The villain prince is three and a half years old

The small bow was of good quality and could be used to shoot rabbits, but Ning Gaoxiang couldn't hit the target at all when he bent the bow and drew the arrow.

He finally thought of Ning Sisi and ordered Ning Sisi to join him in besieging the hare.

Whether Ning Sisi was slow or he made a mistake and let the hare escape, he would blame it on Ning Sisi and scold the girl.

"You can't catch it, what are you doing, Sister Guisi!" Ning Xuenian couldn't stand it anymore and scolded Ning Gaoxiang.

Ning Gaoxiang wanted to fight back, but he looked at the slingshot in Ning Xuenian's hand, then at the hare with bleeding eyes at her feet, and didn't dare to speak.

Ning Sisi looked at Ning Xuenian gratefully, but failed to meet her eyes. The girl was busy competing with Xia Jing to see who caught more.

Looking at the two laughing people, Ning Sisi's eyes flashed with envy. She looked at Ning Gaoxiang, who glared at her and ran away.

Ning Gaoxiang thought that there were only four of them around, so he dared to reveal his true nature, but he didn't know that the eunuch who was Emperor Kangning's spy was watching and listening to him the whole time.

During a break from hunting, Emperor Kangning asked Xu Zhongde about the four little ones, and Xu Zhongde answered truthfully.

Emperor Kangning shook his head.

In the hare enclosure, Ning Gaoxiang pounced on a hare, grabbed its ears, pulled out his wooden sword, and stabbed it into its body.

Blood flowed on the grass and he raised his arms and cheered.

After chasing for half a day, he finally caught a rabbit, although the rabbit's leg was injured by Ning Xuenian.

Xia Jing thought. Although Ning Gaoxiang was a complainer, harsh, and narcissistic, he was also very proactive. Anyone else would have given up long ago if they couldn't catch him. In the game, if Ning Gaoxiang ascended the throne, the Ning Dynasty would have a tyrant.

Xia Jing looked at Ning Sisi again. The girl's forehead was covered in sweat. She had finally forced a hare against the fence, but unexpectedly, the hare exploded with energy, leaped out of the fence, and ran into the wilderness.

Ning Sisi stood there, looked at the direction the hare escaped for a while, wiped the sweat off her face, and chased after another rabbit.

But she was exhausted and could no longer repeat the success she was about to achieve, and the rabbit easily shook her off.

In the Summer Palace, only Ning Gaoxiang had practiced some strengthening martial arts and taken medicinal baths. It wasn't that Concubine Rou was reluctant to give them to Ning Sisi, but rather that she felt men preferred delicate women. Concubine Rou herself had never practiced martial arts.

Having lost another hare, Ning Sisi supported herself on her knees, gasping for breath.

The hares knew Ning Sisi's weakness and even dared to run past the girl.

Xia Jing pulled the slingshot tight, tilted his arm, and the stone flew out, hitting Ning Sisi from behind.

The hare's screams woke the girl up. She looked behind her and found the hare struggling on the ground. She quickly grabbed it and held it in her arms.

After the joy, she realized something was wrong. Why did the hare fall to the ground injured?

She looked at Ning Xuenian, but the girl was far away from her.

She looked at Ning Gaoxiang. The boy was holding a wooden sword that had pierced through a rabbit and was chasing a second rabbit.

She finally looked at Xia Jing, who was placing the rabbit in his hand into a small enclosure made of branches, a rabbit cage he had made.

The rabbits Xia Jing caught were all injured, just like the one in her hand.

Ning Sisi held the rabbit and wanted to return it to Xia Jing, but every time she approached, the boy would quickly avoid her.

After a few times, Ning Sisi realized that this hare was a gift for her.

Her eyes became hot and she almost shed tears.

Chapter 90 General Yu Shows His Power

The sun sank into the vast wilderness, the sky darkened, and the dull sound of the horn echoed across the earth.

This was the signal that the hunt was over. Soon, the horses returned to the tents carrying their happy owners and abundant prey.

Emperor Kangning stood in front of the high altar for sacrifice and asked Xu Zhongde to lead people to count the wild animals hunted by the princes and generals.

He waved to the four little ones again and held the four children in his arms.

This was a good opportunity to show his fatherly love. Emperor Kangning asked the accompanying chef to roast a wild deer he had hunted, cut off slices of meat, and feed them to Xia Jing and the other three.

Xia Jing tasted it and thought, if he has high emotional intelligence, the venison is full of Emperor Kangning's love, but if he has low emotional intelligence, it's really disgusting.

Fortunately, among the four children, none of them has low emotional intelligence.

Emperor Kangning knew that the dry-roasted venison did not taste as good as the dishes in the palace, and he looked at the faces of the four children.

