Xue Yao was very contemptuous of his own family's uncontested fat cub, instructing him on the posture of holding the bow while complaining about the Seventh Prince's usual refusal to participate in archery practice.
"When the eldest prince was as old as you, he had all shot hares." Xue Yao was furious and squinted at the Seventh Prince: "You participated in the fall hunt a few times ago, did you ever get any prey?"
"Pfft ......" behind the palace maids bowed their heads to stifle their laughter, the seventh prince had hit a nest of rabbits when he was nine years old!
"It's been hit occasionally." The Seventh Prince drew an arrow from his back and spoke in a low voice, "One or two."
Xue Yao: "......"
He can't even hold a bow, and he's hit "one or two." Now the little fat kid's learned to brag!
It's a dishonest little fat cub now!
As Xue Yao thought to himself, he began to question without giving face: ''Has His Highness ever hunted? Rabbits? Alive?"
The Seventh Prince lowered his head and smiled a mouthful of small white teeth: "Dead, Fifth Brother fell stunned rabbit let him hit, okay?"
"It should say 'Fifth Brother fell unconscious and let me hit the rabbit', Your Highness is wrong again!" Xue Yao sternly corrected the little one's personification error.
That's twelve years old, and the fat pup's angle of thinking still jumps out of itself easily.
When it is time to say "I", His Highness is prone to say "he".
"Master hit it." The Seventh Prince switched back to calling himself everything, so as not to make a mistake.
After nine years of companionship, Xue Yao's impression of this little guy has been forever fixed in the memories of the "useless fake Long Ao Tian".
So without the slightest suspicion that the Seventh Prince was pretending he wouldn't, Xue Yao complained with great dissatisfaction, "How can hitting unconscious prey count? It's time for Your Highness to practice your archery skills with me."
"Yao Yao has hit it?" The Seventh Prince asked him with a serious expression.
Xue Yao didn't hear the mockery, and with a vague "hmmm", she said, "I'll take His Highness hunting with me, just as practice, it doesn't matter if I win or lose."
"Master doesn't want to lose." The Seventh Prince said, "Yao Yao wins one."
Xue Yao's old fatherly heart burned again, unable to let the little fat boy down!
Striving to personally fight a few rabbits to grow a long face, Xue Yao patted his chest, "Your Highness just wait and see what I do."
Taking back his own bow from the Seventh Prince, Xue Yao asked his attendant to bring His Highness's special ox-horn bow.
"Ayao, what are you doing!"
Xue Yao turned his head to see the Fifth Prince joyfully carrying a white hare, darting over from the distance.
The Fifth Prince this is can't wait to show off to everyone!
Xue Yao joyfully greeted him and loudly praised, "Your Highness is really good with your hands, you hit one so quickly!"
The Fifth Prince could love being praised so loudly, lifting the rabbit ears and handing them to Xue Yao with bravado: "Nah! This one is yours!"
Xue Yao nonchalantly took the rabbit in one hand, "Thank you, Your Highness, for the reward!"
"Your Highness just wait and see what I do." The Seventh Prince immediately turned on the repeater function, repeating the assurance Xue Yao had just given, trying to stop him from accepting Fifth Brother's charity.
Ignoring the fat cub's dissatisfaction, Xue Yao seized the opportunity to pull in the Fifth Prince: "Why don't you join us on a team and participate in the hunting competition."
"Hunting competition?" The Fifth Prince looked at Xue Yao curiously.
Xue Yao raised his hand and pointed to the group of red-eyed companions not far away and said the rules of the match.
"Interesting!" The fifth prince's chance to show off his skills came and immediately waved his hand, beckoning the group of accomplices over, announcing, "Ten taels for a bet is too little, it's not interesting. Why don't we do this, five of you in a group, and two of me and Ah Yao, cut off at 5 o'clock, than the number of prey, one less prey is ten taels of silver more."
"A group of two?" The Seventh Prince looked sideways at his fifth brother with dissatisfaction.
"Three people!" Xue Yao hurriedly took care of the little chubby cub and pleaded with the Fifth Prince, "Bring the Seventh Prince along, maybe we can happen to hit one too!"
"By chance?" The Seventh Prince turned his head to stare coldly at Silly Yao Yao.
"I'm sure I can hit it!" Xue Yao obediently changed her words and raised her hand to smooth the hairs of the Seventh Prince's head, "It's okay, whatever I hit in a while will be on you!"
The Seventh Prince hooked his lips, "Master will wait."
