Chapter 22: Bloodstained Steel
After walking through four streets and five thousand paces, Hong Yi came to the bow and arrow store "Guan Lice No. 1" on the east side of Yujing City.
Facing him was a store with a three-storey pavilion facing the street, with a large gold lacquered signboard.
"This is the store of the Guan lice number." Hong Yi looked up at the gold signboard, the words were deep and powerful, the brush strokes were like arrows, which gave people the thought of "This store is not trivial, why don't we go in and take a look?" at a glance.
The name "Guanliao" is also very clever, showing the peak of bow and arrow manufacturing technology.
It turns out that after the ancient times, there was a divine archer who hung a louse a hundred paces away and could penetrate the louse with a single arrow. Such a realm has been recorded in the canonical books and is popular. For a long time, people regarded "penetrating the louse" as a kind of peak of archery.
"It was a higher level than "piercing a poplar with a hundred paces".
Store in the middle of the people in and out of the bustle, but most of them are wearing a green shirt of the scholars, and wearing the University of Guozijian clothing, four-square crowns, hat brim ear side of the two bands hanging down the supervisor. There are also some dressed in foreign costumes, powerful warriors.
The Qian dynasty is mighty all over the world, weapons manufacturing is also the upper class, not to mention the jade capital city is one of the largest trade and exchange centers, some stores in what strange and strange things are there. Because whether it's the western fire Luo, or the eastern Yunmeng, the western Yuan Tu, the southern kamikaze, Liuzhu and other countries of the people, all like to come a long way to the jade capital to purchase things.
With the New Year still eight or nine days away, the major stores in Yujing City were especially bustling.
"These readers, supervisors to buy bows, is just hanging in the study, expressing their six arts, in fact, really do all six arts of the readers, I have not seen a few."
Hong Yi walked into the store, saw a lot of readers, supervisors to buy a bow, thought in his heart.
The six arts of a scholar: etiquette, music, archery, the Imperial Court, calligraphy, and mathematics. Among them, the two arts of archery, the Royal is specialized in riding and shooting, "Royal" is riding.
Early Qian dynasty also heavy martial arts, but a long period of prosperity, coupled with strict control, the literary style overshadowed the martial arts style. And twenty years ago, the court canceled the imperial examinations in the riding and shooting, purely to determine the good and bad of the war, a sword and gun into the library, the horse on the South Mountain of the cultivation of life, and now among the readers of the literature and martial arts has been very few.
Hong Yi practiced so many days of superior boxing and kung fu, and every day wandering soul away from the body, watching Hong Xuejiao practice boxing, and familiar with the martial arts scriptures, the heart of the speculation, observation of the eye has been a number of, and found that these come to buy a bow of the readers, supervisors a large part of the body does not have the martial arts in the body, the body's meat loose, no exercise tightly sturdy and powerful signs.
"Eh? I can actually tell if people have martial arts or not? The eyesight has become superior."
Hong Yi suddenly noticed a change in himself.
It had become superior.
This kind of perception made him elated.
The walls were all covered with various kinds of bows for people to pick from, Hong Yi approached and viewed a handle of long and short bows.
"Customer, which kind of bow do you want? We have ox sinew, silk, python sinew, bamboo, mulberry wood, chestnut wood, and also top quality topiary. Seeing that you are wearing a green shirt, you are a scholar, so you must buy this kind of gold lacquer painting magpie bow, buy it back and hang it in the study, not only is it elegant, but also has the bones of the heroes ........."
Seeing Hong Yi wandering and watching, a clean and sharp fellow immediately greeted him.
"Bring me a chestnut wood ox horn silk bow with sixty pounds of bow power." Hong Yi looked at the gold lacquered and painted magpie bow introduced by the fellow, the body of the bow was lacquered with golden light, interspersed with vermillion painted magpies, but he knew that it was just a heavy looking but not useful, something for people to decorate their study.
"Good."
The fellow immediately got a bow, the bow body was medium length, the string was open and powerful.
Hong Yi took the bow, reached out and stroked it, and couldn't help but feel excited for a moment in his heart. This is a bow, also need seven or eight taels of silver, he only four taels a month in the marquis house, and every month he has to buy ink and paper, food and clothing, firewood, charcoal, lamp oil and so on, the money saved can not buy on this bow.
"Fortunately, I recently received a hundred taels of silver in the account office, and ten red gold coins, enough to buy some good things, but unfortunately I can't buy a horse. But a bow for practicing strength is enough. How about letting me try this bow?"
