Chapter 296: Kill the Wolf
"Swearing is an art. Li Desert said eloquently, "If you want to take the lead in the scolding war, it is not how fierce your words are, not how meticulous your logic is, but how invincible you are." β
Let your tongue be a lotus, and I will not move.
Xiao Jinyan laughed, "I really didn't expect that there would be so much exquisiteness." But he thought in his heart that Li Desert was still calculating himself last night, but today he was talking and laughing in front of him, and he was ashamed of himself by this alone.
Everyone is ready.
The official of the Ministry of Rites shouted, "Your Majesty, Prince Breguet, please open arrows for the winter hunt!"
In the paddock, three or five rabbits and pheasants had already been released by officials, and these animals were fed medicine, and they walked staggeringly and slowly, so that it was also convenient for Chu Bieli and King Breguet to aim and shoot arrows.
The two had changed their clothes, and rode their horses to the field, and in the hunting ground, they rode around twice, causing everyone to cheer.
Two eunuchs brought up two iron bows.
King Breguet said, "Your Majesty, please first." β
Chu Bieli said, "Brother Wang, please first." β
King Breguet also said, "My Great Chu Dynasty has been founded for hundreds of years, how can I win the world? Relying on horseback to conquer the south and the north, Your Majesty is the head of a hundred officials, and you should set an example for your courtiers, Your Majesty will invite you first." β
Chu Bei said in vain, "Brother Wang works day and night in government affairs, and his hard work is high, this first arrow is honored, and he is naturally the only brother Wang." β
The two conceded a few more rounds.
Chu Beili couldn't shirk it, so he took a bow and said, "Then I will come first." β
Just as he was about to shoot an arrow, suddenly King Breguet took the first step, rode his horse and rushed forward a few steps, and shot arrows with a bow, all in one go.
Sou!
One shot missed.
The civil and military officials looked at each other and swallowed the prepared sycophants into their stomachs. Suddenly, a military general said, "The prince is good at archery!"
This sentence is a bit out of place, and it sounds a little ridiculous at this stall. Everyone saw that this military general was the protΓ©gΓ© of King Baoji, and the West King tent was marching to conquer the general Bian, waiting to see the excitement.
General Na Bian continued, "The prince is kind and kind-hearted, and the bodhisattva has a heart, and he can't bear to kill, so he deliberately missed this arrow.
King Breguet listened as if he had taken a pill and smiled, "Well said!"
The others were full of chagrin, secretly wondering why they hadn't thought of such a thing? However, it is better to say it late than not to say it at all, and they also followed the sound of sycophants and admired it.
King Breguet said, "Your Majesty, please." β
Chu Bieli was preempted, he was angry in his heart, but he didn't dare to attack, he took an arrow, didn't aim, and shot an arrow with a whoosh.
Naturally, it is also a lot more off.
He looked at the crowd and thought, "Look what you say."
The previous general said, "Your Majesty, as a monarch, you should set a target and point where to hit, but this arrow is biased, which is a bit outrageous." β
As soon as these words came out, the ministers did not dare to speak.
This is too bold, and he actually accused His Majesty and challenged His Majesty's authority in front of hundreds of civil and military officials, which is a crime of beheading, and thinking that he is the person of King Breguet, if there is no instruction from Chu Baoji, forgive him and dare not speak.
Chu Bieli's face was pale, he trembled with anger, and said, "It's a good time to dare to say such presumptuous words, Shi Shangshu, what should I do according to the law?"
Shi Shangshu of the Criminal Department glanced at King Breguet, and then at Chu Bieli, not knowing how to reply. The gods fought, the mortals suffered, the city gate caught fire, and the pond fish were affected. His Majesty and the prince, one has the face of the Son of Heaven and the other has real power, neither of them wants to offend, nor does he dare to offend.
Thinking of this, he gritted his teeth, pretended not to sit still, fell off his horse, and pretended to faint.
"Qin Shangshu, you are the deputy, how should this matter be handled?"
Qin Shangshu secretly scolded Shi Shangshu in his heart for the old fox, he also did the same, he raised his head and fell to the ground, and when he landed, he accidentally kicked the horse's back, and the war horse under his crotch was frightened, jumped up, took a few steps forward, and stepped on Shi Shangshu's foot and neck in front of him.
