Helan Mountain is high, towering into the clouds, and stretches from north to south for more than 400 miles, blocking the wind-blown sand and dryness from the Tengger Desert, so that the Hetao Plain, which is rich in water and grass to the east of Helan Mountain, has not become a dry desert.

To the east of Helan Mountain, there is a vast plain covered by lush grass and low shrubs, which are home to rabbits, foxes, deer, wild boars, and even leopards.

Later generations of the Chinese nation has a card table to choose a son-in-law, Lotte is also very agreeable with this statement, because a man's cards can usually outline his character, if the man for those few small money, often seven emotions on the mood of the shape, most of it is difficult to become a big tool.

Dangxiang people are born with a good tiger, not only nomadic people but also like to hunt, Chinese people like to choose a son-in-law at the card table, in, and the party people prefer to choose a son-in-law on the hunting ground, and the daughter is the greatest happiness only if she marries such a strong and brainy man. Although Princess Lando's marriage has been decided, the tradition of the party is still in the form of a decline, even if Princess Lando is married to a Han Chinese, and she is also a literati who seems to be powerless.

Lotte is a civil official, and the matter of hunting seems to have nothing to do with Lotte Feng, but Lotte is the protagonist of today, but he has to appear on the hunting ground. Of course, it is not excluded that the party members are suspected of watching Lotte jokes, saying that they have suffered such a big loss as the Song people on the battlefield, and watching the jokes can also find some psychological comfort.

In addition to helplessness or helplessness, Lotte didn't want to participate in this hunt, but he couldn't help but participate, fortunately, he learned to ride a horse this year, although the riding skills are not good, but he can still ride a horse and gallop a little, otherwise on the road from Tong'an City to Gai Zhuwei, the Western Xia cavalry chased fiercely behind, and Lotte would have lost his life a long time ago.

As soon as the sky was bright, I saw a black line suddenly appear on the originally calm grassland, and then the sound of horses' hooves came, and countless knights came quickly from a distance, and their mouths made strange shouts, breaking the original tranquility, making those animals in the grass, bushes and woods frightened, and hurriedly ran away, and even at this time, the animals that were originally natural enemies of each other's food chain did not care about each other's crossing the line and fighting, and chose to flee together.

After checking these animals, they found that the original escape route had already been blocked, and finally chose an unblocked place in panic to run for their lives. When these panicked animals fled here, they found that they had found themselves in an ambush encirclement, and they were surrounded by death, and they couldn't escape at all.

"Surround three and one, the best art of war when fighting, the party is worthy of being a natural warrior!" Looking at the animals that were surrounded by the Western Xia cavalry in the hunting ground, Lotte nodded and said.

"Whether it is the Dangxiang people, the Liao people, or the Mongols, they all use such means to hunt!" Xu Jiang, who was following Lotte, said.

"So they are better at fighting than us Han Chinese!" Lotte nodded, and then shook his head disdainfully: "What's the difference between hunting like this and fishing in a fish pond, it's boring!" ”

"That's what your lord said!" Xu Jiang hurriedly replied, but while speaking, his eyes looked left and right from time to time, and he said in a low voice: "My lord, be careful, we only brought fifty subordinates on this trip, be careful of what the party members do!" ”

Lotte smiled, and at the same time sorted out the uncomfortable armor on his body: "Don't worry, the party members are now afraid that something will happen to the official, and it's too late to protect the official!" ”

As he spoke, Wu Song, who had been guarding the safety behind Lotte, kept staring at the Xixia team, but saw a team of horseback women with bows and arrows appear in the Xixia team, and couldn't help but ask: "My lord, how come there are party women in the hunting team?" ”

"Among the party members, the woman's riding and archery skills are also good!" Chang Kunshen, who was guarding Lotte's side, arched his hand and said, and then said: "I remember that a party prisoner of war captured by Xia Guan once said that when the lord of Xia Guoguo recruited his son-in-law, he would compete in the horse archery competition, and the princess would also be present on the day of the competition, so the princess who was about to marry an adult wanted to be among the women in this team. ”

The work of guarding Lotte Xu will be very careful, and there are always eight people in heavy armor around him to protect Lotte in the middle, even if someone shoots a cold arrow, he will never be able to penetrate the heavy armor on the body of these eight people, of course, except that the other party uses a heavy bed crossbow.

"That girl is too?" Hearing this, Lotte pinched his chin, a smile appeared in his eyes, and he immediately remembered the little eunuch with red lips and white teeth that day, "I have to look carefully this time, is it the little eunuch that little girl dressed up that day!" ”

This time, those who went to Western Xia with Lotte, in addition to the three hundred Xihe elites of Maojiu, there are also two hundred elites of the Biandu forbidden army, which is quite good in combat effectiveness, but this time the hunting under Helan Mountain is very close to Xingqing Mansion, and the guards brought out by Xia Chongzong Li Qianshun are only more than 2,000 people, so it is naturally impossible for Lotte to bring all the 500 soldiers, so Lotte only brought the elite of the fifty elites.

For this situation, the Tangut people naturally knew about it in advance. These fifty elites are also carefully selected by Xu Jiang, these fifty people must have brains in addition to being good at fighting, and have a keen judgment of things, in addition to another characteristic, that is, to be lucky, who can survive from the battlefield, in addition to having strength, luck is also essential, and Mao Jiu was naturally selected among them.

