Hearing about Xue Rui's marriage for the first time, Yu Shu was not in the mood to hold a grudge. She dismissed Rui Zizhu with a few words and walked to the bridge with her heart full of worries.
At this time, there were people standing everywhere on the bridge. Xin Liu and the others grabbed a good position with a good view. When they saw Yu Shu, they waved her over.
The lanterns on the surface of the lake were not as bright as they were at the beginning, but they still clearly illuminated the figures on the surface of the lake. There were about a dozen wooden rafts floating on the water. There were people on the rafts holding poles, rowing across the surface of the water and scattering the lotus lanterns.
Looking carefully, some of the rafts were empty. In the distant lake, there seemed to be a few unlucky people who fell into the water and were swimming to the shore.
The first person Yu Shu saw was not Xue Rui, but Jing Chen, who was dressed in white and passing by on the water.
She saw the people on the rafts waving their poles to stop him, but he easily dodged them, causing a group of girls on the bridge to scream. After that, they began to talk about him, and he had a few more admirers.
Yu Shu's eyes stopped on the white figure for a moment, and then moved away. Then she saw Xue Rui and others.
She almost laughed when she saw him.
On this lake, other people laboriously paddled with a pole, stopping and walking, bending over to pick up the lanterns to examine them. But he had found a coolie to paddle in front of him, and he leisurely sat on the back of the green raft, with seven or eight lanterns by his side that had been examined, and in one hand he held a lantern that had just been fished out of the water.
His leisurely look was not like someone who came to rob, but a refined scholar who came to visit the lake.
"Look, Cousin Xue is over there." Xin Liu pointed in the direction of Xue Rui and pulled Yu Shu's sleeve.
"Yes, I see him."
Just as the female guests were displaying her skills, the men on the lake had also gone through a fight. There were more than thirty male guests. Excluding those who had fallen into the water, those who had retreated, and those who had given up, there were only seven or eight people who were still searching for the pure gold wick.
"Lotus Room, who do you think will find the lamp first?" Situ Qinglan suddenly turned around and asked Yu Shu.
"Big Brother Xue." Yu Shu said without thinking.
Unexpectedly, she was in the limelight tonight, and the girls around her were paying attention to her all the time. Hearing that she was so sure, someone asked timidly,
"Was the Operator Remainder calculated by divination?"
Yu Shu turned her head and glanced at the girl who spoke. She smiled and shook her head: "I guessed."
"Then I hope you're right. Otherwise, Xue Rui is going to be a villain tonight."
A sarcastic remark floated into Yu Shu's ears. Several girls turned around and saw Liu Yi in a black robe with gold on his forehead. He was standing a few steps away from them, staring at Yu Shu with a pair of slightly gloomy eyes.
They didn't know where this person came from. Looking at his clean clothes, it was obvious that he had not been in the water.
"The Eleventh Prince."
All the girls hurriedly saluted, and Yu Shu also curtsied hastily, trying to ignore Liu Yi's uncomfortable eyes.
But she wanted to ignore Liu Yi, but Liu Yi didn't want to ignore her. He stared at Yu Shu for a while, and suddenly laughed:
"You look a bit beautiful when you're dressed up."
Yu Shu frowned. It was obvious that this guy was flirting with her.
Yu Shu didn't hear wrongly. Liu Yi was indeed flirting with her. As early as during the Shuang Yang Sect, when he broke into the guest room and tried to defile her, he had already had some thoughts about her.
Later, he learned from Ji Xingxuan that Yu Shu didn't have a Daoist master as a background, which made him even angrier. Thus, he deliberately found an actress who looked like Yu Shu to fool around with. When he was tired of playing with her, he took a break for a while.
Tonight, seeing Yu Shu's unusual cold and elegant appearance, evil thoughts rose in his mind. It was also because he didn't stay outside the waterside pavilion to watch the fun and missed a wonderful show. He still didn't know that Yu Shu had obtained the Golden Jade Hibiscus with the help of the "Death-Severing Strange Art".
Otherwise, even if his heart was itching, he would have to restrain himself.
Liu Yi teased Yu Shu. Seeing that she didn't respond with a cold expression, he was a little displeased. He took a step forward and walked to Yu Shu's side. Looking at the lake, he said:
"This group of people searched for half the night and still couldn't find anything. Really useless."
Finishing, he turned to look at Yu Shu. Still, he ignored him.
Liu Yi stared at her slender and well-proportioned figure as his eyes spun about, and then he said, "I can see that you're very confident in that big brother of yours. Then do you want to make a bet with me as well? If Xue Rui doesn't find that lamp in the end, then I want something from you, and if Xue Rui finds that lamp, then you can take whatever you want from me."
Yu Shu originally didn't want to pay attention to Liu Yi. However, seeing him shamelessly approaching her, her heart was itching. She wanted to teach this bastard a lesson.
Thus, her eyes flashed and she said: "I can't take what Your Highness has on you. Why don't you change it? If my big brother finds the lotus lantern with a real gold wick, you will listen to one of my instructions. How about it?"
Liu Yi hesitated. He still remembered the beating he received from Yu Shu at the Double Suns Gathering. He was afraid that she was deliberately making things difficult for him.
"It's fine if you are afraid of losing."
Liu Yi was a person who cared about his face the most. How could he admit that he was afraid? He stubbornly said: "What am I afraid of? You better not go back on your words later."
Humph, if I win, I will make her take off her dudou and give it to me!
