Xiao Yunjin heard that his favorite youngest son went out of the city to hunt and did not return all night, and found the corpse of the guards of the Qin King's Mansion in Songlin Mountain, and he was so frightened that he collapsed on the chair.

Now I heard the news that Yelu Chongyuan returned home safely, and I was filled with joy and sorrow. As soon as he saw Yelu Chongyuan's face, he slapped him twice.

"You unfilial son, who let you go out of the city to go hunting at such a time, see if I don't kill you! It's better for me to kill you with my own hands than for someone else to capture you and torture you. ”

Seeing that her mother, who had always been strong, seemed to be a lot haggard overnight, Yelu Chongyuan knelt down and said: "Queen Mother, Erchen knows that he is wrong, and Erchen will not dare next time!" ”

"And next time? I'm going to discount your legs this time! As he spoke, he slapped Yelu Chongyuan twice.

Yelu Chongyuan did not dodge, and let the queen mother commit violence.

Xiao Yunjin was tired, so he sat back in his chair and asked, "Tell me about you, you should be an adult in two years, why do you still look heartless?" Look at Yi Bujin (Yelu Zongzhen), how scheming, can't you learn from him? ”

Yelu Chongyuan leaned over to his mother and half-knelt to comfort, "The imperial brother is better than me, and the queen mother should be more at ease." When the royal brother is in charge of the government, the queen mother will be able to enjoy her old age in peace. ”

"Useless thing, what is like my son!" Xiao Yunjin was furious, and slapped Yelu Chongyuan on the head heavily, pushing him far away.

Yelu Chongyuan is unknown, and his brother is also the biological son of the queen mother, isn't it good that he has more ability? Why does the queen mother want to push herself?

"Queen Mother!" Yelu Chongyuan said aggrievedly.

Xiao Yunjin hated iron and said: "You really want to make me angry to death, I help you plan every day, you have no heart and lungs here!" But if you are concerned about political affairs, you don't need to be so tired of God. ”

Yelu Chongyuan asked thoughtfully: "The imperial brother is angry with his mother again?" ”

"Humph! Don't mention him, he has to be the son of Brother Xiao Bodhisattva, I should have never given birth to him! ”

"Queen Mother!" Yelu Chongyuan persuaded: "At the beginning, the imperial brother was raised to the Empress Dowager Qi Tian, but now that the Empress Dowager Qi Tian has died, don't hold a grudge against this matter." ”

Xiao Yunjin changed his serious attitude again, "Silly boy, how do you know those people's sinister thoughts, they can't see the queen mother's good, and want to snatch you." If you don't have the same heart with me, I really have a heart to die......"

"Okay, Queen Mother, can't I listen to you?" For such a mother, Yelu Chongyuan is also very helpless.

"That's good, you must not run around from today onwards. After two months, you will be ready to go to the Tuhe Palace to make a bowl in the summer, and then you will listen to my arrangement. ”

Yelu Chongyuan couldn't hear the hidden meaning of Xiao Yunjin's words, and only knew that he would be out of the palace to hunt in a few months, with an excited expression.

"Brother Huang is also going to go then, right?"

Xiao Yunjin nodded, "Naturally, we want to go together." ”

"That's great!" Yelu Chongyuan happily ran away.

Leaving Xiao Yunjin's Yongkang Palace, Yelu Chongyuan rushed to Zhaoming Palace again.

As soon as he saw Liaoxing Sect Yelu Zongzhen, Yelu Chongyuan was so happy that he completely turned into a child.

"Brother, do you want me to do it?" Chongyuan pounced on Zong Zhen's body.

Yelu Zongzhen saw Yelu Chongyuan return safely, and a complicated look flashed in his eyes. "It's good that you come back safely!"

"Are you upset to see me?"

"Happy, of course happy."

Yelu Chongyuan pulled away Yelu Zongzhen's hand that was still practicing calligraphy, "What kind of characters are you still practicing in the palace?" We Khitans are all going to win the world right away and rule the world right away. How can there be an emperor like you who is locked up in the palace every day to practice calligraphy? Let's go to practice archery together! ”

"Don't make a fuss, you can go with your friends."

