The backyard of the inn is an open-air racecourse covering an area of more than 100 acres and enclosed by a green brick courtyard wall.
On the east and west sides of the racecourse, there are two rows of tan stables built with wood and thatch symmetrically and divided into small compartments with wooden fences.
The four-meter-high, one-meter-wide pine wood main door opens in the center of the south wall. Exiting the south gate is the official road. The geographical location is superior, and it is very convenient to welcome and drop off.
The heavy snow that began to fall yesterday lasted almost all day and night. It was not until the end of this morning that the snowflakes falling from the gloomy sky became smaller. However, the cold wind blowing in the face could still freeze people to the bone.
Shivering.
The imperial concubine, who was wearing a rose-red high-collared winter dress, walked out of the wing with her palace maid, Mang Zhong, and walked south in a hurry.
When I walked to the back garden where many holly trees were planted, I saw many eunuchs wearing dark blue winter robes holding shovels in their hands and carrying big brooms to clear the snow on the cobblestone paths.
When the busy palace people saw the imperial concubine, they stepped aside respectfully and bowed to her.
Qingyan saw that the layer of snow shoveled out by the palace people was almost ten centimeters thick, and she couldn't help but frown slightly. She felt that if the snow didn't stop, it was very likely that their group would have to be detained in this inn.
There have been constant assassinations in just a few days, and Rakshasa people have come all the way to Wutai Mountain. There are too many hidden dangers here, so it would be safer for them and their group to return to the palace early.
Thinking like this, she and Mang Zhong had already passed through a hand-drawn corridor, turned a corner and saw the north gate of the racecourse, a round moon gate.
Before they could get closer, the master and servant faintly heard various chirping sounds coming from inside through the courtyard wall.
Qingyan hurriedly quickened her pace and entered the door. She saw that the empty racecourse had now turned into a natural ski resort.
Seven or eight young, lively, brightly dressed teenagers and girls were skiing on skates and occasionally bent down to grab a handful of snow to have a snowball fight.
The most conspicuous among them is the eldest brother Yinti, who is wearing a royal blue winter robe and jumping up and down. He laughs loudly and raises his right arm high towards Bendy and the eldest princess Fulana who are gliding side by side in front of him.
shouted:
"Hey! Bendy! Eat a red cannonball from me!"
Bendi, who was talking to the eldest princess about what Mongolia was like after it snowed, subconsciously turned his head and looked back when he heard the sound. Before the smile on his face dissipated, he saw an extremely solid person flying towards him.
snowball.
His eyes widened instantly, knowing that the eldest brother was looking for an opportunity to retaliate against the snowballs he had just hit on him.
There is no shame in catching snowballs in a snowball fight, but young people care about face the most, especially when they are just starting to fall in love in front of their sweetheart.
Bendy didn't want to catch the eldest brother's snowball with his face in front of the eldest princess, and embarrass himself in public. He hurriedly dodged to the side, but his movements were still a little slow, and before he could completely dodge,
When he opened the door, the snowball hit his right shoulder and broke into pieces. Many snowflakes even flew to his neck, making Bendy tremble from the cold.
"Ouch! Baoqing, please stop making trouble. It's such a cold winter that your robe is getting wet. It's so uncomfortable!"
When Flora saw that her stupid brother was doing something good, she stepped forward and stopped him.
"Hey, oh, oh, Baocheng, Yaya, have you two seen this? Our eldest sister is not married yet, so she is no longer with us. Didn't my robe get wet by the class? Didn't you say something?"
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"Bao Qing! Khan Ama should punish you by copying the "Zi Zhi Tong Jian" a hundred times!"
The eldest princess blushed at Yin Ti's words, scolded her shyly, turned around and left skiing on the snow.
"Princess, wait for me, slave."
When Bendi saw this, he immediately glared at Yinti. He didn't even bother to sweep the snow off his neck and hurriedly skated forward to catch up.
