After counting the prey, Emperor Xuande undoubtedly won the first prize, the King of Chu was the second, and Li Mulan really took the third.
But everyone knew in their hearts that Emperor Xuande had to let him go, so the prey that Emperor Xuande hunted was placed there. Even if others had the ability to surpass the emperor, they would not really go all out to hunt. Therefore, the result of this competition was really good. Not much. But Emperor Xuande had previously promised to reward Li Mulan, so he asked with a smile, "What reward does Princess Gong want?"
Everyone looked at Li Mulan, Li Mulan walked calmly in front of Emperor Xuande, suddenly knelt down on one knee, gave the salute of a military general, clasped her fists and pleaded, "Your Majesty, Mulan has practiced martial arts since she was a child, and her greatest wish is to follow suit. Grandfather went to battle to kill the enemy to defend the family and the country, and today the emperor will reward him, Mulan does not want gold, silver, jewelry and brocade clothes, but only asks the emperor's permission, and there will be another war with the Liao Kingdom in the next day, please allow the emperor to allow Mulan to go out with the army."
Word by word, keng will be powerful.
On the vast grassland, there was suddenly no human language, only the neighing and struggling of the prey carried away in the distance, from Emperor Xuande to the surrounding civil and military officials, all stared at Li Mulan in surprise. Since ancient times, all men have fought on the battlefield. Today, if another woman made such a request for battle, everyone would definitely laugh at her, but Li Mulan was not an ordinary woman.
On Concubine Shu's side, Song Jianing looked at the good sister kneeling there, and felt a hint of pride.
Beside King Shou, King Gong looked at his princess in disbelief. Before the marriage, others praised Li Mulan as a hero in women's middle school. He scoffed. He felt that Li Mulan could only slap her legs and slap her legs. At most, she would call herself a hero among women. , King Gong finally knew that Li Mulan did not lose to a man, but he did not expect that she still has the courage and ambition to fight the enemy!
How strange, she was kneeling there, but he seemed to see an eagle flying high in the air.
Somewhere in the bottom of his heart, something suddenly touched him. Prince Gong looked at Princess Shu's straight back, and at the group of ladies in colorful clothes behind Concubine Shu, and then looked up at the sky. He likes soft and beautiful women, but he loves golden horses more, and he loves hot-blooded men who can kill enemies by his side. Men can only be brothers, and now there is a princess beside him who is not inferior to men. Compared with her, what are those ordinary women
"Husband and wife are of one mind, please allow our husband and wife to kill the enemy side by side!" After striding forward, Prince Gong knelt down beside Li Mulan, begging loudly, his eyes bright as stars.
Li Mulan frowned, turned to look at him, didn't understand what he was messing with, and who was with him
Noticing her gaze, Prince Gong also looked over and grinned at her.
Prince Gong wanted to support her, but Li Mulan felt that the man was laughing slyly and seemed to have other plans to play tricks on her, so she withdrew her gaze lightly, without any response, she just continued to wait for Emperor Xuande to speak.
Emperor Xuande liked the eldest son's love and righteousness, courage and courage, the second child's gentleness and courtesy, and the third child's calligraphy and talent. For the fourth child, King Gong, Emperor Xuande preferred the youngest son. Appreciating the candidness of the fourth child is not scheming. Moreover, no one knows that Emperor Xuande still thinks about the Fourteen Youyun Prefectures in his heart, and still wants to fight the Liao Kingdom again to save his face that he lost last time. He is just waiting for the opportunity. to his liking!
"Okay! Tiger father has no dog daughter. Although Princess Gong is a woman, she has great ambition to serve the country and her courage is commendable. I will allow you to go to war in the future, and you will walk with King Gong!" Emperor Xuande said vigorously and personally supported his son and daughter-in-law. .
Li Mulan and Prince Gong expressed their thanks in unison, and the civil and military officials also praised the emperor for being the wise ruler of the country, and the loyalty of all the people.
There is a banquet in the evening, and in the afternoon, the ruler and ministers will go back to their respective courtyards to rest.
