This year's Qingming Festival, the five, six, and seven combinations were not happy, Lu Lian had a poisonous hand in front, and an unknown person released cold arrows in the back, a good eagle was killed, what Ling Yunzhi, what sea and sky, all became a short-lived broken dream.

Before the sun was west, the three of them went home, first sent Lu Lotus back to Lu Mansion, and then Wu Yue and Yan Qi returned to their respective homes. Qingming is an important festival, and most of the officials in the DPRK and China can take a vacation, so after Yan Qi went back to sit in the summer residence to refresh and change clothes, he took the arrow that had been wrapped in cloth by her, and went to the outer study of the spring residence alone.

"Is Uncle here?" Yan Qi knocked on the door of the study.

"Miss Seven, the old man is drinking in the Moon Pavilion in the back garden. One of Yan Zike's personal servants named Sizhi talked back and forth.

Look, the Moon Pavilion is also the name given by the mad demon swallow, and Tete is down-to-earth with this name.

Yan Qi went to the back garden, the spring flowers bloomed all the way along the way, the begonias between the bananas, the weeping willows around the painting beams, everywhere was quiet, many people were playing swings in the front yard to play games, after all, it was a festival, and people could also follow the leisure.

The Moon Pavilion is built on a rockery, a slip of stone steps upwards, and nameless wildflowers of the size of fingernails burst out of the cracks of the mountain. There was only one person in the pavilion, dressed in a homely shirt, warm and fine linen texture, wrapped in a soft and obedient body, his hair was curled up casually with a beeswax amber hairpin, a little crooked, and a few strands of hair scattered on his shoulders, adding a bit of laziness to this person, with a pair of backless silk shoes on his feet, revealing his bare heels, the white was full of healthy ruddy, and the bright and prominent Achilles tendon rendered a more masculine, harder and tougher atmosphere for the feet and their owners.

Yan Qi is not foot control, but these feet are so perfect that people can't help but take a few more looks.

This person is really here to drink and enjoy himself, there is a wine fruit on the stone table in the pavilion, and a wine jar under the table, this person does not sit on the stone pier, probably because he will feel tired without a backrest, so he specially asked people to move a wide and comfortable Arhat chair up, and then the whole body snuggled in, facing the wind and the scene, drinking a small wine and humming a small song, and a person was very good.

"Came back so early. Yan Zike supported his head with one hand on the arm of the chair, and threw off his shoes with one leg and stepped on the chair surface, like a leisurely and comfortable barefoot fairy on the painting, "Have fun?"

"It's good. Yan Qi sat down opposite him and put the arrow in his hand on the table.

"Give it to me?" Yan Zike had a very sweet thought.

It's a pity that his niece doesn't like to give him candy to eat, so she shook her head and said, "This is someone else's gift to Aunt Zhang." ”

The swallow raised his eyebrows, reached out and took the arrow, uncovered the cloth outside, and looked up and down for a while, "Liu Yeyan," tapped the arrow shaft with his fingers, "poplar stick," fingertips flicked the arrow, "The wild goose feather, two feet and nine inches, the distance is suitable." ”

"Can you find the owner of the arrow with this?" Yan Qi asked.

"Want to avenge Aunt Zhang?" Yan Zike looked at her.

"The bird can't come back to life, I just want to know who this person is. "Yan Qidao.

"Oh," Yan Zike sat upright, looked at the arrow again, and put it under his nose and sniffed, "The paint is old lacquer, but there is no peeling place, the arrow is polished very brightly, and the goose feathers are also clean and supple, it can be seen that this person is very good at maintaining arrows every day, and he must be a person who does not leave the arrow, or there is a special person who is in charge of raising arrows for him, if the latter, the matter is a little bigger." ”

If you don't register your arrows without registering them, and if you have someone to maintain them, then what is it to keep arms privately? Regardless of whether you are doing it out of personal hobbies or for other harmless reasons, as long as it is discovered by the government, it is a great crime of rebellion and rebellion!

"This person knew that his arrow was not marked, but he dared to shoot it in public in broad daylight, and he did not negotiate with you afterwards to return it, which shows that he either did it intentionally or was a foolish person who was ignorant and ignorant of the law, and I prefer the former. The materials used for this arrow are all ordinary, and the officials can use them, and the scope of the suspect is not easy to delineate, which is also the reason why this person relies on to do so. As for why he did this," Yan Zike said, dropping the arrow on the table, "it was a temporary idea, after all, no one could have predicted that someone would put an eagle flying in the sky near him at that place at that time. ”

"It's not one, it's two. Yan Qi told what had happened, and finally said: "This person's archery skills are very good, his speed is fast, and his strength is great. "And there's a unique spirit.

Yan Zike listened carefully and said, "Who are some people nearby?"

