Chapter 5 Chapter 5 The bite is deep and the teeth are good.

The lotus heart threading fish competition is in full swing.

Xie Tingyu held Cui Yuanying's arm with his hand, and pushed his fingertips at the elbow joint: "Lift your arm to this position."

Cui Yuanying's mouth corners were tightly tightened, but his body honestly followed her instructions to adjust its posture.

The arrows flew through the air, each time hitting the center of the ring.

Xie Tingyu looked relieved: "He is not too stupid. He is teachable."

Just as Cui Yuanying raised his hand to throw an arrow, the two boats collided. Cui Yuanying was knocked off balance and the arrow flew out of his hand and fell into the lake.

Cui Yuanying staggered and steadied himself, when he suddenly heard a sharp wind passing by his ear.

“Whoosh!”

A stray arrow instantly flew into the circle behind him.

In panic, Cui Yuanying slipped and fell backward. At this critical moment, a bony hand clamped her wrist.

Cui Yuanying secretly breathed a sigh of relief and said stubbornly, "Xie Tingyu, quickly pull me up." Then he turned around with an angry look on his face and cursed, "Yuan, don't think I don't know you did it on purpose. You are clearly deliberately doing evil and can't stand seeing others doing well. Why are you pretending?"

Yuan Wangshu, on the opposite boat, bowed from afar and said, "Sorry, I lost my grip for a moment."

On this side, Xie Tingyu had a sly smile in his eyes. He slowly loosened his hands and watched Cui Yuanying panic and fall into the lake.

"thump!"

"Madam!" someone shouted on the shore.

A large lotus leaf emerged from the water above Cui Yuanying's head. Her hair dripped from her forehead, and her hair on both sides clung to her cheeks. Her eyes widened in anger. "Xie Tingyu, are you crazy? Why did you let go?! Are you in cahoots with Yuan Wangshu?"

Xie Tingyu clapped his hands and laughed, "No, I'm just paying you back for saying, 'I won't save you.'"

Cui Yuanying was speechless and closed his mouth.

"Someone come quickly! My wife fell into the water!" Cui Yuanying's personal attendant shouted anxiously on the shore.

Cui Yuanying was fished out of the lake.

She stood on the shore wrapped in a blanket with an expressionless face, waiting for the next development of the game.

Without Cui Yuanying's help, Yuan Wangshu's team quickly narrowed the score gap with Xie Tingyu.

When Yuan Wangshu threw the last arrow in his hand, the score difference between the two teams was fifty. No matter how you looked at it, Yuan Wangshu was bound to win.

At this moment, the only arrow left in Xie Tingyu's hand is the last one.

Xie Tingyu stood on the wooden boat, staring thoughtfully at the fish floating on the lake, as if waiting for something.

Others were whispering.

"Why hasn't she thrown it away yet?"

"Even if she throws the farthest ring, it's only thirty points. She can't win. In my opinion, she might as well just throw it in the lake."

A gust of summer breeze blew, creating ripples on the lake, and the fish on the lake floated slowly.

Xie Tingyu raised his chin slightly towards the boatwoman and said, "Please move one foot to the left."

When the boat stopped, she tilted her body slightly and threw it with all her strength.

The smile on Yuan Wangshu's lips froze at this moment, and his expression gradually became stiff.

Cui Yuanying was shocked.

The cat in the tree not far away twitched its ears slightly, took off the lotus leaf that was covering its face, chewed the dogtail grass in its mouth, and stared at the amazing arrow on the lake without blinking.

"very!"

"Twenty points!"

"Thirty points!"

"A total of sixty points!"

The arrow was so powerful that after piercing three circles at a long distance, it still had enough strength to draw a silver line more than ten feet long on the water surface.

This arrow was beyond everyone's expectations, and the score was directly overtaken by ten points.

It turned out that she had not moved for a long time because she was waiting for the three fish to form a line.

Everyone on the lake was stunned and amazed.

