Concubine Survival Guide

The two rode together and galloped across the countryside for half a stick of incense, when Sheng Yan began to yell that he was tired and wanted to get off the horse and walk.Feng Suyang glanced narrowly at his blushing cheeks, got off his horse and said to him: "Why don't you run for a while by yourself, let me see how your horsemanship is doing now?"

Hearing this, Sheng Yan evoked a clear and clear smile, pulled up the reins and walked forward, and took a few steps slowly, before boldly driving away the steed, with a steady figure and long jet black hair flipping in the wind Flying is like splashing ink in the air.

Feng Suyang looked at and nodded frequently, Sheng Yan let go of the shackles on the horse's back, handsome and agile, like crystal clear water waves melted by ice and snow, gurgling and flowing on the grass, and the land passing by was lush and clear.

Running alone is naturally free and easy, without hesitation, Sheng Yan galloped against the wind for a while, feeling sweat dripping from his forehead, and then turned the horse's head.

At some point, Feng Suyang walked to the side of a big tree, leaning against the tree trunk, pulled out a glove-like thing from his waist and put it on his arm.

Sheng Yan got closer, and saw him walking to the open space in front of him, took out a whistle from the kit bag at his waist, held it in his mouth, and blew it.Sheng Yan has never seen this action before, but she has read about it in a book. Could it be that Su is going to...

Slightly tightening the reins of the horse to slow down the horse, Sheng Yan looked up at the blue sky, and saw a black eagle flying among the clouds hovering from a distance. It flapped its wings above its head and flew around a few times, and when it heard the whistle sound, it immediately bent down, its black feathers floating in the dazzling sunlight, it was truly brave and heroic.

Feng Suyang raised his arm high at this time, and the black eagle swooped down from the air, gradually fell straight and smooth, retracted its claws, folded its long wings, and landed lightly on his arm.

Sheng Yan's throat tightened as he watched, and he was stunned for a moment. He hurriedly rode his horse up to him, jumped off the horse, walked up to him, and stared at the eagle with his eyes motionless.

"Su, this...is raised by you?" Sheng Yan had no idea when he raised such a majestic black eagle.

Feng Suyang smiled and stretched out his left hand, touched its head, and said: "I didn't raise it, I tamed it... Didn't I tell you that during the time at the border, apart from training soldiers, sometimes it was very boring Well, there is no other entertainment, so Cen Shuyan suggested that I tame a vulture... spying on the military situation or sending messages, it can be used, and occasionally it can also protect the lord."

"Brother Shu Yan is the main one..." Sheng Yan glared at him, "I knew you guys knew each other long ago when I was in the Cen Mansion, why didn't you tell me?"

"You didn't tell me otherwise?" Feng Suyang stretched out his arm and let him try to touch the black eagle, "Don't be afraid, although it is a bird of prey, it took me as its master and recognized me nearly People who are naked will not attack."

"Really?" Sheng Yan was quite courageous, but when he saw the black eagle for the first time, especially its pair of sharp eyes, he was still a little scared, so he squinted his eyes half-closed when he looked at it for a few times and saw that it didn't respond much. He reached out a finger and touched his head.

"Haha, touch it boldly, it won't peck you!" Feng Suyang smiled lightly and squeezed his hand up to touch it.

Sheng Yan couldn't help but smile and frowned, saying: "What a smooth feather!"

"Of course, I don't care what it eats every day..." Feng Suyang touched him a few more times, and raised his arm into the air. The black eagle instantly shook its wings, straightened its neck, and flew back to belong to it. the vast sky.

Sheng Yan stood beside Feng Suyang, looked up at it flying freely above, raised the corners of his mouth and said: "An ambitious person hates the sky even if he spreads his wings. This bird is really enviable. ah……"

Feng Suyang put his arms around his shoulders, and said in a low voice: "Why are you envious, you want your own sky, so let go and go for it yourself!"

"Break in... by yourself?" Sheng Yan stared at him blankly, "But everyone has their own involuntary control, don't you think that elder brother is confined to the cage of the Long family, and you are also confined to the royal family, and I... also have A shackle that cannot be broken by oneself."

"You are right, but the sea and the sky are not necessarily what you see in front of your eyes or touch in your hands... As long as your heart is far away, let go, and is as vast and boundless as this land, the sky will naturally appear. Feng Suyang said in a slow voice, and took off the wristband on his arm and handed it to him, "Do you want to try?"

Sheng Yan pointed to herself in surprise and asked: "You let me try, can I do it?"

Feng Suyang raised his eyebrows and said with a smile: "Don't be afraid, you can give it a try, you have my scent on you... Xiao Hei knows you."

"What, your smell?!" Sheng Yan lowered his head and sniffed his sleeve, glared at him and said, "Fuck you, just try it, I want to see how difficult it is!"

