Volume 1 First Entering the Tang Dynasty Chapter 27 New Saddle
"You old Liu family, there is smoke coming out of the ancestral grave, how come you have fallen into the eyes of the military advisor!" Fang Qi sat opposite Lu Chen, looked at Liu Jing standing behind Lu Chen, and teased with a smile.
At this moment, someone outside the steward's room asked loudly: "Is your Excellency in there?"
"Come in!" Lu Chen said, followed Liu Jing and opened the door consciously. When he saw it was his father, Cao Lin, the steward, stood beside him. Behind him were two people holding small wooden boxes in their hands.
As a craftsman, Liu Laosan's status has obviously risen. Even Cao Lin, the steward, greeted Liu Laosan with a smile.
Liu Laosan led two craftsmen into the steward's room carrying wooden boxes, and Cao Lin followed behind. The things were built under Lu Chen's orders. Cao Lin naturally wanted to leave a good impression on Lu Chen and go to supervise the work in person.
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The two wooden boxes were placed on the table. Lu Chen picked them up and looked at them. The workmanship was very fine. Even though it looked like they were made temporarily, it could be seen that the craftsmen and blacksmiths put their best efforts into them.
"Commander, what is this thing for?" Lu Chen asked curiously, looking at the stirrup belt and stirrup buckle in his hand.
"Bring a saddle over here!" Lu Chen ordered someone to bring over a saddle. Lu Chen put the stirrup belt through the saddle bolt and under the saddle. Then he asked someone to fetch the stirrup, put it on the stirrup belt, and followed
I asked for a hammer, and directly buckled the "pin-and-zig buckle" to death and then smashed it firmly.
"Old Fang, try to see if you can pull it away!" Lu Chen put down the hammer and signaled Fang Qi to pull the stirrup strap to see if he could pull the stirrup out.
"Okay!" Fang Qi held the stirrup with one hand and the stirrup with the other. He struggled with his arms, yelled "Open!", and then pulled the stirrup and stirrup to both sides with all his strength. After pulling for a long time, his face turned red.
I didn't pull it away.
"Military advisor, I can't pull it away!" Fang Qi also boasted that he was very powerful. He could twist his arms with a strength of one or two hundred kilograms. He couldn't pull the stirrup belt and stirrup away, so he scratched his head and said with some embarrassment.
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"Haha, you and Lao Meng pull it together. As long as you two can't pull it apart, this thing will be done!" Lu Chen smiled and pointed at Meng Ji who was laughing at Fang Qi.
"Military advisor, I'm afraid you might break this thing!" Meng Jike was much stronger than Fang Qi, so he said in a somewhat embarrassed tone.
"Don't worry, you two can pull it off! Come on!" Lu Chen handed the two stirrups to Meng Ji and Fang Qi respectively, and motioned them to pull hard at both ends.
Naturally, both of them suppressed their faces and didn't pull away.
"This thing is done!" Seeing that Fang Qi and Meng Ji couldn't pull it apart even with their combined efforts, Lu Chen knew that the buckle and stirrup belt were finished, "Let's go! Go back and show it to the commander-in-chief!"
Lu Chen motioned to Cao Lin to continue instructing the craftsmen to make stirrup straps and buckles, and then went back to Li Xiuning with the finished products.
When Lu Chen and Liu Jing and others returned to the school field, they saw two captains fighting on horseback. One was using a horse and the other was using a long-handled Xuanhua ax. The school field looked like blacksmithing.
The clanking of weapons continued, and the surrounding generals cheered constantly. It was hard to tell the difference between the two.
It was also Lu Chen's first time to see a live cold weapon horse fight. He had seen such horse fights on TV before, but when he actually saw it, he found that the show on TV was too fake. How could this be a horse fight?
There are so many fancy routines on TV, and they are basically straight forward. If one party can't handle it, they will probably have to kill both people and horses.
The two of them fought for a long time, then they each put away their weapons, turned their horses' heads, and began to run in the direction of the target. As they ran, they bent their bows and nocked arrows, "Duo! Duo! Duo!" Several feather arrows hit the target.
The sound of the target spread throughout the school grounds, and then another soldier began to report the target. The archery skills of the two were almost the same.
"That's so damn exciting!" The two looked at each other and laughed, then turned their horses' heads and came to Li Xiuning, turned over and dismounted.
"Commander, give me three thousand cavalry, and I can chop off the Turkic Khan's dog head!" One of the tall, rough-looking captains said loudly with some excitement.
"I only need two thousand and five thousand!" the slightly shorter captain next to the captain said directly and somewhat arrogantly.
As a result, before Li Xiuning could speak, Meng Ji said: "Lian Xiude, Peng Zun, why did I hear you two bragging just after you came back?"
"Oops! The military advisor is back! What kind of treasure has the military advisor brought back?" Peng Zun, who was slightly shorter in stature, asked enthusiastically when he saw the craftsman holding a wooden box following Lu Chen and the others.
"I can't give it to you first this time, this is for the commander in chief!" the military advisor said to Peng Zun with a smile.
"Let's just say that a military advisor will not go to the blacksmith in person for no reason! Feelings are like presenting treasures in person!" The tall Lian Xiude chuckled and teased Lu Chen.
Lu Chen wasn't annoyed, instead he liked this atmosphere very much. It was like a military camp! They were all men who talked about what they wanted to say. How nice it was. There were a lot less bells and whistles. It was very comfortable!
"That's right! The commander-in-chief values me so much, why should I prepare something different for him?" Lu Chen said, and asked someone to bring over the lacquered stirrup belts and stirrups. This was what Lu Chen asked him to do.
A pair made by a craftsman alone, and washed with gold water several times. The polished gold stirrups, plus a stirrup belt engraved with peonies, and even the connecting stirrup buckles were all washed with gold water.
"What is this?" Li Xiuning has naturally never seen this thing before, but just by looking at the workmanship, she can tell that Lu Chen has put a lot of thought into it, and Li Xiuning is still a girl after all. How could she not like beautiful things, so there is excitement and surprise hidden in her eyes?
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"The commander will know soon!" Lu Chen smiled mysteriously, and then ordered Lu Qiuming to get Li Xiuning's saddle.
Li Xiuning's saddle is naturally made of fine workmanship. The bright red saddle, coupled with the red engraved rose stirrup straps and gold stirrups specially made by Lu Chen, immediately gave the saddle a graceful and majestic feeling.
"It's so beautiful!" Looking at the saddle, Lu Qiuming couldn't help but admire it.
"Commander, please give this saddle a try. If there's anything wrong with it, you can improve it!" Lu Chen naturally saw Li Xiuning's eagerness to try and offered an invitation.
"Then let's give it a try!" Li Xiuning didn't show any pretense, she just put the saddle on the horse, said "drive", the jade lion said "slipping", and then started to have fun in the school grounds.
Looking at Li Xiuning's heroic figure on the horse, Lu Chen couldn't help but think of "Let's Go" by the famous anti-Japanese general Qi Jiguang:
"Drive north and south to report the Lord's situation,
Jiang Huabian smiled all his life.
Three hundred and sixty days a year,
Most of the time it’s Henggema who is marching.”
The artistic conception of this poem is very similar to that of Li Xiuning at this time. The majestic princess of the Tang Dynasty had to fight for the Tang Dynasty in the north and south, and guard the borders.