Chapter 95 Interesting Exams
The first martial arts test was conducted.
For the Divine Dynasty, which has always respected the requirements of physical fitness, the students can more or less know some riding and archery kung fu, and the safari in the mountains and forests is the daily entertainment and pastime of the children of the princes and nobles from the north.
But it's one thing to be able to get a high score, and it's another thing to get a high score.
The horses selected for the Taifu assessment are all selected from the military horse farm of the military department, and they will definitely not be on the same level as the extremely docile foals that have long been domesticated, and the bows and arrows of the archery department are all boxwood hardwood bows, and their own embroidered bows are not on the table at all.
On the large grassland-like grassland next to the Taifu stone road, the war horses behind the fence snorted, looking at the first batch of candidates who came forward with confidence and laughter with disdain, and the rest of the candidates who had not yet been lined up were discussing which horse was good-looking and which horse was more docile and easy to control under the shade of the tree.
When a very elegant-looking boy walked up to the brown-red horse that was quite well-behaved in the eyes of the students, and after the elegant boy stroked the mane of the well-behaved horse with his hand, and when he turned over and got on the horse and heard the exam order sound, the brown-red horse was eager to try......
Human-horse bond.
The elegant boy was thrown off his horse and lay on the grass, splashing dirt flying.
The military officer smiled bitterly and stabilized the horse, and helplessly spread his hands and said, "Why don't you even step on the pedals......"
"Oh!"
Only then did the students on the sidelines realize that this horse is not the same 'species' as the horses they usually have at home.
After the end of the first round of the imperial examination, some students rode horses steadily to turn, stop, accelerate and a series of projects, and finally completed the assessment, that is from the Beihuang Town North Army Military Academy candidates, there are sassy women wearing sword robes and a strong horse that looks very irritable to complete the assessment at lightning speed, that is Jin Weiqi, the granddaughter of the general of the auxiliary country, and there are beautiful female students from the southern water towns who look gentle and introverted After completing the exam with proud results, it was Lan Qingqing from Luyang Road.
All the students sighed, it turned out that the war horses of the military department were also vulgar horses that looked at their faces, and the brown horses carrying the beauties of Luyang had been clearly irritable and had turned a male candidate upside down, but in the next second, they became extremely gentle.
Since it is a horse for students to prepare for the exam, it is naturally selected, and those fierce horses with bad tempers have not been selected, but there are some battle-hardened, cunning and abnormal old fritter horses have also mixed in, and the captains of the military department can only pray that no students will encounter these old fritters.
"Sister Lan, you are estimated to be able to take the first class in this imperial department. Yuan Youtao looked at Lan Qingqing who walked out of the examination room and congratulated.
"I don't think I can get the first grade, those students from the Military Academy are better than me, and I didn't expect that horse to be quite obedient, you must know that I only learned some riding skills with Lin Pheasant in Jinling City...... Anyway, you have to be careful later, the turn in front of you is a bit troublesome, you have to pull the reins early, don't pull it when it is time to turn, then the horse's hooves will be out of the line. Lan Qingqing kindly reminded.
Yuan Youtao looked at the horses who were honestly gnawing on the grass on the fence at this time, and then looked at the cunning eyes under their honest and well-behaved faces, and then looked at the meat under his wide school clothes, he couldn't help but feel sad, he seemed to see the tragic fate he would experience if he chose to ride a horse.
However, there is often more than one path in front of people, and there is only one opportunity to take the exam, and there may be another way to choose the exam.
So Yuan Youtao resolutely walked to another examination room.
Since it is an imperial branch, there is also the option of driving in addition to horseback riding.
Yuan Youtao took the results of his lottery, stepped into the carriage under the eager eyes of the gentlemen of Taifu and the captains of the military department, and as the carriage sank, Yuan Youtao drove the car slowly and leisurely under the surprised eyes of the gentlemen of Taifu and the captains of the military department.
"This ...... It's not cheating. ”
"Don't count......
The war horses of the military headquarters pulling the cart only felt as if a huge stone had suddenly been loaded on the carriage behind them, and the well-trained war horses in the military camp had to walk honestly and did not dare to ...... It is not possible to make the slightest mistake.
The test room for driving is not very large, around the grassland for a circle, bends and stretches, there are straight straight lines, there are also sudden turns, and there are more uphill and downhill and various command assessment items of the road signs, at this time under Yuan Youtao's carriage became extremely stable, so stable that with the passage of the carriage, there were two shallow ruts left on the road.
Even the nightmarish acceleration and deceleration in the eyes of the candidates became extremely easy in this carriage, not because the horses sat behind them with beautiful women who were willing to cooperate, but because they could not add up to the speed at all.
