Chapter 134 The person who shot it was you!
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The Yulin army who followed on both sides of the chariot suddenly woke up. They quickly surrounded the chariot. They looked around everywhere.
Xia Haotian heard the movement and walked out of the chariot. As soon as he leaned out, he saw the long arrow stuck above his head. He asked with a cold face, ” Where is the assassin?”
With a swish, everyone looked at Xia Yuqing.
“…” Xia Mingyuan groaned, silently covering his face. He no longer wanted to say anything.
Xia Yuqing didn’t expect that when she missed a shot like this, she would shoot it on the head of the cheap old man. She hid the weapon behind her with a guilty conscience, and said with a silly smile: “That…I didn’t mean it.”
“Ahem, Your Majesty, my younger brother is not good at learning skills. If his mistake had offended His Majesty, I ask Your Majesty to forgive him.” Feng Tingye coughed slightly and blocked Xia Yuqing by placing her behind him smoothly. He couldn’t help sighing. You really had to keep an eye on this girl. If you don’t watch her, she would cause trouble the very next second. So it’s better to take her home earlier and lock her up.
“…” The officials looked at each other and finally silently looked at the sky. Do you think we will believe that? Even if we believe it, do you think the emperor will believe it? Assassinating the emperor is a big crime, you will be beheaded!
Xia Haotian was taken aback. He glanced at the arrow above the chariot and the long bow looming behind Xia Yuqing. As if he understood something, a faint smile appeared in his eyes.
“There is always the day when the hunters who are hunting geese are blinded by the geese*. If the young man is unfamiliar with his shooting, he should take advantage of this time to practice more.”
* overconfidence and negligence leads to mistakes
Xia Haotian’s light statement once again set off a storm amongst the officials. The emperor… The emperor believed it! He believed the words of the two brothers.
For a while, the eyes of the officials who had been watching Xia Yuqing turned even more heated. It seemed that the rumors were true. The emperor really treated this young man very differently because of the Third Princess. He was so indulgent!
Xia Yuqing didn’t know that she had unintentionally attracted the attention of all parties, she just breathed a sigh of relief. Fortunately, this cheap father is generous and won’t bother with her. Otherwise she was afraid that she would be killed before she even hunted a prey.
Feng Tingye was not as optimistic as her. Xia Haotian’s attitude towards Xia Yuqing was so abnormal that he couldn’t figure it out. Xia Haotian seemed to have faintly guessed the identity of Xia Yuqing, but this is precisely what Feng Tingye could not understand. If Xia Haotian really knew Xia Yuqing’s identity, how could he repeatedly rescue her? Why would he do that for his youngest daughter, a child left out by him for more than ten years and is not favored, basically an abandoned child?
Xia Muyun saw from a distance what Xia Yuqing was doing. She also squeezed out a cold sweat. Fortunately, she didn’t cause any major disaster in the end. Just after she was relieved and wanted to leave, she heard a pleasant laughter from behind.
“It seems that Royal Father likes this Gong Zi very much. As expected, Third Royal Sister is the most favored by His Majesty. Ai Wu Ji Wu*. It is enviable that the emperor can indulge the people whom the Third Princess likes.”
* when you love the house so you will love the crow that lives there too
After a pause, she turned her head and smiled at Xia Mingxuan: “Why does Fourth Royal Brother belittle themselves? Royal Brother’s mother is now the crown jewel of the harem and is loved by the emperor. According to His Majesty’s Ai Wu Ji Wu attitude, Fourth Brother should also have been favoured, not much worse than me, so why should you be envious of me?”
Xia Mingxuan was silent for a moment, then smiled again. He looked at Su Yan next to Xia Muyun: “Royal sister is very familiar with Master Su?”
“So-so, there’s some relation.”
Xia Mingxuan showed a trace of understanding on his face: “No wonder…”
“Third Princess, the hunt is about to begin, don’t make the emperor wait for a long time.” Su Yan interrupted the conversation between the two and reminded them in due course.
