This queen is not too curly

The dead silence around the campfire.

I don't know how long it took before someone rang out with an erratic voice: "This, this is... the tiger that the empress hunted?"

All civil and military officials stared wide-eyed, staring blankly at Yan Yuan.

The woman in front of her was dressed thickly, her pale face was sunken in the collar made of fluff, she looked soft and gentle, was her whole body as big as one of the five strands of a tiger?

Said it was the tiger she hunted...

How can this be?

Even the Arabian Nights dare not write like this!
However, the tiger's body was right in front of them, and everyone stared at the tiger at a loss.

Only Chen Lingshen only looked at Yan Yuan, with the warm fire shining in his calm eyes, as if all of this had nothing to do with him.

Yan Yuan: "..."

Countless gazes were piercing with needles, and Yan Yuan could only explain in desperation: "My lords, don't misunderstand, this tiger was not hunted by me alone."

Yan Yuan explained in a gentle voice: "Bengong, the Holy One and Princess Yuerong accidentally entered the forest and bumped into this tiger by accident. Everyone worked together to hunt it down. I was just lucky enough to take part in making an arrow."

After listening in a daze, everyone finally came back to their senses in a trance.

If they went into the forest with the Holy Majesty and the princess, both of them presumably had their own hidden guards, and if they encountered a mere tiger, they would still have a chance to shoot and kill it.

This makes sense.

The hanging heart finally fell to the ground.

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

"Your Majesty can participate in shooting and killing tigers, which is already very impressive!"

"That's right, is the historian here? This must be recorded!"

"The empress is really a heroine!"

"..."

Yan Yuan walked up to Chen Lingchen and sat down amidst the admiration.

She was still not used to having too many eyes on her body, so she pulled her clothes to wrap herself tighter.

Chen Lingshen handed her a glass of wine.

Yan Yuan took it casually, lowered her head and took a sip without looking at it, suddenly felt that the aroma of the wine was too strong and lingering, unlike the sweet and refreshing fruit wine that the palace usually prepared for concubines.

She froze for a moment, then lowered her head to realize that her wine glass was still placed on the table in front of her, but the table in front of Chen Lingchen was empty without any wine glass.

So this glass of wine...is Chen Lingshen's?

Yan Yuan raised her head to look at Chen Lingchen.

The corners of Chen Ling's mouth slightly raised, and he asked in a low voice, "Is it delicious?"

Yan Yuan opened her mouth, she wanted to say that the taste of the wine is not the point at all, the point is that you don't have to share the same glass to taste the wine, wouldn't it be more convenient for him to just take the jug and pour it into her glass?
But the words came out: "...The concubine is not used to strong alcohol."

He revealed that he was struck by lightning because of his drinking capacity.

Even if he didn't die on the battlefield, he could easily die at the celebration banquet.

Chen Ling said calmly, "The queen doesn't look like she's not used to it."

Yan Yuan immediately frowned.

Chen Ling said silently: "It's late."

Yan Yuan: "..."

Chen Ling looked at her mushroom face pretending to be dead, and suddenly laughed softly.

He took back the teacup, drank the remaining half of the glass by himself, and refilled the fruit wine for Yan Yuan: "Let's drink the sweet one."

Yan Yuan:? ? ?
So what is the purpose of his extravagance?
Just to test her drinking capacity?
The key is that half a cup can't be measured!
……

When the bonfire was at its peak, the civil and military officials were in full swing.

Suddenly there was a commotion next to the tent, everyone looked sideways and found that it was Princess Yuerong walking slowly from the direction where the tent was located.

Princess Yuerong took off her military uniform tonight, revealing her slender figure. When viewed from a distance, she was already indescribably graceful. When she walked in front of the crowd, the crowd was suddenly so quiet that even breathing could not be heard.

There is only one thought flowing in everyone's mind: It turns out that it is not just a rumor.

Princess Yuerong walked up to Chu Lingchen gracefully, bent down and made a rather complicated salute: "Jin Yuerong, I have met His Majesty the Emperor, I wish your Majesty good health and the peace and prosperity of the two countries."

