Chapter 110: Spring Hunt (3)
"Look?" Li Shimin laughed when he heard this, "You are a young hero who captured Fu Yun alive, such a good opportunity to show your talents, will I let you see the excitement?" β
As he spoke, he turned his head and shouted to the crowd, "Where is Cheng Fan?" β
Chengfan is Li Daozong's word, and Li Daozong hurriedly came out of the crowd: "Weichen is here." β
Li Shimin asked: "Cheng Fan, Li Hao was your personal guard, and you were also present when he captured Fu Yun, does he really not know how to open a bow?" β
Li Daozong bowed his head and said: "Back to Your Majesty, Weichen has not seen Li Hao open a bow. β
He said this very strictly, but it was the truth, he really had never seen Li Hao shoot a bow and arrow.
"Oh?" Li Shimin frowned when he heard this, obviously not very happy, but Li Hao was very happy, haha, you can be lazy.
However, Li Hao was not happy for a second, but he heard Li Daozong suddenly say again, "Your Majesty, although Weichen has not seen Li Hao open a bow, he knows that he is especially good at slingshots, and he also calls himself slingshot Xiao Li Guang." β
When Li Hao heard this, he really wanted to go up and smoke Li Daozong's two ear scrapers: "Why do you owe so much!" How can you owe it so much! No wonder he was beaten by Wei Chigong, deserved! β
Li Shimin raised his eyebrows and looked at Li Hao: "Slingshot little Li Guang?" β
Li Hao smiled embarrassedly: "Your Majesty, don't take it seriously, that's Weichen's nonsense." β
Li Shimin automatically filtered his sentence: "What is the slingshot, let me see." β
Li Hao was helpless, took out the slingshot from his arms, and handed it over with both hands.
Li Shimin took it in his hand, and he couldn't understand what it was at all, but when he found the strange material of slingshot rubber rope, his eyes showed surprise, and he asked, "This rope ...... What is it? β
Li Hao replied helplessly: "Back to Your Majesty, Weichen doesn't know." β
"Don't you know?" Li Shimin was obviously dissatisfied with his answer, thinking that he was perfunctory, "Then where did you get this slingshot from?" β
Li Hao had an idea: "Back to Your Majesty, I bought it from a Hu merchant, and I thought it was very interesting when I bought it." β
"It's really interesting." Li Shimin pulled the rubber rope and asked, "How to use this thing?" β
Li Hao stretched out his hand and said, "Weichen is willing to show it for His Majesty." β
Li Shimin handed the slingshot back to him, he took out a steel ball from the marble bag on his waist, buckled the bullet, pulled it apart, aimed it at the distance, and let go of his left hand, with a soft pop, the steel ball flew away.
Li Shimin clapped his hands and praised lightly after reading it: "It's interesting, it's really interesting." β
Li Hao was embarrassed: "It's ugly." β
Li Daozong looked a little puzzled, because last time Li Hao used a fish dart when he shot Za Kejilun in front of the formation, but this time he replaced it with a steel ball, and it was obvious that the power of the steel ball was far worse than that of a fish dart.
Li Shimin laughed, and suddenly said with interest: "I suddenly have a good idea, I want to have a hunting competition, who will be this competition...... Li Ji, Hou Junji, Niu Jinda, Duan Zhixuan, the four of you come forward. β
When these four people heard this, they stepped forward at the same time, Li Shimin glanced at them, and said slowly: "The four of you, plus Li Hao, have a hunting competition, with a time limit of one hour, whoever hunts the most prey will win." β
Cheng Biting Jin on the side interjected: "Your Majesty, Lao Cheng also wants to participate." β
Li Shimin glanced at him: "Your iron lance is acceptable, archery is a mess, or that's it, if anyone hunts the least prey, there will be a punishment." β
Li Hao was shocked when he heard this, and blurted out: "What punishment?" β
Li Shimin thought for a while and said, "Fines 5,000 yuan." β
Everyone was stunned, is this aimed at Li Hao, knowing that Li Hao is greedy for money, and setting the punishment to a fine money.
Who knew that Li Shimin paused, and added: "You are the richest poet, if you lose, you will be punished more, 50,000 yuan." β
Li Hao almost jumped up when he heard this, how can he be like this, playing double standards, and the disparity in this standard is inevitably too big! Do I blame me for having money?
Everyone didn't say anything, they could see that Li Shimin was targeting Li Hao.
Li Hao wanted to object, but he didn't dare, so he had an idea and asked: "Your Majesty, rewards and punishments have never been separated, if you win, what is the prize?" β
Li Shimin laughed when he heard this, stretched out his finger and pointed at Li Hao: "You, you...... You can't afford to lose anything. β
Li Hao could only laugh dryly, but he was slandering in his heart: "Your grandmother has a leg, is this called a half-point loss, this is a loss of 50,000 points!" β
"It really needs to be a little bit of a lottery." Li Shimin thought for a moment and said, "The winner can make a request to me, as long as the request is not excessive, I will agree." β
At first glance, this color is good, and it is not an ordinary request to ask Li Shimin, but Li Hao knows that this is nonsense, because there is a premise, what is not excessive, how to not be excessive, that is not Li Shimin's final say.
