Chapter 165: Polo Match
Chen Buyu saw that Zhou Wangshu’s complexion wasn’t good and lowered his voice to mutter: “Don’t say anymore, if you keep talking someone’s heart is going to rain.”
Xiao Yanci noticed it too.
There were no people from the Su family in the audience seats, which meant no one was watching Zhou Wangshu play the match.
In his previous life Su Yaoguang cared a lot about his various activities, and even if she rushed over from the countryside she never missed one. It was just that he thought she was embarrassing and didn’t let her sit in the audience seats, only letting her secretly find a corner to watch. Su Yaoguang really listened to him and never went against his decisions. From the time he enrolled until he passed the exam for an official position, none of his classmates had almost seen her.
However, Su Yaoguang in his previous life wasn’t as good-looking as in this life. Or rather, her features were still the same, but her skin condition had changed quite a bit.
In this life Su Yaoguang did business with cosmetics, learned to take care of her skin, learned grooming and dressing, and truly underwent the change of a girl becoming more beautiful after eighteen, getting better and better looking.
“Xiao Gege…” Jiang Yihuan waved her hand from the audience seats.
Xiao Yanci nodded to her.
In another corner, Wen Shi stood there, gazing at him deeply with a pair of affectionate eyes. When he looked over, she shyly lowered her head again.
The two teams of men and horses had already selected their own horses, straightened their outfits, and after entering the field made various preparations.
“Wangshu…” Zhang Zhaodi’s loud voice rang out, “Get him!”
Zhou Wangshu looked opposite and saw that Zhang Zhaodi, her daughter Zhang Pandi, Zhang Yingdi and her husband, Jiang Jing, and Chun E had all rushed over.
Su Yaoguang walked at the very front. At this time she had changed into a new outfit, deliberately put on makeup, styled a new hairstyle, and the whole person was dazzling and bright, like a rose bud waiting to bloom.
She arranged for her family to sit down, then had time to wave her handkerchief toward Zhou Wangshu’s direction.
Zhou Wangshu’s mouth corners curved up.
Xiao Yanci’s eyes narrowed slightly, gloomily watching Su Yaoguang’s bright smile.
The headmaster and teachers acted as referees. With the headmaster’s one shout of ‘begin’, the two teams of men and horses charged toward that little ball.
Chen Buyu and Zhong Chushan watched Zhou Wangshu fly out from being hit, their expressions odd.
He had just had the look of an abandoned young wife moments ago, and in such a short time he was like he had been injected with chicken blood. These young people, their inner fire was too vigorous.
These two teams of men and horses were exactly the division of factions.
Those following Xiao Yanci usually strutted around the academy following him, their schoolwork wasn’t bad, confident they could pass the exam for an official position. Those following Zhou Wangshu were almost all the worst of the poor students, just messing around day by day. This group were almost all mixing with Zhong Chushan and Chen Buyu, their families didn’t lack silver, and after studying a few years they would go back to inherit the family property.
Usually the poor students were pressed on the ground and abused badly by Xiao Yanci’s group, and they hadn’t thought to play seriously in today’s polo match either. After all, letting them ride horses was no problem, letting them play ball was no problem, but letting them ride horses and play polo, that was a problem. In short, this thing wasn’t that easy to control either.
“Damn, Brother Zhou, what medicine did you eat today?”
“Brother Buyu, what’s up with Brother Zhou?”
“What’s up? You’re not allowed to lose today, hear that? I don’t care what methods you use, just give it everything you’ve got.”
“You guys have no eyesight, can’t you see Brother Zhou’s young wife is on site? How can a man act so cowardly in front of a woman?”
“If we win today, brothers, I’ll treat you to a big meal, how about the best banquet spread at the Jiang Family Restaurant?”
“Charge…”
Zhou Wangshu and Xiao Yanci clashed head-on.
You one ball me one ball, you score one I score one, the original team match turned into a personal showdown between the two.
“Wangshu, get him, finish him off!” Zhang Zhaodi roared loudly.
The whole field went silent.
They looked at Zhang Zhaodi with odd expressions.
Zhang Zhaodi didn’t care about those looks at all, still jumping up and down there: “Score, score score score… Wangshu is the best, Wangshu is the greatest, Wangshu is the strongest!”
Su Yaoguang lightly coughed once, then shouted along: “Zhou Wangshu, you are the best.”
Xiao Yanci swung his mallet and missed.
Zhou Wangshu snatched the ball, swung the mallet in his hand, and immediately scored in the opposite goal.
Xiao Yanci looked up toward the opposite direction and saw Su Yaoguang stand up and wave to Zhou Wangshu, the smile on her face extremely stinging, making him even more unhappy inside.
How could he possibly lose?
In his previous life he would win, in this life he would win too.
He didn’t know where this Zhou Wangshu had crawled out from. There was no such person in his previous life. His existence in this life was superfluous too, and he should disappear.
Zhou Wangshu’s horse suddenly went mad and neighed shrilly.
“Brother Wangshu…”
“Ah, Wangshu?”
The teammates on the field exclaimed in shock, and the relatives in the audience seats also shouted nervously.
Su Yaoguang looked at Zhou Wangshu nervously and shouted loudly, “Grab the horse rope, find an opportunity to get down quickly. That horse has gone mad.”
Zhou Wangshu tightly gripped the horse rope, standing entirely on the horseback, bending down and swinging the polo mallet in his hand.
So what if the horse had gone mad.
He controlled the horse while swinging the mallet, and the ball still flew into the opposite goal.
When Xiao Yanci caught up, he continued swinging the polo mallet in his hand.
Zhou Wangshu turned back to look at Xiao Yanci, his eyes full of sarcasm.
“Ahhh… Zhou Wangshu, well done.”
“Wangshu is so awesome!”
“Who is that? He’s so handsome, with such great horsemanship. How is he at studying?”
The family members of the other scholars were all drawn to gaze at Zhou Wangshu.
“That’s Boss Su’s little husband from Peach Blossom Workshop. You’ve probably heard of the recently famous Peach Blossom Workshop, right? Boss Su is the living Bodhisattva who saved thousands of epidemic patients. This is her son-in-law.”
“Scholar Zhou, be careful!”
“So impressive!”
The headmaster struck the gong and said loudly, “The match is over. The red team wins.”
“Headmaster, the match is over, but what about that horse?” The teacher beside him said worriedly. “Scholar Zhou probably can’t get off the horse!”
Amid everyone’s worried gazes, Zhou Wangshu tightened the horse rope and controlled the horse.
The horse roared and whinnied, rearing up in mid-air trying to throw Zhou Wangshu off.
Zhou Wangshu gripped the horse rope tightly until the horse calmed down, then he got down from the horseback.
Zhong Chushan and the others hurried over.
“Brother Zhou, from today on, you’re a god in my heart. In that situation just now, even if I had nine lives, it wouldn’t be enough to save me.” Chen Buyu patted his chest and said.
“Fortunately, nothing happened.” The others said.
“What happened to that horse? Why did it suddenly go mad?” Zhong Chushan walked toward the horse and found a needle on its back. He pulled out the needle. “Who did this?”
Everyone was in an uproar.
The headmaster and teachers saw the needle and gathered everyone, making them extend their hands for inspection.
Xiao Yanci pinched his palm.
When he had pricked with the needle earlier, it had accidentally poked his finger, and there was still a needle mark on his finger.
If he extended his hand now, the needle mark on his finger would definitely not escape notice.
“It was me.” Wen Shi stepped forward, her eyes red-rimmed, and said, “I did it.”
