"I just came to play with you." Gu Xuan didn't understand. Didn't she make it very clear just now? Didn't this guy still believe it?
If it wasn't because she wanted to come over to play with them, why was she eavesdropping at the door outside?
Gu Cheng glanced at Gu Xuan in surprise, then remembered what Gu Xuan had just said, and then he suddenly realized.
"I thought you were joking just now..." He murmured in a low voice, and then immediately became happy:
"But you came just in time today. Yanzhu and I recently made a new slingshot, which is very easy to shoot. Today we will take you to hunt birds."
There are only a few tricks that boys like to play with each other. Both Gu Cheng and Yan Zui's families worship martial arts and do not require their children to be very literary.
In addition, they had been listening to the old bachelor recite sutras in Taixue for several days, and they had long wanted to go out and have a good time.
Gu Xuan came at a good time today.
But even if she didn't come, they would still be going to hunt birds today, but it would definitely not be so early.
"Fighting birds?" Gu Xuan's eyes flashed with excitement. She had never tried such an activity before, so she was inevitably a little excited.
"That's right." When Gu Cheng saw stars in Gu Xuan's eyes, he suddenly became very ambitious. He must kill a few more birds today so that the princess can look at him with admiration:
"Princess, look, it's this slingshot."
He couldn't wait to take out the slingshot in his arms.
Gu Xuan took a closer look and saw that the slingshot was very well made. The iron on it glowed coldly in the sunlight. It was obvious at first glance that it was not ordinary.
That is to say, Gu Xuan doesn't understand these things. If she did, she would be able to recognize it at a glance as black iron. The best weapons are made of this kind of iron, which is hard to find.
But Gu Cheng was able to use such good iron to make a slingshot, which shows his identity.
Of course... Even if Gu Xuan's ability to identify goods is limited, she still knows that the iron is good and has great confidence in the slingshot in Gu Cheng's hand.
But she soon became confused: "It's good to have a slingshot, but...where are the birds in this ice and snow?"
She asked seriously. In the past, you could still see birds in the Imperial Garden in the summer, but now it was covered with snow. Not to mention the birds, it was rare to even see a bird feather.
"You don't have to worry about this," Gu Cheng chuckled, obviously having his own channels: "Princess, just follow us."
Gu Xuan subconsciously glanced at Yan Zui beside her.
Although Yan Zui remained silent, he kept his eyes on Gu Xuan. Now he noticed that Gu Xuan was looking at him, and his eyes turned to one side, which seemed a little unnatural.
"Then let's go together!" Gu Xuan was eager to give it a try.
"Princess..." Grandma Sun and others' expressions changed, and they stepped forward to persuade: "My Majesty said that you should not play outside for too long."
"I can't play for too long!" Gu Xuan finally managed to play with interesting things. Of course, she couldn't go back so early.
Putting these words aside, she followed Gu Cheng and Yan Zui, determined to play with them.
Aunt Sun and Aunt Li looked at each other helplessly. They had nothing to do with the princess and could only follow behind.
However, they made up their mind that if the princess and the others went too close to Dexin Palace or Zhongcui Palace, they would take the princess back by force.
Compared with the princess' happiness and anger, her safety is of course more important.
Gu Cheng and Yan Zui took Gu Xuan to an unexpected place - the guard camp.
Of course, they didn't go in, but stayed outside.
"Princess, look," Gu Cheng leaned against the corner to inquire secretly, turning his head from time to time to whisper to Gu Xuan:
"There are no birds anywhere in the Winter Palace, but there are many here from time to time. With this slingshot in hand today, we will definitely gain something!"
At the end of the sentence, his eyes were filled with determination.
Gu Xuan didn't trust him very much: "Are the birds here really not raised in the palace?"
Don't normal birds fly away in winter and come back in spring? If the birds here don't fly, could they be raised in the palace?
Gu Xuan also knew that flying pigeons were used to deliver messages. If these birds were used as a medium to transmit information, wouldn't it be a disaster if they shot them dead?
Gu Xuan was visibly frightened.
"No," Gu Cheng said with a confident face, and slapped his chest loudly: "I promise you, my uncle used to work here, and he said it was fine. He even took me here to shoot someone. Just, that smell, tsk tsk tsk..."
Gu Cheng showed an expression of endless aftertaste, which shows that the bird he and his uncle shot was probably sacrificed to their five internal organs temple.
"So you keep asking to come here because you're hungry for the taste?" Yan Zui on the side said nothing, but got to the essence of it as soon as he spoke.
Gu Cheng said "Oops": "Don't say it so bluntly... We still have to come and see if the slingshot is accurate, and what to eat, let's just let it happen."
He said it was just casual, but he licked the corners of his lips and showed a meaningful smile.
In order to get rid of this episode, he picked up the extremely exquisite slingshot, picked up a gravel from the ground, aimed at the bird circling not far away, then narrowed his eyes and let go.
There was only the sound of pebbles cutting through the air, but when I looked over there, the pebbles fell straight down without even rising to the height of the bird.
Gu Cheng was immediately dumbfounded.
Yan Zui laughed softly, and like a magic trick, he took out a slingshot from his arms, picked up stones from the ground, and tightened the slingshot.
Narrowing their eyes and letting go, Gu Xuan and Gu Cheng didn't even have time to look up when they heard the bird that Gu Cheng had aimed at cry out and drop a large piece from the air.
Yan Zui's eyes were firm, and he quickly placed another stone and hit it again and again. After being hit, the bird could no longer hold on and fell into the snow.
Yan Zhui took back the slingshot in his hand and looked at Gu Cheng lightly.
Gu Cheng was overjoyed and was not shocked at all. He happily picked up the bird that had fallen far away and weighed it happily in his hands:
"This bird is so heavy! It's enough for the three of us!"
Gu Xuanyan drank and drank at the same time.
This guy was not shocked at all and was still thinking about whether they would have enough of these things.
Gu Xuan couldn't help but be happy. She quite liked Gu Cheng's temperament and couldn't help teasing him:
"Is this really delicious when baked?"
As for being so obsessed with it.
Seeing that Gu Xuan didn't believe it, Gu Cheng wanted to prove it to her: "Princess, let's find a place to bake it. I'm sure you'll want to eat it again. This thing keeps flying in the sky and the meat is firm. It's better than other things." It’s more flavorful.”
Gu Xuan was a little moved by what he said, so she began to think about where to roast the bird.
"It must be somewhere with soil!" Gu Cheng added.
