As the autumn siege approached, the holy oracle came to the eldest princess's mansion and invited the eldest princess to go with her.

Spring hunting and autumn hunting is a tradition of the royal family. Whenever it was time to hunt, the emperor would take the important members of the court to select a group of young children from among the nobles of the family to go to the hunting ground of Xiangshan with the royal driver. According to the tradition of the past years, after the camp in Xiangshan Station, the emperor will first sit on the stage with the civil and military generals to watch the competition under the stage, and first select a group of people with good qualifications; Afterwards, the emperor would take these people into the forest to shoot and hunt and personally assess them. And the purpose of Gongsun Er's autumn siege seems to be not so simple......

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Sitting behind the eldest princess with Cui Yin, she was a little absent-minded, and when she met his gaze, he always looked away coldly.

Are you still annoyed with her, he's really stingy. Since returning from the last injury, she has gone to the right minister's mansion to see him three times in the name of the eldest princess and the right minister's wife, but unfortunately, there were outsiders when they went back the first two times, and the two just glanced at him from a distance. The third time they met was two days ago, and the two had a chance to be alone. His injuries did not heal, and he told her about Qiuwei vigorously: "During Qiuwei, no matter who it is, if you want to shoot the target, you must not shoot." After finishing speaking, without waiting for her to ask, he pushed the door and walked out, busy, and did not say a single superfluous word.

Thinking about it, she felt as if she hadn't paid much for their relationship, because it never occurred to her that he would not love her one day. She has always been led by her own hatred to go her own way, and he is all working his own, so as soon as he gets cold, she feels as if she is estranged...... If you think about it carefully, it seems that their relationship has never reached the point of being like glue......

The eldest princess turned sideways and knocked her head with her hand: "Yuluan, what are you thinking about?" ”

Only then did she come back to her senses and hurriedly perfunctory the eldest princess. The eldest princess asked again, "Did he tell you not to shoot the target or something?" When Zheng Yuan heard this, she was on pins and needles, and asked in surprise: "Your lord, what will happen today?" ”

The eldest princess didn't answer her directly, glanced at Qu Boyao in the room, and said, "Half a decade ago, Gu Linlang was about to give birth, and the prince and his wife returned to Xiping. Now, Gu Linlang has just given birth to a son, and the child is not full moon. His Majesty said that the autumn was a grand event, how could the imperial family be absent, so he hurriedly recalled Gongsun Yu to the capital. Cui Yin Yuluan, both of you will tell me what your majesty means by this."

Zheng Yuan thought for a while and replied: "Your Majesty is jealous of your brother, and Xu wants to take the opportunity to suppress it."

"It's jealous brother, that's right." The eldest princess leaned over the hand of the wine bottle, shook out two drops of jade syrup, and dipped her armor in the traces of wetness. There are three trees with the same root, one of which is so dense that it almost towers into the clouds, and two of the same root will share the water it draws. Not far away there was a clump of trees, whose roots were far away, and which would not share the water it had drawn, and which had been inconspicuous at first, but which had grown strong in a few years, was now flourishing and competing with it for daylight. If you are the most luxuriant of the three and give you power, do you want to get rid of the two that divide the water with you first, or do you want to get rid of the one that is competing with you first? ”

Cui Yin replied without hesitation: "Of course, it is the two plants that divide the water, and the things that are drawn are separated and hinder its growth, and the one that competes with it does not have this kind of trouble, so it will be dominant with the sun." ”

The eldest princess looked at Zheng Yuan, and Zheng Yuan replied: "One of the plants that fight for the sun." ”

"Why?" The eldest princess asked.

"It's going to overshadow itself, why don't you just let it cover it up right away?" Zheng Yuan seemed to suddenly realize, paused, and said, "The one that fights for the sun is its biggest opponent." If you remove two plants with the same root first, you may hurt your muscles and bones, and when you remove the same root when you spend your heart, it is a good opportunity for your opponent to grow. Not removing the two plants with the same root does not shake its dominant position for the time being. I think all it wants is supremacy. ”

"Yuluan has grown a little," the eldest princess continued to stare at Qu Boyao, "The King of Xiping County and the King of Zhao are the brothers of His Majesty. So, Yuluan, you should understand what's going to happen today, right? His Majesty asked the King of Xiping to come back and participate in the Autumn Siege with the King of Zhao, but it was just to make an example of the chickens. ”

The strings in his head were pulled, and Zheng Yuan also cast his gaze, he was talking and laughing with the officials below, frowning when he met her gaze, and frequently signaled with his eyes.

She was even more dispossessed, her eyes swept casually, and swept behind Gongsun Er, the golden phoenix umbrella was shining, and the beauty pavilion under the umbrella came. The waiter made a slender tone, and everyone turned their eyes to the belated beauty.

The last time she saw the concubine, it was on Gongsun Er's dragon boat, this was the second time she saw the concubine - her own sister after the incident in Xiangguofu, and her eyes gradually fell on her abdomen like everyone else.

"Concubine...... A really pregnant woman has a different complexion from an ordinary woman. She heard Cui Yin whisper to the eldest princess.

The eldest princess was not happy when she heard this, but after observing the concubine for a long time, she found that the displeasure she wrote on her face had disappeared, and Zheng Yuan's mood became complicated for a while. The concubine never looked at her, and even avoided the eldest princess who didn't look at her, and always smiled at the emperor beside her.

Her heart was like a knife, she lowered her head, thinking in a daze, what should she do, and what she could do...... Now it's helpless......

