Dress to be a celebrity

Those who were willing to play golf made appointments and left. There were only a few people who wanted to practice bows and crossbows by the river, and the entourage they brought to watch the game.The two sent off President Xu and his party, and Huan Ling went to the bag under the saddle to take out a box of dried and fresh fruits, various snacks, and sweets, so that Song Shi could eat snacks when he had nothing to do, and wait for him to adjust the crossbow string before starting.

Song Shi also took out the bamboo cup he brought with him and told him to taste the sour plum soup he made at home.

The sour plum soup was soaked with ice in advance, and the bamboo tube was covered with a thermal insulation cotton cover. The tentacles were slightly cold, and a thin layer of water droplets formed on the wall of the tube.Unscrew the bamboo tube, the plum soup in the cup is still slightly white mist, drinking it is like a stream of ice hitting the stomach, and the heat that kept oozing out after playing the ball dissipates a lot.

Song Shi himself drank a few sips first, regained his energy, took a cloth towel and threw it into the shallow water, wrung it dry and slapped it on his face, the sweat and heat were completely wiped off, and threw it into the water again. Go back and throw it to Huan Ling.

Huan Ling was even more fluent than him, folded into small pieces and wiped his forehead, side of face, and neck, and tuned the strings after his hands were dry.Song Shi didn't understand this, so he stood aside and watched eagerly as his brother re-stringed the crossbow, and calibrated the crossbow with both hands against the arrow stack.

Song Shi knew that these technical adjustments would not save one step, no matter how anxious he was, he just stood there and stared, not daring to disturb him by speaking.It wasn't until he saw that he felt that he could also start to tune and calibrate, Huan Ling beckoned to him, lifted the handle of the crossbow upside down with one hand and pressed the body of the crossbow to the ground, and asked him to try to wind it by himself.

The crossbow strings are made of thin beef tendons, thick and tough, stretched so tightly that they won't move at all if you don't pull them hard.Song Shi walked across to Huan Ling, first tried to pull the string, and praised: "It's so hard, no wonder it can shoot so far and so powerfully! Does this kind of crossbow string have to be adjusted every time it's used?" ?”

Huan Ling laughed and said, "Usually it takes two or three times to tune once. Just now they tightened the string. I was afraid that you might hurt your hands when you pull the string. So I loosened the string. It’s good for stringing, but it’s not as powerful as the arrow just now, it can pass through the iron curtain an inch.”

Although the shooting range is slightly worse, for beginners, being able to shoot the arrow is the most important thing.While explaining to him the technique of using arms and legs, Huan Ling helped him hold the crossbow handle to stabilize the crossbow body. When his feet were firmly on the ground and the posture and position of the hand were in place, he was relieved to ask him to draw the string with strength.

Song Shi was also a strong man. He pulled the bowstring tightly with both hands, and suddenly raised his waist.Huan Ling put his hands behind his waist, and sternly shouted, "Don't stretch your waist so suddenly, be careful! Use your legs, slowly straighten your waist, and draw your arms—"

As he spoke, he patted Song Shi's legs and arms, teaching him how to use strength.According to his tutorial, Song Shi exhausted all his strength, and finally pulled the crossbow strings and hung them on the machine bracket, reinstalled the crossbow arrows, jumped back two steps excitedly, held the crossbow handle and held it up.

Quite heavy.He needs two hands to hold it steady.

Song Shi wanted to look handsome, so he held a gun vertically above his head and then held it flat in front of his eyes to aim.It's a pity that I'm not surrounded by the heroine in the movie who would hold flowers to watch him play handsome, but an incomprehensible... crooked man, seeing that he lifted the crossbow too far, he immediately grabbed the crossbow and pressed it down , put his head on his shoulder, and taught him how to aim: "Hold the crossbow in front of your eyes, look at the mountain and the tip of the arrow, and make a line with the red heart of the arrow..."

The Wangshan on the crossbow can play an aiming role. Of course, it is definitely not as accurate as the modern ones, but if the technology is good, aiming at these three points in a line is enough to hit the target.

Song Shi held the crossbow with both hands and turned his head slightly, closed his left eye, and aimed at the bullseye with his right eye alone. After aiming intently for a while, he asked cautiously before pulling the trigger: "Can I pull it?"

can.Huan Ling helped him hold the crossbow steady, looked at the arrow stack, and said, "Drop it", and then he heard the sound of the crossbow trigger in his ear, the sound of the arrow piercing the wind, and the sound of the arrow piercing the iron skin could be heard in the distance.