Hong Yi held the bow and recited in his mind the inner work of "Shooting Righteousness" in the Six Arts: "Righteousness, no evil thoughts in the mind, no distractions. Sincerity: the mind is first in the target, thinking inside and outside. Keeping the spirit: moving and stopping at ease, eliminating noise and delusion. Great determination: calmness of mind, even though shooting on the battlefield, one's face remains unchanged."
After silently reciting these techniques, Hong Yi developed a feeling of calmness.
At the same time, his feet thumbs outside stirrups, little finger wrapped grasp, both knees outside, both hips inside suction, waist dark in, chest bright out, navel to the ground, the heart put down.
The heart method is the reasoning of reading and shooting righteousness.
His movement is the open bow maneuver in the Bull Demon Power Fist.
Avalanche! The entire bow was pulled into a full moon at once, and as soon as the string was loosened, a clear, powerful, solid sound was made.
"Good bow, I can tell by the sound, this is the one." Hong Yi breathed a few times to even out his breath before speaking, but in his heart, he was secretly surprised.
Originally, when he opened the bow just now, between one pull, he only felt that the tendons of his whole body were pulled up, and like the bowstring, they were collapsed tightly, and once the bow was released, the tendons of his whole body seemed to follow the bowstring to flick and shake.
After opening the bow, his whole body had a tearing sensation of his tendons being viciously twisted, and his waist, legs, abdomen, arms, back, and neck were all vaguely painful, seemingly rendering him speechless.
"No wonder opening the bow is the number one technique for practicing strength, ancient sages have designated it as one of the six arts, there are various ways to practice strength within martial arts, there are carrying iron sand, tying up a lead block, pressing the waist and abdomen, rolling a stone ball, playing with a stone lock, and lifting a gun and stick, but all of them are not as good as opening the bow. I've only opened my bow once, and before I can even talk about aiming, I'm already cracking up, let alone firing a series of arrows and hitting the target."
Hong Yi opened the bow once and finally realized why the bow and horse shooting art was the most basic and important part of martial arts. The examination inside the army was also examining this.
"Your Excellency really has good eyesight, the bow of our Guan Lice No. 1 is the best in the world, and the shanks are all good. A total of seven silver cakes." Hearing Hong Yi buy the bow, the fellow immediately smiled.
Hong Yi discharged seven one-two silver coins, and was about to go back to open the bow to practice his strength, the fellow smiled again and bowed his waist: "Look at the way you open the bow, you must be a man who is good at both martial arts and literature, don't you want to buy a sword to go back?"
"Buy a sword? Where is the sword?"
"Sir, please go to the second floor." The fellow enthusiastically led the way.
Daqian Dynasty weapon law: crossbows are forbidden, swords are forbidden. However, the average person, buying a sword can only go back to collect it, but cannot walk on the road at will. Otherwise, they will be arrested. Only the showman can walk with a sword. As for swords and guns, trading is not allowed, let alone walking on the road.
Walking up to the second floor of "Guan Lice No.", there were many fewer people, because the value of a good sword was much more expensive than a bow.
The swords on the second floor were all placed on the shelves, all of them were shining brightly, spotlessly clean, and the swords were sharp and powerful, which looked like they were made of fine steel.
"My lord, this is the best sword we have at the Guan Lice No. If you are still not satisfied, then wait for a few days, even if you want a divine weapon made of heavenly ladder grain steel, ice cracking grain steel, ju flower grain steel, we can still get it for you. As long as you pay a deposit in advance. But the Blood Grain Steel Sword you want, I haven't even heard of it."
As soon as Hong Yi went upstairs, he heard a voice.
He only saw a young man wearing the costume of the State University, shaking a plain white fan, and followed by two physically brawny and biting people behind him, which seemed to be expert guards.
"Blood grain steel is refined by Taoist priests inside the furnace, there are blood filaments densely covered inside the steel, just like human flesh, it is an immortal weapon for divine souls to drive flying swords to assassinate, the Jade Capital City of the Daqian Dynasty has everything, and Taoist temples abound, how could it be that there is no such thing?"
This young man shook the fan between muttering to himself, is very regrettable, Hong Yi heard the voice, crisp not like a man, steal a look, found no throat knot, actually is a woman dressed as a man in a false male.
Hong Yi this shock is not trivial.
The State Prison is the court university, there can not be a woman inside.
"Eh? But it's not possible, unless, unless she's a stream of royal princesses from the surrounding countries who came over to study in Jade Capital City. She wants to buy Bloodline Steel?"
Hong Yi was meticulous and good at observing, and between a glance, he had a five or six point guess in his heart.
