Chapter 73

The viewing platform is not high or large.

A row of chairs were arranged, and at most ten people sat down. In Chang'an City, the capital of the Sui Dynasty, the emperor's majesty and queen were not present, so it was natural for Prince Yi Yang Yin to sit in the middle. Besides Zhou banchuan, President of the martial arts academy, who could sit in the middle next to Prince Yi in cloth clothes.

It's just such an important occasion, which is related to the ranking of the top three students of the Academy of martial arts. Before the final competition, President Zhou leaned back in his chair and slept.

Not only did he sleep soundly, but there was saliva on his mouth.

Prince Yi asked if he could start. When he didn't see an answer, he found that President Zhou, who had no prestige among the Sui army, was meeting his Duke of Zhou. He had no choice but to smile. Prince Yi Yang Yin ordered someone to take his cloak and cover President Zhou himself. In fact, this seemingly simple move often contains two meanings.

One is to show my respect for president Zhou.

Second, you should wake up.

Unfortunately, having forgotten whether he was 60, 70 or 80, President Zhou didn't seem to be aware of this. He didn't mean to wake up at all. The saliva on the corner of his mouth shining in the sun was pulled into a line. There was no dignified gesture as the president of the martial arts Academy.

If President Zhou doesn't wake up, the last assessment can't start.

Therefore, a prince on the viewing platform, a second grade, six or seven three or four grades, had to look at it and wait quietly. Everyone had to make a gesture of respecting the elderly and couldn't even speak loudly.

Sitting under the observation platform are the professors of the martial arts academy and the generals of the Sixth Army of the emperor stationed in Chang'an city. They were not surprised to see this scene, especially the professors of the martial arts academy were used to it. In fact, at every regular meeting of the martial arts academy, the Zhou academy spent half its time sleeping and half its time wandering.

After waiting for a while, President Zhou didn't wake up. Some bored Prince Yang Yin stood up and stretched his body, looked at the four beautiful women behind him, and suddenly said to everyone's surprise: "why don't you dance first to relieve everyone's boredom?"

The others immediately changed their faces. They were afraid that his royal highness, the distinguished prince, would turn such a solemn occasion into a song and dance performance. Fortunately, his Highness Prince Yi also has this consciousness. Before someone advised him, he smiled and said, "just sitting around is really boring and joking."

All the people here breathed a sigh of relief.

An unreliable Dean is enough. If there is another unreliable Prince

Xu Xiaogong, a general of youyiwei who was also ordered by the emperor to watch the competition, was the most calm and indifferent of all. He sat upright in a chair, his upper body straight. He hung his head slightly, his eyes looked at his nose, his nose looked at his heart, and the old monk was calm. The veteran in his fifties used to be an old subordinate of President Zhou. Naturally, he would not blame or disturb President Zhou. He dozed off at this time.

Among the six armies of the son of heaven, Xu Xiaogong, the senior general of Youyi Wei, is the second oldest. A few days ago, after his 53rd birthday, he received a folding fan of Royal pen and calligraphy from his majesty. Speaking of it, Xu Xiaogong was a very special one among the sixteen guards of the Sui Dynasty. Because he has never fought an earth shaking battle in his life, nor has he ever made a great war merit worth writing in history books.

Someone once disdained to say that Xu Xiaogong was the most incompetent General of the 16th guard. There are only three reasons why he can sit in the position of general. One is seniority, the other is human responsibility, and the third is good birth. He first joined the army and served as a scout captain under Zhou banchuan. For 30 years, the official career has been smooth and stable without ups and downs. It took 30 years to sit on the top general. In any case, it can't be said that it has been a smooth progress.

But it was such a man that his majesty seemed to appreciate him very much.

The sixteen guards of the great Sui Dynasty, sixteen generals, sixteen generals, dozens of generals, plus twenty-four governors, so many military giants and border officials, no one has a birthday and is rewarded by his majesty.

Prince Yi glanced at Xu Xiaogong, who closed his eyes and rested, and scolded the old fox in his heart. He smiled, walked up to Xu Xiaogong and said a word close to Xu Xiaogong's ear. The voice was too low for Xu Xiaogong to hear clearly. He had to open his eyes and asked, "Your Highness, what did you say just now?"

Yang Yin whispered, "don't pretend. You know what way to wake President Zhou up."

Xu Xiaogong smiled bitterly and had to lower his voice. Yang Yin couldn't believe it and couldn't help asking again. Xu Xiaogong nodded firmly. Yang Yin stood straight, hesitated for a while, and said tentatively, "take up the leaf card and have a few rounds with your adults."

This voice just fell. President Zhou immediately opened his eyes and asked, "three lack one? Count me one!"

He glanced around, but saw several adults looking at their nose, nose and heart, and then understood. But the sitting professors below couldn't help laughing. No one in the martial arts academy didn't know that President Zhou liked playing cards best, and the card luck was very smelly. Play once, lose once, and if you lose, you'll default.

So that the professors of the martial arts academy are like spies when they have nothing to do and want to play leaf cards. But as long as someone says the three words "leaf card", President Zhou must come to hear the wind.

When President Zhou woke up, Yang Yin secretly picked Xu Xiaogong's thumb.

Xu Xiaogong secretly glanced at President Zhou and stared at him with an embarrassed face.

"Start..."

President Zhou wiped the saliva on the corner of his mouth, looked at the three young generals standing side by side below, waved their hands at will and said, "how to fight, the Earth City garrison is 2000, but I only give you 500 soldiers each. Whoever hits down is the first. There is no need to divide the second and third, but it is useless."

