National Division

This was Qi Jun's first hunt after he ascended the throne. Most of the accompanying guards and children from various families tried their best to leave a good impression of bravery in front of the new emperor.Who doesn't know that the new emperor is different from the former emperor Heping Wang who was good at writing. He has been good at bow and horse since he was a child. He is good at martial arts but not good at writing.

Military generals are different from civil officials. Although there are martial arts exams, they are much less compared to civil exams once every three years.Moreover, civil officials can be promoted by relying on their seniority, but military generals are different. If they have no military achievements, they can only rely on the favor of their superiors.Speaking of which, is there a higher boss in the world than the emperor?Although there are many old ministers in the court who still want to firmly control the government, there are countless newcomers who want to climb up. Who wouldn't want to win the favor of the emperor today?Therefore, in the Xishan hunting ground, it was really stormy, and everyone was vying to be the first.

Qi Jun himself took a team of guards to run around. He is the emperor, and the guards naturally didn't dare to let him face the beasts, but they also shot a few wild deer and wolves, and even used a rope to trap a fox. .

"This fox's fur is really rich." Wenxiu expressed admiration, "Why did your Majesty think of using a rope to tie a horse? I have heard of using a rope to tie a horse, but this fox is so small, and it loves to be in grass. How did His Majesty manage to get into the bushes?"

Qi Jun smiled: "There are guards chasing him, so it's not too difficult."

"Your Majesty is easy to say. If you change someone else, there are a few who can get it." Wenxiu helped Qi Jun change his clothes, and said with a smile, "The Empress Dowager just sent someone to ask, when is Your Majesty return."

"What's the matter, mother? But I'm not used to it here?" Although Qi Jun brought the female relatives from the harem here, it was just to let them go out to relax, and the camp was also set up far away from the hunting ground, lest something would come out and startle the female relatives. .

Wenxiu smiled and said: "No, the servant girl saw that the Empress Dowager was very happy, and summoned several girls to the camp, and even went to watch their horse racing."

Qi Jun frowned slightly.He knew that to appease and win over the old ministers, it was the easiest way to choose the daughter of his family to be included in the palace. The emperors of all dynasties have done this. Even when he married Zhao Yue as his concubine, he first considered her family background.But it's one thing to marry a concubine, another thing to accept a harem, and I can't explain why, anyway, he doesn't want to draft, at least not now.Zhao Di still has some real skills, but what are these people in the court who are eating vegetarian food?If the Empress Dowager is with him, it would be great to refute the draft for him, but unfortunately——The Empress Dowager only focuses on the heirs, and she seems to be more active than anyone else...

"Is the Queen Mother still in the camp at this time?"

"It should be to the south to watch the girls from various families race horses, and the Empress and Concubine Xian are also following." Wenxiu lowered her head and straightened the hem of Qi Jun's clothes. Maybe it will rain soon, you should invite the Queen Mother back, it would be bad if you got caught in the rain."

"Thunder?" Qi Jun was a little surprised, "There was thunder just now? I didn't hear it."

"Yes, but it sounded far away. There were about four or five rings. His Majesty was just shooting in the woods. It was so noisy there that I might not be able to hear it."

After hearing this, Qi Jun was relieved: "Even if it is far away, it doesn't matter if you think about it."

Wenxiu pursed her lips and smiled: "What your majesty said is true, but this servant is just talking for nothing. Because I heard a few thunders last night, today the thunder sounds closer than last night, so I am worried. Others That's all, the Empress Dowager was seriously ill that year, even though it was the national teacher's method to prolong her life, the servants are also afraid that the empress will hurt their vitality, so they should be more careful on weekdays."

"You're still careful." Qi Jun smiled, "It's just that there was thunder last night?"

"Yes. The servant is on duty at night. I heard it in the dead of night, first twice, then three times, and then there seemed to be a few more sounds. The servant did not count, but it sounded more and more similar."

Wenxiu was talking, when he heard a rumble in the sky, it sounded that they were very close.The thunder was trembling continuously, this one hadn't completely calmed down, the second one sounded again, continuously, there were as many as six rings.Wenxiu raised her head in surprise and listened: "Your Majesty, this servant is approaching again, I'm afraid it's really going to rain, I'm afraid it won't work in this camp..."

