After marriage and marriage, I became the favorite of the group

When the envoys from the Northwest Grassland arrived at Yong'an, the capital of Daliang, Ruan Jiu was scoring a point on the polo field.

The 16-year-old boy is wearing a red thin spring shirt with a high ponytail, tight cuffs, a jade belt around his waist, and cloud boots.Under the direct sunlight, his complexion was even whiter, the sweat on his forehead and neck were glistening, and his almond eyes were slightly fixed——

Keep an eye on the hollowed-out painted polo on the field.

The polo bounced back and forth between the canes, and finally came flying towards him.

Several teenagers shouted at the same time: "Ruan Jiu!"

The red-clothed youth called Ruan Jiu was riding on the horse, holding the rein with his left hand, letting the rein wrap around his wrist twice, holding the painting stick tightly in his right hand, and galloping the horse forward against the wind.

When the polo was about to pass by him, Ruan Jiu grabbed the reins, fell sideways, and waved his hand.

With a soft sound, the polo turned around and flew towards the opposite side.

On and off the court, everyone held their breath and concentrated, stretched their necks, and opened their hand curtains to watch.

I saw that the polo drew a very perfect arc in the air, avoiding the young man who jumped up to stop him, and fell straight into the net.

The calm lasted only for a moment, and then there was an earth-shattering cheer on and off the court: "Cai!"

Ruan Jiu turned over and sat down, said "yeah" a little, and smiled so much that his round eyes were bent into crescent moons.

He waved his painting stick, and the little fat bird with peach blossoms and flowing water was shining brightly in the sun——

The painting on his painting staff is painted with mineral pigments dipped in gold powder.

Luxurious and refined.

Ruan Jiu's goal shattered the opponent's morale.In the second half, no matter how hard the opponent played, they couldn't overwhelm Ruan Jiu's limelight.

The polo match ended soon, and the teenagers in Ruan Jiu's team got off their horses happily, threw the reins and painting sticks to the servants, and strode towards Ruan Jiu.

"Ruan Jiu's shot just now was absolutely amazing."

"Tsk, it turned out that all the girls in the stands lifted their caps and watched him go."

Ruan Jiuyi swayed, got off his horse, and flicked his high ponytail. Before he could speak, he heard someone not far away say sourly: "Isn't it just winning a polo game? I'm so happy with you." It's like winning a battle in the Northwest."

When everyone heard the words, their faces changed.

The person who spoke was from another team, and he was surrounded by a group of attendants to comfort him because he lost the polo.

And he was dressed luxuriously, with a golden crown on his head, and brocade boots on his feet, making him look of extraordinary status.It was precisely because of this that no one dared to speak even though this group of half-grown teenagers were annoyed.

The man stopped in front of Ruan Jiu, seeing that he didn't speak, he became more and more powerful, and said with his arms crossed: "Ruan Jiu, what are you looking at?"

Ruan Jiu blinked, and finally lowered his eyes: "If you go back to His Royal Highness, Ruan Jiu dare not."

The surname of Daliang Tian's family is Xiao, and the prince Xingming is of the surname. This Eighth Prince's name is Xiao Mingyuan.

Xiao Mingyuan is the emperor's latecomer, he has always been unscrupulous in the palace, and he is used to the days when everything goes smoothly.

The eunuch who accompanied him might deliberately give in to him because of his status as the prince, but this group of half-grown teenagers are all arrogant and arrogant, so how could they deliberately give in?

He has a bad temper and can't afford to lose, but he only likes to play with them.

Today's loss was just when Xiao Mingyuan was annoyed, but he heard the noise from Ruan Jiu's side. He felt unhappy, so he blurted out Ruan Jiu's words.

He couldn't speak out of his head, thinking that it was rare to be able to overwhelm Ruan Jiu, and opened his mouth again: "The one who barks his teeth and claws all day long doesn't look like the person whose brother almost died on the Northwest battlefield, is it your brother? He almost died exist……"

Ruan Jiu's eyes suddenly turned red, and before he could finish speaking, he clenched his fists, took a step forward, and said firmly, "His Highness, be careful, this matter has nothing to do with my brother."

Xiao Mingyuan was startled by him, stepped back, nearly fell, and was supported by a group of attendants.

