Chapter Twenty-Six: Saving Qingluo
Hearing this, Zhou Jiu'er only felt funny, and asked rhetorically: "The fifth princess is right, this is the hunting ground, how can there be no blood on the hunting ground?" ”
"Besides, these people are all erroneous slaves that I brought out of the mansion on purpose, and they can't escape death, so it's better to bring them out to make me happy."
Zhou Jiu'er proudly played with the bow and arrow in her hand, "In the hunting ground, is this kind of thing still rare?" ”
Xiao Ling said dumbly, this kind of thing is indeed not uncommon, and the children of the nobility always like to use living people as targets, so they like to listen to them cry wolves, and see them kneel and beg for mercy in panic and fear. The royal hunt is just an activity for the nobles of the high gate.
Xiao Ling looked at the person who fell to the ground, looked down at the bow in his hand, and only felt extremely ironic.
"Miss, look." The entourage beside Zhou Jiu'er pointed with his finger, and Zhou Jiu'er took advantage of the situation to see a pair of rabbit ears exposed in the grass in front of him.
Zhou Jiu'er confidently bent her bow and arrows, and didn't forget to turn her head and say to the person standing: "Qingluo, you are next, have you ever been afraid?" If she begs for mercy, maybe Miss Ben can change her mind. ”
Ye Sili looked at the man called "Qingluo", he was slender, but he was pitifully thin, and he looked like Sven, but at this time, he revealed a stubbornness, and his life was at stake, and he never looked at Zhou Jiu'er with a straight eye, which made Zhou Jiu'er even more unhappy.
The arrow aimed at the rabbit was obviously off, and it was firmly rooted in the trunk of the tree behind the rabbit, which frightened the rabbit into running away in panic.
The next moment, Zhou Jiu'er's arrow was aimed straight at Qingluo.
"Stop!" Ye Sili shouted.
"What's the matter with the Lord of Yong'an?" Zhou Jiu'er asked dissatisfiedly.
"This man is the lord of this county." Ye Sili said lightly.
Zhou Jiu'er laughed out loud, "Isn't the county lord joking?" He is just a slave of my Zhou Mansion, and there are many slaves in Yugong Mansion, so why do you need to pick up my Zhou Mansion? What's more, Qingluo is a guilty body, how dare he dirty the eyes of the county lord? ”
Ye Sili was not angry when she listened to Zhou Jiu'er's ridicule, she always remained polite, and said:
"Yugong Mansion has a large population, and there are not many more, but the Zhou family is also a family in Kyoto, and they have upheld the scholarly and elegant style for generations, how did they come to Miss Zhou, but it seems to have a crooked branch."
Ye Sili turned his head and asked Xiao Ling seriously, "Xiao Ling, I suddenly remembered that I hadn't seen the jujube tree in the Thousand Spirit Palace for a few days. ”
Xiao Ling looked at Ye Sili's appearance, instantly understood, and took over the words, "Somehow, that jujube tree has crooked branches, and this princess can't see crooked melons and cracked jujubes, so she naturally sent someone to cut it down." ”
Ye Sili once again set his gaze on Zhou Jiu'er's angry face, and preemptively said: "Miss Zhou is right, but she is just a minion, and the county lord naturally wants it." ”
"Naturally, the lord of this county has never liked to owe debts, and I don't want this person in vain, you just have to open your mouth if you have any conditions."
Who in the whole of Kyoto doesn't know that the lord of Le'an seems to be weak and easy to deceive, but in fact he has a very hard temperament.
Zhou Jiu'er saw that the matter had come to this, how could he extinguish Ye Sili's majesty, and said with a hearty smile:
"Since the county lord speaks, then I'm welcome."
"Although Qingluo is a slave in my house, I love it very much, if it is given to the county lord for no reason like this, I am afraid it will be very uncomfortable."
"It just so happens that it's a royal hunt today, so why don't we give it a try?"
Although the Yugong Mansion has been a general for generations, she is the only one left in Ye Sili's generation, and Prince Yu is very precious, where is he willing to let her practice and suffer.
