From Chief to Ball

Between the wells and alleys, the happiest part of this ten-day holiday is the group of children who don't need to go to school today.Holding a wooden stick like an arquebus in their hands, or holding a curved bow made of wicker, they shot at each other, making bangs from their mouths from time to time, imitating the occasional act of holding a copper bar to load gunpowder. Like lead bullets.

I don't know who it is or I looked up at the sky when I was tired from playing, and suddenly threw away the wooden spear and wooden sword in my hand with a scream, and shouted: "Look! Look! What is that? Something is flying! "

The children who were playing together did not suspect fraud, they all raised their heads and opened their mouths wide.The game's bow, crossbow, gun and sword hung low in his hand, completely forgetting the pain in his neck when he looked up.

A huge, white ball was flying over their heads, casting a faint shadow, and several birds circled around the huge ball, not knowing whether they were frightened or warning each other that it wasn't supposed to come place.

"What a weird bird..."

A child didn't know how to describe it, so he had to use the simplest adjective and the most flying noun.

But soon some children retorted: "It has no wings, so it must not be a bird."

"No! The master said that bats are not birds, but bats have wings. Besides, the kites we play on weekdays, and the sky-swapping monkeys and Er Tijiao that we set off during the Chinese New Year are not birds."

Such intellectual rebuttals did not have the desired effect of being praised by the speaking children for their knowledge.

On the contrary, another child said: "Let's run after this shadow! Maybe it will fall down." Such a simple sentence aroused the interest of the child, so they followed the shadow regardless of whether it was a bird or something else. Fast moving shadows run.

Occasionally someone caught up with the shadow, and they would stand on the shadow and stomp their feet, and the children behind followed with a roar of laughter.

More and more children joined in, and gradually adults followed to look up at this weird flying thing, and more and more.

Most of the adults don’t look at the sky with nothing to do like children, because if they look too much and get tired of looking at it, they will lose novelty, except for occasionally looking up before the rainstorm, they will not be as novel to the sky as children.

But when the novelty disturbed the seemingly ever-changing invariance of the sky, the grown-ups also stopped.

He bent his palms to block the sun, looked up at the strange things flying in the sky, and was amazed.

"what is that?"

"I don't know, but it looks like something human."

"A kite?"

"Where is such a big kite?"

People are curious but not afraid, with all kinds of speculation.More and more people stopped what they were doing, blocked the sun with their hands, and watched the monster flying from the east.

I don't know when, people invariably found that this monster dropped a lot of things, fluttering like snowflakes flying above the head, and occasionally flying out some strange white things like dandelions.

People didn't panic and run around because of what suddenly appeared above their heads, or because of what the monster dropped.On the contrary, this weird thing that was thrown down gave these people a lot of talking stuff out of thin air while it was still flying in the air.

So those who came out to hang out ran quickly, wanting to tell those family members or friends who were still in the house, and tell them to look up and see such strange things like themselves.

……

On a broad street in the East District, Lan Qi sat sideways on her horse, humming happily an ancient song about her ancestors returning from hunting.

She's not like most of the women on the street.

A horn flute for hunting is hung around the neck, a slender light sword is hung next to the special saddle for women, and a pair of high-waisted riding boots are embroidered with silver thread. The silver-plated spurs shone dazzlingly in the sun.

Elsewhere, someone might have whispered behind her back about such an outlandish attire, or even feared that she would fall headfirst from the saddle.

However, on this street, people have already seen it for a long time, and they will not comment on this special dress at all.

In fact, she sat sideways on the saddle, and she could still control her body to follow the swaying and bumping of the horse's back. She was no slower than some men, especially the expensive horse under her crotch, which was beyond the reach of many people.

Except for these differences, she was similar to the women who walked in and out of this street, at least the material of the clothes was similar.

The fabric of the cloak on the back is expensive velvet, the warp thread is made of the finest silk and the weft thread is finely spun cotton thread, and the velvet on it is scraped off by extremely skilled craftsmen so that it is greasy but not broken.

The hair accessories are also normal women's hair accessories, and she is also wearing a skirt, which fits well and naturally shows the soft and concave curves to the fullest.Unlike some girls in the circle who flaunt themselves as different, she always wears men's clothes or corsets her breasts. On the contrary, her young and strong breasts always vibrate slightly with the horse's walking. cover up.She feels that a woman is a woman, and if she puts on a man's clothes to prove that she is self-reliant or different or rebellious, it means that she still recognizes that a man is superior to a woman in her heart.To do that is just to hate being a man.