Seeing that the prey was driven to the hunting ground within a radius of several miles, Xia Chongzong Li Qianshun, the crown prince Li Renbao and others immediately opened their bows and arrows, and then slaughtered the prey that had been encircled.

Yes, at this moment, Lotte rode a horse and followed Li Qianshun, pulled out his bow and shot at the pile of animals inside, and the blind cat also shot a few like dead rats.

Well, while Lotte was archery, he found that some party nobles looked at him very wrongly, and even looked at Xia Chongzong Li Qianshun's eyes with great satisfaction.

Feeling these strange eyes, Lotte who was in a foreign country immediately became alert, put down the bow in his hand, and subconsciously looked at the remaining arrows in his quiver, his eyes were full of vigilance.

Li Qianshun, who was shooting arrows with a bow next to him, sensed Lotte's abnormality, and also stopped, and asked, "The interest is high, why did the virtuous son-in-law stop!" ”

Lotte lowered his voice and replied, "Your Majesty doesn't think there's something wrong with today's atmosphere?" ”

"What's wrong?" Li Qianshun exclaimed.

"The eyes of His Majesty the Ministers who are accompanying the Lord of the Kingdom today are very wrong!" Lotte replied, and at the same time his eyes swept over the ministers and nobles of Western Xia, and whispered: "Your Majesty, you can feel the dissatisfaction of the little envoy from the eyes of the little envoy......

"Hahaha......"

Before Lotte finished speaking, Li Qian laughed by the way.

Even the crown prince Li Renbao, who was with Li Qianshun, also laughed, and only after the laughter fell did he say to Lotte: "Sister-in-law, according to the rules of my Great Xia, the new aunt who is going to take the school entrance examination is going to take the school riding and archery, but thinking that you are a southerner who is not good at this, he replaced it with hunting, which naturally attracted the dissatisfaction of some people who like to follow the ancestral system." ”

I see, Lotte was stunned, and then bowed to Li Qianshun: "Thank you, Your Majesty, for your understanding!" ”

"Nanren, my party's son-in-law is a real hunting, how can there be a fish like you today, you are still ashamed!" Just as Lotte was talking, he suddenly saw a horse galloping to his side, pointing at him with a whip in his hand.

Looking at the people, Lotte almost laughed, this is a daughter's family on a horse, Lotte recognized it at a glance, this daughter's family is the one who pretended to be a little eunuch in the Xixia Palace that day, and I think it must be the princess Landuo who promised herself.

However, Lotte still pretended to be confused and asked, "Who is this little lady?" ”

"Landor must not be rude!" Seeing the little woman, Li Qianshun reprimanded.

Li Qianshun pointed out the identity of this woman, and the person who came was undoubtedly Princess Lando, but Princess Lando suddenly changed her attitude, and said in a somewhat coquettish tone: "Father, my party members all pick sons-in-law on horseback, how can this southerner who can't pull a strong bow and can't gallop fast horses be worthy of me!" ”

"Shut up!" Li Qianshun snorted lightly, and said with a smile with Lotte: "This daughter of Lone, she is spoiled by Lone as the pearl of her palm on weekdays. ”

After staring at Lotte up and down a few times, Princess Lando raised her tone and asked, "Han people, if you have the ability, ride your horse to hunt a few prey to prove your ability, otherwise I will look down on you!" ”

Before Li Qianshun could open his mouth to reprimand, Lan Duo's voice immediately ushered in the echo or coaxing of many party nobles or ministers.

Hearing the sound of coaxing and echoing, Lotte smiled bitterly, obviously these Tangut people want to see themselves ugly, after all, the Song and Xia have been at odds for more than a hundred years, and there is no way to resolve the deep grievances between the two sides, not to mention that they have captured and killed many Xia troops, and the whole country of Xixia hates themselves to death, and they want to marry the princess of Xixia, if it is not for the pressure on the captured soldiers and the border in their country, these people have the idea of chopping themselves with a knife, compared to seeing themselves ugly, they have the greatest mercy to themselves.

Let yourself go hunting, and how many prey will you have to hunt back? Isn't that embarrassing for yourself, Lotte said.

But Lotte didn't admit defeat in his heart, looked at Princess Landau and smiled: "Her Royal Highness looks down on the little envoy? ”

Princess Lando nodded, and said in response: "Yes, you can't hunt like a man, not only this princess looks down on you, but my whole country in Great Xia looks down on you!" ”

After Princess Lando's words fell, it attracted the echo of the Tangut people.

"What the princess said is nothing but the courage of the horseman!" Lotte was disdainful, and said in his mouth: "Le is a literati, and he can't hold a sharp blade with a heavy bow, but he can be a man who can make a country, and what is the act of a reckless man, has the princess ever heard the ancients say that two peaches kill three soldiers?" ”

"You ......" was choked back by Lotte's words, Princess Lando was immediately furious, and then smiled: "You southerners are cunning, and you want to explain your weakness and incompetence so high-sounding!" ”

"The sages said, 'Do not do unto others as you would have them do unto you.'" Does Her Royal Highness have to be strong? Lotte asked.

Looking at Princess Lando and Lotte arguing, Li Qianshun didn't seem to see it, as if he also wanted to see how Lotte coped.

After looking at Lotte a few times, Princess Lando suddenly smiled like a flower: "Okay, this princess won't let you hunt, then I will take the test to test your riding skills!" ”

Just before Lotte understood what Princess Landor meant, he saw Princess Lando swing a whip on the mount under Lotte's crotch, and then Lotte only heard the neighing of the horses under the seat, and ran away with himself.

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