My historian is dying every day

Chapter 85 [Your hand is callused]

The reason why the way of archery is "Tao" is not just to stand still and draw the bow to shoot the arrow.

This way is similar to the art of the emperor. The knowledge of fist and fist falls in the fingers, but it also falls in the heart from head to toe, in the mind-focused mind, concentrated eyes, from the calculation of the range to the consideration of the pull. The strength of the bow, and the firmness and conviction when letting go of the hand at the end, cannot be accomplished in a day.

Qi Yu has been practicing this for 20 years.

In fact, this method is boring, and it is very troublesome to go from spirit to body in one practice, so Qi Yu never likes it.

Just as he never wanted to be emperor.

But things in the world are sometimes strange, but he seems to have endless talents in this matter.Obviously other brothers also started to learn riding and archery at the same age as him, but they just couldn't match him.Kang Wang once practiced riding and shooting flying targets for two or three years, and when he finally hit the red heart, he was so happy that he cheered on the shooting range. The arrow still pierced through the target and pierced into the tree trunk, and the arrow boy took a long time to pull it out.

On the shooting range that day, he was almost beaten to death by envious and jealous brothers.

He didn't know why he envied such a laborious task, and he didn't know why Wen Yanzhi suddenly wanted to learn it.

Ever since Wen Yanzhi's kiss landed on the corner of Qi Yu's mouth, Qi Yu regretted it.He grabbed Wen Yanzhi's jade white fingertips, put them on his lips and kissed them, and there was a trace of reluctance in his eyes: "Your hands are getting callused."

But Wen Yanzhi just smiled and shook his hand, "Your hands have calluses, I like it too."

This is another love story as straightforward as a farmer going to the field.Qi Yu felt that he was a fool, lying on the bed at night to be fond of it for a long time.

There is an extremely stubborn and focused energy in Wen Yanzhi's bones. Qi Yu often thinks that if Wen Yanzhi is not a scholar, he may be called arbitrarily arrogant, and he will carry the banner and rush without looking back when he goes to the battlefield.

When he thought this way, he was leaning against the window of the study room in the hotel and looking out.In the early morning, the mist hadn't cleared away, and the dark guards were wearing black clothes, Kong Wu forcefully ran past the corridor, followed by Wen Yanzhi in a Su Qing shirt, his face reddened by the wind, slowly trotting along .

That expression was as solemn and upright as when the history was recorded, and it looked funny, Qi Yu couldn't hold back, he leaned on the edge of the window and burst out laughing.

Although he didn't take Wen Yanzhi's learning of archery as a joke, Qi Yu never thought that Wen Yanzhi would treat this matter so seriously, as if he had some obsession to complete it. So I was very determined to get up early every morning and run for half an hour in the morning, and made an appointment with him to run like this for eight days. After I had some endurance, I started to learn how to draw a bow.

"What do you want to do after learning the arrow?" Qi Yu asked him.

Wen Yanzhi's expressionless face: "Escort."

At that time Qi Yu was laughing and laying on the table, letting him leave the left and right, and turned around, but plunged into the pile of books again.

In the blink of an eye for a few days, everyone was so busy that no one was idle.

Shen Youfang had gone to investigate Wu's case earlier, but Gong Zhiyuan was so confused by Chang Pingcang's messy accounts that he reported to Qi Yu and said that he would go to the affected villages to see the stockpiling of grain.Qi Yu admired his drive very much, so he asked the magistrate to send out a few yamen servants, and went with him.

Besides, when Fang Zhitong came to Yingzhou this time, he didn't bring two pieces of clothes, but all he brought were blueprints. Every morning, he and Wen Yanzhi went into the front hall to make gestures and discuss, and it was three o'clock in the blink of an eye. The river channels, old drainage pipes, and the drawings piled up in the front hall are only getting thicker every day.

Tan Qingnian was urged by his son to come to the hotel to look at the water case every day. He originally wanted to show off his old face in front of the emperor so that his son could find a good job in Beijing, but every time he went to the study to ask for an interview, Qi Yu only said "I'm busy", she told Li Gengnian to return him neatly.

