Chapter 550 What Are You Pretending For?

These people used to ignore Princess Ankang, but now no one can ignore her.

The three little ones have gradually gotten used to being stared at. Although there is no kindness in these eyes, they can already ignore it.

As usual, the three little ones came to the Imperial Garden early and found a corner to wait for the game to start.

Others also arrived one after another, making the Imperial Garden lively.

The Eighth Prince and others also arrived one by one, then came to Princess Ankang to say hello, and then stood together to chat.

"Seventh Princess, you have been very diligent in recent months."

Princess Ankang joked with a smile.

I still remember that when the Seventh Princess first appeared, she was still not awake and was carried on a stretcher by the attendants.

But in recent months, the Seventh Princess has come to participate in the competition in the Imperial Garden on time, even though she has dark circles under her eyes and looks drowsy every time.

When the Seventh Princess heard everyone discussing her, she forced a smile, then slowly squinted her eyes and dozed off while standing, her head nodding, making people afraid that she would not be able to resist and fall to the ground.

"This guy got addicted to taking advantage of her last time."

The Eighth Prince said on the side, and then moved a step closer to the Seventh Princess so that she could lean on him and doze off, at least not fall to the ground all of a sudden.

The Seventh Princess seemed to have found a comfortable sleeping position all of a sudden, and she leaned her head on the Eighth Prince's shoulder without any hesitation and fell asleep.

"Damn it!"

The Eighth Prince did not expect that his momentary kindness would be exchanged for the Seventh Princess's further advances.

But he only said a few words, but did not withdraw his body.

It seems that the feelings they had when they were young are still there.

I heard them say before that they often played together when they were young, but later the Seventh Princess gradually became obsessed with stargazing, and they turned day and night upside down all day, and gradually became estranged.

The Eighth Prince was also obsessed with being the leader of children, so he forgot to continue to play with the Seventh Princess.

It was just that from the little movements of the two people when they were together, the tacit understanding of childhood had not completely disappeared.

Seeing that the Seventh Princess fell asleep on him, the Eighth Prince also ruthlessly exposed the Seventh Princess's little thoughts.

"This guy is not diligent at all. It is clear that he wants to take advantage of his father like last time and buy himself some stargazing things."

"Speaking of squandering money, she is much more ruthless than me."

After all, the Seventh Princess's stargazing props can be equivalent to the Eighth Prince's hundreds of toys.

The Fifth Prince and Princess Yuan An were also chatting casually on the side.

Maybe they have gotten used to it, and everyone is no longer nervous or looking forward to the competition in the Imperial Garden, just as a monthly routine activity.

At least, everyone is very relaxed today.

After waiting for a while, Zhao Feng brought people to the Imperial Garden.

It was a little rare that Shang Zongguan also came, and stood behind Zhao Feng, not just watching in secret.

"Your Highnesses, today is the last Imperial Garden Competition of the year, so it is a little special."

"After today's competition, we will make a brief summary of this year's Imperial Garden Competition and announce the final winner of the annual points."

"The final winner will have the opportunity to pay homage to His Majesty and the Queen alone at the New Year celebration."

When Zhao Feng said this, everyone turned their eyes to Princess Ankang.

Does this thing need to be announced?

Princess Ankang's points are leading by a cliff, so how can others have any chance.

The eyes of the crowd were full of envy, jealousy and hatred, and they all cast them on Princess Ankang.

Princess Ankang did not change her expression and just pretended not to see it.

The little girl was targeted every month, and this demeanor was also trained.

All the people present were the top nobles in Daxing. If she could maintain such a demeanor in front of these people, there would probably not be many scenes that could make Princess Ankang panic in the future.

Li Xuan nodded with satisfaction, feeling gratified by the growth of Princess Ankang.

During this year, Princess Ankang not only became healthier and healthier, but also greatly improved in her own strength. Thanks to the malicious targeting of these people, her psychological quality has improved by leaps and bounds.

Zhao Feng finished talking nonsense and talked about the highlight of today.

"Your Majesty has considered that the Imperial Garden Competition has reached its end and everyone's passion may not be there, so he has made some adjustments to this month's competition."

"The prizes for this month's competition are still generous, but in addition, Your Majesty has decided to give the princes who have performed well a special opportunity by referring to their performance in the competition."

