Chapter 5 Gambling
The onlookers suddenly burst into laughter, and Guo Qi also said mockingly to Zhao Jiu: "Little ponyman, can you ride a horse?" I thought you could be more manly with two mustaches on your face today, but it turned out that you were still soft and weak, like a woman! ”
Zhao Jiu ignored Guo Qi, but secretly glanced at Li Yun, only to see that he was looking at her with interest, as if he was looking at a funny pet.
Zhao Jiu secretly slandered, looked like a dog, and his temperament was really bad. After thinking carefully, she refused to admit defeat to Guo Qi and said: "I am already short, this horse is so tall, it is normal for me not to go up, if you are like me, I guarantee that you will not be able to go up." ”
Guo Qi's face showed contempt: "Little ponyman, if you can't ride a horse, you can't ride a horse, if I am like you, I can still go up, why use such an excuse." ”
Zhao Jiu snorted and said, "Then you come." ”
Guo Qi held his sword and refused: "What am I doing here?" Your Highness let you ride a horse, and it didn't make me ride. ”
Zhao Jiu stimulated him: "If you can't do it, don't boast about Haikou." ”
"You!" Guo Qi immediately turned to Li Yun and asked, "Your Highness, please let me teach this little pony a lesson." ”
Li Yun acquiesced, and Guo Qi walked to Zhao Jiu's side, his chin raised slightly: "You say, if I ride this horse, do you want to kneel and kowtow to me and admit defeat?" ”
Zhao Jiu whispered: "You are obviously a head taller than me, of course you can ride it." Unless you crouch down as tall as me, I'll kowtow to you if you go up. ”
"What's so hard about that?"
Guo Qi smiled confidently, lifted the hem of his clothes in a chic manner, and half-squatted down to take a horse step, which was really as tall as Zhao Jiu. However, when he was about to pull the reins and get on the horse, Zhao Jiu grabbed the reins before him, grabbed the reins first, and then stepped on his knees, turned over and got on the horse.
"You!"
Guo Qi found out that he had been deceived, and immediately went to arrest Zhao Jiu, so angry that he wanted to pull Zhao Jiu down and beat him.
But Zhao Jiu also hurriedly shouted: "Your Highness, I can accompany you to ride a horse and shoot arrows now, and quickly disperse these irrelevant people." ”
"Your Highness, he ......"
Li Yun's eyes suddenly lit up, and the corners of his mouth pulled into a meaningful smile, and then ordered: "Stand down, Guo Qi." ”
Guo Qi couldn't say anything even if he was unconvinced, so he could only grit his teeth and step aside, staring at Zhao Jiu angrily.
Zhao Jiucai doesn't care about Guo Qi, who let him laugh at her, he deserves it!
Li Yun asked someone to bring a bow and arrow, Zhao Jiu thought that Li Yun was asking her to test archery with him, but she didn't know that her hand was stretched out for a long time, and no one handed her a bow and arrow.
She opened her eyes suddenly, and a trace of panic flashed in her heart, there was only a bow, and it was still in Li Yun's hand? Could it be ......
Li Yun took the bow and arrow and looked at it with great satisfaction, and then the arrow was unwound and pulled the bow full, and shot it at Zhao Jiu.
Suddenly, Zhao Jiu's scalp began to tingle, his hands and feet were cold, Li Yun's dark eyes flashed with playful light, and then the corners of his mouth hooked up an evil smile, and he said faintly: "Zhao Jiu, run faster." ”
As soon as Li Yun's words fell, the horse didn't know who whipped him fiercely, and when he was startled, the horse ran away, so frightened that Zhao Jiu hurriedly leaned over and hugged the horse's neck.
The horse's temper was already short-tempered, and it seemed to be very unconvinced when it was ridden like this by Zhao Jiu, and it ran rampant through the garden, trying to throw Zhao Jiu down.
But the horse seemed to underestimate Zhao Jiu's desire to survive, no matter how wild and wild it was, Zhao Jiu strangled the horse's neck to death, completely in a posture of either it obeyed or one person and one horse died together.
A group of people watched with great interest and shouted loudly.
Li Yun didn't expect that Zhao Jiu, who looked soft and weak, could be so tenacious at this moment. A hint of amusement flashed in his eyes, and he called for an arrow, and then took aim with his bow.
Zhao Jiu was fighting tenaciously with this irascible horse, and the corner of his eye suddenly noticed a cold cold light, and his heart suddenly tightened.
Li Yun is going to shoot her!
In desperation, Zhao Jiu immediately tightened the reins and shouted at the horse: "Idiot, someone is going to shoot you!" ”
Suddenly, with the angry neighing of the horse, she turned the horse's head and galloped straight towards Li Yun.
Li Yun still maintained the posture of archery, facing the menacing wild horse, he did not panic for half a minute, but slightly hooked the corner of one side of his mouth, as if smiling instead of smiling, and there was a cold aura all over his body.
Guo Qi and the others were originally watching the excitement, but they suddenly realized that the situation was wrong, and they drew their swords one after another: "Protect Your Highness!" ”
However, before the people gathered, an arrow in Li Yun's hand had already been shot, only to hear the horse's miserable roar, and the man on the horse fell forward with the horse. And Zhao Jiu was bumped by this, and the whole person flew out.
