Chapter 132: Prisoner in Disguise
Considering the time and venue, Cui Lin assigned a common event to the Chinese students who wanted to compete.
The men of the Sima family are all good at archery, which is a tradition left from the ancestors.
However, snow does not at all.
Fortunately, her younger brother Sima Ji was weak when he was a child and was not good at drawing a bow and shooting arrows.
Aunt Ning was worried that the emperor of Dayu had a tradition of drawing a bow on important days to comfort heaven and earth, and she suggested that Xue should practice it in case of emergency.
At that time, Xue did not refuse, one day, Aunt Ning prepared a bow for Xue, but that time, Xue Mou was full of strength, and in the end she didn't even pull the bow much, and it made her body sore, and finally she used her foot, and the bowstring changed again.
Then, Xue Xin had palpitations, so she didn't want to touch the bow and arrow anymore, she thought to herself that she was the emperor, could anyone force her to shoot arrows?!
At this time, Sima Yun stepped forward excitedly, picked up a bamboo arrow, walked towards the snow, and said while playing with the bamboo arrow:
"Your Majesty, you see, this bamboo arrow does not have an arrowhead, but it is wrapped in a white cloth and stained with ink before shooting, so that it can leave traces on the grass target, don't you say it's wonderful?"
At this moment, seeing those curved bows and bamboo arrows again, Xue frowned slightly, and a big "unhappy" was written on her face, and after listening to Sima Yun's words, Xue couldn't help but feel warm in her heart, maybe it was for her safety that Sima Yun came up with such a solution.
"Yun Gongzi has a heart, it's a good idea." Snow nodded.
When Sima Yun heard this, he lowered his head, scratched his head a little embarrassedly, and said:
"It's not my idea, it's Brother Cheng who came up with it, but everything is prepared by me, and it's all the best bamboo arrows."
Xue was stunned for a moment, continued to smile and nodded, and because the bad memories hit her instantly, her eyes had already left the bamboo arrow and looked elsewhere.
Xue walked to his place and sat down, Sima Cheng followed, and Sima Yun was also half of the person in charge, so he was below with Cui Lin, Cao Gonggong, and Jiang Gonggong.
Xue raised his head slightly, and found that the sun had climbed into the air, and the sunlight became slightly dazzling, looking at the students not far away who were wearing close-fitting military uniforms, facing the sun, full of bows and arrows, and looking eager to try, Xue couldn't help but sigh in his heart, or a kind of envy.
After all, Xue can only be imprisoned in this gorgeous clothes, and can only hide under the shadow of the name "Sima Ji", without sunlight, he can't stretch his body.
Xue was a little melancholy in her heart, and there was no one else around, so she chatted with Sima Cheng without saying a word.
"Cheng Gongzi, do you know how to shoot arrows?"
"Back to Your Majesty, your subordinates will." Sima Cheng replied respectfully.
"So you practiced?" Xue's words were regretted as soon as he said them, and this kind of knowingly asked question might only be exchanged for Sima Cheng's silence.
"Well, when I was in Yizhou, I often practiced with the prince and General Yang." Sima Cheng's tone did not change, as if he was talking about someone else's business.
Sima Cheng's answer was fluent, Xue was relieved on the one hand, and it also reminded her childhood memories, when she was a child, she liked to practice calligraphy next to her mother or secretly read with Sima Ji, but for things like learning female workers with Aunt Ning and learning rules with Aunt Shangli, she couldn't get up to it at all.
"Then you can go down and shoot a few arrows later." Xue suddenly had a whim, she turned around, looked at Sima Cheng standing behind her expectantly, and blurted out her words.
Sima Cheng was slightly stunned by Xue's sudden proposal, although the clouds on his face were light and the wind was light, but his heart was tight, and he couldn't figure out the snow's thoughts.
Sima Cheng paused, leaned over, approached the snow, and asked softly:
"Your Majesty, do you want your subordinates to be better than anyone?"
A hint of panic flashed in Xue's eyes, in fact, she didn't think about it, she just said it casually, but she didn't expect Sima Cheng to seem to be serious.
Xue raised her eyes and met Sima Cheng's eyes, only to see that his eyes were resolute, and his dark eyes were bottomless, and Xue felt that even if she looked at it, she seemed to be sucked into him.
On the ground, Xue suddenly came to her senses, thinking that Sima Cheng would refuse directly, she hurriedly waved her hand and turned around, but her body unconsciously curled up slightly.
Xue herself can't stand in the sun, so let the people closest to her go instead of her.
Sima Cheng stood up straight, he frowned slightly, thinking about something, and after a while, he walked towards Sima Yun and whispered something to him, Sima Yun also frowned, but finally nodded in agreement, and then Sima Cheng went to find Gonggong Cao.
Sima Cheng's steps were light and fast, Xue didn't notice Sima Cheng's departure, he had already returned behind Xue, Xue only felt a gust of wind blowing behind her, she also sorted out her mood, and was ready to watch this archery meeting.
Xue supported her chin with one hand, her eyes swept over the entire school field, the school field of Guozi School was not big, Xue saw something similar to a net leaning against the corner, Xue remembered that when Sima Cheng explained the rules of Keju to her before, she was going to kick the ball into a net, it should be that thing.
Xue continued to look over, a row of haystacks had been set up on one side of the school yard, and a white cloth was tied to the top of the haystack, and several circles were drawn on the white cloth.
Xue's gaze swept over the faces of those students one by one, Fan Zheng and Jin Yuze, who had not appeared in the outer courtyard before, were also among them, Jin Yuze had dark skin, Fan Zheng's complexion was darker than that of other Central Plains sons, and his complexion would be darker Standing in the crowd, it immediately attracted people's attention.
The two of them stood tall in the sun, letting the sun shine on their bodies, and their cheeks brushed with the breeze,
The bell rang, and Gonggong Cao's shrill "start", everyone thought that the school meeting was about to start like this, but Sima Cheng walked out of the sidelines, carrying a quiver on his back and a curved bow in his hand.
Xue was startled, and immediately turned around, and found that Sima Cheng who was originally behind him had long since disappeared, and instead it was Sima Yun who walked to the position where Sima Cheng was originally located.
Xue turned around again, and saw that Sima Cheng had walked to the center of the school field, Xue was a little dazed, got up and walked to the edge of the wooden fence, Sima Yun followed the snow, Xue looked at Sima Cheng, his hands tightly pinched the wooden fence, and his knuckles were a little white.
Is it because of your own nonsense just now? Where did Sima Cheng run away like this?!
Sima Cheng first turned to face Xue, leaned over and kowtowed to her, Xue was startled, the last time Sima Cheng made such a big gift to herself, it was when she first entered the court, and before Xue came back to her senses, Sima Cheng's voice had already sounded in her ears.
"Thank Your Majesty for your trust, let your subordinates do today's 'open bow' for Your Majesty."