"Miss, do I need to harness the carriage for you today?"
Dong Da, who was guarding the front yard, saw Wei Yunlan order Tingxue to lead the horse out of the stable, and hurried forward to ask.
"No need. Jingping Lane is not far from the South City Gate. We can just ride there on horseback." Today, Wei Yunlan was wearing a light riding outfit. As he spoke, he jumped on the horse and headed towards the South City Gate with Tingxue.
"Sister Wei, this way!"
From a distance, she saw people waving and greeting at the city gate. They were Tu You and Huang Yuling who had arrived earlier than her.
Like Wei Yunlan, the two of them were dressed in light riding clothes and only had a maid with them.
Huang Yuling had a long spear hanging on her horse's back, and the maid following behind her had a longbow and several bags of arrows on her horse's back.
Tu You didn't have any obvious weapons, but Wei Yunlan knew that his most handy weapon was hidden in his sleeves. Once swung out, its power might not be less than Huang Yuling's spear.
"Yun Lan is also good at riding and shooting?"
Seeing Wei Yunlan coming on horseback with a bow and arrow hanging on the horse's back, Huang Yuling's eyes lit up.
"I only have a slight understanding of it, but I'm not good at it." Wei Yunlan shook his head and said truthfully.
It's not that she was being modest, it's just that she had only been dabbling in these two things for a short time. Riding was easy, as she had rubbed her legs a few times along the way, but at least she had made some progress. But archery was really difficult. After practicing with Mr. Xiao a few times, she could only barely make sure that every arrow hit the target.
If she were with the young ladies in the capital, Wei Yunlan would still dare to compete with them, but when she was with these young ladies of northern military generals who almost grew up on horseback, Wei Yunlan still had some self-awareness.
As they were talking, a few more people came over from the direction of the city.
Horse riding is not prohibited in Beiguan City, as long as you don't ride too fast in the busy city and injure pedestrians.
Among the people coming over, the one leading the way was Qiu Yuehua, who was riding on the back of a snow-white BMW with a thin neck, long limbs, and not a single stray hair on its body.
She specially wore a moon-white riding suit today, with some dark patterns outlined on it with silver thread. It shone brightly in the sunlight, low-key yet gorgeous.
The two maids behind her also came on horseback, carrying cloaks to keep their ladies warm, as well as bows and arrows that were almost the same as those used by every other lady.
Accompanying them were three or four other young ladies, all of whom Wei Yunlan had met at the Liang family's flower-viewing banquet the day before.
There are only so many people in Beiguan City. Most of those who are worthy of knowing Qiu Yuehua and Huang Yuling are daughters of fifth-rank officials at least, and they can be counted on one's fingers.
"Is everyone here?" Huang Yuling arrived quite early and had been getting impatient waiting. When she saw Qiu Yuehua coming over, she greeted her and asked directly.
Qiu Yuehua looked around. She had only invited about ten people today, and most of them had already arrived. "It's almost time. Let's go to the southern suburbs first. Just leave a maid here to lead the way."
Anyway, the forest farm in the southern suburbs is just that location.
Which lady who grew up in Beiguan City doesn’t know where she is?
Leaving a maid here to lead the way was just to prevent the two sides from getting lost if they didn't say hello.
"Okay, let's go." Huang Yuling couldn't wait any longer.
In recent years, her father did not like her to wield swords and guns, and always kept her confined in the mansion. It was not often that she had the opportunity to go out to ride a horse, practice archery and hunt.
He immediately raised his whip, eager to try, "Let's compete to see who can reach the Nanjiao Forest Farm first?"
"Okay, I just got my precious horse Xiazhu not long ago, so I'll compete with you!" Qiu Yuehua gently squeezed the horse's belly with her feet and trotted to Huang Yuling's side.
When passing by Wei Yunlan, he glanced at her ordinary dark horse, raised an eyebrow and asked, "Miss Wei, do you want to join us?"
"We can give it a try." Wei Yunlan nodded slightly, rode forward, and stood in the same row with the others to get ready.
Since everyone else was participating, there was no reason for her to not join in.
"Lingjiao, be our referee." Qiu Yuehua instructed the maid behind her.
The maid replied respectfully, "Yes," and then stood aside. Seeing that everyone was seated on horseback, she shouted in a loud voice, "Ladies, please get ready."
"Three, two, one."
"Set off!"
Following the last words, more than ten horses, like arrows shot from a bow, all ran southward.
The two leading horses were the light-footed white horse ridden by Qiu Yuehua, and the mighty and sturdy Arabian horse with shiny fur ridden by Huang Yuling.
The two were in no particular order and soon were several steps ahead of the others.
Following closely behind the two was Tu You, who was riding a large maroon horse.
Behind them, the horse they saw was not Miss Zhou's or Miss Wu's, but a strange black horse...
When the people behind saw clearly that the person sitting on the horse was Wei Yunlan, they all showed surprise.
"I didn't expect Miss Wei to be so good at riding!"
"It seems that we were prejudiced before. Who said that the women in the capital are weak? I think Miss Wei is not much worse than the girls in our northern land."
As soon as these words were spoken, the people around couldn't help but laugh.
"It's not like they're not much behind us. They're clearly way ahead of us now."
"Let's catch up quickly!"
Wei Yunlan, who was running in front, naturally couldn't hear the people behind him talking. The sun was high at this time, and the sunlight dispelled the chill in the wind. Even if he was riding a horse at a fast speed, he didn't feel how cold it was.
"Gee, gee!"
Wei Yunlan particularly enjoyed the feeling of galloping on the grass. He clamped his legs around the horse's belly, and his body leaned forward and straightened up depending on the speed of the horse.
The horse under her was also very cooperative, running faster and faster, its strength and endurance not inferior to the two obviously valuable horses in the lead.
When they were almost at the Nanjiao Forest Farm, he actually overtook Tu You, who was in third place.
In the end, he was one body length ahead, following Huang Yuling and Qiu Yuehua, and arrived at the finish line third.
Tu You stopped behind Wei Yunlan, without any sign of frustration at being one step behind, and praised Wei Yunlan, "Sister Wei, your riding skills are amazing!"
Huang Yuling, who arrived first, was more excited to see Wei Yunlan coming than she was when she won first place.
After all, it was expected that he would get first place. It was really unexpected that Wei Yunlan was able to defeat so many northern women and come in third.
Qiu Yuehua couldn't help but keep her eyes on Wei Yunlan, and said with some reluctance, but from the bottom of her heart: "Miss Wei, you are really impressive."
Whether she dares to give up her status as the Crown Prince's wife and return home peacefully.
Her riding skills are as good as those of northern women.
People can't help but take this "weak woman" from Beijing more seriously.
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