That night, the courtyard of Luo Cheng's house was lively almost all night, and it was not until almost dawn that everyone finally dispersed one after another. The 800 dumplings that the whole family made during the day were all eaten, and even some of the dried fruits brought by the brothers-in-law were all eaten.

After the people left, there was a place of peel melon seed shells left in the courtyard, but Luo's father was very happy.

The excitement in the courtyard last night, in his heart, may be more dazzling than when he was awarded the seven-rank personal guard and held the golden gourd hammer on the Golden Palace. It was by the shadow of the father's door, and the last night was by his own son.

Last night, Uncle Qi even proposed to record the Luo family in the genealogy of the Luo family in Nanshan Village, so that they could truly become the Luo family in Nanshan. Dad hesitated and said that he still had to think about it.

When he left Chang'an, he had been expelled from his home and was removed from the family tree of the Luo clan in Xiangyang. It's a good thing that someone is willing to accept it, although he also understands that the seventh uncle is willing to accept him into the spectrum, but because his son is the first official in this Nanshan village in the past two or three hundred years.

The sky is slightly bright.

Luo Cheng got up, stayed in the county barracks for a long time, and slowly got used to the same routine as the county soldiers.

Although there is no wake-up horn, I still wake up when the time comes.

Because she was at home, the righteous daughter Huiniang waited there early, and when she saw him wake up, she brought him hot water to wash up, and brought him the clothes he wanted to wear. When Luo Cheng took the clothes, he found that the clothes were warm. It turned out that this girl was very attentive, afraid that her clothes would be cold in the morning, so she deliberately put her clothes by the fire and baked them in the morning.

Going out, Kan Leng's three teenagers, all dressed in white, were practicing outside with horizontal knives.

A few of the guys now have no vegetable on their faces, their faces are a little ruddy, and they even feel that they are a little thicker. Holding a horizontal knife of more than two catties, he is very serious about every knife and style, and his head has been practiced and sweats slightly.

"Practice well." Luo Cheng praised.

"Father-in-law, if I practice well, can I join the county barracks?" Kan Ling asked.

"You're in the county barracks now, and you're my herald."

"I want to be a real soldier."

"Then you have to practice martial arts first, and then you have to grow up a little more, now you are so small that you can't even hold a spear properly. You practice horizontal swords now, spears and bows in the future, and riding and archery in the future, and practice well, heroes will always be useful. ”

Kan Ling sighed, and there was light in his eyes.

"Father, I'll go and bring your horse."

Wang Xiongdan hurriedly went to fetch Luo Cheng's horse lance and armor.

When he brought the horses and lances, Siye, Cunxiao and Xiaoliu also came.

The eldest and second are still sleeping in the house, they are not very intoxicated with martial arts, and they serve in the county barracks, in fact, they are mostly in the name, in order to avoid service. Now that Luo Cheng has an official position, Luo Cheng has become a non-class, and they no longer have to worry about the need to serve, so the two have decided not to go to the county barracks anymore.

Luo Cheng did not force them, and arranged for them to be in charge of the blacksmith workshop of the county barracks and the blacksmith shop at home, these two shops are the public property of the county barracks, and the other is the private property of the Luo family, the scale is not large, and now the main product is the iron pot, and the sales are not bad, although the price is not cheap, but the main sales targets are those large rich businessmen and landlords. It's just that nowadays the production is too low, and it is completely handmade, which is very time-consuming.

Luo Cheng didn't have much to do to increase his output quickly, after all, although he could buy some slaves to work with, he still needed a blacksmith master.

"Shixin, you start today, you follow me to learn riding archery and horse lance."

Luo Cheng said to Xiao Liu, Xiao Liu practiced the eight-sided golden hoop stick before, and the main reason for practicing this was that Xiao Liu had never practiced anything else before, he had great strength and the stick was simple to use.

But now that the conditions are available, Luo Cheng plans to train Xiaoliu well and let him practice horse lance with him.

