concubine on top

After July passed, the situation in Tengzhou basically stabilized, and the people gradually returned to production. Good news came from the prefecture, saying that the people made up a song praising the emperor's benevolence, which was widely sung locally.

Amidst the thunderous praise of the ministers and the cheers of the people who could not be heard, the little emperor announced the reduction of half of the local corvee, in order to encourage them to participate in the construction of the canal and divert the Vine River so that they would not be flooded in the future. He lost his confidants and the family of the Minister of the Ministry of officials with bloody hands.

People are refreshed on happy occasions, and the weather has returned to fine.In August when the sun was shining brightly, Shen Yanchuan finally recovered his previous vigor and spirit, and accompanied the little emperor to Jianting.

In the hall, after changing into a strong outfit that is convenient for riding and shooting, the little emperor looked at himself in the mirror, feeling that he was very heroic, and walked up to Shen Yanchuan in a grand manner: "Good master, where is the apprentice's sword?"

Shen Yanchuan walked over to straighten his clothes for him, and said with a smile: "My good apprentice, let's practice the basic skills first."

The little emperor was not disappointed, he smiled and showed his beautiful white teeth, eager to follow Shen Yanchuan to the open place.After a while, he found that the two were walking in the direction of the stables next to him, so he said coquettishly, "Can I go and see Xiao Hei? Just one, it won't take long, I haven't seen him for a long time. "

Shen Yanchuan smiled lightly: "Originally I brought the emperor to the stable to pick horses, of course you can watch."

The little emperor nodded happily: "Well, then I will definitely choose Xiao Hei! Xiao Hei had a good physique and a beautiful appearance when he was a child, and now he must be a very tall and handsome horse!"

Shen Yanchuan listened to him from the side, but smiled and said nothing, but the more he talked, the more excited he became, and his steps became much lighter, until he almost ran into the stable.

The stables of Tianjia have an extraordinary atmosphere, and the boards are all carved with jade. The horses inside are good horses from a distance, with bright colors and clean fur.

The horses were classified according to their color and luster, so as soon as the little emperor entered the door, he rushed towards the black patch: "Xiao Hei!"

The black horses moved their ears when they heard the sound, and some of them raised their heads and neighed a few times.The little emperor couldn't wait for the eunuch to lead him the way, so he had already stepped forward to take a closer look happily, muttering while looking at his mouth: "...this horse, the hair on the ears is facing the wrong direction... this horse, the hoof color is wrong... This one has spots on its forehead, it’s definitely not. This one...it’s a pig! It’s so fat and fat, it doesn’t look like a horse!” At this point, he realized that he had reached the end of the road, and finally turned to face the pig. The inner eunuch asked, "Where's my little Hei? Is he raised alone in another stable?"

The inner warden pointed at the "black pig" embarrassingly: "This one is it."

The black-haired pig shook his ears, expressing his acknowledgment of his identity as Xiao Hei.

At this moment, Shen Yanchuan, who had been silent all this time, said, "Let's take him out and have a look."

The inner eunuch agreed, opened the gate, and led the fat horse out after half coaxing and half coaxing.

Without cover or hindrance, the little emperor saw clearly the jade plaque on the horse's neck this time, with the words "Tie Li" engraved on it—that was exactly Xiao Hei's name.

The little emperor circled Xiao Hei three times, and found that the features on the mane in his memory had matched one by one, and said in disbelief, "How did my Xiao Hei become like this?"

The inner eunuch opened his mouth, not knowing how to explain this obvious question, but Shen Yanchuan on the side answered bluntly: "Eat more, run less, and gain weight." After speaking, he turned to the inner eunuch: "There is still a lot of food in the stable?" A fatter horse?"

The internal supervisor thought for a while and replied, "Not anymore."

The emperor's horses always eat better and more than other horses, but there is no horse like this that has been raised since childhood but has not been ridden for several years. "Okay, I'll take this horse."

The little emperor, who was still immersed in the sadness of the Eighteenth Transformation of the Horse, heard Shen Yanchuan's words, and asked in surprise: "What kind of basic skills do you need such a fat horse?"

Shen Yanchuan turned around and got on his horse, and said with a smile, "Quickly."

After a while, the little emperor understood that the so-called rapid movement meant that he should hold a whip and drive Xiao Hei to run all over the field to lose weight, while he himself had to run and dodge to prevent the horse from being jerked and kicked his hoof. , so it was also running around.

Shen Yanchuan just rode on Xiao Hei, and pulled the reins when he saw something was wrong, and spent the rest of the time watching the little emperor squealing and screaming on the field with great interest.

A chasing training was over, the little emperor's face was sunburned into a monkey's butt, and his head was covered with sweat when he entered the palace. Before he had time to drink water and change his clothes, he sank into the armchair like a wilting flower and plant: "Ah... what the hell is this?" "What kind of training is that..."

"Train your speed and agility." Shen Yanchuan came in after him, holding a bowl of tea and blowing on it gently, "In short, learn to escape before you learn to fight."

The little emperor turned his head to the side, puzzled and said: "...escape?"