Tan Qingnian was depressed, turned around and went into the front hall, only to see his son Tan Yiqiu holding two dozen shortbreads from Chengbei Dessert Shop, offering them to Fang Zhitong as if offering treasures, and asking for advice on water control, with a smile on his face not to be too eager.

Tan Qingnian's intuition is that his heart is in vain. Seeing that this kid likes water control so much, he probably will spend his whole life in water like him.

The children and grandchildren have their own blessings, he thought, so I don't worry about it anymore, just let him go.

But Wen Yanzhi was quite worried for Tan Qingnian. After all, he knew that Tan Yiqiu came here a few days ago to ask for advice on water control. Father Tan was very angry.

In addition, Fang Zhitong explained to Tan Yiqiu all the knowledge about water control every day, and when Tan Yiqiu asked others with a smile, he answered with a high-spirited and virtuous manner, with a degree of advancement and retreat.Wen Yanzhi's heart is real, and he doesn't quite see how this progress is, so he can only drink tea in silence.

But every time Tan Yiqiu left, he would look at him sadly, and that look made him thorn in his back, and he didn't know what it was.After three or four incidents like this, whenever Tan's father and son came to visit, Wen Yanzhi simply avoided going to see Yunzhu, taught her calligraphy or reading, and never watched Tan Yiqiu's offering of treasures.

He also told Qi Yu that he was helping Tan Yiqiu, and Qi Yu laughed at him: "Wen Daidai, if someday you can lead the red line for others, I will be able to get ahead too."

Wen Yanzhi: "..."

——I too...haven't been so dazed?

He thought so unsurely.

Eight days later, Qi Yu asked the conscripts to bring archery targets and other things to the hotel as promised, and stood in the backyard with Wen Yanzhi to teach Zhang Gong.A group of hidden guards were happily eating melon seeds to observe the heroic appearance of Wen Yuanwai, but after seeing it, they couldn't stand it any longer. The melon seeds husks fell from between their teeth: "...Hey, where do you put the emperor's hands?"

"Do you need to lift your hips for archery?"

"I won't mention it anyway, what about you?"

"Why ask me... Hey! You're so nasty!"

——Wen Yanzhi, who was standing in the courtyard, thought so too.

He quietly put his hands down from the bowstring, and removed the generous palms moving from side to side between his waist and hips: "Qi Yu, you sir are not doing well."

Qi Yu smiled and put his arms around him, folded his palms and took up the longbow, and shot the arrow, piercing the wind with howls, it seemed that he didn't use much force, but he missed the target by three inches.

"It's not like I'm a gentleman too," Qi Yu clings to Wen Yanzhi's finger again and puts an arrow, a smile spreads between his brows, he slightly lowers his head and whispers next to Wen Yanzhi's ear: "What did you call me tonight?"

When Wen Yanzhi's ears were red, the sharp arrow flew out again with spinning force. This time, the whole arrow pierced through the target and hit the stone wall in the backyard before falling down. It seemed to be a metaphor .

Wen Yanzhi's face was reddened to the base of his neck, his heart was pounding, he swallowed hard and struggled to get over the longbow, he shot the arrow in his heart, and Li Gengnian screamed while dodging from the roof: "Oh, my! Melon seeds!"

Qi Yu immediately leaned against the pillars of the porch and let out a muffled laugh. Wen Yanzhi held the bow and arrow and looked at him solemnly: "Can you still learn how to shoot?"

"Yes, yes." Qi Yu stopped teasing him, but when he hugged his back again, he couldn't help but kiss the back of his neck again.

While Li Gengnian was struggling to pick melon seeds on the roof, he looked sadly at the two people in the yard, and felt that the melon seeds were ashes when chewed, pih pih pih.

At this moment, the staff of the museum reported from the front hall that Gong Zhiyuan had returned.Qi Yu and Wen Yanzhi stopped their arrows for the time being, and walked to the front hall, where Gong Zhiyuan was greeting Fang Zhitong, Tan's father and son were also standing aside to watch the water case, everyone was about to see Sheng Jia, when Shen Youfang rushed over , followed by several government officials.

Before he had time to greet Qi Yu, when he saw Gong Zhiyuan, he only asked anxiously: "Master Gong, isn't it?"

In the midst of winter, Gong Zhiyuan wiped his sweat profusely while taking off the pocketbook on his back, and said angrily, "Yes, yes, yes!"

