The emperor couldn't help but feel anxious, and even his voice trembled:
"who!"
The secret guard lowered his head:
"I haven't had time to find out yet, but today I saw her riding and shooting with the Prince of Pingyang and the Prince of Ningguo. I guess she must be of a high status."
The Prince of Ningguo and the Prince of Pingyang would sometimes go to the palace for banquets, so he knew them.
The emperor rolled his eyes at him, thinking that it was useless to investigate someone first, so how could he concentrate on hunting?
"Which direction did you go?"
The secret guard pointed, but felt a little guilty. After such a long time, he would probably have run away.
The emperor paused, then continued:
"Riding and shooting together? How is their relationship?"
The secret guard lowered his head and decided to tell the truth:
"It seems that the relationship is pretty good..."
"Very good? By the way, let's also check what she likes to do, who she likes to be with, and whether she is married."
No one noticed that the emperor clenched his fists when he was talking about whether he would get married or not.
"Yes, I obey your command."
After the secret guards retreated, the emperor mounted his horse and went hunting in another direction. The sharp-eyed people saw it early.
They also followed the emperor, galloping their horses and enjoying themselves freely, feeling very comfortable.
The officials in charge of the hunting grounds were stunned. Why did the emperor take a different route from before? They didn't release any easy-to-shoot prey before.
He trembled and quickly called his men:
"Quick, follow the path the emperor is going to take and prepare prey in advance."
After all, they could not catch up with the emperor's speed. The generals following behind had already noticed that the prey here was obviously less than before. They had just shot down several deer, foxes, and rabbits in a short while.
I walked all the way here and only shot a few rabbits.
We are not stupid, so we naturally understand the trick.
But the emperor insisted on going this way, and no one dared to say anything.
After riding for a while, the emperor called the guards:
"Go check on the Marquis of Pingyang and the Marquis of Ningguo. If they have already returned, report to me immediately."
The generals who were closer behind had sharp eyes and ears and heard it.
He wondered if the two princes had offended the emperor. He suppressed his doubts and followed the emperor silently.
After Xu Lian was thrown to the ground by Li Jingxuan, he felt that he was not knocked off by the mad horse, but was about to be killed by Li Jingxuan.
Fortunately, I landed on my butt, otherwise I would have to stay in bed for half a month.
"What are you doing? Are you so timid that you're afraid Zhiyi will choose me?"
He wanted to jump up and yell at Li Jingxuan, but his butt wouldn't allow it, so he could only lie on the ground and yell at him.
Xu Zhiyi jumped off the horse:
"How are you? Do you want to stand up and see if you fell anywhere?"
Xu Lian looked at Xu Zhiyi squatting there, her face full of concern and worry. The sunlight shone on her fair and translucent face, as if it were glowing. A few strands of hair were soaked and stuck to her face.
At that moment, he seemed to see a fairy. He stretched out his hand and wanted to help her lift her hair up.
When Li Jingxuan saw Xu Lian's wretched look, he immediately jumped off his horse and stretched out a finger to block his hand.
"What are you comparing yourself to me with? Can you even compare? Look at the concubines in your backyard. If Zhiyi marries you, she will have to share them with a bunch of women. I'm different. I'm clean and there's no one around me."
Xu Lian suddenly woke up as if someone had poured a glass of ice water on him, and he looked at his longtime friend in disbelief.
I have never said this to him before. Isn't it said that brothers are like limbs and women are like clothes? He can't wait to expose himself.
"You...you...how can you say that? If Zhiyi is willing to marry me, I can arrange for all those concubines to go away and won't bother her."
Li Jingxuan looked at him with disdain. It just so happens that the person who knows you best can touch your heart and know what your weaknesses are.
Li Jingxuan suddenly leaned close to his ear and said:
"With the speed at which you change your partner every six months, who would believe you if you said you changed? Zhiyi, who hasn't touched any woman, how could she choose someone like you who has a reputation as a playboy?"
Xu Lian opened his mouth, speechless. Is this still the same friend? He actually said this in front of an unmarried woman. Fortunately, the other party didn't hear it.
Xu Zhiyi reached out his hand and tried to pull Xu Lian up.
Li Jingxuan stopped him:
"Let me do it. Men are heavier. I'll lift him onto my horse in a moment."
It was still some distance from the residence, and Xu Lian definitely couldn't walk back in this condition, so he had to take it back by himself.
Xu Lian was thrown onto the horse's back by Li Jingxuan like a bundle. His butt was hurting just now, and now his stomach was hurting too.
On the way back, Xu Lian even felt like vomiting the breakfast he had eaten.
The emperor looked from afar and saw a woman in red and white clothes with a high bun riding a horse on her way back. Another horse was following closely beside her.
At this time, a wild goose flew across the sky. The woman casually drew her bow and arrow and effortlessly shot the wild goose in one shot.
He had never seen such a powerful woman before, and he just felt that her figure was somewhat familiar, but he hadn't waited to see it clearly.
The two men ran together to the place where the wild geese landed, with great tacit understanding.
He felt inexplicably unhappy and thought that the woman was the person he was looking for, so he wanted to follow her and see for himself.
However, at this time, the people in the hunting ground released a lot of prey.
There was actually a cheetah among them, and everyone's attention was immediately attracted by the cheetah. The emperor glanced at the cheetah, then quickly glanced at the woman in the distance, but there was no one there.
Then he began to hunt intently.
When Xu Zhiyi and Li Jingxuan came back with Xu Lian, the others had not yet returned from hunting.
Li Jingxuan took Xu Lian directly to the imperial physician.
The imperial physician pinched his legs and then his tailbone, causing Xu Lian to cry out in pain.
He took her pulse again and said:
"The Ningguo Marquis' son is fine. He will be fine after a few days of rest in bed."
Li Jingxuan felt relieved and threw him back to his residence. He wanted to go find Xu Zhiyi alone, but was stopped by Xu Lian when he was about to leave.
"You don't want to go find Zhiyi alone, do you? We've been brothers for so many years, so let's compete fairly. When I can get up, we'll go together."
Li Jingxuan stopped and didn't even turn his head:
"She has always liked me. When you were with me before, you should have known how much she loved me. Even when she was punished by my father, she never gave up. I don't want to waste time anymore."
Xu Lian snorted coldly:
"You know it was in the past. Ever since we met at Yunhe Tower that day, I felt that Zhiyi had let you go. Otherwise, when you proposed to her today, she would have agreed long ago."
Li Jingxuan's face froze. This was what he feared the most. He had long felt that Zhiyi didn't treat him as well as usual, but he was getting deeper and deeper into it.
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