Su Hengyu smiled and straightened her wide cuffs. Without saying anything, she took a baggage from the horse, took out the snacks inside, spread the baggage on the grass, and put the snacks wrapped in oil paper. Open it to reveal the sweet-scented osmanthus cake inside.
"My maid made this, Your Majesty, do you want to try it?"
Yu Shu took a piece of sweet-scented osmanthus cake handed over by Su Hengyu. It tasted pretty good when she tasted it. The sweet-scented osmanthus was rich in fragrance and soft in texture. It had a different flavor than what the imperial chef made.
I just don’t know when this man put this snack on the horse. She was so scared when she got on the horse, Yu Shu thought, not paying attention to other things.
The two of them were eating sweet-scented osmanthus cake and looking at a sea of pink flowers, they couldn't help but feel relaxed.
Su Hengyu looked at the empress who was eating snacks with her eyebrows arched, and her voice became much more soothing.
"Your Majesty, are you hungry? You may be able to hunt some hares and pheasants outside this hunting ground. Maybe your Majesty can give it a try."
His tone was gentle, and he didn't mean to make fun of the empress's incompetence in martial arts. Listening to this, Yu Shu really wanted to try and see if she could catch a few pheasants and roast them.
Most of the courtiers didn't care about hunting pheasants, hares, etc. They were frightened and ran out of the forest. Maybe they were easy to catch.
With this idea in mind, Yu Shu felt that she was going to catch a few prey when she came to the hunting ground. After cleaning up, she and Su Hengyu led the horse and slowly approached the hunting ground.
At this time, several young men from aristocratic families who were aimlessly holding bows and arrows in the forest gathered together and talked about how their father spent a lot of money to find someone to paint their portraits.
"My old man is crazy about getting promoted, and he also wants to use me to please that lustful empress!"
These dandies have no serious errands and spend every day wandering around the capital. Even coming to Qiu Hunt today was forced by their father. Naturally, they took their time and did not even see the empress.
He only thought that the empress was the lustful woman who robbed Lu Wenyu according to rumors.
Several of them belong to aristocratic and prominent families, and they are followed by a group of flattering people wherever they go. Now that they are being thrown away from their families to please the empress, it is strange that they can be happy about it.
In their eyes, the empress's reputation among the people was so bad, and the family wanted to use them to please the empress, which meant treating them as outcasts who could be abandoned at any time.
Thinking of this, the dandies who had been pampered since childhood suddenly realized that there was no love in the world, and they had many troubles at home in the past few days.
After this person spoke out, the others started complaining dissatisfiedly as they stared at the young master who had been sitting for several hours for the artist to draw his portrait.
"My father is not yet here. Yesterday he gave some gold leaves to the eunuch who was serving the Empress. He begged someone to put my portrait in the front so that the Empress can see it."
"Isn't it true that you have my father? I protested against being a male concubine to the Empress, and he also told me how the Empress is extremely beautiful and a rare beauty in the world. Isn't this just to tease me? Who doesn't know that the Empress is ugly? He is also lustful, and he seizes the land minister by force, scaring people so much that they refuse to comply even if they lose their lives."
"Mr. Lin is so good at coaxing people and being so beautiful. If the empress were so beautiful, would she be so short of men that she would have to rob her of her by force?"
The group of people laughed and complained about the empress together. The anger they had been holding at home these past few days dissipated a lot.
While talking, someone came up with a bad idea.
"The empress is just a weak woman who has only been out of the cold palace for a year. Let alone practicing martial arts, I'm afraid she has never even pulled a bow and arrow."
"In this case, why don't we scare her and let her take the initiative to cancel the bullshit concubine selection? If we want to harm men, let's harm stupid and loyal people like Prime Minister Lu."
When the others heard this, they looked at each other and rolled their eyes, thinking it was feasible.
They already hate empresses who are lecherous and possibly extremely ugly. If the empress sees their portraits and thinks they are too suave and handsome, she takes a liking to them and wants to force them into the palace.
They don't have the confidence of Prime Minister Lu to escape from the clutches of the lustful empress and leave the palace unharmed. If they have to stay in the palace for the rest of their lives, accompanying the empress, they will die of stupefaction.
It would be better to frighten the empress, make her fear them, cancel the selection of concubines, and they would not have to worry about being forced to serve her.
(End of chapter)
