Chapter 508 What Drug Are You Taking?
Amidst a burst of warm applause, Princess Ankang came to the stage to receive the award.
"According to His Majesty's instructions, the first place reward in this month's competition will be the monthly rule before the reduction."
Regarding this point, no one among the three little ones cared.
First of all, their Jingyang Palace is no longer short of money.
Secondly, there are not many monthly records in Jingyang Palace.
It doesn't really make any difference whether you recover or not.
With the current assets of Jingyang Palace, it is really worth just a few taels of silver and a bag of brown rice.
"Besides this, Her Royal Highness the Thirteenth Princess can go to the royal private treasury and choose any treasure."
Zhao Feng had been holding back for a whole day and finally revealed the real reward of today's game.
When Li Xuan heard this, his heart moved even more, and his big eyes were bright.
They just went to the royal private treasury not long ago, and there were a lot of good things there.
"If you choose any one..."
Li Xuan couldn't help swallowing and had already thought about what to choose.
The most valuable thing in the royal treasury is this.
Zhao Feng also saw Li Xuan's expression, and immediately his heart trembled, and he quickly added:
"At that time, please His Highness choose any treasure from the options available in the royal private treasury."
Zhao Feng's tone focused on the words "within the optional range".
He could never guess what Li Xuan wanted.
But the red gold dragon is the inherited treasure of the Daxing royal family, and it is also a relic left by the two holy emperors who founded the country. It is not just a matter of gold, it has special commemorative significance.
The rest is easy to say, but Li Xuan must not let Li Xuan pick the red gold dragon.
Zhao Feng had to report this matter to Emperor Yongyuan.
Before Princess Ankang makes a selection, she must first determine the range of options, otherwise if she regrets it at the time, it will damage the majesty of the emperor.
Seeing that Princess Ankang won again this month, everyone couldn't help but feel a little bored.
Since the beginning of the Royal Garden competition, the top spot every month has almost always been taken by Princess Ankang, and the others can only watch the excitement.
This competition lasted for almost a year, and everyone was a little tired of this scene.
After hearing Zhao Feng announce the results and prizes of the competition, the others prepared to go back to their homes.
"Your Highnesses, ladies and gentlemen, please be patient."
"In addition to the official matches today, there are also additional matches."
"The rewards for the additional competitions are also generous. Your Highness who is interested can stay and continue to participate. If you leave, it will be deemed as a direct abstention."
Zhao Feng's words stopped those who wanted to leave.
"Additional game?"
When Zhao Feng said this, everyone also thought about it.
The colorful eunuchs from the Ministry of Internal Affairs who came to inform had mentioned this matter.
After Zhao Feng finished speaking, he waited quietly for a while. Seeing that no prince or princess left, he nodded and continued:
"Since all your highnesses are interested in the additional competition, I will directly introduce the rules of the additional competition."
Zhao Feng said and winked at the eunuch in colorful clothes beside him.
Immediately, some eunuchs in colorful clothes cleared a field under the stage and set up a new wooden shooting area.
But this time the shooting venue was obviously very different from the one on the stage.
The thrown ball changed from the original wooden ball to an iron ball that required both hands to hold. It was heavy at first glance.
The bamboo shoot-shaped wooden pillar has also become much larger, and there are actually long nails at the bottom that pierce the ground, making it stand more firmly.
This looks like an enhanced version of Mu She.
"Your Highnesses, these are the props used in the additional competition."
"The rules of the game are the same as before. One person throws five times, points are calculated, and the one with the highest score wins."
"The rewards of the competition are also very simple. The winner can choose to exchange monthly rewards with the other party."
"Of course, both parties need to agree to challenge. If one party does not agree, a mandatory challenge can also be carried out."
"A mandatory challenge to the same player will cost one hundred taels of silver for the first time, two hundred taels of silver for the second time, four hundred taels for the third time, and so on, doubling it."
After hearing the content of the additional competition, everyone in the audience had different expressions.
The three little ones showed little interest.
"This additional competition is not interesting."
Li Xuan thought to himself.
"Manager Zhao, what if the person who is forced to challenge wins?"
In the audience, someone immediately asked.
These people were not fools, and they immediately thought of the key.
Those who spend money to issue forced challenges must be eyeing the opponent's monthly performance that is higher than themselves.
But if the person who is forced to challenge wins the game and exchanges the monthly results, I am afraid not many people will agree.
