When Zhang Ran returned to the inn, it was already bright. When he returned to the room, he did not see Zhang Chu. Zhang Ran went out again and left a note for him, telling him not to miss the competition tonight.
Zhang Ran yawned and felt a little sleepy. He hadn't slept for two days and two nights. Zhang Ran planned to have a good sleep.
After entering Dongwang Village, Zhang Ran had already asked clearly that today was the third day of the Poor Festival, which meant that Zhang Ran had stayed in the ancient tomb all day.
When he was in the ancient tomb, the light was dim and he didn't feel the passage of time at all. He didn't expect that time passed so quickly.
Putting the knife at his waist and the gun behind his back on the table, Zhang Ran lay down on the bed and fell asleep.
Today is the last day of the Poor Festival. Many warriors came to Dongwang Village, all coming to get rewards, which made Dongwang Village even more lively. Of course, there were more people causing trouble, so in Patrolling guards can be seen everywhere in Dongwang Village, and they will arrest anyone who makes trouble.
The guards of Dongwang Village are much stronger than the guards of Hulu Village. The guards of Dongwang Village are all at the bone refining level, but the guards alone cannot suppress the situation, so the village chief of Dongwang Village He came out to control the situation, because the village chief is a warrior at the blood refining level.
In a restaurant, Zhang Chu was in trouble. Two warriors walked towards Zhang Chu with evil smiles.
Zhang Chu showed anger. He just saw the two warriors teasing and touching the girl who was singing, so he spoke up. As a result, the two warriors stopped teasing the girl and came to him instead. Trouble.
"Don't you like to meddle in your own business? Then let you taste the consequences of being nosy." One of the two warriors said.
While he was talking, he punched Zhang Chu in the face with his fist, sending Zhang Chu flying two meters away. His cheek was slightly swollen.
Before Zhang Chu could get up, his foot stepped on Zhang Chu's face. Zhang Chu struggled to get up, but his foot suppressed him so hard that he couldn't get up.
"The escort is here, come and take a look, something good is going to happen."
There was a shout from outside the restaurant.
The warrior who stepped on Zhang Chu's face immediately took his foot away and said, "Let's go." The two warriors hurriedly left the restaurant.
After a while, a little beggar about fifteen or sixteen years old entered the restaurant, picked up Zhang Chu, who was still up, and said, "Follow me." The two left the restaurant.
The little beggar pulled Zhang Chu to a deserted corner before stopping. The little beggar said: "Fortunately we escaped, otherwise the two warriors would have come back and we would have been miserable."
Zhang Chu said: "Isn't the escort team coming? Then they will help me deal with those two warriors."
The little beggar smiled and said: "The escort didn't come at all, I lied to them."
Zhang Chu understood it as soon as he heard it and said gratefully: "Thank you."
The little beggar said: "You're welcome. If you hadn't helped me before, I wouldn't have helped you now."
Zhang Chu asked doubtfully: "When did I help you?" Zhang Chu didn't remember helping the little beggar. Could it be that he had helped too many people and didn't remember it.
The little beggar said: "Yesterday, my mother was sick. I wanted to send my mother to see a doctor, but I was too young to move. I could only ask my mother to be taken there by a donkey cart, but I didn't have any money. Then I went to the street. I asked for help, but no one helped me. I only asked for help from you. You gave me two taels of silver and allowed me to rent a donkey cart and take my mother to the hospital."
When the little beggar said this, Zhang Chu remembered that when he was shopping yesterday, a little girl wanted to borrow some money to let her mother go to the hospital. At that time, Zhang Chu saw that she was pitiful, so he gave her two taels of silver. Chu didn't take this matter seriously and continued shopping. At that time, he forgot about this matter and never thought of repaying it.
"Is your mother well?" Zhang Chu said, "That's not right. You have money to rent a donkey cart to drive your mother, but you don't have the money to treat your mother. How did you let the doctor save your mother?"
