Chapter 76 Black Lightning and the Ring of Bowstrings

Lightning is white in reality, occasionally purple, but never black. Today, on the lawn outside the academy, everyone saw a black lightning.

The candidates watched the dark horse as fast as a sharp arrow and jumped out of the horse's herd in a moment, running forward at a terrifying speed that people could not catch up with. They recalled the embarrassed candidates who had been knocked off their horse's hooves before, and remembered the ones. The girl in red, who still had tears on her face standing outside the railing, couldn't help but be shocked and unable to speak.

Their eyes subconsciously pursued the black lightning, and looked at Ning Que on the back of the big black horse, bowing lightly like a fallen leaf, unable to figure out what the young candidate had done to this naughty dark horse, and could not understand what was going on with this stubborn dark horse. It is so obedient and shows such amazing strength.

The meadow outside the academy covers countless acres of land, but the examination room surrounded by the railings is not very large, and people are still in shock. The girl in red seems to have just raised her right hand to cover her surprised lips when she opened her eyes. The imperial examination ended suddenly. To be more precise, the black horse was nearly half ahead of the other candidates at an incredible speed, and returned to the finish line early.

Ning Que jumped off the horse's back, wiped off a few drops of sweat from his forehead, turned around and patted the thick neck of the big black horse with satisfaction, and then slapped it hard on its thick buttocks, and waved it to himself.

When the big dark horse saw him signaling him to leave, he suddenly felt that he had escaped from the terrifying blood swamp and returned to the happy world. He neighed happily, rubbed Ning Que's shoulders like a pleasing thing, and then quickly left like four hooves flying. I didn't dare to look back at it, and the speed seemed to be a few points faster than during the exam.

The candidate at the entrance of the fence looked at Ning Que who was walking over silently, just like looking at a monster. Many people wanted to ask him how he did all this, but they were frightened by the weirdness he had shown before and did not dare to speak.

Ning Que felt the strange gaze coming from all around him, frowned slightly, his eyes drooped slightly and walked straight towards the radiology examination venue without squinting. It was not his original intention to attract the attention of candidates and even teachers around him. It was not his intention to show his sharpness and seek vanity, but he knew that his grades in three subjects of rituals, books and music were a mess. If the last two items were not strong If the total score is suddenly raised, then I will definitely not be able to pass the admission examination.

After several years of preparation, I spent so much spiritual money, and I gave up my military family and ran back to Chang'an from the grassland, but finally I was unable to enter the academy. It was really forbearing and low-key but enduring, but I became a sad serenade in D minor - no matter what, he It is impossible to accept such an ending, what is the point of showing off some popularity for this?

Just as he was about to leave the imperial examination room, a girl blocked his path. The girl had thick eyebrows and bright eyes, pretty faces, and was wearing a big red arrow robe, with a tight belt, her youthful body was very tight, exuding a refreshing smell, but the tears on her face looked a little delicate and charming.

"How did you do it?" asked the girl in red angrily, "Why doesn't it listen to me?"

Ning Que thought about it and replied seriously: "Maybe I have a better character?"

"Character?" The girl in the arrow robe was stunned for a moment, and then said angrily: "What do you mean?"

"I mean luck."

Ning Que spread his hands, smiled innocently, and then politely asked her to get out of the way and trotted to the examination room of the radiology department.

The girl in the arrow robe was stunned. As the daughter of General Yunhui, she was beautiful and cheerful. In Chang'an City, she could be said to be aware of her and no one dared to deal with her questions so perfunctorily, so she did Ning Que He woke up after running far away, turned his head to look at the boy's back, stomped his feet hatefully, and asked, "Who is this guy?"

At this time, a group of candidates were talking about Ning Que around the examination room. One of the young men came to the girl in the robe and said, "Someone just read the list. This young man was named Ning Que. He is a recommended student from the military. There is no strange origin, and Miss Situ doesn't have to pay attention to him."

The girl in the robe said unhappily: "There is no strange origin, so how could he obey the big dark horse?"

"Maybe... it's really his luck, right?" the young man replied awkwardly.

Another girl in red dress walked over, frowned and looked at the boy on the grass slope in the distance, shook her head and said, "The recommendation of the military headquarters may come from the frontier, and it is not surprising that she is proficient in equestrianism, but you all say he is not surprised. I don't think much about the origin. Today, he was the only one of the hundreds of candidates who came with his maid, which made His Highness very embarrassed. It was obvious that this young man was too arrogant and accustomed to his caress. Maybe it was a big surname in Qinghe County. The children."

"Qinghe County is amazing? This is not the Emperor Taizu." Miss Situ raised her eyebrows and said, "Sister Wucai, find out the details of that guy, I insist on understanding what's going on. ."

Not far from these noble ladies in Chang'an, there were more than a dozen candidates recommended by the military headquarters. One of them was in his thirties. The retired captain from the southwest border shook his head and said to his companions around him: " This has nothing to do with luck. Since the young man was recommended by the Ministry like us, he must have been in the frontier before and was close to horses all year round, so he naturally had a few knives, but his age was too young..."

