Chapter 7: Duel (2)

Walking in Gangneung City, I feel that my two eyes are not enough, and I am addicted to this bustling city full of southern style.

Jiangling is the county seat of Jingzhou, the largest Jingzhou in the world, with many counties under its jurisdiction, Heluo in the north, Nanhai in the south, Bashu in the west, and Wuyue in the east. Rich in products and large in population, if you talk about prosperity, Jiangling is not under Chang'an. "Won Zhao, who was with me, explained the reason for Gangneung's prosperity.

After a while, we came to the Hongfu Post House located in the south of the city, the post house is on the side of the Hongfu, and there are two huge stone lions outside the vermilion gate, which is very majestic. After Hong Zhenyun brought a group of people over, he stood on the steps and said, "Ladies and nephews, your rooms have been divided in the post house, and you only need to check in according to the name on the door number." We are shabby, and I hope you will forgive me. With that, he led us into the post house.

There are many rooms in the post house, many of the players who came to compete in the competition have already moved in in advance, I and Yuan Zhao looked for it one by one, and finally saw the door number that read "Qin Yuanzhao of Zhongnan Mountain" written crookedly on the door of a small side room, Yuan Zhao pushed the door, a musty smell came to my face, I quickly covered my nose and ran to the side. Yuan Zhao frowned, but still walked in, because the room was facing east and west, the lighting was very poor, and it was dark from the outside.

I hesitated, but decided to go in and take a look, and the thick dust on the table proved that the house had not been inhabited for a long time. Yuan Zhao took a broom and carefully swept the floor, and then stacked the luggage we had left in the door to the corner. I looked at Yuan Zhao, who was busy, and a sense of disappointment came to my heart: Did we come all the way from Chang'an to suffer this crime? Yuan Zhao didn't care at all, and he was quite energetic.

"That's a bad condition!" I leaned on the door frame and complained to Yuan Zhao, "There are too many people coming to the competition, don't care, maybe I'll be eliminated in the first round, let's just take a break..."

"Little brother, please come over for a while. "When I saw a small servant passing by, I hurriedly stopped him. "That's right, the two of us, this room is too small, can you find me another one?" I said with a smile on my face.

"Oh, that's it, are you here to compete?" "I'm not, I'm here to accompany the exam." I told the truth about my situation, and the little servant immediately changed his face: "I'm sorry, we will only provide accommodation for the players who come to participate in the competition, and the others will not care." Seeing that he looked like he was ignoring him, a fire of ignorance immediately arose in my heart, and it happened that another servant guided the big man who had just made fun of me and Yuan Zhao at the city gate.

"Master An, this is your room, if it's not suitable, you can change it. Dahan pushed open the door and looked at it, and was very satisfied with this room facing north and south, and nodded again and again. "You find a room for my servant!" said the big man to the servant who had been running after him.

"Okay, you see, this room is specially prepared by my master for the guest officer who came with you. The little servant opened the door of another house next to it. Although they turned their backs to their partners, the servant in front of them should have heard their conversation clearly.

"Little brother, you are not authentic like this, we are also here to compete, why do you provide them with accommodation, but I don't?" I forced the anger in my heart to ask like a little servant.

"Hmph! The dirt buns that ran out of the ravine still want to compare with the uncle?" Maybe the voice that spoke just now was too loud, and it drifted into the ears of the big man, and he turned around and attacked me again. Yuan Zhao, who had already learned his power outside, didn't say anything, and directly dragged me into the house, leaving him there to curse.

"Hmph, why don't you give us two rooms?" I'm still angry when I enter the house.

"Did you see what was written on his door number?" Yuan Zhao was stunned for a moment when he said this incomprehensible sentence, and carefully recalled that the room where his servant entered did not seem to have a door number, and because he was patronizing and quarreling with the big man just now, I didn't see his door number at all.

"Hengshan faction, An Yitian, after the death of the Sword Saint, the position of the leader of the world's martial arts has been controlled by the head of the Hengshan faction," After listening to Yuan Zhao's words, I finally understood his capital that was so arrogant all day long.

"Senior sister, if this is not the case, can you sleep on the bed and I will sleep on the floor?" Helpless, I had to agree to Yuan Zhao's proposal. Yuan Zhao was overjoyed, I thought to myself, if you have a house to live in, the ghost will be willing to live with you.

After Yuan Zhao and I had cleaned up for a while, a small servant came and beckoned us to the feast. Yuan Zhao and I went to the lobby of the Hong Mansion under his leadership. The lobby was already full of tables, and Yuan Zhao and I picked a seat at the back and sat down to wait for the table to open. After a while, the contestants were already seated in their seats.

At this time, Hong Zhenyun took his eldest apprentice Yang Fang to the front hall. After greeting each other, Hong Zhenyun announced the start of the banquet, the maids began to serve, Yuan Zhao and I were already hungry, and our four eyes never left the various delicacies in front of us, Hong Zhenyun and Yang Fang said on the stage, without going through the brain, directly one ear in and one ear out.

Finally able to move, I was holding a chicken leg and nibbling happily, while Yuan Zhao directly held the plate and poured the food into his stomach, and the long journey of nearly half a month made us have an indescribable hunger and thirst for food. Looking around, it seems that everyone is not very interested in food, there is not much to eat, and Yuan Zhao and I are almost in the finale.

"You are eating and drinking for so long, don't you worry about regretting it later?" A deep voice sounded from behind him, as if fixing the body, nailing me and Yuan Zhao firmly in place.