After Yan Yunxi bathed, he lay comfortably on the bed, "Alas, I'm tired to death, it's really far this way." ”

Her maid dried her hair again and again, and said in a low voice, "Your Highness, is it safe for us to live in this Hou Mansion?" His Majesty put Ye Hou Ye under house arrest back then, will they wait for an opportunity to retaliate against us? ”

"It's definitely safer here than the Sifang Pavilion." Yan Yunxi's delicate chin rested on the pillow, and his bright eyes narrowed slightly, "Didn't Emperor Wen order that my safety should be taken care of by the Hou Mansion, no matter who wants to harm me, in the end, the Hou Mansion will have to take the blame, and they have to protect me well for themselves." Besides, I'm not a weak woman who can't be restrained, and I have to be weighed to kill me. ”

The maid persuaded softly: "Your Highness will play for a few days and go back." Your Majesty is also for your good, You see, the girl of Daqi got married at the age of fifteen or sixteen, just say Miss Ye, she has already made a marriage, and she will marry the king of Yu at the age of fifteen next year, Your Highness, you are seventeen, and it is not too much for Your Majesty to urge you to get married. She sighed quietly, Your Majesty only has such a daughter, and I don't hope that she will get married and have a few more children as soon as possible, so that Daluo's country can be regarded as a successor.

"I don't want to get married yet!" Yan Yunxi buried his face in the pillow.

"Then you can also follow what Your Majesty said, first admit a few husbands, and when His Royal Highness has a man he likes, let him be the imperial husband."

Yan Yunxi became a little irritable, "No, hey, you don't understand." She doesn't like this kind of life of three husbands and four servants from the bottom of her heart, her own biological father died early, I heard that the mother emperor likes her biological father the most, so she made him the imperial husband, but she is also very good to the current three husbands. She couldn't tell clearly, anyway, since she was a child, she watched the three husbands of the mother queen compete and be jealous, and sometimes she played some unsightly methods, she was very disgusted.

Originally, as the prince of Daluo Kingdom, she should have set a royal husband and a husband to serve her, but since Ye Chengyuan swore to his mother and swore to the death of the emperor, and finally ran away, she had a great yearning for Ye Chengyuan's life and a couple. You know, Daqi men have a group of wives and concubines, what makes such an excellent man willing to live with only one woman?

The queen forced her to serve the husband, and even used such extreme means, she was angry, and then she ran out. She thought about it, she must come and take a look, if she is disappointed after seeing it, she will go back and obediently marry the imperial husband and the husband according to what the mother said.

The maid sighed, "The slave doesn't understand, the slave just wants His Highness to be well." "She has served the imperial princess since she was a child, and she has never seen her disobey His Majesty's will, and whatever His Majesty asks her to do, she has done it conscientiously. Speaking of which, Her Highness is a strict self-disciplined person, and she has only indulged herself once.

After drying her hair, the maid pulled the quilt for Yan Yunxi, "Your Highness, go to bed early, didn't you make an appointment with a few princes to compete with arrows tomorrow?" ”

"Hmm." Yan Yunxi turned over and said vaguely, "I definitely won't lose." ”

The maid extinguished all the candles, leaving only a small horn lamp in the corner, closed the door of the inner room, and rested in the hall. Her Royal Highness, at the request of the empress, must be the best in everything, no matter how difficult it is, she gritted her teeth and endured it, so many years, it is really too hard.

Early the next morning, Yan Yunxi had breakfast and went to Ye Qian's courtyard, "Sister Qianqian, come into the palace with me today." ”

Although Ye Qian and King Yu have been married for many years, she has not entered the palace many times, and every time she only goes to visit Concubine Yu with King Yu, when she hears that she entered the palace with Yan Yunxi, she shook her head again and again, "The palace is not for anyone to enter, besides, I am not familiar with the palace at all." ”

"You are the daughter-in-law of the royal family, why are you not familiar with the palace?" Yan Yunxi was quite surprised, "This is not good, you will inevitably deal with these people in the future, it is better to get familiar with it as soon as possible." Don't worry, with me, besides, King Yu will go today. ”

"What are you going to do today?" As soon as she heard that Xiao Yanfeng was also going, Ye Qian was a little curious.

