June 18, 18th year of Emperor Zhaoning

Today is the 40th birthday of Emperor Zhaoning of Jiuchen Kingdom, and the envoys of various countries gathered in the palace to bring their respective country's birthday gifts, waiting to be presented to the emperor.

Different from previous years, Emperor Zhaolie of the Northern Xuan Kingdom, who had always had a poor relationship with Jiuchen, sent envoys to congratulate him on his birthday, and along with the envoys, there was also the princess of Emperor Zhaolie, who came not only to celebrate his birthday, but to make peace with his relatives. The four princes of Beixuan suggested to Emperor Zhaolie that they should ease the relationship between the two countries with their relatives, and Emperor Zhaolie married the **-famous beauty Lie Beiyao in Kyushu to the prince of Emperor Zhaoning.

Emperor Zhaoning agreed to Emperor Zhaolie's request, and will sign a peace and friendship agreement between the two countries in front of the ministers and envoys of various countries at this birthday banquet, on the one hand, it is to recuperate, and on the other hand, Jiuchen's own court situation is also unstable, so Emperor Zhaoning agreed to make peace and concentrate on internal affairs.

According to Jiuchen's custom, the emperor's birthday should meet with the envoys of various countries in the Taiji Palace, and the next day he went to the royal hunting ground to hunt, and the next night a grand dinner was held to congratulate the emperor on his birthday.

The Imperial Forest Army imposed martial law on the whole city two days in advance, checking suspicious characters one by one, ensuring the safety of the emperor's travel. On that day, the guards stood in a neat queue on both sides of the street, and the people pushed and shoved along the street.

The carriage of the emperor drove in the front, followed by the carriage of the queen, then the carriage of the eldest prince Gongwang, and the second prince Yiwang, in turn, followed by the envoys of various countries, as well as the dignitaries of the third rank and above.

The carriage drove slowly out of the city gates, and the hunting ground was set up on a flat ground on the outskirts.

The ancestors of the Nine Dust Kingdom were the wolf shooting clan, and the wolf shooting clan was one of the ten major ethnic groups in ancient times. The people of the wolf shooting clan make a living by shooting wolves and live by selling wolf skins, so they are called wolf shooting clans.

After the establishment of Jiuchen, in order to commemorate the ancestors, the founding emperor of Jiuchen set the annual hunting project as wolf shooting, in order to warn future generations not to forget the ancestors, not to forget that they are the descendants of the wolf shooting clan, and to set up a hunt in the spring and National Day of each year (the birthday of the first monarch is the National Day of Jiuchen Country).

Later, the fifth generation of the monarch set the hunting project as one of the king's birthdays, and since then, there will be three hunts in the Nine Dust Country every year - spring hunting, National Day hunting, and monarch's birthday hunting, and the content of these three hunts is to shoot wolves.

This year's wolf hunting is different from previous years, because there is a different one among the wolves used to hunt this year, that is, a white-eyed wolf king that General Zhengyi specially led people to capture from the ice field of Changbai Mountain for the emperor's 40th birthday.

Emperor Zhaoning was overjoyed and issued a holy decree, saying that if anyone could shoot this white-eyed wolf king, he would promise this person a wish, and everyone was very pleased with the olive branch thrown by the emperor, especially the princes, they were ready to wait one by one.

One of the princes was indifferent to this tempting reward.

He, surnamed Ye, Minglan, and the word Wuji, is the fourth son of the emperor of the current dynasty, and he was given the title of King Guang, and he was born indifferent, and the ministers privately called him "the prince of cold noodles".

Yelan was dressed in a dark blue riding suit, just like his whole person, exuding a deep aura.

He wears a white jade crown on his head, his fingers are very slender, which looks particularly good from a close distance, a jade pendant hangs from his waist, and he wears a blue dragon ring on his left index finger.

Emperor Zhaoning slowly walked to the upper seat and sat down, while the empress sat beside the emperor. The princes and ministers sat down one after another.

Beixuan's princess, Lie Beiyao, is the ninth daughter of Emperor Zhaolie of Beixuan, and her sister is Lieyu, the prince of Beixuan. After discussing with Emperor Zhaolie, Emperor Zhaoning decided to marry the princess to Emperor Zhaoning's eldest son, King Gong Yeshu.

King Gong Yeshu has known Princess Beixuan since he was a child - because Yeshu had gone to Beixuan as a hostage and had a good relationship with Lie Beiyao, so for this marriage, not only the two emperors were happy, but even the two princes and princesses were also very happy, which can be described as a major joy and can be regarded as a good story. Emperor Zhaoning specially instructed the ceremonial officer to arrange the seats of the two together, Ye Shu and Lie Beiyao sat together, the two smiled and talked, and from time to time they were slightly red, a little shy, they were really talented and beautiful, which was enviable.

The second prince Ye Ji was a little unhappy in his heart. Lie Beiyao is the youngest daughter favored by Emperor Zhaolie, and her brother is the crown prince, so he promised her to Yeshu, does this mean that Emperor Zhaoning intends to establish Yeshu as the prince?

Ye Lan looked at Ye Shu lightly and didn't say a word.

