The Three Kingdoms

He hated Cheng Yu very much before, but now he has to admire him. It takes courage to commit suicide. (To be continued.)

[Chapter 653 of the main text: Sun Quan's Prudence of the Great Wu Reform]

The summer is cool, the sky is high and the air is crisp.

Jinling City.

Eastern suburb, Zhongshan.

In a dense forest with towering trees, there is a clever little rabbit walking quietly by at a fast pace, with deep red eyes, constantly watching the surrounding environment vigilantly.

call out!

Suddenly, a sharp arrow shot down from the sky, as fast as lightning, and hit it directly, but failed to kill it. This was because it injured its calf and blocked its movement.

"Haha, hit!"

A hearty laugh resounded in the dense forest: "Alive, this time Gu finally completed his goal and brought back a lively little rabbit to Xiaoyi!"

"Your Majesty, your archery skills have improved a lot. You can't kill without killing. Few people can achieve this level!"

In a blink of an eye, more than a dozen Imperial Guard cavalry surrounded Sun Quan and walked out from the dense forest. The leader Lei Ding looked at the little rabbit caught by the sharp arrow and said with a smile.

"Old Lei, do you really think that if Gu hides in the deep palace during this time, his skills will be wasted!"

Sun Quan sat on the horseback, handed the bow and arrow to the guards beside him, and triumphantly took the live rabbit from one of the imperial guards, saying: "Gu is still a sharp shooter who can shoot through Yang with a hundred steps!"

"My lord, although there are no outsiders here, if you are more modest, it won't be so uncomfortable to hear it, because the distance between you and the hundred-step piercing Yang marksman is not 01:30!"

Lei Ding said solemnly.

"roll!"

Sun Quan squinted at the commander-in-chief of the imperial guards: "Stupid guy, he doesn't know how to flatter him at this time."

As a general, and a senior general in Qi training realm, he could feel that Lei Ding's aura had undergone some huge changes during this period, as if he had stepped into another realm overnight.

But Lei Ding didn't report to him in detail, and he didn't bother to ask. His trust in Lei Ding was absolutely not impurity.

Lei Ding, who was a prisoner on death row back then, is now the commander-in-chief of the palace guards. He has a kind of persistent loyalty to himself, and he is a man who can directly die for himself.

"Your Majesty, you are walking so fast!" At this time, a Confucian young man rode a horse and flew up: "Someone can't catch up with your footsteps!"

"Zijing, your body is so weak, and you are so out of breath after riding a horse around. This is not acceptable. A person's greatest asset is his own body. You are still young, and you have a long way to go. You should exercise more!"

No one informed Sun Quan of this hunt, but he led Lu Su on the trip.

"Ha ha!"

Lu Su smiled and nodded: "Your Majesty's lesson is right, Su must pay attention to it in the future!"

"Your Majesty, it's getting late now, there's still an hour at most before the sun goes down, why don't we go back to the palace!" Lei Ding looked around vigilantly and said in a low voice.

"Not urgent!"

Sun Quan shook his head and said: "Gu has been nesting in the palace for a while, and his body is almost rusty. Now that he has come out, he should stretch his bones. This is Jinling City. No one dares to attack Gu blatantly. You don't need to be too nervous!"

The royal hunting ground built on Zhongshan is actually for people who have been living in Jinling City for a long time to stretch their bones when they have time.

During this time, Sun Quan was under the pressure of political reform. When Jingzhou's military reform was announced, more people opposed the reform. Even with his current prestige, he felt a bit of pressure.

So he chose to walk out of the palace today and relax himself.

"Your Majesty, you are a body of gold, it's better to be careful!"

Lei Ding said very conscientiously.

Even Jinling City may not be safe, after all, the one from Taihu Lake still has a lot of direct descendants staying in Jinling City.

"Gu go around again, I won't go back to the palace today, I will go to Jinling Academy to settle down at night, and I will return to the palace tomorrow!" Sun Quan handed the little rabbit to a personal guard, took the bow and arrow, and rode his horse and disappeared into a dense forest .

"Follow up quickly!"

Lei Ding saw it and quickly followed behind.

"It seems that the reform has really encountered many obstacles, and it actually oppressed him like this!" Lu Su looked at Sun Quan's back, feeling a little emotional, and hurriedly chased after him.

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As the night fell, so did the day-long hunt.

The back mountain of Jinling Academy,

Under the strict guard of hundreds of well-equipped imperial guards, in a small forest, Sun Quan personally set up a bonfire and roasted a plump antelope.

Cumin barbecue, in this era, is a unique delicacy.

"Master Zheng, I grilled it myself alone, try it!" Sun Quan cut off a piece of golden barbecue with a dagger, handed it to Zheng Xuan, and said with a smile: "The unique cumin lamb chops in the world are delicious!"

"tasty!"

Zheng Xuan took the barbecue, tasted it, it was not bad, and nodded subconsciously.

However, when he looked at Sun Quan, a majestic king, who looked like a cook, he sighed slightly: "Ru Sun Zhongmou, the majestic lord of Wu, the king of Wu, is really not doing his job properly!"

"Master Zheng, it's not called being idle. If you relax once in a while, you'll feel much better!"

Sun Quan said with a smile, cut off another piece of calf meat, forked it with a fork, handed it to Lu Su who was beside him, and said, "Zijing, you should try it too. How is Gu's skill?"

"Your Majesty is a good cook!" Lu Su took a sip and praised, "There are few people who can match this skill!"

"Gu thinks so too!"

Sun Quan put on a shy face, and took a sip of his own. It was oily, soft in the mouth, and with the taste of cumin, it was unique in this world.

"Zhongmou, I heard that you have been acting a lot lately?" Zheng Xuan put down the barbecue in his hand, took a sip of sake, and watched Sun Quan's roasting with great interest, and said suddenly.

Sun Quan is a well-known scholar in Zhongshan Academy. He is Sun Quan's teacher, so it is natural to call Sun Quan by his name.

"Master Zheng, I was almost forced to jump the Qinhuai River by those old guys. Now I finally relax, can't you say something good?" Sun Quan was disappointed when he heard this.

"This old man is worried about you!"

Zheng Xuan said indifferently: "Although the old man has not stepped out of Zhongshan for a while, it doesn't mean that the old man doesn't know about the court affairs!"

With Zheng Xuan's current status in the minds of scholars, and the wide range of friends he makes, the friends he makes are either world-renowned Confucian scholars or great sages in the court, naturally there is not much that Wu Guochaotang can hide from him.

Now that the Great Wu Reform has spread wildly throughout the entire Wu Kingdom, he naturally will not be ignorant of it.