When Liu Yuan saw it, he gave Xu Guanjie a thumbs up, "It must have been hit, the boss's arrow skills are very good."
With that said, Liu Yuan jumped off his horse, ran over quickly, picked up a rabbit from the bushes and waved to Xu Guanjie and Li Can.
"Brother Can, when we do things, we have to learn from the boss. If you are ruthless and don't talk much, you can get a rabbit by being quiet."
Li Can nodded and flattered: "That's right, if you want to convince me, the person I admire most is our leader."
Xu Guanjie looked at the two sycophants, turned around and saw Liu Jinrui and others walking away, and said, "Follow me."
For the sake of their wife, Li Can and Liu Yuan hunted very seriously along the way. If there was any sign of trouble, they would step forward to check it out.
Xu Guanjie's thoughts were on Liu Jinrui. If Liu Jinrui was fast, he would be fast. If Liu Jinrui was slow, he would be slow.
After walking for about half an hour, Li Can noticed something was wrong. He looked around and said, "Boss, we seem to have entered the depths of the mountain."
Xu Guanjie had discovered it early. In order not to arouse Liu Jinrui's suspicion, Xu Guanjie joked: "Don't you want to make money from your wife? How can you hunt prey without going deep into the mountains?"
"The boss is right. For the sake of my wife, I have to fight hard," Li Can replied.
Liu Yuan pointed to the front right and said, "Boss, let's go this way."
Xu Guanjie looked in the direction of Liu Yuan's finger, then glanced at Liu Jinrui directly in front of him, and found that they could get closer to Liu Jinrui if they walked to the right.
So he nodded and said, "Okay, let's go."
Liu Yuan looked at the prey on horseback and said, "Boss, we hunted five rabbits and three pheasants today, but we haven't caught anything big yet."
Li Can said: "Why are you anxious? This has just begun, the fun is yet to come."
Liu Yuan replied: "Are you not in a hurry? It's already half a day today, and we have to gather before midnight. It's already a quarter past noon, and today, we only have an hour."
Li Can saw a big insect swaying in the bushes in front of him. He was frightened. He raised his hand to his mouth and whispered softly: "Shh! There seems to be a big guy over there."
Liu Yuan and Xu Guanjie were frightened by Li Can, and they both raised their eyebrows.
Xu Guanjie raised his hand and took three arrows from the arrow basket and put them on his bow. He stared at the right front for a moment. He reminded: "This is a big guy, be prepared."
Liu Yuan also fully drew his bow. When Xu Guanjie said it was a big guy, he let go of his hand with excitement, and the arrow flew towards the shadowy woods.
The three of them had their hearts in their throats.
The arrow sank into the jungle, and then the roar of wild beasts was heard. Then a big yellow and black insect rushed out of the jungle.
The horses the three of them were riding raised their front hooves in fright and stamped on them in panic, trying to escape.
Xu Guanjie jumped off the horse and said, "Dismount!"
Liu Yuan and Li Can jumped off the horse.
Liu Yuan excitedly said to Xu Guanjie: "Boss, you are such a big guy."
Xu Guanjie did not forget to look at Liu Jinrui at this time. He saw Liu Jinrui and others also looking this way and rushing towards this direction.
Xu Guanjie turned around and looked at the big insect running towards him.
"Boss, what are you thinking about? Why are you so stunned? Get out of the way."
Seeing Xu Guanjie standing still, Li Can shouted anxiously, holding his sword in hand and preparing to rush forward to help Xu Guanjie.
Xu Guanjie said: "Don't worry, I know it well."
As he spoke, Xu Guanjie quickly pulled out the sword from his back, squatted deeply, and raised the extremely sharp sword above his head.
The big insect couldn't avoid it, so it was gutted and disembowelled by Xu Guanjie's big knife.
Li Can and Liu Yuan's eyes widened in shock as they watched the big insect's belly split into two, and its intestines fell out...
Everything happened so fast that Li Can and Liu Yuan didn't realize what they were doing for a long time.
Liu Jinrui happened to catch this scene in his eyes and couldn't help but praise: "Brother Xu has great swordsmanship!"
Liu Jinrui walked this way as he spoke.
Xu Guanjie raised his hand to Liu Jinrui and said, "Third Master, thank you for the award. It's just good luck."
Liu Yuan came back to his senses and went forward to check. He looked around the big insect who was not dead yet and was still twitching. "The boss is so awesome. I admire you so much. What do you call this move? Disembowell him?"
Xu Guanjie turned back to look at the big insect lying on the ground unable to move. His move was purely for self-protection and he was just adapting to the situation. It was not really a move.
The crowd watched the big insect for a while, commented, and then dispersed.
Li Can looked at the big insect on the ground and asked: "Boss, it's almost time for Jiji, let's go back."
Xu Guanjie saw that Liu Jinrui was still looking for prey, so he said: "You send the things back first, and Liu Yuan and I will take a look around."
