According to the commentary, Shi Danai was beaten to death because he accidentally killed someone and got into a lawsuit. However, King Luo Yi of Peking cherished his talent and was reluctant to kill him, so he ordered him to set up a ring in Shunyi Village to atone for his sins.
But now Song Xiang's "hundred-day challenge" has no such reason.
When it comes to human life lawsuits, Song Xiang directly or indirectly killed many more people than Stanai, and he did it all intentionally, and there is no such thing as a "miss".
It's just that... Song Xiang has a backer, so it doesn't matter.
Therefore, his arena was purely for showing off; in addition to the provocative couplet hanging under the stage, he also set up a silver reward, and a sign next to it read: "Anyone who can attack and win , a hundred taels of silver as a gift."
Folks, this is a lot of money.
One hundred taels, looking at it now, even if accounting for purchasing power and the possible errors caused by productivity, it would have to be more than ten or two hundred thousand. At that time, some poor people really could not earn so much money in their lifetime. Come.
As the saying goes, there must be a brave man under a heavy reward. For the one hundred taels of silver, many people dared to take advantage of the bully Song Xiang.
However, how could it be so easy to defeat him?
This Song Xiang is in his mid-twenties and has been practicing martial arts since he was a child. The teacher hired by his family is not very clever, but he is not a liar after all. He has indeed taught him something.
Song Xiang's fierce internal strength, coupled with a few powerful fists and kicks, can almost reach the level of a third-rate fighter.
To compare with the characters who have appeared in the previous article, Zheng Mukai and Ge Shi can easily defeat him; Ma Si can have a 73% chance against him; and Zhu Chao, the Taisui of Moving Mountains, specializes in Those who use Turtle Breathing Technique and Bone Shrinking Technique should be able to go back and forth with him...
However, these people mentioned above will not come to challenge him.
why? Very simple -
People in the world disdain to fight.
People in the green forest are not easy to beat.
Song Xiang was not a member of the martial arts world, he was just a second-generation ancestor.
The Song family behind him had an official background and was backed by the power of the eunuchs in the court. In other words, although he was not considered a court eagle and did not hold any official position, he was protected by official power to a certain extent.
In this way, he is just an ordinary citizen with certain privileges.
If a master in the arena comes to fight with such a person, it will be disgraceful to win. When the time comes, he will be blamed - what kind of ability do you have in bullying a layman? Just for the money?
The people on the Green Forest Road don't have such scruples about face, but they are afraid that after defeating Song Xiang, they will be swarmed by the Song family's henchmen and arrested...
Song Xiang can do this kind of thing completely.
This guy, in today's terms, is a bad-ass baby. He is the type who can't bear any grievances or even the slightest loss. He refuses to admit when he's done something wrong. If he's unhappy, he has to pass on the negative pressure to others. .
Just for fun, I was walking on the road and saw someone else had a better one. I opened my mouth to ask for it. If they didn't sell it, I would grab it. After grabbing it, I would beat them up.
In a cricket fight, if he wins, the other person will have to pay for it. If he wins, he will insist that the other person is cheating, smash the other person's cup, trample the cricket to death, and then turn away.
Sometimes he goes too far and is scolded by his father, so he will hold back his anger and go to the streets to look for trouble. Whoever he finds will be unlucky, and he will beat you for any reason. There are all dead.
It's just such a thing. How dare you casually enter the arena he set up?
If you go up and lose, then at most you will be beaten, humiliated and kicked off the ring; if you win, or if you are about to win... do you think he will cheat?
It is true that Song Xiang's martial arts is not very powerful, but the people around him are not vegetarians. Just beside the ring, there are more than a dozen evil slaves of the Song family, all of whom can be said to be professional thugs.
There are two others, one is Song Xiang's current master, Ma Chu, who is known as "Yanhui Yizhu" in the world, and the other is Song Xiang's bodyguard, Zhao Gaotuan, nicknamed "Shadowless Sword".
These two... are both people sent by Song Xiang's father to his son; Ma Chu is okay, and he is only a second-rate figure in the world, but Zhao Youyou is different... He has to be considered a "second-rate figure" on the green forest road. Swordsman" level.
As we said before, the "swordsman" of the Green Forest Road - does not have a weapon.
Although this "swordless state" is not equivalent to the "swordless state" of being alone and seeking defeat in the Jianghu system, its strength is undoubtedly equivalent to the first-class masters in the Jianghu system.
With these two people in charge, Song Xiang was confident.
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It's the day, the beginning of time.
The common people had finished their lunch, those who had to go to work had gone to work, and those who had something to do also went to work. Only a few idlers were still hanging around the ring where Song Xiang had set up, waiting to watch the excitement.
