Li's living room is very large. In terms of area, it can be compared to the small banquet hall of later hotels.

Even if each person needs a four-foot-long bench, it can seat at least twenty or thirty people.

The gifts that Daxi brought are placed on the following tables.

Looking at the ink, pens, paper, inkstones and the like, Li Chengzhi sighed.

Of course he doesn’t despise etiquette.

These things may seem inconspicuous, but they represent great significance. To put it bluntly, Daxi has shown his greatest sincerity, which is much more sincere than sending a few carts of copper.

Li Chengzhi finds it troublesome.

With Da Xi's attitude, he clearly thought that his ancestral home, the Li family, whose "Poetry" was handed down to the world, could be called a "Scholar-Confucian" family, so he was afraid of making mistakes and making a fool of himself, so he had no choice but to copy the tricks of the family.

In fact, not to mention the Li family, even the Guo family of Jingzhou, who have been offering wine as a sacrifice for generations, no longer use this set of rules.

It’s really troublesome.

This is not like the later generations, where gifts are given and everything is done after a drink. Instead, there is a whole set of tedious and complicated etiquette, and it will not be finished until you have to deal with it.

Moreover, Li Chengzhi must return the gift, and then there will be a struggle, which is what is called in the Book of Songs "throw a peach, repay a plum..."

There will be a complete and formatted procedure for how to walk, how to enter, how to salute, how to speak, how to return salutations, etc.

Just to remember these, and to ensure that he doesn't make any mistakes or be laughed at, Li Chengzhi will have to practice for at least four or five days...

He thought he had no elegance at all, and Da Xi might be even worse than him...

A pair of clay mallets, why do they need to embarrass each other?

Li Chengzhi was looking around when Da Xi picked up something from the front table, held it with both hands, and handed it to Li Chengzhi.

Li Chengzhi's eyes bulged.

What Da Xi took was actually a dead chicken?

Well, to be precise, it’s a dried pheasant.

Li Chengzhi did not go to college in vain, and he had been trained by his girlfriend who was a Chinese teacher for so many years. He was no stranger to some ancient rituals, so he naturally knew what they meant.

Don't think this is a dead chicken. In today's situation, the etiquette of this thing is even more important than the jade on the table next to it...

Just because once a pheasant is captured, it will go on a hunger strike and will not eat water or rice until it starves to death. Therefore, when scholars make friends, they must use pheasants as gifts, which means that once the two parties make friends, they will abide by the law...

"I have admired you for a long time, and today I got what I wanted. I came here without warning. Don't be surprised..."

Daxi seemed to be endorsing something, speaking the fixed and formatted language in the "Rituals for Meeting Scholars" in "Li", but he just started to speak, and he couldn't continue?

It's not that he forgot the lyrics, but Li Chengzhi's expression.

This is obviously a disdain for him...

Yes, that’s definitely what it means.

Da Xi doesn’t even know if he should be angry?

Li Chengzhi glanced at him quickly and blinked: "Are you tired?"

Da Xi is overjoyed.

How can you not be tired?

Just because of such a dead chicken, he had to ask for at least three invitations. Li Chengzhi refused again and again, and it took only half an hour to complete the set of etiquette.

It’s okay if you’re physically tired, the key is that you’re mentally tired, and you’re as embarrassed as you want to be.

Grandpa just pretends to be a civilized person, but he is just a serial killer. Why does he say so many flattery and flattery words against his will?

I wonder if Li Chengzhi, the person listening, would blush. Anyway, he, the person speaking, would be ashamed to death

Da Xi felt that instead of being so pretentious, it would be better to have a good drunken time with Li Chengzhi, and then go to a brothel (brothel).

This is what a man should do...

Seeing that Li Chengzhi and Da Xi didn't take etiquette seriously, Li Shixian and Guo Yuzhi just pretended not to see it.

Regulations are dead, but people are alive.

To put it bluntly, Daxi is not even a Han Chinese, so why bother using this set of Confucian etiquette to embarrass others?

Just make the point...

The gifts are not many, but not too small either. There are the Four Treasures, the Five Classics, two pieces of jade... There is also a BMW for Li Shixian, and a mink fur for Guo Yuzhi.

From the perspective of Li Chengzhi, a time traveler, these things are naturally not that unusual, but in the eyes of Li Shixian and Guo Cunxin, these are all good things that can be encountered but not sought.

They know where these things come from without having to guess?

Looking at Da Xi's posture, it seems that he wants to move the entire governor's office here...

