The Blood Crown

It was just dawn, and the princes and relatives who participated in the spring hunting had already finished packing in front of their tents. They each brought horses, bows, guards and hounds, and they competed to show off at the spring hunting.

At this time, when the earth is getting warmer and everything is recovering, many animals in Maodong will come out to look for food, but they are still not as abundant as in summer and autumn. Therefore, it is not easy to find prey, and each family has to rely on their own skills.

Yan Sikong changed into a tailor-made white cloud-pattern riding suit. Compared with the usual wide-sleeved court dress, this neat attire set off his tall, straight and handsome figure.

Chen Kui stared at Yan Sikong intently, with a smile on his face: "This is the first time I see Mr. wearing riding clothes, and he is a little more chic than usual."

Yan Sikong smiled and said: "I haven't ridden a horse for a long time, once I put on this suit, I can't help but want to gallop eight hundred miles."

"Hahaha, then this royal hunting garden is not enough for Mr. to run."

"If you can help His Highness find good prey, I will not hesitate to run all over the hunting ground."

Chen Kui pursed his lips and smiled, and personally picked out a good horse for Yan Sikong: "Just ride this one, sir. I don't need a scholar to hunt prey for me. Just stay by my side."

"Order."

Chen Kui ordered the guards: "In the hunting ground, the arrows don't have eyes, and the horses are easily disturbed by the prey. You must take good care of the sir."

"Yes!"

Chen Kui got on the horse first, and Yan Sikong also got on the horse's back, deliberately acting a little clumsy.

Facing the cool morning breeze and the rising sun, Chen Kui looked at the endless forest, his eyes shone with arrogance, as if that was the world he was going to conquer.

If there is no accident, this spring hunt, Chen Yu should be the champion. He is the crown prince, and others will not ignorantly compete with him for this opportunity to perform in front of the emperor, but there is still a person who is eyeing the throne on the other side. The second prince might compete in spring hunting, so Chen Yu must go all out.

He clamped the horse's belly, and uttered a clear and heroic boyish voice: "Let's go—" The horse rushed out like an arrow.

The crowd followed closely behind and ran towards the hunting ground.

Soon, a group of people came running from the side, it was Feng Ye with his servants, Feng Ye looked at Yan Sikong from afar, before Yan Sikong reacted, Chen Kui had already glanced at Feng Ye coldly After one glance, he slowed down and gradually retreated to Yan Sikong's side, allowing the two horses to ride together. Since Chen Kuang's horse was taller and stronger than Yan Sikong's, it completely blocked him.

Surprise flashed across Feng Ye's eyes, and he frowned slightly.

After entering the hunting ground, each team dispersed into the vast forest, looking for their own prey.

It was useless for Yan Sikong to be mixed in the team, so it was enough to pat the horses at the right time to make Chen Kui happy.

They soon found a sheep, and the guards led the hounds to shrink and surround it from the side. Chen Kui took the lead in chasing the sheep. He quickly swung his whip and shouted: "Drive——"

The sheep was driven into a panic and ran away in the woods. Chen Kui clamped the horse's belly with his legs, took the bow from behind, drew an arrow, put it on the string, and slowly pulled it away.

The sheep circled again and turned to the south. Chen Kui had to withdraw his bow and pull the rein to turn the horse's head. Because the turn was so violent, half of his body seemed to fall off the horse.

"Your Highness, be careful." The guard shouted worriedly.

However, Chen Kui turned a deaf ear and went to chase the sheep with all his heart. He stayed in a place with few trees and a slightly wider view. The arrow left the string and turned into a silver light, flying towards the running sheep.

There was a loud bang, and the sheep fell to the ground hard while sprinting. It moved a few feet away on the ground, its hooves were trembling, and it was still struggling.

Chen Kui slowed down, and the horse walked up to the crooked prey in small steps, watching it condescendingly, with no expression on his face.

The guard hurriedly said: "Congratulations, Your Highness, Your Highness must be the first among the princes to hunt prey. This sheep weighs at least a hundred catties!"

Chen Kui said, "It's pregnant." There seemed to be a trace of compassion in his tone.

Everyone looked at each other, Yan Sikong quietly observed Chen Kui, he was a little curious about what this young man would do.

Chen Kui paused for a moment, then suddenly raised his bow, and shot through the ewe's head with an arrow: "Pull out the suckling sheep in its belly separately, and offer it to the empress to make yogurt."