He has two horse lances, one is to save filial piety to take Liu Renmei, and the other is to seize the king's book. The two horse lances are good, Liu Renmei's one is worth hundreds of yuan, and Wang Bo's one is even better, worth hundreds of yuan.

Now that Wang Bo was using it himself, he brought the other one to Shixin.

Luo Cheng also asked Siye and Cunxiao before if they would like to practice horse lance with him, but the two of them were used to the Laos and knives in their respective hands, so they didn't want to change them again.

Shixin didn't have any opinion on what to practice, Luo Cheng asked him to practice the horse lance, and he nodded in agreement.

The brothers mounted their mounts and rode to a flat river beach outside the village to practice riding and shooting knives and guns.

Kan Ling and the three stood next to him and practiced together.

Riding archery is not easy to practice, it cannot be practiced overnight, first of all, you need a good mount, it has to be a war horse that has been trained. It's not just an ordinary horse, a horse has to be specially trained to adapt him to various situations on the battlefield.

For example, he had to practice jumping over various obstacles, and he had to practice adapting to various sounds and fires.

Otherwise, if an ordinary horse is pulled into battle, it is easy to be frightened and scurry, while a well-trained war horse can move forward bravely even in the face of fire and loud noises.

You also have to practice the tacit understanding with the horse, there are no shortcuts, you can only take time out to practice every day, and you can only improve your proficiency little by little by constantly beating.

If you don't have a year or two, don't think about being proficient in riding.

While practicing riding, I also have to practice riding and shooting.

Shooting an arrow right away is more difficult than shooting an arrow from a step.

Generally, there are three types of archery right away. One is to shoot forward, the second is to shoot back, and the third is to twist and shoot sideways. It seems simple, but it is extremely difficult to maintain stability on a high-speed galloping horse, and also aim at the target.

This not only requires an excellent foundation in archery, but also has to have an excellent cooperation with the war horse, after all, when archery, both hands have to be off the reins, and you can only rely on a pair of legs to control the horse.

Luo Cheng and the others are better, they have been practicing for a while, and they only fell three or four times in one morning. But Kan Leng's three teenagers were miserable, they fell at least a dozen times in the morning, and their noses were blue, their faces were swollen, and their buttocks hurt.

However, the three teenagers are very persevering, even if they fall down again and again, and climb up again and again. For them, they had already become beggars, but it was Luo Cheng who gave them another life, not to mention that their father-in-law was willing to equip them with valuable war horses to practice, how could they not cherish such a good opportunity.

Luo Shixin gave up the stick and practiced the lance, and only learned a few movements in the morning, but he couldn't learn it all the time, so Luo Cheng patiently taught hard.

"Let's practice here today, you go back and think more about what I taught you today, and continue to practice tomorrow." Luo Cheng comforted Shixin.

"Fifth brother, it's still an iron rod that is simple and easy to use."

"Iron rods are easy to use, but they are not as lethal as horse lances. Now I was dealing with more bandits, so I couldn't see any difference. But if one day we face an enemy in heavy armor, a sharp lance can give you a leg up. ”

On the way back, Luo Cheng asked Kan Ling three teenagers.

"What do you want to learn from in the future?"

Wang Xiongdan said loudly, "In the future, I will practice with my father-in-law, riding a horse and holding a lance, it is too majestic." ”

"Kan Ling, what about you?"

"I want to practice the Mo knife with the third uncle, I think the Mo knife is more powerful."

Si Ye didn't expect this kid to like Mo Dao, and said with a smile, "Good boy, you can have a good eye, you can come and practice with me when I practice Mo Dao." ”

"Thank you, Uncle San."

Seeing this, the fourth child hurriedly said to Ximen Junyi, "Boy, you come to practice with the fourth uncle, and I will promote you to be the leader of the Changlao team in the future." ”

In a word, the fourth child bought Ximen Junyi, so the kid immediately agreed.