What she did was the greatest etiquette that an envoy could do, and she had never done this kind of etiquette even in the presence of the Queen Mother and Chen Lingchen on the night of the reception banquet.

Everyone was startled.

Yan Yuan's heart also jumped following Princess Yuerong's movements.

With such a great gift, what does she want to do?
Under the eyes of everyone, Princess Yuerong took out a scroll of silk from her sleeve and raised it above her head: "Yuerong came here with the map of the treasure of the Blue City, to meet the Lord of Yan Kingdom, and to inherit the ambition of my monarch. The marriage is good, and the prosperity and harmony will be shared. The letter of credence is here, and I wish to be honored by the emperor!"

There was suddenly silence around the campfire, so quiet that even breathing could not be heard.

These days, the marriage and the map of the blue city treasure are all just speculations.

Who would have thought that the final outcome would be tonight?

But why tonight?

Princess Yuerong leaned over and held up the letter of credence.

After a long time, Chen Ling's deep voice sounded slowly: "Submit it."

The eunuch in charge of the Qianzheng Palace finally came to his senses, walked up to Princess Yuerong in small steps, took the letter of credence, and presented it to Chen Lingchen tremblingly.

Chen Ling cast a glance with lowered eyebrows, and said calmly, "Princess, please take a seat."

Princess Yuerong didn't move, she looked at Chen Ling Shen, and said in a low and flexible voice, "Yuerong's mission is not over yet, I hope His Majesty will reply."

Chen Ling said calmly, "Why is it tonight?"

Princess Yuerong said: "All the ministers have arrived tonight, and the royal family and relatives are all here, what's wrong?"

……

Silence and stalemate spread.

Yan Yuan lowered her head and took a sip of the fruit wine, letting the sweet taste spread in her throat.

There's really nothing wrong with that.

She thought to herself, it would be the most appropriate thing to force the marriage while there are so many people.

……

Yuerong pressed her every step of the way, Chen Ling's expression remained unchanged, but there was already a thin layer of frost in his pupils.

He said: "Since the princess and the empress have such intentions, they should be the blessings of our country Yan, but I don't know if the princess has a favorite candidate in her heart? I am lonely, and I am happy to fulfill it."

The implication is not to play lonely ideas.

Yan Yuan: "..."

Princess Yuerong was not discouraged.

She just smiled and said: "Yue Rong has worshiped military generals since she was a child, and she yearns for heroes who bend bows and shoot geese, and hold swords and ride horses. Yue Rong wants to choose the one who wins the winter hunting, and I hope His Majesty will do it."

The leader of the winter hunt...

Everyone's eyes fell on the tiger by the campfire.

Although the winter hunting lasted for two days and one night, there was no suspense in the top spot.

Is there anyone else who can hunt a lion from the steppe?Or find the second tiger that strayed into the royal hunting ground from the forest?Not to mention whether you can meet it, or whether you can save your life is not necessarily the case.

And the one who hunted the top tiger was...

Princess, queen, emperor.

The implication of Princess Yuerong's words is already obvious.

She wants to enter the palace.

What does the Holy One mean?
The probing eyes of all civil and military officials were fixed on Chen Lingchen.

Chen Ling remained calm, even lowered his eyebrows and smiled, and said, "Then we will see the hero tomorrow night."

Princess Yuerong said: "Thank you, Your Majesty, for fulfilling this."

Yan Yuan's heart shuddered, and she looked at Chen Lingchen.

He did not refuse.

Yan Yuan lowered her head and took a sip of the fruit wine.

She knew what was causing the growing taste in her chest.

……

Some things are just normal when you don't know them.

Knowing it, I felt a little wronged, even the fruit wine had a little sour taste.

It was at this time that Princess Yuerong sat in Yan Yuan's seat.

She drank as soon as she sat down, one cup after another, until she finished drinking all the wine in the jug on the seat, she rested her chin and looked at Yan Yuan: "Your Majesty drank Yuerong's tea, can you give me a glass of wine in return?" ?”