Liu Yi's eyes flashed and he reached out to Yu Shu: "Come, let's make a deal by high-fiving."
Yu Shu smiled. "No need. With so many people as witnesses, Your Highness will not go back on your words."
"I am a man of my words." Liu Yi put down his hand resentfully.
Seeing that the two had made a deal, everyone began to whisper.
Xin Liu leaned over to Yu Shu's ear and whispered: "Are you sure that Cousin Xue can snatch it? I think the Eleventh Prince is up to no good. He will definitely make things difficult for you later. "
Yu Shu patted her head. "Don't worry. He won't."
She stared fixedly at the figure sitting cross-legged on the bamboo raft on the lake. She didn't know where her confidence came from, but she was absolutely certain that the other Golden Jade Hibiscus tonight would definitely be his!
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"Official Xue, have you found it?"
Xue Rui placed a lantern in his hand. Hearing a call from behind him, he turned to see Zhu Qingjue paddling over. Shaking his head, he picked up another lantern.
Zhu Qingjue glanced at the scattered lanterns around him and asked suspiciously: "Why did you pick up so many lanterns?"
Xue Rui smiled and said, "I'll bring it to my sister when we reach the shore. Girls all like such exquisite things."
Zhu Qingjue scoffed: "Official Xue is indeed a man who has tender feelings for the fairer sex. You live up to your reputation as a playboy."
Xue Rui glanced at him while seeming to be lost in thought, and then he placed his attention back onto the lantern in his hand. He first looked at the ordinary lantern wick that was covered by oiled paper, and then he stretched his hand to the base of the lantern and touched it imperceptibly.
Zhu Qingjue paddled to the other side with the bamboo pole and missed the flash of joy on Xue Rui's face.
Only when he was far away did Xue Rui flip the lantern in his hand over, and on the round base, a faint word could be vaguely seen. It was embroidered with a needle and thread, and if one didn't look carefully, they would really not be able to distinguish it.
There were six thousand lanterns on the lake. Not all of them had words embroidered on them and not all of them had the same word. Noble Consort Xue had set a trap and used a limited number of wooden rafts to attract people's attention. She wanted them to wholeheartedly search for the real gold wick and ignore the ordinary lanterns.
Only Xue Rui was meticulous and had guessed Noble Consort Xue's intentions from the start. He did not fall for it. Like the others, he mistook this battle of intelligence as a battle of luck.
"Deep." Xue Rui softly recited the words on it. His gaze swept over the eleven lanterns beside him. He brought them up to his eyes and looked at them one by one, piecing together the words.
Steady, waves, seek, see, and, difficult, seek, true, heart, tread all over … steady waves … hard … to find, true … and … seek … the deepest. "
Tread all steady waves, difficult to find, true, and seek the deepest!
These twelve words clearly pointed out the direction in which the lantern was hidden.
Xue Rui's eyes suddenly brightened. He put down the lantern in his hand and stood up from the bamboo raft. Looking around, he quickly found the place he was looking for.
"Brother, I'll have to trouble you to go over there," he said to the unlucky youth who had become his coolie, pointing at the small pavilion in the middle of the lake.
That person accepted his fate and paddled in the direction he was pointing.
The moment Xue Rui moved, many people noticed. Not only those floating on the lake, but also those watching from the bridge.
Yu Shu saw that Xue Rui suddenly stood up and the raft under his feet flew in a direction, ignoring the scattered lanterns on both sides. She was puzzled.
Where is he going?
Zhu Qingjue turned her head and saw Xue Rui's movement. Without saying anything, she changed the direction of the raft and chased after him.
The other people who were wandering on the lake saw them running one after another. They also felt that something was wrong and cleverly followed behind them.
In a short while, the four or five people who were still on the lake followed behind Xue Rui.
Seeing that everyone was heading in that direction, Jing Chen hesitated whether he should follow them or not. At this moment, Xue Rui's raft stopped beside the small pavilion in the middle of the lake.
Xue Rui stood on the raft and looked around. Strangely, there was not a single lantern within ten feet of the pavilion.
"Tread on the Steady Waves and find it hard to find. Sincerely seek the deepest." He repeated these words again, and then slowly lowered his head to look at the pitch-black, bottomless lake beneath his feet.
The Steady Waves Lake was ten feet deep.
His swimming ability was average.
In just a short while, Zhu Qingjue caught up and stopped beside Xue Rui. He looked around but did not see anything special. Only Xue Rui was staring at the lake. He teased:
"What is Lord Xue doing here? Did the lantern fall into the lake?"
Unexpectedly, Xue Rui raised his head and looked at him with a smile that was not a smile. He said: "So you also have a brain."
“.....”
"If I said that the lantern was hidden under this pavilion, would you believe me?"
"… …" Under the lake? What kind of joke was this?
"You have a brain, but you are still lacking in courage."
Xue Rui shook his head at Zhu Qingjue and showed a look of pity. He ignored Zhu Qingjue's rolling eyes and cupped his hands towards the young man who had been supporting him. He said: "Brother, I have one last favor to ask of you."
"Wha, what?"
"You counted to two hundred. If you still don't see me coming up, then call for help."
Xue Rui tossed down the fan in his hand and tied up the hem of his clothes, then he fiercely plunged forward into the water!
"Plop!"
Seeing this scene, Zhu Qingjue was stunned. The people who followed behind were also stunned. The people who were watching from the bridge were all stunned.
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