He looked at the people behind him, and froze again: "What? You are the son of a merchant, and you still want to do something to His Highness?"

Ruan Jiu stared at him with round almond eyes, as if he was about to pounce on him and bite him at any moment: "It's okay."

A group of attendants quickly stood in front of Xiao Mingyuan, and Ruan Jiu's friends also hurriedly held him down.

When the two sides confronted each other, when the storm was about to come, a young eunuch suddenly ran from a distance.

"Your Highness is here." The little eunuch hurried forward, bowed to the group of people, and then turned to Xiao Mingyuan, "Your Highness, follow me into the palace, the emperor's story is coming."

Xiao Mingyuan immediately lost his anger, touched the tip of his nose: "Do you know what it is?"

"The delegation of envoys from the Northwest is about to arrive. Your Majesty invites all of your Highnesses to go and have a look."

It's fine if it's not for homework, Xiao Mingyuan heaved a sigh of relief, waved his hands and said, "Let's go."

Before leaving, he glanced back at Ruan Jiu, Ruan Jiu only regarded him as provocative, and stared back unwillingly, causing his friends to hold him down in a hurry.

"Okay, okay, His Highness Eighth Prince's temper is like this, and it's not like you don't know it."

"Let's go, I won the game today, go to the Manlou to have some snacks, I'll treat you, okay?"

Ruan Jiu pursed his lips and said sullenly, "I'm not going."

"Then where are you going?"

"I'll go home with my brother."

I think it was what Xiao Mingyuan said just now, and what the little eunuch said about the Northwest Envoys, poked him.A few friends reacted, and they didn't force it, they just coaxed him with nice words.

There is a single room outside the polo field for these young men to change their clothes after playing polo.

The friends coaxed Ruan Jiu all the way, and waved goodbye in front of the rooms reserved by each family.

Seeing Ruan Jiu go in, someone dared to ask: "Hey, what's the name of that barbarian in the northwest?"

"Awkward."

"what?"

"The 'jiu' of 'jiuzhan', the 'wu' of 'wuli'."

"What? Why is it so weird?"

Before the man finished speaking, someone opened the door of Ruan Jiu's room suddenly, and Ruan Jiu poked his head out from inside: "That's the damn one——"

He gasped: "Aww!"

A dead silence.

There was a burst of snickering.

In the end, it was a shocking burst of laughter.

Ruan Jiu let out another "ow" and slammed the door shut.

In the room, a boy named Shiba wrung out the towel and handed it to Ruan Jiu: "Young master, wipe your face. When His Highness the Eighth Prince left, he sent someone to make amends, saying that when he came out of the palace, please Young Master, go to Manlou to have some snacks."

Ruan Jiu wiped his face casually, then threw the towel back into the copper basin: "Can't I eat without his snacks? No."

Warm water splashed all over Shiba's sleeves, and he complained: "Young master and His Highness the Eighth Highness are not happy, what are you doing all your anger on me?"

"You think I don't know? You like the little maid next to Xiao Mingyuan. You coax me to go over, so you can talk to her yourself."

Ruan Jiu stopped looking at him, snorted, turned around and walked behind the wooden screen.

He tore off his belt, remembering what Xiao Mingyuan said just now.

Xiao Mingyuan's words were half right and half wrong.

Ruan Jiu was indeed from a merchant family, but he was not the son of an ordinary merchant family, otherwise he would not have had the opportunity to play polo with this group of prominent sons and brothers, even the prince.

He is the son of the richest man in the Liang Kingdom, and he has a group of dude friends who have known each other since childhood and are either rich or expensive.

When they get together, they don't know anything else, except they are proficient in playing, polo, Cuju, and plucking strings.

As for the Northwestern barbarians' "ooohoo" just mentioned, Ruan Jiu's teeth itch when he thinks about them.

To the northwest of Daliang is an extremely vast grassland with countless nomadic tribes, the largest of which is Jiwu.

In the early years, the small tribe respected Jiwu, and Jiwu was on good terms with Daliang, so they lived in peace.

But for some reason in the past few years, several small tribes have repeatedly invaded the border of Daliang, and instead of restraining them, Jiwu instigated profit from it.

