Chapter 152: Field Hunting (3)
Xiao Zhen put on the arrow, concentrated, calibrated and released the arrow in one go, but after two breaths, he saw a sharp arrow with the sharp whistling sound unique to Mingdi shooting towards the jackal dog a hundred meters away, right in the front abdomen. The jackal collapsed in response, and its blood was bleeding rapidly because of the vigorous exercise.
Accompanied by the neighing of jackals, there was a burst of shouts from outside the field. Immediately afterwards, Xiao Chen's superb archery skills that quickly and one-time shot two sharp arrows to harvest two prey pushed this enthusiastic atmosphere to the end.
This scene also surprised Tuoba Shen, he didn't expect Xiao Zhen to have such a ability. Sending two arrows at a time is not a big skill, according to Zhou Li, one of the archery skills of the ancients is to shoot three arrows at a time. However, at that time, even the king often needed to go to the battlefield, and the social atmosphere was still martial, and there were strict requirements for archery, and after entering the Qin and Han dynasties, the six arts of Confucianism were no longer valued, and the high requirements for archery skills were gone. I didn't expect Xiao Zhen to be so old, but his ability is no worse than the nation's archers.
Xiao Xun touched the bowstring with a chuckle on his face, obviously satisfied with his skills.
"Your Majesty's archery skills are superb, and the beasts are killed. The ancients said that they could shoot their voices, but they thought it was like that. Wang Yan on the side complimented.
Xiao Zhen smiled and said: "Qing deserves to admit that he deserves this. I have nothing to do in the past year, I hunt a lot, and I often claim to be the generals in the palace who do not lose to this archery skill. Speaking of this, he sighed with emotion: "But now it is not as good as it was back then." At the beginning of the founding of the Yuan Dynasty, I lived in the East Palace, and once hunted with the palace subordinates to Huiji Dongshan, and shot more than 700 prey along the way, all with the people along the way, and still feel hearty when thinking about it. It's just that since the establishment of Yongming, he has been trapped in Jiankang, and occasionally he can't go to Danyang to visit the tomb, and I don't know if he can still go to Huiji, Xunyang, and feel comfortable in this life. After speaking, there was a slight regret on his face.
"The first emperor paid for each other with the state, and the difficulties in this were all maintained by His Majesty's dedication, so that a state was relied upon, and the ministers had to live and talk. The minister was promoted by His Majesty and served in the temple, not daring to say what good it would be to the court, and there was a piece of naked heart to recommend in front of the palace. Wang Yan took the opportunity to show his loyalty and said,
"Okay, good, the prince is loyal and respectful, I have always kept it in my heart, and I should pay the prince on the other day."
When Wang Yan heard this, his face was full of joy, and his heart was very happy.
His Benzong Wang Huan is still above him in the imperial court, and he is famous for his talents, he was once an official to Shangshu Ling, a month ago by Shangshu Zuo Servant was released as the Yongzhou Thorn History, is the first person in this sect, he is just a better relationship with the emperor, so he can fight against it, and now the emperor promises in public to let him be the prince's auxiliary minister in the future, and his status will naturally be above Wang Wan in the future, so how can he not like it?
The emperor sent arrows, followed by the waiters, the regular attendants and high-ranking generals fired arrows in turn, and the formation was scattered, and the field was full of arrows, animal screams, and running sounds.
Tuoba Shen waited for Wang Yan and others to send arrows, and then took the arrow to shoot at a moderately sized wild boar twenty steps away, after the boar skin, it is not strange that he can't shoot in, his archery is not very good, shooting a fixed target is good, twenty steps can be shot into the second ring, luck is not a problem to shoot to the center, but the mobile target is not good. At this point, he should admire Tuoba, that little fat man is more talented than him in martial arts.