Center the red heart.

Song Shi was still holding the machine crossbow firmly in his hand, and at this moment a "fuck" that hadn't been said for many years but could best express excitement, excitement, and disbelief came to his throat at this moment.

He hit it!Hit the first shot!

With his mouth half open, he struggled to swallow the slang words that people would understand only a few hundred years later, and turned his head to express his excitement with his eyes.What he didn't say, Huan Ling translated it for him: "Well done! I have seen many people practice bows and crossbows over the years, and there is no one like Junior Brother who can aim so accurately in the first test! "

He clenched the body of the crossbow, told Song Shi to let go, raised his head towards him, and said excitedly: "Let's see how deep the crossbow goes!"

Song Shi was also embarrassed to throw such a heavy crossbow to him, so he raised one head with him, walked and ran, and walked to the arrow pile together excitedly.The person looking at the arrow stack pulled out the arrow from a place slightly to the right of the center of the red heart, held it to him with both hands, and said in awe: "As expected of the number one scholar who came down to earth under the star of Wenqu, he has such a good head in the first test shot, little one!" I have followed the master to watch the competitions in the society for so many years, and I have never seen such a good player as the champion!"

The crossbow shooters, archers, and string correctors on the side all stunned him, clapped their palms and sighed: "In this world, there are people like Song Zhuangyuan who are born with Suhui, both civil and military. I can't wait for it." !"

Lianzhong Sanyuan is no longer something ordinary people can do. How can you draw a bow and shoot a crossbow so strong!

Song Shi's face was full of excitement, and he couldn't hold back his smile. He waved his empty left hand and said humbly, "Everyone is absurd, I just hit the ground by mistake. Speaking of which, thanks to Senior Brother Huan's good teaching, there is no Senior Brother Help me control the crossbow, how can I shoot it so easily?"

Although most of his aiming and aiming is due to his previous experience in real CS, but this crossbow is so heavy, if there is no little brother to help him hold the crossbow body, it is estimated that the crossbow head will sink a little when he releases the arrow, and he will not be able to shoot. So accurate.

Huan Ling Chunfeng looked at him with a full face, and only said: "It should be the eyesight and touch of the younger brother playing badminton. He can aim so accurately as soon as he gets started. I don't think the younger brother is very tired, so why not practice for a while?"

It's okay, let's shoot!I can still hit!

Song Shi liked his thoughtfulness so much, he pulled him back to the place where he had just stood while carrying the crossbow, and asked him to help hold the crossbow for a few test shots.Although he couldn't hit all the red hearts, he had a good start, and the subsequent shots were not far from the bull's-eye, which is still an achievement that even regular members of the club are envious of.

Later, he shot more times, the crossbow was too heavy, his arms gradually couldn't bear the strength, and the force on his senior brother's hands became stronger.Huan Ling felt that his hand was exhausted, and seeing him shoot for the last time, he held the bow and persuaded him to put it down: "You have used up some strength to play just now, and now you hang the string these few times, hold the bow to aim, Archery exhausts the muscles of the arms, and if you don’t rest, you will be injured. Let’s put down the crossbow and rest for a while, and move your shoulders, back, and arms.”

Although Song Shi was excited about playing, he also knew that he was right to persuade him—it was a ten-day long vacation, and he could come out again during the Dragon Boat Festival. If he was exhausted from this trip, would he still be able to come out to play in the future?What kind of job will you get after work?

A mature social person must have self-control!

He returned the crossbow to President Xu's family, drank cold drinks and ate sesame candies with Huan Ling, and watched the members practice drawing and shooting crossbows.With him, a literati outside the club who was able to shoot extremely accurately the first time he started shooting, all the members of the club held their breath and concentrated on aiming as hard as they could, for fear that they would miss the shot and make him laugh.

Song Shi saw that they were so nervous that their hands were shaking, he couldn't bear it, so he turned his head to the edge of the pool, rubbed his sore arms, and analyzed in a low voice to Huan Ling why two arrows missed the hearts just now.

