The emperor is too cruel

Chapter 16

As soon as the sound of the drum fell, a few men in fine clothes who had already lined up not far away jumped on their horses, shouted and rode away, leaving only a trail of dust that blurred their backs. When the dust dispersed, several figures But out of sight.

There was a burst of cheers from the crowd, which lasted for a long time.

"What is this for?" Xiaoyu asked enthusiastically, infected by the joy of the crowd.

"This is the beginning of the hunting competition. In Nifan, in order to show the inheritance of the hunting life of the ancestors and maintain the bravery of the tribe, a hunting competition is held every year. The man who is best at hunting in the tribe is selected and given by the emperor himself." All young and strong men can participate, and the first hunting will be conducted by the children of the royal family who voluntarily participate." Sil did not raise his eyes, he has never paid much attention to this kind of competition, but this year's early date seems a bit abnormal .

Xiaoyu nodded, "Then why don't you participate?"

"Not interested." She reached out and tore a piece of fresh and tender beef, carefully and seemingly casually cutting it into small pieces for Xiaoyu.

In fact, when he was 15 years old, Syl participated in it once, and won the title of "Hunting King" without any suspense. However, he accidentally injured a member of the royal family during the hunting, which caused rumors that he wanted to seize the throne. Because of his special status, the clansmen who were already respectful and afraid of him became more and more afraid of him, so since then, he has never participated in hunting.And the man who was accidentally injured back then is now the emperor sitting on the throne.

"En." Xiaoyu didn't ask any more questions, and concentrated on looking at the direction where the horse and horse disappeared just now.

But after a while, a solo rider appeared in front of everyone, and a young noble man couldn't hide his excitement. He drove his horse to the emperor's car, held the prey in his hand high above his head, and showed it to the crowd.

The emperor nodded slightly to express his appreciation, and the crowd cheered again, calling him "King Jing", who was probably the young noble man.

Xiaoyu was unintentionally happy, looking at the prey in King Jing's hand - a sika deer that had just died, still dripping with warm blood, the amber-like soft brown eyes were wide open, bright but dull, because of that The body has lost the breath of life, and the fur that was originally smooth and clean is also messy and bloody because it is wet with his own blood.

The strong smell of blood blown by the wind made Xiaoyu feel nauseous, and his face turned pale. Although he thought he was bold, this kind of scene would never be seen in the 21st century, not to mention Xiaoyu, who has always loved animals, saw a lovely creature being killed. wipe out? !She hugged herself tightly and tried to make herself feel better, but her trembling body still revealed her fear.

Noticing her abnormality, Sil stretched out his hand to hold her cold hand, "What's wrong? Uncomfortable?"

Nodding weakly, "I, I'm afraid of blood, this...so much blood." He closed his eyes and panted lightly.

"Damn." With a low curse, Sil regretted letting her see such a scene. Originally seeing her bored, he wanted to take her to relax, but it made her feel uncomfortable. He helped Xiaoyu up and planned to leave.

"You are so weak, how can you be Princess Ling?" A mocking female voice successfully prevented them from leaving.

Princess Ruoyuan arrived at their table at some point, looking at Xiaoyu with a provocative face, and two other arrogant men behind her were also watching them.

Wuxin bickered with her, Xiaoyu turned around and wanted to leave.

"I thought you were so great, and you were preaching to me that day, but today it looks like that. You are just a vulgar and weak woman, and you can't bear noble pleasures." The thorny words made Xiaoyu hold back Uncomfortable, just about to open his mouth to dismiss.

However, Sil had already said, "Ruoyuan, do you want to annoy this king?" His usual flat tone revealed a strong threat.

Ruo Yuan flinched, seeing that Sil had nothing to say, and summoned up her courage, "Brother Sil, how can this woman be worthy of you? How can you defend her like this? What's wrong with an uneducated woman of unknown origin?" OK?" She objected.

