In the dining hall of the back hall of Chengguang Hall, Emperor Wu of Zhou yawned while eating his breakfast.
Sun Kui, who was standing aside, saw Emperor Zhou Wu yawning incessantly with tears streaming from the corners of his eyes. He asked with concern: "Your Majesty, did you not sleep last night?"
Emperor Wu of Zhou yawned and said, "Well, I had a dream all night last night."
"Are you having a nightmare?" It wasn't Sun Kui who kept vigil last night, but his disciple Sun Doudou. Seeing that Sun Doudou did not notice that Emperor Zhou Wu had a nightmare last night, Sun Kui scolded his apprentice in his heart and decided to teach him a lesson later.
"Ah..." Emperor Zhou Wu opened his mouth wide and yawned in an unimpressive way, "It's not a nightmare, and I don't remember what I did."
"It's all my fault. If I was on duty last night, I would have prepared a bowl of soothing soup for you." Sun Kui said with self-blame.
Emperor Wu of Zhou waved his hand: "It has nothing to do with you." After saying that, he yawned several times in a row.
"Your Majesty, please call the imperial doctor."
"But I can't call you an imperial doctor if I haven't slept in my dream." Emperor Wu of Zhou said, "What I need now is sleep, not an imperial doctor."
"But, Your Majesty, you will go to court soon."
"I don't want to go to court, nor do I want to go for spring hunting." Emperor Wu of Zhou lay on the table, closed his eyelids, yawned while eating sesame seed cakes, and said listlessly, "I want to sleep now."
Sun Kui said: "Your Majesty, you should finish your visit and sleep on the way to the paddock."
"No, I want to sleep now." Emperor Wu of Zhou said shamelessly, "I am very sleepy now. I just want to sleep and don't want to do other things." As he said, he yawned again, "Go tell them, We won’t go to court today, nor will we go for spring hunting, so let them go back.”
After hearing this, Sun Kui said helplessly in his heart, here we go again! The emperor’s old habit is back again!
"Your Majesty, you must go to the morning court, and you must also go to the spring hunting."
"I won't go, I just won't go."
"Your Majesty, you keep your word, you can't keep your word." Sun Kui coaxed patiently, "You personally said you would hold the Spring Hunting, and now everyone is ready. If you say you can't go, wouldn't you be breaking your promise? "
"Why did I just break my promise?" Emperor Wu of Zhou said impatiently, "I don't want to be this bad emperor, I don't want to be this anymore." Being this bad emperor means I can't even sleep.
Seeing Emperor Zhou Wu acting like a child, Sun Kui said with a helpless face: "Your Majesty, we are going to court in a moment, you can still show your temper for a while..." Before he could finish his words, Zhou's face was turned upside down. The sesame cake in Emperor Wu's hand was hit.
"You are so courageous, how dare you laugh at me." Emperor Wu of Zhou glared at Sun Kui angrily.
Sun Kui smiled flatteringly at Emperor Zhou Wu: "How dare you, slave?"
Emperor Wu of Zhou raised his feet and put them on the dining table, leaned back in his chair, closed his eyes with an expression like "I want to sleep, even if the King of Heaven comes, it will be useless."
Sun Kui said no more and stood aside quietly and without any panic at all.
This was not the first time Emperor Wu of Zhou had done this, and Sun Kui was used to him cheating from time to time.
In the past, Emperor Wu of Zhou was cheating and didn't want to go to court. Sun Kui also tried to persuade Emperor Wu of Zhou. Unable to persuade him, he even asked Prime Minister He and Taishi Liu to persuade Emperor Wu of Zhou.
He Xiang and Taishi Liu told him not to pay attention to Emperor Wu of Zhou and let him go crazy. When he stopped going crazy, he would go to court honestly.
Sun Kui didn't believe it at first, but later found out that it was true. After that, when Emperor Wu of Zhou went crazy again, Sun Kui gave a few symbolic words of persuasion, and then stood aside obediently and waited for Emperor Wu of Zhou to finish his madness.
Emperor Wu of Zhou closed his eyes for a while. Seeing that Sun Kui did not continue to persuade him to go to court, he opened one eye and looked at Sun Kui: "Grandson, why don't you continue to persuade me?"
Sun Kui was not surprised at all by Emperor Zhou Wu's reaction. He suppressed his laughter and said, "Because I know that Your Majesty, it is impossible for you not to go to court."