Plop –
The water splashed, and Zhao Jiu fell into the pool in the courtyard. The pool of this Cloud Shadow Hall is not a pool used by the harem concubines to raise flowers, Li Yun ordered someone to dig it big and deep, which can be used for him to enjoy under the water.
Zhao Jiu couldn't swim, and struggled desperately a few times, and the water drowned her. And none of the people standing by the pool had the intention of trying to catch her, how could Li Yun want to save her?
When her body slowly sank to the bottom of the pool, and her consciousness was close to dissipation, Zhao Jiu thought, it would be better to die here today, maybe when she woke up again, she would return to the real world?
Just when Zhao Jiu thought she was dying, someone suddenly pulled her out of the water.
Guo Qi threw her to the ground, she choked on a few mouthfuls of water, and lay on the ground coughing non-stop. When she took a breath and opened her eyes again, the first thing that caught her eye was a pair of gold and jade boots, and further up, the owner of the boots was looking down at her, and a pair of sharp black eyes reflected her embarrassed figure.
Guo Qi wiped a handful of water from his face and asked sharply: "Tell me quickly, what is the queen plotting?" ”
Just now Zhao Jiu fell into the water and didn't come up for a long time, Guo Qi suddenly remembered what Zhao Jiu had told him before, and immediately told Li Yun.
Guo Qi thought that Zhao Jiu was still a little useful, and he couldn't just be drowned. He had to wait for the queen's conspiracy to let Zhao Jiu die.
After Li Yun heard this, he agreed, and Guo Qi jumped into the pool and scooped up Zhaojiu.
Hearing Guo Qi ask this question at this moment, Zhao Jiu suddenly smiled, she turned over, and lay down on the ground peacefully, feeling her consciousness dissipate little by little, before fainting, she couldn't help but rejoice, fortunately, she won the bet......
On the way to the Cloud Shadow Palace, Zhao Jiu deduced from Guo Qi's words that Li Yun might not have known that she was called by the empress, so she deliberately told Empress Guo Qi that she had reused her. She just wanted to make Guo Qi and Li Yun feel that she was still useful to them, so that they couldn't kill her right away. She is gambling, and only if she wins the bet can she survive from Li Yun's hands.
Zhao Jiu slowly came to her senses and found herself lying on the ground in the main hall, surrounded by the luxury of white jade and gold beads, which made her a little dazzling.
She rubbed her arms and waist, slowly got up from the ground, looked around, and as soon as she turned around, she was frightened by the man sitting in the golden chair and fell to the ground.
Li Yun put down the jasper teacup in his hand, raised his long eyebrows lightly, and his thin lips flashed with a hint of ridicule: "I dare to rush over against this king's bow and arrow, why is it at this moment, is this king's appearance of drinking tea very scary?" ”
Zhao Jiu hurriedly knelt on the ground: "The villain didn't dare, the horse was frightened at that time, and the villain's ability was limited, so he really couldn't hold it, and he was very frightened." ”
Li Yun sneered and raised his eyes to look at her: "Do you think that this king doesn't know why the horse is frightened?" ”
Zhao Jiu stole a glance, frightened by the eyes that saw through everything, and swallowed unconsciously, she did clamp the horse's belly fiercely at that time, but it was completely out of her instinctive reaction to ask for life, Li Yun wanted to shoot her with an arrow, she only let the horse become a threat to Li Yun, Li Yun would aim that arrow at the horse instead of her.
Li Yun got up and walked up to Zhao Jiu, and used his long sword to pick Zhao Jiu's jaw to force her to look up. Although it was only a scabbard, Zhao Jiu was still stabbed by the chill of this sharp weapon.
"You're smart. And this king has always liked to give opportunities to smart people, so you will tell this king, what did the queen tell you to do? ”
Although Zhao Jiu had prepared her words early on, looking directly into Li Yun's eyes at the moment, she was still a little weak-hearted.
"Back to Your Highness, the queen just summoned me to ask about yesterday's situation, and didn't let me do anything, as for what I said to Guo Weiwei, it was just vanity and casual remarks."
Li Yun didn't show surprise or anger at her words, and still looked at her with a smile, but the more this happened, the more Zhao Jiu felt creepy.
She thought that there was no flaw in her words, in order to prevent Li Yun from suspecting her of lying, she truthfully explained the matter of the queen summoning her to question, and also showed her vanity, her expression was also well restrained, Li Yun should not doubt her.
A hand suddenly reached out to her, and the bones were distinct.
Zhao Jiu was choked by Li Yun's neck, and his body couldn't stand the strength and fell backwards, so he could only support his upper body with both hands; And Li Yun was like a leopard hunting for food, bowing over her, and those bottomless eyes stared at her, as if they were about to devour her at any time.
"You are indeed a little clever," he said with a ruthless smile on his lips, "but you should not use these cleverness on this king, let alone lie to this king. ”
"Your Highness, I didn't lie, if I really worked for the queen, how could I be stupid enough to tell Guo Guards about these things......"
The thin little man was pinched by Li Yun's hand, and a small face the size of a palm had long since faded in blood, like dead ashes, but his eyes were still clear and clear, like a spiritual lake shrouded in mist, Chu Chu swaggered.
Li Yun squinted, only to notice how slender the neck of the little man in his hand was, tremblingly pinched in his hand, as if he could twist it with a slight fold.