"I heard from the queen mother that the summer bowl will be held at the beginning of June, and then we will go to the Tuhe Palace to compete together."

After hearing the three words "Xia Bowl", Yeluzong trembled in his heart, he should come after all, right?

The younger brother in front of him is so simple and kind, he used to be the closest person to him. But now that the queen mother wants him to replace him, can he still treat his younger brother like before?

When he heard that Yelu Chongyuan was attacked in Qijin Mountain, Yelu Zongzhen even felt a kind of joy, would he have escaped the catastrophe? But the inner struggle made him even more painful, after all, he was his own brother, how could he really be ruthless?

"What are you thinking?" Yelu Chongyuan saw that Zong was really distracted, and called him by his name.

"Huh?" Yelu Zong really came back to his senses, "It's nothing, I heard that you encountered danger outside the city, and you weren't injured, right?" ”

"Oh, it's really boring, since you became the emperor, why are you so old-fashioned and boring?"

Yelu Zongzhen squeezed out a helpless smile.

Yelu Chongyuan continued: "I was taught a lesson by the queen mother just now, don't reprimand me again. ”

"Okay, but you have to promise me that you won't do this in the future."

"Okay, it's all up to you!" Yelu Chongyuan grimaced.

Seeing that Yelu Zong was really troubled and unwilling to go out with him, Yelu Chongyuan said goodbye to him. "Forget it, I'm going home, I'll come to see you one day!"

After Yelu Chongyuan left, Zong Zhen sat on the throne for a long time.

Xia Bo - He's been thinking about this point in time.

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Ye Pei, Zhou Xun and others entered the Dading Mansion in Zhongjing and rented a courtyard. Thinking about the next arrangement, he also pretended to set up a juggling booth next to the workshop closest to King Qin's mansion.

Yelu Chongyuan's lively temperament couldn't bear it after staying in the house for less than two days, and he had to sneak out of the house to play.

The housekeeper and the embankment begged for everything, "My good king, don't go out, if you have a little bit of a mistake, the queen mother will have to take the life of the old minister!" ”

Yelu Chongyuan begged: "I just go around the palace and never go far." ”

As he spoke, he didn't look at the expression of the embankment, and ran out of the mansion as well.

After a month's rest, Zhongjing City has basically come out of the haze of war, and people come and go on the streets, and there is constant laughter in the workshop.

Yelu Chongyuan pretended to leave the house, like a bird in flight, running around happily.

He first bought a bunch of snacks on Kaiyuan Street, and then came to Yong'an Fang to watch juggling.

The juggling team from Nanjing City really has novelties, what is walking barefoot on charcoal, opening a big stone on the chest, and swallowing a sword in the mouth...... Yelu Chongyuan had a venison jerky in his mouth, and he watched it with relish.

The faces of the jugglers were painted with colorful paints, as if they were shamans, which was both ridiculous and funny, attracting many onlookers.

There are also interactive games in the juggling class. Juggling is performed on this side, and there are some games such as archery, pot throwing, and ring rings for visitors to play on the other side.

Yelu Chongyuan finished watching the juggling, and also came to the interactive game to try his luck.

He shot ten arrows first, fixed targets, Yelu Chongyuan relaxed, attracted a round of applause, and got a clay puppet as a reward, and his heart was very happy.

He picked up a headless white feather arrow and tried to throw it into a double-eared copper round-mouthed square bottle.

Pitching is to throw arrows into a small-mouthed pot and bottle, and compete to win or lose by the number of throws. This pitcher is a thing passed over from the Great Song Dynasty, and there are many people playing in Nanjing City of Liao near the Southern Dynasty, but few people know about it in Zhongjing City.

Yelu Chongyuan has practiced riding and archery since he was a child, and he thinks that these things are difficult for him. It's a pity that throwing a pot doesn't seem to be much different from archery, Yelu Chongyuan aimed at it for a long time and threw it seriously, but he didn't have the skills, and only two or three of the ten arrows thrown went into the pot.

