For a bold beginner like Yu Shu, it is not difficult to ride a horse, there is a good horse, there is a person who will take care of it every inch, and it will only take half an hour before and after, she can ride on the horse and trot.

Huazhen Garden southwest outside the construction of a long curved horse road, straight to the West Mountain paddock, the road surface is smooth, the sand is soft, the road side is planted with tall elm trees, in the summer is lush, the horse passes, the head is sheltered from the sun, only the breeze sends cool, blowing on the human face, warm and comfortable.

Xue Rui followed Yu Shu side by side, the two of them were talking and laughing, running and walking, and the two attendants rode horses and fell behind them not far away.

Yu Shu trotted for a while, slowed down the horse slightly jerkyly, admired the pleasant scenery of the suburbs, stroked the neck of the docile white horse under his crotch with one hand, turned his head and smiled at Xue Rui:

"Since I entered Beijing last year, this is the first time I have run out to relax, thanks to my eldest brother."

Xue Rui knew everything about Yu Shu's experience after arriving in Anling, and could only secretly sigh that she was a hard worker, when she first arrived, she dragged her weak brother and amnesiac Jingchen, busy with her livelihood, setting up a fortune telling stall in the market, and supporting her family alone.

Later, she was persuaded by him to take the Dayan exam, and she was busy taking the exam, and when she came back, she met Jingchen without saying goodbye, and because of this, she made a feud with the Ji family, and found her one after another, where did she have time to steal time to play.

He saw Yu Shu's various experiences in his eyes, and sometimes pinched a cold sweat for her, a lone woman, but instead of complaining, she became more and more frustrated, as if she had an inexhaustible spirit, never regretted the past, looked forward vigorously, and lived a real life. He admired it.

Xue Rui looked at Yu Shu's eyes flickering slightly, and said loudly: "There is still no Gyeonggi here." A place to have fun is not really comfortable after all. In the future, I will take you to see the scenery of the north and south of the river, the grasslands outside the Saiwai, the snow of Changbai Mountain, and the sea of clouds in the mountains. The desert of Western Xinjiang is beautiful. ”

Yu Shu is not visionless, but looking at Xue Rui's flying look when he talks about this, his heart can't help but be attracted by him. With a roll of his eyes, he teased:

"I hear the tone of your voice as if I've been to these places before."

Xue Rui's thick eyebrows raised. Shaking the yellow vine horsewhip in his hand, "I've been there, but it's a pity that I haven't traveled all over." I didn't have a lot of fun. ”

Yu Shu already had a question in his heart, and it was rare to say this. I asked him: "I heard that you left Anling a few years ago, and this trip is two or three years, is it to go to the mountains and rivers?" ”

Xue Rui turned his head and glanced at Yu Shu, the smile on the corner of his mouth faded for some reason, and he slowly said "um".

Yu Shu looked at his performance, and his eyebrows jumped. I can't help but think of the rumors I heard from Xin Liu not long ago-

Xue Rui died of illness because of the tenth princess, and fled away from Anling in sadness. Didn't you really heal your emotional wounds?

As soon as he thought of this, Yu Shu felt strange in his heart, secretly looked at Xue Rui's face, and muttered in his heart:

Three years ago, how old was the tenth princess, according to the ranking, at most she was the same age as the ninth prince Liu Tan, at that time was only twelve or thirteen years old, even if Xue Rui was only a sixteen or seventeen-year-old boy, then she couldn't just die of love, right?

But this is not certain, Xue Rui's aunt is a noble concubine in the palace, and he himself is very fond of Jinshang, he often walks around the palace when he is young, and he and the tenth princess are two little guesses.

Otherwise, obviously he didn't get married, why did Xue Rui, a good young man, stay empty for two or three years and didn't discuss marriage again, and he has been delayed until now?

The more Yu Shu thought about it, the more entangled he became, on the one hand, he didn't want Xue Rui to have other women in his heart, and on the other hand, he couldn't figure out what other reasons he had for leaving Beijing back then.