But not only was Li Shixian not happy, he was so distressed that he bled...

Not to mention him, even his youngest son and grandson can already recite the "Poetry". How could Li Shixian not know what "throwing in papaya and repaying with Qiongju" means?

Not to mention Qiongju, even if you are young, you have to "throw me a peach and repay you with a plum".

The problem is, the Li family really can’t come up with something similar for a while...

Da Xi introduced Li Chengzhi in the same manner. Li Chengzhi looked surprised and surprised, and even clicked his tongue.

But Guo Yuzhi knew at a glance that Li Chengzhi was not happy at all.

It shouldn’t be. Ever since he was a child, has Li Chengzhi never seen such a good thing?

After looking around, Dasha pointed to a bow and said almost boastfully: "I gave this to you as a gift from my father..."

Li Chengzhi’s face is full of weirdness.

Xi Kangsheng’s return gift?

What are you talking about?

To put it bluntly, a person of that status would ask you for a knife just because of your face. If you don't return the favor, you'll be damned...

Unsurprisingly, this was either Da Xi Mo begging Xi Kang Sheng to borrow a name to avoid him being in trouble.

Either that or Da Xi is pretending to be powerful.

Li Chengzhi couldn't figure out how optimistic Da Xi was about himself?

When he heard that it was from Xi Kangsheng, Li Shixian's eyes lit up, and all the worries about how to return the gift seemed to disappear: "Could this... be the rumored Taiqing Gong?"

Don't blame him for being happy to see hunting. In fact, he is not interested in men, and there are only a few things he is interested in...

As soon as he heard the word "Taiqing", Li Chengzhi also became interested.

Isn’t this the name of Xiao Yan, the current emperor of the Southern Dynasty?

But just glancing at the bow, he couldn't help but take a breath of cold air.

The bow body is six feet long. Even if it is strung, it is at least one meter three to four meters.

And how long were the English war bows in history? Most of them were about 1.5 meters after being strung, and the longest one was only 1.8 meters.

Don't just listen to the length and think it's longer than this bow, then the English longbow will definitely be more powerful than this bow.

The reason why the British longbow is long is that Europeans can only make single-body bows. In order to increase its power, they can only make the bow as long as possible, and there is no other way.

To put it bluntly, it is just a rope tied to a wooden stick, and there is almost no skill at all.

In Chinese history, the recurve bow was more than three times as strong as the British war bow of the same length...

Just like the one in front of you, it is a true recurve angle bow.

Not only the waist is curved but the tip is curved, there is no shortage of materials such as stems, angles, tendons, glue, silk, paint, etc. required for the compound bow.

The bow body is made of fine eucalyptus wood. The belly of the bow is covered with horn pieces, and then the whole body is wrapped with beef tendon wire. It is bonded with isin glue and then painted with raw lacquer to enhance the strength of the bow body as much as possible.

Such a long recurve bow uses so many high-quality composite materials. How stiff is this bow?

Even if Li Chengzhi didn't have common sense, he could figure out that if he didn't have the strength of more than three stones to draw this bow, it would be impossible to even think about it.

The three stones from the Yuan and Wei dynasties, converted into later generations' data, were at least four hundred pounds...

Because he had never encountered a bow that was handy, Li Chengzhi didn't know what his limit was, but Li Song, Li Zhang and others used hard bows of about one stone and five for foot combat, and he was quite comfortable in using them.

If it were the one in front of him, he would probably be able to pull it full, but if he wanted to use it for fighting, that would be a joke...

Not to be exaggerated, there are countless people in the world who can fight with such a bow right now. I can probably count them on ten fingers.

And all the people he uses are brave generals who are famous all over the world.

Just like Xi Kangsheng...

That's why Li Chengzhi was surprised that Daxi's gift was so heavy.

"These are not Taiqing bows..." Zhang Jingzhi explained to Li Shixian, "The two large bows given to the guard by Emperor Liang Xiao Yan were eight feet long and weighed five stones, and the arrows used were thicker than the flute.

Even Xi Zhenshou could only shoot horizontally (draw horizontally)... After that, the guard presented the bow to Jin Shang. Jin Shang thought it was rare and unparalleled, so he placed it in the royal arsenal..."

"This is the Qi Mei Bow!" Da Xi pointed to the bow and said, "I don't know where my father got it from, but it is said that Lu Fengxian used this bow to shoot halberds..."

Qimei? It means that the eyebrows are as high...the name is ordinary.
To be continued...