Lubed Village is not calm today, early in the morning, a few officials and big men came over and took away all the strong men in the village, saying that they were requisitioned to do things for a certain marquis. Not long after, the gongs, drums and horns sounded in the mountain, and I saw that in the mountain, frightened birds rose in flocks, and the lost lonely deer screamed endlessly.

The women and children left behind in the village gathered around the village to exchange news from each other.

A peasant woman said proudly, "I know what is going on, I heard that it is the county's 'Dingyuan' who has come to hunt." ”

Li Shi asked on the side, "What is Dingyuan?"

Although the peasant woman didn't understand anything, she still pretended to boast and said: "Don't you know Dingyuan? Isn't he the brother-in-law of the current emperor?"

A woman next to her interjected: "My son just followed my man to see it, and said that the marquis is very young, only ten years old, how can he be the emperor's brother-in-law?"

It has been more than 20 years since the Holy God ascended the throne, and this is known to the most ignorant villagers.

The peasant woman was embarrassed, and she chirped: "Anyway, it's either the emperor's uncle or the uncle's son, in short, it has nothing to do with the emperor!"

An old woman asked, "How long will they have to hunt? Can't they go into the mountains to collect firewood today?"

The peasant woman said: "I can't go into the mountain all day today, it's already fenced in, and the Hou Ye is leading a family to come, and you can pick it up at the bottom of the mountain." ”

As soon as she said this, Li panicked and hurriedly said: "Why can't you go into the mountain? I asked my eldest girl to pick fruits!"

The old woman soothed: "Since they are all surrounded, your eldest sister probably won't be able to enter." ”

Others also acclaimed: "Yes, they hunt in the mountains, and they can't pick the fruit if they want to, right?"

After listening to this, Li was a little relieved, and the women watched the excitement for a while, and then dispersed.

On the mountain –

Su Ning carried a basket full of fruits, and she carried a dead thrush that she had just picked up on the road, and came to Huahua's lair. I saw six fox cubs lying on the grass pile in the cave that had not yet opened their eyes, and they were snuggling up to each other to keep warm, but Huahua was nowhere to be found.

Su Ning had an ominous premonition in her heart, Huahua had only given birth two days ago, and her body had not recovered, so she wanted to bring some food to make up for it.

It stands to reason that it shouldn't go very far. Su Ning put the thrush in the cave, and she shouted as she looked for it nearby:

"Flowey-Flowey- Where are you?"

Su Ning searched for a while, and suddenly, as if in response to her call, an animal scream came from far away. Su Ning's sense of hearing was extremely strong, her heart was shocked, she put down the basket, and ran in the direction where the cry came from.

She walked through the grass and trees, jumped over rocks and climbed branches, and when she was halfway through, several villagers carrying gongs and drums suddenly appeared in front of her, one of whom was Uncle Da Niu who lived next to her, and they were responsible for helping Dingyuan Marquis to surround the outer circle and drive the prey to the center.

When Da Niu saw her, he asked in surprise, "Isn't this the eldest sister of the Jinfu family?"

Su Ning said anxiously: "Uncle Niu, I want to go over!"

Da Niu said: "No, Hou Ye is hunting inside......

"Hunting?" Su Ning was shocked again, she ignored the obstruction of Da Niu and others, and rushed into the hunting circle.

Su Ning ran for a while, and suddenly something popped out of the grass beside the road, Su Ning screamed and almost collided with the thing. The white mass fell to the ground. Su Ning looked at it and saw that it was a snow-white white fox.

The white fox's size was larger than Huahua's, its coat was oily and smooth, and its eyes were shining blue, and the white fox glanced at Su Ning indifferently, and then jumped up and ran away quickly.

Su Ning had never encountered this white fox in the forest before, but she didn't have time to care about it at the moment, and she continued to walk in the direction where she had just heard the screams.

didn't go far, Su Ning found Huahua lying in a pool of blood.

