However, to the surprise of the fourth young master Yan, a post from Tu Mansion was handed to him at noon the next day, in the name of "Enjoying the Autumn Banquet" - but all banquets and gatherings always have a name, but the location is not in Tu Mansion, but in the Tu Mansion on the outskirts of the city, the time is set for the afternoon of August 26 to the next day - go to play first, the serious banquet is in the evening, after eating, those who are willing to stay can stay until the next day and then leave, but there are two invited names on the post, in addition to the fourth young master Yan, and Yan Qi.

"How does the Arrow God know that there is a Seventh Miss in the Yan family?" Fourth Young Master Yan took the post and found Xia Ju, standing outside Yan Qi's window with a puzzled expression, pointing out the name on the post to her.

Yan Qi shook his head: "I'm not going, I'm going to go to the academy that day to do pre-competition training for the comprehensive martial arts." ”

"Didn't you just practice in the morning? After you finished practicing, you just went out of the city with me. Fourth Young Master Yan said.

"I still don't go, there is a game the next day, and I want to be at home to recuperate. "Yan Qidao.

"It's a rare opportunity, Seventh Sister!" Fourth Young Master Yan said, "That's the God of Arrows! You are also an arrow god, don't you like the God of Arrows? Don't you want to meet this legendary person who is like a god in archery? When the time comes, if you are instructed by him, you may be able to benefit for life! Go ahead, you don't have to be afraid, I will follow you!"

"I really don't want to go, big brother. ”

"I'm the fourth. ”

"Okay, Fourth Brother. I'm not going, you have fun. ”

"Then I'll come back and teach you after I have asked the Arrow God Archery Technique. Fourth Young Master Yan patted his chest and said.

"Okay, then please. By the way, the fourth brother......"

"Huh?"

"Take a sprig with you when you go. ”

"It's okay, I think that most of the people who are invited to the banquet should be martial arts people, it is inevitable that they will not learn a thing or two, the sword has no eyes, I still bring a master to protect me. "Fourth Young Master Yan responded with kindness.

After the training of the Riding and Archery Club was completed in the afternoon, Yan Qi came out of the gate of the academy, and was stopped by a person who looked like a subordinate, handed over a post in his hand, and said: "The head of the family sincerely invites Miss Yan Qi to come to the palace as scheduled tomorrow afternoon. ”

Yan Qi didn't answer the post, but said, "I won't go, you can go." ”

This person seemed to have expected Yan Qi to reply like this, so he only continued to bow down and said with a smile: "The head of the family has something to convey to Miss Yan Qi: if Miss refuses to appreciate the light, the head of the family will have to give a little 'guidance' to Brother Ling's fourth young master in archery......"

……

August 26.

"Huh, Seventh Sister, have you changed your mind?!" The newly-dressed Young Master Yan saw Yan Qi waiting there outside the Hanging Flower Gate, and the maid didn't bring any of them, only herself.

"Well, I'll be with you. Yan Qidao glanced at the branch behind Fourth Young Master Yan who was bowing to her.

The biggest advantage of Fourth Young Master Yan is that he is good at listening to other people's advice.

"Let's go, get in my car. Fourth Young Master Yan happily walked out of the door, today he is wearing a new clothes, a new brocade robe with a plantain green background, a large bat pattern embroidered with dark green silk thread on both upper arms, a belt inlaid with gold wire around his waist, and the black boots on his feet are also not stained, which shows that he really attaches great importance to this banquet of the arrow god.

got into the car and set off for the outside of the city, and the fourth young master Yan showed Yan Qi the new bow he specially brought: "Seventh sister, how do you see my bow?" Mulberry wood bow tire, cow tendon bow back, horn bow surface, antler bow pad, glue is deer glue, good elasticity, full strength!"

Yan Qi took the bow and tried it, and said, "It's a high match, but it's not a top match." ”

"What do you mean by high match and top match?" asked Fourth Young Master Yan busily.

