Yin Mingyu rode out for three miles, then reined in her horse and stopped, waiting for Xie Qin to lead the way.
Xie Qin rode over unhurriedly until he was walking alongside her, then said, “Follow me.”
The two of them left the hunting ground and headed south, followed by a few guards from a distance without disturbing them.
The entire Longyu Mountain area for hundreds of miles belongs to the royal family. There are forest hunting grounds and farmland for the imperial village. Most of the grain, fruits and vegetables obtained from farming are supplied to the imperial palace in the capital and Longyu Mountain Palace.
The Liu family’s village was formerly part of the royal estate and was a gift from the late emperor. The Xie family’s house and other families with houses nearby were given a piece of land by His Majesty for them to build on their own.
When they first left the hunting ground, Yin Mingyu followed Xie Qin on the same road back to the Zhuangzi. When they turned at an intersection, the road became narrower and narrower until only two horses could walk side by side.
The silvergrass on the roadside trembled in the wind, and some of it extended to the road, occasionally whipping the horse and her legs.
The horse didn’t like silvergrass very much, and would snort every time it was paddled, making loud and quiet noises. Yin Mingyu led the horse to the middle of the road, walking behind Xie Qin’s horse.
Passing through this patch of silvergrass was a winding path through dense forest. From the entrance, their view was blocked and there was no end in sight.
She rode the horse in, tall trees shrouded the head, light filtered through the gaps in the leaves, and various shapes of light spots fell on the face, body, and ground.……
The chirping of insects and birds echoed one after another, forming a unique mosaic in the mountains.
It seemed that apart from insects and birds, they were the only two people in the world, and Yin Mingyu’s attention was not focused on Xie Qin. He didn’t ask anything, and just sat on his horse and looked at the surrounding vegetation leisurely.
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The two trees are still independent at one end, but they are nestled in each other and hugging each other upwards;
Under the bright spot in the pot, unknown yellow flowers clustered together;
Only a thick trunk as tall as a man is left of the dead tree, with slender branches sticking out, and the ants bypass it and continue climbing up;
There was a big-tailed squirrel on a tree in the distance, looking down at the visitors, but as soon as they approached, it crawled into the tree hole as if frightened.
Yin Mingyu stared at the entrance of the cave with burning eyes, and suddenly said: “There should be a lot of pine nuts hidden, right?”
Xie Qin turned around and looked up along her line of sight. At the entrance of a round hole in the tree, a squirrel quietly showed its head. It seemed to be frightened by the scary person and quickly retracted it.
That look, looks a bit like Xie Ce for some reason.……
Xie Qin said: “……don’t worry about it, you will have it soon.”
When Yin Mingyu heard this, she lowered her head and looked at the cloth bag on the horse. She opened the mouth of the bag with her fingers and found that there was indeed an oil paper bag.
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