Harem for a living

Chapter 182

Concubine Xian and Concubine De received the notice and hurriedly changed into their riding outfits and rushed to the main tent.Seeing Chen Manrou who was following the emperor on horseback, several people couldn't help showing envious and hateful eyes on their faces, and then realized that this was in front of a large audience, they quickly lowered their eyebrows, and hurried forward to pay their respects.

The emperor smiled and waved his hands: "There is no need to come down to salute, the queen said to let me take you with me, and when I go hunting later, you follow the queen, don't walk around at will."

Concubine Xian glanced at Chen Manrou, and said with a coquettish smile: "Don't worry, Your Majesty, I will follow the empress at every step."

The emperor just nodded, turned the horse's head and walked straight forward, and several people immediately followed.The second prince and the others are still young and cannot ride a horse alone, but the eldest princess changed into a magenta horse riding outfit and said with a smile on the horse: "Third brother, you are still young, so you can only watch me ride a horse. But don’t worry, in five or six years, you will be able to ride horses.”

Concubine Shu was also the mastermind of the former queen's affairs, so the eldest princess has always been very indifferent to the second prince.But now, she is not too close to Chen Manrou, so naturally she has become estranged from Xiaosi, and because she has been going to Ci'an Palace to talk to the Empress Dowager Ci'an on weekdays, it is rare that she has a good relationship with the third prince.

"The elder sister is bullying people." The third prince muttered, the second prince's eyes flashed with indignation, and he didn't say much.The little four eyes rolled around, and when he saw the emperor and his queen coming out, he immediately became excited: "My queen, can I ride a horse too?"

"Not good." Chen Manrou only gave two words. Seeing Xiao Si's dejected expression, Chen Manrou raised her eyebrows: "Forget what we said before we came here? Xiao Si, you said that you want to be a gentleman, and a gentleman must say what he says." Difficult to chase, is it possible that you want to be a villain who doesn't count?"

The little four pouted, with an even more pitiful and innocent expression, and coquettishly stopped in front of Chen Manrou, looked up at Chen Manrou, "I want to be a gentleman, and what we said before is that I can't ride a horse alone, and I didn't say that I can't be carried by others, stepmother, stepmother, and queen." , you just find someone to take me, I promise to be very obedient, and I will never ride a horse by myself."

Chen Manrou raised her eyebrows and rubbed her chin, thinking that this idea is quite good, she doesn't want to raise her child into a weak chicken.However, at present, it seems that she can't make the decision.So, squinting at Xiao Si winks.

Xiaosi is so smart, seeing the direction his mother's eyes are looking at, he immediately turned to look at the emperor pitifully: "Father, you are the best father in the world, and you love Xiaosi the most. Now, the queen mother listens to you the most, so you can let the queen mother promise her son."

The emperor laughed out loud, and was amused by Xiaosi's rascal and coquettish appearance. After seeing enough of the youngest son's pitiful appearance, he turned to Chen Manrou and said, "I'll find a guard to take him with me. Don't worry, guard. The kung fu is good, and they will definitely not be hurt."

Chen Manrou hurriedly smiled and thanked him, and suggested to find a guard for the second prince to take him with him.But when he saw the third prince, he was a little hesitant. If this person drank the cold wind halfway or was caught by a tree branch and was frightened by wild animals, he couldn't bear the responsibility.

However, under the eyes of the emperor, it seems that it is not easy to behave too unfairly.

"Your majesty, the third prince's body..." In the end, Chen Manrou still threw the problem to the emperor, and the emperor hesitated. The third prince is a timid person, and seeing his elder brothers and younger brothers riding tall horses, his heart was already itchy.

Now I heard Chen Manrou talk about his health, so she hurriedly said: "Father, Queen Mother, my son is in good health. Doctor Li just took the pulse this morning and said that my son can walk, so there is no need to worry."

"Really?" the emperor asked casually, the third prince nodded quickly, and Chen Manrou took the opportunity to say: "Why don't you ask the imperial doctor to see if the third prince can ride a horse, if this happens, the child will suffer."

The emperor nodded when he heard the words, and someone announced Li Yuyi to come over.After Doctor Li said that he could ride slowly, the emperor called another guard to take the third prince with him.

When a group of people rushed to the meeting place, the ministers of the guards had already assembled.There is one group for men, and one group for female relatives.Originally, there were no female relatives today, but when they heard that the queen was coming over in the morning, these ministers hurriedly asked their female relatives to follow.

The emperor spoke passionately in front, and when Chen Manrou heard the sentence: "Let me see the skills of my good men from the Daqing Dynasty! Whoever wins the first place, I will reward myself!" When Chen Manrou suddenly thought of "Huanzhugege" Uncle Zhang almost couldn't hold back his laughter.

Fortunately, no one here asked: "Look at the paddock today, whose family is in the world!" came out.

When the emperor's stone blue back led the hunting army into the woods, Chen Manrou took off the veil covering his face.Turning the horse's head and laughing: "The men are all going hunting, we women have to find a way to have fun, what good ideas do Sister Xianfei and Sister Defei have?"

Concubine Xian smiled shyly: "I don't know, why don't you suggest it to the Empress?"

Concubine De curled her lips, and suggested excitedly: "Why don't we play polo?"

"Sister Defei's suggestion is not good. You have to play polo on the polo field. It's full of potholes. If you accidentally hit a tree, it's so dangerous. It doesn't matter if we get hurt. If the empress is hurt, who will be responsible?" ?” Concubine Fu retorted from the side.

