Pig Killer

Chapter 181

"No, no. I haven't practiced." Shen Hui'e looked at them without blushing or panting and said, "You saw it too, drawing the bow, aiming, shooting the arrow, no unnecessary movements." She smiled and patted her arm and said, "Maybe because of my great strength, archery is very easy." She smiled and complimented Liu Ding, "Brother Liu still makes a very good bow."

Liu Ding was so embarrassed by the compliment that he looked at her and said, "Let me try?"

"Okay!" Shen Hui'e handed him the bow and arrow.

Liu Ding took a stance and aimed at the tree trunk. With a whoosh, the arrow flew through the air and shot into the tree trunk with a bang.

"Look, your Uncle Liu has never shot an arrow before, but now he hits the target." Shen Hui'e looked at them with a smile on her face and secretly breathed a sigh of relief in her heart.

Otherwise, conscription would prefer girls from good families, girls from farmers, because their strength is developed through farm work.

They can go to the battlefield with just a hoe, let alone a little training.

They are much more combat effective than the bandit troops.

"It's just not accurate." Liu Ding shot five arrows in a row, but the difference was quite large.

"Accinia comes from practice." Shen Hui'e looked at him with her inky black eyes and said, "It's good enough if you can hit the target without missing it."

"I'll make one at home later and practice more. Maybe I can shoot down a pheasant too." Liu Ding said with a grin.

"Uncle Liu, Uncle Liu, let me try." The tiger said eagerly.

"Okay!" Liu Ding handed him the bow and arrow.

The tiger held the bow and arrow and asked, "I wonder if I can pull the bow and arrow?" He pulled the bowstring, looked at them with eyes wide open and said, "It's not too difficult." He put on the bow and arrow.

"Please walk forward! Fifty steps is a bit far." Shen Hui'e said to him with her eyes as gentle as jade.

"Then I'll go ten steps away and try it." The big tiger took the bow and arrow and walked to the big tree ten steps away, pulled the bow and shot the arrow. "Oh!" His eyes widened, he actually hit the target.

"Mother, did you see it?" Da Chong turned around and looked at his mother and said.

"I see, I see." Shen Hui'e walked over and looked at him with a smile, her bright eyes looking at him and saying, "It's not possible beyond a hundred steps."

"That requires a good bow and great strength." Liu Ding looked at them with his dark eyes and said, "Both the bow and the arrow are specially made."

"Yeah!" Shen Hui'e looked at them with her bright eyes and said, "Our bows and arrows are too crude. We can't compare with theirs."

"I know!" said the big bug with a grin, "I was just surprised that I hit the target."

"It's so close, if you just throw a stone, you might hit it!" Shen Hui'e said to them with amusement.

"That's right!" The big tiger looked at them with its black eyes and smiled.

"A sharpshooter who can shoot an arrow through a target at a hundred paces! She is called a sharpshooter." Shen Hui'e looked at them with her deep and clear eyes and said, "At a hundred paces, you can't even see the head. The target will be smaller!" She smiled and said, "You can go and try it."

"Then how can we aim? It's so far away?" said the big tiger, squinting his eyes.

"You little fool, do you really think you are using your eyes?" Shen Hui'e said to them with amusement.

"If we don't use our eyes to see, what should we use?" The raccoon slave asked her with his innocent eyes.

"You have to keep a steady posture when shooting arrows. You can't shake. You have to breathe evenly and keep your eyes on the target." Shen Hui'e looked at them with her gentle eyes and said, "Aim intentionally and shoot unintentionally." She added gently, "Shooting arrows requires certain skills and tricks. Only by practicing continuously and honing your skills can you hit the target from a hundred paces away."

"How do you do the techniques and tricks that A-niang mentioned?" the big tiger asked, looking at her with his dark eyes.

"For example, we need to keep our hands steady." Shen Hui'e pointed to her wrist and said, "Hang on a sandbag and practice archery."

The big tiger's eyes lit up when he heard this and said, "Yes! It can also be used when writing large characters."

"Yes!" Shen Hui'e nodded and smiled, "When shooting arrows, breathe steadily..."

"Then just hold your breath!" said the raccoon slave, looking at them with his big, bright eyes.

"It's just holding your breath!" said the big tiger quickly. "In the summer, hold your breath in the river."

"The river water is dirty and dangerous if you're not careful. It's also seasonal." Shen Hui'e listed its shortcomings.

"Then how do you hold your breath?" The big insect blinked his black eyes and asked, "Just hold your breath like this?"

Shen Hui'e looked at him holding his breath like a fool and shook her head and laughed, "Fool, if you want to practice holding your breath, just use our wooden basin, fill it with well water, and put your head in it. If you can't stand it, just lift your head up, there won't be any danger."

"We can still use hot water in winter." Li Nu said to them with a smile.

"When you hold your breath, count silently in your mind. You can feel your progress every day." Shen Hui'e said to them with eyes as gentle as jade.

"Good idea." The big bug looked at her and said with a smile.

"Brother, let me try." The raccoon slave looked at him with eyes like black grapes.

