Chapter XXXVII

"You're so daring!" Xu Guanzhong's words made Yelu Yanxi turn his anger into joy. "It's better to choose a day than to hit the sun, I ask your envoys to hunt together!"

Xu Guanzhong gave another salute, did what he liked, and said to Yelu Yanxi: "The foreign minister obeys the order!" ”

The performance of the Liao people's most important heroes, Xu Ning and Xu Guanzhong, impressed Yelu Yanxi and won the respect of the Khitans present.

Yelu Yanxi is only in his thirties this year, and he is in the heyday of the Spring and Autumn Period. He is also quite handsome, although his face is a little pale, and his body is thin on weekdays. But today he wears a scarf on his head, armor and uniform, and against the backdrop of the field hunting costume with a sable as his waist, he also looks heroic.

Although Yelu Yanxi lived in exile for a period of time because of the case of his grandmother Xiao Guanyin when he was a child, he did not suffer much. Later, in order to make up for the guilt of his wife and children, his grandfather Yelu Hongji of Liaodaozong has been doting on Yelu Yanxi in every way after taking him back. Yelu Yanxi, who has lived in the deep palace since he was a child and raised in the hands of women, can be said to be an inexhaustible beauty of alcohol, wine and wealth, especially good at polo and hunting.

Especially for hunting, he has a great interest. Every time there is such an opportunity, I don't forget to show my extraordinary courage and archery skills.

Therefore, seeing Xu Ning's archery skills and Xu Guanzhong's words about hunting bears, he immediately introduced the two as confidants.

Xu Guanzhong's follower Yelu Yanxi rode up the mountain, and Xu Ning escorted Wen Huanzhang and followed behind. This Luming Mountain is a newly opened hunting ground in Yelu Yanxi, where foxes, hares, roe deer, pheasants, and jackals are countless. As for tigers and brown bears, they were originally there, but they were driven away by their forbidden troops before Yelu Yanxi's hunt.

After a short lap of horses, Xu Ning hunted two pheasants and one roe deer. Xu Guanzhong's first hunt only caught one hare. However, Yelu Yanxi had a lot of harvest, including a fox, two hares, and two pheasants.

It's just that they are all small animals, and Yelu Yanxi seems to be dissatisfied, and still rushes ahead on horseback, wanting to hunt more.

"Ao Luhu, what's wrong with you?" Beating horses and turning around at the foot of a mountain, Yelu Yanxi saw his second son Yelu Ao Lu Hu running over in a hurry surrounded by a group of guards.

Although Ao Luwei is the second son, he has been smart and lovely since he was a child, and he has always been very favored by Yelu Yanxi. But at this time, I don't know why, Ao Luwei is listless and like losing his soul.

"Gift...... Father, son, is fine. Yelu Ao Lu ran to Yelu Yanxi and stopped his horse.

At this moment, everyone suddenly heard a commotion not far from the left front. Looking up, the originally orderly crowd has become chaotic.

Such a chaos was not only seen by Xu Guanzhong, but also seen by Yelu Yanxi.

"What the hell is going on?" Yelu Yanxi whipped for a while and asked loudly.

Under the forced gaze of Yelu Yanxi, Ao Luhu's guards couldn't bear it, so they had to tell the truth. "Your Majesty, a black bear has appeared in the Black Forest ahead, and it will bite people when you see them!"

"What? You mean there's a black bear? Yelu Yanxi's gloomy face did not show any expression. The attendant who told the news trembled on the ground.

"That's really...... Mrs. ...... Haha......" Yelu Yanxi laughed loudly, turned his head to Xu Guanzhong and said, "I don't know if this is your great luck or misfortune!" ”

Yelu Yanxi still remembered what Xu Guanzhong said just now that he wanted to hunt bears. It means that it is your luck to meet a black bear, and you can show yourself. But if you lose your life without measuring your own strength, it will be unfortunate.

"No, let's do it!" Immediately, Yelu Yanxi thought that he hadn't hunted a black bear for a long time, so he regretted it. Looking at the frightened second son Yelu Ao Lu Hu and said: "Ao Lu Hu! A man should be like a warrior, let you see the father's divine shooting today. ”

The elite division of the Great Liao and the Praetorian Guard of the Imperial Palace - the Palace Tent Army. Seeing that Yelu Yanxi was interested, a group of soldiers with him took action and surrounded the area infested by the black bear.

The palace tent army, also known as the royal tent soldiers, is a personal guard formed by each generation of new monarchs when they ascend the throne, so they can only protect one person.

It's just that Yelu Yanxi is the emperor after all, and he has a body of ten thousand gold, and some things can't be all based on his own preferences.

