Soon it was the day of the autumn hunt. Except for important cabinet ministers such as Emperor Cheng, the crown prince, uncle Xiao Lian'an, and Uncle Xie Guo, most of the officials arrived at the Xishan paddock a day or two earlier.

Of course, Xiao Hongjin also came with Emperor Cheng. Seeing that the number of female relatives among the officials who greeted Shengjia was half that of previous years, he knew that this autumn hunt was not easy.

Everyone is working so hard, so of course he has to work hard to protect his own life.

Xiao Hongjin knew that the main event would be the next day. They arrived in the afternoon that day, had dinner and rested for a while.In the afternoon, King Hui sent someone to invite him, and he justifiably followed King Hui into the forest.

Xiao Hongjin could ride a horse in modern times, but not so much at archery.King Hui saw his younger brother's face darken after missing several arrows in a row, and he rushed out as if he was going to chase the gray rabbit.

The two of them were hunting for peace, but they let the guards back away, so he didn't go after them, fearing that the guards would not be able to catch up.

"Stop chasing, the forest over there is dense, there may be beasts—"

But King Hui's reminder seemed to come too late, his younger brother was swept off his horse by a tree branch, and he rushed to save him without thinking.The two brothers rolled down the slope together, and King Hui's ankle was slightly sprained because he tripped over a rock.

Xiao Hongjin was embarrassed. He pretended to fall from a horse, intending to pretend that he had a sprained foot, and to make excuses for his passive hunting tomorrow.Who would have thought that King Hui would desperately rush to save him, and the one who sprained his foot would become the other party...

"Fifth brother, you are too aggressive... Hiss!"

Xiao Hongjin silently removed the hand that was checking King Hui's ankle, and directed the guards who came up to carry him up.

The accompanying imperial physician quickly came over for an examination: "My lord has sprained his muscles and bones. It's not particularly serious. Normally, he will be fine after a day or two of recuperation... Uh, the old man has prepared a ready-made medicine bag, and he will heat the medicine bag to massage the lord for a while at night." , it should not affect tomorrow's hunting."

Although the imperial physician said so, anyone with a discerning eye could tell that King Hui's riding a horse tomorrow would definitely be affected.

Every year at the autumn hunting conference, the princes will compete with each other, and the emperor will reward the hunters who hunt the most and the most powerful in public. There are also many of the sons of Xungui who are strong and skilled.

The guards of Prince Hui's Mansion watched their prince get injured in pursuit of King Jin. At this time, it was inevitable that they felt resentful towards King Jin, but they dared not show it.

King Hui was quite open-minded. He knew his own hunting level, at most it was at the mid-lower level, and it was impossible to get his father's praise. He didn't want to compete for anything at first.

What's more, after he was injured, although his younger brother didn't say anything, there was apology in his little eyes.Just now he thought the imperial doctor was walking slowly, so he hurriedly grabbed the imperial doctor by the collar and brought him over... He hasn't seen his younger brother care about him so much for a long time!

On the second day of the official hunting, the eunuch read out the will of Emperor Cheng, and all the young men who were energetic and eager with their horseshoes on their crotches rushed out.

Emperor Cheng looked at the three sons who were riding tall horses and remained unmoved: King Yu was fine, he was weak and weak since he was a child; King Hui also knew that he sprained his foot yesterday to protect his younger brother; as for King Jin...

"Why don't you go?" In the past, King Jin was the most active in this kind of activity, but why didn't he move today?

Xiao Hongjin glanced at King Hui, and muttered stiffly: "My son caused my brother to sprain his foot and can't hunt. Today I plan to stay by my side to take care of him, so I'll be the last one with him by the way."

He turned his head aside again: "In case some people think that Erchen did it on purpose and scold Erchen behind his back for being heartless!"

If he didn't say the latter sentence, Emperor Cheng would still feel that the sun was coming out from the west.Adding the latter sentence makes sense, it is estimated that someone was talking about King Jin behind his back, and he overheard it.

This kid can't tolerate a little sand in his eyes. Hearing this kind of words, it's normal not to go hunting in anger.

On the contrary, King Hui was embarrassed: "Fifth Brother, you don't have to be like this. You are always active. I'm afraid you will be bored if you stay with Brother Huang. You'd better go hunting."

"That's right, fifth brother, you'd better go." Gentle and gentle, with a face like a crown jade, Yu Wang chimed in: "Our four brothers, the second brother, my health is not good, and the third brother has sprained his foot again. If you don't go, the eldest brother of the crown prince will be alone." I'm afraid people can't beat those gang of wolves and tigers."

As soon as he said this, the nobles and veterans of the royal family, including Emperor Cheng, laughed.It's always a pleasure to see young, strong, energetic lads, many of whom are their own sons.

Xiao Hongjin glared at Prince Hui first, and then said: "Whatever you say, I don't feel bored anyway, and I don't want to hunt."

He will not leave the safest place beside Emperor Cheng.

King Jin insisted on staying and taking care of King Hui, except for Yu Wang who was uneasy and kind, and persuaded him a few more words, the others including Emperor Cheng had nothing to do with him.

Although Emperor Cheng was obsessed with Taoism and didn't like hunting very much, he wanted to do it as an emperor anyway.So a large group of people accompanied Emperor Cheng into the forest, but after entering the forest, most of them dispersed, only a few princes, cabinet ministers and a group of guards accompanied the emperor.

