Chapter Five Hundred
The place where the prince learns riding and shooting is "Shanggao and Water Long". It is located in the southwest of the Old Summer Palace, covering an area of more than 1,000 acres, and the area is equal to the sum of the entire Jiuzhou scenic area. It is also called "Xiyuan". Most of the Xiyuan Garden is a pasture, and not only the princes and princes learn riding and shooting here, but His Majesty the Fourth Master also often watches the Eight Banners' riding and shooting competition in the West Garden, take the exam for the garrison in the palace, and invites Mongolian vassal kings.
There are several huge yurts on the grassland of Xiyuan. When the princes are tired of riding and shooting, they will rest in the yurts, which can be said to have restored the scene of the Mongolian grassland.
Yao Jiaxin has been free recently, so she took a carriage to take a look.
This Xiyuan is too far from her Bitong Academy. If you walk with two feet, you will probably be able to get blood blisters.
The garden is surrounded by mountains and water, and the road is tortuous and the distance is far away, so I took a carriage for about an hour before I arrived at the West Garden.
As soon as he entered the West Garden, Yao Jiaxin couldn't help but admire how vast it was. There were very few temples in the West Garden, and a large area of green grassland, as if he was in a prairie! No wonder the Mongolian vassal kings were invited to have a banquet here, so he was indeed at home!
After getting off his shoulder carriage, Yao Jiaxin took a deep breath, and even the air was filled with the smell of tender fresh grass.
On the huge grassland, I saw two half-year-old children riding on the half-year-old little mare from afar. It was Yao Jiaxin's Hong Xiaoxu and Yufei's fifth prince Hongzhou. The fifth prince was white and fat. Even though he learned to ride and shoot, he was still fatter than Hong Xiaoxu. Both children were wearing riding and shoot outfits, and were carrying arrow bags. There were more than a dozen white feathered arrows in the arrow bags.
While riding the horse and whip, he pulled out the arrow from the arrow bag, put it on the small bow, and shot it at the target standing around with a soothing sound.
Children who have just learned to ride and shoot have no idea what to say, so it would be nice if they didn't take off the target.
Well, at least her baby didn't leave the target, and at least half of the arrows Hongzhou shot were about to land on the ground.
And the companion reader is responsible for picking up arrows.
The princes' companions were similar to those of servants, and they were running errands all the time, and they were always going to be beaten by the teacher in the study room.
Even so, the number of places for the prince to attend is still squeezed out by countless children from aristocratic families and even relatives of the royal family.
As for Concubine Ning's seventh prince and her twins, because they are just carrot heads, they study in the study room every day and learn a little bit of bows. Therefore, there is no need to come to the West Garden so far away.
Wang Yicheng carefully supported Yao Jiaxin: "Master of the Imperial Palace, should you ask the princes to come and pay their respects?"
Yao Jiaxin shook her head: "No need, I just come here to take a look."
"Hey? Whose child is the tallest one?" Yao Jiaxin couldn't see the princes' companions on weekdays. Even if it was Jing Yi, the eldest son of her second brother Wenli, she had to take a closer look to find it out from a pile of carrot head companions.
Wang Yicheng smiled and said, "That is Fu Peng, the prince of Prince Ping."
Yao Jiaxin suddenly realized, yes, Prince Fu Peng, who is the leader of Hong Xiaoxu's companion, is the oldest. He looks like a tall young man, and seems to be four years older than Hong Xiaoxu.
Wang Yicheng said again: "The King of Long Live is all about the Queen, and the talent show is put on hold for a while. The Prince Ping County Mansion specially submitted a memorial to ask the King of Long Live to give the marriage."
Yao Jiaxin nodded, "The prince of the Iron Hat County Prince's Mansion should be granted a marriage. However, I am anxious when Fu Peng is still young, Ping County Prince's Mansion is anxious." The thirteen-year-old child seems to be still in a Xu Sui...
Wang Yicheng smiled and said, "After two years, my master should be anxious about the Sixth Prince."
Yao Jiaxin looked at her son with a bun face and her mouth twitched a few times, "I am not anxious! Prince, can't she marry a wife?"
"The Emperor's Lord is really good at joking!" Wang Yicheng laughed from the bottom of his heart, "When our sixth prince is older, I don't know how many princes with the surnames are squeezing their heads!"
Yao Jiaxin couldn't help laughing. It was always a good thing that his son was so popular.
"Even if you want to marry a concubine, it must be the fifth prince of Concubine Yu's first!" Hongzhou was several months older than Hong Xiaoxu.
While talking and laughing, Yao Jiaxin suddenly caught a short sky blue figure and rushed into the horse shed in the distance.
Yao Jiaxin couldn't help but be curious, "Why... that... looks like the fourth princess?"
Wang Yicheng smiled and said, "I don't know everything about the Empress. The Fourth Princess likes riding horses very much. When the princes practice riding and shooting at the moment, the Fourth Princess will come."
"Oh?" The four princesses looked at Jiaojiao and actually liked to ride horses.
After a while, the fourth princess was holding a maroon half-grey mare, looking very difficult. The eunuch who followed wanted to go up to help, but the fourth princess stared back with a fierce look.
Yao Jiaxin couldn't help but smile. The little temper of these four princesses was interesting.
I felt interesting in my heart, and Yao Jiaxin couldn't help but walk towards the horse shed quickly.
The horses in the horse shed are all top-notch foals offered by various places, most of which are offered by various Mongolian tribes, including iron-hoofed horses, Yili horses, sweat-blooded horses, and Wuzhumuqin horses, all of which are fat and strong, with extremely agile bodies.
Looking at these BMW horses, Yao Jiaxin couldn't help but feel a little moved. Although she was not interested in archery, she looked very majestic when riding a horse...
"Imperial Concubine?" The fourth princess, dressed in a sky blue dress and dressed like a boy, was stunned for a pink face. She quickly threw the reins in her hand to the eunuch and squatted towards her.
Yao Jiaxin smiled and looked at the lovely little face of the fourth princess. Over the years, the child has become more and more beautiful. His slender phoenix eyes and slender black eyebrows made him look a little heroic, unlike his ordinary daughter's home.
Yao Jiaxin asked with a smile: "The Fourth Princess originally likes riding and shooting."
The fourth princess Hongli lowered her head, looked at her deer-skin boots, and whispered: "My mother urges me to learn from the girl's red all day long, I don't like it."
Yao Jiaxin said: "If you don't like it, you don't have to learn it. Just let those needlework do these tasks." - The princess has a noble status and it's okay to not be able to understand the girl's popularity.
The fourth princess quickly raised her little face, and a look of surprise appeared on her white face, "I, can I really not learn needlework?"
Yao Jiaxin nodded, "Looking back, I will ask someone to inform me that Hui Xi always stayed there."
The fourth princess looked happy, "Thank you, the Imperial Concubine!"
At this time, a little adult voice floated from behind: "How can girls not imitate female red?!"
Yao Jiaxin looked up and saw that it wasn't her Hong Xiaoxu? She didn't call her Tongchuan, but she was still discovered by such a big man standing here? Therefore, Hong Xiaoxu rushed over with a hot sweat, followed by a series of companions and eunuchs.
Also, Concubine Yu's fifth prince Hongzhou also came here together.
Chapter completed!