Chapter 40: My father taught horseback archery

After the Wei family and his party wandered around the street, Wei Mingting led everyone to the school grounds.

The school yard is a training place for soldiers, and in the past, outsiders were not allowed to enter here, not even the family members of the school captain's office.

But recently, the soldiers have been sticking to the front line, and the usual training place has been changed to a closer place to the east gate, so the school field is now idle, and only a few guards guard the gate.

Wei Mingting brought a few children over and wanted to use this rare vacation time to teach his children to ride horses.

Among the children, except for the eldest son, who can ride, he has not yet had time to teach them.

Wei Mingting planned to let his two daughters try horseback riding, and it happened that he and his eldest son taught one by one, Wei Mingting chose to teach Wei Ruo, leaving the job of teaching Wei Qingwan to his eldest son.

As for the youngest son, Wei Yilin, the Yun family watched and practiced riding a pony cub.

Wei Yilin looks like a monkey at home on weekdays, but today Wei Mingting is here, he is much more well-behaved, and he doesn't dare to have any little temper and temperament.

Wei Mingting came to Wei Ruo with his mount "Scythe" and asked Wei Ruo: "Ruo'er, dare to give it a try?" ”

Wei Ruo nodded, it's been so long since she crossed over, and she hasn't ridden a horse yet!

"That's for my father to teach you, this is a stirrup, you need to step on your feet here, this is a saddle, this is a rein......" Wei Mingting explained to Wei Ruo in detail the precautions for riding a horse.

Wei Ruo listened carefully, and when Wei Mingting finished speaking and asked her to try, Wei Ruo did not hesitate, stepped on the stirrup with one foot, turned over and sat up.

The movements are neat and chic, all in one go, without the slightest hesitation and fear.

Wei Mingting was still wondering if he should find a stool for his daughter to put her feet on, and Wei Ruo had already ridden it.

After reacting, Wei Mingting smiled and said: "Ruo'er, you are more decisive than your brother, I think when your eldest brother first learned to ride a horse, he hesitated for a long time. ”

Wei Yichen, who was in charge of teaching Wei Qingwan next to him, heard his father's words and protested with a smile: "Father, why did you even tell your sister about this, where do you put my face as a brother?" ”

Wei Mingting replied: "You earned your face, but you didn't cover it up for your father." ”

Wei Yichen hurriedly said: "Okay, well, it's my son who doesn't use it, it's better to be sassy than Ruo'er's sister!" If we are a heroine among women, women don't let them shave their eyebrows! ”

Listening to Wei Yichen's beautiful words, Wei Ruo, who was praised, didn't feel anything, but Wei Qingwan, who was beside Wei Yichen, lowered his head in disappointment.

As soon as Wei Yichen turned his head, he saw Wei Qingwan with his head lowered and a sad expression.

"Wanwan, what's wrong with you? Uncomfortable? Wei Yichen hurriedly asked.

"It's okay...... It's just that I'm a little too stupid, and I can't quickly grasp the essentials of horseback riding like my sister......"

"Wanwan, don't think so, Wanwan has things that Wanwan is good at, has Wanwan's advantages, there are many things that you are good at Ruo'er is not good at, for example, Wanwan, the pastries you make are very delicious, and your embroidery, calligraphy, and poetry are very good, these are incomparable to Ruo'er, Wanwan doesn't have to do everything to be the best, that's too tiring." Wei Yichen comforted.

"Hmm." Wei Qingwan agreed in a low voice.

"Okay, big brother continues to teach you." Wei Yichen continued to patiently explain the essentials of horseback riding to Wei Qingwan.

As soon as Wei Yichen had not said a word to Wei Qingwan, he saw Wei Ruo running up on a horse, running around the grass of the school yard again and again.

Wei Ruo on horseback smiled freely, without the timidity of riding a horse for the first time.

Looking at his daughter's wanton and free appearance, Wei Mingting sighed with some relief: "I didn't expect Ruo'er to be the person who is most like me, if she is a man, she may be able to fight with my father and son." ”

Yun also noticed the relieved expression on her husband's face when he looked at his daughter, and couldn't help but rejoice.

Ruo'er is the biological daughter of their husband and wife, and she has some shadows of her husband.

Thinking of this, the Yun clan's expression when he looked at Wei Ruo again also eased a lot, since the last incident, the Yun clan's attitude towards Wei Ruo has cooled a lot, but today's experience has made some changes in the Yun clan's psychology.

After riding the horse for a while, Wei Mingting took another bow and arrow for Wei Ruo to try.

"Archery is different from horseback riding, it's more difficult, you can try it, and if you can't, don't force it." Wei Mingting said first.

Wei Mingting originally only planned to teach his two daughters to ride horses today, and he didn't plan to let them try archery, after all, archery was still too difficult for the girl's family.

But Wei Ruo's horseback riding performance just now made Wei Mingting change his mind.

Wei Mingting gave Wei Ruo a demonstration, setting up arrows, opening bows, and archery.

Wei Mingting seems to be a natural warrior, a natural soldier, as soon as he gets the bow and arrows in his hand, the aura of the whole person changes, there is an indescribable majesty and courage, and the tight muscles seem to burst out with infinite power.

And the arrows he shot bear this out. The arrow hits the bull's-eye.

Wei Mingting handed the bow into Wei Ruo's hand and said, "Ruo'er will also try it." ”

"Okay." Wei Ruo took the bow, learned from Wei Mingting's movements just now, took an arrow from the quiver, and put it on the bowstring.

Wei Ruo got started quickly, and soon mastered the essentials of archery, and he could successfully shoot arrows.

However, both power and accuracy are limited:

In terms of strength, Wei Mingting can pull the bow into a "full moon", but Wei Ruo can only do a "gibbous moon";

As for the accuracy, not to mention the bull's-eye, it would be good not to miss the target, and after shooting ten arrows, only two fell on the target.

When I watched Wei Mingting shoot arrows, I felt that it was not very difficult, but when I really got started, I realized that Yang Zhen could not be done casually by anyone in a hundred steps.

Wei Ruo glared at the bow and arrow in his hand with some annoyance, why did this broken arrow be so disobedient?

Wei Mingting looked at his daughter's little expression and smiled: "Ruo'er, don't worry, take your time, you only tried it on the first day today, it's already very good to be able to do this." ”

Wei Mingting is not comforting Wei Ruo, it is really good, don't say that the girl's family is a man, and the first time she shoots an arrow, she may not have the same speed of progress as Wei Ruo.

Not far away, Wei Qingwan, who was still learning to ride a horse with Wei Yichen, saw Wei Mingting showing a kind expression to Wei Ruo.

After thinking for a while, Wei Qingwan said to Wei Yichen, "Big brother, I also want to try archery." ”

"Okay, I'll take you there." Wei Yichen didn't know Wei Qingwan's thoughts, she said that she wanted to shoot arrows, so she took her over.

Today, I brought my younger siblings to the school to play, and it doesn't matter if you learn or not, just have fun.

Wei Yichen and Wei Qingwan came to Wei Mingting, and after explaining the situation to Wei Mingting, Wei Mingting asked his subordinates to bring another pair of bows.

After Wei Qingwan took the bow, she followed Wei Mingting's demonstration and prepared to pull the bow.