Chapter Twenty-Seven: Splitting Apples and Revealing One Hand
Qin Xingyi was calm and comfortable, and felt very funny when she heard Mao Liang talking wildly there, and made a request, if Mao Liang lost, he would agree to be his entourage for a year, thinking that Mao Liang would definitely restrain his words and deeds, but he didn't expect Mao Liang to retreat instead of retreating, he took a few steps closer, and said with a hippie smile:
"What is a one-year retinue? If Ben Shao is not the opponent of the eldest lady, it doesn't matter if he is an entourage for three or five years, and he can follow the eldest lady every day, Ben Shao is very happy. Mao Liang said jokingly, feeling that there was no possibility that he would lose.
The audience in the audience was aroused and shouted and urged to start.
Seeing that several of the governors had collected all the bets placed by the crowd, Ren Sheng, ordered the gong to be struck, announced the start of the first gambling game of the night, and then handed the two red apples in his hands to the two contestants.
Qin Xingyi and Mao Liang stood face to face with a red apple in their hands, and neither of them made the first move.
At this time, Mao Liang had the opportunity to face to face with Qin Xingyi, and he could take a detailed look at Miss Qin's appearance, and saw that she was dressed in bright red, with slightly upturned red lips, and a big red apple in her red hand, and the dimples on her face bloomed with a shallow smile, as if she was looking like a bamboo in her chest, that look was very flattering, and she was eager to show her hand, give her a dismount, and said first:
"Mayor Ren, I've done small chores like cutting apples and apples before, can I throw bricks and lead the jade first?"
Mayor Ren Sheng was noncommittal, and instead asked Qin Xingyi's opinion, "Which of you two comes first?" The mayor respects your own opinions. Miss Qin, what do you see? ”
Qin Xingyi looked at the red apple in her hand indifferently and said with a smile: "It doesn't matter who starts first, Miss Ben doesn't care about the order." Since Mao Gongzi wants to throw bricks, let him throw them first! By the way, Mayor Ren, do you smell it? This apple smells so good. ”
Mayor Ren Sheng was very appreciative of Qin Xingyi's calm and calm attitude, nodded to Mao Liang and said, "Okay, Young Master Mao, Miss Qin agrees that you will start first, then hurry up and don't be polite, take out your unique skills for everyone to see." ”
Mao Liang is 25 years old this year, and has been practicing foreign kung fu since he was five or six years old, and has been practicing for nearly 20 years. Regardless of anything else, just the kung fu in the palm of his hand can be said to be perfect. In the past few years, although Mao Liang has been busy with business, following his father around, buying and reselling fur goods, he tries to find time every night to consolidate his foundation, and his martial arts have not regressed.
"Come on, young master, wow!" At the critical moment, there was a sparse applause and cheering from several of Mao Liang's followers from the audience, which was not popular and looked very embarrassing.
Because most of the villagers in the audience stood on the side of Jiang Zhaoyun's father, thinking that if the woman in red on the stage wanted to marry, she should also marry Jiang Zhaoyun.
The champion Jiang Zhaoyun himself was also calm, standing on the side of the staircase with his hands clasped into fists, looking at the center of the ring with full attention, in case of any accidents, and most importantly, he wanted to take this opportunity to observe Mao Liang's martial arts.
Mao Liang took a step back, lifted the corners of the robe he was wearing, tucked it on his belt, and turned the apple in his hand a few times, thinking: Apple, if you make meritorious service to help me get a daughter-in-law today, I will buy a big basket of apples and go home and offer them on the incense table.
"Little Star ......" The air at night was carried by the wind, and several colored flags erected at the four corners of the ring rolled in the wind, as if to send out a status whimper. This voice invisibly tugged at Qin Xingyi's heartstrings, and she was a little dazed, and she couldn't figure out whether the voice calling herself was an illusion generated by herself or the sound of the wind was just right, as if Xuanyuan Mingyu was constantly calling herself.
Sometimes, there are dreams day and night, and the so-called white dreams are similar, and if you are too obsessed with one thing, you may hallucinate, including hallucinations and auditory hallucinations.
Qin Xingyi stood with a smile on the surface, but in fact, her mood did not calm down for a moment, especially when she heard the so-called marriage proposed by Jiang Zhaoyun's father and Mao Liang, she was completely unmoved. Because the idea in her heart is that if you talk about marriage, you must choose from the man you like, and she is now like water, only four years ago when she and Xuanyuan Mingyu hit it off, but they ended up with a deep hatred for him, I am afraid that I will never be emotional to others again, right?
Mao Liang is very good at showing himself, spinning around the edge of the ring twice, coming to the corner of the front desk, and throwing the red apple in his hand high into the air.
Illuminated by the many lanterns and torches up and down the ring, the red apple swirled and fell from the sky! Mao Liang stood in a horse step, poured his right palm into it, raised a palm, and aimed at the red apple to slash into the air.
The palm power was like a cutting knife, and everyone in the audience seemed to see a white mist burst up, and in complete silence, the red apple was avoided in half in the air.
