Chapter 273 A Showdown
When he heard someone report that Su Zhengyang was looking for trouble with Yun Chen again, Huo Gannian suddenly sat up from the couch, his hand already reaching for the Hidden Moon Sword.
When he heard that Su Zhengyang was going to compete with Yun Chen, and specifically chose a duck swimming competition, Huo Gannian lay back down and started taking a nap.
The palace servant who reported the news was baffled and could only bow and leave. After leaving the tent, he heard Huo Gannian say:
"Go and ask two imperial doctors to wait. It would be troublesome if he died."
The palace servants didn't quite understand that Huo Gannian was referring to "Su Zhengyang" and thought he was talking about Yun Chen. Although they felt strange, they quickly followed the order.
When the palace maid and the two imperial doctors arrived at the lake, they saw that the shore was already filled with ministers, relatives and family members who had come to watch the excitement.
A huge crowd of people gathered around the lake, and no one made any preparations for hunting.
The autumn hunt is interesting, but it is obviously more interesting to watch the two generals fighting.
Su Zhengyang stood by the water and said to Yun Chen:
"Let's have a duck-diving competition to see who's the better. Win or lose, we'll stick to our promise. I won't go back on my word."
Looking at Su Zhengyang's serious expression, Yun Chen didn't know whether to laugh or cry, and even felt that he was a little silly and cute.
Su Zhengyang knew what she was laughing at and said seriously:
"Since we're competing, we can't just pick a fight where you're weaker and I'm stronger. That's ungentlemanly. I've heard you're a good swimmer, so let's compete in your strongest area. No diving, no water combat, just speed!"
Speed? Yun Chen had been learning to swim since childhood, and had always focused more on breath-holding and diving, rather than speed.
She thought for a moment and then said:
"Okay, I'm quite interested in the speed contest, so let's get started."
Yun Chen and Su Zhengyang were about to start, but Song Lan shouted "Wait!" and stopped them.
Song Lan said: "For the sake of fairness, some rules should be discussed. No swords allowed during the competition, no breath-holding and diving, no use of internal force -"
"Why don't you just tell me not to play?" Yun Chen said this faster than he thought.
The onlookers burst into laughter.
Song Lan felt a little embarrassed and wanted to tell Su Zhengyang, "The reputation of the Su family depends on you!" But seeing that everyone around was watching, she could only signal Su Zhengyang with her eyes.
Then, Song Lan and her two maids left the laughing crowd and walked to a small hill by the lake with a better view to watch the competition.
Su Zhengyang naturally understood what his sister meant. He nodded firmly and walked into the shallow water to prepare.
Yun Chen took off the snow ferret from his waist and wanted to entrust it to someone else temporarily.
At this time, a pair of white and delicate hands reached out, and a lively yet shy voice said to Yun Chen:
"General Yun, please give me 'Xin Hou'. I'll take care of him until you return. Okay?"
Yun Chen looked at the pretty and charming stranger girl in front of him, said "thank you", and was about to hand the ferret over, but his eyes noticed that the old Earl Song Lu was also standing in the crowd not far away, with an expression of excitement, relief and a little regret on his face.
Yun Chen immediately guessed who the girl was, and quickly turned the thing in his hand around and handed Mo Mo to a young eunuch.
The girl was a little disappointed, but still smiled at Yun Chen generously:
"General, please be careful. I wish you a triumphant return!"
Yun Chen took two steps back and returned the greeting politely and appropriately, without any trace of frivolity or inappropriateness, and even deliberately avoided suspicion.
Su Zhengyang saw everything and intuitively felt that Yun Chen did not seem to be pretending.
When looking at Yun Chen again, Su Zhengyang's eyes were still full of hostility, but with a hint of inquiry and suspicion.
Amid the applause of the onlookers, Yun Chen and Su Zhengyang jumped into the water together, like two arrows shot from a bow, and flew towards the other side of the lake.
Su Zhengyang is taller than Yun Chen, with longer arms and legs. His swimming posture is obviously taught by a teacher hired by aristocratic children since childhood. He has a very beautiful figure and his speed is not inferior to Yun Chen at all.
When they reached the other side of the lake, Su Zhengyang arrived almost at the same time as Yun Chen. He turned over beautifully in the water, turned around and swam back towards the shore.
The two men moved swiftly and quickly, like an arrow in the water, drawing cheers from the crowd on the shore.
With the idea of venting his anger on behalf of his sister, Su Zhengyang gritted his teeth and swam forward desperately.
Perhaps anger can bring strength to people. Su Zhengyang slowly surpassed Yun Chen and even widened the gap a little bit.
Song Lan, who was watching the fight on the shore, was so excited that he almost jumped up. He subconsciously clenched his fists and took a step forward, but unexpectedly the soil on the slope was soft and the edge suddenly broke and collapsed.
Before Songlan could even let out a scream, she fell into the water with a splash.
"Help... Ugh..."
Isatis kept struggling on the water surface, and the lake water kept pouring into her mouth, making her unable to even shout "Help".
The crowd watching on the shore screamed in surprise and shouted, "Go call the patrol!" But they saw that the two straight white waves in the lake changed direction at the same time, gave up their destination, and swam towards the woad at an even more astonishing speed.
Seeing Song Lan fall into the water, Su Zhengyang became very anxious. His rhythm suddenly became disordered and he slowed down instead. He watched Yun Chen swim straight past him and towards Song Lan.
Now Su Zhengyang became even more anxious. Song Lan now had a bad reputation, all because of Yun Chen's frivolousness.
If Yun Chen were to rescue Song Lan at this time, with her body stuck to the water in public, Song Lan would probably have no chance of survival.
Thinking of this, Su Zhengyang became even more frightened and anxious, and swam even harder, but suddenly he felt a severe cramp and pain in his calf.
He hugged his legs in pain, his whole body curled up uncontrollably, and struggled to sink to the bottom of the water.
Yun Chen surfaced upon hearing the sound, looked back at Su Zhengyang, then looked at Song Lan who was also beginning to sink, and cursed inwardly, "I'm really impressed by you two, brother and sister!" Then he dived into the water again and swam quickly towards Song Lan.
The woad struggled as it sank.
The fear of suffocation made her desperate and completely lose her mind.
As soon as she saw Yun Chen swimming over, she hugged Yun Chen's neck tightly and stepped on his shoulders and head desperately, trying to climb out of the water.
Yun Chen was strangled suddenly, and the air in his throat was broken, and he choked on several mouthfuls of water in an instant.
She wanted to float up with the sago, but the woman, who was usually weak and frail, was struggling with amazing strength. She couldn't control herself at all and was dragged down by the sago instead.
No matter how hard Yun Chen tried, Song Lan kept resisting and struggling. She even shook her head, and the hairpin on her head stabbed straight towards Yun Chen, almost piercing her eyes.
Fortunately, Yun Chen reacted quickly and dodged in time, but the hairpin still scratched his cheek.
Blood streaks spread out in the water. After seeing the blood, Yun Chen became even calmer.
She went straight behind Song Lan, put her arms under her armpits, hugged her across the chest, and swam towards the surface of the water.
Then, everyone saw Yun Chen emerging from the water, dragging Song Lan, whose clothes were disheveled and hairpins were messy, with his arms clasped around Song Lan's chest, whose collar was wide open.
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