Those places not covered by clothes or hakamas revealed wheat-colored skin, not the kind of deliberate white and rosy pink, but revealing a wild beauty, elegant like a female leopard.

The fingers holding the rein are long and slender, with delicate skin, but there is an imperfect and obvious scar on the back of the hand.

It was scratched by a sharp stone when I fell down during a horse race with some boys in the circle a few years ago. It is still difficult to recover after a few years, and it looks like a tooth mark.

Listening to her humming happily like a cuckoo in spring, one knows that she is very happy to go hunting in the manor under her hometown this time.

The carriage behind her carried her booty, and the horse carrying the carriage obviously didn't like the things behind it, so it was a little irritable and neighed.

Lan Qi reined in the reins beautifully, exerted a little force, and the steed turned in a circle, interlacing with the pack horses behind.

Skillfully controlling the reins, he blocked the scorching sun that shot into the pack horse's eyes and made the pack horse even more uneasy, and stroked the horse's back to calm down the impatient pack horse.

The trophy that disturbed the pack horses on the carriage was actually very small, just two wolf cubs, a male and a female, who had just been born.

But even though they were just born, they still had some wild beasts on their bodies, which made the two draft horses very uneasy.

A day ago at the manor in the countryside, Lan Qi surrounded a female wolf with the help of dozens of good hounds, and now the wolf's skin has been peeled off.

What surprised her was not the beautiful, perfect wolf skin with lead bullets through its eyes, but a litter of pups she had found by chance.

That litter of little wolf cubs was her most pleasant surprise, but now there are only two in the carriage behind.

In fact, even her family can afford a whole litter.The ancestors in the family were viscounts who had enfeoffed the country when the country was founded, and during the unification war, they were one of the few who recognized the republic and gave up their various rights when the situation was still unclear—even if some people later thought that was nothing but It is because she has seen through the victory and defeat for a long time, but in any case, this kind of family is also a banner that can be displayed and publicized. The family does not participate in various disputes, and relies on land and business management for a long time until her generation.

When she found the litter of wolf cubs, the well-trained hounds did not kill them, but she only picked out a male and a female, and shot the rest with a gun. She was about to starve to death, so she simply let her end the pain of these little things.

The two remaining, she wanted to take home and raise them with her precious hound cubs to see if they could give birth to cubs.

By the way, let's see if wolves and dogs live together will change their temperament, to determine whether people's morality is related to their own bad environment, and to use it as evidence to rebuke those who think that people's crimes and immorality can be hereditary.

No one on this street or anyone familiar with her would be surprised by what she did, it was commonplace.

It's just that she still has a lot of secrets hidden in her body. For example, she wrote the article about people, countries, contracts, and rights that went viral in some small circles last time; After reading Hulin's letter about the Mincheng investigation, he went to his manor to see the lives of those hired workers.

It has been a while since I received Hu Lin's letter last time. As an old friend I met a long time ago, the reunion a few days ago was very pleasant.

However, she gave a contradictory evaluation of some things Hu Lin said, and she really wanted to chat with Chen Jian, who Hu Lin mentioned and also mentioned in the letter, but was told that it would take a few days.

Since she couldn't see it, she felt a little disappointed—it had nothing to do with the person and it was related, she just wanted to know that person's opinion on the article she wrote, after all, from a certain point of view, she felt that a Hu Lin she was familiar with The words of those who are praised may be more able to confirm their own ideas.

In fact, the idea of ​​her controversial article has long been developed, but Chen Jian's hypothesis gave her a lot of support, so she used it to develop.

She originally wanted to stay in the city and wait, but her life is very regular, and Chunqiu will always go hunting or travel far.She thought, since everyone has their own life, and since the other person is busy, of course she should also be busy with her own life. There is nothing more beautiful than life.

Because I thought this way, I did this, so I got this very pleasant harvest.

The harvest was on the carriage behind, and she was still appeasing the pack horse for the harvest, so she subconsciously looked up at the scorching sun that aggravated the pack horse's uneasiness.

So she, like most people in the capital at this time, covered her eyes with her hands and looked up at the monster flying above.

Chapter 90 Cover your eyes and look at the sky