Little Cardamom - Chapter 97

Autumn hunting happens every year, but before leaving the pavilion, Ming Tan is not a royal woman, and she has no royal orders, so she is not allowed to participate. Last year, she went south with Jiang Xu, and when she turns back, she will miss this grand event. So this autumn hunting, tomorrow Tan really wanted to go and see the excitement.

“Alright, you are bored in the mansion these days, you should go out to get some air. Didn’t you make riding and shooting uniforms before, and you can just wear them.” In the study, Jiang Xu read the secret report sent back from the northwest, and said casually Talk to Ming Tan.

Ming Tan rolled his big eyes in his heart, put down the ink ingot, and said emphatically: “The riding and archery suit was already made in the early summer of last year!”

“Then make a new one.”

“Do you use the snow satin that your husband gave you that is more than a year out of date?”

Jiang Xu was speechless, for a long while, he said silently: “Isn’t the princess trying to be frugal?”

“Then it’s different this time!”

“How is it different?” Jiang Xu resealed the secret report, looked up at her, and seemed to be listening attentively.

Ming Tan took small steps, sat down in his arms, put his arms around his neck, looked into his eyes and said: “This time, the fifth prince and sixth princess of Nanlu are coming.”

“What does it have to do with you?” Jiang Xu couldn’t avoid his eyes.

Ming Tan looked at him for a while, and saw that he had no guilty conscience, and his eyes lingered from top to bottom again, stopping at his chest, and stretched out an index finger, poking his chest up and down, speaking threateningly Slowly said: “What do you say has nothing to do with me?”

Jiang Xu’s reaction to this kind of matter is always not sharp enough. After a long while, he finally understood while Ming Tan was talking about “Princess Nanlu”——

“Nonsense.”

“Since there are such rumors, it will not be groundless.” Ming Tan tightened his grip again, and said reluctantly.

Jiang Xu was silent, unable to refute for a while.

This rumor was originally spread to the capital from merchants in the north and south. It was said that after Princess Yongle Di Nianci went to Nanlu to get married, Nanlu took care of Daxian and treated her very politely. The six princesses born out of Queen Nanlu and loved by thousands of people had a dispute at a banquet.

And this dispute was actually for His Royal Highness King Dingbei of Daxian——

It is rumored that in the year when His Royal Highness King Dingbei was dancing an elephant, he went to Nanlu with a mission. At that time, the sixth princess of Nanlu was only about ten years old, and her father had not yet ascended the throne. During the banquet, she fell in love with His Royal Highness Dingbei at first sight. .

When the new king of Nanlu came to the throne, and wanted to marry Daxian to strengthen the relationship between the two countries, the sixth princess of Nanlu went to her father to act coquettishly and show anger, and wanted him to ask for this marriage, but she didn’t know, what she was thinking of His Royal Highness King Dingbei has married his concubine.

Hearing about this, the Sixth Princess made a scene and unreasonably asked her father to revise the state books, and asked Emperor Daxian to order King Dingbei to divorce his wife. King Nanlu was almost fainted by her anger.

Not to mention that Emperor Daxian ordered Dingbei King to be moved, and the concubine’s family was famous, and her father held a heavy army in Daxian’s hand. How could Emperor Daxian do such a stupid thing? In the past, the Guoshu Xiu felt that Nanlu’s life was too comfortable, didn’t he?

After a few days of hard work, the sixth princess said that as long as she could marry His Royal Highness King Dingbei, she would be fine as a concubine.

She may be all right, but King Nanlu is still shameless!

She is born of the queen, she is the most honorable princess of Nanlu, what is going on in rushing to be a concubine for Prince Daxian?

In order to prevent this beloved daughter from coming up with any other whimsical ideas, King Nanlu hurriedly sent envoys to ask Daxian to marry the princess, and finally gave up on her idea.

It’s just that the sixth princess of Nanlu was unwilling, and she blamed the matter on going to marry Princess Yongle, thinking that if Princess Yongle hadn’t married Nanlu first, she would have been able to become the side concubine of King Dingbei as she wished, yes So in Nanlu Palace, she often troubled Princess Yongle.

But Princess Yongle is not a good-natured person, she endured it a few times, one time she drank alcohol at a banquet, she got into an argument with her in public, and asked her to recognize herself and stop daydreaming there all day long!