After his thoughts were seen through, Emperor Zhou Wu showed no trace of embarrassment or annoyance on his face. He curled his lips and said, "Sooner or later I will abolish the morning court."
Sun Kui, who was standing aside, said silently in his heart: Your Majesty, you said this not long after you became emperor. Even now, you have not dared to abolish the early dynasty.
Emperor Wu of Zhou put away his feet on the dining table, then picked up a piece of sesame seed cake from the dining table and started eating it.
Seeing this, Sun Kui hurriedly went to bring a cup of hot tea.
Emperor Wu of Zhou finished the sesame cake in a few mouthfuls, took the tea cup brought by Sun Kui, and drank it in a big gulp without any image. After drinking the tea, he placed the tea cup heavily on the dining table as if he was angry.
Seeing Emperor Zhou Wu acting like a child, Sun Kui lowered his head and covered his mouth to prevent himself from laughing.
Emperor Wu of Zhou snorted coldly, stood up immediately, put his hands in his sleeves, and dragged his feet towards the main hall of Chengguang Hall.
"Aren't you going for spring hunting today?" Emperor Wu of Zhou suddenly asked.
Sun Kui was following Emperor Wu of Zhou. Hearing his question, he didn't understand what he meant, but he still answered obediently: "We are indeed going to go for spring hunting today."
Emperor Wu of Zhou spread his hands and said with disbelief: "Since we are going to spring hunting today, why do we have to go to the morning court today? Why not go directly to the paddock?"
Sun Kui's mouth twitched slightly and said, "Your Majesty, you are the one who wants to attend the morning court."
"How is it possible? I hate going to the morning court the most?"
Sun Kui was flattering, no, Long Pi said, "Because your Majesty is a diligent emperor who never wastes his morning court."
Emperor Wu of Zhou raised his foot and kicked Sun Kui's butt: "Stop feeding me the ecstasy soup."
"Your Majesty, you have wronged me. I am telling the truth. Since you came to the throne, you have been conscientiously attending court. Except for the late queen, you have not gone to court even a day." Sun Kui said truthfully, "You I insisted on going to court several times before when I was seriously ill..."
Emperor Wu of Zhou was impatient to hear what Sun Kui said and raised his hand to interrupt Sun Kui.
"I know that I work hard, so I don't need you to flatter me."
Sun Kui smiled coquettishly: "This slave is too talkative."
Emperor Zhou Wu suddenly raised his hands and stretched vigorously, "Do you think there will be a good show in this year's spring hunting?"
Sun Kui's heart skipped a beat and he said respectfully, "I don't know."
Emperor Wu of Zhou turned around and looked at Sun Kui with a smile: "Maybe there will be something good in this year's spring hunting." He dragged out the word [oh] very long.
Seeing Emperor Zhou Wu's appearance, Sun Kui knew that his bad taste was coming again.
"Your Majesty, if you say so, is something going to happen to Chun Lie?"
"How do I know?" Emperor Wu of Zhou said, smiling enigmatically, "I hope something happens, so that spring hunting becomes more fun."
Uh... Your Majesty, are you really afraid that the world will not be in chaos?
"Your Majesty, wouldn't this put the paddock in danger?"
"It's fun to be in danger." Emperor Wu of Zhou winked at Sun Kui, "I hope they won't let me down." After saying that, he whistled and walked towards the main hall.
Did the emperor know something?
When the ministers in the main hall heard the whistle, they knew that Emperor Wu of Zhou was coming.
Listening to the emperor's whistle, it seems that the emperor is in a good mood today.
Emperor Wu of Zhou lay directly on the dragon chair and accepted the worship of the civil and military ministers of the dynasty.
"See your Majesty, long live your Majesty."
Emperor Wu of Zhou raised his hand and said, "Everyone, get up."
"Thank you, Your Majesty."
After the ministers stood up, they reported on the preparations for the spring hunting one after another.
Emperor Wu of Zhou was lying on the dragon chair with his eyes closed. I don't know if he listened.
After the ministers finished reporting the matter, Emperor Wu of Zhou opened his eyes, sat up suddenly, waved his hand and said: "Let's go for spring hunting."
"Yes, Your Majesty."
Emperor Wu of Zhou returned to his palace and changed into regular clothes. Instead of riding a horse, he got into a carriage.
After getting on the carriage, he lay down on the carriage, "I want to sleep, so let them not disturb me."
Sun Kui: "Yes, Your Majesty."
