"Well... no need to be so polite." Gu Jinke raised his hand to signal him.
Xue Luan immediately stood up straight, pursed his lips tightly, and looked serious.
It's just that he still has some baby fat on his face and looks disheveled. Now that he is deliberately serious, he looks cute instead.
He bowed slightly and said, "Then I won't disturb your highness's rest. I will go hunt for prey."
Gu Jinke nodded, and saw the young master holding the bow, drawing another arrow, aiming at the direction where the pheasant had just flown in, and continued to move forward.
But when Gu Jinke looked at his half-drawn bow and his slightly trembling hands, he could almost foresee the result.
Sure enough, the arrow shot out an inch and fell in mid-air as expected, landing straight into the bushes.
However, it also alarmed the pheasant that had just hidden inside.
Gu Jinke turned his head and saw the pheasant flapping its wings and flying high. Its big, beady eyes seemed to look at Xue Luan and Gu Jinke with contempt, then it flapped its wings, rolled up a cloud of dust, and flew away gracefully.
Gu Jingke: ...
Xue Luan was furious, and immediately chased after it with a bow and arrow to give the pheasant a good beating. His steps were hurried and Gu Jinke frowned: "Slow down, this is a stream..."
Before he could finish his words, Xue Luan had already stepped on a mossy, round pebble, slid out, and sat down heavily on the ground in a flat sand falling wild goose style.
Xue Luan was stunned after the fall. He opened his eyes for a moment and looked forward. Then he slowly looked at the soil beneath him. Finally, he turned his head with a click and looked at Gu Jinke behind him.
Gu Jinge: “…Puff!”
She covered her lips, revealing her delicate curved eyebrows, and her eyes seemed to be filled with stars. Even Xue Luan, who was still ignorant, had a flash of amazement in his eyes: She is so beautiful! You look best when you smile!
But when he came to his senses and saw the source of the smile in the other person's eyes, Xue Luan wished he could find a hole to crawl into, and felt a little aggrieved and frustrated in his heart.
He tilted his head sharply and looked towards the stream on the side in anger, and then in the swaying reflection on the water's surface, he... vaguely saw himself.
He was stunned, then he supported himself with his hands to look at the water surface in disbelief.
There were dead branches and fallen leaves on his head, gray and black marks on his face, and his clothes were a mess. Xue Luan's hands began to tremble and he fell back down, feeling a mixture of shame, anger, grievance, fatigue and frustration.
He thought of the smile on Gu Jinke's face just now, the arrow falling to the ground in mid-air, his embarrassed look as he chased a pheasant, and the way he slipped and fell just now.
The more he thought about it, the more lonely and sad he felt. The tears he had just held back filled his eyes again, but this time he could no longer control them and they fell down.
Gu Jinke felt a little sorry when she couldn't help laughing just now. When the young master turned his head back, she quickly pinched herself, restrained her laughter, and wanted to apologize.
Who would have thought that the young master would immediately see his reflection on the water and then fall back down?
She thought to herself that something was wrong, and sure enough, she saw the figure in front of her twitching and shaking, and the young master's low, restrained sobbing could be heard.
Gu Jinke held his forehead and sighed, and his feet involuntarily took a step back.
But this step accurately hit the dead branch.
"Crack." The crisp sound of a dead branch breaking was heard. The crying young master wiped his tears with one hand, and turned his head to look. He saw Gu Jinke stepping on a dead branch when he stepped back, and he dared not move his foot.
Xue Luan looked at Gu Jinke who was retreating in disbelief, and suddenly covered his eyes and cried out: "Wuwu~"
Not only was she laughing at him, but now she wanted to run away after laughing at him.
Gu Jinke froze.
She pinched her brows, walked forward, squatted down, and handed him a handkerchief: "Don't cry, I apologize."
Xue Luan covered his face and just kept crying.
Gu Jinke took a breath and curled his lips slightly: "If you keep crying, do you want to wash your face with tears? If you don't cry, how about I help you deal with that pheasant?"
Xue Luan opened his fingers slightly, revealing his red eyes. He cried and twitched, tears still flowing from his eyes: "I don't want your help!"
After he finished speaking, he couldn't help wiping away his tears, his face became completely pale, but he was unaware of it and just lowered his eyes dejectedly.
"Am I... am I funny?"
"I can't even catch a pheasant. When Xin was by my side, I always thought I was great. But when Xin left..."
Today, Li Yuxin told him that he wanted to take first place, and since it was a competition after all, the two of them went their separate ways.
Xue Luan was confident in his skills and started out riding a horse, but when he was riding his horse to chase his prey, he realized something was wrong.
Without Li Yuxin's command, the prey was frightened by his posture and ran around in panic as soon as the horse's hooves sounded.
Without Li Yuxin's help, he could not catch up with the fast-running prey. In addition, the arrows fell halfway and were not accurate enough. He ran for a long time but achieved nothing.
Unspeakable frustration rose in his heart, but the confidence he gained from being spoiled since childhood allowed him to quickly regain his confidence and even refuse to admit defeat.
He abandoned his horse and set his sights on the pheasant, chasing it all the way.
The arrows fell to the ground crookedly each time, and the branches and leaves on the roadside hit his face and body, causing a slight and intense itch. But even with such efforts, the pheasant still flew away from him arrogantly.
Xue Luan had never felt so frustrated. Pampered by his mother and father, he had never had to worry about food and clothing since childhood. The greatest injustice he had ever suffered at home was probably that Mr. Xue, the owner of the house, restrained him from eating too much sweets and pastries.