Although the camp tents are made of high-quality felt, and can be covered with tung tarpaulin outside, it is only a temporary accommodation after all. The thunder is so dull and heavy, and the rain may not be light.The camp is between the two mountains, so it is a good place to stay when the wind is sunny, but if it really rains heavily, the terrain here is the lowest, and the rainwater will gather here, so where can we stay?Qi Jun frowned: "Quickly ask someone to pick up the queen mother." He walked out of the tent as he spoke, and when he lifted the curtain, he felt a gust of wind blowing on his face, which was much stronger than the morning breeze when he was hunting. Bringing some moisture, "Tell everyone to break camp and return to the palace."

The palace is twenty miles away from here, if you leave now, those who stay behind to pack up will naturally be drenched in the rain, the masters may be able to arrive before it rains in a carriage.There are decent houses over there, Emperor Jing'an is very luxurious, even the palace is built very carefully, not to mention wind and rain, even earthquakes are fine.

After Qi Jun said this, the camp suddenly became busy.Qi Jun raised his head and looked towards the place where the thunder came, and saw that the sky was as blue as a wash, only the horizon was a little dark.At first it was just a black line, but during the time when Qi Jun was looking into the distance, that black line more than doubled in thickness, and it was already clearly seen that it was a dark cloud.

"It came sooner." Qi Jun couldn't help saying something, then turned his head and said, "Hurry up, let the palace staff clean up the queen mother and queen's things, and let the chariot take the queen mother directly to the palace."

Feng En quickly agreed, and after catching the little man, he sent a letter to the empress dowager and the chief internal supervisor beside the empress.As soon as Qi Jun turned his gaze, he saw Zhibai standing at the door of his tent, also looking up at the dark clouds in the sky.He frowned in a rare way, with a cold look on his face.Qi Jun strode over: "What are you still standing for? Ask someone to pack your things for you, and hurry to the palace."

The wind has become much stronger in this short period of time, blowing the curtains of the camp tent and flapping, and Qi Jun has to raise his voice to suppress the whistling wind.Zhibai didn't seem to be listening to him, and still looked up at the sky.Qi Jun frowned unconsciously, and stretched out his hand to pull him: "I'm talking to you! Hurry up and pack up—forget it, you don't have much stuff, get in the car and go to the palace!" Although Zhibai's face is ruddy and lively now, Qi Jun always remembered how pale and trembling he was after doing the method to move the cloud. He was afraid that he would get sick if he was caught in the rain.

The last sentence was a bit of a joke, but Zhibai trembled a little: "Your Majesty, this thundercloud came at a wrong time."

"It's coming sooner. Otherwise, why go to the palace immediately, I'm afraid there will be heavy rain in a while." Qi Jun pulled him again, "Why are you still in a daze, let's go! Feng En, send the national teacher away Get in the carriage!"

Feng En came over in response, sweating from running: "Your Majesty, the Empress Dowager, the Empress Dowager, the Concubine Xian, and those girls have all sat in chariots and left for the palace under the protection of the guards."

The most troublesome thing about moving the camp is the female family members. Now that the female family members are all on the road, Qi Jun is relieved: "Watch people watch the tent to pack the queen mother's things, so there must be no mistakes!" The things of the female family members in the harem cannot be lost Yes, otherwise, there is no telling when it will cause some trouble. The incident happened suddenly, and the empress dowager and the maids beside the empress did not have time to take care of it slowly, and there was a possibility that someone would have some crooked thoughts.

Feng En promised to turn around and run away, but Zhibai grabbed him: "Your Majesty, don't pack your things, get out of here quickly!"

When he opened his mouth to speak, there was another bang in the sky, and a new round of thunder began again.That piece of dark cloud had already covered half of the sky, even the sun was dimmed, and the wind was blowing so loudly that it sounded like a ghost crying, so that Qi Jun couldn't even hear Zhibai's words clearly. He only thought he was worried, so he squeezed His hand: "Understood, get in the carriage quickly. Wenxiu! Send the national teacher to the carriage!"

Wenxiu was not willing, but she didn't show it at all, she came over a few steps and bowed to Zhibai: "National teacher, the carriages are over there, please go first, so that the emperor won't worry."

When the few people were talking, the thunder in the sky continued to rumble, seven times in full.In the midst of these seven thunderclaps, swirling dark clouds have already covered most of the sky, forming an extremely sharp boundary between black and blue, and the sunlight pitifully only shoots down from that small piece of clear sky, so dim that it is almost invisible .The wind was blowing as if it was the twelfth lunar month ahead of schedule. In some tents, the stakes were lifted up by the wind, rolling all over the ground, and even those who ran back and forth with their things were knocked down. It's a hassle to pick it up again.