"Huahua!!" Su Ning changed color in shock, and she rushed over.

Flowey's back was pierced by a feather arrow, which sank into the flesh, and it was not dead, gasping for breath with its mouth open. Su Ning carefully picked it up, her heart trembled, seeing Huahua in such pain, as if she could empathize.

Su Ning was about to leave with Huahua in her arms, when the sound of horses' hooves came from far and near.

A black-covered steed stepped on the dust of broken leaves and came to the front of Su Ning. On horseback was a young man in a jade belt and a black robe, and when he saw a beautiful little village girl holding the fox, he said politely:

"This girl, this is my master's prey, can you please return it?"

Su Ning hugged Huahua to her side to protect her, and she pleaded with the man on the horse: "Please spare this fox, it has just given birth, if it dies, the cubs in the nest will not survive." ”

"This ......" the man hesitated, and before he could hesitate for long, four more horses burst out of the forest.

The leader is a young man about fifteen years old, but when he sees him, his hair is tied with a golden crown, his face is like a full moon, his shirt is in the autumn wind, and the jade carved unicorn belt is red. The young man holds the spirit bow, rides a horse, and has a dragon and phoenix posture, and his spirit is natural.

He stopped and stared at the blue fox in Su Ning's arms, his handsome eyebrows twisted slightly. The big man behind the young man shouted at the young man in black:

"Why are you stunned? Why don't you hurry up and get the prey of the Hou Ye?"

Su Ning looked at the young man in surprise, it seemed that he was "Hou Ye", and the arrow on Huahua's body was probably shot by him.

The young man in black dismounted, he knelt down on one knee to the Hou Ye, and respectfully clenched his fists and said:

"Master Hou, this girl said that the fox has just given birth, and if it dies, it will cause the cubs in the nest to die, and I hope that Lord Hou will have mercy and spare the lives of their mother and child. ”

Su Ning looked at the young man with great gratitude, but the marquis on horseback listened, but he was unmoved, he said arrogantly in a hoarse voice between a teenager and an adult:

"The prey shot by Ben Hou will not be able to escape. ”

The meaning of this sentence is already obvious, Hou Ye is unwilling to let go of Huahua. Su Ning picked up Huahua, walked to the Hou Ye horse on her knees, kowtowed and begged:

"Master Hou, please be merciful, please let this fox go! if it dies now, the cubs will die too, please let it go!"

Marquis Dingyuan frowned: "Did you raise this fox, why do you know so well?"

Su Ning knew that no one would believe it, but she still told the truth: "Don't hide it from the Hou Ye, this fox is a friend of the folk girl, the folk girl has known it since three years ago, it gave birth to six cubs two days ago, and the cubs haven't opened their eyes yet...... Therefore, I hope that the Hou Ye will have mercy and spare his life!"

Dingyuan Hou snorted coldly: "It's nonsense." ”

In order to save his best partner, Su Ning said anxiously: "Master Hou, what the Minnu said is true, if you don't believe it, you can send someone to follow the Minnu to the fox's cave to verify." ”

After Su Ning finished speaking, the big man behind the Marquis of Dingyuan shouted again: "Dare to be rude to the people!"

After he finished yelling, he ordered the young man in black: "Why don't you take her down?"

The young man in black hesitated, and Su Ning had no choice but to keep holding Huahua and kowtowing: "Please let it go, please spare it!"

When the big man saw that the young man was not moving, he immediately became angry, and he scolded: "Waste!"

At this time, Uncle Da Niu and several other villagers were standing in the distance, stretching their necks and looking, but no one dared to approach at the risk of offending the Hou Ye.

Su Ning was a weak girl, and the big man was not good at bullying the weak, so he scolded the rest of the servants to arrest her.

Su Ning knelt on the ground with Huahua in her arms, don't look at her petite figure, her strength is not small, and the two servants can't afford to pull her. They were making noise, and they didn't know that in the grass beside them, a snow-white fox was hiding among the weeds, silently watching all this.