Picturesque Rivers and Mountains in the Red Chamber

Chapter 25 2.2 What a pity for this talent

Volume Two

2.2 What a pity for this talent

"Your Highness, he is indeed preparing for the martial arts competition." In the midst of embarrassment, a guard who had just gone out to inspect returned with Zhou Yang's archery target, but his expression was a little strange, "It's just that the archery target seems to be in good condition. There aren’t many marks on the target, but there are arrow marks everywhere on the ground around the target!”

The laughter was even louder now.

"Your Highness, I am indeed practicing, and I have indeed failed to hit the target a few times, but that is because I have just started to practice riding and shooting, and I have not received much training. Otherwise, it is absolutely impossible for the high school Daxing County martial arts scholar to take the first place this year. Seven!" Zhou Yang couldn't help but defend.

"Oh?" Princess Yongchang smiled, "So you are good at foot shooting? Dongfang, give him the bow and arrows. If you really have yourself, I don't mind rewarding you with something, even if it's just an apology."

"Yes, princess!" The female guard took out the longbow and sword pouches from the left and right carrying gear in front of the saddle and threw them at Zhou Yang's feet. She also put Qingwen down. The girl immediately staggered and ran behind Zhou Yang.

"Princess, I'm sorry. I'm not used to using a woman's one-stone bow. Please allow me to get my own hard bow and demonstrate it to the princess." Zhou Yang picked up the long bow and pulled it twice casually before saying with a cold face. He was laughed at continuously. No matter how good-tempered you are, you should get angry.

"It seems that Mr. Zhou is very confident." His words offended all the guards at the scene. Not to mention the female guard, the other guards also all had stone bows, and many even had eight buckets. The one just now Guard Luo couldn't help but speak sarcastically.

"That's enough!" Princess Yongchang silenced all the guards around her with a single word, "Really? Then you go and get it, but if it doesn't work, don't blame me for punishing you for the crime of slight - go to yourself and get it." The target is set!"

"Thank you, Princess!" Zhou Yang glanced at the "Guard Luo", threw down a stone bow and strode back to the cave. He quickly returned with a stone and a half strong bow. The guard who had just gone out to set up the archery target had also return.

"Just try your best, Mr. Zhou. The 'punishment' that Aunt Yongchang said just now is just a joke." Seeing Zhou Yang's return, the eldest prince who had been ignored finally found the opportunity to speak, "I heard that the foot shooting subject of the scholar test is 150 Rifle target, is there any problem with this one?"

"A little more than a hundred steps, no problem!" Zhou Yang glanced at it, opened the bow and released the arrow without any ceremony, and emptied the quiver in the blink of an eye.

The scene immediately buzzed with noise. With their eyesight, they could easily see that a total of eighteen arrows had hit the target. Not only that, these arrows also formed a circle around the center of the target, which looked quite smooth. , nothing too outstanding.

"You're not bad, I'm not as good as you!" Zhou Yang slowly put down the arm holding the hard bow, shook his slightly sore shoulders, and heard a cold female voice behind him. He turned around and saw that the female guard named Dongfang had already picked it up. She put away her bow and arrows, but even when she spoke, her expression remained serious.

"Okay, you are indeed good." Princess Yongchang looked at him with interest, but unfortunately her tone of voice was still full of arrogance, "Just now you said that you just started practicing riding and shooting? Dongfang, I remember that you are good at riding and shooting? Yes. Let the Kong Cult teach him!”

"Princess, please forgive me. My duty is to protect the princess and I have no other time." The female guard replied without hesitation, "Furthermore, since the princess is out of the palace for hunting, my subordinates must at least escort the princess back to the palace before we can see if Have other military duties”

"You should have a holiday." Princess Yongchang interrupted her angrily, turned to look at Zhou Yang and said, "I just said that if you perform well, I will give you some rewards. Take it all as a reward." This is my apology.”

"Thank you, princess!" Zhou Yang bowed in surprise and thanked him. Many times, if someone does the same thing to teach him, the result may be ice and fire.

"Guard Luo, how are Mr. Zhou's skills?" Just when he was happy, the eldest prince suddenly spoke, but he asked the guard beside him.

"Your Highness, you can shoot eighteen powerful arrows with a powerful bow of one stone and a half, but you are only slightly uncomfortable. Even if you look at it, you are the top marksman in the army." Although his expression was very reluctant, Guard Luo did not dare to do it. He lied in front of the prince and princess, "Especially Mr. Zhou's archery movements and power have many mistakes. It is even more valuable to be able to achieve this level."

Zhou Yang: I always think you are being sarcastic.

"Dongfang?" Princess Yongchang looked at her female guard with interest. "What Guard Luo said is right, and he has shown mercy." The female guard replied seriously, "For example, he even made the most basic bow and arrow movements wrong. It looks beautiful, but it costs at least [-]% more. Not to mention his strength, it is easy to injure his arms and shoulders; and his longbow is also easily damaged in this way. This one-and-a-half-stone bow can be regarded as the best quality, and it is a waste of natural resources to use it like this."

