Starting from a thatched cottage, the farmer embarked on the road to wealth through imperial examina

After the Shangsi Festival holiday, Ye Changyan and others returned to the Imperial College to study, and heard the news that the Imperial College planned to make strengthening students' physique an important teaching content.

It seems that the unlucky Tang Yong mentioned by Duan Hong that day, who died on the way to his new post, has attracted the attention of the top leaders of the Imperial College, and they are planning to pay attention to strengthening the students' physique.

However, there were indeed quite a few weak scholars in the Imperial College, some of whom looked very frail and might really be blown away by a gust of wind.

At the Imperial College, students used to practice archery at the shooting range for half an hour every morning, but now they have changed it to practicing archery at the shooting range for half an hour each morning and evening.

Originally, the day before each holiday, the students of the Imperial College would go to the horse farm in the northern suburbs to learn how to ride and drive. Now, they are also arranged to go to the horse farm in the northern suburbs to learn how to ride and drive on the fifth day of every ten days.

Due to the increase in time for archery at the shooting range and horse riding and driving at the stables, the time for other courses has naturally been adjusted accordingly.

The course time for horse riding and archery has been increased, and students have increased the amount of practice. Now Ye Changyan can easily pull a three-dou bow, and the number of times he misses the target has also dropped significantly.

Of course, there is still a certain gap compared to Liang Jingcheng. Liang Jingcheng can pull a five-dou bow relatively easily, and can barely pull a seven-dou bow. Liang Jingcheng's archery accuracy is much higher than Ye Changyan's. The five-dou bow almost never misses the target. Now Liang Jingcheng is already practicing with moving targets.

The not-too-tall chestnut horse at the North Suburbs Horse Farm has established mutual trust with Ye Changyan. After repeated practice, Ye Changyan can now get on and off the horse easily. Now he is practicing flying onto the horse. Although his movements do not look as elegant and handsome as Liang Jingcheng's, at least he has mastered the key techniques.

Ye Changyan has now started to train in riding skills under the guidance of a special teacher at the horse farm. Riding on the medium-sized chestnut horse, Ye Changyan can already run two laps around the inner field of the racecourse. Although the speed is not fast, he and the chestnut horse are gradually becoming more and more coordinated.

Today at the North Suburbs Racecourse, in addition to the students from the Imperial College who are learning horse riding, there are also some other young men riding horses here.

Seeing that Ye Changyan had already run several rounds in the inner circle of the racecourse, Ye Changyan's horse riding teacher asked Ye Changyan to take a rest first. Ye Changyan led the chestnut horse and strolled all the way to the outer circle of the racecourse.

The outer circle is much larger than the inner circle. Ye Changyan saw Liang Jingcheng, Ao Chong'an, Fan Tao and others, under the guidance of the equestrian teacher, practicing to pull out white feather arrows stuck in the ground while riding on galloping horses.

The first one to rush forward was Ao Chong'an. When he was about five meters away from the first white-feather arrow, he instantly crawled toward the ground, grabbed the reins and the iron ring on the saddle with one hand, and reached out to the white-feather arrow stuck in the ground with the other hand.

The horse galloped past, but Ao Chong'an missed the arrow. Although Ye Changyan was standing far away, he could still see clearly that Ao Chong'an's hand was at least half an arm's length away from the white feather arrow on the ground.

The second person to rush over on horseback was Fan Tao. Fan Tao's movements were obviously larger than Ao Chong'an's. With the same posture, Fan Tao's movements were larger, so he grabbed the white feather arrow on the ground at the moment the horse galloped past.

Soon after, horses galloped past, and most of them failed. It seemed that this action was quite difficult.

Liang Jingcheng was the second to last one to rush out on horseback. Liang Jingcheng grabbed the reins and pulled the iron ring on the saddle. When he got close to the white feather arrow, his body was as flexible as a willow branch. With quick eyes and hands, he pulled up the white feather arrow on the ground with his slender arms.

Ye Changyan was so excited watching this that he didn't expect Liang Jingcheng's horsemanship was so amazing. The whole movement looked smooth and natural.

"Clap clap clap..."

Just as Liang Jingcheng's horse rushed forward, Ye Changyan heard a somewhat lonely applause behind him.

Ye Changyan turned around and saw a young man about sixteen or seventeen years old, almost the same age as himself, clapping, and behind him were two attendants with stern expressions.

Look at this young man, his facial features are delicate and three-dimensional, he is very handsome, he is wearing a bright and gorgeous dark green brocade gown, a warm jade pendant is hung around his waist, his whole appearance is very rich, he must be the young master of some noble family.

Seeing Ye Changyan turning around to look at him, the young man gave Ye Changyan a calm smile. At the moment the young man smiled, a picture flashed through Ye Changyan's mind, but he didn't catch it. Why did the young man's smile look somewhat familiar?

Ye Changyan was sure that he had never seen this young man before. Since he came to Shengjing, except for his classmates in the Imperial College, he had hardly come into contact with any dignitaries in Shengjing. Just when Ye Changyan was thinking about whose smile was similar to his, he saw the young man step forward, stand beside Ye Changyan, and speak.

"This one is good! It's better than the previous ones. The flexibility and coordination of the body are impeccable, and the cooperation with the horse is also quite tacit."

Ye Changyan seemed to be still immersed in his own thoughts and had not yet fully come to his senses when he heard the young man look at Ye Changyan and ask.

"What do you think?"

A handsome face with a calm smile on it came into his eyes. Ye Changyan came back to his senses and bowed to the other party apologetically.

"Sorry, I was distracted just now. When I first saw your smile, I thought it looked familiar, but I was sure we had never met before, so I was searching for the scene in my memory and was distracted for a moment."

"It's okay, it's okay. There are tens of thousands of people in this world, so it's not surprising to have one or two people who look similar, not to mention that just the smile looks familiar."

Hearing the other party say this, Ye Changyan smiled and nodded in agreement.

"My name is Li Ping. Today is a nice day. I wanted to run a few laps at the racecourse. I saw the wonderful scene just now when I arrived. Are you also a student from the Imperial College who came here to run horses?"

The nobleman in front of him bowed to Ye Changyan very cheerfully and generously, and introduced himself to Ye Changyan. Ye Changyan hurriedly bowed to him in return, and then he answered.

"Mr. Li, you are polite. I am Ye Changyan, also a student of the Imperial College. However, I have just started to learn horse riding. Currently, I can only walk two laps in the inner field. Compared with them, there is still a considerable gap."

As he spoke, Ye Changyan pointed at Liang Jingcheng and a group of other students from the Imperial College who were practicing horse riding.