"In addition to us, there are also a few rich children who are flying eagles, a group of girls who are putting paper kites, there are two groups of picnic people, there are seven or eight small boats on the lake, and there is a painting boat, and the people on the boat do not see anyone holding a bow, and the painting boat has a veil hanging on all sides, and there is a sound of bamboo in it, and the logo on the boat is in the style of an impatiens. "Yan Qidao.

"Oh, that's the boat of the Phoenix Tower. Swallow said.

"What does Fengxian Mansion do?" Yan Qi asked.

"Brothel. Swallow said.

“…… Prostitutes also learn to ride and shoot?"

"I don't know, but some of the prostitutes like to take their girls with them when they hunt. ”

Ma Zhen is eternal, and one trick will be passed on forever.

"So it's also possible that the prostitute who was on the boat at the time shot it?" Yan Qidao.

"Wouldn't that expose the fact that there was no mark on his arrow?" Yan Zike discussed with Yan Qi very seriously.

That is, the man will not be on the boat, because there are many people on the boat, and who* will go with a bow and arrows. "Yan Qidao.

"You know a lot. The swallow praised her.

Is this something that should be praised? Yan Qi was speechless.

"Anyway, put this arrow here first, and if you find that person, I will sue you. Yan Zike reached out and patted the top of Yan Qi's brain.

"Uncle," Yan Qi looked at him, "Who in the world am I who has the most powerful archery skills?"

……

On the second day of the Qingming Festival, the "Beijing Government School Students Riding and Archery Competition" was officially opened.

After the second class in the afternoon, the members of the Riding and Archery Club went to gather outside the school gate - of course, you can't delay your studies for the sake of the competition, and the riding and archery competition will not take too long, so there is no need to take up a whole day to do this, so it only takes two classes of effort, and it is not too much to delay by sacrificing electives.

The venues used in the game are all over the capital, and the closest one to the two sides is selected according to the geographical location of the two sides. The first opponent of the Riding and Archery Club is also a co-ed academy, called Zhuoyu Academy, which is said to be mediocre in strength, so when the Splendid Academy Riding and Archery Team went out to the arena, there was no worry on their faces, the old players looked calm, and the new players were full of excitement.

"Those who have horses ride horses, and those who do not have horses ride in chariots. Wu Changge instructed that the senior students have their own horses, and there is also an item of riding and archery in the competition, which must be brought to the horse, and the junior students are more difficult to ride a horse because they have not yet developed in size, although some people have learned to ride a pony at home, but they are not allowed to ride a horse alone, so most of them take the school's carriage.

"You," Wu Changge finally looked at Yan Qi, "Let's run, it's not far." ”

“……”

Everyone is used to watching the head of the sect abuse Yan Qi, and Yan Qi is also used to the head of the sect not abusing her uncomfortable, and she is also quite weak to tell the truth, after practicing for so long, she has not lost a pound, and she has not lost a pound, and she has not sweated less, and she dare not drink more water, I don't know why this meat is dead on her and refuses to fall.

Then Yan Qi ran behind the carriage.

But after all, she only had two legs, and she was left behind by the large army as she ran, and when she was whirring and panting, it was easy to run to the destination, and everyone was finished racing, and she was getting on the horse in the car and preparing to go back.

"I'm still running back?" Yan Qi asked Wu Changge.

"Seeing that you are quite confident, let's run back again. Wu Chang Ge said.

Yan Qi ran for half an afternoon, but she didn't see any races, so she let people all over the street look at her.

On the first day of the competition, Splendid Academy defeated Zhuoyu Academy, and the competition adopted a winner-or-loser, single-round elimination system, so after the first day, half of the participating teams were eliminated.

The afternoon of the next day was the second round, and the arena was a little far away, Yan Qi finally didn't have to run along, and sat in the car with everyone honorably. The opponent in the second round is Zhizhi Academy, and it is said that there are several players in the men's division who are good at archery.

The shooting range system is similar everywhere, there is a target track for static targets, an open field for riding and shooting, and stone stands around it, and the smallest shooting range can accommodate thousands of people to watch.

Since it was only a qualifying match, no one came to watch the game, the students were in class, and most of the people who could come to watch the game were idle nobles or commoners, and the stands were divided into noble and commoner seats, and there were not too many restrictions on the lower classes for national sports such as mounted archery.

At this time, there were only a dozen people in the stands, and the two sides did not care, and they were listening to the referee announce the rules of the game according to the script, which is a necessary step before the start of each game, that is, to go through a form.

The list of players on both sides has been determined, and the rest of the people are sitting on the bench on the sidelines, and the freshmen like Yan Qi who have not entered the bench are purely for observation.