Yinreng and Kejing, who were following Yinti, looked at their elder brother winking at them, and couldn't help but twitch the corners of their mouths.
Ke Jing shook his arms and said with some disgust:
"Brother, please don't pretend to cry in front of us again. I have goosebumps all over my body."
Yinreng, who was wearing a navy blue winter robe, coughed twice and said:
"Yaya is right, brother, you look extremely ugly."
"Damn it! Second brother, fourth sister, why don't you two even look to the eldest brother? Come on, let me eat a red-coated cannonball!"
When Yinti heard what the two said, he quickly bent down, pinched two snowballs, and threw them towards the brother and sister.
Yinreng's eyes twitched, and he quickly took his sister's arm and slid it forward.
Qingyan watched this scene from behind, and saw dozens of snow marks densely packed behind Yinti, while others only had a few scattered ones on their bodies, and she felt dumbfounded.
Apparently they had just experienced a big battle not long ago, and Yinti was the unlucky one who was chased and beaten by everyone. Now that he had turned around, he began to use all kinds of means to retaliate against his opponents.
She smiled hurriedly and shouted:
"Baoqing, come back quickly!"
When Yinti heard the familiar female voice, she turned her head and looked back. After seeing the figure of the imperial concubine in the distance, her eyes lit up. She didn't care to chase the brothers and sisters in front of her, and neatly threw the newly pinched snowball in her hand.
He fell off and arrived at the north gate within a few steps.
"Empress Huang, why are you here?"
Qingyan looked at Yin Ti's slender handsome face, so cold that her cheeks turned red. The green and black warm hat on her head had long been wet by the snow, and there was still a trace of snow left in the fur on the hat.
The thin layer of snowflakes has not been wiped clean, coupled with his bright smile showing eight white teeth and round lychee eyes, he looks very silly.
Mang Zhong, who was following the imperial concubine, also lowered his head and suppressed his smile. He felt that Concubine Hui was really interesting. He had a hundred and twenty ideas, but he didn't give his eldest brother a few more children.
"I'm here to look for Bai Lu and the twins, and I'll call you back for breakfast."
Qingyan raised her hand to brush off all the snowflakes stuck on Yinti's hat. Seeing that the boy in front of her was almost as tall as herself, she couldn't help but sigh. When she first met this child, it was also in this cold winter day.
It's so fast. In the blink of an eye, all the older children are about to get engaged.
"Ah, Queen Mother, you are late. Xiao Si and the other children followed the guards to assemble the sled."
Yinti patted his forehead and said carelessly.
Qingyan was about to ask, "Where did you go to assemble it?" The next moment, she heard an exclamation from behind Yinti.
"Oh my god, Xiaosi, you guys are so good at playing, aren't you?"
"Fourth brother, fourth brother, I want to sit down too."
Yinti turned around and looked back. Qingyan and Mangzhong also looked southward. In the next moment, their eyes widened.
I saw four large dogs half as tall as a man running towards me like they were having fun. The dogs were all tied with ropes for pulling the cart.
The two big white dogs in the middle have two small pink erected angular ears on the inside of their heads that are shaking in the wind. The sled dogs on the left and right sides are a whole circle larger than the white dogs, and their back hair is in the shape of a square.
Brown, strong limbs and claws are all milky white. The hair covering the body is long, straight and shiny. When running, it looks majestic, but I don’t know if it is because of too much hair or too much flesh on the body.
After a while, I started running, looking a little shaking my head, and I felt a layer of stupidity out of thin air.
The four dogs stuck out their big pink tongues and ran forward quickly "woof, woof, woof". Behind them, they pulled a "large wooden box without a lid" that was surrounded by fences and looked like a carriage. The twins, Yinzhen,
Xiaojiu and Xiaoshi are both sitting inside.
The fourth brother sitting in the middle is holding a four-in-one dog leash in his hand. Xiao Jiu and Xiao Ten are standing in the big wooden box, with their little heads just exposed. Xiao Ten and Xiao Fourteen are trying hard to pick up the edges with their little hands and shake them.
