The royal family's spring hunting is actually a hunting sacrifice, which means thanking the gods for their bravery. The place for spring hunting has always been Jiu'an Mountain, which is five hundred miles away from the capital. There are dense forests, grasslands, and a hunting palace, which are very complete. However, as a rule, even the emperor could not stay in the hunting palace three days before the spring hunting, and he had to camp in the wild to worship the sky.
On the twenty-seventh day of the third month, the emperor's flag was waved out of the city, and the queen led the remaining ministers to pay tribute at the city gate. Although King Jing ordered to "take Mr. Su with him", his position must be to accompany Emperor Liang's dragon carriage so that he could be ordered at any time, but this "Mr. Su" could only take a few of his entourage. Walking in the queue behind with the people from Prince Jing's Mansion.
However, it was precisely because King Jing was called into the palace early in the morning and stumbled beside Emperor Liang, so he didn't see the scene that was bound to be surprising. Mei Changsu felt very fortunate. In the morning, Lie Zhanying was the one who swaggered into the gate of Su's house to pick up Mei Changsu. Everyone was scheduled to meet at Prince Jing's mansion. There were thirty people in total, and they were arranged into the spring hunting team as Prince Jing's entourage. Since the auspicious time of departure was determined at noon, the time was still early, so as soon as he entered the gate of Prince Jing's mansion, Lie Zhanying asked Mei Changsu to sit down in the hall to rest, and he sat next to him, and the two chatted casually about military affairs. Things to pass the time.
Before the cup of tea was finished, Mei Changsu suddenly heard a "woo----woo----" from outside the hall. After a moment of hesitation, he suddenly realized whose voice it was.
Lie Zhanying had already run to the entrance of the hall at this time, and shouted, "Why are you tying it so early? Let it go, and get on the bus when we leave."
Mei Changsu's face was a little pale, he was busy raising his glass to cover it up, and his mind changed rapidly. After a while, Lie Zhanying returned to his seat. He asked in a casual tone: "What is calling outside?"
"It's Buddha Tooth, a wolf raised by our Highness."
"His Royal Highness raises wolves?"
"Sir doesn't come to our house often, so I don't know. Buddha's tooth usually doesn't come to the front. It's a little wolf cub that our highness picked up when he was breastfeeding, but it's fifteen years old now. No one knows. How long can it live... The Buddha Tooth is proud, it is not close to anyone except His Royal Highness, in our palace, His Highness is the eldest. It is the second child!" Lie Zhanying laughed because he was exaggerating.
"Oh?" Mei Changsu smiled with him and asked again, "Are you going to take it with you this time?"
"Buddha Tooth likes to play outside. It's days are short now. Of course, His Royal Highness can take it with him when he can go out."
"But even though it's domesticated, it's always a wolf. Why did you tell people to let it go?"
"Don't be afraid, Mr. Su. Although Buddha Tooth doesn't care about people. But as long as His Highness doesn't order it, it won't bite people."
Mei Changsu rolled his eyes and said with a smile, "I'm not afraid that it will bite me. I'm afraid that it will bite someone else. Let me tell you, I have a supernatural power. No matter how violent the animal is, I am happy to be close to me, absolutely. won't bite me.
"There is such an ability in the world?" Lie Zhan Ying Daqi. "I've never heard of it."
As he was speaking, a light gray and furry shadow silently appeared at the entrance of the hall, with its head held high and proud, as if a king was patiently patrolling its territory.
"The Buddha's teeth are really beautiful." Mei Changsu boasted.
"No," Lie Zhanying smugly looked like he was raising the wolf, "it has a strong body, and its fur is thick and dense. It was even more beautiful a few years ago, but now it is older, but its fur is still very bright. OK."
Buddha Tooth turned his head around, his dark brown eyes seemed to have aura, and they were bright and lustrous. It only stayed at the entrance of the hall for a moment, and suddenly raised its head and let out a long howl, a bow from the back, and rushed straight towards Mei Changsu like an arrow from the string, with an aura that seemed to be ready to swallow him whole.
