Chapter Twenty-Six: Electricity and Fire

But Xu Mingcheng was just about to get up, and was pressed back to his place by Xu Yourong.

"Don't go, since they dare to do such a thing, it means that they are very sure, you rush into their guns like this, don't say anything about yourself, maybe you will even affect Cousin Xuan."

Xu Yourong watched quietly, and when Emperor Zhou Hui announced that the winner of this group was the second prince Xie Yan, Xie Yan's smiling face was radiant.

But although Xu Mingcheng also knows that things are not simple, how can she swallow this breath?

So just when Xu Mingxuan was still racking his brains to find a way, Qi Xuan walked directly to Xu Youshan and them.

"Cousin Xuan." Xu Youshan and the others all stood up and saluted Qi Xuan.

"Cousin Xuan, you're not hurt, are you? What was going on just now? But Xu Mingcheng hurriedly asked.

"The bow I used was made of hands and feet, but the hands and feet were very finely made, and when I checked it at first, I didn't even notice it, until the end, that is, when I pulled the bow at the end, a little bit of ice crystal powder hidden in the string began to melt under the friction in front of it, which made the bowstring brittle and broken." Qi Xuan told Xu Youshan everything coldly.

"Xuan Bing Crystal? It's a lot of luck. ”

Xuanbing Crystal is a tribute to the royal family Xie clan from various small countries thousands of miles away from the border, which is in a specific place, and it can only produce a complete crystal for decades, and it is even in the royal treasure vault, which is among the best treasures. And the reason why it is so rare is not only because of the rarity of things. Because it has the characteristics of a night pearl, it can shine on its own at night, which is beautiful. And it's still alive. One of the few types of crystal with crystal clarity that is the best, the jewelry made from it is a rarity.

But Xuan Bing Crystal, although it is priceless enough to have these two properties, it also has another more special property, that is, if it is ground into powder, then its powder is rubbed. It will dry out and brittle most of the items that have been smeared with it. And after it is cooled again, it will evaporate colorlessly and odorlessly, so that it will disappear without a trace. So except when the bowstring is brittle and broken by the ice crystal powder. Outside of the touch of the moment that the person concerned feels, outsiders will no longer notice anything.

Everyone knows what is going on now, but after knowing the facts. Xu Youshan and the others were even more silent. And Qi Xuan didn't say anything more, just glanced at the direction where the second prince Xie Yan was, and then walked towards Qi Pei, the king of Beiding, leaving the space for Xu Youshan and the four of them.

"So what now?"

And after the silence, Xu Youshan still asked a little uncomfortably after all, if this continues, Xie Yan will definitely win, and after he wins. What kind of requirements will be made by Emperor Zhou Huidi, Xu Youshan really doesn't have to think about it.

"Now even Cousin Xuan has been eliminated by his conspiracy. Who else can be counted on. Xu Yourong said in a low voice.

"No, there's hope for one more." But Xu Mingwen said suddenly at this time.

"What if there is hope, Cousin Xuan's archers can be used by everyone, so will others be spared?"

"Then let's just go and report to him, or let my grandfather ask the Holy One to change their bow and arrows." Xu Mingwen said innocently.

"How to ventilate the news, no one is allowed to approach the arena now, how to ventilate the news in such a crowd? As for asking my grandfather to ask the Holy Lord to change their bows and arrows for another comparison, what is the reason, it can't be said that they don't look down on the bows and arrows of the royal guards. But Xu Mingcheng said with cold water again.

The Xuan Bing Crystal powder is colorless and odorless, and after being smeared on the object, it is attached to the object, and it cannot be separated at all, so they can't prove that there is a problem with the bow and arrow in a short period of time. And if they take 10,000 steps back, even if they can prove it, who knows what kind of mind Emperor Zhou Hui has in his heart? Maybe he already knew that there were ghosts inside, and if they exposed Xie Yan like this, maybe it would only add to the disaster.

Besides, Emperor Zhou Hui had the best face, even if he didn't know about Xie Yan's ghost in advance, but if they exposed this in front of so many people, it wouldn't be good.

"What if you don't?"

