Chapter 80: The Royal Autumn Hunt
Nan Qiao felt that the weight of the golden bead was much lighter, presumably because the pill Ruyi in it had already fed her.
No wonder she feels better than before, but she has been poisoned for so many days, and now, it's time to take care of herself.
Two days later, Hongling returned to the palace as usual to report, but the things reported were a little different from the past.
"Master, the second lady's body has recovered a lot!"
"Hmm."
An imperceptible glimmer flashed in Ji Wuyu's eyes, and then he continued to stare at the book, "In a few days, it will be the royal autumn hunt, and the city has not been peaceful recently, take a good look at her, don't let her get hurt." ”
Hongling was a little surprised, the master rarely said so much, and the royal autumn hunt was generally not only attended by the children of the royal family and the emperor's favored ministers, and what was the matter with a noble girl in Nalan Wuyu, but Hongling didn't dare to ask more.
"It's the master!"
Seeing that Ji Wuyu didn't speak, she was about to retreat with her fists in her fists, when the man spoke again, "If you encounter an enemy that you can't deal with, you can summon the secret guard killer in the city." ”
As the words fell, a talisman flew over.
Hongling caught it with one hand and frowned, who was going to kill Nalan Wuyu, and the master actually gave her all the orders to mobilize the secret guards in the city.
After Hongling left, the man put down the book in his hand, opened the drawer under the table, and looked at the bag of gold and silver jewelry in the woman's handkerchief, and his eyes gradually became warm.
Three days later, a holy decree came to Nalan Mansion, Nalan Guangyao took the whole family out to receive the decree, of course, the Li family was locked up in the ancestral hall, and Nalan Yanqin was seriously injured and did not recover, neither of them appeared.
Seeing off his father-in-law who came to deliver the message, Nalan Guangyao looked back at Nan Qiao in surprise.
Nan Qiao was also very puzzled at the moment, why did the people who participated in the royal autumn hunt this time have her, she was just a noble daughter of the courtier's family, not to mention, no one knew that she would do martial arts riding and archery, could it be that the prince's brother recommended her in front of the emperor?
It seems unlikely, the prince's brother wishes that she would stay away from the emperor, so how could he recommend her.
After the others dispersed, Nalan Guangyao couldn't help but open his mouth, "Yu'er, this royal autumn hunt should be cautious in words and deeds, guess for your father, you are famous in the city these days, most likely the emperor is interested in you, you need to be mentally prepared!" ”
"Father's meaning..."
"As a father, it's just a guess, you don't know martial arts and don't know how to ride and shoot, if it weren't for his intentions, how could the emperor deliberately order you to go?"
"My daughter knows, my daughter will pay attention!"
Nalan Guangyao patted her on the shoulder, then sighed and left.
A few days later, the West Hill paddock, the royal autumn hunt.
Although when she was in the Southern Jin Dynasty before, Nan Qiao participated in autumn hunting, but today, she is always a little apprehensive in her heart.
My father had just met the courtiers and had a few more conversations, and she couldn't get up to it, so she walked around the paddock casually and found a big clean stone to sit down.
"Wuyu, why are you here too? Great, I'm worried that I don't have anyone to talk to! The county lord of Qingyi, who was not far away, greeted her.
Today, Qingyi wore a silver-white riding outfit, with a simple ponytail on his head, and looked very lively and active.
Nan Qiao gathered his thoughts, got up and walked towards the county lord of Qingyi, "Qingyi's riding outfit today is really good-looking!" ”
Qingyi turned around, and Meimei said, "It's good-looking, even if you can't shoot the prey, you can wear it out and enjoy it, it's worth it to come here." ”
Seeing that Nan Qiao was still wearing a skirt, she couldn't help but say, "Didn't you have time to prepare a riding outfit, it just so happened that I still had a set in my tent, which was originally prepared for Concubine Yan, but she was afraid of seeing blood, so she didn't come, you are about the same size as her, I'll take you to try it." ”
Nan Qiao couldn't refuse her enthusiasm, so she had to follow.
The background color of that riding suit is black, except for a small piece of red exposed on the neckline, only the gold wire pattern on the wrist is outlined, to be honest, Nan Qiao really doesn't like this heavy color, it looks dull, but looking at Qingyi's enthusiastic appearance, she can only wear it obediently and try it.
"Concubine Yan, I'm afraid of seeing blood, so I specially prepared a black one for her, even if it is stained with blood, I can't see it, I knew you were coming, I should have prepared a red one for you, I saw you wear red at the palace banquet last time." Qingyi said as she helped Nan Qiao wear it.
Seeing Qingyi like this, Nan Qiao was not easy to pick and choose, and said with a smile, "I think this body is very good, even if it is dirty, I can't see it." ”
"Hehe, if you like it!" Qingyi said with a smile.
When Nan Qiao was dressed, Qingyi was stunned, "Oh my God, Wuyu, you really look good in anything, come on, you take care of it!" ”
Qingyi said and dragged Nan Qiao to the bronze mirror, and the maid who was waiting next to her hurriedly straightened the bronze mirror, in the bronze mirror, the girl combed a high ponytail, standing there heroically, black outlined her waistline just right, the domineering girl leaking sideways, like a combination of angels and demons, there is an indescribable evil charm.
