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Chapter 40: Eat at the children's table
After going up to the third pole that day, all the invited dignitaries had arrived, and then found their seats under the recommendation of officials from the Ministry of Rites.
These seats are all owned, so don’t sit around!
Once he sits in a position that does not belong to him, at least he will offend others, and at worst he will be labeled as ungrateful by the Ministry of Rites and kicked out of the hunting ground. From then on, he will die politically in the officialdom of Yun State.
As one of the few second-rank officials in the Yun Kingdom, Zhang Hui could not sit in the first row closest to Emperor Yun like other ministers, but he still sat in the second row. To show honor.
As for Zhang Wei?
He couldn't take the seat.
Although he is the nephew of Zuo Shilang of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, without an official status or title, his status is not even comparable to that of the second generation nobles in Yundu City. He can only sit outside with a group of nephews and nephews of officials like him. It was half a mile away from the big tent where Emperor Yun was.
It is a veritable place to sit at the children's table when eating.
And next, as participants in the Autumn Hunting Conference, they will ride horses into the mountains to hunt. Therefore, they all carry weapons and arrows with them, which makes it even more impossible for them to enter the center of the venue.
During this period, Zhang Wei also met several acquaintances among the second generation who came to participate in the autumn hunting. One of them is Feng Jie.
At this moment, a bunch of people gathered around him, apparently forming a small group.
According to Zhang Wei's observation, there are two other groups like this. Each of the three groups includes a part of the Imperial College's tribute students, nobles, and officials.
Only a small part of them are like themselves, free from the three major forces. Obviously he didn't want to get involved in the fight between these three families.
Thinking back to his third uncle Zhang Hui's daily advice to him, Zhang Wei also understood the meaning of these three parties.
I think this is the team of three princes who are now capable of competing for the throne.
At this moment, as melodious horn sounds sounded, the dignitaries present immediately stood up and faced the throne that had been prepared long ago.
Then, surrounded by a group of eunuchs and maids, and guarded by a group of imperial guards, Luo Yun, the secular controller of the Yun Kingdom, appeared in front of everyone.
The three princes and Princess Hongxia followed closely behind him.
It's just that Emperor Yun seems to be in poor health and needs the help of a beautiful woman in her twenties beside him to be able to walk.
It was only then that Zhang Wei saw the true appearance of the legendary Concubine Yang who brought disaster to the country and the people.
Zhang Wei originally thought that in this extraordinary world, the woman who could confuse the emperor so much that he couldn't find her would have some special identity.
For example, the undercover agents of the White Lotus Sect in the east, the enlightened fox demons who walked out of the mountains and forests, the painted-skinned monsters who luckily opened up their intelligence, and so on.
However, according to Zhang Wei's observation, this Yang Guifei is just an ordinary woman, just a very beautiful woman. Even Luo Hongxia and Liang Junqiu whom Zhang Wei has met are not as beautiful as her.
No wonder Emperor Yun lingered over her. Moreover, her face was flushed, and she looked like she had just passed through the clouds and rain, which added a sense of charm to her and made people think about her.
But unfortunately, it’s not Zhang Wei’s cup of tea.
She is too young.
So Zhang Wei just glanced twice and moved his eyes aside. However, it was the royal ministers following Emperor Yun who caught his attention.
"Two late stages of Qi refining, five middle stages of Qi refining. As expected of the royal family of the Yun Kingdom, they can win over so many immortal cultivators with extraordinary strength in the ordinary world. Even if this power is placed in Izumobo City, it is still the top hunter. It’s a monster.” Zhang Wei thought to himself.
But it's okay, with these people sitting in charge, even those demon wolves who are the strongest but in the middle stage of Qi training can also deliver food when they come here.
"My emperor is safe!"
When Emperor Yun sat on the throne, hundreds of dignitaries from Yundu below, as well as thousands of imperial guards guarding the camp, immediately started roaring.
"Your Majesty, please excuse me..."
Emperor Yun said with a bit of breath: "Without further delay, let's start this autumn hunting as soon as possible..."
