The emperor looked at Duanmu Fei with some surprise, but he didn't expect that this wild badger turned out to be hunted by Duanmu Fei, the youngest and weakest-looking.

Wuyang raised his eyebrows slightly in surprise, and a trace of doubt flashed in his eyes.

Her scarlet sister is definitely not the kind of person who loves to take merit, so ......

Wuyang looked at the emperor thoughtfully, thinking of the emperor's usual nature, and then looking at Duanmujun's bright face, Wuyang suddenly understood.

"Sister Scarlet, you shot this arrow really accurately!" Wuyang immediately smiled and agreed, and while speaking, he quickly gave Duanmu a knowing look.

Han Xing has always been clever, although he didn't understand what was going on, but he also responded playfully: "Cousin Scarlet won the first place, should you express it, father?" ”

She smiled and begged for Duanmu Fei's reward, with the delicate appearance of a little daughter, which made the emperor laugh loudly, and praised: "The little girl of the Duanmu family, you won the first place, which means that this riding and archery kung fu is good, and you should be rewarded." ”

Duanmu Fei said "modestly": "Back to the emperor, it's just a coincidence." ”

Her words sounded very decent and modest, but Feng Yan knew what the riding and archery level of his own Zhen Zhen was, and he half-lowered his eyes and hid the smile on the corner of his mouth.

"Little girl, when I return to the camp, I will reward you with a good bow, okay?" The Emperor smiled and said again.

"Your Majesty." Duanmu scarlet generously blessed his body and thanked the emperor.

As for Wei Ruxian, she silently wrung her fingers and handkerchief from beginning to end, not saying a word, as if she didn't exist at all.

The sun rose higher and higher, warm and brilliant, and there was laughter and laughter all around.

The emperor casually asked the girls what they had seen along the way, and then proposed: "Since they have all met, you girls should go with me, so as not to run into wild beasts and accidentally encounter them." ”

The emperor said so, and Wuyang could only respond, and then jokingly said, "Fortunately, I met my father, and my son happened to get lost...... Otherwise, I don't know how many circles I'll have to go around here. ”

"Sister Huanghuang, this palace knows that you must be lost, and you didn't admit it just now!" Han Xing said playfully.

The two sisters gathered around the emperor, and you made the emperor laugh again, and everyone continued along the mountain road amid laughter.

Duanmu Fei, who was following Wuyang and Hanxing, sighed silently in his heart.

Cen Yin was not here today, Duanmu Fei suddenly felt heavy on his shoulders, and said in his heart: For her sister, she has to work hard!

The corners of Feng Yan's mouth, which fell not far behind, were slightly upturned, and his mood was as sunny as the weather at the moment, and he was thinking about showing his skills...... By the way, just hunt the pheasant and make a good-looking shuttlecock for Zhen Zhen.

Next, Feng Yan was like a gang with a pheasant, arrow after arrow, arrow after arrow, shooting one arrow at a time, hunting seven or eight pheasants, still feeling dissatisfied, either that the color of the feathers was not gorgeous enough, or that the luster of the feathers was not shiny enough, or that the tail feathers were not rich enough......

In short, how to look at how not satisfied.

After the baskets on Benxiao's body were filled with all kinds of pheasants, Jun Ran laughed and teased: "Ah Yan, I said that you have a grudge against pheasants?!" ”

"Yes, Cousin Yan, isn't it a pheasant who offended you?" Han Xing also answered casually.

Jun Ran and Han Xing were just joking, and the speaker had no intention, but when they heard it in Duanmufei's ears like a frightened bird, they couldn't help but think of what happened last night.

Feng Yan said that he has a good memory.

Feng Yan is very vindictive.

Seal him ......

Duanmu looked at the two baskets on Benxiao's back in a daze, all of which were killed by one arrow, and swallowed his saliva...... Feng Yan, he has always been very ruthless!

Seeing Duanmufei's gaze fall on the pheasants in the basket, Feng Yan proudly straightened his waist, so proud that his tail was about to rise to the sky, and casually dealt with Han Xing and said, "The pheasants are delicious." ”

That's right! Duanmu nodded sympathetically, he was accidentally distracted, the pheasant meat is delicate and delicious, it can replenish qi and blood, it is really good.