Nan Qiao was stunned at the moment, she didn't like to wear black, even if she went to the battlefield, she generally preferred to wear red or silver-white armor, but wearing this black riding suit today, it looked very different from usual, there was an indescribable feeling, in short, it was not as bad as she thought, so she gladly accepted it.
After changing her clothes, Qingyi took her to choose a bow and arrow.
Test archery field, there is still an hour before the opening, at this time, there are many children of the family and princes and nobles here to test shoot, there are almost no women who shoot arrows here, Nan Qiao tried to keep a low profile in order to avoid unnecessary trouble, and followed Qingyi from behind those people with his head down.
Just when the two of them were carefully choosing bows and arrows on the weapon table not far away, there was a "whoosh" sound, and a sharp arrow came from nowhere, and when Nan Qiao immediately pushed Qing Yi away and was about to avoid it, when the sharp arrow was less than a foot away from her, another black feather arrow pierced through the arrow, directly shooting down the arrow in front of her.
This scene alarmed everyone present, and they all looked over here, and someone among the crowd explained in a panic,
"I, I didn't mean to miss!"
Nan Qiao glanced at the archery man, frowned slightly, and then looked up at the man standing on a high place, he was still wearing a ghost face, and he was wearing a black royal robe.
In the majesty, Ji Wuyu withdrew the dark bow and arrow in his hand, and looked at her condescendingly for a few seconds, for some reason, when he looked at her, he always felt a little inexplicable panic in his heart, and then, seeing him turn around and leave without a sound, she was relieved.
Nan Qiao knew that the arrow behind him was shot by him.
Nan Qiao casually chose a bow and arrow at the moment, just now Qingyi originally wanted to go up to train the children of that family, but Nan Qiao didn't want to cause trouble, so he pulled Qingyi and left.
"I was really scared to death just now, but fortunately, King Pingding shot that arrow!" Qingyi still has palpitations.
Speaking of Ji Wuyu, Nan Qiao always had a headache, that person was the enemy she had always dreamed of killing, but she saved her three or four times, so if she wanted to kill him one day in the future, how could she be embarrassed to do it.
"Wuyu, do you have a horse?" Qingyi asked again.
Nan Qiao didn't want to expose his strength, so he shook his head, "Qingyi, let's not go into the forest to hunt later!" Like you said, just have a good time wearing riding clothes. ”
"Afraid of what? It's also fun to ride a horse, and once you're in the woods, you can follow me! Qingyi took her arm and insisted on taking her to pick up a horse.
In the stable, Nan Qiao had no intention of picking a horse at all, she really didn't want to participate in this hunt, who knows, there were other people who picked horses next to her who talked about Concubine Nan.
"Have you heard that the emperor went hunting this time, and he didn't even bring the queen and Feng Guifei, so he brought Nanfei and Xin Guiren to accompany him, isn't this a face to hit the Feng family?"
"Yes, it's reasonable that this queen doesn't have time to manage the harem, but this Feng Guifei has to bring it."
"Didn't you see it, I met Huai Guogong over there just now, and his face turned green!"
"Shhhhh
What, my brother is here too!
Yu Wenmo took his brother out to hunt this time, and he did it so obviously, didn't he deliberately push his brother to the cusp, and now the Feng clan will definitely treat his brother as a mortal enemy.
Nan Qiao lost his mind for a moment, and the bow and arrow in his hand fell to the ground.
Qingyi saw her so distracted, and thought that she was too nervous to hunt this time, so she helped her pick it up.
"Wuyu, don't be nervous, we have to go to see the emperor in a while, don't be scared when the time comes!"
"Who are you here this time? Do you know? She asked Qingyi.
Qingyi thought for a moment, "Everyone who should have come has come, but this time the king of Dongjun and the prince of the world did not come, I heard that the king of Dongjun was sick, and the prince of the world was taking care of him in front of the bed!" ”
"I said, His Royal Highness has always liked to join in the fun, and it's rare that I haven't met him on an occasion like today." Nancho Road.
"By the way, although the prince didn't come today, I heard that Weiguo Ruyang Hou came, and the emperor specially invited him to come and have fun!"
Qingyi said, "Others say that Ruyang is young and talented, and he is less than twenty years old when he inherits the title, the key is that he has not married yet, if he is not a patriot, it is estimated that those noble ladies in Chang'an City will have to change their direction!" ”
"Is this Ruyang really that good?" Nan Qiao asked casually.
Qingyi walked to a horse and reached out to touch the horse's face, "I heard rumors that eight or nine are not far from ten, but I have to see the real person to know." ”
Nan Qiao just laughed.
Qingyi turned his head with a curious expression, "Hey, Wuyu, let me ask you, what kind of men do you usually like?" ”
Nan Qiao let out an "ah", and then was stunned.
She doesn't know what kind of man she likes, it seems that these ancient people are not suitable for her!
Then I heard Qingyi say, "I saw you getting close to the prince before, do you like the son?" ”
"Qingyi, I am friends with Shizi, you think too much!" Nan Qiao hurriedly explained.
"I don't like the world, then I guess!" Qing Yi rolled his eyes quirkily, "Looking at the powerful men in the entire Chang'an, the most noble man is the emperor, in fact, the emperor is also very good-looking, but he has too many women, it's not good, and the king of Pingding doesn't know what he looks like..."