Xue Shu patted the horse's butt and let the horse carry the wolf king into the snow forest first, while he walked towards Yin Chengjing's tent.
The effect of the powder was very good. Yin Chengjing was sleeping soundly, and he didn't notice anything when Xue Shu entered. In order to prevent him from waking up after the drug wore off, Xue Shu chopped him off the back of the neck with a knife. After making sure that he was completely unconscious, he carried him out of the tent, found a horse again, and tied him to the horse's back like a wolf king.
Afterwards, he went to Princess Wuzhu's tent and did the same thing, stealing the person out and tying her to a horse with Yin Chengjing.
The dawns come late in winter. Even after five o'clock in the morning, the sky is still as dark as ink, with only a little light coming from the campfire burning in the rear camp.
Xue Shu took a torch and led the two horses back.
Yin Chengjing made several detours on the way back. He remembered that on one of the roads, someone dug a huge deep pit on the ground. It looked like a trap used by hunters, and now it was just the right time to deal with these two people.
Xue Shu had a very good memory, and he found the deep pit by following the direction in his memory. He asked the horse to wait by the pit, and he used the rope tied to the tree to put Yin Chengjing and Wuzhugong into the pit.
The pit was very large, but the bottom was relatively flat. Xue Shu threw the two of them aside and began to undress Yin Chengjing.
The stripped clothes were spread directly on the ground as bedding, and then the naked Yin Chengjing was moved on. When it was Princess Wuzhu's turn, Xue Shu frowned, and was somewhat disgusted. He only took off her outer and inner clothes, leaving only the small clothes to cover her body, and then pushed her into Yin Chengjing's arms.
After finishing the arrangement, he stood up and paced twice, thinking about Yin Chengjing's unpresentable plots, and still felt angry. But he certainly couldn't kill him, so he thought about it for a while, and pulled out a very thin wire from under his belt.
Having been a eunuch for a lifetime, he naturally knew the weaknesses of men best. He endured the discomfort and wrapped the wire around the vulnerable part of Yin Chengjing's lower body, tightening it. He then wrapped the remaining short piece of wire tightly around Princess Wuzhu's wrist.
That's all.
This wire is thin and sharp. When these two people wake up and are startled tomorrow, I think something interesting will happen.
He casually covered the two people with robes, and finally built a bonfire to prevent them from freezing to death. Everything was finally arranged.
Before leaving, Xue Shu thought of the stove again. There was still some medicine powder left in the stove that had not been burned out. He poured all the remaining medicine powder into the campfire and threw the stove aside.
He climbed up along the rope, collected the only rope and took it away. Then Xue Shu mounted his horse and galloped towards the camp with the other horse.
Yin Chengyu had been prepared for the wolf attacks and arranged people to attack from the front and back to cooperate with each other. He successfully hunted down all the wolves without any casualties.
Zhao Lin and He Shan led people to count the bodies of the prairie wolves. The sound of their counting was so loud that it could scare the birds in the forest.
Yin Chengyu took the young tiger in his arms and looked around. Seeing that the soldiers were already putting out the fire and handling the battlefield, he felt relieved. However, he looked around the scene several times but still did not see any trace of Xue Shu.
Where did Xue Shu go?
Yin Chengyu frowned slowly and found Ying Hongxue: "Why can't I see Xue Shu?"
He did not tell Xue Shu anything else.
Ying Hongxue paused for a second after hearing this before replying, "He didn't come with us. He said he was going to ambush the person behind the plot. When we were hunting wolves just now, we heard some movement from the southwest. He must have followed them."
She sized up Yin Chengyu's expression and said tentatively, "Xue Shu has always been alert. Your Highness doesn't have to worry."
Yin Chengyu glanced at her and did not miss the doubt in her eyes. However, he had not yet fully understood the entanglement between him and Xue Shu, so naturally he could not say anything to Ying Hongxue.
He pretended not to notice, said "hmm" faintly, and then carried the tiger cub back to the main tent to rest.
But I couldn't fall asleep even after returning to the tent. It was almost three o'clock in the morning and the night was as dark as ink. At first I could hear the noise of soldiers cleaning the camp outside, but then it gradually faded away.
After fighting with the wolves for a long time, although there were no casualties, it was quite exhausting. The soldiers were already exhausted. After cleaning up the battlefield, they all took a break.
Most of the tents had been burned down due to the fire. Apart from the main tent in the center, only two or three tents survived, and the soldiers slept in one place.
The distance between the tents was not far, and you could even hear the snoring like thunder.
Yin Chengyu sat by the brazier, propping up his chin with boredom, and used a thin branch to tease the tiger cub.
The drug effect of the inhaled smoke had worn off, and the young tiger became alert again, biting the branches non-stop, letting out a childish low growl from its throat.
Yin Chengyu played with it for a long time, silently calculating the time in his mind.
At about 12:00 a.m., the sound of horse hooves was finally heard outside, followed by the low voices of the soldiers on guard.
It’s Xue Shu who’s back.
Yin Chengyu narrowed his eyes, threw the branch used to tease the tiger cub into the brazier, and waited for someone to come in and report to him.
Without the branch, the tiger cub growled unhappily, fell at Yin Chengyu's feet, and grabbed the corner of his robe with its four claws and bit it.
When Xue Shu opened the curtain and came in, he saw Yin Chengyu casually picking up the tiger cub with his face tilted to the side, and then pulling the hem of his clothes out of its mouth with a frown.
"This tiger cub is Zhao Lin's, so why is it always bothering Your Highness?" Xue Shu took two steps forward, took the tiger cub that was struggling with its four paws, and held it by the back of its neck, preventing it from moving.
Yin Chengyu glanced at the plush tiger cub wriggling on the ground and asked, "Did they catch up? Why did they come back at this hour?"
