Ink panel: Hunting the sun and surveying the sky from the bow.

Chapter 2 Breakthrough!

Tuk, Tuk, Tuk!

"Qingzi, are you home? Open the door!"

Shen Qing put his thoughts aside.

The scroll in sight was then rolled up and disappeared.

"I'm coming."

He walked to the door and opened it. A gust of cold wind blew in. "Uncle, why are you here?"

Although Shen Qing has no parents after traveling through time, he has a younger brother and a younger sister on his father's side.

The fact that the two siblings have survived until now and have not been wiped out is inseparable from the help of their uncle.

Uncle Shen Er was silent for a while, then untied a piece of meat from his waist and said, "This is the mountain bream I caught a few days ago. It's all smoked. I don't have any more now, so you and your sister should eat it sparingly."

"This……"

"Stop talking nonsense." Shen Er threw the meat to Shen Qing, turned around and left without even having time to brush off the snow on his body.

Shen Qing wanted to show some courage, but when he looked at the flesh on his hands, he subconsciously couldn't let go.

When people are poor, even their ambitions are reduced.

Suddenly, Shen Qing seemed to have thought of something. He hurriedly gave the mountaineering gun to Shen Fang and rushed out against the wind and snow.

"Uncle, uncle, wait a moment, I have something to ask of you."

Shen Er, who was walking in front, stopped and turned around and asked, "What's wrong, Qingzi?"

Shen Qing didn't feel embarrassed at all, he bowed his head and said: "Uncle, I lost my arrow today, can I borrow one?"

Shen Er glanced at Shen Qing and sighed, "Come with me."

Shen Qing hurriedly said: "Thank you, uncle."

Uncle Shen Er’s house was not far from his residence, just in front of or behind the house.

His home is on the slope, and his uncle Shen Er lives at the bottom of the slope, just a few steps away via a small path.

My uncle has two sons and an aunt, a total of four mouths to feed.

As an old hunter in the village, my uncle hunts in autumn and winter and collects ginseng in spring and summer. Even if the boss in the county town takes some money from him, he can still earn fifty or sixty cents a day, which can be exchanged for about five kilograms of food.

It looks pretty good, enough to provide food and clothing for the family.

But in reality it is far from enough.

Salt, iron and other things cost money, cloth, oil and tea cost money, and replacing hunting equipment also costs money, not to mention all kinds of exorbitant taxes.

Although each of them is not much, when added together they can still be fatal.

Walking behind, Shen Qing saw that his uncle, who was in his thirties, had become like he was in his fifties or sixties, with even his back a little hunched.

After a while, the two men came close to a mud house.

Compared with Shen Qing's family, his uncle's family is obviously much bigger and stronger.

"Hu Zi's mother, open the door!"

Aunt Wang heard the noise and opened the door.

As a woman from the mountains, Wang was not good-looking, and was even a little ugly.

With dark skin and a broad frame, he looks as strong as a man.

"Wife, get a handful of arrows for Qingzi." My uncle spoke as soon as he entered the door.

Aunt Wang didn't say much. She turned around to get the arrows and complained to Uncle Shen Er in a low voice: "We don't have many arrows at home!"

Wang took down the bamboo tube hanging on the wall, took out a handful of feather arrows from it, thought for a while, and added two more.

Then she handed it to Shen Qing and reminded him, "Aunt said she couldn't bear to part with these arrows. Qingzi, you know your uncle's family is not easy, so don't throw them away."

"Thank you, Auntie." Shen Qing didn't look at it carefully, but said gratefully with his hands on his chest. He stood at the door and looked inside in the dim light.

His two cousins ​​were sitting in the main room sharpening hunting tools. When they saw him coming, they greeted him with a smile.

"Brother Qingzi, do you want to come in and sit down?"

"It's snowing so heavily, I'd better go back early. I have to go up the mountain tomorrow morning. We can go into the city together after the snow stops."

"okay!"

Shen Qing turned around and said, "Uncle, aunt, you guys go ahead and do your work. I'll be going back first."

After Shen Qing left, Wang closed the door and said to Shen Er, "I heard that the youngest sister has been given by the Zhao family to the head of Linfeng Hall as a concubine?"