"Five hundred?"

Yu Xiao, Luo Wen and Li Fubo all repeated it with surprise on their faces.

The three men looked at each other, and no one dared to ask.

Didn't you say 1000 soldiers per person? Why did Dean Zhou sleep and reduce to 500 people? Naturally, they didn't know that the reason why they were reduced was that President Zhou was disturbed by Chun Meng, and he was in a bad mood.

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Because the imperial capital was too big, it was almost noon when Fang Xie's carriage went out of the city gate and went straight to the martial arts field along the official road. The official was so careful that he even prepared food on the carriage. Although it's just some snacks, it's no different from the gospel for the formula that hasn't eaten breakfast.

Although the official didn't get the silver ticket of Fang Xie, he didn't look unhappy. After greeting Fang Xie to eat, he thought about it and explained, "when you get to the place in a while, don't ask too many questions. Go wherever the people waiting for you lead you. If you are scolded for talking too much, don't say I didn't remind you."

Fang Xie replied, and again ran out of his sleeve and stuffed the silver ticket into the officer's hand: "this heart is really delicious. Unfortunately, I don't know where to buy it when I first arrived in the emperor. If you buy it when you have nothing to do, remember to bring some to my younger brother. Thank you."

The officer hesitated for a moment, and finally picked up the silver ticket: "I'll take it to your house."

When he said this, there was a faint pity and regret in his eyes, which flashed away.

After collecting the silver note, the officer murmured in his heart: don't blame me. I can't help it. I'll buy some snacks later and put some paper money in front of your grave.

Although he met for the first time, he had no bad feelings for the clean and beautiful young man.

But he had nothing else to do except to say it was a pity.

The carriage shook for another half an hour and finally came outside the martial arts arena. When he stopped outside the gate, a man in black stood waiting. After Fang Xie got out of the car, the man in black looked at him and asked coldly, are you Fang Xie?

Fang Xie nodded and said yes. The man turned and went in. Fang Xie hurriedly followed and subconsciously grasped the rusty broken knife inserted at his waist.

The man in black and the guard whispered a few words. The soldier looked at Fang Xie and let him go. Following the black robed man, Fang Xie kept looking at the terrain of the martial arts field all the way.

The great Sui Dynasty occupied the Central Plains with unparalleled military power. No matter what kind of pride, the emperor and the court of the great Sui Dynasty showed a characteristic in many aspects. That is the atmosphere, from architecture to clothing, all pay attention to an atmosphere.

Chang'an, the imperial capital, is the most powerful proof.

The martial arts field also shows this atmosphere to the extreme. There is not only a flat and broad school yard, but also a four mile Earth City. It accommodates almost all kinds of terrain, and even accumulates an earth mountain by manpower. Rivers, lakes, dense forests, grasslands, everything.

Seeing this scene, Fang Xie had to sigh in his heart.

"Go straight along this road and go in when you see a small door. The earth city is just south of the fence. You can see the viewing platform not far away. The adults who want to see you are there. I can't go in without a military order, so you have to go there by yourself."

After the black robed man stopped, the other side explained, "when the adults have finished asking, you should go back the same way. Don't disturb the top three competition in the martial arts academy."

"Here"

Fang Xie answered, tidied up his clothes and went out.

"Wait"

The man suddenly stopped Fang Xie, pointed to the remnant knife on Fang Xie's belt and said, "don't bring weapons in."

Fang Xie was silent for a moment and said seriously, "the border army of the great Sui Dynasty is inseparable from the sword. Even if it goes to the imperial court to see the emperor, it will not unload the knife unless ordered by the emperor."

The man was slightly stunned and muttered in a low voice. It's better to take a knife. If you have a knife in your hand, you'll die soon. He waved his hand as if he were too lazy to pay any more attention. But just because he didn't insist, the vigilance in Fang Xie's eyes became stronger and stronger. He walked slowly to the small door, took a deep breath, then pushed the door and went in.

Just pushed the door open and squeezed in.

A knife suddenly appeared in front of Fang Xie's neck.

Fang Xie did not dare to move, but said, "I was ordered to ask when lunch will be delivered to you?"

It's an idiot, but it's absolutely useful.

Just when the man was stunned, Fang Xie looked at the scene in front of him.

Where is the viewing platform? In front of it is a military camp!

The one who delivered the knife to Fang Xie was a soldier in a dark blue suit of black leather armor in the Sui Dynasty. This small door is not the viewing platform, but the barracks of one of the three upstarts of the martial arts academy who participated in the competition! Fang Xie suddenly understood in his mind that the black robe he had brought himself before deliberately said the opposite direction. The man said that the viewing platform was in the north and the Tucheng was in the south. The facts are contrary to what he said.

The viewing platform is on the other side of Tucheng.

In other words, across a four mile long and wide earth City, he could not see the viewing platform, and the people on the viewing platform could never see him. So if he dies here, it will never arouse the ideas of those big people.

That is, at this moment, Fang Xie finally understood how he was calculated.

Just when he wanted to take advantage of the soldier's stunned opportunity to exit the door, there was a creak behind him. The door was closed from behind, followed by a chain sound. It was obviously locked from the outside.

Just when Fang Xie had just understood what was going on, the soldier's knife suddenly moved. The sharp blade had reached Fang Xie's throat, and he could even feel the cold on the blade. The knife was a horizontal knife made in the Sui Dynasty. Fang Xie had no doubt that the soldier's wrist just needed to send it forward, and the blood in his main artery would spray out like a waterfall.

on the verge of death or destruction