Xia Muyun nodded and smiled: “I have to go first. This is the Gong Zi’s first time participating in such an event. If he doesn’t see me, I’m afraid he’ll be nervous. Fourth Royal Brother, please go as you wish.”
Xia Mingxuan watched Xia Muyun and Su Yan leave. His face sank suddenly. He raised his hand to make the entourage behind him leave. He turned his eyes to Xia Yuqing, who was not far away, laughing and trying to bluff her way out. His eyes brightened slightly, then his eyes quickly returned to normal.
“I swear I really didn’t mean it. It was an accident just now. You must believe me, Eldest Royal Brother, I am very good at archery. 100 shots, 100 hits. I never miss the target. I see blood everytime I shoot. It was really an accident just now. For today I prepared for a long time, you can’t deprive me of my right to shoot arrows, it’s unfair!”
“…” Xia Mingyuan finally pressed his little heart back into his chest. After hearing Xia Yuqing’s unstoppable protest and after a few convulsions, he turned to look at the person who had the most say. He asked with difficulty, “How is Royal Sister’s shooting skills? Later, when she rides and shoots, she won’t cause an accident, right?”
In regard to Xia Yuqing’s destructive ability, Xia Mingyuan was 120% uneasy!
“Ai Fei’s shooting skills are so-so, so…”
“So?” Xia Mingyuan had a bad feeling.
“So she can’t shoot difficult arrow techniques while moving.”
“…The conclusion?”
“As long as you are next to her, there will be no life-threatening injuries.”
“…” In other words, if you don’t follow her, side by side, their lives were in danger at any time? ! Xia Mingyuan’s eyes were dark. He suddenly felt that the world in front of him suddenly became gray. Royal Sister, how good is your shooting skill? It can’t be more cruel than your zither sound, right?! Can we change our minds and go back home? Wuuuu…
Even though Xia Mingyuan was trembling terribly, it was too late to retreat at this point.
The Spring Hunting Field encompassed the dense forest and the entire cloudy screen. From the top of the mountain to the foot of the mountain, it was surrounded by a wide range of small animals that emerged endlessly. After entering the hunting field, the soldiers can be divided into several paths, each looking for the prey they want. When the twilight drum is sounded, they will return to the foot of the mountain to gather and count the prey.
As soon as the horse rushed into the hunting grounds, the nobles and royalty all rushed out in different directions. Although Xia Mingxuan was born handsome, he was the best in riding and shooting, so he took the brunt as he led the rush, straight towards the foot of the mountain.
Xia Muyun was unwilling to be left behind, and quickly followed behind.
When Xia Mingyuan and Feng Tingye saw this, they wanted to take Xia Yuqing to follow, but Xia Haotian shouted first: “Feng Gong Zi and Xiao Gong Zi, since this is your first time participating in the Spring Hunt, please stay by my side and hunt together with me. Yuan Er, you can go ahead first. ”
What? ! Xia Mingyuan’s heart jumped wildly, looking at Xia Haotian in a bewilderment. Father is going to separate himself from them? Does Father know something? If this is the case, once he leaves…
The ministers who were still following Xia Haotian were also shocked when they heard this. They were thinking that the emperor was too kind to this little Gong Zi, even wanting to be with him at this time. Listening to that, it seems that he was preparing to personally teach him?!
Feng Tingye’s hand holding the rein was tight. He turned his head and glanced at Xia Haotian, then winked at Xia Mingyuan, to signal him to leave first.
Xia Mingyuan took a deep look at Xia Yuqing, the two, and pursed his lips: “Er Chen will obey Royal Father’s order.”
Xia Haotian saw that all the people who should have gone have left. Only then did he urge his horse forward and smiled at the people: “Let’s go.”
On the other side, Xia Muyun followed Xia Mingxuan, struggling to catch up. After bypassing a few dense woods, she could not find Xia Mingxuan and she also lost her way.