The guards at the scene all laughed loudly, and their playful eyes were full of relief. It was obviously the meaning of "I want you to pretend to be X, now pretend to be stupid".

Zhou Yang:.
"Well, you will teach him well in these three days." Princess Yongchang smiled happily, "Anyway, there is a guard guarding the entrance, so there will be no problem. Such a talented martial arts scholar and even a martial arts scholar because there is no one Teaching is so bad, if word spreads, people might think that there is no one in Dazhou."

After saying that, she took the little princess who didn't say a word the whole time and rode away without hesitation, but the Oriental female guard stayed behind.

"Don't blame Mr. Zhou, aunt." Seeing that Zhou Yang's face turned the color of pig liver, the eldest prince smiled and tried to persuade him, "I've been in a bad mood these past few days, and I've been talking a little too harshly. I look at your mount. Just an ordinary horse? It's too shabby. Anyway, Guard Luo left a high-quality war horse for Xianggong Zhou. It was all because of Gu's kindness. I hope Xianggong Zhou will go to high school as soon as possible and can serve the Great Zhou Dynasty as soon as possible. "

"I don't dare!" No matter how strong his opinion was, Zhou Yang only dared to criticize in his heart. He definitely didn't have the guts to speak out, let alone directly confront the prince and princess. In this era, that would be boring. "Thank you for the reward, Your Highness!"

The eldest prince nodded with a smile and asked everyone to leave. One of the guards jumped off his horse and walked straight to the depths of Iron Net Mountain. It seemed that a camp had been set up there, just because Zhou Yang had been there these days. I stayed on the periphery and didn't notice it.

"Since Mr. Zhou is practicing, that's good. I'll only teach it once. It's up to you how much you can learn." Before Zhou Yang could recover from his depression, the female guard who had just left behind had already spoken, obviously with her Have a bad temper.

"Oriental Guard!" Zhou Yang didn't care about this and interrupted her directly, "Am I really as bad as you say?"

"You are able to achieve such a level only because of your outstanding strength and outstanding talent. If I can have your talent, I can at least double my combat power." The female guard has no interest in saving face at all, "In fact, Your shooting skills are basically all wrong, and there are only a few things you do right. Come to think of it, it’s really all about yourself and self-taught.”

Zhou Yang:.
"See, Dongfang guards also carry swords? They must be good at this, why don't we compare!" After taking several deep breaths, he finally suppressed the anger in his heart. Zhou Yang simply drew his sword out of its sheath, pointed at the female guard and shouted, " I guess Dongfang Guards wouldn’t mind giving you some advice, right?”

"It's okay to give me some advice." The female guard calmly pulled out the two-handed Yanling sword from her waist, "For example, you even hold the sword in the wrong posture, and I don't know where you learned these things."

".Watch the sword!" Zhou Yang couldn't hold on any longer, so he had to use force to speak. After shouting, he slashed with his sword. The remaining trace of reason allowed him to use only six points of strength to avoid really hurting the opponent, but he found that he was more and more powerful. The more I fight, the more frustrated I become.

"The sword is unstable, the force is too much, and it is difficult to hold back after the move. If the enemy is about the same strength as you, he will never let you survive more than twenty moves; if the enemy is willing to bear the cost of injury, he may not be able to hold back ten moves in a row. It's all useless." The female guard struggled to cope with Zhou Yang's offensive, while not forgetting to talk a little bit, "In fact, you don't need enemies. Anyway, within 20 years, your own hidden injuries will be enough to ensure that you will be stronger. retreat!"

"Dang——" After more than 30 moves, Zhou Yang finally seized the opportunity and knocked away the female guard's saber with a sword, and put the sword blade on her neck. "Your correct method failed to make you Defeated, it seems I have won.”

"What a pity for this talent." The female guard showed no fear at all. She also did not forget to verbally attack, and the effect was good.

"Pfft - hahaha, the young master is so pitiful!" Qingwen, the only girl beside her, chose "betrayal" and rolled on the grass while holding her belly with laughter, "The young master should learn from this sister!"

"Qingwen——" Zhou Yang was furious.
Fortunately, although this Oriental female guard has a sharp tongue, a bad sense of humor, and no sense of humor, her professional skills are not limited. She also doesn’t know what the three princes and princesses are doing here. In addition, the valley is really quite large. Anyway, for three consecutive days, Zhou Yang didn't see them coming once, but they didn't disturb his study.

Of course, there are also problems
"Yes, you have finally reached the level that I was when I was ten years old." It is still the cold female voice, which still makes people angry when listening to it. "Keep practicing hard, especially riding and shooting, even if the method is wrong, anyway You can still rely on your talent. If you don’t have enough practice in riding and shooting, I will wait for you at the entrance of the examination room with medicine for your injuries in August this year, so that you don’t get injured and have no one to treat you.”

"Dongfang Bing!" The furious voice was, yes, calling the name of the female guard.

(End of this chapter)