Xue Rui didn't know what Yu Shu was speculating in his heart, looked into the distance, and said to her:

"A short walk into the paddock, let's stop around here."

Yu Shu nodded, dismounted with him, and waited for the two attendants behind him to catch up, and then walked to the river together.

"Childe, let's drink saliva." The younger of the two entourages untied the water bladder and held it in front of Xue Rui.

Xue Rui took it, unscrewed the cork, and handed it to Yu Shu, who smiled, raised his eyelids, and saw that the little guy who handed the water was looking at her, pouting slightly, and seemed to be dissatisfied with her, Yu Shu's heart moved, pretending not to see it, drank a few sips of water, and asked Xue Rui casually:

"Are these two boys the servants of Huazhenyuan, or did you bring them out of the mansion?"

Xue Rui said: "Both of them are from the house, and they have been with me for some years, Gui San'er came out of the Confession Courtyard, and Baode is the youngest son of my nurse." ”

He explained carefully, and pointed out to Yu Shu that the steady young man who was tying the horse was three or five years older than Xue Rui, and that he was Gui San'er, and the one who handed the water just now was called Baode.

When Yu Shu heard Guisan's name, he thought of the two guys in the Wangji Building, and said suspiciously: "Our Guiqi and Guiba in the Wangji Building are brothers with this Guisan?" ”

Xue Rui turned his head and glanced at the young man who was tied to the horse under the tree, and said to her: "It's just that I have the same surname, it's convenient to call, brothers are brothers, but there are no blood relatives, and you haven't been there in the courtyard." ”

As soon as he changed the topic, he asked her: "By the way, the little son of the Bai family, the scholar you selected for Xiao Xiu, how is it now?" ”

"It's very obedient, and he is sensible, Xiao Xiu learned to write with him, and he has grown a lot."

Xue Rui suddenly mentioned Bai Ran, Yu Shu didn't think much about it, she looked at the slow-flowing river not far away, and saw one or two fish jumping in the river, so she said greedily:

"Alas, I knew that I had brought a fishing rod and a fish basket to the road, and I could also add food."

"You can also fish?"

Yu Shu said proudly: "That's, I want to be at the beginning-"

Halfway through speaking, he suddenly got stuck.

Xue Rui asked, "What do you want to do at the beginning?" ”

Yu Shu fell into memory for a moment, thinking of the days when the merchant ship was robbed and killed, they jumped into the river to escape, and survived in the forest, relying on her to catch sparrows and fish.

"Hey, it's nothing, the heroes don't mention the courage of the year, it's all in the past." Yu Shu was fooled by a word, and began to urge Xue Rui: "Aren't you going to hunt game, hurry up, I'm hungry." ”

Xue Rui noticed that she was hiding her words, but he didn't ask. Then he told her: "Then you can stay here and play in the water and watch the fish." I took Boyd out into the woods. Come back as soon as possible, you don't run around. ”

Yu Shu was not very happy: "Why don't you take me there, I don't know if it's the most boring to sit and eat and wait for death?" ”

Listening to her nonsense, Xue Rui couldn't cry or laugh, and stretched out his hand to pat her brain: "What nonsense, if you are bored." Just build a fire with Gui San'er, and you can't pull a bow and shoot arrows, and if you go, it's also a mess. ”

Yu Shu wanted to say that she would use a slingshot to hit the birds. swept Gui San'er and got the longbow and feather arrows that came with her, well-equipped, and she was embarrassed to tell her cold things.

"Alas. Go ahead, be careful. ”

Yu Shu didn't say much to remind Xue Rui of what a leopard and tiger was, for fear that her crow's mouth would come true. It was also calculated that he was in good weather today, so he didn't worry too much.

After Xue Rui left. Gui San'er first cleaned up a place for Yu Shu to sit in a shady place by the river, spread a hemp mat and soft cushions, and put two plates of fresh fruits picked from Huazhen Garden early in the morning.

Then he dutifully collected firewood around and poured out the accompanying charcoal and other things to prepare, Yu Shu wanted to go up to help, but was politely blocked.

