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Chapter 251 99: Swan Blood
After the end of summer, the residual heat of summer gradually dissipated.It was the day of hunting in autumn. In the field of Mingduquan in the southeastern suburbs, the hunting fire had burned the forest to black.The guards of Fengchen raised their banners high and drove the beasts to Hunan Mountain, surrounded the three sides of the mountain, leaving only one gap in the mountain.

In front of the army formation on the field, Dayong Emperor Li Yin was wearing a Wubian uniform, riding a yellow horse, and had a red leopard beside him.Several miles away, there was a sika deer running past Yulin.Li Yin bent his bow and set an arrow, and shot it out, the arrow happened to pass by the deer's tail.The sika deer escaped in fright, but Li Yin didn't mean to be unhappy, but laughed heartily.This arrow is not for hunting, but for motivating the soldiers who drive their prey here.Just after the arrow disappeared in Yulin, the sound of copper gongs sounded from all directions, and the army began to march with drums.

Above the white grass, among the ministers, Li Chan held a horned bow and looked into the distance.Li Peijie rode over from the west on Wuming Cong, called sir from a distance, and Li Chan reined in his horse, only to see this bookish Ninth Prince with white robes and silver armor, with two vertical tails on the top of the crown. High provoking.

"Your Highness has changed into this outfit, it's really heroic."

Li Peijie's relatives led a Fulin dog, and he rode close to him with a white falcon on his arm, "I'm just pretending, even though I'm dressed in a military uniform, I've only been on the hunting grounds. Father, at my age, , I don’t know how many battles I have won.”

Facing the killing spirit in the westerly wind, Li Chan looked at the front of the army formation from a distance. The half-life Emperor Dayong had just practiced the army formation under the Chunming Gate in the early morning, and he was not at all tired. Generals are much braver.He looked away and saw in Li Peijie's eyes the desire to make contributions on the battlefield that young people have, so he said, "Having never fought a war is much better than winning a battle."

"Sir, what you said is extremely true." Li Peijie teased Bai Falcon, and said with a smile: "Although I sometimes thought about fighting on the battlefield, but when I thought about the misery at the border, I lost half of my thoughts. I'm not afraid of being ridiculed for my lack of ambition, After all, sir, look at the crown prince, although he is dressed in military uniform and rides on a horse, he looks very elegant, if there is a war, he will not be like his father, who will fight in person like his father."

The horse was a little restless, and Li Chan stroked its mane, "Your Highness was born in a peaceful and prosperous age, so it's normal not to be good at martial arts." At this time, a military commander rode by and laughed loudly: "Your Highness, if you delay , will lag behind others!" The galloping horse brought a gust of wind, and the laughter quickly moved away.

Li Peijie laughed, watched the general ride away on horseback, recalled another heroic figure, and said with emotion: "Among the descendants of the father, only the second brother is the most similar to him."

Li Chan's body undulated slightly with the horse's back, and the clusters of white feathers exposed in the quiver on the side of the saddle swayed with the autumn wind. He asked, "Is King Yu also good at martial arts?"

Li Peijie said with emotion: "He is not an ordinary martial artist. When he was still in Yujing, every year after the field hunting, when he sacrificed to the ancestral temple, most of the prey he caught were his prey."

In the field hunting, the inferior prey is sent to the kitchen, the middle-level ones are entertained by the guests, and only the best ones can be enshrined in the ancestral temple. Li Chan said: "It seems that King Yu is good at martial arts."

Even if he just recalled the figure of King Yu, Li Peijie showed great admiration.Li Yin didn't care much about the prince Wang Ji in the six king's house, and the prince lived alone in the East Palace. King Yu was like a father to him. "In the previous king's house, only the second brother practiced martial arts every day, no matter the weather. In the At my age, I can draw with the general of the Shence Army. He was the queen of the feudal clan, and he personally led the troops to put down the Liu Jian Rebellion in Yuzhou. That Liu Jian was a master of magical transformation, and he was forced to go to the city to kill thousands of people alone. In the end, he was beheaded by the second brother. I also practiced martial arts with the second brother, but unfortunately, I didn’t even learn half of his skills.” He looked to the west, and the short hill blocked the army formation where the prince was. "When I was young, I always thought that my second elder brother would inherit the throne, but only later did I realize that there are still Destined Sons in this world."

Li Chan looked towards the front of the army formation, thinking that the current sage is actually not the son of destiny.The two walked around the low hill, and three yellow deer were drinking water beside the water in front of them. Li Peijie raised his bow and set an arrow, but his shot missed. "Go", the white falcon flew away in response.The entourage hurriedly rode forward, let out the Fulin dog, and wrapped it sideways.

