Emperor Hengde had four princes under his knees.

The crown prince Zhao Che, is the son of the former queen Wei Lingyou, the orthodox, is the eldest son of the orthodox emperor, although the first queen died of illness when he was ten years old, but soon after the death of the first queen, Emperor Hengde issued a decree to the world, canonized Zhao Che as the crown prince.

Zhao Che is nineteen years old this year, his appearance inherited the first queen, and he is the most handsome of the four princes, with a face like white jade, thick eyebrows like a front, plump lips, and a pair of eyes that are even darker and brighter.

The mother of the second prince Zhao Xian was originally a nobleman, and the mother was noble by virtue of her son, and she was named Concubine Shu, Concubine Shu is a peaceful person, and she has not had any incidents in the palace for so many years, Zhao Xian was raised by her to be polite, gentle and dignified, this autumn hunt, Concubine Shu is one of the concubines who accompanied her.

The biological mother of the third prince Zhao Li was originally a promise, and later sealed the concubine, there was no one in the mother's court, and the temperament did not please Emperor Hengde, so many years and then did not go up, among the four princes, Zhao Li was obviously weaker, and he himself knew that most of the future could only be an idle prince, and his temperament was very indifferent and boring.

The mother of the fourth prince Zhao Chou is Concubine Li Yuexi, Li Yuexi is the daughter of today's Prime Minister Li Deren, she is a noble person when she enters the palace, and after giving birth to Zhao Chou, she became the head of the four concubines.

The first person to speak was the fourth prince Zhao Chou, although Concubine De was not sealed, she was really the master of the harem over the years, and her grandfather was the prime minister of the dynasty, Zhao Chou's body has the most obvious nobility and arrogance of the royal heirs.

After all, except for the position of the crown prince, there is nothing in this world that he can't want.

Zhao Chou is seventeen this year, three years older than Shen Bai, but he did not inherit the appearance of Concubine De, he gave birth to a pair of hanging eyes, and when he bent his eyes and smiled, he always made people feel contemptuous, and he was not very comfortable.

At this moment, Zhao Chou sat cross-legged on the low pier, playing with the white jade cup in his hand, looking at Shen Bai by mistake, waiting to see Shen Bai's answer, and as if waiting to see Shen Bai's joke.

Everyone's eyes were focused on Shen Bai, Shen Bai sat cross-legged, straightened the hem of his clothes to cover his knees, pretended not to hear the malice in Zhao Chou's words, hooked his lips and replied: "If you want to be funny, the storyteller who chases the crane tower has a more clever mouth, and the rivers and lakes artists who juggle on the flyover have more tricks, I just have a poor mouth, and I really don't dare to play treasure in front of Your Majesty, Niangniang and the princes." ”

Mr. Storyteller and Juggler are both lowly protégés who are looked down upon, Shen Bai is the only son of the imperial prince, how can he be compared with them?

Shen Bai didn't say a word of dissatisfaction and grievance, but was still very humble, but as soon as this sentence came out, Concubine De, who was sitting at the top, immediately keenly noticed that something was wrong, and said softly: "Hongyun, you are three years older than Young Master Shen, be steady, don't make this kind of joke, it scares Young Master Shen." ”

Zhao Chou was clearly looking for Shen Bai's pleasure, and Concubine De covered it with a joke.

Zhao Chou didn't care, and raised his voice: "Mother, don't be deceived by his appearance, he is not small at all, in front of so many masters in Tai Academy, he dares to bite the prince of Zhenguo!" ”

Zhao Chou deliberately accentuated the pronunciation of the word bite, Tai Academy is only so big, and many people in Beijing know about Shen Baiqiang's kiss to Gu Hengzhou, Zhao Chou is still studying in Tai Academy, how can he not know?

As soon as these words came out, the whole room was quiet, and everyone's eyes looking at Shen Bai changed.

Shen Bai glanced at Gu Hengzhou, he changed into a dark color dress, there were large dark gold flowing fire dark patterns on the neckline and hem, the sky was already dark, and the palace people burned a large bonfire on the ground in the middle, and the dark lines refracted fine streamers under the reflection of the firelight, like stars circulating on him.

His eyebrows were lowered, looking at the white jade wine glass in front of him, his face was a little unclear after the fire that had been extinguished, and he didn't know what he was thinking now.

"In the Tai Academy, it was Shen Bai who was reckless and faint for a while, His Majesty punished me to go to the Hanjing Lieutenant Camp for two months for training, I know that I was wrong, fortunately, His Royal Highness the Prince of the World is broad-minded and does not care about me in general, and I also ask His Royal Highness not to mention this matter again in the future, otherwise I am afraid that I will die of shame."

Shen Bai said to forgiveness and praised Gu Hengzhou with him.

