"At the end of the first round, the results of each candidate will be reported."

Xun Yu, who is the person in charge, shouted. Immediately, the Xun family servants who were standing next to each arrow target in the distance reported the results of the candidates one by one.

"A A number of harriers, students of Yingchuan Academy, Chen Song, grades, five arrows are all first-class, five points full."

"A and B number Harrier, Xiangyang Academy student, Wang Huan, grades, four arrows superior, one arrow inferior, four and a half points."

"A and C Harrier, a student of Xiangyang Academy, Li Yang, grades, three arrows are superior, one arrow is inferior, one arrow is not, three and a half points."

"A T-shaped harrier, a student of Yingchuan Academy, Zhao Chang, grades, three arrows are superior, one arrow is inferior, one arrow is not, three and a half points."

……

"Yixin's Harrier, a student of Yingchuan Academy, Tai Shici, grades, no five arrows, no points."

Five arrows missed, and as the name suggests, none of them hit. When Tai Shici's results were reported, there was an uproar, and the students of Xiangyang Academy burst into laughter after a burst of consternation, while the students of Yingchuan Academy secretly exchanged heads and ears, asking each other which student had lost face in the academy.

"How is that possible?!" Not to mention the Black Feather Crow and the others who were watching, Tai Shici, who was the person concerned, was also shocked and incredulous, and shouted in disbelief, "How could I lose the arrow?" ”

"......" Xun Yu, who was about to announce that he had entered the next round, frowned when he heard this, turned his head and glanced at Tai Shici, and then there was a little surprise and surprise in his eyes.

[Isn't this person Yuanzhi's companions?] How could you take the name of my Yingchuan Academy to participate in the competition? ]

After being stunned, Xun Yu couldn't help but have a headache. After all, it didn't matter if Tai Shici pretended to be in the name of their academy, but he didn't get a single point in this round, which made Yingchuan Academy lose face.

But then again, Xun Yu really couldn't believe that Tai Shici, a fierce soldier who had participated in the battle between Guangling County and the rebels, and hunted hundreds of enemy leaders in that battle, couldn't even shoot an arrow.

"Yixin's Harrier, no five arrows?" Xun Yu shouted at Tai Shici's target eighty paces away.

Before he could finish speaking, the voice of the target announcer came from a distance: "There is no arrow on the harrier." It's true that there are no five arrows! ”

"......" Xun Yu was silent, and glanced at Tai Shici, who was full of anger, with a little embarrassment on his face.

At the same time, Chen Wang Liu Chong, who was watching the competition from the sidelines, showed a little inexplicable smile on his face, looking back at Xun Shuang beside him and asking, "Xun Gong, Xiao Wangguan, that little friend doesn't seem to be a disciple of your academy?" ”

Xun Shuang, as a great Confucian in the world, his knowledge is far higher than those students of Xiangyang Academy who ridicule Tai Shi Ci's achievements, and naturally he doesn't feel that Tai Shi Ci is a shame on their academy, so he nodded and said. "Two days ago, one of my subordinates came to visit, and this person was his companion, not a student of my academy."

"It's a pity...... Chen Wang Liu Chong nodded suddenly when he heard this, looked at Tai Shi Ci and said approvingly, "Xiao Wang looks at this son, I'm afraid that he can shoot a three-stone bow and shoot a harrier two hundred steps away...... But I don't want to fold in the first ring of your Confucian 'shooting' field. ”

Chen Wang's words were not untrue, after all, the other students only opened half of the archery when they were shooting. Only Tai Shi Ci pulled the bowstring to the full moon, and it seemed very easy. However, what surprised King Chen the most was the speed of Tai Shi Ci's archery, when he only shot two arrows at others. Shoot all five arrows.

Listening to King Chen's slightly ridiculous words, Xun Shuang also showed a little inexplicable smile on his face, and whispered a few words to the Xun family's disciples. The Xun family disciple nodded, and walked quickly to Xun Yu in the distance. conveyed Xun Shuang's words to Xun Yu.