Lie Zhanying had never encountered such a situation before, so his face turned pale with fright, and he hurriedly jumped up to stop him. This Mr. Su is now the most important person to King Jing. If he was injured by the Buddha's tooth while standing beside him, he might as well find a piece of tofu and kill him first. However, even though Lie Zhanying's reaction was extremely fast, the wolf's movements always overwhelmed human beings, not to mention that it was not a long distance from the entrance of the hall to Mei Changsu. When he just jumped up to grab the Buddha's tooth, the gray wolf had already swept past him and plunged into Mei Changsu's arms, almost knocking him down with the seat.
"Uh..." The next scene made Lie Zhanying stand blankly with his mouth half-opened, unable to speak at all. I saw Buddha Tooth's two front claws resting on Mei Changsu's shoulders, and the wet pointed nose sniffed intimately between his neck, rubbing against his neck from time to time, and his coquettish appearance was exactly the same as when it was on King Jing's body.
"How's it going, General Lie," Mei Changsu finally avoided Buddha Tooth's saliva and smiled, "I didn't lie to you with my ability, did I?"
"Ho, it's really like this..." Lie Zhanying said in a daze, "This is amazing..."
"There used to be a fierce horse that no one could subdue, and only willing to graze on my hands." Mei Changsu patted Buddha Tooth on the shoulder and let it lie on his lap, "Buddha Tooth is probably too lonely, His Royal Highness Prince Jing is so busy that he has very little time to accompany him, right?"
"Yeah, especially in the past six months, His Highness is so busy... so busy that his feet don't touch the ground..." Lie Zhanying stammered before the initial shock had passed. Mei Changsu was not in a hurry, picked a few topics that he was interested in, and slowly led him to talk more. After all, Lie Zhanying is not a person with complicated minds. After talking about Xing gradually, he finally turned his attention away from Buddha Tooth and began to follow Mei Changsu's guidance. After talking, the more he talked, the happier he became, and most of the words became him. When he was talking, Mei Changsu just smiled and listened, occasionally inserting half a sentence to show encouragement. Buddha Tooth sometimes circled around the seat beside him, and sometimes slapped Mei Changsu's knee with his big tail, but he was amusing himself. Over time, Lie Zhanying gradually got used to it.
In this way, half an hour passed quickly, and the preparations outside should be ready. Qi Meng, who had been downgraded to a centurion because of Mei Changsu's words, was also an entourage this time. He stepped forward to inform him that the departure time had come. Seeing his clothes, Mei Changsu had already been promoted back to the school captain, and couldn't help but smile. smiled. Asked, "Have you caught that monster?"
Qi Meng said sullenly, "Not yet... that thing is very cunning..."
Fei Liu floated in at this moment, saw Buddha Tooth, and snorted. He reached out his hand to touch it, but was avoided by the gray wolf in disdain. Immediately surprised, he chased and touched it again, and the Buddha's tooth flashed again, but this time it didn't flash, and was slapped on the neck. Immediately furious, he turned around to fight back, and one person and one wolf made a noise in the hall. And Mei Changsu just smiled and watched, and didn't mean to control it at all.
"Su, Mr. Su," Lie Zhanying felt a little weak, "the time is almost up..."
"Oh, let's go then."
"He...they..."
"When we leave, they will follow." Mei Changsu said, walking out first. Lie Zhanying had no choice but to follow behind him. But fortunately, as Mei Changsu said, as soon as they came out. Fei Liu and Buddha Tooth stopped fighting and ran out of the hall at the same speed.
Most of the small teams in Prince Jing's Mansion are warriors. Only Mei Changsu was riding a carriage. Buddha Tooth insisted to squeeze into the carriage with him, so Fei Liu, who never rides a carriage, jumped into the carriage for the first time ever. One person and one wolf sit opposite each other, and continue to play the game of you touch me to hide, you bite me to dodge, and the whole journey is not so boring because of this.
In the evening, they arrived at the town where they were scheduled to be stationed, and the entire accompanying team camped and settled down. After King Jing's request, he returned to the tent that Lie Zhanying had prepared to rest. Just before arriving at the tent, I saw two shadows flashing, and the wooden stakes disappeared after bypassing the gate, and I couldn't help being a little surprised.
