National Beauty

Chapter 162 162

After all, Zhao Heng could not accompany his princess to Meifeng to enjoy the flowers, because not long after encountering Chen Xiu, a little **** who was left in the other courtyard chased after him panting, and stooped to report: “My lord, the majesty just came here. You are invited to a horse race. The young man said that you had accompanied the princess to enjoy the flowers. His Royal Highness asked the young man to find the prince. He went to the racecourse and waited first.”

A trace of dissatisfaction and helplessness flashed across Zhao Heng’s eyes. His brother knew that he was accompanying the princess, so why did he have to go for a horse race? But brothers for many years, Zhao Heng is also familiar with his brother’s temper, Feng Huaxueyue will be ranked after horse racing and archery, especially if someone else’s Feng Huaxueyue is replaced by his sister-in-law, his brother may not want him.

“Go back to your Highness, saying that I am not free.” After hesitating for a moment, Zhao Heng said. It is rare that she dumped her daughter and went out. Today Zhao Heng only wants to accompany her to enjoy the flowers, and tomorrow he will have a hearty hunt with her brother in the paddock.

The little **** was about to leave, but Song Jianing stopped him, and then softly persuaded the man next to him: “Lord, you should go. The **** has specially sent someone to invite.” The prince is kind to her, she knows it. That’s enough, because it was too ostentatious to accompany her to refuse the invitation of her elder brother, Song Jianing is not used to it.

Zhao Heng stared at her, wondering if she was sincere or pretending to be generous.

Song Jianing glanced at the father-in-law and the eunuch, who had bowed their heads, and patted his arm lightly. Apricot eyes smiled: “Lord, go.” She really didn’t mind that the lord would accompany her once.

But the more honest and modest she was, the less Zhao Heng could not leave her cruelly. After thinking about it, he asked, “Can you ride a horse?”

Song Jianing smiled stiffly, then lied and shook his head. She can ride a horse, taught by Guo Xiao in her previous life, but in this life, she has never learned how to ride it.

When Song Jianing first entered Beijing, she didn’t know how to hide herself. Later, she experienced a lot of things, and she became more and more comfortable in covering up her emotions, unless it was something that was too surprising, such as the prince who saw that she had a grudge with Liang Shao. Thinking of Guo Xiao inadvertently like this, Song Jianing returned to normal in an instant, his expression became too fast, and his eyes were as sharp as Zhao Heng, and there was no time to capture and analyze the subtleties. For the time being, it was attributed to her ability to ride a horse. Regret.

“I’ll teach you.” Zhao Heng whispered, his eyes were fond of her. Since she can’t enjoy the flowers, she rides with her.

Song Jianing actually didn’t want to “learn”, but didn’t want to disappoint the prince to accompany her, so he could only show a happy smile.

The horse farm was set outside the paddock. Although the couple went to the king of Chu’s appointment, they didn’t walk in a hurry. It took a short half an hour to walk around the horse farm. They heard the powerful horses hoof from a distance. sound. Song Jianing quickened his pace curiously, and walked around a few flowers and trees, and saw three fast horses running wild on the racecourse. The man headed by him was dressed in a dark purple robe. It was King Chu. Not far behind, there was a red skirt fluttering. Li Mulan!

Song Jianing’s eyes widened, and when he saw Li Mulan was only half of a horse behind him, he was chasing after him. Isn’t it the King Gong? I saw that the distance between the husband and wife kept getting closer and farther away. The only thing that didn’t change was that Li Mulan was always in the lead, and Wang Ren Gong’s whip was so high that he couldn’t pass it.

The horse farm is like a grassland, and the grass is like a carpet. At the end of the lap, Li Mulan continued to run. Song Jianing could not see her face, only heard a string of bold and clear laughter and the red skirt flying in the wind. , Ups and downs, like a phoenix bird that will flutter up to the sky at any time. Song Jianing was dumbfounded, whether it was forbidden or the princess, she had been an ordinary woman raised within a high wall for both her life. She wished that the husband and wife loved their children safely, but that did not prevent her from admiring such heroes as Li Mulan.

“Okay, Sister-in-law is good!”

Suddenly a familiar voice of praise came from the other side of the racecourse. Song Jianing moved his eyes to see the princess Duanhui, who was also dressed in a horse costume, and the burly and majestic tall figure. The two cousins ​​stood side by side on two horses. On the side, it is clearly a match made in heaven. Song Jianing silently retracted his gaze, regretting a little bit in his heart. She had known that Guo Xiao was also there, and she should have declined the kindness of the prince.

“Scared?” someone asked.