"Girl, let's play in the water. Just do these little ones. ”

Yu Shu touched his nose and sat down not far away. I picked up a guava to nibble on, and put one hand in the shallows to splash, but it was still cool.

She was idle here, but she didn't know that on the other side, there was a group of people approaching the direction of the river

"Bad luck, it's really bad luck, it's good that we run fast, otherwise we will die in the tiger's mouth."

The eighth prince, Liu Yu, patted his chest and sat on the horse, turning his head frequently, with a vegetable on his face, just afraid that the white-fronted tiger lying on the mountain just now would catch up.

The thirteenth princess sat on the side behind Liu Tanma, grabbed her imperial brother's waist with one hand, and shaved Liu Yu's face when she heard the words, and teased:

"Starling is a coward, and he said that he would take people into the mountains to fight tigers, and you ran fast just now."

The eighth prince had a sneer on his face, turned his head to look at Jing Chen, who was cold and calm beside him, and couldn't help but pull him into the water:

"Jingchen has been practicing in the mountains for so many years, and his martial arts are strong, he shouldn't be afraid of those fierce beasts, why did he run away when he saw that big worm?"

Jingchen glanced at him and said, "I see that you all ran away, what am I going to do here." ”

Before a cup of tea, they were still hunting in the West Mountain Enclosure, Liu Que led the way, to a hill below, before approaching, looked up and saw a small mound-like tiger dozing on the mountainside, frightened Liu Tuo's soul scattered, exclaimed, turned around and ran, a dry man naturally turned around to follow him, and a lot of slaves ran away on the road, just lost the pointer, so a few of them got lost.

Liu Yu was speechless, the thirteenth princess "giggled" and laughed, lying on Liu Tan's back, her face was delicate and naughty, and she didn't see the big tiger with her own eyes just now, and she didn't know how terrible it was.

Liu Tan looked at the fork in the woods in front of him, and asked Jingchen sideways: "Uncle Shi, which direction should we go?" ”

Jingchen looked up at the sun, squinted his eyes slightly, pinched his fingers in his sleeves, and knew that the person he was looking for was in the southeast, so he pointed to a road and said:

"Go this way, there should be a river ahead."

Liu Yu hurriedly said: "Yes, yes, if you find the river, you will know the way back." ”

Liu Tan then sent his servants to the front to explore the road and look for the river.

Let's say that this group of people rode horses and walked, and walked out of the forest, and they were getting farther and farther away from the paddock, but they were close to the river, and after a short time they saw the white rocky beach, and their vision suddenly became wider.

"Look, there's a river ahead!"

The thirteenth princess cheered, and was about to jump off the horse, but was almost stopped by Liu Tan, and her own slave knelt up and took her back as tiptoe, and carefully helped her to dismount.

Liu Yu also dismounted and said, "I'm tired of walking, let's rest here, wash this gray face, get some food and then go back." ”

Most of the princes of the dynasty love to hunt on horses, and they are very noble in the capital, and they are more casual when they go out to play, and they don't have to rinse their mouths with bird's nest and pick their teeth with shark fin.

The rocky beach was inconvenient for horses, so they dismounted and walked, and the servants led the horses away, and they wandered along the riverbank.

Jing Chen's vision is excellent, and from a distance, he saw someone on the other side of the river in the distance, and he looked at it, but he was not sure if it was Yu Shu.

So he raised his feet and walked that way, he was so engrossed in the man on the other side that he didn't pay attention to the movement behind him, and walked out of the road for more than ten steps, when he suddenly heard a terrifying exclamation behind him:

"Yikes!"

Jing Chen quickly turned his head, only to see a golden figure slowly stepping out of the forest, and his huge body shrouded fear in people's hearts.

The white-fronted tiger that I met in the paddock chased them all the way!

"Uh-huh—"

A tiger roared, beating the ear drums of everyone on the river bank in a low voice, everyone's faces turned pale, the tiger was indeed surprisingly big, an adult bear could not resist, it opened its limbs, the fat and flesh on its body trembled and trembled, and the mouth was full of sharp teeth, and the transparent saliva flowed straight down.