"Si Li, Zhou Jiu'er is good at riding and shooting, she is deliberately embarrassing you, don't agree." Xiao Ling reminded.
Although the Zhou family is a scholarly family, Zhou Jiu'er is very favored, Xu is brother above is too dazzling, the Zhou family has never forced her to follow the literature, but with her temperament, specially invited the teacher to teach her to ride and shoot.
"Okay, how do you compare?" Ye Sili decisively agreed, but Zhou Jiu'er was stunned.
"It's rare that the county lord has Yaxing, so let's play something exciting." Zhou Jiu'er turned around, her eyes fell on the prey she had just hit, she stretched out her hand and pointed, and ordered, "Take one of the pheasant's long hairs." ”
The entourage obeyed the order to take it, and Zhou Jiu'er took it in his hand and looked at it, not very satisfied.
"Pull out the shorter ones."
"Take it and tie it to Qingluo's left shoulder."
Xiao Ling looked at the chicken feathers tied to Qingluo's left chest, only leaking out no more than three inches, and only felt that it was too deceitful.
"Zhou Jiu'er, you are obviously deliberately making things difficult!"
Zhou Jiu'er was provocative: "County Lord, how is it?" ”
Ye Sili stared at the chicken feathers on Qingluo's left shoulder and said, "I believe that Miss Zhou's archery skills will naturally not hurt people, right?" ”
Zhou Jiu'er replied "Of course" indifferently, and ordered his entourage to take Qingluo forward.
"I'll just talk about the rules." Zhou Jiu'er looked at Qingluo in the distance and said with interest:
"You and I each shoot an arrow at the same time, and the leaking chicken feathers are broken, how about it?"
Xiao Ling said worriedly: "The tip of that chicken feather is soft, and it is too dangerous to tie it to a person. ”
Zhou Jiu'er said with a smile: "The fifth princess doesn't know, he deserves to die because he is guilty, and now the competition is already sparing him once, what is the county's idea?" ”
Ye Sili was always looking ahead, and Qingluo was also looking at her, with no clear meaning in her eyes.
"One game will determine the winner, Miss Zhou don't have to cheat." Ye Sili picked up an arrow and looked at it carefully.
"Nature."
After that, the two of them pulled the strings at the same time.
The distance was very far, Ye Sili's face was serious, and the arrow was aimed at the target.
At the last moment, Zhou Jiu'er's arrow suddenly moved down, and the arrow was off the string.
Seeing this, Ye Sili didn't have time to think about it, and the arrow flew out.
Seeing that the arrow shot straight towards Qingluo's heart, Qingluo didn't dodge.
Ten meters, five meters, three meters, one meter!
"Bump-" The later arrow missed the first arrow, and Qing Luo was still wounded in the shoulder.
"Zhou Jiu'er!" Ye Sili was very angry.
Zhou Jiu'er saw that Qingluo was not dead, so she only said lightly, "My hands are shaking, I'm sorry." ”
Ye Sili was about to settle accounts with her, but she heard Xiao Ling call her: "Sili, Qingluo can't hold on." ”
"There are many diseases with trembling hands, send it to the doctor earlier!" After that, Ye Sili drove his horse towards Qingluo.
Ye Sili skillfully dismounted and stepped forward to check Qingluo's injuries.
Qingluo's lips were white due to excessive blood loss, but she still knelt down and saluted despite her injuries.
"Slave Qingluo, thank you for the county lord's life-saving grace!"
"Hey, the fifth princess and the lord of Le'an, you can make it easy to find the minions." The father-in-law, who had just been thrown away by Ye Sili and Xiao Ling, finally came to find them, and was shocked when he saw this situation, and before he could ask, he listened to Ye Sili's instructions:
"Bring Qingluo back."
Ye Sili and Xiao Ling didn't want to entangle with Zhou Jiu'er, so they hurriedly went back.
Gu Liwu and Mu Jiufeng hurried over.
"Ah Li, the fifth princess, Twilight Chun said that you passed on the imperial doctor, but you were injured?"