I don't know what Xun Yu heard, he turned his head to look in Xun Shuang's direction and nodded, and then slowly walked to Tai Shici's side. whispered a few words to him.

Incredibly, after listening to Xun Yu's words, a look of astonishment appeared on Tai Shici's face, but he stopped shouting, and the look of anger on his face was also put away.

And on Zhang Huang's side, Xi Zhicai also chuckled and explained to Zhang Huang who was shocked in a low voice.

"Brother Xiao Zhang is afraid that I don't know that my Confucian 'archery' technique is different from the archery skills of martial artists, right? …… My Confucian 'shooting' technique can be roughly divided into five types: 'white arrow', 'Shen Lian', 'Yan Zhu', 'Xiang Ruler', and 'Jing Yi', which pay more attention to skill than power. ”

"Tricks?" Zhang Huang looked at Xi Zhicai suspiciously.

Xi Zhicai nodded and said in a deep voice, "Take Fang Cai's white arrow as an example, the test is the accuracy of the arrows shot by the students. This accuracy includes not only hitting the target, but also controlling the strength, requiring that the arrow pierce the harrier's exposed cluster of arrows on the premise of hitting the harrier. (The cluster of arrows is the metal part of the tip of the arrow.) ）

"......" Zhang Huang was dumbfounded when he heard this, he never thought that the 'shooting' art of Confucianism would have such harsh requirements.

"Therefore, it is not advisable to draw the bow blindly, as Brother Zhang did." Shaking his head, Xi Zhicai explained to Zhang Huang the criteria for selecting points in this round: "If you hit and see if the arrow cluster penetrates the harrier, no more, no less, you get one point; If the harrier is hit, but the cluster of arrows penetrates the harrier too far, full marks are awarded; There are no arrows on the harrier, and there are no points. ”

"Even if you shoot, it doesn't count?" Zhang Huang asked in astonishment.

"Not counting!" Xi Zhicai shook his head.

The expressions of the black crows suddenly became strange. They finally realized that Tai Shi Ci didn't get a point for any reason, and the feeling was that the guy didn't control the strength well, so that the five arrows full of strength penetrated the target one by one, and the Xun family servants who reported the target obeyed the rules of the 'white arrow', and regardless of whether there were traces of arrows on your target, when they saw that there were no arrows on the target, they directly sentenced Tai Shi Ci a zero point.

"It's really wrong to lose......" Zang Ba shook his head and said sorry for Tai Shici.

It just so happened that this was what Tai Shici thought at this time, just now he obviously hit the bull's-eye of the harrier, but the result gave him a zero score, he also thought that Yingchuan Academy learned about his impostor, and looked for a way to make him stumble, until Xun Yu came over and explained to him in a low voice, he suddenly realized: It turned out that the scribes were trying the skills of archery.

After understanding this truth, the expression on Tai Shici's face suddenly looked much better, after all, as long as it wasn't Yingchuan Academy secretly making trouble, it would be easy to say.

As for the backward scores, just chase it slowly, anyway, there are still four links, and he is not a person who can't afford to lose.

"Second round, join the company!"

Xun Yu shouted out the test matters of the second round of the 'shooting' field. This time. In order to take care of Tai Shici, who didn't understand the rules, he specially said all the precautions: "Same as Fang Cai, you have the same five arrows in your hands, but you need these five arrows to be coherent as a line...... Begin! ”

[It turns out that the "Shenlian" of the Confucianism "shooting" field is the meaning of continuous shooting......]

After Xun Yu's explanation, Tai Shici suddenly realized, and said secretly in his heart: I wouldn't have made jokes if I had explained it like this...... Hum! This one round alone, tell those guys who laugh at me to shut up completely!

Thinking of this, Tai Shici's eyes bloomed with a little essence, and after taking a deep breath and calming down. Shoot five arrows in a row, and the distance between each arrow is within three feet, this exquisite archery skill makes the eyes of Chen Wang Liu Pet, who is watching from the sidelines, shine.

