The next day, the autumn hunting ceremony officially began.
After Emperor Ning personally burned incense to sacrifice to heaven and earth, he changed into a hunting outfit, rode on a tall horse and shot three arrows into the sky.
When the last arrow hit the sky, everyone raised their arms and shouted, and the sound resounded through the mountains and forests.
Emperor Ning took the lead and headed towards the densely forested part of the paddock, "Follow me! If you can hunt black bears and wild boars today, I will give you a lot of rewards!"
The courtiers followed Emperor Ning into the forest, and the female relatives stayed outside as usual. Kun Yuyang watched the men go to the hunting grounds, but he had to sit here to drink with the female relatives, and was extremely unhappy.
Concubine Xian sat at the head of the venue, looking down, all the female relatives were chatting and laughing, so it was lively.
Only Princess Xikun was eagerly looking at the direction in which the men were leaving. Hearing that all people in Xikun practice martial arts, women are no exception. It seems that Princess Xikun has itchy hands.
"Princess Xikun."
Concubine Xian called her with a smile, Kun Yuyang came back to his senses, and immediately turned to look at her, "What orders does Empress Xian have?"
Concubine Xian said: "I see that you also really want to go hunting, you can't sit still here, can you?"
The female relatives around looked at Kun Yuyang, inevitably showing disgust.
As women, they should stay out of the door and never go out. They were invited by His Majesty to participate in the autumn hunting ceremony. The reason is, how can they go hunting with men
Great treason, really great treason.
Kun Yuyang smiled awkwardly, "No, no, I was worried about my husband and that he would be injured on the hunting ground, so I kept looking in that direction."
What she said was against her will, and sure enough, the disgusting eyes around her were much less.
Now that she is married to Dongling, she has to go to the countryside and obey Dongling's rules.
Kun Yuyang told himself over and over again that she was lucky that she was not dealt with by Emperor Ning as a princess of the enemy country, and that she was able to marry a man of the clan in a good manner.
She must not bring Xikun's habits here, and she must not embarrass her husband.
Concubine Xian could hear that her words were insincere, so she didn't say much, she just picked up the wine glass, and Kun Yuyang immediately raised her glass to meet her, and was about to gulp down her neck.
The married woman sitting next to her looked at her in surprise, she paused, and calmly spit out half of the wine she had poured into her mouth.
These court wives are too difficult to deal with!
Kun Yuyang groaned secretly in his heart, thinking that it would be great if Yufu was here, at least there would be someone who could understand her.
I heard that the frontier was victorious, and I don't know when Yufu will come back...
When it was time for lunch, the men hadn't come back yet, Kun Yuyang was so bored, he pretended to change clothes to get out of everyone's sight.
She would rather go back to the tent alone and be bored, than wait for His Majesty to come back with these wives.
At this moment, the hunting ground in the paddock was silent, and Kun Yuyang followed the path of memory back to her tent, not wanting that the big and small tents looked similar, and it was her first time here, so she soon found herself lost.
As she was walking, she suddenly heard someone talking behind a tent, her Majesty was vaguely mentioned in the words, and she stopped in her tracks.
"...The arrowhead is a special lotus head with a mechanism hidden inside. Once it hits someone, it will immediately crush the internal organs of the person. If you think about your Majesty's age, if you randomly crush any intestine, you will definitely die. "
Kun Yuyang's hairs stood on end!
She just lost her way, why did she hear such secrets
Who wants to kill His Majesty, whose arrow is a lotus head? She didn't want to know at all that Dongling's government was not something she could participate in, and she didn't want to participate either!
She turned her head and wanted to leave, but she couldn't control her curiosity, and heard the next words again.
"The second prince thought those lotus arrows were divine arrows given to him by Baibu Yang, and they could easily hit a red heart. How could he know that the mechanisms inside were controlled by humans? As long as the general direction is not bad, it's not that we want to He shoots wherever he shoots?"
It's the second prince!
Kun Yuyang frowned, according to what they said, Emperor Ning's life would be in danger!
Although she was not from Dongling, Emperor Ning had kindness to her, did not punish her and made her a good marriage, which she always kept in mind.
Now that she knew that Emperor Ning's life would be in danger, wouldn't she be too ungrateful if she turned a deaf ear to it
But she is still a princess of an enemy country, so if she stands up to stop her so boldly, will Emperor Ning really believe her
Kun Yuyang was extremely entangled, and suddenly bumped into the pillar behind him, and gasped in fright.
