"Whose boy is that? He is so ignorant and incompetent that he can't answer a single question?"
"It looks familiar to me..."
"Come on, old Suntou, you are just a breakfast vendor. Who can you know about the candidates? These are all candidates who are promising to compete for the inner court. You are not going to talk about your cousin's niece's husband's brother, that disciple of the outer court, right? I heard that He entered the outer courtyard because he was good at playing with mud, hahahahaha..."
"The outer courtyard is also a school, how can you? Besides, it's not playing with mud, it's burning porcelain and drawing blanks. It's vulgar..."
"Ha ha ha ha……"
Discussions like this about Wei Feng were countless in the mouths of the onlookers. Who made him the first to hand in the paper? The first one is always very topical.
Wei Feng had followed the sign to a shooting range, which was the test site for the third subject of shooting.
There are several wooden racks placed on the side of the shooting range. On the wooden racks, there are either bows or quivers, each with a standard set of thirty arrows, for candidates to take.
Wei Feng was the first to arrive. At this time, all the bows on the wooden frame were neatly arranged, twenty-five horizontally and four vertically, a total of one hundred, all of which were standard longbows in the army.
He took out one of them to test the strength of the bow, and then took out two more arrows, and then he came to the baseline of the examination venue.
The archery test is divided into two parts, one is a static target and the other is a dynamic target. Each arrow is limited to one tube. The more hits, the higher the score. The total test time limit is two quarters of an hour.
Wei Feng went to the static shooting range first. He stood in front of the baseline and did not start the exam in a hurry. He first observed the exam room and thought quickly in his mind.
The static targets were set ten feet, twenty feet, thirty feet, fifty feet and one hundred feet away from the baseline.
The archery test is actually very intense, requiring at least sixty draws of the bow. An ordinary person without training would be exhausted after drawing the bow twenty or thirty times, let alone aiming and shooting.
Before entering the exam, Wei Feng made a rough observation. Most of the imperial examinations did not have special physical training, so it would be difficult for them to complete the archery exam.
Also, the rules do not stipulate which target candidates must shoot at, but when you see the setting of the examination room, you can understand that if you want to score higher, you must hit the target as far away as possible.
However, the rules only state that the more targets you hit, the higher your score will be. Then candidates should act according to their ability. Missing a target at a twenty-foot target will definitely result in a higher score than hitting a target at a ten-foot target. Should you get a steady score or take a risk? It all depends on personal choice.
The entire exam process is designed to tell candidates that they need to make their own choices.
Quickly gathering his thoughts, Wei Feng had already figured out what he was going to do. He signaled to the examiner that he was ready, and the examiner tapped the gong beside him to indicate that he could start.
Wei Feng placed a barrel of arrows by his leg, took out an arrow and placed it on the string. He pulled the bowstring back three inches and loosened the string without deliberately aiming.
The examiner next to him, Jing Shanggu, nodded secretly. Judging from his movements, this examinee was still very skilled in using it, but judging from his direction, he should be aiming at a ten-foot target. He should be a young man with a calm mind.
He had never thought that Wei Feng was limited in ability and could only shoot at a ten-foot target. After all, arriving at the archery examination room at this time showed that he had given up on the previous scriptures and policy questions, so the latter two items must not be too bad.
People who are good at shooting usually start with short-distance targets and gradually expand outward. First, they need to be familiar with the new bow. Second, they can judge the current wind speed and direction through the trajectory of the arrow.
As expected, the arrow hit the bullseye with a loud "duo" sound.
When the sound came out, Wei Feng's second arrow was about to be placed on the string, which meant that he didn't look at the previous result at all, and went to take off the next arrow without any pause.
He is a confident young man, Jing Shanggu thought to himself.
The second arrow is aimed at the twenty-foot target. Generally, untrained amateurs face the limit of the twenty-foot target. It does not mean that they cannot shoot farther, but when the target rate is guaranteed, this The distance is already very far.
The string opened seven inches and shot out again. Wei Feng took advantage of the situation to touch the third arrow and only glanced at it with his peripheral vision to know the result.