"The high configuration is a very good combination, and the top configuration is the top and best combination. Yan Qidao, "The workmanship of this bow can be regarded as very exquisite, but if you want to improve it, you can replace the deer glue with fish glue." ”

"Fish glue, I know, the "Examination Record" recommends six kinds of glue used in bow making, including deer glue, horse glue, cow glue, mouse glue, fish glue and rhino glue, but why replace deer glue with fish glue?" asked the fourth young master Yan.

"Because some people have spent many years doing many experiments, it has been proved that fish glue made from fish palate endoderm and fish swim bladder is better than other kinds of glue and can be used in the most important load-bearing places, while animal glue can be used in less important places, such as covering the epidermis. "Yan Qidao.

"I see!" Fourth Young Master Yan believed it without doubt.

The carriage went out of the north city gate, galloped along the spacious road, and went to the mountainous area, this road Yanqi has walked more than once, the Chiba Mountain that burns incense in the first month, the verdant mountain that goes to the spring outing in April, the Qingliang Mountain that I went to in the summer vacation, all of them are in this mountainous area in the north of the capital, the rich people in Beijing love to build the garden in this mountainous area, one is the scenery is good, the environment is beautiful and quiet, and the second is that the land in Beijing is expensive, and it is really not possible to buy the land, it is not as cheap as the land in the mountains, the place is big, and it can also create a variety of pleasing houses according to different terrain, and there is no need to be as neat and rigid as in Beijing。

The Tu family's villa was built in Xianlu Mountain, only slightly closer than the verdant mountain, but it also took more than an hour to get there, and the Yan brothers and sisters were idle in the car, and the fourth young master of Yan told Yan Qi about the arrow god he worshipped: "...... So everyone said that he was precocious, and the old monk of Chiba Mountain said that he had a root, and the seventh sister, do you know what it means to be a 'root'? It is the wisdom of the previous life that has been brought to this life, according to my thoughts, he must have drunk less Meng Po soup, and I don't know what method he used to deceive Meng Po, and if I have the opportunity to go today, I will definitely ask him.

“…… As a result, when the emperor asked, he was actually only ten years old at that time! He was the youngest leader of the Houyi Society in history, and the emperor asked him what kind of reward he wanted to get, and he said that he wanted to be an official, to be an official who could protect the emperor closely, and the emperor laughed, saying that he was too young to be an official, but he could leave him an official position, and when he reached the age of sixteen, if his archery skills did not regress, he would be allowed to be this official. Later, he really became an official, and he rose step by step, and now he is a minister of loose rank from the second rank, in charge of leading the imperial guards to protect the emperor and serve as a deacon.

"I heard that the arrow god has not yet married, and he is very sought-after in the circle of ladies to be married in Beijing, and it is even rumored that the emperor intends to make him the princess of Changning, but he refused...... Hey, it's a pity that the second sister doesn't like people to use swords and guns, otherwise wouldn't it be a great honor to let the arrow god be our brother-in-law?

"By the way, Seventh Sister, have you ever heard of the saying that 'the arrow god has three treasures, the eagle is fierce, the mastiff is crazy, and the archery is good'? It is said that the eagle raised by the arrow god is particularly humane, can detect the enemy's situation, can transmit messages, can sentry, and can also help attack the enemy, but it is very powerful! But I want to see the mastiff he raised the most, that thing is said to only recognize one owner in his life, so fierce that even the tiger is afraid! Many people want to spend a lot of money to buy him a mastiff, but they are not sold for a thousand dollars!

The bows he made are the best in the world! The bows used by the emperor are all made by him, and I heard that even Yuan Chang did not have his turn to learn this craft, and he did not know who he could pass it on to in the future, many people knelt outside his door and begged to learn the art, he didn't even look at it, tsk, it was so arrogant!

