Chapter 558 Xiao Shi Chenglong
The wall was originally filled with people watching the fun. When Wu Mei talked to the boy, she immediately scared a group of people next to her and jumped off the wall. She didn't know whether this boy was a disaster or a blessing. If it was a disaster, don't implicate yourself - that's the emperor's woman. For the poor, it's a bad luck to offend her, but it's definitely not a good thing to have a close relationship with her.
People do not know that Wu Mei just developed the desire to recruit talents. Anyone with a broad mind started to recruit soldiers after taking office. Instead, they focused on gathering others to accumulate teams from the beginning of their ambitions. This is true for Wu Mei, and isn’t Li Shimin like this?
However, with Wu Mei's current identity, she cannot win over any master. The masters of the world either flee far away from the mountains or are already close ministers of the emperor today. How can they win over? As long as they reveal a little bit of the intention to win over, they will be suspicious of the emperor and will be killed.
Wu Mei wanted to win over people, she could only win over those people who had not yet become famous but were very capable. Her eyes were very accurate in looking at people. She recognized that this young man was extraordinary at first sight, so she had the idea of winning over and said to the young man: "What do you call this little brother? Where is the home? Are you here to play in Chang'an? Is it so uncomfortable to ride on the wall, why not come down here to watch?"
Everyone did not expect that the empress in the palace was so kind to the young man, and he actually allowed the young man to watch the battle inside. They were all surprised and envious. Just looking at the young man dressed simply and his accent was different from those of Chang'an. Most of them were poor boys from other places. How could he get the favor of the empress? This is really a blessing from the sky. Or is there really an embroidery needle in the hands of the woman in red?
The young man had no intention of coming down and still rode on the wall and said, "Thank you for your mercy. The villain's surname is Di and his name is Renjie. He is from Taiyuan, Shanxi. He came to Chang'an to prepare to visit teachers and friends to open his eyes to prepare for next year's scientific examination. The villain and the goddess are different from the nobles and inferiors, how dare you blaspheme? It's great for me to watch here."
The imperial examinations in the Tang Dynasty basically followed the system of the Sui Dynasty, but they were completely different from the college entrance examinations in later generations. The examination scope of candidates in later generations was relatively accurate, which was the courses learned in junior high school and high school. The examination scope of the Tang Dynasty was wide and boundless. As long as the classics in the world before this could be included in the examination questions, it was not limited to the Four Books, Five Classics and Six Arts.
Therefore, if the examiner who takes the exam wants to prepare, he must go to Chang'an some time in advance to communicate with literati living in the Chang'an cultural circle to avoid encountering unconventional test questions.
The scientific examination is one of the government work that emperors attach more importance to today. Wu Mei naturally has some understanding of this. Seeing that Di Renjie answered appropriately and was not polite, he added to his intentions to attract him, so he said, "Okay, then you can do it yourself, but don't leave. I have something to ask you later."
Wu Mei made this intermittently and only asked questions and answers. Gao Yang was already impatient and urged Fang Yiai to say, "What are you doing while standing there? Are you still comparing?"
Fang Yiai quickly replied, "Compare, but..." He said this and looked at Hongfu and asked, "But do you really want to use this embroidery needle to compete with me? If you lose, you are not allowed to blame."
Anyone who knows martial arts knows that if you practice martial arts to a very high level, you can fly flowers and pick leaves and hurt people at a long range. But at the same time, people also know that no matter how high your martial arts are, these hidden weapons such as "flower leaves" cannot escape the limit of range. The smaller the hidden weapons are, the shorter the range. Use an embroidery needle to shoot incense heads that are five hundred steps away? This kind of thing is simply unheard of!
Even Yin Fei, who has been practicing martial arts for many years, has never stopped understanding Hongfu's thoughts. Yin Fengji saw the needle in Hongfu's hand, but she couldn't think of how Hongfu could use the embroidery needle to shoot the Tibetan fragrance on the Golden Light Gate. If it were her, this needle would probably not even be able to hit the target fifty steps away.
Yin Fengji's hidden weapons skills are also extremely high. This can be seen only by looking at her family's light skills and reputation as a martial arts world. Generally speaking, as long as a martial artist with excellent light skills is not bad, it is like the reason why athletes who practice sprinting in later generations can get good results when they go long jump.
