Chapter Seventy-Nine: The Controversy between Li and Zhang (3)
At this time, it is not far from the meal time, more than 100 guests have gathered in the house, everyone heard that the grandson of the Wang family wants to perform archery, and they have rushed to the archery range in the back garden of the Wang family, which is the place where Wang Gui usually practices martial arts, 40 steps wide and 60 steps long, originally a vacant land, which was bought by the Wang family and enclosed as a martial arts training ground for the children of the Wang family. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
There is an arrow target on the side of the wall, and there is a bow frame and weapon rack on the other side, at this time, hundreds of guests stand on the other side of the martial arts training ground, talking to each other in twos and threes, waiting for Wang Gui to shoot arrows with great interest.
Wang Gui sat in his study, holding his head and not moving, no matter how his family persuaded him, he refused to get up and go to archery, he didn't like these squires, and performing archery to these fat-headed and big-eared squires was simply a blasphemy against his Wang Gui's archery skills.
At this time, Li Yanqing, Yue Fei and Tang Huai were found by Wang Gui's father and asked them to help persuade Wang Gui, Li Yanqing smiled at Yue Fei and Tang Huai: "You wait a while, I will persuade him, it will definitely have an effect." ā
Li Yanqing walked into the room, and saw Wang Gui with his back to the door, still angry, and before Li Yanqing could speak, Wang Gui said viciously: "Don't persuade me, I don't want to shoot arrows, treat me as a monkey show, I won't do it!" ā
"I'm here to apologize to you."
"Apologize?"
Wang Gui glanced back at Li Yanqing and asked puzzledly, "What apologies?" ā
Li Yanqing said apologetically: "Letting you perform archery is my suggestion to the patriarch, I should discuss it with you first." ā
Wang Gui suddenly jumped up, and angrily questioned Li Yanqing, "Why do you want to make this suggestion?" You know I don't like these squires, what archery they know! ā
"Don't worry, listen to me!"
Li Yanqing whispered a few words to him, Wang Gui's face finally eased, but he still complained about Li Yanqing: "Of course I will help you, but you should always discuss this matter with me first, so that I can be a little mentally prepared." ā
"Didn't I find you? Who knows where you're hiding, let's go! ā
Wang Gui got up slowly, was dragged out of the room by Li Yanqing, and when he walked to the door, he stopped and emphasized repeatedly: "Let's say first, you must accompany me to shoot arrows." ā
"Definitely, Lao Yue and Ah Tang both agreed."
The four of them came to the archery range, Wang Wanhao was a little anxious, he stepped forward and complained: "Why are you here now, everyone is in a hurry." ā
Wang Gui pointed at Li Yanqing and Yue Fei, "Grandfather, they shoot arrows with me." ā
Wang Wanhao was stunned for a moment, "My little ancestor, this is for you to celebrate, what is it if you pull others up?" ā
Wang Gui said with a calm face: "If they don't shoot with me, I'm afraid that even an arrow won't hit!" ā
The guests next to them were waiting impatiently, one by one, their mouths were dry, their stomachs were hungry, how could they have the interest to drag it out any longer, everyone persuaded Wang Wanhao, just rely on the petty officials!
Wang Wanhao was helpless, so he had to nod and agree.
The four of them discussed it and decided that the master Wang Gui would shoot first, Tang Huai would follow, then Yue Fei, and finally Li Yanqing would be the finale.
Wang Gui took the lead in the arrow, and he could tell every grass and tree with his eyes closed in his own field, at this time, Wang Gui saw Tang Yuan'er, she was looking at herself with expectant eyes, his heart was hot, and his courage suddenly doubled.
He stepped forward and stretched out his bow and arrows, and once again played at a super level, hitting nine out of ten arrows, winning a warm applause from everyone, especially Tang Yuan'er's eyes were so excited that his eyes were shining, and his big shining eyes were full of worship for Wang Gui.
Wang Gui glanced at her, and he was quite proud in his heart.
Li Wenyou praised Wang Wanhao beside him: "Ling Sun deserves to be the top ten in the county examination!" It's amazing. ā
Wang Wanhao smiled, "No matter how powerful he is, he is tenth!" How can it be compared with Brother Qing, Brother Qing is the first in civil and military affairs, I'm afraid Xiaohe Township can't find the second! ā
Li Wenyou smiled proudly, "Don't say filial piety and township, even Xiangzhou doesn't have a second!" ā
His voice was a little louder, and Zhang Junbao next to him heard it, and couldn't help snorting heavily, Li Wenyou looked at him and asked with a smile: "I found that Zhang Yuanwai seems to be a little unconvinced?" ā
Zhang Junbao couldn't hold back any longer, and scolded angrily: "Zhangkou County is the first in the exam, Closed County is the first in the exam, and the county exam is a fart!" ā
As soon as he said this, Wang Wanhao and Tang Lian's faces immediately darkened, Zhang Junbao suddenly realized that he had said the wrong thing, and he hurriedly explained: "Brother Wang, Brother Tang, I am not targeting you, I am targeting someone, I actually dare to say that my clan Sun Xiangzhou is the first, I don't know how high the sky is and how thick the ground is!"
Li Wenyou smiled coldly, and he said loudly to the people around him: "What I'm talking about is that the Li family is stronger than the Zhang family, and our Brother Qing is the first in the county examination, unlike their Zhang family, which Zhang family's children are admitted?" ā
After Wang Gui finished shooting the arrow, many people wanted to leave, but when Li Wenyou's words were sharper than a knife, everyone stopped and came back to watch the excitement.
