Not far from the greenhouse, Wang Gui and Tang Huaiyi asked Li Yanqing on the left and right, "Tell me honestly, did that little lady come to have a blind date with you just now?"

"You two brats ruined my blind date. How do you pay me compensation?" Li Yanqing grabbed the necks of their necks with his back hand and asked angrily.

Wang Gui and Tang Huai were stunned for a moment, and they apologized: "Old Li, sorry! We really don't know that we didn't disturb us on purpose just now."

Seeing that the two of them believed it, Li Yanqing burst into laughter. Wang Gui and Tang Huai woke up and waved their old fists and hit them. Li Yanqing broke free from them and ran towards the crowd.

"Catch up with him!" The three of them ran into the crowd one after another.

It was not time for dinner yet, and the people in the greenhouse were busy preparing the club meal. The club drama next to the Land Temple was almost over. Dozens of powerful heavenly soldiers and generals arrested more than a dozen wretched demons and monsters wearing masks and took them to the wooden platform.

The Mutai was surrounded by thousands of villagers. Although the clubs were similar every year, it was nothing more than demons and ghosts who harmed the people. The Emperor of Heaven was furious and sent heavenly soldiers and generals to the world to eliminate demons for the people.

But the villagers were looking for fun. Whenever a demon was knocked over, everyone would applaud. Especially when several female fox monsters dressed in charmingly were taken to the wooden platform, the club drama reached its climax, with laughter, shouts and applause around.

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In front of the temple, there were blue smoke everywhere, and more than a hundred father-in-law and woman burning incense and paper money in front of the land temple. They knelt in front of the statue of the land god and prayed devoutly, begging the land god and blessing the weather and the safety of the whole family.

Although people gathered in the open space in front of the temple, the stalls and vendors still took advantage of the situation, either drawing a place in the open space to make money, or wandering around with cargo loads, candy-plastic people, noodles-cooking people, candy haws, and small goods-selling poles to sell silk, flowers and bronze jewelry, which is especially popular among the young ladies.

Li Yanqing took Wang Gui and Tang Huai to wander among the crowd. The three of them each took a bunch of candied haws and chewed them while walking. Yue Fei's father Yue He was Baozheng from Tangwang Village. Today, he was responsible for the Spring Club in Tangwang Village. Yue He was short of staff, so he grabbed his son to play drums.

At this time, the club had already ended and the dinner had not started yet. Many people went to the stalls in Lushan Town to buy things, and there were a little fewer people in the open space.

"Lao Tang, there are arrows there!"

Wang Gui suddenly discovered an archery stall over the Sang Shulin, which immediately aroused his strong interest and pulled Tang Huai to run, "Old Li, come on."

"This is coming!"

Li Yanqing agreed, but did not move. He saw the little maid Xi Magpie. There was another little lady next to her who was similar to her. It seemed to be Li Er's little maid A Tao. The two were standing in front of a jewelry stall and watching a group of girls buying jewelry.

Li Yanqing walked forward with a smile, coughing gently behind them, and the magpie turned around and was startled. He quickly gave a gift. A Tao next to him turned a little red and he also gave a gift.

“Have you bought anything?”

Li Yanqing specifically told Uncle Zhong to give magpie some pocket money in the morning, and she shouldn't be empty-handed. The magpie blushed and shook her head. Li Yanqing glanced at him and saw that the magpie had more than a dozen cents in his little hand, but A Tao had no money in his hand. Li Yanqing immediately understood that the magpie's money was only enough to buy a small piece of jewelry, and A Tao was gone. Li Yanqing couldn't help but curse Li Er stingy.

He smiled and waved to the two little ladies, "What do you like, I'll buy it for you!"

The magpie and A Tao walked forward timidly. They both longed to get a piece of jewelry, but were embarrassed to let Li Yanqing spend money. The peddler selling jewelry was very clever and immediately took off two phoenix hairpins and handed them to them and smiled: "This is the hottest one, and it is suitable for a little lady like you."

Li Yanqing took the copper hairpin and handed it to them, and said to the vendor: "There are also the pearl copper hairpin and pomegranate silk flowers, each of which requires two!"

The vendor immediately took it to him, and Li Yanqing smiled and handed it to the two little ladies.

The two little ladies showed joy in their eyes. Li Yanqing bought them an embroidered jewelry bag and paid for the bill. At this time, someone suddenly shouted, "Magpie!"

When Li Yanqing turned around, he saw a 15 or 16-year-old girl standing next to her, wearing a half-old silk silk dress, her hair was combed smoothly, and an oval face, with slender eyes under her eyebrows, and her skin was white. Li Yanqing only felt that she looked familiar, but she forgot who she was?

"Sister!"

The magpie shouted happily, and Li Yanqing then remembered that this little lady was the magpie's sister, Da Yan. She had seen her once at Li Dongdong's house. It seemed that she was now the personal maid of the patriarch's wife and was quite favored by Mrs. Li.

The magpie hurriedly took out the phoenix copper hairpin and said, "Sister, this is bought by the little official for me."

Dayan pretended not to see Li Yanqing, but when her sister said that, she couldn't pretend, so she had to come forward and give Li Yanqing a blessing. "I have seen a little official, thank you for treating my sister well."

Li Yanqing originally wanted to buy a piece of jewelry for Da Yan, but suddenly he found a young man standing not far away, as if he was with Da Yan, so he felt that he shouldn't be too troublesome.

