The wind blows the plum blossoms over Guanshan

With the hope of longevity, the day of hunting finally arrived.Changsheng attaches great importance to this hunting opportunity, and has already prepared everything excitedly, just waiting to set off.The hunting place is about two days away from the imperial capital, Longcheng. Changsheng rode a horse along the way, looked left and right, and felt that everything was novel.The sun is shining brightly in the near summer, and the birds are singing and the flowers are fragrant in the outskirts of the imperial capital.As the breeze brushed his ears, he felt a kind of freedom from his bondage.

Changsheng hadn't traveled far for a long time. When he didn't enter the palace as a companion, his father would take him to the places near the imperial capital to play, and even took him back to his hometown to visit the graves of relatives.But now he can go back to see his father except for two days off every month, he can't go anywhere.Sometimes Chang Sheng feels like a bird in a cage, not free at all.But thinking that Murong Zhaohui has been to fewer places than himself, he put aside this thought.

Stopping and walking along the way, after two days, everyone arrived at Longevity Mountain, the hunting place, and stationed at the foot of Longevity Mountain.Surrounding Changshou Mountain is a wide plain with lush green grass, and white clouds occasionally drift over the top of the mountain.The guards set up tents on the grass, like blossoming white flowers.It is said that the herdsmen outside the Great Wall live in such tents all year round, ride horses and herd sheep every day, and live a free life without contending with the world.Changsheng will have this kind of idea when he is very tired from practicing martial arts, riding horses and herding sheep, and living freely.

"Changsheng, so you are here." Hearing this familiar voice, Changsheng frowned, and when he turned around, it was indeed that fat man Zhao Guangyu. "Changsheng, I was quite surprised to see you. I thought His Highness the Fourth Highness was not feeling well, so he didn't want to come." Zhao Guangyu smiled all over his face. His eyes were originally small, but when he smiled, his eyes disappeared, leaving only his fat trembling.Changsheng didn't want to talk to him very much, he walked straight forward, sat down on a piece of grass, picked up a blade of grass, and crushed it.

Zhao Guangyu followed, sat down beside him, and said, "What's the matter, Changsheng, why are you ignoring me?"

"No, I'm waiting for you to talk to me. Tell me if you have anything to say."

Zhao Guangyu didn't speak, took out a brocade bag from his bosom, and handed it to Changsheng.

"What is this?" Chang Sheng asked, not going to pick it up.

"I haven't given you a gift for your birthday some time ago. How can we say we are friends too?"

Changsheng thought to himself, who considers you a friend?But judging by Zhao Guangyu's expression, it didn't look like he was trying to make things difficult, so he accepted it.Opening the brocade bag, it was a knife-shaped jade pendant.The jade is warm and moist, and the whole body is translucent. It is a high-quality jade.

"How? It's okay. I bought it in Rongbaozhai when I was out of the palace last time. Don't you like to practice martial arts? I bought it because I thought it would suit you very well. I wanted to give it to you last time, but You don't want to go out and play with me...the market was very lively some time ago, it's a pity that you didn't go..."

Zhao Guangyu talked endlessly about what he had seen and heard in the market, and said that he would go with Changsheng when he left the palace next time.Changsheng held the jade pendant, feeling an indescribable feeling in his heart.Is this guy serious?He's not kidding me.

"How about it, Changsheng, next time I ask you to play, don't keep saying no. The Fourth Highness asks you to recite the book, so you just tell him to memorize it another day. The Fifth Highness never adds tasks to me, and often follows me. Let’s go out together. Let me tell you, there are many interesting things in the folk, which are not found in the palace, such as guessing lantern riddles and setting off lanterns on the fifteenth day. It’s very interesting and fun. Have you ever seen it?”

Zhao Guangyu's words touched Changsheng, he thought of the excitement of the festival before entering the palace, and said: "Of course I have seen it before, Dad used to take me to the market..."

"That's it, the palace is so boring, your Fourth Highness is even more boring, even the Cuiyu Palace won't come out, and you won't be allowed to come out to play..."

Chang Sheng glared at him, thinking that it's not because you guys often make things difficult on purpose, so His Highness seldom even goes to the study!

Zhao Guangyu noticed Changsheng's dissatisfaction, thinking that he was dissatisfied with saying that His Royal Highness was boring, so he changed his words to something else.

"Changsheng, next time I ask you, don't refuse. I'll go back to the tent first..." After speaking, he stood up, patted the grass clippings on his body, and walked to a tent in the distance.