Even though he was not very academically inclined, he was still very smart and could get away with it by quietly going over his papers in his bedroom when the teacher was going to test him. As long as his mother and father did not push him to get first place in everything, he had never felt helpless.
Just now.
"I can't do anything right!" he whispered in frustration.
Gu Jinke was slightly distracted. Can't he do anything right?
She realized that when she traveled through the book, she had already grown up in the Queen's palace until she was three or four years old. The Queen treated her with care in front of others but indifference behind others.
The palace began to send teachers to teach her and enlighten her.
The six arts of a gentleman: rites, music, archery, charioteering, calligraphy, and mathematics, are very different from what Gu Jinke has in his mind.
Gu Jinke was able to take the lead in books and mathematics, but everything else had to start from the same starting point.
At that time, Gu Jinke was sick every few days because of the strong drugs he took. The Queen liked to vent her frustrations to her, often looking down on her with contempt, saying, "Don't forget how you got the position of Crown Princess! If you hadn't replaced my daughter, how could someone as lowly as you have the position?"
"If I didn't need a princess, do you think you would still be alive now?"
At that time, Gu Jinke was sick almost every day, but she still had to compete in martial arts and various academic subjects with her older and stronger sisters.
But her frail and young body severely limited her, and everything she did was ineffective. She was trapped in the inner palace and had no one she could trust to confide her distress and pressure to. She couldn't even send out a signal for help.
This caused Gu Jinke, who was under both physical and mental pressure, to fall into deep self-doubt.
"I...can't do anything right?"
But if you have nothing, you can fight silently just to survive.
Gu Jinke found the old doctor who treated her and felt sorry for her, and began to take medicine one meal at a time. She spent the rest of her time catching up with other sisters.
The Queen noticed that she had gone to the old doctor, and probably because she was afraid that she would die and would have to raise a new child, she indulged her.
Later, Gu Jinke emerged as the smartest and cutest among the imperial princesses, and people from all walks of life were full of hope for her.
Just like the Princess Royal in the book.
Looking at the young man crying in frustration, Gu Jinke smiled and said, "You don't need me to help you. Then why don't you get up? I will teach you how to deal with it with your own strength."
Xue Luan was stunned and asked hesitantly, "My power?"
"right!"
It is always the confidence and self-confidence that is nurtured by love. Xue Luan tidied himself up a bit, holding the bow and arrow in his hand: "Let's go!"
Gu Jinke smiled, picked up his bow, and weighed the quiver in his hand: "Let's go."
She didn't ride the horse either, and left it tied to the tree. He took Xue Luan towards the bushes.
"Hush... Keep your voice down, and walk lightly..."
"Do you see these traces? They are traces left by the pheasant just now. Follow them and search carefully."
"Do you see it? Well, you've escaped danger and are already enjoying it. Now all you have to do is hit the target with one strike."
Gu Jinke and Xue Luan slowly followed the traces of the pheasants' activities and saw the pheasants strolling leisurely after escaping danger.
She squatted down and stared at the pheasant: "Did you see it?"
Xue Luan was stunned: "I saw it."
He not only saw the target prey, but also saw Gu Jinke's focused and serious profile.
The expression on her face was calm and determined, her jaw was slightly tense, and her usually casual and indifferent eyes were now focused on the prey, ready to strike.
It seemed... even more charming than when she smiled just now.
Gu Jinke turned around and saw Xue Luan still in a daze. She waved in front of him and raised her eyebrows: "Why don't you draw your bow after seeing it? What are you standing there for?"
"Oh...oh!" He came to his senses suddenly, his eyelashes trembled rapidly, and he hurriedly picked up the bow, put an arrow on it, and wanted to rush out.
Gu Jingke: ...
She grabbed the arrow that was about to fly out of the string and whispered, "Draw the bow to the full, aim, and move forward!"
Xue Luan was startled by the arrow she held. He turned around completely, pursed his lips, and recalled what his martial arts master at home had taught him about the body-inch arrow. Unexpectedly, his mind was blank.
But looking at Gu Jinke's face, for some reason, he didn't want to show his ignorance. He followed his body's instinct and pulled the bow back with all his strength, trying to fill it with arrows.
Gu Jinke finally understood. It turned out that he was not skilled enough and even his way of exerting force was wrong. She touched her nose and took out her bow and arrow: "Watch what I do, and do it together."
Xue Luan couldn't help but look at her, and followed her movements to pull the bow to its full extent. Although it was still a bit strenuous, it was much better than the previous time when he couldn't pull the bow open at all.
"aim."
He tried hard to aim, but the pheasant moved around, and his arrow moved drastically with it.
Gu Jinke took a look, frowned slightly, put down his bow and arrow, walked behind him, held him slightly, and put his hand on his bowstring: "Excuse me, watch! Observe its activity traces and estimate its next action location... Then, aim..."
The faint aura of the woman behind him enveloped him forcefully. Xue Luan didn't know whether he understood it or not, and slowly followed her movements. Everything around me paused in my sight.
"put!"
The arrows in the hands of the two men flew out with a sound of breaking wind.
The author has something to say:
Healing others is also healing yourself~ Our Princess Royal and everyone is constantly growing.
I also hope that everyone has the power of healing ~ be happy and free every day ~
Woohoo, I really want to update more, but today is Friday. If I get up early tomorrow, I will just write and update~ I love you guys, muah~ This is the 5.21 update, and it is also a day to love you guys, haha.
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