At that time, everyone will just keep repeating mandatory challenges for the sake of higher monthly scores, and the outcome of the game will become completely unimportant.
"The person who is forced to challenge and wins can choose any item from the other party's possessions, the value of which shall not exceed the silver taels spent by the other party in the challenge."
Zhao Feng said with a smile.
"Haha, it's time to gamble."
Li Xuan shook his head silently, but he was also somewhat interested.
These princes and princesses have a lot of treasures. If you can win some, it will not be a loss.
The three little ones, who had no interest in it at first, began to find this additional competition interesting.
"Your Highnesses who want to participate in the additional competition, please come up to the stage and receive your life lottery. Each person only has three lottery sticks. If you lose a game, you will have to break one stick."
"If all three life sticks are broken, you can no longer participate in the supplementary competition, whether challenging or being challenged."
Everyone understood what Zhao Feng meant.
In other words, in the supplementary competition, each person can only lose three times at most, and then they will be completely eliminated.
Even if many princes and princesses can't wait to go on stage to receive the life sticks.
But many people looked at the iron ball and the special bamboo-shaped wooden pillar, shook their heads and gave up the supplementary competition.
These two things are not light at first glance, and people who have no confidence in their own strength will not easily participate in the competition.
Otherwise, even if you go to receive the life sticks, you will just be harvested by others.
Among the little kids, only the eighteenth prince Li Xiong went on stage to receive the life sticks, and the other little kids did not move, just ready to watch the show.
The concubines who were about to leave also stayed with great interest.
Compared with the previous official competition, it seems that this supplementary competition is more in line with their appetite.
"Ah Xuan, do we also want to participate?"
Princess Ankang asked Li Xuan in her arms.
Li Xuan looked around and understood what Emperor Yongyuan meant by holding this additional competition. He nodded to Princess Ankang.
Princess Ankang obediently went to the stage to receive the fortune, and her action also made many people feel relieved, and at the same time cast malicious eyes on her.
"Humph, you really don't know how to live or die."
Li Xuan laughed secretly and waited to see the show later.
After Zhao Feng distributed the fortune to all the princes and princesses who wanted to participate in the additional competition, he immediately announced the start of the additional competition.
As soon as Zhao Feng finished speaking, a uniform voice sounded in the imperial garden.
"I want to force a challenge to Princess Ankang!"
Several people shouted at the same time, almost without order, which made many people stunned, even Princess Ankang and Yu'er.
Only Li Xuan looked like he had expected it.
Zhao Feng silently looked around at the people who shouted, and then said:
"Your Highness the Third Prince shouted first, please prepare for the challenge."
With Zhao Feng's cultivation, it was easy for him to judge who shouted first.
The people who shouted earlier couldn't help but sigh with regret, as if they had missed a great opportunity.
The Third Prince laughed and went on stage to hand over 100 taels of silver, then took out another 100 taels of silver notes from his arms and said to Princess Ankang:
"If I lose later, I will compensate you with this."
As a result, Princess Ankang shook her head and said calmly: "Third brother, I am not short of money."
"I'll choose someone else later."
The Third Prince's expression froze, but then he said indifferently: "It's up to you."
Seeing that the two had made an appointment to bet, Zhao Feng immediately arranged a match between the two.
"Your Highness the Third Prince, according to the rules of the game, the challenger will play first."
Zhao Feng explained on the side.
The third prince glanced at Zhao Feng with a bad expression, as if to say: "Why didn't you say such an important thing before?"
But facing Zhao Feng, the third prince had no choice but to throw the ball first.
The weight of the iron ball was not light at first glance. The third prince came to the iron ball, squatted down and hugged it with both hands, and then began to lift it up with force.
The third prince's face flushed, and the iron ball left the ground.
But the third prince just lifted the iron ball a few inches, and then put it back to the original place with a bang.
The sound made people nearby tremble slightly.
"My God, how heavy is this iron ball?"
Li Xiong shouted first.
If even the third prince with the highest cultivation can't lift it, aren't the others also sending food?
At this moment, many people began to regret participating in the play-offs rashly.
The third prince's face was also a little ugly, and the weight of the iron ball was a little beyond his expectations.
But it's not that he can't lift the iron ball at all, but he thinks it's too strenuous, and it's better to push the iron ball out directly.
