Chapter 92: The Hunt Begins
The camp tent belonging to Princess Zhiling is in the left rear of Emperor Yuan'an's line, not far from the line, there is a lake bay next to it, and a simple wooden stack is built between the lake bay and the camp, which can avoid people who go to the lake to draw water to wash their feet on the mud on the tidal flats.
Coincidentally, Emperor Yuan An asked the Seven Princes to camp on the right rear of Xinghuo, and in order, the Seven Princes went over to the Four Princes' tents, and the Six Princes' tents were just right on the right side of the princess's tent.
Animals avoid people, and I saw birds and beasts everywhere from a distance, but when people gathered more and more, they began to take vigorous actions, and all these animals disappeared.
This is one of the fun of hunting, before hunting animals, the first thing to do is to search for animal traces, such as autumn hunting such a large hunt, will send thousands of soldiers to surround and drive away the animals, the scale of spring harvest is smaller, then the people involved in the hunt will be in the form of a small team, each drill the forest to pursue the prey.
After everyone arrived, and recognized their own camp, and rested for a while, Emperor Yuan An gave an order, and everyone rode their horses to guard around him.
Emperor Yuan An announced loudly: "This time, I will not engage in large-scale hunting, everyone will rely on their own abilities and hunt happily!" There are only two rules: first, you must not harm the pregnant mother and the young, and second, dinner is the result of the ranks, and it is up to you whether you can fill your stomach or not! ā
Emperor Yuan An looked at all the children who had come with him this time, and suddenly named: "Yu Zhen, Yu Qi, Yu Zuo, Yu You!" The four of you are still working hard in Mingde Hall, and the little koala in the school field can't open up the gap between you, so this time the four of you have to perform well! ā
"Erchen takes orders!" The four princes responded loudly in unison.
Emperor Yuan An smiled: "That's it!" I have set another rule for you, from now on, each of you can bring a maximum of three team members, and the results will be based on the total of all members of the group, until the end of the unitary time, you will hand in all the prey you have obtained and weigh it, and the winning group will be rewarded with a thousand taels of gold! Both, do you understand? ā
"Understood!" "Understood! Several princes and their companions echoed in unison.
Emperor Yuan An laughed, and immediately waved his arm: "Okay!" I announce that the hunt has officially begun! ā
The princes were in a sensation, and soon divided into four groups, each chose a direction, and rushed out on horseback.
Emperor Yuan An looked behind him: "Huang Yuan, Huang Yuan, Huang Zhi, Zhi Ling, you guys should start too!" Although you don't participate in the competition, you have to do your best, but don't you have too little prey and starve yourself? ā
Yu Yuan and Yu Zhi are both adult princes who have reached the age of twenty and have started to run errands, and they don't need Emperor Yuan'an to take care of anything, so they will lead their confidants and friends to leave separately after receiving the order.
Emperor Yuan An was more concerned about the eldest prince who used to speak and act quite immaturely, but now although he is silent, he seems to be a lot more normal, and the companion who accompanies him is specially selected, Liu Tai, who is young and old, has a calm temperament, and the royal companion who has been serving the eldest prince since he was a child.
Seeing Emperor Yuan An looking over, Liu Tai calmly made a gesture on horseback, and asked with his head sideways: "Your Highness, do you want to go hunting with me?" Feel relieved! I will surely hunt enough food for Your Highness. ā
Yu Yuan stopped talking towards Emperor Yuan An, turned his head and glanced at Liu Tai, who was talking to him, nodded and said "Okay", and accompanied by Wang and Liu Tai, he also rode away.
Emperor Yuan An still felt not so relieved, but his son had to learn to grow up slowly, and now his son's situation seems to have improved significantly compared to the past, which is good.
As for the daughter...... Emperor Yuan An looked at Princess Zhiling again, but saw that several girls were chattering and discussing enthusiastically, as if there was an argument about what was going on, and they hadn't set off yet, which made people feel uneasy.
The most different thing from the prince is probably that Princess Zhiling has her own female guards, although there are not many people, but all of them have good skills, and they can protect the princess closely, Princess Zhiling goes hunting, whether to bring them with you or not, it is up to Princess Zhiling to decide.
That's what the girls were arguing about, Fu Xuechen felt that the female guards had good skills, bring two or three with them, everyone can be well protected, Fu Rushuang has no opinion, but the princess's companion Cui Xiaoyue disagreed: "We are going to test our riding and archery strength, what's the matter with taking them?" ā
"My archery skills are very average, IāI'm a little afraid that we won't be able to hit enough prey, maybe bringing them can make amends?" Another companion, Xia Qinglian, was a little hesitant.
"The Fu family, the two sisters of the Fu family, can the two sisters of the Fu family be worse than the archery skills of the girl who came out of my scholarly family? Are you all going to bring the guards? Cui Xiaoyue pointed the finger at the two sisters, Fu Rushuang and Fu Xuechen.
Ah......h Is this from Wenchen's contempt for Wu Xun?
Fu Xuechen was a little ashamed, so he had to throw the question to the princess: "I'm just thinking about the safety of Her Royal Highness the Princess, whether to bring a female guard or not, or Her Royal Highness the Princess's decision!" ā
Princess Zhiling's archery skills are actually worse than Fu Xuechen's, and her results in the last small test were at the bottom with Xia Qinglian, when Fu Xuechen proposed to bring guards, she wanted to agree, but when Cui Xiaoyue said this, she hesitated, and then suddenly thought that her father was the horseback emperor who fought the world, and suddenly felt that she couldn't lose her father's face, and immediately said: "Then don't bring it!" Anyway, the surroundings have been cleared, so there should be no danger. ā
After the five girls agreed, Princess Zhiling ordered the female guards to take turns guarding the camp and hunting on their own, while she took four companions and started the hunting journey.
Bypassing the bay, the scenery changes ahead, there is a forest on the left, the edge of the forest on the right is a grassy slope, and after turning over the grassy slope and then to the right is the grassland, and in the distance it is wrapped in heavy mountains, and the terrain begins to narrow.
"Which way are we going?" Princess Zhiling asked.
"Hunt whatever you want, go to the grassland if you want to eat mutton and venison, and go into the forest if you want to eat rabbit meat and roe meat?" Fu Xuechen glanced back at the big lake, in fact, it was good to eat fish, but it seemed that there were no fishing tools.
"Venison?" Xia Qinglian and Princess Zhiling are both a little excited, mainly because sheep or deer are relatively large and are more likely to be hit by arrows than rabbits and roe deer.
Cui Xiaoyue had a different opinion: "I want to eat pheasant!" ā
She tried her best to instigate: "Your Highness, pheasant meat is not the same as domestic chicken!" It's delicious! Rabbit meat is also good, not as fishy as mutton, and it is not easy to bleed from the nose if you eat too much like venison. ā
"That's right!" Cui Xiaoyue added: "Maybe you can still pick edible wild fruits in the forest." ā
Thinking that today's lunch and dinner were all big meat and meat, Fu Xuechen was also moved, even if there are no wild fruits in this season, maybe you can pick edible mushrooms and wild vegetables, and the combination of meat and vegetables is beautiful!
So the five girls agreed again and plunged headlong into the forest on the left.