Chapter Twenty-Five: Shooting the Willows

Tong Yan saw it in her eyes and admired it in her heart, and couldn't help but murmur: "Your relationship is really good." ”

Shuning heard her envy and took her hand with a smile, "

Tong Yan felt a warm current in her heart, pursed her lips and nodded with a smile.

Xu Mingyi didn't pay attention to what they were saying, she was staring intently at the movements in the field.

"It's almost starting, it's getting started." She tugged at the corners of Shuning and Jinyu's clothes and said excitedly.

Several of them set their eyes on the young talents who rode horses with the reins in their hands.

A tall willow was erected in the field, the willow was like a woman's hair, slender and plump and soft, and the breeze blew in the face, blowing the willow branch slightly trembling for a while, and then flying wantonly, which was very unpredictable.

"It's really a good time for this wind to come, and the difficulty of shooting willows is going to be higher this year." Xu Mingyi shook his head and sighed.

Everyone thinks so.

The so-called willow shooting has a lot of tricks, and now they are comparing it to the very common willow branches.

Before the opening, the chamberlain had chosen one of the many wickers at random, and cut off a piece of the outer skin somewhere in the wicker with a knife, exposing the tender yellow inner pulp, and after the opening, everyone rode on horses and aimed their bows and arrows at the inner pulp, and whoever could shoot the willow branch first would win.

As Xu Mingyi sighed, it is not easy to shoot when there is wind, and the willow branches are erratic in the air, rising and falling for a while, which is elusive.

And this item is also dangerous, there is no turning back arrow when the bow is opened, so many people are around a willow tree, if you don't shoot someone, you will see blood.

"Who won the championship in previous years?" Tong Yan asked curiously.

Xu Mingyi sighed again, and said reluctantly: "It's not Cheng Huai's house, so my brother has to be counted down by my father every time he goes home." ”

"Cheng Huai?" Tong Yan muttered it in her mouth, and Shuning couldn't cry or laugh, "It's that handsome son in white, Cheng Huai, the prince of Wei, who just told you and you forgot?" ”

Tong Yan sneered, "There are too many people who suddenly appeared at this time. ”

Xu Mingyi waved his hand disappretently, "Just remember the three of us, those people don't need to remember, it's useless anyway." ”

Zhou Jinyu nodded approvingly.

"You two are really mad at me." Shuning lifted her forehead and sighed.

All the young men in the field galloped on their horses, raised their bows and arrows, and shot sharp arrows towards the willow trees, and they were in chaos, like a torrential rain.

It's a pity that no one can hit the wicker marked by the chamberlain.

Tong Yan's eyes involuntarily turned to Cheng Huai and Zhao Heng.

The two men were dressed in black and white, almost synchronized at the same time, galloping their horses and calmly drawing a sharp arrow from their respective quivers and placing it on the bowstring.

Cheng Huai's gestures are light, and Zhao Heng's every move is sharp, which is simply two extremes.

Tong Yan couldn't help clenching her fists, and so did Shuning and the others, all looking at the scene in front of them nervously.

The two of them pulled their bows for a full moon, and without waiting for everyone to react, they suddenly spread their right hands at the same time, and the two sharp arrows were as fast as thunder and lightning, and they galloped towards the same point with a momentum that could not cover their ears.

At the last moment, two sharp arrows seemed to hit the wicker in unison, and a faint spark was sparked with a "ding-" sound, and both fell to the ground, and the tender flesh of the wicker only poked a very inconspicuous dot.

Cheng Huai smiled slightly, as if he had already expected the result, without waiting for the two arrows to collide, he stretched out his long arm and pulled out an arrow and put it on the bowstring, his eyes were slightly condensed, and it seemed that with a slight pull, the bow and arrow flew towards the wicker at once, this series of actions flowed smoothly, although it was fast, there was no sense of urgency, as if it was just an ordinary archery.

As the arrow drew out of his bow, he grabbed the horse's belly and galloped his horse, his white robe fluttering in the wind.

The wicker flew halfway in the air, was suddenly broken by the arrow, and fell lightly, but it fell steadily into Cheng Huai's palm.

His slender fingers tightened the reins, the horse slowed down obediently, and the people and horses came back leisurely, where was the wild appearance of galloping just now, still smiling at the corners of his mouth.

The spectators cheered.

Tong Yan's clenched pink fist slowly loosened, and the accelerated heartbeat gradually slowed down, and she realized that her palms were in a cold sweat.

She secretly laughed at herself, she was nervous about something here.

"Sure enough, Cheng Huai won." Shu Ning was not surprised, took a purple grape and put it in her mouth, and said vaguely: "But Zhao Heng is not bad, just a little, not as clever as Cheng Huai." ”

Xu Mingyi pursed his lips unhappily, clasped his hands to his chest, and said, "Cut, it's Cheng Huai again, it's really boring, my brother will be nagged again when he goes home at night." ”

Tong Yan heard the coquettish laughter and low cheers on the right, and couldn't help but turn her head to look.

Princess An Le stood up excitedly, lowered her voice and shouted something, with a smile on her face, I don't know if she thought she was the winner.

Miss Jiang San beside her also had a spring in her eyes, and looked at the white-clothed beautiful son in the turbid world in the field with some stupidity.

Tong Yan looked at it again, Miss Jiang San had already withdrawn her obsessive gaze, she pulled Princess Anle's sleeve, and timidly asked Anle to restrain herself.

Shuning looked at Tong Yan's eyes, and said helplessly: "Can the Third Emperor Sister be more obvious, I'm afraid no one will not see that she is devoted to Cheng Huai, every time she shoots Liu, she is so out of shape, and when she goes back, she will inevitably be told by Concubine Shu." ”

Tong Yan asked strangely: "The third princess likes Cheng Huai so much, why don't you recruit him as a concubine, I see that Cheng Huai looks not young." ”

Shuning sneered, "If she likes it, she has to see if the prince of the country is happy, and the prince of Cheng doesn't like her at all, she has to catch up." ”

Xu Mingyi leaned over and agreed: "That's it." ”

"So, what about Miss Jiang San? Does she like Cheng Shizi too? Tong Yan thought she was dazzled just now, but she still asked curiously.

"Miss Jiang San has always looked weak, she listens to Princess Anle for everything, she shouldn't like Cheng Huai too, otherwise Anle would not have to eat her." Xu Mingyi shook his head disappreciatively.

Shuning smiled meaningfully and didn't speak.

Zhou Jinyu also posted it, blinked his big eyes and said mysteriously: "There are many girls in the Beijing Division who want to marry Cheng Shizi." ”

"Zhou Jinyu, how old are you, what do you marry, are you ashamed." Xu Mingyi nodded her little face and said jokingly.

Zhou Jinyu glanced at her, "Aren't you just a year older than me, and you're not too old." ”

"That's also your sister, look at you so short, when will you grow so tall with me, then you can discuss whether to marry or not." Xu Ming smiled proudly.

The two of them started a meaningless argument again, and Shuning and Tong Yan glanced at each other and laughed helplessly.