Chapter 50: Spring Hunting
The day before the spring hunt, Tao Tao came in full pretense, with a solemn face and said that he wanted to rush back to Chang'an. Cai Ling has known him for ten years, and knows that he likes to think about the good in everything, and he has always been a hippie smile, and he must have encountered tricky things, but he still quipped: "Abominable tranquility!" She's messing with you, isn't she? β
"Jiang Shao!" Tao Tao frowned and scolded, "Don't be serious." β
"How serious are you?" Cai Ling hid her smile, "What the hell happened?" β
"Meng Meng is critically ill and may not die soon. My father and I asked for permission to return to Beijing. Tao Tao lowered his head and refused to look at Cai Ling.
Cai Ling only felt a pain in her heart, and the smile was still on her face, as if she could no longer take it back, playing a small playmate, making her ashamed of the proud daughter of the sky, how could she be so thin? "Can I go back to Beijing with you?" After a moment, she asked with tears in her eyes. But in such an emergency, his father and son should gallop on their horses, and if she accompanies her, it will be a drag, and hurriedly said, "Bao and Lin's Jiang Taichang has always been good at medicine, and it may be worth a try." β
Tao Tao raised his eyes again with guilt and gratitude, grabbed her shoulder, attached it to Cai Ling's ear and said, "Tomorrow spring hunting, don't go to report illness." β
Cai Ling was stunned, and when he came back to his senses, he had turned around and walked a few steps, but at this time, the person was standing still, it was Princess Jinghe who was coming on, and she was spreading her arms to hug him.
"Princess!" The young man in the strong suit arched his hand.
"Brother Tao really wants to leave the palace." Jinghe pursed her pink lips and wanted to cry.
"My sister is critically ill, so I hurried back to Beijing to see her for the last time." Tao Tao said, walking from his side.
Jinghe moved very fast, hugged Tao Tao from behind, and rubbed his little face against his sturdy back, "How can this palace give you up?" β
Tao Tao snapped her fingers away in disgust, and without looking back, the meteor strode forward, and soon disappeared around the corner.
"Princess, please respect yourself." In the middle of his own road, Cai Ling has always let him be quiet and avoid dealing with him, but now he drinks it with a cold face.
"It's not your turn to be the daughter of a criminal minister." Jinghe held her head high and sneered.
"The princess is bold and naturally doesn't need me to teach her." Cai Ling's face was as usual, "But there is a saying that if you do too much injustice, you will kill yourself!" Is that fire in my house still going well? β
"How dare you slander Hongu! Don't want to live? Jinghe pretended to be calm and pointed to Cai Ling's nose.
Cai Ling sneered, and the paper hidden in his sleeve stretched out, and it was actually written in blood, "Dagui passed a letter before he died, I only took a cursory look, as if it meant that the princess's maid had looked for him to discuss arson, although he had evil intentions, he didn't dare to kill, so he rejected it......"
Before the words were finished, Jing He said angrily: "Joke! The father and the third brother will not believe the words of a slave who deserves death! β
Cai Ling also sneered, "Even if the Holy Lord and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince can not believe it. What about the grounded Eighth Prince? I heard that Dagui entered the palace at the age of seven and followed the eighth prince for several years, the master and servant have deep affection, and he uses blood as a book. β
"You!" Although it is an accusation, it has lost a lot of momentum, and only asks, "What are you going to do?" β
"Coincidentally, the princess's sentence is exactly what I want to ask." Cai Ling said coldly, "Aren't you tired every time?" β
"Hongu ...... In the future, I should stay away from you. Jing and depressed, suddenly raised his hand to snatch the blood book in Ling's hand, and the clouds suddenly came, separating it from half a zhang away.
"The princess doesn't want this last chance." Cai Ling sneered.
"Will you let Hongu go?" Jing He was stunned.
Cai Ling put the blood book in her sleeve, "Since Mingyue and I are fine, I should stop this matter." β
"Remember what you say, and don't be untrustworthy." Instead, Jinghe warned.
Cai Ling held back the disgust in her heart and said coldly: "No." β
"Then Hongu is gone." The quiet and arrogant attitude has been reduced to eighty percent.
"Wait a minute."
"Regrets? This palace knows that you have a bad heart! Jing He said angrily.
Cai Ling's face did not change, "The close attendant beside you, find someone to enter the court from the beginning, and you will not be allowed to leave the palace for life!" β
Jinghe still wanted to argue a few words, but Cai Ling's eyes were fierce, and she was so frightened that she dared to nod in agreement.
