As the sun set, night slowly fell. After the last song and dance performance, the emperor left with the queen. This birthday banquet was considered a successful end, and everyone began to leave the Shengde Hall in an orderly manner.
Zhao Xuanyi handed the Tianyi Bow to Li Hanrui, "Second brother, take this Tianyi Bow and go back to the General's Mansion directly. I will go back to Piaoyun Pavilion. I'm afraid someone will rob you on the way!"
This scene attracted many people to watch, among them Ye Yuanzhi, Ge Tai and Tang Mi, etc., all watched very carefully!
When Li Hanrui heard this, he was not polite and took the Tianyi Bow back. "Don't worry, I don't believe they dare to steal my father's carriage! But be careful when you go back!" Li Hanrui reminded intentionally.
"Yes! Second brother, don't worry!" After Zhao Xuanyi said that, he got on his carriage, "Brother Shen, go home!"
"Okay!" Shen Wei flicked the reins, and the carriage quickly left the Meridian Gate.
And seeing Zhao Xuanyi leaving, there were many pairs of eyes staring here secretly, each of them seemed to want to eat Zhao Xuanyi alive, they looked very ferocious!
To Zhao Xuanyi's expectation, it was very quiet along the way. No one came to trouble him until he got home. Zhao Xuanyi thought to himself, is it so safe? When did these people develop a conscience?
Tang Tianli helped Zhao Xuanyi get out of the car, "Sir, you must be very happy to attend the royal banquet, right?"
"Happy uncle, tell the kitchen to prepare something for me. Roast chicken, roast duck, and braised elbow. Why are you looking at it? Go!" Zhao Xuanyi kicked Tang Tianli in the leg.
"Hey!" Tang Tianli agreed while running towards the kitchen!
Zhao Xuanyi stood on the ground with an angry face, "Damn it, I'm starving to death!" Zhao Xuanyi slowly walked towards the front hall.
There was not much time, and all eight dishes were served. Zhao Xuanyi was not polite, picked up his chopsticks and devoured the meal!
Zi Yuan heard that Zhao Xuanyi was back and waited in the room for a while, but she never saw Zhao Xuanyi coming back. She came to the front hall alone, but when she came here, she saw Zhao Xuanyi eating with whirlwind chopsticks!
Zi Yuan was frightened and ran over in a hurry, "Oh my God! Didn't you go to the palace for a banquet? Why are you so hungry!"
"Go to the hell! Why go to a banquet? It's such a torture! They only gave me so much food, and it wasn't even enough to fill my teeth. They didn't even give me rice and steamed buns. I would have starved to death! If my father and father-in-law hadn't both I ran away so early! I will never attend the royal banquet again!" After Zhao Xuanyi finished speaking, he picked up the big elbow with both hands and took a bite!
After seeing this, Zi Yuan laughed so hard that she almost couldn't stand up straight. She thought to herself that this was the first time she saw Zhao Xuanyi angry because of hunger. It was really fun!
"Are you still laughing? Why didn't you tell me? That heartless Li Hanrui even knew how to buy a few sesame seed cakes and eat them first. Damn it! The pretty boy has no good intentions!" Zhao Xuanyi said angrily.
"Uncle, who am I? Even the lady has never been there, how do I know what it's like? Didn't the second young master buy sesame seed cakes for you?" Zi Yuan asked curiously.
"Give it! I didn't eat it!"
"Hahaha...!" Zi Yuan laughed loudly while lying on the table nearby, "Why don't you eat?"
"I saved my stomach to go to the palace to eat! Who would have thought that they would only give so little, and most of the people didn't eat anything. They are all like pieces of wood. Otherwise, they would all be practicing kung fu? Bigu?" Zhao Xuanyi asked.
Zi Yuan wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes and put away her smile, "Stop being poor and eat slowly. Everyone will grab it from you! By the way, what's so fun about the palace banquet? Tell me about it?"
"What's fun? It's just a group of unknown women dancing. It's not fun at all. What if it's fun? I won two thousand horses today!" Zhao Xuanyi said with a smile.
"My uncle won two thousand horses? How did you win?"
Zhao Xuanyi presented Ge Ertai with a treasure, and then the two sides competed with each other with bows and arrows. In the end, Shen Wei won and won two thousand horses according to the bet. Everything was said in full!
【Snapped! 】Li Hanqi slapped the table hard, "Beautiful! My brother-in-law did it beautifully! What a relief! Two thousand pieces! Hahaha!" Li Hanqi laughed happily.
"I leave this matter to you. Gertai will leave in a few days. Then you send people to the Tatar side to get these two thousand horses back and choose them!" Li Yukun said.
