The King of Chu finally retracted his bow and reined in his horse and left.
Not even the dead buck.
The King of Qi watched the King of Chu go away, and was about to beat the horse and leave, but was stopped by King Yong.
"Brother Wang... please stay."
When King Qi heard the sound, he restrained the reins and turned his head to look at King Yong calmly.
"Thank you... Brother Qi Wang."
"It's okay, but the arrow you just shot was too reckless."
King Qi's tone was very flat, making people unable to sense what he was thinking.
"Yes… "
King Yong did not dare to defend himself. Although he was a concubine, King Qi was the eldest son, and his status was not the same as his.
"However, what Brother Xuan said is really too much. How can anyone in this world hear that his mother was humiliated and remain indifferent? Brother Xuan, do you think so?"
"Um… "
"Besides, although you shot him with an arrow, it didn't work, and who knows where you want to shoot the arrow? You say so? Brother Jin."
"Brother Qi means..."
"I don't mean anything. I'm still saying that. I stopped your arrow. I also heard what Brother Xuan said. If you want to tell the emperor, I will testify for you."
After listening to King Qi's words, King Yong's heart suddenly became clear: Yes, although he shot an arrow to kill the King of Chu, but it was unsuccessful, Jieshi himself said that he wanted to shoot the King of Chu's leg, anyway, there was no evidence, he said What is what, if the King of Qi is willing to testify for himself, the King of Chu's crime of insulting his concubines can be serious or trivial.
When King Yong Li Jin came back to his senses, King Qi had already ridden away.
In the end, King Yong couldn't hold back the doubts in his heart, and shouted towards King Qi's back: "Why did Brother Qi help me?!"
Hearing King Yong's voice, King Qi hooked the corners of his mouth, but did not stop or turn around.
At the end of the first day of hunting, although no one had hit such beasts as tigers and bears, deer, deer, foxes, pheasants, and hares were hit by almost everyone who participated in the hunt.
Even the youngest prince, Li Zhu, hit two hares, which is a good result for a nine-year-old child who participated in hunting for the first time.
Li Zhaolong, Yan Dayue, ordered the royal chef to pick out a fat hare that Li Zhu had hunted and roast it, and send it to him and De Concubine's case.
The adult vassal's performance is obviously better. Although there are some episodes in the middle, but by the end of the day:
King Qi hit a wild boar, King Yong hit a deer, and King Chu hit a deer.
Prince Li Huan hit two pheasants and a rabbit, and Li Pei hit a rabbit.
The first day of autumn hunting ended in the twilight, followed by a bonfire dinner. The hunted prey was processed by the accompanying royal chef and then roasted on the rack to crisp golden brown and fragrant.
The annual autumn hunting in Liguo is actually one of the good entertainment methods for the nobles, because the conditions in the wild are not like indoors, and the natural rules are not as many as those in the palace banquet. The bonfire in the middle was roaring, and the air was filled with the aroma of barbecue. There was a bright moon and stars in the sky. Li Zhao would also put down the air and have fun with the young people. Everyone chatted and sang and danced.
In the twenty-ninth year of Yuanding, the autumn hunting lasted for seven days, because the torrential rain fell sharply at night on the seventh day, ending the cool weather that lasted for several days.
The land became muddy and the weather started to get cold, and the autumn hunting that was scheduled for ten days had to end early.
Rao is so, everyone has been happy.
However, I have to mention that the king of Chu finally caught a live deer unscathed and dedicated it to Li Zhao, who ordered the blood to be released and made deer blood wine to be distributed to everyone.
And King Yong Li Jie hit a fiery red fox without a single stray hair. King Yong also dedicated it to Li Zhao. Li Zhao was delighted, praised King Yong Li Jie a few words, and then gave the fur to the entourage. The German concubine, ordered someone to make a Firefox scarf for the German concubine.
What surprised everyone the most was the seventeen-year-old prince Li Huan. On the sixth day of the autumn hunt, he actually hit a bear.
When Li Huan brought the bear back with someone, it caused quite a stir.
That day, Li Huan knelt in front of Li Zhao and Concubine De, and said loudly, "Father, Empress and Concubine, my son was fortunate enough to hit a bear. My son thought that winter was about to begin, and wanted to give this bear skin to my father. Emperor."
Hearing what Li Huan said, there was a lot of commotion in the crowd immediately. Generally speaking, sending skins is about sending whole skins. Especially Li Zhao is expensive as the emperor. If there are holes in the fur, it would be disrespectful!
As a prince, Li Huan will never fail to understand this truth, so that means...
Everyone immediately surrounded the bear and found that an arrow was almost completely submerged in the bear's right eye, and there was no arrow on the bear!
It was an arrow that hit the bear in the eye! ? It really is a bear skin!
Immediately, everyone looked at Li Huan with admiration. Hunting a bear requires courage, and he can shoot an arrow to the eye. This prince Huan is not only courageous, but also has a knack for bowing horses!
Li Zhao took De Concubine directly down from the high platform. He walked around the bear and laughed loudly: "Okay, my Erhuan is really a blockbuster!"
Li Zhao immediately announced that Li Huan was the winner of this year's autumn hunting, and rewarded Li Huan with a three-stone yin-yang bow made by a craftsman.
The body of this bow is made of the wood of the most yang in the world, the heart of a thousand-year-old peach tree that has been split by lightning, and the bowstring is made of the tendons of a strange-shaped yin creature obtained in the East China Sea, hence the name: yin and yang.