Daliang was emptied of the national treasury by several wars, so he came up with the idea of ​​letting businessmen use money to become officials.To put it bluntly, it is "selling an official".

Ruan Jiu's elder brother, Ruan He, has always had the ambition to serve the country. He had been struggling with nowhere to go, and at this time he also found an official position in the court.

Not long after, Jiwu attacked again, and Ruan He followed him into battle as a civilian. In a bitter battle, he was seriously injured and almost died.

As a result, Ruan Jiu held a grudge against Ji Wu.

A while ago, Daliang and Jiwu agreed on a truce, so Jiwu sent envoys to Yong'an, the capital of Daliang.

Ruan Jiu took off his sweaty clothes, threw them on the hem, and called out, "Eighteen."

Eighteen hurriedly responded, "Young master?"

"The little eunuch said just now that the envoys from Jiwu have arrived?"

"Yes..." Shiba rang the alarm, "Wait, young master, little ancestor! What do you want to do?"

Ruan Jiu didn't answer, hummed a little tune, picked up the clean clothes, shook them off and put them on.

Eighteen didn't hear him speak, so he was so anxious to kneel down to him: "Little ancestor, you don't know, all of them are eight feet tall, as strong as a bear, and their fists are bigger than the little boy's for eating... no , The casserole used for cooking is still big, and one punch can beat people from the street to the end of Yong'an Street. Don't make up your mind to provoke them..."

At this time Ruan Jiu had changed his clothes, stroked his hair, and came out from behind the screen.

He changed into jade white clothes and a single-layer pomegranate red cloak, which was extravagant and flamboyant.The hair was tied up again, still tied high, and the two sides of the headband hung down with the black hair, and two crescent-shaped white jades fell from the tail.

"I'm just going to have a look, to admire the elegant demeanor of Jiwu, can't I?" Ruan Jiu folded his hands and raised his chin, "Go and lead the horse."

Eighteen persuaded him to no avail, and reluctantly handed over the reins to Ruan Jiu: "Young master, let's go back in a carriage? The carriage is comfortable, and you can have snacks in the carriage..."

"Not good." Ruan Jiu grabbed the reins and got on the horse, "Let's go."

After Shiba realized it, Ruan Jiu had already rode his horse and ran far away, leaving only his back with a pomegranate red cloak fluttering in the wind.

He hurriedly got on his horse and chased after him: "Young master, don't run, wait for me!"

Ruan Jiu didn't look back, and waved his whip again.

Shiba really thought too much, he is not stupid, how could he provoke others for no reason?

He just wanted to see if the people of the Jiwu tribe were really as tall as others said.

Riding his horse all the way to the north city gate, there were imperial guards on both sides of the road, so Ruan Jiu had to stop in the open space beside the official road.

He came by coincidence, the fierce envoys had just met the receiving officials, and they were walking towards the city gate at this time.

Ruan Jiu watched, and saw that the soldiers of Jiwu were either riding horses or walking, and they couldn't see why they were as strong as bears, and they couldn't see what was different from the soldiers of Daliang.

He looked at it for a while, felt bored, and then turned his horse to leave, when he suddenly found that someone in the Jiwu team was also looking at him.

The curtains of the carriage were drawn on both sides, and a boy of thirteen or fourteen was sitting inside, staring at him intently.

The young man had his hair draped over his head, and he was wearing a plain robe made of unknown fur. His complexion was slightly dark, but his brows and eyes were clean, and his eyes were deep and dark. They seemed to be shining in the sunlight, flickering.

Like a wild wolf wolf who has not yet grown up, at the most docile age.

The young man and Ruan Jiu met eyes, knowing that he had been caught peeping, he was not ashamed, he grinned at him, showing two white canine teeth, generous and bright.

Ruan Jiu got annoyed all of a sudden, what's so funny?

He touched around, but he couldn't find a weapon in his hand, so he raised his hand and waved at him——

Don't look!I'll hit you again!

But the boy obviously didn't understand what he meant. After thinking about it, he raised his hand and waved at him.

Ruan Jiu was choked with anger, and raised his hands to cover his face with his sleeves, not letting him see.Then I thought about it again, what is there to be shy about?

So he put down his hand, and made a grimace towards the opposite side without any politeness——

Slightly!