Chapter 88: The Bad News Comes
Li Yanqing's step bow can be used as one stone, and he can also drive eight dou of riding a bow. Generally speaking, the more heavy the bow, the longer the shooting range, which requires a lot of strength for the archer. If you want to shoot a target a hundred steps away, you must at least drive one stone to ride a bow.
Li Yanqing rode his horse and pulled out three arrows and bit it in his mouth. He instantly ran to eighty steps away from the stack of arrows. At this time, he used his legs to control the horse, took out an arrow from his mouth and pulled the string. He opened his bow like a full moon, shot an arrow, and shot the bull's eye like lightning, and an arrow shot into the bull's eye.
But Li Yanqing did not see the result. While the arrow broke out, he drew out the second arrow, looked at the target in the corner of his eyes, and pulled the bow and shot it out again.
At this time, Li Yanqing's body was slightly tilted. He quickly adjusted his body, but the horse had already run for more than twenty steps. Zhou Tong asked for three consecutive shots to shoot three arrows within thirty times. He could not hesitate at all. He tapped the bow and shot the last arrow when the horse rushed out of the thirty-step line.
There was a sound of applause and cheering from afar. Li Yanqing shot all three arrows at the bull's eye. This was an excellent result. Even the professional riding and shooting soldiers in the army might not be so exciting, not to mention that Li Yanqing only practiced for more than a month.
Zhou Tong did not have any expression of praise, and asked with a gloomy face: "Do you know where your problem is?"
Li Yanqing knew it well and lowered his head and said, "Students are still a little weaker in controlling horses."
Zhou Tong nodded, "It seems that you know it. Today you just barely finished three consecutive shots. Since the horse control is weak, practice riding well. There is no trick to this. Practice makes perfect. I will give you two months to practice riding. Two months later we will start practicing shooting the mobile target."
"Students remember!"
Zhou Tong ignored Li Yanqing and turned around and asked Yue Fei: "How is your two-stone crossbow practicing?"
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In the afternoon, after listening to the lecture on the Law School, Li Yanqing and Yue Fei hurried to the stables of the school. Although the Law School does not belong to the scope of the State Examination or the Discipline Examination, it is the content of the Jinshi imperial examination and the martial arts examination. Li Yanqing had never contacted him, and the same was true for Yue Fei.
"Yanqing, I think the law is boring. If it weren't for the exam in the future, I wouldn't touch it. What do you think?"
Li Yanqing laughed, "Even Yue Fei, who has always been known for his patience, has a headache. This law seems to be extremely boring, but... I think it is very simple."
"Simple?"
Yue Fei asked in confusion: "Where is it simple?"
"You haven't heard that professor say that, just take some articles, not any cases, just memorize the articles well. This is no different from the Ming Jing exams in the past. As for the martial arts exam, I think it will be simpler."
"It's hard to say that Professor Gu was from the Mingjing Department and always said, "What did we take the exam at that time?" He was a veteran of thirty years ago, and he was still a Mingjing Department. To be honest, I don't really believe his words."
"You're right, I might have thought it too easily, but this is something that happened many years later and we don't have to take it to heart now."
The two smiled and walked quickly towards the stable not far away. The stables in the county school are close to the dormitory area and cover a large area. Usually, hundreds of donkeys and dozens of horses are stored here. Almost every student has his own donkey. Li Yanqing and his horses also exist here, and there are special grooms to take care of them.
The horse shed is on the east side of the donkey shed, and the area is much smaller than that of the donkey shed. They are more than ten steps away from the horse shed. A student came out of the horse shed in a panic. Li Yanqing recognized this person at a glance, and he was Li Wengui's young grandson Li Baoer.
Li Baoer also studied in the county school, but he rode a donkey to school and did not ride a horse. Li Yanqing suddenly felt a little suspicious. What did Li Baoer do in the horse shed?
"Hello!"
Li Yanqing shouted and walked over quickly. Li Baoer turned around and saw Li Yanqing. He seemed even more panicked and ran towards the dormitory area in the distance.
Li Yanqing wanted to chase after him, but was grabbed by Yue Fei, "The horse is fine, stop chasing him!"