"Don't worry, father, I will handle this matter well. If these two thousand war horses are transferred, our cavalry can already exceed 80,000!" Li Hanqi said very excitedly.
"Horses are the most important tool. I didn't expect my brother-in-law to get two thousand horses so easily!" Li Hanrui said with a smile. "By the way, brother, I got the Tianyi Bow back. Do you want to try it?" Li Hanrui asked with a smile.
"Really? Give it to me and I will try this bow that defeated the Tatars!" Li Hanqi said.
Li Hanrui took Li Hanqi to the backyard yard, and lit torches and lanterns around them. Li Hanrui took out the Tianyi Bow. Li Hanqi took it in his hand and looked at it with very curious eyes.
"Is this a bow?" Li Hanqi asked.
"Yes, look, here is the handle, here is the bow string, just shoot as usual!"
Li Hanqi weighed it in his hand. It was much heavier than an ordinary bow. He picked up an arrow, opened the bow and nocked the arrow. The moment he pulled the bow string, Li Hanqi's eyes showed surprise. It was so light!
As soon as he let go of his hand [Whoosh...! boom! 】Seeing that the arrow target thirty steps away was instantly shattered, Li Hanqi couldn't help but widen his eyes, looked at the bow in his hand, and said with excitement, "Oh my God, this bow and arrow is so powerful?"
"Do you like it?" Li Hanrui said with a smile.
"Okay, it's really good! Did your brother-in-law do this?" Li Hanqi asked.
"Of course! My father bought it for eight thousand taels!"
"It's too little, I should give you 10,000!"
"Hahaha! My brother-in-law also asked for this price at first, but later my father invited my father-in-law to come, and then he lowered the price by two thousand taels!"
Li Hanqi smiled and nodded, "What's this called? A horse is thin and hairy but has fat hooves. A son who steals his father is not considered a thief! Haha! Yes, I want this Sky Wing Bow. I will take it with me when I return to the border! With this, I can hunt for a long time. Get it right!"
"It's done! What can't we brothers say? But this Tianyi Bow is complicated to make and requires fine iron, so we haven't made many of it yet!" Li Hanrui sighed and said.
"Oh? How many weapons do we have in total in our military camp now?"
"It seems to be only three hundred. It was made of steel at a huge price. Because it was made in secret, the court didn't even know. My father spent his own money to make it!" Li Hanrui said helplessly.
"It's worth all the money spent. With this Tianyi Bow, our uncle's Huhao Military Camp and the Far East Army are no match for us!" Li Hanqi said, touching the Tianyi Bow in his hand with care.
"Having said that, if you want to make tens of thousands of them, this is a lot of money, at least two hundred thousand taels!" Li Hanrui said.
"Two hundred thousand...?" Li Hanqi took a deep breath. So why is this Tianyi Bow so expensive to make? Two hundred thousand is not a small amount, and I’m afraid my family can’t afford it!
The key is not to open your mouth to the court yet. Once the court takes the money, it proves that the Tianyi Bow is not your own and will be handed over to the court. This is very helpless! Who will the court give the Tianyi Bow to when the time comes? That’s unknown! Such a good treasure cannot be handed over for life or death!
"Does father have any good ideas?" Li Hanqi asked.
Li Hanrui shook his head, "I'm thinking about it, but no matter what, I can't hand over the Tianyi Bow, otherwise I will suffer a big loss!"
"Well, this matter is a big deal. You can't rush it. Take your time! I believe my father will have a good idea!" Li Hanqi sighed. He and his second brother were loyal, but they had no money. Even if they had one Even tens of thousands taels are enough! But the reality is that even if the two brothers borrow a tael of silver, they have to figure it out clearly, because they are so poor!
"Today at the Shengde Hall, Gertai was willing to give a thousand more war horses in exchange for this Sky-Winging Bow, but my brother-in-law refused on the spot! This shows how much Gertai likes this Sky-Winging Bow!" Li Hanrui said.
"Well! Well done! As expected of the son-in-law of my Li family, he is ambitious! This also explains from another perspective how important this Tianyi Bow is and must not fall into the hands of foreigners!" Li Hanqi said.
"Not only foreigners, I'm afraid there are people in the country who are also eyeing it. I see something wrong with Ye Yuanzhi's eyes. I'm afraid he has already taken a liking to this Tianyi Bow!"
"What? That old bastard still wants to eat this? Don't break his front teeth!" Li Hanqi said angrily.
"By the way, I remembered there is one more thing we need to deal with!" Li Hanrui said suddenly.
"What's the matter?" Li Hanqi asked.
