He kept laughing, as if he was just in a good mood and mentioned it casually. It also seemed that he was challenging Chu Yi and demonstrating to Jing State.
Lu Si and other noble sons immediately looked at Chu Yi, and their hearts were lifted.
There is only this one prince in the Da Jing Dynasty. If he doesn't dare to fight, doesn't it mean that Da Jing is afraid of the Yue Kingdom?
“Ding-dong, ding-dong…”
Suddenly, a crisp bell sound came from behind, disturbing everyone's tense nerves.
"Did you hear..." Lu Qin pulled Wei Jiaoniang's sleeve, wanting to ask her if she heard any bell sound.
He stopped talking halfway.
Her astonished gaze was fixed on the rear, about ten feet away, and she saw four or five graceful ladies from aristocratic families riding horses slowly and leisurely towards them, with dignified appearances.
The horses they rode were all sturdy BMWs, each equipped with a bridle decorated with red tassels and bells, and the edge of the saddle was inlaid with a circle of jade, which was extremely luxurious.
The reins of these horses were all in the hands of the old women, who led the horses forward.
When the horses moved, several horse bells made jingling sounds one after another.
Wei Jiaoniang, Lu Qin and others had never seen anyone enter the hunting ground like this before, and they were all dumbfounded.
"I see." After a while, Lu Qin found her voice again and said with a strange expression, "No wonder they entered the forest so early and only arrived now."
"Fortunately, they didn't encounter any other ferocious beasts, otherwise, they would not be able to escape." Wei Jiaoniang shook her head speechlessly.
The two groups of people faced each other, and of course the noble ladies from the aristocratic families also saw Gu Yanfei and his group. When they walked by, a pretty girl in yellow clothes quickly covered her mouth and nose with a handkerchief and glanced at Gu Yanfei and his group with disgust.
There was a lot of blood on Gu Yanfei's riding clothes, which was the blood of the doe; Lu Qin's body was also stained with blood, which was the blood of the prey; as for the others, their faces and bodies were also stained with some leaves and dirt when they were riding horses to hunt in the mountains and forests.
Compared with the well-dressed and glamorous girls from aristocratic families, Gu Yanfei and his friends looked disheveled, as if they had just returned from fleeing.
“Ouch!”
The white tiger, surrounded by the crowd, roared again, attracting everyone's attention.
The tiger circled in place, its ferocious eyes staring at the people and horses around it.
The horses closest to it were frightened by its mighty power. They paced back and forth in fear, breathing heavily through their noses.
Everyone held their breath and waited, but Gu Yanfei was staring at the white tiger with great interest, thinking about her Qingguang: Qingguang was also very majestic when he was in the Yaoling Realm, and one beast could block the way for all other beasts, but now...
I have gained a lot of weight.
Alas! Gu Yanfei sighed in her heart and could only comfort herself that at least her Qingguang was obedient and didn't eat people.
Amidst the noisy clamor, Chu Yi remained calm and composed.
He smiled softly, his smile was handsome, and he said slowly and calmly: "Since Third Prince Baili is in such a refined mood, I will accompany you."
While speaking, Chu Yi raised his hand and made a gesture.
Gu Yuan on the side immediately understood what he meant and blew two short whistles in the direction of the foot of the mountain with a crisp rhythm, signaling the imperial guards and imperial guards surrounding the white tiger to retreat quickly.
Chu You in the back just watched silently, neither trying to dissuade nor encouraging.
Seeing that the eldest prince accepted the challenge of the South Vietnamese, all the sons of generals were full of energy, but then they became nervous again.
It is well known that the eldest prince is weak. If he is accidentally injured by the white tiger...
Everyone was afraid to think further, and the atmosphere around them became increasingly tense.
"What a courage." Baili Yin laughed again.
Without even saying start, he took the lead and slapped the horse's buttocks hard, then swooped down the hillside towards the white tiger horse in front.
The white tiger naturally saw Baili Yin running towards it, and raised its head and howled again: "Ah!"
The voice was louder than before, and carried a bloodthirsty aura.
The majesty of the king of beasts was unquestionable. The white tiger was completely enraged and ran towards Baili Yin.
Its body is so huge, yet so agile, with the agility unique to cats. When it runs, it is like a violent tornado, trying to tear and smash everything around it.
The tiger was clearly still fifty feet away from them, but several girls were so frightened that their faces turned pale and they took a few steps back.
Facing the roaring tiger, Baili Yin was fearless. He lowered his body and galloped towards the white tiger on his horse.
Soon, Baili Yin realized that there was no movement behind him. He turned around and saw Chu Yi on the mountainside, motionless and still staying in the same place.
Baili Yin raised his lips in a confident arc, and whispered to himself, "It's still that sick young master."
Chu Yi had been a hostage in the Kingdom of Yue for eight years. Baili Yin not only knew Chu Yi, but also had a good understanding of him.
A person who is frail and sickly, and is sick for twenty-eight days out of thirty days in a month.
In the past eight years, Chu Yi rarely left his house. He would only come out of the hostage house in the capital when summoned by the saint or during some festival or celebration.