"Do you know what he means? Why did he say he wouldn't let you shoot? ”

Zheng Yuan shook her head.

"Later, before entering the forest, His Majesty will do everything possible to test whether you can ride and shoot, and if so, he will let two female officers go into the forest with you to shoot and hunt......"

"What? Where did you get the news? ”

The eldest princess pointed at Cao Yu.

Her heart was beating wildly in her cavity, and she said gloomily: "He doesn't want me to be in danger with him, I will listen to him for the time being, if I go, it will drag him down......"

"No—" The eldest princess whispered to her, "It's because of the danger that you have to help him, and after entering the forest, you ............"

She nodded as she listened, and the two were whispering, but they heard an angry shout from above: "What a bold man! ”

The two looked at each other, and Gongsun Er was glaring angrily at the people in the audience: "You dare to pretend to be a man!" Where is Lou Ji? ”

"Your Majesty is angry." The person who spoke in the audience was dressed in a military uniform, with waist-length hair, raised his head slightly, revealing a pair of heroic eyebrows and Xiuyi's eye rings, and his voice was also sassy and heroic when he spoke: "My brother is not a weapon, but the minister will not let him be embarrassed." She said confidently, glancing sideways at the people around her who were comparing her with archery, "I didn't expect Gu Gongzi to have good eyesight, and I recognized at a glance that the minister was a woman." ”

Hearing her call herself a "minister" in front of the emperor, she must have an official position, and the people present secretly marveled.

Zheng Yuan understood, it turned out that the two sons of the Lou family and the Gu family competed in archery skills, and the sons of the Lou family were exposed by the sons of the Gu family as a female streamer as soon as they came on the field. Gu Gongzi is Gu Changyuan's youngest son, and he answered: "Compete with women, I'm afraid that I won't be able to win." ”

She smiled, "Before you competed, are you sure you won me?" He clenched his fists and said to Gongsun Er: "Chen Lou Qin, see Your Majesty." ”

The name of Lou Ruhui, the general of Zhenguo, can be described as thunderous. This Lou Qin, the famous female woman of Da Cao, is his granddaughter, who has made countless military exploits at a young age, and is already the rank of general, because she has been stationed in the northwest all the year round, she has never been married. Gu Gongzi was also full of surprise.

"It turned out to be General Yunlu," Gongsun Er turned his anger and said with a smile, "I only heard that you were coming back from outside the gate five days ago, and I didn't expect you to come back today." ”

"The minister rushed back day and night, and three horses died," Lou Qin said with a smile.

Gongsun Er flattened her and asked, "Why are you in such a hurry?" I didn't rush you with a holy decree! ”

"My brother is really not a weapon, and the minister is afraid that he will embarrass the Lou family," still talking to the emperor, she boldly walked a few steps and turned her head to look at Gu Gongzi, "So the minister came on his behalf, and he just came back before he had time to let the people from the Ministry of Rites change his name, breaking the rules of His Majesty, and the minister is guilty, but he also asked His Majesty to give the minister a chance to compete." Without waiting for Gongsun Er to speak, he had already pulled his bow and released three arrows in a row, and the arrows were impartial, all of which went straight to the bull's-eye.

Everyone and Gu Gongzi were dumbfounded, and Gu Gongzi said ashamedly: "I am willing to gamble and lose." ”

Gongsun Er admired her very much, and said with great joy: "It is the first time that I have witnessed the heroic appearance of General Yun Lu, who has defended his family and the country all these years, and delayed General Yun Lu's lifelong events. General Yun Lu is back this time, and I will look for a husband for the general. ”

Gu Gongzi sat down, the surging tide had not yet faded, but he was poured down by his father who stood up next to him with a basin of cold water. "Don't you know, General Yun Lu has a marriage contract?"

"Oh?" Gongsun said, "I haven't heard of it. ”

Gu Changyuan asked Wang Zhen, the secretary of the Ministry of War: "General Lou and General Wang were friends of life and death, and Lou and Wang were friends, isn't it, Lord Wang?" ”

Wang Zhen said: "Yes." ”

Gu Changyuan said again: "Wang Yu and Mrs. Lou have a great relationship, and the two have an agreement in the boudoir that if they marry in the future, if the children born to each other are of the same gender, they will become sisters or brothers, and if they are men and women of different genders, they will become husband and wife. ”

Wang Zhen said with a smile: "I haven't heard of this, it should be their jokes, how did Lord Zuo know about it?" ”

"Later, Wang Yu married first and went to the East Palace, Mrs. Lou was not married, she went to the East Palace to visit the pregnant Wang Yu, Wang Yu brought up the matter again, and was heard by the people in the East Palace, and the matter was spread."

Gu Changyuan said.

Zheng Yuan thought about it carefully, isn't Wang Yu, who married to the East Palace, the queen mother of Gongsun Hao? Oh, it turns out that this female woman who doesn't let her eyebrows marry him, if she hadn't experienced so many things, maybe Lou Qin would have become his crown princess now.

Just like talking about the tiger's color change, Gongsun Er's expression changed drastically, and his face changed to a pleasant face: "Since everyone is dead, the general should not keep the jokes of the previous generation." After saying that, he immediately turned to Qu Boyao: "I thought about it, the most worthy of General Yunlu is none other than the young and promising Lord Right Minister, but unfortunately, Lord Right Prime Minister already has a bad wife." ”

Lou Qin stared at him and decisively refused: "The minister is not a concubine!" ”