Chapter 819 Suppression (5)
"No wonder that kid is a little weird today." Xiao Yi said clearly, "It seems that he should have gained something in the woods yesterday. However, Princess Qi also underestimated Xiaojun." He chuckled lightly. He said in a voice, "Anyway, that kid is also a martial artist. This kind of inner-house method can't hurt him. If he is vigilant, he doesn't need to worry."
Nangong Yue thinks about it too, once you take precautions against this kind of inferior means, it will naturally not be so easy to say.
Xiao Yi looked at her with bright eyes, and said excitedly: "Stinky girl, let's go out for a walk."
Nangong Yue said with a smile, "I'll change my clothes, we'll see you at Biboting later."
Xiao Yi felt that his luck was very good. If he was in the capital, the stinky girl would probably not agree to go out to play with him. He answered "yes" happily, and then turned the window skillfully and left.
Nangong Yue pursed her lips and laughed lightly, her eyes full of joy.
...
Two days passed peacefully, and on the third day, the autumn hunting began.
When the first light of dawn illuminated the sky, the emperor and his ministers gathered on the hunting platform in front of the hunting palace, occupying almost half of the hunting platform. Around the hunting platform, the Imperial Forest Army wearing iron armor and bronze helmets has surrounded one layer after another, like a copper wall and an iron wall.
Today is the first day of the official start of the autumn hunting. Before that, there is a ceremony of sacrificing the heavens. This ceremony needs to be held for three consecutive mornings.
The entourage of the Ministry of Rites had already prepared incense cases, tablets, offerings, sacrifices and other items.
When the time came, drums and music blared in unison, the emperor and his ministers first offered incense and bowed down, and then the emperor took the sacrifice offered to heaven and slaughtered it. These sacrifices, along with offerings such as jade bi, jade jade, and silk, were placed on the firewood stacks, and the emperor lit the firewood and made the fireworks rise high in the sky...
After nearly an hour, the ashes disappeared, and the ceremony of worshiping the sky on the first day of Qiuhun finally came to an end.
The emperor turned around, faced the ministers, and announced loudly: "Now the autumn hunting begins! The first person in the hunt today will be rewarded!"
"Long live your majesty!"
All the ministers and noble children bowed their heads and saluted the emperor, shouting long live.
The emperor smiled and asked the ministers to stand up, followed by a sudden change of tone: "But today's hunting competition, I want to change the rules."
One sentence immediately made the faces of the generals who planned to participate in the hunt and the sons and daughters of the nobles congeal, waiting for the emperor's next words.
The emperor glanced down and continued: "I want to add a rule today, except for tigers, leopards, bears and other beasts, other prey such as hares and pheasants must be killed with one arrow!" After saying that, the emperor's eyes were unclear. He paused on some people and remembered last year's spring hunt. Some of the noble children were really outrageous. Four or five arrows were shot on a badger, and I don't know if they were robbed or rounded up by guards!
Several people below were sweating coldly on their backs, wondering if the emperor was targeting them.
After the emperor gave an order, everyone dispersed. The men who went hunting all rushed to the forest hunting grounds, while the female relatives mostly wandered around leisurely.
"Cousin Yue!"
"Three sisters!"
Bai Muxiao and Nangong Tsang called to stop Nangong Yue from the back. Because of her status as the county master, Nangong Yue took a higher position than them in the ceremony. She heard the sound and turned her head to look. She wore a bright yellow riding uniform, which made her skin as bright as jade.