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Shopkeeper Jiang continued: "The trouble now is the reputation of Guan Pu Shop, no one thought that Li Yanqing would suddenly rise to prominence, if he won the first place, not only Guan Pu Dian will lose a lot of money, but more importantly, everyone will no longer believe in us in the future, and it will be difficult to do business in the future." ”

Xiang Shi took a sip of tea and said unhurriedly: "Isn't it normal to bet on gambling and lose and win?" Why do gamblers feel sorry when they lose, if every time the bettor wins, won't we close the shop and become a nursing home? ”

"The villain doesn't mean that, the villain means that nine out of ten people will lose this time, and now many people are scolding us for deceiving them by making a list of heroes, and the involvement is too big."

"That's fart! If you lose money, you scold us, why don't you share half of our money when you win? What does it mean to admit defeat in betting, and what do you have to do in the competition if the competition list is completely accurate. ”

Xiang Shi was really dissatisfied with the timidity of the shopkeeper Jiang, the shopkeeper Jiang didn't dare to say anything, he originally hoped that the proprietor could find a way to prevent Li Yanqing from winning the first place, so the damage to the reputation of Yutange Pavilion was not too serious, but the proprietor was not interested at all.

At this time, Xiang Shi said to his eldest son Xiang Cong: "You can find out about the operation of Guan Pu Shop, and find a way to add ten branches in various places in two or three years, you can walk around, see which places are more suitable, and communicate with the big shopkeeper if you don't understand anything, you do this well, I will find a way to get you a shadow official!" ”

Xiang Shi didn't want his eldest son to manage the industry and do business, he just wanted to find something for his eldest son to do, so that he could take care of himself and not go out all day to make trouble.

Xiang Cong had no choice but to agree, and Xiang Shi said to him again: "Go!" Go with the treasurer now, and I warn you that you are not allowed to participate in the archery competition. ”

Coming out of the mansion, Xiang Cong immediately asked the shopkeeper, "Since Li Yanqing won the first influence on our Guan Pu shop, is there any way to reverse this influence?" ”

"I came to see the big officials today just to talk about this matter, if we can prevent Li Yanqing from winning the first place, then our reputation can continue to be maintained, but it's a pity that the big officials don't care about this loss, so I have no chance to speak."

In business, as a businessman, there is no problem with Jiang Da's shopkeeper's idea, and Xiang Shi also knows this, so there is no accusation against him, but Xiang Shi will never do such a stupid thing and destroy the bow and horse conference led by Tong Guan for a few small money.

Xiang Shi also knew that his son was simple-minded, eating, drinking, prostituting, gambling, arrogant and arrogant with a group of people in Gao Ya all day long, so Xiang Shi repeatedly warned his son that he was not allowed to interfere in the matter of the archery and horse competition, but Xiang Shi never imagined that his son actually had a holiday with Li Yanqing.

Xiang Cong's eyes flickered, as if thoughtful.

........

It was already very late at night, and on the riding and archery field of martial arts, Li Yanqing was still practicing the copper bow, and he would officially use the copper bow tomorrow, and he still needed to consolidate the feeling of arrow momentum on the copper bow.

'Collapse! The sound of a huge bowstring echoed in the night, and an armor-piercing arrow shot out with great power, instantly extinguishing the incense fire a hundred and twenty paces away, at least twice as fast as his leopard's bow.

"Good!" There was a round of applause behind him.

A person walked out of the darkness, it was the golden gun general Xu Ning, Li Yanqing hurriedly bowed and saluted, "See Master Xu!" ”

Xu Ning smiled slightly: "I have been using a leopard head bow for the past few days, and now I have changed it to a copper bow, how do you feel?" ”

Li Yanqing thought for a while and said, "It's like going from a soft bed to a hard bed!" ”

"It's an interesting analogy, let's be specific!"

"Students feel very comfortable with the leopard head bow, and it is easy to find the feeling, but the bronze bow has nothing to do with comfort, it gives people the feeling of being tough, aggressive, and unstoppable, and this feeling is not only for the enemy, but also for me, like a wild horse that is difficult to control."

"But you're still in control of it, aren't you?"

Li Yanqing smiled bitterly, "I can only say that I was afraid of this horse, it didn't dare to resist, and it was far from being convinced." ”

"Give me the bow!" Xu Ning stretched out his hand.

Li Yanqing handed him the bow, Xu Ning turned around and walked towards a tall green tree in the northeast, Li Yanqing was puzzled, quickly turned over and dismounted, and followed quickly.

Xu Ning came to the big tree, put the bow under the big tree, turned around and asked, "Give me three sticks of incense!" ”

Li Yanqing hurriedly ran to get three incense sticks for shooting targets and handed them to Xu Ning, Xu Ning inserted the incense in front of the copper bow, and then said to Li Yanqing: "I attach more importance to sacrifice, I believe you must not have experienced this kind of sacrificial bow, am I right!" ”

Li Yanqing nodded silently, he really hadn't experienced this kind of bow sacrifice ceremony.

"Every big tree in martial arts has its name, such as the two hundred-year-old big cedar trees at the gate, called Ganjiang and Mo Ye, this Qinggang tree is called Houyi, also known as the Tree of the Bow God, it has been more than three hundred years, every martial artist who practices the bow has to bow to this big tree before learning the bow, you are too student, you must not have experienced this step, it is not too late for us to make up for this link!"