Chang Sheng looked at the jade pendant in his hand with mixed feelings.Zhao Guangyu...shouldn't he be malicious, or was he too stupid and naive to see it?Changsheng thinks about the past, the fifth and sixth princes are very tricky, Zhao Guangyu is just a follower, and he should not be responsible for those tricks...

Some time ago, on Changsheng's birthday, the fourth prince granted him a half-day off and asked him to go home and spend it with his father.After returning to the palace, he received a gift from His Royal Highness—a large pile of books.Looking at those books, Changsheng felt a little happy, but also a little helpless.Murong Zhaohui was like that, apart from his studies, he had nothing else to say to him.Chang Sheng sighed, put the jade pendant back into the brocade bag, put it in his sleeve, and walked slowly towards the tent.

After walking on the road for two days, everyone was a little tired, so they rested today, and the official hunting will start tomorrow.Back in the tent, Chang Sheng checked the bows and arrows and knives that had been handed out, and he was reluctant to let go after touching them for a long time.I thought this was the first time he came out to hunt, so he must perform well.Seeing Changsheng's excited look, Xiaoshuang couldn't help laughing out loud. Changsheng put down the things in his hand when he heard it, and said, "Sister Xiaoshuang, what's the matter?"

"The servant just came to have a look and help the young master tidy up things. Also, the dinner is almost ready, the young master will go to His Highness's place later."

"Understood, I'll go right now."

Murong Zhaohui's tent was next to Changsheng's tent, and it was bigger than his tent.When Changsheng entered, Murong Zhaohui was reading a book. He didn't have the habit of bundling his hair. He always tied it casually behind his head, which made him look very gentle and friendly.Changsheng was afraid that he would disturb Murong Zhaohui's reading, so he walked to the side and sat down. When Murong Zhaohui saw Changsheng coming, he put down the book and said, "Changsheng, tomorrow is the day of hunting. Hunting is fun, but don't play around and hurt yourself."

Changsheng was surprised: "Your Highness, no, I will be careful, and I... am not that playful..." Changsheng defended himself in a low voice. Late dinner.Chang Sheng took a sneak peek at Murong Zhaohui, wondering if he was playful at ordinary times.But...he thinks that he is usually obedient and obedient, and works hard to practice martial arts and endorse books. Why would the Fourth Highness think that he is playful?However, Changsheng only struggled for a short while and then stopped thinking. When Xiaoshuang and Yanzi finished serving the dishes, he was attracted by the food and forgot everything else.

The next day, the weather was fine and breezy.All the contestants took their positions on the grass at the foot of Changshou Mountain, and they all wanted to show their skills in the hunting activities and win the favor of the emperor.The third prince, Murong Dexin, is an expert in hunting. Not long after the hunting started, he caught a hare and a small deer, which made the seventh prince, Murong Jianing, clap and applaud.But he was not satisfied, and searched around, trying to hunt better prey.The fifth prince, Murong Kangding, played slowly with his companion Zhao Guangyu, not paying much attention to hunting, and even bluntly said that he was just here to join in the fun.The sixth prince, Murong Xingping, took Du Heze to hunt together, and put in all his energy to perform well in front of his beloved.Although Murong Zhaohui also came to participate in this trip, he did not participate in the hunting. Changsheng knew that he came to satisfy his own desire for fun, so he had no intention of participating in the hunting at all.

Changsheng rode his horse around the hillside a few times, feeling a kind of freedom that he never had in the palace.Today the sky is very blue, with a few white clouds slowly floating in the sky, Changsheng jumped off his horse, lay down on a small piece of flat ground halfway up the mountain, and watched the white clouds float from one end of the mountain to the other.Thinking of His Highness Fourth Highness telling him not to show off too much last night, Chang Sheng decided to play for a while longer before looking for other prey.He looked down at the shivering little rabbit, feeling a little joy in his heart.It was the first time he went out to hunt, but he didn't expect a silly rabbit to rush out and bump into his horse's hoof just as he rode to the mountainside, and he was knocked unconscious.Chang Sheng held its pair of long ears and shook it a few times, realizing that this silly rabbit was quite heavy.The rabbit woke up with a pair of ruby ​​eyes, looking at Changsheng pitifully.Changsheng was reluctant to kill this little rabbit, and planned to take it back to raise, thinking that sister Xiaoshuang and sister Yanzi would like it.

After more than half an hour, Changsheng got up, tied the rabbit to the horse, picked up the bow and arrow and started the next round of hunting.But... On this journey, apart from birds, he didn't meet any larger animals, not even rabbits. This made him a little frustrated, and he didn't even take the few birds he shot, thinking that the prey was too small, which would be embarrassing. .He wants to be a great hero in his long life, if he can't get a decent prey, he will be ashamed to go back.

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