Without waiting for Yan Yuan to agree, she took the wine on her table and drank it.

At the end of the drink, his eyes were bleary with drunkenness, and he leaned towards Yan Yuan precariously.

Instinctively, Yan Yuan wanted to hide, but she saw that Princess Yuerong was lost and really fell to the ground—she had no choice but to grab a handful, so the princess lay down in her arms.

Yan Yuan: "..."

She wanted to push her away, but looking at the similar face, she didn't do that after all.

Princess Yuerong stretched out a fingertip, poked Yan Yuan's chin, and said softly, "You are really soft-hearted. You have been robbed, but you don't know how to wait for an opportunity to retaliate."

Yan Yuan frowned and said, "You're drunk."

Princess Yuerong said lightly: "No, I just don't like you."

Yan Yuan: "..."

She wanted to poke Yan Yuan's cheek again.

The next moment, his wrist was grabbed by a cold hand.

Chen Ling moved her hand away, and said coldly, "Princess, please respect yourself."

Yuerong laughed foolishly, and supported her body from Yan Yuan's arms, she did not break free from the restraint, but said softly: "Did your majesty forget the deal with Yuerong?"

Chen Ling took a deep breath and let go of his hand.

Princess Yuerong held Yan Yuan's shoulders and whispered softly in her ear: "Make a bet with me, Miss Ning."

Miss Ning.

Yan Yuan was startled, and suddenly her whole body became stiff.

She had never been called Miss Ning before, and this weird feeling made her scalp tingle.

Where did she know the word Ning?
Did Ji Fei tell her?

But how did Ji Fei know about Yan Yuan?

Princess Yuerong laughed softly in her ear.

She was probably really drunk, and she lay next to Yan Yuan's ear, murmured a lot in a language that Yan Yuan could not understand, and finally changed into the common Mandarin of Jin and Yan: "Miss Ning , shall we also make a deal?"

Yan Yuan didn't know why, so she was at a loss.

He raised his head but met Princess Yuerong's graceful eyes.

Holding the wine glass in her hand, the princess lazily brought it to Zhu's lips for a sip, and then she casually put the wine glass upside down on the table.

Yan Yuan stared at the wine glass and was stunned.

Princess Yuerong's move did not seem to be an unintentional move, but rather... a signal.

What will be the signal?

Yan Yuan was on guard all over.

Almost at the same time, a cold arrow passed through the bonfire and pierced into the seat where Yan Yuan was sitting!

The small arrow was only a few inches away from Yan Yuan, and it was obviously aimed at Yan Yuan. Before everyone could react, the second and third arrows immediately arrived around Yan Yuan.

The crowd was in an instant riot.

"There are assassins! Come and catch the assassins!"

"Protect the Holy Majesty! Protect the Queen!"

Everyone was in a mess for a while, but the cold arrow still shot towards Yan Yuan from an unknown place.Yan Yuan almost instinctively protected Princess Yuerong, but accidentally exposed her back to others.

The next moment, the cold arrow struck again.

A figure arrived faster than Leng Jian, firmly blocked Yan Yuan like a mountain, and raised his sword to block all Leng Jian.

Leng Jian stopped quietly at some point.

Yan Yuan turned her head to look at the unexpected guest.

The man turned his back to her, holding an unsheathed long sword in his hand, wearing a wide-sleeved Confucian robe, with a figure like a pine and cypress, standing majestically in the flames.

he is……

Yan Yuan suddenly couldn't hear her own heartbeat.

It seems to have stopped.

The forbidden army who came belatedly surrounded him layer by layer, and the commander of the forbidden army yelled, "Who! How dare you trespass on the hunting ground!"

The man put away the long sword in his hand, turned around slowly, and bowed in the direction of Yan Yuan and Chen Lingshen: "Caomin Ji Fei, I have seen His Majesty, I have seen..."

He raised his head, his eyes fell on Yan Yuan's face as quietly as frost and snow: "Empress Empress."