The Empire and the Kingdom

Xue Ai understood at one point that the Feng family held a detached position in the imperial court. As the only daughter of the Feng family, Feng Qianzi had long been the first choice for marriage proposals.However, Feng Qianzi and Feng Jingsu are the same age, and they haven't discussed their marriage yet. It can be seen that the Feng family doesn't want to use the only daughter as a means to win interests.Right now, no one can use normal means to arrange a marriage with Feng Qianzi, so they can only use abnormal means.Women's festivals are as big as the sky.If Feng Qianzi was found to have contact with a foreigner, even if nothing happened, for the sake of Feng Qianzi's reputation, the Feng family could only agree to the marriage.This is what the other party thinks.

"This person is too despicable!" Xue Ai pouted.

"You ladies from official families are delicate flowers in the first place. As long as you are ruthless, you can get them with just a few clicks." Feng Jingsu thought that if she hadn't gone to Feiyejin, she might have the same fate.

Xue Ai nodded. "Fortunately, Sister Feng is alert."

"She is a great talent and knows how to protect herself. Let's see, the Feng family will not be silent. But just like your case, this matter cannot be brought to the surface." Even though Feng Jingsu said this, she was still afraid.If something happened to Feng Qianzi today, apart from anything else, I would feel sorry for Guan Xuejing.

Three days after the wedding of the Tang family, the son of Mr. Wu, the servant of the Ministry of Industry, broke his leg while walking at night. Mr. Wu was just at the age of marriage negotiation. Even if he can be raised now, it will be a year or so later.Master Wu cherishes his son, and doesn't want him to be ridiculed in the capital, so he asks him to let him go, and his family leaves the capital.

Xue Ai knew that this Mr. Wu should be the instigator behind the scenes.The Feng family's methods have always been clean and neat, leaving no future troubles.

There is a vacancy for the minister of the Ministry of Industry. Among the candidates below, the emperor selected a Yuanwailang named Zhou Ye to be promoted to be the Minister of the Ministry of Industry.

These are trivial matters. At present, the imperial court and harem are preparing for a major event. When the autumn wind blows, it is time for the emperor to go hunting.

Yunguo has always had the custom of hunting in autumn.Every generation of emperors will abide by it.Of course, there is no requirement for the emperor to go in person. Emperor Feng Jiang went to autumn hunting every year when he was young, but he seldom went in person when he was old.However, in the past two years, the Li Kingdom has become stronger. In order to encourage the whole people to practice martial arts, the emperor began to personally participate in the annual autumn hunting.

When the emperor travels, there is naturally a lot of movement.Relevant personnel have started preparations since August, and on the fifth day of September, the emperor will travel.

Officials above the third grade in the capital can bring their family members along with them.Xue Ai was kept at home by Mrs. Pan in previous years, but this year Mrs. Xue made the decision and took all five daughters out to see the world, so Mrs. Pan could only agree.

In the palace, the empress will naturally follow, and the emperor decides who will go and who will not go, and it is useless to fight.In the end, the emperor chose Concubine Gui and Concubine Shu. Concubine Xian was sick all year round, and Concubine De was out of the palace for a long time, so naturally he couldn't follow her.Among the nine concubines, Fang Zhaoyi, Wang Zhaoyuan and Chen Chongyi were chosen, and the others were not brought along.All the princes accompanied them. Among the princesses, only Princess De'an was left in the palace because of her young age and her biological mother Cao Jieyu did not accompany her. The rest of the princesses participated.

When we arrived at the hunting paddock and pitched our tents, some girls couldn't wait to come out. They hadn't seen the mountains and rivers of nature for a long time.In contrast, Feng Jingsu was not so interested.She had just finished settling in her tent, and when she was thinking whether to go out to see where Xue Ai lived, a young eunuch sent a message at the door, and the emperor told her to come over.

She went to the king's tent and found that the emperor not only called herself, but also seven princes.

"Autumn hunting is a custom left by our ancestors. Tomorrow I will take you into the mountains to hunt together." The emperor was also very excited, "You should prepare well today, and tomorrow let the courtiers and the people see how powerful the princes and princesses are. Tomorrow you will be able to hunt! I will reward the one with the most prey."

Everyone should be in unison.It's just that several princes couldn't help looking at Feng Jingsu. It's not surprising that princes are hunting. Why is there an extra princess this year?

Feng Jingsu walked out of the king's tent with the crowd, and went to the tent specially placed for bows and arrows to choose suitable bows and arrows.The other princes just looked around casually, hunting every year, and everyone had their own bow and arrow in their hands, but Feng Jingsu, who had just returned to the country and was a princess, didn't have any.

"Yun Yi, I never thought that my father would let you hunt with us. It can be seen that my father has high hopes for you." Prince Feng Ye came over, pretending to be a big brother.

"Father just knows that I know martial arts, so he just brought me to play with you. I don't dare to compete with you." She responded casually, still concentrating on choosing the bow and arrow.

"Yun Yi, this bow is not bad." The second prince Feng Shen brought a small bow.

This kind of bow is smaller than ordinary bows, and it saves effort to draw, but the range and accuracy are worse.In the eyes of the princes, this kind of bow is basically a toy.

Feng Jingsu took it and pulled some, then shook her head, "It's too soft."

Feng Shen showed interest, "Yun Yi, you have a lot of strength!"

Feng Jingsu smiled, "People who practice martial arts always have some strength."

She chose a very unremarkable bow under the gaze of other princes.In the eyes of other princes, this bow is still a bit soft, but Feng Jingsu is a woman after all, it is already very rare to be able to pull this kind of bow.