Xiao Hongjin looked around: "Father, where did Jin Yiwei and its leader Xie Cang go?"

He remembered that he was still there when he accompanied the driver yesterday. Could it be that he was transferred away from the mountain again?

Emperor Cheng glanced at him sharply, as if he was observing something, but seeing King Jin's casual face, he probably just happened to find that the Jin Yiwei who was escorting him was missing, and felt strange, so he asked this question.

Although his son was not careful enough, none of Jin Yiwei showed up, and when everyone dispersed, he couldn't help but look around, no wonder he was the first to notice something was wrong.

"That's right, where did Jin Yiwei go?" King Hui seemed to have been reminded by his younger brother, and found out that without Jin Yiwei, the number of guards around his father was so small, would it be too risky?

Yu Wang also frowned, he just asked Xie Canghe to pretend to be transferred from the mountain, and take away a few cronies, but why did he take away all Jin Yiwei?

Yu Wang secretly felt that some things were out of control, and he didn't know well, so he wanted to hold down the assassins and prevent them from doing anything.But in this era, there are no communication tools, not to mention that in order to distance themselves from the assassins, the group of assassins did not listen to him directly.

So while Yu Wang was waiting in fear, the hundreds of assassins he arranged still came. As soon as they appeared, they cut down the outermost ordinary guards, pulled up the ropes, and approached Emperor Cheng.

"There are assassins, protect the emperor!"

Everyone got off their horses one after another, someone shouted in the chaos, and King Yu was shocked to find that he couldn't get close to Emperor Cheng as planned.Emperor Cheng was surrounded by palace guards like an iron bucket, and even King Jin and King Hui who were next to Emperor Cheng were squeezed out and protected by their respective palaces.

There were more and more people in black, and Emperor Cheng only had twenty or thirty guards around him, which seemed a bit stretched.

"Father—" In the chaos, King Hui wanted to break through the siege to rescue him, but Xiao Hongjin held him down: "Don't go."

King Hui raised his eyes and looked at his youngest brother in disbelief, but Xiao Hongjin said, "Father has made his own arrangements. Look at what those palace guards are wearing under their outer robes?"

King Hui turned his head to look, and sure enough, he saw the guard's torn robe revealing the black chain armor: "The black feather guard..."

The Black Feather Guards are the dark guards that belonged exclusively to the emperor. It is said that they have received rigorous training since childhood, and all of them have extremely high martial arts skills, one of them can stand up to ten.

Xiao Hongjin lightly said, "If you go over at this time, the Black Feather Guards will just kill you as an assassin."

As soon as he said this, King Hui saw a minister who accidentally let the crowd squeeze past was cut off by the black feather guard with a knife, and his neck was cut off.

King Hui's heart was beating wildly, half for the chaotic scene, and half for King Jin.His reckless younger brother, who made a fuss over a trivial matter, was extremely calm at the moment, and even observed details that he hadn't noticed in the chaos.

What's more, he found that the guards brought by his younger brother were all masters. He didn't seem to have seen these people in Prince Jin's mansion before...

King Hui swallowed, probably because he was affected by his younger brother's emotions, he calmed down slowly, and had the energy to observe in the perilous environment.

It was at this time that the prince appeared, shouting for help, but the guards he brought were all well-equipped, not like hunting outfits at all.And the timing of his appearance was too well grasped, most of the people in black disappeared, and the black feather guards beside the emperor were also dead and injured...

King Hui turned his head suddenly, his eyelids twitched wildly: "This, this assassination, was the crown prince's arrangement?"

Because he saw the prince's men kill the man in black, he also started to kill the guards, the ministers and noble children who heard the news and came to rescue him...

Xiao Hongjin: "It's not him."

King Hui was dubious, and then he saw Prince Yi Yiran push aside the guards to show up, and lifted up King Yu, who was covered in blood and had only one breath left: "Father, my son has lived up to expectations. The mastermind behind this is King Yu Xiao Zeyu. Xiao Zeyu, a rebellious minister and traitor, has already been captured, father, come out quickly!"

King Hui: "..."

In such a scene, you say the mastermind is King Yu?How could he be so unbelievable!

Of course, Emperor Cheng would not be so stupid, and yelled angrily in the circle surrounded by all the black feather guards: "Nie Zi, I made you the crown prince and made you supervise the country. How can I be sorry for you, but you want to kill your father and king! "

King Hui looked at his younger brother King Jin with a determined face, and then at his father who was surrounded by the black feather guards and couldn't see his face. He felt that among the five of them, he was the only one who was a fool?

If it wasn't for the wrong timing, he would have hugged his head and frantically asked why!

The prince's eyes showed the excitement and arrogance of being about to succeed: "Hehe, the emperor doesn't even think about it. My son and minister are already 34, and they still have to follow your winks everywhere. How can being a prince be as comfortable as being an emperor?"

He probably knew the reason why the villain died because of talking too much, his face changed as soon as he finished speaking, and he ordered the guards to do it.

King Hui finally became wiser: "Jin Yiwei!"

Seeing that he was not stupid to the end, Xiao Hongjin nodded with a childish face. The scene of the praying mantis catching the cicada and the oriole was finally coming to an end. It seemed that his guess was right, and the biggest winner was indeed Emperor Cheng.

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