Song Jianing raised her head questioningly, what’s the fear?

Zhao Heng raised his hand to help her pin the broken hair on her cheeks behind her ears, watching her scowling eyebrows and saying, “Just walk slowly, no need to race.”

Song Jianing couldn’t help but feel uncomfortable. She lost her comfort because of Guo Xiao’s presence, and the prince misunderstood that she was afraid of horse racing. However, feeling his intimate little movements, and being watched by such gentle eyes again, Song Jianing suddenly felt that she didn’t care whether Guo Xiao was or not, after all, her man was there.

“I don’t have the riding skills of Sister Mulan… Four younger siblings, don’t despise me.” Song Jianing joked with a smile.

The clarity in her eyes returned, Zhao Heng glanced at Li Mulan on the horseback, imagining that his princess was running like that, just feeling strange. Li Mulan is as good as Li Mulan, and his sister-in-law is also as good as his sister-in-law, but their goodness cannot attract him.

“You can beat her in painting.” Zhao Heng stepped closer to her and whispered.

Song Jianing chuckled and glared at him grotesquely. She always picked her up for painting problems, but she was boasting at the moment, and she didn’t know if she was exaggerating or undermining.

The two were close to each other. In the racecourse, Guo Xiao could not hear the sound. He only saw Wang Shou help her to cut her hair, only saw Wang Shou making her laugh, and his affection was affectionate and charming.

“The third brother is really good to the third sister.” Witnessing the affectionate behavior of the stuttering brother and Song Jianing, Princess Duanhui was surprised and authentic. After speaking, she turned to her good cousin and fiance with inexplicable envy. The cousin is begging his father to marry him, and the two will get married next month, but apart from that time she couldn’t help but ask for a hug and touch her head, the cousin didn’t seem to take the initiative to get close to her.

Guo Xiao lowered his eyes and smiled at the expectant look of Princess Hui on the top, and promised: “When you marry me, I will treat you better.”

Princess Duanhui blushed and turned to touch her white horse.

Guo Xiao looked at her slender back. Yu Guang saw that the king of life and his stepsister were approaching. He only stepped forward, holding up Princess Duanhui’s little hand and saying, “Get on the horse, I will jog with you first.” The ladies are strict with the rules. Don’t talk about getting close with your fiancé after the marriage is made. You may not even see them in person, but Princess Duanhui never pays attention to those. The relationship with Guo Xiao is still the same as before, and no one dared to talk about her gossip.

“Yeah.” Princess Duanhui handed her hand to him contentedly, got on the horse, and saw the third brother and sister-in-law walking into the racecourse. Princess Duanhui held the whip and looked at Song Jianing slightly ironically: “The third sister-in-law is here too. Horse racing? Why don’t I know when you learned to ride a horse?”

In the eyes of Princess Duanhui, Song Jianing was always the daughter of a commoner widow, and she relied on her uncle to ascend to the sky. Song Jianing stayed in the palace honestly. Princess Duanhui would not provoke him. I was a little upset, I felt that Song Jianing wanted to get in with everything because of his third brother’s favor.

Zhao Heng was very dissatisfied with Princess Duanhui’s targeting of his princess, but unless Princess Duanhui was too much, he couldn’t help her.

If Song Jianing is still the fourth girl of the Guogong Mansion, and the relationship with Princess Duanhui is a simple cousin, she probably won’t talk back, but she is now the princess of longevity, and every word and deed is related to the decent prince. For the prince, Song Jianing also She would never shut her mouth and let Princess Duanhui ridicule, as if she was afraid of the other party.

In response to Princess Duanhui’s arrogant look, Song Jianing smiled lightly and said calmly, “Because I can’t, I want to learn.”

Princess Duanhui pursed her lips and looked angry.

Guo Xiao surrendered to the longevity king and his stepsister: “The prince and the princess are free, and the minister accompanies the princess to go horse racing.” As a quasi-cohort, he has the qualifications not to salute all the princes.

Zhao Heng didn’t look at him and led Song Jianing to pick a horse. After a quarter of an hour, he personally picked a gentle brown mare for the princess. After pulling the horse out, Zhao Heng pointed to the saddle and stirrup to explain her riding skills concisely. Song Jianing has studied in previous lives, but she likes to hear him tell it again, nodding seriously from time to time.

After teaching, only practice is left. Zhao Heng held up her hand and said, “I will help you.”

Song Jianing hummed and looked at the horse in front of her. She tried to recall the situation when she got on the horse for the first time. So when she got up, she bent over and hugged the horse’s neck in panic, for fear of falling. She was originally a timid person. It was not easy to pretend to be courageous. It was too simple to pretend to be timid. Zhao Heng did not doubt that she was so stupid and cute. She stood by and encouraged her patiently.