(Note: Light skills and hidden weapons are not separated, so I will not prove it here. As long as readers read those martial arts classics, they will find that any character with excellent light skills basically has the unique skills of hidden weapons.)
Just talking about the moment, Fang Yiai used words to hinder Hongfu, but Hongfu said, "Who will lie with you? I will give you what you said before. As long as you shoot incense head, I will lose, if I don't shoot incense head, I will lose!"
"Coax..." The crowd suddenly became turbulent. In the same sentence, Fang Yiai said this, because he was holding a bow and arrow! But you, a woman, also said this with an embroidery needle that you can't even see even if you look at. Isn't this crazy?
People originally thought that only one of the four women in green was crazy, but they didn't expect that the woman in red was crazy, so weren't afraid of losing and being ridiculed?
But Fang Yiai said, "Since you said that, let's see the result. Just wait for them to set up the incense burner and start!"
After saying that, when they looked at the head of the Golden Light Gate, people also looked at the city tower. In the moonless night, people could not see whether anyone had already stepped up on the city, let alone the incense burner that was much smaller than the human body.
Suddenly, Wu Mei asked, "Di Renjie, can you see the scene on the top of the city?"
On the wall, Di Renjie said, "Return to the Empress's words, the villain can see them, and the two of them are placing incense burners."
Everyone was shocked when they heard this, thinking: This boy named Di is so stunning, why can't I see it?
But Di Renjie said again: "Well. Now it has been arranged, the two hidden incense sticks are as high and low as the incense head is burning vigorously."
Internal martial arts also have the effect of improving eyesight. People with great martial arts who have practiced internal martial arts for a long time have far more eyesight than ordinary people.
However, there are very few people who can see the incense head inside and outside Hongfu Temple. Wu Mei is one, Yin Fei is one, and Qin Huaiyu, Xue Dingshan, and Fan Lihua are the other three. But even these people only saw the faint red dot, which was ten times weaker than the Yingmao Star in the night sky.
As for Fang Yiai, it goes without saying that the archery competition was originally proposed by him and the goal was set by him. How could he not see it?
Sure enough, Fang Yiai said, "Okay, now I'm going to shoot an arrow, so you can shoot your embroidery needle."
After saying that, he took the bow and took the arrow and shot it out with a "swoosh". The movements were not exaggerated and magical, but ordinary archery postures.
This is an era when all men can shoot archery. In addition to the fact that warriors must practice martial arts, not to mention that as a reserve officer of the palace, farmers need to master the most basic archery skills. Even literati are no exception. Literatures need to master the six arts of gentlemen, and archery is exactly one of the six arts of gentlemen.
In this era, as a man, if you say that you can’t shoot arrows, it’s not a problem of being embarrassed to say hello to others when you go out, and you will be embarrassed to meet people directly.
It is precisely because of this that people find it even more strange that when Fang Yiai first explained the rules, some people thought he would use a treasure bow to shoot such a difficult arrow, but he only used an ordinary bow.
Since you use an ordinary bow, you must be unique in shooting skills, but the facts people see are not like this. This is an ordinary arrow shot, which is completely different from an ordinary person's archery. Can such a shooting method shoot to an incense head five hundred steps away?
People originally didn't believe in Hongfu, but now they don't even believe in Fang Yiai anymore.
The arrows fly extremely fast, no matter how many steps you have to take, no matter how many steps you have to breathe.
The next moment, everyone could not see the incense head on the city wall, and they all looked at Fang Yiai, who was focusing on the lantern. However, they saw Fang Yiai's face suddenly changed and his breathing became rapid, as if he had been insulted, and shouted loudly: "This is impossible! This is absolutely impossible!"
In the dark night, even the martial arts masters could not see the trajectory of this arrow, but the few people who could see two red dots knew that Fang Yiai had lost the arrow.
The red dot is still there, which means that the Tibetan fragrance has not been broken. If Fang Yiai hits the arrow, how could the fragile Tibetan fragrance keep coming?
So as long as you see the incense head still there, you can tell that Fang Yiai did not shoot.
If according to Fang Yiai's unilateral statement, as long as he fails to shoot, he will lose. Hongfu no longer needs to shoot at this time.