Especially in the end, I don't know what Chen Wang Liu Pet saw, so he couldn't help but stroke his palm and praise: "Good! ”

Even Luo Jun, the famous man and Chen Guoxiang who was beside Chen Wang Liu Chong, praised with a shocked face, "I don't know who this person is, he has such superb archery skills!" But ......"

He didn't say any more, but King Chen, Liu Chong, and Xun Shuang seemed to understand what he meant. There was a little weirdness on their faces.

King Chen's praise made the Xiangyang students who had just laughed at Tai Shici look at each other, they didn't understand what Tai Shici, a guy who scored zero points in the previous round, was worthy of praise from His Royal Highness King Chen. If you want to blame them, you can only blame them for staring at the arrows of their academy staff. Otherwise, they would definitely be able to understand why King Chen and Liu Chong applauded Tai Shici.

Next to the shooting range, Zhang Huang watched intently as Tai Shici finished shooting the five arrows, nodded and said happily: "This time it should be no problem!" ”

"Is it just 'no problem'?" Zang Ba praised with surprise on his face. "Such superb archery skills, I'm afraid that if you look at the world, I'm afraid there are few people who can do it. I don't know how he got it......"

And Cao Cao, who was beside them, had already stared dumbfounded, but Guo Jia and Xi Zhicai showed strange smiles.

Is it really okay?

At this time, the servants of the Xun family who were reporting the target in the distance were already starting to report the target.

"A A number of harriers, students of Yingchuan Academy, Chen Song, grades, four arrows superior, one arrow inferior, four and a half points."

"A and B Harrier, a student of Xiangyang Academy, Wang Huan, grades, four arrows are superior, one arrow is not, four points."

"A and C Harrier, a student of Xiangyang Academy, Li Yang, grades, four arrows superior, one arrow inferior, four and a half points."

"A T-shaped harrier, a student of Yingchuan Academy, Zhao Chang, grades, four arrows are superior, one arrow is not, four points."

……

"Yixin brand number Harrier, Yingchuan Academy student, Tai Shici, grades, one arrow is superior, four arrows are not, one point."

The servant of the Xun family who reported to Tai Shi Ci, the results he reported stunned Tai Shi Ci, Zhang Huang and others.

This pitiful score made the group of Xiangyang Academy students who had just laughed at Tai Shici even more, thinking that it turned out that His Royal Highness King Chen Liu Chong was cheering for Tai Shici.

"One...... Divide? ”

Zhang Huang and the black feather crows were dumbfounded, and Tai Shici, who was the person concerned, had an expression that was even more weird.

[Only one point?] ]

Xun Yu was slightly shocked in his heart, after all, Tai Shi Ci missed in the first round because he didn't understand the rules, but this time he had already explained it carefully, why did Tai Shi Ci still only have one point?

[Could it be that this companion of Yuan Zhi is just a hypocrisy?] …… But if this is the case, why does His Royal Highness King Chen look at this person differently? ]

Xun Yu, who is good at observing words and feelings, clearly found that at this time, Chen Wang Liu Pet no longer paid attention to all the other students, and just stared at Tai Shi Ci, Xun Yu didn't believe that Tai Shi Ci, who could make His Royal Highness King Chen look at him differently, was just a fictitious guy.

"Is there really only one point for the Harrier?" Xun Yu shouted again to confirm.

In fact, at this time, the Xun family servant who reported the target for Tai Shi Ci was also very difficult.

Just now, this Xun family servant saw a never-before-seen spectacle. He witnessed the five arrows that Tai Shi Ci shot at the harrier, and the last four all hit the end of the shaft of the previous arrow, so that when the four crisp sounds passed, the first four arrows were all shot through and scattered to the ground, and only the last arrow was still trembling slightly.

Miraculous skills!

The Xun family servant was so stunned that when it was his turn to report the target. After a long delay, he came back to his senses.

However, how to report the target in this case?

Glancing at the wreckage of the four arrows that had been chopped under the harrier, and then at the only arrow on the harrier, he hesitated for a moment, and finally decided to follow the rules: "Yixin number harrier, Yingchuan Academy student, Tai Shici, grades, one arrow is superior, four arrows are not." One point. ”

"Unbelievable......" Zhang Huang opened his mouth in shock, and he couldn't even close his chin.

