Chapter 224: Invite Jeruth to Eat Fish
At the foot of Mount Taizi is a vast plain, which is completely covered by lush grass and low shrubs, and in the grass and bushes live rabbits, deer, wild boars and other wild creatures, competing with each other and living in harmony, but today the natural enemies of these animals have come.
I saw that a black line suddenly appeared on the originally calm grassland, and then the hurried horse's hooves came, and countless knights rushed from a distance, with strange shouts from their mouths, which frightened the prey in the grass, and finally they could only flee by the way, but unfortunately most of their escape routes had been blocked, and finally they could only escape into the encirclement set by the hunters.
When most of the prey was driven to a radius of two kilometers, Yelu Hongji and others, who had already been prepared, immediately opened their bows and arrows, and then slaughtered the prey in the encirclement, generally speaking, as long as the archery is not too bad, there is no problem at all to shoot a few prey, and a certain pigtail emperor in later generations showed off to people that he shot hundreds of rabbits a day, in fact, it was to let people drive the rabbits into a small encirclement, and then shoot hundreds of arrows without stopping.
Tomorrow is the day of Yelu Hongji's birthday, according to Yelu Hongji's habit, a hunt will be carried out on the day before his birthday, so there is the above scene, there are a lot of people participating in this hunt, not only the male and female nobles of the Liao country, but also the envoys of various countries also participated, such as Zhao Ji rode a horse to follow Yelu Hongji's side, and his archery skills are also quite good, at least there is no problem in shooting those scared and trembling prey.
On the edge of the Luan River, two or three miles away from this slaughterhouse, Zhao Yan sat bored by the river, holding a long grass stalk in his mouth, holding a fishing rod and quietly waiting for the fish to take the bait.
The reason why Zhao Yan didn't participate in the hunt a few miles away was not because he didn't want to participate, but because his riding skills and archery skills were so bad, he usually rode a horse and ran forward slowly, but if he let the horse run, Zhao Yan would definitely fall off the horse, not to mention archery, he hadn't touched that thing since he was a child, and it was no problem for him to pull the bow, but archery was a little difficult, and the biggest problem was that the arrows shot out did not have any accuracy, so if Zhao Yan participated in the hunting, Maybe he will shoot Yelu Hongji to death with one arrow, if this is the case, it will definitely make Yelu Chongyuan's father and son die happily.
It is precisely because he knows his own level of riding and archery, so soon after the hunting began, Zhao Yan took Zhou Tong and a few other guards to the side of the Luan River, and then took out the fishing rod that had been prepared long ago and started fishing.
However, Zhao Yan obviously thought highly of his own fishing skills, he sat on the bank of the river for nearly an hour, but still did not catch a single fish, which made him a little anxious. Speaking of the Liao nobles hunting has a stinky problem, that is, they are not allowed to carry any food, they can only eat the prey they have hit, although Zhao Yan wants to secretly bring some food, but he was reprimanded by Zhao Yan, because if Zhao Yan's practice is made by others, it will definitely make the Great Song Dynasty be ridiculed by other countries, so if Zhao Yan can't catch fish, then he can only starve at noon today.
Thinking that he might starve today, Zhao Yan couldn't help but be full of resentment about the stinky problem of hunting by the nobles of the Liao State, but the scale of the hunting of the nobles of the Liao State was not useless, for example, the Liao State did not value the defense of men and women like the Great Song Dynasty, so there were not only men in this kind of hunting, but also many noble women, and these dressed women also added a bit of bright color to the hunting. Especially Yelu Hongji's more than 20 daughters get together, that is, more than 20 princesses, this kind of spectacular scene is rarely seen in the Great Song Dynasty, because the emperors of the Great Song Dynasty have always been known for their scarcity of heirs, let alone more than 20 princesses, even if the princes and princesses are added together, few people can have more than 20.
In addition, it is worth mentioning that Zhao Yan did see the princess of Zheng Guo Yelusi among those Liao princesses, and it is indeed as Su Shi said, although Zhang Renxian has just died, but Yelusi did not wear filial piety for her husband, so there is only one explanation, that is, Yelusi and Zhang Renxian have dissolved the relationship between husband and wife, as for what happened in it, I am afraid only she knows.
In just a few days, Yelusi seems to have lost a lot, and his expression is a little depressed, and Zhao Yan can also see that Yelusi is indeed not valued among many princesses, riding a jujube red horse and staying alone in the outermost area, and there are no other sisters to talk to her, and then think about what happened to her during this time, it looks really pitiful.
Zhao Yan thought about Yelusi in his mind, and soon he realized that Liaoguo is a very evil place, and he actually wanted to come to something, at first he heard a rapid sound of horses' hooves, and when he turned his head, he just saw Yelusi riding on a jujube red horse, and a light cyan hunting suit was heroically rushing towards him.