The prince and the king were riding horses, guarding both sides of Emperor Wu of Zhou's carriage.
The third prince and the others followed behind on horseback.
Zhao Yao did not ride a horse, but sat in a carriage with Liang Zhaoyi and others. Like Emperor Wu of Zhou, he caught up on his sleep as soon as he got on the carriage.
More than an hour later, Emperor Wu of Zhou led his ministers to the royal enclosure in the eastern suburbs.
The guards had already been standing around the paddock, and tents had been set up on the paddock.
Before the official start of spring hunting, drums are played to encourage people.
Dai Wang took the initiative to ask Ying to play drums.
The loud and resounding drumbeats resounded throughout the paddock.
Everyone present heard this with excitement, but the animals in the paddock were frightened and fled in all directions.
After the drumming was over, Emperor Wu of Zhou encouraged everyone to hunt well. He will reward the top winner in the spring hunt this year.
Hearing the word "heavy reward", people who came to participate in the spring hunt suddenly became full of energy.
The fourth prince changed his clothes and saw that Zhao Yao had not come to him for a long time, so he asked Wei Mian, "Isn't the tenth brother here yet?"
"Not yet." Wei Mian said, "I'll go take a look."
The fourth prince nodded lightly.
When Wei Mian went to find Zhao Yao, he saw Zhao Yao talking to four teenagers from a distance. He took a closer look and found that it was General Song and his youngest son.
His Royal Highness actually knows General Song and his youngest son?
Why haven't you heard from His Highness the Tenth Prince?
When Wei Mian saw Zhao Yao and Song Jicai talking and laughing, he hesitated for a moment, wondering whether he should go forward and call Zhao Yao.
After hesitating for a while, Wei Mian decided not to go forward. Just when he was about to turn around and leave, Zhao Yao looked over at him. He had no choice but to step forward.
"I have met His Highness the Tenth Highness." Wei Mian saluted to Zhao Yao first, and then saluted to Chu Huan and the other four, "I have met the four young masters."
Song Jicai and the others looked at Zhao Yao doubtfully. Zhao Yao introduced them: "He is the person next to my fourth brother, Wei Mian."
"Wei Mian, did Fourth Brother send you to call me?"
"Seeing that you haven't come to find him for a long time, His Highness asked your servant to come and see if you are ready."
"I'm about to take them to see Fourth Brother." Zhao Yao had no intention of hiding anything from the Fourth Prince about his interactions with Chu Huan and the others. Besides, I couldn’t hide it even if I wanted to, after all, we were in the same paddock. "Let's go, I'll take you to see my fourth brother."
A moment later, the fourth prince was very surprised when he saw Zhao Yao bringing General Shen and his four young sons to him.
How come the tenth brother associates with General Shen and his youngest son?
After Zhao Yao introduced the four princes to Chu Huan and the others, Zhao Yao introduced the four princes to Chu Huan and the others.
Of course Chu Huan and the others knew about the Fourth Prince, and they had heard their father and brother praise the Fourth Prince. However, the fourth prince's cold appearance made people afraid to approach him.
"Fourth brother, I will hunt with Chu Huan and the others today, and you go hunting with the father and the others." Before anything happens to Chun Lie, let the fourth brother hunt with his father, so that the fourth brother can come out on top again.
The fourth prince obviously disapproved of this and frowned. Just as he was about to say something, he was interrupted by Zhao Yao.
"Fourth brother, don't worry, we won't mess around, and nothing will happen." Zhao Yao raised his hand and swore, "I promise you, we will hunt nearby and will not go far."
Chu Huan and the four of them nodded repeatedly.
"But……"
"Fourth brother, I will hunt with you tomorrow. Today you can hunt with my father and the others." Zhao Yao said, turning the fourth prince around, and whispered to the fourth prince, "Fourth brother, you Don’t let Third Brother and the others steal the limelight, otherwise Third Brother and the others will be proud again.”
The fourth prince frowned and said nothing.
Zhao Yao patted the fourth prince's arm and said with a smile: "Fourth brother, I'm optimistic about you." After saying that, he took Chu Huan and the four of them away.
The fourth prince frowned and looked at the backs of Zhao Yao and the others as they left.
"Your Highness, His Highness the Tenth Prince actually has such a good relationship with General Song and their youngest son!" Wei Mian still found it incredible, "His Royal Highness Tenth has never said anything about this before."
Just now, Zhao Yao told the fourth prince that he met Chu Huan and the four of them when Xiu Mu went out to play in the palace, and he became acquainted with them all the time.
