Liang Qu went home, found some clean clothes, put them on, and jogged towards Pingyang Town.
The leaves piled up on both sides of the road are getting thicker and thicker. The upper layer is red and yellow, and the lower layer is dark brown.
The wind blew against his body like an ice knife, but Liang Qu only felt that his energy was endless, neither cold nor hot, and the thing burning in his chest was called enthusiasm.
Liang Qu raised his head, and the huge sunset set little by little, reflecting his pupils into bright red gold.
The setting sun gradually takes away the sunlight from the earth, and the pale red woods turn into black and red. Soon night will fall, and this is the last sight of the sunset.
He suddenly felt that this world was not bad, there was no pollution, no prisons, and the air was fresh.
Temporary depression is not a bad thing. As long as you go in the right direction, frying and boiling are both ways to make it delicious. Keep up the good work, and you will always get ahead.
"Ho!"
Liang Qu shouted.
The mule pulling the cart on the roadside was frightened and pulled the cart to run into the forest. The driver whipped him several times before he got back on track and cursed: "Idiot."
Did the word appear so early?
Liang Qu was startled, but not angry. He just smiled back. Seeing this, the coachman cursed and left, feeling that he had really met a fool.
When they arrived at Pingyang Town, Liang Qu guessed that Li Libo and Chen Jiechang were hungry, so he bought a few steamed buns and took a familiar shortcut to Yang's Martial Arts Hall.
The gate of the martial arts hall is brightly lit. There is a large oil lamp a few meters after entering, and a lantern ten meters away.
Liang Qu carried the oil-paper bag and walked through the corridor in a familiar way.
There were a lot of people in the martial arts arena, about fifty people.
Many people will go home and practice on their own after learning boxing, and then meet again at the end of the month. The thirty people I saw on the day of registration were not all.
But there seemed to be no serious martial arts masters among the crowd, they were all apprentices.
Liang Qu thought that the martial arts masters might have something to do, or that they might have gone to see Master Yang in advance, so he didn't think much about it, but secretly, many people glanced over at him intentionally or unintentionally.
"It's strange, they are all looking at me."
Liang Qu couldn't understand it. He was down and out, and no one usually paid attention to him. He was willing to make friends with him, but he wouldn't stare at him.
Did you come late?
He remembered that when he was in high school, he got up late once, and was caught by the class teacher who came to arrest him for studying early. Many of his close classmates pretended to read but were actually watching a play, just like now.
Liang Qu had no choice but to pretend not to see it and went to the corner of the flower bed alone to find Li Libo and Chen Jiechang.
Hearing the sound of footsteps, the two of them raised their heads, and when they saw Liang Qu, they lowered their heads in unison. However, they couldn't hide the bruises on their eye sockets and swollen cheeks.
Knowing that the two liked to find enemies for each other, Liang Qu thought he had gone too far: "What happened? You two started fighting? Are you so cruel?"
The two looked at each other in silence.
Liang Qu realized something was wrong, squatted down and asked in a low voice: "What exactly is going on?"
There was a moment of silence.
Chen Jiechang broke the silence.
His swollen cheeks made his voice muffled: "After you left, Lu Tingcai led a group of people to ask for money from the two of us, saying that we smelled and affected their martial arts practice. They wanted two taels of silver per person as compensation. We were furious. , and started fighting with them."
Two taels? !
Liang Qu was shocked.
Is this asking for money?
This is going to kill him!
"What about the person named Lu?" Liang Qu didn't have the slightest respect for Mr. Lu, and he was even more angry. "And Senior Brother Xiang, haven't you looked for him? Senior Brother Xiang should help, right?"
"That man named Lu didn't even look at us seriously." Li Libo gritted his teeth, "He turned around and left! I don't know where Senior Brother Xiang is. From noon until now, we are the only apprentices left in the martial arts hall."
Liang Qu couldn't believe it. How could it be such a coincidence today?
"Originally, I knocked one out first, and with Brother Chen, two against three, there was not much chance of losing. But then three more people came to help them, and we lost."
Chen Jiechang snorted coldly when he heard this. He was very dissatisfied. He could have seriously injured Xue Dingyi, but to his surprise, the other party actually had helpers. In the end, he only pinched a few blood marks on Xue Dingyi's neck.
"Now they want us to collect ten taels of silver, otherwise they will come to us for 'discussions' every day from now on, huh~"
Chen Jiechang laughed at himself. He didn't regret it, he just regretted that the three people behind him came too quickly and gave him no chance to strangle Xue Dingyi.