At this point, Zhao Feng paused and deliberately kept it a secret. After attracting everyone's curiosity, he continued:

"Those who have been recognized by Your Majesty in this month's competition will have the opportunity to accompany Your Majesty on a southern tour next year."

As soon as these words came out, the audience gasped.

The Yongyuan Emperor's southern tour has been planned for a long time, and it is a major event that shocked the Daxing Dynasty.

Even the ordinary people on the street know about this matter.

In recent years, natural disasters have continued in the south, and the people's livelihoods have been difficult and miserable.

Emperor Yongyuan's southern tour was to inspect along the way, understand the people's sentiments, and solve these problems.

The people of the world are looking forward to the results of this southern tour. If they are lucky enough to catch up with this southern tour, showing up is secondary, and perhaps they can take the opportunity to make some contributions.

The south is facing a lot of problems now. The former land of fish and rice, the prosperous Jiangnan, is now in decline, which is particularly evident in taxation.

If these chronic problems can be solved, perhaps a new atmosphere can be brought to Daxing.

How can this not be considered a great achievement?

Zhao Feng's words moved everyone present.

The concubines were more concerned about the intention behind Emperor Yongyuan's move.

They couldn't help but cast their eyes on Princess Ankang, with a thoughtful look on their faces.

Not all the people present were fools who only remembered to eat but not to be beaten. They had long discovered that Princess Ankang was always the biggest winner.

At this time, someone immediately asked:

"General Manager Zhao, I wonder what the competition is this month?"

"How is the excellent performance judged? Isn't it still the first place that gets the reward?"

Everyone looked at the person who asked the question, who was the fourth prince.

Zhao Feng smiled slightly and explained immediately:

"Your Highness the Fourth Prince asked a good question."

"Today's competition items are very simple."

After that, Zhao Feng slowly uttered two words: "Martial arts competition!"

When the competition items were heard, the whole audience was in an uproar. This item seemed to be beyond everyone's expectations.

Everyone couldn't help but look at Princess Ankang with a strange look on their faces.

The usual items are all about fairness, at least everyone can participate and have some chance of winning.

Everyone is still impressed by the previous small games.

After all, there is still a big age gap among the princes and princesses participating in the Imperial Garden Competition.

If there is a martial arts competition, the little ones will become just to make up the numbers.

And many princes and princesses have not started practicing at all, and have no cultivation.

This competition item alone actually eliminated many people.

There are not many people left to continue to participate.

Especially, the previous competition items clearly took good care of Princess Ankang. It is not possible that Princess Ankang's body has recovered a lot, and Emperor Yongyuan directly let her compete.

Good physique and high cultivation have nothing to do with each other.

Other things are still uncertain, but Princess Ankang definitely does not have high cultivation.

She was ill for so many years before, and her health has only improved recently.

Even if she has started practicing recently, she can only practice to the ninth level at most.

This is the case when Princess Ankang is very talented.

But when Princess Ankang heard about the competition items, her face remained unchanged, and she looked indifferent.

Under everyone's gaze, Princess Ankang suddenly yawned, extremely lazy, and looked arrogant as if she didn't take everyone seriously.

Everyone's veins jumped, but they could do nothing about it, and could only curse in their hearts:

"What are you pretending for!"

Seeing Princess Ankang yawning, Yu'er quietly nudged her with her elbow and reminded her:

"Your Highness, listen carefully."

"Today's competition is a little different. It's said to be a martial arts competition."

Princess Ankang was stunned: "Huh? Martial arts competition? What martial arts competition?"

The little girl spent the whole night carving wooden statues, and it was not easy to finish it. She didn't sleep much.

Today, she understood the Seventh Princess's mood. Once the sleepiness came, people would fall asleep without realizing it.

Princess Ankang was sitting in a daze just now, and her consciousness suddenly dropped. She actually slept with her eyes open for a while.

Seeing Princess Ankang's reaction, Yu'er covered her forehead with a headache and hurried to help her catch up.

At this time, Zhao Feng said again:

"There is no limit to the number of people who perform well."

"Therefore, as long as the princes perform well, they may be selected by His Majesty to participate in the southern tour."

Princess Ankang heard this.

"Southern tour?"

Princess Ankang looked like a curious baby.

Then, she turned to Li Xuan and Yu'er and asked, "Are we going to the south to play together?"