The fourth prince and Wei Mian were surprised when they heard this.
"Your Highness, Your Highness Tenth..."
Wei Mian didn't finish his words, but the fourth prince understood what he meant.
"Tenth brother is not that kind of person." The fourth prince said very firmly, "Tenth brother doesn't have that kind of scheming either."
"Then why didn't His Highness tell you that he knew General Song and his youngest son?"
The fourth prince suddenly smiled and said: "Eight or nine times out of ten, I forgot."
Wei Mian: "..."
He actually couldn't refute His Highness's words. With His Highness's temperament, maybe he really forgot.
"Are you afraid of my fourth brother?"
Just now I brought Chu Huan and the four of them to see their fourth brother, and all four of them looked scared and nervous. Now that they have left Fourth Brother, they are still like this.
"Who is not afraid of the fourth prince?" Zhang He rubbed his arms and said to Zhao Yao, "The cold face of the fourth prince makes people scared. Is he just a piece of wood?"
Shen Sen nodded repeatedly: "Yes, the fourth prince is so cold that people dare not approach him."
Song Jicai echoed: "The fourth prince is very cold and scary."
Chu Huan said: "I am most afraid of such cold people."
"Fourth brother looks cold, but he is actually a very good person." Zhao Yao said with a smile, "Fourth brother is very good to me."
"Boss, even if you say so, we still think the Fourth Prince is cold and scary."
"Fortunately, boss, you didn't let us hunt with the Fourth Prince."
"Fourth brother has a cold face and a warm heart. You don't have to be so afraid of him." In Zhao Yao's heart, the fourth prince is the best brother in the world.
"My father and eldest brother often say that the fourth prince is mature and steady," Chu Huan said. "They also say that the fourth prince is very similar to the emperor."
"My dad and eldest brother also said it."
"The fourth brother is like my father?" Zhao Yao asked in surprise, "How does the fourth brother look like my father?" The fourth brother is nothing like his father in terms of appearance or temperament.
Chu Huan shook his head and said, "My dad and the others didn't explain in detail how the fourth prince resembles the emperor, but they always said that the fourth prince resembles the emperor."
"Who else does your father say resembles your father?"
"My dad and the others only said that the fourth prince resembles the emperor."
Zhao Yao curled his lips and said, "Fourth brother is not like my father." His stinky father is so evil, so fourth brother is not like him.
"Boss, where should we hunt next?"
"Where did you go hunting last year?" Zhao Yao said, "We will hunt nearby. Don't go too far, otherwise the fourth brother will worry about us." If you go too far, you might encounter something bad.
Chu Huan pointed in the direction to the north: "Boss, we go to the woods over there every year. There are few people going to the woods to the north, but there are no big prey."
"Although there are a lot of prey in other places, there are also a lot of people. We can't catch them at all."
"Boss, if you want to hunt more prey, go to the woods to the east."
Zhao Yao thought for a while and said: "We should go to the forest where there are not many people, or go to the northern forest before you." He did not want to be the first to hunt ferocious prey such as bears or wolves. He just wanted to hunt a few foxes and a few deer.
In the main tent, Emperor Zhou Wu was lying on the couch with his legs crossed, his hands behind his head, and he was humming a tune. If you listen carefully, you will see that it is an inappropriate tune.
Sun Kui stood beside him and felt strange when he saw that he didn't go out hunting.
"Your Majesty, aren't you going out hunting?"
"I'm not going." Emperor Zhou Wu turned over, lay on his side on the couch, rested his head on his arms, and said lightly, "I want to rest."
"Didn't you just say you were going to go hunting?" Sun Kui reminded, "Several highnesses and several generals are waiting for you."
At this time, Shen Hu shouted from outside the account: "Your Majesty, are you okay?"
Emperor Wu of Zhou curled his lips, then stood up and said, "I will just play with them."
Sun Kui hurriedly followed him out.
Seeing Emperor Wu of Zhou coming out, the prince, Shen Hu and others hurriedly saluted him.
"Your Majesty, let's compete again this year."
Emperor Zhou Wu glanced sideways at Shen Hu and said, "Tiger, when did you defeat me?"
Shen Hu refused to admit defeat and said, "I might be able to beat you this year."
"Let's do this. Tiger, if you defeat me, I will reward you with the fine wine in the palace."
When Shen Hu heard this, his eyes suddenly sparkled, and he said excitedly: "Your Majesty, this is what you said."