Your Majesty has also punished you, and Brother Gu doesn't care about me anymore, Fourth Highness, what are you still chewing the root of your tongue here?

Zhao Chou usually has his own followers in Tai Academy, and he disdains to play with Shen Bai, but he has also heard a lot of Shen Bai's deeds of stabbing Lou Zi, and he doesn't believe that Shen Bai will die of shame, and wants to say a few words, Emperor Hengde said in a deep voice: "What kind of training did you receive when you went to the captain's camp, and you know where you went wrong?" ”

Shen Bai waited for Emperor Hengde to ask this, and immediately frowned, and said with a bitter face: "Your Majesty doesn't know, as soon as I entered the lieutenant camp, I violated the military regulations, and was whipped ten times by Gu Supervisor, I thought that Gu Supervisor would show mercy for the sake of the friendship of my classmates, but I didn't expect Gu Supervisor to be selfless and selfless, whipping to the flesh, almost whipping my soul out of my body, and died on the spot." ”

Shen Bai's facial features were all huddled together, and his tone was aggrieved and a little bitter, but it didn't make people feel that she was suing Gu Hengzhou for her black state, but it made people can't help but want to laugh.

Emperor Hengde's brows relaxed slightly, and Shen Bai continued: "Inspector Gu's ten whips made me deeply understand that there are no rules, no matter what status people are, they must abide by the rules, and I shouldn't have any bad thoughts in front of so many people. ”

Shen Bai admitted his mistake very sincerely, and no one else noticed that there was something wrong with what she said, Gu Hengzhou quickly raised his eyes and glanced at her.

What do you mean that you shouldn't have bad thoughts in front of so many people? It's just that no one knows, and they shouldn't have bad thoughts!

"Young Master Shen was ordered to enter the lieutenant camp for training, how could he violate the military rules as soon as he entered, didn't anyone tell you the rules?"

A clear and slightly hoarse voice sounded, Shen Bai immediately turned his head, and looked at a pair of dark and deep eyes, Zhao Che looked at Shen Bai with a calm face, obviously it was the question he asked, but there was no curiosity in his eyes.

However, this question was asked to Shen Bai's heart, and he didn't care about doubting anything else, Shen Bai patted his thigh, showing an expression of regret: "I just entered the captain's camp at that time, and I didn't have time to memorize the military regulations, that person heard out of nowhere that I had slighted Gu Supervisor in the Tai Academy, and insulted me, where did the young master suffer such a big grievance, he rolled up his sleeves and started with him." ”

Shen Bai's tone was hateful, shaking his head very vividly, Zhao Chou couldn't help but ask, "Then what?" Who won? ”

"Of course it's me!" Shen Bai stiffened his neck and glared at him and said, "I'm a martial artist who learned from our Praetorian Guard, if I lose, I will lose the face of our entire Tai Academy." ”

Zhao Chou nodded, after all, he was still studying in Tai Academy, if Shen Bai lost the face of Tai Academy, it would also indirectly lose his face.

However, in an instant, Zhao Chou reacted again, and looked at Shen Bai meaningfully: "Your martial arts cultivation is at the bottom of the Tianying class, why can't the people in the school captain's battalion even beat you?" ”

Zhao Chou's words were quite meaningful, and Gu Hengzhou glanced at him.

Shen Bai nodded, and then echoed: "What His Royal Highness said is, I also felt strange at the time, our Hanjing Captain's Battalion is famous, how can we not even beat me, this waste wood, if Your Majesty wants to entrust them with important tasks one day, won't it live up to Your Majesty's expectations?" ”

Zhao Chou's face was shocked, and he said in surprise: "This autumn hunt has been accompanied by people from the captain's battalion, could it be that it is this group of wine bags and rice bags that protect our safety?" ”

In a word, the entire lieutenant battalion was denied, and there was a faint meaning of asking the teacher for guilt, Gu Hengzhou clenched the wine glass in his hand, and frowned slightly.

When Zhao Chou's words fell, Concubine De exclaimed in a low voice, Emperor Hengde's face was not very good-looking, and he said coldly: "Shen Xiaolang, make your words clear!" ”

Shen Bai slapped his head, got up and walked to the front and knelt down: "Blame me for being careless and saying the wrong thing to fright the concubine and several princes, and then there was a murder in the school captain camp, and after careful investigation, Gu Inspector and Zhou Xiaowei learned that Deputy Wei Zhao Dingyuan took advantage of his power and power to recruit many tenant farmers near the suburbs of Beijing to enter the school captain camp without authorization, and I happened to be one of them when I entered the school captain camp." ”

Speaking of this, Shen Bai patted his chest and breathed a long sigh of relief: "Fortunately, Your Majesty has seen everything and has dismissed Zhao Dingyuan from his post and investigated it, but now that I think about it, I still feel very afraid, if Zhao Dingyuan's rat has been staying in the school captain camp, I am afraid that the atmosphere of the entire school captain camp will be damaged by him, and then not only will the food and salary of the national treasury be wasted, but also leave hidden dangers." ”

Zhao Dingyuan was specially sent by Emperor Hengde to the lieutenant camp to contain Zhou Deshan, Zhou Deshan was a subordinate of Zhenguo Gong, and Emperor Hengde was not at ease with Zhou Deshan, that is, he was not at ease with Zhenguo Gong in disguise, so Gu Hengzhou couldn't take the initiative to say these things.

