Today, Liu Yi finally knew that the woman's name was Xu Yanjun, a man-like name.

Later, he said some inconsequential things, some about Yanjing, some about the northwest border, and some about the understanding of weapons. Liu Yi himself can't remember clearly, but he only remembers that the woman's name is Xu Yanjun, Xu Yanjun, the daughter of Xu Bangchang, the general of Zhenxi.

Later, Xu Bangchang felt that Xu Yanjun's daughter's family always stayed in the northwest border all day long, and was angry and unsuitable for girls, so he sent Xu Yanjun back to Yanjing, fostered in his best friend Chu Youdao's mansion in Taichang Temple, and repaired the book to Chu Youdao, so that Chu Youdao would raise Xu Yanjun's Chu Youdao's daughters together, study female workers together, learn female commandments together, and learn some things that should be learned by the daughter's family, lest no family in Yanjing will want her in the future, and she will be ridiculed in the future. Then she became an old girl who guarded the boudoir alone, and she was spared from going underground to complain to Mrs. Xu in the future, and did not marry her baby daughter.

That farewell, Liu Yi hadn't seen Xu Yanjun for a long time, and the next time he saw Xu Yanjun was in the royal autumn hunt a year later, and it happened that the first emperor had just summoned him back to Yanjing and was named King Yi.

Liu Yi was fifteen years old that year, and Xu Yanjun was fourteen years old.

The Royal Autumn Hunt is in the Deer Park near Yanjing, which is about the size of two or three small county towns, and there are some wild beasts in it, which are specially sent to take care of and feed them, which are specially used for hunting and hunting during the Royal Autumn Hunt.

Every year during the autumn hunt, the emperor, princes and princesses have the right to invite some ministers of the court, children of the family or the ladies of the government to come to the deer park.

The other invited ladies and princesses from the palace sat on the observation deck, which was built halfway up the mountainside, and from here you could see the whole view of the deer park, and you could also see the men chasing their prey on horses.

On the observation deck, the ladies either played the piano, played chess, tasted royal tea, ate royal snacks, and chatted about some recent anecdotes in Yanjing, and the entire viewing platform was filled with the laughter of the ladies.

Xu Yanjun received an invitation from Princess Ruihe to participate in the royal autumn hunt. Xu Yanjun had never seen Princess Ruihe, let alone had any dealings with Princess Ruihe, and she didn't know why Princess Ruihe invited her to participate in the royal autumn hunt.

But Liu Yi knows very well why.

Princess Ruihe is the biological daughter of Liu Yi's adoptive mother, Concubine He Shufei. Liu Yi's biological mother, Hu Zhaorong, suddenly died of an emergency when Liu Yi was five years old. The first emperor handed Liu Yi over to Concubine He Shu to raise. Concubine He Shufei has no son, only one daughter, who is only two years younger than Liu Yi. Although Concubine He Shufei is not favored, she is from a scholarly family, she is sensible, and she will not compete for favor with her children, which makes the first emperor very relieved to hand over Liu Yi to Concubine He Shufei.

Because Rui and Princess Rui are close to Liu Yi and have played together since childhood, they naturally have a good relationship, if it weren't for their half-brother and sister, maybe Liu Yi still has some love between men and women with Rui and Princess Rui.

Liu Yi and Xu Yanjun have only met once, and he is a prince, if he rashly invites female dependents, he will definitely be discussed by those families in Yanjing, he is nothing as a man, but it is not good if Xu Yanjun's innocence is stained in vain.

So, Liu Yi asked his sister Rui and Princess to invite Xu Yanjun to participate in the royal autumn hunt, so that no one would say anything.

When Liu Yi went to ask Rui and the princess, Rui and the princess also laughed at Liu Yi, saying that Liu Yi was tempted by Xu Yanjun, and asked Liu Yi if he wanted to marry Xu Yanjun as his sister-in-law.

At that time, Liu Yi understood that it was impossible for him to marry Xu Yanjun.

At that time, his eldest brother, the former crown prince Liu Yan, was impeached by hundreds of officials for his lack of virtue and had just been deposed, and it was the time when the major parties competed. There are people headed by Prime Minister Tang Chengping who recommend Liu Jing, King Yue, people led by the prince and young master Yu Zhiqiu who recommend King Gong Liu Qi, and people led by Liu Xie, King of Pingyang, who recommend King Cheng Liu Jun, but there are very few people who support him and benefit King Liu Yi, and for those people, there is no fear at all.

In the eyes of outsiders, it is impossible for him Liu Yi to ascend to the throne.

Not to mention whether Liu Yi can ascend to the throne, even if he has that opportunity, Xu Bangchang will not marry his daughter, because he is not willing to get involved in this court battle at all.

For the party headed by Xu Bangchang, no matter who is on the throne, it is only a matter of assisting the monarch, just a matter of who to assist. Rather than turning back and taking the wrong party and disgusting the monarch who succeeded him, it is better not to take sides in the first place. This is what Xu Bangchang thinks is the way to protect one's life.

In the end, Princess Ruihe still invited Xu Yanjun, but Xu Yanjun was not like other women, sitting on the observation deck and watching those men hunt, but changed into his red riding clothes and rode on the clouds to gallop in the vast Deer Park hunting ground. Dengyun is the name of her mount, a small reddish-brown mare with a white spot on her forehead, slender limbs, and a fast run, as if she had climbed into the sky.

