For the emperor

Cang Tiansu pulled Duan Yu's wrinkled collar, glanced at his expression at this time, and smiled helplessly: "I have nothing to do now, don't worry too much."

It's true that there is nothing wrong now, but who knows if there will be anything after returning?Duan Yu pursed his lips, and said very unhappy: "Follow me closely, dogs can jump over walls when they are in a hurry, rabbits can bite people when they are in a hurry, those people are all vicious death row prisoners, who knows if they are in a hurry What will happen?"

After a pause, Major General Duan couldn't help adding: "I've heard of hunting bears, foxes, and tigers. It's the first time I know that you can be a hunter. What the hell is the emperor doing?"

This is a brilliant idea that Emperor Cang Jing came up with. Since the prey is scarce in winter, people are used to make up the number. Hundreds of death row inmates with serious crimes were selected from Jingjing Prison, and each person had a number written on his body.

At that time when he proposed such a general idea, more than half of the prince's face was bloodless, Cang Tianci opened his mouth to object, but Cang Tian Su Xin pulled him back.

Cang Tianci shivered for a moment, and looked at him questioningly with joy welling up from the bottom of his heart in a daze.Cang Tiansu withdrew his hands silently, avoiding his gaze, and didn't say anything.

After such a delay, Cang Tianrui has already come out to praise their good father, the wise and powerful emperor, and stated that he will definitely handle this errand wonderfully.

After half a month, the preparations and deployment were finally completed. Cang Tiansu and Duan Yuxiang came to Shanglinyuan in a chariot. When they got off the car, they happened to see Cang Tianrui standing on a high stand, facing the crowd of nearly a thousand people. The patrol team gesticulates and shows off their power. If they beat them, they must patrol carefully. If any prisoner escapes, they will be dismissed from their posts.

When Emperor Jingdi came late, he assigned horses, and each of them had thirty feathered arrows in their quiver, with their respective names engraved on them.

A dozen prison carts were pulled over, and hundreds of prisoners were unshackled in the middle of the forest farm. They were told that if they could escape out of the paddock alive, they would be given a new life.

Most of them are men, and there are more or less hopes of escaping in their eyes, but there are also a small number of children and female family members, who are family members who have been convicted of crimes. Everyone has gray faces, ragged clothes, yellow and thin faces , eyes filled with fear and uneasiness, not knowing what kind of purgatory humiliation awaited them.

After waiting for another half an hour to ensure that their prey had dispersed today, Emperor Jing ordered the dignitaries who had waited a little impatiently to move freely, and he did not forget to emphasize that the person who shot the most prisoners would be rewarded.

Cang Tianrui, who had been eager to try for a long time, rushed out first, and Cang Tiansu looked at his back thoughtfully.The other sons of Emperor Jing were all soft-footed chickens, and they were dumbfounded when they heard the hunter's proposal, but Cang Tianrui showed an unconcealable interest from the very beginning.

Because he was really afraid that some prisoner would jump up and hurt his precious wife, Duan Yu followed Cang Tiansu step by step, reluctant to move away.

For a person who naturally lacks the most basic sense of security, Cang Tiansu really feels warm and happy for the care and love he shows all the time, but it is not a solution for two people to be tied together like this.

Originally, the number of prey was not much, and Shanglin Garden occupies a very large area. They have not seen a single figure after walking for such a long time. Cang Tiansu himself does not mind returning empty-handed at all. The villain who stabbed people with a knife, but if such a record fell to Duan Yu, it would be more or less unjustifiable.

It took him a lot of effort to coax the reluctant General Duan away. Cang Tiansu opened his bow and casually shot an arrow at the bare tree trunk, but the extremely sharp cold iron arrow only penetrated half an inch crookedly. , making a dull impact sound miserably, falling to the ground.

The level is terrible as if it really came from the hands of someone who has never touched a bow and arrow.

The eldest prince of the Cang Kingdom rode his horse and continued forward. The road he chose was indeed sparsely populated. After nearly an hour, he only encountered two male prisoners.

The first one was hit by an arrow in his stomach and fell to the ground, and his life and death were unclear. The second one escaped with an arrow stuck in his thigh, and Cang Tiansu didn't have any intention of chasing him. In him, the whole person becomes lazy.

Cang Tiansu thought that every winter noon when they had not left the cold palace, Li Mi would carry a simple little horse and sit in the yard where peppers and garlic were drying and bacon was hanging, talking softly, making up and guessing, Tell him about the zeros and zeros of another time and space.

His heart was soft because of such memories. The consequences of his innocence and ignorance in his youth were so tragic that every time he recalled, he could not hide the bloody ferocity, mixed with unspeakable pain and torture, which was rare. Be able to calm down and look back carefully to savor.

A vague figure rushed over from the side, Cang Tiansu's bow and arrow had been completely drawn, as long as he shot another arrow, the goal he set for himself today would be basically accomplished, a so-called Zhenbei general whose riding and archery skills are very bad, naturally It will make those who look down on him feel even more disdainful.

