Chapter 655 Manor Hunting
Although Li Ke's refusal disappointed Prince Theodosio, he was not an easy person to give up. Therefore, when he finally left, he expressed his hope that Li Ke could go to his mansion when he came back from outside the city. This made Li Ke really difficult to refuse, so he had to agree.
After sending Prince Theodossi away, Cen Changqian immediately complained to Li Ke: "Your Highness rejected it very well at the beginning, but in the end he really shouldn't have agreed to Prince Theodossi's invitation!"
"Oh, why is this?" Li Ke sat down and savored the tea ceremony. It was Cen Changqian who wrote behind him just now and asked him to refuse the invitation from the party. Now it is time to listen to him.
Cen Changqian said, "Your Highness doesn't know. A few days ago, I also collected some information about Rome. All aspects of the information showed that although Prince Theodosie and Constance II were brothers, the relationship between the two was not as simple as it seemed. As our identity, we really don't have to get too close to each other."
Li Ke was stunned after hearing this, and immediately understood a little. It seemed that there was also court struggle within the Roman Empire. Then his face changed and he asked again: "Changqian, do you know the detailed inside story?"
However, after hearing this, Cen Changqian said helplessly: "Your Highness, except for the first few days, we have never dared to deal with the Roman nobles again. In addition, this involves court disputes, so few people will say it openly, so the ministers only know this, but they still don't know more detailed information."
When Li Ke heard this, he also showed a helpless expression. He thought he could take this opportunity to make friends with several important Roman nobles, but he did not expect that the customs here were too alternative, at least he could not accept it.
However, Cen Changqian suddenly showed joy and said again: "Your Highness, although we don't know the situation between the brothers Constance II, you can ask Queen Irina, and she must know more than anyone else."
After hearing this, Li Ke nodded as well. It seemed that this was the only way to do it. He ordered people to hurry up and prepare.
"Swoosh~" A long arrow passed through the grass, and a running hare was in a very accurate shè.
"Shè, Your Highness is so amazing!" A charming female voice praised, and then three horses rushed from a distance, one man and two women, all wearing convenient hunting suits. The man held a bow and arrow in his hand. The style of the bow and arrow was obviously different from that of the Romans. It was Li Ke who came from the Tang Dynasty, and the women around him were one of Ke Lis as a translator, and the other was naturally the mistress of the manor, Empress Irina.
Early this morning, Irina took a carriage to pick up Li Ke and the others to the manor, and also welcomed them very enthusiastically. In the afternoon, she proposed to hunt in the manor, which made Li Ke, who had not hunted for a long time, agree very much, so the group rode their horses to the hunting area of the manor.
Queen Irina had an unspeakable favoritism towards Li Kebao, which naturally could not hide the gaze of Cen Changqian and others. Therefore, when they started hunting, they deliberately lag behind for a while and created opportunities for the two of them.
Before coming to Rome, Cen Changqian and others never dreamed that they would like Li Ke to have an affair with the Roman Empress. However, as the saying goes, following the customs, even their husbands don’t care about Roman women’s affair. Some people even encourage their wives to have an affair, even the emperor and the queen are no exception. This is simply too normal for the Romans, so Cen Changqian and the others naturally don’t care. What’s more, if Li Ke really gets the Queen Irina, they can get a lot of benefits from the other party, such as intelligence.
As Li Shimin's son, Li Ke naturally followed his father to hunt since he was a child, and his archery skills were also among the top among the brothers. Therefore, in just one hour, Li Ke had already killed a deer and two pheasants. In addition, this hare was already four preys, but Irina still found nothing.
Irina rode her horse and then jumped off the horse to pick up the dead rabbit of Li Ke. Today she was wearing a Roman hunting suit, which looked more heroic and extra charming. The hunting suit Li Ke was wearing was from the Hu clothes brought by the Tang Dynasty, and absorbed some of the military uniforms of Li Ke. It was divided into upper and lower clothes. It not only facilitates hunting, but also set off the heroic martial arts of Li Ke.
"His Royal Highness of Wu is really like a god of arrows. I'm afraid no one among the Roman nobles is your opponent!" Irina praised without any concealingly. The Romans were more accustomed to using javelins on the battlefield, and the backwardness of bow and arrow production technology made them not pay enough attention to bows and arrows, so most Roman nobles were not very wise. Therefore, with Li Ke's archery technique, they could indeed rank among the Romans.