In the distance, the king of Chu was sitting on horseback and saw the stickiness of his brother and his wife. He disliked his brother and spoiled his wife too much, delayed the race with him, and fell in love with him. He suddenly wanted to stay in the capital Feng Zheng. Next to King Chu, King Gong was also looking at Third Brother, watching Third Brother teach Jiao Didi’s Sansao to learn how to ride horses, and then squinted Li Mulan, who was ready to set off for the third round of the race. Don’t mention the uselessness of King Gong.

He also wants a princess who looks like a flower, not a female hero who humiliates him by running faster than him!

“His Royal Highness, can you run away?” Li Mulan asked impatiently, wondering what is so good about King Shou’s teaching horses.

King Chu returned to his senses, just about to nod his head, his eyes suddenly stopped, and he shouted to Guo Xiao: “Come with Pingzhang?”

Guo Xiao heard the words and looked at Princess Duanhui.

The cousin actually wanted to listen to her, Princess Duanhui was very happy, and said happily: “Cousin, go and be the first!”

Guo Xiao smiled and urged the horse to go to King Chu’s side.

With the sound of horseshoes, they ran from a distance to Song Jianing in a blink of an eye. King Chu took the lead and ridiculed his brother loudly: “The third child, you are so slow, don’t you dare to compare with us?”

As soon as he spoke, Prince Gong, who was desperately competing with Li Mulan for second place, also roared: “Yes, yeah, the third brother dare not compare…”

Before the voice fell, it suddenly turned into a curse: “Guo Xiao, you mean, take advantage of my distraction to overtake me!”

“Carry!” Guo Xiao said cheerfully.

The sound of horse hooves was far away, and Song Jianing lowered his head to look at the prince beside him.

Zhao Heng didn’t care about the agitated generals of King Chu and Prince Gong. Seeing her seemed to be anxious, Zhao Heng calmly said: “No hurry, I will go again when you get familiar.”

He was open-minded, but Song Jianing didn’t want her lord because she was ridiculed by others, so she didn’t want to pretend to be stupid. He rode for a while, slowly became proficient, and then persuaded him to race with the men. Zhao Heng saw that she was confident and calm, and knew that she really knew how to do it. Before setting off, don’t ask her profoundly: “Want me to win?”

Song Jianing, of course, hopes that he will win. First is more face, but she doesn’t know how his riding skills are, and she is afraid that he will be sad if he loses, so she said softly: “I just want to watch the prince race. I like it if I win or not.”

She is considerate, if Zhao Heng is incompetent, naturally satisfied, but…

“Wait for me to come back.” Zhao Heng squeezed her hand and ordered Father Fu to guard her. He turned on his horse and rushed to the king of Chu and the others who had just finished a round.

Song Jianing stopped in place, looking at him nervously.

“Let’s take a bet?” Princess Duanhui leaned forward and said provocatively at Song Jianing, “If the third brother is faster than the cousin, I will give you the phoenix hairpin on the head, if the cousin is faster than the third brother, You…” Looked at Song Jianing up and down, then pointed to Song Jianing’s wrist and said: “You give me that bracelet.”

Song Jianing didn’t need to look down, and knew that Princess Duanhui was talking about the blood jade bracelet that the prince gave her. She has been wearing this bracelet since the day the prince gave her. Princess Hui bet?

“I don’t like gambling, just watch the excitement.” Song Jianing directly refused.

Princess Duanhui’s chest became tight, and she was about to laugh at Song Jianing for not gambling. Father Fu suddenly said with excitement: “Princess, look at it, it’s about to start!”

Princess Duanhui and Song Jianing raised their heads at the same time, and they saw King Chu, King Shou, King Gong, Guo Xiao, and Li Mulan in an arc with a slight misalignment on the opposite side of the racecourse. As the King of Chu shouted, the five fast horses were as if away from each other. The arrow of the string shot out at the same time. Song Jianing couldn’t help but grabbed the skirt of his clothes, and stared at the moon-white figure closely, not daring to blink.

In the racecourse, King Gong only felt that a few shadows passed by him quickly. When he raised his head, he was shocked to find that the eldest brother, the third brother, and Guo Xiao were almost all on the same side. Only Li Mulan stayed beside him. She seemed surprised, and then turned her head sideways. He glanced at him with a smirk, and then actually slowed down.

King Gong was stunned, and the next moment he reacted, Li Mulan deliberately let him!

Prince Gong was so angry that he held the rein of the horse and stopped running!