Whew!
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Shi Shangshu was still pretending to be dead, and was trampled by a hoof, but he gritted his teeth and didn't move, and beads of sweat flowed down his forehead.
Chu Beili snorted coldly and asked King Breguet, "What does the prince think about it?"
Chu Baoji laughed, "General Bian offended the majesty of the Son of Heaven and should be beheaded according to the law, but if he commits the first offense, he will be fined for three months and sent to Ningkuta to sweep the latrines." Can you be convinced?"
Ningkuta is located in the northern Xinjiang of Great Chu, it is an extremely cold place, and it is also the place where the prisoners of Great Chu are exiled, the environment is very bad, and the prisoners who are exiled here will not be returned out of ten.
General Bian said loudly, "Surrender!"
"Why?"
"There are no latrines in Ningkuta!"
Breguet pretended to be abrupt and said, "Your Majesty, since there is no latrine in Ningkuta, why don't you leave this matter at that?"
Chu Beili saw that the two sang and harmonized, and King Breguet defended him everywhere, sneering again and again, "Since the prince said so, then it will be done like this." β
With that, he walked with his retinue into the depths of the paddock.
A gong sounded.
The winter hunt has officially begun.
The crowd was crowded, urging the horses forward, and the ten teams of the hunting competition also traveled lightly and walked separately into the mountains.
Last night's heavy snowfall, and it was deep winter, and the snow in the mountains had not melted, and many mountain birds and beasts came out of the cave nests to feed, leaving traces on the ground.
Xiao Jinyan and Li Desert and their entourage searched for prey along the way, and after an hour, they only caught three hares and a pheasant, and as for elk, roe deer, wild boar, etc., they did not even find a single footprint.
Buda said, "If we continue like this, until it gets dark, I'm afraid we'll have to count down." β
It was not the first time Li Desert had participated in the hunt, and he was more familiar with the terrain of Tianmu Mountain, he said, "I remember going further on, there was a bear den. β
According to the rules of hunting competitions, small mountain birds, hares, etc., hunt one point, like elk, roe deer, etc. one gets five points, wolf twenty points, if you can hunt tigers, bears, etc., then one time get 100 points, but, like fierce beasts, can not be found, and if there is no real kung fu, meet them, it is too late to escape, let alone hunt.
Xiao Jinyan noticed that some trees in the mountains had been marked with sharp things, and Li Desert chose to follow the marked route more than once, and couldn't help but cheer up.
After walking for a while, everyone heard the sound of a fight in front of them, and the four of them rushed over, and they were shocked by the sight.
In the mountains and forests, dozens of corpses lie horizontally and vertically. Almost none of these corpses were intact, and their bodies seemed to have been hollowed out by some kind of beast, and their internal organs were flowing all over the ground. Blood splattered everywhere and mixed with the snow.
Looking at the outfits of these people, they are all guards in the palace, and several of them are the people who went into the mountains to hunt with Chu Bieli.
A groan was heard.
Xiao Jinyan noticed that a general, covered in blood and pierced in the chest by a sharp blade, leaned against a pine tree and held the ground with a long sword.
They rushed over, and Li Desert said, "Commander Jiang!"
The man was already seriously injured, the weather was cold, and he gradually lost consciousness, and said, "Your Majesty is attacked, quickly rescue the driver!"
"Where is Your Majesty?"
Commander Na Jiang pointed in a direction, "When we were hunting, we encountered a wolf attack, and the four shadows escorted Your Majesty ......"
After that, his head was crooked, and he died of anger.
Li Desert said, "This person is one of the shadows around His Majesty, and now that His Majesty has been killed, it seems that the hunting plan has been lost." β
Ali also said, "It's important to save the driver." β
Xiao Jinyan didn't know what medicine was sold in Li Desert's gourd, but he was also worried about Chu Bieli's safety, so he changed his plan and followed the direction pointed by Commander Jiang.
The footprints on the ground were messy, and when they retreated, they stepped on a lot of bush branches, and there was still blood on them, and under the touch, there was still residual warmth, which showed that Chu Bei had not gone far from them. In addition to human footprints on the ground, there are also many wolf footprints, and there are nearly 100 of them.
"There's a wolf corpse there!" said Ali.
The four of them went over, and Li Desert looked through the corpse
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, said in a deep voice, "It's a snowwolf!"
