Tian Jing found for the first time that under ancient conditions, it was so difficult to travel alone, there was no map, no official road, no road signs to Xishan, and it all relied on asking people along the way and his simple confidence in his sense of direction. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

By the time Tian Jing got lost along the way and stumbled to the main peak of the West Mountain, Zhao Yun had already been here for more than half an hour?

"You're here? Do you know how late you are? Zhao Yun asked Tian Jingdao, and there was no joy or anger in his tone.

"Master, I ......" Tian Jinggang wanted to say how much effort he had spent and how many twists and turns he had wasted to get up the mountain, but he didn't expect the master to interrupt directly.

"Because the generals don't know the geography, they don't need a guide for the march, and they blindly hit and bump into each other, and it is the crime of killing the head to delay the military aircraft; If you miss the fighter, not only will the victory and defeat be easy, but I don't know how many comrades-in-arms have died in your ignorance. The master still has official business to do in the barracks every day, and only one hour in the morning can teach you martial arts, since it is late, then it is better tomorrow. Tomorrow, when the sun rises, the teacher will still be waiting for you here. After that, Zhao Yun didn't say a word and went down the mountain.

"No, learning a gun has been promoted to the perspective of the art of war, really." Tian Jinggang wanted to complain, and suddenly remembered the story of Zhang Liang meeting Huang Shigong in "Historical Records":

There is an old father, dressed in brown, to a good place, and he falls straight down his tracks, and he says: "Son, take the shoes!" "I want to beat him. For its old age, forbearance, and the next take. The father said, "Perform me!" "Good karma is to take the performance, because the long kneel to perform it. The Father took it with a smile and walked away. Liangshu was shocked and followed by his eyes. The father went to the inner house and returned it, saying, "The son can be taught." After five days, I will be here. The good cause was strange, and he knelt down and said, "No." "Five days are peaceful, good going. The father was already there, and he said angrily: "With the old man, after that, why not? Go, said: "The morning meeting will be held in the next five days." On the fifth day, the rooster crowed, and the father was there first, and he was angry and said: "Later, why not?" He said, "Come early in the next five days." "For five days, the night has not passed. After a while, the father also came, and said, "It should be so." A book was published, saying: "Reading this is the king's teacher." After ten years of prosperity. In the thirteenth year, my son saw me in Jibei, and Huangshi at the foot of Gucheng Mountain was me. And he went, and said nothing more, and never said goodbye. Looking at his book every day, it is also the "Taigong Art of War".

Could it be that the master is also testing himself, so he has to perform well. It is said that you can't learn peerless marksmanship, and you have to have an extraordinary test. Thinking of this, I slowly descended the mountain along the same path, marking it with stones and branches along the way. When he returned to the Assassin's Mansion, he hurriedly wrote a letter to his family, and went out of the Assassin's Mansion to find a family member who had been waiting in the capital, and handed over the family letter to his father along with Zhao Yun's letter.

After the messenger sent him away, he still went back to the house to raise and feed the horses, but he always felt that it was too late to get dark today. In the evening, when the hour was already over, he went out early and rushed to the west mountain outside the city.

When Tian Jing climbed to the main peak of Xishan, the sky was full of stars, and it was within reach. Tian Jing was secretly happy in his heart, hehe, I came early enough today, I want to see how you test me. Just thinking about it, I saw Master walking steadily up the mountain step by step with the moment of the rising sun.

"The apprentice has seen the master!" Tian Jing knelt down and saluted.

"It's early today, not bad." Zhao Yun smiled slightly.

Tian Jing thought to himself, it seems that this time it will work, and I can't say that the master is going to teach me peerless marksmanship. Kneel on the ground and do not speak.

Zhao Yun helped him up, "Apprentice went up the mountain, have you seen anything?"

What have you seen? Tian Jing was stunned in his heart, on this mountain, except for trees and trees, he has never seen any wild things, I don't know what the master asked? "The apprentice is determined to go up the mountain early and learn art from the master, and he has never seen anything on the road except for the road."

"Really? So he went down the mountain the way he came, and went to see it again. After Zhao Yun finished speaking, he found an open space, sat down on the spot, closed his eyes and recuperated.

