Iron Snow Clouds

Chapter 513 (Five Hundred Thirteen) Period

He went to some places secretly, but didn't get enough useful information. But he couldn't report to Jian Liang, so he ventured to the vicinity of the East Riding Shooting Field, hiding in the dark to try to understand Tie Hongyan's situation. That day, when he heard Qian Rui say that Tie Hongyan would use the white horse in the competition, and Tie Hongyan also said that he would use that horse, he was very happy, thinking that he could finally bring useful information to Jian Liang.

The day before the archery competition, Jian Liang instructed Qiao Anbo to drug the white horse at night. On that day, in a very secluded place, it was Jian Liang who asked Qiao Anbo: "Do you want to drug it tonight?" The person who answered "yes" was Qiao Anbo. At that time, Jian Liang was worried about something going wrong, so he asked again: "Are you sure that the young patriarch will use the white horse in the competition tomorrow?" Qiao Anbo said he was sure and recounted the scene he saw that day, so Jian Liang let him do it without any worries.

Jian Liang asked Qiao Anbo to calculate the time and give the drug to Tie Hongyan's white horse Yueyun, which was not fatal. The drug could make the horse listless for a period of time after the competition began, and it would quickly recover to its previous energetic state after the competition period. Since the competition rules stipulated that participants in the horse archery competition were absolutely forbidden to talk to people outside the competition field during the competition, if Tie Hongyan performed poorly in the competition field because of problems with the horse, he could only wait until the competition was over to find out what the problem was with the horse. But according to Jian Liang's design, when others went to check the horse after the competition, the horse had already returned to its original state, so Tie Hongyan could not explain clearly.

However, that night Qiao Anbo accidentally gave a little too much medicine, causing the effect of the medicine to last a little longer. Therefore, when Tie Hongyan led the white horse Yueyun after the competition, it had not fully recovered.

Because Jian Liang had privately communicated with Qiao Anbo, who personally went to administer the drug, in order to avoid suspicion, he decided to leave Tiecangting on the day of the archery competition to do other things and not appear at the West Archery Range. He claimed that what he was going to do was extremely important. It was even more impossible for Qiao Anbo to appear at the West Archery Range during the competition. Jian Liang and Qiao Anbo were not at the scene at the time, and they had no way of knowing the situation at the time. If Jian Liang knew that Qiao Anbo gave the white horse a little more drug, which caused the drug to take effect for a little longer, he would definitely be angry at Qiao Anbo. Tie Hongyan did not use the white horse Yueyun at the time, but it would not expose Qiao Anbo's mistake in administering the drug. Even so, Tie Hongyan's failure to use the horse made Jian Liang feel that Qiao Anbo had messed up.

Tian Sha knew Jian Liang's plan before, and also knew that Tie Hongyan was going to use a white horse. Before the horseback archery competition began, on the way to the West Horseback Archery Field, she saw Tie Hongyan, Wu Xunsheng, and Qian Rui all leading a horse in each hand to the West Horseback Archery Field. She was a little surprised, but did not show it. She thought Tie Hongyan would only bring the white horse Yueyun that would be used in the competition, so she wanted to test which horse Tie Hongyan would use, so she deliberately said, "Young Clan Leader, the competition is about to begin, haven't you decided which horse to use? You brought six horses at once! Are you confident that you can win the championship with any horse?" After hearing Tie Hongyan say "I must have decided which horse to use", and seeing that Tie Hongyan was obviously better to Yueyun, Tian Sha felt relieved and went directly to the West Horseback Archery Field.

(End of this chapter)