In the silence, the appearance of the fruits was like a great irony, reflecting Cai Lin's scratched face, tears of fear and Shen Miao's indifferent posture.
She kept her bow and bent over to pick up the fruits on the ground. She glanced at Cai Lin and suddenly smiled, "You have lost."
She had a tender look to begin with, and today, she appeared excessively calm from beginning to end, causing people to overlook her age. Now with a light smile, there was a bit of naivety. Everyone looked carefully and felt that the original dullness was not dullness. This young lady actually had bright eyes and a bit of grace and beauty.
Cai Lin could not say a word. His face still had the bloodstains from the scratches that were not wiped clean, and as tears streamed down, the bloodstains were diluted. His entire face was red and disheveled. At this moment, he did not care about his face and only looked at Shen Miao with eyes full of fear.
Shen Miao raised her eyebrows and seemed to finally know fear. It was good to be afraid. Kill the chicken to warn the monkey so that in the future these snakes, worms, rats and ants would know their place.
The servants quickly helped Cai Lin, who was so scared that his legs went soft, off the stage. The examiner who was in charge of the academy examinations walked to Shen Miao's side and saw the fruits that were pierced by the arrows. He asked in surprise, "Shen Young Lady had practiced archery before?"
Not only the aim must be good, the strength in pulling the bow must not be lax. Shen Miao was a delicate little girl but she was so skilled in pulling the arrow. Moreover, everyone could clearly see the last arrow. Cai Lin was so scared that he fell down and Shen Miao was able to shoot the fruit when Cai Lin could not move. This was something that was not surprising.
Practiced? Shen Miao slightly tilted her head and fell into deep thoughts.
That was the first year when she went to the Qin country as a hostage. No matter if it was the Princes or Princesses of the Qin country, they all loved to humiliate her. It was a very interesting thing to see the Empress being humiliated but she could not get angry because at that time the Qin country was lending troops to Ming Qi.
Those Princesses and Princes invented a new way of playing and it was the rules that Cai Lin set in the academy examinations. Changing the person to hit the fruits. When she was the target, those Qin Imperial family deliberately shot her hair messily, shot her clothes and even 'occasionally' accidentally shot her arms and neck. She could only grit her teeth and endure.
At that time, every night, she would stay in her room and carefully set up a target. She practiced diligently, treating those targets as people who had hurt her. She practiced seriously and worked hard. Finally, she could hit the target every time.
But in the daytime, when it was her turn to shoot an arrow, she would still deliberately miss it, or she would be too weak to draw the bow. No choice, one had to lower one's head under the eaves. She must return to Ming Qi alive to see Wan Yu and Fu Ming.
This kind of strenuous life lasted for an entire year. Today, when Cai Lin brought it up again, it suddenly brought her back to those humiliating days. In this life, she had nothing that could be used against her. Naturally, she could kill and shoot whenever she wanted. Otherwise, she would have to live a restrained life. Whoever provoked her, she would ruthlessly return the favor. If the Cai Family dared to talk about Shen Xin, then they would shut their mouths!
This was what she should do.
She smiled and said, "I've seen Elder Brother practicing diligently in the courtyard. I've seen it many times, so I've followed his example. I didn't expect to hit the mark today."
This made the Cai couple below the stage so angry that they were in a complete mess. Their son was once a first rank archer but today not only did he not hit a single target, he even made a fool out of himself in front of everyone. Shen Miao said that she was just following the example of the first time she pulled the bow and shot the fruit. What kind of muddled matter was this?
"Pa, Pa, Pa." A clear and crisp applause sounded. Everyone turned around and saw Prince Yu clapping his hands, "Indeed not bad."
Shen Miao glanced at him but did not make a sound.
The examiner said in a clear voice, "Is there anyone else who wants to challenge the first rank archery?"
This round was naturally won by Shen Miao and other people would naturally come up to challenge Shen Miao. If there was no one to challenge, Shen Miao would be a well-deserved first rank.
Hearing those words, Shen Yue's face suddenly became ugly. In the first academy examinations, she was completely overshadowed by Shen Miao. She looked at Fu Xiu Yi who was talking to Prince Jing and Prince Zhou from afar and clenched her hands tightly before loosening them. In his heart, he cursed Cai Lin, who was a good-for-nothing.
But in the next moment, she heard someone shouting, "I want to challenge Shen Miao!"
At the male side of the banquet, a youth stood up. This person looked to be around sixteen or seventeen years of age and was considered not bad. Unfortunately his pair of eyes revealed an unconcealable sophistication and shrewdness. Even if his tone was humble, there was a kind of pretentious feeling.
With just one look, Shen Miao knew who this person was. She found it somewhat funny in her heart. This was the Shu son of the Marquis of Lin An's Xie family, Xie Jing Xing's Shu Younger Brother, Second Young Master Xie Chang Wu.
This person did not have any other abilities but was extremely slick. He was the most pretentious person in the officialdom and was proficient in bootlicking. Afterwards the entire Xie family collapsed and this pair of Shu sons and Madam Fang relied on the new Emperor's pension for the Xie family to live comfortably. Xie Chang Wu and his younger brother Xie Chang Chao even entered the court as officials. At that time she did not like these two brothers at all because the two Shu sons of the Xie family were on Mei Furen's side and were on good terms with Fu Sheng, and often helped Fu Sheng to suppress Fu Ming.
The reason why Shen Miao reminded Xie Jing Xing to find an opportunity to eradicate his own Shu brothers was because she was still brooding over the matters of the past lifetime. These two people must not be left alive as leaving them alive would be enmity.
Now she had yet to take revenge for her enmity but this person took the initiative to send himself to her doorstep. But for what? She looked at Master Cai's position. Master Cai's face was calm and Xie Chang Chao seemed to be comforting him.
That's right, recently the two Xie brothers were preparing to find a job under Cai Daren, thus they had been taking the initiative to befriend Cai Lin. Unfortunately the one Cai Lin wanted to befriend was Xie Jing Xing and did not care about the two brothers. But wasn't it a good opportunity now?
One had to know that in the past lifetime, at the end of this year, which was when she successfully forced Fu Xiu Yi to marry, Xie Chang Wu and Xie Chang Chao entered Cai Daren's hands. After that … Two years later, the Cai family was involved in a corruption case and their assets were confiscated and exterminated.
There were many things that had changed but there were also many things that did not change. It seemed that after the changes, the ending had not changed.
The two Xie brothers wanted to use this method to please the Cai family, but let her sweep their face?
Just as Shen Miao was about to answer, she heard a voice coming from the side.
That voice was lazy and had an indescribable ridicule, "Usually you do not practice with older brother at home and now come to challenge a little girl? Xie Chang Wu, the more you live, the more you are regressing. "
Xie Jing Xing appeared on the stage and he folded his arms across his chest as he looked at the two Shu brothers who were stunned below the stage. He smiled, "How about I challenge the both of you? Let me discipline my younger brother and not learn from a coward to fight with a female and disgrace himself outside. "
He looked at Shen Miao again and said, "You go down."
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