Chapter 254: Arriving at the Hunting Ground
"Why don't you ride horses?" King Huai asked if he had anything to do.
Chang Le replied weakly: "I'm too tired to ride a horse, I'm walking too slowly, I can't get there until it's dark, right?" β
"It's almost there, at most it's half an hour away."
Chang Le's face instantly became gloomy, and he took a deep breath: "I want to go back, I don't want to leave." β
"You can't walk this little way, and you still want to go to the paddock?" King Huai sighed twice, "I told you a long time ago, hunting is not fun at all, you have to come along, now you feel bored, right?" This is called not listening to good people, and suffering losses in front of you. β
"Didn't I want to see the big picture? Who knew it would be so dull and boring. Chang Le frowned, she didn't say much grievance, now she regretted it very much, she should have listened to King Huai's advice, "Shouldn't it be boring to be over there for a while?" β
"Almost, what can be interesting is nothing more than watching a group of them ride horses and shoot arrows there. No, you can't even see them shooting arrows on horseback, you can probably just sit there and meditate. "King Huai is like a person who has come over, telling Chang Le about his past experience meaningfully.
After hearing this, Chang Le frowned even more.
"Will you be riding in a moment?"
Chang Le was a little curious about King Huai's performance on the hunting ground. If King Huai also participated in the hunting, then she would not come in vain this time, and she would accompany her friends to participate in the event. Perhaps, she will be able to paint one or two heroic paintings for King Huai at that time.
This time, she also brought her own painting tools, and a box of charcoal.
I thought that although it was for De Aihua, she could also draw a few dynamic sketches at that time, as a personal record of this activity, and then present it to the emperor. If the emperor can like her charcoal drawings, then her Tianjia Painting Workshop's business will definitely go to the next level.
There is an emperor who takes the lead in appreciating it, even if her charcoal drawings cannot be accepted by the mainstream, as long as she can be liked by some people, then she has a market. She won't have to sell small yellow pictures anymore.
Speaking of which, she hadn't drawn a little yellow picture for a long time, and she was constantly busy with things all day long, and she didn't have time to take care of it. Now King Huai suffers in the barracks every day, and Liu Chengyan is also sent by King Huai to investigate the relationship between Yuguo and the horse. Without anyone to match, her little yellow business can be regarded as temporary yellow.
Fortunately, she doesn't need to rely on Xiao Huangtu to maintain her business now.
"What are you doing here?"
King Huai stretched out his hand and slapped Chang Le's forehead with a golden bone fan, which was neither light nor heavy, but only served as a reminder.
Chang Le did come back to his senses, and looked at King Huai and smiled twice.
"It's nothing, just thinking that if you participate in riding and archery, you must remember to take me with you at all times, and I will draw you a few personal portraits. The picture of riding a horse galloping and riding and shooting must be very handsome! β
King Huai's eyebrows were raised, and he was deeply suspicious: "Are you really so kind?" β
"Yes, I brought tools to participate in the hunt this time, and I don't want to paint two portraits of you, isn't that too sorry for your usual pampering of me?" Chang Le said righteous words, and patted a wooden box on the horse's back to show the authenticity of his words.
"This king is definitely going to participate in the hunt, if you don't paint this king handsome and chic, this king will directly throw you into the hunting ground to feed the wolves." King Huai half-threatenedly agreed to the matter.
That is, Yi Yun and Ren Yun were not in front of them, if they heard King Huai say such things, they would definitely be unable to help but scoff secretly.
After all, since King Huai returned to the palace from Xuanlingguan, he has not participated in the men's riding and archery competition every year. is either sitting and eating melon seeds to watch the show, or lying on the back of the chair with a big slump, ignoring the whirring of others. When they had eaten enough, slept enough, and received a share of the flesh and skin of the prey that God had rewarded, they returned joyfully.
Chang Le didn't know this, he only focused on the threat of King Huai, and frowned: "Then there are wolves in the mountains and forests?" β
"There must be wolves, tigers, poions, dogs, bears in the paddock, there should be, there will be." King Huai was very serious with Changle Science popularization, "They are all pulled from the wild forest, raised in the wild, and they are very fierce." Otherwise, when hunting, shoot some rabbits? β
Chang Le swallowed his saliva: "Then this safety hazard is too big, what if someone can't shoot to death, but he is killed by those fierce beasts?" β
"That's a personal life."
King Huai smiled happily, his voice was very loud and arrogant, which caused the people around him to look at him frequently, and he continued to talk to Chang Le as if he were ignoring it.
"However, as long as you follow this king, this king will definitely keep you fine."
Chang Le immediately laughed: "Thank you, big brother, big brother is mighty." Painter Aihua, when you were painting "Hunting Map", I went around with King Huai, it should be no problem? Can you get busy all by yourself? β
At this time, Chang Le remembered the "real" purpose and reason for his visit. Now that de Eva is her immediate boss, she has to ask her boss for her opinion.
Seeing that they were so engrossed, de Iva only listened attentively. When he heard the question, he immediately shook his head and said, "Come here, you can draw some paintings by yourself and present them together when the time comes." β
He had long known Chang Le's purpose, not to paint at all, but to join in the fun.
