A rebellious minister forced me to be a foolish king

Chapter 581: Parental Love 581

Yuan Mingjing smiled as he looked at the receding figure of the young man on the white horse, but asked in a low voice the boy next to him who was taller than his peers.

"His name is Dugu Lang?"

"His name is Dugu Ruyuan."

"Is he married? Does he have a sweetheart?"

"Him? I heard he doesn't like girls."

Hearing this, the little princess stared at the boy beside her with surprise, "Why do you say that?"

Yuwen Tai hurriedly explained, "Don't misunderstand, Your Highness. He doesn't like me either. The little brother loves two things in his life, one is the bow and arrow, and the other is the war horse. I suspect that he likes his own mount."

"How can I see him again?"

"Don't worry, Your Highness. I'll think of a way for you."

The little princess was still looking at the direction where the red-shirted young man was riding his horse. She did not place any hope on the little brother beside her, but she vaguely felt that today's meeting would not be the last time they would see each other, and they might have to continue to be entangled.

When I first met Dugu Ruyuan, he was not yet an adult.

A glimpse under the setting sun, a glance that lasts a lifetime, not only amazed the young and wise Princess Lanling of the Wei Dynasty, but also amazed everyone who met him by chance.

The Xianbei young man's attire of wearing his hat askew showed off his handsome appearance as a young man from the northern frontier, and even started a trend of imitating the "slanted hat style".

The second meeting came very quickly, when the Summer Hunting Competition started.

Horseback archery competition.

The young Xianbei man, who had just shot and killed a white wolf alone in the hunting ground and was destined to be the champion, was wearing a red shirt and a turban.

He sat astride a white horse and acted arrogantly. He treated all his opponents with courtesy before force, respected them but ignored them. He was arrogant and domineering, but also quite graceful.

Because of his handsome face, which was the most beautiful in the grassland, not only could his opponents not get angry with him, but he also attracted the girls from various tribes who were watching to cheer and shout out their love for him. Even his opponents, when they saw his androgynous face, most of them would tremble and lose their aim, and they would not bear to hurt him.

The Han people watching below were inspired to write poems, and they shouted in Chinese, "I feel pity for you" and "The reincarnation of Daji"...

Until the finals, because the rule was that both sides had to shoot at the other's bull's eye and prevent the other from shooting at their own target, the targets were first hung behind both sides' positions, and then the previous champion Dugu Ruyuan was welcomed to the stage, and then the challenger who had just fought his way out of the siege of thousands of people was invited from the bottom.

As a result, in full view of everyone, the opponent who came up was a young girl wearing Xianbei riding clothes. She performed the Han people's fist-holding salute and introduced herself as "Ruyi" in poor Xianbei language.

When their eyes met, Dugu Ruyuan recognized at a glance that the opponent in front of him was the "Shuiwei girl" he had met last night!
The girl couldn't take her eyes off the handsome man from Beisai with broad shoulders, thin waist and long legs.

The previous champion immediately quit and refused to compete with this girl. He also despised her for being young, weak, and thin. He looked down on and despised the delicate Han girls, and he had no sympathy for them.

The Han girl got furious when she heard that. She drew her carved bow and shot three arrows at the bull's eye behind him!
The arrow was like a meteor, shooting towards the red-shirted young man who was on the same stage with her within a few feet!

When she showed her skills, there was no technique but emotion. However, the boy reacted very quickly and drew his bow and shot the arrow that was coming towards him!

——The young man shot the arrowhead steadily, accurately, and fiercely through the arrowhead that almost pierced his pupil! The arrowhead pierced through the arrowhead fiercely!

As a result, the three arrows shot by the Han girl in anger were all intercepted and resolved by him each time.

When it was his turn to shoot back, Dugu Ruyuan unexpectedly predicted her prediction without any hurry! With the same three arrows, two of his arrows hit the bull's eye, and one arrow just brushed past the cloth on her chest and also hit the bull's eye.