Li Can bowed and responded.
Liu Yuan followed Xu Guanjie extremely excitedly, "Boss, where shall we go next?"
Xu Guanjie looked around and pointed to the right, "Continue walking this way."
The two of them didn't go far when they met a group of people.
Xu Guanjie saw that the other party was wearing the clothes of an imperial guard and knew that the emperor had arrived, so he was thinking about retreating.
When the other party saw Xu Guanjie and others, he raised his voice and shouted: "Who is it? The Holy Master is here, you guys stay away!"
Xu Guanjie and Liu Yuan quickly bowed to bow and led their horses back.
Shi Jingyang, who was following the prince, saw Xu Guanjie and asked when he passed by: "How is it? Is there anything abnormal?"
Xu Guanjie shook his head slightly.
Shi Jingyang said: "Go back, it's time to gather."
After the emperor, prince and his entourage left, Xu Guanjie said to Liu Yuando: "I'm back."
On the first day of autumn, Xu Guanjie took the first place in hunting a tiger, three pheasants and five rabbits.
After returning from the paddock, the emperor was a little tired and did not summon everyone to have a meal together, leaving everyone to make their own arrangements.
After the prince washed and changed his clothes, he took Lu Qichuan, Pei Dongliu, Fu An and others to the other courtyard of Weiyuan Hou Mansion.
King Chen went to the other courtyard of Xiang Liu's mansion.
The prince and Shi Jingyang stood by the window together, looking at the courtyard under the night.
After a long while, the prince said: "The third child did not enter the paddock today, and his people did not take action. The third child should be alert! But, how could Xu Guanjie hunt a tiger in the paddock today..."
Shi Jingyang turned to look at the prince and asked, "What? Your Highness thinks this matter is strange?"
The prince nodded, frowned and said, "That's a bit strange! Although there is no explicit rule that there cannot be tigers in the paddock.
But for safety reasons, people will patrol the paddock regularly. Wild beasts like tigers will not appear in the paddock at all. Moreover, the place where Xu Guanjie hunted tigers was also the place where his father passed by."
When he learned that Xu Guanjie had hunted a tiger, combined with what happened in his previous life, Shi Jingyang already had the answer in his heart.
"Your Highness, do you mean that Privy Liu deliberately led the Emperor to that direction?"
Shi Jing admired the prince's keenness.
The prince shook his head, "I don't know if Privy Liu did it intentionally, but today's events are full of weirdness. Fortunately, today passed smoothly."
"Your Highness, Prince, the food has been set." Qingshan came in and reported.
Shi Jingyang leaned forward and said, "Your Highness, let's eat first."
The prince nodded, "Let's go."
As soon as the two of them reached the door, Lu Qichuan came over, walked to the prince's side, and whispered: "Your Highness, Prince Chen has gone to the other courtyard of Prime Minister Liu's Mansion."
The prince nodded, "I understand, keep an eye on the tea room and brewing department."
Lu Qichuan understood as soon as he heard this that the prince wanted to stop quietly and bowed in response, "Yes, I understand."
In the other courtyard of Prime Minister Liu's residence, a servant came in and reported: "Master Prime Minister, the young prince has come over."
The imperial concubine gave birth to two princes. Prince Yan was the eldest prince, and Prince Chen was the younger prince.
Liu Xiang followed the emperor into the paddock. Although he was only in the outfield and did not go deep into the jungle. Even so, the sixty or seventy-year-old man seemed to fall apart after one day.
Return to the other courtyard and quickly ask the servants to boil hot water for soaking.
As soon as Liu Xiang sat down in the bathtub, King Chen passed the palace.
"Welcome the young prince to the study. I will be here soon."
Liu Xiang hurriedly stood up from the bathtub. The servants quickly wiped the water off Liu Xiang's body and quickly put on his clothes.
When Liu Xiang rushed to the study, King Chen had already arrived.
After the two parties saw the ceremony, they sat down according to their superiority and inferiority.
King Chen asked: "Where are my second uncle and Brother Rui?"
Liu Xiang leaned forward and said: "In their yard, I will send someone to invite them over."
After speaking, Liu Xiang raised his voice and gave instructions to the servants outside the door.
Liu Zhongxue and Liu Jinrui arrived very quickly. When they entered the house, they first paid homage to King Chen and then to Liu Xiang.
After Liu Zhongxue sat down, he asked with concern: "Is the prince feeling better? With such a joint, how could the prince eat something bad? It was the prince who attacked the prince."
King Chen nodded: "He should have done it." As he said that, King Chen told what happened last night.
Liu Xiang frowned and said: "So, the prince knows about our plan, so the prince's attack on the prince is a warning to the prince."
King Chen nodded, "That's about it. How is the paddock going today?"
Liu Jinrui shook his head, "It didn't go well. My father led the emperor to the mountains, but Xu Guanjie came out halfway to disrupt the situation."