The young men in the viewing pavilion exclaimed in amazement, leaning over the carved railings. "Oh my god! One arrow pierced three rings!" "The three rings were at least five meters apart. What strength! Oh my god!"

A young man said shyly, "Such strong arms, I wonder what it feels like to be held in her arms?"

Ji Lian looked at this person coldly, disdainful of his remarks.

Cui Yuanying was tricked twice by Xie Tingyu, and although she was in a bad mood, she was secretly pleased to see Yuan Wangshu get humiliated. She missed the prize by falling into the water and left first, wrapped in a blanket. When she passed by Xie Tingyu, she took a few more glances. Although he was still hateful, he was more pleasing to her eyes than before.

After Xie Tingyu came ashore, the way people looked at her was very different from before. Some people even looked at her with admiration and wanted to come over to ask her for advice on the technique of the last arrow, but they were all blocked by Cen Xiu.

Several young men came towards Xie Tingyu with smiles on their faces, offering him sachets and handkerchiefs with both hands. Xie Tingyu accepted them with a smile.

Ji Lian passed by without even glancing at him for a moment.

The lucky charm is a night-shining pearl. It is said that this object can glow at night and feel cool to the touch, making it a rare treasure.

Xie Tingyu was playing with it like a ball when he heard someone outside the carriage shouting "Xie Er".

She lifted the curtain of the carriage and saw Yuan Wangshu.

Yuan Wangshu said politely, "Xie Er, your last arrow today was indeed brilliant. I am ashamed of myself."

Xie Tingyu nodded, resting his elbow on the car window. "Compared to me, you are indeed a bit behind."

Yuan Wangshu was caught off guard by these blunt words, and his throat choked up, "It's not... you..."

Xie Tingyu interrupted: "I'm not like you, who would 'accidentally' hurt others."

The smile that always graced Yuan Wangshu's lips froze at this moment. She looked at Xie Tingyu again, and when her gaze met the half-smile in her eyes, she suddenly felt as if countless ants were crawling up her spine.

Does she know something?

Xie Tingyu threw the night-shining pearl over and said, "This pearl is pure and flawless. You can keep it and hang it above your bed every day to remove the evil spirit in your heart."

Without waiting for Yuan Wangshu to reply, Xie Tingyu lowered the curtain and ordered the carriage to drive away.

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At night, Xie's house is in good condition.

The bathroom was filled with mist. Servants came in one after another, holding towels, soap boxes with bath beans, etc. They placed all the necessary utensils on the table and then left together.

Xie Tingyu untied the palace belt around her waist, took off her silk skirt, and then put on her inner clothes. Her hand touched her left shoulder, and she felt the obvious bumps and depressions.

She turned her head and saw an obvious crescent-shaped bite mark on the shoulder. The teeth were carved like a carve, which showed that the person who bit her had used all his strength.

Xie Tingyu ran his fingertips over the tooth marks and said, "The bite was quite deep, and the teeth are good."

As he said this, the first thing that came to his mind was that person's fox eyes with slightly upturned corners.

There was a figure waiting behind the bamboo curtain in the bathroom.

This person's surname was Wei, and her name was Fenghua. She looked to be around thirty-five, with a plump figure. Originally a servant accompanying the master, but the master had no interest in her, so she was now primarily responsible for the house and backyard.

Wei Fenghua asked, "Why aren't you serving your wife inside?"

"Uncle Wei, my lady doesn't want to be served." The leading servant answered softly.

Wei Fenghua frowned and scolded, "That's just nonsense. My wife has been traveling around since she was a child, so naturally she doesn't follow these family rules. If my wife doesn't tell you, don't you understand?"

He pointed at one of them and said, "Ying Huan, go in and wait."

A pretty servant walked out, bowed, and walked into the bathroom.

Only a scream was heard from inside the room.

The people waiting behind the bamboo curtain looked at each other, at a loss.