The hissing and barking of the horses, accompanied by the loud and clear cry of the falcons in the wind, drove the yellow deer away. The yellow deer panicked and were gradually driven back to the front.Li Peijie rode his horse and shot arrows, and he missed two more rounds. He couldn't help scolding Xifeng for disturbing people.Fortunately, the yellow deer was getting closer and closer, and the third arrow was shot, which was finally right.There was another eagle cry in the air, and a black-feathered and white-beaked Xue nodded unexpectedly, swooping over, startled the yellow deer staggered, and ran to the east.An arrow shot into the air, and Li Pei let out a "hi" out of anger.Immediately afterwards, another white-feathered arrow came from the east, and suddenly pierced into the side of Huang Deer's neck. The arrow was so powerful that Huang Deer fell to the ground. He exhausted himself quickly, and finally straightened his four legs and did not move.

When Li Peijie was in a daze, a few horses rushed forward automatically, and the leader Wang Xiaogong held a strong bow and said loudly from a distance: "I thought it was a deer without an owner, but I didn't notice it for a while, but I snatched your highness's prey, offending me! "

The relatives in the distance came back with a dog on horseback. Li Peijie said: "It turned out that it was Scholar Wang who robbed my prey, but I have to pay ten times the prey."

Wang Xiaogong said: "If you want my prey, it depends on your Highness's ability, whether you can grab it or not."

"Oh?" Li Peijie said with a smile: "Scholar Wang can't use supernatural powers, otherwise I can't grab it."

"Why do you use a sledgehammer to kill a chicken?" Wang Xiaogong laughed loudly, shook his head, and asked the servant to carry the yellow deer onto the horse's back, and rode the horse to the west. Li Peijie said excuse me to Li Chan, and followed.

Li Chan watched the two groups leave, and drove his horses to trot along the field. There were several swamps embedded in the vast white grass, and the soldiers in the distance practiced the battle formation by hunting. To the east is Fengchenwei. Horseshoes, war drums, and horns startled flocks of waterfowl.

This field hunt was so powerful that Li Chan hadn't left Yujing City for a long time, and when he looked far away, he felt relieved.Those who participated in the autumn hunting today all tried their best to hunt high-quality goods to present to the king, but he only planned to hunt a few wild game to satisfy the greed of the monsters at home.The horseshoe stepped over the grassy shallow water, passed through Yulin, and arrived at the east of the Nanshan Mountain.

In the wilderness, among the fleeing herds driven by the army, a few wild boars escaped from the herd in a panic. Naturally, the scattered prey were not taken seriously by the army.

Li Chan watched from a distance and saw the wild boar fleeing into the forest, so he rode a horse and followed it unhurriedly, trailing far behind, passing a piece of Yulin, and met Jiang Ru who was passing by with his family.

Seeing Li Chan, Jiang Ru greeted him: "Why did Li Lang only bring a bow and arrow? I'm afraid it's inconvenient for hunting."

Li Chan said: "I don't have the skills to cook an eagle and raise a dog."

Jiang Ru said: "Why do you need an eagle dog, what about Mr. Snow Lion?"

Li Chan said: "If Mr. Snow Lion comes, I'm afraid that if he hits the prey, he will also enter its belly."

Jiang Ru couldn't help but invite, "Why don't Li Lang come and hunt with me?"

"Thank you, little lady, for your kind invitation, but I only plan to hunt a few wild animals. I'll just go back and have a tooth-beating sacrifice. It's better not to be a burden." Li Chan declined, looking at the forest where the wild boar disappeared.

"Since Li Lang wants to walk alone, I won't bother you." Jiang Ru smiled.

"Stop with me." Li Chan continued to track the prey on horseback.A young Zhonglang general led the trilogy Benben and followed Jiang Ru's team. He watched Li Chan go to the west, so he led others to follow.

Passing through a piece of Yulin, the wild boar finally stopped in the valley, vigilantly paying attention to the movement in all directions, but did not find Li Chan in the forest.

Li Chan drew out a white feather arrow and put it on the string. Once she exerted all her strength, the bow stretched into a full moon.The autumn wind blew, the arrow feathers were slightly bent, and he turned the arrow to the east.

Just as he was about to let go of his fingers, a sound of hooves came from the side.The wild boar fled in fright, Li Chan was taken aback, and had no choice but to withdraw his bow regretfully.He followed the direction in which the boar was fleeing, and was about to follow it, looking for a better opportunity, but saw a few more arrows coming through the forest, piercing the wild boar's eyes, and the wild boar howled to death.

A young Zhonglang led several knights out of the forest. He rode over as if he had just seen Li Chan, and asked in surprise, "Is this Li Xueshi from Qianyuan Academy?"

Although Li Chan didn't know the other party, he could see that his acting was a little fake, and couldn't help feeling puzzled, "Your Excellency."