After hearing this, King Chen asked: "Xu Guanjie, the second-place finisher in the martial arts examination three years ago?"
Liu Jinrui nodded: "That's him."
King Chen looked at Liu Zhongxue, "I remember that Xu Guanjie went to the Gyeonggi Camp. How could he show up at Qiu Monkey's hunting?"
Liu Zhongxue leaned forward and said: "Xu Guanjie's father, Xu Weiwu, is the commander of the south of the city. He has an official position of fourth rank. If Xu Guanjie is resting, he can participate in the Autumn Festival."
King Chen nodded thoughtfully, and after a moment, he said: "Let someone check Xu Guanjie's background and find a way to use this person for himself."
Liu Jinrui leaned forward and said, "Yes, I'll send someone to check it out right now."
King Chen continued: "The prince is suspicious, and today's matter is better off than done.
Xu Guanjie came to stir up trouble and just hid us, which is a good thing!"
Liu Jinrui looked at King Chen and asked, "Your Majesty, you mean to stop and not take any more action? Why?"
King Chen nodded and said thoughtfully: "Yes, last night, the prince's people poisoned me. Until now, I have not found out how the poison was poisoned?"
Liu Xiang was shocked, "How could this happen?"
Liu Zhongxue and Liu Jinrui looked at each other, and Liu Zhongxue said bluntly: "What did your father say?"
Liu Xiang glared at Liu Zhongxue and said, "The other party can poison the prince without anyone noticing. What do you think?"
Liu Jinrui reacted, "Either the Crown Prince has placed an informant around the prince, and the spy is very deep and has extremely high kung fu. Or, the Prince has a peerless master beside him. No matter which of these two possibilities it is,
It’s very bad for us.”
King Chen nodded, "What we are planning cannot be rushed. We are not completely sure and cannot act rashly. Every step must be taken steadily."
Liu Zhongxue said: "But this opportunity is great, should we just forget it?"
For this game, Liu Zhongxue started planning at the beginning of the new year and worked hard for more than half a year, but finally stopped.
Liu Zhongxue was a little unwilling.
King Chen shook his head and explained impatiently: "Second uncle, you need to be patient when doing things! If the prince becomes suspicious, he must take precautions.
Our strategies, when the prince is not on guard, can still be said to be rare opportunities.
Now that the prince has become suspicious, we have taken precautions and we still proceed as planned, which is to risk death.
Next, have a good time hunting. Just act like this never happened."
King Chen looked very unhappy.
Liu Zhongxue wanted to say something else, but Liu Xiang said first: "We will obey the prince's instructions. As time goes by, we will look for opportunities later."
As Liu Xiang spoke, he winked at Liu Zhongxue.
Although Liu Zhongxue was dissatisfied in his heart, he still bowed to King Chen respectfully, "Yes, I will listen to the young prince's instructions."
King Chen turned to look at Liu Jinrui and said, "We are now employing people.
We need to find out Xu Guanjie’s background as soon as possible. Not only Xu Guanjie, but also other people like him, we need to show our kindness and try to bring him under our wing.”
Liu Jinrui leaned forward and said, "Yes, I understand."
After King Chen picked up the tea cup and sipped the tea, he turned his eyes to Liu Xiang and said: "In these two days, it is time for the Qiu Wei Fang to release the results.
My grandfather would like to tell my eldest and second cousins to hold more cultural gatherings and hang out more with the outstanding students this autumn."
Liu Xiang leaned forward and responded: "Yes, the young prince's concern is very true. After I return to Beijing, I will tell Brother Tao to have more literary and social friends."
King Chen then said politely: "There is a mother and concubine in the palace, so I have to worry about my grandfather and two uncles about the affairs in the court."
Liu Xiang said with a smile: "The young prince is so polite, it is obvious. We are in the same spirit, and we are both prosperous. It is right to share the worries of the young prince."
Chen Dynasty's Prime Minister Liu bowed and said, "Thank you, grandpa. It's getting late today, so I should go back."
With that said, King Chen stood up.
Liu Xiang, Liu Zhongxue, and Liu Jinrui stood up and sent King Chen off.
King Chen looked at Liu Zhongxue and warned him again with some worry: "The hunting in the next two days is for everyone to have fun. Don't cause trouble, do you understand?"
In King Chen's mind, his second uncle was too stubborn and often did bad things with good intentions.
Liu Zhongxue bowed and stepped down.
King Chen returned to the palace and asked, "Has the mother-in-law rested?"
The servant replied: "Go back to your Majesty, the Imperial Concubine is talking to His Highness Prince Yan."
King Chen was stunned and looked up at the sky. Why is the emperor still here with his mother and concubine at this o'clock? "I understand, let's go down."
After the servants retreated, Eunuch Bai leaned forward and asked, "Your Majesty, are we going to the imperial concubine's place?"
