Chapter 40: The Royal Autumn
The royal family and nobles of Dongzhao rushed to the Bamo enclosure in Chonglin Mountain in the evening of the day of the trip, and after dinner, they each returned to their tents to rest for the night, and the autumn season officially began in the early morning of the next day.
Tanglin Xun stood on the observation deck, looking at the juniors in hunting costumes around him, the morning sun reflected on their faces, as if he saw the vitality of the new generation of Dongzhao in the future, Donglin Xun was in a happy mood: "From today on, hunting for five days, all the beasts in the hunting garden can be hunted, and those who hunt the most this time will be rewarded!" ”
"Father, won't you go to the event yourself this time? Erchen and the others are waiting to see your heroic posture of hunting on horseback! Seeing that Donglin Xun was wearing civilian clothes, the prince stepped forward and asked.
"I'm not going to go today, lest you all be restrained as soon as I enter the paddock, so you young children can go and exercise."
"Also, with the emperor's skills, if you must be the first on the field, then it will be boring to reward yourself!" Zhuo Gonggong, the great eunuch beside Tanglin Xun, said with a smile.
Glancing around, Tanglin Xun seemed to notice something, and asked Sikong Shaoyang beside him: "Huh?" Why don't you see Su Yan's kid? Every time he hunts in autumn and winter, he is the best, why is he missing this time? ”
"Back to the emperor, when he traveled yesterday, he said that he had something important to go back to the house, and he would catch up with us soon, thinking that he should be there soon."
"I see, that's it, don't wait for him, you guys start first!" As he spoke, he saw Mu Yunyi sitting in the seat of the female dependents on the side, beckoned and said: "Anhe, I heard that you are good at riding and archery, now that you are here, don't be lazy here, and go to the event to do the event!" ”
"It's better to be respectful than to obey your orders, thank you Your Majesty Longen! And Rong Anhe went to change his clothes first. Mu Yunyi saluted and thanked him, and walked to his tent accompanied by the maid.
Looking at the back of Mu Yunyi's departure, the ladies on the observation deck had different expressions, you must know that even if they come to the Qiu Qiu Enclosure, not everyone can enter the field to hunt, except for the heirs of the royal family, the rest are the nobles of the court and the emperor, and the emperor's eyes can go in to show their skills.
And there are few women in Dongzhao who go into battle to kill the enemy or ride horses to hunt, and now Donglin Xun personally ordered Mu Yunyi to hunt, some of the female dependents are envious, some are sour but have never been revealed, but more of them are contempt and disdain.
"As a woman, what kind of body does it become to dress up with men all day long, dance knives and make guns."
"It's just that it's not what a princess should be like at all."
Several county lords whispered, but the queen could hear a word, and the queen glanced at their seats seemingly unintentionally, and everyone suddenly fell silent, and said no more.
Mu Xiu returned to the princess's mansion, but found that the mansion was deserted, and Mu Yunyi was nowhere to be seen, only a group of subordinates, Mu Xiu grabbed Zheng Bo and asked, "Where is the princess?" ”
"Childe, you're back, and the princess has been handpicked into the Autumn Raid roster and gone to the Bamo paddock." Uncle Zheng said to Mu Xiu with a smile, he naturally didn't know the danger in this, and he only felt that it was a great honor for the princess to go to Qiuqiu.
"When did you travel?" Mu Xiu anxiously grabbed Uncle Zheng's shoulder and asked.
"Early yesterday morning."
Hearing this, Mu Xiu ran to the stable without saying a word.
"Gong ...... Childe, what are you ......" Uncle Zheng has the impression that Mu Xiu has always been silent since he entered the mansion, and he rarely shows his emotions, this is the first time he has seen him It turns out that he will have such a big emotional wave, and even a little gaffe......
After Mu Yunyi changed into a hunting outfit, he rode into the hunting garden.
Not long after this began, several princes who were eager to perform had already made a move, and people in the mountains and forests kept singing loudly: "Chengjun King hunts a rabbit!" ”
"The eldest son of the Marquis of Yixin hunts a roe deer!"
Seeing the proud faces of the sons of the nobles who had succeeded in "opening", Mu Yunyi snorted coldly, when she was in the West Dome, she would never be absent from the autumn and winter hunting every year, and such small things couldn't get into her eyes at all.
I haven't hunted for a long time, and I heard that there are occasional ink foxes in this Chonglin Mountain, if you can hunt one, it would be excellent to go back to winter to make a big one for Yun Duo.
Thinking so, she tightened her grip on the reins and ran deep into the sparsely populated mountain forest.
The mountains and forests were filled with mist in the early morning, but despite this, she was keenly aware of the fleeting black shadow on the ground, "So smart, is it really an ink fox!" ”
Mu Yunyi's eyes lit up, and she chased in the direction of the black shadow fleeing.
Su Yan rushed to the Bamo paddock with Ruoyao and saw Zuo Chen, who was waiting for him to come back.
"Has the hunt begun?" Su Yan dismounted and asked eagerly.
"It's already begun, General."
"Where are Ann and Princess Na now?"
"Princess An He has also entered the Hunting Garden, and it has been more than an hour now."
"Ruoyao, get on the horse!" Su Yan turned over on the horse, stretched out his hand to pull Ruoyao up, and untied his cloak for Ruoyao to drape on his body, so as to hide people's eyes and ears a little.
Su Yan was very familiar with this Bamo paddock, and he took Ruoyao to copy the path into the hunting garden to find Mu Yunyi.
Mu Yunyi chased for a short distance, and when she reached a fork in the road, the "black shadow" suddenly disappeared, and Mu Yunyi immediately stopped her horse and listened with bated breath, and suddenly she heard an extremely slight sound of plucking the blade of grass about three or four feet on her right front, and almost at the same time, Mu Yunyi suddenly pulled out an arrow and strangled the bowstring and shot at the place where the sound sounded.
The sound of the tip of the arrow piercing through the flesh was accompanied by a shrill cry of pain, and Mu Yunyi hooked the corners of his lips: "Success." Then she jumped off her horse and walked in the direction of her arrow.
Squatting down and touching the fur of the ink fox at her feet, the oily and slippery water is really rare, and she is satisfied to pick up the first prey in the Dongzhao Hunting Garden.
However, Mu Yunyi, who came to the Bamo paddock for the first time, was really not familiar with the terrain here, and after getting on the horse, she looked around and found that she was only chasing this ink fox, and she didn't know where she was now. Seeing that the fog had not dissipated, but was becoming thicker, she tied the black fox to her horse, turned the horse's head, and walked towards the road from which she had come.
After walking for a while, there was still no one around, only the sound of Mu Yunyi's horses' hooves was particularly clear in the silent mountains and forests below.
She raised her whip to speed up, and suddenly the horse's front hooves seemed to have tripped over something, and with the horse's neighing, the back half of the horse's body also turned over, Mu Yunyi's body leaned forward violently, she saw that the situation was not good, and quickly turned sideways and got off the horse, turning her head to the side.
"Bang!" With a thud, the horse tumbled to the ground, kicking up dust.
Mu Yunyi half-squatted on the ground, and felt out the moon from her waist, she vaguely saw the rope that tripped over her horse, and knew that this was no accident: this autumn storm was really not so simple!