"The queen is a mistake. My archery skills are nothing among the Han people. Even among the princes, there are a few people whose archery skills are much better than mine!" Li Ke said modestly.
"Your Highness of the King of Wu is so polite. This is not a holy palace. Don't call me the queen anymore. Just call me my name." Irina said shyly.
Although she and Li Ke have not known each other for a long time, Irina slowly discovered that she had been fascinated by the prince who came from afar. Especially compared with her husband, Li Ke not only seemed more mature and steady, but also had a more noble temperament in his conversation. He also had no problems with Roman men. He was simply a perfect dream lover.
Li Ke also felt moved when he heard Irina's words. He was over thirty years old, which was the most charming moment for a man. He had long noticed Queen Irina's previous performances. Now the other party even asked him to call her by her name, and he could naturally hear the affection contained in it.
"Irina!" Li Ke shouted softly. After hearing this, Irina looked delighted, and her big blue eyes stared at Li Ke tightly.
Li Ke then said: "Irina, in private situations, you don't have to call me Your Highness the King of Wu anymore. Just call me Sanlang directly."
"San... Lang!" Irina called out this Chinese name very stiffly. Because Ke Liss didn't know how to translate the name in Greek, she could only use Chinese pronunciation to replace it.
"Yeah." Li Ke agreed, "Only only my elders, friends and wife will call me by this name."
When Irina heard Li Ke's tone of the word "wife" in the end, her face turned red, but her heart was extremely sweet. Although neither of them clearly pointed it out, her feelings had been expressed in her words. At this moment, an atmosphere called ambiguous began to spread between the two.
Unfortunately, both of them ignored one thing, that is, there was a translator, Ke Liss, who felt the ambiguous atmosphere between her master and the Roman queen, which made her feel that her existence was really redundant, but she could not avoid it like Cen Changqian and others, otherwise Li Ke and Irina would not be able to communicate. However, if you have to bring an interpreter in a relationship, Li Ke and Irina were also a precedent in the history of love.
Just about two or three miles behind Li Ke and Irina, Wang Fangyi and Lu Wan took the arrows and aimed at the two pheasants not far away in front of him again, then suddenly released the bowstring. As a result, two long arrows were shoveled out and almost at the same time. Wang Fangyi was a general, and his archery skills were naturally jingling, while Lu Wan was a pirate. Later, he worked in the slave hunting team for a long time, so he could play with all kinds of weapons, so hunting was no problem.
Looking at the manor slaves around him picking up prey, Wang Fangyi said strangely: "Captain Lu, have you noticed it? There seems to be too many prey in this manor. It's only a while since we've fought so much."
Wang Fangyi pointed behind him, there were already many prey hanging on the slaves arranged by Irina, including pheasants and hares, and even three or four deer.
"Hehe, I know this. In fact, the prey we caught was captured by slaves in the manor outside, and then placed in the manor for the owner to hunt, so the prey here seemed so dense." Lu Wan smiled.
"So that's it. No wonder so many preys hit him along the way!" Wang Fangyi smiled bitterly. Although this method can indeed allow the nobles to catch more prey, it also seems too simple and a bit boring for him.
While Wang Fangyi was talking to Lu Wan, a series of silver bell-like laughter suddenly rang behind them. Without looking back, they knew that it must be Cen Changqian teasing several maids brought by Irina.
Speaking of which, Cen Changqian is indeed smart. He learned some Greek from Ke Lis on the way. In addition, he had practiced after coming to Eastern Rome, which allowed him to have simple communication with the Romans. In addition, he was not very interested in hunting, so he started to chat with the maids brought by Irina, mainly to prevent them from disturbing Li Ke and the other two. In addition, they would stay in the manor for a while, so Cen Changqian didn't mind having some wonderful relationships with the maids.
"Kap~Kap~" Suddenly, the Roman slaves beside Wang Fangyi were in chaos, and some people started to scream, but unfortunately he and Lu Wan couldn't understand at all.
But it doesn't matter if they don't understand, because they soon knew what the slaves called Cap meant. A tall wild boar suddenly rushed out of the bushes next to him. The wild boar was about one and a half steps tall, and more than two steps long. I don't know why it actually made it run out of the bushes.
"What a big wild boar!" Wang Fangyi was feeling a little bored, but he didn't expect such a beast to run out. He was very excited and pulled the bow and arrow, and three arrows were shot in a row, and all of them were shining the head of the wild boar. One of the arrows blinded one of the wild boar's eyes.
Chapter completed!