Song Jianing's emotional agitation infected by Li Mulan still hasn't calmed down. Before the break, she knelt down beside Shouwang, and happily helped her husband who hunted the white fox pinching his arms and beating his legs, while sighing: "The fourth siblings are really amazing, they can ride horses. I can shoot arrows, and I have to go into battle to kill the enemy, if only I had half of her ability."
No matter how obedient and submissive a woman is, when she sees an eagle flying in the sky, she will yearn for it, although it may only be a temporary heartbeat.
Zhao Heng leaned on the head of the bed and did not comment, only quietly looking at her excited little face. She always praised Li Mulan. He wanted to remind her lively and lovely daughter several times, remind her of her comfortable life now, so that she doesn't have to envy others, but when she said this, her almond eyes were bright and her expression was high, Zhao Heng would I think, let her say it, she will be happy.
"You like archery, I can teach you." After listening for a while, Zhao Heng decided to make her happier.
Song Jianing was stunned for a moment, and his small hands pinched his sturdy calf, forgetting to use force. Let her learn archery? Can she pull the bow? It must be very laborious to pull it up. She has so much free time, she might as well hold her daughter for a while. Song Jianing still likes to hold Zhaozhao, but her daughter is getting heavier and heavier, and the time she can hold is getting shorter and shorter.
Seeing her frowning slightly, Zhao Heng understood, and said again: "When you are proficient, you can follow Princess Gong and go to the battlefield together."
Let her go to war
Song Jianing's eyes widened, imagining a group of Liao soldiers rushing towards her, she was scared to death, and hurriedly said: "Your Highness, stop joking, Mulan... The four younger brothers and sisters learned martial arts since they were young, and they only have their current skills. I have to take care of the Lord and take care of Zhaozhao. Do you have so much time to practice martial arts? If you really go to the battlefield, it will only drag down the four younger siblings.”
Zhao Heng exposed her mercilessly: "Ye Gong loves dragons." He said that he liked it, but he really told her about it, but he avoided it like a snake.
Only then did Song Jianing know that the lord was teasing her, so he couldn't help but pouted, let go of his legs, lay down, and hummed with his back to him: "Since the lord laughs at me, Lord Ye, for being a dragon, then after returning to Beijing, the lord will find me a bow and horse master, I'll be fine. Study, maybe after three or two years, I can really go to the battlefield."
"You don't need anyone else, I'll teach you." Zhao Heng hugged her from behind, tugging at her belt skillfully with his big hands, and kissed her neck with his mouth.
Song Jianing squeezed his dishonest hand, turned over and lay down on the pillow, sullenly said, "Okay, let's go now."
Zhao Heng knew that she was not angry, but was just acting like a spoiled child. It was the first time that the little princess showed such a spoiled attitude in front of him, and Zhao Heng thought about it even more. Song Jianing was unrelenting. He couldn't move his hands, so he swayed left and right, trying to shake the Taishan-like prince down, and muttered, "Isn't the prince trying to teach me to ride horses and shoot arrows?"
She arched back and forth, Zhao Heng ghostly remembered when he was a young man for the first time training a horse, that horse was just like her now, jumping up and down and not being honest. After reminiscing about her "horse riding and archery", Zhao Heng smiled. He didn't move for a while, and leaned over to her ear and asked, "Do you really want to learn to ride horses?"
Song Jianing buried her face in the pillow and hummed.
Zhao Heng laughed and taught her in a hoarse voice, "Before riding a horse, you should comfort the horse, stroke its neck, and lightly touch its body."
Four words and five words, he spoke very slowly, while speaking while demonstrating, he gently touched her neck with his big hand, and then went down with his voice.
Song Jianing was stunned, did he treat her like a horse
After being stunned, Song Jianing's face turned red, but his body was uncontrollably, as if being blown by the spring breeze, it gradually melted, and he was so ashamed that he didn't have the heart to make trouble anymore. Only the sound of Suosuo's undressing could be heard in the tent. After a while, Zhao Heng lifted the black hair that was spread on her shoulders and said in a low voice, "If you encounter a good horse, you don't need to tame it, you can ride it."
