These days, Yuanba has been thinking about how to make some money, not only to help his aunt share her worries, but also his elixir can only be used for three months, and after three months, he will have to prepare it himself, but those medicines are extremely valuable, how can he afford to prepare them without making money, he plans to ask his grandfather Yang Yin for money, except for his grandfather Yang Yin, who cares about him in the family? But his self-esteem makes him unable to open this mouth, he wants to be self-reliant.

The most reliable thing is to rely on his martial arts to make money, Yuan Ba has already thought of a way, and he is ready to wait for the weather to warm up and start to implement it.

As soon as Yuanba walked into the courtyard gate, the sharp-eyed Niuniu saw the black horned bow on Yuanba's back at a glance, and her eyes suddenly lit up, "Brother Yuanba, whose bow is this?"

"Naturally, it was the new bow that the master gave me, and I didn't use the old bow well, so I'll give it to you!"

Yuan Ba took off the black bow, pulled the bowstring, and only heard a muffled sound of '綳!', the force was very strong, and he liked it very much.

"Great!"

Niuniu suddenly jumped up with joy and ran towards Yuanba's room, she had long wanted a bow, but the price of the bow was too expensive, and the cheapest bow cost thirty yuan, and they couldn't afford it.

In the fifteenth year of the founding of the Yuan Dynasty, the emperor ordered the collection of weapons in the world, and did not allow private casting, although there were weapons for sale in the market, but those were official weapons, monopoly management, and the price rose very expensive, and poor people like them could not afford it at all.

Shen Qiuniang came out of the kitchen and said with a smile: "You didn't cry out that you were hungry? Looking at your appearance, you should have eaten with the master, do you want to eat more?"

"Auntie, no, my stomach is already full!"

Yuan Ba scratched his head again and said, "Auntie, the master is going to go on an expedition tomorrow, and he may not come back for a year or two, and I will practice by myself in the future." ”

"Do you practice by yourself?" asked Shen Qiuniang worriedly.

"No problem!"

Yuan Ba patted his chest, "I'll have time to do something for my aunt in the future, auntie, I'll do my homework now." ”

Yuan Ba took the horn bow back to her house, Shen Qiuniang looked at the child she raised, and remembered the little guy she saw for the first time five years ago, and now she has grown so tall, her heart is full of relief, the children of poor families have long been in charge, this sentence is not bad at all.

In the room, Niuniu had already taken off Yuanqing's old bow from the wall, this was a five-bucket bow, Niuniu still had a hard time using it, but it could barely be pulled away, she saw Yuanba come in, and said impatiently: "Brother Yuanba, let's go out and practice archery!"

"Go out after writing, Niuniu, are you done with your homework?"

"I've done it a long time ago. ”

Niu Niu blinked her eyes wide and grinned, "If I help you do it, let's hurry up." ”

Baqing secretly glanced at the kitchen, his aunt was still busy and didn't notice them, so he nodded and laughed in a low voice: "Okay, you help me write, you want to use my handwriting, I'll just finish memorizing the book." ”

"Don't worry, I'll be imitating your words a long time ago. “

Niuniu took Yuanba's notebook and went back to her room, while Yuanba sat down and opened "Sun Bin's Art of War" to recite it, which was actually Zhang Xutuo's arrangement, and Shen Qiuniang was responsible for supervising him, which was very strict.

Yuanba's room is very small, which is equivalent to seven or eight square meters in later generations, put a bed, there is an old Nanmu box at the head of the bed, which is also his desk, and then there is a small bookshelf that Shen Qiuniang used a wooden board to help him nail, on which there are more than fifty books, all of which are copied by Shen Qiuniang herself, and she thinks that the books that are good for the child will copy one more.

It was getting dark, Niuniu sneaked over and stuffed the finished homework book to him, "Brother Yuanba, have you memorized the book?"

Yuan Ba nodded, "It's already good, what is my aunt doing?"

"Mother is copying books, let's go practice archery!"

Yuan Ba shook his head, "Where are the arrows?"

