Poor Family

  Chapter 82 The prestige of dismounting

Classes at the county school are much later than those at Lushan School. At three quarters of the hour, that is, at 8:30 in the morning, the class bell will ring, and the professors will not come to their respective schools until they have finished their tea. school.

  This brings great convenience to the students who live off-campus. They can finish their meals leisurely before going to school to study.

  In the dining hall, Tang Huai was telling everyone a joke that happened to Wang Gui yesterday.

"The man looked to be in his thirties, with such a long beard, and he was walking in the forest with his hands behind his back. Lao Gui stepped forward, saluted him respectfully, and said hello, Master! Guess what? —”

  Wang Gui pinched his neck from behind anxiously, and shouted angrily, "Stop talking!"

  Tang Huai laughed so hard that he couldn't breathe, gestured with his hands and said: "The man suddenly panicked, and said to Lao Gui, there is no need to be polite, I am also a freshman this year."

Everyone roared with laughter, and a few maids covered their mouths and snickered. Wang Gui explained with a blushing face, "Who would have thought that when you are so old, you are still a freshman with a beard that is a foot long. You will definitely think it is when you see it. Master."

  Zhang Xian suppressed a smile and said: "I know that person, his name is Yang Yun. He has been hanging out in the county school in order to be admitted to Juren. I heard that his son is ten years old."

   "It seems that he is not the only one!"

Li Yanqing also smiled and said: "When I went to the "Zhou Guan Xinyi" class yesterday afternoon, I also met a few old students, all of whom were in their thirties or forties. I was very surprised, how could there be so many old students in the county school? member?"

The student who lived with Zhang Xian was called Qin Liang, the son of Qin Xuan, a great squire in Tangbei Township, also thirteen or fourteen years old, with a very quiet personality. He took Li Yanqing's words and explained with a smile: "This is also the county school's Traditionally, except for the state school and the Fajie Examination, the student status of the students will not be cancelled, so the county school has nearly 3,000 students in name, and it is for this reason that some people have counted that the old students over the age of 30 in the county school There were about twenty-seven of them, and we'd run into them a lot."

  When Yue Fei heard these words, he couldn't help picking up the book he had just put down, and began to read with his head down. He didn't want to be in his thirties and still study in the county school.

  Li Yanqing looked at the clock leak, got up and said: "It's almost time, we have to go."

   Everyone packed their book bags and went out. Zhang Xian ran up and asked, "Old Li, what class do you have this morning?"

   "This morning is riding and archery class, the first day of class, do you want to try it together?"

   "I really want to! But my archery is unqualified, Master Zhou doesn't want it."

  Zhang Xian was really depressed, Li Yanqing comforted him with a smile: "Practice hard, we can shoot together."

   "Okay! I'll go to the archery field to shoot some arrows in the afternoon, and try to have a class with you as soon as possible."

Zhang Xian and Qin Liang left first. At this time, Yue Fei led their horses out of the barn. The house they lived in had a large barn. In addition to four horses, there were seven or eight donkeys. The livestock store specially assigned a groom to take care of them. Usually they rode donkeys to school, and only rode to school when they had riding and archery lessons.

Everyone got on their horses and rode them slowly towards the county school. There were not many horses in the Song Dynasty. Even if there were horses, most of them were draft horses for pulling carts and livestock horses for farming. There were very few horses for riding. donkey.

  There are fewer horses in Tangyin County. The four of them rode among the large group of students riding donkeys, and they were particularly eye-catching. Everyone knew that these four were students who were going to take riding and archery lessons.

On the archery field, twelve students lined up on horseback. The master Zhou Tong stood on a wooden platform in front of him. He was tall and tall, standing in front of everyone like a tower, giving the twelve students a great sense of oppression. .

"For twenty years, my students have been the elite army of the Great Song Dynasty. Today is the first time I teach students reading, but I want to tell you that I will not treat you with tolerance just because you are scholars. If you do this It’s a big mistake if you think about it, I will be stricter than the army, I will make you tired to death, now I will give you a chance to choose, if you want to quit my training, you can leave!”