As if to make evidence of his judgment, a irritable neigh suddenly sounded in the imperial examination room and a panic shout. I saw that the big dark horse, who was as gentle as a little maid, was extremely violently chaotic. Kicked, a burly candidate fell on the lawn in a mess, his face extremely awkward.

Ning Que didn't know what the candidates on the Imperial Science Examination Hall were talking about him. If he knew that the companion in the army praised him for his sword, he would probably silently praise himself in his heart: I have three swords.

In addition to swords and horses, there are bows and arrows. The things he is best at in his life are probably the skills he has honed in the mountains and grasslands for survival. With a single sword and archery, he even has the confidence to fight with a low-grade cultivator of the Dongxuan grade. In the end, you have to live, so it is really very simple to deal with the radiology exam.

The archivist is different from the imperial examination, and there is no need to compare the scores of other candidates to judge, so he used his full strength in the imperial examination hall, trying to pull the other candidates as far as possible. At this time, he pulled the bow and aimed at the arrow. There are not many ideas for the target a hundred steps away, and only require that each arrow hit ten rings.

Comparing goods requires throwing, and comparing people requires death. If those candidates who are sweating and shaking with their bows and arms know that the minimum requirement is that this guy will hit ten rings per arrow, or they will be angry to death.

But Ning Que thought so, and did the same. He pulled the bow and put the arrow and slid his fingers. As the bow string moved, the standard feather arrow of the Tang army would shoot out with a whoosh, but accurately hit the center of the target's red center. .

The previous arrow just hit the red heart. He had already taken out the second arrow from the quiver behind him, and repeated the action of pulling the bow and slapping the arrow's fingers again. The arrow feathers rubbed the bone ring on the finger again, and then hit the red heart again without any surprise. .

His archery movement was not fast, and there was no magical picture of lightning shooting through the target a hundred steps or the rear arrow splitting the front arrow in half. Then, however, a wonderful sense of rhythm gradually formed, and the buzzing string sound seemed to play a soothing music in the spring breeze.

The calm expression, the standard to impeccable posture, the rhythmic string control movement, and the ultimate archery technique. As the thirty feather arrows in the quiver were getting fewer and fewer, Ning Que gradually attracted Yue With more and more people's eyes, more and more people were surrounded by them, including candidates, academy teachers, and even two generals from the military headquarters to inspect.

At this time, in the eyes of everyone, the young man standing on the lawn holding a bow and shooting archery seemed to have become a calm soldier who had been through the battlefield for a long time, even if thousands of riders rushed over like thunder, they would not blink.

The general looked at Ning Que's last arrow and said to his followers, "Check which general trained this young man. If he fails to get into the academy this time, he will immediately return to military status. "

After a moment of pause, the general rubbed his gray hair and whispered, "Be careful to keep it confidential. It turns out that the troops will definitely call him back. Our Yulin Army must steal it."

At dusk, His Majesty the Emperor and Empress had already returned to Chang'an City, leaving only His Highness the Prince and the chief officials of the tribe to preside over the rest of the sessions. The six subject examinations were finally over, and it was time to make the list.

Hundreds of candidates stood quietly on the wide stone plaza, tiptoed to look at the empty shadow wall, just like hundreds of big gooses who had been hungry for several days stretching their long necks. , waiting to be fed.

Several academy teachers walked out of the building and bowed slightly to His Royal Highness the Prince. After confirming by officials from the Ministry of Rites, the teachers stepped on the wooden table, dragged a bucket of rice paste, and casually pasted a large red paper on the shadow. On the wall.

The sound of waves roared, and hundreds of candidates were like hundreds of big gooses that finally saw food. They could no longer suppress their emotions and rushed towards the shadow wall with a coaxing sound.

Ning Que held Sang Sang Weiliang's little hand and was squeezed into pieces by the crowd, but in the end he struggled to break out of a bloody path, squeezed to the bottom of the shadow wall, and looked at the list of Li Ke and Shu Ke at the first glance.

At the bottom of the paper, he found his name.

"Ning Que... Ding and others at the end."

The same is true for the study.

He rubbed his head with some annoyance and murmured to himself, "No, even if he answered it blindly, I have written so many words, and the words are so well written. Is it a woman who corrected my paper? Examiner?"

Someone behind him couldn't help laughing and laughed, "I thought it was a genius like the third prince of Nan Jin. It turned out that he was just a rash character with only force and empty stomachs."

The one who mocked him was the girl in the archer robe. She probably felt unwilling to accept it, so when the list was released, she actually gave up her companions and squeezed to Ning Que desperately, wanting to see what kind of flower this guy can get. Come.

Ning Que didn't know that this noble lady in Chang'an was Situ Yilan, the daughter of General Yunhui. She glared at her extremely boredly, turned around and held Sangsang's little hand and squeezed out of the crowd.

The girl in the arrow robe turned around in surprise, looked at his back and shouted loudly, "Don't you look at the results later?"

Ning Que said calmly without looking back, "A."

The girl in the arrow robe and the people around her heard this, almost fell to the ground in shock, thinking to herself where this guy came from, she was so confident that she was so arrogant that she knew she would definitely get the armor without even looking at it. superior?

Sangsang raised his little face and glanced at him in confusion.

Ning Que looked at her and explained with a smile: "Pretending to be deep and cool, they are not as good as me."