"Your Highness is right. The people behind this are Yin Chengjing and Princess Wuzhu."
Xue Shu briefly told the story of how he had tracked the wolf and found the wolf king: "The wolf king has been brought back. As for the two men..." He paused, raised his eyebrows and smiled strangely: "I'm afraid that telling you this will pollute your ears. Your Highness will just have to wait and watch the show tomorrow."
Since he said so, it must have been handled, so Yin Chengyu did not ask any more questions: "Since there is nothing to do, go to bed early. There are not enough tents outside, so you can take your own bedding and find a place in the tent to spend the night."
There were many inconveniences when going out, and naturally there was no large and comfortable bed to sleep on. Even someone as noble as Yin Chengyu could only make a low couch with local materials and cover it with thick bedding as a bed.
The bed is a bit narrow and can only accommodate one person.
Yin Chengyu felt a little cold after falling asleep. He saw the tiger cub struggling to get up from the bed. After hesitating for a moment, he picked it up and stuffed it into the quilt at the end of the bed.
The tiger cub had not shed its fur yet, its fur was soft and fluffy, and its belly was warm. Yin Chengyu placed his feet on the tiger cub's furry belly and fell asleep contentedly.
Xue Shu came back with the bedding from outside and saw that Yin Chengyu had already fallen asleep, with most of his face hidden in the quilt, leaving only his eyes exposed. His thick black eyelashes drooped, casting a light shadow around his eyes, making him look soft and harmless.
Of course, this is all just an illusion.
No one knew better than him how the eyes looked when they were open, sparkling and soul-stirring.
Color is a bone scraper, but when this pair of phoenix eyes looked over, they were sharper than the blade.
Xue Shu slowly moved his eyes away from the beautiful face full of temptation, but suddenly noticed a hint of yellow from the corner of his eyes. He frowned and stared at the yellow at the end of the bed for a long time before he confirmed that it was half of the young tiger's ear.
The young tiger was probably tired from all the noise, and was now fast asleep at the end of the bed, with only half of its ear sticking out from the quilt, which would twitch from time to time.
Xue Shu stared at the ear for a long time, and finally couldn't help but walked forward and took the tiger cub out.
Being woken up from its deep sleep, the tiger cub let out an angry growl, opened its mouth and twisted its body, trying to bite him.
Xue Shu snorted, let go of it and threw it onto the bedding on the ground.
Yin Chengyu, who was not asleep yet, was awakened by the noise. He looked up at him quietly, and said in an unhappy tone: "I was sleeping well, why did you throw it out?"
I just managed to release some warmth.
"Your Highness, if you want to warm the bed, you can just call me. Why did you let a beast get on the bed?" Xue Shu said unhappily, "I don't know if it's done properly."
Yin Chengyu knew from his voice that this man was probably sick again, and he was going to fight with a tiger cub. If it was during the day, he would still have the energy to deal with him, but after a night of hard work, he was really tired and didn't bother to fight with him. He just said, "This bed is too small, I can't sleep on it."
Xue Shu only listened to the first half of the sentence, took off his boots, squeezed to the end of the bed and sat down, unbuttoned his outer robe, held his still warm feet in his arms, and said, "I'll keep them warm, Your Highness."
His arms were indeed warm, and when the soles of his feet were pressed against his lower abdomen, he felt a steady stream of warmth, but compared to the tiger cub's furry body, it was a little harder.
Yin Chengyu felt sleepy and was too lazy to argue with him, so she just let him hold her and fell into a deep sleep again.
Seeing that he was sleeping peacefully, Xue Shu curled his lips, stroked the delicate skin under his palm, and glanced at the young tiger who was curled up on the ground and sleeping.
The next day was the last day of the hunt.
Xue Shu brought back the wolf king and had hunted forty-three prairie wolves. The leader of this winter hunt was already in his hands. Yin Chengyu simply stopped hanging around in the enclosure and after a good rest, he ordered his troops to evacuate the enclosure.
Almost every horse had a wolf carcass on its back, so the team was not moving very fast. It was past noon before they reached the edge of the paddock.
The huge procession at the paddock exit immediately attracted the attention of everyone in the stands.
"Whose team is this? Why are they out so early?"
"He must be a young man from a certain family. He couldn't stand the bitter cold in the paddock, so he came out early."
"I couldn't even hold on for half a day. I'm really a bit irritated."
In the winter hunting of red rhinoceros, even if one did not win the championship, if one caught enough prey, one would be rewarded. Therefore, in the past, almost no team would go out early for winter hunting. They would come out one after another until the horn sounded to close the hunt.
Now that some teams have come out early, it has naturally caused a lot of discussion.
The Tatars and the Oirat lost face a few days ago, and now seeing this, they couldn't help but make sarcastic remarks, hoping to save some face.
Ahharu smiled and said, "Dayan is indeed a vast land with abundant resources. The children of this noble family are also more pampered than those of the grasslands. They can't even stand the bitter cold of the hunting ground for several days."
The Wala envoy also put aside his prejudice at this time and agreed: "The northern tribes live by following the water and grass, and the children of the grassland have long been accustomed to the bitter cold. Dayan is rich, and even the children are raised more carefully."
The two sides sang the same tune, and the faces of the officials of Dayan were somewhat unhappy. It was one thing for them to talk among themselves, but it was another thing when these words came from the mouths of the Tatar and Wala envoys.
Just as the atmosphere in the stands was getting weirder, a messenger suddenly came galloping back from below the stands, announcing happily, "Report! His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has hunted down the Wolf King!"
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Big Dog Hook: A marriage that is thousands of miles apart is tied by a thread.
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Yin Chengjing & Wuzhu: ...? Thank you mb