Niuniu was stunned, yes! Yuanba only has three arrows in total, how to divide them? One arrow costs twenty yuan, and they can't afford it, she scratched her head, "Otherwise, I'll use one arrow, and you use two arrows." ”

Yuan Ba shook his head, those three arrows were step bows and arrows, he needed to ride a bow and arrow now, Zhang Xutuo only gave him a bow, but did not give him an arrow, so he smiled and said: "Let's not practice archery tonight, I'll take you somewhere." ”

"Where to go?"

"Don't ask, just follow me. ”

Yuanba took Niuniu to the yard and shouted, "Auntie, I've done my homework, I'll take Niuniu out to play." ”

"Don't run far, come back early!"

"Yes!"

The two ran out of the yard and ran all the way east, and soon came to the outside of the wall of the Yang family's martial arts training ground.

Yuan Ba knocked her on the head, "Little fool, we don't have a bow, what arrows do we shoot?" don't ask anything, follow me!"

Yuanba is like an ape, lightly on the tree, two times on the wall, Niu Niu is also as light as a swallow, faster than Yuanba, the two of them lightly and skillfully jumped into the martial arts training ground, two small figures one after the other to the distance of the martial arts hall.

At this time, it was already dark, the gate of the Lian Wu Hall was closed, it was pitch black inside, there was no one, Yuan Ba had long known that there was no one here at night, there were two families guarding the gate at the gate, but the gate was still fifty steps away from the Lian Wu Hall, and they were behind the Lian Wu Hall, and the family guarding the gate couldn't see them at all.

Yuan Ba pulled out a thin little dagger, 'click!', pried open a window, he jumped in gently, Niuniu didn't know what he was going to do, and followed him in.

When Yuan Ba was five years old, he knew everything about the martial arts hall, which was empty and wide, enough to accommodate four or five hundred people to practice martial arts at the same time.

There are three wings on the west side of the martial arts hall, one is a dressing room for changing samurai uniforms, one is a rest room, and one is the weapons room, the goal of Yuan Ba is the weapons room, but the weapons room is in the middle, there is no window, only a door in the lobby to enter and exit.

The door is locked with a chain lock, and after the door is tightened, there will be a half-foot-wide door crack, which cannot be drilled in, Yuanba is tall and strong, and he can't get in, but Niuniu's body is soft, but he can squeeze in, which is why Yuanba brought Niuniu.

"Niuniu, get in!" he whispered.

Niuniu suddenly understood what Yuanba meant, she was so frightened that she covered her mouth, this is to steal something!

Niuniu was so frightened that her face turned white, "No! my mother knows that she will kill me, and she will also kill you." ”

"Oh, you little fool, we don't steal swords, just help me find two new pots of arrows in the pile of arrows in the corner. ”

"But, what should I do when my mother asks?"

"When my aunt asked, I said that it was sent by my master, and my master has already gone to war, and my aunt has no way to verify it, you go quickly!"

"Then..... can your master give you another sword?"

Niuniu's eyes showed a look of longing, she was learning martial arts with a bamboo sword, and she dreamed of having a sword of her own, but they couldn't afford it, and a sword would cost at least twenty yuan.

Yuan Ba gently pinched her well-behaved nose and said with a smile: "Yes, go and choose one you like." ”

Niuniu showed a sly smile in her eyes, and slowly got into the weapon room through the crack in the door, she first found two new pots of arrows in the corner of the wall and handed them out, and then searched for a long time on the sword stand, and finally found a light Yue Nu sword, which came out of the crack in the door.

"Let's go!"

The two little ones disappeared silently into the dark lobby, and since the weapons in the armory room were all public utensils, no one paid attention to the lack of anything, until a month later, someone found that a sword was missing, and as for the missing two pots of arrows, no one noticed it at all.

The key is Shen Qiuniang's side, Yuanba's bite to death was given to him by Zhang Xutuo before parting, and the sword was also Zhang Xutuo's parting gift to Niuniu, which is reasonable, Shen Qiuniang actually believed it.

In the room, Yuan Ba took out one arrow after another and carefully examined it, one pot of thirty arrows, two pots is sixty, all of which are the army's standard riding bow and arrows, three clusters of arrows, good mouth feather arrows, exquisite workmanship, have not been used, with these two pots of arrows, he can make money.

But he had to wait until the snow melted.