Chapter 28: A Turning Point
On the spacious Songling River, more than a dozen dragon boats rowed quickly, and the dragon boat with the vermilion lacquer dragon pattern flag was far ahead, leaving the dragon boats of other families far behind, seeing that the victory was in hand, and the dragon boat that Gu Yuan said was still unhurriedly following behind, although it had slowly surpassed several dragon boats that had slowed down, it was still far from the one that was the leader. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
Gu Tongzhi's face was ashamed, and he said to Xie Xuan: "The clan sister is stupid and vain, and she has involved several Langjun, and Tongzhi is willing to return all the gambling money to apologize." ”
Wang Yan was eating wine and watching the race, and when he heard Gu Tongzhi's words, he sneered: "It's just five hundred gold, even if you lose, it's rare to gamble on it, and it's worth your care!" Looking at Gu Tongzhi's eyes, he was even more disdainful.
Xie Xuanjunxiu's face showed a trace of unhappiness, and he still said gently: "Gu Dalang doesn't have to be like this, we all admire Yuan's sister-in-law's piano skills, and we don't care about winning or losing." ”
Wang Yan pointed to Gu Yuan, who was sitting on the couch calmly eating and watching the race: "Dignified son, it's not as comfortable as a sister-in-law, she has never been afraid, why do you act like this!" ”
As soon as his voice fell, the gentlemen on the side all laughed, Wang Yan is the sister-in-law of the Taiyuan Wang family, and his reputation is admired by the world, how important his evaluation is, I am afraid that everyone will know it soon, so that Gu Tongzhi will become a joke.
Gu Tongzhi's face turned pale, he couldn't imagine that his flattering actions would be evaluated like Wang Shiyilang, which would ruin his reputation, how could he not be angry, but he didn't dare to say anything, so he had to sit down stupidly.
At this moment, the situation on the Songling River suddenly changed drastically, and the prince's dragon boat rushed to the front but suddenly slowed down, and shook violently, and even stopped moving straight forward, and began to spin in place, as if it had been tripped by something. The dragon boats that followed it rushed forward and began to whirl around, unable to continue to fly.
"This ...... What's the matter......" exclaimed the people watching the dragon boats on the shore, "why did it stop!" ”
"It's a whirlpool of undercurrents," said someone familiar with the water, "there must be a shoal there." ”
At this time, more than a dozen dragon boats have rushed forward, many dragon boats are like the previous ones, are swept by the whirlpool, keep shaking and spinning, the boatmen on the dragon boats are in a mess, constantly rowing the wooden oars, but can not take a step forward, many dragon boats still collide together, it is even more chaotic. Even a few dragon boats carefully avoided the whirlpool, but they also had to slow down, for fear of being swept into the whirlpool or crashing into the reef hidden in the water.
Only the inconspicuous ebony dragon boat from before bypassed the chaotic water, paddling lightly through the dark water, and in the blink of an eye it had rowed several feet away, and had not rushed into the whirlpool, nor slowed down, as if it knew the undercurrent well, and was not at all worried about being stopped. In just a few breaths, this ebony dragon boat has surpassed all the other dragon boats, and it is not far ahead of the end of the dragon boat race.
With a loud gong, the ebony boat took the lead and reached the finish line first. The crowd on the shore boiled, and no one could have expected such a result, and how could one not be surprised that the originally unremarkable ebony boat had won over so many tall and sturdy dragon boats.
Compared with the lively crowd in the audience, there was silence on the Wangjiang platform at this time, and everyone's eyes stopped on Gu Yuan, their eyes were full of shock and stunned, and they were even more in awe. This sister-in-law can really predict the prophet and win this gamble that is obviously bound to lose.
The prince's face changed from shock to annoyance, he was originally winning, but he lost so inexplicably, how could he have the face to face these family members, he gritted his teeth and said: "Go and cut down all the people on the dragon boat, useless people, what are you going to do!" The eunuch bowed and retreated.
Xie Xuan, Wang Yan and the others frowned and sighed when they saw the prince acting like this, the temperament of the Southern Jin royal family had become more and more tyrannical, but no one dared to persuade them.
"I didn't expect your sister-in-law to really have some magical powers," the prince seemed to be a little angry, and looked at Gu Yuan with great interest, "I really expected that dragon boat to win the championship, it seems that you said that you can predict good and bad, it seems a little true." ”
"Your Highness, the war report from the northern border has not yet been delivered, how can we know whether what she said is true or false, if she is just a temporary fluke, wouldn't it make Her Highness be deceived!" Zhang Shiniang, who was dressed as a concubine behind him, said indignantly, she saw that Gu Yuan really won the gamble, and she was in awe of so many people, and suddenly her heart felt as if she was scratched, and she couldn't bear it.
Gu Yuan glanced at her, without sadness or joy, and didn't care at all whether Zhang Shiniang's words would make the prince change his mind.
"Your Highness doesn't have to wait for the report of the battle in the north any longer," a slightly muffled voice sounded on the Wangjiang platform, "Ting is from Yuzhou, the Hu people have already broken through Hechi and Min County, and the Hu army has approached Luoyang. When everyone turned around, they saw a young man in a plain robe and a silver crown coming slowly, obviously coming all the way, but it did not damage the cold and handsome face at all, he walked to the prince and bowed slightly: "Cui Ting has seen His Highness." ”