Given Yu Zizhen's identity, she could only bring six people into the hunting ground.
However, Yu Zizhen did not bring that many people with her. This time, she only brought four people with her: Yuheng, Yaoguang, Feng Yuan and Lu Mingxuan.
As the only member of the Lu family who insisted on staying with Yu Zizhen, Lu Mingxuan had always been helping Yu Zizhen with things that were inconvenient for her to do, and she was also not confident in letting Feng Yuan and others do them.
In order to ensure his personal safety, Yu Zizhen deliberately used the "disguise" skill to give him a new face.
With this new face, even if he was occasionally seen by the Lu family's cronies, they would not suspect that he was Lu Mingxuan.
This time when Yu Zizhen came to the hunting ground, she originally didn't want to bring him with her, but Lu Mingxuan volunteered to come and protect her.
He told Yu Zizhen, "Prince, don't assume that just because the hunting grounds have been plowed by the Imperial Guards and heavily guarded, they're safe. Events like this with so many people participating are always bound to cause trouble. Hunting is different from palace banquets, flower viewing parties, literary gatherings, poetry gatherings, and the like. If something were to happen at the hunting grounds, it would be a major incident that would endanger someone's life."
Yu Zizhen felt that what he said made sense. Thinking of his loyalty to him and his extremely high fighting ability, Yu Zizhen agreed to let him go to the hunting ground with him.
Xiao Yuanjin, Fang Huaiying and others who were on good terms with her were in a similar situation, each of them only brought four to six followers.
Xiao Yuanjin's tent was next to the emperor's tent, the eldest princess's tent was next to Xiao Yuanjin's tent, and the second prince and Xiao Shaoke lived on the other side of the emperor's tent.
On the left and right sides of these tents were the tents of other royal relatives. Foreign officials including Yu Zizhen, Chen Hushan and others all lived in the front and back rows of this row of tents.
Yu Zizhen, Chen Hushan and Fang Huaiying had special identities and were young, so after the emperor gave their greetings, the guards responsible for allocating tents gave them the three tents behind the emperor, the eldest prince and the second prince.
As for Yang Shixian and Fan Zhongming, their grandfathers were both important officials in the court. They lived in two tents in front of the second prince and the eldest prince.
In this way, the people who have a good relationship with Yu Zizhen are living next to each other, which makes it convenient for them to visit each other.
The children, both adults and children, who rarely went out of the city, did not feel tired at all even though they followed the convoy slowly for almost a whole day. They happily visited each other and greeted each other. After confirming the locations of their friends, they made an appointment to have dinner together.
The eldest prince Xiao Yuanjin disliked their noise, while Yu Zizhen wanted to seize every free moment to memorize his lessons. Both of them looked at their friends who insisted on dragging them to eat with them with disgust. However, Chen Hushan and others who had been with them for a long time were not as afraid of Yu Zizhen as Wu Mingyu. They pretended not to see their helplessness and disgust, and insisted on dragging them to eat and chat together.
"Are you two going hunting tomorrow?" Chen Hushan asked Fang Huaiying and Yu Zizhen halfway through their meal.
Among their group, only these three genuine generals could say that they were skilled in archery and horse riding and could hunt wild animals with their own real abilities. The riding and shooting skills of the others were far inferior to theirs, and they didn't even dare to ride their horses into the woods for a stroll.
Yu Zizhen didn't want to go, but seeing Fang Huaiying looking at her expectantly, she finally changed her head to a nod and said, "I'll go. I want to hunt a nice fox or rabbit for His Highness to keep as a pet."
Fang Huaiying immediately patted his chest and promised, "I'll help you!"
Chen Hushan curled his lips, somewhat disliked by Yu Zizhen's constant calling him "Your Highness, Your Highness", but what he said was, "If I really meet a good-looking one, I'll give it to you."
Yu Zizhen glanced at him with a smile, "Then it's settled."
These two guys are really bored in the city, so they can't wait to ride horses freely. As for competing for the championship, that is not something that kids of their age should think about.
What Yu Zizhen didn't know while thinking this was that soon she would have to compete with some people to see who was the leader.
On September 22, after everyone had a night's rest, the autumn hunting activity officially began.
After the emperor finished his speech encouraging everyone to participate in the hunt, Yu Zizhen, Fang Huaiying, and Chen Hushan rode their horses slowly into the woods.
However, before they could enter the forest, a group of young masters led by the Lu family blocked them at the entrance of the forest.
The Lu family member who took the lead was not Lu Heng, who had the most dealings with Yu Zizhen and knew that she was a bit crazy, but Lu Yu, the youngest son of his uncle.
The Lu family has three branches. The eldest branch belongs to Lu Heng's uncle, but his uncle died early, so the head of the Lu family became his second uncle Lu Tong.
Lu Tong was conferred the title of Duke of Cheng'en by Empress Dowager Da Lu, while Lu Lin, the eldest son of Lu Heng's uncle, inherited the Lu family's original title of Marquis of Wenchang.
The Lu Yu who stopped Yu Zizhen and the other two and expressed his desire to compete with them was none other than the younger brother of Lu Lin, Marquis of Wenchang.
As far as Yu Zizhen knew, this Mr. Lu from Luyu was neither the son of a military family with a profound family background, nor an outlier from a civil servant family who loved martial arts more than literature.
Yu Zizhen had already consulted the baby-voiced system privately about what he was good at. The baby-voiced system gave Yu Zizhen just four words of answer - eating, drinking, whoring and gambling. It could be said that it was both highly summarized and to the point.
After hearing this, Yu Zizhen had only one feeling - well, this is... a typical playboy.
She couldn't understand why a playboy like "Bass" had the confidence to compete with her in riding and archery?
He wouldn't think that being able to ride a horse and draw a bow means being good at archery, right?
No way, no way, he doesn't really think that this world is so sweet, does he?
"How about it, do you dare to compete?"
While Yu Zizhen was in a daze, Lu Yu had already finished explaining the specific method of the competition. Of course, there was nothing strange about his so-called competition method. It was a comprehensive evaluation based on the number and size of prey, which was no different from the official competition.
The only difference is that in the official competition, the winner is rewarded and the loser is not punished. However, in the competition proposed by Lu Yu, the winner has no reward, and the loser has to "kneel down and bark like a dog three times, and take a detour when seeing the winner in the future." This can be said to be extremely insulting.
Of course Yu Zizhen would not participate in such an idiotic competition. Why would she do something that has absolutely no benefit?
Thinking of this, Yu Zizhen rolled his eyes at Lu Yu and said, "No, I'm not interested."
Lu Yu didn't want to let her go easily, "You don't dare? If you don't dare, then kneel down and bark like a dog three times! And remember to walk around the people of our Lu family in the future!"
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