Hsu Fengnian figured out a principle. The so-called "when you draw your sword, you look around and feel at a loss". In addition to worrying about the country and the people, there was another possibility, which was to get lost. Because he had changed the fixed route, he could only follow the general direction like a headless fly. Fortunately, he met a group of scholars who were being cut off by Horse Gangs on the way. He helped them without drawing his sword, and then they turned to the border between Dragon Waist State and Orange State. The reason why he helped them was that he recognized the identity of these people as the descendants of the Spring and Autumn Annals. Moreover, the Horse Gangs were not unfamiliar to him. Two of them were the ones who wanted to kidnap people back to warm the bed for the female head of the family. This group of scholars of different ages should be from good families. It was not known whether the family hired a guard instructor or hired five or six strong warriors, but they were not powerless against more than 30 Horse Gangs who came and went like the wind. Several men with swords also performed quite well. Although their swordsmanship was fancy, it was more than enough to frighten the Horse Gangs. Several young women dressed in men's clothes looked at them with shining eyes. However, Hsu Fengnian, who had done the most to make the final decision, made them lose interest.
This was probably because he was wearing a mediocre face. Most of the love in the world was literary and focused on the feeling of love at first sight. But in the end, how could a man not be handsome or full of scholarly aura that was suffocating to the nose when he was the main character in a novel about a scholar and a beauty? How could a woman not be able to captivate the birds and beasts, obscure the moon and put flowers to shame?
Hsu Fengnian did not feel any disappointment about this. On the contrary, he got along well with a few old Confucian scholars in the group. Only then did he find out that this group of people were the children of a few clans in Gusai State that had been connected for generations. The Sage's teachings required one to read ten thousand books and travel ten thousand li. There were a few people in the group who had reached the age of twenty at the same time. Coincidentally, one of the old scholars had a marriage alliance with a big clan in Tangerine State. He also wanted to see the scenery of the frontier fortress, so they traveled together. The young people took advantage of their prime to study, while the old ones took advantage of the fact that one of their feet was still outside the coffin to travel quickly. As for the three women, they were all scholars who had reached the age of twenty. Although they were also the descendants of the people who had fled to the north, after they were infected with the atmosphere of Beimang, they mustered up their courage to elope. Hsu Fengnian pondered for a moment and knew that most of the families they belonged to were slightly inferior to the few young scholars. They hoped that they could take advantage of the opportunity during their travels and climb up the social ladder, so he turned a blind eye to it.
Hsu Fengnian's small talk with Tian Nan and Di Bei also confirmed that there were four classes of people in Beimang. The remnants of the Spring and Autumn Period were all in the second class. Later on, the Empress of Beimang, Jing Jiu Liu, and the Qing Dynasty, changed the surname to determine the rank. Other than the fact that everyone in the court was well aware that they were paving the way for the Murong family, they were not completely without merit. In the Southern Dynasty, other than the three surnames' Gao 'and' Hua ', the next so-called high-ranking families were mostly' Bing 'and' Ding '. The old Confucian scholar who had a close relationship with Hsu Fengnian was able to join the' Ding 'family because his clan brother had once served as the official minister of the Southern Dynasty's Ministry of Personnel. As for the leader of the group, although he was only from a third-class noble family in the Central Plains when he fled to the north, he had taken root in Beimang. Perhaps because the land and the land were suitable, two people from his family had been ranked high in the Southern Dynasty's Nine Ministers.
Along the way, they learned that this young man with the surname Xu and given name Qi was just a concubine's son from Gu Sai Prefecture. They didn't even want to give him a smile, as if they were afraid that if they talked to him, Young Master Luo would treat them as a frivolous and superficial woman.
There was still a day's journey before they reached the border city of Orange State. In the dusk, the group of more than 20 people began to camp and rest. Hsu Fengnian nimbly helped several old Confucian scholars to set up sheepskin tents. In the eyes of some snobbish people, they were less interested in making friends with him. Only a few retainers who had almost died in the hands of the Horse Gang occasionally struck up a conversation with him, who was said to be half a soldier and half a merchant. The south central part of Beimang was located in the north. It was easy to have fertile water and grass. There were also continuous mountains near Jinxi State of the Liyang Dynasty. However, they did not dare to cross the border too far. If they encountered the nobles of the Northern Dynasty, whether they were from the grassland or from the army, they might not even be able to return to Gusai State alive, let alone be rebuffed. After roughly setting up camp, they began to roast meat over a bonfire and warm up the wine and tea. Yesterday, a retainer with excellent archery had killed a wild horse and a few swans. Before they finished eating, Hsu Fengnian had only tasted a few bites of half-cooked horse meat thanks to several old Confucian scholars. Sitting in front of the bonfire, the young scholars talked loudly as if one exhaled to save the country and the people, and one inhaled to save the world. The old scholars reminisced about the time when they were young in the Central Plains. For some reason, the topic focused on the military strength of the two dynasties and then the arm strength of the crossbow. The old man surnamed Luo of the Ding Family saw that Hsu Fengnian seemed to be engrossed in the conversation, so he explained with a smile, "The strength of the crossbow, or the so-called bow strength, is the method of hanging a heavy object upside down until it is fully drawn. The weight of the object is the same as the weight of the bow. There is also a relatively rare rod and scale hook, which is more accurate and is usually used in the military camp. This Old Man's retainer who pulled the bow and shot down the swan has the arm strength of nearly two stones. I dare not say that he can shoot through a willow leaf in a hundred steps, but he can shoot through one or two pieces of leather armor at about eighty steps. The bow he used is of the best quality in the winter. The buffalo horn and the elk tendon are also good materials for making bows. It's a pity that fish gelatin and silk are not good enough, otherwise the bow he carried could be sold for at least three hundred taels of silver."
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