Chapter 64: The Wolf
Speaking of hunting, I have to mention one person, Ruihua's martial arts are the first, and there is no trace above.
At the age of five, he was able to chase deer on the hunting grounds, and when he grew up, he had countless prey, and his archery skills were superb. It was also because of this that Murong Hui was wary, and in the end, there was no trace above him to ask for the frontier, and he did not return it for many years.
Under the imperial power, all abilities are ...... Vain? Is that really the case?
Qin Muyu was dressed in armor, riding on a horse with a bow and arrows on his back, and looked into the paddock. And Murong Qingfan rode a black horse, in addition to bows and arrows, he also carried a large bag of luggage.
If this Ruihua autumn hunting is different from the Great Qi autumn hunting, it is that this time you must spend the night in the hunting ground, and then go out of the hunting ground early the next morning to submit the prey. This includes the question of how to settle down, how to protect the prey, and how to prevent the beasts from attacking at night, and this hunt is for the throne, so the danger inside is not only from the natural disaster beasts, but also from the enemy!
"Fan'er, Master will protect you."
When he entered the venue, he seemed to know that Murong Qingfan didn't want to talk to him, so Qin Muyu took the first step to find the location of the camp, leaving only this sentence that sounded light but was actually heavier than Mount Tai.
Behind him, the young man who also spurred his horse pulled a smile into his mouth, as bewitching as the purple lines on his face.
"Then you have to protect me, Master."
The four people who had entered the field before them were gone, Qin Muyu galloped for a while, and found that the terrain here was high in the north and low in the south, and there was a hill in the north to form a natural barrier, and in the south was a dense forest. To the northwest is a large plain, and at the edge of the hunting ground is a man-high iron fence. There should be no beasts in the hunting ground, but this ancient hunting ground of Daqi ...... But I can't really say what will happen.
Choosing a water source far from the plain, Qin Muyu looked left and right, dug a pit with a bow and arrow, and buried his bags. Murong Qingfan stood next to him and helped him from time to time, but he didn't say a word.
After burying the bag, Qin Muyu wiped the sweat on her face, because the dirt on her hands directly made a big face, Murong Qingfan naturally took out a handkerchief from her body and dipped it in water to wipe her face clean, which made Qin Muyu slightly stunned.
But Murong Qingfan still didn't speak.
"Murong Qingge and Murong Qingli both went to the dense forests in the south, where there were many wild beasts that were more convenient for them to use. And we are now on the east side of the paddock, some distance from the dense forest, and no one will disturb our peace for the time being. And close to the stream...... But all animals will come to drink water, and when the time comes, we just have to wait for the rabbits. Wait for work and save physical strength. The danger of the day is nothing in plain sight...... And the night is the real beginning of this hunt. β
Murong Qingfan nodded,
"Yes, Master."
In the face of such Murong Qingfan, Qin Muyu wanted to say something, but he couldn't speak, looked at him and sighed helplessly, took a bow and arrows and left first.
"I'll go and see the terrain and creatures around me first, and you wait for me here first. I'm not far away, and danger calls me. β
"Yes, Master."
Qin Muyu was upset by Murong Qingfan's respect and estrangement, and disappeared after a few strokes. Murong Qingfan looked at her disappearing back, like a hunter watching his prey fall into a trap.
At night, indeed, the hunt begins. For this reason, he has endured the close ** has been laid out for so long, and he is finally going to close the net tonight. Looking at the way she looks, she cares more and more about herself, doesn't she? If he had been her docile apprentice, although he would definitely have a place in her heart in the future, he didn't want the position of that "good apprentice".
He wants, to be her man.
Stretch the bow and draw the arrow, all too familiar. Grabbing the ears of the rabbit he caught, Qin Muyu was still a little in a trance, and then he smiled happily by himself. It seems that everything she experienced as a child is also very meaningful, isn't it? How would she have known that one day, she would be hunting royal rabbits in the royal hunting grounds with a bow and arrows?
