Chapter 2 (Part 2)

Liu Hongji is already standing in his old age, so he naturally refuses to do anything with Li Shimin, a child who is only 14 years old. In a hurry, the corner of his eye swept to Li Xu, and he suddenly had a plan in his heart.

patted Li Shimin on the shoulder, and he smiled and led the troubles to the east: "Erlang wants to find someone to teach martial arts, why not find someone who is the same age as himself." In the spring, he was on the plug and beheaded the head of the Xi Khan, and the courage of the ancient Qin Wuyang was nothing more than ......" (Note 1)

"Seriously!" Jiancheng, Wan'er, and Shimin brothers and sisters screamed in unison, and looked at Li Xu again, only to find that although the other party was wearing a scholar's clothes and a sword pinned to his waist that even a hen couldn't kill, the skeleton and height were by no means owned by a scholar. couldn't help but believe Liu Hongji's words a little, and their eyes immediately showed some admiration.

"You can ask him if he has anything to do with it!" Liu Hongji smiled slightly and struck while the iron was hot. Li Xu came from a humble background, which was a big shortcoming when he interacted with the children of the family such as Jiancheng and Shimin. However, those who listened to what he did on the grassland would never dare to look at him in the eyes of ordinary people again. Therefore, Liu Hongji thinks that Yu Qi let his good brother owe favors to Tang Gong, so it is better to turn around and let several of Tang Gong's children take the initiative to associate with Li Xu. In this way, it will be of great benefit to the current situation and future development of the good brothers.

Li Xu has never dealt with officialdom, how could he understand Liu Hongji's good intentions, seeing that the Li brothers and sisters inquired with their eyes, they immediately blushed, and explained in a hesitant manner: "That is, that is in front of the two armies, the defeat of the Xi people has been decided." I had no intention of going with the knife, but I didn't expect to kill him! ”

"If you don't want to make a knife, you can cut the head of the Khan, if you have the intention to make a knife, won't the entire grassland be turned over for you!" Li Jiancheng clapped his hands in admiration, his face full of appreciation.

"Come on, bring my leather armor to Brother Zhongjian!" Li Shimin shouted happily. I can't wait to get off the field and walk a few laps with each other. He has been practicing martial arts since he was a child, and his talent is amazing, and he has peeked into the door since he was ten years old. Now his skills are much higher than those of his peers, and he can't find an opponent at all. went to Tang Gong's guards to compete, but those guards didn't dare to hurt the second son, so they abandoned their weapons and surrendered after three moves. After a long time, Li Shimin inevitably felt lonely in his heart. Today, a ready-made sparring was finally delivered to the door, and of course there was no reason to let it go easily.

The servant who was waiting next to him agreed, and immediately ran down to get the leather armor. Li Xu couldn't shirk it again and again, so he had to go behind the tree and untie his coat and hang it on the branches.

Outside the martial arts arena, there was originally a special room for changing clothes. Li Xu has never lived in a wealthy family, how can he know the exquisiteness of the Guogong family. According to the rules of country children playing and fighting, turn around and take off behind a tree. When he turned his body into a short fight, he suddenly remembered that there was a young lady standing on the martial arts field.

When he arrived, his face turned even redder, and he escaped a boiled crab. That Li Wan'er was not annoyed, and looked at Li Xu's figure with a smile, only to see that he had broad shoulders and a broad back, ape arms and wolf waist, and looked many times more pleasing to the eye than when he was wearing a scholar's robe.

"The leather armor of the second son, I'm afraid it doesn't fit the body of Li Gongzi!" Li Shimin's personal companion came running over with a deerskin soft armor he wore when practicing martial arts, looked at Li Xu's skeleton, and persuaded in a low voice.

"That's, I'm abrupt today!" Li Shimin looked at Li Xu again and sighed regretfully. He had just heard that the other party had killed a khan in the outside of the Saiwai battle, and he couldn't help but have a desire to win. As the son of Tang Gong, going out to fight at such a young age obviously cannot be allowed. But if you can win Li Xu's one and a half moves in your fists and feet, it means that you can also kill the enemy's general, which is much more comfortable than being praised by hundreds of people.

But seeing the other party's figure clearly at this moment, Li Shimin immediately knew that he would definitely suffer a big loss in terms of strength. If you give up your fists and feet and try your sword competition, once someone is injured, Liu Hongji will not be able to get over his face. Just as he was hesitating whether to continue the competition, he heard Liu Hongji suggest on the side: "Why do you need to test your fists and feet, there are ready-made targets here, you two can shoot a round of arrows!" ”

"Very wonderful, in this case, please ask Brother Zhongjian for advice!" Li Shimin clenched his fists and said loudly. At this point, his contempt for Li Xu has been exhausted, and he really regards this person as a competitive opponent.