Li Shimin glanced at them with a smile on his face and asked, "Do you still have any objections?" β
The four people except Li Hao replied together: "The ministers have no objections. β
Only Li Hao asked weakly: "Your Majesty, can Weichen not participate?" β
Li Shimin was suddenly unhappy, and said with a tiger face: "You plan to resist the decree?" β
"Wechen doesn't dare." Li Hao hurriedly knelt down and said, "It's just, Your Majesty, these four are all veterans of the battlefield who have made great achievements, and they have killed more people than Wechen has trampled on more ants than Wechen, so let Wechen compare hunt......ing with them."
Shishi's face became even more ugly, and he directly interrupted him: "What do you mean by saying that I have embarrassed you?" β
Seeing this, Li Hao knew that he couldn't escape this, so he could only say: "Weichen doesn't dare, Weichen is willing to compete with the four seniors." β
At this time, Li Ke, the king of Wu, suddenly came out and said: "Father, the emperor and his sons also want to participate in this competition." β
Li Shimin glanced at Li Ke, the sun bloomed on his cold face, Li Ke is one of the many princes who made him very satisfied, he once praised Li Ke for "daring to like me", Li Shimin also spoiled him very much, and never let his official (take office), last year, there were many ministers who were sparse and asked to let the officials of King Wu, Li Shimin couldn't bear the invitation of the ministers, so it was allowed to play, but later because the queen was sick and delayed, it was not done, so until now, Li Ke has not been an official.
Seeing Li Ke take the initiative to ask for help, Li Shimin was very happy, Li Ke was skilled in bowing and horses, if he participated, he might be able to win these veterans on the battlefield, so in this way, his father's face would be bright, so he didn't think about it, so he smiled and nodded: "Okay, quasi-play." β
Li Ke was secretly happy, he could finally behave well, walked to Li Hao's side and stood side by side.
The crown prince Li Chengqian frowned when he saw this, he knew that Li Ke and Li Tai were both interested in the throne, and as the heir to the throne, how could he let them get their wish, since Li Ke wanted to perform, he couldn't fall behind, so he also took the initiative to come out and said: "Father, the sons and daughters also want to compete with your uncles." β
Although Li Shimin also loves Li Chengqian, but the way of love is different from other princes, because Li Chengqian is the crown prince, he has always been strict with Li Chengqian, much stricter than other princes, he raised the smile on his face, and asked: "The blood on your uncles' hands is more than the water you have drunk, and you dare to participate?" β
Li Chengqian is not happy, is this underestimating me, he looked at Li Hao and Li Ke, and the arrogance in his heart was aroused more and more, and he said loudly: "Li Hao is eighteen years old and dares to compete with all his uncles, why don't I dare!" β
Li Hao sneered when he heard this: "NaΓ―ve, too naΓ―ve, I was forced to do it!" Forced! Were you just there or dozing off? Don't you see! β
Li Shimin looked at Li Chengqian with a very "hard" look for a while, nodded and said, "Quasi-play." β
Li Chengqian immediately resisted his joy and walked into the queue, but he did not stand with Li Ke, but stood beside Hou Junji.
Li Chengqian and Li Ke were on the field, and Li Tai, the king of Wei, immediately couldn't help it, and also wanted to invite him to participate in the competition, but he looked down at his round belly, and reluctantly withdrew the thick legs he had just taken, this scene happened to be seen by Li Hao, Li Hao really couldn't help it, and laughed.
Li Tai saw him laughing at himself, and he was instantly angry, if it weren't for Li Shimin here, he would definitely rush up and fight with Li Hao.
Li Shimin glanced at the seven people, and finally his eyes fell on Li Hao and Li Ke, and said seriously: "I originally thought that there were no heroes among the younger generation, but I am quite relieved to see you two today, don't disappoint me." β
Li Hao and Li Ke gave up their hands at the same time:
"The son must not disappoint his father."
"Wechen try not to disappoint Your Majesty."
Li Shimin saw Li Hao's reluctant death, and suddenly wanted to beat him, this product has not been trained for a few days, and he began to make mistakes again.
Li Chengqian on the side was unhappy when he saw this, he was young, he was vigorous, he was the prince of the Tang Dynasty, he should be the best young generation in the world, but Li Shimin spoke so highly of these two people, and ignored himself, what do you mean!
If you want to talk about jealousy, Li Chengqian is even more jealous of Li Hao, why, because Li Shimin always praises Li Hao in front of all the princes, and Li Hao actually became someone else's child once.
This is not all, recently, Li Shimin sent Xu Lian to send a plaque to the East Palace, the plaque is a poem, yes, it is Li Hao's "Compassion for Nong", Xu Lian passed Li Shimin's dictation, this plaque must be hung in the dining room of the side hall, and let him recite it aloud every time before eating.
Li Chengqian is so unhappy, after all, he is young and vigorous, let him recite a poem written by a guy who is one year younger than himself every day, can he be comfortable, he secretly gritted his teeth, and decided that this hunt today, he must win Li Hao, and not steam steamed buns to fight for breath.
Li Shimin sent two Jin Wuwei to each of the three young people to protect, and then let them set off to hunt, and the group set off separately, leaving the school field and entering the mountains and forests.
After Li Hao entered the mountain forest, he found that the terrain here was relatively gentle, and the trees were relatively sparse, it stands to reason that there were fewer prey in this kind of place, but he knew that this was a royal hunt, and the right guard had already blocked the surroundings, and before the blockade, he drove a lot of prey into the encirclement, except for the ferocious animals, of course.
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