Yelu Yanxi was about to rush over, but was stopped by the sect's Yelu Dashi.

"Fuck off! Don't stand in my way! Yelu Yanxi looked at Yelu Dashi who was stopped in front of the horse, and was unhappy for a while.

For this cousin who is not very old, capable of writing and martial arts, and talented and talented, Yelu Yanxi has always been jealous. But he didn't expect him to be so bold this time and dare to stop his horse.

"Xiong Zhen is wild and hard to find, I hope Your Majesty will leave temporarily!"

Seeing that Yelu Dashi actually wanted to let him leave, Yelu Yanxi said angrily: "My words are the holy decree, let you retreat, don't you hear?" ”

"Your Majesty is concerned about the safety of the community, and you can't personally get into danger!" Yelu Dashi is not only proficient in Khitan, but also proficient in Chinese, and his speech is also very much in line with Han standards.

"Get out of the way!" Yelu Yanxi raised his whip and whipped it towards Yelu Dashi, but he heard a burst of exclamations from in front of him, and he looked up to see that Xu Guanzhong had rushed in front of the black bear at some point.

The calm and composed, Xu Guanzhong, is in stark contrast to the flustered swarm of people.

Xu Ning protected Wen Huanzhang and watched from behind, and couldn't help but be nervous for Xu Guanzhong.

Wen Huanzhang looked at Xu Guanzhong, who was confronting the black bear, and the old god was there, but he trusted Xu Guanzhong very much. Wen Huanzhang casually glanced at Yelu Yanxi, if he could gain Yelu Yanxi's trust, the next things would be easy to do.

Staring at the black bear in front of him, Xu Guanzhong took a long breath and clenched his sword to stop in front of the black bear.

The black bear has always been rampant and domineering, and when he saw that someone was not afraid of death, he unceremoniously slapped Xu Guanzhong with a palm. The skull is the hardest part of the human body, but for an adult black bear that can grow to 600 pounds and is infinitely powerful, it can smash the skull with a single palm.

Xu Guanzhong naturally wouldn't be put down by a black bear, his whole body leaned back, and the long sword in his hand stabbed out like a meteor.

Black bears have very few weaknesses, only less fur on their belly and neck. Xu Guan's choice was the belly of the black bear, and he stabbed the long sword into the belly of the black bear fiercely and accurately. Rao is a black bear with thick skin and thick flesh, but he was also stabbed in a bloody wound.

Xu Guanzhong was slightly relieved to see that the black bear was injured. This is also in the summer, and if the black bear has pine oil protection in the winter, it will not be so easy.

Stimulated by blood and pain, black bears are even more ferocious. It slapped Xu Guanzhong again, but Xu Guanzhong jumped and dodged it.

The black bear roared again and again, but he couldn't get to Xu Guanzhong's approach. Trees were knocked down by the black bear, and the black bear's wounds were getting bigger and bigger, and there were several more wounds on its body.

After swimming a few laps, Xu Guanzhong saw the opportunity and stabbed a sword into the wound in the black bear's heart.

The black bear has long lost too much blood, is dizzy, and can't hide even if he wants to. With a sword in the heart, he lay on the ground, wailing helplessly.

Xu Guanzhong didn't have the heart to torture the black bear, he raised his hand and stabbed to end the pain of the black bear.

"Good, good!" Yelu Yanxi saw that Xu Guanzhong really succeeded in hunting bears and applauded loudly.

Although at the beginning, he had some regrets because he didn't go into battle in person today. But after watching such a fierce human-bear battle, his mood suddenly improved a lot. Looking at the envoys of the southern country, it is much more pleasing to the eye.

"On behalf of Your Majesty, the Minister presents this bear to the Lord of the Kingdom. May the lord of the country be eternal, the great Liao country will be long, and the Song Liao will be good forever! Xu Guanzhong came to Yelu Yanxi and prayed loudly.

"Interesting! It's really interesting! Yelu Yanxi smiled: "I don't want Qing to have such courage, but I don't like a literati!" ”

Xu Guanzhong bowed slightly and humbled a little. Xindao: If I didn't want to take the civilian route, I could also win a martial champion.

Seeing Xu Guanzhong, Yelu Yanxi was also very happy, waved his hand, and said, "Go back to the city!" Drink! ”

"Roar...... Roared......" The Da Liao sergeant cheered.

Everyone cleaned up for a while and turned back to Daliao Zhongjing. Yelu Dashi looked at Yelu Yanxi warmly inviting Xu Guanzhong to go with him, and frowned.

Wen Huanzhang and Xu Ning walked behind the team and looked back.

"The letter has been delivered, calculate the time, it's time to do it over there!"