Nightfall Chapter 76: Black lightning and the sonata of bowstrings

Chapter 76 Black Lightning and the Sonata of the Bowstring

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

The candidates watched the swift black horse jump out of the horses in a moment, and ran forward at a terrifying speed that people couldn’t catch up with, reminiscent of the previously embarrassed candidates who were knocked off their horses. Thinking of the girl in red with tears on her face standing outside the fence, she couldn't help being shocked to speak.

Their gazes subconsciously followed the black lightning, watching Ning Que on the back of the **** horse bow lightly like a fallen leaf, wondering what the young examinee did to this stubborn black horse. Can make it so obedient and show such amazing strength.

The meadow outside the academy covers an area of ​​unknown acres, but the examination room enclosed by the fence is not very large. People are still in shock. The girl in red seems to have just raised her right hand to cover her surprised opened lips At that time, the Royal Division exam abruptly ended. More precisely, the black horse was at an incredible speed, leading the rest of the candidates by nearly half the time, turning back and reaching the finish line ahead of schedule.

Ning Que jumped off his horse, wiped off a few drops of sweat from his forehead, turned his head and patted the big dark horse's thick neck with satisfaction, then patted its thick buttocks again, waved away.

When the **** horse saw him beckoning to leave, he immediately felt that he had escaped from the horrible blood swamp and returned to the happy world. He neighed happily, nudged Ning Que's shoulder like a favor, and then hurriedly kicked off his feet. I usually leave and don't dare to look back at all. The speed seems to be a bit faster than during the exam.

The examinee at the entrance of the fence was silent and looked at Ning Que who came by, just like looking at a monster. Many people wanted to ask how he did all this, but they were awed by the weirdness he showed before. Dare to speak.

Ning Que felt the strange gazes from all around, frowning slightly, eyes drooping and not squinting, and walked toward the shooting examination site. It is not his intention to attract the attention of the surrounding candidates and even the teachers. It is not in line with his idea to show vanity, but he knows that his scores in the three subjects of rituals, books and music are in a mess. If the last two are not strong Protruding raises the total score, so he will definitely fail the admission test.

I prepared for several years, spent so much mental money, gave up my military qualifications and rushed back to Chang'an from the grassland, but in the end I couldn’t enter the academy. It was really forbearing and low-key but it became a sad serenade in D minor—anyway. , It is impossible for him to accept such an ending. What is it to show some limelight for this?

Just as he was about to leave the imperial examination room, a young girl blocked his way. The girl has thick eyebrows and is fairly long. She is wearing a big red arrow gown with her belt tightly tightened. The youthful body is very tight, with a refreshing taste, but the tears on her face look a little bit. delicate and charming.

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

Ning Que thought for a while and answered seriously: "Maybe I have a better character?"

"Personality?" The arrow-robed girl was stunned, and then angrily said: "What do you mean?"

"I mean luck."

Ning Que spread his hands, smiled innocently, and then politely asked her to step away and trot to the shooting examination room.

The girl in the arrow robes was stunned. As the daughter of General Yunhu, she is beautiful and has a hearty temperament. In Chang'an, no one knows that no one knows that no one dares to perfuse her questioning. When Ning Que ran away, he woke up, turned to look at the young man's back, stomped his feet bitterly, and asked, "Who is this guy?"

At this time, a group of examinees around the examination room were talking about Ning Que. One of the young people approached the arrow-robed girl and said: "Someone just read the roster. This young man is called Ning Que. It is recommended by the military. He was born, there should be no surprising background, and Miss Situ doesn’t have to bother him."

The girl in the arrow robes said displeased: "There is no surprising source, then how can he put that **** horse's clothes on?"

"Maybe...Is it really his luck?" The young man answered embarrassedly.

Another girl in red dress came over, frowned at the boy on the grassy **** in the distance, and shook her head and said: "The military recommendation may come from the frontier fortress. It’s not surprising that you are good at equestrianism, but you all said He has no unusual background, but I don’t take it very seriously. Today, hundreds of examinees came with his maid alone, embarrassing His Royal Highness. It is obvious that this young man is too arrogant and accustomed to raising him on weekdays, maybe Qinghe The child of which surname in the county."

"Qinghe County is amazing? This is not the case of Emperor Taizu." Miss Situ raised her eyebrows and said, "Sister Wu Cai, find out the details of that guy. I have to figure out what this is. What's going on."

Not far from these noble female princes in Chang'an, a dozen candidates recommended by the military were standing scattered. One of them was a 30-year-old retired lieutenant from the southwest border and shook his head, facing the companions around her. Said: "It has nothing to do with luck. Since the young man was recommended by the Ministry like us, he must have been in the frontier fortress before. He has been close to horses all the year round. He will naturally have a few knives, but his age is really too young..."