The emperor couldn't help but look at the pheasant that Feng Yan was hunting, and laughed loudly: "Ah Yan is right, the pheasant is indeed delicious. I remember seeing smoke just now...... Cheng Xunli, what villages are there around here? ”

Cheng Xunli, the commander of Jinyiwei, immediately hugged his fists and replied: "Back to the emperor, here is all the way to the east, and there is a small village two or three miles away, which should be called Zhoujia Village." ”

The emperor glanced in the direction that Cheng Xunli pointed out, and said, "Why don't we go there and ask the villagers to cook a game for us, which is also a unique flavor." ”

As soon as the emperor said this, Mu Youchang, Jun Ran and others all responded one after another.

Next, Cheng Xunli led the way, and the group waited all the way east.

Cheng Xunli obviously knew the road in this area, and rode his horse to lead the way in front of him, and after a while, everyone went out of the boundary of the hunting ground, and from a distance, they could see wisps of cooking smoke rising from the mountains and forests in front of them.

Two miles or so further, a small village appeared at the end of the forest road, and the emperor suddenly stopped his horse a hundred feet from the entrance of the village, turned over and dismounted. He didn't say anything, he didn't make any gestures, but the attendants who accompanied him already knew the saint's intentions, and put a royal blue cloak on him to cover his bright yellow riding clothes.

The chamberlains and brocade guards who served beside the emperor all knew that the emperor had always liked to travel in micro-clothes.

The others also dismounted, and saw the emperor wave his hand and said, "You don't have to be restrained, let's play by ourselves, and I will send someone to call you back." ”

Several juniors are busy agreeing, in fact, they don't necessarily like to be with the emperor all the time, after all, there are many rules and scruples.

The emperor took Cheng Xunli and his party into the village, and there were only a few juniors left.

The atmosphere was quiet for a moment, and the second prince, Mu Youchang, took the lead and took two steps closer to Wuyang.

In the strange and complicated gaze of everyone, Mu Youchang raised his hand to Wuyang a little crampedly, and said apologetically: "Sister the eldest emperor, it was all the fault of the younger brother before, but now even if the father doesn't like it, his reputation is ruined, and he is neglected by those villains who tend to be inflammatory...... That's all the little brother's sin deserved. There was a hint of bitterness and despair in his voice, "Sister Eldest Emperor, it's the younger brother who is sorry for you." ”

Mu Youchang bowed his head slightly and solemnly made a long bow.

Duanmu Fei watched from the side, his big eyes flickered, and his heart was like a mirror: if the second prince really apologized sincerely, he could have asked Wuyang to say alone, why choose such an occasion, in front of so many people, it was like holding Wuyang up.

Since the second prince was sent out of the palace by the emperor, his life has indeed been a little difficult, but in the final analysis, he is also a prince, and he still has no worries about food and clothing. It's just that the second prince is afraid that he will not be satisfied, and he wants to wait for an opportunity to rise again.

Judging from his words and deeds at the moment, after the Xuan Xin incident, he has become more forbearant and cautious than before.

For these, Wuyang also knows it, she seems to be down-to-earth and generous, and she thinks that the snake has said a few polite words of "change if you know your mistakes, and be good".

The sisters and brothers are smiling and smiling, and the sisters and brothers are respectful, and they are very happy.

After Mu Youchang apologized, there was a smile on his face again, and he said politely: "The eldest sister, the fourth imperial sister, the palace will go to serve my father first." Then he walked towards the village with a few forbidden soldiers, and his elegant back looked personable.

Han Xing looked at his back and snorted lightly, and said angrily: "Sister Emperor, Brother Second Emperor wants to show his face in front of his father, but it seems that this palace and Sister Emperor know how to play and are not filial." ”

"Let's play with ours, and he will be filial to him, just two things will not hinder him." Wuyang smiled, and in the blink of an eye, he left Mu Youchang behind, "Let's go casually first." ”

Laughing and laughing, they walked around the village on the west side and walked slowly along a golden field, where they occasionally saw a few poorly dressed peasants harvesting wheat.

The autumn breeze is slow, and the golden ears of wheat in the fields ripple in circles, looking beautiful.

"Bone ......"

Suddenly, a fist-sized white stone slowly rolled to Duanmufei's feet......

Hey?

She blinked, crouched down, picked up the small stone, and then another small stone rolled over.

Duanmu Fei subconsciously looked in the direction where the stones were rolling, and saw that more than twenty feet away, three four or five-year-old boys were throwing stones at a gray-clothed boy of the same age, one after another, and the gray-clothed boy pitifully hugged himself into a ball, letting the stones fall on his shoulders and back.

Duanmu Fei squatted down, and the surrounding Wuyang and Hanxing also noticed that scene, Wuyang frowned, and shouted, "Hey......"

