Cheng Anbo was such a handsome and elegant gentleman. How could he appear in the same place as Ban Han?
Xie Wanyu was stunned. After a while, she came back to her senses. She turned her head and looked at her friend, Shi Feixian, worriedly. As expected, Shi Feixian's expression was very bad.
"Feixian," Xie Wanyu grabbed Shi Feixian's hand and said, "Don't think too much. Maybe they just happened to meet and came back together."
Shi Feixian forced a smile and said, "Why should I care who Cheng Anbo is close to?"
Xie Wanyu knew that she was upset. She gritted her teeth and said, "Don't worry. I'll always have a chance to make her feel bad."
"Wanyu, thank you. But don't do this. What if you cause trouble and affect your good impression in front of His Majesty and the Second Prince?" Shi Feixian hurriedly grabbed her and said, "Don't be impulsive."
Xie Wanyu suddenly remembered that she was the future daughter-in-law of the Imperial Family. She should be dignified. If she went to make trouble for Ban Han, it wouldn't do her any good. Thinking of this, she gave up the idea of making trouble for Ban Han.
It turned out that she was such a selfish person.
The more Xie Wanyu thought about it, the guiltier she felt. She looked away and didn't dare to look into Shi Feixian's eyes.
Shi Feixian pretended that she didn't see Xie Wanyu's avoidance. She grabbed her hand and said with a smile, "Let's go. His Majesty is going to hold a barbecue feast. We can't be late."
"Okay." Looking at her friend, Xie Wanyu felt even more guilty.
She had said that she would send the prey to His Majesty, so she had to do it. Ban Han had always been a woman who kept her word.
Emperor Yunqing's tent was in the middle of the tent. It was black and had a soaring golden dragon embroidered on it. This was the Emperor's tent.
Changqing Of Gojoseon stood outside the tent with Ban Han and the others, waiting for Emperor Yunqing's summons.
Emperor Yunqing had also just returned from hunting. After changing into a set of dry robes, he heard that the Changqing Of Gojoseon and a few of his juniors had arrived. He immediately summoned them in.
After a round of greetings, Emperor Yunqing saw that Ban Han was still holding a live fox in his hand. He smiled and said, "Huahua, what are you doing with this fox?"
"Your Majesty, I'm here to present you with a gift." Ban Han widened his eyes. "Didn't we agree before we left that we would give you the good stuff we hunted?"
Emperor Yunqing was stunned for a moment. He thought that this little girl was just joking and didn't take her words to heart. Who knew that she actually hunted something good?
"Wang De, put away the game that Junjun gave me. I think the skin is pretty good. When the weather gets cold, I'll use it to make a scarf." Emperor Yunqing was very happy. He teased, "You went out for so long today, and you only hunted this fox?"
"I hunted some other things, but they were all gray rabbits or small sparrows. This subject's daughter is too embarrassed to dirty your eyes with them." Ban Han was a bit embarrassed. "This white fox is barely worthy of being presented to you."
"You're such a young girl. It's not bad that you hunted so many things." Emperor Yunqing laughed and comforted Ban Han. He also rewarded her with a fat rabbit and a jin of venison. These were all hunted by Emperor Yunqing himself. They were very meaningful.
Changqing Of Gojoseon, Cheng Anbo, and the others also received rewards. Emperor Yunqing wanted to speak with Changqing Of Gojoseon, so Ban Han and the others all left.
"Cheng Anbo." Ban Han held the bundled venison and rabbit in her hands. She didn't want anyone else to interfere. She tilted her head and looked at Rong Xia. "Thank you for just now."
"Junjun Ban, you're too kind." Rong Xia saw how happy she was holding the things. "I just happened to pass by. If it wasn't for me today, there would be someone else willing to stand up for Junjun."
"Even so, the person who stood in front of me today was you." Ban Han thought for a moment. She took a pheasant and a gray rabbit from the imperial bodyguard. "Thank you!"
Looking at the pheasant that was still dripping with blood, Rong Xia reached out and took it. She smiled and said: "Thank you. I just happened to be unlucky today. I didn't hunt a single pheasant."
"You're welcome." Ban Han generously waved her hand. Then she took another pheasant and handed it to Rong Xia. "Here, take it."
Looking at the bloody pheasant, Rong Xia still smiled and took it.
"I'm going to find Father and Didi. Goodbye." Ban Han held the things that the Emperor had given her. She could only give Rong Xia a strange salute. Then she turned and ran in the direction of Ban Huai and Ban Heng.
"Uncle, let this little one take it." Rong Xia's bodyguard looked at the pheasant that was still stubbornly bent with blood dripping from its belly. He felt that Ban Junjun was a good girl. It was too improper for her to carry such a dirty thing with her bare hands.
"No need." Rong Xia's smile was a bit strange. "This is the first time a little girl comforted me with game."
Because he didn't hunt a pheasant, she gave him her own pheasant. She didn't think that as a man, he would be embarrassed if a woman gave him game as a gift.
"Sister, the rabbit you brought back is so fat. It will be delicious when roasted later." Ban Heng saw the fat rabbit in Ban Han's hand and immediately ordered the bodyguard to deal with it. "I also brought a jar of chili sauce from the barbarian land. It will be delicious when roasted later."