…

In fact, this rumor has been going on since last year, and the details of the story have been passed on in detail, Ming Tan thinks it is quite credible. However, Nanlu is thousands of miles away from Beijing, so she can’t control that far, and her husband is popular, so she also has a good face, the girl’s little vanity…

It’s just that it was one thing when we were far away in Nanlu, but now it’s another thing to go to Beijing with the mission to pay tribute and to participate in autumn hunting.

Seeing that his little concubine made it clear that she didn’t want to let him go, Jiang Xu was silent for a while before asking, “How are you doing?”

What Ming Tan was waiting for was his sentence: “Then they want to make the same riding and archery uniform as my husband, the kind of riding and archery clothing that you can know at a glance that I am the husband and princess.”

“You are with me, no one knows that you are my concubine.”

“I don’t care, I will do it. If my husband doesn’t do it, he doesn’t love me.” Ming Tan pestered him, whispering coquettishly.

“…”

Wearing the same riding and archery uniform in public, and with her vision of making clothes, it must be very gorgeous, Jiang Xu really didn’t think it was necessary.

However, the night was dark, and the little concubine seduced her with her looks, and the game still ended with the defeat of King Dingbei.

A few days later, Huanglin Qiuhun in the suburbs of Beijing. As the first grand event held in Beijing in the past six months, all officials gathered together and it was very lively.

When Jiang Xu and Ming Tan arrived at the hunting ground, most of the people had already arrived. When they saw a pair of Bimen wearing two sets of riding and archery suits with the same embroidery, one black and one white, everyone’s eyes could not help but fall on them.

Ming Tan has always been a model of etiquette for walking on such big occasions. She is dignified and demure, but also radiant. She is neither rigid nor frivolous when she walks.

It wasn’t until he greeted Empress Chengkang and sat down in his seat that Ming Tan seemed to be inadvertently and glanced in the direction of Nanlu’s envoy.

Very good, although she didn’t accurately recognize the sixth princess of Nanlu at this glance, but she already felt the extremely warm gaze from the direction of Nanlu’s envoy.

As she thought, the sixth princess of Nanlu was staring at her in a daze.

In fact, those rumors about Nanlu in Shangjing are mostly true. The six princesses did fall in love with him at first sight when Jiang Xu was sent to Nanlu a few years ago.

This time Nanlu paid tribute, she was also making a fuss, took it back to Daxian and met His Highness Dingbei King, she obediently went back and married the imperial concubine as a condition, and then Nanlu King let her go and let her and the envoys Let’s go together.

It has been four or five days since she came to Daxian with the emperor’s brother, but she was detained by the emperor and could not run around, and His Royal Highness King Dingbei did not participate in the Fengfeng Palace Banquet, so she finally saw Xin Xinnian His Royal Highness King Dingbei.

Not seen for several years, His Royal Highness King Dingbei is still the same as before, tall and handsome, handsome and extraordinary, but it seems that he has lost the youthful spirit she was most obsessed with before.

He is no longer the ice-cold young God of War with angry brows and eyes when he was sent to Nanlu a few years ago. Now he has matured a lot. The blind princess.

His concubine is so pretty, she looks like a person walking out of a painting, even the arc of her smile is so pleasing to the eye, she has never seen such a delicate girl in Nanlu…

No, no, this is her rival in love!

But it just looks a little nice!

Thinking of this, the sixth princess hastily adjusted her sitting posture secretly, and quietly straightened her back.

After a while, everyone arrived. As usual, Emperor Chengkang recalled all the hardships of the court in Panlingzhou, and said some encouraging words for the opening of the day. It is announced that the autumn hunting begins.

Jiang Xu was wearing a riding and shooting uniform, and he came to hunt in a serious way, but Ming Tan was wearing a riding and shooting uniform, and he was here to show his affection, so he had no intention of getting on a horse at all. After watching Jiang Xu enter the dense forest, she went to find Bai Minmin and Zhou Jingwan.

Zhou Jingwan is now the wife of Lu Ting, the deputy commander in front of the palace. Although due to the difficulties in Lingzhou, the wedding ceremony that was supposed to be organized by Shili Hongzhuang was low-key and simple, but Lu Dianshuai loved his wife and valued his wife, and he took the credit for saving him. In exchange for my wife’s first-rank imperial order, all the women in the capital are envious.