Beside him, Li Tong and Chen Zhi were dumbfounded, and said with a smile, "Ziyi is too tricky!" It's okay now, obviously it can get a full score. ”

[……]

Cao Cao glanced at Tai Shici in the field, and then at Zhang Huang, with a somewhat inexplicable look in his eyes.

As for Xi Zhicai and Guo Jia, the two of them were already rolling around with laughter.

"Too ...... It's so much fun! ”

"Rare in life, rare in life!"

[If it weren't for the fact that you two were scribes.] And it's a scribe who reads poetry and books, and the relationship is not bad, so I've already beaten you! ]

Li Tong, Chen Dao, and Zang Ba glanced at each other, and their expressions were inevitably a little wistful.

But when it comes to the most frustrating. I'm afraid that Tai Shici, who is the person concerned, originally wanted to show his superb archery skills in this round, so that the students who dare to laugh at him completely shut up. It's good, only one point after two rounds. This kind of cold mixed score makes people laugh out of their big teeth.

At this time, Xun Yu's gentle voice announced the beginning of the third round of the 'shooting' competition.

"'Shooting' the third round. 剡Note ', begin. After speaking, Xun Yu began to explain the precautions for this round of '剡注', to the effect that after the arrow is shot, the tail of the arrow is high and the cluster of arrows is low, showing a slow and approaching appearance.

However, although Xun Yu explained in sufficient detail, Tai Shici had never received formal Confucian instruction in the art of 'shooting', so where would he understand, but only understood '剡注' in general terms as projectile or flat shooting.

"Uhhh

Five arrows flew high, and when they reached the highest point, they flew downwards and coincidentally hit the upper side of the target. Tuk-tuk-tuk, five arrows are inserted upside down into the target on the side of the target, which is only two fingers wide, in a branch line.

The Xun family servant who reported the target was stunned, and then reported the results: "Yixin Harrier, a student of Yingchuan Academy, Tai Shici, the results, no five arrows, no points." ”

"Alas......"

Zhang Huang and the Black Feather Crows shook their heads and sighed, they understood that Tai Shici probably gave up this round of the competition, so they guessed that they used projectiles, but they guessed wrong and didn't get any points.

But this time, whether it was the students of Xiangyang Academy or the students of Yingchuan Academy, they didn't dare to laugh at Tai Shi Ci anymore. After all, on Tai Shici's target in the distance, the row of arrows inserted upside down in the arrow target was enough to scare a large number of scribes.

How do you get an accurate hit on the top of a target that's only two fingers wide?

Only some guys who were far away and had never seen Tai Shici's arrow target still laughed loudly. However, more students are talking and asking about the details of this strange archer.

The fourth round of the 'shooting' field is the 'Xiang Ruler'.

To be precise, the ruler is not an archery, but a kind of etiquette, to the effect that it is to shoot with the minister and the king, the young and the long, and the minister and the young can not stand side by side with the king and the long, and should be given a foot back.

Therefore, when Chen Wang Liu Pet appeared beside that row of candidates without warning, that row of candidates consciously took a step back, and then began to shoot arrows, this time it was just ordinary flat shooting. But Tai Shici didn't know the reason, and stood in a straight line with Chen Wang and Liu Chong, and his results can be imagined.

"Yixin brand number Harrier, Yingchuan Academy student, Tai Shici, grades, no respect for etiquette, no points."

In the whole four rounds of the competition, the rest of the students all scored at least 20 points, but Tai Shi Ci only had a pitiful point, no matter how good his mentality was, he couldn't bear this humiliation.

[How can it be justified!] …… The art of Confucianism 'shooting' of bullshit! ]

Tai Shi Ci, who was ruthless in his heart, glanced at the bow and arrow in his hand, raised his hand and wanted to throw it to the ground with hatred, and left angrily. And at the moment when he threw the bow, a big hand grabbed his arm, and no matter how hard he exerted, he couldn't break free.

