Xu Ning, the golden gunner, suddenly received a military order from his superiors, ordering him to enter the palace immediately to teach Zhao Gou, the ninth son of Imperial Concubine Wei, martial arts and marksmanship.
As a teacher of the Golden Spear Class, he is actually the coach of the Long Spear Team of the Emperor's Guards. He is a middle- and low-level officer in the Forbidden Army system. Although he is often accompanied by the royal family as a guard, he has never had close contact with him before.
Not to mention being a master for the prince.
So Xu Ning was quite excited at the beginning and felt very proud. And maybe it was just a step forward.
But not long after, Xu Ning became depressed and aggrieved to an extent that could not be described in words.
He was ordered to come to Longde Palace. The eleven-year-old little prince was dressed in a smart outfit and holding a long bow, and he looked quite presentable.
However, Zhao Gou didn't say anything, and just kept walking around him, looking at him up and down.
Xu Ning looked confused and confused.
After a while, Zhao Gou suddenly stood there and tilted his head and asked: "Teacher Xu, can you beat a tiger?"
Xu Ning was stunned by this question, and then replied with a wry smile: "Your Highness, this young general has never fought against a tiger..."
"This means that you can't beat a tiger, so naturally you can't beat Wang Lin... Hey... I originally wanted to learn martial arts from Wang Lin, but my mother said that Wang Lin wouldn't teach me...
"Xiao Zhao Gou sighed, with a look of disappointment on his face.
Wang Lin didn't teach, so he came to me?
Little prince, are you teasing me on purpose?
This made Xu Ning very embarrassed.
Wang Lin is now very famous, and Xu Ning has naturally heard of his deeds of killing two fierce tigers in the palace examination yesterday, and was praised by the prince as "the master of spears who dominates the world, and the master of tiger subduing who is unparalleled in the world."
In reality, it didn't matter to Xu Ning how Wang Lin was, but the reputation of "the sharpshooter who dominated the world" made him feel a little uncomfortable.
After all, his marksmanship was passed down from his ancestors, and the hook, sickle, and golden spear were said to be invincible. Now that Wang Lin suddenly appeared, it seemed that he had taken away the limelight of the Xu family's marksmanship.
Xu Ning was a little surprised when Zhao Gou came in person again.
Xu Ning was also a proud and arrogant person. He bowed silently and said: "If His Highness thinks that Xu Ning's martial arts skills are ordinary, the young general should retreat."
But Zhao Gou moved his limbs, dropped the bow and arrow in his hand, went to the weapons rack and pulled out a long spear tailor-made for him in the palace, shrugged and said: "Teacher Xu, I heard that your family's marksmanship is quite good.
Yes, I just have the right to learn from you once."
Let’s learn it once…
After hearing this, Xu Ning's blood rushed to his forehead. If there wasn't a prince in front of him, he would have shot him over.
Xu Ning took a deep breath, put the hook and sickle gun in his hand on the ground, and said proudly: "Your Highness, my Xu family's marksmanship is unparalleled in the world, and it is also extraordinary and invincible. If Your Highness is willing to learn it, I will give you all my money to teach it to you."
After all, Zhao Gou is a child and a prince. He is used to speaking unscrupulously, and he is not understanding the world. He curled his lips and said: "Brother Prince said that Wang Lin has the best spear in the world. Xu Ning, your hook and sickle spear can beat Wang Lin."
Is Lin’s gentian a silver gun? I don’t believe it.”
In fact, being beaten is another matter. Zhao Gou's words were not harmful but extremely insulting. Xu Ning blushed instantly.
Children's words are unbridled!!
He is the ninth son of the emperor!!
Xu Ning comforted himself repeatedly in his heart, and then he gradually calmed down. The professor did not dare to neglect the mission, and he still had to teach what should be taught, but he no longer had the excitement that he had when he entered the palace just now.
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The street where Cai Jing's mansion is located is one of the most prosperous main roads in Tokyo. It is only a few hundred feet away from the imperial city and covers an extremely large area. At this time, the entire mansion was filled with plains, and Cai Tiao's funeral was being held.
In the afternoon, a thin man in green clothes in his early thirties hurried into the city with another thick, dark man with a beard and went straight to the Taishi Mansion.