"Yes!" A military attache standing under Emperor Yun immediately accepted the order, then took the order flag and waved it violently towards the order soldiers standing on the high platform.
The next moment, the messenger immediately understood and spread the order to start the Autumn Hunting Conference throughout the entire hunting ground through beacon fire.
"Young masters, please set off!"
At this time, a school official stood up and shouted.
Then, these fully armed nobles and second-generation high-ranking officials immediately mounted their horses and took the bows and arrows and arrow pots from the attendants. Then he flicked his riding whip and rushed out of the camp roaring.
The division was completed at the door, and each of them caught up with the prince they were loyal to and rushed into the forest.
At the same time as they saw the beacon fire, the officers and soldiers stationed guarding the hunting ground opened the animal cages containing the prey and drove all the beasts inside into the forest.
This method of artificially increasing the density of the herd prevents the dignitaries who come to hunt from chasing their prey all over the mountain, thus affecting the game experience.
But at the same moment, there was a group of troops in the hunting ground who were not on the Guards roster and saw the wolf smoke rising into the sky.
A lieutenant general reported: "Uncle, the autumn hunting has begun!"
Ma Xiong looked at the eye-catching smoke and said angrily: "I'm not blind!"
The deputy general asked: "Then... shall we set off to the camp now?"
"What are you going to do now?" Ma Xiong asked with a cold snort.
The deputy general looked embarrassed and said: "But didn't the Seventh Prince say..."
Ma Xiong spat: "He can't stand being cuckolded and his brains are being fucked!"
As he spoke, he kicked the cage next to him, and a threatening growl suddenly came from inside. But the next moment, runes lit up on the surface of the cage, and the threatening growl quickly turned into a painful whimper.
Ma Xiong said: "You want to kill that bitch with these monsters? They can't even get past those old immortals! What else can they do except wasting thousands of taels of silver to give those old immortals a meal of wolf meat and a few wolf skins?"
The deputy general hesitated: "But..."
"But what? Old Seven is too young, he is easily emotional and does things without considering the consequences! As long as he sits in that position, what woman can't he get? Even after his old immortal father dies, he can lock that bitch in the room and play with her as he pleases!"
Ma Xiong said earnestly: "He is young and doesn't know how to fool around. Can I, as his uncle, accompany him to fool around?"
The adjutant asked: "But... will we do nothing?"
"Who said that?" Ma Xiong looked at the deputy general with disdain, and then lowered his voice and said: "Old Seven wants to be the prince, but there are still two people in the way, right?"
"Ah?"
The deputy general's eyes were straight at the time, and his expression seemed to say, "Uncle, are you kidding me!"
However, Ma Xiong ignored the deputy general's shock and smiled to himself: "When the old emperor has no children, who else can he choose except the seventh son?"
The deputy general swallowed his saliva and praised: "The king's uncle is wise!"
"You still have a lot to learn!"
Ma Xiong taught the deputy general a lesson, then looked in the direction of the camp and muttered: "Seventh son, don't blame me, uncle is doing this for your good..."
At this time, Zhang Wei was riding a horse and wandering around in the jungle separated by two mountains from Ma Xiong and others.
He planned to catch some prey and go back to report. After all, he was nominally here to participate in the autumn hunt. If he didn't bring any prey back, it would be too embarrassing for his uncle.
By the way, see if there is a wolf monster near the camp. If there is, Zhang Wei doesn't mind being the monster catcher temporarily and killing the danger in advance.
"Hmm?"
Just when Zhang Wei released his 200-foot spiritual consciousness to search the forest for the traces of the wolf monsters, he suddenly found that his spiritual consciousness scanned two people.
Although his spiritual consciousness can only roughly scan the size of the object, he cannot see other people's appearance through spiritual consciousness. But the shape of one of them is too memorable.
It's hard to forget.
The man drew his bow and aimed for a long time before shooting an arrow, but it hit the tail of a marten-like creature and nailed it to the tree.
The marten was immediately frightened and ran away. Seeing this, the two people behind immediately rode their horses to catch up, and continued to draw their bows and shoot arrows, and had a life-and-death race with the marten.