"Hey, Seventh Sister, why did you say that the Arrow God invited me? Could it be that he is looking at my father's face? That's not right.,Dad has nothing to do with him well.,And I heard that the arrow god is very difficult to make friends with.,The temperament is very strange.,He rarely sets up a banquet at home.,Even if someone else's family gave him a post.,He didn't necessarily appreciate that face.,Nine and a half times out of ten times won't be agreed.,It's rare to ask someone for the next post.,I inquired about inviting the best officials in the autumn week.,Some people say that the guard department wants to retire a group of old guards.,Promote a group of new guards.,The arrow god is testing talents for the emperor this time- Hey, if I'm lucky enough to be watched, wouldn't I have to study hard every day?!

"Hahahaha! Seventh sister, I tell you, if I can be the imperial guard, it is a great thing, the imperial guard is not only generous, but also can get all kinds of subsidies and rewards from time to time, such as the emperor's birthday or when the servant travels, there can be quite a lot of rewards! And this position can be close to the emperor, it seems high, and it is easy to be promoted, and it is not uncommon for me to be born as a guard and an official to the prime minister!

Yan Qi: "......"

The journey of more than an hour does not seem very long in the small talk, the carriage travels through the mountains, the autumn wind blows through the lush dense forest into the car window, it has been seven or eight minutes of late autumn cold, the fourth young master Yan reached out to close the originally open window sash, and glanced at Yan Qi a few times: "Why are you dressed so thinly, in order to look thin?"

"......" will blow the heart......

"Hey, you're really thinner than the other day. Fourth Young Master Yan looked at Yan Qi and was actually wrapped quite tightly, "I'll just say, there are no fat people in our Yan family, Xiao Jiu is also a thin person, it is impossible for you to be fat alone, and girls should grow up when they are your age, and they will naturally lose weight as soon as they grow up." But this time you should also dress brightly, girls who go to other people's homes can't hate to make themselves fairies, Xiao Wu that girl has to spend at least half an hour before going out to dress up, I heard that many girls who know how to shoot are invited to the banquet today, this is a great opportunity for you to make friends!"

Yan Qi is indeed dressed in a simple and low-key dress today, his hair is braided, neatly rolled into a flower bun on his head, only a rosewood hairpin with a beeswax ginkgo leaf head is inserted, and his body is a gentian purple narrow-sleeved jacket robe, black thread embroidered with a winged wild goose, an amber leather belt around his waist, black pants and black boots, but it is very neat.

"Fourth brother, you are dressed so handsomely, do you want to make friends?" Yan Qi asked Fourth Young Master Yan.

"Of course not!" Fourth Young Master Yan waved his hand, "I just want to ask the Arrow God to give me guidance on archery skills, of course, it would be better if he was willing to accept me as an apprentice." I think everyone who is invited to the banquet today probably thinks the same thing, you think everyone is there to eat and play?"

As he was talking, he heard the coachman of the fourth young master who was driving the car outside and said: "Fourth master, seventh miss, Xianlu Mountain is just here, the road ahead is not easy, please sit tight!"

"It's here!" Fourth Young Master Yan became excited, put his face on the window glass and looked out, and couldn't help but exclaim in a high voice, "It's so beautiful! Seventh sister, come and see! This scene outside! Beautiful, so beautiful!"

Yan Qi sat down as he said, and also put his face on the glass, the autumn of this period of time is probably the most beautiful scene of the year, the thousands of layers of mountains are dyed with red, yellow, and green leaves into rainbow silk and satin, the blurred smoke lingers on the mountainside peaks, the golden sunlight sprinkles down, and the hundred thousand mountains are like being embedded with brilliant gem flowers.

Xianlu Mountain is in the depths of the smoke cloud, you can recognize it at a glance, the shape of the mountain is unique, like two straight stone pillars stand side by side, the fat and thin are almost the same, the mountains are all vertical up and down, almost no slope, the two are about dozens of meters apart, one is full of red maple, the other is full of green pine, especially in autumn, the two mountains are red and green each other, are entangled and lingered by the smoke, and suddenly give birth to the meaning of red men and green women lingering together, so it is named Xianlu Mountain.