Shen Bai can say it as an outsider, but this opportunity must be grasped very well, on the day Emperor Hengde summoned her and Gu Hengzhou into the palace, if Shen Bai took the opportunity to say that Zhao Dingyuan was not good, Emperor Hengde would only feel that Shen Bai was devoted to Gu Hengzhou, and said that these words were all instructed by Gu Hengzhou, but he became more and more vigilant against the Guogong Mansion.

With so many people in place today, Zhao Chou first deliberately teased Shen Bai, and it was impossible for him to have any private friendship with Shen Bai, it was only appropriate for him to ask this, and he left the heavily guarded palace to the far suburbs where there were many live birds and beasts, and everyone's lives depended on the protection of the accompanying Praetorian Guards and the cavalry of the school captain's battalion, so that the emperor who was high above could have a sense of crisis.

If these Janissaries and cavalry are useless waste, who else can save them in case of accidents?

Emperor Hengde's heart palpitated, and he pursed his lips and seriously pondered the conversation between Shen Bai and Zhao Chou.

The atmosphere was so low that people felt a little depressed, Zhao Chou's eyes narrowed slightly, and his eyes were like a quenched sharp hook on Shen Bai's body, this fourteen-year-old Tanhualang seemed to have used him to make a cut just now.

Thinking about the matter of the lieutenant camp, Emperor Hengde had no appetite, and hurriedly ate a few bites before entering the camp tent to rest, while he was gone, Shen Bai quickly grabbed a few chopsticks and dishes to eat, and when he saw Gu Hengzhou get up, he immediately got up and retreated.

After walking a distance, Shen Bai took two quick steps to follow behind Gu Hengzhou, and asked in a low voice, "Brother Gu, are you tired of camping today?" Where's your tent? I see that you didn't take Gu Sansi with you, I'll accompany you to find a water source to bathe in a while, and I can help you wash off the dirty clothes you have changed. ”

Gu Hengzhou stopped suddenly, Shen Bai was defenseless, hit Gu Hengzhou's back and fell backwards, seeing that he was about to fall to the ground, his waist tightened, and the whole person was scooped into a hard, thick, and lightly wine-scented chest.

Although the aroma of the wine is light but very rich, it is the national liquor that has been cellared for at least 20 years, and only the wine cellar in the palace has such a long vintage.

In addition to drinking with Zhou Deshan once in the school captain's camp before, Shen Bai hadn't drunk for nearly three months, and his throat was so dry that Shen Bai couldn't help but swallow his saliva.

Gu Hengzhou hugged her and didn't let go, her head was right against Gu Hengzhou's chin, and as far as the eye could see, it was Gu Hengzhou's slightly raised Adam's apple and slender neck.

Shen Bai felt that his breath was hot, this body was only fourteen years old, but the soul in the body was twenty-five, Xiao thought about this man named Gu Hengzhou for ten years.

Her heart was beating hard, and that little bit of alcohol invaded her lungs, but she was drunk all over.

Shen Bai licked his lips and wanted to lean over and bite Gu Hengzhou's neck, but as soon as his head moved, he was firmly clasped by Gu Hengzhou's broad palm and pressed against his chest.

Gu Hengzhou said: "Shen Bai, you did a good job just now!" ”

It's a good thing he never thought it would be.

Gu Hengzhou drank wine, and his already hoarse voice became more and more hoarse, and there was a kind of maturity that did not match his age, which made Shen Bai suddenly in a trance, as if he had crossed the time and space of two lifetimes, and was held in his arms by Gu Hengzhou, who was fighting on the battlefield, giving birth to an unusual gentleness.

His chest was hot and sour, Shen Bai had no evil thoughts, and just wanted to reach out and hug Gu Hengzhou back, but the whole person was pushed away, staggered back a few steps, and just stood firm, a clear voice sounded: "Xingyuan, Zhishu, you are here." ”

Turning around, Zhao Che walked slowly with a white jade bone fan.

Out of the palace, he did not wear an apricot yellow prince's suit, but wore a crescent-colored purple and gold embroidered unicorn dress, a palm-wide white jade belt around his waist, tied out of a narrow waist, in the soft moonlight, his temperament was cold, out of the dust, and he was also a young man who couldn't take his eyes off.

