When Xie Fengyue arrived at the high platform, it was crowded and all seats were occupied.
Today is the first human hunt of the first Xishan Hunt. More than ten food tables have been added to the seats for male and female guests under the high platform, but the space is still obviously not enough. The sons and daughters of those small families can only stand and watch. .
In front of a large piece of flat ground, two or three meters apart, there was a soldier holding a long knife waiting for slaves who tried to escape.
In the middle of the open space were three prison vans, which were packed with prey in prison uniforms. There were about twenty or thirty people. Their eyes were full of despair, and some of them were so frightened that they peed their pants.
In front of the high platform, there were already more than a dozen noble family members waiting on horseback, waiting to give the prisoners a stick of incense to escape, and then immediately rushed out to start today's hunting.
Lin Qishu poked Xie Fengyue's arm: "Have you seen that black knight?"
Xie Fengyue looked around, full of confusion: "Aren't they all black?"
"That one on the side, that's Yeluya!"
"Huh?"
Xie Fengyue was only confused for a moment before she realized that this kind of human hunting was not something that the royal family often played. This opening was just to open the eyes of those in Beiyuan. Cruel games like this have become increasingly popular in recent years. People criticize, that is, some unknown aristocratic families will play in private.
First-class aristocratic families such as Wang, Xie, Fan and Lu took the lead in stopping it. This is probably the reason why the important officials in the court did not come to Xishan this time. In Xie Fengyue's opinion, hunting by humans is harmful to the harmony of the heaven and the people. The royal family has taken the lead, and once some small families and small families who don't know what is right and wrong below imitate it, the harm to the people at the bottom of Qian'an will be immeasurable.
Where are there so many death row prisoners for people to shoot? There are even more refugees who are already displaced.
But she is a soft-spoken person, so she is not stupid enough to stand up and stop him. If the time comes, she will not be able to get any favors, but she will be embarrassed all over.
Seeing her in a daze, Lin Qishu spoke again: "Yeluya kept provoking me yesterday just because she wanted me to go hunting today. I'm not that stupid. Look at the husbands who ended up today, which one is from a rich family? , she really thought I was brainless.”
Xie Fengyue was not familiar with the men in Shengjingzhong, so she couldn't tell anything from their backs.
"Only that fool Liu Duo will go. Once the hunting in Xishan is over, no one around him will be able to survive. He is really stupid to death."
As the horn sounded, the prison van opened, and the prisoners quickly got out of the car and ran in all directions.
The time of a stick of incense is fleeting.
After the drum sounds, the human hunting officially begins.
The high platform terrain provides an excellent view for watching this kind of hunting. Yesterday, the plain was the place where the girls shot small animals. Today, it became the place where they shot human lives. After Xie Fengyu lamented, there was nothing he could do.
The royal family has been suffering from illness for a long time. They only know how to play. There are two such games. One day, another game that takes people's lives may arise.
As a flag was raised to represent the shooting of the first person, new flags were raised one after another to represent the death of prisoners.
The lives of thirty people were just a game for half an hour.
The excitement on Yeluya's face had not faded when she came back. She folded her hands on her chest and saluted Emperor Zhou, then spoke in a hoarse voice: "I am the well-deserved leader of the thirteen people I shot, Your Majesty." Is there any reward? ”
Emperor Zhou looked much kinder today. He laughed heartily and said, "Princess Ya, what reward do you want?" Yeluya searched the crowd and immediately locked onto Lin Qishu and Xie Fengyue. Her eyes were floating. Finally, he looked at Xie Fengyue: "The Lord of Yongning County is now a member of the Qian'an royal family, and I am also a member of the royal family. Why don't the Lord of Yongning and me learn from each other."
She hates both Xie Fengyue and Lin Qishu, but the one she hates the most is Xie Fengyue, not only for her face, but also because whenever she mentions her in front of Wei Ning, Wei Ning's avoidance is filled with emotion. With a slightly protective attitude, she almost wanted to kill Xie Fengyue immediately to vent her hatred.
Xie Fengyue didn't answer, and now it was Emperor Zhou's turn to be embarrassed.
It was not good for him to bully his family while Taifu Xie was away, but he really didn't want to offend Princess Beiyuan. After all, he wanted to use Beiyuan's power to suppress the arrogance of the family.
Concubine Lan Shu, who was beside him, heard this and said quickly: "This lady Xie looks weak and weak. I'm afraid she's not good at riding and shooting, so why not give her a reward in exchange for a princess."
Xie Fengyue looked at her with a smile, looking relaxed.
As long as she doesn't speak today, and as long as Taifu Xie himself is not here, no one will really dare to force her to play in this game. It seems that Princess Beiyuan also has a partial understanding of the situation in Qian'an.
The atmosphere fell into an embarrassing situation for a time, and everyone present was completely silent.
Yeluya's saluting hands slowly fell down, and her eyes drifted past the Beiyuan envoy.
"Your Majesty Qian'an, it seems that none of your ministers respect you very much. If this were in our Beiyuan, as long as our Beiyuan King opened his mouth, even a three-year-old child would be furious for the Beiyuan King."
After he said these words, Emperor Zhou's face became even worse.
"What's the point of a competition between women? Why don't I, Metabolism Girl, fight, and the Second Prince fight for Princess Ya?" Gongzi Yan suggested as he pushed aside the crowd.
This was the first time Yelujing saw Gongzi Yan. He performed the Han family ceremony and asked: "May I ask who you are?"
For this kind of self-introduction, Gongzi Yan did not need to speak at all. There was immediately a man beside him who answered: "This is Gongzi Yan of the Langya Wang family, the youngest son of Prime Minister Wang."
Young Master Yan shook his folding fan: "If all the prisoners are dead, why don't we play some games between girls?"
He picked up two black grapes on the food table and said: "Let the two girls hold these things, and let's shoot arrows while blindfolded."
As soon as she said this, Yeluya refused at first: "You can play whatever you want, why?"
Gongzi Yan's eyes flashed: "Just because of the winter of the eighth year of Qian'an, I killed none of your Beiyuan Qi Ruo'er tribe alive."
As soon as these words came out, the expressions of the Beiyuan envoys all changed.
The Qi Ruoer tribe was originally the most outstanding tribe in the Northern Plains, known as the wild wolves on the grassland. They were ordered to launch a surprise attack on Yecheng south of the Northern Territory to start their journey north. However, in only half a month, none of the 100,000 warriors who went on the expedition survived. But forget it, what is even more painful is that even the old, weak, sick and disabled people who stayed behind in the tribe were all wiped out overnight.
After this battle, Beiyuan suffered heavy losses and rested for seven years before finally breathing a sigh of relief. If the battle had not failed, the current Shengjing City might have been changed to the capital of Beiyuan.
The envoys from Beiyuan looked at each other, unable to believe what this young man said.
There was no one left alive in Qi Ruo'er's tribe in that battle, and there were no generals who suddenly rose up in Qian'an.