“D*mn it!” Xia Muyun tightened the reins and turned around twice, biting her lip and cursing. Suddenly, there was a squeaky sound from the side, a fox suddenly jumped out of the grass. It quickly ran to the woods ahead.
Xia Muyun’s eyes lit up, immediately forgetting her shameful frustration. She rode her horse to catch up. The little fox ran around in the woods, bypassing thick grass. She sprinted forward quickly. Xia Muyun tried hard to catch up. She drew a bow and arrow, and aimed at the fox’s abdomen. Just as the arrow was about to be released, a rope was suddenly lifted up from underneath the dead leaves that covered the mountain road. When the horse galloped past, the rope entangled its hoof and the horse stumbled, instantly falling forward.
Xia Muyun gasped. She wanted to escape but it was too late. She reflexively covered her head and rolled off the horse.
After rolling a few times on the mountain road, she stopped. Just as she got up, a huge blade slashed down. Xia Muyun reflexively swung the longbow in her hand. With a click, the longbow broke in the center, but it also gave Xia Muyun a chance to breathe. With all her strength, she kicked the attacker. Xia Muyun got up and stepped back several steps before realizing there was not just one person who attacked her.
Besides the person just now, four or five other people in black slowly walked out of the bushes and outflanked her.
Xia Muyun bit her lip and glanced at the horse that fell to the ground behind the man in black. Her whip was still tied to the horse. At first glance, these people didn’t look like the type to be trifled with. Now that she had no weapon, she had no chance of winning at all.
The only solution is… to delay time and wait for the opportunity to retrieve her weapon.
After making up her mind, Xia Muyun looked at the people in black and snorted coldly: “Spring hunting field, it is really unappetizing that mice have mixed in.”
The people in black were not moved, they still continued pressing in. Mu Yun narrowed her eyes and sneered: “There are many people who want the life of this princess these days, but there are not many who have the ability to bring you here. Let this princess guess who ordered you to do this…”
Sure enough, as soon as Xia Muyun said this, the people in black couldn’t help but pause. Xia Muyun saw the right opportunity and flew towards the side.
The people in black seemed to have been aware of it, and reacted quickly to block Xia Muyun’s path. Then they directly made a move against Xia Muyun.
Xia Muyun was already at a disadvantage without weapons, now outnumbered one-to-five, she couldn’t resist at all. She was quickly kicked by one of the men in black and flew to the ground. She had no power to fight back.
Xia Muyun clutched her aching abdomen, panting. She looked up at the people in black who were walking over with long knives, and laughed: “I didn’t expect this prodigious princess to die in this deserted mountain, how sad. Hey, since this princess is going to die, you should at least let this princess be a content ghost. You must tell me who wants to kill me.”
The man in black flipped his wrist, and the sharp blade in his hand reflected a dazzling light under the sunlight: “The Third Princess should keep these words for the underworld to ask the King of H*ll.”
Xia Muyun stared at the aggressive sharp blade. Her eyes shrank. Just when she thought she was unable to escape this calamity, the sharp blade abruptly stopped a few centimeters in front of her.
The black-clothed man’s body standing in front of her started to slouch. He wanted to turn around in disbelief, but fell to the ground before he could see the face of the person behind him. Xia Muyun’s eyes widened as she looked at the arrow that hit the man in black.
The remaining black-clothed men were stunned. Just about to step forward to finish her off, they heard a swish, and four long arrows flew out at the same time. The people were too late to react. It forcefully penetrated into the opponent’s body. Blood was splashed and the four grunted and fell to the ground.
Xia Muyun looked in disbelief at the people in black who were killed with a single shot. Someone was able to shoot four arrows at once with each one aimed at a critical spot!?
Surprised, there were sounds of horses not far away. Xia Muyun followed the sound and saw an unexpected figure.
“It’s you! Why are you here?” Xia Muyun pointed at the incoming person with a look of surprise. It was this person who killed the people in black and saved her with four arrows?
Leng Ruofeng glanced at the dead body on the ground coldly. He tightened the reins, and replied concisely: “Gong Zi told me to follow and protect you.”
