93. Honor and disgrace
Ye Xuan's mind buzzed, and it was blank for a while.
Jiang Mei stroked his palms and laughed, "It's still King Xiang's thoughtfulness, this idea is very good!" A prisoner of the Jin Kingdom, it is not a pity to die, just use it to practice the target! He said to Ye Xuan again: "Boy, don't be afraid to pee your pants, needless to say, His Royal Highness King Xiang's martial arts are world-renowned, and his bow and horse are skillful, your brain will not be thrown away so easily." Don't worry, if you don't die today, the general will allow you to stay in my camp as a cook in the future, if you are unfortunate today...... Being able to die in the hands of King Xiang is also your creation. Is that His Royal Highness King Xiang? ”
He laughed and looked at An Yi with a smug face, An Yi only smiled and said nothing, bowing his head and drinking.
Jiang Ba took a sip of Jiang Mei, "I love the courage of my tongue, I advise you not to talk too much, and I will be embarrassed with you for a while." She looked at Ye Xuan and couldn't bear it, "Isn't it just an archery, you have to use a living person as a target?" I think it's also a good idea to put the jujube on the mouth of the bottle. ”
Jiang Mei glanced at her, "What do you know, this is exciting, how boring it is to be motionless on a dead object." ”
While the two were talking, Wei Bing had already taken Ye Xuan to the open space of the school field and took off her hat. The soldiers who were originally practicing archery on the field heard that the general of Qi was going to compete with King Xiang, and they stopped to watch.
A moment later, a Wei soldier general brought three green dates, one on top of her head, and the other two for her palms to be held upward, one left and one right on her palms.
That Wei Bing had a good heart, and he didn't forget to remind her, "Boy, close your eyes for a while, don't open your eyes to see, if you don't look, you won't be so afraid." If you are so scared that your body trembles, and when the green jujube moves, the arrow doesn't know where to shoot, then you're done. ”
After Wei Bing said that, seeing Ye Xuan's eyes looking straight ahead, her face was colorless, and she didn't know if she had listened to her words, so she couldn't help but sigh and retreat.
Jiang Mei had already taken the bow and arrow handed by his subordinates, grinding his fists, and a pair of eagle eyes flashed with excitement under his sword eyebrows, "King Xiang, which of us will come first?" ”
An Yi raised his eyes and glanced at the person in the distance, drank the wine in his hand, and then got up lazily, "The general's archery skills are famous all over the world, let me be ugly first, admit it." ”
He walked slowly to the middle of the field, took an ordinary bow and arrow used by the soldiers to practice, and stood in the open space a hundred steps away from Ye Xuan. The drums on the school field shook the sky for a while, and the soldiers shouted and cheered for King Xiang. After a few moments, the deafening drumming and shouting finally stopped, and everyone held their breath for the moment.
The scorching sun is in the sky, and everything is silent.
The three small green dates seemed to weigh a thousand catties, and beads of sweat the size of beans slipped down from Ye Xuan's temples, and it seemed that he was the only one left in the world. Ye Xuan heard her heart beating violently.
It was false to say that she was not afraid, she heard the words of the Wei soldier just now, she knew that he was right, the more she opened her eyes, the more she would be afraid, the more stable her hand was, the more conducive to the normal play of the archer, if she trembled because of fear, and the arrow missed the head, she would be crippled in both hands at least and her life would be lost.
At the moment when she was brought on the field, she thought that she could show her identity to An Yi, whether he still had feelings for her or not, just by virtue of her identity as a foreigner, she believed that An Yi would keep her and ask Jiang Mei for help.
But at this moment, she didn't want to close her eyes, let alone beg for mercy.
She remembered that on the way out, she had asked Yan Xu if she was worried that if Yan Min was unfortunately killed, he would become a sinner in the Jin Kingdom? At that time, Yan Xu said to her: "I'm worried, but I rushed to Lanjiang with stars and moon this time, not because I was worried that I would become a sinner." She asked why, and he said: "Yes, I have coveted this country for a long time, but as long as Yan Min is the king, I will be a subject of the Great Jin Dynasty one day, and my family and country are righteous, and I dare not or forget." The Son of Heaven was captured, and as a subject, how could I sit back and watch my Great Jin Dynasty suffer this humiliation. ”
The four characters of family and country righteousness are far away from her, and her identity at the moment is just a prisoner of the Jin Kingdom, and it is not a pity to die. But she didn't forget jì, although she was a woman, she was also a subject of the Great Jin Dynasty. And the comfort at this moment is no longer the comfort on the barren mountain, but the king of Wei Guoxiang. No matter how afraid of death she is, she will not allow herself to tremble under the eyelids of tens of thousands of Wei people at this moment, let alone ask the Wei people for mercy.
It's a big deal.
Ye Xuan looked straight ahead, her hands were raised, her waist was straight, her frantic heartbeat gradually subsided, she heard the rustle of the wind through the treetops, heard the birds flying through the sky, and heard the cicadas on the trees.
The sun was shining, and the man had drawn his bow to the fullest, and he was dressed in fine iron armor, thin and soft, and his slender and straight figure stood against the light, and she could not see his face clearly, but only vaguely saw the eyes hidden behind the bow and arrows that were ready to be attacked.