"I said so." Emperor Wu of Zhou said, looking at Shen Hu teasingly, "Tiger, what are you going to give me if you lose?"
Shen Hu said: "But it's up to you."
"Father, I also want to compete with you." King Dai suddenly interjected, "I haven't hunted with you for several years, and I want to compete with you."
Emperor Wu of Zhou raised his hand and patted King Dai on the shoulder, and said with a smile on his face: "Okay, let me see if you have made any progress in the past few years."
When King Dai heard what Emperor Wu of Zhou said, he smiled very happily: "Father, I will not show mercy to you later."
Emperor Wu of Zhou raised his hand and hit the next king on the head, and said with a smile: "I still need your mercy? If you lose to me later, don't cry."
"Father, my son is not a child, how can he cry?" King Dai said, looking at the prince standing aside, "I haven't hunted with my eldest brother for a long time, otherwise my eldest brother should also compete with us. "
The prince had already guessed that King Dai would invite him to compete. He smiled and refused: "I can't hunt, so I won't compete with you."
"'Brother, are you afraid of losing to me and my father?" King Dai deliberately used these words to irritate the Crown Prince.
"I am no match for you and my father." The prince said very calmly, "Second brother, you and my father should compete."
Dai Wang did not expect that the prince would admit that he was not his opponent, which surprised him very much. He originally thought that because of the prince's temperament, he would be fooled into agreeing to compete with him after being provoked by a few words. Unexpectedly, the prince would proactively admit that he was not as good as him.
"Brother, are you really not going to compete with us?"
"No, I won't show off my shame." The prince said with a smile.
At this time, the fourth prince and the third prince came over.
When Dai Wang saw the four princes and others coming, he invited them to participate in the competition.
Of course the Fourth Prince and the others are willing to participate.
Emperor Wu of Zhou took Dai Wang and Shen Hu to the woods to the east.
Although the prince did not participate in the competition, he followed them to the east forest.
At this time, in the woods to the north, Zhao Yao and Chu Huan were confused.
"Where's the prey?" Zhao Yao and the others have been in the northern forest for a while, but they haven't seen a single prey. "Didn't you say there are foxes and deer here? Why haven't you seen one?"
Chu Huan and the others also felt strange.
"Boss, we didn't lie to you. Although there aren't a lot of prey in this forest, there are foxes, deer, and hares."
"We also hunted a few hares in this forest last year."
"We saw several deer in this forest last year, but we didn't hunt any of them."
"There are also foxes, white foxes and brown foxes, but unfortunately we didn't hunt them."
Zhao Yao looked around again. Apart from birds, there were no other animals in this forest.
Chu Huan frowned and said, "It's so weird. Why aren't there any prey?"
"Yes, even if you can't see foxes and deer, at least there will be hares. Why aren't there even hares?"
"There is no one else in this forest except us. Even if there are other people, it is impossible to hunt away all the prey in this forest."
Zhao Yao suddenly thought of the eighth prince's instructions before leaving. My heart trembled, there was something strange in this forest. No, this forest is dangerous.
"Since there is no prey in this forest, let's move to another place." We can't stay in this forest any longer and we have to leave as soon as possible.
Chu Huan asked: "Boss, where should we go?"
"Go to the woods to the south." Zhao Yao said, "Go there now, otherwise we won't be able to hunt a single prey by noon."
Chu Huan and the others didn't notice anything strange and followed Zhao Yao out of the forest.
After leaving the woods to the north, Zhao Yao looked back and then rode towards the woods to the south as if nothing had happened.
When the fourth brother comes back from hunting, he reminds the fourth brother that there is no prey in the woods to the north. With the intelligence of Fourth Brother, he should be able to guess that there is something unusual in the woods to the north.
Two updates combined into one chapter.
I saw an old man leaving a message asking why the protagonist hasn't grown up yet, and when he will go to build the land and infrastructure.
The protagonist goes to the fiefdom to build infrastructure in the mid-term, and at that time the heir apparent is about to come to an end.
The reason why I am still writing about the male protagonist’s childhood is, on the one hand, to pave the way for the male protagonist to go to the fiefdom to build infrastructure, and on the other hand, to seize the direct heir. Although the male protagonist does not participate in the seizure, he will witness the entire process.
Also, before the male protagonist goes to the fiefdom, he has to do a lot of things.
Finally, I still ask for a monthly ticket!
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