Xia Muyun was taken aback. Gong Zi, the man next to Royal Sister?
Xia Muyun looked at the people in black on the ground. She seemed to think of something and there was a slight change of expression: “There are assassins here, maybe other places also have some. Royal father and little Royal Sister… no, we have to rush over and take a look.”
“En.” Leng Ruofeng responded softly.
Xia Muyun was just about to get up and walk towards Leng Ruofeng when a burst of light flashed behind her. Xia Muyun turned around reflexively to look. It was the man in black who was kicked away by her just now pretending to be a dead body, he was waiting for an opportunity to move again and pounced towards herself.
At a life and death moment, Leng Ruofeng grabbed an arrow on the horse’s side and quickly drew his bow. It could be barely seen how he aimed. The next second the arrow appeared in front of the man in black with a strong mountain breeze and… plunged in.
“Uhh…” The man in black was still holding a sharp blade in his hand. He fell backwards while maintaining the posture of raising his blade.
With a bang, Xia Muyun’s heart trembled slightly. The violently beating heart of hers took a long time to recover. With a pale face, she turned to look at Leng Ruofeng and smiled: “You saved me twice.”
Leng Ruofeng did not respond. Steering his horse, he walked forwards to Xia Muyun and stretched out his hand towards her.
Xia Muyun was stunned, understanding what Leng Ruofeng meant to do. Her horse could no longer run. If she wanted to find Xia Yuqing and the others, she could only ride with the person in front of her. For some reason, when Xia Muyun looked at Leng Ruofeng’s hand stretched out, she felt her heart beat slightly faster. She hesitated for a moment, then finally stretched out her hand.
Leng Ruofeng used a little bit of force and pulled Xia Muyun onto his horse. Holding her within his arms, there was almost no gap between the two. The breath of an unfamiliar man spread to the tip of her nose making Xia Muyun’s face blush. However, Leng Ruofeng didn’t notice anything wrong. He turned his horse around, and passed by Xia Muyun’s brave steed. Leaning forward slightly, he took Xia Muyun’s whip and the horse began running back in the direction he had come from.
Xia Muyun had just experienced an exciting battle of life and death. At the same time, Xia Yuqing was so bored she wanted to look at the sky and sigh.
After learning about Xia Yuqing’s cruel attributes, Xia Mingyuan forbade her to shoot arrows indiscriminately. Without choice, Xia Yuqing could only watch a group of people galloping, collecting their prey, while she sighed, bored at the side.
Although Feng Tingye had promised that he would hunt back the small animals she wanted, if someone else sent it back and gave it to her, there would be no sense of accomplishment that she hunted it on her own. Thinking like this, Xia Yuqing began to sit silently and bite her handkerchief.
Without Xia Yuqing causing troubles, the hunting ground has almost become the world of Xia Haotian and Feng Tingye. No matter how huge the jackal, tiger and leopard were, they would not escape the fate of becoming a plate of Chinese food. After some hunting, Xia Haotian’s eyes on Feng Tingye gradually became somewhat satisfied. Feng Tingye’s eyes on Xia Haotian’s eyes also showed the same cordiality. The kings of two different countries, testing the other’s strength, there seemed to be a sense of talent appreciation amongst the two.
“Feng Gong Zi is a good rider and shooter. Compared to my sons, Feng Gongzi cannot be outdone. It is rare for the guards around Feng Gong Zi to also have such good skills.”
Feng Tingye smiled calmly: “The emperor is exaggerating, this is just a minor thing.”
The guard that Xia Haotian had mentioned was Cui Er, who was specially disguised as a man and her follower, Su Wuduan. Cui Er’s shooting skills were very good, this was something Xia Yuqing had known as early as back in Ye Kingdom. It’s just that she didn’t expect her Senior Brother who had nothing to do all this time following Cui Er would also shoot arrows so well.
Seeing a group of people running wildly and spurring their horses forward, while she was alone here as the background, Xia Yuqing felt so angry that… her paws were itchy.