Zhang Junbao couldn't bear it anymore in front of everyone, and said angrily: "What if I can pull out a child of the Zhang family!" ā
Zhang Junbao turned around and shouted, "Where is San Lang?" ā
Several Zhang disciples walked in with Zhang Qiao in their arms, and Zhang Qiao clasped his fists and saluted: "Second uncle, the little nephew is here!" ā
Zhang Junbao pointed at Zhang Qiao and shouted at Li Wenyou: "This is my nephew, the third place in the Xiangzhou Wuju Elimination Test, is it better than the first place in your county's county examination?" ā
The people around were in an uproar, the Zhang family actually had a nephew who won the third place in the martial arts examination, this is not simple!
Li Wenyou pursed his lips and said disdainfully: "What's the use of martial arts lifting people, if you have the ability, go to the provincial examination, that is the real martial arts person, don't use the chicken feathers of the liberation test as an arrow all day long to show off." ā
There was a burst of laughter around him, Zhang Junbao couldn't hold it on his face, and said to Zhang Qiao angrily: "You go and compete with him in the county exam first, and beat his stinky mouth!" ā
Zhang Qiao also held his stomach in his heart, he dared to humiliate himself like this, he hugged his fist to Wang Wanhao and said: "Please allow the juniors to shoot arrows." ā
Wang Wanhao slightly felt that something was wrong with the situation, he groaned, but still agreed, "Yes!" ā
Zhang Qiao strode forward, pointed at Li Yanqing and said, "You shoot slowly, I want to compete with you." ā
At this time, Wang Wanhao slowly walked to Li Wenyou's side and asked him in a low voice, "Brother Li, what are you doing?" ā
Li Wenyou whispered: "Give Brother Fool a chance, and when I turn around, I will apologize to Brother Xian for drinking!" ā
When it came to this, Wang Wanhao was silent.
On the archery field, Tang Huai and Yue Fei also finished shooting separately, and both of them shot eight out of ten, causing a round of applause.
Li Yanqing waved his hand to Zhang Qiao, "You are a guest from afar, please first!" ā
Zhang Qiao was not polite, he directly picked out an eight-bucket bow from the bow stand, pulled out an arrow, and glared at Li Yanqing viciously.
Li Yanqing raised his hand and said to everyone: "Fellow villagers, this Brother Zhang offered to compete with me, I accepted it, and asked all the villagers to testify to us!" ā
Everyone applauded in unison, but Li Yanqing's words were a signal, Li Wenyou understood, so he said to Zhang Junbao in a hurry: "Li Zhang Zhengqiang doesn't have a lottery, why don't we make a bet!" ā
"Yes, you can bet whatever you want!" Zhang Junbao said without showing weakness.
Li Wenyou looked into his eyes and said word by word: "I bet on the ship with you, whoever loses, whoever withdraws from the Wang family's fleet, will bet on this!" ā
Zhang Junbao was stunned for a moment, it turned out to be for the fleet, he suddenly had a feeling of ambush, and after a while, he snorted disdainfully and said: "If you want to borrow the boat, just say it, why do you want to do this?" ā
Li Wenyou said coldly: "I only ask if you dare to bet or not?" ā
The reason why the method of agitation has been successful again and again is, on the one hand, the success of the strategy to lure the enemy into taking the bait, and on the other hand, it is also a matter of face.
Of course, Zhang Junbao knew that Li Wenyou was provoking himself, and if he didn't agree, it would be tantamount to admitting in public that the Zhang family was inferior to the Li family, and he couldn't afford to lose face.
But more importantly, Zhang Junbao was not worried at all, how could the children of the Zhang family, who ranked third in Wujie, lose to a twelve-year-old country boy?
Zhang Junbao sneered, "Why don't you dare to bet?" I'll just bet on you! ā
Li Wenyou said to Wang Wanhao and Tang Lian again: "Please let the two of you be a witness for us, Zhang Yuanwai and I will make a bet for the fleet of the old Wang family, and whoever loses will let it out." ā
Tang Lian smiled faintly, "Very good!" I want to see who is more powerful in the first county exam or third in the martial arts. ā
Although Wang Wanhao has a closer relationship with the Zhang family, he doesn't want to offend the Li family, and morally speaking, he should help Li Wenyou more, so he told Li Wenyou that as long as Zhang Jiaken quits by himself, he will lend Li Wenyou a boat.
Now since Zhang and Li want to bet on the ship, who loses and who wins, it has nothing to do with him Wang Wanhao, he is happy not to offend, Wang Wanhao is relieved, so he laughed and said: "I'll help again, take twenty taels of silver!" ā
Wang Wanhao was wealthy, he raised twenty taels of silver and said loudly: "Since I am competing in my Wang family, how can I stay out of the matter, I will add another lottery, whoever wins, the twenty taels of silver will belong to whom!" ā
There was an uproar all around, but the Wang family still had courage! He actually took out twenty taels of silver to make a lottery head.
Zhang Qiao's eyes lit up, it was actually twenty taels of silver, which happened to be entangled in Beijing for him, and he hugged Li Yanqing and said, "Then I'm not welcome." ā
Li Yanqing smiled and said: "Brother Zhang's martial arts are outstanding, of course the younger brother is far inferior, but I'm afraid that Brother Zhang's performance is abnormal, what if our archery becomes a draw?" ā
Zhang Qiao said coldly: "If the archery is tied, I will compete with you again until I win!" ā
"Brother Zhang is still courageous, please shoot arrows!"
Zhang Qiao stretched out his bow and set up an arrow, drew his bow, and shot an arrow at the target sixty paces away.......