Seeing Jinghe walking away, Cai Ling took out another letter from his sleeve and handed it to Manyundao: "I promised Dagui to send him home. I'll leave this matter to He Yue to do, but I don't know all the bones on the mass grave? A poor man, too. Although he gave 100 gold to his parents, he could not resist the pain of losing his son. β
"His parents were so ruthless that they let him enter the palace at the age of seven, but they were afraid that the family would fall down, and they were afraid that Baijin would be able to save him from fire and water, and his sister had already helped him a lot." Manyun comforted.
Cai Ling's depression was half dissipated.
In the early morning of the next day, when the sun was in the sky, the breeze was gentle, and in an open space in the long forest of 100 miles east of the Luo River, a camp was set up, and the queen mother, His Majesty, the prince, the concubines, and the ministers of civil and military affairs were all seated on the table.
When the gongs and drums shook the sky and sounded a stick of incense, Cai Ling stood beside the Queen Mother, and couldn't help whispering, "It's so noisy, all kinds of prey are scared away, if anyone can hunt it, it's really a genius." β
It was a joke, without Tao Tao by his side, no one knew how to respond, only a side glance from Aunt Chun. She immediately fell silent. His eyes wandered, and he saw that the crown prince was arching his hand towards His Majesty, he was wearing an ink-colored embroidered dragon pattern hunting suit today, and his hair was tied with a ribbon of the same color, which was still heroic.
"Erchen will go first." In the blink of an eye, the man was already on the horse. The two guards beside him also kicked away one after another. The military attachΓ©s were all dressed in vigorous clothing, and after a while, they set off to see who killed the deer.
What followed was a long wait, and Cai Ling was eager to ride a fast horse and take a bow and arrow to ride the horse into the woods. But now I can only sit with Biluo, Jinghe and others and talk about family life with the Queen Mother. Biluo, who has a tall belly, naturally attracts much attention, and even Xuan Niangniang, who has always been happy and quiet, said that she personally made a set of small clothes for the child. Jinghe is obviously obedient, and he doesn't target Cai Ling everywhere.
Half an hour later, suddenly there was a neighing of the horse, everyone was shocked, the guards held swords, and looked, a palace man fell off the horse, crawled to the front of the horse, and still cried: "Your Majesty, His Royal Highness the Eighth Prince has passed away." β
The eighth is dead! Cai Ling only felt a buzzing in her head, and looked at the saint, Xiao Jieyu was already sitting on the ground in grief, His Majesty's face was cold, and the hand holding the chair trembled slightly, and he was furious: "Shen Muchi! It's really a conscientious dog's lungs, and he didn't even let go of the eighth child! I can set him up, and I can abolish him! β
Syllable! The agarwood case was slapped in half by His Majesty, "Drive back to the palace." β
In an instant, the two light bikers came to the front, only looked at the Zhongshu Ling Qiuzhibai with a worried face, lowered his eyes, and arched his hand: "Qi Qi Shengshang." His Royal Highness the Crown Prince fell into the abyss, and when Wei Chen went to check, he only saw an ink-colored corpse under the cliff. β
Fall off a cliff! Even if the sun is in the sky, it is boundless darkness for Cailing. Even if the guards say what they say, where will she believe it! Even if the skirt was complicated, it couldn't stop her from running out quickly, getting on the horse, and galloping in the direction where he went. "Stop her!" Biluo's piercing roar pierced the clear sky, and she didn't think about it, she didn't care about it.
Brother Shepherd. I haven't had time to tell you that the peonies in Luoyang are gorgeous this spring, and Dongxilou bought a thousand pots, and I asked them to dedicate them to the East Palace.
Brother Shepherd. You still don't know that the water of the Luo River flows shallowly to the east, and the water above the source is taken to make wine, and I will keep them in the cellar, and from now on only His Highness can drink them.
Brother Shepherd. I haven't said it yet, the trip to Yunnan is just an expedient measure, and when you ascend to the throne, there will be people at the border to pray for your New Year.
Tears poured out uncontrollably. She raised her sleeves to dry it and slapped her horse away.
Suddenly, as far as the eye could see, many sergeants raised their spears and slaughtered, and the commotion in the tent camp in the distance behind him was full of commotion. She was worried about the Queen Mother and Xuan Niangniang, and she wanted to go back.
The man flew up in the midst of the siege of the golden iron horse, killed several sergeants, and abandoned his horse and landed on Cai Ling's horse. There was a little blood stain on the ink-colored hunting suit and hair, just like when she met in the prison, she wanted to kill him with her own hands that day, but now she just smirked: "Shen Muchi! That's great! You're not dead! β
"How can I be willing to leave you?" At the last moment, he had the heart to say this. came to investigate in no hurry, and a deep kiss was attached to her lips, "You are sad for me, I am very happy." β
Before Cai Ling's clenched fist could beat him on the chest, he had already tightened the reins and beat his horse back: "Sit tight." β