"Yes."

Yan Sikong narrowed his eyes slightly.

Since they hunted the sheep, they searched all morning, but only caught one rabbit. It was a bit frustrating. It was almost noon, and they wanted to return to the camp for dinner. Naturally, they had to compare the results of the morning with others. Just a sheep and a rabbit is not a good start.

Chen Kui became a little impatient: "Look again, find me a big one."

"Yes." The guards took the hounds to search in all directions.

Yan Sikong comforted: "Your Highness, don't worry, the winter snow has just hardened, and there are not many prey that come out to move. If we can't find it, the others will be the same."

Chen Kui nodded: "If you really can't find it, forget it."

After waiting for a while, a guard came back with a hound, and shouted from afar: "Your Highness, I found a deer!"

Chen Kui's eyes lit up, and he rode his horse to follow.

The hound led them all the way into the depths of the forest, and sure enough, in the bare forest that had just emerged with new greenery, they found a beautiful sika deer, a vigorous stag, looking around vigilantly.

Chen Yu slowed down.This stag, in its prime, is extremely flexible and agile, and it is very difficult to hunt. It is still far away at this time. If it is disturbed, it will run away in a flash. The guards first spread out with the hounds, and surrounded it from both sides. , to prevent it from running out of the range of the bow and arrow, while Chen Kui approached cautiously.

The deer spotted them, turned and ran, jumping up and down, very fast and very graceful.

Chen Kui mobilized the horses to chase wildly, and commanded loudly: "Defend both sides of the east and west, don't let it run away!"

All of a sudden, the sounds of shouting, horseshoes, and dogs barking joined together, and the woods, which had just woken up from the cold winter and were still sluggish, became lively and lively in an instant.

All the guards around Chen Kui went to outflank the stag, only Yan Sikong followed Chen Kui closely, he was a little worried that Chen Kui would fall off his horse because he was so eager for strength.

"Drive—drive!" Chen Kui ran after the stag in the forest at a dizzying speed.

Yan Sikong shouted from behind: "Your Highness, be careful and safe! Your Highness!"

Just when Chen Kui had narrowed the distance to the stag, there was a sudden sound of horseshoes in the distance, and Yan Sikong turned his head. It turned out that another group of people came in from the southeast, and the target was also on the other side. Buck, he took a closer look, and the leader was the second prince!

Chen Kui also found the second prince, his eyes turned cold, and he chased the stag even harder.

The second prince was only more than one year younger than Chen Yu, and his height was almost as high as Chen Yu. Naturally, not to be outdone, he not only chased after him, but also drew his bow, wanting to snatch the stag first.

Chen Kui gritted his teeth, put his legs between the horse's belly, and wanted to draw a bow and shoot an arrow, but there were many trees in front of him, and his vision was far less wide than that of the second prince. The stag was so fast that it was about to double, let alone he would miss it , even the second prince is unlikely to hit it.

"Your Highness, it's too dangerous!" Yan Sikong shouted anxiously.Chen Kui is so adventurous, he might fall off the horse!

Chen Kuang turned a deaf ear to it, obviously he couldn't stand the second prince chasing the stag under his nose.After all, he was young, and it was already difficult for him to maintain his figure on a galloping horse. When he drew the bow, his body swayed, looking very dangerous.

Yan Sikong slapped the whip in his hand, but Naihe still couldn't catch up with Chen Kui's horse.

The second prince pointed his bow at the stag, but the arrow clearly shot in front of Chen Yu's horse's head!

Shocked, Chen Kui had no choice but to drop the bow, grabbed the rein, and reined in hard.

The horse was frightened suddenly, its front hooves bounced off the ground, and the horse almost stood upright in the air. Chen Yu couldn't hold on any longer, his legs went limp, the reins came out of his hand, and the man fell off the horse.

In desperation, Yan Sikong didn't care too much, he jumped up, rushed to Chen Kuang, hugged him tightly in his arms, especially covered his head, and both of them rolled to the ground until Yan Sikong's back He hit a tree trunk and was forced to stop.

Yan Sikong only felt severe pain all over his body, his eyes suddenly went black, and the messy pictures rushed through his mind, he was struggling in a semi-consciousness.