Before Wuyang's words fell, he saw a thin gray-clothed young woman in her twenties jumping up from the field with a wooden stick, waving the wooden stick at the three stone-throwing boys in a threatening manner, shouting, "What are you doing?!" Why do you want to bully my family?! ”

"He also deserves to be called Huzi? I think the rats are pretty much the same! The three boys took two steps back, and one of them grimaced at the young woman in gray, and threw a stone at her, which smashed right into the young woman's abdomen.

The young woman in gray snorted, and took two steps closer to the three boys with her stick, and the menacing appearance was like a tigress guarding her cubs, and the three children ran away while shouting, "The widow has killed."

"Huzi, are you okay?" The young woman threw away the stick in her hand and picked up the little boy who had been beaten and shrunk into a ball, and the little boy who had been silent began to cry the moment he threw himself into his mother's arms, and called "Mother" in his mouth.

"Huzi, it's okay, my mother is here......" The young woman walked away quickly with her son in her arms, and the backs of the mother and son looked a little gloomy and a little warm.

"It's good to have a mother to protect you!" Wei Ruxian looked at the backs of the mother and son, and let out an envious sigh in her throat, which seemed to contain an extremely complex emotion.

Duanmu Fei, Wuyang, and Duanmu Jun couldn't help but look at Wei Ruxian.

Wei Ruxian was still looking at the mother and son in a daze, and muttered: "I still remember when I was five years old, my father and my mother took me to watch the lanterns together, there were too many people in the temple fair, my mother and I accidentally separated from my father, there were people all around, a crutch suddenly jumped out of the crowd, picked me up and wanted to snatch me away, it was my mother who held my hand tightly, and just refused to let go...... At that time, there was a lot of chaos around me, and my mother was almost trampled on......"

As she spoke, Wei Ruxian couldn't help but look down at her right hand, as if she could still feel the warmth of her mother's hand.

Her heart was sour, and tears could not be suppressed from the corners of her eyes...... and fell to the ground "tick-tock".

"Her Royal Highness the Eldest Princess," Wei Ruxian raised her head and looked at Wuyang with teary eyes, "Am I useless and can't help my mother?" The grandmother said that the mother died very miserably, skinny, and kept coughing up blood, but they just didn't ask for a doctor for the mother......"

Duanmu Jun, Duanmu Fei, Wuyang and Han Xing's faces were all a little complicated.

Although Wuyang had heard that Mrs. Wei was killed by the concubine named Liu Rong, it was just heard, and it was not as shocking as Wei Ruxian herself said it at the moment.

Wei Ruxian closed her eyes, tears fell like rain, her chest rose and fell violently, and she said in a trembling voice: "I'm too useless to seek justice for my mother, and I don't even dare to keep filial piety." ”

"You're really useless!" Han Xingjiao said in a coquettish voice, Duanmu Fei nodded thoughtfully on the side, and the cousins had a sisterly posture.

"......" Wei Ruxian was stunned, forgot to cry, and looked at Han Xing and Duanmu Fei in a daze.

Han Xing raised his delicate chin, and said: "You are the eldest daughter of the Wei family, this kind of arrogant and domineering concubine can directly order to be killed, what are you afraid of?!" ”

Wei Ruxian's mouth opened and closed, unable to speak. This is not easy to say, the house is controlled by Liu Rong, even if she wants to teach Liu Rong a lesson, no one is available, and no one responds.

Duanmu Fei saw Wei Ruxian's thoughts and couldn't help laughing.

Looking at the smile on the corner of Duanmu's mouth, Wei Ruxian only felt uncomfortable, and secretly clenched her fists.

"Cousin Hanxing, you don't know about other people's mansions, so you can't judge arbitrarily......" Duanmu smiled and said to Hanxing with a smile.

Wei Ruxian couldn't help but nodded, but in the next moment, she listened to Duanmu's words, and said: "Miss Wei is self-pitying, but she just wants others to echo her, in the end, it's just cowardice." If she really wants to do it, relying on the identity of the eldest daughter of the Wei family, and giving up everything, what can't she do? ”

While Duanmu Fei was speaking, Han Xing nodded frequently on the side, feeling the same way, looking at Wei Ruxian's eyes, there was a trace of impatience in her eyes, and she felt that it was really tiring to talk to someone like her who was grinding and chirping. I still get along with a girl like Cousin Scarlet, Sister Emperor and Cousin Jun.

Wei Ruxian's eyes were sour again, and the braided jade teeth bit her lower lip tightly, and she couldn't cry anymore, but her weak delicate body trembled like a residual leaf in the wind and rain, looking extremely delicate and pitiful.