"A certain Wang Dingfang, the Zhonglang general of Fengchenwei Zuoyi's mansion, passed by here. When he saw those black pigs, he shot them casually, but unexpectedly, Li Xueshi was also here." The young Zhonglang general laughed: "I am afraid Li Xueshi I have followed these black pigs for a long time."

Li Chan said: "It is true that I followed for a while, but it must not have been longer than General Wang and me."

The young Zhonglang General was slightly taken aback, and laughed loudly: "As expected of Li Xueshi, he is indeed not a mortal, but he doesn't seem to be good at hunting." He glanced at Li Chan's horn bow and quiver, "Otherwise, it wouldn't be mere hunting. I can’t even take down a few black pigs.”

Li Chan raised her eyebrows, "What advice does General Wang have?"

The young Zhonglang said: "Does Xueshi Li dare to compete with Mr. Wang? I will not take advantage of you. Since you don't have eagle dogs, you must have flying swords by your side."

Only then did Li Chan understand the purpose of the other party's visit. There are not many people in Dayong Kingdom who want to challenge Qianyuan's bachelor to become famous. Naturally, he didn't have the time to deal with the provocation of the young Zhonglang general. He smiled and refused: "Qiu Shou The intention is to talk about martial arts, if I use flying swords to deal with wild boars, it will inevitably make people laugh when it gets out."

"Then I will lose as Bachelor Li."

The young Zhonglang smiled triumphantly, turned his horse's head, took the wild boar away, and crossed Yulin again.

Jiang Ru let go of the tight bowstring, and the white-feathered arrow flew towards the sky, and a yellow swan flitting across the autumn sky immediately fell.She found the side of the rock where Huang Hu fell to, dismounted and picked it up.

With the sound of horseshoes, the young Zhonglang rode his horse closer and said with a smile: "Although Xueshi Li has supernatural powers, his hunting is not satisfactory. I heard that there are strange beasts that have escaped into Yandang Ridge. Sister, would you like to go with me?" "Wang Dingfang is the son of Wang Renyuan, the left general of Fengchen Wei. He practiced martial arts with Jiang Ruo when he was young. He was often bullied. He once threatened to marry her as his wife. After being beaten, he changed his name to his sister.

As soon as Jiang Ru heard it, he understood that this guy was probably jealous of her inviting Li Chan to hunt together, so he went to snatch the prey, shook his head and smiled, "How can you help me, go by yourself!"

The young Zhonglang will not be annoyed if he is underestimated, "Sister, look at it, and within an hour, I will bring the strange beast over!" After finishing speaking, he whipped his horse and drove away.

The retainers at the side watched the young Zhonglang go away, "It seems that General Wang has improved a lot in martial arts, and he was able to win the prey from Xueshi Li."

Someone next to him smiled and said, "General Wang is indeed capable, but probably Li Xueshi has no intention of competing with him. Just now when the young lady invited him, Li Xueshi also said that he only planned to hunt a few wild animals."

Jiang Ruo looked to the west, about two miles away, there was a lone figure on a horse walking through the forest, she smiled, "It's rare to encounter an autumn hunting, what's the point of hunting only a few wild animals, running for nothing Let's go." Then, he pulled out the arrows from Huanghu's body, stained the arrow feathers with the blood of the swan, took out the handkerchief and wrote some words.

Then, tie the handkerchief to the arrow, take the bow and shoot to the west.

Li Chan didn't take those wild boars seriously, there were countless wild birds and beasts in Mingdu Spring, and he had one man and one horse, no matter how many prey he hunted, he could only bring a few hundred catties at most.He rode through the woods.

A white-feathered arrow pierced through the fallen leaves in the forest, and with a sharp click, it sank deeply into the tree trunk in front of him.

Li Chan was startled, and stepped forward to check, but the white feather with the tail of the arrow was still trembling.He took off the veil tied to the arrow, stretched it open, and saw the blood book on it:
Thousands of mountain hunting fires shine on the clear autumn, and ten-mile banners step on the emperor's hill.

Wanzhang Hongyuan is worthy of martial arts, and his murderous aura soars to the sky and shocks princes.

The blood book of the arrowhead is still hot, and the Huaidi Longquan is not restrained.

But try the horn bow to the tiger and leopard, may you ride the horse to the front.

Holding the handkerchief, he looked east, two miles away, the girl in white on horseback looked at him from a distance, turned the horse's head and walked away.

Li Chan looked down at the poem on the handkerchief again, and put it in her arms.The west wind brought the chirping of beasts and birds, and the thumping of drums seemed to be clearer.If you only hunt a few wild animals, it seems a bit boring?He smiled and took off the mother and son bells hanging from his waist.

(End of this chapter)