And their direction, by chance, ran towards Zhang Wei.
Whoosh———
A marten with purple fur broke through the bushes and ran over. When it saw a human blocking its way, it immediately squeaked and turned around to find another way.
But it was this turn that changed its fate. The arrow that was supposed to fall into the air penetrated its waist and nailed it to the ground.
"Squeak, squeak, squeak———"
The purple-gold sable began to struggle violently, but this was of no use except to accelerate its death.
"Hit!"
At this time, a surprised voice came from behind the bushes, and then two horses rushed out. The leading woman was immediately delighted when she saw the purple-gold sable she had shot.
"Princess Hongxia."
At this time, Zhang Wei's voice came, and Luo Hongxia realized that there were other people. Her heart tightened immediately, but when she saw that it was Zhang Wei, she was relieved and said, "It turned out to be Master Zhang!"
"Good boy, it's you!"
At this time, another rider rushed over, and Peng Qing pointed at Zhang Wei with a bow and arrow and cursed, "It was you who threw the stone that day!"
Faced with Peng Qing's shouting, Zhang Wei didn't even have the interest to pay attention. Looking at Luo Hongxia's military uniform, he couldn't help but ask, "I didn't expect Princess Hongxia to have such a refined interest. She actually went into the forest to hunt animals. She is really as good as a man."
"It's autumn hunting, come and play."
Luo Hongxia smiled, but Peng Qing next to her directly ruined it.
Peng Qing dismounted and grabbed the pierced purple-gold sable. Looking at the fur pierced by the arrow and severely torn due to the violent struggle, he immediately showed a distressed look.
He couldn't help but complain: "You're just playing around. How can you sell this rotten fur to the imperial concubine? How much money can you make from it? If this continues, we'll have to eat coarse food for the next year!"
After being ruined by her husband, Luo Hongxia looked very unhappy and subconsciously shouted: "Whose fault do you think this is!"
However, Peng Qing stiffened his neck and said stubbornly: "Isn't it you, a crazy woman, who smashed things everywhere? I was blacklisted by others! Do you know how my friends laughed at me!"
Luo Hongxia gritted her teeth and said angrily: "I only regret that I didn't break your legs!"
"You..."
Peng Qing pointed at Luo Hongxia, but when he saw the bow and arrow in her hand, he withdrew his hand, threw the purple mink onto the horse, pulled the reins and said: "I don't care! You can do this kind of errands yourself!"
Luo Hongxia shouted: "Where are you going?!"
Peng Qing said as a matter of course: "Of course I'm connecting with my friends! Do you think I'm a plague god like you?"
Luo Hongxia: "You..."
At this time, Peng Qing said again: "Of course, if you find a lover to help you, that's fine."
Then Peng Qing looked at Zhang Wei, who had been silent just now, and said with a lewd smile: "Stinky boy, although this crazy woman is a little irritable, she is still very tender! I guarantee that you will taste the marrow and taste it!"
"Peng Qing, you are looking for death!"
Luo Hongxia was furious, and subconsciously picked up the bow and arrow and aimed at Peng Qing.
However, Peng Qing laughed, and rushed into the forest in an instant with a kick on the horse's belly.
In the end, Luo Hongxia still did not shoot the arrow in her hand, and put down the bow and arrow dejectedly, with her shoulders twitching, as if she was suppressing tears.
"Sorry, I made a fool of you."
Luo Hongxia raised her head and said to Zhang Wei with a pair of red eyes.
"It's your family affairs, I'm an outsider, so I can't interfere."
Zhang Wei shook his head, broke off a branch from the tree next to him and said, "But I don't like what he said."
After that, Zhang Wei held the branch in his hand and threw it out like a dart.
Swoosh———
The branch broke through the air and instantly crossed a distance of more than ten feet, accurately hitting a sensitive part of the horse ridden by Peng Qing.
"Xirolu————"
"Ah!!!!"
Peng Qing screamed in the distant forest, and Zhang Wei's move stunned Luo Hongxia!
