The mountains near Donggun are not high. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 Info Mountain is sparse, and the grass and trees on the mountain are also sparse. It is the height of summer, and it is the time when the vegetation is the most vigorous, but their group is standing at the foot of the mountain, looking at it from a distance, and the mountain they see is still mottled.

Yu Zimo frowned. She took Changming, Qing Yao, Xiao Qingran and others into the mountain, and rode around the mountain for a long time, almost no gain. Yu Zimo was very disappointed, complaining that this mountain wasted the soil that made it a mountain.

Qing Ran felt strange, he had been to this mountain forest before, although he hadn't seen too many beasts, but the trees were still lush, not as good as Xiao Suo in front of him. He called a local guard who was in charge of guiding the way and asked him, "Is this what this mountain forest is like this in the first place?"

The guard scratched his head, and a puzzled color appeared on his face, "Back to the prince, we rarely come to the mountains to hunt, and we can't say it well. But......," said the guard hesitantly, "I feel like the mountain is thinner than it used to be." ”

"Can the mountain still be thinner?" Qing Yao listened to the guard's words and felt amused.

"People can be thin, and so can mountains. Qingran said, he looked at the guard, "Tell me specifically, why do you think this mountain has become thinner?"

The guard scratched his head again, wrinkled his brows, looked left and right, "What do you say......" he pointed to the ground under his feet, "the grassland on this ground is very thick, and if you grab a handful, you can't see the land, but now," he leaned over and grabbed it, and uprooted the grass, "You can easily see the dirt underneath." And," he said, pointing to the tree beside him, "the tree here has grown for many years, and is very thick, but now it seems to be weak. ”

"You mean the tree has also become thinner with the mountain?" Qing Yao said.

"That's not what the villain meant, the villain just thinks so. The guard didn't know how to express himself, and a fine layer of cold sweat broke out on his head when he was watched by so many adults.

"Don't be nervous, I'm just asking. Qingran said to the guard.

"Princess?" Qing Yao looked at Princess Yu Zimo and asked what the princess meant.

"Since he said there was a problem with the trees and the mountains here, and we couldn't bring the mountains back, he brought the trees back and asked. ”

"What do you mean?" asked Yu Zimo.

"You can't go home empty-handed without prey. Yu Zimo said that she ordered the guards who came, "Pull two bags of grass from the mountain for me, and then cut down a few of these thin trees and carry them back." ”

As soon as Yu Zimo's order came out, everyone present was stunned.

"Are you serious?" said Qingran, even if he was angry, there was no need to do this.

"Seriously, of course. Yu Zimo looked serious.

The princess ordered, and the guards did not dare to slack off, so they hurriedly took their bags and went to pull the weeds. There are also people who go to cut down trees.

Qing Ran was on the sidelines, watching these people carry out Yu Zimo's strange, almost ridiculous orders.

It was easy to pull the weeds, but it was slower to cut down the trees, and it took the guards a lot of effort and nearly two pillars of incense to cut down the trees. Then, they carried these "prey" back to the city.

The officials and slaves were still rebuilding the courtyard wall of the prince's palace, and in the morning, they saw the princess going out hunting with a group of guards, and when she came back, she brought not birds and animals, but bags of wild grass and a few big trees, all of which felt fresh.

"Princess, where are these things to be kept?" the guards asked.

"Just put it in the middle of the yard. Yu Zimo said.

So the guards put a few bags of weeds and a few large trees in the middle of the ground.

"What the hell do you want to do?" Qingran looked at the large pile of weeds and trees with intertwined branches across the yard. This Yu Zimo loves to be clean, and the yard has to be sprinkled with clean water regularly on weekdays, not even a grain of dust is allowed, but now it has made a mess of the yard.

"Look at what's so special about these things. Yu Zimo pointed to the grass and trees on the ground and said.

Everyone gathered around, looking left and right, the grass was grass, the tree was a tree, and there was nothing famous.

Qing Yao and Chang Ming also didn't understand what they meant, and they didn't know which princess was making trouble.

Seeing that everyone present looked confused, Yu Zimo instructed one of the guards closest to her: "You go outside the courtyard and call that official slave named Lu Ye over." ”

The guard agreed and went down, and after a while, the official slave Lu also came over.

"Lu has also seen the princess. Lu Ye was dressed in clean official and slave clothes, and he neatly saluted in front of Zi Mo.

"You go and see what's wrong with these things. Yu Zimo pointed to the fallen trees and weeds on the ground.

Lu Ye also saw these things that the princess Xingshi got back, and he was also curious. Since the princess has a life, he just stepped forward to see what happened.

Lu also tilted his head, walked over, squatted down and picked up a few grasses, looked at them for a long time, and then leaned in front of his nose to smell them, and then threw the grass back. He looked at the broken tree that had fallen to the ground again, touched it with his hand, and at first his face was still dazed, and when he checked the severed part of the tree, his eyes widened and he gasped. The expression on his face changed from blank to shocked.

"What do you see?" Yu Zimo asked Lu Ye with interest.

Lu Ye's face was solemn, and his movements were less uninhibited when he came, he walked up to Yu Zimo seriously, cautiously, and said word by word, "Back to the princess, I found a little different, but I don't know ......" His hesitation was in stark contrast to his previous performance.

"Tell me about it. Yu Zimo wanted to see if this official slave was as she thought, and she could see the mystery. Others were also curious about what the official slave saw in this pile of weeds.

"Yes - although it is now almost autumn and the grass is beginning to weaken, the grass is obviously too thin and the roots are too short and fragile than in previous years. This is a sign of inadequate provision. ......" Lu also paused.

Yu Zimo nodded, and motioned Lu Ye with his eyes to continue.

"It's nothing, but it's the trees. Lu also pondered for a moment, pointed to the section of a tree, and said, "With the thickness of this tree, its age should be six to eight years, but if you look at its growth rings, it is twelve years, and the outermost growth rings are crowded together and are very irregular, indicating that they are not caused by normal growth, but suddenly shrinking." ”

"What does that mean?"

"I don't know, I can only say that this is extremely unreasonable. It may be the work of external forces, and it does not exclude their own factors. ”

"What are the external forces, and what are their own factors?" Yu Zimo asked.

"I can't say it yet. Lu also replied honestly.

Yu Zimo nodded, "You've already seen what I want you to see, you're doing well, let's go down first." She didn't continue to ask Lu Ye, but let Lu Ye do her own thing.

"Yes. Lu also said respectfully, when he turned around under the leadership of the guards, out of the corner of his eye, he saw that in the crowd, a person dressed in black Orion costume flashed and left with his head down.

"You all hear you. After Lu Ye went down, Yu Zimo looked at everyone and asked everyone.

"I hear you. They answered.

"Can anyone tell me why?"

Those present were silent. Such a strange thing, who can say anything, and dare to say anything, can only be silenced like a cicada.

Yu Zimo's gaze swept over the faces of everyone present, and there was a burst of disappointment, "Forget it, you all go down." ”

The crowd breathed a sigh of relief and left quickly.