Although Sun Youlin did not express his position directly, Chen Mu already understood his intentions.

Characters such as Chu Tongcheng look fierce, but who can live without a few stories? If it weren't for these stories, they wouldn't be where they are today.

And Chen Mu was finally able to understand why they desperately wanted to join this Hong Shuntang, which had fallen apart.

Because of the turning point in their lives, most of the reasons come from Hong Shuntang!

Perhaps Hong Shuntang is no longer as beautiful as in the early days, and he does not dare to rebel again, but he has a huge mass base among the people, and it still affects the lives of the people at the bottom.

This also made Chen Mu full of confidence, because Hong Shuntang has such a mass base, even if it is washed away, the shelf is still there, and it will be easy to rebuild.

Because of Lu Shengwu's sudden appearance, Chen Mu also won the victory without danger, changed his clothes, took a simple rest, and finally returned to the banquet hall.

The banquet hall has been rearranged, and it is even more luxurious than before, because they want to celebrate the winner, although this winner is Chen Mu, a native of the Qing Kingdom, but he has solved Isabella's troubles, and this eldest lady naturally wants to celebrate and settle this matter!

Of course, the thoughts of the VIPs were not at the banquet at all, what they were looking forward to was the next duel between Chen Mu and François!

François is the oldest aristocratic of the French Empire, with pure blood, noble birth, and was named the Blue Sir of Sarajevo.

But Chen Mu ruined his big things, so that he could not successfully form a political marriage with Isabella, which was a great shame for him, if he swallowed his anger, then who would look up to him in the future?

François was a great hero for these French explorers who crossed the seas, and people imagined him in many ways.

Even if the opponent of the duel is only a Qing national, people still hope that this duel can satisfy their fantasy of superheroes!

Chen Mu is a very amiable person, otherwise the Baptistes would not appreciate him so much.

He has all the virtues that the orthodox Han people have, humble and introverted, talented and polite, elegant and indifferent, but not losing the atmosphere, tough as pine, noble as bamboo, he is the most representative talent from the East.

What's even more commendable is that he is only fourteen years old, and the contrast in age will give him an alluring halo.

If there's one fault, it's his motive for agreeing to the duel.

No one expected that such an elegant gentleman would agree to a duel just for a piece of business intelligence.

If it is replaced by a character like Tang Tingfang, or someone like Mr. Baptiste, maybe everyone will no longer be disgusted.

In the eyes of these foreigners, the Qing people are all like Tang Tingfang, cunning, greedy and vulgar, but Chen Mu gave them a beautiful and refined perception, letting them know that Chen Mu is a typical representative of this ancient empire.

But it turns out that Chen Mu is no different from Tang Tingfang and others, and for the sake of money-making news, he will be willing to take the risk of accepting Sir Blue's challenge, not so much because of his disdain for Chen Mu, but because of his disappointment in this Eastern Empire.

Chen Mu naturally ignored the thoughts of these foreigners, he still had too many things to complete, and this duel was the most important breakthrough.

If he wins François, he will be able to find out the traitor and eradicate the traitor, and he can rest assured and boldly follow the list of the guild register, collect all the people of Hong Shuntang, and even rebuild Hong Shuntang!

Captain Bertrand was still a little worried, seeing that Chen Mu was calm and relaxed, and the emperor was not in a hurry, the eunuch was in a hurry, so he asked Chen Mu: "Chen, François is a powerful warrior, what else do you need, I can suggest to Miss Isabella." ”

Chen Mu shook his head and replied with a smile: "It's enough." ”

Although he said this, Chen Mu didn't know the bottom in his heart, after all, François didn't take it seriously, and he didn't know how big François's ability was.

However, Chen Mu has seen the skills and swordsmanship of Bruno and others, and Chen Mu also has a rough prototype in his heart.

The reason why Chen Mu is so calm is because he has already learned from Prussian that the foreigners' technical attack system is actually not complicated, especially the ones that the children of the nobility learn, which are even more uniform.

Most of the children of the nobility specialize in strategy and tactics, and have a high degree of mastery of astronomy and geography, but their actual combat ability is very lacking.

There are just a few routines that come and go, where would Chen Mu worry so much.

If François hadn't led the fleet to fight at sea, Chen Mu wouldn't even have taken him seriously.

If it was a bone crusher or a Viking pirate, these were all barbarians, Chen Mu was a little jealous, but Chen Mu really didn't care too much about a character like Francois.

If the duel uses muskets, maybe Chen Mu will be frightened, but if it is just a competition of fists and feet and swordsmanship, it is three or five François, and Chen Mu is not afraid at all.

Chen Mu has been practicing Dahong Boxing for seven or eight years, his body looks thin, but he is by no means weak, and he is familiar with all kinds of routines.

Although the banquet hall was rearranged, the interest of the VIPs was not very high.

Perhaps because they all lost so badly, I am afraid that few people can be happy except for the Baptistes and Bertrand.