This tiger is not afraid of people at all, it must be tired of eating birds and beasts in the deep mountains, and came out to change its taste, so its cold gaze swept over this group of humans, and walked towards them step by step, as if picking which one to enter first.

Liu Kuo was so frightened that he wanted to pee his pants, and his legs trembled vigorously, not to mention running, and he couldn't move.

Thirteen was frightened and cried, hugged Liu Tan's arm, and was pinched by him, not daring to make a sound again.

At this time, whoever makes a change first will undoubtedly become the first target of this tiger's attack.

Liu Tan was also sweating nervously, but he was more concerned than Liu Yu, staring at the tiger's movements, looking at the surrounding forms, his eyes were cold, and he quietly withdrew the gem ring on his index finger and catapulted it in one direction.

"Ahh

With a scream, a slave kneeling on the ground with his head in his hands sprang up, and at the same time the tiger turned its head to focus on him, and its two thick forelimbs tightened and shrunk towards the man.

At the same time, Liu Tan pulled Thirteen, and while retreating, he shouted:

"Uncle Shi, hurry up!"

There was no need for him to speak, just when the tiger pounced on the person, Jing Chen had already flown to catch up, and his movements were light, but the long legs that pulled out of the tiger carried a strong wind, and hit the tiger's back!

"Whew!"

The tiger might as well be kicked away by him, his huge body shook, gave up the prey to his mouth, turned around and stretched out his claws towards Jing Chen, a more threatening human, and slapped it hard!

In the blink of an eye, this person and a tiger fought together, Jing Chen was good at making swords, but he didn't bring a sword on this trip, and he faced a mountain beast with his bare hands, which was a bit of a loss.

Liu Tan was very calm, seeing that Jing Chen was entangled in the tiger, he let go of the thirteen and ran to Liu Yu, who fell to the ground softly, tore the short sword from his waist, pulled out the sheath, and threw it at Jing Chen with a raised hand.

"Uncle Shi takes the sword!"

Jingchen made a move to turn the clouds with a crane, dodged the tiger's beating, caught the hilt of the sword, turned his wrist, and the momentum of the whole person changed sharply, facing the fierce tiger and pounced viciously, and took its life with a sword, but because it was not a long sword that he was used to, he stabbed a few points and poked it in the right ear.

"Whew-"

The white-fronted tiger roared in pain, keenly aware of the deadly danger, and then jumped away, as if it had become a sperm, and when it turned around, it actually fled in the direction of the other side of the river!

Jing Chen, who was still calm and comfortable just after fighting the tiger, suddenly changed his expression at this time, and he actually raised his sword and chased after him!

"Uncle Shi, don't chase it!"

Seeing him chasing the tiger, Liu Tan hurriedly spoke out to stop him, but saw Jing Chen's figure flying fast, one person and one tiger, and jumped more than ten feet away in an instant

Let's say that Yu Shu ate a few fresh fruits, bent down to wash his hands by the river, and vaguely heard a roar in the distance, startled.

"Gui San'er, did you hear anything?"

Gui San put down the iron frame in his hand, held the dagger on his waist with one hand, stared into the distance, and after a while, his color changed suddenly, he took a few steps backwards and grabbed Yu Shu's arm, and ran to the shore.

"Girl, let's go!"

Yu Shu looked back inexplicably, and saw the water splashing in the middle of the river, and something was running over, and soon she saw clearly what it was, and immediately made a stunned face, and scolded in her heart:

Uncle, Xue Rui, you are really a crow's mouth!

Yu Shu wanted to cry without tears, so she could only follow Gui San'er to flee for her life, who knew if she would die or not, she saw that in the forest in front of her, Xue Rui and the little maid came back with bows and arrows and prey, and before she could run to her, she opened her voice and shouted:

"Big brother, run for your life, the tiger is coming!" (To be continued.) )

PS: (Let's make a big chapter, ask for a pink ticket)