After a while, Ying Huan's eyes were filled with tears, and he looked aggrieved. "I just put my hand on my lady's shoulder and wanted to give her a massage, but she didn't even turn her head or say hello, and directly twisted my hand. I couldn't stand it anymore and cried out, and then she let go of my hand."

Ying Huan stretched out his wrist in front of Wei Fenghua. His wrist bone was slightly swollen, with five faint fingerprints on it.

Wei Fenghua was very puzzled and asked, "Why did he get beaten? Did the lady say anything else?"

Ying Huan sobbed softly, "My wife said that when she's bathing, don't get close to her. Only go in when she calls you. And when she's sleeping at night, no one is allowed to sleep under her feet. Guards and others can just wait at the door."

According to the rules, when a woman went to bed at night, she had to have a servant sleep at the foot of the bed. If the master woke up at night and called for her, the servant could be taken into the room the next day and kept as a concubine.

Wei Fenghua sighed, first asked Ying Huan to find a doctor, and then told another servant to go in and wait.

He looked at these carefully selected servants with a complicated expression, thinking to himself, "I originally wanted to go along with it and ask my wife to take these people into her room, but my wife is so distant and unsympathetic. What should I do now?"

"Could it be that these ones are not good-looking enough?" Wei Fenghua thought again.

After taking a bath, Xie Tingyu lay down on a bamboo chair beside him.

The servant who had been waiting nearby for a long time finally approached cautiously after receiving Xie Tingyu's permission. He pulled out a bamboo tube from the dark, from which steaming hot water flowed, and then pulled out another bamboo tube with cold water inside.

Two bamboo tubes were placed on a stand, gathering warm water and pouring it over Xie Tingyu's hair. After washing and massaging, the servant wiped Xie Tingyu's hair dry with cotton cloth.

The candles went out and Changhao Courtyard was plunged into silence.

There was rumbling thunder outside, and the summer night rain came suddenly and suddenly. The sound of raindrops dripping came from far away, hitting the window frames and eaves. The coolness seeped into the room through the window gaps, and the heat faded from the blue brick floor.

Xie Tingyu lay on the bed, closed his eyes, listened to the sound of the eaves, and soon his breathing became even, and it was obvious that he had fallen into a deep sleep.

While one side is having a sweet dream, someone on the other side is in pain and cannot sleep.

Inside the Posa Pavilion of the Imperial Palace.

A few suppressed, painful groans emanated from between the layers of curtains.

Jiangzhu held a candlestick in her hand, lit the crane lamp above the bed, lifted the gauze curtain, and hung it on the silver hook.

On the couch, a person was buried in the quilt, curled up at the innermost side.

Pulling the quilt down, a face as pale as paper was revealed, and the hair on the forehead was soaked with cold sweat.

Ji Lian felt unbearable pain all over her body, and she felt as if thousands of poisonous insects were biting deep in her bones.

He bit his lower lip so hard with his pearly teeth that his vision became blurry and he could not see the face of the person in front of him. He grabbed the quilt on his body with both hands, his knuckles turned white, and his breathing was as slow as a thread.

When he couldn't bear it any longer, he whispered a few words "It hurts... It hurts..."

Jiangzhu immediately walked out and gave a series of orders: "Quickly go get His Highness's jade token and ask the imperial physician on duty tonight to specifically request Doctor Wang."

"Go to the small kitchen and make a bowl of soothing and pain-relieving soup."

"Go and light up all the lights. Prepare some hot water and some towels..."

"Go get some sake and boil it..."

The rain was drizzling, and the lights in Posa Pavilion were bright. People were walking quickly in the corridor, not daring to stop for a moment.

Jiangzhu scooped up a spoonful of soup and brought it to Ji Lian's lips. After feeding him ten spoonfuls, he barely managed to drink two or three sips. But the effect was minimal. Seeing Ji Lian's condition worsening, and with no other options, Jiangzhu, with a look of heartache, took out her handkerchief and wiped away the tears from his eyes.

After waiting anxiously, Wang Shuhe finally came hurriedly carrying a medicine box.

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