Shen Er hummed: "It happened not long ago."

Wang tried to say, "Can you let your youngest sister talk to the martial arts school and let Shanwa join? When Shanwa becomes a martial arts master, our life will be much better in the future. Shanwa is her nephew after all, and you are her second brother."

Shen Er snorted coldly, "Do you think this martial arts school is yours? You can enter whenever you want? I've already inquired about it, and even to enter the outer gate you need ten taels of silver. Let's ask our youngest sister for help, and the minimum amount of money will be five or six taels, which is not a small amount." Wang said, "Today, the son of the Chen family said that there is a family in the city who wants to buy a daughter-in-law and can give five taels of silver. Xiaofang is not young anymore..."

When Shen Er heard this, he subconsciously glanced at Wang and said, "Can the Chen family have such good intentions? They ate my eldest brother's family and wiped out the whole family. If I hadn't stopped them, I'm afraid they wouldn't have left a piece of meat for the two of them. They're just trying to trick an ignorant woman like you."

Wang didn't say anything else. After a while, she said in a slightly complaining tone, "Now that the snow is not going to stop, you should stop thinking about the siblings. Think more about Shanwa and Huzi."

"Yes. I know what's going on."

……

There was a bamboo forest behind Shen Qing's house, which was pressed to the ground by the heavy snow.

A wooden stake was hung on one of the bent bamboos, with a part in the middle flattened.

There are dense holes on it.

This is where Shen Qing usually practices archery.

After returning home and getting the bow again, Shen Qing took the arrow borrowed from his uncle's house and skillfully put it on the bowstring.

Shen Qing pulled the bow to its full length, keeping a distance of three feet between the bow and his arm.

call out!
Fifty steps away, the arrow left the bow and shot into the outside of the wooden stake, almost missing the target.

Shen Qing put the arrow back on the bow with an expressionless face.

This bow was left to him by his father. It was made of elm wood and the string was made of deer tendons.

Although it cannot be said to be a very good bow, it is much better than those hunting bows made of a single piece of wood or bamboo.

At the very least you can hunt wild boars and jackals, but for the latter you can only hunt pheasants and rabbits.

Such a bow could be sold for one or two taels of silver, which was one of the few properties he had.

call out!
Another arrow shot out.

It missed the target.

Shen Qing continued to practice archery, once, twice, three times...

He didn't know how many times he practiced until the sky was covered with darkness.

At this moment, Shen Qing glanced at the simple panel in his sight, and a smile appeared on his face.

[Skills: Archery (beginner)]

[Progress: 100/100 points]

[Status: Upgradable]

[Note: Heaven moves vigorously, so a gentleman should constantly strive to improve himself! Continuous practice can lead to breakthroughs in skills. ]

"Finally enough!"

Without any hesitation, Shen Qing's mind moved: "Give me a breakthrough!"

I heard a muffled sound in my mind, and on the simple panel, the progress values ​​were jumping rapidly, just like the screen on the gas pump when I was refueling in my previous life.

When the progress number returned to zero, the panel in sight suddenly vibrated.

[Current Skill: Archery (Proficient)]

【Progress: 0/200】

Shen Qing seemed to sense something, his eyes fixed on his hands.

I saw that my hands were covered with visible calluses, and the muscles in my arms were becoming stronger and more powerful at an incredible speed.

This feeling is like... it's like I've really been practicing archery for a long time...

Various essentials of archery emerged in my mind.

Shen Qing narrowed his eyes slightly, took out another feather arrow, and put the bow on the string.

The ape stretches out his arms and draws the bow to the full moon.

The set of movements became extremely skillful.

Boom!
Gong Xuan trembled.

A hundred steps away, an arrow hit the bull's eye, and the tail feathers trembled!

The snow on the big bamboo fell down.

The bent bamboo body couldn't help but slowly straighten up.

With an excited look on his face, Shen Qing slowly put down the bow in his hand and looked at the simple ink-like panel in his sight.

He realized that this seemingly simple panel might be the foundation of his survival in this world.

(End of this chapter)