Since he succeeded to the throne, Shen Bai has seen the edges and corners of his body being sharpened more and more blurred, and his eyes have become deeper and more indifferent, and now when he sees him so high-spirited, his chest can't help but soften.

After the death of her and Gu Hengzhou in the previous life, if the enemy army in Yuexi invaded on a large scale, he would be the only one to bear everything.

Shen Bai knelt down towards Zhao Che habitually, she had done this action thousands of times, it had been engraved in her bones, and she suddenly woke up after her knee touched the hard stone on the ground, now Zhao Che is only the prince, she doesn't need to make this big gift to him.

But after kneeling, Shen Bai couldn't show any abnormality, so he could only speak calmly: "Shen Bai greets His Royal Highness the Prince!" ”

Gu Hengzhou glanced at Shen Bai and bowed to Zhao Che: "I've seen His Royal Highness the Prince." ”

Zhao Che replied: "This palace just thinks that Shen Xiaolang is very interesting to talk during the banquet, and wants to say a few words to Shen Xiaolang, why is he scared like this?" ”

As he spoke, Zhao Che reached out and grabbed Shen Bai's arm and helped her up with a slight force.

The summer clothes were light and thin, Zhao Che's palm was scorching, and through the thin clothes, Shen Bai felt the slightly hot warmth, a little uncomfortable, and still subconsciously patted his ass: "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is a young man, like the scorching sun, Shen Bai doesn't dare to look directly, and can't help but want to bow down at the feet of His Highness." ”

Zhao Che laughed out loud when he was praised, and knocked Shen Bai's head with a jade fan: "I'm not my father, you don't have to say such things to deliberately please me." ”

Shen Bai agreed in a proper manner: "Yes." ”

The smile on Zhao Che's face did not decrease, and he turned his head to look at Gu Hengzhou: "The people in the captain's camp still have to be on duty at night, do you have to go to work first?" ”

When Zhao Che came, he only said that he wanted to talk to Shen Bai, and then asked Gu Hengzhou if he wanted to go first, obviously to catch up with people, Gu Hengzhou glanced at Shen Bai, and arched his hand: "Your Highness Xie understands, Weichen really has something to do, take a step ahead." ”

After Gu Hengzhou finished speaking, he turned around and left, Shen Bai turned his head, and his eyes chased his shadow all the way away.

Zhao Che retracted his gaze and looked at Shen Bai quietly, seeing that she had kept her head down like a quail, and asked gently, "What is Shen Xiaolang doing with his head down?" ”

I don't know who said before that the master was not allowed to look up at you, for fear of damaging Long Yan!

Shen Bai snorted coldly in his heart, and patted his ass like a stream: "Your Royal Highness's heroic posture is too dazzling......

Before he finished speaking, Zhao Che's voice was slightly solemn: "Don't pat yourself on the back, look up at the palace!" ”

This is the future monarch of Zhaoling, his words must be listened to!

Shen Bai looked up at Zhao Che, who was standing in front of her with a jade fan and a light white moonlight, with a handsome and peaceful face, like an approachable big brother next door.

After looking at each other for a while, the corners of Zhao Che's lips raised slightly, and he teased: "Can the heroic appearance of this palace flash Shen Xiaolang's eyes?" ”

Shen Bai rubbed his eyes and nodded matter-of-factly: "I just feel a little pain in my eyes, His Royal Highness's heroic appearance is really extraordinary." ”

Sure enough, Zhao Che knocked his hand with a jade fan, Shen Bai knew him too well, and immediately confessed when he saw him like this: "I don't pat fart anymore, what does His Royal Highness the Crown Prince have to tell me?" ”

Shen Bai was very interesting, Zhao Che raised his eyebrows, looked Shen Bai up and down, and said lightly: "Every year autumn hunting is nothing special, I heard my father say that Shen Xiaolang is very interested in eating and drinking, and he wants Shen Xiaolang to accompany him these days, is Shen Xiaolang willing?" ”

Shen Bai's eyes lit up, and he looked at Zhao Che expectantly: "The attendant that Your Highness said refers to when hunting, can I also follow His Highness into the enclosure?" ”

Zhao Che asked rhetorically: "Do you want to go in?" ”

Shen Bai nodded like pounding garlic, and learned what he had said to Gu Hengzhou before to Zhao Che again: "I don't compete for the ranking, I can help His Highness pick up prey in the back and do a little favor." ”

She looked flattering, her eyes were bent into a good-looking crescent moon, and the full moon in the sky was reflected at the bottom of her eyes, so that life could not be disgusted, the corners of Zhao Che's lips were slightly hooked, and he nodded: "Yes." ”