Xia Jing chewed slowly, and it was impossible to tell whether he liked or disliked the food. Ning Gaoxiang, perhaps because he had exhausted too much energy, ate very quickly. Ning Sisi managed to control her expression, but Ning Xuenian had an undisguised bitter look on her face.

Emperor Kangning then stuffed two more pieces of venison into Ning Xuenian's mouth, and seeing the girl's drooping face, he laughed heartily.

Xia Jing sighed in his heart, thinking that Emperor Kangning really has a bad taste.

He reached out and helped Ning Xuenian share a piece. The girl looked at him gratefully.

Emperor Kangning saw this and was about to do more harm when he suddenly saw a brown horse galloping towards him in the distance. It was a top-notch horse, with a strong body and shiny coat, but the rider on it showed no mercy and lashed the horse's rump with a long whip without stopping.

Apart from the dandies in the city, there is only one kind of person who would treat a horse like this, and that is the soldier who delivers the message.

Emperor Kangning stared in the direction of the rider.

When they arrived at the tent gate, the rider dismounted, verified his identity, and ran quickly to Emperor Kangning.

"Long live our emperor!" The rider knelt on the ground, holding a scroll in his hands. "Eastern Region War Report."

Emperor Kangning hurriedly called out to the eunuch beside him: "Bring it up!"

The eunuch presented the memorial, and Emperor Kangning couldn't wait to unfold it.

In the tent, the generals and princes who were competing with each other for prey fell silent, and everyone stretched their necks to look at Emperor Kangning.

"Good, good!" Emperor Kangning closed the memorial, beaming as he shared the news with his ministers. "A great victory in the Eastern Region. Thousands of enemies have been killed and ten thousand captured. The natural defenses of Yanshan have been breached. The State of Yan has submitted a letter requesting peace talks!"

The ministers immediately offered auspicious words and praised Emperor Kangning's civil and military achievements.

Xia Jing was surprised; this wasn't in the game. The war between Yan and Ning had been on and off, with no change in at least five years.

He then considered the butterfly effect of Yuzhou. In the game, the Yuzhou rebellion was so widespread that Emperor Kangning scaled back the eastern front to conserve resources for suppressing it. Now, with the Yuzhou rebellion just beginning, he instructed Xiao Jida to suppress the rebellion, allowing Ningguo to fully attack Yan and secure victory.

After this battle, the Eastern Region will have peace for at least six or seven years.

This is a good thing. The more stable the Ning Dynasty is, the more secure Xia Jing's life will be.

"The news was sent during the spring hunt, which shows that the victory in the Eastern Region is the will of God." Emperor Kangning used God as an excuse to enhance his prestige.

"Of course, it's also inseparable from my beloved generals." He smiled and urged Xu Zhongde, "Xiao Dezi, have you finished the statistics?"

Xu Zhongde had already made the statistics. When Emperor Kangning asked, he immediately stepped forward and loudly announced the amount of game each general had obtained.

"Who is the first?" asked Emperor Kangning.

"Your Majesty, the ones who hunted the most wild animals were Marquis Guangping and General Xiao. Marquis Guangping hunted 19, and General Xiao hunted 21," said Xu Zhongde.

Marquis Guangping was Ge Hongsheng, and court officials usually called him Marquis Ge.

If Xia Jing had not commanded Xiao Jida to take the credit for suppressing the rebellion, it should have been Ge Hongsheng who led the troops to Yuzhou.

Because of the Yuzhou incident, Emperor Kangning had a very bad impression of Ge Hongsheng and pretended not to understand what Xu Zhongde meant. You know, hunting quantity is never the only criterion.

He nodded. "My loyal general is not only a skilled warrior, but also an excellent hunter. Excellent!"

General Zhongwu is Xiao Jida's new official title, and the first place will be given to Xiao Jida.

"Your Majesty!" A general stepped forward. "Although Marquis Ge only had nineteen prey, they included seven wild deer and three gazelles. General Xiao's twenty-one prey only had eight deer, the rest were rabbits and foxes!"

Emperor Kangning glanced at the general who was speaking, then looked around at the ministers, without saying a word.

He waited, waiting for another minister to object to the general's words, but there was no sound for a long time. Ge Hongsheng held great prestige among the generals, and the ministers were unsure of Emperor Kangning's intentions.

The princes looked at each other, hesitating whether to interrupt.

Xu Zhongde saw what Emperor Kangning was thinking and knelt down hurriedly: "Your Majesty, I deserve to die. General Xiao let me slip!"

"Oh?" Emperor Kangning thought, it must be his own servant. He asked, "How did it leak?"

"Among the wild animals General Xiao brought back, there were also thirty rabbits, roe deer, and six wild deer, which were not included."

Emperor Kangning frowned. He was reluctant to give the top spot to Ge Hongsheng, preferring Xiao Jida. As long as Xu Zhongde's words made some sense, he would strongly support them.

