Don't ask where people go

Chapter 507 Prey
In the first two days when Fang Zilan arrived at Tiancheng Mountain, she did not go horse racing and hunting with the others. She still enjoyed the scenery and wandered around like last year, quite leisurely.

It was not until the end of the ceremony on the third day that the spring hunting officially kicked off. According to the rules, all officials, regardless of whether they were civil or military, had to enter the hunting grounds. Fang Zilan rode a horse and followed everyone with a careless look.

Across the crowd, Li Shengxuan glanced back at Fang Zilan, although he couldn't see anything unusual, but for some reason he always felt uneasy in his heart, as if something was about to happen.

Li Shengxuan suddenly remembered that Fang Zilan had asked him on the road that day if he had visited the Duke of Yue's mansion when she was in a coma.He nodded at that time, so she said, "Even if it's for this kind of intention, I won't embarrass Your Majesty."

mind?Li Shengxuan repeated the word, and an imperceptible wry smile escaped his lips. Did Fang Zilan really understand his intentions?
"Your Majesty." Xia Houzhang's voice pulled back Li Shengxuan's thoughts, and he presented the vermilion feathered arrow respectfully, "The spring hunting begins, Your Majesty, please shoot the arrow."

Li Shengxuan took the feather arrow, drew the bow and set the arrow neatly, and shot Chunshou's first arrow amidst the cheers of the crowd.

Afterwards, the crowd scattered away, looking for their prey.When Li Shengxuan took a closer look, Fang Zilan also quietly disappeared.

Xia Houzhang deliberately lowered his voice, "Your Majesty, do you want me..."

"No need." Li Shengxuan stopped Xia Houzhang's words, and said firmly: "I believe her." After he finished speaking, he drove his horse into the forest without looking back.

As for Fang Zilan, she followed Chen Xu from a distance for a while, and saw him riding a horse bumping all the way, precariously on the verge of falling, she frowned involuntarily.

"Why is Mrs. Fang here?" A gentle voice came from Fang Zilan's left side, she subconsciously tightened the reins of the horse, and looked at the person who was walking in front of her, who seemed to be inadvertently blocking her sight—— Zhuge Yu.

"Why is Ah Yu here?" Fang Zilan asked without answering, Zhuge Yu said in a low voice, "Of course I have the same purpose as Mr. Fang."

Fang Zilan's expression was a bit cold, and before he could say anything, Zhuge Yu asked to himself: "Didn't Mr. Fang come here for the prey?"

The word "prey" came from Zhuge Yu's mouth, which seemed to be a pun. Fang Zilan pretended to be confused and said: "I don't know what kind of prey is so rare that it can enter A Yu's eyes?"

"Master Fang is joking." Zhuge Yu said with great interest, "Compared with my prey, I am more curious about the prey that can make Master Fang follow all the way. What exactly is it?"

"Ah Yu knows it well, so there is no need to play riddles with me." Fang Zilan was too lazy to go around in circles with him, and after saying this, she whipped her horse and rode in the direction of Chen Xu.

However, Zhuge Yu stood in front of her, without any intention of giving way, "Sister Lan, the Yushitai may be biased, but it is always the responsibility of the Yushi to speak up and advise, you can't..."

"Since Ayu knows that Yushitai is biased, then you shouldn't stop me." Fang Zilan interrupted Zhuge Yu's words in a deep voice, ignoring his sister Lan's affection.

"But if Sister Lan is allowed to act today, I am afraid that no one will dare to speak out at Yushitai in the future." Zhuge Yu did not retreat an inch, arguing with reason: "Rumors will eventually be dispelled, but those who dare to speak, If it is gone, it will be difficult to have it again. Everyone is in danger and keeps silent, and if things go on like this, the atmosphere in the court will be worrying."

"It's hard to have another person once they're gone." Fang Zilan snorted coldly, "Ah Yu thinks I'm going to kill him?"

Zhuge Yu was stunned for a moment, but saw that Fang Zilan drew the bow and set the arrow in one go, the tip of the arrow pointed coldly at Chen Xu, "Then I will kill you."

Hearing this, Zhuge Yu yelled inwardly. Hearing Fang Zilan's implication, she didn't intend to kill Chen Xu at first, maybe it was just a threat, but now that she was so provoked by him, she seemed to really want to do it.

"Sister Lan, no!"

"Sister Lan shoots down the arrow to keep people!"

The voices of Zhuge Yu and Mo Han sounded at the same time, the former was in front of Fang Zilan, but there was nothing he could do, and the latter rushed over from behind Fang Zilan, and it was too late to dissuade him.

The two watched the feather arrow leave the string and head straight for Chen Xu.The sound of piercing the air came so suddenly that Chen Xu had no time to react. He only felt a severe pain in his shoulder, and he screamed and fell off the horse.

The birds in the forest were startled by the scream and fluttered away, only the branches and leaves of the remaining trees were trembling.The other people who participated in the spring hunting in the forest were attracted by the noise here, and rushed over one after another.

Fang Zilan held a bow in her left hand and an arrow in her right hand. Although the arrow was not strung, there was a dangerous aura in her hand.

Everyone surrounded Fang Zilan and dared not go forward. Chen Xu clutched his shoulders and climbed up in embarrassment. Just as he was about to stand up, Fang Zilan's feathered arrow was aimed at him again. He was so scared that he fell back to his seat again, his buttocks touching the ground. There was an intimate contact firmly, and he let out another scream when he fell.

When Li Shengxuan arrived, he just heard Chen Xu's second scream.He sized him up a bit, and seeing that the person was not missing arms or legs, not only was he angry, but he could also yell out in such an angry way, he thought Fang Zilan really gave him face.

Seeing Li Shengxuan coming, the censors who were onlookers questioned Fang Zilan before Su Yun could speak first, "Master Yue, what are you doing?"

"I haven't practiced for a long time, and my hands are a little raw." Fang Zilan said, taking the bow and arrow lightly, with an arrogant expression and tone that was almost provocative.

"Your Excellency Yue..." The censors were stunned, choked for a while by her appearance, but Su Yun said, "Your Excellency Yue is a person who fights on the battlefield. It's too poor an excuse."

He exposed Fang Zilan mercilessly, but saw her smile and said: "If the world is not peaceful, who would be willing to fight on the battlefield? Master Su, are you willing?"

The question was straightforward and cold, Su Yun pursed his lips, "I..." He didn't dare to answer, but he didn't want to see his colleagues around him suffer for nothing, but he heard Fang Zilan's word for word when he spoke:

"It is not my wish to fight on the battlefield, but it is also my ability to be under one person and over ten thousand people. I can't be criticized just because I am a woman. The civil and military wives and concubines of the Manchu Dynasty are in groups. I have never seen a royal Shi Canzuo wrote a book, how come I have more papers than the number of people in the house? I just want to guard the Yue State Duke's house, and it turns out that I have lost my virtue. If I really let others manipulate me and obey me, It won't be Fang Zilan today."

Her voice was not loud, but it was loud enough for everyone present to hear clearly.The incomparably fierce words and expressions are all showing to everyone——

She is the Duke of Yue in Dajing, and she is Fang Zilan.She is a real person with everything she defends, and she is definitely not a name in their memorials or rumors.

It would never be possible for her to become a person restricted by rules in their imagination, like a prey in this hunting ground.

　Fang Zilan: I am really an atypical heroine...

　　
　
(End of this chapter)