"I didn't hunt this rabbit. His Majesty gave it to me." Ban Han stuffed the venison into the bodyguard's hands and told him to deal with it. "I gave a portion of what I hunted to my mother. It's not enough."
Ban Heng leaned over to Ban Han's ear and whispered, "Flatterer!"
"Don't eat it later if you have the ability!" Ban Han rolled his eyes at him.
Ban Heng immediately changed his words. "Sister, I'm your younger brother."
"If you weren't my younger brother, you wouldn't be alive today with such a mouth." Ban Han glared at him. "Where is the thing you hunted?"
Ban Heng was speechless.
He obviously knew that his riding and archery skills were not good, yet he still asked him.
The female bodyguard brought water. After Ban Han washed the blood off his hands, another female bodyguard brought lemonade. Ban Han soaked his hands in the lemonade for a while and then took them out. He wiped his hands with a handkerchief and said, "Try not to drink later. The imperial doctor said that drinking too early is not good for the body."
Ban Heng nodded. "Don't worry. If I don't drink, no one will dare to force me to drink."
Ban Han thought for a while and nodded. "That's true."
It was said that more than ten years ago, someone forced her father to drink. After her father got drunk, he began to act crazily. He smashed whatever he could get his hands on and chopped whatever he saw. Since then, no one dared to force her father to drink.
Ban Han once suspected that her father was pretending to be crazy and deliberately tormenting people.
However, based on her father's temperament, he would have bragged about such a proud story over and over again. However, he never mentioned it until now. It could be seen that he was really acting crazily because he was drunk.
The Autumn Hunt was originally an entertainment activity for the Emperor, the nobles, and the ministers, so after noon, many grills were set up in the middle of the open space. Some were for the nobles to grill themselves, and some were for the servants to grill before serving to the nobles.
Ban Huai didn't have any real power, but because his birth mother was a Princess Royal, the Ban Family's grill was relatively close to the emperor.
The Count Of Zhongping was the future in-laws of the imperial family, so his family's grill was placed below the Ban Family's grill.
Everyone in the imperial court knew that these two families didn't get along. Now that the two families' grills were placed together, people couldn't help but suspect that the eunuch who arranged the grills didn't do a good job. No matter what the reason was, the emperor was already sitting at the head of the table. If the people below him were to switch places, for the emperor, it wouldn't be very pleasant.
The Count Of Zhongping and Ban Huai looked at each other with disgust. Ban Huai said to the guard: "Move the meat to the right. Don't spoil the taste."
The Count Of Zhongping sneered, with an expression that said, "I won't argue with you."
Ban Huai felt satisfied when he saw that the Count Of Zhongping was obviously very angry, but pretended not to care.
As a female, Ban Han didn't sit with them. Instead, she sat on the other side with the empress, the princesses, and the others.
She had the best relationship with Princess An Le, who was the daughter of the empress. The other princesses only had some feelings for her, and some didn't even have any feelings for her. It was no wonder. They were princesses, but in front of their father, they didn't have as much face as a female cousin. This made it difficult for them to have a good impression of Ban Han.
However, these princesses were all smart people. They knew that fuhuang respected the empress the most and valued the legitimate children the most. So even though they were jealous of Ban Han, they were very friendly on the surface.
"So spicy," Princess An Le drank several mouthfuls of water to suppress the spiciness on the tip of her tongue, "I can't stand this."
Ban Han placed a skewer of roasted rabbit meat in front of her: "Try this."
Princess An Le picked up the roasted meat and placed it on the plate. Using her chopsticks, she tasted it. The roasted meat still had a spicy taste, but it was more fragrant.
The empress looked at Ban Han, who was happily chatting with An Le, and then looked at Shi Feixian and Xie Wanyu, who were sitting on the other side.
As a mother, she naturally understood her son's thoughts. Shi Feixian was born in a noble family and had a grandfather who was the Right Prime Minister. Her status was higher than Xie Wanyu's, but the emperor wasn't willing to let lao er marry Shi Feixian. No matter what she said, it was useless.
When it was announced that Ban Han and Shen Yu's engagement was canceled, she was worried that the emperor would let lao er marry Ban Han. Fortunately, the emperor wasn't muddle-headed and didn't plan on marrying an imperial daughter-in-law.
In the empress' eyes, Ban Han was very likable, but that was it.
"Empress, His Majesty just roasted rabbit meat himself and had this servant bring it over to let you have a taste of His Majesty's cooking."
Wang De came over with a plate with several skewers of meat on it.
Ban Han took a look and saw that the meat was red and black. The appearance was too horrible to look at. It seemed that Wang De wasn't lying. Only His Majesty would send this kind of thing to the empress.
The empress looked at this disgusting thing and wanted to reject it in her heart. But there were so many people outside, so she had to give the emperor face. So not only did she eat two skewers of meat, she also praised the emperor's cooking.
"Junjun Ban," Princess Kang Ning said to Ban Han, "It seems that you're really looking forward to this Autumn Hunt. You even brought chili sauce from the barbarian land."
Ban Han looked at the chili sauce in front of him and said after a while, "Oh."
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