Stubborn temperament came up, Sheng Yan followed suit, asked for the whistle, recalled the few actions Su had just made, raised his arm straight away, kept it away from his face, hesitated for a while, and blew the whistle. whistle.

Feng Suyang didn't look at the sky, but just stared into his eyes and said: "Well, it's good like this, don't bend your arms, you will definitely feel a little dizzy when you first see the shadow of the black eagle falling, you don't need to look, but your body Don't shake, don't hide...Okay, raise your arms a little bit now! Very good! Hold the smoke, isn't it heavy?"

Sheng Yan looked sideways at the black eagle, barely supporting his arms and holding them flat, he exhaled and said, "It's quite heavy, but it's okay... I didn't expect it to land on my arms... It's so interesting! "

Now Feng Suyang took out another cowhide, put it on his shoulder, and hooked his hand: "Come on, let it stand on my shoulder, I guess you won't last long."

"What, I can hold on any longer..." Sheng Yan just wanted to let go, but his arms felt sore. Not to mention the black eagle, if the arm is tilted a little, it will move its claws. Sheng Yan is really a little I couldn't take it anymore, so I had to lean over and pass the black eagle over.

Hei Diao turned his head arrogantly and glanced at Sheng Yan, his expression seemed to be contemptuous.

Sheng Yan looked at it squatting on Su's shoulder unhappily, curled her lips: "Look, it's laughing at me!"

"No way..." Feng Suyang pursed his lips and curled up one corner of his mouth, and pulled his arm to look in front of him, "Fortunately, it didn't scratch you, it landed fairly well, when I tamed it, I was scratched Several times."

"Does it hurt? I didn't see any scars on the back of your hands and arms?" Sheng Yan said, taking off the leather shoes and returning them to him, "Think about how courageous you are, how dangerous it is to tame this beast, Shu So is Brother Yan, aren't you afraid of getting hurt?"

Feng Suyang lowered his head and smiled disapprovingly, "If it wasn't for his poor arm strength, Cen Shuyan would have wanted to domesticate one himself. He said that a man who is a man with a falcon and a black eagle is the real hero."

Sheng Yan didn't expect this. In his impression, Cen Shuyan was just a handsome young man. Although he had been in the army for several years and his skin was tanned, as long as he put on a long gown, he would look handsome and gentle. I came back right away.He said these words to Su, it can be seen that he has lofty ambitions in his heart.

Sheng Yan took a step back and carefully looked at Feng Suyang at this moment.

I saw him wearing a cloud brocade robe woven with the pattern of unicorns dancing in pairs, with a vigorous horse beside him, a pair of complicated and novel wine bags hanging on the side of the saddle, and a black eagle on his shoulders, majestic and proud... The world may never be the same again. There is no sedan chair more outstanding than him.

How lucky that such a person who pointed out the world was monopolized by him, Long Shengyan!

Seeing him in a daze, Feng Suyang reached out to pick up a strand of his hair and held it in the palm of his hand.

"Actually, I knew that you had correspondence with Cen Shuyan a few years ago...but you never mentioned it to me, so I didn't ask. Later, when I went to the army, I found out that one of the soldiers who joined the army was Cen Shuyan, and we hit it off right away. .In many business views, I was very speculative with him... However, I hid from him the fact that I knew you, and he didn't know until this time." I didn't intend to confess this matter at first, but Feng Suyang felt that It doesn't matter anymore, Sheng Yan is not a narrow-minded person and doesn't care about such things.

Sheng Yan nodded lightly and said: "Well, I guess you met in the army. You have a special status. If you talk about acquaintance with me when you were a child, it's hard to explain... That's fine. Anyway, now everyone We are all friends, and we can still drink and talk happily when we meet in the future, that's enough."

It seems that Sheng Yan wanted to expose the matter of Cen Shuyan's love for him. That's fine, since everyone has their own destinations, there is really no need to clarify certain details.

Feng Suyang teased Hei Diao for a while, taught Sheng Yan to feed it a few pieces of jerky, and then let it fly away.

An hour passed in a blink of an eye. When the two of them were rushing back, not long after entering the east gate tower, they saw an empty stage standing in the center of the market, with shops on two streets on both sides, and people were coming and going. The place where it touches is unusually eye-catching.

"Su, stop for a while..." Sheng Yan wanted to go up and have a look, and supported Su's hand to get off the horse, followed the stairs of the terrace on the first floor to the second floor, looked around, walked in the middle, and saw A piece of multicolored lichen on the floor of a dance pavilion.

