The First Young Master of the Tang Dynasty

Chapter 17 Why Don't You Go to Heaven?
The emperor led all the civil and military officials to go out, and the mighty team, the guards and guards of honor alone lined up for half a mile, and the bright yellow flag was jumped straight against the cold winter wind.

Today, no matter whether it is civil servants, generals or princes, they are all riding horses. Only Empress Changsun is sitting in a sedan chair, and the team slowly walks towards the royal hunting ground.

Long'er was riding the horse, and Xuan Shijing was sitting in front of Long'er. Along the way, Long'er rode the horse carefully, for fear that Xuan Shijing would fall down again by accident.

"Long'er, I just found out that you can ride a horse." Xuan Shijing said to Long'er in surprise.

"That's right, otherwise how can I be worthy of being the secretary of Lord Hou!" Long'er was proud when she heard her master's words: "Actually, there are many people who know Long'er, but the young master doesn't know about it."

"I said you're fat and you're panting, Long'er, when did you learn how to ride a horse?"

"It's very early, maybe when I was more than ten years old, and I was still in Erxian Village at that time." Long'er replied.

"It seems that I really picked up a treasure by letting you be my secretary." Xuan Shijing felt a little tired, and simply leaned into Long'er's arms: "Just now in the palace, why didn't you let me be the prince?" carriage."

"This, madam has long expected that the emperor will let the young prince to accompany you in the prince's team. Madam specially ordered that the young prince not be allowed to ride in the carriage of the prince or other princes, so when I sent the carriage out of the palace, I changed into this clothes specially, and then took the young master to ride a horse." Long'er said.

It turned out that my mother had the same thought as me, no matter what, she had to keep a distance from the princes, and this could be regarded as a lesson learned by mother.

After walking for more than an hour, I finally arrived at the royal hunting ground on the outskirts of Chang'an. It is said to be a royal hunting ground, which is a rolling hill and dense forest. It is open on weekdays. When it comes to certain festivals or when the emperor is interested in hunting Then some troops surrounded it and prohibited the people from entering or leaving.

In winter, the grass is withered and yellow, except for some pine trees that remain emerald green, the other trees have only branches left, and the ground is covered with layers of golden leaves, which are very soft to step on.

When the large group of people entered the forest, Li Shimin rode forward and said loudly: "My dear friends, let's go hunting casually today, let me see if you still have the same bravery as you did when you fought against me. "After speaking, he picked up the hard bow hanging beside the horse and rushed out first.

"We will follow Your Majesty!" All the courtiers shouted, and like Li Shimin, they picked up their whips and flicked them, and followed them on horseback.

"Young Master, should we also catch up?" Long'er asked.

"Why should we chase after him?" Xuan Shijing said, "Wait here, didn't His Majesty leave a team of guards camping here? It's useless for us to follow up."

"Who said that? Maybe we can bring back a big tiger." Long'er said proudly.

"You're still hunting tigers, Long'er, why don't you go to heaven." Xuan Shijing smiled and said, "This is the royal hunting ground. To ensure the safety of His Majesty, the Royal Forest Army drove out the large beasts here long before His Majesty hunted." Xuan Shijing didn't believe it, if there were really tigers and bears in this forest, if Li Shimin made a slight mistake here, the gang of Yulin Army would have to die to thank the world.

Long'er pursed her lips, lost interest immediately, got off the horse, carried Xuan Shijing down, and went to look for the carriage that Hou Fu followed.

Empress Changsun came down from the carriage, just in time to see Xuan Shijing and Long'er, and said with a smile: "Jing'er, do you feel bored if you didn't go hunting with me?"

Xuan Shijing walked to the side of Empress Changsun: "I don't think it's so boring. It's always good to come out to get some air. Shijing even prepared some good things for the empress today." Speaking of this, Xuan Shijing's face showed A big smile.

"You child, you always look like an adult at a young age. Let Long'er take you around in a while, and you will be bored staying in the Hou's mansion all day, but you said you have prepared something for this palace? Ben The palace is curious, but I want to see what good things Jinger has prepared for the palace." Empress Changsun felt a little curious when she heard Xuan Shijing's words.

"Hey, empress, you will know when you have dinner later, what Jing'er prepared is all the food you have never eaten before, empress." Xuan Shijing said.

"Little slicker, you are still playing tricks in front of me. Okay, I will wait for today's lunch to see what you have prepared that I have never eaten before." Empress Changsun smiled and agreed, but also Don't take it seriously, is there any rare food in the palace, what weird things can a child come up with.