Today is the fifty-third day of Song Xiang's "Hundred Day Challenge".
At first, this arena was very popular and was held every morning and afternoon, but after a month, it gradually became deserted.
Ordinary people are not stupid either. After more than thirty days, people still can’t tell what’s going on in your arena? Most of the people in Runan City who dared to go up to fight have been there, but they were all beaten by you. Who dares to come?
As a result, in the second month, there were far fewer people coming to challenge, and they were basically all foreigners.
There are so many people passing by here every day, among them there will always be some who are bold and confident, relying on their strength, their eyes will turn red when they look at the one hundred taels of silver, and they will do it on impulse.
And then... It can range from being beaten to a bruised nose and face, being kicked off the ring, and leaving sadly amid the insults; at worst being beaten to serious injuries, kicked off the ring, and then being thrown away like garbage by a group of servants and evil slaves. of.
As for the time of the arena, it has also been changed from one day to half a day. Starting at noon every day, it will be held for two hours, because if there are more arenas, it will be empty, and it will be meaningless if no one comes up.
It was a coincidence today that not long after the arena was set up, the carriage driven by Lei Buji happened to pass by. Although he had lived with his father in the mountains since he was a child and had never read a book seriously, he still knew the words, so he I saw the couplet at a glance.
"Huh?" When Lei Buji glanced at the two flagpoles, he hesitated for a moment, and then read out the two lines on the flags, "Punch the colorful tiger in Nanshan, kick the dragon in Beihai? Wow? ! That’s not a small tone.”
When he sighed, Sun Yixie and Huang Donglai in the carriage behind heard him.
After entering the city, Sun and Huang were already raising the curtains and looking around outside the car. Now when they suddenly heard this sentence, they both stuck their heads out and followed Lei Buji's line of sight.
"What? Who said that they wanted to fight tigers and dragons? So arrogant?" When Sun Yixie asked this question, his eyes were still wandering.
"No one is saying that, it's written on the flagpole over there." After Huang Dong said this half sentence, he immediately realized something and continued, "Oh, right...Brother Sun, you can't read. Come on, let me point it out to you." , over there."
"Get out!" Sun Yixie pushed Huang Donglai's hand away, "I saw it!"
"Brothers, do you want us to go over and join in the fun?" Lei Buji also became interested and hurriedly turned around and asked.
"Okay, but we'd better go to the inn to put down our luggage first, wait for the carriage to park, and then we'll walk over to take a look. It's not convenient to park the car here." Huang Donglai responded.
"Oh! Okay." After all, Lei Buji was only sixteen years old, and he was a bit playful. In addition, this kind of competition in the ring was very suitable for a martial arts practitioner like him, so after hearing this sentence, he immediately said Shaking the reins and urging the horse to speed up, he wanted to quickly find an inn to stay.
Who would have thought that in his hurry, he would get into trouble.
At that time, there were no traffic lights or sidewalks like now. Riders and drivers consciously slowed down after entering the city, and pedestrians also consciously stayed away when they saw them. At that time, the flow of people on the street was not as large as it is now. Everyone was a little accommodating, and order was maintained.
But if you are in a hurry, you may easily get into an accident...
Now Lei Buji just increased his speed a little, and when he was distracted, he heard the horse neighing, its hoofs tangled, and it hit someone.
"Ah!" At that moment, Lei Buji came to his senses, quickly reined in the reins and got off the car to check.
But they saw that the man who was knocked to the ground was a thin-looking young man, dressed in a green coat and a hat, who looked like a workman.
I don’t know if it was because the carriage was not going too fast, but after the man was hit by the horse, he just sat down on the ground without crying out in pain, and stood up immediately.
"Brother, are you okay?" Lei Buji came over and apologized as he walked, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, it was my car that was moving too fast."
The person who was hit was also rude and opened his mouth to curse in a very unkind tone: "Nonsense, it's not just you..." But as soon as the first half of the sentence came out, he choked back.
Before Lei Buji understood what was going on, the man immediately changed his words and said: "It's okay, it's okay. I didn't look at the road. Besides, the collision wasn't serious. Look, it's okay. You continue on your way. Let's go." After that, she didn't even wait for Lei Buji to reply. She lowered her hat and turned around to leave. In the blink of an eye, she turned into an alley and disappeared.
Seeing this "her", many people must have realized that this person is a woman disguised as a man.
There is a hint in the book here that this person is none other than Li Qiyu, the deputy flag master of the Xuanwu Banner of the Wuling Sect.