However, this rabbit is no different from the rabbit in Danzhou.
A dead rabbit is a dead rabbit, it's the same everywhere.
Qin Muyu casually hunted two small animals, and then staggered back. There are a lot of animals in this place, and it seems that there is hope for lunch. What, to take the prey back? That's tomorrow morning, how can you keep hunting without being full, right?
But when Qin Muyu returned to the stream, he almost scared Qin Muyu to death! There was a small pool of blood on the ground, but Murong Qingfan was gone!
"Fan'er!"
Qin Muyu shouted loudly, and then searched around for footprints. The soil by the stream is soft, so you can see a neat trail like walking south. The pace is calm, not in a hurry, it seems that he walked out by himself, but this blood stain ......
Qin Muyu was flustered for a while, and was just about to run along the footsteps, when he saw a young man with the same light armor as her and silver glowing in the sun walking not far away.
"Fan'er!"
Without waiting for Murong Qingfan to come over, Qin Muyu rushed over first, looking him up and down, wanting to see where he was injured, but his armor was shiny and he couldn't see anything.
"What did you do? Why don't you wait for me on the shore? β
Murong Qingfan said as if he was enduring something,
"I don't want to just wait here for Master, I, who am also a participant in this hunt, I also want to go hunting."
Listening to the young man's voice, Qin Muyu was stunned for a moment, and found that he had overprotected himself. Murong Qingfan is no longer the pale and powerless young man he used to be, he has faded the fetal poison, has internal strength, and practiced martial arts every day under the supervision and training of Duanmu Li, and has bid farewell to his original weakness and has the appearance of a man.
This kind of person is a person who can shoulder Ruihua in the future.
But why do you have a faint sense of loss? If she had to choose, she would have to be the stubborn and fragile but strong messy teenager she had just seen. That apprentice of hers, the little apprentice who made her feel distressed.
Murong Qingfan looked at Qin Muyu, who seemed to be a little sluggish, his eyes flashed, and his pursed lips slightly hooked up a bewitching smile, Qin Muyu didn't notice.
"Yes, Fan'er can already go hunting by herself."
Qin Muyu raised her head again, and there was a sunny smile again, but she understood that her little apprentice, the little apprentice who stuck to her and called her master, was getting farther and farther away from her.
"I walked in your direction, but I didn't meet you, so I should have gone wrong. There was indeed quite a lot of prey there, and I also hunted two pheasants and two hares. β
Qin Muyu was distraught and didn't notice that Murong Qingfan's title changed from "Master" to "you", she responded casually, ignoring Murong Qingfan's smile again, the smile that she was determined to get.
At noon, the two of them burned the hare to eat, looking for firewood to live, Murong Qingfan could only watch Qin Muyu from the side, and he came over with firewood for a while, and set up the firewood for a while, Murong Qingfan was a little unwilling, and he also went to pick up a lot of firewood.
Qin Muyu looked at the large bundle of branches still with leaves that Murong Qingfan was holding, and laughed uncontrollably, Murong Qingfan blushed and threw away all the wood, Qin Muyu was still laughing. Murong Qingfan squinted at her, wanting to kiss that annoying little mouth! But now is not the time.
After Qin Muyu had laughed enough, he also admired Murong Qingfan's slightly embarrassed expression for a while, and then took out the flint and steel from his pocket to light the fire, Murong Qingfan wanted to ask her why she still carried these things with her, but her lips moved, and she still didn't ask.
After the two of them had eaten up all the rabbits they had brought and cleaned them up, Qin Muyu moved his body and his eyes lit up.
"Fan'er, Fan'er, there's a deer drinking water! Kill it! β
Murong Qingfan nodded obediently, took out his bow and arrows, and aimed at the deer's legs.