Shen Bai grinned and said loudly: "Thank Your Highness for your grace!" ”

was named by Zhao Che to accompany him, Shen Bai hummed a song all the way back to the camp, and when he lifted the curtain, he saw Shen Ruxiu sitting in the house, and the smile on Shen Bai's face was slightly retracted: "Dad, why are you here?" ”

Shen Ruxiu raised his eyes and looked at Shen Bai: "That kid from the Gu family has already returned, where have you been?" ”

Shen Bai walked to the side of the bed, saw a few yellow oranges on the table, peeled one and threw it into his mouth, and replied nonchalantly: "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince said a few words to me, what's wrong?" ”

Shen Ruxiu frowned: "You provoked His Royal Highness the Crown Prince in the Tai Academy?" ”

Hear what this says? In his old man's heart, will she only cause trouble all day long?

Shen Bai didn't like to listen to this, spit out the seeds and pretended them with orange peels, and said lazily: "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is afraid that the autumn hunt will be boring, so let me stay with me for the past few days, I haven't been to the Tai Academy for three months, how can I provoke him?" ”

Shen Ruxiu's expression was solemn and did not ease at all, Shen Bai knew that he was going to nag those words again, so he stretched his waist and yawned and said, "It's not early, I still have to take a shower, can you go out first, Dad?" ”

Shen Ruxiu's words were blocked back, he stared at Shen Bai for a long time, and finally didn't say anything and got up to leave.

After he left, Shen Bai asked Li Shan to bring hot water for a bath, changed into a middle coat and lay down comfortably to sleep.

There was no dream all night, and the next day Shen Bai got up early in the morning, changed into an indigo embroidered bamboo gown, and wandered around the camping place, and the palace people in charge of logistics built a large pot on the stove and boiled meat porridge for the accompanying medical officers and the Praetorian Guards.

From a distance, Shen Bai smelled the smell of meat, and was about to pass over, when a little eunuch came over and said in a shrill voice: "Young Master Shen, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince invites you to go to the tent to have breakfast together." ”

Shen Bai Yuguang saw Gu Hengzhou and Zhou Deshan coming over with a team of cavalry for breakfast, and still wanted to say hello to Gu Hengzhou, the eunuch lowered his voice and said: "Young Master Shen, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince doesn't like to wait for people, if Young Master Shen doesn't want to do this errand, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince can also let someone else do it." ”

That's it, if you don't say hello these days, there will be nothing wrong, but if you offend His Royal Highness the Prince, you won't have a good life.

Shen Baiqiang pressed the restlessness in his heart, turned around and walked with the eunuch towards Zhao Che's tent.

Gu Hengzhou also saw Shen Bai, he thought that this little liar would come up to say hello without skin and face like usual, but he didn't expect Shen Bai to say nothing, and directly followed a person who looked like a eunuch.

"Xingyuan, what's wrong?"

Zhou Deshan slapped a bowl of porridge and asked softly, Gu Hengzhou came back to his senses, took the bowl handed by the palace people and shook his head: "It's okay." ”

The cavalry of the lieutenant battalion is participating in the autumn hunt for the first time, and Zhou Deshan is also participating in the escort for the first time, and the pressure on him is very great, not to mention Gu Hengzhou, Zhou Deshan sighed, raised his hand and patted Gu Hengzhou's shoulder: "You have done a good job during this time, if Guogong is here, he will also be proud of you." ”

At the mention of Zhen Guogong, Gu Hengzhou's expression was slightly warm, and he nodded, driving away the distracting thoughts in his mind.

Shen Bai followed the palace people to Zhao Che's camp, today Zhao Che changed into a begonia color embroidered gold silk koi dress, this dress is a little bright, but it was completely suppressed by him, not feminine and exaggerated, only lined with his lips red and white teeth, handsome and elegant.

Shen Bai didn't know much about Zhao Che during the prince's period, and he had only seen him a few times in his memory, and today was the first time he saw him dressed so fancy, and he unconsciously pouted: "Your Highness is really dressed today, I am afraid that all the ladies present will be fascinated by His Highness." ”

Zhao Che had a shiny xiaolongbao in front of him, two plates of delicate and lovely pastries, and a small plate of greasy pickles next to him, and two pairs of chopsticks facing each other. ”

After becoming the emperor, Zhao Che smiled very little, and most of the time he frowned, worried that the treasury was empty and had no income, that the court was dark and that no one was available, and that the people were poor and miserable.

I didn't look very carefully last night, but today it was bright, and Shen Bai found that Zhao Che smiled gently and warmly, which was actually very good-looking.

In the previous life, Shen Bai quarreled with Zhao Che many times in the imperial study because of political affairs, Zhao Che threw folds and smashed tea cups at Shen Bai, but he never moved a finger from Shen Bai, Shen Bai knew that he was better than Emperor Hengde, he was a wise man, and he was a little soft-hearted.