Although Li Huan is still unable to open the three cross bows, it also represents Li Zhao's high hopes for Li Huan...
This incident was also heavily recorded by the accompanying Yanguan:
In the twenty-ninth year of Yuanding, on July 13, hunting in autumn.
Prince Huan presented a black bear, because the arrow was in the eye, the bear skin was intact, and it was very pleasant to go up, so he gave him a three-stone yin-yang bow as a reward.
…
On the day the team pulled out of the camp, the autumn rain was continuous and the dark clouds were heavy.
The endless low, dark clouds weighed people breathless...
On this day, King Yong Li Jie walked into the dragon tent, and a moment later Li Zhao summoned Li Zhen, King of Qi.
After a while, the king of Chu, Li Xuan, was also summoned...
In the "Barnyard Officials Unofficial History", which was circulated to the people a few years later, the story of that day was vividly recorded. It is said that the provider of the story was a soldier who claimed to be standing guard outside the dragon tent that day.
The book says: That day, shortly after King Li Xuan of Chu entered the tent, there were first Li Xuan's eloquent defense and the anger of King Qi and King Yong, and then the sound of the cup being shattered.
The King of Chu stopped speaking, and he was furious. He scolded words like "unfilial, unkind and unrighteous, and the wolf's ambition", and then there was a heavy slap, and I don't know which prince this slap hit...
Some said that they beat the eunuch who didn't have long eyes, some said that they beat a certain prince, and some said that the emperor beat himself in a heartache.
…
Later, this "Barnyard Official Unofficial History" was listed as a banned book by Li Guo because it recorded a lot of royal secrets. The editor of "Barnyard Official Unofficial History", Lord Grim, was once offered a reward of 10,000 taels by the court to arrest him, but he had never heard of him. The news of the arrest...
Back to the main story, in the twenty-ninth year of Yuanding, on July 14, the Chonggang hunting ground was rainy and rainy and the roads were muddy. Li Zhao still ordered to return to Beijing.
So the seven-day autumn hunting came to an end.
Jingcheng · Weiming Palace
The convoy back to Beijing took advantage of the autumn rain to come back all the way. It took three days when they went, and five days when they came back.
All the way, Li Xian felt a little uneasy.
On the day they returned to Beijing, King Chu and King Yong were each cut off by 2,000 households. Li Zhao also officially issued an edict to reprimand them, ordering them to return to the fiefdom to think about it for half a year...
Li Xian returned to the Weiming Palace, and even took a shower and changed her clothes, so she brought in Xiao Ci first.
The two came to Li Xian's study, and Xiaoci tacitly took out a bundle of silk cloth from the dark compartment of the study.
"His Royal Highness, these are the silk newspapers sent in from all over the world during your absence. The slaves and servants are all in charge of you. These things come every day. Why should Your Highness be so anxious? Let's take a shower and change clothes first."
"It's better to read it first, and bring it to me."
"Yes." Xiaoci put the silk cloth with both hands, and then silently backed out from the study.
Li Xian sat in front of the desk and carefully read the silk cloth that had accumulated for a while. As the backlog of silk cloth decreased, Li Xian's hanging heart slowly dropped.
Thinking about it, those "key observation objects" have all left Beijing to hunt with her. What kind of moth can happen? I'm still too tight...
Li Xian took another new silk newspaper with a smile on her face, and unfolded...
The smile solidified, slowly disappeared, and the brows were furrowed...
Li Xian looked at the silk cloth over and over again, and the silk cloth was wrinkled from being grasped...
I saw the scripture: the twenty-ninth year of Yuanding, the seventh day and night of the seventh month.
Hundreds of Huns raided the northern army camp at night...
The motives of the Huns are still under investigation. Hundreds of Huns fought desperately in the northern barracks, but no one escaped, until they were all killed in the end.
More than 300 soldiers were killed and wounded in the north...
Lin Yu, the vanguard of General Li Mu's tent, fought bloody fighting to guard the tent, and unfortunately died in battle.
Pioneer Lang stabbed Lin Feixing in the back, Xing, hugged Lin Yu's body for several hours, muttered to himself, and refused to seek medical treatment.
…
After a long time, Li Xian slowly put down the silk cloth in her hand and picked up the second silk cloth from the north.
Yuanding twenty-ninth year, July 10th.
Marshal Li Mu attended Lin Yuzhi's funeral in person, and he was so sad that he couldn't contain his grief.
With a cracked back injury, he persisted until the funeral was over.
Marshal Li Mu was sympathetic and gave Xing a good life at home to recuperate and recuperate.
Xing, holding the tablet of Lin Yuzhi and returning to Lin Yu's house, fainted after seeing Yu Wan.
…
This is the last silk paper on the North.
Li Xian sat in front of the case in her study with an expressionless face, and suddenly remembered a question she once asked Lin Feixing: "When was the last time you cried?"
Lin Feixing said, "It was the first time I killed the Huns..."
For some reason, she still remembered this sentence. Li Xian felt a little puzzled when she heard it, but every time she recalled it later, she felt a burst of desolation in her heart.
Li Xian placed two pieces of wrinkled and smoothed silk cloth side by side on the desk, and stared at it for a long time with her head down.
He lowered his head like this, watching silently.
Look, look, look.
Then she felt that the beating heart in her chest twitched at first, and then became sore.