"Don't dare, please ask the second son for guidance!" Li Xu returned the salute with his fists and said in a low voice. Compared with the bow and arrow, it is also in line with his original intention, if the fists and feet are superior, even if he intends to lose, it is easy to be seen by others. As for the bow and arrow, the shooting is not a matter of raising hands, let Li Shimin win once, it should be to please his father

With this in mind, he went to the weapon rack and picked out a step bow and slowly adjusted the bowstring. The things used by the Li family sisters and brothers naturally cannot be defective. Although it was not as stiff as the one he was used to, the smoothness and comfort of opening it were better than the one. With a bow in his hand, his flustered mood immediately stabilized, and his breathing and footsteps immediately became even.

"What a spirit!" Li Wan'er secretly praised in her heart. Just now, the young man in front of her was still a nostalgic image that had never seen much of the world, and with the bow in his hand, his temperament had changed greatly, and he faintly had the taste of a veteran of a hundred battles. And there are less than fifty veterans of a hundred battles under the Li family, all of whom are regarded as the treasures of the family. If this person can reach such a state when he is a teenager, how can there be limits to his future prospects?

Thinking of this, Li Wan'er's gaze quietly moved to the eldest brother and the second brother, and saw that the faces of both of them showed a look of surprise. Obviously, the two brothers were taken aback by Li Xu's performance.

"Brother Zhongjian is a guest, so he should be invited first!" Li Shimin also picked a bow, adjusted the bowstring, and invited him.

The seventy-step target naturally couldn't help Li Xu, who had worked the grassland for several months, and had experienced the guidance of several top masters such as Sun Jiu, A Silan, and the coppersmith. I saw him stretch his arms lightly and draw the bow to the fullest. As soon as the finger is loosened, the feather arrow is off the string. Immediately after, the target in the distance "banged" loudly, and at the red heart, a carved feather landed steadily.

"Good!" The crowd cheered, followed by a drum beat. Li Xu looked back, but it was Wan'er wielding a pair of drums and hammers and knocking a song of breaking the array in the distance.

"Wait for me to shoot!" Li Shimin said with a smile. can fight with such a master of arrows, even if he loses, he is willing. After taking a closer look, he also took an arrow out of his hand, and steadily shot the red heart of another target seventy paces away.

"Good!" Li Xu took the lead in cheering for the people. The other party is nearly two years younger than him, and he comes from a wealthy family, so it is indeed admirable to be able to have such attainments in bows and arrows.

After the drums sounded, a servant ran up and carried the two targets back. Both of their arrows are inside hearts, so this round can only be counted as a draw. Li Shimin looked at the arrow target, then at Li Xu, and asked loudly: "Brother Zhong Jian, can you shoot farther!" ”

"Willing to give it a try!" Li Xu nodded and replied with a smile.

"Put the target at ninety paces!" Li Shimin ordered loudly.

Several servants pulled the arrows off the target and ran out quickly. Suddenly, the target was placed ninety paces away. This time, it was Li Shimin's turn to shoot first, and after an arrow was shot, it happened that a wind blew. The arrow couldn't help but skew, hitting half an inch from the heart.

Even so, such a long distance is accurate. Everyone watched and applauded. When the drumming stopped, Li Xu also shot his second arrow, this arrow was very urgent, but the accuracy was a little worse, and after the target, it was an inch away from the red heart.

"None of them hit the heart, it's a draw again!" Without waiting for the servants to carry the target back, Li Shimin preemptively qualified the results.

"It's me who lost!" Li Xu put down the bow and admitted in a low voice. He didn't want to win the master here, so this arrow was deliberately biased.

"Draw, draw, missed hearts, more or less bias is the same!" Li Shimin was not happy and shouted loudly. After carefully looking at the target carried back by the servant, he smiled again and asked, "Brother Zhong Jian, how far can you shoot?" ”

Without waiting for Li Xu to refuse, Liu Hongji once again took the lead to "betray" him, "We encountered a bandit on the way back, and Zhong Jian shot the throat of the bandit leader a hundred steps away!" ”

"Oh?" Li Shimin glanced at Li Xu meaningfully, as if he instantly saw through what the other party was thinking.

"Well, that's blindfolded. There were so many of them that I had to take a chance! Li Xu hurriedly explained loudly. Liu Hongji's words reversed black and white, at that time, he and he were the bandits, and the chasing soldiers behind him were clearly Turkic officers and soldiers. But at this level, he couldn't explain it to anyone. For a while, his face began to turn red again, as if he was embarrassed to be praised.