When he was about to arrive at the gate of the Grand Master's Mansion, the man in green tugged at the black man who was looking around, and said in a low voice: "Tieniu, please find a place in that room to have a cup of tea, stay there, don't cause trouble, and treat me as a child." When the master sends a letter, he will take you to a restaurant to have a drink!"
The black man laughed and pushed, "Brother Dean, please go ahead. I'll go have a drink and wait for you."
The man in green was about to go, but the black man grabbed him by the skirt and said, "Give me a few taels of silver!"
The man in green had no choice but to take out a piece of silver from his pocket and give it to the black man, and then he left.
Cai Jing sat in the hall with a gloomy expression.
It was extremely uncomfortable for the white-haired man to send the black-haired man away, but what he was thinking about most now was not to find out the truth and avenge Cai Tiao who died inexplicably, but how to let the Cai family survive this crisis.
He had a thorough understanding of Emperor Zhao Ji's thoughts. He noticed that Zhao Ji had a growing suspicion towards the Cai family, and Cai Jing began to feel a little uneasy.
The weak emperor actually showed signs of hardening up, and Cai Jing was secretly vigilant. Especially in the matter of the canonization and arrangement of Wang Lin, there was a glimpse of the leopard, which allowed Cai Jing to see Zhao Ji's good intentions in supporting the rise of Prince Zhao Huan.
And the prince Zhao Huan, whom he had always looked down upon, actually showed his scales and claws flying...
"Grand Master, the Ninth Young Master of Jiangzhou has sent a letter home."
Cai Jing waved his hands distractedly: "Wait for me to write a reply and ask the messenger to take it back to Jiangzhou."
Cai Jinglue read the letter, then immediately got up and went to his desk to write.
Cai Dezhang, the prefect of Jiangzhou, nicknamed Cai Jiu, was his ninth son.
At this time, Cai Dezhang routinely sent people to Beijing to deliver family letters and Jiangzhou local products to honor his father. He did not know that his brother Cai Tiao had become a short-lived ghost.
The man in Tsing Yi was often ordered to come to Beijing to deliver family letters to Master Cai. He was familiar with Tokyo. He got Cai Jing's reply letter from Cai Qi, the chief steward of the Cai Mansion, and got a few taels of money. Seeing that the Cai Mansion was holding a funeral, he did not dare to stay any longer. , and went in a hurry.
At this moment, the black man who came to Beijing with him was already drunk in a restaurant diagonally across the street. He got into a quarrel with someone under the influence of alcohol and was about to take action.
The black man was extremely rough and arrogant. He was drunk and dissolute. No matter that this was the emperor's feet, no one was allowed to act wild. He shook his fist and hit a white-faced young man opposite him.
The young man was already in a irritable mood, and when he saw the black man's provocation, he became angry and avoided the black man's punch. He turned sideways and hit the black man with a back elbow, knocking the black man staggering and almost falling to the ground.
The surrounding drinkers saw this and fled away.
The man in green clothes was shocked and turned pale. He immediately rushed over, raised his head and caught a glimpse of the white-faced young man with an angry face. He laughed and said, "Teacher Xu, I haven't seen you for a long time. Are you okay?"
The fair-faced young man is none other than Xu Ning.
Xu Ning taught Zhao Gouhui marksmanship and then left the palace in low spirits.
He came to have a drink in a bad mood and ate half of the meal. When he saw the black man sitting next to him was drunk and rude to the waiter, he couldn't stand it so he said a few more words and the two of them got into a conflict.
When Xu Ning saw that he was an old acquaintance of Jiangzhou, Dai Zong, who was imprisoned at the provincial level in Jiangzhou and was known as the "divine Taibao", he couldn't help but clasped his fists and said with a smile: "It turns out to be Dean Dai. This time he came to the Taishi Mansion in Tokyo to deliver a letter from home. What?"
Dai Zong laughed, stepped forward and punched the black man hard: "You black guy, you are so rude, this is the golden gunner Xu Ning I told you, why don't you come forward to pay your respects?"
Then he said: "Teacher Xu, this is my brother, known as Black Whirlwind Li Kui."