Dingjiangshan

At two quarters in the afternoon, Ning Yan took Xie Jue and Jing Zhan back to the camp.

Seeing them coming back, the servants who were waiting at the door to count the prey rushed up to greet them. While leading the horse away, they handed warm towels to wipe the faces and hands of the masters.

"The badger on my horse belongs to Master Guoshi." Xie Jue shook the towel and shouted far away: "Don't make a mistake."

The servant, who was carrying the prey down from the horse's back, trembled, and almost threw a half-human tall wild deer to the ground.The middle-aged waiter next to him who was recording the number of prey glared at him, then hurriedly turned around and smiled at Xie Jue, nodding and bowing, and agreed repeatedly. He crossed out the number he had just crossed out in his hand, and wrote a new one.

The stag that Ning Yan had hunted back earlier had been washed to remove the blood on its fur, and it was placed on the other side of the hunting ground together with the previously agreed-upon lottery head, lying on the wooden shelf under the bow.

There are more than a dozen piles of prey that have been separated beside the wooden shelf. Someone should have come back in the morning, put down the prey and went out again.

On the first day of winter hunting, few people would only stay in the woods for half a day like Ning Yan did. Most of them brought enough dry food and water when they set off in the morning, ready to soak in the woods for a day.

The area where the camp was camped was already faintly lit with cooking smoke, and the dining room had prepared fresh vegetables, fruits and fish on the first day, although it could not be compared with that in the palace, it was not bad.

Ning Yan threw the cool towel back into the waiter's hand, and didn't bother to ride the horse any more. Just as he was about to stroll back to the tent, he heard the sound of horse hooves behind him.

Ning Yan turned his head following the sound, and found a shadowy figure at the end of the path outside the hunting ground.

The figure Ning Yan knew who it was at a glance, he raised his hand, signaling Xie Jue and Jing Zhan to return to the camp first, while he stopped, waiting for that person to approach.

Ning Huaijin came back a cup of tea later than Ning Yan. Needless to say, the clan's children, riding and archery skills, Ning Huaijin looks stable on weekdays, but he is young after all. The prey was no less than Ning Yan.

Ning Huaijin saw Ning Yan waiting for him at the door from a long distance away, quickly stopped his horse a dozen steps away, dismounted and came over.

"Why didn't Your Majesty play longer in the woods?" Ning Huaijin asked.

Ning Yan waved his hand, signaling to the servants to take his horse away, then naturally moved closer, reaching out to help Ning Huaijin pat off the broken snow on Ning Huaijin's shoulders and outside of his cloak.

"For the first day, don't rush to fight with them." Ning Yan said with a smile: "What's more, the dry food is not as good as the lunch in the dining room."

"Since we're back, we can't stay outside in the cold." Ning Huaijin said earnestly, "If you catch a cold, Your Majesty won't take medicine anymore."

While he was talking, the servant leading the horse was passing by him out of the corner of his eye. Ning Huaijin called out to him, and gave him another order: "There is an adult white fox with a good coat. Hurry up and return it while it's bloody." Brush it out as soon as it’s not cold, or it won’t be clean.”

"Hey, I said where is the white fox that I have been looking for for a long time." Ning Yan took over the words: "The co-author was hunted away by the emperor."

A child is unreasonable when he is wayward, and Ning Huaijin obviously followed him in two ways, but when Ning Yan said that he "turned black and white upside down", it became Ning Huaijin who robbed him.

Ning Huaijin has always had nothing to do with him, let alone such a trivial matter, she smiled helplessly, and said along with him: "Okay, what does Your Majesty want to do? Tell them to wash it up later and bring it to you."

"It's nothing, Uncle Huang, let's keep it." Ning Yan said: "I originally wanted to hunt a few skins to make a cloak for Uncle Huang. This one is definitely not enough. I will look for it in the next few days, and it will be enough to gather five or six. That's about it."

It was windy and snowy in the hunting grounds, even if you were wearing a cloak, your hands and feet would still get cold easily. When you came back, you could not directly use the hand stove, otherwise chilblains would easily develop in the hot and cold.Ning Yan pulled Ning Huaijin towards the tent, and felt something was wrong just after taking two steps.

Ning Huaijin's chest was swollen, and it seemed that there was something inside. Ning Yan didn't care about it before, he just thought it was some kind of bait, but he didn't want to move around like this, the thing moved in Ning Huaijin's arms It turned out to be a living thing.

Ning Yan's eyes were sharp, and he noticed a small piece of white fluff on the front of his clothes, and couldn't help but wonder: "What did the emperor get back here?"

If Ning Yan didn't mention it, Ning Huaijin would have forgotten about it. He remembered it when he said it, and quickly opened the skirt of his clothes, and took out a palm-sized thing from inside.

The little animal curled up in a fluffy ball, curled up pitifully in Ning Huaijin's palm and shivered, the fur on its body hadn't fully grown yet, it was just a thin layer, blown to one side by the cold wind.

"I found it in the woods." Ning Huaijin said, "The female mink was taken away by wolves and eaten. There is only this little cub left in the nest. If you don't bring it back, it will freeze to death at night."

