But the horse didn't listen at all. The old man also got up from the ground and blocked Duan Gouqiong's way. "Quick, pay me back!"
Qiu Yuanrong, who was behind, had already come riding fast. Seeing Duan Gouqiong blocked in the road, he reined in his horse and said, "Princess Gouqiong, you don't want to kill me, so you're waiting here for me?"
Duan Gouqiong looked at Qiu Yuanrong with a murderous look in his eyes: "That arrow that flew through the air just now, was it you who had it shot?"
Qiu Yuanrong laughed sarcastically: "Where's the evidence? If you don't have any, don't talk nonsense!"
Then he whipped the horse and started running again.
Duan Gouqiong glanced at the spot where the arrow had flown. The ground was already empty. Where was the arrow? It must have been taken away long ago. Looking up at the rooftop, everyone had evacuated!
Qiu Yuanrong ran a distance, looked at the road ahead, pulled his horse back from a distance, and shouted angrily, "Who did this?"
Someone poured oil on the road, and at first glance, it seemed to cover a very wide area. How could the horse gallop away?
Someone quickly ran up to Qiu Yuanrong and said, "Prince, you and Princess Gou Qiong only agreed to set out from the palace gate and go to the city gate to get the flag, but you didn't say you had to return the same way. Hurry and take a shortcut to the palace gate while Princess Gou Qiong isn't looking!"
Qiu Yuanrong frowned, and finally, whipped his horsewhip, turned around, and took a shortcut.
At this time, it was already late. King Tufan got up to wash and after listening to the report from the palace servant, he swallowed the mouthwash in his mouth because he was too surprised, and then he coughed.
"What did you say? They dare to decide life and death by horse racing?"
Afterwards, King Tufan quickly walked out, and the palace servants hurriedly followed him: "Your Majesty, they should have started the competition by now. It would be too late for you to rush over!"
King Tufan arrived at the palace gate almost at the same time as Jing Yuchen. He quickly dismounted from his dragon sedan chair and angrily shouted, "Nonsense, all nonsense! How can you be so ridiculous! Who is Princess Gou Qiong? How can you gamble your life with others in Tufan!"
The king was clearly furious. Ni Yueshan and Jing Yuchen stood up from their seats. Jing Yuchen took the initiative to speak, "Your Majesty, please don't be so anxious. I just heard from Yueshan that the two of them simply agreed that the loser would be at the mercy of the other, but they never said they would execute the other."
Jing Yuchen was wearing a crescent-white robe, with his black hair tied up, revealing his smooth and full forehead. His handsome face was indifferent and arrogant, and his voice was cold, without any worry.
The more calm and composed Jing Yuchen and Ni Yueshan were, the more the king felt that something was up.
He ordered the palace servants to find out the latest situation quickly. He was so anxious that he had no mood to talk much with Ni Yueshan and the others.
On the city streets, Duan Gouqiong seemed to be strolling, sitting on horseback, letting the horse walk slowly. From the windows of the attics on both sides of the road, at intervals, one could see many handsome men and beautiful women watching. Duan Gouqiong waved upwards: "Hey, aren't you the girl who particularly liked eating pig's trotters at the banquet yesterday?"
A slightly plump woman was sitting at the attic window, chewing a pig's trotter slowly in her hand. She didn't look like a lady at all. She had been so absorbed in the pig's trotter that she had already reached a state of ecstasy. But when she heard Duan Gouqiong's greeting, she quickly put away the pig's trotter and slammed the window shut.
Duan Gouqiong curled his lips and smiled, then waved to the others: "Hey, I remember you. At the banquet yesterday, you didn't drink a drop of alcohol, and you even secretly poured it away to get away with it!"
The man who was teased by her frowned but said nothing. Duan Gouqiong was not angry either. She just rode calmly on the tall horse and moved forward slowly.
Someone asked curiously, "Princess Gou Qiong, why don't you hurry up? Shouldn't the one who arrives first win?"
Where can you find something that swings so slowly?
Duan Gouqiong said helplessly: "The horse is too full and can't run!"
Afterwards, a palace servant hurried over to the palace gate and reported, "Your Majesty, the palace servants went to investigate and found that Princess Gou Qiong was on her way back, and the eldest prince..."
While he was still reporting, a figure appeared not far away. The king and others looked up and saw that the two had obviously decided the winner because one of them had returned.
There was no need to continue the palace maid's conversation and she turned and stepped aside.
Ni Gaofei and others also looked over.
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