"I see." Su Yuejian nodded, "Thank you, Your Highness, for clearing up my confusion."

Xiao Heng smiled dotingly.

Everyone watched the two of them singing the same tune, and no one dared to speak out in rebuttal. Not to mention Su Yuejian's amazing poison skills, there were also these two giant beasts that could eat people in a minute.

Seeing the regent's support and the emperor's silent approval, the ministers dared not say a word of objection.

But in fact, the emperor's face was already ashen, and the anger suppressed in his eyes had reached its extreme.

The prince said, "Father, Bei Yi has bad intentions. Today, we are truly grateful to Princess Minghua."

Rolling his eyes at the stubborn prince, the emperor slowly spoke, "Princess Minghua has indeed made great contributions."

He took a deep breath and then continued, "But you acted rashly and almost hurt the ministers and their children. You were careless and made a mistake."

The ministers finally felt a little relieved, and looked at their still unconscious children with grief in their hearts.

"Using poison without authorization to harm court officials is a minor matter, but just now even His Majesty was nearly poisoned. Harming the Emperor's body is a grave crime. Princess Minghua's crimes outweigh her merits. Please, Your Majesty, make a sacred judgment and punish her."

The general bowed and said this, his tone full of concern for the emperor.

"You are too kind, Commander. The princess had already issued the antidote to capture the Beiyi thieves, not to poison them intentionally."

Prime Minister Shen frowned slightly and said, "It is indeed excusable. Please, Your Majesty, for the sake of the princess's youth, offset her merits and demerits and do not dwell on it."

Seeing that the emperor remained silent, Lu Zhenting and Su Lin looked subtle and bowed their hands to plead for mercy.

"My daughter may be naughty, but she has no evil intentions. Please have mercy on me, Your Majesty."

Su Yuejian pursed her lips, looked at Xiao Heng and blinked.

I feel a little guilty. Who said she didn't have any bad intentions?

After squeezing her hand, Xiao Heng curled his lips slightly.

The emperor on horseback was so angry that his chest was suffocated when he saw that the two of them still had the leisure to flirt with each other.

"Ahem..." The emperor cleared his cough, "...."

"Your Majesty, I have a question." Without waiting for the emperor to speak, Su Yuejian asked directly, "Does the emperor's words before the game still count?"

"What?"

She chuckled, "The Emperor said that whoever wins the hunting competition will receive a reward."

"You have no joke."

The emperor's face was gloomy. Of course he could not go back on his words in front of all the ministers and envoys from the three kingdoms.

Everyone looked around in confusion. The forest was empty and there was no prey to be seen. If they wanted to win the game, they must at least have prey.

Besides, even if Su Yuejian knew poison, winning the hunt wouldn't be achieved by poisoning. Besides, she was being assassinated and hunted, so how could she have the time to hunt?

"Then I am relieved." She smiled cunningly and clapped her hands, "Xiaobai."

The loud howls of wolves penetrated the forest, giving goose bumps to everyone. Wolf howls echoed in the forest, and the ministers blinked to confirm that the sound was not coming from the wolves in front of them.

The corners of their mouths twitched, and everyone's spines tingled. How many wolves had entered this hunting ground...

Soon, another wave of wolves appeared in the forest. Each wolf was dragging a prey behind it, including deer, hares, and golden pheasants. There were at least dozens of them.

Xuanshuang and Zhuifeng were at the rear, accompanied by several larger wolves, and trailing behind them were two tigers, four wild boars, and five or six sheep...

The prince looked left and right. There was only one way to get here. Why didn’t they see these prey when they came here just now?

The scattered prey was placed in front of everyone in the time it took to drink a cup of tea.

Xuan Shuang bowed and reported, "Your Majesty, the princess has hunted a total of 196 animals."

Su Yuejian raised her eyebrows and curved her lips, her eyes bright, "How is it, all good stuff!"

