you go to the building to have a look?"

Yuanxiu has long heard that this person is not popular, and she is not very interested in the people in the Guanlan Building. What's more, there is no wind in the building. It seems that she can see why Du Furi's archery can be called proud Xue and Wei Huiduan, and she said, "Mo Ru is here?"

Wash the inkstone and volunteered to go back to the building to get powder balls and small bows. Yuan Xiu was not surprised to see that the young man in blue heard the 50 steps he requested to open the bow, but also had a good face. Obviously, he was very confident in Du Furi - if it was hunting, fifty steps were obviously nothing, but the distance of the first practice on the shooting range, but the little bow of the powder ball could shoot about this farthest. After all, the usual shooting of powder balls is done in front of the hall, only 20 or 30 steps at most.

Yuan Xiu is thoughtful.

In order to have fun, the Du family was really well prepared. Not long after they went to wash the inkstone, they brought things with two male servants in blue, but it was a three-foot-high walnut wooden upturned case. The foot-base carving was made into the shape of a lotus, with a gold-plated lacquer plate with inlaid snails. The plate was covered, and there was a burst from inside. Boiled yellow rice and the fragrance of the weed leaves. The bow is held by Xi Yan himself. It is large and small. The small bow is very delicate, but it is only one foot long. The bow head is decorated with corals, pearls and other things, which looks magnificent. There is also a faint clam on the bow string, just like a woman.

Two pots of arrows hang behind the inkstone, and the arrows used with the small bow are only three inches long, shaped like purple, while the long bow is just an ordinary wooden bow, and even the arrows matched with the long bow are nothing special.

Du Furi motioned Xi Yan to hand over the bow and arrow to Yuan Xiu for inspection first. Yuan Xiu looked at it roughly and did not find any mystery, so he nodded and retreated to one side.

The two male servants in blue put down the upturned case and opened the lid. Yuan Xiu looked up and saw that the plate was densely full of yellow rice flour balls. She looked carefully and couldn't help shouting, "Why did you cut it like this?"

- The powder ball was cut very neatly and suitable in size, all the size of a woman's fingertips. Such a little big, not to mention 50 steps, Yuan Xiu suspected that it would be difficult for him to stand five steps away and shoot an arrow without hurt the powder ball next to him!

"Please rest assured that this was ordered by Qilang. Qilang said that with twelve Lang's archery, the powder ball should be cut smaller, but the size of the arrow cluster is there, and it has no choice but to be cut like this." Before Xi Yan answered, the two male servants in blue who did not know her identity replied with a smile, "Qilang also ordered to take a pair of long bows, but he was afraid that the range of the small bow would be limited and twelve Lang would be difficult to play!"

Yuan Xiu looked at them puzzledly, and Du Qi seemed to be happy to show Du Furi's archery?

It's just that everyone knows his romantic name in Chang'an. If he wants to help his brother become famous, why is Du Furi still unknown?