Li Yanqing also saw that there was a groom in the horse tent, so he stopped chasing him and glared at Li Baoer fiercely, telling him intuition that Li Baoer must be coming for his snow sword.
"That Baoer likes this white horse very much!"
An old groom with a hunched figure pointed at the Xuejian of Li Yanqing and slowly said, "It's it. Brother Bao saw it for almost half an hour, and he could tell that he really liked it."
"He didn't do anything to my horse! For example, put something in the horse feed?" Li Yanqing was still very suspicious. Is Li Baoer just likes his horse so simple? Didn't Li Wengui ask him to do anything disgusting?
The groom smiled, with two big rabbit-like buck teeth on his face. "I'm worried too, so I've been staring at him, but please rest assured that he didn't do anything that makes people doubt, he just likes this white horse."
After pausing, the groom added tone again: "He really likes it!"
Li Yanqing probably guessed a few points. Li Baoer might have heard some news and thought his grandfather was in the hands of victory, and the horse would soon belong to him, so he came to see the spoils in advance. The boy was greedy and short-sighted, but he was as timid as a mouse...
"Yanqing, it's getting late, let's go back!"
Li Yanqing always felt a little uneasy, so he thanked the groom, then turned over and left the county school with Yue Fei, and headed towards their residence.
As soon as he arrived at the door of the house, Li Yanqing saw Uncle Zhong paced back and forth anxiously at the door of the room. Li Yanqing suddenly felt something was wrong, so he quickly turned over and got off the horse, walked up to ask, "Uncle Zhong, why are you here? What happened?"
When Uncle Zhong saw Li Yanqing, he hurriedly stepped forward and grabbed him, and said anxiously: "Little official, has something happened to the clan leader?"
Li Yanqing was startled, "What happened to the clan leader? Tell me slowly, don't worry!"
Uncle Zhong calmed down and said, "I don't know what happened. It was the wife who received a pigeon letter from Anyang, saying that the master seemed to be seriously injured and the situation was very serious. The wife was so anxious that she didn't know what to do, so she came to me and asked you to go to Anyang to have a look."
Li Yanqing suddenly became anxious. What would happen to the patriarch? Then what about his father? His father went to find the patriarch, so he must not have something to do!
Li Yanqing hurriedly turned around and said to Yue Fei: "Please ask Master Zhou for leave tomorrow. I want to rush to Anyang County immediately. I am very worried about my father."
Yue Fei nodded, "Don't worry! I will explain the situation to Master Zhou."
Li Yanqing went back to the house to clean up a little, then turned over and rode his horse toward 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 is more than 30 miles in circumference and has a population of nearly 200,000. It is a prosperous commercial city.
At the middle of the night, Li Yanqing arrived at Anyang County. The city gate was closed and the city gate was not opened the next day. However, Li Ji Grain Store not only operated in the city, it also had a warehouse beside the Huanshui River outside the city.
Li Yanqing turned his horse's head and ran towards the Huan River to the north of the county town. He had been here once three years ago and still vaguely remembered the seat of the warehouse. In just a moment, he came to this slightly dilapidated warehouse.
Although the warehouse is dilapidated, it is located in a very good location, less than fifty steps from the wharf, and the capacity is large enough to accommodate tens of thousands of stones of grain. Since Li's Grain Train moved to Anyang County four years ago, it has been the main warehouse of the grain store.
Li Yanqing turned over and dismounted. He had just walked a few steps but stopped suddenly. Only then did he realize that the door and eaves were wrapped in plain white cloth, and crying sounds came from inside.
The anxiety in Li Yanqing's heart turned into despair. He knew that he was still coming one step later. At this moment, the warehouse door creaked open. Li Daqi walked out of the room. He secretly wiped away the tears in his eyes. When he looked up, he saw Li Yanqing, which immediately scared him, "Qing'er, why are you here?"
Although Li Yanqing felt a little relieved when his father's safety, the tingling pain in his heart did not relieve at all. He asked in a trembling voice: "Dad, patriarch...he, he, he has..."
Chapter completed!