Duanmu Fei was unmoved, her big black eyes looked at Wei Ruxian without blinking, and said, "Miss Wei, Mrs. Wei is your mother, give birth to you and raise you...... No one else can replace it. ”

Saying that, Duanmu Fei affectionately took Duanmu Fei's arm and said coquettishly: "Sister, you can't be replaced by anyone." "It's her only sister!

Duanmujun looked at his sister's cute little appearance and felt that his heart had melted.

Duanmu Fei nodded, and didn't say anything more, she continued to walk forward with Duanmu Jun.

The autumn day at noon is very warm, the path outside the village is a little muddy, and you can occasionally see a few farmers driving cattle and hoes and children walking cats and dogs walking by on the roadside, looking curiously at Duanmufei and his party, their voices and laughter add a bit of vitality to this ordinary small village.

Duanmufei and the others came to a small river behind the village, and only sat down to rest in twos and threes.

The water of the river was as clear as a mirror, and in the sun, sparkling, a few horses rushed to the riverbank as if they had been in a long drought, drinking water and frolicking their tails.

Seeing Ben Xiao and Shuang Su drinking the river water happily and wantonly, Duanmu couldn't help but hook his lips and smile. After riding a horse in the hunting ground for a while, and after walking for a long time just now, Duanmu Fei was a little tired, panting slightly, and a thin layer of fragrant sweat oozed from his forehead.

In contrast, Duanmujun was in good spirits, "Zhenzhen, you rest here for a while, and I'll help you wash your veil and wipe your face." Duanmujun pulled Duanmu Fei to take a nap on a boulder under a tree, and ran to the river by himself.

Duanmu Fei adjusted her breathing, and suddenly a frost-colored embroidered handkerchief was handed to her.

Duanmu Fei's eyes suddenly glanced at the owner of the veil, and for a while he seemed to be frozen, and saw that the handkerchief came to him again, as if she was a little impatient, so frightened that she "snatched" the veil without saying a word.

Pinching the handkerchief given by Feng Yan, Duanmu Fei couldn't help but jump his right eyelid, and remembered the debt of "light and thin" again.

She wiped and wiped and wiped and wiped

After hesitating for a while, she pinched the handkerchief and cautiously tentatively said: "Feng Gongzi, you say, should you repay grievances with virtue, or return a tooth for a tooth?" She waited with bated breath with her eyes wide open.

Feng Yan crooked his handsome face and looked at Duanmu Fei without blinking, and thought about it: Zhen Zhen would ask this, could it be that someone did something to her?!

Thinking about it, Feng Yan squinted his eyes, a dangerous mangish flashed under his eyes, and said decisively: "It's not good to return a tooth for a tooth......"

Duanmu Fei breathed a sigh of relief when he heard this, but he only spit out half of this breath, so he listened to Feng Yan and continued seriously: "It should be ten times more repaid." ”

Duanmu Fei was so shocked that he almost ran away without his tail between his legs, caressing his chest, and said in his heart: Feng Yan really holds a grudge!

She took a few deep breaths, tried to calm down, and thought: In other words, she let Feng Yan be "light" ten times, and "maybe" she can write it off?

Well, definitely. She said to herself in her heart.

But Duanmu Fei sat there and thought about it for a long time, but he still didn't know how to open his mouth to make Feng Yan lighten himself.

Her little face was almost wrinkled, and it seemed that now that she could only think of a way to show her loyalty and coax Feng Yan well, maybe the "light" account would be over.

It just so happened that she had a treasure on hand to offer.

Duanmu smug smiled triumphantly, leaned into Feng Yan's ear, and bit his ear mysteriously and said, "Feng Gongzi, I just picked up a piece of saltpeter." Duanmu Fei said and handed the small white pebble he had just picked up to Feng Yan.

Feng Yan looked at the stone in Duanmufei's palm, his expression was stunned, and he didn't speak for a while.

Seeing that he was motionless, Duanmu Fei thought that he didn't believe it, and said: "According to the record of the "Commentary on the Materia Medica", "Burning it with fire, purple and green smoke rises, it is real saltpeter." If Feng Gongzi doesn't believe it, you can try. Just now I saw the children in this village beating people with saltpeter, but the soil on their shoes is different from the soil of the fields around the village, red clay. If I'm not mistaken, the saltpeter block must have been picked up by the children in a place around the village where there was red soil...... There must be saltpeter mines in the vicinity. ”

Duanmu looked up at Feng Yan for a moment, and his eyes became brighter and brighter as he spoke.