For a moment, that look overlapped with the last time he looked at her in Xiangwang's Mansion that night, and she suddenly had the illusion that perhaps he had recognized her.
With a thud, the arrow was off the string. As the sound of breaking the air sounded, an extremely sharp wind blew across her left palm, and after the blast passed, her palm was empty. Before she could think, her right palm was empty.
The deafening shouts resounded throughout the school field, Ye Xuan's body seemed to be numb and motionless, she thought that probably the two arrows did not miss, and her hand was intact.
The brief shouting had stopped, and the man had bent his bow again.
Under the scorching sun, the sand and gravel ground were white and steaming, sweat dripping from her forehead, just falling on her eyelashes, her eyes blinked very lightly, and then she opened her eyes hard to look at the man in the distance, he moved skillfully, calmly, she seemed to see the iron arrow with cold light slowly pointing at her eyebrows.
There was another sharp sound of breaking the air, her pupils dilated instantly, and her heart went into arrest, watching the arrow pass against her forehead from far and near, the strap of her hair broke, and her long hair fell suddenly, and she had reached the limit, and her body fell backwards with a thud.
The moment before closing the eyes, the slender and tall figure looked at her condescendingly, her eyes were as cold as frost, her ears were buzzing, and even his voice became strange, "Take her down, let the doctor take a good look, don't let her ...... He's dead. ”
The school field was boiling again, and Jiang Bayi's apricot eyes were sparkling, clinging to An Yi's body. Jiang Mei clapped her hands and applauded, but her eyes stared at Ye Xuan, who was carried away, and muttered: "Evil, why does this kid look like a girl......"
Ye Xuan was quickly carried to the military doctor's tent by two Wei soldiers, the military doctor with the army has been busy enough these days, and it is Lu Yizheng who stays here on duty today, but he is not in the tent at this time, only a medicine boy who is decocting medicine, the two Wei soldiers said to the medicine boy: "King Xiang spoke, he must not let him die, go and call Lu Yizheng back." ”
The medicine boy looked embarrassed, "But King Xiang also instructed Lu Yizheng in the morning, saying that the Emperor of the Jin Kingdom fainted several times last night, and asked him to go to the town later." Doctor Lu is now busy preparing medicine. ”
Wei Bing rubbed his hands, "King Xiang doesn't know that there is only one doctor on duty today, so how can it be good?" ”
The medicine boy also knew a little about medicine, put a pulse on Ye Xuan's wrist for a moment, and said to the two: "Don't worry, you two are just prostration, you can't die, wait for me to feed him a Shenlu pill, and he will wake up in half an hour." ”
The two Wei soldiers were overjoyed and said, "Then there is Brother Lao, we will wait outside the tent." ”
The medicine boy said: "Cheng, when the master prepares the medicine and comes back, I still have to go with him, and the two brothers will do their own thing." ”
Suddenly, the medicine boy stuffed a pill into her mouth, the pill was cool and refreshing, although Ye Xuan didn't really faint, but after swallowing the pill, she really felt much better. When An Yi's last arrow shot the green dates on her head, she really collapsed and fell to the ground, but the moment she fell, she bit the tip of her tongue and held on to prevent herself from losing consciousness.
She originally wanted to use this opportunity to explore the Wei army camp to see if she could find Yan Min, but she didn't expect to overhear his news. Although it was only two or three sentences, at least she understood two things, one was that An Yi forcibly crossed the river to save people in order to prevent the Jin army from forcibly crossing the river and imprisoning Yan Min to a nearby town. The second is that Yan Min is sick, and the situation is not optimistic. She couldn't help but worry about him, he had always been weak, so he didn't have to get sick.
The medicine boy was busy in the tent, and soon after, the Lu doctor came back and explained some matters to the medicine boy. There are more than 1,000 Wei soldiers guarding Yan Min in the town, and many of them have contracted wind and heat in recent days.
The medicine boy packed up the medicine box according to Lu Yizheng's instructions, explained a few words to Wei Bing, who was waiting for Ye Xuan outside the tent, and went out with Lu Yizheng. As soon as the two of them walked on their front feet, the two Wei soldiers fell to the ground with a pain in their necks. Ye Xuan quickly dragged the two into the tent, stripped off one of them's clothes and put them on his body, and hurried in the direction of Lu Yizheng and the medicine boy. Fortunately, the two didn't walk fast, Ye Xuan followed for a while, and soon saw the carriage loading medicine.
There were two carts with people sitting in front of the carriage and goods in the back, and there were already many bags of marijuana on the carriage, including medicines and supplies, and several Wei soldiers were still carrying the medicines to the carriage one after another.
Ye Xuan hid in a dark corner, buckled a stone in her hand, and shot at the calf of one of the Wei soldiers, and the Wei soldier fell to the ground one by one, and even scattered the medicine in her hand, taking advantage of the distraction of everyone, she skewered to the carriage containing the medicine, and squeezed her body into a pile of goods.
After a pillar of incense, two carriages rumbled out of the Wei military camp.