"Sir! Sir!" Chen Yu was protected by Yan Sikong in his arms. He only suffered a little skin trauma and got up immediately. He saw the blood donation pouring out of Yan Sikong's forehead and roared, "Chen Chun, you are bold, you Do you want to assassinate the prince!"

The second prince, Chen Chun, sat on the horse, looked at Chen Yu coldly, without a trace of fear on his face, and said in a neutral tone: "Brother, please calm down. My younger brother just wants to shoot a deer, and I will never dare to offend my brother."

"You, you bastard!" Chen Yu yelled, "Come on, come on!" He trembled all over, half angry, half humiliated, as a dignified prince, he was bullied so far!

The guards rushed over from all directions.

"Hurry up!" Chen Kui hugged Yan Sikong, tears welling up in his eyes, "Sir, sir, are you okay, don't scare me."

Yan Sikong opened his eyes weakly, and said softly, "I'm fine... Where's Your Highness?"

Chen Kui shook his head, choked with sobs and said, "It's all my fault. I was eager for quick success, and even caused my husband to be injured."

"Your Highness, don't...blame yourself, I'm fine..." Yan Sikong made a little self-diagnosis according to the pain site, probably his ribs were broken, and his head was probably broken, but his hands and feet were still feeling, so there shouldn't be a big problem. It's just that she was trembling with pain, and she hated Chen Chun very much.If there is something good or bad for Chen Kui, everything he has paid may be in vain.

At this time, there was a sound of hoofbeats from far to near, and Yan Sikong recognized the horse that Feng Ye often rode in his blurred vision. It was not drunk red, but a black horse, and it was also a rare one. Get a good horse.

Feng Ye walked up to him and looked at Yan Sikong who was lying on the ground weakly and dirty, his eyes were almost bleeding, and he was about to get off his horse when he turned over.

Yan Sikong shook his head at him, if Feng Ye showed his flaws at this time, they would be finished.

Feng Ye stopped abruptly, his fingers clenched the rein, and his lips were trembling. He exhausted all his willpower to stop himself from going to Yan Sikong's side.

Chen Kui looked up at Feng Ye, and said angrily, "Feng Ye, why didn't you get off your horse when you saw this hall?"

Feng Ye tried his best to suppress his voice, so as not to be heard fluctuating, he said calmly: "This deer almost injured His Highness, it really deserves to die, I hunted it, dedicated it to His Highness, and His Highness sent it down." He said Sitting firmly on the horse, although his tone was flat, his attitude was very arrogant, and he had no intention of dismounting at all.

Chen Kui was stunned, and looked behind Feng Ye, the guards of Feng Mansion were dragging the stag weighing more than three or four hundred catties.In such a complicated forest, it is so difficult to hunt a mature stag fleeing around, but Feng Ye said it was as easy as catching a chicken in a fence.

Chen Kui gritted his teeth: "No matter how bad this hall is, I don't bother to claim credit for other people's prey!" His lips were bitten, but he didn't feel the pain at all. Compared with the humiliation he suffered, pain was nothing. What, Chen Chun and Feng Ye, each of them ignored him, and each of them hurt Yan Sikong!

The guard modified the shelf for dragging the sheep, covered it with a clean raincloth, and carried it over: "Your Highness, please put Master Yan up."

Chen Kui whispered softly in Yan Sikong's ear: "Sir, please bear with me, I will send you back to the imperial doctor right away."

Yan Sikong nodded.

Chen Kui carefully picked up Yan Sikong horizontally and put it on the shelf, his eyes were full of distress and anxiety that could not be concealed.

Feng Ye stared blankly at Chen Kui.

The guard raised the shelf, Chen Kui gently wiped Yan Sikong's face with his sleeve, and said with red eyes: "Sir, let's go back now, tell me where you hurt."

Feng Ye's eyes gradually turned cold. He saw some familiar emotions on Chen Kui's face. He wasn't sure, but he couldn't stop worrying. Such an expression should never have appeared on Chen Kui's face. The attitude towards Yan Sikong should not be like this...so...

"It doesn't matter..." Yan Sikong glanced past Chen Kui, and took a peek at Feng Ye. He clearly had thousands of words, but he couldn't say a word.

Just one look, that look that seemed to be asking him for help silently, made Feng Ye's heart ache, and he was so angry that he wanted to bleed, but he could only watch helplessly as others carried Yan Sikong away from his eyes, while he Not even a word of comfort in person.

Yan Sikong closed his eyes, only feeling haggard.