It is too rough to aim only with the mountain and the arrow, and the human eye cannot guarantee that it will be accurate. It is still necessary to make an advanced sight.However, crossbow bolts are different from bullets. Crossbow bolts are relatively heavy and fall much faster after being fired. When shot from different distances, the position where the arrow lands will fluctuate a little. It is best to have such a scale that changes according to the distance on the sight.

Do you want to try a scope?

He does know some basic knowledge of telescopes, but he doesn't know how to use scopes. If he really wants to do it, he has to consider spending money to buy papers, but every penny he earns in Jinjiang's backstage is hard-earned, and he really loves the flesh when he spends it. pain……

He gritted his teeth, sighed, and didn't mention his scope idea.

Huan Ling shook his head and said with a smile: "As early as the Han Dynasty, there was a scale engraved on the crossbow machine Wangshan. Depending on the degree of sight, it can also hit a hundred shots on a horse. In the Song Dynasty, the people used bows to resist the Liao, Jin, Mongolian and other countries. Crossbows are extremely prosperous, but since the dynasty soldiers have mostly used firearms, most of these bows and crossbows are self-made by the people, and naturally they are not that fine, and many people who shoot crossbows can't read the scale anymore."

Yes, with the advancement of technology, the war in this world will eventually be dominated by guns.He fell to Huan Ling's side, rubbed his shoulders and asked, "Brother is serving as the supervisor of the Sixth Division, do you know how the firearms are in this dynasty? Why is there news of the bandits and criminals this year? Isn't it true that their grasslands are not productive?" Iron, can't you make guns?"

Huan Ling smiled wryly and said: "The captives don't give birth, but there are people at the border who steal our bullets and sell them to the Tatars, but our frontier army's food, grass and weapons are often severely confiscated. What's more, they live in the grassland and are good at riding and shooting. Teenagers It's as if a child grows up on a horse when it gets on a horse, our horses and horse fighting skills are not as good as theirs..."

Song Shi's blood aroused by shooting arrows just now has not dissipated, and he said angrily: "The court doesn't care about this! Where are the supervisors and censors? It's time for them to impeach them. Why not? This is lazy government!"

He sprayed vigorously, but Huan Ling who was beside him sighed: "The imperial court can't control everything. How many good officials like Song Shishu are there? When a supervisory censor is on someone else's territory, he can only see what others let him see. I don’t want him to see, so naturally I can’t see anything. Now I’m in Huke, and every time I calculate the military rations, I feel that there are some discrepancies. It’s just that the Ministry of War can’t intervene, and it’s not easy to calculate the weapons and gunpowder. The number seems to be too much..."

But today's Minister of the Ministry of War is the grandfather of King Zhou, so it is difficult to impeach him if he finds out anything.

He sighed: "This matter has to be discussed in the long term. There was no movement from the captives before, and the border gate was peaceful, and there were problems. I am afraid that they have tasted the sweetness of the plunder this year, and they will follow this in the future. suffer."

The soldiers at the frontier and the common people were threatened by the Hulu invasion. If there were still many people in the court seeking profit from military pay and military supplies, he could hardly escape the guilt for this matter.

Song Shi saw that he seemed to be blaming himself, so he quickly patted him on the back to comfort him: "It's none of your business, as long as you can do your job well, you have to think long-term about everything, and you can't resist it, or you will be in trouble." Heavenly Prison, what else should I do!"

Huan Ling lowered his head to let him comfort him for a while, then raised his head and smiled at him: "Don't worry about me, am I the kind of person who insists on fighting against the superior? The Ministry of War is not within my authority, and I didn't investigate We can only start with the household department and slowly pursue it. Besides, besides the needs of the military department, the household department has a few important things to do, and I can't concentrate on other things for a while."

What's the big deal?The emperor asked for money again?Is it asking for money for editing his new Thai ceremony?

Huan Ling smiled wryly: "The king of Zhou was supposed to get married at sixteen, but now it has been delayed to nineteen. Because of his marriage, the subsequent princes can't get married. Now the second prince, King Qi, is fifteen, how can he not choose a concubine? The third prince, King Wei, is also fourteen years old. If he doesn’t choose this year, he will choose next year, but I don’t know if His Majesty will borrow these two marriages again..."

ask for money.

The two looked at each other, and at the same time saw this worrying word in each other's eyes.