After a steady drive, although it was not fast, but it was above the level line, Yuan Youtao jumped out of the car and wiped the sweat on his forehead, bowed to the horse pulling the cart, and said regardless of whether the horse could understand or not: "Thank you Brother Ma for your cooperation, in fact, my hand holding the reins just now is shaking." ”
The horse pulling the cart was also sweating at this time, the limbs that were on the ground trembled slightly, and he was panting heavily, and the originally energetic, restless war horse was like an old ox that had been plowing all day at this time.
Yuan Youtao thought about this successful and unexpected exam, and couldn't help but praise Taifu's thoughtful consideration for the disadvantaged groups who were relatively plump, since the imperial department was not bad, then he could let go of the high requirements of other assessments, thinking of this, he walked towards the shooting examination room with his steps.
The students looked at the fat man who seemed to be about to float, and then at the dusty ground in the driving assessment in front of them, and hated why they didn't eat two more bowls of rice before they came.
There are no two assessment methods for students to choose, they only need to bend the bow and shoot the arrows in their hands to the arrow target 100 meters away, and there will naturally be a military examiner to count the number of targets and accuracy to judge the results.
But bending the bow and arrows seems to be just a simple four words, but it is difficult to do, the boxwood hardwood bow provided by the military department is a great test of the arm strength of the bow puller, and the archery requires a stable bow under the premise of shooting out, not to mention the hit rate after that, so in addition to the students from the military academy, the rest of the scholars who mainly study and do learning have a bitter face, like wrinkles on the bitter gourd.
When two candidates stand in front of the table at the same time, one candidate is sweating profusely, and he can pull the bowstring with the strength of milk, and it is difficult to put on the feather arrow, and less than half of the feather arrow will stagger to the ground like a drunk man, and the other candidate is calm, rolling up his sleeves, revealing his solid biceps, stretching his bow and arrow, and the sound of breaking the air sounded for a while, all of which fell on the arrow target 100 meters away.
Regardless of the number of rings for the time being, but the gap between the two is complete.
The candidates from the Military Academy let out bursts of laughter, and the scholarly children who have been scholars since childhood couldn't help but shake their heads and sigh, but there will be no such thing as bad words, the quality of the people of the Divine Dynasty is still there, and they are all scholars, so naturally they will not lose their demeanor because of an exam.
They all know in their hearts that they are far behind these students who are studying and fighting in the barracks when they are young, and they naturally do not feel resentment, since they have shortcomings, then they must also have strengths, and those etiquette and music are not good at the students of the military department.
It's just that today's first test is the martial arts test, so it is inevitable that I will lose face.
At this moment, a fat man who had just come down from the imperial examination room stood in front of the table, only to see that he was wide and fat, although he was wearing ordinary student clothes, but his rich and noble appearance was enough to prove that he was not from the military academy or behind the gate, but a pampered noble son who lived a rich life.
"Alas, another tragedy. The students who were waiting for the exam sighed.
Among them, there are many noble sons, naturally there are people who recognize Yuan Youtao, but everyone knows that this Yuan family's eldest young master is a first-class master when it comes to making money, but this bow and arrow, there have been several young masters who have folded on it before, they don't think that this Young Master Yuan, who is richer than he looks, can do better than himself.
What's more, the boys themselves understand in their hearts that those so-called safaris in the mountains on weekdays need to do it themselves, not all of them are the entourage around them with bows and arrows, and then tie the prey to their horses, they only need to eat some fruit wine and chat with their friends, and they must not be the opponents of those people who have really practiced in the military department.
In the sympathetic eyes of everyone, Yuan Youtao picked up the bow on the table, stretched out his big hand like a lotus root and tried to pull it...... Sure enough, there was no pull.
The boy who was waiting for the exam showed an expression that was really like this.
But what happened next was a little unexpected, and after Young Master Yuan tried to pull it unsuccessfully, he saw that his legs were slightly separated, and he put on a posture with a great sense of weight, picked up his bow and arrows and aimed them forward,
With the flicking of the bowstring, a feather arrow swished out, and the eyes of the candidates followed the direction of the arrow to look at the arrow target in the distance, but there was no feather arrow on it, and the bare arrow target silently conveyed a message - off target!
"Alas!" the boy sighed.
The archery assessment requires candidates to shoot ten feather arrows, so Yuan Youtao still has nine chances.
Therefore, Young Master Yuan is still shooting.
Sou!
The sound of arrows breaking through the air kept ringing, although it was not as strong and rhythmic as the students of the military academy, and it was even a little hectic, like an ancient song played by an unskilled musician at random, but the sound of nine breaking the air was still over after all.
None of the feathered arrows on the target 100 meters away hit the heart of the Ten Rings.
But around the Ten Rings, there were nine crooked clusters of arrows, not like they were shot, but like naughty children who had inserted them at random.
Yuan Youtao put down the bow and arrow in his hand, and there were more beads of sweat on his head than when he drove before, and the whole person seemed to be hollowed out.
"Damn, I'm tired of me, but fortunately I'm a cultivator. ”
"You can eat more for lunch later, and I don't know how the food in this Taifu is......"