Chang Le happily clasped his hands together and was very grateful: "Aihua Painter is really a good boss, thank you!" β
De Aihua and Huai Wang looked at Chang Le in surprise at the same time, not reacting to the last words she uttered. It was De Aihua who reacted first, and was even more excited as if he had met an old friend, and couldn't help but grab Chang Le's wrist.
"Do you know the language of our country?"
Boom!
King Huai slapped a fan on the hands of the two of them, and de Aihua was pained to stop it.
"Men and women don't kiss." King Huai taught the two of them seriously.
"Then you can tap it."
Chang Le glanced at De Aihua's right wrist, which was marked by King Huai with a red mark, and he didn't take it lightly. At a loss, Chang Le wanted to pull his hand over and snort twice.
"Aihua's hand is going to paint, and you have broken it like this, how can you draw the "Hunting Map" for a while? Painter Aihua, are you okay, your hand is not injured? β
"This king is just teaching Aihua the rules of our big clan." King Huai looked at De Aihua coldly, and his smiling face was very ill-willed.
Feeling the threat and intimidation of King Huai, De Aihua tried to avoid Chang Le's contact, and smiled innocently twice, responding to Chang Le's concern.
"It's fine, it's just red, but it doesn't hurt."
"Don't show your talent too much."
King Huai leaned in meaningfully close to Chang Le's ear, warning her before she could speak.
To outsiders, this posture is very ambiguous, that is, a person is talking to another person. De Aihua's expression froze for a moment, and he began to doubt the authenticity of Chang Le's statement that "King Huai is just her eldest brother".
After Chang Le was warned by King Huai, he restrained a lot obediently, and replied to De Aihua's words very dignifiedly: "I just heard Master say that there will only be these two simple words, and nothing else." β
Combined with the situation just now, Chang Le seemed to be warned by the jealous King Huai to stay away from him as a man, De Aihua smiled politely and nodded, unconsciously keeping a distance from Chang Le in front of King Huai.
The atmosphere froze for a moment.
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I don't know how long it took, Chang Le was sweating, and he felt that the sun was about to climb to the center of the sky, although there was still a long way to go. In short, they arrived at the hunting grounds.
The horses had already sent people to arrange both sides of the hunting ground tightly, and the guards were all forbidden troops, and the water around them could not be drained, and even a fly did not dare to fly back and forth casually. After the forbidden soldiers who escorted the procession entered the gate of the horse farm, they were ordered to stand guard and carry out their tasks.
The emperor's royal car did not stop until it reached the main square.
The main square was not as barren as it used to be, filled with low tables and low stools. At this time, led by the concubine and Princess Shun'an, a group of princesses and ladies lined up to greet them, and the posture was very solemn.
They greeted the emperor and the eldest princess and walked to their seats on the high pedestal. There is a low couch in the middle, and the armrests and back of the couch are in the shape of a coiled dragon, which is the position where the emperor wants to sit.
When Chang Le entered the door, he thought that King Huai would be separated from them, and he would take a few steps to the circle where he should goβthe circle of princes and nobles. But I didn't expect him to accompany him until the end.
The emperor sat down, and Princess Shun'an looked left and right for the shadow of King Huai. When he discovered Chang Le's existence, his smiling face was low for a moment. The eyes of the others also fell on this side.
Originally, Chang Le only had to follow De Aihua to the corner of the emperor's and minister's seats and sit down. There was a table over there, specially prepared for the two of them, with a good and quiet view, just right for painting scenes.
It's a very low-key thing, because of the existence of King Huai, the three of them are very high-profile, and the combination of the three of them is a little strange.
The noble King Huai and the foreign painter walked together, and there was a woman like a maid who had never been seen before.
Chang Le couldn't help but look around, their inquiring eyes were as deep as wolves, which made people feel very empty. The emperor and the eldest princess were also watching here, the emperor saw it as usual, his eyes were shallow, and he didn't mean to blame, but the eldest princess's eyes were as deep as a whirlpool, and he wanted to smash her into pieces.
"Hurry over." Chang Le really couldn't stand this kind of sight beam, so he secretly stabbed King Huai and told him to go faster.
If he could, Chang Le kicked King Huai's ass directly, allowing him to arrive in front of the emperor in an instant.
"This king is sitting here, where is he going?" She smiled with a smile in her eyes.
The eyes around him became sharper.
As he spoke, King Huai had already walked to a table in front of Chang Le and sat down, leaving Chang Le with a tall back. It was the Emperor's lower left head position, and he really should have sat there. Sitting opposite King Huai were Princess Shun'an and his wife.
Chang Le was curious for a while, is there only such a prince as King Huai in this kind of big scene? The emperor only has one brother, King Huai, but the first emperor didn't have a few brothers, so how many princes and uncles did he leave for the emperor?
Afterwards, when Chang Le asked King Huai about this, King Huai said that those imperial uncles had gone to the fiefdom to retire, and they were far away, and they couldn't return to the capital without a call, and they couldn't even go out of the fief. There are several princely residences in the capital, but all of them are unused.