The official mounted archery competition is divided into three parts: static target competition, moving target competition, and mounted archery competition. These three parts have evolved into several small competitions, such as static targets, which are divided into short-distance and long-distance competitions, moving targets are divided into fixed and variable direction competitions, riding and archery are divided into still life and animal competitions, and all competitions will be divided into two parts: men's competition and women's competition, so there will often be a phenomenon that the men's department of a college advances to the next round, and the women's department is eliminated in this round.

The division of the competition into two parts, male and female, is also to facilitate the participation of those all-girls schools and all-boys' schools, during which such schools can participate in the competition every two days and compete against a mixed school, male against boy, female against female, each with a score counted.

In the course of the competition, it is the team score that determines whether the school can be promoted, that is, the total score of all the team members participating in the event, and an individual score is also counted, and the individual score is higher, and the individual score can be awarded individual honors in the final finals, such as someone who has the highest number of rings in a certain event in the final, can get such as "short-distance static target leader" Such a name, there are prizes, for these official children to fall second, the important thing is reputation, so even if it is a collective competition, everyone will strive for their personal best results, and at this time teammates are also opponents.

The official contestants can only participate in one person, or one person can participate in more than one, but each person is only allowed to participate in a maximum of three small competitions, so the number of members of each school's riding and archery team is also not the same, such as the Splendid Academy, if the members of the riding and archery club are not intentionally in the control, I am afraid that the number will explode, despite this, the total number of members of the club is now sixty, and there are ten in each grade, and the number of men and women is very balanced, in order to strive for achievements in both male and female projects.

Sixty members, it is impossible for everyone to participate in the competition, so it is natural to select people with good skills and good condition on the day to participate, so although Yuan Xu and Nie Zhen in the freshmen have been selected into the substitute list, I am afraid that they will not have the opportunity to enter the competition for a long time, after all, there are five grades above them who are also competing for the qualification of the competition.

The first is the static target short-distance competition, the two parts of the men and women are carried out together, each school out of five team members, each shoots ten arrows, the total number of rings of all team members is the final result, the target track is eighty steps long, the man uses a bow with 50 catties of tension, the woman uses a bow with 30 catties of tension, all bows and arrows are checked by a special "competition disciplinary committee" before the game to check whether they meet the standards, and if it is found that if they violate the rules by doing hands and feet on the bow and arrow, they will be disqualified from participating in the school.

The game officially began, the players of both sides entered, the main force of the men's department of Splendid Academy Wu Ting and the main force of the women's department Xie Fei both sat on the team seat, did not participate in the short-distance static target competition, after all, each person is only allowed to participate in three, so it is necessary to selectively arrange the tactical arrangement, and this aspect is to consider the attainment of the team leader's tactical literacy.

Ten people and ten arrows, it didn't take much time, the short-distance static target competition ended quickly, the women's department of Splendid Academy won with the advantage of eight rings, but the men's department lost with a gap of one ring.

Next is the long-distance static target competition, also ten people and ten arrows, this time the men's division of Zhizhi Academy won with a total score of four rings, and the women's department of Fairview Academy won with a total score of six rings.

The final total score is calculated based on the cumulative score of each sub-item, so the total score of the men's division of Fairview College has fallen behind the five rings of Enlighten College after the first two competitions.

There was jubilation in the team seat of Zhizhi Academy, but the team members of Splendid College were very calm, it was not that no one was anxious about the current results, and a few freshmen were a little restless, but in view of the momentum of their own head of the school, even if they just sat there indifferently at the moment, no one dared to show panic or anxiety.

Next is the game of moving the target, first of all, the fixed moving target, two high poles in the field, one high and one low, a horizontal pole in the middle, hang a pulley, the pulley hangs the target from the high pole to the low pole, the pulley drives the target downward, before reaching the low pole, the player must shoot the arrow, a total of ten arrows, the one with the highest ring wins.

Although the difficulty is much higher than that of the static target, the players did not see much panic, after all, these are all must-practice items during weekday training, and the current comparison is a live performance and psychological stability.

Ten moving targets are lined up in turn, the players enter the target path, open the bow and shoot arrows, and the companions on the team bench do not dare to raise their voices, this project is different from other competitions, and the players need a relatively quiet environment, so as not to affect the psychological fluctuations.

Yan Qi sat in the team seat and paid close attention to the game, the basic skills of the disciples taught by Wu Changge are still very solid, but the skills are easy to polish, but the maintenance of the mentality can only rely on himself, archery is a very mental competitive event, so sometimes the master is awesome, and when he encounters a disciple with a big glass heart and brain, you can't stop him from thinking on the field and swiping the screen in the barrage in his brain, so as to lead him to play abnormally.

Therefore, often a good archer has amazing skills, but also has a calm heart that is almost cruel.