She thought there was someone behind her.
With a gasp, the voice behind the tent stopped abruptly.
Kun Yuyang felt bad, she must have been discovered!
Sure enough, there was the sound of a sword being unsheathed from the tent, and Kun Yuyang ran away. She couldn't let the other party see her face!
Fortunately, she is a martial arts practitioner, and her lightness kungfu is very good. When the other party stepped out of the tent, she only saw a dark green corner of her clothes disappear behind the big tent not far away.
A man in dark green overheard their conversation!
The two looked at each other, and immediately went to report to Yin Shuo.
Perhaps the heavens were merciful, after Kun Yuyang ran away in a panic, he found his tent by mistake and ran in to hide.
There was only one maid she had brought from Xikun in the tent, seeing her rushing up to meet her in a panic, Kun Yuyang quickly stripped off his clothes and ordered her to take a more girly one.
The maid looked at her suspiciously, thinking that her own princess had clearly said not to dress too gorgeously when she went to the hunting grounds, why did she change her words now
But that's fine, she doesn't go hunting, what does she dress like a man for
The maid went happily, and when she came back, she put on a pink coat and an emerald green skirt, and Kun Yuyang's face turned green immediately.
Emerald green and pink, does this mean pretending to be a lotus
"This is too delicate!"
Kun Yuyang glanced outside the tent twice to confirm that no one was chasing him, and sat down on the couch, panting heavily.
The maid said aggrievedly: "Didn't the princess say that she should dress up like a daughter? What's wrong with the princess, she's flustered. Could it be that those wives in front made things difficult for you?"
"No, no, I'm the clan's wife anyway, and they don't dare to embarrass me publicly."
Dong Ling's women were powerless, and they wanted to embarrass someone, but they were speaking harshly. To Kun Yuyang, who was used to seeing swords and swords in the Xikun Palace, it was like scratching his head.
Can't hurt her at all.
The most difficult thing for her now is whether to tell His Majesty what she overheard, so as to prevent others from assassinating His Majesty!
"Oh, it would be great if my husband was here!"
She was so entangled, she rested her chin on her hands helplessly, and leaned feebly on the table.
The maid took a closer look at her expression, she didn't seem to miss her husband, but she seemed to have something important to do, "Princess wants to see her son-in-law, why not go to the forest to find him?"
Kun Yuyang raised her eyes and looked at her, "It's easy for you to say, just now I just took a look in their direction outside, and I was ridiculed by Concubine Xian for wanting to go hunting with men without knowing etiquette. If I really go , won’t be laughed at by those wives in the future?”
She is not afraid of being laughed at by outsiders, what she is afraid of is losing the face of her husband and her in-laws.
The maid said: "That's true, but the princess is in such a difficult situation, what's the use of sitting here? If something goes wrong, will it matter whether the women who are ordered to make fun of me in the future, or whether the princess will worry about it every day in the future?"
After hearing these words, Kun Yuyang seemed enlightened, and immediately stood up from his seat.
"Yes! If His Majesty really dies, I will regret it to death!"
As she said that, she rushed out of the tent, and she didn't care about the maids chasing after her, all she could do was rush to the forest to save Emperor Ning.
The maid was startled when she heard something like His Majesty's death, and was afraid that something would happen to Kun Yuyang, but Kun Yuyang had always had such a hot temper, and she couldn't stop her.
Seeing her galloping towards the mountains and forests, someone saw her back at the place where the wives gathered.
"Huh? Who is that person in pink clothes? A woman, how did she go to the place where the men were hunting?"
He also rode his horse and galloped wildly, not to mention, his equestrian skill was no worse than that of a man.
Concubine Xian heard other people's comments, squinted her eyes and looked there, and saw that the woman on horseback was very delicately dressed in pink and green dress, which was completely inconsistent with her dashing and heroic appearance on horseback.
The figure from the back was somewhat familiar, as if he had seen it somewhere before.
She couldn't remember it for a while, and looked at Mu Jin beside her, who lowered her head and leaned closer to her ear, "Ma'am, that seems to be Princess Kun Yuyang of Xikun."
Concubine Xian laughed, "She said she wanted to go hunting while we were not paying attention when she said she would go back to change clothes? This Princess Xikun is too careless."
She smiled and lowered her head to pick up the teacup, suddenly thought of something, and raised her head to stare at Kun Yuyang's back.