Archery is a technical job, not everyone is suitable to be an archer, at least Li Qing is not suitable to be an archer.

Although Beiyu had already taught very carefully, Li Qing could still only barely be regarded as a beginner.

Li Qing pulled out the short bow in his hand, which was the standard short bow of the Qin army, with willow wood as the bow body and ox tendon as the string, which was the most commonly used bow for novices to practice.

"Whoosh"

Li Qing let go of the bowstring, his face showed a depressed look, and sure enough, the sky above the straw man acting as an arrow target was empty.

Beiyu's face did not change in the slightest, he has become accustomed to it these days, a target of sixty steps, Li Qing has seven out of ten arrows off the target, if such a person is in the army, Beiyu would have driven him out a long time ago, it is simply a waste of bows and arrows.

"Again."

Beiyu's voice was still calm, of course, if you ignore his somewhat trembling arms.

Li Qing took out a feather arrow from the quiver, put it on the short bow, and after it was full, he aimed it at the straw man who was acting as the target of the arrow with his eyes, and then released it violently.

"Whoosh"

"Poof"

With a chuckle, a man in white walked out from the side, Li Qing looked back and recognized that the person who came was Meng Ying, who was fighting with him that day, and today she was still dressed as a man, and the gorgeous sword still hung from her waist.

"Three small ...... The third son. ”

When Beiyu saw the woman, he opened his mouth to say hello, Meng Ying waved his hand, and looked at Li Qing with a smile, his eyes were full of mockery.

Li Qing showed embarrassment on his face, sixty steps, Li Qing felt that even if he threw the feather arrow directly, he would not fall off the target, but he had already fallen on the target one after another, which was indeed a very embarrassing thing.

Meng Ying said with a smile: "Yo, tsk, tsk, a target of sixty steps, a child can shoot with his eyes closed, I didn't expect someone to fall on target, it's really amazing." ”

Li Qing glanced at Meng Ying, believing in the creed that good men don't fight with women, Li Qing decided to ignore Meng Ying and continue to concentrate on practicing arrows.

"Whoosh"

Landing on target.

"Whoosh"

Or missed.

After ten arrows in a row, Li Qing finally succeeded in leaving one arrow on the target, and although two arrows did not stay on the target, they were still grazed from the target, unlike the other arrows, which did not even touch the target.

"Hmph, that's stupid."

Meng Ying saw Li Qing stop, reached out and took the short bow in Li Qing's hand, tried it, and then took a feather arrow, didn't aim at it, and directly opened the bow and took the arrow.

"Whoosh"

The feather arrow was firmly nailed to the straw man's eyebrows, and the body of the arrow passed through the straw man, revealing half of the arrow.

Meng Ying looked at Li Qing provocatively, her eyes were full of pride, and then she brushed a few arrows, and the arrows fell on the straw man, and none of them hit the target.

Although Li Qing couldn't get used to Meng Ying's triumphant appearance, he still had to admire Meng Ying's archery skills, at least compared to himself, Meng Ying was definitely a master.

After Meng Ying's blow, Li Qing practiced archery harder, but his talent was not as good as others, Li Qing could still barely reach a passing grade in archery, that is, out of ten arrows, six arrows could be shot on the arrow target.

At the beginning, Beiyu also instructed Li Qing every day, but Li Qing's progress was too slow, and Beiyu, as Meng Yi's personal guard, could not have time every day, so Beiyu thought about finding an old soldier in the army to teach Li Qing.

Unexpectedly, this matter was known to Meng Ying, and Meng Ying immediately volunteered to guide Li Qing in person.

Although Li Qing strongly objected, he eventually became Meng Ying's "apprentice".

Meng Ying took a leather whip and began to admonish Li Qing, telling Li Qing some tips for shooting.

Although Meng Ying is natural and noisy, I have to say that her guidance still has some help for Li Qing, although Li Qing's progress is still slow, but he finally changed from a sixty-step target to an eighty-step target.

"Whoosh"

An arrow was shot, and the feather arrow successfully landed on the chest of the straw man eighty steps away, Li Qing saw this situation, and slowly exhaled, today, I can finally not be ridiculed by that girl.

Meng Ying saw Li Qing shoot at the straw man, and knew that through these days of practice, the eighty-step straw man could no longer be difficult for Li Qing, but Meng Ying didn't want to see Li Qing's proud appearance, so she couldn't help but move in her heart.

Meng Ying said: "What's the point of shooting dead targets every day, why don't we shoot live creatures." ”

Li Qing was stunned when he heard this, shooting live creatures? I couldn't help but say, "Shoot what?" ”

Looking at Li Qing's stunned appearance, Meng Ying couldn't help but roll her eyes and said, "Go hunting, go." ”

Hunting is one of the most common games among the nobles, Li Qing followed Meng Ying, with ten Meng family guards, out of Xianyang together, and went straight to the dense forest of the West Mountain outside Xianyang City.

Meng Ying looked at Li Qing, who was clumsily lying on the horse, with a sneer on her face, and said, "I didn't expect you to not even know how to ride a horse, hahahahaha." ”

Li Qing barely stabilized his figure, compared to before, the current Li Qing was at least able to sit firmly on the horse, although his riding skills were still very poor.

"Driving"

Meng Ying patted the white horse under her crotch, rushed towards the dense forest first, and said loudly: "Let's compete today to see who shoots more prey." ”

Looking at Meng Ying who disappeared in front of him, Li Qing shook his head, carefully slapped the war horse under his crotch, and ran forward, behind Li Qing, five Meng family guards followed Li Qing, which was used by Meng Ying to protect Li Qing's safety, and it was also arranged to prevent Li Qing from cheating.

The primeval forest always gave Li Qing a pleasant feeling, and after entering the forest, Li Qing and the others dismounted, leaving a guard to guard the horses, and the other four walked with Li Qing to the depths of the dense forest.

As soon as they walked not far, Li Qing and the others encountered Meng Ying, who had advanced into the dense forest, who stayed behind to guard the horses, and learned that Meng Ying had chosen the dense forest on the left, Li Qing decided to choose the right and avoid Meng Ying as much as possible.

"Whoosh"

A feathered arrow landed next to a hare, and the hare was startled and fled frantically.

"Poof"

The hare was so desperate to run away that he slammed straight into a tree.

Looking at the hare that had passed out, Li Qing scratched his head, wondering if this could be regarded as the prey he had shot.

The four guards behind him were also a little dumbfounded, after all, this situation was the first time the four of them had encountered it, strictly speaking, this hare was indeed Li Qing's prey, after all, if Li Qing didn't scare it, the hare wouldn't have hit the tree, but the hare was killed, not shot to death by Li Qing, and Meng Ying wanted to compete with Li Qing, but it was shooting.

"Ahem, this one is a pick-up."

Seeing that the guards were embarrassed, Li Qing was the first to speak, after all, this was just the beginning, and Li Qing felt that there was no need to embarrass a rabbit.

Li Qing's words made the guards breathe a sigh of relief, and one of the guards stepped forward to grab the rabbit's ears and put it into the leather bag, which was the first prey harvested today.

In this way, Li Qing took the four guards of the Meng family and continued to walk towards the depths of the forest.