As if to prove his judgment, there was a violent neigh and a panic cry in the imperial examination room. I saw that the **** horse, who was gentle like a little maid beside Ning Que before, was very violent. Flip the hoof and kick, a burly candidate fell on the lawn embarrassedly, his face extremely embarrassed.

Ning Que didn't know what the candidates at the Imperial Examination Hall were talking about. If he knew that the military companion praised him for having a few knives, he would probably praise himself silently in his heart: I have three knives.

In addition to swords, horses and bows and arrows, what he is best at in this life is probably these skills honed in the mountains, forests and grasslands for survival. With a single-sword tube and arrow, he even has the confidence to do it with the practitioners of Dongxuan. One plane will be alive in the end, so it is really very simple to deal with the shooting exam.

Shooting department is different from Yuke. It does not need to be compared with the scores of other candidates for judging. Therefore, he used his full strength in the Yuke examination room to try to pull the rest of the candidates as far as possible. The arrow was aiming at the target a hundred steps away, but didn't have much thoughts. It only required that each arrow hit ten rings.

Should shop around, and people are dead. If you let those candidates who sweat profusely and whose bow arms tremble, know that this guy’s minimum requirement is that every arrow must hit ten rings, or he will be alive and angry. dead.

But Ning Que thought this way, and did the same. He pulled the bow and let the arrow loose his fingers. As the bowstring bounced, the Datang military's standard feather arrow would shoot out with a swish, but it accurately hit the target. In the middle of the red heart.

The previous arrow just hit the red heart. He had already taken out the second arrow from the quiver behind his back, and repeated the action of pulling the bow and releasing the arrow's fingers again. The arrow feathers once again brushed the bones on the fingers, and then again without accident Hit the hearts.

His archery movement is not fast, and there is no magical picture of lightning shooting through the target surface or the back arrow splitting the front arrow shaft in half on the target a hundred steps away, just like that. An arrow shot, but it gradually formed a kind of wonderful rhythm, the buzzing string seemed to play a soothing music in the spring breeze.

Calm look and demeanor, impeccable posture, rhythmic string control, and precise archery. As there are fewer and fewer 30 feather arrows in the quiver, Ning Que gradually Attracting more and more people's attention, more and more people are surrounded behind him. There are candidates, college teachers and even two generals from the military.

At this time, in the eyes of everyone, this young man standing on the lawn with a bow and archery seemed to have become a calm soldier who would not blink his eyes even if thousands of knights surged like thunder.

The general watched Ning Que finish his last arrow, and said to his entourage: "Check which general this boy was trained by. If he fails to enter the academy this time, let him go Returned to the military."

After a short pause, the general rubbed his gray hair and whispered: "Be careful to keep it secret. He used to be sure that the troops would recall him. Our Yulin army must steal it."

At twilight, His Majesty and Empress had already returned to Chang'an City, leaving only the remaining links to be presided over by His Royal Highness and the chief officials of the ministries. The six subject examinations were finally over and it was time for the rankings.

Hundreds of test-takers stood quietly on the large stone flats, tiptoe to their necks and looked at the empty shadow wall, like hundreds of large geese that have been hungry for several days stretching out. Long neck, waiting to be fed.

Several college teachers walked out of the building slowly and bowed slightly to His Royal Highness. After confirmation by officials of the Ministry of Rites, the teachers stepped on the wooden table, dragged a bucket of rice pulp, and randomly put a piece of red paper Pasted on the video wall.

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

Ning Que held Sangsang’s slightly cool little hand and was squeezed by the crowd, but in the end he managed to squeeze out a **** road and squeezed to the bottom of the shadow wall. At first glance, he looked at the staff of Li Ke and Shu Ke. List.

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

"Ning Que...Ding waits at the end."

The same goes for book grades.

He rubbed his head a little annoyed, and muttered to himself: "It's not a good idea, even if it's a nonsense, I can write so many words, and the writing is so good, can I change my papers? Is this a female examiner?"

Someone behind him couldn't help but laughed, and laughed, "I thought he was a genius like the third son of the Southern Jin Dynasty, but it turned out to be just a stubborn character with an empty stomach."

It was the arrow-robed girl who ridiculed him, probably because she was unwilling to do so. So when she released the list, she actually gave up her companions and squeezed to Ning Que's side desperately, wanting to see how this guy can get the exam. The flowers come.

Ning Que didn't know that the lady of Chang'an was Situ Yilan, the daughter of General Yunhu. She gave her a very dull look, turned around and took Sangsang's little hand and squeezed out of the crowd.

The arrow-robed girl turned around in surprise, looking at his back and shouting loudly: "You don't want to see the results behind?"

Ning Que didn't look back, and said calmly: "First one."

The girl in the arrow robes and the people around her heard this and almost fell to the ground in shock, wondering where did this guy come from, she was so confident that she was so arrogant, and she knew for sure without seeing it. Can get the top?

Sangsang raised his small face and glanced at him suspiciously.

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