The fourth prince, Xiao Yao, spent his whole day eating, drinking, having fun and visiting brothels. Normally, everyone excepted him as a joke and basically didn't take him seriously.
But now, during his autumn hunting, he unexpectedly hunted a tiger, which instantly made the emperor look at him differently.
The emperor arranged for him to work beside the prince, probably because he wanted to cultivate him.
Suddenly, everyone looked at Xiao Yao very differently. Even people who usually looked down on Xiao Yao showed friendly eyes towards him at this time.
Only Xiao Jue's face looked uglier than ever.
Xiao Yao retreated to Xiao Jue and whispered to explain: "Brother, I didn't..."
"Prince!" Xiao Chengye called Xiao Jue, interrupting Xiao Yao's words.
Xiao Yao had no choice but to swallow his words and watched Xiao Jue take two steps forward.
Xiao Chengye pointed to the piles of prey and asked Xiao Jue: "What did you hunt today?"
Xiao Jue's face looked a little embarrassed, and he held back a sentence for a long time: "My son is incompetent and has never hunted anything."
As soon as the words came out, the scene fell silent instantly.
It is really not honorable for the dignified prince to have failed to harvest anything during the autumn hunting.
Xiao Jue obviously realized this, lowering his eyes and his face turned blue and white.
Xiao Chengye looked at Xiao Jue with deep eyes, the disappointment on his face was well hidden, and he just asked lightly: "What's going on?"
"I don't know who doesn't understand the rules and always shoots cold arrows at critical moments to scare away prey," Xiao Jue explained in a low voice: "Coupled with bad luck, there are very few animals in the direction where I go, so..."
Xiao Jue couldn't speak any more, he just felt his face was burning.
Xiao Chengye squinted his eyes and said nothing for a long time.
The atmosphere was very good just now, but now it suddenly froze, and everyone held their breath and dared not speak.
Until a crisp sound sounded.
"Father, don't blame His Highness the Crown Prince." Qin Zhen emerged from behind, walked to Xiao Jue and stood next to him.
Xiao Jue trembled and subconsciously turned his head to look at Qin Zhen.
At this moment, no one stood up to speak for him, but Qin Zhen stood up.
Qin Zhen stood beside Xiao Jue and said to Xiao Chengye: "Father, in fact, His Highness the Prince could have hunted it. That white rabbit should have been His Highness the Prince's, and he gave it to me, otherwise there would be no harvest today.
Me."
Xiao Chengye raised his eyebrows, glanced at Xiao Jue meaningfully, and said slowly: "You mean, the white rabbit was given to you by the prince?"
"Yes," Qin Zhen said, "We aimed at the rabbit at the same time. His Highness the Prince saw that it was me, so he specifically let me do it."
She stepped forward and tugged on Xiao Chengye's sleeves, and whispered: "Father, please don't blame him."
Xiao Chengye looked at her, then at Xiao Jue, and finally laughed: "Hunting more and hunting less depends on your ability. If you hunt more, I will reward you. If you hunt less, I won't be surprised. It's just a game."
Qin Zhen suddenly laughed, turned around, walked to Xiao Jue, and said, "Father said I don't blame you anymore."
Xiao Jue looked a little stiff, glanced at the emperor, and then whispered: "Thank you, father."
Xiao Chengye didn't look at him, turned back to the top, and said loudly: "We'll start hunting today, and the leader on the first day is Lao Si."
After that, he waved to Xiao Yao and said: "Fourth, come here."
Xiao Chengye poured a bowl of wine himself and handed it to Xiao Yao, saying, "I know you love wine, try this."
Xiao Yao looked happy, raised his head, took a sip, and said with a smile: "Good wine."
"If you like it, then come with me." After saying that, he put his arm around Xiao Yao's shoulders and walked towards his table.
The father and son were very close to each other and their posture was intimate.
Behind the crowd, Qin Zhen looked at Xiao Jue beside her and said softly: "Don't be sad."
Xiao Jue forced a smile and said to her: "You shouldn't have stood up just now."
Qin Zhen pouted: "But I don't want to see you punished by His Majesty."
Xiao Jue was silent for a long time before saying: "Zhen Zhen, thank you."
He had thought before that Qin Zhen's background was not worthy of him. But looking back now, it was her background that made her such a simple mind, without calculation, and only for her own good.
He quickly pulled Qin Zhen's hand and promised again: "Wait for me."
As soon as he finished speaking, he heard Lou Yan call out: "Your Highness, your Majesty's dinner party has begun."
Xiao Jue immediately let go of Qin Zhen's hand and said quickly: "Wait for me."
After Xiao Jue left, Lou Yan walked slowly to Qin Zhen.
After staring at her for two seconds, Lou Yan took out a brocade handkerchief and handed it over.
Qin Zhen reached out and took it, slowly wiping the hand that Xiao Jue had touched.
After Qin Zhen wiped her hands, she threw the brocade handkerchief into the fire.
"Aren't you going to follow?" Qin Zhen glanced at him and said calmly.
Lou Yan had no expression on his face and said, "It's the same with or without me."
He, the third prince who was picked up by the people, has always been a lackey and invisible man who follows the prince. On important occasions, it is basically not his turn to speak.
Qin Zhen paused and suddenly asked: "Can you roast rabbit?"
Lou Yan: "...Yes."
Qin Zhen reached out and grabbed Lou Yan's wrist, dragging him away.
The skin of the white rabbit she hunted today was peeled off and given to craftsmen to make weibo, and the rabbit meat was sent back.
The two found a remote and uninhabited place, set up a bonfire, and roasted rabbits around the fire.
Lou Yan said he could, and he really knew it. After a while, a strong smell of meat floated in the air, making Qin Zhen move her index fingers.
She stared at the rabbit eagerly and swallowed her saliva. Lou Yan looked at her with a smile in his eyes.
"By the way, wait a minute." Qin Zhen seemed to have thought of something, and suddenly stood up and ran towards the camp.
After a while, Qin Zhen came back carrying two large jars of wine.
"If you have good food, you must also have good wine." Qin Zhen sat next to Lou Yan and threw another jar of wine to Lou Yan.
Lou Yan glanced at her: "In a good mood?"
Qin Zhen: "Not bad."
"Is it because the prince suffered the loss of being mute?" Lou Yan opened the seal, took a sip of wine, and said slowly: "Or is it because the prince planted a thorn in His Majesty's heart?"
Qin Zhen: "..."
She stared at Lou Yan for a while, then suddenly sighed and said, "You are really boring."
Lou Yan: "If I were really bored, I would have exposed you when you asked Zhao Qing to shoot the first arrow during the hunt today."
Qin Zhen also patted the seal and took a sip of wine, and said leisurely: "You really saw it."
"Do you know that you really scared my Zhao Qing back then?"
Lou Yan laughed. What does it mean for the evil person to complain first? This is it.
He didn't feel guilty at all when someone caught him doing bad things, but instead blamed him for scaring people.
There is probably only one person like Qin Zhen in this world.
Unreasonable...but not annoying to him.
Qin Zhen didn't seem to be afraid of him finding out at all, and she didn't panic when he exposed her. She even pointed at the rabbit on the fire and asked impatiently: "Is it cooked? Can it be eaten?"