"Try it, all of you try it." Shen Hui'e said to them with warm eyes.

Regardless of the accuracy, they were able to hit the tree trunk without missing the target, mainly because they were close.

"Mother, at such a close distance, can you still shoot the prey?" The tiger said worriedly, "Won't it alarm the prey?"

"With my strength, it's fifty steps away." Shen Hui'e looked at them with her dark, shining pupils and said, "That's enough."

Hearing this, the big insect looked up at the blue sky and raised the bow and arrow in his hand, "It seems that I can do it too."

"Let's set up a target. You should practice your aim first!" Shen Hui'e looked at him with eyes as gentle as jade and said, "Birds in the sky can fly and move. You need to be able to predict."

Shen Hui'e bent down, picked up a stone on the ground, and threw it into the sky. "Look, it's such a short time. You don't even have time to practice bow drawing."

"Ah..." Da Chong looked at her blankly and said, pursing his lips, "This doesn't seem to be easy."

"The only martial arts in the world that cannot be defeated is speed." Shen Hui'e looked at him with her deep and clear eyes and said, "Then practice!"

"Mother, there are officials ahead." Li Nu pointed at a group of people on the road, blocking their way back to the city.

Shen Hui'e could hear the farmers praying from afar.

"Sir, sir, this cannot be done! These are corn seeds, you cannot take them away! If you take them away, how can we continue the spring ploughing?"

"How dare you disobey the emperor's order." The official snorted coldly and looked at him with contempt.

"The common people don't dare, the common people don't dare."

"If you don't dare, why are you still stopping me?"

"These are seeds. You can't take them! If you take them away, we won't be able to plant them in the spring, and we'll have nothing to harvest in the fall."

"I am only following orders. As for what you want to plant, that is your own business." The officer glanced at him and said, "Get out of the way, or don't blame me for being rude."

When Da Chong heard this, he looked at him angrily and clenched his fists until they made crackling sounds.

Shen Hui'e pressed his shoulder to stop his impulse.

"Sir, Sir!" Shen Hui'e couldn't help but speak.

The officer felt extremely comfortable when he was called "Sir", as if he had entered a warm house in the middle of winter and felt warm all over.

The officer looked over at her and said with a friendly expression, "So it's the butcher lady!"

Shen Hui'e took two steps forward and looked at the hesitant farmer and said, "How dare you make things difficult for the officer! I am just following orders. If I fail to do my job well and the higher-ups blame me, you will have to bear the brunt of the blame!"

The official's words were very pleasing to the ears. "That's right, that's right."

Just as the farmer was about to speak, Liu Ding pulled him aside and winked at him.

"We know the courier is working hard. In this cold weather, he still has to come to our house to urge us to do our work." Shen Hui'e said in a chorus, "You are so ignorant!"

"Madam Pig Butcher, you really hit the nail on the head. The county magistrate asks me questions every day. I haven't done my job well, and I really don't know how to report back." The officer sighed.

"Sir, sir, it looks like this family is really out of food. If we hand over the seeds, they won't be able to plant in the spring. Then in the fall, there will be no food to hand over to the emperor." Shen Hui'e said with a bow.

The official came over and spoke for the farmer! He raised his eyelids and curled his lips, "What does the butcher lady mean? You pay for him!"

"My life is hard too!" Shen Hui'e pointed at the bow and arrow in the hand of the big insect behind her and said, "Look, I have to make my own bow and arrow to go hunting. It's not that I don't want to pay, I just don't have any."

"Since you don't have the ability, don't meddle in this matter." The officer said bluntly.

Shen Hui'e's eyes flashed with anger, then she put on a smile and said, "Sir, can't you be flexible?"

"Make concessions? How?" The official asked with a smile, a trace of greed flashing in his eyes. He turned around and looked at the farmer. "Look at his tattered clothes. He doesn't have anything valuable."

"No matter how poor our family is, we can at least have some oil!" Shen Hui'e smiled at him ingratiatingly.

"I am not unreasonable. You look so pitiful. Do you have anything valuable at home to pay for it?" The officer stroked his chin and looked at the farmer with contempt.

"The officer is asking you a question?" Liu Ding patted his shoulder and said.

"It's nothing valuable!" said the farmer, slumped on the ground.

"Don't you have chickens at home?" Liu Ding said after thinking for a while.

"It's a chick I just caught." The farmer said blankly, then he looked up at the official and asked, "Is this chick okay?"

"Tsk..." the officer curled his lips in disdain, "You're sending away beggars!"

"Is there no old hen?" Liu Ding looked at him and said quickly.

"The old hen is still laying eggs! The eggs are used to exchange for salt." The farmer looked at the official pleadingly.

The official looked at him with a dark face and said, "I am being kind today. Do you want a chicken or seeds? Choose one!"

In the end, the farmer cried and gave the five old hens that laid eggs in his home to the official.

The farmer held the corn seeds in his arms, bowed slightly to the butchers and said with tears in his eyes, "Thank you for today! Otherwise, all these seeds will be gone."

"Don't blame us for losing your chicken." Shen Hui'e looked at him with her deep and penetrating eyes.