After traveling together for a while, Yongwang Hongyu took his ten clan guards and prepared to leave. |
According to the king's brother, he said with a smile that he heard someone say that a white-skinned tiger once appeared nearby, so he wanted to try to hunt the white-skinned tiger.
Of course it would be best if they could be captured alive. If not, then they would hunt down the beast and skin it off as a gift to their father.
Hearing this, Zhao Hongrun was stunned for a while.
Eleven people hunting tigers in the deep mountains and wild forests?
From a certain perspective, this second prince brother really worked hard to win the favor of their father.
But this also reminded Zhao Hongrun: Could it be that all the royal brothers have always participated in hunting and brought back a gift for their father?
"In this case, Brother Second Prince should be more careful."
"Thank you Hongrun, for being careful for the brotherhood."
After King Yong Hongyu said goodbye to their sixth uncle Zhao Yuanli, he took his ten clan guards and left on horseback.
Glancing at the leaving figure of King Yong Hongyu, Zhao Hongrun turned to his sixth uncle Zhao Yuanli in confusion and said, "Uncle Sixth, don't you like the second brother?"
Zhao Yuanli asked in confusion: "Why do you say this?"
Zhao Hongrun shrugged and said, "When the Second Prince was here just now, you didn't talk much."
"Oh." Zhao Yuanli showed a look of relief when he heard this, and said with a smile: "That's not because he doesn't like King Yong, it's just to avoid suspicion... After all, he is different from you. He is a prince striving for the throne. Go with him.
If you are too close, you will inevitably be misunderstood, and then you will be in a lot of trouble."
"That's it." Zhao Hongrun was also relieved, and then he remembered that the Sixth Uncle in front of him didn't like to argue with others, let alone get caught in the vortex of power struggles.
"But having said that, Brother Er Wang is really courageous. Eleven people dare to hunt tigers in such deep mountains and old forests."
Zhao Yuanli smiled slightly and said pointedly: "You have a plan... Your brother, the Second Prince, also lives a very hard life."
Zhao Hongrun was happy when he heard this. Of course he understood what Zhao Yuanli meant. He smiled and said, "My uncle and nephew are still at ease."
"Haha." Zhao Yuanli laughed, and then he said thoughtfully: "Having said that, if your second brother really offers a white tiger skin to your father as a gift, you can't be too shabby... What do you want to get?
Have you given a gift to your father?"
"I've thought about it." Zhao Hongrun shrugged and said nonchalantly: "Just carry two rabbits for my father when I go back."
"..." Zhao Yuanli stared at Zhao Hongrun dumbfounded, and then burst into laughter.
But after laughing for a while, he rolled his eyes slightly and said with a bad smile: "Let's do this. Uncle Six will help you hunt a bear. As for whether to give this bear to your father as a gift, or to give it to Amutu's little daughter.
, how about you think about it yourself?" After that, he didn't wait for Zhao Hongrun to answer, and repeated with a bad smile: "Only one."
No need to think about it? Just catch two rabbits for your father.
Zhao Hongrun made a decision happily in an instant. Although he did not adapt to the customs of the Yi people, a man's nature dictated that such a good prey would naturally be given to a beautiful woman.
Anyway, in Zhao Hongrun's opinion, his father would not be short of a bearskin blanket or something.
However, it can be seen that from a certain perspective, this uncle Liu Wang is quite "immoral".
Maybe he guessed that Uncle Sixth King was deliberately teasing him. Zhao Hongrun rolled his eyes angrily, and then he asked curiously: "Uncle Sixth, are you really going to hunt bears?"
"When did your sixth uncle lie to you?" Zhao Yuanli pointed his thumb behind his back and said, "Are you ready even if you don't see it?"
Preparation? What preparation?
Zhao Hongrun glanced at the Sixth Uncle Wang inexplicably, and then he turned back and glanced at the ten guards of the Sixth Uncle Wang.
He was stunned to find that among the Sixth Uncle Wang's clan guards, there were actually two burly clan guards, each carrying a heavy crossbow. A heavy crossbow that could shoot crossbow arrows as thick as a gun barrel.
It turned out to be a siege weapon...
Zhao Hongrun was a little dumbfounded. He remembered that when he was traveling just now, he really didn't realize that his sixth uncle's Zongwei was still carrying such a terrifying weapon.
He was stunned and asked: "Uncle Six, what are you doing with that thing?"
Zhao Yuanli said with a strange look on his face: "Didn't I say we were going to hunt bears?"
You are too...
Zhao Hongrun was really speechless. He smiled bitterly and said, "Where did you get it from? These things should be piled in the warehouse of the Ministry of War, right?"
Zhao Yuanli chuckled: "Uncle Liu will certainly have a way."
have to!
Zhao Hongrun rolled his eyes: "Uncle Six, those are military weapons."
"Anyway, they are piled up in the warehouse of the Ministry of War, waiting to rust. What happened to Uncle Six who lent them out for use? I'll give them back later." As he said that, Zhao Yuanli seemed to have thought of something. He turned back to look at Zhao Yuanli and murmured: "By the way, you
The boy is now in charge of the Smelting Bureau, so why are you turning around to favor your own interests and build some hunting equipment for Uncle Six?"
Hunting gear...
Zhao Hongrun couldn't help but think of those two terrifying heavy crossbows, with a speechless look on his face: "It looks like the heavy crossbows just now, each worth 50,000 silver!"