Pressed on the brocade lichen are four cute incense burners of Suan Ni, which immediately reminded Sheng Yan of a sentence: "Suan Ni Town Corner Dance Banquet." "Oh, I didn't expect this to be a dance pavilion." Feng Suyang also looked down After looking at it, he sighed: "I think this place will only be used during festivals such as the Lantern Festival and Qiqiao. There are tall dance pavilions, gorgeous brocade lichens, and incense lions for incense and town corners."

Sheng Yan squatted down, picked up a lion and looked at it, with a smile on his face, "This talc incense lion is exquisite in workmanship, smooth and delicate, pure and transparent, warm and moist like jade...whether it is for viewing or for town corners They are all excellent. I didn’t expect to see the town horn fragrant lion here in the northwest.”

"Hmm...it's not bad." Feng Suyang also bent down to look at it, and said with a smile to Sheng Yan: "There is a line in "The House" written by Qin Taoyu of the Tang Dynasty: lichen town corner fragrant lion, curtain forehead invades hook embroidery to avoid evil …According to the song of the Qing Dynasty, the sky is not yet clear, and drinking back to the deep courtyard is still on credit. Because dancers will inevitably kick the lichen under their feet when they dance, they use various shapes of fragrant beasts such as Suan Ni to hold them at the four corners , both beautiful and fragrant. But...

Originally, I only thought that there would be such things in palaces and mansions of princes and nobles, but I didn't expect that there were also folks.But I seem to have heard the crown prince say that when the late emperor's grandfather was alive, he held a banquet in the northwest to reward the soldiers who fought in the northwest, and this dance pavilion may have been left over from that time..."

Sheng Yan got up thoughtfully again, and whispered: "If there is a song and dance performance in this dance pavilion, many people should be able to see it..."

Seeing that he seemed to have thought of something, Feng Suyang said, "Of course, there are a lot of pedestrians passing by here."

"Then why...we have to wait until the Lantern Festival to perform songs and dances? It's not impossible on weekdays..." Sheng Yan seemed to be talking to himself, after thinking for a moment, he held Feng Suyang's hand with raised eyebrows and said, "If I moved the table where rose water was used to replace incense balls to the first floor here, and on the second floor I invited dancers to perform songs and dances, you think...does everyone in the whole town know about our Long Family’s incense balls?"

This method is a bit novel and a bit ostentatious, but it is not a good move for the current Long Family's time-honored brand.Feng Suyang pondered for a long while and said: "It's possible, but it's better to communicate with the yamen here, and you have to prepare well... It's not easy to find a dancer either."

Sheng Yan also took this into consideration, "Well, I have to draw up detailed items for what you said, and do everything. Now I just think about it, and I have to discuss it with shopkeeper Qiu when I go back... I'm not in a hurry, but I think that if this matter is done well, the Long family will definitely be able to make a name for themselves in the Northwest and revive their former glory."

"Then, don't you want to stay longer?" Feng Suyang frowned slightly, "I'm afraid I'll have to go to a few other places to check the defenses in two days, so I won't be able to accompany you anymore."

"It's okay, you have important business to do. The military affairs in the Northwest cannot be sloppy. The border checkpoints are the barriers of the entire Tianxiang Dynasty... The burden placed on you by the emperor is not light at all. Be careful in everything and do things in a thorough manner, but don't be fooled by it." Let the people in the court hold you, I'm still worried that I always go in and out with me..." Sheng Yan didn't know why he suddenly started nagging, and he ordered slowly, and even stretched out his hand to straighten Su's belt The ring wear and kit.

"There is no need to worry about anything, as I said, I still have the ability to protect you well..." Feng Suyang held his hand that was fiddling with his belt, "I will help you more in these two days, and see that you have made arrangements. It’s good to go with confidence.”

"Well... then..." Sheng Yan raised his head, only to realize that they were standing on the bare dance pavilion, and hurriedly let him go, "Really, the passers-by saw it!"

Feng Suyang said in his heart that he had been seen by someone earlier, the corner of his mouth lightly raised, and he grabbed his hand disapprovingly and got off Wuxie.

When they returned to the incense shop and took a look, both of them were taken aback. There was a long queue from the shop to the door, all of them were holding rose water in exchange for incense pills.

Because there were too many people in the crowd, Sheng Yan and Feng Suyang could only enter the courtyard through the back door, changed into light clothes and went to the shop, only to find that Qiu Zhangui and several apprentices were too busy.

Sheng Yan immediately rolled up his sleeves and stepped forward to help.

After all, Feng Suyang's status is noble, so Sheng Yan pushed him out of the door, let him go back to his room to rest, and think about his official duties, and deal with them as soon as possible, or go out to meet the generals here, Even dinner seemed to be delayed on his part.

Feng Suyang thought so too, went into the house and changed into a more plain maroon gown, walked alone towards the military camp stationed here, unexpectedly... this private visit really made him find out some serious problems.