Rong Changan lowered the curtain, feeling warm in his heart.
When I came to the back garden of Xishan, I saw that the prince was wearing a golden armor, a heart goggle, a sun-shining helmet with yellow tassels fluttering in the wind, and a scarlet cloak over the armor; , the jade whip in the right hand, majestic and imposing. Smiling all over his face, he bowed to Rong Changan and said:
"Welcome Concubine Xue to our West Mountain Backyard!"
A boy brought a dismounting stone, and Rong Changan landed on the dismounting stone with his left foot, and stepped on the grass with his right foot, supported by the servant beside him. "The prince personally came to greet her, Xue'er is really flattered."
The prince laughed smugly: "I am the one who is flattered!" Looking at Chang'an's side, there was no personal guard, and he said proudly: This woman deserves to die today, and she didn't bring a guard. Hmph, I won't send you It's strange that thousands of arrows are piercing through the body!
But there was a flattering smile on his lips: "Today, this king will take a look at how the imperial concubine of Dajing Kingdom is doing with arrows."
"As a weak woman, how can I be as good at archery as the prince?" Rong Changan said with a smile, "I came from a poor family, and I hunted in the forest with my father-in-law. , if you can’t shoot the prey, please don’t laugh at the prince.”
Ha ha ha ha!
The prince's dry smile contained scheming. He grunted in his stomach: He has a unique skill, and he deliberately pretended to be in front of me! But no matter how good your swordsmanship or archery skills are, I will definitely shoot you to death at the foot of the West Mountain in a while, and treat you as a bear!
Rong Changan asked: "What is the prince laughing at?"
The prince stopped laughing: "I am Concubine Xiaoxue who is too good at talking. She is very good at archery, but she is so humble. Haven't you heard such a saying, excessive modesty is hypocrisy."
The prince deliberately emphasized the word "hypocrisy". Rong Chang'an naturally heard the hidden meaning behind his words, but she didn't point it out.
Crack, crack!
The Prince clapped his hands together. Then three soldiers brought up three treasures, and the prince pointed to the object in the hands of one of the soldiers and said:
"This is an armor inlaid with gold. It is made of pure jade pieces, and the jade pieces are connected with pure gold threads. If the noble concubine wears it on her body, she will not be afraid of wolves, tigers and leopards approaching her."
The soldier handed the armor over to Rong Changan. Rong Changan looked it over with his hands, and found that it was indeed made of gold and jade, so he nodded gratefully to the prince.
The prince pointed to a soldier in the middle and said: "This is a wrought iron helmet. If the imperial concubine falls from the horse, it can protect the imperial concubine's head from being hit by stones or tree stumps."
The soldier handed over the helmet again, and Rong Changan also accepted it.
Pointing to the last soldier, the prince said: "What he holds in his hand is the bow that breaks the enemy, and the arrow. These are bows and arrows that can only be used by the royal family. With this bow and arrow, the noble concubine will definitely hit every shot, and the prey he shoots can't be loaded in several carts." Finish!"
Rong Changan looked at the bow and arrow, and it was indeed the top grade among bows and arrows, with a slight smile on his face: "The prince is so kind to Xueer, Xueer really doesn't know what to say to thank."
The prince pointed to the two horses behind him, one was pure white, the other was maroon, the white one was like snow, the red one was like charcoal, tied in the woods, fat and tall, very outstanding.
"Concubine Xue, I know that women like white horses, so I will give you this white horse to ride. It is very fat and has a good temper, so it is just right for you to ride it."
Rong Changan saw that the horse was snorting, and its four hooves were kicking the ground restlessly. Those red eyes seemed to have a grudge against Rong Changan, blazing with anger. Rong Changan thought to himself: How can this horse be a good horse? After riding it for a while, it gallops up and can't control it anymore, but it's too bad! This prince is really insidious. He played tricks on me on the horse. He doesn't know this trick. I have used it before!
When she was in Dajing Kingdom, Rong Chang'an once used the pretext of hunting to shoot and kill a treacherous minister who opposed her, but lied to the outside world that she was accidentally killed by a wild animal. In today's situation, it seems that the prince wants to do the same? When you go hunting for a while, be careful and careful!
Having made up his mind, he smiled confidently and said, "Such a fat and strong horse must have been brought from the imperial stable?"
Rong Changan just said it casually, but the prince was not happy: "I have a horse farm, and there are many more horses there than my brother's horse farm, even Dawan's hard-earned horses."
The prince's reaction was so strong, which showed that he could no longer tolerate the king in his heart, and he must get rid of him soon. In this seemingly peaceful Tianchi Kingdom and peaceful royal court, there is actually an undercurrent surging behind it, and a tragedy of fratricide is probably about to take place.
Rong Changan: "I said something wrong just now, please forgive me, Prince."
The prince also felt that he had overreacted, so he twitched the corners of his mouth: "Stop talking so much, let's go hunting! The two things I love most in my life are the gentle countryside and hunting. When I came to this back garden, I felt completely exhausted. My blood boiled, and I wished I could bend my bow and set an arrow, and when I saw bears, deer, tigers, and wild boars, I would shoot them to death."
Rong Changan put his hand by his red lips and coughed twice. The prince is frivolous by nature, and he actually said that his favorite thing is "gentle country" in front of a noble concubine from another country, which really sounds embarrassing. Although Rong Changan was a casual person, he couldn't help but blush after hearing his words.
The prince knew that he had said something wrong, so he laughed, and it was self-deprecating: "We people in Tianchi country never put on an air, we just say what we have, and I hope the noble concubine will not be offended."
After all, the prince waved his hand, and a soldier rode a horse, rushed to a high place, and raised the apricot-yellow order flag. I saw that ten miles away, the smoke of the wolf rose, and the sound of drums and horns shook the world. The voice of Rong Chang'an Tian was sometimes in the east, sometimes in the south, and sometimes in the north. The shouts of tens of thousands of soldiers, the sound of drums and horns, made the whole West Mountain noisy, as if they were at war with other countries.
When Rong Changan saw him, he seemed to have gone back to the days when his soldiers fought against Prince Jing and Ping Pan Meichen, and tears of excitement welled up in his eyes.
The prince glanced at Rong Changan: "Concubine Xue, what's wrong with you?"
Rong Changan wiped his eyes: "It's nothing, the wind blows sand into my eyes!"
The prince said inwardly: Hmph, she was frightened by the scene of chasing the wild beasts in front of her, she shed tears secretly! For such a timid woman, it's really not worth using so many troops to devise schemes for her! I really can't figure it out, how could the archers miss her that day? If he was there, he would have taught "Concubine Xue" to die in the water.
"Concubine Xue, this is everyone using nets to chase wild beasts, and drove them to one place, so we can go hunting."
It's not that Rong Changan has never hunted with Yan Li before, so why didn't he know that he was chasing wild animals! But she deliberately pretended not to understand: "So that's the case, I thought something happened, a war broke out."
"Hahahaha!" The prince smiled triumphantly, "No, no! It is indeed chasing the beast."
Tens of thousands of soldiers rushed for a while, and then divided into two places, one in the south of Xishan and the other in the north of Xishan.
A fast horse galloped along the narrow path in the woods, its hard hoofs kicking on the soft ground, splashing dust and making a crisp sound. Before the horse stopped, the messenger jumped off the horse, held on firmly, and squatted on the ground without moving a bit.
"Return to the prince, the soldiers have driven the wild beasts to the corner, waiting for the prince and the imperial concubine to go hunting."