Relying on the friendship of the previous life, Shen Bai didn't wait for Zhao Che to speak, he sat directly in front of Zhao Che, looked at him seriously, and said, "Your Highness, you are so good-looking, you should smile more." ”

Zhao Che was slightly stunned, and Shen Bai returned to the topic just now: "I originally thought that His Highness's clothes were ostentatious, but when His Highness smiled, I realized that His Highness was born to be swaggering, and he was wearing coarse linen clothes, and he couldn't hide the noble aura exuded from his bones." ”

Shen Baizui was really sweet, Zhao Che came back to his senses, his eyebrows and eyes were slightly bent, he picked up the dishes and chopsticks and started eating, and after thinking about it, he couldn't help but ask: "Is Zhishu so clever in front of Gu Shizi?" ”

Zhao Che suddenly mentioned Gu Hengzhou, Shen Bai was so shocked that the buns in his hand fell, Zhao Che didn't look at it, and put the buns he held into Shen Bai's bowl: "There is no malice in this palace, it's just a little curious." ”

When you were the emperor, you didn't like to listen to gossip so much.

Shen Bai slandered, stuffed the bun into his mouth, and replied vaguely: "I said yesterday that I had made a mistake, why does Your Highness still ask this?" ”

Zhao Che raised his eyebrows slightly, and looked at Shen Bai with deep eyes: "Zhishu said that he was wrong, does it mean that he plans to change the problem of liking Gu Shizi in the future?" ”

Shen Bai was asked and had no appetite, put down his chopsticks and sighed helplessly: "Your Highness, you can't see or touch the word love, if I can control it, I won't do such a ridiculous thing when I was in Tai Academy, anyway, His Royal Highness the Prince of the World can't like me, maybe one day I will wipe out this love myself." ”

Zhao Che asked, "How are you so sure that Gu Shizi can't like you?" ”

Shen Bai rolled his eyes: "Because I'm a man, how can His Royal Highness like a man?" ”

Shen Bai's actions were actually a little disrespectful, but Zhao Che was not angry at all, but laughed lowly.

Shen Bai was inexplicably laughed by him, and because of his status as the prince, he didn't dare to do anything to him, so he could only eat with his head bored.

After breakfast, the palace people blew the horn and asked everyone to gather, Zhao Che ordered Shen Bai to accompany him, and Shen Bai followed Zhao Che directly.

According to the ancestral system, the mountain god should be sacrificed before the autumn hunt, not only in the hope that the autumn hunt can be safe and smooth, but also in the hope that more prey can be hunted, after all, this is also a good omen for the coming year.

The process of the sacrifice is quite cumbersome, there is a priest in charge of the sacrifice to read out the documents, and then carry the roast suckling pig, by Emperor Hengde and the three dukes together to cut off the pig's head, the whole autumn hunt is officially started.

After the end of the festival, it was noon, and everyone began to have lunch again, and tomorrow they would go into the mountains to hunt, and this afternoon was a competition between the princes who participated in the hunt and the sons of various families.

Every year, the Imperial Horse Supervisor will raise a batch of good horses for the autumn hunt, but good horses are also divided into good and bad, and they will get the right to choose their mounts first through a competition before going into the mountains to hunt.

The children of these families may not be very accurate in looking at horses, but if they can win the competition first, they can also have a good luck.

The competition is divided into two rounds, riding and archery.

There were not many children of the family accompanying him this time, and the competition didn't take long, and after lunch, he left an hour's lunch break, and Shen Bai was put back into the camp tent by Zhao Che to rest.

Shen Bai walked back slowly with his hands behind his back, and when he was about to reach the camp, he was bumped into by a little maid.

Shen Bai had practiced, and he took half a step back to stabilize his body, but the little girl fell to the ground, and a basket of silver flowers was sprinkled all over the ground.

"Oops!"

The maid screamed in pain, soft and weak, as if Shen Bai had deliberately bumped into her.

Shen Bai squatted down to pick up the basket to help her pick up flowers, and apologized on his face: "It's because I accidentally didn't see my sister, and my sister wasn't injured, right?" Would you like to ask the Imperial Doctor to take a look? ”

Shen Bai's voice was gentle, full of sincere concern, the maid's eyes were red and wanted to cry, but she was stunned for a moment by such care, and then her face flushed, and she shook her head shyly: "No ...... Nothing. ”

Shen Bai's smile deepened: "Why is my sister in such a hurry, but do you need my help?" ”