Yes, this is not good, that is not good, Xu Youshan and the others looked in the direction of Mrs. Qi and found that they also looked solemn. Could it be that now you can really only resign yourself to fate? It's such a nasty answer, but if they don't leave it to fate, what else can they do now? Xu Yourong and Xu Mingwen looked coldly in the direction of the arena, but Xu Mingyan and Xu Youshan were in a hurry.

But no matter how anxious they were, the second group of games also started on time, and the sound of hooves sounded in the arena again, and with Zhou Huidi's indication, Nie Suhyun on the high platform on the side also shot out the colorful ball again.

But this time it went smoothly, and there were no accidents, and the third prince Xie Wen was actually eliminated by the unknown young man, so the last two who could participate in the finals also qualified, that is, the second prince Xie Yan and the unknown young man.

But now it was, because after a while, when the ceremonial officer announced who the two contestants for the final were, people knew his name.

"The next to participate in the finals will be His Royal Highness the Second Prince, and Zhai Yu."

Zhai Yu?

At this time, everyone present knew the name of this young man who jumped out like a dark horse, but even if they knew, everyone was still confused, because the name "Zhai Yu" was unfamiliar to the famous nobles in these gods, and almost all of them were names they heard for the first time. And the name is really unheard, but this "Zhai" surname, people here should be familiar with it, after all, the Huanchuan Zhai family is famous.

However, when the Zhai family suddenly returned the military power and Emperor Zhou Hui, and stayed away from the border, all the children of the Zhai family also returned to the ancestral land of Huanchuan, although it caused an uproar at the time, but in the Shendu, the most important thing is this uproar of the new thing, so after a few years, the Huanchuan Zhai family, which had a faint sense of retirement, was gradually forgotten by the Shendu.

So right now, except for a few people who heard the word "Zhai Yu". Except for one look, the rest of the people were confused.

Among the four Xu Youshan, except for the eldest Xu Yourong, there was a bit of a groaning appearance at this time. The other three were all ignorant like the others.

"Zhai Yu? This is really strange, this is the first time I have heard of such a character. Xu Ming said curiously.

"No, you know this man." But Xu Yourong said suddenly.

"I know? No way, I don't have any impression of him. Xu Mingcheng looked at Xu Yourong strangely, "Have you seen him?" ”

"I haven't seen it. But I know him. Xu Yourong looked intently at the back of the arena.

"Eldest sister, just say it. Who is he? Xu Youshan was made curious by Xu Yourong, but Xu Yourong was still slow, and the way she said it four times in one sentence really made her die in a hurry.

"That's right. Sister Rong. Let's talk about it. Xu Mingwen also said urgently.

"Sister Wu and Sister Shan are young, it's okay to say if you don't remember, but Mingxi, you don't have any impression." But Xu Yourong suddenly laughed.

But looking at Xu Yourong's meaningful smile, Xu Ming thought about it for a while, but still frowned and said, "I'm really not impressed." ”

"You don't have an impression of the surname 'Zhai'?"

Xu Yourong's words fell, but Xu Mingwen on the side suddenly shouted: "Huanchuan Zhai family." ”

"That's right." Xu Yourong said with a smile.

Jiangzuo's Xu family and Huanchuan Zhai's family were because of the old lady Xu Luo. That has always been a good friend, and Xu Yourong is a junior. Naturally, I have also seen the Zhai family. But after all, the Zhai family has been guarding the frontier for many years, and there are not many opportunities to travel to and from the imperial capital, so of course the opportunity to meet them is only one or two times. But even so, not to mention anything else, when Zhai Wulang, the youngest son of Zhai Ran, the old man of the Zhai family, was fostered by Mrs. Qi, the young Xu Yourong and Xu Mingcheng had seen him.

But at that time, they were still too young after all, and their impression of Zhai Wulang was already vague after so many years. Moreover, many years ago, the young Zhai Wulang died on the battlefield, so they have even less impression of him.

Therefore, after the Zhai family returned to Huanchuan for so many years, when the people in Dijing gradually forgot about this big family, except for the adults in the Xu family who never mentioned it, among the juniors of Xu Yourong's generation, except for Xu Yourong, there was really no one who could remember the Huanchuan Zhai family.

"Huanchuan Zhai family?"