"Is this the legend of the martial arts world, where only the masters of the martial arts myth level can perform flying flowers and picking leaves to hurt the enemy?" Luo Hongxia couldn't help asking.
"Almost. Although the Linglong Island group failed to enter the fairy gate, they also got some opportunities." Zhang Wei said calmly, and pushed his own methods to the Linglong Fairy Island lightly.
Then he turned and asked, "By the way, what did Peng Qing say just now? Princess, are you not well-off recently?"
Luo Hongxia's expression froze, then she shook her head and whispered, "No..."
Seeing that Luo Hongxia didn't want to talk, Zhang Wei didn't want to continue asking, but advised, "If the princess is looking for the purple-gold mink, I suggest you don't chase it anymore."
Luo Hongxia asked in confusion, "Why?"
"Because it's very dangerous in the hunting ground."
Luo Hongxia picked up the bow and arrow, patted the long sword at her waist and said, "I'm not an ordinary woman! I also know martial arts!"
Zhang Wei looked at Luo Hongxia's waist and abdomen. What the other party said was true. According to the classification in the mortal world, Luo Hongxia was indeed a martial artist who had opened up the Dantian.
But unfortunately, the internal force in the Dantian was not strong, which was just the second-rate level in the world.
If Zhang Wei had not cultivated immortals, but worked hard to practice martial arts after returning from Linglong Fairy Island, he would probably be at this level when he reached Luo Hongxia's age.
But unfortunately, this strength is just an extra plate of meat for the wolf pack led by the wolf king in the middle stage of Qi Refining.
Zhang Wei said: "It is also dangerous for men."
Luo Hongxia asked again, not to be outdone: "If it is so dangerous, why are you still here?"
Zhang Wei couldn't help but twitch his mouth, and said unhappily: "Princess Hongxia, it is not a good habit to ask questions. You can believe it or not. Anyway, I have said everything. Goodbye. Go!!!!"
After saying that, he rode away without caring about Luo Hongxia's reaction. Only Luo Hongxia was left alone, staring at his back in a daze.
After walking around the mountains and forests near the camp and finding no trace of wolf monsters, Zhang Wei casually hunted a few badgers and returned to the camp.
Because he only walked around outside the camp, Zhang Wei was the first to come back. When he rode his horse back to the camp with the prey, he saw Yunhuang Luo Yun and Yang Guifei shooting arrows at the horned deer released in the open space accompanied by hundreds of officials. After the shot hits the target, soldiers will beat drums, and then all officials will praise and call out to His Majesty for his bravery.
Zhang Wei's return also surprised a group of officials and nobles. Someone asked with sharp eyes: "Oh? This is the Zhang Wei who manages the river in Minister Zhang's family, right?"
Several familiar officials looked and quickly determined that the first to return was Zhang Wei.
Zhang Hui saw this and sent someone to call Zhang Wei over and asked: "Why did you come back so soon?"
Zhang Wei smiled, took out a red fox, and said: "I hunted a few badgers and a red fox on the way, and the horse can't fit anymore."
The officials next to him took a breath when they saw the red fox. They said: "Hiss—this red fox is really good! An arrow actually went through the eye, but the fur was not damaged half an inch!"
Everyone looked in the direction of the sound, and they saw that the fur of the red fox was shiny all over the body, without any wounds, only the eye sockets were empty, and the amber eyeballs were missing.
Obviously, this was killed by an arrow shot through the eye!
This kid is really terrifying, as he can accurately hit the fast-moving red fox eye in the mountains and forests!
Someone sighed, "It is rumored that the son of the Zhang family is unparalleled in martial arts. Today, I see that he is indeed extraordinary!"
"Minister Zhang, I see that your nephew is very young and has a good appearance. I wonder if he can get married? My youngest daughter is only 28 years old and is in her prime. She is known as a talented woman in Yundu."
"My daughter is not bad either."
The officials around him praised Zhang Wei as a rare talent in the world, and some even directly proposed a matchmaking.
But Zhang Wei knew that the reason why these people praised him so much and wanted to marry him was not because of his martial arts, but because of the identity of his third uncle Zhang Hui.