"Put the target at one hundred and twenty steps, and I will re-compete with Brother Zhongjian!" Li Shimin ordered loudly.

The servant quickly ran forward and set the target of the feather arrow a hundred and twenty paces away. This is already close to the corner of the martial arts arena, and no one in the Li family has ever tried such a long distance. Everyone stopped being wordy and held their breath and watched the shooting. lest I pant out and affect the result of the game between the two.

After carefully examining the target, Li Shimin put down his bow. Raised his hand and pulled off a thumb-sized jade from the crown of the boy on his head, handed it to his brother, looked back at Li Xu, and said loudly: "It's boring to shoot like this, it's better to bet on the lottery, if you win, this piece of jade will be yours!" ”

"No, no!" Li Xu waved his hand again and again in a panic. He was talked about by Du Erpu in the Su Si Department about the common sense of identifying the treasure jade, and it can be seen that the jade that Li Shimin put in Liu Hongji's hands is a top grade. With such a texture of jadeite, it is worth at least a dozen horses when it is taken to the grassland. In the Central Plains, the value is even more unknown.

Li Shimin waved his hand and refused to say more to him. Draw the horned bow and shoot an arrow first. The arrow was as fast as a meteor, and it "thud" and shot an inch away from the red heart. The tail of the arrow shook back and forth a few times, and then did not move.

At such a distance, it would be a little difficult for Li Xu to quietly make concessions. was hesitating whether to deliberately shoot an empty arrow that missed the target, and heard Li Shimin shouting, "Brother Zhongjian, don't worry, I lost, this piece of jade belongs to you." What about your lottery, you can't calculate that you can win me! ”

"Me?" Li Xu's eyes widened and asked. When he arrived, his package was hidden behind the saddle. At this moment, the mount was placed by the servants of the Li family who didn't know where to go, and wanted to take out a colorful head from the package that was equivalent to the jade from Li Shimin, but there was no valuable object on the body.

"It's better to bet on the two swords on the waists of you and Brother Hongji, how about it" Li Shimin smiled and asked.

"How can this sword be compared to the beautiful jade of the second son!" Li Xu hesitated for a moment and replied frankly. The swords on his and Liu Hongji's waists were all bought on the road, and the two together were only three hundred yuan. Sensei said that he could buy the piece of jade that Li Shimin took out, and he couldn't even buy the seat with the jade on the boy's crown.

"The value of this sword is not in itself, but in its master. If you lose, you will lose Brother Hongji and your own weapons to me. In the future, I will be the only one who will be driven by me. Li Shimin smiled again and explained.

Hearing this, Li Xu knew that his trick of deliberately admitting defeat in the second round was seen through by Li Shimin, and he secretly admired the sharpness of the young man's eyes in front of him. In a dilemma, he turned his eyes to Liu Hongji, hoping that this thoughtful brother would have an idea, but he saw Liu Hongji looking at him, and his eyes were full of encouragement.

"Brother Hongji wants me to win?" Li Xu's eyes widened a little, and he asked in his heart. went to other people's homes to be a guest, but set off the host's field, in Yi County, where he grew up, there is no such rule of being a guest. But deliberately lost, he and Liu Hongji became the private soldiers of the Li family, and the price was also huge.

"Just according to what Jiro said!" Liu Hongji replied loudly as if he had seen through what Li Xu was thinking. stepped forward to untie the saber at his waist, picked up the saber that Li Xu put behind the tree, and held it in Li Jiancheng's hand.

There was silence in all directions, and even the clouds in the sky slowed down. Li Xu didn't dare to hide his secrets anymore, took a closer look at the position of the arrow target, and put the arrow on the bowstring. But when he saw that the bow opened like a full moon and quickly rebounded, the feathered arrow flew out with a whizz. Immediately, the cheers were like thunder, and Li Wan'er danced with both hands, beating the drum hammer like a shocking sound.

"Good!" Suddenly, an old voice came from afar, suppressing all the noise in the field.

Li Xu turned his head when he heard the sound, and saw a loyal elder with a lot of wrinkles on his face, but a kind and kind eyebrow, walking towards him briskly from a distance.

Note 1: Qin Wuyang, a famous warrior at the end of the Warring States Period, killed people in the downtown area at the age of thirteen. Later, as Jing Ke's deputy, he entered Qin to assassinate Yingzheng, failed, and died.

Alcoholer's note: The "Female Commandment" mentioned in the previous section was written by Ban Zhao in the Han Dynasty and was the earliest training material for ladies in China.

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