With a smile on his face, Xiao Heng nodded lovingly, "Zhao Zhao is very capable."

The crowd could not hear the two people's flirting. They were surrounded by a dense pack of wolves. They felt that all the cold sweats they had suffered in their lives were now gone.

One hundred and ninety-six prey...

The emperor's mouth twitched. The number of prey raised in the hunting grounds every year was limited, and only two hundred and forty were reported this year.

Su Yuejian hunted nearly two hundred of them alone...

And he was assassinated!

Are the others here hunting or sightseeing today?

The emperor's face was dark and ugly. Lu Zhenting looked carefully and found that every prey had an arrow hole on its body, and then they were killed with one blow.

His eyes slowly moved down, and Su Yue looked at him blankly, "Grandfather, what's wrong?"

Lu Zhenting stared at Su Yuejian's hands, "Does Xiaoyue'er's wrist feel sore after killing so many of these things?"

The autumn breeze blurred the messy expressions on everyone's faces, and he could hear his hearty laughter, "As expected of my granddaughter, Lu Zhenting. Look at your technique, it's really beautiful, but it's too tiring. From now on, I'll let the people below do the surgery..."

The prince's eyelids twitched suddenly.

Nearly two hundred prey, this Princess Minghua is clearly going crazy with her killing spree. It would be fine if we didn't stop her, but are we afraid of tiring her out?! ....

Everyone had heard that the old Duke of Protectorate was a daughter slave. When Lu Jinru was alive, he was widely acknowledged to be doting on his daughter excessively. Now his attitude towards Su Yuejian was even worse than that.

Xiao Heng glanced at the silent emperor, his eyes glinting coldly. "Princess Minghua won the hunting championship and also made great contributions in catching thieves. Do you think she needs to be punished, my brother?"

"Well, Minghua really opened my eyes today!" The emperor looked at Xiao Heng and Su Yuejian, raised his eyebrows and laughed, "Come here! Bring back all of Princess Minghua's prey. This year's hunting champion is Princess Minghua!"

"As for your two friends..."

His gaze fell on the two giant beasts behind Su Yuejian, and Xiao Heng said, "Don't worry, my royal brother. I will take good care of them."

The emperor did not reply, glanced at Xiao Heng, and left.

With the regent's words, the ministers felt relieved and immediately fled from this dangerous place where beasts were infested.

The prince dismounted and walked over to Xiao Heng, "Uncle, how do you want to deal with this?"

Looking at Su Yuejian, who was gathered with Lu Zhenting, Su Lin and others in the distance, arguing about something with very serious expressions, the prince frowned slightly.

"If you ask me, it has to be spicy roasted rabbit!" Lu Zhan waved his hand.

Su Lin shook his head, "Yue'er, listen to your father! Deer meat has a unique flavor."

"I'm the oldest, so listen to me and roast a whole lamb!" Lu Zhenting slapped his thigh.

The three of them argued endlessly, and Su Yuejian could only laugh dryly.

Thinking that something serious had happened, the prince's mouth twitched and he coughed lightly, "Ahem..."

Several people looked up when they heard the voice and immediately restrained their expressions.

"Princess Minghua, your..." Turning his head to meet two pairs of deep animal eyes, one blue and one green, the prince hesitated and swallowed, "Friend..."

"How do you plan to arrange it?"

Although his expression was calm, the huge body of the black python moved slightly closer, its cold dark green eyes stared at him, its bright red tongue hissed, and Xiao Chengnian's hands in his sleeves trembled constantly.

Pursing her lips to suppress a smile, Su Yuejian looked towards the misty mountains in the distance of the hunting grounds and gently stroked its cool snake scales. "Your Highness, don't worry. Xiao Hei will not stay and will leave on his own."

"As for Xiaobai..."

The prince was stunned by the sudden appearance of a white, furry mass in front of him, and was puzzled.

How could this wolf be so well behaved in front of her?!

Su Yuejian gave him a sly smile.

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