Arthur had imagined what the royal hunting ground would look like, but he didn't expect it to be an entire mountain.

Mount Gladiolus is located a hundred miles north of the city of Arantis, and the road beast cart from the imperial capital to the hunting ground is nearly a day's walk.

At dusk, the gladiolus mountain is majestic and majestic, with steep peaks and dense forests on the mountain.

"To be precise, this Jianlan Mountain, the three smaller peaks around it, and the land within ten miles of the foot of the mountain, with a total area of 500 square kilometers, all belong to the private hunting grounds of the imperial family, but the large prey inhabits the Jianlan Mountain. Looking at Arthur's stunned look, Joan added.

"Sure enough, it's no richer than the emperor's family!" Arthur sighed.

"People only see the scenery of the emperor's family, and a few people can see the suffering of the emperor's family!" Joan sighed lightly.

"I'm not afraid of hardship, let me change it with you!" a young man with a round head and a playful smile on his face approached.

This man was one of the two of Joan's buddies who beat Yegis with Joan that day, and Joan called him McGinn. A lot of McGinn's family is a shady business, and Arthur's stuff Joan made it through him. Influenced by his family environment since he was a child, and mixed with Joan, McGinn is also a lawless guy.

The reason why Joan brought McGinn with him was because each prince participating in the spring hunt could form a hunting team of ten people. In order to ensure fairness, the members of the hunting party cannot exceed the war school except for the prince himself. And McGin happens to be a fourth-level martial artist, although the combat power level is not high, but this guy has a set of hunting, and this time the two hounds and a golden-eyed goshawk in the team were brought by him.

When a few people were chatting, a palace had already appeared in front of them, and the area of the palace was several times larger than Joan's palace.

"I thought I'm going to camp in the open tonight?" Arthur muttered quietly.

"This royal palace has been built for more than 200 years. The hunt will officially start early tomorrow morning, everyone try not to move around after moving in tonight, many of my brothers should have already brought people to move in, some of them have a very strange temper, and conflicts are not easy to deal with. Joan instructed the crowd.

"Don't worry, it won't make it difficult for you. McGinn said with a big grin.

"The one I don't worry about the most is you!" Joan glared at McGinn and continued, "Also, everyone should try not to talk about things, all the guards and maids here are not trustworthy, and anything they talk about may be used as intelligence by others. ”

At this moment, Arthur understood that Joan was talking about an invisible prison, and that he had to be careful all the time in the royal family.

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The morning sun is rising, the spring breeze is swinging, it is a good day to let the eagle indulge the dog, gallop and hunt.

A simple high platform with a pergola was erected at the foot of Mount Gladiolus, and groups of forbidden troops patrolled back and forth on the periphery of the hunting grounds.

A hunting team of different costumes rode horses with bows on their backs, led dogs and eagles to gather under the high platform, and in a short time, three or four hundred people gathered under the high platform.

The mutual greetings and greetings between the princes, imperial daughters, and nobles who are familiar with each other is completely a happy royal family gathering scene.

The hunting team members brought by these princes and emperors all had grim faces, standing in place without saying a word, and the atmosphere brought out by them was the most real side of this spring hunt.

After Joan led the team to the bottom of the high platform, she first turned around a lot, saluted and greeted the brothers one by one, and then returned to Arthur and the others.

"Why are so many people on the hunt?" asked Arthur in a low voice beside Joan.

"A lot of people come to watch the hunt, and there are only 17 or 8 teams that actually form teams to compete. Joan explained softly.

"You have so many brothers and sisters?" Arthur was slightly surprised.

"The emperor has six concubines, only the children born to the emperor and the concubine are recognized by the court of their imperial bloodline, and the rest are considered illegitimate and have no prince treatment. There are a total of 21 children of the emperor in the imperial family, three of whom died young, 12 adult children, and nine teams participated in the spring hunt. ”

"Why is it only nine teams, shouldn't it be twelve?"

Before the hunt officially began, Joan patiently folded her fingers and counted Arthur, "I am ranked eleven, there is a fourth sister and starling in front of me, the third sister and the sixth sister have been married far away and are not competing, and there are still His Royal Highness, Second Highness, Fifth Highness, Seventh Highness, Ninth Highness, and Ten Princesses, and I have twelve princesses and thirteenth and fourteenth Highnesses below me." ”

"You're missing a team, aren't you?"

"Look over there, the thirteenth and fourteenth are twins, and the two of them are only adults this year, so the two of them formed a team. Following the direction of Joan's finger, there stood two young men in purple with slightly immature faces standing side by side, who looked exactly the same.

"The rest of the team is the royal family, like the prince, the emperor, and the outstanding heirs of the concubine's own family are often invited to participate in the royal spring hunt, reflecting the royal family. ”

"Yageth, this bastard got in because of this relationship, right?" said McGinn with a suddenly gloomy face.

Following McGinn's gaze, Joan and Arthur found Yageth in the crowd, who was staring at him with undisguised hatred.

"Looks like he's healed pretty quickly!" Arthur chuckled.

"If you have the money to ask the great magician to do it himself, what kind of injury can't be healed?" Joan said softly.

"Find a chance to clean him up again, and this time leave him some marks that the great magician can't cure him. McGinn said with a wicked grin.

"Everyone be careful this time, even if we don't look for him, he will take the initiative to find trouble, do you see the people around him? Joan said with a slight frown.

"Who is this who upsets our Joan?" Tell my sister that my sister will clean him up for you!" As a crisp voice sounded in her ears, a pretty girl with short blond hair jumped up to Joan's side.

Before Joan could speak, McGinn took a cheeky step forward, "Sister Ten Princesses is really getting more and more beautiful, I don't know if the emperor has chosen a horse for the princess?

The Tenth Princess glared at McGinn fiercely, ", who is your sister?" Disappear in front of my eyes immediately, otherwise I will easily lose sight of people and prey when hunting." ”

"Yes. McGinn immediately slipped into the crowd and hid behind the tall Lugan, literally disappearing before the eyes of the Ten Princesses.

Jonton felt a big head for a while, the tenth princess in front of him was obviously only two days older than him, but she always put on a big sister's style in front of her, and her temper was worse than that of Golly, just cleaning up McGinn was not once or twice.

drove away McGinn, and the tenth princess said with some complaints: "You have no conscience, this departure is five years, and you don't know how to go to see your sister after returning to Beijing?"

Joan was embarrassed to know how to answer, and Arthur and Golly beside him forced themselves not to laugh out loud.

The tenth princess was still looking to herself and said, "I heard that you beat up that kid Yegis a few days ago?"

"Well, isn't he over there?" Joan nodded slightly at where Yegis was.

The Tenth Princess turned her head to meet Yeggis' gaze looking this way.

The tenth princess immediately gave Yegis a sweet smile and whispered to Joan, "Find a chance, I'll help you beat him up again." ”