Chapter 144 The Empress Dowager Chen
Chapter 144 The Princess of Da Chen (1st update)
Su Zimo stared at her coldly, with a trace of ridicule flashing in his eyes. How could he compare the woman in front of him with the Crown Princess Chen?
ridiculous!
After the game was decided, a group of people moved to the spacious front yard. There were two long stacks erected on the east wall, which were the target for arrows. There were two guards standing on both sides, each holding a pair of bows and arrows in their hands.
Onlookers crowded the corridors on both sides, behind and to the left and right.
The requirement for flat shooting is that the trajectory of the arrow is straight and the parabola cannot be too large.
Nalanjing and Su Zimo took the bows and arrows from the guards at the same time, aimed at the target, and shot!
Su Zimo hit the bull's-eye, of course, but deviated a little from the red line in the center, which counts as nine rings.
Everyone regretted the small distance, and then looked at the other arrow target with gloating.
Their attention just now was focused on Su Zimo. After all, he became famous at a young age and was the most powerful archer in Southern Chu. They had wanted to see his archery elegance for a long time.
"This... this is the red heart, ten rings?" Someone pointed at Nalanjing's target, his mouth wide open, full of disbelief.
When everyone reacted, they all stretched their heads and stared at the target, their eyes full of shock.
Ten rings...
"Did anyone see that she shot it?" Someone in the crowd questioned, obviously not believing that Nalanjing could hit the tenth ring.
Everyone shook their heads, unsure.
But he saw Su Zimo holding a bottle of wine and drinking slowly from a cup.
Everyone: "..."
It's true, no matter how magnanimous Marquis Wei is at this moment, it can't change the fact that he lost.
There was an uproar in the crowd.
It was really the tenth ring. The mighty warrior lost! The divine archer actually lost to a woman...
"Coincidence, it must be a coincidence!" The female family members of the Weiwu Marquis Mansion were the first to say unconvinced.
How could Su Zimo lose? He was the number one archer in the Su family's archery battalion. How could he lose?
Nalanjing waited patiently for Su Zimo to finish the large pot of wine. Seeing that his expression was as usual, he couldn't help but raise his eyebrows, as if to say: The drinking capacity is not bad.
Su Zimo: "..."
The wine dripped down his chin, and the personal attendant on the side immediately handed over the handkerchief, but he did not reach out to take it, and slowly wiped it clean with his fingers. A pair of eyes that had always been dark, now surprisingly bright, stared at Nalanjing,
Shining with an unknown light.
Nalanjing held the bow in one hand, glanced at him, and looked away indifferently.
The second arrow begins.
This time everyone looked at Nalanjing and Su Zimo at the same time, their hearts beating like drums.
The big bow was very heavy, but Nalanjing held it very easily. The moment she aimed it, they seemed to see her whole aura change.
At this moment, she was no one but a soldier on the battlefield who was about to start a battle. She held a bow and arrow in her hand and swept through thousands of armies.
"Whoops!" A short voice sounded, and then it plunged into the target with a snap, hitting the red heart, and their heads exploded with a loud roar.
Su Zimo's fully stretched string did not shoot out, but his eyes were fixed on Nalanjing for a moment. The scene in front of him seemed to overlap with the city tower many years ago.
The enemy troops stormed the city gate, wave after wave, without sleep for several days. When the Empress Dowager Chen came to the rescue, she only did two things. One was to kill the enemy commander with one arrow on the city wall!
Second, when the enemy's tens of thousands of soldiers were grieving and angry, they would sit cross-legged and one person would control the harp, leading thousands of troops to the city to fall into madness and kill each other.
At this moment, he suddenly woke up. This woman really had nothing to do with the Crown Princess Da Chen.
Because, she is very likely to be the Crown Princess of Chen, Nalanjing!
"..." Everyone was stunned, and the air became terrifyingly quiet for a moment.
Everyone looked at Su Zimo and said secretly: It's the tenth ring again. Unless the mighty warrior can hit the tenth ring, he will still lose...
Su Zimo closed his eyes, and his breath dropped from his dantian. The arrow feathers in his hand popped out and plunged into the wooden target like a gust of wind.
Hit the red heart, ten rings!
draw!
However, everyone did not feel relieved, but waited with bated breath for the third arrow.
Nalanjing raised his bow, nocked an arrow, curled his lips slowly, and released the arrow. It hit the red heart, ten rings!
Ten rings, ten rings again, all three arrows were ten rings. The eyes of everyone looking at Nalanjing no longer showed the contempt and ridicule at the beginning, but also the indescribable excitement, excitement and admiration that came to their hearts.
Su Zimo's anger sank into his dantian again. He mobilized the internal energy in his dantian, condensed it in his palm, fully drew the bow string, and shot out.
Hit the red heart, ten rings!
The female family members of the Weiwu Marquis Mansion let out loud exclamations, but none of the young men and the princes of the Weiwu Marquis Mansion made a sound.
The female relatives cheered because they saw Su Zimo hit the ten rings.
They didn't know that Su Zimo's next two ten rings all required internal strength and extreme concentration to hit the red heart.
Nalanjing, on the other hand, was on the contrary. She did not use her internal strength to lift the bow, set the arrow, and pull the string. She completely used her arm strength. More importantly, she was so skillful and relaxed that they could imagine,
Her archery skills have reached such a terrifying level.
Su Zimo also knew that he had lost. He was not angry at all. He picked up the jug beside him, filled a glass, and drank it slowly.
"It's all ten rings. It's a draw. Why did the Marquis drink the fine wine?"
"The visitor is a guest, and the Marquis has a lot of magnanimity. There is no shame in accepting punishment."
"I guess the first arrow, the Marquis must have deliberately held back his strength and only shot nine rings."
"What kind of sister does Shiqin know? It's really embarrassing for a woman to be so pushy." The female relatives of the mighty prince were unconvinced and all expressed their displeasure on Su Zimo's behalf.
Nalanjing returned the bow to the guard on the side, and glanced at the group of female relatives at the fence. His cold eyes made them silent for a moment.
Nalanjing looked at Su Zimo who had finished a glass of wine, and said lightly: "You don't need to drink this pot of wine."
It's a draw after all.
Su Zimo shook his head: "No, I lost!"
He lifted the cup, filled another cup, raised his slender neck, and the crystal clear wine slipped from his sexy Adam's apple. A pair of black eyes stared at Nalanjing, suppressing the undercurrent of emotions.
Nalanjing picked up the wine glass on the side, snatched the wine bottle from his hand, poured a glass out, and drank it in one gulp.
A draw, a bottle of wine, half for each person, is considered fair.
Two people, you have a glass, and I drink one glass at a time.
Everyone looked at each other, and then looked at the chivalrous woman in the middle of the yard, unable to look away for a long time.
In the end, Nalanjing and Su Zimo simply clinked their glasses and started drinking. Su Zimo couldn't drink too fast and wanted to imitate her, but he choked himself to tears.
Everyone: "..."
Everyone: Not only is Marquis Weiwu inferior in archery, but his drinking capacity is also not as good as others!
Nalanjing drank so much that she finished the last few drinks. Seeing Su Zimo's dark face but tearful eyes, she couldn't help but burst out laughing and the wine in her mouth spurted out.
Everyone: "..."
Chapter completed!