Gao Yang could no longer help but point to Fang Yiai's nose and cursed: "Fang Yiai you are useless! You are usually cowardly and have no future and can't do anything to bring glory to your country. Today I came here to throw my mother away. You are not sure what you are shooting arrows? Why don't you buy it with Cheng Chuliang and Xi Jun! I'm so angry!"
Fang Yiai is really dissatisfied. Shooting incense heads at this distance is a must-practice every night. He has never made any mistakes in the past five years, so why did he miss the shot tonight?
Could it be that someone intervened near the city wall? That's impossible. Apart from the two generals in my family, there is no suitable position to judge the trajectory of my arrow. How can I interfere with it?
But other than that, I can never find any reason for my failure.
If you can't find the reason, you can only be scolded by your wife. No matter how angry you are, you can't talk back.
When he was worried, he suddenly heard Wu Mei say, "Di Renjie, show me whether these two Tibetan incense sticks have been shot?"
Di Renjie was already at the top of the city, and immediately turned his head to report when he heard the sound: "When I say to the Empress, one of the two Tibetan incense sticks was shot."
"ah?"
Di Renjie's words completely ignited the atmosphere on the field, revealing it, right? Let you pretend again! Fang Yiai admitted that he had missed the ejaculation, and Princess Gaoyang started scolding, but you said that there was a Tibetan incense shot. Isn't this lies with big eyes and telling lies?
Even Wu Mei was stunned. In fact, she could see clearly that both Tibetan incense were still fine and she was not shot at all. She just wanted to say a few more words to Di Renjie before asking this question. Who would have expected that Di Renjie would give such an answer? Could it be that she was wrong with people? Di Renjie is not a real talent?
But Di Renjie said again: "My lady, please forgive me for saying it bluntly. Your question just now is a bit general, so the villain answered in a general way. To be precise, it was the embroidery needle of the lady in red that shot Tibetan incense."
"What?" Gao Yang jumped up first and said, "A bad boy named Di, who gave you the courage to talk nonsense here? Believe it or not, I will kill you?"
Wu Mei felt a little unhappy when she heard this. Why are you? Di Renjie is a talent I like. I have already expressed my appreciation in front of everyone. Now you, Gao Yang, want his life. Don’t you lose face to me?
But while she was unhappy with Gao Yang, she also complained about Di Renjie, yes, I admire you and want to accept you as my team, but you can't be so young and frivolous, and betray the world!
But no matter how angry he is, his face must be restored, so he said, "Di Renjie, are you joking with me?"
Di Renjie said, "Goddess, the little man was not joking. The little man did see an embroidery needle inserted into the Tibetan incense. It was not lit before, and the two men did not place the incense burner on the stack of arrows. The moment General Fang's arrow shot, the embroidery needle shot the Tibetan incense on the left. If you don't believe it, you can order someone to take the incense burner back to inspect it."
As soon as these words were said, it was fine if others were just blowing Hong. She shot the embroidery needle into the shaft of Fang Yiai's wolf-tooth arrow. When the wolf-tooth arrow was about to hit the target, the internal force poured on the embroidery needle burst out again, and while the wolf-tooth arrow was shocked, it shot on the Tibetan incense on the left.
The embroidery needle is much smaller than the Tibetan fragrance, and her strength is just right, so she can shoot without penetrating. This is the internal force used by Li Zhiyun in the past ten years before he went to the fairy world. It is called "Xiao Shi Chenglong".
If Fang Yiai's wolf-toothed arrow is compared to a storm dragon rising into the sky, then her embroidery needle is Xiao Shi who rides the dragon.
The embroidery needle does not have to consider the distance of the range, as long as the wolf-tooth arrow can reach the target.
It just so happens that Fang Yiai's internal force usage is also very unique. It also has internal force attached to the arrow. Just like the principle of the second kick of the firecracker among folk firecrackers, the bowstring is the first power, and the internal force is the second power. When the force generated by the bowstring is about to end, the second explosion of internal force accumulated on the arrow will make up for the defect of insufficient range of the stone bow.
However, even such a complicated process was clearly explained by Di Renjie. Every link is not bad at all. Di Renjie's eyesight is even more powerful, even better than Di Zhixun back then.
Thinking of Di Zhixun, Hongfu couldn't help asking: "Di Renjie, do you know Di Zhixun?"
Chapter completed!