Poor Family

  Chapter 88 Bad news came

Li Yanqing's walking bow can open a stone, and a riding bow can open eight fights. Generally speaking, the heavier the bow, the longer the shooting range. This requires a lot of strength for the archer. If you want to shoot a target a hundred steps away, At least one stone riding bow must be opened.

Li Yanqing rode his horse and galloped, took out three arrows and bit them in his mouth. In an instant, he ran eighty steps away from the arrow stack. At this moment, he used his legs to control the horse, and took out an arrow from his mouth, then put on the bow and drew the string. The bow is like a full moon, and the arrow is shot out, and the arrow is like lightning, and the arrow hits the bull's-eye.

  But Li Yanqing didn't look at the result. At the same time as the arrow was released from the string, he drew a second arrow, looked at the target out of the corner of his eyes, and shot the bow again.

At this time, Li Yanqing's body was slightly tilted, and he quickly adjusted his body, but the horse had already galloped for more than twenty steps, and Zhou Tong's request for three bursts was to shoot three arrows in a row within thirty. At the moment of the thirty-step line, he drew his bow and set his arrows, and shot the last arrow.

There was applause and cheers in the distance. Li Yanqing's three arrows all hit the bull's-eye. moon.

   Zhou Tong didn't show the slightest compliment, but asked with a gloomy face, "Do you know what's wrong with you?"

  Li Yanqing knew it well, lowered his head and said: "Students are still a little weaker in controlling horses."

Zhou Tong nodded, "It seems that you know it well. Today you just managed to shoot three consecutive shots. Since you are weak in horse control, you should practice riding a horse. There is no secret to this. Practice makes perfect. I will give you two shots." We practice horseback riding for one month, and after two months we start practicing shooting moving targets."

   "Students remember!"

  Zhou Tong ignored Li Yanqing, and turned to Yue Fei, "How is your two crossbow practiced?"

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In the afternoon, Li Yanqing and Yue Fei hurried to the school's stables after listening to the law lecture. I haven't been in touch, and it's the same with Yue Fei.

   "Yanqing, I think the law is very boring. If there is no exam in the future, I will not touch it. What do you think?"

  Li Yanqing laughed, "Even Yue Fei, who has always been known for his patience, feels a headache. This law seems really boring, but... I think it is very simple."

"Simple?"

  Yue Fei asked puzzledly: "How is it so simple?"

"Didn't you listen to what the professor said, just test some articles, not any cases, just memorize the articles. This is no different from the previous Mingjing exam. As for the martial arts exam, I think it will only be easier. "

"It's hard to say, that Professor Gu was from Mingjing, and he always said, 'What did we test at that time?' The old calendar was thirty years ago, and it was still Mingjing. To be honest, I don't believe what he said. .”

   "You are right, I may be thinking too simply, but this is something that will happen many years later, and we don't have to take it to heart now."

The two smiled and walked quickly to the stables not far away. The stables of the county school are close to the dormitory area and occupy a large area. Usually there are hundreds of donkeys and dozens of horses stored here. Almost every student They all have their own donkeys, and Li Yanqing's horses are also kept here, and they are taken care of by special grooms.

The stable is to the east of the donkey stable, and the area is much smaller than the donkey stable. They were still more than ten steps away from the stable, when they saw a student come out of the stable in a hurry, Li Yanqing recognized him at a glance The person is Li Wengui's young grandson Li Baoer.

  Li Baoer was also studying at the county school, but he rode a donkey to school instead of a horse. Li Yanqing suddenly became suspicious. What was Li Baoer doing in the stable?

"Hello!"

   Li Yanqing yelled, and walked over at a faster speed. Li Baoer turned around and saw Li Yanqing. He looked even more flustered, and ran away to the dormitory area in the distance.

  Li Yanqing still wanted to catch up, but was stopped by Yue Fei, "The horse is fine, don't chase it!"

  Li Yanqing also saw a groom in the stable, so he stopped chasing, gave Li Baoer a hard look, and told him intuitively that Li Baoer must be coming for his Xuejian.

   "That Bao Geer likes this white horse very much!"

  A hunchbacked old groom pointed at Li Yanqing's Xue Jian and slowly said: "That's it, Brother Bao has been watching it for almost half an hour, and I can see that he really likes it."