On the high seat, Emperor Zhaoning stood up, "My Jiuchen Kingdom hunts and shoots wolves, which is a tradition left by my ancestors. If you can shoot down the white-eyed wolf king, I will definitely fulfill my promise and grant this person a wish. ”

"Yes, long live my emperor, long live, long live. And they stood up and saluted.

"Okay, let's go. Emperor Zhaoning flicked his sleeves and said.

"No. The princes and generals left the watchtowers, went to the side, mounted their horses, and entered the enclosure, while the civil officials and envoys, together with the emperor, remained in the stands to watch the hunt.

Originally, the emperor wanted to let Lie Beiyao stay in the stands, but Lie Beiyao insisted on experiencing Jiuchen's wolf hunting, plus Beixuan people are good at shooting, Beixuan's prince and princess have been skilled in bows and horses since she was a child, so Emperor Zhaoning agreed, but let Ye Shu accompany him to protect Lie Beiyao's safety.

The princes slowly drove their horses into the hunting ground, and the hunting competition lasted all morning, ending with the wolf smoke rising. The soldiers guarding the wolves wore thick armor to protect them from being bitten by vicious wolves.

The soldiers opened the cage where the wolves were imprisoned, and the wolves scattered like tigers and wolves, and a flock of sheep was placed in the field in advance, and the wolves, who had been hungry for several days, rushed forward as soon as they saw the lambs, and they tore and bited, howled, and screamed incessantly, and the poor lambs had nowhere to hide, but to let the 'wolves' slaughter alive.

The bloody scene was really terrifying, but the nobles in the stands took pleasure in it, watching it with relish, and did not care about the misery of life.

Although Yelan is a child of the royal family, he is not favored by Emperor Zhaoning, and his mother died when he was born, and he is called a disaster star by the palace people. Emperor Zhaoning handed him over to the biological mother of the fifth prince Yefan to raise, but when he was six years old, his adoptive mother was killed by Shu Guifei's design, and Yelan relied on the fifth brother for his life.

The second prince Ye Ji is domineering, relying on his mother to be the queen, and often bullies him, Ye Shu's mother is the noble Shu Guifei, and Shu Guifei is very favored and has a very high status in the palace, so Ye Wei does not dare to bully Ye Shu, plus Ye Shu is older than him, and he does not dare to provoke Ye Shu, so he is a strong ** Ye Lan, and even peed on his head, forcing him to get under his crotch.

Emperor Zhaoning was busy with state affairs and had no time to care about the princes' fights, so Yelan had no scruples at all, and pulled his own brother, the sixth prince Yeyun bullied him together, Yelan endured all this silently, and never resisted until the age of eighteen (Jiuchen is different from other countries, Jiuchen's crown ceremony is set at the age of eighteen), Yelan was crowned King of Light and moved to live in a mansion outside the palace, which broke free from Yeji's demon grasp.

King Gong Yeshu bore the brunt of the attack, three arrows were fired together, and all of a sudden, three wolves fell to the ground, Yeshu smiled proudly at Lie Beiyao on the side, and Lie Beiyao also smiled back and expressed his approval.

Ye Ji and Ye Yun are not to be outdone, although Ye Ji is a gentleman, but the bow horse is very good at riding and shooting, he has ten shots in a row, except for an arrow, the others have hit the bull's eye, Ye Ji can't help but be a little proud, look at it, a whole snow-white, pupils are also white wolf from the wolves out of the wolf, that is a first-class snow mountain wolf king, Ye Ji laughed, pulled the bow and led the arrow, aimed at the wolf king is a shot, but unfortunately the wolf king is agile, the side of the body dodged the arrow, Ye Ji ten angry, a few shots in a row failed to shoot the wolf king。

Here Ye Shu Ye Yun Ye Fan also found the white-eyed wolf king, and they all chased forward with great interest, Lie Bei Yao and Ye Shu were separated, and hurriedly drove forward to chase Ye Shu, but did not notice, a vicious wolf suddenly attacked the horse ridden by Lie Bei Yao from the side, the horse's front hooves were bitten, and he was frightened for a while, and with a "bang", he leaned forward and threw Lie Bei Yao off the horse's buttocks.

Lie Beiyao rolled on the ground a few times unprepared, his hands were rubbed with broken skin, bleeding a little, and his legs were unbearable due to the pain of hitting the ground violently, and it was difficult to even stand up.

At this time, the evil wolf that attacked just now showed a fierce light at Lie Bei Yao, he kicked the ground with his hind limbs, and launched a fierce attack on Lie Bei Yao lying on the ground, at the same time, Ye Shu Ye Ji, who was chasing the white-eyed wolf king, found the accident here, Ye Shu was shocked, and hurriedly urged the horse to run in the direction of Lie Bei Yao, but the distance was too far, and the far water could not quench the thirst, and he saw that Lie Bei Yao was in danger.

Suddenly, an arrow swept through Lie Beiyao's ears like a swift wind, and shot straight into the wolf's head, and the wolf immediately lost its attack power, and fell to the ground with a "bang". A young man in dark blue clothes jumped off his horse, checked the fallen wolf with neat movements, and after confirming that he was not breathing, he slowly walked to Lie Beiyao's side, gently hugged her shoulders, and helped her up from the ground, "How is it?