"My mother is well." The little beggar said: "Although I have no money, my mother saved some money in the hospital in the past, and I can use the saved money to treat my mother."
"Oh, so that's it." Zhang Chu knew that some big medical clinics had this way of seeing patients and buying medicine. Then Zhang Chu asked, "That's not right. You are a little girl, why have you become a beggar now?"
The little beggar said: "My mother said that I am a girl and should protect myself when I go out alone, so I thought of acting like a little beggar every time I go out."
Zhang Chu said: "I know why you looked like a little girl when you borrowed money last time. I must have been not far from your home at that time, right?"
"Yeah," said the little beggar.
Then Zhang Chu and the little beggar started talking, and soon they talked about the Poor Festival, and then about the competition to choose the strongest person during the Poor Festival. The little beggar knew that Zhang Chu brought his nephew to participate in the competition, of course. Zhang Chu said that he would not play if he was not strong enough, and his nephew forced his nephew to play.
And Zhang Chu also knew the name of the little beggar, named Su Yue. This name was given by her mother. Her father died when she was very young, and it was her mother who had the luck to raise her up alone. of.
As they talked, they arrived at the location of the competition to select the strong ones. At this time, many people gathered here, most of them were warriors, and a few were villagers.
There is a lake here called Chunguang Lake. At a glance, you can't see the edge of the lake. At this time, there are two five-meter-high willow carts and straw boats, one on the left and one on the right.
Willow carts are made from the branches and leaves of willow trees.
Straw boats are made of grass.
It is very refined and must have taken a lot of effort to make. It is very spectacular and gives people a feeling that has never been seen before.
In front of the willow carts and straw boats is a wooden arena, which should have been built by the villagers of Dongwang Village.
Zhang Chu found a conspicuous position where Zhang Ran could see him when he arrived. The little beggar followed Zhang Chu.
It was almost dark when Zhang Chu and the little beggar arrived. Not long after waiting, Zhang Ran arrived and found Zhang Chu. He slept throughout the day. Zhang Ran was in good spirits, unlike before.
Zhang Chu introduced the little beggar to Zhang Ran and told Zhang Ran what happened before. He hoped that Zhang Ran would teach the two warriors a lesson after meeting them. Zhang Ran expressed his gratitude to the little beggar. If Without the little beggar, Zhang Chu would be miserable. Then Zhang Ran said that when he met those two warriors in the future, he would give Zhang Chu a good sigh of relief.
It's just that the little beggar was a little hesitant when he saw Zhang Ran, because Zhang Ran was only seven or eight years old, younger than her. Zhang Chu wanted Zhang Ran to avenge him, but she felt violated no matter what. The feeling of harmony is really like a middle-aged man asking a child to help him vent his anger. How can I put it? It can only be said that this middle-aged man is too hopeless, but Zhang Chu doesn't feel this at all. In his heart, Zhang Ran is Stronger than him, he asked Zhang Ran to help him, which was nothing.
There was also a little beggar who was even more surprised when he knew that Zhang Ran was going to compete. Could such a small child have such great strength? Although he is a genius in martial arts, despite his young age, he is much stronger than himself.
Watching Zhang Chu bragging for a while, the little beggar still didn't believe it. Finally, Zhang Chu said that she believed it when she saw Zhang Ran on the stage.
"Why is there a gun on your back?" Zhang Chunren didn't ask until now.
"In the past two days, I practiced a kind of marksmanship and got this gun, so I carried this silver gun with me." Zhang Ran said.
"So you've been learning to shoot in the past two days. Did you learn from someone?" Zhang Chu knew Zhang Ran's talent. It's not surprising that he learned one marksmanship in two days. He wouldn't be surprised if he learned ten marksmanships. , Zhang Ran’s talent is really great.
"No, I bought a book on marksmanship and this silver gun. I spent all my money on it." Zhang Ran said pitifully.