Xu Yanjun rode into a deep forest on a cloud, the lush trees blocked the blue sky, and he could only faintly see some light leaking from the gaps between the leaves, a little distant and confused.

There was no one else in the deep forest, only Xu Yanjun. She only heard the sound of horses' hooves coming from behind, and she looked back in the direction from which the sound came from, and it was a person riding a black horse. Because the distance was too far and there were lush branches and leaves, Xu Yanjun never saw the person's appearance clearly.

Xu Yanjun was a little uneasy, so she pointed her bow and arrow at the person, and when the person got closer, she finally saw the person's appearance clearly.

That person was none other than Liu Yi, who had fought with Xu Yanjun in the Northwest Frontier before and was recalled by the emperor from the Northwest Frontier some time ago.

After seeing his face clearly, Xu Yanjun put down his bow and arrow, and put the feather arrow that was just tightening on the string back into the quiver on Dengyun's side.

Xu Yanjun didn't know why Liu Yi came to him.

I only heard Liu Yi say: "Xu Yanjun, I finally found you." ”

Xu Yanjun was wondering in his heart what Liu Yi's purpose was, so he said: "You don't feel embarrassed because you lost face because you lost your face in the last competition on the northwest border, and then come to fight with me now, right?" I can tell you, this forest is not a good place to fight, and if you do, find another place. ”

Liu Yi snorted and laughed, his expression was a little strange, and said, "Could it be that my dignified King Yi is such a villain in your eyes?" ”

Xu Yanjun felt that Liu Yi had misunderstood what he meant, so he waved his hand and immediately explained: "That's not what I meant. It's just that I don't know you well, what do you come to me for? ”

Liu Yi was duplicitous and refused to confess to Xu Yanjun, but only quibbled: "I didn't come to you, it's just that this horse happened to take me to the forest, and besides, this forest is not yours, anyone can enter." ”

Xu Yanjun didn't think much about it, just said, "That's a coincidence, don't follow me." ”

But I didn't want Liu Yi to be a little scoundrel and said: "I just want to follow you, and you can't do anything about me." ”

Xu Yanjun was a little annoyed, so he didn't talk to Liu Yi, and the two quietly rode side by side, and the horses stepped on the wet land, leaving two strings of deep or shallow footprints.

The forest was not very large, and after walking for a while, we reached the end of the deep forest. At the end of the plain was a plain, because the deep forest was relatively dark just now, and when I arrived at this plain, the original ordinary light became a little dazzling.

There was some grass growing on the plains, not high, but reaching the belly of the horse. It was quiet, but there was a rumbling sound in the distance, like the hooves of some animal on the ground. The sound is getting closer and closer, it must be the herd coming, and the sound of a livestock's feet will never sound here.

In a moment, I saw a stag with huge horns appear at the end of the horizon, and gradually, more deer appeared behind it.

Xu Yanjun pointed to the deer and said excitedly: "Look! It's a herd of deer! ”

Liu Yi was a little more nervous than Xu Yanjun's excitement, because the deer herd was coming in their direction, and the formation was fierce, like a fire, quickly spreading the plain they could see.

Liu Yi was shocked: "It's not good, run!" ”

Xu Yanjun didn't know what was about to happen, and he didn't understand why Liu Yi was surprised, he just felt that this person was a little strange, a good opportunity to show his archery skills had come, what was wrong.

Liu Yi saw that Xu Yanjun was unmoved, so he said: "This beast is fierce, don't look at the road, I'm afraid that I will hit it later." And this beast has a huge leg force, and if you step on it with its foot, you will die. Run! ”

Xu Yanjun suddenly realized, she turned the horse's head, took the small leather whip and whipped Dengyun vigorously, wanting Dengyun to run faster, and she still looked back from time to time.

Liu Yi's chasing the wind ran in front, and Dengyun followed behind. Although Dengyun ran fast, it was still not as fast as the deer. The deer chased after her ass as they saw it.

The road in front of him narrowed, there were two towering giant trees next to it, the wind had passed, and Dengyun followed, but I don't know when a tripping rope appeared between the two big trees, Dengyun didn't have time to jump up and jump over the tripping rope, so he was directly tripped by the tripping rope, and Xu Yanjun also fell off the horse.

Falling from the horse made Xu Yanjun fall painfully, and before she could react, she saw that a deer had already run over, and it was getting closer and closer, closer and closer. By the time she opened her eyes, the deer had already run in front of her. At that moment, when the deer's hooves were about to be on her, she felt that she was dead, closed her eyes, and just waited for the deer's hooves to step on it.

But I didn't want to hear a "boom", and an arrow came through the clouds, and hit the deer in the neck, and the deer didn't struggle, but fell backwards, and then didn't move—the deer died.

Xu Yanjun looked at the direction where the arrow was shot, and it was Liu Yi who was not far away.

Liu Yi rode over on the wind, and the one he just shot was the leading deer that ran in front, and when Liu Yi ran in front of Xu Yanjun, a large number of deer behind him were only ten meters away from them.

Liu Yi understands that he may not be able to run past a deer just after being so far away, and now if he is riding a horse, the weight of two people will make the horse run slower, and it is impossible to run hard. And Xu Yanjun just fell from his horse, so he must have been injured.