Chapter 34: Practicing Arrows with Heart (4)
An Ning frowned when she heard this, got up from the ground, looked at the coachman with envious eyes, and said lazily, "It's a miracle that I can shoot one of the twenty rabbits, and I will never be able to compare with the master, nor can I become the number one archer on the grassland." ”
"If you practice diligently for three years, you will probably surpass me, your attitude, let alone three years, I think ....... The coachman shook his head again and again, "If you give you ten years of kung fu, you won't be able to practice at my level." ”
"Look down on me?" An Ning flipped up from the ground, "Master, see you tomorrow in the hunting ground." She turned and ran away.
"You haven't practiced enough incense?" shouted the coachman behind him, but he didn't stop her.
"I'm tired today. An Ning didn't look back, didn't stop, stretched out his hand and made a gesture of goodbye and ran away, "I'm going to see Ruolan." ”
Leaving the archery training ground, An Ning originally wanted to go to Ruolan, but she was so sleepy that she couldn't do it, her mouth opened and closed and closed along the way, and she even yawned a few times, and she was almost fascinated when she walked. She went back to her room, didn't even take off her clothes, didn't eat dinner, went to bed, woke up several times in the middle, and her stomach was rumbling with hunger, but she just didn't want to get up, and fell asleep over and over, and the sun was three feet high the next day.
The room was very quiet, as long as An Ning didn't go out, no one would make any noise about her at all, but the coachman was waiting in the yard in a hurry, and said that he would go to the hunting ground to shoot arrows, but he didn't see any movement in An Ning, the door was always closed, and he had to let Yinuo knock on the door and call her.
When An Ning heard the sound of "knock knock" on the door, she turned over from the couch, rubbed her eyes and opened the door, and saw the master standing in the corridor.
"Do you want to go to sleep or come with me to the hunting grounds?" asked the coachman, standing in the middle of the doorway, his beard twitching between his lips and teeth.
"I slept until I was broken. An Ning reacted, and smiled embarrassedly, "I'd better go to the hunting ground, and I'll die if I sleep again." ”
"Hurry up and clean up, I'll wait for you in the yard. The coachman turned and left.
An Ning twisted her head embarrassedly, "Let the master come to invite me personally, it's too unusual, I slept until the sun was three feet high, and you didn't call me Yinuo?" she turned around and blamed.
"Miss, you didn't say you had an appointment with the coachman, I thought you were fine, so I wanted you to sleep more. Ino explained at the door.
"Don't call me Miss. An Ning said angrily, saying and walking towards the door, "You still don't change your words?"
"Just let me call you Miss. "You can't make me worthy of your sister, you can take me in, and I am willing to serve you for the rest of my life." With that, she followed.
"Okay, okay, what do you want to do. An Ning said impatiently as she walked, "But you must not treat yourself as a human being, otherwise my brother will clean me up if he finds out, and besides, I don't treat you as a human being." ”
A smile appeared at the corner of Yinuo's mouth, and when she looked back, Ruolan stood not far away, twisted her angry mouth into a ball again, looked at An Ning with hatred in her eyes, and said angrily, "Sister, if you don't speak, you don't count, you said yesterday that you would come to me to tell me a story." ”
An Ning patted his forehead and reproached, "How did I forget this stubble." She looked at Ruolan with a twisted expression, squatted down, sorted out the collar of Ruolan's clothes and said, "Ruolan, sister is sorry for you, it's all because my sister forgot about this yesterday, you see Ruolan, my sister has to go to the hunting ground with the master now, otherwise you will also follow, let Sister Yinuo take you, don't run around, it's a hunting ground, and horses, it's very dangerous, when you come back tonight, you sleep with your sister, and your sister will tell you a story, okay?"
"Oh, I can go and play with it. Ruolan happily jumped up around An Ning.
In the depths of the hunting ground, there is a hanging tower with a stone table and four cobblestone benches around it. Ino took Ruolan's hand and walked to the grass hut and sat on the stone bench, from here, you could watch the whole scene of the hunting ground. An Ning felt good in such an environment, and she was familiar with this environment when she first visited this forest-like hunting ground. The scent of the woods filled her nostrils: the sharp aroma of fresh pine needles, the earthy scent of rotting leaves in the wetlands, the faint smell of animal musk, and the smell of smoke from a distant cooking. She caught a glimpse of a black rabbit, weaving through a pile of weeds and tree trunks, before vanishing.
The gentle spring breeze accompanied by the smell of grass swept across the hunting grounds, and the grass on the grass hut was also gently swaying, and the wind seemed to blow on the face without feeling anything. On the way to the hunting ground, An Ning said that there was a wind today, which would affect archery, and the coachman said that this wind was nothing.
There were many rabbits in the hunting grounds, some of which hid in the jungle, some behind trees, and some in the yellowish reeds. The arrows flew past, and they ran all over the hunting grounds, and they were frightened and took refuge everywhere. An Ning released more than a dozen arrows on the horse's back but didn't hit a single one, she grabbed the horse's belly between her feet and galloped away ahead. The coachman stood at a distance on horseback, just watching, without giving any hint, "I don't believe you can shoot a rabbit today." He muttered softly to himself.
An Ning was not bold enough to let go of the reins on the horse's back and pick up the arrow to shoot it, she always had to stop the horse when she was about to shoot the arrow, and then draw an arrow from her back and put it on the morning bow, aiming at the rabbit scurrying around in front of her. When the arrows are released, they must be a little different from the rabbits. An Ning was deflated and pouted, but she was not reconciled, and continued to draw the arrow, and when she put the fifth arrow in a row, she suddenly shot at the rabbit's leg. She immediately pulled the reins with great joy, rushed to the wounded rabbit and jumped off the horse, and the rabbit ran forward with the injured leg, and the arrow could not run fast on its leg, and An Ning finally caught it in the grass.
The coachman frowned and rode his horse over, "It's not as bad as I thought." He said to her, "Even if you don't kill an arrow, you can count it as a one." ”
An Ning tilted his head to look at the rabbit struggling in his hand, and said with pity, "I suddenly feel that human beings are so cruel, but such a small rabbit has to endure such pain." ”
"There are so many cruel things in this world that you can't be pitied, miss. The coachman replied, "But Miss, you already have the most basic qualities of archery, and there is hope for good practice." ”
"Thank you, Master, I will do my best, but can I not use living creatures as targets in the future? They are really pitiful. ”
"Sister. Ruolan called not far away, and she and Yinuo had already walked over, "Sister, can you give me the little white rabbit?"
"What do you want a rabbit for?" An Ning asked, not understanding.
"I'm going to heal it, I'm going to keep it. ”
"You think it's pathetic, too?"
"Yes. ”
An Ning smiled knowingly, "People who love animals are often very kind at heart, you have to take good care of it until it recovers." She said as she carefully removed the arrows from the rabbit and placed the rabbit in Enoch's hand, "Go back and heal the rabbit's wounds." ”
"I really don't know if it's right to teach you how to practice archery. The coachman shook his head as he spoke.
"These are two different things, Master. An Ning said, and made an arrow action again, "If the enemy is in front of me, I promise to shoot him through the throat." ”
The coachman nodded disapprovingly, "Killing prey is also an instinct of human survival, and you have to learn this sooner or later." ”
An Ning frowned and put down the arrow in his hand.