Zhang Chu didn't doubt what Zhang Ran said, because Zhang Ran was very profitable in Hulucun, even richer than himself. There was nothing wrong with buying a gunmanship secret book. Even the silver gun Zhang Chu thought was made of iron. , but the exterior is coated with silver, not made of silver. If it were made of silver, how much would it cost?
In fact, this silver gun is made of silver, and it is also an extraordinary weapon. Its value is such that even the entire Hulucun Village was sold to buy half of the silver gun.
"By the way, I want to tell you that even though the little beggar looks like this, she is a beautiful little girl. Do you want to introduce her to your wife?" Zhang Chu whispered in Zhang Ran's ear.
Zhang Ran rolled his eyes after hearing this. How old is he now? He is only seven years old. He wants a wife at such a young age. He is dreaming. Even if he wants it, his body does not allow it. Besides, this little beggar is much older than him. Wait. When I grow up, this little beggar becomes old.
The little beggar also heard something, and his cheeks turned red, like a red apple.
At this moment, noisy sounds came from a distance. Zhang Chu, Zhang Ran, and the little beggar stopped talking and looked in the direction of the noise.
I saw a long queue of torches coming here. The leader was the village chief of Dongwang Village. Next to the village chief, there were two people wearing brocade clothes. These two men in brocade clothes looked like they were not ordinary people once they saw through their clothes. Their aura Aoran, at least not something that Dongwang Village can afford.
Behind the three people were various big shots from Dongwang Village, and behind these big shots were more than twenty escorts.
They walked to the prepared seats and sat down, surrounded by more than twenty escorts.
"Today, two distinguished guests came to Dongwang Village. The two distinguished guests also serve as judges of the God's Choice." The village chief did not sit down, but said: "I will introduce the two distinguished guests to everyone."
"The two distinguished guests are both from Qiantang County. The one on my left is the manager of the Mili Chamber of Commerce and the manager Luo Qi; the one on my right is a disciple of the Wuhu Martial Arts School and a Guanqing warrior." The village chief introduced. .
There was a lot of discussion after hearing the origins of these two people.
"MiLi Chamber of Commerce, this is a big chamber of commerce in Qiantang County. It's really a privilege to see it." This is what the villagers said.
"Five Tigers Martial Arts School, this is one of the three major martial arts schools in Qiantang County. I heard that the Wuhu Door-Breaking Sword in their sect is extremely powerful." This is what the warrior said.
Zhang Ran asked Zhang Chu, "What are the Mi Li Chamber of Commerce and the Five Tigers Martial Arts School." Zhang Chu must have known about it after having stayed in Qiantang County, so Zhang Ran hoped that Zhang Chu would clear up his doubts.
"As they said, the MiLi Chamber of Commerce is a big chamber of commerce in Qiantang County, but they mainly deal in grain. Their grain warehouses are numerous. It is said that half of the people in Qiantang County are buying and eating their grain." Zhang Chu said:
"Five Tigers Martial Arts School, as you can tell by its name, teaches martial arts. It is like a martial arts school. As long as you have money, you can enter and learn martial arts. However, except for the rich, other people will not go to the martial arts hall to learn martial arts." Yes, like those noble disciples who go to those big sects to learn martial arts, they don’t look down on the martial arts in the martial arts schools.”
After hearing what Zhang Chu said, Zhang Ran nodded vaguely, indicating that he understood something.
"After you arrive in Qiantang County, it's best not to provoke forces like the Mili Chamber of Commerce and the Five Tigers Martial Arts School." Zhang Chu said.
"I can understand why the Five Tigers Martial Arts School cannot be provoked by the Mi Li Merchant Guild." Zhang Ranzhen said innocently.
"Don't think of the Mili Chamber of Commerce as a chamber of commerce. They are all ordinary people. There are many warriors in it. They are even more powerful than the Five Tigers Martial Arts Hall. After all, they have money in their hands and can recruit many powerful people. Warrior." Zhang Chu said.