Xiao Jinyan was puzzled, and Ali explained, "The snow wolf is a vicious wolf in the northern frontier, fierce by nature, bloodthirsty and murderous, once the target is identified, he will not stop until the goal is achieved. This kind of wolf should not be seen here. β
Li Desert also said, "When the imperial court was encircling the hunting ground, it had already hunted the fierce beasts in the mountains, and in order to increase the pleasure of hunting, only a few were left, and the number was strictly controlled, if there were a hundred snow wolves here at once, it would be abnormal." β
"You mean, someone deliberately let the wolves in?"
"I don't rule it out. β
The four of them did not dare to be careless, and after doing tea kung fu again, they heard a burst of wolf howls, and came to the front, only to see a one-zhang high boulder in the mountain, on which stood five people, holding swords, and guarding tightly. The person at the head, wearing bright yellow armor, is Chu Bieli.
Chu Bieli injured his wrist and still held a long knife.
Under the boulder, nearly seventy or eighty snowwolves surrounded the stones, whining in their mouths, and several of them were vicious wolves, running a few steps and jumping up, but they were always more than three feet away.
The two sides are at a stalemate.
Li Desert said, "Brother Xiao, you go and lead away the wolves, and I'll rescue you." β
Xiao Jinyan was worried, and said, "No, it's too dangerous, you go and lure the wolf, I want to find a way to get over." β
Li Desert glanced at him meaningfully, nodded and said, "It's okay." He drew his soft sword from his waist, picked up another stone, and threw it at one of the wolves.
Oh!
The wolf's head was hit by a stone, and his head was shattered, and Li Desert whistled and provoked the wolves.
The head wolf looked over and barked a few times, and there were more than a dozen snowwolf wolves rushing over to this side, and Li Desert said to Brother Ali, "Prepare for a fight." β
With that, he swung his sword and rushed towards more than a dozen wolves.
Xiao Jinyan untied the bowstring, used the back of the bow as a weapon, saw the right time, jumped up in the air, and when he landed, he pointed on the head of a snowfield wolf, and the internal force was spit out, and the wolf was killed on the spot, he took the opportunity to borrow his strength and said loudly, "I'll come!"
The wolves attacked the boulder unsuccessfully, and they attacked Xiao Jinyan one after another.
Xiao Jinyan was suddenly not afraid, poured the internal force into the back of the bow, turned the bow into a knife, and used the nameless knife technique taught by Li Jinhua to protect himself impermeable, and in an instant, two more wolves were killed.
However, the snowwolf seemed to kill the red eye, and an individual like a calf, with a fierce eye, surrounded Xiao Jinyan, and the Ali brothers hid in a tree and shot arrows to help Xiao Jinyan break the siege.
Chu Bieli and the four shadows, seeing that someone was coming to help, picked up the stones on the ground and threw them at the wolves, who were enraged and attacked more fiercely.
Two fists are hard to beat with four hands, and heroes can't stand up to many people.
Suddenly, Xiao Jinyan felt a pain in his feet, and a snowwolf bit his ankle, and he suddenly used force, releasing string force, shaking the wolf three or four feet away.
In this way, there was a delay for a moment.
A few more Snowwolves pounced. The situation is critical, Xiao Jinyan no longer hides his martial arts, the strings pull the internal force, and countless heaven and earth true elements gather here.
Seeing that Xiao Jinyan was about to be swallowed up by a pack of wolves, he only heard him shout.
A thunderclap exploded in the sky.
The Peerless Divine Fist unleashed, and an incomparably powerful fist erupted from Xiao Jinyan's body, forming a wave of qi, and nearly twenty snow wolves were torn into several pieces.
Xiao Jinyan was covered in blood.
At this moment, he was only more than ten zhang away from the big stone.
Xiao Jinyan shouted, "Borrow a knife and use it!"
One of the guards suddenly overdrew the long knife, and Xiao Jinyan jumped up to take it, leaped into the air, and galloped away in the opposite direction of the boulder.
In mid-air, the long knife was raised, and the whole person drew an arc.
On the blade, there was a purple-gold glow.
The long knife slashed to the ground.
Almost at the same time, the snow-covered ground suddenly loosened.
A man broke through the ground and greeted him with a black iron flute.
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