The Flirtatious Prince and His Savage Concubine

Chapter 169: Climbing a Tree to See the Scenery

Lu Lingxi got up very early. He originally wanted to go out earlier so that when he rode his horse across the street, there would be fewer people on the street and he would receive less attention. It would also help him avoid accidents caused by the crowd not being able to get out of the way in time.

But Chunhong told him that people always get up early to go to the market, and when they go out too early to cross the street, there are more people. Lu Lingxi took a nap, and then he packed up and went out. It was already 9 o'clock.

Today, Lu Lingxi rarely wore pants. Although the pants were also very large, the hems were tied with gauze belts of the same color, which were much lighter than skirts. She did not have the heavy hair accessories on her head as before, but simply tied a high ponytail with a light blue headband. Both ends of the headband were decorated with silver longevity lock-style bells, which made a small tinkling sound when she moved. When she was riding on the horse, she raised the corners of her mouth unconsciously.

Nan Wangyu looked at Lu Lingxi's round and slightly childish face, revealing an innocent and unrestrained smile, and unconsciously revealed a bit of the unrestrained look of a teenager.

The two of them walked out of the city gate and headed west, heading straight for Junling Mountain.

In order to ensure Lu Lingxi's safety, Nan Wangyu walked side by side with her, and the two of them reached the halfway point of the mountain first.

Looking at the narrow and steep mountain road ahead, Lu Lingxi knew that he couldn't ride a horse on the road behind, so he took the lead in pulling the reins, making Yun Zong stop, and then dismounted. Nan Wangyu also dismounted.

The others were not far away and got off their horses one after another. Only the carriage carrying Chunhong and Liulu was a little slower and it would take a while to arrive.

Ying Mo handed his horse's reins to someone else, then took the reins from Nan Wangyu and Lu Lingxi and tied up their horses.

In fact, Ying Mo is not a secret guard now, but an open guard. He and Ying Chen are the strongest fighting force in the Prince's Mansion at present. One is bright and the other is secret, which complements each other.

Ying Mo and Ying Chen look almost exactly the same because they are identical twins. Lu Lingxi thought Ying Mo was the person Liu Lu met that day, so he talked to him privately several times and found that this person was as noisy and talkative as Liu Lu.

In addition, Liu Lu never showed much interest in Ying Mo again. In order to have peace of mind in the future, Lu Lingxi gave up the idea of ​​bringing the two together.

It was already noon when Chunhong and Liulu's carriage reached the mountainside. They ate the lunch prepared at the mansion before continuing up the mountain on foot, leaving three or five people to look after the horses.

At first there was a small path for everyone to walk in a single file. But after walking for one or two hours, there was no small path anymore, so they had to make their own way.

It looks like we will have dinner on this mountain today. Lu Lingxi originally planned to bring dinner, but he didn't expect Nan Wangyu to bring so many people and leave some food for the people who guarded the horses. If we want to have enough for dinner, we may have to hunt some game. Fortunately, Lu Lingxi also wanted to taste the authentic game he hunted himself, so he brought enough seasonings.

The people in front cleared the way while shooting some wild game such as hares and pheasants. Small birds would not have much meat. No more alert animals such as foxes and tigers were seen, probably because there were so many people in Lu Lingxi and Nan Wangyu's group and they made a lot of noise. The only relatively large animal they hunted was a clumsy wild boar.

Lu Lingxi also experienced the joy of hunting. She bent her bow and shot an arrow, and unexpectedly hit a hare in one try. She didn't know if it was muscle memory or she had recently trained. It was just that it was a little harder to hit a pheasant. She shot three or four arrows before hitting one. But she was very happy to be able to hunt.

Chang Wei and Xiao Hua, seeing the prey being caught, immediately ran out excitedly and brought it back. When they caught a wild boar, they couldn't hold it in their mouths, so when the guards lifted it, they insisted on holding the tail in their mouths to show that they also contributed.

Nan Wangyu followed Lu Lingxi throughout the whole process so that he could support her in time if she became unstable.

When Lu Lingxi was supported by Nan Wangyu at first, she felt a little embarrassed. After walking in the forest for a few hours, she was a little exhausted, so she held Nan Wangyu's hand tightly and refused to let go. In the end, she even thought: "I really can't walk anymore, it would be great if he could carry me." But she was too embarrassed to say it out loud.

Fortunately, when Lu Lingxi couldn't hold on any longer and wanted to lie down due to his weak legs, they finally reached the top of the mountain.

By this time, the sky had completely darkened and everyone's stomachs were growling with hunger.

Chunhong was responsible for leading people to clean up the game, while the rest of the people quickly set up the tent and lit a fire.

Lu Lingxi looked at the sky above his head, which was blocked by dense leaves. He could not see any stars or moon. How could he watch the sunrise tomorrow morning? This was different from what he had imagined. Why did he see others climb to the top of the mountain and see a large open space on the edge of the cliff, with nothing blocking them and allowing them to see the scenery below the mountain?

Nan Wangyu saw Lu Lingxi looking up at the sky, looking left and right, with a disappointed look, and asked, "Lingxi, what are you looking for?"

Lu Lingxi sighed and said, "Alas! I didn't find anything. It's just a pity that I can't see any stars or the moon now, and I can't tell the direction. I'm afraid I won't be able to see the sunrise tomorrow morning."

Nan Wangyu said nonchalantly: "It's not difficult, just let them trim the branches and leaves that are in the way."

As soon as he finished speaking, several dark shadows climbed up the tree with a "whoosh, whoosh, whoosh" sound, and soon branches began to fall.

In less than two quarters of an hour, a circle with a radius of ten meters opened above their heads, centered on where Lu Lingxi and Nan Wangyu were standing, and finally a few twinkling stars could be seen.

The black shadows just now considerately retained the thickest branch of the thickest tree in the middle.

Lu Lingxi silently gave these people a thumbs up in her heart. She was so tired that she couldn't move, but these people still had such good physical strength and strong execution ability. It was amazing.

Nan Wangyu saw that Lu Lingxi was obviously in a much better mood, and asked with a smile: "Do you want to go up and take a look?"

Lu Lingxi nodded expectantly.

Nan Wangyu also climbed up the tree in an instant. Lu Lingxi looked incredulous. Huh? Why didn't you take me with you and went up by yourself? Didn't I nod to show that I wanted to go up?

Before she could ask, Nan Wangyu threw down one end of the rope from the tree and shouted, "Lingxi, tie the rope around your waist and I'll pull you up."

As Lu Lingxi tied the rope around his waist as Nan Wangyu said, he complained in his heart: "This is different from what I thought. Shouldn't you hold my waist and fly up to the tree branch in one go, and land smoothly? It's so handsome and beautiful. You hang me up like this, and it makes me look a little embarrassed."

Although he was complaining in his heart, when Lu Lingxi climbed up the tree, he still pushed against the trunk to borrow some strength, so that Nan Wangyu could save some energy, and at the same time made himself look less embarrassed.

After Lu Lingxi climbed onto the branch where Nan Wangyu was, he found that it was quite big and his feet would not be suspended in the air even if he stepped on it horizontally.

Lu Lingxi sat down slowly and could see dots of lights in front of him, which should be the direction of the capital. The moon, which was fuller than a half circle, was hanging above the lights of thousands of homes, echoing each other from afar. It was also a rare sight.