"Duo"
The sound of hitting the target sounded again. Wei Feng had already placed the third arrow on the string. He shot out again with a "whoosh" sound. The arrow flew towards the thirty-foot target and hit the target smoothly. The sound of hitting the target was soft. Wei Feng touched the quiver again. .
Jing Shanggu shook his head secretly. This guy's shooting skills are pretty good, but he's just a little too confident. If you don't want to look at the ten-foot target, don't look at it. The two arrows at twenty feet and thirty feet don't look good either. They're just nonsense.
If you don't carefully observe the arrow's flight path to judge the wind speed and direction, let alone the target farther away, even the thirty-foot target may not be able to be hit every time. I just thought that this kid has a calm mind, but it seems that he is still a young man after all. people.
Before embarking on the path of spiritual practice, it is difficult for an archer to eliminate the interference of natural wind on the flight path of arrows. As an archery examiner, Jing Shanggu naturally knows this very well. As an examiner, he is also obliged to observe the performance of each candidate and evaluate the behavior according to their behavior. Examine the character of mind.
Wei Feng bent his bow and arrow again, this time the target was the fifty-foot target.
Fifty feet, that's the limit of distance for a good soldier in the army. If the effective distance can be further, they will definitely stand out in various competitions and be trained as elites.
There are many targets at ten feet, twenty feet and thirty feet in front. They are used by a large number of candidates when taking exams at the same time, while there are very few fifty-foot targets. Such targets are bonus points in the exam and are usually Only military candidates or children from aristocratic families would try it, and they must be experts who have undergone specific training.
According to the conclusions of some well-established families, only if the target rate of the fifty-foot target is more than half, can it be expected to achieve a first-class evaluation. However, the impact results are mostly failures, so to be on the safe side, about half of the arrows will be used on the thirty-foot target, and the remaining Part of it is allocated based on your own strength and performance on the test day, and see how much you use to try the fifty-foot target.
Seeing his movements, Jing Shanggu couldn't help but narrow his eyes slightly. Not many people directly attempted the 50-foot target with the fourth arrow. They were either geniuses or arrogant people. The result was either very strong or very stupid. He took back his previous opinion. Staring at Wei Feng with interest, he didn't know what kind of boy he was.
Wei Feng opened his bow half full, tilted his body slightly, calculated the angle of elevation, and then sent the string directly.
Jing Shanggu narrowed his eyes and sighed slightly in his heart. Based on his many years of experience, this arrow was a bit too light, and it might be difficult to reach the target.
What? !
As soon as the idea came to his mind, his pupils suddenly dilated due to surprise. He saw the arrow draw an arc and accurately hit the fifty-foot target. Not only that, the arrow tip also stabbed into the bull's eye.
impossible!
This was his first thought. He had been immersed in archery for more than 40 years. How could he misjudge? He was very familiar with the military standard longbow. The opening range just now could not provide enough bow power. That arrow The strength is definitely not enough, and there is absolutely no possibility of hitting the target, unless...unless this kid is a practitioner!
Once he had this idea, he recalled the previous three arrows. It seemed that the boy had only used barely enough force every time. At that time, he didn't think it was strange that the three arrows hit the target, but now that he thought about it, the arrows were about to hit the target at most. The target should not be driven in so hard!
The exam clearly stipulates that practitioners are prohibited from taking the Academy Exam!
Jing Shanggu, as an invigilator, could not take the initiative to interfere with the examination without evidence. Although he was sure of his conjecture, the conjecture could not be regarded as evidence, so he could only ask the invigilator to intervene.
Without hesitation, he took out the jade talisman and poured it into the body. This was the jade talisman used to summon the invigilator. He was absolutely sure that this person must be a practitioner.
Although he doesn't know why a practitioner is so bold and dares to pretend to be an ordinary person to take the exam, although he doesn't know how this person can hide from the detection array at the east gate, and although he doesn't know why he wasn't discovered by the examiner during the first exam. .
But he knew that as long as the chief invigilator came here and used his spiritual power to specifically investigate this person, no matter how clever his hiding methods were, his true colors would be exposed.
(End of chapter)