"Today I want to compete with arrows, I will compete with the three princes, Sister Qianqian has not seen me shoot arrows, go and see." Yan Yunxi stared at her expectantly.

Ye Qian was a little moved. King Yu wants to be obscure, and he will definitely not be in the limelight, but she is so big, and she has never seen a woman archery, but she wants to see it.

Yan Yunxi saw Ye Qian's expression, and immediately pulled her up, "Let's go, let's go." ”

Not only Ye Qian followed, but Ye Li also went, there was no way, who let the holy decree say that the safety of the imperial concubine should be the responsibility of the Hou Mansion.

The princes of this dynasty are required to be skilled in bows and horses, so there is also a large martial arts arena in the palace.

There is nothing uncommon for the princes to shoot arrows, but no one has ever seen the archery of the princess, the strength of the women is already small, and they have to compete with men, and the people in the palace are very interested, and the emperor allows the palace concubine to watch.

Ye Qian glanced at the concubines, except for the queen who was dignified and virtuous, the rest were all kinds of beauties who were fat and thin. But there is no jade concubine in it, she has never liked to join in the fun, and she never participates in the palace banquet, of course, there is no concubine, since King Rui went, I heard that she was half crazy and half stupid.

There are four huge arrow targets standing in the martial arts arena, a line is drawn on the ground a hundred steps away, and four tables are set up, on which are placed longbows and short bows and various feather arrows, and the prince, King Kang, King Yu, and the imperial princess stand at the four tables in turn.

The emperor smiled and said: "They compete, let's have a good time and have a gamble." ”

All the concubines echoed in unison. The queen smiled and took off the red blood jade bracelet on her wrist and put it on the tray held by the chamberlain, "I bet the prince to win." "The prince is her own son, even if it is not good, she will bet on the prince, not to mention, the prince's archery skills are still good, King Kang will definitely not dare to win him, King Yu is a gentleman, it is estimated that it is difficult to shoot the target, the princess is a woman, whether she can open the bow is a problem.

Life in the harem is not easy, especially these low-grade concubines, who neither want to lose their money nor offend the queen, so they all follow the queen to bet on the prince.

The emperor smiled: "How can you bet like this, forget it, I'll bet on the old ...... The third child is good. The emperor took off the jade pendant from his waist and put it on the tray.

The crown princess and Princess Kang also came, and the crown princess naturally bet on the prince, but Princess Kang bet on King Kang just like the emperor.

The tray turned to Ye Qian, Ye Qian took out a pair of refreshing green jade bracelets from his wrist, pursed his lips and smiled, "I will take His Royal Highness King Yu." ”

King Yu looked at it from a distance, a smile flashed in his beautiful phoenix eyes, and his little princess naturally wanted to bet on herself to win.

It turns out that this is the fourth daughter-in-law who guessed her thoughts. Emperor Wen squinted his eyes and looked at it carefully, he originally remembered that she was a chubby little girl, and she loved to cry, when did she grow into such a beautiful beauty? Not only is he beautiful, but he also has a kind of agility and cuteness that others don't have, and in his harem, Concubine Yu can compare to her. Emperor Wen nodded, the fourth Yanfu is not shallow, such a random arrow back then actually hit such a superb beauty.

Emperor Wen's eyes looked at the imperial lady again, this is also a superb beauty, with bright eyes and bright teeth, and her spirit is flying, he has read countless people, but there is no such woman like the sun and fire among the beauties in the harem. Emperor Wen looked at Ye Qian, and then at Yan Yunxi, these two are both moving and static, one literary and one martial, all of them are superb.

Ye Li also took off the jade pendant on his waist, and was about to say that he would also bet on King Yu, when the emperor coughed lightly, "General Ye is still the princess." "If no one bets on the queen daughter, it's not good-looking, Ye Li is already the last person to bet.