"You ......" Tai Shi Ci turned his head angrily, but found that it was Chen Wang Liu Zhong who stopped him.

"His Royal Highness King Chen." Tai Shi Ci hurriedly saluted.

"You're not in a good state of mind." Chen Wang Liu Pet looked at the look of anger on Tai Shici's face, and said lightly: "This king asks you, what is the most fundamental thing about being an archer?" ”

Tai Shi Ci was stunned for a moment, frowned and thought, "Precise!" ”

"It's the heart!" Chen Wang Liu Pet said indifferently, then took the bow and arrow in Tai Shici's hand, pulled the bow and shot an arrow. With a whoosh, the arrow hit and pierced through Tai Shici's harrier, and only a cluster of arrows was exposed.

"One...... One stone! In the distance, there was the flattered sound of the Xun family servant.

[This is what a 'white arrow', right?] ]

Tai Shici had a disapproving expression on his face.

Seeing this, Liu Pet was not angry, and then took five arrows and shot them out one after another, only to see that the five arrows were connected, and the spacing was even shorter than that of Tai Shi Ci.

"Tuk-tuk-"

Five arrows and a harrier are lined up in a horizontal line on the target, and each arrow passes through the target but only the cluster of arrows is exposed.

[uh......]

Tai Shici's face changed slightly.

"Huh!" Liu Pet chuckled, and then took the arrow and shot it, half of it was thrown, and half of it was shot flat, but as a result, all of those arrows hit Tai Shici's arrow target, and only the arrow clusters were exposed when they penetrated the target.

"Archer, the most fundamental thing is the state of mind! …… If your heart is disturbed, your hands will tremble, and the arrows you shoot will be ......," Chen Wang Liu said with a light smile.

[……]

Tai Shici was stunned, looking at Chen Wang Liu Pet in disbelief, the so-called layman looks at the excitement, the insider looks at the doorway, Chen Wang Li Chong's hand is far more difficult than him just chopping arrows, much more difficult.

Glancing deeply at Tai Shici, Chen Wang Liu Chong Zhengse said, "I'm afraid you're thinking that Confucianism's 'shooting' art is like bullshit, right?" …… In fact, if you have power but don't know how to control the strength, it's just an inferior archery. ”

As he spoke, he didn't look at the target, and shot another arrow, but the arrow still hit the bull's-eye, and like Fang Cai, only an inch of arrow clusters were exposed through the target.

"......" Tai Shici was dumbfounded, because he found that Liu Pet didn't aim at all, it was completely based on his feelings.

"Besides, if you have that kind of archery, this king will too!"

After that, Chen Wang Liu Pet sent a series of arrows again, and it was incredible that the arrows he shot smashed the arrows that had hit the bull's-eye one by one, and nailed them to the target steadily, still only revealing an inch of arrows.

"Why does this king be able to hit every arrow?" Chen Wang Liu looked at Tai Shi Ci Zhengse and said, "Because of this king's heart, there is never chaos!" ”

"......" Tai Shici's face was slightly moved, he finally understood what Chen Wang Liu Pet meant, and at the same time realized that his mentality was not correct from the beginning.

As if he understood Tai Shici's mentality, Chen Wang Liu Chong showed a little smile on his face and returned the bow and arrow in his hand to Tai Shici.

"The Confucian 'shooting' field should not be where you come from. If you don't give up, when the competition is over, you come to the place where the king is staying, and the king will give you some experience! As he spoke, Chen Wang Liu Pet turned around and left, but after a few steps, he stopped, turned his head and said with a smile, "Remember, the archer's heart is fundamental!" …… Even if you only get one point in the end, your heart must not be disturbed! ”

“…… Be! Tai Shi Ci respectfully clasped his fists and saluted.

The last round of the 'shooting' field is the 'well instrument', to the effect that it is necessary to hit the four corners of the target, and the requirements are the same as the white arrows, and the arrow cluster is required to be able to penetrate the harrier.

In this round, Tai Shici finally scored a perfect score of five points, and with a total score of six points, he lost the Confucian 'shooting' art competition. (To be continued......)