Zhao Yuanli showed a horrified expression when he heard this: "You brat, you are robbing money!"
Zhao Hongrun shrugged and said angrily: "Anyway, Uncle Six, you have a lot of money. I heard that you were betting on horse racing with some guy a few days ago and lost a lot of money, right?"
"Uh..." Zhao Yuanli scratched his face in embarrassment.
At this moment, the sound of horse hooves came from behind the group of people.
Zhao Hongrun turned around in confusion and happened to see a group of people coming towards them.
"Your Majesty, they are here for us." Zhao Yuanli's Zongwei Chief Wang Jun warned in a low voice because he noticed that the other party approached them deliberately, just like the people from the Jiejiao Tribe of the Jie Tribe just now.
"..." The expression in Zhao Yuanli's eyes darkened slightly, but he raised his hand and made a gesture, indicating to Wang Jun to stay calm and wait and see what happens.
Unlike Zhao Yuanli and others who were on guard, Zhao Hongrun showed a bit of a smile after seeing the person clearly.
It turned out that the man driving the horse galloping in front of the team was actually the young man from Qin State, Qin Shaojun, whom he met by the huge bonfire yesterday.
I have to say that today, Qin Shaojun changed into a hunting suit and tied his hair up, looking very heroic.
Zhao Hongrun subconsciously raised his hand, ready to say hello to the other party.
But what he didn't expect was that Qin Shaojun rode his horse and galloped past him not far away.
Vaguely, Zhao Hongrun seemed to hear a cold snort that sounded quite artificial.
What's going on?
Zhao Hongrun felt baffled.
At this time, the guards behind Qin Shaojun also followed closely behind their master, but when they passed by Zhao Hongrun, these strong men did not forget to glare at the latter.
A group of people galloped away, and in the blink of an eye, only one figure was left behind. This made Zhao Hongrun, who was raising his hands to greet Qin Shaojun, very embarrassed.
What's going on?
The Zongwei who were on full alert looked at each other, and they had a strange feeling. It was as if this group of people galloped past them on purpose just to give Zhao Hongrun a hard look.
As for these people, they were all regarded as nothing by the other party.
"Is he someone he knows?" Zhao Yuanli asked in shock.
The reason why he asked this was because the "hostility" of this team was a bit special. It was not like the pure hostility of the Jiejiao tribe, but like... another kind of subtle hostility.
Moreover, it was specifically targeted at only Zhao Hongrun.
Zhao Hongrun retracted his raised hand with embarrassment on his face, and said sarcastically: "If it were before, I would have said yes, but now... I don't know how to explain it."
Zhao Yuanli's eyes narrowed slightly when he heard this. He looked at the group of people going away.
Could it be that these people are the Qin people who told Hongrun about what happened in Longxi?
He lowered his head, thoughtfully.
At this time, even Zongwei Shen Yu rode his horse closer and asked with a puzzled face: "Your Highness, when did you offend those people?"
No, even Shen Yu could see it.
After all, the "hostility" of Qin Shaojun's team was specifically directed against Zhao Hongrun, which was fundamentally different from the Jiejiao tribe members who were directed against all Wei people.
Have I offended them...?
Zhao Hongrun scratched his head and tried to recall, but he still couldn't remember exactly when he offended Qin Shaojun and his group.
"Inexplicable." He muttered softly.
On that day, Uncle Liu Wang Zhao Yuanli and his clan guards really used the two heavy crossbows to help Zhao Hongrun hunt a bear with brown and gray fur.
Seeing the two heavy crossbows in the siege weapon category easily piercing the thick hide of the brown bear, Zhao Hongrun once again deeply realized the overwhelming lethality brought by advanced weapons.
In addition to the bear, Zhao Hongrun and his party also harvested many other prey, but most of them were foxes, raccoons, wolves, roosters, pheasants and other prey. Unfortunately, they did not encounter fierce beasts such as tigers and leopards.
When they returned to the Qingyang Tribe’s camping site at night, it was already approaching dusk, and the Qingyang tribe’s people had prepared a sumptuous dinner like last night to entertain Zhao Yuanli and Zhao Hongrun, who had brought many prey to their tribe. A group of people.
While people in the entire campsite were grilling meat and preparing for the celebration, on the mountainside of Mang Mountain, about three miles away from the campsite, there was a group of people eating bloody beast meat and watching the campfire bustling from a distance. .
"Ding-deng-deng..."
Following the sound of footsteps, a man ran up the mountain, walked to a rock, and looked at the man who was sitting in a sloppy posture, eating raw meat from the ground with a look on his face.
"Boss, we have checked. The information that guy gave us should be correct. There are indeed many Wei people in that camp... It is very possible that the king of Wei is really here."
The man who was called the boss stopped gnawing at the meat after hearing this, then casually threw the bloody animal leg aside and wiped the animal blood around his mouth with his hand.
"Since the information given by the employer is accurate, there is no reason for us to stop..." After that, he slowly stood up, sucked a few strands of animal blood on his fingers, lowered his voice and chuckled: "Young men , later, anyone can be killed, but the king of Wei, our generous employer, wants to be captured alive!...Do you understand?"
"Don't worry, boss, brothers won't do anything bad, hehe..."
Nearby, the men took out the blades from their waists and licked the blades with fierce expressions.