Qi Jun felt a chill on his face, and a drop of rain the size of a soybean had already landed on his face. Feng En ran back after delivering the message, and said in a hurry: "Your Majesty, hurry up, there are servants here to take care of you." , seeing that the rain is about to fall, let's take a chariot."

Qi Jun thought that the female relatives had already gone first, and the rest of the officials and guards would follow him, so he nodded and walked to his chariot. Fortunately, although the raindrops were heavy, it was still sparse, and he didn't get wet when he walked to the chariot. Wet a few places, I couldn't help thinking that I should ask Zhibai to take a car with him.He lifted the curtain to get into the car while thinking, but saw Wenxiu was busy preparing tea in the car, he was startled: "Why didn't you follow the national teacher?"

"The servant came here after sending the national teacher into the carriage." Wenxiu quickly turned around, "The servant is serving the emperor, and there are middle-aged people on the national teacher's side."

Qi Jun was slightly displeased, but it was raining heavily, so he didn't say anything, and started driving in the chariot.

After walking for a while, Qi Jun heard some commotion outside, Wenxiu had opened the curtain of the car, and reprimanded outside: "Your Majesty is resting, who is making noise here!"

Qi Jun also took a look outside, and saw that outside was a small man who usually waited on the observatory, and immediately sat up straight: "What's the matter?"

"Your Majesty!" The little man fell to his knees with a plop, covered in mud and water, "National Teacher, National Teacher is gone!"

"What!" Qi Jun hurriedly opened the curtain of the car, "Where did the national teacher go?"

The little man was about to cry: "When the thunder rang just now, the national teacher opened the curtain to look at the sky, and then drove all the servants down, told the servants to go to the palace by themselves, drove the carriage by himself, and went to the mountain over there Yes! The slaves wanted to chase, but they didn’t catch up—the slaves should die!” Two legs can’t run as fast as four.

"What did the national teacher go to the mountain for?" Qi Jun hurriedly asked without caring about sending them off.

The little man trembled tremblingly: "The national teacher refused to say, but the servant heard that the national teacher seemed to say something like a catastrophe, and said that innocent people should not be harmed—yes, the national teacher said that if he didn't go, he would stay behind I'm afraid those people won't be able to survive!" At that time, the thunder was rumbling and the wind was howling, and he barely heard these few words, "By the way, the national teacher turned around and shouted at the end, let Your Majesty take care!"

"What kind of words are these!" Qi Jun felt a chill running down his back, knowing that the last words of Zhibai sounded a little ominous?

"Where did the national teacher go?"

"Over there—" Xiaozhong Cai pointed with his hand, and suddenly there was a thunderbolt, which almost exploded on the top of his head, and the surroundings suddenly became dark, and the last piece of blue sky was swallowed by black clouds.The horse pulling the chariot was frightened, rolled its eyes, raised its front hooves and neighed.

"Go to the national teacher!" Qi Jun jumped out of the carriage, pulled a horse beside him and turned over.Wenxiu staggered out of the carriage and tried to stop him, but found nothing, and could only shout hoarsely: "Your Majesty, don't go! It's dangerous!"

Qi Jun turned a deaf ear to her shout, and left with a flick of the rein, but Feng En reacted quickly, shouting loudly at the guards in front and behind: "Guard!" The guards also reacted and quickly followed, a group of people It's gone in a blink of an eye.

The thunder continued.This time, not only the number of thunders increased, but each thunder lasted longer, and the roar became louder.Qi Jun rode his horse and galloped, suddenly a flash of lightning pierced the sky and earth, and a thunderbolt almost fell beside them. Suddenly flames blazed on the old tree not far away, and the air was filled with the smell of burning, and then it was blown towards them again. The storm breaks up.

This thunderbolt shocked everyone's horses.The horses in the palace are also well-trained, and they can calm down if they see wild animals, but after all, they rarely come out, and they have never experienced such a scene of lightning and thunder.What's more, beasts are afraid of fire. Even if they have been domesticated, they still can't completely cover up their nature.A thunderbolt struck, and all the horses neighed together, some timidly turned around and ran, no matter how the rider reined in; the rest also stood up and neighed loudly, forming a mess.When the guards managed to control the horses, they found that Qi Jun had gone somewhere in the darkness.