The red-shirted boy who won the championship for two consecutive years showed off his shooting skills. Not feeling that the humiliation was not enough, he arrogantly said to the girl who blushed with anger:
"I don't shoot arrows with women because when they see me, they become bull's eyes that won't dodge, and they are not as energetic as hares."

After saying this, the young man who won the championship was so arrogant that he didn't even want to take the two cows as prizes. He just said he gave them to the Han girl, then jumped off the stage, went to find his beloved mount, urged the horse to leave, and said he was in a hurry to go hunting.

The girl who was derogated and made into a target asked him which tribe he was from? How could he be so arrogant?
He left his name leisurely: "Wuchuan Dugu Ruyuan."

This girl is Princess Yuan Mingjing of Lanling, who is now of marriageable age. The Dugu tribe is the main force of the Wuchuan garrison, and is also an old ally of the Tuoba tribe that made fortunes together with them.

Yuan Mingjing wanted to take the opportunity to seek support from the Dugu tribe and raise an army to return to the court to rescue his sister-in-law. However, before he even met the old chief of the Dugu tribe, he lost to the young man of the Dugu family in the arena and lost face.

Seeing the Han girl's unhappy expression, others tried to persuade her, saying that Dugu Ruyuan, the young master of the Dugu tribe in Wuchuan Town, was the best at riding and shooting. He had won the championship for three consecutive years since he was seventeen years old. The men in the north were the most ferocious, and it was not shameful to lose to him.

Yuwen Tai, the fourth son of the Yuwen tribe, who was the same age as her but was born a few months older, also comforted Yuan Mingjing, saying that the boy was just arrogant and his verbal offense was not directed at the Han people, he was the same with everyone.

Moreover, this guy loves riding and shooting the most. He prefers bows and arrows to horses instead of girls. He has a face that looks like a gigolo, but he dreams of upholding justice and going down in history all day long.

Yuan Mingjing was unwilling to lose to this kid, but after all, he came to Wuchuan to ask his father for a favor and to raise the righteous army.

So that day, Princess Lanling suppressed her temper, and personally led the two cows that the archery champion should have won to the yurt of the host Dugu tribe.

By the way, he also carried a few pieces of Shu brocade and silk as a gift.

As a result, when Yuan Mingjing arrived at the yurt, he didn't even see anyone and was given a complete cold shoulder.

She only heard that the chief had taken the young master to hunt in the suburbs, so she had no choice but to hurry along with her guards, and under the guidance of the Dugu tribesmen, she actually found the Dugu family, young and old, in the hunting ground.

It was evening again, and the sky was full of colorful clouds.

The green sea of ​​grass floating in the wind was like surging waves, reflecting the figures riding white horses in the distance as if they were being pushed farther and farther away by the waves until they were swallowed up into the abyss.

However, there were a few black horses that were unrestrained and dived into the sea of ​​grass like sharks, sneaking silently, and when they got close to their prey, they would bite and hunt ferociously!
When the young princess of the Han family, who had reached the age of marriage, rode her horse as the vanguard, shaking off the guards carrying gifts and rushing in front to chase the father and son of the Dugu family, she encountered a thrilling scene in front of her: an uninvited guest broke into the hunting ground, sitting on his horse with a bow and arrow, clearly intending to shoot Chief Dugu!
Those black sharks all rode black horses and wore tight clothes. With a few arrows flying off the bows like the cries of eagles and cranes, they pierced through the strong wind in the wilderness. From a distance, they saw a tall man in front of them who was hit by a sword and fell off his horse.

The young man in red shirt on the white horse next to him also quickly jumped off the horse and rushed towards the person who was shot by the arrow.

Seeing that the assassins realized that someone had been shot by an arrow and their evil plan had succeeded, they spurred their horses forward and chased after him like crazy!
Yuan Mingjing quickly picked up the crossbow in his hand, pulled out three steel-tempered feather arrows from the quiver, and shot three arrows at the assassins who were approaching the red-shirted boy!

After shooting the two men off their horses with every arrow hitting their target, the other one who was shot in the arm discovered someone behind him. He turned around in horror and saw the girl in red riding a black horse behind him.