At the end of May, the weather is getting hotter, and even the 100,000 mountains, where the four seasons are not very obvious, can feel a sense of dryness.

With more than a month of grinding, Li Laosan's first round of practice for Tang Yiding has ended. Now he can shoot twenty-six arrows in a row within six breaths, and although he can't guarantee the landing point of each arrow, he has no big problem grasping the general direction.

Of course, this is not Tang Yi's best result, his best result is that in the case of a double crossbow salvo, he can shoot eighteen arrows in a row within three breaths.

Compared to the beginning, when you could only shoot four or five arrows in a row, this is already quite good.

Now that Tang Yi has entered the second round of practice, the difficulty of this round has increased a lot, Tang Yi must deal with Li Laosan's hidden arrows anytime and anywhere, and must use crossbow arrows to hit Li Laosan who is moving.

Of course, Li Laosan didn't have a natal flying sword to protect his body, so he now wears thick armor every day.

Although the weather was much hotter, the roof in the early morning was still cool, so Tang Yi was lying on the roof reciting the Analects at this time. This is a new task assigned to him by Granny Ma, and now he has to read in the morning in addition to practicing calligraphy in the afternoon, even though he has already memorized the Analects.

Granny Ma said, 'Read the book a hundred times and see its meaning, and I can't teach you, so you can read it yourself, and when you fully understand the meaning of the words, when will you read the next volume'.

Tang Yi has been reading the Analects for several days, and it stands to reason that as a university monk in the new century, even if he has not memorized the Analects, can he not have read the explanations of the Analects on the Internet? In particular, most of the sentences in the Xueerji Articles were required to be memorized when he was in school, and even these sentences were hung in the classroom.

But when he got to Mr. Li, let Tang Yi turn those words over and over again, the old guy still said, "Read again!"

What Li Lao wants is not to translate these sentences, but to read these sentences to his heart, to his life, and to really read them as his own.

That's a bit of a trick.

Is the truth in the Analects simple? Actually, it's not that difficult. Okay, that's good. But how many years of habits have a person's habits formed, as the saying goes, 'the country is easy to change, and the nature is difficult to change', where is the habit so easy to change?

Naturally, it can, but it takes a lot of time and perseverance to replace the old habits with a new one.

Tang Yi's reading voice was very loud, and the people below could hear it clearly, at the beginning, when everyone heard Tang Yi's recitation, they were still curious to listen to the two voices, but now that everyone can recite it upside down, naturally no one cares.

"Zi said: disciple, if you enter, you will be filial, and if you go out, you will be a brother, you will be cautious and faithful, you will love the public, and you will be kind, and you will have more than enough strength to do it......"

When reading this, Tang Yi suddenly heard a whooshing sound from below, and without thinking about it, he pulled out Zhu Yeqing, and cut out horizontally to the left, only to hear the sound of 'ding', and the crossbow arrow actually grazed Zhu Yeqing's blade and flew towards Tang Yi.

He didn't get the arrow flying, but he changed the direction of the arrow slightly, causing it to fly past his nose.

After Tang Yi wiped the blood from the tip of his nose with his left hand, he neither paid attention to the crossbow arrows flying into the distance, nor was he annoyed that his swordsmanship was not enough, but continued to read: "Then learn from the text." ”

"Zi Xia said: ......"

As the first bolts flew, the speed of the bolts became faster and faster, and the direction was also erratic, sometimes on the left and sometimes on the right, and sometimes even a salvo from side to side.

At the end of the first round of shooting, Tang Yi only shot one crossbow arrow flying, and the rest of the crossbow arrows could only change direction slightly. His undershirt was already full of blood beads, and even his right arm was drilled out of a bloody hole by a crossbow arrow because he couldn't dodge.

However, Tang Yi just sprinkled some medicinal powder prepared by a small divine doctor on the wound, and continued to read. As if they hadn't heard the sound of the crossbow, the people below continued to do their own things, and no one even dared to look up at Tang Yi's injury.

In their words, this kid won't die anyway, so let's see it or not.

The second round of shooting soon began, but Tang Yi just blocked two arrows and looked up in the direction of the village entrance, and Li Laosan on the left also stopped shooting, only Xiufeng on the right released an extra arrow, and after seeing Tang Yi's strangeness, he stopped.

There was the sound of horses' hooves at the entrance of the village, not many, only four or five horses.

After Tang Yi and Li Laosan glanced at each other, they both stepped on the roof and rushed to the entrance of the village. Granny Ma's house was not too far from the entrance of the village, only one street away, and the two quickly arrived at the entrance of the village.

At this time, there were four people on horseback on the threshing floor, two in front and two behind, one in front of one wearing dark red practice clothes, one wearing purple and blue practice clothes, and two people in the back wearing black practice clothes. On the chests of the four people, a tiger head pattern is embroidered with gold thread.

Varan bandits!

Li Laosan gasped and clenched the crossbow in his hand hard, but Tang Yi gently pressed him.