Saltpeter, also known as flame nitrate, fire nitrate, has many uses, not only can be used for medicine, but also can be used to make ice, and can also be mixed with sulfur, charcoal powder, etc. to make gunpowder.

Gunpowder has a history of hundreds of years in the Central Plains, and Dasheng also has its own firearms battalion.

Duanmu Fei once saw the structural drawings of firearms in the study of his grandfather Mrs. Chu, and felt that the lethality of this firearm was far greater than that of swords, and everyone could use it, but unfortunately, the shortcomings were also obvious, the range of firearms was too short, and the speed of reloading iron bullets was too slow after each iron bullet fired...... Therefore, its application on the battlefield is also quite limited.

In her view, there is still a lot of room for improvement in firearms.

A military general like Feng Yan who has been on the battlefield, with his mind, wisdom, and experience, must be able to think of this.

Gunpowder has a lot to offer!

So, it's still very useful for yourself! Duanmu smiled flatteringly at Feng Yan's lips.

Feng Yan finally moved, and slowly, almost cautiously, picked up the white saltpeter in Duanmu Fei's palm, and his heart was so beautiful that he was about to fly: Zhen Zhen was so good to him, thinking about him about everything.

Feng Yan played with the saltpeter in his hand, the corners of his mouth curled higher and higher, and said, "I'll let people come here to investigate later, and I'll tell you when I have news." ”

"......" Duanmu Fei actually felt that this matter could end for her, and there was no need to tell her about this kind of confidential matter later, right?

Ay!

Duanmu Fei sighed faintly in his heart: Ten times to pay it back, I don't know if this saltpeter mine can withstand his own lightheartedness, if this can't be offset, what should I do?

The more she thought about it, the more worried she became, and she felt that her hair was about to turn gray. When she returned to the hunting palace, she had to eat some black sesame walnut powder to make up for it.

Feng Yan wanted to say something, Duanmu Jun and Wuyang had already come back with a smile, Feng Yan had no choice but to abdicate and give up the seat next to Duanmu Fei to the two of them.

As soon as he got up, he saw a forbidden soldier striding towards this side, hugged his fists at everyone, and saluted: "Her Royal Highness the eldest princess, Her Royal Highness the fourth princess, Jun Shizi, Feng Commander, two Duanmu girls, and Wei girl, the emperor announced that everyone should go over." ”

Since the emperor had come to call for someone, they could not delay any longer, so they took their horses and walked in the direction of the village, until they came to a simple brick farmhouse, the blue brick walls outside had long been mottled, and the house had not been repaired for a long time.

The Emperor was sitting at a wooden table in the room, slowly sipping his tea, and saw that the blue and white porcelain teacup in his hand did not fit in with the layout of the room, and was obviously brought with him by the chamberlain.

Mu Youchang was also in the house, standing in front of the emperor to serve and speak, and words such as "lucky", "good" and "blessed" could be vaguely heard outside the house, but the emperor's attitude was still cold and indifferent.

In the room, there were not only the second princes, but also a beautiful girl of sixteen or seventeen years old, dressed in simple cloth, standing on the other side of the emperor.

It was obviously a peasant girl, dressed very simply, with black thick hair combed into a black braid, wearing a clean cyan cotton dress, beautiful appearance, graceful figure, the wheat-colored goose egg face and a pair of black eyes quietly looked at the people outside the house, with a little uneasiness in her eyes, two points of apprehension and three points of shame.

Wuyang stopped, her face was a little strange, as if she understood something, and the corners of her mouth were slightly hooked, and a sneer appeared.

The emperor also saw Duanmu Fei and Wuyang coming, stood up, took the lead and walked out, and said loudly: "The hour is almost up, let's go back." ”

"Yes, Father (Master)."

Everyone responded, Feng Yan was in a better mood, it was best not to have lunch in this village, and the brocade chickens he hunted had to be brought back to make a beautiful shuttlecock for Zhen Zhen.

Mu Youchang and the girl in Tsing Yi also walked out behind the emperor, followed by several chamberlains and Jinyi guards.

Judging by this posture, the emperor should have planned to take this girl back to the Hunting Palace.

For the emperor, this is not the first time, and it will not be the last, everyone just glanced at the girl in Tsing Yi with a faint expression, and did not pay much attention to it.

The group came to the entrance of the village with the emperor in their arms, and from a distance, they saw a girl in blue clothes leading a white horse walking slowly towards this side, describing it as looking very familiar.

Although at this distance, Duanmu Fei couldn't see the other party's face clearly, she still recognized the other party at a glance.

How could she be here?!