Xue Yao: "......"
Strange how lately it always seems like the little chubby cub is a bit of a looker.
It must be an illusion.
The companions at the other end grimaced and stared at Chang Shun, who had moved a stone to stone his own feet.
Xue Yao had actually pulled two imperial princes on a team, and the bet had increased to ten taels of silver for a single prey, which was asking them to lose all their money!
It was too late for regrets as the Fifth Prince announced the start of the match.
The group of companions immediately split up to look for prey deeper into the woods in an attempt to cut their losses.
Because the Fifth Prince was there, Xue Yao didn't have much pressure and brought the little fat cub to follow the Fifth Prince, wandering through the forest as if he was swimming in the mountains.
"Prey is sparser in this forest." Xue Yao, who hadn't seen a single rabbit, carried his bow and lamented his uselessness.
The Seventh Prince beside him snorted.
"What is Your Highness laughing at?" Xue Yao squinted warily at the fat cub.
The Seventh Prince raised his hand and pointed to the grass to the southwest.
"What's wrong?" Xue Yao noticed that the grass over there was empty.
"There's a wind?" The Seventh Prince reminded him.
"No." Xue Yao couldn't feel the wind.
"Has the grass moved?" The Seventh Prince continued to prompt.
Xue Yao fixed his eyes on the grass and found that the tip of the grass was swaying slightly, "Well, there is a little ...... ah! There must be a hare in there!"
The Seventh Prince made a gesture of invitation.
Xue Yao immediately flicked his bow and arrow and darted after him!
However, the hare that was startled by the footsteps was faster than Xue Yao and fled the scene with lightning.
"Oops! Ran away!" Xue Yao stifled a sigh.
The Seventh Prince said, "Let Fifth Brother wrestle the rabbit for you to shoot."
"No need!" Xue Yao seriously educated the little fat cub, "What's the point of falling unconscious? Hunting has to be self-reliant."
"That would require finding a deaf hare first." The Seventh Prince euphemistically implied that Silly Telekinesis had just been shaken by footsteps.
"What does Your Highness mean?" Xue Yao was on guard, how that sounded like he was despising his hunting skills!
I always feel that this Dragon Ao Tian pup has been getting worse and worse lately... Was it intentional to say that?
But thinking of the Seventh Prince growing up happily under his own care, Xue Yao felt that the little chubby cub would definitely not turn into the belly-dark little devil from the original.
He must be overthinking it!
The Seventh Prince raised an eyebrow and tilted his head with an innocent expression, "Huh?"
Xue Yao: "......"
I'm sure he was overthinking it!
The old father immediately and happily took the pups and continued to look for hares.
He hadn't even discovered a single prey in its true form on his end, and the Fifth Prince had darted back with another hare to show off.
"Well! How many did you two hit?" The Fifth Prince saw that none of the attendants on the side had any prey in their hands, guessing that Old Seven had not yet hit the prey, and instantly found his dignity as a brother!
"We haven't even seen a single prey, Your Highness, you're really great, you've hit another one in the blink of an eye!" Xue Yao sincerely lamented.
The Fifth Prince humbled himself and looked toward the Seventh Prince, "Why hasn't Old Seven made a move yet?"
"Not quite." The Seventh Prince said.
"Hahaha fuck you!" The Fifth Prince was amused by his brother, thinking that he was joking on purpose, and casually urged, "If you don't do it, brother will expel you from the team."
The Seventh Prince got angry when he heard this, and with a beak, he turned his head sideways to Xue Yao and pouted, "Hmm~"
"No, no, no!" Xue Yao immediately smoothed the fat cub's head hair: "The Fifth Prince is joking with His Highness, we won't not want His Highness!"
Xue Yao can't be blamed for spoiling the little chubby cub, emotionally disturbed children have to avoid being stimulated and ostracized until adulthood, or else the impact on their mental health will be more serious than that of ordinary children.
"What are you making a scene about, kid?" The Fifth Prince couldn't understand what Old Seven was singing about, and turned to instructing Xue Yao in hunting and archery skills.
The Fifth Prince thought that the Seventh Brother could fend for himself, so he didn't instruct him personally.
Normally when the hunting started, the seventh prince would basically complete the number of prey set by his father within an hour, hand over his duties and go back to his tent, playing chess with himself.
It was rare for Xue Yao to participate in the fall hunt this time.
His Highness the Seventh Prince had the pleasure of staying in the paddock.