"I don't know when it's your turn to tell me what to do." Without concealing his concern for Xiaoyu, Sil grabbed the brocade cloak on the side and surrounded Xiaoyu who was extremely uncomfortable and shivering, " Does this king have to order the princess to marry a concubine?" He glanced at Ruoyuan sharply, and the unhappiness in his eyes was clear.

"This..." Ruoyuan was stunned by those eyes for a moment, and was speechless.

"Sister Yuan, you don't have to be angry. It's really not worth it to care about that kind of inferior woman. It's just right for Ling Wang to be an outlier with her." One of the men standing behind Ruoyuan couldn't help but speak out.

Xiaoyu didn't care about his harshness, but was surprised that he called Sil a different kind, and although Sil didn't change his face, the strange look in his eyes didn't escape her eyes, and of course he couldn't ignore it. His extreme forbearance.

Jin Qi, who had been silent behind him all this time, suddenly stepped forward from behind, "King Han, don't go too far, or my young master will tolerate you, but I don't think I can tolerate you." The tall and mighty figure forced the three of them Take a step back.

But still bluffing, "What are you, a slave, how dare you contradict us like this, are we wrong? King Ling is a different kind, otherwise how could he have such pupils? This is well known by the whole family I just told the truth, even if you seal my mouth, can you still seal the mouth of the world?"

Xiaoyu felt that Sil's hand holding her was getting stronger, and she couldn't help but look up at him beside him, what kind of past did he have?Does he become a different kind just because of these green pupils?He doesn't care, and doesn't need to care about what the unattainable king endures in the eyes of everyone, but it doesn't mean he can tolerate others provoking him in public.Surprised to see the anger rising in his eyes, Xiaoyu held Sil's hand back, trying to ease his anger, suppressing the discomfort, and a safe but sly smile appeared on his pale face.

Sure enough, Sil took back the steps he had stepped on, and looked at her with a little puzzlement.

Slowly climbed onto Sil's arm, Xiaoyu leaned against Sil's side under Ruoyuan's stare, and said softly, "Brother Sier, Xiaoyu feels a little cold. There was nothing to see at first, and there were some flies flying around here, which was really annoying. In such a cool weather, I thought there would be no more messy bugs, but the bedbugs are now very tenacious. "After that, he raised his hand and waved it around vividly, as if he was really chasing bugs away.

The gesture of intimacy with Sil is even more different from the original effort to keep a distance.

Haha, Princess Ruoyuan is really angry.

The two princes were even more furious, "You, you bitch, how dare you call me a fly."

Xiaoyu shook his head in horror, "Xiaoyu dare not, Xiaoyu definitely doesn't mean that, but the prince said it himself." Geng raised his head and explained to Sier, "Brother Sier, Xiaoyu really didn't..." Panic His tone was as if he was about to be convicted of this immediately.

Sil nodded cooperatively, "Don't be afraid, I know that I won't let anyone hurt you." Suppressing a smile, he patted Xiaoyu on the back as a sign of comfort.

"Well, that's good, Xiaoyu knows that Brother Sil is the best for me." This time, he admired him even more affectionately.

"This king is not nice to you, who else is he? Is he still nice to those unreasonable women?" The implication is self-evident.

The three of them looked at the two of them singing and drinking with livid faces, but Jin Qi looked at Xiaoyu with a wide mouth and almost adoring eyes.

But seeing Xiaoyu withdrawing from Sil's arms, she walked gracefully and gracefully in front of the three people who were already furious, and bowed profusely, "If there is something really offensive in Xiaoyu, I hope the princess and princes will forgive Xiaoyu Such an ignorant little girl, I believe that a noble royal family like you will not care about small words." She actually learned a bit of the willow attitude of a lady in her soft words.

But the few people who were about to explode had to hold back their anger.Xiaoyu said so, if they still care about her, they will be lowering their status.

Sier crossed his arms, looked at the little girl's Xiaoyu with a smile, and let her mess around.