"That's right." Shen Yanchuan said unceremoniously, "Last time in Luanyu, the emperor didn't know how to hide when he saw a stabbing head. It was so bold that it frightened the courtiers and concubines."

The little emperor's cheeks were flushed, and he couldn't tell whether he was hot or ashamed: "Then when will I finish my basic skills?"

"Wait for Xiao Hei to look like a normal horse."

"Ah?" The little emperor slid down from the chair and said with a mournful face, "When he becomes as thin as a normal horse, I will be half as thin as I am!"

Shen Yanchuan saw him acting coquettishly, turned his head deliberately, and said indifferently: "Since the emperor is so fond of the new and dislikes the old, and likes leisure and hates work, then forget it."

"Hey! I'm not!" The little emperor saw that the beauty and noble concubine were not happy, and immediately forgot about the pain in his body, hurriedly ran to Shen Yanchuan, and explained, "I just saw that he has changed too much, I didn't Dislike him. Don't think too much..."

Shen Yanchuan didn't have any sweat on his body, and he wasn't thirsty at the moment. Hearing this, he turned his head, looked at his dusty and dirty little face, curled his mouth, and handed the tea in his hand: "Drink."

When receiving the teacup, the little emperor touched his warm fingers, and felt a subtle throbbing in his heart, feeling that he was really icy and delicate, but after a while, he was worried that his health was still not healed.

Thinking of this, he took a big sip of tea: "It's so hot!"

"If you touch cold water after running, you will get hives."

The little emperor raised his eyes to look at him, his eyes shone with fragments of light, like a pool of spring water reflecting the moonlight.

So the little emperor licked his lips: "Oh."

The little emperor ran in Jianting for a whole month, and Xiao Hei finally lost weight as expected—although he also secretly asked the eunuch who raised the horses to give him the credit.

As for the little emperor himself, his fair skin was tanned to a light wheat color, his face lost a bit of childishness, and his eyes became more energetic.And his body was raised at this time, his legs were slender and long, his chest was thicker than before, and his whole person finally looked a little youthful.

For this, he himself is very satisfied, because when walking around recently, he often heard people in the palace praising his appearance, which also made him enthusiastic about going to the Jianting Pavilion. The beauties also come to ride a horse to exercise their bodies, so that they will not fall ill during the season change like they did a while ago!

Of course, there is another reason for recruiting them at this juncture, that is, the next training task that Shen Yanchuan will give him is easier to take out to meet people, you only need to stand in place and lift the stone lock, and you don't have to give it to the concubines. Performing chasing geese and chasing pigs - he only dared to show Shen Yanchuan his embarrassed appearance, because although the other party would laugh at him, they would not dislike him.The others didn't dare to smile on their faces, secretly disliked it in their hearts.

It's a pity that his ability to summon people is relatively limited. Everyone is here, but except for Wang Jieyu, who is physically strong, Kong Wu is powerful, and keen to compete with Shen Yanchuan, the others started to hide in the shade after casually passing by. Sip cold drinks, perilla drink, plum blossom wine, mung bean soup, sugarcane juice...they don't repeat the same thing every day, which makes him greedy, but Shen Yanchuan doesn't let him drink it, so he can only look at plum blossoms to quench his thirst.

Occasionally, after Wang Jieyu fought Shen Yanchuan a little farther after many battles, the little emperor couldn't help it, so he sneaked over to beg for a small cup of papaya juice, afraid of being discovered, he drank it in a few gulps. As a result, after sleeping, a bunch of pimples appeared on his buttocks and back the next day. It was so itchy that he stretched out his hands and scratched it. The image was so indecent that Shen Yanchuan asked his buttocks before applying Songhua talcum powder to him. After taking a few slaps, he beat him so loudly.

But after yelling, he sat contentedly on Shen Yanchuan's lap again, sneaking through the thin cloth to steal the cold skin and tender flesh of the other party. He was so happy that he hid his face and snickered, only to be hit on the back of his hand again.

When the whole summer passed and the weather became dry, the little emperor's basic skills could be regarded as really finished.

After practicing the basic skills, the little emperor became more energetic, stronger, and more athletic. His young and strong body eagerly wanted to embrace Shen Yanchuan again.

However, before he could show his courage, the letter from Beishuo dismissed his thoughts.

The letter was sent by his imperial sister, Princess Ling, one from him and one from Concubine An. In addition to gossip and expressing thoughts, it also said an extremely important thing - Beishuo will send envoys to Taihong Kingdom The emperor celebrates his birthday.

Shen Yanchuan asked the little emperor: "What do you think?"

The little emperor frowned, feeling vigilant: "They came to see if I'm easy to bully, right?"

The relationship between Beishuo and Taihong has always been very unstable. There are good times and bad times, bad times and good times. Even when the little emperor is ignorant of political affairs, he has always believed in other people's words that they are rude and ambitious, and, Back then, it was because the two sides were exhausted from the fight that the princess was sent to the bitter cold place to make a marriage. Based on this, the little emperor's impression of them was even worse.

However, Beishuo made a similar petition last year, but the Queen Mother tried to block it back then, so it is not appropriate to block it again this year, otherwise Beishuo will definitely regard him as weak and deceitful, and the scimitar will have to be unsheathed again.