Xue Yao nodded confidently after learning some techniques from this Fifth Prince: "Got it, got it! Your Highness, watch me!"
The two emperors were eager to "watch him" and split up to help Xue Yao look for prey, and as soon as the wind blew, they pointed out the exact location of the prey to Xue Yao, the "hunting blind", and waited for him to show off his archery skills.
A gray rabbit was grazing, Xue Yao didn't spook the snake this time, looked at the right position and flicked his bow and arrow-
It always felt bad in my hand, and I drew it full several times, then slowly released it, shook it off, and re-drew the bow.
Still not working, Xue Yao wiped the sweat from his forehead, took a deep breath, and once again flicked his bow and shot an arrow!
"Ch-ching!" A sharp arrow cut through the air and pierced into the grass next to the gray hare ......!
The rabbit was scared off.
"Ouch!" Xue Yao stomped his foot!
Beside the Seventh Prince gave a low laugh, in the blink of an eye flicked the bow and arrow, noiselessly, light glazed pupils steeply a Ling, convergence of the chin an arrow shot -
"Snort--"
The muffled sound of an arrow entering flesh and bone.
The gray rabbit, which had originally escaped, was pinned through the grass with an arrow by the Seventh Prince, twitching madly.
"......" Xue Yao was incredulous, turning his head to look at the little fat cub!
The Seventh Prince looked surprised, "Did you win?"
Xue Yao: "......"
With no place to put his old father's face, Xue Yao muttered, "Your Highness is lucky."
The Seventh Prince laughed, "Yao Yao has no luck?"
"I don't need luck to shoot!" Xue Yao gambled on his dignity and lifted his bow, he was going to get serious!
However, the reality is harsh.
Xue Yao shot six arrows in one go, and finally asked the cub for help, "Your Highness, why don't you stop shooting? Why don't you join me?"
The seventh prince finally waited for the time, one side of the head, and silly Yao Yao negotiated conditions: "Master is not very good, very tired, a hare a pot of milk."
"It's not like I'm asking you to help me shoot!" Xue Yao got angry, "It's just that I'm afraid you'll be bored, Your Highness! Even if you don't help, I can still shoot the rabbit!"
The Seventh Prince nodded and made a gesture of invitation.
Xue Yao huffed and puffed and started hunting again!
First arrow, crooked.
"That tree blocked the sunlight, I didn't see it clearly!" Xue Yao immediately explained to the bad fat cub!
The Seventh Prince nodded, signaling him to continue.
Second arrow, crooked.
"This bow of mine doesn't seem to be very accurate!" Xue Yao felt bad about it, and with a turn of his head, he stared at the ox-horn bow in the fat cub's hand.
The Seventh Prince immediately took his own bow and switched it with Silly Yao Yao.
Third arrow, crooked.
"Hahahahaha ......" the Fifth Prince's stomach hurt from laughing, "Ah Yao's archery skills are too bad! Forget it, I'll fight on my own, you go over there and shoot the tree stumps and practice for a while."
"Not bad, there's a reason." The Seventh Prince dismissed Fifth Brother's judgment and looked seriously at Xue Yao, "What was the reason for not shooting this time? Your Highness still needs to hear Yao Yao's excuse."
Xue Yao: "......"
This ungrateful pup!
Can't talk!
"What's the use of making excuses, you can't even get the bow draw position right!" The Fifth Prince inexorably walked behind Xue Yao and handily called him on his archery skills, aiming at a tree trunk not too far away and shooting out an arrow.
"You have to shoot like this!" The Fifth Prince said, "Got it?"
Xue Yao nodded and pondered to himself for a while.
The Seventh Prince went off in silence to find his prey.
Xue Yao was about to follow the fat cub when he suddenly heard a long-lost system beep!
[WARNING: The branch task of opening the second chakra has entered a three-month countdown, exceeding the time limit will seriously affect Lu Qian's future combat power, so please make a renewed effort.]
The author has something to say:
Xue Yao treated business one way and cubs another.
He accompanied the seven pups to grow up, when they were together, habitually used a childlike way of getting along with each other, so that the cubs were comfortable and accustomed to it, and could not face the seven pups with a serious and antiquated manner like that of a pedagogue
Seven pups would have been easy to sense the lack of, Xue Yao preferred to integrate into the naive and sincere child character with him, the previous article he was also this attitude towards the pups, so many years and also accustomed to it, and is not pretending to be tender Oh, treating the main thing he still carried up.