Concubine Jin pulled the rein and said with a smile: "Why don't we ride horses and see the flowers? I asked about it yesterday, and I heard people say that there is a sea of ​​flowers here, which is very beautiful."

"It's the end of September now, where are there any flowers?" Concubine De was choked by Concubine Fu, her heart was not going well, and seeing Concubine Jin was not very pleasing to the eye at the moment, Concubine Jin had a good temper and said with a smile : "There are also chrysanthemums to see in golden autumn and October."

A woman next to her smiled and said, "Isn't the concubine Jin talking about the sea of ​​flowers in the southeast? There are indeed a large number of chrysanthemums there, which are relatively small ones, all over the mountains and plains. One flower doesn't look very colorful. If there are all those flowers in front of my eyes, it will be really beautiful."

Concubine Jin looked up at the woman, and asked with a smile, "This lady is..."

"The minister's wife, Xianggong, is the right servant of the household department." The woman responded quickly.Seeing that Concubine Jin started chatting with that person, Chen Manrou lowered her eyes and considered Concubine Jin's proposal.Today the emperor took his ministers to go hunting, and took away most of the bodyguards with good skills, and some of them went to protect the three princes, and there are not many good ones left. It's no small matter.

The big beasts in the paddock were said to have been driven out, but no one could be sure of that.The southeast side is more remote. If something happens, the guards will not be able to catch up.

But if we let everyone stay here, it would be too boring.

After thinking for a while, Chen Manrou smiled and said, "Forget it, listen to Mrs. Zuo Shilang, the sea of ​​flowers is quite far away, so I won't go there for now. I have an idea here, and I don't know if the younger sisters are interested."

Concubine Xian quickly smiled and said: "The empress is always smart, what she came up with must be a good idea."

"It's not a good idea, but it's just to pass the time." Chen Manrou said with a smile, and then pointed to the big tree on the other side: "See that tree? Let's play a more elegant game today. The name of the game is Build a bridge across the river."

"Let's divide into two teams and arrange them in order. Bengong will give you a topic, and each person will answer a word. If they can form a line of poetry, it's considered a good answer. That means the people in their team will move forward. One step, whichever team gets back the lottery hanging on the tree first, is considered to have won. What do you think of this game?"

Even if the game is not fun, but Chen Manrou proposed that it must be fun, and everyone agreed.

Chen Manrou pulled out a golden step from her head with a smile, and asked a little eunuch to hold it and hang it on a tree.Then he said: "I will be a notary, and I will be in charge of giving you questions here, um, these two teams, Concubine Xian and Concubine De, how about it?"

Even if Concubine Xian and Concubine De were reluctant, they had no choice but to agree at this moment, and rode their horses to the front.Everyone in the back looked at me and you, Concubine Fu walked to Concubine De first, while Concubine Jin and Concubine Shen both walked to Concubine Xian.

The rest of the officials and female relatives also quickly selected teams to stand in. Only Princess Chun and Princess An, one said that they had a headache and would not participate, and the other said that they wanted to serve the empress, and they only followed Chen Manrou.

Chen Manrou looked around, pointed at the butterfly that suddenly flew by and said, "Then let's use the butterfly as the topic. Sister Xianfei is young, why don't Sister Defei let Sister Xianfei let their team start first?"

Although Concubine De was dissatisfied, she also knew that Concubine Xian's status was something she could not mess with, so she had no choice but to agree.

Concubine Xian thought for a long time, and said one word: "Autumn."

Concubine Jin then said, "Gao."

Continuing to continue, Chen Manrou only smiled and looked at the crowd.Princess Chun laughed softly at the side: "The empress's game is very interesting, one word at a time, there is nothing you can do if you are in a hurry."

"It's a long day, and you have to find something to do." Chen Manrou said with a smile, looked sideways at Princess Chun and said with a smile: "Is Princess Chun's eldest daughter-in-law going to be born soon? Princess is a lucky one. My son is already hugging the eldest grandson, hey, I don't know how long I will wait."

Princess Chun burst out laughing: "Empress Empress, you are young now, and His Royal Highness the Fourth Prince is filial and intelligent, are you afraid that one day will not be like that?"

Concubine An also smiled and said: "Sister-in-law, don't worry, there will always be such a day. At that time, you will have to complain that your life is too fast."

Chen Manrou also laughed, and laughed for a while and said: "Sisters and younger siblings have to take good care of themselves. A few days ago, the empress dowager said that the seventh brother was not taken care of. The emperor happened to ask this palace, but this palace was beaten. Guarantee, the health of the younger siblings is very good, and they can give birth to two more sons for the seventh younger brother. The younger siblings must not let my promise be in vain. If that is the case, I will lose face in front of the emperor gone."

Princess An's complexion changed, and Princess Chun looked at Princess An sympathetically. She was older than Princess An, and she liked this gentle and docile woman very much.It's just that she really can't make up her mind about this kind of thing.

"Thank you, sister-in-law. My siblings will definitely take good care of their bodies, and you won't lose face." Princess An's expression changed instantly, and she thanked Chen Manrou with a smile.Chen Manrou just waved her hands casually, then turned to watch the match between Concubine De and Concubine Xian.

The Seventh Prince is the emperor's younger brother, and has always held a high status in the emperor's heart.And the seventh concubine and the seventh prince are still loving couples, and if they win over the seventh concubine, do you still worry that the seventh prince can't handle it?

Well, even if you can't figure it out, if you do meet in the future, you must at least remain neutral.

(End of this chapter)