Women Wearing Men: The Growth Path of the Bastards of the Aristocratic Family

"His Majesty--"

Gu Yunji was shocked when he saw this, and subconsciously looked around. Suddenly, he suddenly picked up a stone and threw it at the tiger, hitting its eye accurately.

Although Gu Yunji was only a civil servant and had no martial arts skills, the strength of an adult man should not be underestimated.The tiger roared in pain, and its original movement towards Emperor Jingfeng suddenly turned half sideways, rolling several times in pain.

The guards took the opportunity to swarm forward, all thrust out their spears, and killed the tiger completely.

Looking at the dead body of the tiger, Emperor Jingfeng remained slumped on the ground, his eyes bulging with fear, and his whole body remained motionless, as if stunned.

Gu Yunji was in shock. After he came to his senses, he quickly went to help Emperor Jingfeng: "Your Majesty? Your Majesty?"

Hearing his cry, Emperor Jingfeng suddenly returned to his senses, breathing heavily like a fish on the verge of dying of thirst. After a long while, his pale face slowly regained its rosiness.

He stood up unsteadily while holding Gu Yunji's hand. He was recovering from a serious illness, but after this shock, he broke out in sweat all over his body, and the clothes on his back were soaked, as if he had been fished out of the water.

Gu Yunji asked cautiously: "...Your Majesty, are you okay?"

Emperor Jingfeng waved his hand to indicate that he was fine, and then said after a while: "...why are there tigers in the hunting ground?"

Everyone had been busy looking for Li Jinze before, but they finally realized this key issue.If something unexpected happened to Emperor Jingfeng, the consequences would be disastrous, and the first ones to bear the brunt would be the imperial guards who were responsible for protecting the emperor.

Thinking of this, the commander of the Imperial Guard was terrified, frightened and angry inside, and shouted towards the ministers: "Where is the officer in charge of the hunting ground! Come out and answer!"

As soon as he finished speaking, a skinny low-level official trotted out and knelt tremblingly in front of Emperor Jingfeng: "Wei... Weichen is Dong Qicheng, the supervisor stationed at the royal hunting ground..."

Emperor Jingfeng raised his eyelids and looked at Dong Qicheng with a heavy gaze: "Dong Qicheng, I ask you, why do ferocious beasts like tigers appear in the royal hunting ground that should have been cleaned many times? But you are derelict in your duties and have lax inspections?"

"Your Majesty, it's clear! Wei Chen doesn't have it, Wei Chen definitely doesn't have it!"

Dong Qicheng was so frightened that he kowtowed on the ground for a while and said: "Since I received your majesty's order for autumn hunting, I have started making preparations early. All the hunting fences have been reinforced this year. As for the forest, even more It was Wei Chen who personally led people to search from the outside bit by bit."

"Total up, we have cleaned it up at least ten times. Not to mention ferocious beasts, not even a wolf dog can get in! All the above are witnessed by the officials of the hunting ground. It is absolutely impossible for a humble minister to be derelict in his duties. Please give your Majesty a clear warning!"

The commander of the Forbidden Army sneered when he heard this: "According to what you said, the tiger flew into the hunting ground from the sky? The tiger's carcass is still clearly displayed here. If you hadn't made an oversight, could it be possible that someone deliberately put the tiger in? of?"

Dong Qicheng choked up for a moment: "This..."

At this time, Feiyuwei, who had been sent out by Emperor Jingfeng to inspect the fence early in the morning, came back and said: "Your Majesty, I have inspected the fence around the hunting ground. Indeed, as Supervisor Dong said, basically it has been reinforced." Yes, wild beasts can't get in at all... There is only a big hole in the fence in the northeast corner, which seems to have been damaged by humans, and the signs of damage are still very new."

Hearing these words, Emperor Jingfeng's eyes darkened, and he asked again: "Are you sure the fence was destroyed by man and not broken open by a wild beast?"

Feiyuwei said: "I am sure. Because the fence has very obvious signs of being broken by tools, wild animals cannot do it. And there was a light rain last night, but there was no water stain on the broken part of the fence... It was probably after this morning. Destroyed." "...Man-made destruction?!"

Hearing this, everyone was shocked. Some people stammered: "Could it be that someone deliberately broke the fence, so the tiger took the opportunity to enter and almost hurt His Majesty?"

"I'm afraid it's more than that." Li Jinche rolled his eyes twice and said with something in his words, "Tiger is the king of beasts. It has a strong sense of territoriality and often walks alone deep in the forest. The forest enclosed as a hunting ground is on the periphery of the northern forest. , Under normal circumstances, there will be no wild beasts."

"... Someone should have deliberately broken open the fence, put the tiger prepared in advance into the hunting ground, and then used deer to lure it, leaving blood stains along the way, just to make the tiger ambush here, and then..."

Speaking of this, Li Jinche glanced at Emperor Jingfeng's face and said no more.

Li Jinche didn’t need to explain what was behind, everyone could understand it—the tiger was deliberately ambushed here, and then Emperor Jingfeng and others were lured here. Their group was so loud that it was easy for the tiger to be frightened, and it would naturally rush towards the crowd. And out.

The key now is, who is going to do this?Who is so bold as to harm Emperor Jingfeng?

"Father!"

At this time, a young man's voice sounded from behind. Everyone looked back and found that it was the prince Li Jinze.

"Your Highness!" Seeing that Li Jinze was safe and sound, Gu Yunji looked happy and hurriedly greeted him, "Are you okay? Were you injured by the tiger?"

Li Jinze looked confused: "Tiger? What tiger? This is a royal hunting ground. The forest has been cleared in advance. At most, there are wild animals such as pheasants and rabbits. How can there be tigers?"

Gu Yunji's expression suddenly froze: "...Didn't His Highness meet the tiger?"

Li Jinze was still confused: "Of course not. I have been hunting in the forest before, and I only saw hares and pheasants, not tigers."

As soon as he said this, everyone looked at Li Jinze in a strange way.

Li Jinze sensed something was wrong from everyone's looks and asked doubtfully: "What, have you seen the tiger?"

Everyone looked away and did not respond, which made Li Jinze even more confused.

Emperor Jingfeng looked at Li Jinze with a sullen face for a long time, then suddenly said: "What did the prince do just now?"

Li Jinze came back to his senses instantly and said respectfully to Emperor Jingfeng: "Returning to my father, after my son and the second emperor's brother decided on a hunting competition, they have been concentrating on searching for prey in the forest. Later, when the sun set, they rushed back to the hunting camp. , but there was no trace of my father and ministers."

"After asking the guards who stayed at the camp, I found out that it turned out that the father thought that the son was lost and took people out to look for him. The son was afraid that his father would search for him in vain, so he did not dare to worry his father, so he immediately chased after him."

Emperor Jingfeng narrowed his eyes slightly: "Then why did a guard report that you encountered a tiger during hunting, that your team was scattered, and that you were missing in the forest?"