Chu Yi set out on horseback from the capital early this morning, and it has been half a day now. Given his physical condition, he might not be able to hold on any longer.
Baili Yin only glanced at Chu Yi, then turned his head back, kicked his horse's belly, stared at the tiger in front of him with burning eyes, and began to draw arrows at the same time.
The onlookers were all anxious when they saw that the eldest prince did not move, thinking that he was afraid.
"The eldest prince..."
Someone shouted, and before the words were finished, Chu Yi took a rifle from Sihai, his follower beside him. No one noticed that his eyes gently passed over a beautiful figure behind him, like a dragonfly skimming the water.
No way. Chu You thought to himself, curling his lips in disapproval.
The power of the flintlock is indeed far greater than that of the matchlock, but its flaws are also very obvious.
When a tiger is running wildly, it is more difficult to hit it with a flintlock rifle than to shoot an arrow through a willow tree from a hundred paces away.
Moreover, even if Chu Yi was lucky and shot the tiger, this injury would not cause any harm to a strong tiger.
But Chu Yi would not have time to fire a second shot, which means that his shot was just to help "others".
Chu You turned his gaze from Chu Yi to Baili Yin and sighed silently, as if he had already foreseen everything that would happen next.
However, in the blink of an eye, the white tiger had already rushed to within twenty feet of Baili Yin, with great momentum.
Wherever the thick and powerful tiger claws passed, the thorns, mud and grass leaves on the mountain were splashed everywhere.
“Ouch!”
The white tiger's ferocious eyes glowed with murderous red light.
The surrounding branches rustled incessantly at the deafening tiger roar.
The smile on Baili Yin's lips deepened and his eyes were determined.
Three arrows, at most three arrows, and he can take down the white tiger!
Baili Yin pulled out the feather arrow in one go, skillfully put the arrow on the bow, and smiled with narrowed eyes.
Almost at the same time, Chu Yi in the back aimed his gun at Baihu, gently stroked the gun with one hand, firmly pulled the trigger with the other hand, and smiled faintly.
There were two young men, one riding a horse and pulling a bow in the front, and the other holding a gun leisurely in the back.
One is moving, the other is still.
The crowd watching held their breath again, their hearts beating faster and faster. Even Gu Yanfei looked at the two men and the tiger with a burning gaze.
“Whoosh!”
A white feather arrow shot out from the bow, passing by like lightning and hitting the white tiger's left eye.
The white tiger swung one of its thick front paws in mid-air, and with one paw it actually knocked the feather arrow away, and the arrow hit the tree trunk behind it with a clang.
"This tiger is too ferocious." Someone in the crowd commented, "I'm afraid it will be difficult to deal with it."
Everyone became more nervous and worried, until they saw Baili Yin draw out two more feather arrows without any fear, and put the two arrows on the bowstring as quickly as possible.
“Swoosh!”
Two consecutive arrows were shot at the white tiger at the same time, with great force.
The white tiger became even angrier, and with one claw it slapped the two feather arrows away again. It ran even faster, and a strong fishy smell emanated from its angry bloody mouth, coming with the wind.
“Ouch!”
The white tiger pounced towards Baili Yin violently, its eyes turned even redder, and its heavy roar seemed to say that it was determined to tear this human apart.
The relaxed smile on Baili Yin's lips had disappeared, and his expression became more serious.
He squeezed his legs against the horse's belly, and the black horse immediately leaped in another direction. At the same time, he ducked to avoid the tiger's attack, breathing a little faster, and tried to draw the arrow again.
The surroundings were in a mess, trampled by tigers and horses, and there were messy fallen leaves everywhere.
"Bang!"
A deafening roar suddenly sounded on the mountainside.
Baili Yin was startled, and his hand holding the bow and arrow paused for a moment.
Is this the sound of a gunshot?! He only felt a burning breath brushing past his left ear, as if something was flying by like a meteor, too fast to be caught by the naked eye...
Before he could figure out what was going on, he saw the white tiger running wildly in front of him suddenly stop its momentum as if struck by lightning, and let out a dying howl from its mouth, so shrill and so creepy.
The next moment, its huge body collapsed with a loud bang and fell heavily to the ground. The heavy tiger body caused the ground below to shake and a few fallen leaves floated up.
The fallen white tiger's limbs twitched violently, and then there was no sound.
The tiger's eyes were wide open, and a large pool of blood flowed from its fang-filled mouth, quickly dyeing the grass below red, which also meant that its vitality was gone...
The tiger, which was full of energy just a few breaths ago, was shot dead!
Gu Yuan stared at the fallen tiger corpse in amazement, then subconsciously turned back to stare at the flintlock rifle in Chu Yi's hand.
This kind of power, this kind of accuracy... I always feel an inexplicable sense of familiarity.
He examined the flintlock rifle, looking repeatedly at the "plum blossom mark" on the barrel.
This looks like a cat's paw print.
His sister's cat had also left paw marks on him, so he was sure of it.
Strangely, the size of this paw print also feels a little bit strangely familiar...
(End of this chapter)
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