Ye Li was helpless, the emperor had spoken, what else could he say, "The minister obeys the order, and His Royal Highness the Empress Dowager of Daluo Kingdom wins." ”

In the end, Emperor Wen and Princess Kang bet on King Kang, Ye Qian bet on King Yu, Ye Li bet on the crown princess, and the rest of them all bet on the prince.

The crown prince glanced at the princess proudly, a woman turned out to be the prince of the country like himself, and she wanted to compete with herself in archery, which was really overwhelming.

Yan Yunxi smiled and nodded at the prince, don't be proud, don't cry and beg for mercy later!

The race is divided into three rounds, and the total number of rings is calculated at the end.

In the first round, the prince shot first. He picked out the longbow and stood there, with a calm momentum, and after opening the bow, he aimed unhurriedly, and as soon as his fingers were sent, the arrow was like a meteor, and the sound of "whoosh" hit the bull's-eye, ten rings.

The emperor and the queen both smiled slightly, and the concubines immediately cheered, and all kinds of soft and charming cheers rang out. The smile on the emperor's face faded, and his eyes deepened, the prince was in the prime of life, but he himself gradually felt powerless.

Next up is King Kang. He shot nine rings, which is also a good result.

King Yu casually shot and only hit the five rings. The concubines laughed, Ye Qian's face was as usual, she knew Xiao Yanfeng's strength, he could also shoot ten rings steadily, but now was not the time to perform.

"The fourth brother should also practice, let's not seek to wear Yang in a hundred steps, at least we must be skilled in bowing and horses." King Kang said with a smile.

King Yu snorted, "It's not as clever as the third brother, it's just one ring less than the prince." ”

King Kang's smile suddenly froze on his face, he could shoot ten rings like the prince, but he didn't dare, and he didn't want to be too much, so he controlled the shooting of nine rings.

The crown prince glanced at King Kang meaningfully, did this third brother mean it? He can also shoot ten rings but deliberately hides his strength?

The atmosphere between the three princes is delicate, but the others are very relaxed, the prince is the tenth ring, and the crown princess is definitely not able to surpass the prince.

Yan Yunxi's face was expressionless, he picked a longbow and tried it, his slender fingers picked up two feather arrows, put them on the longbow, and glanced at the prince, "What we are talking about is that each person shoots three rounds, but there is no limit to shooting several arrows each time, I am not a violation." ”

The prince's face sank suddenly, could she be so powerful that she could shoot two arrows at the same time?

Ye Li has also practiced two arrows at once, and at a glance, he knows that this Yan Yunxi is indeed okay, but this time Daqi's face is about to be lost, and the three princes are no match for a woman.

The concubines all opened their eyes nervously, it was rare for women to shoot arrows, and they could shoot two arrows at a time? They were looking forward to seeing a miracle, but they were also worried that if the queen lady won, her jewelry would be gone.

Yan Yunxi held his breath and concentrated, and as soon as his fingers loosened, two arrows hit the target, one with six rings and one with eight rings. She exhaled softly, fourteen rings are already her best level, she can shoot ten rings with a single arrow, but then she can't win against the prince, and the accuracy of double arrows is naturally not as good as a single arrow.

The martial arts arena was silent, the chattering concubines all shut up, Emperor Wen's face was gloomy, the queen daughter did take a trick, but the final result must be that she won, thinking that his sons were all defeated under him, and it was embarrassing to spread it, Emperor Wen's heart was very uncomfortable.

King Yu looked at everyone and said with a smile: "Father, Erchen's arm was injured before he shot the five rings, this is not fair to Erchen, Erchen asked to find someone to shoot the next two rounds instead of Erchen, the princess has no opinion, right?" ”

Emperor Wen nodded with a calm face, and Yan Yunxi also nodded, "His Royal Highness King Yu, please feel free." "She's already won anyway.

Ye Li of the Yu Dynasty beckoned, "Just ask General Ye to do it for me." ”