Seeing that the prince waved his hand in a pampered manner, the messenger soldier got up and stood aside. The prince smiled slightly at Rong Changan:
"Concubine, let's go hunting separately, what do you think?"
Rong Changan knew it well: "I will follow the prince's arrangement."
The prince pointed to those two places: "My concubine, do you want to hunt in the south or in the north? There is a river in the south, which can stop the wild animals from running north. It is better to hunt in the south; if you go to the north, the north is an open area. grassland, it is a little more difficult to chase."
Needless to say, the prince wanted her to go north. Because she knew that he already understood her character, and a competitive person would definitely not want to go to a place where hunting was easy.
Since he arranged it like this, why didn't Rong Changan satisfy his wish!
"Prince, what's the point of hunting in the south? It's like driving wild animals into cages and shooting at them. What's the challenge? I want to go hunting in the north."
The prince smiled brightly: "Since the imperial concubine insists on going to the north, what can I disagree with? I just hope that the imperial concubine will be more careful while hunting. Those wild beasts have no hearts, they will be sympathetic like me."
Rong Changan: "Beasts are ruthless, but the bow and arrow in my hand are even more ruthless."
"Very good, concubine, please go first!"
Rong Changan clasped his fists at the prince and walked to the side of the white horse. A soldier came over to help her get on the horse, but she pushed the soldier away.
"I will do it myself!"
She tapped her toes lightly, and jumped on the horse's back. Her movements were stretched, light and agile, really like a fairy, and the prince was dumbfounded.
"Concubine, don't you wear armor?"
Rong Changan glanced at the armor, smiled disdainfully, held up the bow and arrow in his hand and said: "As long as there are bows and arrows, what are you doing with the armor! It's not fighting!"
She put the bow and arrow on the horse's back, shouted "Drive" in a crisp voice, turned the horse around, and headed north.
The prince ordered his soldiers: "You follow the concubine, you must protect the concubine's safety, and there must be no accidents, otherwise, this king will ask you!"
The more than two hundred soldiers replied in unison: "Decree!"
More than 200 soldiers and more than 200 horses lined up in a long snake formation, following behind Rong Changan, billowing a cloud of smoke and dust.
Seeing the back of her leaving, the corner of the prince's mouth twitched ferociously: "Xue'er, you are the one who asked for death, and it is none of my business! Hehe, in a few days, people from all countries will get a shocking news. Concubine Xue thought too much of herself, and rounded up wild beasts, but unfortunately was bitten to death by wild beasts. Hehe, who would blame our Tianchi country?"
After talking to himself, the prince couldn't help laughing again. After laughing, he sent an order to the other soldiers: "We're going to hunt in the south, and we'll reward everyone here tonight, with big bowls of wine and big pieces of meat!"
One of the remaining soldiers, who were probably thousands of people, shouted loudly: "The prince is a thousand years old!"
Not to mention that the prince went to the south, but that Rong Changan rode ahead and rushed to the foot of the west mountain. There was a group of soldiers in red armor waiting under the tree.
"Is this Concubine Xue from the Great Jing Kingdom?" the soldier in the red armor asked holding a flag.
Rong Changan put his horse in his arms: "I am Concubine Xue from Dajing Kingdom, where have the beasts been driven?"
The soldier pointed to a valley: "We drove the beast into the valley!"
Rong Changan also stopped talking to them, and rushed to the valley. There are high slopes on both sides of the valley, and there is a red forest deep in the valley. Ten soldiers galloped out from the slope of the valley, jumped off their horses together, and knelt down in front of Rong Changan:
"The one who came must be Concubine Xue from the Great Jing Kingdom?"
Rong Changan: "Exactly. Where's the beast?"
The soldier pointed to the redwood forest: "The beast has been driven to the redwood forest."
To cross the redwood forest, you must cross the river. There may be death beyond the river. It was a matter of life and death, Rong Changan hesitated for a while, thinking in his heart: The prince is clearly trying to lure me to the redwood forest and hand me over to a wild beast. Even if the beast can't bite me to death, he will definitely send troops to wait by the river to prevent me from crossing the river again! If I cross the river, the soldiers will shoot arrows at me and shoot me to death in the river. I have been marching and fighting for many years, and I don't know how many strategies I have used, so I don't know what he is thinking!
Rong Changan wandered by the river on a white horse. The prince's soldiers saw her and thought she didn't dare to cross the river. If she did not cross the river, how could they shoot her to death. Then a articulate soldier came to Rong Changan's horse and said:
"Concubine Xue, the beast is in the forest, why don't you go there? If you hesitate a bit, the beast will run away."
These people wish she could die!
Rong Changan smiled and said, "I'm thinking about how to capture the beast."
"Do you even need to think about it? Just shoot him to death with an arrow!" the soldier said impatiently.
Rong Chang'an said: "Even if you shoot to death with an arrow, it depends on what kind of arrow you use, whether it's shovel-shaped, pointed, or barbed."
Suddenly, wild beasts sounded in the forest. The sound penetrated the forest, passed over the gurgling river, and echoed in the valley for a long time. It was desolate and tragic. To Rong Changan, it was tragic and desolate, but to those soldiers, it was frightening.
Rong Chang'an pondered: Since I'm here, why bother to linger, I want to see what kind of scheme the Prince has set up for me? Ambushes from all sides, or attack with fire? It was winter now, and the snow had already melted. If you set a fire in the redwood forest, it would definitely burn everything. Then send people to wait at each exit, Rong Chang'an will definitely die.
She bent down and looked at the depth of the river, but it didn't reach her calf. If an accident happened, it shouldn't be a problem for her to gallop over. She roughly counted the arrows in her hand, there were more than one hundred in total; she looked at the bow and arrow again, and pulled it in the air. Suddenly, she found a big problem: the sound made by the bowstring was a little abnormal, some hoarse vibrato, normal The sound of the bowstring should be like the sound of a thunderbolt, which is enough to show that the prince has also tampered with the bowstring! If Rong Chang'an hadn't checked in advance, he really wouldn't have seen it.
What a sinister prince!
Rong Changan's bright eyes flashed, and he had an idea, and said to the soldiers next to him: "The weather is too cold, the bow and arrow in my hand are too strong, I am a weak woman, how can I pull such a strong bow! Brother Soldier , how about I change it with you, okay?"
The soldier didn't know that the prince had tampered with the bow and arrows given to Rong Changan, and now he was impatient to let "Concubine Xue" cross the river, so he readily agreed:
"The imperial concubine wants to change, but we are a pawn, can we not change!"
He untied his bow and arrow and handed it to Rong Changan. Rong Changan handed the gift from the prince to the soldiers.
"Thank you, Brother Bing!"
Seeing that "Concubine Xue" was so beautiful and spoke so softly, the soldier became embarrassed, his face, neck and ears turned red.
"Thank you, concubine, what kind of thanks! This is what I should... do!"
He thought to himself: How could the prince be willing to kill such a good woman? Isn't it such a pity!
Rong Changan tried the soldier's bow, the sound was like a thunderbolt, it was exactly the bow she wanted.
"Okay, follow me across the river!"
Rong Changan took the lead and waded through the water. The cold water was so clear that you could see pebbles one by one. On the river beach, into the redwood forest, on the soft black soil, there are footprints of wild beasts everywhere. Rong Changan has carefully identified, there are bears, wild boars, and deer, but no tiger footprints have been seen for the time being. If there is a tiger, it will be even more troublesome.