Everyone didn't know what kind of riddle these two were playing, so Gong Zhiyuan shook out the account book from his cloth pocket and opened it, and said to Qi Yu in a loud voice: "My minister has reported to the emperor that the food stored in the surrounding villages has been stripped layer by layer by local officials. There are hundreds of people involved in the case, and those who are shipped out for purchase and then sold at a high price are all Wu's properties! Among them, a sum of money has gone through the official route and is stuck in the magistrate's mansion. Presumably Zheng Zhizhou has learned about Wu's property. This move, no investigation, no connivance, this is the bribe he collected."

Shen You Fang Shun continued: "Your Majesty, my people have also found out that on the day Zheng Zhizhou was killed, he was seen meeting some gangsters from the Cao Gang. The Cao Gang was under the control of the Wu family. After the incident, the gangsters were gone. They disappeared without a trace, and the members of the Cao Gang also kept their tongues tight. I only found out from the inside through several layers of connections. It turned out that Zheng Zhizhou saw the emperor's visit, and threatened that if he did not give 2000 taels of silver, he would reveal it. This matter arrests Mrs. Wu. Following this, it was found out that the leading gangster was Wu's and Zheng Zhizhou's connector. He was afraid that Zheng Zhizhou's involvement in this monstrous case would cause him to lose his life, so he panicked. Killer."

Qi Yu looked at the account book in Gong Zhiyuan's hand with heavy eyebrows, and heard Shen Youfang's statement in his ears. The more he read and listened, the deeper his expression became.Finally, the good mood with Wen Yanzhi just now was completely ruined, until later he grabbed the ledger and smashed it to the ground.

He didn't show anger yet, but there was a thin tendon on his forehead. At this time, there was a cold smile on his face with thunder and rain in his eyes, which shocked everyone present.

"Pass down my oral instructions." He narrowed his eyes and looked at Li Gengnian.

Li Gengnian quickly knelt down on one knee.

Qi Yu took out the small imperial envoy token from his waist, threw it to him and said, "Let the 400 soldiers of the government arrest all the officials involved in the case and search all the properties of the Wu family. Wu's children, all of them are not missing. Take it for me."

"Yes!" Li Gengnian got the card and took the order, and left quickly.

Qi Yu watched him go out from the back, and his eyes flicked coolly over Tan Qingnian again.Before he could open his mouth, Tan Qingnian had already plopped down on his knees, and said with a pale complexion: "The emperor can tell you that this minister has absolutely nothing to do with this case, and I hope the emperor will find out!"

Such a big case, collusion between government and businessmen, if Tan Qingnian is involved, it will be a crime for three generations. Don't go to Enke, who is Tan Yiqiu's new year, and just give his father prison food for the rest of his life.He couldn't help but also knelt down with his father in shock, but after all he was young and had a very good temper. When he encountered such a big event, he didn't have any ideas in his mind, he just kowtowed and begged: "Your Majesty is clearly aware, my father must be innocent."

Qi Yu looked down, and only asked Tan Qingnian slowly: "It's nothing to do, have you heard about it?"

Tan Qingnian breathed in a cold breath, but it was difficult to let it out. After holding it in for a while, he couldn't shake a single character.

Tan Yiqiu looked anxious, and quickly shook him: "Father, talk! Talk quickly!"

But Tan Qingnian’s usual words of ups and downs in the officialdom are already rotten in his stomach at this moment—the crime of ignoring the wind is still minor, dismissal is not recorded and has nothing to do with future generations, but the crime of deceiving the king is copied and executed at every turn, it is better to be silent at this time .

During this silence, a celadon teacup suddenly shattered in front of him, the sound of shattered porcelain was so sharp that it almost cut the eardrums of people, Qi Yu clasped his fingers on the edge of the table, his knuckles turned white, the smile on his face It can be regarded as harsh: "Okay, okay, as expected of the veteran of the two dynasties, who has been under the shadow for [-] years, today... I have understood it."

He raised his head and called, "Come here."

Two dark guards came out immediately.

Qi Yu picked up his sleeve and pointed to Tan Qingnian, and said wearily, "I stripped him of his official uniform, Wusha, and put him in jail pending trial."