There were two sleeve arrows in the small box. Su Li took out one and looked it over. Both the structure and appearance of this sleeve arrow were very different from the ones she had seen in the west city market before. It was very delicate and light, so she hesitated when she saw it just now.
Pei Ji said gently: "I'll teach you how to use it..."
He took the hidden arrow from her hand and opened the ring on it: "Hand."
Su Li raised his hand upon hearing this.
Pei Ji held her hand with one hand, and with the other hand, he snapped the sleeve arrow onto her forearm with a "click", and then carefully adjusted the direction.
Pei Ji's hands were beautiful, white and slender, with distinct knuckles. Even when he was just fiddling with these cold hidden weapons, his movements were very skillful and graceful, which was pleasing to the eye.
"alright."
After adjusting the position, he began to teach her how to use it.
"This is the first switch. Only after it is turned on can we press the launch button. This..."
"Oh, I see..."
After the basic explanation, Pei Ji first placed a small wooden board at the foot of the window, and then moved another small box on the table. When he opened the box, it was full of arrow feathers. The arrow feathers were about ten centimeters long and as thick as the tip of a chopstick.
He took a few quivers and put them into the quiver on her arm, then stood sideways behind Su Li, lifted her hand, and guided her to aim at the small wooden board on the window: "First, pull the switch and press fire..."
"call out!"
The sharp arrow shot out and nailed accurately and steadily in the center of the wooden board.
Su Li was amazed and eager to try: "Let me try..."
"Okay." Pei Ji let go of her hand and stood a few steps away.
The first switch only needs to be turned on for the first time, and then just press the launch button. Su Li followed what Pei Ji had just taught him, raised his hand, aimed at the small wooden board, and pressed the switch.
"call out!"
The sharp arrow was shot out and actually got firmly nailed on the small wooden board. Although it was on the edge of the board, it was enough to surprise her. This sleeve arrow was really useful!
Pei Ji also curled his lips and praised: "Very good, you will get used to it after practicing more..."
Su Li smiled and said, "Okay!"
Afterwards, Pei Ji packed his clothes while Su Li practiced his sleeve arrows on the side.
Half an hour later, Pei Ji packed up and went out. Su Li sent him to the door of the inn, where Pei Chuan's carriage was waiting. After watching him get on the carriage and leave, she returned to Pei Ji's room in the guest house to continue practicing for a while. It was late at night before she went back to her room to sleep.
In March in Beijing, the weather has gradually warmed up.
Su Li just remembered that she hadn't made clothes for Xiao Sanzi and the others yet.
When the time comes, they will enter the No. 1 Scholar's Mansion to serve, and naturally they will have to wear the same maid's and servant's clothes. These clothes are not sold in ready-made clothing shops, so they need to find someone to make them.
Early in the morning, she walked to Changming Street and found a tailor shop. She ordered two sets of spring clothes and two sets of summer clothes for Xiao Sanzi and others. As for the colors, she ordered dark blue for the servants' clothes, emerald green for the maids' clothes, and dark gray for the cooks' clothes.
Then he left the address of the rented house of Xiao Sanzi and his friends with the tailor shop so that the tailor could come to their house to take their sizes.
After leaving the tailor shop, she went to the carriage shop.
Unlike other things, carriages cannot be bought directly. They need to be customized at a carriage dealership. Thinking that it was getting late, if the carriage was customized now, it would be almost ready for use by the time we moved into the Zhuangyuan Mansion.
The carriage was driving on a street behind Changming Street, and Su Li turned directly into an alley to take a shortcut.
As soon as he came out of the alley, he saw a crowd of people on the right side of the street, as if they were watching something exciting. It was a bit far away, so he couldn't tell what they were watching. Su Li just looked around for a few times and walked straight to the left across the street where the carriage shop was.
The carriage shop is very spacious and is said to be the largest carriage shop in the capital.
She was greeted by a slightly plump middle-aged man, who was also one of the shopkeepers here, Manager Lin.
Shopkeeper Lin first took her to see the model carriages. There were more than a dozen different types of carriages here, of different sizes, such as a large two-horse carriage, a small one-horse carriage, a medium-sized carriage, and they were made of different materials and had different frame carvings...
"Sir, here are all the carriages we have in our shop. Which one would you like to order?"
After reading it, Shopkeeper Lin asked with a smile.
"I want this one, made of the best wood, with a carved frame, this one..."
Su Li decided to follow his earlier idea and chose the same carriage style as Song Xianshan.
She had ridden in Mr. Song's carriage before. It was a medium-sized single-horse carriage made of excellent materials. It was spacious and comfortable inside. The whole carriage exuded a low-key luxury, but it was quite expensive.
Su Li wanted to buy a better carriage so that he could sit more comfortably when traveling long distances in the future, so he ordered two without hesitation.
Then I chose the pattern, fabric, style of the curtains, and finally paid a deposit before leaving the carriage shop.
I stayed in the carriage shop for nearly two hours, but when I came out, I didn't expect that the hustle and bustle on the street was still going on.
She simply went over to take a look.
"You're so young, what's the point of knowing some martial arts? You can't even carry anything on your shoulders or hands..."
"Yeah, who's bodyguard doesn't have some martial arts skills? They don't have to be so expensive..."
"Yeah, it's so expensive, who would want to buy it?"
"Alas, both of them are seriously ill. How pitiful..."
As I approached the crowd, I saw people on the outer edge talking among themselves.
Su Li was puzzled. How could someone be good at martial arts, expensive, and pitiful?
She pushed her way through the crowd and walked in. She saw two people wrapped in thin blankets lying on the ground in the middle of the crowd, and a thin boy of about twelve or thirteen was kneeling beside them.
In front of the young man, there was a wooden sign with the title "Selling myself into a slave to save my mother and sister" written on it. The general situation was that the young man's mother and sister were both sick, and it would take a large sum of money to cure the mother and daughter's illness. The young man claimed to be a martial arts master, and wanted to use this to sell himself for enough money to cure his mother and sister.
Su Li looked at the price offered by her boy and found it was indeed very high. This price could buy dozens of mistresses.
But what interested her was the boy's superb martial arts skills. To be honest, she was in need of people with superb martial arts skills.
In the pawnshop, ordinary slaves are easy to buy, but there are basically no slaves with martial arts skills, and it is even more impossible to find slaves with strong martial arts skills. Most of them are bought back and trained by themselves. If this young man is really a martial arts master, the price will be a little higher than what he offered, and she will have no problem with it. After all, to train a guard with strong martial arts skills, it takes not only money but also time.
She stepped forward, squatted down, and asked, "You said you were a martial arts expert. Are you serious?"
It has been two days. Because the price he offered was high, many people came to watch the fun, but no one came forward to ask. Now, someone finally came to ask.
With hope in his heart, Xiao Mu quickly replied, "Really! Madam, Xiao Mu has been learning martial arts since he was a child. His martial arts skills are better than the best martial artists in the martial arts hall..."
"What was your name?" Su Li was surprised.
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