The marriage between Bai Minmin and Zhang Huaiyu has also been finalized. This marriage was originally intended by Empress Zhang to be bestowed by Emperor Chengkang, and it also looks dignified and dignified. The Duke’s Mansion of the State and the Duke of Chang’s Mansion negotiated marriage on their own.

Empress Zhang is just such a younger brother, and the marriage is saved. This marriage can’t be simpler, so the wedding date is set for this winter. Counting the days, it will only be a month or two.

Bai Minmin is neither a relative of the emperor nor has an imperial order, so she was not allowed to participate, but this time it was only with the special permission of Empress Zhang that she came to join in the excitement of the autumn hunt.

“Zhang Huaiyu said he wanted to shoot a fox, and skin the fox to make me a blanket. I see his level of riding and shooting. It would be great if he could shoot a rabbit to make me a scarf. I don’t know why he has so little about himself! “Bai Minmin said angrily.

“You!” Zhou Jingwan nodded her forehead, “Master Zhang is as unbearable as you said.”

Bai Minmin held her face and sighed: “Anyway, His Royal Highness King Dingbei and Lu Dianshuai are very skilled, and they can always shoot a lot of prey. Just give them to me when the time comes.”

Ming Tan had never heard two good words from Zhang Huaiyu from her, so he couldn’t help feeling unfair about it: “You too underestimate your future husband, although Zhang Shizi looks cynical—”

Bai Minmin: “It’s actually cynical.”

Ming Tan was speechless.

Zhou Jingwan continued: “Shizi Zhang seems to be pretty good at it. Last year’s polo match, although he lost to King Yujun, he still won the second class.”

“What’s the use of the second class? Who can remember the second class when the first class is in front of you?” She said for example, “Let’s talk about the imperial examination the year before last. Everyone knows that the number one scholar is Mr. Su Jingsu, but they still remember the second place.” who is it?”

Ming Tan said without hesitation: “The second place is Liu Minzhi Master Liu.”

Bai Minmin: “…”

“Isn’t it true that everyone still remembers that Tan Hualang is the second son of Shu? Does anyone not remember? Aren’t you chasing after the second son of Shu that much?”

Bai Minmin was speechless for a moment.

The three of them were talking, and the Princess Yujun of the Wang Family of Yujun that Fang was mentioned also came over.

The princess of Yujun is cheerful and lively by nature. Although she doesn’t know how to wield a sword, she knows a little about riding and shooting. Seeing that the three of them are all wearing riding and shooting uniforms, she invites them to go hunting in the forest together.

The three of them were in agreement at the moment, saying “nothing, no way”, and shaking their heads like a rattle.

However, the princess of Yu County was very enthusiastic: “I don’t know much about it. Let’s go around the forest around here and let someone lead a pony to see if we can hunt a rabbit or two pheasants. It’s all right.”

Indeed, this hunt also encloses a small area for the female relatives to play, and the rabbits in it are fatter than the other, so there is no need to wait for the rabbits, and the rabbits will lie on the bushes for them to hunt.

There is nothing left and right, and it is not easy for Princess Yujun to play alone, so the three of them agreed.

The Sixth Princess of Nanlu has practiced martial arts since she was a child, and she is good at riding and shooting. When she heroically caught a dozen prey from the forest and was about to turn around and put them aside first, she saw a few girls in the shallow forest in front of them asking the guards to lead the pony Laughing.

She reined in her horse and looked at it for a while, but she was also convinced. One looked more decent, and the arrows were all shot at the tree stump, and the other arrow fell limply to the ground as soon as it was shot, and the remaining two were more powerful. Can’t pick it up.

And the beautiful and exquisite Princess Dingbei is one of those girls who can’t hold up two bows.

The sixth princess couldn’t stand it any longer, so she raised her bow, took aim, pierced the wind with one arrow, and nailed the walking rabbit to the ground. Chin, with a bit of disdain in his pride, he said: “Are all the girls of yours so bad at riding and shooting? Do you want me to teach you?”

Several people looked at her with respectful eyes.

“The little rabbit is so cute, the sixth princess is too cruel!”

“that is.”

“I’m seeing blood!”

“It’s too pitiful. Let’s bury it.”

I was still waiting for a few people to envy and admire the sixth princess who asked for advice: “…?”