Tian Jing thought to himself, isn't this making things difficult, people came early, and they didn't give you a third chance to test me, so let me go down the mountain again. Anyway, who made you a master and I am an apprentice, then let's go down and run up, it won't be too hard.

Thinking of this, Tian Jing patiently went down to the foot of the mountain, and then returned. On the way, I really thought about whether the master left a mark or something, let me see it, but I didn't see it. However, after looking for a long time, I still found nothing.

Back on the mountain, before he spoke, Zhao Yun asked first, "How is the harvest?" ”

Tian Jing was a little helpless, "Back to the master, the apprentice didn't see anything." ”

"Didn't see anything?" Zhao Yun was a little unhappy, "Could it be that you went down the mountain with your eyes closed?" ”

Tian Jing thought to himself, what happened to the master today, he was still in a big temper, "If you go back to the master, this mountain disciple will go up and down twice, and he will only see the trees, and nothing else." ”

"That's right, it's the trees that the teacher told you to see." Zhao Yun patted Tian Jing on the shoulder.

"Huh? Looking at the trees? Tian Jing's mouth opened so wide after hearing this, it turned out that he was looking at the trees, why was he so stupid, and he ran to the foot of the mountain.

"Do you know what kind of wood is used for a good gun?" Zhao Yun asked.

"I don't know". Tian Jing said in his heart, how do I know that I am not a weapon maker.

"Then the teacher will tell you that here in our Youzhou, the best gun material is the hemp oak tree on this mountain. Do you know oaks? Zhao Yun knew the answer when he looked at Tian Jing's eyes, "Is this quercus machinase, the leaves are oval-shaped and needle-shaped, the top is gradually sharpened, and the edges are serrate, just like this." As he spoke, he took out a twig, which he had prepared.

"This oak tree is ten zhang high, you go and choose a tree about three zhang and a thick bowl mouth to cut down, and teach you how to make a gun for the teacher." After Zhao Yun finished speaking, he untied the sword on his waist and handed it to Tian Jing, "The sword of the master is sharpened like clay, if you roll the blade for me, I want you to look good, go quickly." ”

Tian Jing didn't say much, and took the appearance given by the master to find exactly the same tree. After a while, he found a straight oak tree, and it took him half a day to cut a hole more than a foot deep with his sword, and he didn't dare to cut it again for fear of rolling the blade, so he hit the trunk hard, and it took a lot of strength to break the tree. Then he went to the branch with his sword, estimated that it was about two feet and a half, took a deep breath, and carried the tree back on his shoulder.

When he reached the top of the mountain, he saw that Zhao Yun was already tired and sweating.

When Zhao Yun saw the hemp oak wood, he couldn't help but praise a few times, "Not bad, not bad!" Looking at Tian Jing's appearance again, "You still have strength, if you don't have enough strength, it's not too late to learn marksmanship tomorrow."

"If you want to learn, you don't have to wait for tomorrow." Tian Jing said hurriedly.

"Okay, come with the teacher." Zhao Yun held the oak wood just now in his hand, as easily as holding a spear. I saw Zhao Yun holding both hands and grabbing, flat, the guns were united, his shoulders were heavy, his elbows were lowered, and he put on a four-level situation. Then he stepped forward, held the gun with his right hand and pushed forward, the gun slipped out of his left hand, and stabbed out flatly.

"Here you go!" Zhao Yun handed over the hemp oak pole to Tian Jing.

Tian Jing was still struggling, let alone piercing the gun, "Master, this ......" showed a look of embarrassment.

Zhao Yun patted him on the shoulder, "It's okay, if you can stab a few robberies today, you can stab a few robberies." Not today, there will be tomorrow, increasing day by day, when can you stab a hundred shots, for the teacher to teach you the way to block. ”

One hundred shots, Tian Jingxin said when I have to do it, but let's look at the front first. Tian Jing tried his best to stab a shot, but he was panting. After a short break, a second shot was stabbed. He gritted his teeth and insisted, stabbing the tenth shot, but he could no longer lift the gun.