Returning to her tent with the bow and arrow, Feng Jingsu personally added a piece of silk to the bowstring.This kind of thing is not recognized by everyone. It was given by her master Jiang Fengmin. She can't remember the exact year it was given.

The bowstring is added with silk, which makes it stronger. As long as she can control the strength and not break the bow, she can hunt the prey she wants.

Xue Ai shared a tent with Pan Shi and Xue Ying. She consciously chose the bed in the corner and put her things away.Mrs. Pan really didn't want to see her, but there was nothing she could do. There were only so many tents for officials. Not only did Mrs. Wang live with Xue Zhi and Xue Yi, but Xue Ruo, whose biological mother was not with her, was also crowded there. say what?

After Xue Ying settled her things, she took Pan to go out for a stroll. In front of Xue Ai, she had to show her closeness to her mother, so that Xue Ai knew that even if she was valued outside, she would still be the same person when she returned home. people who are valued.

Meng'an put away her things and came to serve her.Seeing Xue Ai sitting on the bed like a sack, he said distressedly: "If I knew this, I might as well stay in the mansion like in previous years."

Xue Ai came back to her senses, she was just thinking about how to use this opportunity to help Feng Jingsu, and said with a smile: "Look at you, how can you be so upset? Last year we couldn't come, but this year it will be very happy." Alright. It's not the first time this little thing happened, so don't worry about it."

Meng An sighed, "It would be great if Miss could live in Princess Yunyi's tent, the princess will definitely be reluctant to wrong you."

Xue Ai covered Meng'an's mouth, "What is the little hoof talking about? Be careful not to let outsiders hear it."

Even though she said that, her heart had already drifted to Feng Jingsu.

Meng An looked outside from time to time, Xue Ai knew that Meng An came to the paddock for the first time, and was very curious about what it looked like outside, but why not herself?

"Come on, let's go out for a walk."

The master and servant didn't dare to go far, so they turned around the tent and saw the mountains in the distance, suddenly felt that the sky and the earth were big, and Xue Ai's mood became much brighter.

"Who did I think it was? It turned out to be Miss Xue San." The sudden male voice startled both master and servant.This is the tent of the women's relatives, and the outsider should not appear.

Xue Ai turned around, and saw that the person who spoke was actually Prince Feng Ye.Feng Ye is the eldest son of the queen and was established as the prince at birth.As long as he could remember, he knew that the future of the country of Yun would be his.So he studied hard, respected the virtuous and corporal, and was able to share a lot of government affairs for the emperor, all of which were visible to the courtiers.But what the courtiers couldn't see was that the prince liked luxury and was greedy for beauty.Before the side concubine Zhuang Ruoshui married, more than one court lady in the East Palace had a big belly, and they were all quietly dealt with by the empress.In order to fear that the news would spread and ruin the prince's reputation, it happened that the Zhuang family took the initiative to ask for marriage, so the queen followed suit and married the prince's side concubine first.Although Zhuang Ruoshui is currently a famous side concubine in the East Palace, there are a large number of unnamed court ladies.Regarding this point, Zhuang Ruoshui has now looked away.What she wanted was the prince's favor and the title of side concubine, and that was enough.In the future, when the prince succeeds to the throne, even if she can't become a queen, she can still be a concubine, which will be beneficial to the dealer.

Regarding the marriage with Xue Ai, the prince knew that the queen was trying to win over Xue Ai, so he didn't care about the dull Xue Ai.During this period of time, Xue Ai's reputation suddenly took a 180-degree turn, and she suddenly became a talented woman.The prince was not interested in talented women, he wondered how Xue Ai did it.When a man is interested in a woman, of course he has to meet her. Before Xue Ai didn't notice, the prince had already seen her.

With Xue Ai's delicate and pretty appearance, a man would be tempted, not to mention the prince is greedy for beauties.He was already wondering if he could ask his father and queen to advance Xue Ai's marriage for him.Everyone lived in tents during this hunting, and the separation was not so strict, so he took a walk nearby, and when he saw Xue Ai coming, he chased after him.

"My daughter, see His Royal Highness the Crown Prince." Xue Ai understood that this was her fiance in name, but she didn't want to have anything to do with the Crown Prince.After seeing the ceremony, she excused that she had something to do and turned around to leave.

"Why is Miss San so afraid of me?" The crown prince came over and blocked Xue Ai's path without any trace, "I know that men and women are very defensive, but you and I have a marriage contract, so even if people see you, it doesn't matter if you want to come." The crown prince last time Seeing that Xue Ai is far away, now that he is closer, he can see that Xue Ai's skin is like fat, and his eyebrows are like distant mountains.Those eyes that have always been criticized by others are even more agile.The crown prince was a little angry. Could it be that those boudoir ladies before were all blind?Because of his reputation as a villain, he almost missed the beauties.

"His Royal Highness also said that men and women are very defensive, and the family education of ministers and daughters is very strict. He also hopes that His Highness will let the ministers go." Xue Ai was really anxious. The eyes of the prince seemed to be able to penetrate into the flesh of a person. uncomfortable.

How could the crown prince let her go? Just as he was about to speak again, he heard someone laughing: "I didn't expect the emperor's brother to be here. I just heard that the empress is sending someone to look for the emperor's brother."

Xue Ai turned her head in surprise, and sure enough, she saw Feng Jingsu walking over, standing between them calmly.

The prince looked at Feng Jingsu, then at Xue Ai, who was blocked by Feng Jingsu, and said haha, "I heard that you, Yun Yi, have a good relationship with Miss Xue San, that's just right, she is your future imperial wife, you have to help Brother Huang, take good care of it." The queen came to him, but he didn't dare to ignore him, so he had to leave.