   "He didn't do anything to my horse, right? For example, put something in the horse's feed?" Li Yanqing was still skeptical, did Li Baoer just like his horse? Li Wengui didn't ask him to do something disgusting?

The groom smiled, showing two big buck teeth like rabbits on his face, "I was worried too, so I kept staring at him, but please rest assured, little official, he didn't do anything suspicious, he just liked this white horse .”

   Pausing for a while, the groom added with an emphasis: "He really likes it!"

Li Yanqing probably also guessed a little bit. Li Baoer probably heard some news, thinking that his grandfather was sure of victory, and the horse would soon belong to him, so he ran ahead of time to see the spoils. Chicken-hearted. ． ． ． ．

   "Yanqing, it's getting late, let's go back!"

  Li Yanqing always felt a little uneasy in his heart, so he thanked the groom, then got on his horse, left the county school with Yue Fei, and went to their residence.

As soon as he arrived at the door of the house, Li Yanqing saw Uncle Zhong anxiously pacing back and forth in front of the room. Li Yanqing felt bad, and quickly got off his horse, stepped forward and asked, "Uncle Zhong, why are you here? What happened?" thing?"

  When Uncle Zhong saw Li Yanqing, he quickly stepped forward to hold him back, and said anxiously, "Young official, is something wrong with the patriarch?"

  Li Yanqing was taken aback, "What happened to the patriarch? Take your time, don't worry!"

Uncle Zhong stabilized his mind and said: "I don't know what happened. Madam received a pigeon letter from Anyang, saying that the master seems to be seriously injured and the situation is very serious. Madam is in a hurry and doesn't know what to do. What to do, she ran to me, please go to Anyang to have a look."

   Li Yanqing suddenly became anxious, what will happen to the patriarch? So what about your own father? Father has gone to find the patriarch, so don't let anything happen to him!

  Li Yanqing hurriedly turned back to Yue Fei and said, "Please ask Master Zhou for leave tomorrow for me. I have to go to Anyang County immediately. I am very worried about my father."

  Yue Fei nodded, "You can rest assured! I will explain the situation to Master Zhou."

  Li Yanqing went back to the house to tidy up a bit, then got on his horse and galloped towards Anyang County.

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  Anyang County is the prefecture of Xiangzhou, about 80 miles away from Tangyin County. It is also the largest city in the south of Hebei West Road. The city has a circumference of more than 30 miles and a population of nearly 200,000. It is a prosperous commercial city.

In the middle of the night, Li Yanqing arrived in Anyang County. At this time, the city gate was closed, and the city gate would not be opened until the next day. However, Li Ji Grain Company not only operates in the city, it also has a warehouse by the Huan River outside the city. .

  Li Yanqing turned his horse's head and ran towards the Huan River in the north of the county seat. He had been here three years ago, and he still vaguely remembered the location of the warehouse. After a while, he came to this slightly dilapidated warehouse.

Although the warehouse is dilapidated, its location is excellent, less than fifty steps away from the pier, and its capacity is large enough to hold tens of thousands of shi of grain. Since Li's Grain Company moved to Anyang County four years ago, it has been rented and has always been a The main warehouse of the grain bank.

  Li Yanqing dismounted from his horse. He had just walked a few steps, but stopped abruptly. Only then did he realize that the gate and the eaves had been wrapped in plain white cloth, and there was a faint cry coming from inside.

The anxiety in Li Yanqing's heart turned to despair. He knew that he was still a step late. At this moment, the warehouse door creaked open, and Li Daqi came out of the room. He secretly wiped away the tears from his eyes. When he looked up, he saw Li Yanqing startled him immediately, "Qing'er, you...why are you here?"

  Although Li Yanqing felt relieved that his father was safe and sound, the pain in his heart did not ease at all. He asked in a trembling voice: "Daddy, patriarch...he, he has already..."

  Li Daqi nodded slightly, but couldn't help turning his head away, Li Yanqing's legs went limp, 'Plop! Kneeling in front of the gate, prostrate on the ground, tears pouring out, shoulders heaving violently, weeping silently, Li Daqi wanted to comfort his son, he held his son's shoulders, moved his lips, and whimpered twice, But again, he leaned on his son's shoulder and cried bitterly. ． ． ． ． ．

  (end of this chapter)