Song Jianing was so embarrassed that he was about to burn, so he covered his mouth with his backhand: "Don't say it, my lord..." Isn't it a stammer
"Well, I'll teach you to shoot arrows." Zhao Heng kissed her ear.
There was a buzzing sound in Song Jianing's mind, and a thought that was ashamed to think flashed through. At this time, it was impossible for the prince to really teach her to shoot arrows. Could it be...
"For hunting in the paddock, you need a good bow and a sharp arrow." Zhao Heng pressed her shoulders, not allowing her to hide.
Song Jianing couldn't take it anymore, and for the first time hoped that the prince would continue to come silently and not make a sound.
"The bow and arrow are ready, just aim." Zhao Heng said slowly, staring at her red face.
Song Jianing tried his best to bury it in the pillow.
Zhao Heng wanted to look at her, knowing that she couldn't run away, he supported her with one hand and forced her to turn around with his left. Song Jianing was unprepared, and opened her eyes in astonishment. At the moment when their eyes met, King Shou asked her to learn what it means to have no arrows. Song Jianing's cheeks were even redder, and she closed her eyes tightly. Zhao Heng lowered her head and pressed her hot lips on her red cheeks: "Are you sure?"
Song Jianing bit her lip and refused to speak.
"No?" Zhao Heng continued to teach her.
In the sleeping tent, Princess Shou's begging for mercy gradually came.
Here, the husband and wife are in love, and in the other courtyard of Prime Minister Zhao Pu, an old husband and wife are arguing in a low voice.
"If you control her, she will be carried out by Prince Rui?" In the inner room, Zhao Pu sat neatly on a chair, waiting for a while, when his wife finally comforted her granddaughter and returned, Zhao Pu immediately reprimanded. When his granddaughter was crying, he couldn't scold him, so he could only vent his anger on his wife.
This is not the first time the couple have quarreled. As early as the son married and the two daughters married civilians and left one after another, every time, Mrs. He would quarrel with her husband, and every time, Mrs. He spoke first. Zhao Pu would argue at first, but seeing his wife becoming more and more haggard because of the pain of losing her daughter, Zhao Pu had no intention of explaining it and let his wife vent her anger.
Between husband and wife, it is Zhao Pu who is ashamed of his wife.
So Mrs. He is not afraid of him for a long time, so what about the prime minister? In Mrs. He's heart, the prime minister is just her husband, just a ruthless father who made her daughters die prematurely.
Facing Zhao Pu's questioning, Mrs. He sat on the bed calmly, and asked indifferently: "At that time, the emperor personally allowed the female relatives to go hunting, and Princess Duanhui personally invited Xiuxiu, can I dissuade me? You are also present, since So if you oppose it, why don't you come forward and stop it in person?"
Zhao Pu is angry, he is a dignified prime minister, and refuted for a little girl, how will others see him
What else did he want to say? When he saw the calm face of his old wife, Zhao Pu took a deep breath and asked as calmly as possible: "What happened to Xiuxiu? Why did he fall off the horse and was rescued by Prince Rui?"
Mrs. He finally frowned and sighed: "You should know Princess Duanhui's temper. When she entered the paddock, she went to find the prince of Duke Wei's mansion. She was quick and the guards around her followed her, and Xiuxiu walked slowly. I got lost, wandered in the woods alone, and was scared by a snake on the tree and fell off my horse. His Royal Highness King Shou passed by, ignoring the embroidery, and then King Rui…”
Zhao Pu lowered his eyes. Of course, he knew the behavior of the four princes. Wang Jie was self-absorbed and withdrawn. If he rescued his granddaughter, he would inevitably end up in a melon field, and ignoring it was in line with the consistent style of Wang Shou. Prince Rui seems to be a gentleman in important matters, but he is actually a greedy person. It is not surprising that Prince Rui is tempted by the beauty of his granddaughter, but what Zhao Pu hates is that Prince Rui should not carry his granddaughter out of the paddock in person, and publicly harm his granddaughter's integrity. reputation!