The Eighth Prince and others on the side were speechless for a while, and then they realized that Princess Ankang didn't listen carefully at all.

The fifth prince opened his mouth and wanted to explain for Princess Ankang, but after thinking about it, he felt that he couldn't explain it clearly in a few words, so he held back all the words in his mouth.

The eighth prince on the side said simply, "It's not a big problem to understand it this way."

The others were far away and didn't hear what Princess Ankang said. They only saw her "pretending" and attracted a lot of dissatisfaction.

Especially those who were confident in their own cultivation, sneered and made up their minds to make Princess Ankang look bad later.

"Humph."

Among them, the third prince was the most looking forward to it.

The eldest prince and his three siblings silently stepped back and came behind the crowd, muttering:

"Although Ankang is not good at martial arts, his brute force should not be underestimated."

"When the sixth sister was subdued by them, it must have been because of Ankang."

The fourth prince mentioned the black material of the sixth princess, which made the sixth princess' face dark.

"It's her maid who is difficult, Ankang is at most a troublemaker!"

The sixth princess said indignantly.

After she was knocked unconscious, many of her memories were blurred. She only remembered that she had fought hard with Yu'er for a while, and then Princess Ankang suddenly disrupted the battle, and she lost consciousness in a daze.

"No matter what, don't underestimate the enemy."

The eldest prince came forward to act as a peacemaker.

Although they said so, everyone still didn't pay too much attention to Princess Ankang's strength.

Good health is good health, but it can't be used as strength.

During the Cuju game, everyone saw that Princess Ankang's physical fitness is now far superior to ordinary people.

But good physical fitness, in ordinary people, is at most a little bit more resistant to beating.

If these cultivated princes and princesses use the power of qi and blood, it will be completely different.

A warrior is a warrior, and the power they control is different from that of ordinary people.

"Ah, you want to compete?"

Princess Ankang is still quite resistant to this kind of rough competition.

She thinks that the previous small games are more fun and less likely to hurt the harmony.

Of course, this is just Princess Ankang's unilateral idea.

After Zhao Feng announced the rules of today's competition, he was ready to start the competition.

The platform in the Imperial Garden finally played a proper role and was used as a competition platform.

Just seeing Zhao Feng's casual posture, someone immediately raised questions.

"How to draw lots?"

"How to pair up?"

"How to advance?"

"What is considered a good performance?"

In response to a series of questions from everyone, Zhao Feng waved his hand and asked everyone to calm down.

"As I said before, today we will only look at performance, not results."

"Your Highnesses can go on stage to compete at will. As for your performance, the Ministry of Internal Affairs will record it and present it to His Majesty for judgment."

This relaxed competition format made everyone scratch their heads.

People like the Fourth Prince were even more thinking about the intention behind it.

The competition stage was empty, but no one went on stage easily.

Zhao Feng did not urge them, and stood with Shang Zongguan beside them with a smile.

At this time, suddenly a childish voice shouted with great momentum:

"I want to challenge the Thirteenth Princess!"

"Let her see how powerful my powerful Vajra Leg is."

Li Xuan knew who it was just by hearing the voice.

The Eighteenth Prince Li Xiong slapped the table and launched a challenge with great courage.

Speaking of which, Li Xuan also learned this martial arts from this kid, and he was considered a little master of his.

At this time, the bear kid still had to come out to break the ice.

But seeing Li Xiong causing trouble for Princess Ankang, the Eighth Prince, as the king of children, naturally could not pretend not to see it. He slapped the table, stood up with a bang, looked down proudly, and snorted a word from his nose with a stern face:

"Hmm?"

Seeing the Eighth Prince stand up, Li Xiong's momentum suddenly weakened. He did not dare to look at him and sat back trembling.

Seeing Li Xiong calm down, the Eighth Prince snorted disdainfully, which made Li Xiong so angry that his body shook.

But Li Xiong was still very clear that he could not beat him.

But this scene aroused the temper of others again.

"Bang!"

A louder slapping sound was heard, and the Third Prince stood up like the Eighth Prince before, and also said "Hmm?" to him.

The Eighth Prince's face suddenly became ugly.

Reason told him that he should sit down, otherwise he would be even more embarrassed later.

But when the Eighth Prince was hesitating, there was another slap on the table, accompanied by a strange sound.

"Meow?"