The two of them were arguing seriously, and after walking a while, Chao Hua remembered the existence of Chen Huaixu. She reined in her horse and turned her head to see Chen Huaixu following not far away, riding a horse with one hand and holding a bow and arrow with the other.
"Chen Huaixu, why are you silent?"
Chen Huaixu slowed down, leisurely crossed Cheng Ze's horse, and rode side by side with Chao Hua. She tilted her head and looked at Chao Hua with a meaningful look for a while, then glanced at Cheng Ze who was keeping a distance from them behind her, and she sighed softly.
"I really believed your lies."
Chaohua:?
"Why did you believe my lies?"
Seeing her confused look, Shen Huaixu deliberately lowered his voice, "Is there any misunderstanding between you two?"
Before, when she heard Chaohua's complaint of grievance, she just thought Cheng Ze was a person with bad intentions, but his behavior made her feel uncomfortable. She looked at Cheng Ze coldly as if he was flirting with a blind man, and then she suddenly realized that this was a misunderstanding caused by not having a mouth.
"What misunderstanding?" Chao Hua was puzzled. "There is no misunderstanding between him and me!"
After saying that, she narrowed her eyes suspiciously, "Did you hear something just now?"
Chen Huaixu nodded, "I have good hearing. You two were running and chasing each other, and the noise was so loud, it was hard not to hear it."
Recalling the conversation just now, Chao Hua belatedly felt a hint of awkwardness. She turned her head and glared at Cheng Ze before muttering, "Don't talk nonsense! He...he's just sweet-talking!"
Cheng Ze felt something was wrong after being glared at. He calmly asked the horse to go faster.
"Oh?" Chen Huaixu glanced at her sideways, "What's your purpose in making such sweet remarks?"
“Nature, nature…”
Chaohua racked her brains and finally came to the conclusion that perhaps, as Chen Huaixu said, Cheng was doing it for her father, the Crown Prince, and her mother, the Crown Princess.
Suddenly she opened her eyes wide. In the storybook, the unfaithful man used sweet words just to win over the lady and seduce her to elope with him!
For a moment, she seemed to see her miserable future self.
Chaohua stood there in a daze, as if struck by lightning.
After a while, she whispered to Chen Huaixu, "Could it be that, as you said, he is after my future power and status? To cling to the imperial power? That's not right. Cheng Ze is not so shameless. Or is it that after not seeing him for so many years, he has become unrecognizable to me..."
Preface to Shen Huai: “…”
Why does she always feel that this young General Cheng will hate her in the future?
As soon as this thought came to her mind, she immediately felt a sharp gaze falling on her back, like a knife transformed from an ice blade, trying to stab her through.
Fu Yin in the space had been paying attention to what was happening on Shen Huaixu's side. At this moment, he put down his pen and paid attention to the man named Cheng Ze.
He was reviewing memorials just now, and he listened to most of the conversation between Shen Huaixu and Chaohua while multitasking. He knew that this man named Cheng Ze had feelings for Chaohua.
He thought coldly, isn't it too useless to blame others for not being able to handle the person he likes?
At this time, facing Chaohua, Chen Huaixu was still sighing. Apart from Chaohua himself, the stumbling block on the road to Cheng Ze and Chaohua's marriage was probably her.
She coughed, interrupting Chaohua's whimsical mumbling, "Chaohua, I just believed your one-sided opinion before, without any intention of speculation. It's just that, well, about this matter, is it possible that there are not so many twists and turns, and perhaps General Cheng is sincere to you?"
Chaohua was choked by the last sentence, his cheeks flushed red, and he didn't know whether he was angry or embarrassed, and he couldn't speak for a long time.
Cheng Ze vaguely heard what Shen Huaixu said, and his mood calmed down a lot. He no longer glared at Shen Huaixu, but only paid attention to Chao Hua's reaction.
Chen Huaixu stopped and raised the bow and arrow in his hand, "We've been delayed for so long, it's time to get down to business. Let's go!"
After saying that, she threw the reins, shouted "Go!", and galloped towards the dense forest ahead.
Not long after entering the dense forest, Shen Huaixu hunted a rabbit, and the young eunuch who had been following them immediately stepped forward to pick up the rabbit.
Just as she was about to look for other prey, she heard Chao Hua calling her.
Zhao Hua, who had just gotten rid of the awkward feeling, walked to Shen Huaixu's side, blushing as he glanced at Cheng Ze who was not far away. "I think you're wrong. How can I be so fond of someone like him? I don't believe it."
Shen Huaixu glanced at her and stated the fact, "Your face is almost as red as a monkey's butt."
"You..." Chaohua's face turned even redder, now he was furious, "Your words are vulgar!"
Chen Huaixu waved his hand indifferently, "Let's discuss this later. Wake up and stop thinking about General Cheng. Do you know why we came out today?"
Upon hearing this, Chao Hua gave Chen Huaixu a look and said, "Chen Huaixu, Chen Huaixu, you really dare to say anything. Fortunately, I have a good temper..."
"Do you want to eat the meat I grilled for you?"
"...I do." She swallowed.
The two men reached a consensus and soon immersed themselves in the joy of hunting, forgetting about General Cheng behind them.
Among the three of them, Chaohua is the atmosphere group, Cheng is here to protect Chaohua, and only Chen Huaixu is concentrating on hunting.
Soon she caught two pheasants and a wild rabbit.
"Why are there only small things here? Where did the big prey go?" Chaohua was a little dissatisfied with their harvest.
"Shh!" Shen Huaixu vaguely saw the silhouette of a deer hidden in the bushes not far away, and raised his index finger to his lips.
Chaohua didn't dare to breathe.
Chen Huaixu put an arrow on the bow, closed one eye and aimed in one direction.
The arrow flew through the air, and at the same time, a sound of breaking through the air was heard behind her.
"Axu!" Fu Yin's stern shout came from the space.
Just as he was about to clench his fists and rush out of the space regardless of anything, Shen Huaixu shouted: [Stay still!]
At the same time, her flexible waist leaned back, and almost at the same time, an arrow brushed past her body.
"careful!"
This reminder was really late. If it was earlier, it might distract Shen Huaixu. Therefore, the person who reminded her was none other than Yun Zhi.
Chao Hua stood there in a daze, and only reacted when Chen Huaixu was about to stand up. She angrily pulled out the whip around her waist, and first asked Chen Huaixu if he was injured. After learning that he was not, she looked in the direction from which the arrow came with great anger.
Cheng Ze had already kicked the instigator off his horse. Seeing Chao Hua looking over, he immediately said, "This man is the one who shot the arrow."
Chao Hua saw that the man seemed to have been kicked hard by Cheng Ze and kept groaning. He barely calmed down a little and looked in the direction of Yun Zhi again.
"It's my third cousin. How come you came so timely? Do you know this person?" Chaohua had a rare flash of inspiration and looked at her third cousin suspiciously.
"Where did you get that from, cousin? My cousin just happened to be passing by, and before he could even make a move, the attack was easily resolved by County Master Mingyi. It's truly admirable."
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