Xiaoyu suddenly frowned lightly, with a puzzled look on his face, "My lord, there is still one thing I don't know about Xiaoyu, I hope you can enlighten me." Sincerity, the tone was really sincere, so sincere that the lord finally turned his noble eyes on her, curious awaiting her next words.

"The two princes must have devoted themselves to the country at ordinary times, trying their best to share the worries of the king and seek the well-being of the people." Xiaoyu even showed admiration on his face.

"Hmph, so what?" The tone was obviously softer. Everyone loves to hear good words, which is definitely the truth.

"In this way, it is inevitable to sacrifice one's own time to serve the country."

"That's natural, for the prosperity of the Nifan, what is this?" she said blithely, this woman seemed not as vulgar as sister Yuan said.

"The two princes are really respected by Xiaoyu, so that Xiaoyu has no doubts." She turned around and wanted to go back to Sil, deliberately turning slowly, because she knew that they would definitely continue to ask questions.

"Wait." As expected.

Turning around obediently, he looked at them with a smile, "Do you have any other orders, my lords?"

"What was your question?"

"My lord is busy working on state affairs all day long, so I naturally have no time to travel around the world and gain knowledge. People with looks like Brother Si'er are very common in Xiaoyu's country, but the lords think that he is a different kind, and Xiaoyu is just surprised. Why are you so ignorant and ignorant, like a frog at the bottom of a well? Looking at it now, you can’t blame the prince.” Every sentence is for the sake of the princes, but every sentence makes people angry, and small words definitely have the power to drive people crazy.

In fact, what Xiaoyu said was true. At that time, Hu merchants had entered the Central Plains from Persia. The Persian merchants were all blond and green-eyed. There are only a few in the capital, and ordinary people think they are different when they see them.Only people who are well-informed and well-informed really accept it. Strictly speaking, I can't complain that Sil is considered a strange appearance. Xiaoyu just couldn't see that group of people being so arrogant, so he couldn't help but play with them.

Even Sil couldn't help but applaud Xiaoyu, how can this group of mediocre people beat Xiaoyu's elves?

"You...you..." Ignorant? !A frog in a well? !King Qing was so angry that his face turned pale, but he really didn't know how to refute.Furiously, he reached out to Xiaoyu to pull her down, but Jin Qi who had already stood aside blocked her back.

On martial arts, lost, papers, not as good.

The three shook their sleeves and left angrily, before leaving, they did not forget to give Xiaoyu a look of resentment.

But Xiaoyu respectfully bowed his head again, "Walk slowly, my lord, forgive Xiaoyu for not sending me off."

When the backs of the three were no longer visible, Xiaoyu stuck out her tongue and showed a wanton smile.

"You don't have to offend them for me." Sr Dingding looked at her.

She curled her lips indifferently, "Who told them to bully you?" After a lot of trouble, most of the uncomfortable feeling just now disappeared. Seeing them mad like mad is really a relief.

"Are you defending me?" The quiet voice could not hear his emotions.

"Don't get me wrong, we are buddies, of course I don't allow anyone to bully you." Xiaoyu hurriedly drew the line.

Sil was noncommittal, and took Xiaoyu's hand and walked out of the crowd. Xiaoyu was trying to break free, but he heard him whisper, "The princess and the emperor are watching us."

Xiaoyu not only stopped struggling, but seemed to be getting closer to him.There was a faint smile on the corner of Sil's mouth, a simple little girl.

After staying in the hunting feast for less than an hour, the two of them headed back home. The quick talk didn't make Xiaoyu feel sorry for the hunting feast, and it also made her realize that she was a master of wine forest. So at this time, she was in the wine cellar of Prince Ling's Mansion with great interest, tasting the rare and extraordinary old wine with great joy.

Sil did not accompany her uncharacteristically, and went into the study with Jin Qi as soon as he came back.

(End of this chapter)