The thunderbolt rang, and the world was temporarily quiet.Qi Jun ran wildly on his horse, and suddenly realized that there were eight thunderclaps in this round, and before that, when he ordered to leave the camp and move to the palace, there were seven thunderclaps in that round.By analogy, he once heard six thunderclaps in his tent, and the thunderclaps Wenxiu heard seemed to be five, four, three, and two, until that day when he and Zhibai were by the stream At that time, I heard a faint thunder in the distance, which was the beginning.

From one to eight, Qi Jun's heart skipped a beat. The counting starts from one and ends at nine. Does it mean that there are still nine thunders behind it?What exactly is the catastrophe that Zhibai mentioned?

The rain was so violent that people couldn't open their eyes, and the surroundings were so dark that they could hardly see their fingers. Only the electric light broke through the clouds and brought a little light. The horse neighed, stopped and turned from time to time, not wanting to move forward.Another flash of lightning flashed, and Qi Jun vaguely saw a black figure in front of him. He rode his horse over and saw that it was an empty carriage.

This carriage must be the one that Zhibai was sitting in just now, since the carriage is here, the people should not be far away.Qi Jun looked forward, and in the dimness he could barely see that he was about to reach the top of the mountain.The grass around him rustled, but a deer and a wolf ran past side by side.These two wild animals were natural enemies. If it was not normal, the wolves would have rushed up and bit the deer when they saw the deer. However, under such a sudden change in the sky, the wild animals were scared out of their wits and just ran for their lives. Care about hunting?

A group of birds flapped their wings and flew over from the front, scrambling to escape down the mountain.Qi Jun's horse was completely disobedient, no matter how Qi Jun pulled the rein, he refused to move forward, and rolled his eyes to turn back.Qi Jun couldn't see it, so he simply got off his horse and walked on foot, letting the horse run away by itself.For some reason, he just had a feeling——Zhibai is just ahead!

It was as dark as night all around.The thunder did not come for a long time, only the sound of wind and rain, which did not make people feel at ease, but pulled the nerves even tighter.Qi Jun drew out his Zhanlu sword to chop down the long grass and shrubs, and walked forward against the wind and rain. Snakes and insects crawled by his feet from time to time, but he didn't care at all.Suddenly the front was slightly bright, and he had walked out of the bushes. The top of the mountain was in front of him, but it had become a scorched land as if it had been burned by fire. Even the soil on the ground was a little black, and the air was filled with a sulfur-like smell.In the middle of the scorched land, Zhibai sat cross-legged with his heart turned to the sky, his clothes were soaked by the rain, white air was steaming from head to toe; in the white air, a faint golden light could be faintly seen, just in front of him. The top three inches of his head glowed slightly.

"Zhibai!" Qi Jun didn't know what he was going to do, but he also knew it was not a good thing, so he opened his throat and shouted.It's just that just as he opened his mouth, a thunderstorm that had been brewing for a long time exploded close to the top of the mountain, completely covering his voice.Qi Jun's eyes widened suddenly, because a flash of lightning came out from the clouds and landed on Zhibai.

Looking at the scorched earth, Qi Jun still doesn't understand how powerful the thunderbolt is?Seeing that the lightning was about to fall on Zhibai, Zhibai suddenly lifted up the seals of his hands, and a layer of faint golden light floated around his body. When it touched Bai Lian's lightning, the golden light was like a person who had been thrown a stone. The surface of the water was generally turbulent, but the lightning went into the sea like a mud cow, without a trace.

The first thunder passed, and the surroundings returned to silence, even the sound of wind and rain seemed to have stopped, and there was no sound at all like a tomb on the top of the mountain.Qi Jun recovered from his horror, and called out again in a hoarse voice: "Zhibai—"

Zhibai suddenly opened his eyes and turned his head to look over. Seeing Qi Jun coming out of the forest and about to run this way, he quickly waved his hands: "Your Majesty, don't come here! Danger——" The last word was lost in the deafening thunder , the second thunderbolt fell from the sky, and the shining electric light was whiter and more dazzling than the first one.Zhibai didn't care to say anything else, he raised his hands, and the faint golden light flooded again, protecting him in it, the electric light blasted on the golden light, there was a burst of golden and white flickering, and he returned to calm.