"Alright, that's all for today." Zhao Yun stopped Tian Jing, "Tomorrow tomorrow Tianming will be waiting for you here." Tomorrow you go to the carpenter and borrow an axe and a hammer to teach you how to make a gun. ”

Today, Tian Jing and his master went down the mountain together, and when they returned to the city, Zhao Yun went to the barracks, and Tian Jing still went back to his stable.

But today seems to be a little different, because the butler is standing at the door of the stable, talking to Lao Liutou, who nodded and seemed to be very careful to agree to something.

When Tian Jing arrived, the housekeeper came over and said to him, "Tian Jing, Master Hou ordered you to live in the barracks." There is a military horse farm in the barracks, you are the horse maid personally ordered by Lord Gongsun, so Hou Ye's horse has you to take care of it personally, I am afraid that you are too young to know how to raise horses, Hou Ye Kai let Lao Liu Tou be dispatched by you and go to the military camp with you. Then pack up your things and go with me, and don't delay the hour. ”

Tian Jing didn't expect Gongsun Chan to get serious about this matter, the military horse farm is better than being depressed in the house, and it is a good thing that he can often see his master Zhao Yun.

Tian Jing arrived at the military horse farm and found that there were more than 6,000 war horses of the White Horse Yicong here. They are all good Liaodong horses, fat and strong, with pure white coats, and there is not a single variegated war horse. More than 6,000 white horses are gathered together, and they are very beautiful, like white clouds piled up in the sky. I don't know how much effort Gongsun Chan wasted for these horses.

Gongsun Zhan's horse is called the white rabbit chasing the wind. According to legend, Qin Shi Huang's seven famous horses: one is chasing the wind, the second is the white rabbit, the third is the scenery, the fourth is chasing the lightning, the fifth is Feipian, the sixth is the bronze jue, and the seventh is the morning. Gongsun Zhan's horse travels thousands of miles a day, white as a jade rabbit, when the horse donor took a coincidence, with the name of two of them called the white rabbit chasing the wind. Gongsun Zhan has this horse and loves it very much, and he accompanies him on the battlefield, which is inseparable one day. Now this horse is more than ten years old, but since Gongsun Zan killed Liu Yu and took possession of Youzhou, he has been dealing with various affairs in the Assassin's Mansion every day, but this horse has been ridden less.

After Tian Jing said hello to the steward of the horse farm, he lived in the same room with Lao Liu Tou, and the two took care of a horse. Lao Liu originally dialed one leg and waited for peace of mind to retire, but now he is also stained with Tian Jing.

There was nothing to say for a day, and before dawn the next day, Tian Jing went out early to see Zhao Yun in Xishan. On this day, I went up the mountain and wanted to discuss with Zhao Yun, if I didn't teach martial arts in the military camp every day, why bother walking so far every day, I was too tired.

Unexpectedly, Zhao Yun didn't say a word, and let him cut down the tree first. With the experience of last time, and the handy axe, the tree cutting is much faster.

When he came back, Zhao Yun was scraping the bark of the hemp oak tree pole he got back yesterday, and he was halfway scraping, when he saw Tian Jing coming back, he said, "You come and try." ”

The first time Tian Jing used this tool to do carpentry work, he felt that it was relatively fresh, and after a while, he peeled off the bark clean.

"Okay, you go to practice the gun yourself, and this gun barrel will be handed over to me to process slowly."

On this day, Tian Jing took the newly cut hemp oak wood pole and stabbed it for a full fifteen shots, and Zhao Yun also polished and scraped the barrel of the small curved bark just now, and also cut off the place that was too thick or curved.

In the following days, Tian Jing cut down a piece of wood every day, and then practiced the method of piercing the gun. Zhao Yun was very patient and continued to process the previously corrected gun barrel. By the end of a month, Tian Jing had been able to stab about fifty shots a day, and his strength and technique had increased significantly. Zhao Yun's gun barrel has also changed from the original thick bowl mouth, more than two zhang long, to only a fist, one zhang and six long, just suitable for holding.

"Okay, you don't need to come here tomorrow, tomorrow I will take you to a place for the teacher." After Zhao Yun finished speaking, Tian Jing was happy. "Where will the master take me tomorrow?"

Zhao Yun smiled, "Don't talk too much, you will naturally know when the time comes." ”