Few of these people bet that Chen Mu would win, and Chen Mu's victory was so unexpected that no one could have imagined it.

Even Baptiste, if his wife hadn't secretly changed the signing, he would have been as depressed as everyone else in the room because he had lost the bet.

At this time, these people could only pin their hopes on François.

In their eyes, François is the pride of the navy, and he is the leader of the overseas legion of the French Empire, he is an invincible hero, how could he lose to Chen Mu!

Earlier, in the labyrinth, although they didn't know what was going on in the room, they could see it clearly before the riot.

If it weren't for Bruno, Sun Youlin and the others desperately blocking it, Chen Mu would have let the Bone Crushers and Vikings defeat them a long time ago.

Of course, it is precisely because of the variables in this room that these VIPs have great hesitation when they bet again.

Many people thought that François would win, but they were not sure how Chen Mu would defeat the Bone Crusher in the room.

Perhaps they thought that Chen Mu was hiding some evil art, after all, the mysterious power from the east was one of the original reasons why they stepped on the battleship and explored this new continent.

These swarthy and short Qing people always give these foreigners an impression of cunning and evil, and some people even write the image of Qing people into Western literary works.

But most of the literary images of Orientals are not very bright, whether they maliciously smear or yearn for them, for Chen Mu, their thoughts are very complicated.

The old butler, who was in charge of registering and signing the bill, was also a headache, because the duel was about to begin, but still not too many people were betting.

This dreary atmosphere finally changed with the appearance of François.

François changed his clothes, took off his military uniform and put on a samurai uniform.

This samurai suit was obviously tailor-made by the great tailor himself, and it fits very well, showing his long and straight figure and extravagant bearing to the fullest.

He didn't wear knight's armor, just a tight-fitting black leather suit, but it showed off his battle-hardened bravery!

Let's put aside the combat effectiveness, this outfit alone is enough to give people the illusion that François will win!

"Gentlemen, ladies, it's too late if you don't bet......" François said with a little teasing.

After a temporary rest, his anger was suppressed, and he lost his anger and became the personable noble gentleman again.

Everyone was hesitant, but François was so confident that they walked to the betting table.

Betting on such a thing obviously has an indescribable special meaning for Mr. Trio, or for these distinguished guests.

Maybe it was a small entertainment program between them and the consulate, or maybe it was mixed with some power and money transactions, Chen Mu couldn't understand it, and he didn't want to figure it out.

Seeing that Mr. Baptiste was about to move, Chen Mu also smiled and said, "Who are you going to buy this time to win, sir?" ”

Baptiste was also a little embarrassed, looked at his beautiful wife, gritted his teeth and said, "Of course I want to buy you to win this time!" ”

Mrs. Baptiste then smiled with satisfaction: "My dear Chen Ke is a real man, and it is not wrong to buy him!" ”

While she was talking, Miss Isabella actually stepped down from the chief stage and came to Chen Mu's side!

From the earlier kiss to the battle in the labyrinth, everyone already knows that Miss Isabella is the patron behind Chen Mu.

And these VIPs know better than Chen Mu and others, what this competition means, Isabella chose Chen Mu instead of François, although Chen Mu is used as a chess piece, using Chen Mu to get rid of political marriage, but the two are of the same age, and Chen Mu's appearance is outstanding, which will inevitably make people reverie of handsome men and beautiful women.

So seeing Isabella walking towards Chen Mu, everyone's eyes were attracted, that is, François was temporarily left out in the cold, which also made François's anger that had just calmed down burn again!

"We must not let him steal the limelight again!" The reason why François proposed the duel was to extinguish Chen Mu's prestige, and how could Isabella talk to Chen Mu again and support Chen Mu!

Wherever he goes, he must be the focus, and how can Chen Mu, a lowly Qing countryman, be allowed to steal the light that belongs to him!

"Miss Isabella, thank you for following this fight, but we're about to start, so go back and sit down."

François also disregarded his image a little, chased ahead, and blocked the middle of Isabella and Chen Mu!

Gentlemen and ladies need to be decent, and even if Isabella dislikes François, she can't refute his face in front of others, so she has to stop.

The reason why she came over was also to encourage Chen Mu, after all, Chen Mu's performance was far beyond imagination, and she was shocked.

She knew Chen Mu's strength better than everyone else, so she was even more puzzled about how Chen Mu defeated the Bone Crushers and Vikings in the room.

For this competition, she has her own plan, when Chen Mu proposed to win the first place and challenge François, although she agreed, she was very optimistic in her heart, and even thought that it was unlikely, and she even prepared a plan for the future.

But she didn't expect Chen Mu to succeed, she also had a change in her opinion of Chen Mu, and she also wanted to strike while the iron was hot and push Chen Mu by the way.

Now that François stopped her, Isabella had no choice but to bow slightly, but she threw a meaningful encouraging glance at Chen Mu!