Crossing the Palace Fighting Fox Harem

After choosing the horse, the Kang brothers and sisters accompanied Ji Anni to practice a few laps on the grassland, and Ji Anni basically mastered the art of controlling the horse.

The reason why he could learn so quickly was, firstly, that Unnie was very smart and gentlemanly, he was very gentle to Ji Annie and never went against her wishes; secondly, Ji Annie had good motor skills to begin with, and she had ridden a horse once three years ago, so she quickly mastered the essentials and was able to ride Unnie at a gallop on the pasture, which made Tian Ning, who was standing by, very jealous.

Although she was jealous, Tian Ning did not dare to act wildly in front of her dream lover Kang Xiaorong, and was much more quiet than usual. Basically, she focused more on pleasing Kang Xiaorong and neglected to cause trouble for Ji Anni.

This gave Ji Anni and Kang Fangting more opportunities to talk.

Originally, Ji Anni was somewhat resistant to Kang Fangting, thinking that she had the same personality as Tian Ning. But after talking, she found that her personality was much better than Tian Ning's. She spoke frankly and had a cheerful personality, which was very much to Ji Anni's liking.

Ji Anni became more and more fond of the heroic Concubine Kang.

After training their horses for a while on the pasture, the four of them headed for the Imperial Suburbs Western Garden.

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Huangjiao Xiyuan is not far from the horse farm, and it only takes about fifteen minutes to get there by horse.

On the way, they passed a small city gate, probably a small gate of the imperial palace. On the gate were written the words "Qinglong", so it must be the Qinglong Gate. Similarly, there should be three other gates, namely "Suzaku", "Xuanwu" and "Baihu", built in other places.

From afar, you can see all kinds of flags flying in the wind, which is very impressive.

Ji Anni took a breath and suddenly became a little nervous.

Arriving at the entrance of the West Garden, Kang Xiaorong exchanged a few words with the guard leader who was in charge of guarding the place, and the other party waved his hand to let him pass. After riding into the West Garden, the first thing he saw was a sea of ​​heads. Everyone had already arrived, and Ji Anni and her group were almost the last group to arrive. The lawn at the entrance of the hunting garden was already full of hunters wearing riding and archery uniforms representing their respective teams, standing in several square formations, with a large flag erected in front of the formation, and the family name was written on the flag. It seemed that this was a competition to determine the winner by family.

Ji Anni read the words on each flag one by one. There were three words she was very familiar with: "Bao", "An" and "Kang".

The "Bao" must be the family of Concubine Baogui, the "An" is the family of Concubine An, and the "Kang" is the family of Concubine Kang.

The fathers of these three concubines were all important officials in the court and were invited to participate in this hunting competition. The other five flags had surnames that Ji Anni was not familiar with, so she did not pay too much attention.

Wait a minute! Aren't there supposed to be four imperial concubines?

Bao...An...Kang...There is another one, yes, it’s Concubine Gan!

Ji Anni then remembered that there was still a missing family flag of Concubine Gan, so she carefully looked at the flags again, but no matter how many times she looked, she still couldn't find the big flag with the word "Gan" written on it. She was feeling very strange, and suddenly remembered that Concubine Baogui had said before that Concubine Gan's father was just a small county magistrate. But Concubine Baogui's father was the Minister of War, Concubine An's father was the Prime Minister of the current dynasty, and Concubine Kang's father was the General Zhenyuan, all of whom were prominent families. So Concubine Gan's father was just a small county magistrate's father, probably not qualified to participate in such a grand event?

There was no time to think about it. Kang Fangting noticed that Ji Anni was distracted and asked, "What's wrong? Have you never seen such a big scene?"

Although she had seen it countless times on TV, this was her first time experiencing it in person. Ji Anni was probably a little nervous. She couldn't help but tighten her hands around the reins, her body seemed a little stiff, and she followed behind Concubine Kang and the others. Not only did she not dare to speak, she couldn't even laugh. Looking around, there were men all around her. This was the first time Ji Anni had seen such a spectacular group of men since she entered the palace.

But this is not the most important thing. The most important thing is that all these men looked at the four of them with surprise.

Kang Fangting and Princess Tianning probably often appear in such occasions, so they are used to it, but Ji Anni is a new face, and almost everyone's eyes are focused on Ji Anni's face. It's not right for Ji Anni to lower her head, nor is it right for her to raise her head. She really doesn't know what to do.

At this time, a figure came up to him and whispered, "Don't be nervous, no one has any ill intentions, they are just curious about you."

Ji Anni looked up and saw that the person who spoke was Kang Xiaorong.

I don't know when, Kang Xiaorong has gotten rid of Princess Tianning's entanglement and came to her side. His smile is like a tranquilizer, calming Ji Anni down immediately.

Ji Anni said to him blankly, "Thank you."

Probably to relieve Ji Anni's nervousness, Kang Xiaorong rode side by side with her and started a casual conversation: "It's rare for Tianning to make friends. I thought that no one in the palace could tolerate her except Fanting. Although she has a bad temper, she is not a bad person by nature. I hope you can take good care of her in the future and temper her arrogant personality."

Ji Anni was sweating profusely when she heard this, thinking that Princess Tianning's temper might never change in her lifetime. She whispered helplessly, "The young general misunderstood. Zhao Ji and the princess are not friends..."

Not only are they not friends, they are also enemies. They fought each other the first time they met. I guess Princess Tianning must have some plan to invite me to this hunting meeting today. Ji Anni reminded herself that she must not take it lightly.

Kang Xiaorong continued, "I've heard about you and Tianning. You are the first person who made Tianning beg for mercy and cry. Maybe you think Tianning hates you, but I think Tianning seems to be very interested in you. It is because she is too interested in you that she always makes trouble for you. If she really hates someone and doesn't want to see that person at all, but she often appears in front of you. This means that she doesn't hate you, but wants to get in touch with you."

"Contact me?" Forget it, I hope she treats me like air. Ji Anni sighed helplessly, and suddenly her eyes lit up. She changed the topic from herself to Kang Xiaorong and said, "Tian Ning...seems to like you very much."

Sure enough, Kang Xiaorong's smile faded a little, and he said with a melancholy expression: "If Tianning changes her personality, she would be a good girl."

"Do you like her too?" Ji Anni asked directly.

"I just think of her as my sister. Maybe because we grew up together and were so close, I don't have that kind of feeling between a man and a woman. In my heart, she is like Fontaine, my good sister. It's really hard for me to love her as a woman."

"Tian Ning will be sad if she knows." Ji Anni whispered.

Tianning has a proud personality. If she knew that the person she likes doesn't like her, I wonder what kind of extreme reaction she would have.

Kang Xiaorong said frankly: "Maybe in the future there will be a better man who will tolerate her and love her...but that man will definitely not be me."

This sentence is actually equivalent to announcing that Princess Tianning is completely out.

Ji Anni sighed and stopped asking questions. She thought: Tianning, Tianning, I really hope you can grow up soon, because only when you grow up can you accept this cruel fact and learn to change your goals. Although Kang Xiaorong is indeed a good person, I hope you don't hang yourself on a tree. There are many good men with two legs.