Xu Ning looked at Li Yanqing, Li Yanqing stepped forward and knelt down, and bowed respectfully, Xu Ning took out a dagger, and lightly stabbed a small hole in Li Yanqing's arm, a wisp of blood flowed out, and he pointed to the bow.

Li Yanqing understood what he meant, and dropped the blood on the copper bow drop by drop, and with a light wipe of his hand, the blood smeared the entire copper bow.

"Go back to bed early! Believe that tomorrow it will bring you good luck. ”

.........

Before dawn the next day, Li Yanqing walked out of the courtyard as usual, but he found that there were several people of unknown origin hidden in the corner outside the courtyard, Yanqing couldn't help but stop and shouted: "You all come out!" ”

"Little official, who is your name?" Magpie asked, puzzled.

Li Yanqing pushed her into the courtyard, slammed the door shut, and a few stone chess pieces were already clasped in his hands, at this time, four soldiers slowly walked out of the corners of the front and back, and the first soldier stepped forward to salute and said: "We are secretly protecting Li Shaojun on the orders of Captain Tong, and there is no malice." ”

"I don't need your protection, go back! I appreciate Mrs. Tong's kindness. ”

"Li Shaojun, we are just acting on orders, only today and tomorrow, we will go back after the competition, please Li Shaojun don't embarrass us."

Li Yanqing also knew that they would not listen to him, but fortunately, it was only two days, and he was on the field most of the time, so he didn't say anything more, went to the stable, picked up his war horse, and directly turned over and ran towards the northern camp.

Li Yanqing met Wang Gui and Niu Gao in front of Chen Qiaomen, Wang Gui and Niu Gao both entered the top two hundred last night, but the rankings were not very good, Wang Gui was one hundred and thirty-five, Niu Gao was one hundred and ninety, and today the foot bow will also determine the top forty, and the confidence of the two is obviously insufficient.

"What about Fifth Brother and Tang Huai?" Li Yanqing didn't see Yue Fei and Tang Huai, so he asked with a smile.

"Today is Master Xu's last day in martial arts, Lao Yue wants to learn more marksmanship, and Lao Tang also wants to learn hook and sickle guns, so the two of them abandoned us and refused to come."

Li Yanqing saw Niu Gao's sad face, so he patted his arm and smiled: "Cheer up, there is no war yet!" I lost morale first. ”

Niu Gao scratched his head and smiled: "It's not that I don't have morale, I have self-knowledge, anyway, I will go all out today, regardless of whether the fuck can make it to the top forty." ”

"That's right, it's not early, let's go!"

"Lao Li, let's go to the alum building for a drink tonight!" Wang Gui said with a smile on the side.

"How did you come up with the idea of going to Alum Tower?"

"Last night I heard the damn old soup boast about how the alum building is, I haven't been there yet!"

Li Yanqing then remembered that none of his brothers had been to Alum Tower, so he smiled happily: "If I make it to the top ten today, then I will invite everyone to go to Alum Tower tonight to drink the best wine!" ”

"Nope! No! No! I'm here for a treat tonight. ”

Li Yanqing hugged his shoulder and smiled: "Next time you please, I'll come tonight!" ”

Wang Gui understood what he meant, so he had to nod and agree, although the Wang family was the leading figure in Xiaohe Township, but when he entered the capital, he knew that he was small, on the contrary, Li Yanqing relied on his intelligence and extraordinary ability, and he was far from being able to compare with him, Wang Gui only felt that the gap between himself and Li Yanqing was getting bigger and bigger, which really made him a little disappointed.

At this moment, there was a rapid sound of horses' hooves from behind, and someone shouted: "Don't take it seriously, quickly dodge!" ”

Everyone turned around, only to see a fan cavalry galloping on horseback, the pedestrians at the gate of the city were so frightened that they stumbled to both sides to dodge, they were wearing gilded bronze armor, it was the sixth class of the Western Xia country straight cavalry and archery masters.

The leader is a civil official, Li Yanqing has also seen it, it is Jiao Yanjian, the envoy of the Western Xia State in Bianjing, and he is the leader of the arrow warriors of the Western Xia State.

Jiao Yanjian recognized Li Yanqing at a glance, and hurriedly reined in the war horse and said with a smile: "Li Shaojun shot very well yesterday!" I don't know what about moving targets? ”

"So-so!"

"Li Shaojun is too modest, we all think that you should have taken the first place yesterday, the officials of the Song Dynasty are too despicable, obviously bullying Taixue, I wonder if Li Shaojun is interested in traveling to Western Xia?"

Li Yanqing bowed slightly and smiled: "I will go, one day I will go to Xixia!" ”

"If there really is that day, I will definitely introduce Li Shaojun to our Western Xia monarch."

"I'm afraid not! I'll get to know him myself. ”

Jiao Yanjian didn't understand what Li Yanqing meant, so he said vaguely: "I hope we can compete together fairly today!" ”

Jiao Yanjian hugged his fists and saluted, urging the horse to run out of the city, but Sajin had his nostrils facing the sky, as if he didn't know Li Yanqing at all.

Looking at them walking away, Wang Gui hurriedly said, "Lao Li, are you really going to Western Xia?" ”

"Is it strange that I went to Western Xia?"

"But...... Western Xia is our enemy country, how can you-"

Li Yanqing smiled faintly, "I just said that I will definitely go to Western Xia, and I didn't say how to go, he may have misunderstood a little, I actually want to say that one day I will lead the army into Western Xia!" ”