After bidding farewell to Empress Changsun, Xuan Shijing and Long'er quickly found their own carriage in the accompanying convoy of the princes. At this time, the groom had already removed some supplies from the carriage. Write things down and build a stove.

A total of three people came from the Hou's mansion and the groom, and the other ministers just brought a servant for them to drive, because today's lunch is part of the prey they brought back, and His Majesty Li Er came to cook the meal. There is an imperial chef in the palace, so there is no need to worry about not having someone to cook.

Xuan Shijing definitely can't follow them to eat barbecue or something. He has a small body and a very weak stomach, but he can't overcome that kind of food, so today Xuan Shijing's lunch can only be done by Long Er Done.

Xuan Shijing looked at the cooking utensils and ingredients on his carriage. There were not many things. It seemed that he could only use local materials to see what hot soup and hot water he could make. It would be a pity not to add some calories for outdoor sports in winter. No way.

"Long'er, let's take a look around, pick some mushrooms or something, and pick up some firewood by the way, and let's make soup when we come back. It's so cold, it's too uncomfortable not to eat some hot food in the forest." Xuan Shijing said .

"Okay, Lord Hou." Long'er responded, and hung a one-foot-long dagger on the leather belt around her waist.

Walking into the depths of the forest with Long'er, Xuan Shijing kept an eye on the mushrooms growing under the trees while walking, and when he saw something edible, he picked it and put it in the bamboo basket that Long'er was carrying.

"Long'er, let me tell you, those colorful mushrooms must never be touched." Xuan Shijing said: "The more beautiful they grow, the more poisonous they are."

"Understood, Young Master, why do you know so much?" Long'er bent down, picked a gray mushroom, and threw it into the bamboo basket behind her.

"On weekdays, I ask you to follow me to read more books in the study room. You just don't want to read them. These things have been mentioned in the books, especially the medical skills that I followed Sun Daochang these days. Medicine, but it can save people." Xuan Shijing said.

"Little Hou Ye, as a maid, what does Long'er do after reading so many books, why not learn how to cook with Hou Ye, so that she can marry a good family in the future." Long'er straightened up and said.

"Hey, Long'er, you're thinking about marrying yourself out again, and your Jianghu dream is over?" She looked at Long'er with a smile on her face.

"That's what Long'er said. Long'er still wants to serve the young master." Long'er quickly changed the subject: "Young master, look, there are still a lot of mushrooms ahead, let's go over there."

Looking at the excited Long'er, Xuan Shijing couldn't help but think of a song from her previous life, the little girl picking mushrooms with a big bamboo basket on her back. .

Xuan Shijing and Long'er picked mushrooms and gradually walked into the depths of the mountain forest. Xuan Shijing suddenly heard a footstep, which didn't seem like a human walking, but according to experience, it looked like a large beast.

It's over, Xuan Shijing cursed secretly in his heart, the killers of the Yulin Army who are idlers can't even clean up the royal hunting ground.

Walking cautiously to Long'er, he said in a low voice: "Long'er, I heard footsteps, it seems to be a beast, let's retreat slowly to see if we can escape."

"Young Lord, don't be nervous, Long'er will protect Lord Hou well." Long'er said with a look of excitement on her face.

After such a delay, Xuan Shijing had already seen the figure of the ferocious beast, it turned out to be a spotted tiger, huge in size, with fierce eyes, staring at Xuan Shijing and Long'er viciously.

Xuan Shijing was a little dumbfounded: "Long'er, look, this is a tiger, not a kitten or a puppy. We didn't succeed in running just now. Now we are not going to heaven, but going to heaven."

"Young Lord, God Long'er can't do it, but this is fighting a tiger, hehe~" Long'er smiled sinisterly: "You can give it a try." Saying that, she unloaded the bamboo basket behind her , squeezed his fist, and his fingers made a "click, click, click" sound.

Xuan Shijing couldn't help shrinking her head. .

　Thank you book friend "Brother Meimei, the owner of Huahua" for the reminder. The previous article has been revised. There was indeed no such thing as lime in the Tang Dynasty.

　　Popular Science: Lime was used in construction by the ancient Greeks in the 8th century BC, and lime was also used in China in the 7th century BC.

　　In ancient China, it was called chalk ash ("Ben Jing"), Greek ash ("Bie Lu"), chalk (Tao Hongjing), dyed ash, scattered ash, white ash, and flavored ash ("Shiyao Erya"), wrought stone ( "Rihuazi Materia Medica"), stone forging ("Materia Medica"), mineral ash ("Compendium").

　　
　
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