So Zhang Wei stood aside obediently and let his uncle talk to these people.
"Hmm?"
The noise from the direction of the officials attracted Luo Yun's attention. At this time, he had missed several arrows because of his hard work before. He was in a bad mood.
Now seeing something strange, he put down his bow and arrow and asked the captain of the imperial guards beside him: "What happened there?"
The captain of the imperial guards first summoned a guard, and then after listening to his story, he reported: "Your Majesty, it is the nephew of Zhang Shilang of the Ministry of Personnel, Zhang Zijie, who has returned from hunting, and all officials are discussing his prey."
Luo Yun raised his eyebrows and said, "Oh? Someone has returned with a full load so soon?"
Luo Yun, who was already in a bad mood because of the unsatisfactory hunting, was even more in a bad mood after seeing someone return with a full load.
The gap in hunting seemed to be said in his ear.
You can't do it!
How can a man say no?
Luo Yun snorted coldly, and just when he was about to call Zhang Zijie over to give him a good beating, he saw two more horses coming in from the corner of his eye.
Is there anyone else?
"Huh?"
Luo Yun took a closer look and found that it was his good daughter Luo Hongxia who came back this time.
She finally believed Zhang Wei, and returned to the camp after pulling her husband out of the ditch.
With a thought in her mind, she ordered the captain: "Let Princess Hongxia come to see me!"
"Yes!"
Not long after, Luo Hongxia and her husband Peng Qing were brought to Yunhuang Luo Yun.
"Your son greets your father!" Luo Hongxia bowed, and Peng Qing beside her immediately knelt down with a smug look on his face.
Luo Yun asked faintly, "Why did you come back so soon? Where's the purple-gold mink?"
Without waiting for Luo Hongxia to speak, Peng Qing immediately took out a dirty purple-gold mink corpse, presented it with both hands and said flatteringly, "Your Majesty, here..."
When Luo Yun and Yang Guifei saw it, they immediately showed a look of disgust in their eyes. Luo Yun was even more angry and said, "This is the quality? Are you going to give it to your aunt?"
Luo Yun's rage frightened Luo Hongxia and Peng Qing. Peng Qing even trembled and defended himself, "Originally, the quality would not be so bad, but when I came back, I don't know why, the horse was suddenly frightened and threw me into the ditch. This quality..."
"Hahahaha..."
Peng Qing's defense did not bring him any understanding, but made him look more like a clown. For a while, the whole parade ground was filled with a happy tone, and even Luo Hongxia next to her couldn't help but hold her forehead with her hand.
That being said, you can't tell the truth.
Luo Yun was also amused, but it was good, just in time to punish Luo Hongxia. But at this moment, two eye-catching yellow smokes suddenly rose in the hunting ground in the distance.
Accompanied by a piercing whistle, Luo Yun was interrupted.
"Wait, that is..."
After seeing the color of the smoke, someone exclaimed: "It's a distress signal!"
"There's a problem with the two princes!"
Luo Yun's pupils shrank, and then before he could give an order, the two most powerful late-stage Qi Refining among the royal priests sitting behind him stood up and said: "Your Majesty, the situation is not right, we have to go and see!"
Faced with the request of the immortal cultivator, Luo Yun could only agree with a reluctant heart: "Okay..."
As soon as the voice fell, the two late-stage priests took their respective mid-stage subordinates and left the camp. And with the departure of these royal priests and the changes in the two princes, the entire camp was shrouded in a haze.
Only Zhang Wei was not surprised by this.
On the other side,
The Seventh Prince led a team of cavalrymen and looked up at the two yellow smoke rising in the distance. None of them came from the direction of the camp, and he immediately understood the change in the situation.
However, his expression did not show any surprise, on the contrary, he was very calm.
"Uncle, uncle, I knew it... Fortunately, I was prepared."
Speaking of this, the Seventh Prince Luo Fuge gently patted the large iron cage covered with red cloth next to him, and painful roars came from it.
The red cloth was lifted up, and inside was a huge red wolf with wounds all over its body...
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