β¦β¦
The number of animals that came to drink water at noon increased significantly, and Qin Muyu and Murong Qingfan stayed by the creek and waited for the rabbits to hunt until they were soft. After hunting the second deer, Qin Muyu's eyes rolled and said to Murong Qingfan,
"Fan'er, how about we go eat honey? Honey from wild honeycombs is delicious! β
It seemed that she had returned to her childhood in an instant, and Qin Muyu showed for the first time a liveliness commensurate with her age, and this made Murong Qingfan see it in her heart.
"Okay."
Qin Muyu looked up and saw Murong Qingfan with a doting smile, at this time, Murong Qingfan was already half a head taller than her. The warmth and doting in the half-immortal and half-demon on that absolutely exquisite face made her suddenly panic.
"Fan'er, I seem to see a wild honey nest over there, I'll go and see it first, you follow immediately, don't get lost."
Qin Muyu finished speaking without breathing in a big sentence, and ran away directly. And after she left, the doting smile on Murong Qingfan's face did not change at all. He felt that he didn't need to eat the honey, he was already sweet to the heart. And the only thing he is a little worried about now is that at night, that enemy, don't forget to be except for himself and Han Yu.
Qin Muyu wanted to find honey for another reason, she wanted to touch to see if there were any bears around. But it's a pity that bears definitely don't eat honey like they drink water, so maybe it's more likely to go to the water's edge.
β¦β¦ The day passed quickly.
Autumn is crisp, autumn days are always high, but the days are getting shorter and shorter. Especially in the autumn of winter, the night is fast coming.
The autumn night in the mountains was not bad for winter, Qin Muyu shivered, and his body couldn't help but tremble a little. She was also helpless in her heart - it turned out that when she was alone in the mountains, it was ten times colder than this, and she didn't even shiver when she walked, but now she ...... Is it true that they are becoming more and more arrogant?
Just thinking like this, he suddenly felt that his body was covered with a dress with body temperature, Qin Muyu looked up, but it was Murong Qingfan who took off his armor and took off his coat to put it on her.
Murong Qingfan was just about to leave, but Qin Muyu grabbed his hand and stood up.
"Fan'er, you have to put on this garment......"
"I'm a man and you're a woman, and I should take care of you."
Murong Qingfan was categorical and made her stunned by a categorical sentence, and then pushed away her hand and walked to the side, one move and one style, and she actually practiced martial arts.
Qin Muyu twisted his eyebrows,
"Fan'er, if you spend all your energy on this, if you have something to do at night......
"I practiced ten times as hard as I did today, and after practicing, my riding and archery still didn't miss a shot."
Murong Qingfan obviously refused to accept Qin Muyu and return the clothes to him, but Qin Muyu put on Murong Qingfan's clothes, finally sighed and sat down again.
If he is so insistent, why do you have to go against his will? Besides, his body temperature is really warm.
The night was low, and Qin Muyu seemed to wake up from sleep. While practicing martial arts, Murong Qingfan's eyebrows twisted slightly, and suddenly, his eyebrows stretched, and a sense of urgency appeared on his face inexplicably.
"I'd like to go and make it easier."
Murong Qingfan said anxiously to Qin Muyu, and as soon as he finished speaking, the person trotted south.
"Eh, Fan'er, don't go too far...... You can ......"
You can tackle it here...... Qin Muyu looked at the flat surroundings and silently swallowed this sentence into his stomach again. Although he is now a man, Murong Qingfan is very sensitive to both men and women. After all...... He's just a poor kid.
The cold wind is howling, and the wind blows the grass.
It's really cold, the wind is getting stronger and stronger, and there is really no "wind blowing grass and seeing cattle and sheep" as stated in the poem in Jiangnan, Qin Muyu casually held a dog's tail grass and half-lay on the ground with his legs crossed.
β¦β¦ Wait, no! It's not the sound of the wind...... This is clearly what it is!
"Hmm-"
A muffled snort suddenly came from the distance, because Qin Muyu's attention was on the place where Murong Qingfan left, so he could hear it very clearly.