"Today in the Shengde Hall, Tang Mi is here! And from the look in her brother-in-law's eyes, she must have taken a liking to her! She wanted to see this Tianyi Bow, but I refused, I'm afraid?"
"What?" Li Hanqi shouted, "Tang Mi is here? Isn't this the end of the world? In terms of martial arts, the third sister can beat her three times, but in terms of other things...?" Li Hanqi's face was full of sorrow!
"That's what I'm afraid of. If Tang Mi really plans to seduce her brother-in-law, it will be a big crisis! That girl Tang Mi is not simple. If she is three times as powerful as me in terms of tactics, and with her pretty face, I guess our brother-in-law will not be able to withstand it. !”
"Oh, it's all our third sister's fault. You said that if she looked like a woman and could act coquettishly, my brother-in-law wouldn't be afraid of this, right? What should we do?" Two grown men squatted on the ground, one more worried than the other!
At this time, Liu Bo ran in from outside and said, "Master, I have something to report!"
"Go away, you're so annoying!" Li Hanqi scolded.
Liu Bo looked embarrassed. Looking at the expressions of these two people, he thought to himself, what happened? Li Hanrui looked at Liu Bo, nodded, and motioned to Liu Bo. Liu Bo said, "My eldest son, Gertai did not come out after returning to the inn, but...his follower Cam came out, and our people are here." Follow!”
"Oh?" Li Hanqi stood up, "Cam is out? What's going on? Teasing the tiger away from the mountain?"
Li Hanrui also stood up, "Brother, I'll follow Cam. You stay and continue to watch over Gertai. If anything happens, the two of us can make a decision!"
Li Hanqi looked at Li Hanrui, "Second brother, you must be very tired after just coming down from the banquet. Why don't I go after Cam!"
"Forget it, how tired can it be? It's settled, Liu Bo, put on a team of people and chase Cam with me!" Li Hanrui shouted.
"Yes!" Liu Bo ran out immediately!
In an inn in Beijing, Tang Mi walked into her room. A maid in the room quickly stood up and walked over, "Miss, you are back!"
Tang Mi nodded with a tired face, stretched out her hands, and the maid came over to help take off her coat. Tang Mi sat weakly on the chair, and the maid carefully folded her coat. "Miss, are you having fun at the banquet in a few days?"
"It's not interesting at all. It's not as interesting as the Dragon Boat Festival at our house, but...I did find another interesting thing!" Tang Mi said with a smile.
"Oh? What did the lady find?" the maid asked with a smile.
"one person!"
"Alone?" The maid seemed to understand something. "Is it possible that the maid has found the young master she likes? Whose young master is so lucky?"
"Zhao Xuanyi!" Tang Mi said with a smile.
"Oh! It turns out to be Mr. Zhao Mingqing's second son... Huh? That's not right! Miss, isn't that Li Hanyan's husband?" The maid reacted and was so frightened that she grabbed Tang Mi's arm and kept shaking it, "That's you The husband of a mortal enemy!"
"What are you talking about? What do you think I'm interested in? It's just that his literary talent is superior to others, and he actually knows how to make weapons! He made a Sky-Wing Bow that can shoot a distance of four hundred steps. You Can you believe it?" Tang Mi said with excitement.
"Four hundred steps?" The maid reached out and touched Tang Mi's forehead, "You don't have a fever!"
"Oops!" Tang Mi opened the maid's hand, "I'm not sick. I heard today that one of his men could shoot more than three hundred steps, and a trained archer can shoot four hundred steps. Oh my god, If this were to happen on the battlefield, this would simply be the judgment of God! That Sky-Winging Bow is so beautiful!" Tang Mi held her chin in her hands, her eyes full of envy, and her expression became intoxicated when she raised the Sky-Winging Bow!
The maid rolled her eyes and said, "My lady, wake up, that is Li Hanyan's husband. Do you think Li Hanyan can agree to it, or General Li Yukun can agree to it for you?"
One sentence poured cold water on Tang Mi, and Tang Mi came to her senses, "Why do they need to agree? That Zhao Xuanyi seems to be very satisfied with me. He even toasted to me frequently at the banquet today. He must have taken a liking to this young lady, hmph!" Is that tigress Li Hanyan also trying to catch a man? It would be easy for me to snatch him away!"
The maid was so frightened that she opened her mouth, "Miss, are you thinking...?"
"That's right! As long as we snatch Zhao Xuanyi back, what will we need then? He is the one who made the Tianyi Bow. As long as the person is in our hands, we can have as many as we want. Maybe he will do something else, this No matter how you calculate it, it's not a loss!" Tang Mi said confidently.
The maid was so frightened that she didn't dare to speak. My general, please come quickly. The young lady seems to be crazy!