The camping place is not too far away, and the time to talk has come.He Wenting was waiting at the door, and when he saw the two of them coming back, he hurriedly opened the curtain to welcome them in, and ordered them to serve tea and snacks.

Ning Yan's tent was as warm as spring, and as soon as he entered, he felt the heat blowing towards his face. The little mink in Ning Huaijin's hand trembled and let out a moaning sound like a mosquito.

Ning Yan looked interesting, and for a while, he didn't even care to take off his cloak, so he reached out and poked it.

The little beast arched in Ning Huaijin's palm, finally showing its small head.It seemed that it had just opened its eyes, a pair of black eyeballs were wet, as if covered with a layer of water mist.

Ning Yan was about to take back his hand, but saw the little beast sniffing his finger. He didn't know what stimulated him for a while, but suddenly he stumbled to his feet, grabbed Ning Yan's finger, and grabbed Ning Yan's finger with all four claws. Ken went down.

Ning Huaijin laughed and said, "This little thing likes Your Majesty."

"Really." Ning Yan smiled and shook his hand lightly, the little mink snorted and hugged his paws even tighter.

It's just that the cub's claws are sharp, so with such force, it left two light red marks on Ning Yan's hands.Although no blood was seen, Ning Huaijin's face changed slightly, and she reached out to lift her away.

"...The minister was negligent." Ning Huaijin said angrily, "I should take it to the animal workshop to deal with it before showing it to Your Majesty."

The little beast didn't know what smell it smelled on Ning Yan, and it actually regarded him as the same kind, and refused to let go of its claws when it was lifted by the back of the neck, whining in its throat, looking very pitiful.

"Forget it." Ning Yan looked soft-hearted, and because it was brought back by Ning Huaijin, who looked so cute, he was a little bit reluctant.He stopped Ning Huaijin, put the little mink back into his palm, and said: "I see it's interesting, so let's keep it."

"That has to be handed over to Beast Workshop to smooth the teeth." Ning Huaijin frowned and said, "Otherwise, what should I do if I bite Your Majesty?"

Ning Yan held the little mink in his palm with one hand, took off the cloak with the other hand, walked to the inner desk separated by a screen and sat down, trying to put the little mink on the table.

"For such a small thing, no matter how sharp its teeth can be... Besides, since it is a beast, what's the point in grinding its teeth and then pulling out its claws." What it does, it's better to put it back in the woods to fend for itself, and it's better than being a plaything to please me."

Ning Huaijin had always been unable to speak against him, so she could only sigh, and called the servant to fetch the wound medicine and the file, and then followed into the inner room.

The little mink liked Ning Yan very much, and had already slipped onto Ning Yan's skirt along his arm, and was now slipping into his arms.

Ning Yan was pulling him out by the back of the neck, but the little mink refused to let go, as if he disliked the cold outside and insisted on getting inside.In the end, Ning Yan had no choice but to grab a palm-sized hand stove cover from the table and stuff it into his arms.

Xiao Diao looked like he was just full moon, and his movements were not very agile. He hugged the stove cover with hands and feet, forgot to use his clothes to borrow strength, and rolled down Ning Yan's chest. I bumped into a mess on my leg.

Ning Yan thought it was funny, so he stretched out his hand to poke again.

Xiao Diao seemed to think that this place was not bad, so he simply rolled into a ball, set up camp on his lap, and fell asleep soundly.

Ning Yan was free, leaned back in the chair, looked up at Ning Huaijin, smiled, and said: "Since this little thing was brought back by Uncle Huang, it's better for Uncle Huang to give it a name."

Ning Huaijin was sitting in the chair on the right side of his lower head, just as he picked up the teacup, he suddenly heard this sentence.

So he put down the teacup again, sat upright and thought about it, but couldn't think of anything good for a while.

If Ning Huaijin was asked to name someone, he would be able to quote a few classics, but if he were to name a small beast, he would really be stumped.

"I don't know either." Ning Huaijin tentatively said: "...Is it Xiaobai?"

Ning Yan: "..."

"Forget it." Ning Yan sighed, and decided not to place any hope on Ning Huaijin's naming ability.

Ning Yan lowered his head and poked Xiao Diao's tail, thought for a moment, and said, "Call me Ah Che."

Ning Huaijin didn't react at first, and asked, "Which one?"

"Clear Che." Ning Yan said, "It's just right, Ning Che also sounds good when you come with me from the water."

"Nonsense." Ning Huaijin said softly: "Your Majesty's name is so precious, how can he be compared with him."

"It's fine, and I don't bark outside." Ning Yan said nonchalantly, "Besides, since I raised it, I'm its reborn parent, and I'm more than enough to be a father. What's wrong with my surname?"

"Your Majesty—" Ning Huaijin wanted to say that was not the case, but Ning Yan interrupted her before she could speak.

"Oh——I see. Uncle Huang thinks that Ah Che was brought back by you, and it's a disadvantage for me to be my son?" Ning Yan deliberately misinterpreted his meaning, nodded pretendingly, and posed very magnanimously. He waved his hand and said, "It's okay, I don't care about you and the emperor, even if I and the emperor are together."

——You are quite generous when you co-author?Ning Huaijin almost laughed angrily at him.