"Boom~" With a neighing of the horse, Yelusi pulled the reins of the horse, and the jujube red horse stopped next to Zhao Yan very obediently, although Zhou Tong and the others saw that Yelusi was just a woman, and she didn't bring any weapons, so they didn't stop it.
"Why didn't Her Royal Highness the princess go hunting, and actually came to this Luan River?" Zhao Yan showed a smile that he thought was very charming and asked Yelu, in fact, he is also very strange now, he has only met Yelusi twice before, and every time they meet, they will be glared at by the other party fiercely, but he didn't expect the other party to take the initiative to come to him now, which is a little strange.
"The little girl has never been very fond of riding and shooting, so she walked around the hunting grounds, but why didn't the king of the county participate in the hunting, but sat by the river to fish?" Yelusi looked Zhao Yan up and down a few times with a pair of wonderful eyes, this was also the first time she looked at the other party seriously, and the first two times she saw Zhao Yan, she was only angry.
"Haha, this king really wants to participate in the hunt, but it's a pity that the archery is too bad, if the emperor's majesty can make a will to pardon me for killing people, then this king doesn't mind shooting a few arrows." Zhao Yan said very chicly, he didn't hide the slightest thing about his own inability to shoot arrows, but took it out to joke, because in his opinion, this is nothing at all, ninety-nine percent of the people in later generations will not be able to shoot arrows, and he is just one of them.
Hearing what Zhao Yan said was interesting, and he didn't shy away from his weaknesses at all, which made Yelusi, who was unprepared, laugh out loud. Speaking of which, this is also the first time that Yelusi has smiled in the past few days, but when she thought of the purpose of her coming to Zhao Yan, she immediately suppressed her laughter, and then glanced at Zhao Yan and said: "The king of the county is really honest, but in the eyes of you Song people, it may be nothing that a man can't ride and shoot, but for us Liao boys, if he doesn't know how to ride and shoot, it is like a waste, so it is best not to say these words of the county king in front of outsiders." ”
When Yelusi said the last sentence, she couldn't help but blush, because she suddenly realized that she had said the wrong thing, she didn't let Zhao Yan say it in front of outsiders, but the other party had already said it to herself now, so who is herself?
Fortunately, Zhao Yan didn't notice the problem in Yelusi's words, or he didn't listen to Yelusi's words at all, because at this moment, he only felt that the fishing rod in his hand sank, and even almost broke free, which made Zhao Yan immediately overjoyed, and immediately began to pull the fishing rod hard, but after a while, he pulled up a big fish weighing seven or eight catties.
"Haha, it seems that even these fish like beautiful women, I sat here for nearly an hour just now, and none of the fish were hooked, but when the princess came now, she caught such a big fish at once!" Zhao Yan joked again at this time, anyway, the women of the Liao Kingdom are more generous than the women of the Great Song Dynasty, and they will not be scolded for their beauty in person.
For Zhao Yan's compliment, Yelusi blushed again, but quickly collected his thoughts, and just wanted to tell the purpose of his coming to Zhao Yan, but then he saw Zhao Yan speak again: "Looking at the princess's appearance, it is estimated that I didn't catch any prey today, and it just so happened that this fish was caught by us together, so if the princess doesn't dislike it, why don't you enjoy this fish with this king?" ”
Hearing that Zhao Yan actually invited him to eat fish together, and looking at his appearance, he seemed to be very sincere, which made Yelusi stunned, she grew so big, and it was the first time she met a young man who took the initiative to invite her to eat, which made her also know how to deal with it, she wanted to refuse, but she didn't know how to say it, she wanted to agree, and she also felt a little inappropriate, as for the purpose of her coming to Zhao Yan, she had already been thrown out of the clouds.
Zhao Yan didn't wait for Yelusi to agree, and immediately asked Zhou Tong to find firewood to raise the fire, and then personally processed the fish he caught, found a clean branch to fork, and then put it on the side of the fire to roast slowly. Seeing this, Yelusi couldn't say anything to say no longer, and finally had to sit by the fire and watch Zhao Yan grill the fish.
Seeing that Yelusi finally sat down, Zhao Yan smiled secretly in his heart, of course he saw that Yelusi must have something to talk about when he came to find him, and seeing that the other party was confident, it seemed that he had made up his mind, which made Zhao Yan's heart even more strange, but he knew that at this time, he must not let Yelusi speak according to her train of thought, so he disrupted Yelusi's plan by eating fish, and completely controlled the right to speak in his own hands, so that no matter what the other party relied on, he could occupy a certain advantage.
"Your Royal Highness Princess, I wonder what you have come to me for?" Zhao Yan looked at the grilled fish, and suddenly asked with a single knife without raising his head. Sure enough, this made Yeluth feel a little caught off guard, and he didn't know what to say about what he had planned before? r1152
Tips: The new domain name "biquge.info" has been launched by Biquge, and the original domain name is about to be discontinued. Please tell each other, thank you!