When the figure ran close, Cang Tiansu's fully drawn bow and arrow did not shoot out, so he pressed the arrow down and was stunned for a moment.

This is a woman, almost naked, with a swaddling baby tightly in her arms, and she threw herself upright at the feet of his steed, her forehead hit the yellow ground heavily, and blood gushed out all at once: "My lord, help me, please help my lord!" my son--"

She didn't raise her head, she kowtowed and begged for mercy, wept and kissed the baby in her arms, and lifted the baby up high while trembling, crying and laughing, she was on the verge of insanity: "Please— —Please help him—”

The woman was crying heart-piercingly, her face was mixed with mud and dust, tears and blood were rolling down, with such a distressed appearance, Cang Tiansu really couldn't identify who it was, but he recognized the voice, almost Heard it a few months ago.

Cang Tiansu gently pulled away the swaddling clothes made of prison uniforms. The three-month-old baby was a small ball, which looked like a premature baby with a congenital deficiency. It lay quietly in the dirty prison clothes, with There is a warm residue.

Cang Tiansu closed his eyes, at that time in Chengwang Mansion of Jinzhou, Mrs Yu was already seven months pregnant, now four months have passed.

The child was supposed to be his only cousin.Cang Tiansu finally understood what Cang Jinglan was trying to do to hold a hunter contest, but he hadn't finally guessed the man's joy at all, with a ball of cotton stuck in his chest, he could hardly breathe.

Cang Tiansu had never harbored such unrealistic fantasies, hoping that Emperor Jing would allow this child to grow up safely. When he brought Mrs. Yu to the capital, he knew well that the mother and child would not survive. long.

Cang Tian always thought that they would never meet again in this life, but now, after Cang Jinglan's careful planning, they met again on the hunting ground.One fled helplessly like a beast, deprived of even the minimum dignity of being a human being, and the other was holding a bow and arrow, ready to shoot at any time.

He also never thought that he was a good person. Cang Tiansu looked at this woman who was in pain, but found that his humanity had not been wiped out.

Mrs. Yu has a face that is very similar to his mother, panicked, fearful, as a victim of a man's power struggle, the most innocent victim, facing a life that is turned upside down in an instant, facing the executioner's butcher's knife, kowtow Weeping blood, begging and begging, just to let the three-month-old son in his arms live.

What a familiar scene, Cang Tiansu stared at her face, without saying a word.

When we look at a certain object without moving, over time, we can find that the appearance of that object has changed.

Cang Tiansu encountered such a situation now, he found that Yu's facial features gradually deformed, condensing into another woman's face.

That face was a duplicate of his.

His eyes were a little dark, the feeling of dizziness filled his chaotic brain, and there were bursts of roaring in his ears, and he couldn't breathe.

Cang Tiansu tightened his grip on the reins, and it took him a while to find his own voice: "Take two roads to the left, and go straight ahead to the north gate of Shanglin Garden. Give this to the team leader who is on duty at the north gate today, and he I will arrange a retreat for you."

This hunting was organized by Cang Tianrui's team, Cang Tiansu did not intervene, but just in case, he still got one of his own people to come here.The leader on duty at the North Gate was transferred from the Northwest Army in a different way.

He took out a long sword from the quiver, bent the arrow, leaving only the arrow handle with a special mark, Cang Tiansu tore off a piece of the skirt of the prince's clothes, and wrote a few strokes with the charcoal pen he carried, Throw it on the ground ahead.

Yu Shi burst into tears, thank you so much, crawled on his knees and held the baby tightly in his hand, kissed and kissed the baby in the swaddle with the other hand, kowtowed to him a few more times, found the right direction and ran like mad .

"The north gate of Shanglin Garden is at least two hours away from here. Let alone whether the child can survive until she finds a doctor, there are still countless people with bows and arrows waiting for her." A faint voice sounded behind him, and the sky When Su turned his head, Emperor Jing rode his horse and stopped at a distance of ten meters away by himself, his face could not argue with emotion, "Besides, you really think that you can send her out with a small commander?"

No, of course not, Cang Tiansu knew very well that Yu Shi and the child in her arms were the real protagonists of this hunting activity. Cang Tianrui probably didn't know about it, but Emperor Jing must have specially arranged people to prevent it. She fled.

Cang Tiansu turned the horse's head and faced him, but abnormally did not salute or speak.

Cang Jinglan smiled, her flying eyebrows and deep peach eyes teased a little: "Anyway, she will be killed sooner or later, so what's the difference if you do this?"

"Of course there is a difference," Cang Tiansu looked back without showing any weakness, "At least I wasn't the one who killed her."

The turbulent emotion in his heart was close to getting out of control, Cang Tiansu didn't want to say more, he knew it was not feasible and did it, just for the few soft corners left in his heart that had just been touched.

He actually doesn't care whether Mrs. Yu and the child in her arms can live until tomorrow. What he cares about is that he finally doesn't have to wait helplessly as he did four years ago or even 16 years ago. Do something, even if it doesn't work.

Many times, people just need to give themselves an explanation.