But what Xu Zhongde said now was too outrageous. It would be fine if there were only one or two more, but how come there were more than thirty more!

As expected, a general mocked Xu Zhongde: "The eunuch who took the inventory must be blind. He missed so many!"

Xu Zhongde hurriedly explained, "General Xiao said that those wild animals belonged to the Ninth Prince, so I registered them under his name!"

"Why is it the Ninth Prince again?" Emperor Kangning looked down at Xia Jing.

Xia Jing blinked innocently.

"It was captured directly by the Ninth Prince's General Yu, and the prey was injured and picked up by General Xiao." Xu Zhongde answered.

"I lent General Jade to my uncle!" Xia Jing added.

"Is the Saker Falcon so powerful?" Emperor Kangning was surprised.

Not only him, but all the ministers present were very surprised.

At the request of Emperor Kangning, Xia Jing summoned General Yu and demonstrated his hunting skills on the spot.

A shrill cry pierced the gray sky, and General Yu whizzed down like a sharp knife, stabbed the ground, and took off again, with a silver fox under his claws.

It landed in front of Xia Jing, one paw standing up and the other stepping on the struggling fox.

Xu Zhongde stepped forward carefully, caught the fox and presented it to Emperor Kangning.

"Okay!" Emperor Kangning touched the fox and asked Xu Zhongde to lock it up.

Those who had looked down on the Saker Falcon before were all stunned. They did not expect that this bird was so powerful.

Although the Saker Falcon is magical, it is not as magical as this. The most amazing one is the Saker Falcon that Xia Jing tamed.

"Since it was loaned to General Zhongwu and captured by General Yu, it should naturally be counted as well." Emperor Kangning concluded.

Among the ministers, many brought hunting dogs, and Ge Hongsheng even brought "human dogs" - two young generals to drive prey for him, so no one objected to General Yu helping to catch the prey.

"General Zhongwu, please step forward." Emperor Kangning looked at Xiao Jida who stepped out of the line.

Even though he was at the center of the vortex, Xiao Jida remained calm. He knelt down and saluted Emperor Kangning.

Emperor Kang Ning nodded, feeling even more satisfied.

He waved his hand, and two eunuchs carried a box and placed it in front of Xiao Jida.

The box opened, revealing a suit of glittering golden armor.

"This golden armor is your reward. When you arrive in southern Xinjiang, you must fight bravely against the enemy!" Emperor Kangning said.

"Thank you for your grace!" Xiao Jida accepted the armor.

Xia Jing looked at it with envy. As a man, who doesn't like sturdy and handsome armor? When he grows up, he also wants to make a set of such glittering golden armor.

"Where are the princes? How is the battle going?" Emperor Kangning looked at the older princes with a smile.

Chapter 91 It’s broken, it’s coming for me

Emperor Kangning originally thought that the test just now was the purpose of the ministers today, but he did not expect that another "surprise" would happen on the prince's side.

In addition to Xia Jing and others who came out for the spring outing, there were a total of four princes participating in the spring hunt.

They are the eldest prince Ning Bingchang, the crown prince Ning Chunyou, the fourth prince Ning Zhixing, and the fifth prince Ning Yuanzhong.

The eldest prince is Concubine Jing’s child and is already 28 years old.

The crown prince is Queen Yin's child, 20 years old.

Ning Zhixing didn't need to be told. Xia Jing and Ning Xuenian made faces at him, and Ning Zhixing smiled and waved.

Ning Yuanzhong was the son of Concubine Duan, 14 years old.

Ning Zhixing is obsessed with carpentry, and Ning Yuanzhong is still young. If there is a dispute among princes now, it can only be between the eldest prince and the crown prince.

There was a complicated story about the eldest prince and the crown prince, about Concubine Jing and Queen Yin. Xia Jing looked at his two brothers, gossiping in his heart.

Empress Yin was not Emperor Kangning's first wife. Before ascending the throne, when he was still a prince, Emperor Kangning had a principal wife and a concubine. The principal wife died a year before his ascension. At that time, he was only a marginal prince and did not plan to take another principal wife, but instead planned to make the concubine his principal wife.

That concubine is Concubine Jing.

Unexpectedly, the Yin family intervened and married Queen Yin to Emperor Kangning as his principal wife. When Emperor Kangning ascended the throne, this princess was promoted to queen.

Jingfei, who was originally a concubine, ended up being one of the four concubines.

From the perspective of the princes, if there had not been the intervention of the third party, Queen Yin, the eldest prince would be the eldest son of Emperor Kangning, the crown prince, and the next master of the Ning Dynasty!

Logically speaking, with such a past, Concubine Jing and Queen Yin, the eldest prince and the crown prince should be incompatible.