An Arrow
An Arrow
Wei Liuying moved swiftly. She had to be fast and made sure that she didn't make the wrong move. Waiting for prey in the hunt might take long or short depending on their luck. She could only hope that the boar didn't appear during the time she took to depart to the north.
She was still around 200 meters away from the villas, but she could see that there were several people on the garden. From the way it looked like, they were having tea party together.
'I should have been there.'
Wei Liuying took out an arrow from her back. It was a different arrow from the rest of hers. She took this silently from the servants when they were busy discarding the unusable arrows yesterday from the match between Prince Ji Shu and Prince Ji Tian. The size become smaller after she cut the edge a bit to position the blade and wrap it with bamboo.
She was standing on top of the tree as she aimed the arrow at the group of the girls. From this position, she couldn't see everyone clearly, but she didn't need to. The eye catching pink dress that Wei Xiao Hua wore today stood out in the crowd as Wei Liuying could faintly see her move around.
She waited for a few breaths of time before her finger released the arrow.
Dzing!
Wei Liuying didn't wait to see whether her shot successful or not. At this distance, her accuracy was not that good as it was quite far, but she didn't really aim to kill her. Either wounding or just tearing the dress was enough.
In the group of the ladies, they were all laughing around. Since they couldn't participate in the hunt, they would just gather to have tea together while watching the performance of the young masters in the hunt. Just as they were talking, the sudden tearing sound alarmed them along with the wind movement.
Wei Xiao Hua was stunned, but then she realized that her skirt was torn. An arrow landed not far from her legs while bringing part of her dress with it. Her face turned pale.
"KYAAAAAAAAAAAA!"
Screams of the ladies alarmed the young masters who were nearby. When they came close, they were stunned when they saw Wei Xiao Hua, who was trying hard to hide her exposed legs. Her face was red as she was thoroughly embarrassed.
"Who shot the arrow just now?" A young lady stood up and asked the young masters with angry tone.
"This…"
They were all confused. They were all still staying near here because they were practicing their archery. Could it be that there was the case of misfire again? Some young masters averted their eyes from Wei Xiao Hua but some clearly couldn't resist to look at her pale and white legs.
Most women would wear long dress and robe that covered their entire body. The one who would be able to see their bare legs were usually their husbands. The only exception was obviously below the ankle as when they walked, it was possible for their shoes to pop out.
Wei Xiao Hua was thoroughly embarrassed. Her face was red as she glared at the young masters in the area. Her fingernails were clenching on her first. She turned around and rushed into the house, intending to change her clothes.
"Find out whoever is around the perimeter!"
The ladies were mostly angry at the irresponsible young masters. Some of them stayed to reprimand the young masters who were nearby. Even though they didn't know who it was, they were still thoroughly angry.
The only one who was hiding her smile was Wei Zilin.
Over the past day, she was casted aside because Wei Xiao Hua blatantly said that they didn't have good relationship. Besides, Wei Zilin also tried to get close to Ji Shu, but the matter was not exposed like Wei Liuying because Wei Zilin was also known to be a very talented young lady.
It was harder to tarnish her reputation.
Wei Xiao Hua was using the simplest way to use competition to continue put Wei Zilin down. And in the hunt, the other ladies were simply polite at her, but they didn't dare to get close to her as she had been trying to offend Wei Xiao Hua over and over.
This time, it was different.
There was a case of misfire and the one who got hurt was Wei Xiao Hua.
Wei Zilin obviously didn't know who did it, but she secretly praised that person. With this incident, Wei Xiao Hua would be very embarrassed to get out after having her dress torn because of an arrow.
"Miss?"
"Let's go back," Wei Zilin said slowly. "My First Sister is wronged, so I have to find Father to report this."
"Yes, Miss."
Wei Zilin took out her fan and walked while covering her mouth. She knew that she couldn't help but smile whenever she thought about Wei Xiao Hua's horrified expression. This made her felt much better.
Prang!
On the other hand, Wei Xiao Hua was angry and smashed a pot nearby. She looked at her dress and felt like crying. This was an expensive dress that she begged her father to buy because it was so pretty. Just this morning, the ladies were praising her. Now, it was torn to the point that it was unusable.
"Miss," Wei Xiao Hua's servant called out. "His Highness the Fourth Prince is on his way here,"
"That's good."
Wei Xiao Hua paced around the room. Her brain was racked.
In the original book, she was supposed to be poisoned because of Wei Liu… oh right, Wei Liuying was not present, so it was impossible for her to do that. However, there was no such case such as misfire in the novel. What that dolt Wei Hong Zheng did was to interrupt her when she was alone with Prince Ji Shu in the novel. As she was not sure the exact time and event, she tried to stop him from coming.
But now, things were not going according to the novel. Wei Xiao Hua was thoroughly confused. Why are there so many inconsistencies with the novel even though she only changed things a bit?
She couldn't understand.