"I ...... My young lady was bitten by mosquitoes and had a red rash all over her body, and I wanted to bathe her with honeysuckle. The maid said timidly, took the flower basket from Shen Bai's hand, and after a while, she secretly lifted her eyes to look at Shen Bai, and saw that Shen Bai was still looking at herself, her cheeks became more and more blushing, and she bit her lip and said: "I see that this young master is also delicate and expensive, and when I go back to rest in a while, remember to burn the incense that repells insects, don't be bitten." ”

"Thank you sister for reminding me." Shen Bai thanked him, and his face was moved, "I don't know where my sister is serving, I happen to lack my own people around me, I want to go to the house to ask my sister for red sleeves and incense, is my sister willing?" ”

Shen Bai's tone gradually relaxed, the maid was so ashamed that her head was almost buried in her chest, and she was about to answer, when a cold voice sounded behind her: "During the autumn hunt, it is strictly forbidden to hook up and confuse the accompanying maids, Young Master Shen, do you want to go to Dali Temple to eat in prison?" ”

Someone came, the maid took the opportunity to run away from Shen Bai and escaped, Shen Bai turned around, and sure enough, he saw Gu Hengzhou standing behind with a cold face, and touched the tip of his nose in a sneer: "Brother Gu, why are you here?" ”

A trace of disgust flashed in Gu Hengzhou's eyes, and he asked in a cold voice: "If I don't come, are you going to trick people into your account and do bad things?" ”

Shen Bai felt that she had been wronged, what evil intentions could she have towards a maid, and what could make her think badly was not only this cold and wooden person in front of her?

This matter is too complicated to explain, Rao is a clever person like Shen Bai didn't know how to tell Gu Hengzhou for a while, so he could only come to Gu Hengzhou without skin and face and say, "Brother Gu, do you believe me if I said that the maid just now deliberately hit me?" ”

Gu Hengzhou's eyelids raised slightly: "Do you think I'm blind?" ”

Gu Hengzhou was very angry, and after saying that, he turned around and left, Shen Bai chased after him for two steps, Gu Hengzhou didn't turn his head back, and threw something into Shen Bai's face.

Gu Hengzhou's strength was not light, Shen Bai's head was smashed a little painfully, he covered his head with a sigh and stopped, and looked down to see a three-finger-wide bamboo tube on the ground, the bamboo tube was sealed with red lacquer, and there was a faint smell of wormwood, which should be an insect repellent incense uniformly prepared by the accompanying imperial doctor.

In this way, Gu Hengzhou made a special trip to send her insect repellent incense?

This conjecture made Shen Bai's whole heart dip into the honey pot, and just wanted to go to Gu Hengzhou to make it clear, the eunuch came again in the morning, and respectfully took out two bamboo tubes and gave them to Shen Bai: "Young Master Shen, there are a lot of mosquitoes in the camp, His Royal Highness the Prince specially asked the servants to send some incense to repel mosquitoes, Young Master Shen burn it and have a good rest." ”

Thinking of the questions Zhao Che asked in the morning, Shen Bai dispelled the idea of going to Gu Hengzhou, took the incense and gave the eunuch some reward, and went back to his tent directly.

In addition to the mosquito repellent incense sent by Gu Hengzhou and Zhao Che, Shen Bai took out the incense given to her by Gu Hengxiu from his package, she didn't plan to use this incense, did the maid just happen to remind her to order incense to repel insects?

With doubts in his heart, Shen Bai went to Shen Ruxiu's camp, after the morning sacrifice, Shen Ruxiu was summoned by Emperor Hengde and has not yet returned, Shen Bai walked around the house, and no one put incense in his camp.

Shen Bai put the incense sent by Zhao Che to the head of Shen Ruxiu's bed, returned to his tent, and summoned Li Shan: "Do you know which young lady was bitten by mosquitoes today?" ”

Li Shan poured a cup of tea and dipped his fingers in the table to write the word 'ginger'.

Jiang Qinse?

Gu Hengxiu and Jiang Yinglou conspired together to wait for an opportunity to make Shen Bai make a mistake, Gu Hengxiu specially sent Shen Bai incense, Jiang Qinse happened to be bitten by mosquitoes, and the maid next to him happened to bump into Shen Bai's arms so well, reminding Shen Bai to light incense, everything was too coincidental, it was difficult for Shen Bai not to suspect whether they were colluding to plot something.

Shen Bai put one hand on the table, his index finger tapped again and again, and said to Li Shan after a while: "After the afternoon competition starts, you can help me do something." ”

After the lunch break, everyone gathered at the competition venue one after another, with Emperor Hengde present, the victory or defeat of the competition was naturally decided by him.

Shen Bai and Zhao Che walked together, and on the way, they saw Jiang Qinse wearing a veil and leading the maid king to the test venue, Shen Bai was happy, and ran over happily, and did not talk to Jiang Qinse, but said to the maid: "My sister was originally the maid of the Jiang family, but I can find it easily." ”

The tulle blocked most of Jiang Qinse's face, revealing only a pair of moist autumn eyes, which was two more mysterious and beautiful than that day in the Guogong Mansion.

