Chapter 48: Performing the Twelve Masters of Martial Arts
Although only young people under the age of 35 from Yinren Village can participate in the martial arts competition, it is also a grand event held once every year in Luoye County. Every time there is a big competition, representatives and caravans from surrounding villages and counties will come to Yinren Village. As for the purpose, they all have their own agendas.
There are those who want to congratulate and send gifts through the martial arts competition to close the relationship with Yinren Village; there are also other forces who want to understand the strength of Yinren Village through the martial arts competition; there are even businessmen who use the martial arts competition to open the market and make money.
"His second sister-in-law, I heard this morning that the little drunkard at the Dizi Conference Hall won a lot along the way!" said a young woman wearing a long gown.
"I heard that this year's martial arts competition, there are many young and girls participating. The oldest is twelve or thirteen years old, and the youngest is only eight or nine years old, but they are very powerful!" the older woman next to him replied.
At this time, the young woman's man came back. After hearing a few fragments of the women's discussion, he smiled and joked: "Who do you think is better? Xiufang, are you praising me?"
The young woman named Xiu Fang blushed and spat at the man: "We are talking about those brats who participated in the martial arts competition during the day! Just you? Useless things, not as good as those few Kids are awesome!”
The man didn't care about the woman's ridicule, and started talking about the battles in the martial arts competition.
"Isn't that true? I heard that because those brats performed so well in this martial arts competition, there was a handicap over Chunfeng River! Who can win the title of the twelve arenas in the end? Who can win the championship? And then came out on top in the home game?" the man said excitedly.
"Are those few boys and girls going to compete for the role of the Twelve Masters of Wu? Although I heard that they are very powerful, after all, they are so young. And today is only the first day, can they do it?" the young woman asked with a look of doubt.
"Twelve masters of martial arts, anyone who participates in the martial arts competition will have the opportunity to compete. After all, if you guard a ring for three days, you can become the master of this ring and become one of the twelve masters of martial arts. It is basically useless for ordinary strong men. , I think these dolls are just going to be in the limelight today and survive until tomorrow. After all, they are young and their physical recovery ability cannot keep up, so there is no chance." Men also don't think much of these young girls.
When the young woman heard that Chunfeng Hena had opened the handicap, she became interested and asked, "Who has the greatest chance of winning now?"
"The drunkard kid you just mentioned still has a few brats on the board, but the one with the greatest chance of winning now should be Qi Chengcheng from the ugly group." The man recalled while stroking the short beard on his chin. .
The middle-aged woman next to her, who was called the second sister-in-law, answered: "That's for sure, I went to watch that game. That boy fought cleanly in several games, and the fight with the second son of the Dong family in the south of the village was even more shocking! "
"What? The second brother of the Dong family lost? He is a guard in iron clothes! I heard that this time the second brother Dong is competing for a guard iron clothes captain!" The man muttered in disbelief: "His kung fu is at the peak of the realm of power. , what ten or eight years of hard work can’t be compared to it? That kid started practicing martial arts right from the womb!”
The middle-aged woman replied: "The wonderful thing is that the young man is only at the peak level of Qi Realm, but he is very good at Qinggong. He happened to meet Dong Lao'er who was doing great work. The two of them fought you and me. No one could do anything to anyone. Until the end, the doll handed out a sword, as fast as lightning. Dong Laoer had no time to parry, so he could only block it with an axe. But..." At this point, the middle-aged woman hesitated slightly. A meal.
He added: "It's just that I didn't see it clearly at the time. Later, I heard from martial arts experts that although the sword hit the axe, the man dodged to Dong Laoer's side. Dong Laoer used the giant ax to block and didn't check for a moment. , when he reacted, he was immediately kicked out of the field by a body-bounce."
The woman in the long gown shook her head and sighed: "At such a young age, I have such a strong sense of fighting. But Dong Laoer was defeated by a kick to the leg?"
The middle-aged woman also sighed: "Both Dong and Lao were fine. They gave up after being kicked out. They probably felt that their opponents were difficult to deal with. They couldn't fight to the death on the first day of the martial arts competition. After all, it was just a fight, one stroke after another. The gap in funding.”
The three of them were discussing like this while walking towards the store in the village. At the time of the martial arts competition, the caravans from the surrounding villages brought many good things. The people in Yinren Village all have a background in martial arts, and they all have some skills. Ordinary people occasionally receive some "payroll" to subsidize their families, so they all have some money in their hands. At this time of great prosperity that happens every few years, it is natural to go shopping and do some shopping.
It's just that all kinds of speculations and discussions about the martial arts competition will be the talk of the people in Yinren Village after dinner for some time to come.
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Luoye County, Luoye City.
Luoye County can only be regarded as a second-class county in Luoyun Kingdom, but the scale of Luoye City is the leading city in the western region of Luoyun Kingdom. The city wall of Luoye City is twelve feet high, and the entire city has a hexagonal layout, which is different from ordinary rectangular towns. Six city gates were established: south, north, southeast, southwest, northeast and northwest. There are urns built on the inside of the city gates. Both sides of the urns are connected with the city wall. There are defensive facilities such as arrow towers, gate gates, and battlements at the stilts.
At this time, there were several people standing by the battlements of the southwest city gate. The man in the lead looked calm and listened to the report behind him.
"Prefect, our people have all entered Yinren Village as planned." An armored warrior bowed behind the man and said.
"Oh? What obstacles did you encounter?" the man asked, playing with a jade slip.
"Yinren Village just conducted a routine registration inspection, and there was no obstruction. At the same time, we also found..." The man hesitated slightly, as if he was considering how to word his words.
"Huh?" The leading man turned his head slightly, and the armored man immediately buried his head deeper. He replied eagerly: "We also found that several villages around Tiexin, Tianhe, and Longxi have sent people here."
"Haha, it doesn't matter. Except for the people in Tiexin Village who need to pay a little attention, the remaining villages don't need to be taken care of. They are all a bunch of short-sighted losers." The man put away the jade slip engraved with the word "Zhizai". He couldn't help but cast his gaze to the southwest of the county and murmured: "Is it Yinren or Tiexin? Where are you?"
This person is the lord of Luoye City—Ji Shenfu, who was once ranked the 108th martial arts master on the Pingtian Ranking, and was also the most powerful person in Luoye County.
Luoye County is a second-class county of Luo Yun Kingdom. In addition to the own forces controlled by Ji Shenfu, the lord of Luoye City, there are a total of six forces like Yinren Village within its jurisdiction: Longxi Town, Chunfeng Town, Tianhe Town, and Hongyan Town. , Tiexin Village, Yinren Village. These six forces all recognize the rule of Luoye City and also have a high degree of autonomy. These six forces pay tribute to the sect leader Luoye City every year, and Luoye City also tacitly allows them to have their own armed forces and territories.
On the surface, there are 100,000 people in Luoye City, with 8,000 cavalry on standby. Yinren Village has less than 2,000 people, and Tiexin Village has less than 5,000 people. Although the remaining four towns all have more than 5,000 people, Tianhe Town, the largest, only has 12,000 people. The armed forces are even more incomparable to Luoye City.
Ji Shenfu ignored the military commander who silently accepted the order, but kept looking in the direction of Yinren Village. He also understood that Yinren Village and Tiexin Village were not as weak as they appeared. Otherwise, why among the spies he sent over the years, only these two villages have lost contact. But he didn't think that they could compete with Luoye City in this way. Luoye County has only one master, the governor of Luoye County—Ji Shenfu. It was true ten years ago, it is true now, and it will always be true in the future!