"On the way, Buddha Tooth has become familiar with me and Fei Liu." Mei Changsu came out of the inside and greeted him with a smile, "General Lie also said that Buddha Tooth doesn't like to be close to people, but in fact it has a good temperament, I Originally, I was very good at getting along with animals, and it was nothing, but Fei Liu is a solitary person, and Buddha Ya gets along very well with him."
"Really? Buddha Tooth really doesn't like to be close to people. It seems that you and Fei Liu are really different." Although King Jing was also very surprised, he didn't see Buddha Tooth plunged into Mei Changsu's arms and refused to come out. , I didn't take it seriously, but looked around and asked, "Where's Zhan Ying?"
"My strings are broken, ask him to help me pick two good temples." Mei Changsu pointed to the back, "Look, he has already seen His Highness and ran over."
As soon as he finished speaking, Lie Zhanying ran to the front, clasped his fists and saluted, "Your Highness, the tents have been arranged, please rest in peace."
"Mr. Su's tent will be surrounded by you, you know?" "That's how it was arranged."
"Okay." King Jing nodded in approval, turned to Mei Changsu and said, "It's still early, sir, come to sit in my tent?"
Mei Changsu was worried about Buddha Tooth coming back, and smiled lightly: "I should have obeyed, but I just rushed for a day and felt a little sleepy. I still want to sleep earlier."
Xiao Jingyan knew that he was not in good health, but he didn't mind being rejected. He said warmly, "Then I won't delay you. You have to catch a day tomorrow, so you should rest earlier."
Mei Changsu bowed slightly and returned to his tent. Lie Zhanying was a little nervous because he was in charge of all the affairs around the king's tent. Of course, he didn't think of chatting with King Jing about Buddha Tooth's first meeting with Mei Changsu. After waiting for King Jing to enter the tent, he went around again. .
Early the next morning, King Jing hurried to Emperor Liang again to greet him. Since he was given a meal, he never came back and stayed with him. Mei Changsu deliberately got up a moment later than him, and the two did not meet.
The speed of this day was faster than the previous day. At dusk, he arrived at Jiu'an Mountain and set up a large tent outside the hunting palace. In the center is the imperial tent of Jinding Yunlong. It is five feet high and ten feet wide. Although it was temporarily built, the interior decoration is extremely beautiful. The velvet embroidered curtain and weft hangs down in the middle, dividing the entire imperial tent into the outer stand, Inner sleep in two parts. Concubine Jing's tent was adjacent to the imperial tent, and the regulations were smaller, but because she had to serve Emperor Liang, she basically lived in the imperial tent at night, and only returned to her tent when the men went out to hunt.
The 3,000 Imperial Army guards who came with Mengzhi were guarding the two tents like iron barrels.
The tents of other royal families and important officials were naturally smaller, and they surrounded the imperial tent in layers according to their status, like stars holding the moon.
After a night of rest, the spring hunting officially started the next day. Although Mei Changsu also changed his clothes to follow Prince Jing, he didn't even bring half an arrow. Obviously, he didn't intend to have anything to do with the word "hunting". Most of the people driving with him have heard of his place name, and they can't help but come over to say hello, so they all walk through the ground in return salute. Before arriving at the hunting platform, Emperor Liang ordered Gao Zhan to summon him and King Jing to the stage together, and chatted a few words with a smile. Although he didn't say anything real, at least he showed a loving attitude and showed it to the surrounding royal family members.
Since spring is the season for all things to multiply, it is not appropriate to kill, so spring hunting is different from autumn hunting. Hare, pheasant, etc., generally do not shoot deer, deer and other conventional hunting products.
Emperor Liang presided over the hunting ceremony early in the morning, and under the heavy protection of his bodyguards, he went into the jungle for an hour, and finally returned with two pheasants. After all, he was old and tired after lunch. He fell into a drowsy sleep under the gentle beating of Concubine Jing, and after a while, he fell into a deep sleep.
When Concubine Jing got this free time, she hurriedly ordered Gao Zhan to guard carefully and got out on her own. Walking towards the concubine's tent on the side, he instructed the maid who was close to him, "Go to King Jing and ask him to invite Mr. Su to see me."