Li Yanqing smiled and said hello to Da Yan. The purse he had just taken was stuffed back. Da Yan was so smart that he immediately saw that Li Yanqing had no intention of buying a piece of jewelry for him. She was secretly annoyed in her heart, so she smiled and lowered her head, showing a white and bright silver hairpin at the beginning, and smiled at her sister, "Is this hairpin of sister good-looking?"

"Wow! It's a silver hairpin!" Xi Mai and A Tao exclaimed together.

"This is given to me by my wife, hum! I don't care about such valuable copper hairpins!"

The wild goose glanced at Li Yanqing and turned his head proudly and left, "Magpie, sister will come to you for fun again."

The wild goose walked dozens of steps before the man quietly followed. Li Yanqing saw that the young man had a medium figure, was wearing ordinary clothes, but he was very strong, had bronze skin, and had strong arms. He seemed to be a professional martial arts practitioner, but he had never seen him before.

It was strange, how could there be such a martial arts practitioner in Xiaohe Township? In just a moment, the two of them disappeared into the crowd talking and laughing.

Li Yanqing shook his head. He temporarily put the wild goose and the strange man aside and searched for Wang Gui and Tang Huai.

"Little official, we want to go over there and have a look." The magpie pointed to a lively place in front and said to Li Yanqing.

"OK!"

Li Yanqing quickly took out a handful of money and stuffed it to Xi Magpie, "You go and buy some food."

"Ah! That's too much."

"Buy more things you like." After leaving a sentence, Li Yanqing ran towards the mulberry forest. He had already seen Wang Guizai shoot arrows.

There is an archery stall next to the woods. This is the first time this year.

The archery club was widely organized in the northern part of the Song Dynasty. Young and strong men would spontaneously organize archery during the slack farming period. They received full support from the court and gave preferential treatment such as tax reduction and exemption.

For example, close to the border, there are 588 Bow and Archery Clubs in the two prefectures, with a total of more than 30,000 people, accounting for about 150,000 people in the area. The number of Bow and Archery Clubs in Xiangzhou is slightly smaller, but each township has several Bow and Archery Clubs, and there are 6,700 villagers participating.

Two foreigners posed arrows here to make gambling, which immediately aroused everyone's interest and quickly surrounded hundreds of people, each of whom was eager to try.

Both men who set up stalls were very majestic. The leader clasped his fists to the villagers around him and said, "In Shandong Ruan Xiaoer, this is my brother Ruan Xiaowu. We passed by Guidi, and we were in the Spring Club. We were also having fun. Have you seen that? There is a target in the front sixty steps, shooting the blue circle on the outside. We will pay 500 cents of money and hit the yellow circle. We will pay 2 jin of money. If we can hit the red heart, we will pay 10 taels of silver. Of course, the lottery is high and the bet is a little more expensive. One arrow is a hundred cents of money."

To show that he was silent, Ruan Xiaoer took out a ten-two ingot and hung it on the treetop next to the target.

The money of money made many people tempted, and a fellow villager shouted: "What if you do something wrong with your hands and feet on the bow and arrow?"

Ruan Xiaoer laughed and raised his bow, "This is a Ba Dou Bow, and the arrow is also a wolf-tooth arrow used by the army. I'll shoot a few arrows for you to see."

He put the quiver behind his back, pulled out three arrows, and shot them one by one at a time, and the arrow shot into the red heart, and the crowd around him applauded.

Ruan Xiaoer raised his bow and shouted, "How is it, which hero is here to try it!"

"Master, I'll shoot a few arrows first!" Wang Gui was the first to jump up.

"Are you sure you want to shoot arrows?"

Ruan Xiaowu next to him smiled and said, "Little official, this is a bayou bow. Don't lose money and can't buy candy."

Seeing that he underestimated him, Wang Gui took out a tael of silver and threw it to Ruan Xiaoer in anger, "Give me ten arrows to you, wait for you to use as pants!"

The Ruan brothers looked at each other meaningfully, and Ruan Xiaoer handed the bow to Wang Gui. Wang Gui regretted it when he started. It was an well-made staircase bow with thick back and very heavy back, which was a little heavier than an ordinary military staircase bow.

Wang Gui usually uses the Five Dou Bow. He can barely pull the Eight Dou Bow, but the Eight Dou Bow is too heavy. He feels that it is at least a stone bow.

"Old Gui, can you do it? If not, let me do it." Tang Huai said on the side.

"A joke, did I say it, no?"

Wang Gui took an arrow and stinged his teeth. The bow squeaked open, but his arm was trembling slightly. Wang Gui gritted his teeth and aimed at the target. The string loosened, and one fell off the string and went straight to the target.

Wang Gui's heart was in his throat. He was not sure whether he could shoot it. It was all based on his feelings to shoot the arrow. At this time, there was a burst of applause around him, "Good arrow technique!"

Wang Gui felt relieved and knew that he had shot. Tang Huai closed his hand and shouted at the edge of his head: "Call the blue circle, you have got five hundred words!"

Wang Gui was suddenly a little discouraged. He only had 500 ounces of money. He thought he had obtained at least two stale money.

At this time, Ruan Xiaowu glanced at his brother. Wang Gui's performance surprised him a little, but Ruan Xiaoer held his hands in front of his chest and looked at the little official shooting arrows with a smile on his face.

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Chapter completed!