  The twelve students have all practiced martial arts since they were young. This time, the magistrate of Dadao was so proud that he actually invited the instructor of the 800,000 Imperial Army in Tokyo to teach them riding and archery. Where can they find such an opportunity? Everyone's eyes were firm, their backs were straight, and they didn't move, but no one left.

  Zhou Ti was very satisfied with their attitude, so he stepped off the wooden platform and got on a horse. He pointed at the row of bow racks next to him with his whip and ordered: "Everyone go get a bow and a pot of arrows!"

Everyone urged their horses forward, leaning forward to take a bow and a pot of arrows one after another. Li Yanqing carefully looked at the heavy riding bow in his hand. The arm circle is short, which is to prevent the lower bow arm from affecting the horse, but the workmanship is more complicated, short and strong, which requires the cavalry to use the rapid-fire method to shoot arrows.

  It takes four years to complete a good riding bow, the price is very expensive, and it is difficult to buy in the market, these riding bows are specially obtained by Zhou Ti from the army for them to practice.

  Zhou Ti pointed at Li Yanqing with a whip, "Come up and shoot an arrow!"

   Li Yanqing's lunge is the first, but riding the bow is the same as everyone else, starting from scratch.

  He urged the horse forward, first took out a stick and put it on his thumb, and took out an arrow from the quiver on his back. He found that the arrow was also shorter than the usual step bow and arrow, and the feathers on the back were specially trimmed, very neat.

   Put the arrow on the bowstring, the arrow is on the right side of the bow, the eyes are on the left side of the bow, and slowly pull the bowstring away.

   "No!"

Zhou Ti immediately discovered his mistake, Li Yanqing was still using the step bow to shoot, Zhou Tong shouted sharply: "The force is like chasing the wind, the eyes are like flowing electricity, draw the bow fully, release the arrow tightly, don't blink your eyes, and your body is arrogant!" Sit down, don't lose your speed, let go of your arrow like a broken arrow!"

  Li Yanqing's heart was awe-inspiring, and he drew his bow suddenly, his eyes were like lightning, and he swept forward, barely stopping. When the arrow touched his finger, a carved feather arrow shot out like lightning, 'Ka! ’ With a sound, it hit an arrow target eighty steps away, Li Yanqing couldn't help but secretly applauded himself, and the students beside him applauded.

  The riding bow is small, but the potential energy is greater. Generally, the strength of the two arms cannot be sustained, and the bow must be shot, so the eyesight and archery skills are very high.

  But Zhou Tong sneered, "This is static archery, so what's the difference between it and foot fire?"

  Zhou Tong pulled out a huge bronze fetal bow and two iron arrows from his quiver, and everyone exclaimed in unison, "Bronze bow and iron arrow!"

The legendary copper bow and iron arrow appeared in front of them today, making the hearts of the twelve students shake. Zhou Tong is known as the iron arm, and he is famous for his riding and shooting. There are countless excellent riding and shooting in the Song Dynasty. The reason why Dong stands out among countless riding and shooting lies in his unique bronze bow and iron arrow.

Zhou Tong galloped on his horse, and there was an arrow target on the left and right sides. His bow was full like a moon, and an iron arrow shot out like lightning, penetrating the arrow target a hundred paces away. He turned around and switched to holding the bow in his right hand. , pulled the string with his left arm, another arrow shot out suddenly, and once again penetrated the arrow target on the right a hundred steps away.

When he turned around and ran back, he leaned under the horse's belly and slashed left and right again. This time, the target was two fast-moving wooden figures a hundred paces away. The two iron arrows accurately hit the moving wooden figures. The first shot to the left eye, the right shot to the right eye, exactly.

Everyone was stunned. When had they seen such a brilliant arrow technique, they even forgot to applaud. Li Yanqing even lowered his head in shame. He boasted that his arrow technique is superb. Compared with Zhou Tong's bronze bow and iron arrow, his little archery skill is like a firefly compared to a bright moon, a hundred and eight miles behind.

   "You have all seen it, draw your bow left and right, this is your level in a year's time, start training now, each draws the bow one hundred times!"

   Ask everyone for a recommendation ticket!

  (end of this chapter)