Yelu Chongyuan was scratching his ears and cheeks in annoyance, but a person appeared behind him, took out two arrows from the quiver, and did not approach, but threw them lightly.

As if with wings, the two arrows flew out in two graceful curves, each piercing into the two ears of the copper kettle. This is called "double piercing ear" in the pitcher, which is a clever pitching technique.

Yelu Chongyuan just wanted to be angry, but when he saw such a wonderful technique, he clapped his hands happily and praised: "Good means! ”

When he turned around, he saw that this person was the goddess who saved him that day, and Yelu Chongyuan was overjoyed.

"Goddess! It's you! ”

Ye Pei smiled and nodded.

"Ah, goddess, I can't imagine that we can meet again here."

Yelu Chongyuan is simple-minded, not because he admires Ye Pei, but because he thinks that she is his life-saving benefactor, which is particularly amiable and respectable.

"This is our Zhou family's territory!" Ye Peidao.

Yelu Chongyuan took the white feather arrow in his hand and thought for a while, "Ao, yes, you are from the juggling class!" ”

Ye Pei smiled and asked, "Do you want to learn?" ”

"Pitcher? Naturally, I want to learn! ”

"Okay, I'll teach you."

Ye Pei took out a white feather arrow and taught it to Yelu Chongyuan: "This is a thing that children in the streets and alleys of the Great Song Dynasty will know, I grew up in the Song Kingdom, so I am naturally familiar with it." You see, this arrow should be held like this, and when thrown, the arrow, the shaft and the mouth of the bottle should be in an arc instead of a straight ......line," he said, Ye Pei told Yelu Chongyuan about the technique of throwing the pot.

Yelu Chongyuan is already proficient in riding and shooting, and the failure to throw the pot is also because of the short contact time, and there is no famous teacher on demand. Listening to Ye Pei's words, he tried it again in person, and sure enough, he immediately showed a difference, six or seven out of ten abilities, and he also learned the skill of "double piercing ears" that Ye Pei said, and he was overjoyed.

"It's really a famous teacher and a high apprentice, thank you for the goddess on demand!"

"What kind of god and goddess, just call me Ye Pei."

"Okay, Sister Ye Pei is good."

Ye Pei dragged Yelu Chongyuan to the backstage of the juggling class to talk, and several of Yelu Chongyuan's guards followed outside to obey orders.

"Sister Ye Pei is from the Song Kingdom? Didn't you say you were from Nanjing? ”

Ye Pei said: "I was originally from the Song Kingdom, and when I married into the Liao Kingdom, I naturally became a Liao person. My husband grew up in Nanjing, Liao. ”

"I see." Yelu Chongyuan turned his mind and asked: "I heard that the Song Kingdom is extremely rich, the Bianjing City is rich and unparalleled in the world, the city is Zhuji, and the household is profitable, are these all true?" ”

"Bianjing City is indeed magnificent."

Yelu Chongyuan said enviously: "I really want to go and see." Can you tell me an interesting story about Bianjing? I heard that Liao Taizong captured Bianliang City that year, and saw a restaurant, saying that it was taller than the imperial palace, and Emperor Taizong also said that he would build a tall building like that in Daliao. ”

Ye Pei nodded, "There are many tall buildings in Bianjing City, and the restaurant you are talking about is called Fan Tower. Fan Lou is indeed extraordinary, and Emperor Taizong of the Great Song Dynasty also watched a hundred operas on Fan Lou. In addition to Fan Lou, there are many lively places in Bianjing, such as the Zhouqiao Night Market, which will be opened every night until the end of the night......"

Ye Pei said it like a river, and Yelu Chongyuan was surprised and delighted when he heard it.

The two of them talked about the scenery of the characters from what they saw and heard in the market, and they laughed at the same time when they were happy.