After seeing Tang Yi jump off the roof, he said with a smile: "Friends come from afar, are you happy?

The two masters didn't even hold it up, jumped off their horses before they arrived, and after throwing the reins to the people behind them, they ran over quickly, as if they were afraid that Tang Yi would wait for a long time.

The two ran to the front and back, first arched their hands to Tang Yi with a smile, and Li Laosan arched his hand slightly, and then said with a smile: "Tang Gongzi hasn't seen him for many days, has he always been good?

It turned out that the second master left Shili and Eight Towns to inquire about the news, and only came back recently, and Qingshan Academy did have a teacher surnamed Li, and he did go out to travel. It's just that as for whether they brought students, how many they brought, who their surnames were, and where they went, these second-in-command families couldn't inquire about it, and they didn't dare to inquire.

Inquire about the movements of a Confucian sage, unless he is impatient.

After getting the news, the second master immediately rushed back. After returning to Valanzhai and the big boss, the two felt that it was better to take the opportunity to make friends with this sage. Even if the two of them are just small people and the grade is not enough, they are not to blame many people, right?

Besides, even if you lose some money and don't have a relationship, it doesn't matter, you have seen a Confucian sage, and you can still brag about it when you return to Huju Mountain in the future. Even if the two of them boasted that they had eaten and drank wine with the sages, would this Li Jiaoyu still have nothing to do and go to Huju Mountain to expose their little people?

The reason that the poisonous snake offended Mr. Li and that he had been killed, but the two felt that they should come to apologize was very strong, and Tang Yi couldn't think of how to refute it, so he took the two of them and the carriage behind him into the village.

When he saw the gifts held out by the two, Tang Yi pursed his lips, and said in his heart that the sincerity of these two people is really pitiful, and the golden Buddha that has not been given to Yuhuang Pass is valuable, but two volumes of calligraphy and painting, a pen and an ink ingot. It is said that the golden Buddha is thousands of taels of gold, and these two broken calligraphy and paintings, a broken pen and a piece of rotten ink, can be worth thousands of taels of gold?

It's just that when Li Lao saw the four things, his eyes lit up, and he looked left and right, obviously extremely satisfied with the four gifts. In fact, it is no wonder that 'prosperous antiques, troubled gold in troubled times' is not in vain.

Although there is still friction between countries, and occasionally some wars break out, it is relatively stable, at least it is a prosperous atmosphere within the countries.

In this case, the value of gold is naturally not as good as that of antique calligraphy and painting, and these two paintings are the remains of the previous dynasty and belong to the treasures of treasures. It's just that these two calligraphy and paintings are obviously from the hands of secular Confucianism, and there is no spiritual flow on the calligraphy and paintings, but this person's calligraphy and painting attainments are not low, so even if they are not from the hands of Confucian monks, this calligraphy and painting still has great collection value.

The pen is a Zihao small pen, Zihao pen has always been expensive, and this pen is made of the back of the fifth-order hare demon beast, but the pen maker's craftsmanship is not enough, and it has not been made into a spiritual weapon. But even so, the value of this pen is extremely expensive, but compared with the other three, it is not enough.

As for the ink ingot, this is a really good thing, and it is made of rosin ink from the thousand-year-old pine that has been cultivated into a spirit on the Beiyue of the Great Zhao Kingdom. Even if this kind of ink ingot is put into the academy, it is a rare treasure.

This ink ingot is also the most expensive of the four gifts, even if it is alone, it will cost Valan Village tens of thousands of taels of gold, almost half of the savings of Valan Village in the past 20 years.

These four things fell in the eyes of Tang Yi, Li Laosan and others, and they were naturally not as bright as gold, but they were dazzling in the eyes of Li Lao. Didn't you see him holding four things, and his eyes were about to pop out?

Fortunately, Li Lao hadn't forgotten his identity at this time, so he hurriedly wiped the saliva from the corner of his mouth, coughed lightly, and said with a cold face: "Okay, the old man will accept the things." Please come back, both of you. ”

When the big boss heard this, he nodded and answered 'yes' twice, and hurriedly pulled the second boss who was stunned in place, and walked out of Granny Ma's house together, not even daring to let out a fart.

Although the second master was dragged out by the big boss, he still looked back from time to time with a puzzled face, he always felt that something was not quite right with this old teacher of Qingshan Academy, but he couldn't remember what was wrong for a while.

It wasn't until he was dragged out of the village by the big boss and rode to Mantou Mountain that he reacted.

Yes, although those things are all fine in the secular dynasty, it seems that for a sage, it is not enough to see, right?

But what about this old Mr. Li? He is also very fond of calligraphy, painting and ink ingots, but he seems to prefer the small Zihao pen, even more than the more precious ink ingots.

A sage, even a sage who is happy to be poor, will never be poor and not even have a decent pen, right?

Thinking of this, the second boss hurriedly grabbed the big boss, and the two rode back to Lijia Village again.