The third prince immediately changed his moves, stepped on the iron ball with his feet, and then pushed it forward with force.
The round iron ball immediately started to rotate and hit the bamboo-shaped wooden pillar.
However, the ground of the venue was a lawn, and the rolling speed of the iron ball soon slowed down and began to sway.
In the end, the iron ball hit the bamboo-shaped wooden pillar, but it only made the bamboo-shaped wooden pillar shake, and there was no sign of being knocked down at all.
"Ah!"
The whole audience was in an uproar.
No one expected that the third prince, who had the highest cultivation among the contestants, would lose so much in the first ball.
The third prince was also a little surprised by this result.
At this time, Zhao Feng stepped forward and waved his hand gently at the iron ball, and the heavy iron ball started to rotate by itself and returned to the original position at the beginning.
"Your Highness, the third prince, don't be discouraged, please continue."
Seeing Zhao Feng's smiling face, the third prince couldn't help but get even more angry.
"Can anyone really play with this broken iron ball?"
"The so-called supplementary competition, isn't it just to cheat money?"
The third prince felt something was wrong.
But he had already participated in the supplementary competition and successfully challenged Princess Ankang. There was no reason to back down.
This time, the third prince didn't dare to be arrogant. He stood in a horse stance, sank his qi into his dantian, and then pushed forward with all his strength, moving his internal qi to strengthen his strength.
The speed of the iron ball was much faster than the first time, and it went straight to the bamboo-shaped wooden pillar.
Bang, bang, bang.
A few muffled sounds were heard, and three bamboo-shaped wooden pillars fell down. However, they were only two black and one red. The third prince was deducted a point.
The iron ball rolled on the lawn, and after hitting the bamboo-shaped wooden pillars, it would sway left and right. In addition, its own weight was too heavy, and the black bamboo-shaped wooden pillars on both sides were also knocked down.
This scene made the other contestants who participated in the supplementary competition frown.
The supplementary competition seemed to have only replaced the heavier and larger iron balls and bamboo-shaped wooden pillars, but the difficulty was rising sharply, which was much more difficult than their previous competition on the stage.
The third prince then pushed the iron ball three more times, and finally finished the competition. He was so tired that he began to adjust his breath silently.
Others might not be able to see it, but the third prince knew that with such a strong competition, most people might have exhausted their physical strength before they could even use the three life signs.
"I can't challenge casually anymore. I have to save my physical strength. Maybe there will be a chance to pick up leaks."
The third prince looked at the other contestants and had his own little plan in his mind.
"Third brother, are you okay?"
"Is that iron ball really that heavy?"
As soon as the third prince came down, the ninth princess came over and asked.
"It's okay, I was just a little caught off guard at the beginning, just get used to it."
The third prince naturally would not tell others about his discovery, and said to the ninth princess calmly.
Anyway, he just had to stop the ninth princess's active challenge, and wait until the others' physical strength was almost exhausted, then it would not be too late to go up.
Next, it was Princess Ankang's turn.
She handed Li Xuan in her arms to Yu'er to look after, and then walked to the front of the big iron ball.
"It's so big."
Princess Ankang sighed.
She stretched out her hand and gestured, and found that even if she opened her hands, it was not an easy thing to hold the iron ball in front of her.
Princess Ankang stretched out her foot to touch the iron ball, weighed the weight, and a strange look appeared on her face.
"Your Highness, you can start."
Zhao Feng said on the side.
"Oh~"
Princess Ankang agreed and stretched out a foot to the bottom of the iron ball.
This action made everyone a little confused.
"How to push it?"
In the eyes of others, this is not a good way to push the iron ball.
But the next moment, Princess Ankang hooked her foot, and the big iron ball actually flew up, accompanied by a dull sound of breaking through the air, drawing an arc, and accurately hitting a red bamboo-shaped wooden pillar.
Bang!
The big iron ball hit the ground, causing the ground to tremble.
What is even more frightening is that Princess Ankang actually kicked the big iron ball away with such a light action, and hit the target accurately.
"Ah!?"
Everyone looked at Princess Ankang, and then at the dull-looking Third Prince, and for a moment they couldn't figure out who was playing tricks.
But then everyone reacted, and the dull sound of the iron ball landing was always true.
Everyone immediately turned their eyes to Princess Ankang, with a look of doubt on their faces.
"What medicine did Doctor Xue give her?"