Ye Pei and Yelu Chongyuan had a good conversation, and they really liked this simple-minded little brother. She took out a set of painted ceramic puppets and gave it to Yelu Chongyuan, "This one is for you." ”

This puppet doll is made of ceramic painting, a box of twelve, all dressed in the costumes of the Song Dynasty market figures, the hands and feet are connected by joints, there are fiber ropes tied to it, and you can move freely with a stick, which is very delicate and interesting.

"Sister's set of painted ceramic puppets is really exquisite, even if you search all over the capital city, you can't find the second set. The Song Kingdom is indeed a collection of treasures from all over the world, and they are all returned to the market. "Yelu Chongyuan toy fiddled with it as soon as he got it.

Ye Pei said: "You envy the richness of your neighbors, it is better to study hard, practice riding and archery, and assist the Lord in the future, so as to build our Liao Kingdom into a strong and prosperous country like the Song Kingdom." ”

"Is that okay?" Yelu Chongyuan fiddled with the puppet doll in his hand, but his mind didn't think too much about what Ye Pei said.

Ye Pei said intentionally or unintentionally: "I had a really happy chat with you today, you are like my younger brother, but unfortunately I don't have that blessing, I am the only one in the family." I had an older brother who died before I was born, and alas, I envy those who have brothers and sisters. ”

Yelu Chongyuan, who was already familiar with Ye Pei, said: "I'm luckier than my sister, I still have a good brother." ”

"It's so enviable. Do you have a good relationship with your brother? Will they also fight for favor, get into trouble together, or something? ”

Yelu Chongyuan also talks about the anecdotes of him and his brother Yelu Zongzhen when they were young.

"Once my brother and I secretly went out of the palace together, uh, went out on horseback riding, and ate ginkgo seeds in a ginkgo grove in the suburbs, the ginkgo seeds were bitter, but we were competing to see who ate more.

I ate more than my brother, won the game, and was happy for a while. But who knew that the next day, my face was swollen like a bun, and my face was all distorted, vomiting up and down, and I was so uncomfortable that I was dying. ”

Ye Pei said with a smile: "No, the ginkgo fruit is a small poison, and eating too much is dangerous!" And you are eating raw, if it is serious, you will be unconscious! ”

"Does my sister still know how to heal?"

"Yes, I traveled north and south with the juggling class, so naturally I wanted to learn some medical skills."

Yelu Chongyuan nodded and said, "Yes, my brother and I are young, who knows that it is so dangerous." That time can take my mother...... Well, my mother was terrified, and she scolded my brother severely, but he didn't say a word to me, and I found out later when the people who were with him slipped out. I'm really sorry for my brother that time. ”

Ye Pei smiled and shook his head.

Yelu Chongyuan said, "Another time, I went on a safari with my parents with my brother. My brother and I took the lead, and he shot a roe deer first, and I was not to be outdone, chasing a deer all the way down into the woods. Suddenly, a tiger burst out and almost killed me. ”

Hearing this story, Ye Pei also sweated for him.

"My horse was frightened when he saw the tiger coming and almost threw me off, but fortunately my brother was not in a panic and shot the tiger with three arrows."

"Your brother is so powerful?" Ye Pei couldn't help but let out a sigh, she couldn't even associate the tiger shooting hero in Yelu Chongyuan's mouth with the white-faced and weak Yelu Zongzhen.

Yelu Chongyuan said with admiration on his face: "Of course, my brother is a hero. That time, he didn't take credit, saying that it was the tiger that we shot together, and my parents praised the two of us greatly. ……”

"Your brother is really a good brother who is competent. Mu Duhan, if your brother is in danger in the future, will you be the first to rush to the front? Ye Pei asked deliberately.

"Of course! We are harmonious and harmonious, and the brotherhood is deep! ”

Ye Pei smiled Yelu Chongyuan and said like an adult, I don't know which side he will stand on if he is really in danger.

In the blink of an eye, the two chatted for an afternoon, the sun was in the west, and Yelu Chongyuan should also go back.

Yelu Chongyuan took the puppet doll that Ye Pei gave him, and felt that he had gained a lot today.