The carriage stopped at the root of the mountain, and there was a row of houses built on the mountain, which was specially used to store the carriage and provide the coachman to rest, and there were already seven or eight carriages that arrived first, and they were waiting in place lively, and when they saw the brothers and sisters of the Yan family getting off the car, someone shouted: "Another family, almost everyone is together, you can get on!"

The fourth young master Yan and Yan Qi walked over quickly with a branch, and saw a few people who were suspected of being from the Tu family welcoming guests there, and handed over the invitation received by the brothers and sisters of the Yan family. ”

The people followed behind the man, and walked around the foot of the mountain for a while, and saw a flat stone platform built on the mountain in front of them, on which was set up a huge combined bearing, and the bearing had a thick shaft chain that was tightly seamed, which was firmly fixed on the mountain, and extended upwards to form a huge and strong conveyor belt, and then extended this conveyor belt to build an iron frame fixed on the mountain, on which hung three horse-drawn carriage shapes but no wheels of iron cars, and the two sides of the body were inlaid with glass windows.

This is a modified up-and-down-type aerial gondola.

Three cars, each car can seat four people, each trip can be twelve people on the cable at the same time, if only two or three people at a time is a bit of a waste of manpower, so to make up enough twelve people to start.

The descendants of the Tu family asked everyone to sit on the car separately, and asked everyone to plug in the car door from the inside, and then knocked on a metal pipe that led to the mountain, knocked three times, the sound was transmitted, and soon the top also knocked three times to respond, and then the shaft chain clicked and moved, the whole bearing transmission system began to run, and the three cable cars slowly rose into the air and "flew" vertically towards the mountain.

"Oh my God! It's amazing!" Fourth Young Master Yan's whole body was boiling, and as soon as he grasped the shoulder of Yan Qi who was sitting next to him, his eyebrows and eyes flew away, "Seventh sister! Seventh sister! Oh my God! Did you see it?!Did you see it?!My God—this cart is actually used to go up and down the mountain! It can still be used to carry people up and down like this! My God—can you still do this! Who came up with this?! My God—it's so interesting! It's the same as driving the clouds! Look, Seventh Sister, look outside the window! Is it like driving the clouds! Isn't it like flying!Look! It's already up so high so fast! Look down, you look down!Hahahaha! The carriage and the people below have become so small!Hahahaha! Oh my God—"

Yan Qi counted how many "my heavens" he shouted, and by the way, he forcibly pressed the one who was about to jump up on the seat, and the guest sitting opposite her turned white with fright, and desperately squeezed the branch next to him, I don't know if he was afraid of heights or worried that this car would make Young Master Yan Si stomp down.

Gradually, there were wisps of smoke and mist passing outside the window, and the surrounding mountains were surrounded by dense vegetation, and the moisture gathered in the mountains was constantly changing fantastic colors under the strong or weak light, covering the two peaks of the immortals like a light veil, which made this already strange mountain appear ethereal and immortal.

The cable car ran upwards for more than a quarter of an hour, and the speed slowly slowed down until it rose to the shoulder of the mountain, and a large artificially built brick square appeared in front of it, where the cable car ran horizontally, slid from outside the mountain to the square, and then stopped.

The cable car is used to run a huge pulley set and bearing gear system fixed on the square, all by manual braking, more than a dozen strong men there to push the gears to run, with the help of the precise combination of dynamic and static pulleys, can play a good role in twice the result with half the effort.

The fourth young master Yan got out of the car and didn't have weak legs at all, and looked around lively, the peak they climbed was the one full of maple trees in the second peak of the immortals, and there was red light flowing everywhere, and another peak a hundred meters away seemed to be close at hand, wrapped in green and gloomy ancient trees and vines, silently looking at this peak in pairs.

Looking back at the other end of the Fangshi Square, there is a broad and cheerful mountain villa built according to the mountain wall covered with red glow, and the plaque on the door is written in red and gold on a black background: Butianshan Pavilion.

Arrived, the Arrow God's Annex! Fourth Young Master Yan clenched his fists.