Standing swayingly, the upper half of his face was barely exposed.
On the left and right sides of the five brothers were four imperial guards who slid forward simultaneously and used ropes to pull their large wooden boxes to prevent them from overturning.
After the five brothers saw the imperial concubine, Xiao Yinzhen and Xiao Yiner quickly opened their mouths and shouted:
"Mother Huang, we are taking a dog carriage!"
"Uh, uh, Gou Gou, Che!"
The twins also giggled and shouted after their two brothers.
Qingyan looked at the four dogs lined up at the front, and couldn't help but cover her face with her hands. With the addition of Yinha, who was raised in the palace, the sled was now completely alive.
"Uu~stop."
Yinzhen and his four younger brothers ran up to E Niang. Like a coachman imitating a carriage, he leaned back and tightened the dog leash in his hand, forcing the four-wheel drive dog cart to a stop.
The fourth elder brother of Tengo seems to be particularly talented at driving the dog cart.
Even though it was his first time to do this, he even parked sideways in front of everyone when he parked his car. With a beautiful big drift, he happened to park the big wooden box sideways in front of the imperial concubine.
The four little breasted dumplings standing inside, the thick fur hats on their heads were all blown back by the wind, and the twins' golden tiger-head hats were almost blown over by the wind.
"Mom, this snow dog cart is really fast."
Yinzhen raised his head and laughed loudly at the imperial concubine.
The four little dumplings standing next to him also giggled along with them.
At this time, Yin Reng, Fulana, Ben Di and others also slid over, and they all touched the large wooden box under their buttocks and praised them repeatedly.
"Who told you that I would come here to play sledding on the racetrack so early in the morning?"
Qingyan reluctantly leaned down and took the four naughty little dumplings out of the dog cart one by one.
Yinzhen held the edge with his hand, flipped it over lightly, and jumped onto the snow outside. He stretched out his hand to rub the four plush dog heads.
He didn't have time to speak yet.
At this time, another panting female voice came from behind everyone.
"Master, the emperor asked me and the princesses to come here to play sledding."
A group of children stood on either side, and then they saw Bai Lu pushing a double-decker stroller and running toward them panting.
Qingyan was even more puzzled when she saw that in late autumn, the stroller that had been put into a mahogany box when it was packed for the first time in Chuxiu Palace was actually taken out by a close maid.
When Bai Lu quickly ran to the imperial concubine, a layer of fine beads of sweat had appeared on her forehead. Her upper body was slightly bent on the wooden armrest of the stroller, panting heavily.
Seeing this, Qingyan quickly reached out her right hand and patted Bai Lu's back to comfort her.
After Bai Lu's breath became smoother, she looked at the imperial concubine in front of her, smiled and explained:
"Master, you went to bed early last night and didn't know."
Bai Lu swallowed her saliva to moisten her throat, which was dry due to too much cold wind. After her throat felt more comfortable, she continued:
"Last night, the two little brothers were sitting on the bed, arguing about not drinking the cold-repelling soup. The emperor coaxed the two brothers and said that as long as they drank the soup, he would ask the guards to take them to the racecourse this morning.
Dog sledding.”
"When Brother Ten, Fourteen heard this, he immediately hugged his small bowl and drank all the soup and medicine. You got up late again this morning. When they had breakfast, the two brothers
As soon as he said this in public, all the young masters stopped eating and came here to play in the snow. When the Queen Mother heard that there were guards and slaves watching them, she happily let them go.
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"Yes, Mama, say, drink, Kuku, sit, dog, car."
The two little brothers, holding their mother's legs and barely standing on the snow against the wind, immediately nodded their furry little heads in unison and agreed.
After Qingyan heard this, she was completely speechless. Kangxi was really big-hearted. He actually dared to let two brothers under one year old ride a dog sled. Sure enough, when the children were not in danger, their father was the biggest danger maker.
who!
