Chapter 403
"Your Majesty, are you going to send General An? Isn't that a bit unfair to us?" Jiang Ye began to criticize again.

He pointed to himself, "The general can also participate? Hey, I just feel a little itchy. Who are you, bring me a bow."

At this time, An Yuming had already stood on the sidelines, but when he heard Jiang Ye's words, he paused for a moment——

This competition must be won no matter what, but archery is not what I am best at.Compared with Jiang Ye...

"What's the matter, I can beat them both alone." Concubine An muttered as she ate the apples, apparently quite displeased with Jiang Ye's vigor.

Well, Jiang Ye really deserves a beating.Xia Qingyang also agreed.

Suddenly, Xia Qingyang noticed that Jiang Ye's gaze paused for a moment, and then he strode towards the seat of the emperor's relatives.

Concubine An Gui was stunned, and murmured, she must have been heard by him.

——Fortunately, Jiang Ye didn't come running after them.

He strode over, met everyone's surprised eyes, and stopped in front of the calm Ren Yi: "You are Ren Yi? The eldest princess of Dachun Kingdom?"

Ren Yi glanced at him, did not get up, just nodded as a salute: "General Jiang."

Jiang Ye scrutinized Ren Yi's face carefully, and finally frowned, as if confirming something, "It really is you, you are really easy for the general to find."

"The general knows me?"

Jiang Ye paused: "You don't remember me?"

Ren Yi frowned slightly and looked at him, but didn't speak for a long time.

Jiang Ye was numb.He realized that Ren Yi might really not remember him.

"It's okay. You may not remember me, but you should still remember the battle at Changxingpo 12 years ago. The general you faced at that time was me."

Yes, Jiang Ye's only two failures in his life were both 12 years ago.

Once, it fell into the hands of Xiao Han, who was not the deputy commander at the time.

Another time, it was Ren Yi who was a woman.

Two consecutive failures almost destroyed Jiang Ye's proud spirit.

He never thought that he would lose to a woman.

I remember that at that time, he watched Ren Yi take the lead and lead the army into the team led by him. In the end, he was forced to throw away his helmet and armor, and he ran out with only two deputies. The whole army of soldiers was wiped out.

He, Jiang Ye, has never suffered such a humiliating defeat!
Jiang Ye thought that by reminding Ren Yi like this, Ren Yi would be able to remember.

Unexpectedly, Ren Yi still shook her head: "I don't remember. I have fought too many battles in my life, and I usually don't remember the ones I won."

Jiang Ye: "..."

Xia Qingyang was listening carefully. When she heard Ren Yi's answer, she couldn't hold back and almost laughed out loud.

Other officials were also worried about Ren Yi's toughness. Of course, it was really fun to hear.

Jiang Ye stood in front of Ren Yi for a long time, as if he wanted to keep this face in his heart: "Your Majesty, in the next competition, I want to compete with the eldest princess, is that okay?"

It was a question, but when Jiang Ye said it, it was with an undeniable certainty.

Ren Fu wanted to insist on letting An Yuming play, but unexpectedly An Yuming surrendered, saying that the eldest princess is very good at archery, so he watched and learned by himself.

Ren Fu: "...then prepare a bow for the eldest princess."

Upon hearing this, Ren Yi wiped her hands, got up from her seat, and walked outside.

When passing by Xia Qingyang's side, she put her hand on Xia Qingyang's shoulder slightly, and whispered in a barely audible voice:
"Okay, stop laughing."

Xia Qingyang couldn't help laughing.She knew that Ren Yi must remember Jiang Ye.It was just to annoy him that he deliberately pretended not to remember.
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The content of this competition is to stand and shoot a moving target——

The birds caught in advance were released, and Jiang Ye and Ren Yi shot arrows in turn, and finally compared the number of shot down.

Each person has nine birds, and the number of arrows is not limited.

It's a very simple rule, but the difficulty is that this bird is very small, only as big as a child's palm, and flies extremely fast. An ordinary person can't even see the bird's flight path clearly from such a distance.

Of course, Xia Qingyang and the others, as players, have the skill bonus of [Hundred Steps to Pierce the Yang], so they can see the trajectory clearly.

But seeing clearly is one thing, being able to hit it with an arrow is quite another.

As soon as they played, Jiang Ye and Ren Yi shot three arrows each to warm up.

After the competition started, it was Jiang Ye who started first.

His posture of drawing the bow and shooting arrows is very elegant and beautiful. When the bow is fully drawn, the aura and momentum of the whole person are completely different from before.

But it was only a short ten seconds.

Yes, within ten seconds, Jiang Ye shot nine arrows, eight of which hit the target.

In other words, only one was released.

With the entire audience stunned and silent, Jiang Ye casually put his bow aside and raised his eyebrows at Ren Yi.

Ren Yi didn't even look at him, she passed him by, stood on the spot, and drew her bow.

Jiang Ye stopped and looked back at Ren Yi's calm and focused side face, wondering what he was thinking thoughtfully.

"Let it go!" At this moment, everyone watched with bated breath.

However, most people can only see the bird as it has just been released.

Before they could react, they heard the whizzing sound of several arrows piercing the air.

The next moment, it seemed that the birds that flew up fell down with a rustle.

How many did you shoot?Seems like a lot?

After a brief silence, the soldier in charge of counting the birds reported back the number: "Ten! Her Royal Highness the Eldest Princess shot ten birds!"

Everyone was in an uproar.Why are there ten?Isn't there only nine per person?

"The eldest princess is really good at archery. One arrow pierces two birds. Even in our Tuochuan army camp, no one dares to say that he can do this."

Before the soldiers who counted the birds explained, Jiang Ye had already explained the reason first.

As an opponent, Jiang Ye was naturally more focused and clear than anyone else.

Sure enough, the soldier who was counting the birds picked up one of the arrows, and there were actually two birds on it.

"One of them was the one I shot in the air. I lost." Unexpectedly, Jiang Ye admitted defeat readily. It seemed that he was obsessed with competing with Ren Yi just now, not because he wanted revenge, but because he wanted to "Friendly discussion" only.

Ren Yi nodded to him, then bowed to Ren Fu, who was in charge, before returning to her seat.

No matter how you say it, Ren Yi has saved face for Dachun Kingdom this time, and Ren Fu will of course reward her greatly.

But for some reason, Ren Fu rewarded Ren Yi with jewelry, brocade clothes and satin.

It is clear that during the reign of the late Emperor, Ren Yi received either good horses or good weapons as rewards. Comparing the two, Ren Fu's narrow-mindedness need not be explained clearly.
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This ended the first day of the palace banquet.

And here, Xia Qingyang just returned to his bedroom when he found a group of eunuchs standing in the courtyard.

It turned out that Ren Yi asked these eunuchs to send the imperial rewards directly to Xia Qingyang, Concubine An and Empress Yin.

——According to Mingzhu's gossip with these little eunuchs, Ren Yi's original saying is "beautiful things should be given to beauties".

(End of this chapter)

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