Tuoba Shen held the mood of heavy participation, shot four or five arrows one after another, changed three prey before and after, and did not take any of them, and was about to fire the sixth arrow, but heard a voice in his ear: "Don't the northern envoys know the skills of hunting?" The hunter shoots the two eyes first, and the one who can hit is the top. I heard that the northerners are good at shooting, how did the northern envoy miss five shots and only blindly shoot the fur? ”
Tuoba looked at it cautiously, and it turned out to be Xiao Zhaoye.
Of course, he knew that shooting the eye was the best rule, because after shooting the eye, he would not let the prey escape, and he could still maintain the integrity of the fur. However, he knew his situation, his shooting skills were not good, and the bow was not powerful, so he didn't want to be strong. Anyway, except for the harsh and deliberately trouble-seeking, no one will laugh at him with this. And he doesn't care about these two people.
Xiao Zhen held the bow in one hand and the chariot in the other, only looked at Tuoba Shen, and did not speak to stop Xiao Zhaoye, obviously wanting to see how Tuoba Shen would answer.
"The king of Nanjun didn't know, the great grandmother of the foreign envoy family was in Japan in the past, she liked Buddhism, and often precepted the younger children in the family. Today, His Majesty has an edict to accompany him, and the foreign envoy does not dare not obey the edict, but the great-grandmother has not passed away for many years, and the family motto does not dare or forget. Although these wild creatures are not human, they are physically good at life, and the great grandmother taught them to forgive, so they dare not shoot creatures. In this way, he has to live up to the family motto, and he also lives up to His Majesty. I heard that His Majesty also likes Buddhism, and he has not eaten meat for many years. ”
Xiao Zhen listened, nodded and said: "The heart of benevolence and filial piety should be cherished regardless of whether it is Chinese or foreign, north and south. What the foreign envoy said was reasonable. ”
Tuoba Shen listened to Xiao Zhen's words and breathed a sigh of relief. If Xiao Zhenqiang wants him to shoot a dead one, he must not show his stuffing!
Xiao Zhaoye was blocked by Tuoba Shen's reasoning, and when he saw that his grandfather had come to the conclusion that he was "reasonable", he didn't dare to say anything more, so he drove his horse to shoot and hunt by himself.
After this incident, Tuoba Shen also left a little concern for Xiao Zhaoye, and saw Xiao Zhaoye's figure many times when he was idle, only to see that his archery skills were also superior, shooting more than 20 animals one after another, each shot one, and there were stinky feet on the side shouting: "His Royal Highness the King of Nanjun has another one!" Then I saw Xiao Zhaoye occasionally looking out of the field, as if he was looking at others.
The first few times, Tuoba Shen didn't pay attention, and after four or five times in a row, Tuoba Shen also looked outside the field, but saw a luxury car with a black umbrella cover and black flag that was completely different from the blue color of the main person present parked on a low slope, and dozens of people occupied the small slope. He subconsciously knew that it should be the Xie Fanjing he had seen not long ago.
Speaking of "subconscious", Tuoba Shen remembered a drama in his previous life, starring a certain Gege who was rated by friends as having no acting skills, and the background of the play was the Liu Song Dynasty, and a certain Gege was the heroine in it. When Tuoba Shen was watching the drama, he saw that the drama was white, whether it was the curtains or the hanging tent, it was all white, and he felt strange, and he heard someone explain that Liu Song was still white, so the play was white, which was in line with history. For this reason, he also checked a lot of historical materials, from the Han Dynasty to Li Tang, to figure out the colors of the previous dynasties. White is not the color advocated by Liu Song at all, Liu Song is the water virtue, still black, and still white is popular among the people of the Eastern Jin Dynasty and the Southern Dynasties. So he decisively ordered the fork off the drama.
Could it be that Xiao Zhaoye still has ideas about Xie Fanjing, otherwise how could he look over there frequently?
In line with the idea of "the true character of a man", Tuoba thought cautiously, shot another arrow out of his hand, and smiled at Liu Yin, who was timid.
Such a big person, he was locked up like this, and he was wasted when he grew up!