"Us?" Jasmine's mouth trembled, "I haven't fought with your Sanjian Jinxian yet, so I'm not sure I can stay."
Lu Qianqian waved his hand casually, "You must be better than him."
"That's not necessarily the case." Although Jasmine felt happy in her heart, she was very reserved on the outside. "Jiu Tan's spiritual energy is out of the body. I can't use any special power here. Unlike you, all my abilities are engraved in my mind."
Lu Qianqian seemed to think that what he said made sense. He rolled his eyes and thought for a while, then patted the table and said, "It doesn't matter, I'll take care of him."
"You can't mess around. After all, I'm just an ordinary player and innocent." Jasmine added politely.
"He is not innocent," Xiaolan interrupted angrily, "the two men beat Meili together."
"Oh, yes, you really need to clean up."
The three people looked at each other with smiles.
"By the way, do you want to go back to the Mai clan tent?" Jasmine asked.
"I have to go back, otherwise they will get suspicious."
Uh...they should have started to become suspicious.
The three of them moved Meili into the tent, and Lu Qianqian put on the mask again. The second before she was about to go out, Xiaolan suddenly remembered something.
"I have something I want to discuss with you."
Lu Qianqian turned to look at Xiaolan and Jasmine, who also looked confused.
Xiaolan pursed her lips and opened her mouth to say, "That's it..."
***
The next morning, Meri woke up with the first ray of morning light.
At that time, Xiaolan and Jasmine were still sleeping, and were suddenly awakened by Meili's joyful screams.
"We won the second game!" Meri's voice was still a little hoarse, but when he screamed it became even more horrifying, "Did we win the second game?!"
Xiaolan was still eating cake in her dream, but Meili was so frightened that she sat up.
"Meili, you're awake..." Jasmine rubbed her eyes and stumbled to Meili's bedside, "How did you know Xiaolan won?"
"Did Xiaolan win?" Meili looked even happier, "Great! Xiaolan is awesome!"
Bar? What bar? Chocolate bar?
Xiaolan looked at the roof of the tent, still digesting the dream and reality.
What I ate just now was chocolate cake. Where is my chocolate cake?
"How do you feel?" Jasmine reached out and touched Meili's forehead.
"I'm fine, they're just minor injuries," Meili coughed a few times, "Where's Xiaolan? Are you injured?"
hurt?
Xiaolan's wound that had been bandaged last night suddenly felt pain.
Xiaolan finally stood up from the pain of losing the cake and noticed Meili.
"Meili, you're awake!" Xiaolan climbed out of bed with some difficulty.
"Hmm, I..." Meili's pupils suddenly widened, "What's wrong with you? Why are you so seriously injured?!"
Xiaolan and Jasmine reviewed the battle between Xiaolan and Lu Qianqian from two perspectives, on and off the stage.
"I'm just saying that the referee's voice I heard couldn't be a dream!" Meili pumped her fist excitedly, "Oh, it's just... the female player on Mai's team is quite nice. If it weren't for her, those two men would
He plans to beat me a little longer."
Xiaolan and Jasmine shut up and smiled bitterly. On the one hand, they were happy because Meili was recovering well, but on the other hand, they felt distressed because she behaved as usual despite being beaten.
Xiaolan told Meili her heroic deeds in detail (except for the vomiting incident).
Meri's excitement lasted until breakfast was over.
Of course they couldn't tell her what happened to Lu Qianqian. The two of them told her what they could and kept the rest to themselves.
Just like this, after breakfast, Meili rushed Jasmine to practice.
In this happy mood, the day of the decisive battle quickly arrived.
Within a few days, Lu Qianqian didn't come again, and they didn't know if she had succeeded or if she had simply forgotten what she had promised.
Outside the tent, drums sounded.
"Don't be nervous," Meili said with a trembling voice, holding Jasmine's hand, "But be sure to stay calm...don't panic, don't be afraid..."
Jasmine was not nervous at first, but after being comforted by Meili, the smile on her face became a little stiff when she walked out of the tent.
The villagers of Lang's family saw the three people approaching from a distance, and started cheering from a distance.
Jasmine briefly warmed up, then waved to everyone and walked onto the ring.
At the other end of the arena, there was a strange atmosphere.
Jasmine stood alone in the ring, waiting for her opponent to come on stage.
In the Mai family's audience, the chatter became louder and louder.
"What's going on..."
"Missing..."
"Not found..."
Um?
Jasmine looked down at the ring.
There was no Lu Qianqian, and there was no first gold offering from the Mai family that I had seen before.
There was no one standing on the steps beside the ring, waiting to get on the ring.
The three gold offerings from the Mai family did not appear.
The villagers of Maishi became increasingly panicked and sent several more people to search for Jin Xian's whereabouts.
Jasmine suddenly understood.
This is what Lu Qianqian did.
The referee was stoic and expressionless as he banged the gong and asked loudly, "Is Jin Xian of the Mai family participating?"
"Participate! Participate!" The man who should be the leader of the Mai clan jumped out flatteringly, "Um...our Jin Xian may have fallen asleep and will be here late."
"Wait another half hour," the referee said.
"Hey, okay, half an hour...guaranteed..."
However, half an hour passed quickly.
The cold-faced referee came onto the stage, glanced at Jasmine, who had been waiting on the stage for more than an hour, and rang the gong.
"Three golden offerings..."
"No!" The screams from Maishi's side started, "No! - No! -"
"Lang wins!"
Jasmine raised her hand and waved awkwardly at the cheering Lang villagers in the audience.
The villagers naturally responded positively.
"The winner of the Golden Presentation Competition—Lang's family!"
The referee's final sound resounded throughout the world, and the giant moon covering the sky seemed to tremble.
Xiaolan in the audience and Jasmine on the stage looked at each other, and both of them felt a strange sense of unreality.
Lang's is celebrating.
Maishi is wailing.
Xiaolan looked up at the sky. The giant moon seemed even bigger.
Another girl is leaving.
Jasmine walked off the stage amidst Maishi's curses and Langshi's praises. Xiaolan walked up to meet them, and a figure suddenly jumped out from the side and hugged them.
It's Long Yuerong.
She was crying so hard that she couldn't even speak a complete sentence while hugging the two of them.
"Okay, okay," Patriarch Langhui patted his daughter's back. Tears seemed to be shining in the corners of the man's eyes, "Yue Rong, please let go of Lord Jin Xian. Don't delay Lord Jin Xian..."
"Next, it's time for the big sacrifice," Patriarch Langhui said in a low voice, "The whole village will go to participate, right by the river, to see the girl off."