"Fan'erβ"
Qin Muyu screamed, stood up, and was about to pass. But then she realized that her eyes were full of green eyes, and she was breathing fishy, but quiet.
It wasn't the sound of grass just now, it was clearly ...... Wolf!
"Whew-"
"What sound?!"
Murong Qingge, who was recuperating his strength, suddenly got up and looked north. It's clearly ...... He's in the place!
"Back to the prince, listening to the sound should be a pack of wolves."
"There are wolves in this place?!"
"Back to the crown prince, there are indeed wolves in the hunting grounds, and some princes who participated in the autumn hunt were devoured among the wolves, thus losing the qualification to compete for the throne."
"Phew, my life is gone, what more throne do I need?"
Murong Qingge said with a calm face, his voice did not hide his anxiety,
"I'll take a look!"
Then he was about to straddle his horse, but was grabbed by his deputy.
"Prince, I can't help it! It's a wolf pack there, and if you go, you'll die! β
Murong Qingge was suddenly stimulated by the word "dead man", and he didn't know where the strength came from, so he threw his deputy who was stronger than him aside, got on the horse directly, and then stepped across the horse and galloped! Target, wolves!
"Prince, I really can't help it! If you die, what's the point of this autumn hunt! Why do you have to die! β
The deputy was sweating anxiously, and he didn't understand how the prince, who clearly had no internal force, got rid of himself who used internal force. But at this time, where is there so much care, the prince is dead, and he is not far from death.
"Prince, wait for me."
And Murong Qingge couldn't hear what he was saying at this time, his mind was full of one thought:
Little guy, you wait for me, you can't die!
When Murong Qingge arrived, it was not unpleasant, the first thing he saw was two entangled figures in the dark, one was a wolf, and the other was ......
He stretched out his bow and drew the arrow on his horse, but the hand holding the bow and arrow trembled violently, and the man and the wolf rolled into a ball, if the aim was not good. No, he certainly can!
Just as he was about to take aim, an arrow came first, shooting straight at the black shadow in front of him!
"No!"
Shot! But Murong Qingge's heart suddenly emptied, who did he shoot? Who is it?
Murong Qingge jumped off his horse directly before he got close, and ran over quickly, his bow and arrow firmly in his hand.
"Did it hit you?"
Murong Qingge asked loudly, and there was a response from the other side, but it made his heart cold,
"No, thank you, Brother Huang."
He didn't shoot the wrong person, but it wasn't the person he was looking for.
"Third Emperor Brother, what about Han Yu?!"
Under the dim moon, Murong Qingge's face was sweaty and anxious, and he was not embarrassed at all like His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, who was usually unruly. Murong Qingfan's eyes flashed, he coughed, and pointed to the dark plain not far away, but with the sound of wolf howls,
"Brother Huang, go and save Han Yu, he is there...... Ahem......"
Murong Qingge clenched his arrow and rushed over directly, and when he passed by Murong Qingfan, he couldn't help but say, "Waste!" β
"Prince!" The deputy, who followed a few steps behind him, failed to stop the prince from looking for death.
Murong Qingge ran close with an impatient expression, and for a while his head was empty, or it was about to crack. He didn't dare to imagine that "death" would happen to the little guy, especially this kind of death.
"Don't be afraid, I'm here to save you!"
But when he arrived, what he saw wasβ
A tall figure stood tall in the haze, flanked by slowly creeping wolves.
Let the wolves bow down to their subordinates, this is the treatment only the wolf king has!
That time, there was a domineering and arrogant wolf howl that came out of his mouth!
When the deputy who arrived later saw this scene, he stood on the ground and muttered,
"Is this a wolf, or a human?"
Murong Qingfan, who was in the distance, slowly got up, sat down again, and slashed his chest with the claws of the dead wolf without changing his face, blood flowing.
In the distance, two men laughed, leaning against the corpse of the giant bear, waiting to reap the fruits of victory.