"Who's to blame, if you didn't become the prime minister, Prince Rui might not be able to embroider." Mrs. He has been the prime minister's wife for so many years, and some things are more accurate than some courtiers. Zhao Pu complained that she did not control her granddaughter, and she also He resented that Zhao Pu had made his granddaughter a pawn in Prince Rui's attempt to win over the prime minister.
Zhao Pu was speechless.
The couple were relatively silent. Seeing Zhao Pu's white brows furrowed tightly, her brows condensed into Sichuan characters, thinking about her husband's high-spiritedness when Emperor Gaozu was in his day and his shocking steps at this time, Mrs. He couldn't bear it anymore, and came over and supported her. On her husband's shoulder, she comforted softly, "Don't get angry, because Prince Rui has a heart. If we don't give him the embroidery, the emperor will have no reason to deal with you."
No matter how good a granddaughter is, she can't compare to her husband. What's more, if she was hugged by Prince Rui once, her reputation would be damaged. Anyway, according to her husband's temper, her granddaughter was going to marry ordinary people. In the past, Mrs. He wanted to win a small official home for her granddaughter, but now that this incident happened, she had to aggrieve her granddaughter. Fortunately, with their support, ordinary people would never dare to dislike her granddaughter.
Zhao Pu patted his wife's hand, but he didn't say anything. Prince Rui had the heart to win over him. He could hold his granddaughter, but he was afraid that Emperor Xuande...
In the most splendid palace in the center of the palace, Emperor Xuande leaned on the couch. After listening to the reply from the great eunuch Wang En, Emperor Xuande rubbed his forehead and said displeasedly: "When will the second child change his temperament of pity and jade, he is not good at hunting, There is still time to save Mei, but it's useless."
The emperor could scold his son, but Wang En did not dare to agree with him, and said with an apologetic smile: "King Rui has a good heart, so he can't ignore it." He didn't know that King Shou didn't care about Chen Xiu, otherwise Wang En would never dare to praise King Rui's good heart, then it would be Implying that King Shou is not good
Emperor Xuande snorted softly, turned his head to look out the window, and tapped his fingers unconsciously on his thigh.
Whether the second child is pure pity and cherishing jade or has other considerations, Emperor Xuande can't see through it for the time being, it is true that this son is always fine, but he is a little confused about women. A smile slowly crept up the corner of his mouth.
At the dinner banquet, after a lot of teasing, the slightly drunk Emperor Xuande suddenly pointed at Prince Rui, and said with joy and anger: "Other people are hunting, you went back to the hero to save the beauty, and you delayed the business, saying, what's the crime!"
Prince Rui felt a sudden shock, hurried to the emperor's seat, knelt down, and said loudly: "I swept away the father's Yaxing, my son knows it's wrong, but Miss Chen was in a critical situation at that time, and my son couldn't bear to leave her alone in the paddock. "
At the same time, Zhao Pu also rushed over, thanked Prince Rui for his granddaughter, and asked the emperor not to punish Prince Rui.
Emperor Xuande stared at the two of them, suddenly burst into laughter, stood up with a wine bottle in his hand, and said, "King Rui's heroic rescue of beauty is a good story, since Prince Rui and Chen Xiu have a relationship, I will give Chen Xiu to Prince Rui as a concubine, and choose another. Auspicious day to get married!"
When his wish was fulfilled, Prince Rui was overjoyed and clenched his hands in excitement.
Zhao Pu lowered his head, but his back seemed to be even more curved, granddaughter, granddaughter... His official career will soon come to an end.
On the seat of the princes on the left, the king of Chu laughed as if watching the excitement, teasing his second brother and won another beauty. Zhao Heng held the wine bottle, looked at Prince Rui, who was full of spring breeze, and Zhao Pu, who forced a smile. Finally, his eyes returned to the drunken father, and then the corners of his lips rose, and he tasted the wine lightly. Tonight, this wine must be mellow in the mouth and tasted carefully before you can taste its hidden strength.
It's like a court, like a king and a minister fighting.