Because of Shen Bai's neglect and abruptness, Jiang Qinse frowned slightly, and scolded in a low voice: "This Langjun is so rude, how can he treat my maid like this?" ”

Shen Bai grinned and said flatteringly: "Sister misunderstood, today by chance, I met this sister next to you, she kindly reminded me to light the incense of insect repellent, so I was able to sleep well, I didn't want to get into trouble with her, I just wanted to thank her." ”

As he spoke, Shen Bai tore off the blank jade pendant on his waist and stuffed it into the maid's hand, holding her hand and eagerly said: "Good sister, I really like you, you wait, when you return to the city, I will personally go to Jiang Mansion to redeem your body!" ”

Shen Bai swore by it, but the maid was frightened and shy, and she opened her mouth and couldn't speak.

Jiang Qinse had never seen such a straightforward and bold person as Shen Bai, so he was so angry that he pulled the maid behind him to block it, glared at Shen Bai and scolded: "This Lang Junxiu wants to talk nonsense again, my maid is not someone you can play casually!" ”

After Jiang Qinse finished speaking, he pulled the maid away, and when they walked away, Zhao Che slowly walked to Shen Bai's side, and asked suspiciously, "What are you provoking Miss Jiang for?" ”

Shen Bai grinned and said lazily: "I said that I have taken a fancy to her maidservant, does Your Highness believe it?" ”

Zhao Che tilted his head, looked at the backs of Jiang Qinse and the maidservant girl from a distance for a while, and said lightly: "This palace thinks that neither of them is as good as Gu Shizi's demeanor." ”

Shen Bai: "......"

What do you do with the people you like?

Not knowing what to reply, Shen Bai simply shut up and stopped talking.

It wasn't too early for her and Zhao Che to arrive, everyone else basically arrived, and in the first round of riding competition, the people of the Imperial Horse Supervisor pulled out the horses for everyone to choose freely.

This round of competition only determines the order of the next round of competition, and does not have much impact on the final result, just let everyone warm up first, and then observe the situation of this batch of horses.

However, it was said that it was a free choice, several princes did not choose, and of course others did not dare to strike first, so as soon as Zhao Che and Shen Bai arrived, everyone's eyes were focused on Zhao Che.

Shen Bai stood beside Zhao Che and smiled very flatteringly: "Your Highness, I know a little about choosing horses, why don't I help you choose a horse this round?" ”

Zhao Che didn't seem to have a strong desire to win, and when he saw Shen Bai's eagerness to try, he raised his chin: "Go ahead." ”

Shen Bai immediately ran over to choose a horse, she was not bragging, she chose a horse not only to see whether the horse's coat color was bright, but also to see whether the horse nails on the horse's paw were firmly nailed, in addition to whether the horse's teeth were good.

Shen Bai picked very carefully, and the crowd that was still noisy quickly quieted down, and everyone waited to see what kind of horse she would pick out in the end.

Under such a gaze, Shen Bai didn't have any pressure at all, and after looking at a dozen or so horses, he was in front of a black and brown horse with shiny coat and strong limbs.

The horse was very tall, half a head taller than Shen Bai, and the horse's eyes were as bright as amber, reflecting Shen Bai's face with a satisfied smile.

Shen Bai turned around and searched for Zhao Che in the crowd, and a slow voice sounded: "This horse, this prince wants it!" ”

Zhao Chou swaggered up to Shen Bai, leaned over to Shen Bai slightly, stared at her eyes for a moment, and the corners of his lips hooked up an evil smile: "What, dissatisfied?" ”

Shen Bai took two steps back and gave the horse to Zhao Chou: "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince attaches great importance to love and righteousness, and since His Royal Highness has opened his mouth, there is absolutely no reason not to give it." ”

Shen Bai directly made the decision for Zhao Che, Zhao Chou turned his head to look at Zhao Che, Zhao Che stood in the distance, his face was not shocked, as if he didn't notice what was happening here at all.

Zhao Chou took the horse away, Shen Bai continued to help Zhao Che choose a horse, and when he walked in front of a jujube red horse, a burning gaze stuck to her, and he turned his head suspiciously, just in front of Gu Hengzhou's cold eyes.

Shen Bai's heart was sudden, could it be that Brother Gu also fell in love with this horse? But with Brother Gu's strength, he will win the first place in the next round no matter what, and he shouldn't care much about which horse to ride in this round, right?

Shen Bai hesitated, a little undecided, Zhao Che didn't know when he walked to her, reached out and touched the horse's head, Wen smiled and said, "Just this one, this palace thinks it's very good." ”