Mao Liang saw the direction where half of the red apples fell, flew up and kicked it into the air, stretched out his palms together, covered the other half of the red apples in his palms, twisted them hard, and then shook his hands apart, and the crushed half of the apples in his palms spilled onto the table.
Mao Liang patted his palm, his feet slammed to the ground, his body was pulled up into the air, and he stretched out an arm to grab the half of the red apple that was kicked down in the air, and his body fell down gracefully.
"Ren is the mayor of the town, Ben Shao is fortunate not to be dishonored!" Mao Liang was complacent, handed half of the red apple in his hand to Mayor Ren Sheng, turned to look at Qin Xingyi, and asked proudly: "Miss Qin, how is Ben Shao's technique?" I won't bury you as my daughter-in-law, right? ”
The audience burst into tearful applause. The custom of playing gambling in Moli Town has been passed down for so many years, and the quality of the players' kung fu is self-evident.
Mao Liang's hand is undoubtedly a very good performance, and everyone just bet on him to win, and their expectations for him are high.
Seeing that Mao Liang did have real kung fu, Mayor Ren Sheng hurriedly turned around to observe Qin Xingyi's reaction, and found that Qin Xingyi was just smiling and silent, thinking that she was retreating in the face of difficulties, so he persuaded:
"Miss Qin, the hand that Young Master Mao revealed just now is a combination of the kung fu of the powerful vajra palm, light gong and gossip chain kick, you can see that the half of the apple surface he split is very smooth and flat, and the other half of the apple has also turned into powder. If Miss Qin proposes to withdraw from the ring, it is still too late, and all the bet losses caused by this will be made up by the mayor of this town. ”
Qin Xingyi listened to Mayor Ren's heartfelt persuasion, and felt that he was sincere, so he smiled and thanked him, and said:
"Thank you Mayor Ren for your kindness. You know that the reason why Miss Ben participated in this ring competition is entirely because she wants to replace Xuanyuan Mingyu. Although Xuanyuan Mingyu's current identity is just a prisoner and a murderer who is to be convicted, since it is Miss Ben who came forward to fight in his place and make a final decision, how can he give up halfway? ”
Mayor Ren Sheng secretly liked Qin Xingyi in his heart and didn't want to see her make the slightest mistake, so he persuaded again:
"Yes, Miss Qin does what she says, has the demeanor of everyone, and is worthy of being a member of the royal family. It's just that the person you came out on behalf of this time is a despicable murderer, and it's not worth it for you to put yourself in the situation like this, please think twice. ”
Qin Xingyi felt that her heart was starting to hurt again, and in the past whole day, every time she mentioned Xuanyuan Mingyu, she felt inexplicably uneasy. I shot and injured him this morning, and caused him to overturn and hurt his head, causing him amnesia and half-blindness, and causing him all kinds of injuries, but if the truth is revealed after the worst and it is found out that he did not do it, how can it be explained?
Qin Xingyi was worried and confused, she didn't care about what happened in the ring, she only thought about the question of whether Xuanyuan Mingyu was the murderer of her father, and remembered that when she was at the VIP banquet just now, the mayor of the town Ren Sheng said that she could help herself find out the truth, at this moment, her heart was on fire, and she felt that the remarks of marrying her relatives and daughters-in-law were boring, and the top priority should be to untie her knot, and asked:
"Mayor Ren, to be honest, Miss Ben has no interest in gambling and other things. To be honest, the trick that Mao Gongzi just showed was indeed extraordinary, and Miss Ben also appreciated it. ”
Mao Liang listened on the side, and heard Qin Xingyi praise her outstanding martial arts, she was very happy, and felt that Miss Qin was knowledgeable and knowledgeable, and knew righteousness and martial arts. The more he thought about it, the happier he became, and he just wanted to laugh when he opened his mouth, but he could hear that the following words were not quite right, and he only heard Qin Xingyi continue:
"Mayor Ren doesn't know, although Miss Ben is free and doesn't like to practice martial arts, but by chance, she also learned some martial arts, and she knows a little about it, and she is afraid that being made fun of by outsiders will make my master embarrassed. Fortunately, after witnessing Mao Gongzi's appearance just now, Miss Ben felt a little more steady. ”
"Miss Qin, what do you mean by that? What is the heart of the heart? Do you think it's easy to win me? Or do you feel that you are not my opponent at all, and you don't have to continue the game, so you can just be my daughter-in-law? Mao Liang didn't care about thirty-seven twenty-one, and wishfully asked according to his own reasoning.
Qin Xingyi smiled like a flower, and felt that she was going to make a move tonight, so that Mao Liang knew that there were people outside the world, if a woman dared to go to the ring to participate in the competition, it would mean that she was confident, and there was no diamond to win the porcelain work.
Qin Xingyi stood on the high platform with an outstanding demeanor, and her smile attracted everyone's attention. She gracefully pulled half a white silk handkerchief from her cuff and wiped the red apple in addition.
She remembered that the other half of the white silk handkerchief had already helped Xuanyuan Mingyu wrap the wound on her head, and she couldn't help but look up into the distance, thinking: If the morning's events could be repeated, would she still hurt him ruthlessly?