It was useless to say anything until now. He sighed: "The two of us discussed it. The fight was because of us, so we will make up for the extra four taels."
Li Libo nodded. They all felt a little guilty. They felt that they had to go up and fight, causing one person to become three or two. The situation of Liang Qu's family was not good to begin with, so naturally they had to make up for the extra gap.
There was silence in the corner of the flower bed.
Without the sound of people, the crickets in the flower bed felt safe again, so they chirped intermittently. The sound was not clear, but looked very old.
It's early winter now, and midwinter will come in less than half a month, and the cricket can no longer sing - it is dying, perhaps frozen to death on a night when the temperature drops suddenly.
In the martial arts field, everyone who was communicating and exercising often looked down at the corner of the flower bed that they had never paid attention to.
There was banter, there was indifference, there were people who found it funny.
Young Master Zhao, who was dressed in brilliant clothes, looked at the flower bed and then looked at another corner, where Lu Tingcai, Xue Dingyi and others were provoking trouble.
Those people were also silent.
Can they get any benefit from things like this?
impossible.
Zhao Xueyuan knew full well that they would be punished, even more severely.
In the past, this group of people could receive protection money because the bullied people did not dare to say anything, and when there were martial arts masters around, they would usually do it outside the martial arts hall.
People at the bottom are accustomed to feeling inferior and are naturally afraid of people in high and low positions. They were deceived by Lu Tingcai's words, and they did not think that the superior martial arts masters would help them.
Most people would not even think about reporting to the government after suffering a loss, right?
Relying on deception and tricks, Lu Tingcai and the others were able to achieve success. Unexpectedly, they encountered two tough opponents now. They took the initiative to attack an old student and it was like a brick in the face.
I just don’t know whether the bones of this fellow countryman’s last apprentice are hard or soft.
Zhao Xueyuan was very curious.
At this time, Lu Tingcai and others knew that they had made a big mistake, but the young man's blood was so strong that he could not care so much.
Things basically cannot be hidden, and now they are breaking the bank and asking for a higher price. They are like jealous gamblers at the end of their rope, and they are more dangerous than ever.
The difference is that Li Libo and Chen Jiechang are still kept in the dark.
I didn’t remind him, everyone was watching the show.
The clay martial arts arena was illuminated orange by oil lamps.
Liang Qu stood up, and the light stretched his shadow very long, casting it on the board wall, flickering slightly.
Li Libo and Chen Jiechang couldn't help but look up and saw Liang Qu reaching out and handing out an oil paper bag.
"Take it."
"This is......"
"Take it!"
The crickets in the flower bed were silent.
Li Libo and Chen Jiechang reached out to take it, feeling the warmth inside the oil paper bag, and guessed that it was food.
Liang Qu turned around and walked towards the center of the martial arts arena.
Everyone looked at him.
Liang Qu looked around.
He has never been here before, let alone enjoyed such attention.
tired,
So tired.
I used to work overtime until midnight and was as tired as a dog. I was not as tired as I am now.
Starting from the mangy Zhang, to the three Wang brothers, and the monster in the water.
The whole society is like a big airtight net, trapping all those who want to climb up.
Everyone who tried to pass through was squeezed into the narrow hole with a hideous face and blurred skin.
Those spiders, poisonous insects, and centipedes hang on the nodes of the large web one after another, waiting for the bloody prey to struggle exhausted and compete for blood food.
Liang Qu looked at the other corner.
Everyone was there, Lu Tingcai, Xue Dingyi, Yu Weilong, Xiang Quji...
These...poisonous insects!
Liang Qu's eyes suddenly changed and became very quiet. He stretched out his hand and pointed at the seven people.
"I want to fight you!"
The martial arts arena was suddenly as silent as death.
"Haha..."
Someone laughed.
Liang Qu had no expression on his face and stared at the man.
"Ahem."
The atmosphere was dead silent again.
Lu Tingcai and others had to stand up under the pressure of their gazes.
In fact, they already regretted it, especially Xue Dingyi, regretted their impulsiveness, but at that time, their brothers were already being taken advantage of, so how could they have thought so much.
But in the face of such arrogant provocation, it would be too cowardly to sit still.
"Are you alone?" Lu Tingcai, who had his head wrapped in white gauze, looked funny, but with the six people behind him, no one found it funny, "I can't think of myself..."
How cheap.
Liang Qu felt his chest was tight, as if he was blocked by depression.
He patted his chest so hard that it hurt, letting the pain suppress all the anger, depression, and fire.
"I alone am enough! I alone can defeat you all, all of you!"
