The Double
Chapter 98 - 98 75 Thrilling_4

98: Chapter 75 Thrilling_4 98: Chapter 75 Thrilling_4 Zheng Huchen: “…Shut up!”

When Ji Shuran saw Jiang Li hit three arrows in a row, she almost couldn’t cover up her ugly expression.

She knew that with Jiang Li’s three arrows, Meng Hongjin’s earlier glory was completely overshadowed, not to mention Jiang Youyao, who was not skilled in Imperial Archery.

The rest of the group seemed like mere foils to Jiang Li.

She furrowed her brows and said to Jiang Yuanbai, “Where did Lili learn her archery skills?

I see that our estate’s Jing You and Jing Rui also have a Martial Arts Master who teaches them, and they are not better than Lili.

Could it be that the temple is a place where one can learn a great deal?

After Lili’s return, she seems to be capable of everything.”

Unnoticeably, she incited doubt in Jiang Yuanbai once again.

“Eldest sister-in-law, that’s because Lili has been smart since she was a child.

People say that even if an orchid seed grows in the mountains, the flower it blooms is still an orchid….” Lady Lu had just started to sting Ji Shuran with a few words when suddenly she cried out in alarm, “Aiya!”

Everyone looked towards the racecourse.

In the narrow passage, Jiang Li was in front, followed by Meng Hongjin.

Jiang Li had hit three arrows, and Meng Hongjin was also about to shoot, but just as she was about to reach for her quiver, the horse beneath Jiang Li suddenly neighed longly and reared up!

“This is bad!” Kong Liu immediately stood up.

The dark brown horse beneath Jiang Li had an incident; no one knew why it suddenly started running wild.

Meng Hongjin was so frightened that she stopped reaching for the arrow and immediately pulled on her reins.

The scene suddenly erupted with noise.

In the past on the racecourse, there had been students who fell off their horses due to inadequate riding skills, resulting in only minor scrapes.

However, there had never been an incident of a horse getting frightened; the horses were all brought in from the Light Cavalry Troop and were known for their docile nature, not the kind of untamable fiery horses.

A horse like this one, unless something had happened, would never suddenly go mad, yet Jiang Li’s horse really started to go crazy right before everyone’s eyes, without anyone touching it or any external force having an effect.

What was going on?

“Quickly save her!” Zheng Huchen immediately ordered the soldiers around him.

“Oh my god.” Liu Xu suddenly covered her mouth, rushed to the front under the stand, and almost burst into tears.

She couldn’t enter the racecourse, so she could only worry about Jiang Li.

Ye Shijie also hadn’t expected such a sudden turn of events.

They couldn’t do anything from outside the field, and they watched with pounding hearts as Jiang Li continued madly dashing forward with the horse.

Their hearts were jumping wildly when suddenly they saw the dark brown horse abruptly shake its head, throwing Jiang Li off its back.

“Jiang Li!” Jiang Jingrui shouted.

The next moment, they saw Jiang Li with both hands tightly holding onto the reins, her body hanging off the side of the horse, leaning against the horse’s body and seemingly being dragged forward.

But she wasn’t thrown off.

The crowd’s eyes widened.

“She knows horse riding skills?” Kong Liu exclaimed, turning involuntarily to look at Jih Heng.

Jih Heng, with her hand propping her chin, stared at the thrilling scene of the girl and her horse, noncommittal.

Meng Hongjin, who was following behind Jiang Li, expected to see Jiang Li being thrown backwards onto the ground, but she never expected Jiang Li to hang onto the side of the horse and take off with a narrow escape from danger.

Meng Hongjin felt immediate disappointment.

In her sleeve, she had a tiny tube resembling a pen holder.

It was a trinket her elder brother had found for her the year before; the pen-like tube had a protruding mechanism at the base, and with a push, it would shoot out a thin silver needle.

Meng Hongjin had coated the silver needle with medicine, and in the narrow passage right after Jiang Li’s three arrows, she took advantage of the motion of drawing her own arrow and, with her sleeve as cover, triggered the mechanism.

The needle shot fiercely into the horse’s hindquarters.

Frightened, the horse naturally became crazed, and in such confusion, Jiang Li would surely be thrown off.

Nobody would suspect that the tiny needle was even there, and even if it was found later, who would know it was her doing?

Before this, Meng Hongjin had watched Jiang Li show no equestrianism skills and thought Jiang Li only knew the most basic of horse riding.

What she hadn’t expected was that when Jiang Li’s horse went wild, not only did Jiang Li not get thrown off, but she had also demonstrated her skills under everyone’s gaze – such actions were not those of someone who didn’t know horse riding skills!

She had been fooled by Jiang Li!

Meng Hongjin was both shocked and furious.

On the side, the people coming to assist Jiang Li also hurried over, with Jiang Yuanbai becoming extremely anxious.

The crazed horse was too terrifying; the only solution was to chop off its head with a single blade.

However, Jiang Li could also get hurt when the horse collapsed.

Alternatively, they could move with light-footed Qinggong to rescue Jiang Li together, but these were all men, and if Jiang Li was held in their arms, it could bring about scandal.