After the failed attempt to pretend to be dead, the sickly child was favored by the treacherous mini

When one drum sounds, a hundred drums sound.

As one flame lit, hundreds of colorful flames shot straight up into the sky.

This drum, which was supposed to be beaten by the emperor, is now in the hands of Xia Yu. How can it not be considered a hint?

But Xun Zhan, who was wholeheartedly working for Xia Yu, was dismissed from his post not long ago, and was unable to participate in the hunt this year due to his guilty conscience.

On the other hand, Xia Ling has accomplished several great things recently, and Zhong Luoyue, who was honored as a mother by her son, has now returned to the position of one of the four concubines.

With this in mind, the court officials who had frequently shown goodwill to the Xia Territory now did not dare to make any rash moves.

The red and blue teams galloped straight to the hunting ground. The drumbeats of the summer domain stopped, and the empty place was left with only endless dust, without any trace of a single person or horse.

The moment he turned around and bowed calmly towards Xia Hong, Xia Yu took in all the strange looks from the civil and military officials in the court.

His brows were as calm as ever, and even though his heart was calm, it felt even colder.

Because he had the real power in his hands, in Xia Hong's eyes, Xia Yu was no different from the other princes.

Now he was just a thing held in Xia Hong's hands, something that Xia Hong would reward him with when he was happy and something that he would criticize when he was unhappy.

Those rumors that a son's status depends on his mother's were destined to be a joke from the beginning.

People who occupy things because of their inner unwillingness are not worthy of the word love.

The so-called favoritism is even more nonsense.

The sun had already passed its zenith and it had been a while since lunch. Amid the seemingly idle conversations of the civil and military officials in the court, which were in fact filled with various ulterior motives, the sounds of flares could be heard one after another from deep in the jungle.

As more and more people were rescued from the two teams, the prey on both sides of the arena piled up into a small hill.

Xia Hong looked at the freshly caught prey and called Xia Ling over to him: "Ling'er, wait until the servants have finished registering the prey, and then you can arrange for people to pack up the prey yourself."

"My eldest sister-in-law and I haven't enjoyed such wild fun for many years. Today we must try something new."

As soon as Xia Hong made the arrangements, the bonfire barbecue was immediately arranged.

When the freshest young deer meat was roasted, Xia Ling ran all the way to Xia Hong and Zhong Yuanyuan and said, "I roasted it myself. Please taste it, father and the Royal Concubine."

Xia Hong smiled and asked Eunuch Lin to take the plate of venison. The imperial physician who had been waiting on the side examined the venison carefully. When it was handed to Xia Hong, it was already half cold.

Xia Hong tasted a piece with a smile, commented that it was "delicious", and then did not touch it again.

Zhong Yuanyuan didn't pick up her chopsticks from beginning to end. She was just Xia Yu's mother, not Xia Hong's imperial concubine.

She had never interfered in state affairs. Facing the man who almost took Xia Yu's life, she did her best to let bygones be bygones. To the king beside her, it meant that she, Zhong Yuanyuan, was determined to seize power for Xia Yu.

Once she has made up her mind, the emperor's heart will change suddenly.

The deeper they went, the fewer people followed Shen Jinmo and Han Zhou. In the end, when they entered the dense forest where wild beasts roamed, only Han Zhou and Shen Jinmo were left.

A warning tiger roar came from deep in the jungle. Shen Jinmo quickly drew his bow and arrow, and bent the bow like a full moon towards the direction where the tiger roar came from.

An arrow was shot out and pierced directly through the tree, but the arrow was trapped by the tree that split into two pieces in the middle.

Although Han Zhou guessed that Shen Jinmo's arrow could not kill the tiger, after all, he couldn't even see the shadow of the tiger.

Although Han Zhou had never competed with Shen Jinmo in riding and archery, he had heard Xie Nanxing talk about the past of Yunhuai Village.

His arrows never missed their target, and any prey he set his sights on had no chance of survival.

Since these words were said by Xie Nanxing, Han Zhou naturally believed them all.

So this arrow has other intentions?

His eyes wandered between Shen Jinmo and the arrow, and finally he chose to lock onto the arrow. He dismounted and headed towards the tree that had been split by the arrow.

When Han Zhou pulled out the arrow and looked back, he saw that the prey that he had tied to the horse's back had disappeared.

After running forward for a long distance holding the arrow, he saw Shen Jinmo replacing the prey with red arrows with blue arrows one by one.

Han Zhou couldn't imagine such behavior even if it happened a thousand times.

"Shen Jinmo, why did you steal my prey?"

"Once you enter the hunting area, you can snatch all the prey."

Naturally, this also includes those hunted by Han Zhou.

Unfortunately, the area where Shen Jinmo is now clearing prey belongs to the blue team.

Hanzhou cannot be seized.

Han Zhou's brows were tightly knitted, and his eyes were wide open: "Shen Jinmo, does Xie Nanxing know that you are such a scoundrel and insidious person?"

"Whether he knows or not is none of your business."

He threw the drawn red arrow directly at Han Zhou's feet: "You haven't thought about turning defeat into victory yet. Are you dissatisfied with the emperor forcing you to return to the capital?"

This reminder brought Han Zhou back to his senses from his shock.

Staring at Shen Jinmo who was pulling the vines and cutting the branches, Han Zhou spat in hatred, picked up all the arrows on the ground and put them into the quiver.

Given the current situation, he would have no chance of winning unless he hunted down the tiger.

After riding for a while into the woods, Han Zhou still felt something was wrong.

He pulled the red arrow out of the quiver, looked at it carefully for a while, then raised the sword towards the sun.

I saw a line of words vaguely engraved on the red arrow shaft: "There are two tigers in the forest, one big and one young. The big tiger must be killed and the young tiger must be sacrificed."

Han Zhou destroyed the arrow and said to himself, "Who would listen to a thief like you?"

Walking deeper into the dense forest, Han Zhou began to have even deeper doubts.

Since he wanted to offer the tiger cub as a sacrifice, he had to walk out of the forest alive.

Could it be that Shen Jinmo could really ignore Xia Hong's wishes and let him live for the sake of Xie Nanxing?

But this action is completely different from Shen Jinmo's intention to kill Wu Cixiu personally.

This is not something Shen Jinmo would use.

The thoughts in his mind were like a tangled mess. A tiger lurking in the forest suddenly leaped up and knocked Han Zhou to the ground.

The tiger's mouth opened wide, and the sharp fangs refracted the warm sunlight into cold light, intending to swallow Han Zhou in one gulp.

Another tiger roar came from behind. A tiger cub that was learning hunting from a tiger was imitating the tiger and was about to rush towards Han Zhou.

With two tigers in front of him, all his confused thoughts were replaced by the desire to survive.

Even though he was determined to die, Han Zhou didn't want to die in the tiger's mouth.