Just when Xia Yuqing had nothing to do, a snow-white figure suddenly whizzed out from the bushes on the side.
Xia Yuqing’s body shook. Seeing the snow-white rabbit, she suddenly became energetic. Everyone on the side also noticed the little white rabbit’s figure and was about to chase it, when she heard a loud shout from behind: “Stop, let go of that little white rabbit. I’m coming!”
Everyone held their reins and turned their heads. Then they saw Xia Yuqing drawing an arrow, the arrow was facing the little white rabbit crookedly.
“Qing Er, don’t!” Feng Tingye glanced at Xia Haotian who was the closest to the little white rabbit, his face changed slightly as he shouted.
However, this shout shocked Xia Yuqing. The arrow in her hand slipped…
“…” This was Xia Yuqing who was shocked.
“…” This is Feng Tingye who maintained the posture of reaching his hands towards her.
“…” This is the group of people who had short-circuited their brains.
The sharp arrow swished past Xia Haotian’s face with a speed visible to the naked eye.
“!” Everyone who saw this scene dropped their jaws, terrified.
Xia Haotian rubbed his face that was brushed by the arrow. He stared at Xia Yuqing and let out a single: “You ……”
Before he could say anything more, there was a scream from behind: “Ah ……”
Everyone looked towards the sound. On the mountain road where the little white rabbit was on, a man in black suddenly fell out of the bushes. Because of his fall, he messed up the fallen leaves on the mountain road and a rope appeared. It was not difficult to imagine what would have happened if Feng Tingye and the rest chased after the white rabbit. They would experience what Xia Muyun had just experienced, but all these plans were messed up because of the arrow that pierced the chest of the man in black.
“…” It’s really a hundred shots, a hundred hits, no target missed, each time it will draw blood! Niang Niang once again proved her words with straight evidence, and shot a…person? !
“Aaa…Assassin, someone come! Guards! There is an assassin!” Everyone on the side was stunned for a few seconds, then suddenly screamed.
All the guards split into two teams in an instant. One team rushed to Xia Haotian’s side and surrounded him, while the other team quickly rushed into the bushes to find other men in black.
Feng Tingye and the others rushed back to Xia Yuqing’s side at once to protect her.
The men in black in the hunting ground were lying in wait in various places. This plan would have been flawless today, but because of Xia Yuqing’s flying arrow, they died before they could attempt their plan.
The black-clothed people who were found were surrounded by a large number of imperial guards. This caused countless deaths and injuries, but some were still able to escape.
“Over there, there is an assassin over there running away.” Someone shouted, so everyone’s eyes instantly focused on the black assassin who fled.
“Chase him, hurry!” The troops rushed towards the black-clothed assassin, but was a step late.
Seeing the distance being widened step by step, Feng Tingye’s eyes narrowed slightly, then his eyes lit up. Staring at a small white spot in the direction of the assassin’s escape, he smiled. Turning his head to look at Xia Yuqing who was indifferent, he softly said: “Ai Fei, there is the little white rabbit you wanted.”
“What? Where?” Xia Yuqing was startled. She followed Feng Tingye’s direction, her eyes brightened. She quickly pulled out her quiver. The long arrow nocked, at this moment, only the white rabbit was in her eyes.
With a swish, the arrow in Xia Yuqing’s hand flew crookedly in the direction of the assassin under everyone’s surprised gaze.
After a while, everyone heard a scream: “Ah, my *ss!”
The assassin screamed, clutching his injured little PP and fell from the galloping steed. This scared off the little white rabbit by the road.
“Ah, my little white rabbit!”
“…” These are the people who were shocked again and didn’t know what to say.
When Xia Muyun arrived, what they saw was the picture of the little assassin falling off his horse. They pulled back the reins. Together with the steed, they froze in place.
After a short silence, a somewhat hoarse and angry voice suddenly came out: “Hey, why do I feel…like this scene is a bit familiar? F*ck, Junior Sister, the person who shot my butt last time was you!”
” …”
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