Chapter 32: Preparing for the Birthday
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After Princess Taiping finished speaking, the smile on her face disappeared, and her expression became a little solemn.
After listening to Princess Taiping's words, Liu Yi was silent, staring at the woman in front of him, thinking about what Princess Taiping meant.
What happened during this time is a little incomprehensible, Wu Zetian's unusual favor to himself, Li Zhi did not object, and now Princess Taiping said so, is the reason really beyond what he thought? Liu Yi couldn't judge.
However, in any case, Liu Yi felt that he had to seize such an opportunity, and while showing his skills and "talents", he was further rewarded by Li Zhi and Wu Zetian, and then entrusted with reuse, accumulating some merits in order to be promoted, so as to achieve great things. And the princess Taiping in front of her must be used.
"Hey, Liu Yi, I said... Did you hear what I just said? Seeing that Liu Yi didn't reply, Princess Taiping kept staring at her, and she showed shame, and her face was still flushed, and she said in a coquettish voice.
Liu Yi's eyes staring straight at him like this were too deep, making people unable to see the bottom, and the danger of being submerged made Princess Taiping's heartbeat a little faster.
"I know, I'll definitely prepare for these things, and I won't let you down!" Liu Yi showed a charming smile and picked up the wine glass in front of him, "Come, I'll toast you, when the time comes, if you bet on me, you will definitely make a sure profit!"
"That's good, if you lose to others in a martial arts competition, or your poetry is not as good as others, hmph, don't blame me for not giving you face!" The little girl who was a little gentle just now has become a vicious demon girl again...
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Within a few days after returning from Beishi, Princess Taiping surprisingly did not bother Liu Yi again.
Liu Yi was also happy to be idle, and when there was no task on a day off, he slipped out of the palace, went to the place where the two entourages lived, took some things for his own use, including some things used by agents he made, and some changes of clothes, and then told the two servants some things.
In fact, there was nothing to do with these two domestic servants who came to Luoyang, but Liu Yi's mother Zhang couldn't rest assured of him and wanted to take care of him, so Liu Yi asked them to send a safe message back to Chang'an every few days, saving his mother from remembering.
Liu Yi also asked these two servants to rent a house in Luoyang City, so that he could live in it when he had a vacation, so that he could stay in the palace all day, and handed over some of the things that Wu Zetian had rewarded them that he had brought out of the palace for regular use.
Li Zhi and Wu Zetian should not stay in Luoyang for a short time, Liu Yi felt that he should also have a temporary place to live, but he couldn't afford to buy a house in Luoyang, so he could only rent one for the time being.
Liu Yi ordered good things and returned to the palace.
The palace is already preparing to celebrate the birthday of the queen of heaven Wu Zetian, according to Princess Taiping, Wu Zetian's birthday is on the ninth day of the third month, and a celebration will be held in the palace on this day.
Most of the people in the Luoyang Imperial City are preparing to celebrate Wu Zetian's birthday, Shangguan Wan'er, who is the personal female official of Wu Zetian's side, doesn't know what to do all day long, Liu Yi hasn't seen her a few times since she arrived in Luoyang, but Liu Yi saw Shangguan Wan'er busy with things when she was on duty with a thousand cows, and she couldn't even say hello.
In Luoyang, Qianniuwei did not have many duty tasks, and the court meeting was not held once every three days, but once every five days, and Liu Yi was less on duty when he was on duty. Moreover, Wu Zetian's birthday banquet is such a festive event, as Liu Yi, who is with filial piety, cannot participate, but the poetry meeting before the birthday, the martial arts competition of the palace guards, and the polo match between the palace guards including Yulin Army, Qianniuwei, Jin Wuwei and other palace guards, Liu Yi is to participate in these games.
Liu Yi was very good at equestrianism in the martial arts competition, and was appointed as the captain of the Qianniuwei polo team by two Qianniuwei generals, Zhang Renyuan and Li Xiaoyi. Liu Yi's body should have experience in polo games, and when he got on the polo court and picked up the stick, he was not unfamiliar at all, and many movements were natural.
Over the years, whether it is in the palace martial arts competitions or polo competitions, Qianniuwei is at the bottom, and is ridiculed by the soldiers of the Yulin Army and Jin Wuwei, and the soldiers of the Yulin Army even look down on Zhang Renyuan and Li Xiaoyi, the two Qianniu generals who are also in the Yulin Army, and Zhang Renyuan and Li Xiaoyi basically have no orders in the Yulin Army.
This situation annoyed Zhang Renyuan and Li Xiaoyi, the two Qianniuwei generals, and they all pinned their hopes on Liu Yi, a person who had just come in and had particularly outstanding skills, to win honor for Qianniuwei in this year's competition.
Liu Yi's riding skills are very good, and the rules of polo are not very complicated. Polo skills, the most important thing is horse riding, and then the flexible skills, which are the primary conditions for determining the level of polo skills, these two are not good, no matter how training polo skills can not be improved.
Because of the hope placed on Liu Yi, during this time, Zhang Ren was willing to send fewer tasks to Liu Yi, Liu Yi did not like the task on duty, the whole role of an honor guard, the machine was not free, he would rather train the technique of polo hitting on the training ground, where he could give full play to his extraordinary riding skills and skills, and sway endless youthful vitality.
On this day, the other Qianniuwei sergeants all went on a mission, and Liu Yi led the polo team members to end their training, and stayed in the guard post with another Qianniu guard, Li Yifeng.
"Brother Yi'an, according to our training level, it should be easy to beat the other teams this year!" After Li Yifeng made a few strokes on the spot, he said to Liu Yi very proudly.
"The situation on the field of play is changing rapidly, the overall strength of our team is not too strong, and we may not be able to hold up the whole scene by relying on a few of us!" Liu Yi doesn't have much self-confidence, and in the whole team, he and Tang Xiujing, Li Yifeng and a few others have better equestrian and striking skills, and the other sergeants can be said to be fancy and the like, whether it is equestrianism or polo hitting skills, they are very average, and he doesn't dare to guarantee such a group game.
Polo is a game for the brave, the confrontation is very fierce, in the fast running of the war horse to hit the ball quickly, the speed of the small polo is also amazing, if it hits people or horses, it is very likely that there will be casualties. However, Liu Yi also likes this kind of sport, which is a game to hone one's command and adaptability, and it can also fully reflect one's courage and bravery.
Liu Yi knew that the Tang Dynasty in history was very prosperous, and the emperor who advocated martial arts was keen on a game of high-intensity confrontation such as polo, and polo matches in the palace were often held, and even wrestling with some outsiders was also placed on polo.
"Brother Yi'an, for all the competitions this year, we Qianniuwei are all pinning our hopes on you, I hope you can take us and wash away the shame of these years!" Li Yifeng said with a smile.
While the two were talking, a Qianniu Wei sergeant who was on duty outside came in and reported, "Liu Beishen, the lawsuit is coming!"
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