After Yin Zhen rubbed the dog's head which was very tactile, he also smiled and pointed at the stroller in Bai Lu's hand and added:
"Mom, originally Xiaoshi and Xiaosi wanted to sit in a stroller and be pulled by a dog. I thought this was too bad and the car would easily overturn. I happened to find an abandoned carriage carriage in the warehouse at the south gate, so I
The guards tried to modify it, but they didn't expect that the quality of the dog cart was really good. It has a lot of space inside and is stable to sit on. When we leave, we must put the dog and the cart into the big carriage and take them away.
, then I want to play on the frozen lake of Beihai Imperial Garden."
When Qingyan heard that her eldest son had decided on the location for the next dog sledding trip, her lips twitched even more and she was completely speechless...
The imperial concubine and her group were having fun at the racecourse, but Kangxi, who was being complained about by the imperial concubine in his heart, was not in a good mood.
After wandering around the front yard where the Rakshasa people were imprisoned, Kangxi's expression became more and more complex.
When he led Prince Yu to the door of the largest guest room, his back straightened, the guards with swords who carefully guarded the door leaned over and saluted the two brothers:
"This servant has met the Emperor and Prince Yu."
Kangxi rubbed his fingers and raised his chin forward.
The two guards immediately understood and hurriedly turned around and respectfully opened the two heavy mahogany carved doors behind them.
It had been two days since he had seen the light outside, and he was feeling depressed. The Rakshasa boy, who was sitting cross-legged on the soft couch in the guest room, heard the wooden door creak open again. He raised his head with a gloomy look, squinted his eyes and looked outside, and found someone coming.
After it was not the guard who delivered the meal, but the man who tied up their group, and the strange man who was more powerful than him, the alarm in his head immediately sounded like crazy.
He hurriedly jumped down from the soft couch, and his half-length chestnut curly hair was messy on his cheeks. Even though his eyes were filled with red bloodshot eyes and there were cyan black circles under his eyes, the fatigue all over his body could not be concealed, but his eye sockets
In the deep brown eyes
Still flashing a sharp light, he raised his two arms, clenched his fists tightly, and made an attacking gesture. He stared straight at Kangxi standing at the door, vigilantly and angrily speaking in his broken Chinese.
He stumbled and roared coldly:
"What on earth are you, Sen (who), Yin (person), and why do you want to arrest us?"
Even though Kangxi had known for a long time that this young man was tall, when he saw with his own eyes that he was almost as tall as him when he stood up, he couldn't help but sigh in his heart that this Rakshasa man was really capable of growing taller.
They are both twelve years old, and Baoqing is already tall enough, but this boy is almost a head taller than Baoqing.
The curly-haired boy frowned when Kangxi didn't answer him, and asked again.
Kangxi walked directly across the threshold and walked in. Every time he took a step forward, the Rakshasa boy unconsciously took half a step back.
When the boy watched the man in black robe sit down on the armchair opposite his soft couch, and the man who caught him stood respectfully behind the armchair, an idea flashed in his mind, and his back
A layer of cold sweat broke out in an instant as he guessed the identity of the man in the black winter robe.
Kangxi sensitively noticed the change in the young man's expression and knew that he knew his identity. Before the young man could say anything, he chuckled in fluent Russian:
"Should I call you by your pseudonym 'Mikhailov'? Or should I call you by your real name 'Pyotr Alexeevich Romano'?"
"I lost my father when I was less than four years old, ascended the throne at the age of ten, and was immediately deposed by my half-sister and exiled to a village on the outskirts of Moscow. Today, Tsarist Russia only has the name of the 'No.
Second Tsar? Am I right?"
When the young Peter saw the person coming, his identity was revealed at once, and his pupils couldn't help but shrink. Before he could recover from the shock, he saw this extremely majestic middle-aged man taking out the gun from his arms.
Holding a blunderbuss, he narrowed his slender eyes and pointed the dark muzzle of the blunderbuss towards himself.