Chapter 1512 Envy
Li Yan, the Crown Prince's confidant and a fellow member of the Chongwen Academy, glanced at the two men huddled together for a horse race and explained, "Lord Yang said that since His Highness has enrolled her in the Chongwen Academy, she can naturally choose whether to attend classes."
The prince said, "She is quite good at choosing. I never saw her during classes at Chongwen Hall, but I did run into her when I came to the Western Inner Courtyard."
Li Yan couldn't help but be silent for a moment before he said, "Didn't His Highness ask her to revise the book? I heard that she also teaches medical skills to the disciples in the side hall every afternoon."
"Yeah, why isn't she teaching this afternoon?"
Li Yan said, "I've turned down the riding and archery class."
Anyway, she is the teacher and she has the final say. If she says there will be no class today, can her students force her?
The prince seemed to be lost in thought. He simply rode forward and stopped the two men who were laughing. "Zhou Man, how is your medical study going?"
Manbao felt a little uneasy when she heard this. She coughed lightly and said, "We are currently sorting out the medical books we will need. We can start writing once we have the outline."
The Crown Prince then nodded and said, "Hurry up. I have decided to carve out a piece of land behind the current Imperial Hospital for teaching purposes. From now on, you won't have to teach your disciples in the side halls of the East Palace anymore."
Manbao didn't expect the prince to act so quickly. They hadn't even started to finalize the outline of the book.
Suddenly, riding a horse became less interesting. Bai Shan saw this and said, "You're already out. You can't do much if you go back to Chongwenguan now. It's a rare opportunity to come out, so you might as well have fun. You don't know when you can come to the next horseback archery class."
When Manbao heard this, he realized it was true, so he left the prince and rode his horse to pick up her bow and arrow.
The teacher who taught them horseback archery was very angry and rejected her, saying, "You can't even shoot well standing up, and you're thinking of shooting on horseback? First learn horseback riding well, then practice archery alone. When you have mastered both, then think about combining horseback riding and archery."
Zhao Liulang and others on the side couldn't help but burst into laughter, they were all very happy.
Manbao glared at them and then obediently listened to the instructions and went to practice riding.
There were many people who were rejected by the master like her. Unfortunately, Bai Shan and Bai Erlang were among them. The master thought that their archery skills were not good enough. They could hardly pull the bow to its full height on the ground, let alone on horseback.
Yi Ziyang was also rejected.
Feng Zongping then rode on his horse, carrying a bow and arrow, and ran around them. Bai Shan and the others sensed his mockery and said, "Just wait!"
Everyone planned to make him regret his mockery when they returned to Chongwenguan.
Yin Huo was not like them. He just sat quietly in the corridor with a book in his hand, occasionally looking up at them.
He was weak, and not only had Yin Li and the crown prince warned him about it, but even the emperor had said he would take better care of him, so courses like riding and archery that required big movements had never been relevant to him.
But no one stopped him.
If he were at the martial arts arena, he would definitely find it dull and windy and would definitely not go there, but he was very interested in coming to the Western Inner Courtyard.
Even if you can't ride a horse or shoot arrows, it would be nice to walk around the garden with your hands behind your back.
The prince took the opportunity of class to run two laps in the western inner courtyard and pulled more than twenty arrows. If it were not inappropriate, he really wanted to run directly to the mountain to hunt.
But when he had gone wild enough, he left his bow and arrows and his horse and ran away.
There was no way, there were still many government affairs waiting for him.
The teacher who taught him riding and archery did not stop him. There was nothing wrong with the prince's riding and archery. You know, the prince was the one who rushed to the battlefield when the emperor wanted to lead the army in person. So how could there be anything wrong with his riding and archery?
His problem is with the academic subjects.
So he just left. He was afraid that if they stopped him from teaching riding and archery, the court officials would impeach him tomorrow for taking the prince away from his job.
There were quite a few college students walking with the prince, and the teacher did not stop them. He just stared at nine students, including Feng Zongping, Yi Ziyang, and Bai Shan, because they were the only nine who needed to attend class seriously.
Manbao can barely be counted among them, but it still makes up for Yin or his shortcomings.
A group of people moved around on horseback, and after gaining some experience, they were ordered to dismount and go shooting at targets under the scorching sun.
The teacher was extremely disgusted with them. "My Great Jin governs the world with civil and military means. What's the point of you just knowing how to study? If the Tuyuhun march eastward and the Hu people rebel, will you hold up a book and recite Confucius' words to them? You have to be able to hold a sword, a bow, and shoot accurately to be of any use, don't you understand?"
Even Manbao was not very satisfied with him. He pointed at her arm and said, "You want to learn archery in your current state? And your legs, your lower body must be firmly fixed first, understand..."
Bai Erlang said, "Mr. Wu, you are too strict. She is just a young lady and she doesn't need to go to the battlefield."
"Who says young ladies don't have to go to the battlefield?" Mr. Wu said, "Isn't Princess Pingyang also a lady? She still leads thousands of troops to expand the country's territory."
Manbao immediately perked up and asked him with a sharp gaze, "Mr. Wu, do you also think I look like Princess Pingyang?"
Mr. Wu was so disgusted that he shook his head and said, "How can it be similar? It's not even close. You should hit the bull's eye first."
He said, "This is a dead target. You can't even hit it at such a short distance. Do you still want to be like Princess Pingyang?"
Bai Shan couldn't help but burst out laughing.
Mr. Wu glanced at him and said, "Bai Shan, you're not much better. How on earth did you learn archery in the Imperial College? You can't even hit the bull's eye. When did the threshold for admission to Chongwen Academy become so low?"
Now no one dared to laugh anymore, they all raised their bows and silently aimed at the bull's eye and pulled away...
By the time Manbao and the others were finally able to leave West Inner Court after class, they could hardly lift their hands.
Manbao said, "The horseback archery class isn't fun at all. Didn't you guys say it was fun before?"
Bai Erlang also felt that he couldn't lift his arms anymore. He said, "Our first two horseback archery lessons were really fun. We just rode on horses and chased rabbits. The teacher didn't require us to hit the target or catch the rabbit, just that we didn't bump into each other's horses. Who knew it would be so strict this time?"
Bai Shan said, "Mr. Wu's strategy is to plan carefully before taking action. Look, this time he only focused on us. He didn't care about the others and let them run around and have fun."
Liu Huan said gloomily, "That's because they are good at riding and shooting. If I were the same age as them, I would definitely be good at riding and shooting too."
Even Feng Zongping couldn't help but sneer, "What are you bragging about? Just compare it with your eldest brother, can you compare?"
Bai Shan sighed and said, "Yinhuo is still the best. It is free and unrestrained without any oppression."
Everyone turned to look at Yin Huo, who was riding a horse slowly back. Yin Huo smiled at them and said, "You envy me, but you don't know that I envy you too."
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(End of this chapter)
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