I'm in the Red Mansion

Chapter 58: Beauty's Favor
Next, Jia Cong spent another half an hour to learn the Blood-Drinking Spear Technique.

[Bloodthrowing Spear Skill Experience +1]

[Blood-drinking Spear Technique (Beginner): 1/100]

Then, after resting for a while, Jia Cong started practicing archery again.

[Archery (beginner): 20/100]

Improving archery skills is much simpler than Jia Cong imagined.

As long as he concentrates and shoots an arrow, he will gain one experience point regardless of whether it hits the target or not.

The first time he shot twenty arrows, he gained twenty experience points.

If you shoot another eighty arrows, your archery skills will be able to advance from entry-level to proficient level.

Although he currently only has twenty experience points, Jia Cong has gradually found the feeling.

Whoosh!
Whoosh!Whoosh!
Next, Jia Cong shot another twenty arrows in the second round.

This time, all twenty arrows hit the target, and not a single one missed.

Behind him, Zhao Shicheng, Feng Ziying and Liu Xianglian, the three masters and apprentices, all fell into silence.

Just now, when Jia Cong was shooting for the first round, they were laughing so happily.

Unexpectedly, in less than an hour, Jia Cong had made such great progress.

Their happiness was a little too short-lived.

After shooting twenty arrows, Jia Cong put down the bow and shook his arms to relax his muscles.

He turned around and asked with a smile: "Master, Senior Brother, Second Brother, how is my archery progressing? Am I as good as you two brothers back then?"

Zhao Shicheng nodded and said, "Not bad."

Feng Ziying and Liu Xianglian laughed and changed the subject: "Little Junior Brother, come on, we will teach you how to ride a horse."

"We brothers are all descendants of generals, how can we not know martial arts?"

In this era, riding is a very practical skill.

Jia Cong naturally had to learn horse riding.

Therefore, he naturally accepted the invitation from his two senior brothers.

Soon, Feng Ziying went to bring three horses.

To teach horse riding, Master Zhao Shicheng doesn’t have to do it himself.

Senior Brother Feng Ziying can do it for you.

Not only because Feng Ziying was young and strong, but more importantly, Feng Ziying's riding skills were superb, even not inferior to Master Zhao.

"Junior brother, riding requires the unity of man and horse, and the use of waist and leg strength."

"I will teach you all the skills here without reservation. But if you want to be a master of riding, you must have enough training time."

“Horses are spiritual beings. Only when you treat horses as your most loyal companions and spend more time with them, will you be able to understand each other more easily and achieve unity between man and horse.”

Next, Feng Ziying did not hide his knowledge and earnestly taught Jia Cong the essentials of riding.

Jia Cong listened carefully.

After half an hour, Feng Ziying asked Jia Cong to get on the horse and experience it for himself.

Jia Cong grabbed the reins, stepped on the stirrup, and jumped onto the horse's back.

The next moment, the horse under his crotch suddenly kicked the ground with its front hooves, and with a loud sound, its upper body was raised high.

Jia Cong was nearly thrown off the horse, and he was so frightened that he quickly hugged the horse's neck tightly with both hands.

Beside him, Feng Ziying and Liu Xianglian couldn't help but burst into laughter.

Jia Cong couldn't help but roll his eyes. These two old men must have done it on purpose.

Next, Jia Cong held the reins tightly and rode his horse slowly.

[Riding Experience +1]

[Riding (beginner): 1/100]

Jia Cong rode his horse and walked slowly around the outer perimeter of the martial arts arena three times, and finally he got the hang of it.

At this time, Feng Ziying and Liu Xianglian each mounted their horses and galloped away. Liu Xianglian performed a trick of hiding in the stirrup and passing through the horse's belly.

Feng Ziying even performed the rapid shooting on flying horse, looked back at the moon, and finally stood on the horse's back and performed a stunt of shooting two arrows with one arrow.

The two old men quickly rode their horses around a circle and then stopped in front of Jia Cong.

Liu Xianglian looked at Jia Cong, raised his eyebrows and said, "Junior brother, do you want to have a competition?"

"Just ride your horse around the arena three times. I can let you run two laps first!"

Jia Cong rolled his eyes and was too lazy to pay attention to this guy.

Jia Cong jogged a few more laps by himself, continuing to find the feeling.

Next, the three brothers were called by Zhao Shicheng to have lunch.

After lunch, Zhao Shicheng said to the three people:
"I will be leaving for my hometown to worship my ancestors soon, so please don't come here before the New Year. I will not return until the 15th day after the New Year."

Jia Cong couldn't help but say: "Disciple wishes Master a safe journey."

Feng Ziying and Liu Xianglian also sent their sincere blessings to Master Zhao.

After leaving Zhao Mansion with his bow and arrow, Jia Cong bid farewell to his two senior brothers and went straight back to Jia Mansion.

There is still a little more than a month left until the end of the year.

There is no need to come to Master Zhao before the New Year. Just stay at home and take care of your liver.

But now there are indeed more categories to tackle.

When I went back today, I learned two more skills: archery and blood-drinking spearmanship.

Archery is quite easy to master. I have a bow and arrow given by Master Zhao. After I go back, I can just make a target.

Although his yard is not big, there is still enough space for more than ten steps.

It's enough for the time being.

The Blood-Drinking Spear Technique was barely feasible. Although he didn't have a spear, he could make a wooden spear himself.

There is no way to improve his riding skills because he doesn't have a horse. There is nothing he can do about it.

But again, there is no need to rush to learn riding skills. It’s not too late to practice once you have a horse, the skills, and the free time.

After returning to his own yard, Jia Cong continued squatting in the Hunyuan Posture and reading.

Now, as his Hunyuan Zhuanggong skills gradually deepened, and after practicing the Hunyuan Zhenjing to develop internal strength, the time he could persist was getting longer and longer.

Now he can last for half an hour at a time without affecting his reading at all.

Not long after, Hongxiu walked in quietly with two books.

Seeing Jia Cong looking up, Hong Xiu handed him two books and said, "Third Master, these are the medical books that Miss Lin sent over."

Jia Cong nodded and signaled Hongxiu to put the book down.

Hongxiu put the book down, picked up the cold tea on the desk, and quietly walked out.

After a while, she brought in another cup of hot tea.

Half an hour later, Jia Cong stood up and stretched his body.

Then he took out the two books that Hongxiu had just handed over to him on the table.

He discovered that these two medical books were actually books on acupuncture.

One is "Acupuncture and Moxibustion Jia Yi Jing" and the other is "Acupuncture and Moxibustion Zisheng Jing".

He really hadn't read many books on acupuncture, and had only read the "Lingshu" chapter in the Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine.

Now that we have these two books, I am sure we can gain a lot of experience in medical skills.

Thinking of this, Jia Cong was overjoyed.

He picked up the first copy of the Jia Yi Jing and suddenly realized that the book was very new and emitted a faint scent of ink.

Jia Cong was stunned. Were these two books really borrowed with the help of Lin Daiyu?
Even the Xue family is just a merchant family. How could there be so many medical books in her house?

Could it be that these two books and even the medical books borrowed before were not all borrowed from the Xue family?
And some of them were actually bought by Lin Daiyu from outside?

(End of this chapter)