But after Xu Mingyan and Xu Mingwen both had clear expressions, Xu Youshan was still confused.

"Well......" And Xu Yourong explained to Xu Youshan in a low voice after wording for a while: "Sister Shan, you should be our Xu family's good friends for generations, but a few years ago, because of the suspicion and jealousy of 'that one', the Zhai family was forced to return to their ancestral land Huanchuan, and even after so long, no one dared to mention it in front of 'that one', so these things, you know, don't say more, remember?" ”

Oh, so it was like this "Well, big sister, I remember." ”

"But Yourong, who is this Zhai Yu? I look at his age, do you think he is our peer or our elder? Xu Mingcheng said.

"I don't know, when the Zhai family didn't have an accident, we were still young, and then the Zhai family had an accident, and my grandfather and grandmother, father and mother didn't say a word about the Zhai family, so I don't know too much about the people of the Zhai family." Xu Yourong replied.

"Sister Kerong, I remember that you once said that you had met the youngest son of the old man of the Zhai family back then, and he hadn't left our Xu family's Zhai family Golang at that time." Xu Mingwen asked.

"Yes, but we were only three years old at the time, so how can we remember anything?"

After Xu Yourong finished speaking, he remembered the cheerful young man who would smile at her and Ming Yan in his memory, and his eyebrows and eyes were already blurred, and his heart was suddenly a little sentimental.

"That's not right." But at this time, Xu Mingcheng suddenly said: "The big brother I saw with Yourong back then, that is, the Zhai family Wulang, is already a teenager, so let's calculate, according to the age of this young man, it should be younger than the youngest son of the old man of the Zhai family, that is, the age of the big brother, then he can only be the same generation as us." ”

"yes."

Unconsciously, Xu Youshan and the four of them actually forgot that for them, it might be a catastrophe like the collapse of the sky was coming, and they actually concentrated on discussing Zhai Yu's seniority.

And it was when they were getting more and more about some inexplicable topics that a burst of exclamations erupted.

"What's wrong?"

Xu Youshan and the four of them were startled and hurriedly looked in the direction of the arena, but at this moment, what came into their eyes were two arrows with a yellow and a white feather tied to the tail of the two arrows, shooting towards the colored ball in the distance like the stars and the moon.

"Whoosh"

And just when the arrow with the yellow feather tied to the tail of the arrow was about to hit the colored ball, in the increasingly desperate eyes of Xu Youshan and the others, the arrow with the snow-white feather tied to the tail of the arrow suddenly changed its trajectory and no longer flew towards the colored ball, but with a "bang", it suddenly knocked the arrow of the yellow feather flying side by side with it into the air, resulting in the situation that no one hit the color ball in this game.

"Wow, I almost scared the hell out of it."

Xu Mingcheng patted his chest and said.

But in this game, because no one shot the color ball, Zhou Huidi signaled, and the second competition began. So Xie Yan and Zhai Yu rode their horses to stand at the starting point, ready to start another race.

But just when everyone was waiting with bated breath, Xie Yan looked at Zhai Yu from an angle that no one could see. But Zhai Yu looked ahead, on his pale and cold face, although there was no emotion, he didn't have a nervous look, just quietly waited for the start signal to sound, and ran in the direction of victory.

"Knock"

Although no one is allowed to enter the arena except Xie Yan and Zhai Yu, the teenagers and girls around the arena are about to make three laps inside and three laps outside, so no matter what Xie Yan and Zhai Yu do or say, they will almost not be missed by the girls who are a little crazy about them, so when the bell that signaled the start of the second competition of the finals rang, Xie Yan and Zhai Yu did not have any superfluous movements, but just shot out like arrows.

"Please, please."

In this moment of lightning, Xu Youshan and the four of them all prayed in their hearts for a miracle.

And the two people in the arena did not let their horses gallop on the grassland at all, and they only had the colored ball that Nie Suhyun had shot out with a meniscus bow.

The colored ball fell in front of Xie Yan and Zhai Yu in a perfect arc, and Xie Yan and Zhai Yu also took the bow and pulled the string almost at the same time, but at this most tense time, when everyone, including Xu Youshan, looked at them, a familiar scene appeared to Xu Youshan and them. (To be continued......)