Ever since Li Qiyu came out of the main forum and met with Tang Fu, the leader of the White Tiger Banner, she had been tracing the matter of Gu Qiying's diary. However, after checking for many days, the information they obtained was that the original manuscript of the diary was already there. After being sent to the capital, and being guarded by masters like Yun Shili and Shui Hanyi, as well as numerous elite guards along the way, it was too difficult to obtain the notes from the imperial court.
As a result, she and Tang Fu changed their course of action and prepared to attack Huang Donglai and Sun Yixie.
Of course, this must be done wisely, not forcefully, because in their impression, Sun and Huang are young heroes who dare to "endure the humiliation" and fight against Shen Youran and Gu Qiying in a very bad situation. With such people, Hard ones are probably useless.
In this way, the two of them found out the information about Shuangxie's preparations to go south from the Wuling Sect's undercover agent in the court. They turned around and rushed all the way to Runan; but because they did not know that Sun Yixie and Huang Donglai had taken a detour a few days ago, The "fake" matter was dealt with, so they arrived a day or two earlier than Shuangxi.
Now, when Li Qiyu was hit by a carriage, you would call it serious... It was indeed not serious. Although most people might have broken their bones on the spot, it was not a big deal to her. With her "Xuanwu Armor" skills, let alone The horse-drawn carriage is here, even if Bentley comes, it can’t be beaten to death.
In fact, Li Qiyu didn't know that the carriage was owned by Sun Huanglei and the others. She was really passing by on something at the moment, and being hit was purely accidental. She got up and wanted to get angry, but when she saw Lei Buji's face, she He knew who was in the car, so he lowered his head and ran away.
Although this little incident didn't make those in the car too concerned, it did give Lei Buji a wake-up call. After that, even if he was impatient, he would not dare to rush the horse too fast again.
Silently all the way, the three of them arrived at the inn, opened a room, put away their luggage, and immediately walked out and headed straight for the arena.
And when they returned to the ring, someone just happened to come on stage.
But I saw that man, in his thirties, about 1.8 meters tall, tall and tall, wearing a light-colored gown with many patches; on his face, he had slender eyebrows, a straight nose and a square mouth, and he had an imposing manner. It's extraordinary.
Who is this person?
He is Tang Weizhi, the 19th generation great disciple of the Kongtong Sect. He has a set of golden ring palms that have reached the seventh level of his master, and he can be regarded as a number one figure in the world.
Some people may ask, the above text just said that people in the world disdain to fight, so why did Tang Weizhi come up?
That's because... he has basically given up, or in other words, has lost all face.
Tang Weizhi was originally a very promising person, and his martial arts skills were not bad, but he had a problem - he liked to gamble. Youdao had been betting for a long time without winning, and he naturally owed a lot of debt after gambling, and the creditor pursued him. When he came to the door, he became angry and beat the person to death as soon as he missed it.
In this matter, the Kongtong sect must admit that it is unlucky. Who makes you a famous and upright sect? If something like this happens to a disciple, you can figure it out.
Therefore, the master could only pay off his gambling debts and pay a large sum of money to the family of the man who was killed, which was considered to have settled the matter; but now that the matter had come to this, it was impossible for Tang Weizhi to remain unpunished, so he He was expelled from the school.
After Tang Weizhi left the school, there was no one to restrain him. He was a bachelor himself and had no relatives, so he just wandered around. Not long after, he lost all the little money he had in the casino, and then Just wandering around after a hungry meal... If you are lucky, you will meet some bandits and bandits, and you can get some money by "robbing the rich and giving to the poor". But if you are not lucky, you will be like a beggar. .
He was passing by this place today and saw someone performing a challenge, and there was such a good thing as a reward of one hundred taels of silver. How could he not participate?
Anyway, now Tang Weizhi is no longer afraid of ridicule from his comrades, and he can say that he has decided on the money now.
"This strong man." When Song Xiang finally saw someone coming up, he had to pretend to be polite to others, "You don't look like a local. I don't know what your surname is. Do you have any reputation?"
Tang Weizhi looked down on such pretentious amateurs from the bottom of his heart. He didn't want to mention his former apprenticeship again, so he replied impatiently: "Are you going to compete or go on a blind date? If you want to fight, just fight. It's useless to talk about it. What are you doing?"
Well, most people wouldn't be happy hearing this. How could Song Xiang not explode after hearing this?
"Hey!" Song Xiang also changed his face as soon as he said it. His face suddenly wrinkled and his eyes widened, "You kid...don't give me face, right? Humph! That's good...you, Grandpa Song, are here to teach you a lesson today." you!"
