Shi Wengong was silent for a moment and then said, "Senior sister is still generally intelligent and quick-witted. Dajin has repeatedly defeated the Liao State, just like the sun in the sky, and is now sending envoys to the south, wanting to join forces with the Song court to destroy Liao, Jizhou Hu's family is on the border of Song and Liao, and the younger sister should be a village, and make some plans in advance. The junior sister turned against the Song court, and there was no turning back, so why not follow the senior brother and vote for the Jin Kingdom, isn't it? ”

Sanniang only looked at Shi Wengong and said, "Senior brother, you and I are both Han!" Shi Wengong sighed, stood up with his hands in his hands, and said: "It turns out that I am Han." Sanniang was relatively speechless for a while and then said, "Senior brother, I want to do it myself, I don't want it to come to that point." Shi Wengong smiled: "If I win the martial arts competition, will I get to that point?" Sanniang's eyes were cold and said, "I won't let you win." Shi Wengong slightly arched his hand and said: "Then just wait to see the senior sister's tricks." Sanniang snorted and walked away.

Turning the courtyard wall, Sanniang carried the lantern, went straight to the courtyard of Chao Gai and others, and walked straight towards Chao Gai's house, and when she arrived at the door, she suddenly pushed the door in, and Chao Gai and Liu Tang in the house had just lit the lamp and went to the night mask, but they had not even changed their night clothes, and the two were sitting at the table drinking tea.

Seeing that Sanniang was about to come in, both of them were shocked. Sanniang glared at Liu Tang, Liu Tang's face tightened, and he hurriedly said, "Brother Tianwang, I'll go back to the house to rest." "Say goodbye and run away.

Chao Gai's heart jumped suddenly, and he reluctantly smiled and said, "What is the matter with the lady coming here late at night?" Sanniang glared at Chao Gai and said: "Baozheng, this is Hujiazhuang, but not your Liangshan, those who come to my village are all my guests." You and Liu Tang visited my senior brother at night, what do you want? ”

Chao Gai also admitted it honestly, and only said: "I heard that your senior brother is the head of the sect in Zengtou City. The Zeng family is a Jurchen, and I am afraid that I have other plans for coming to ask for marriage. So just take a look. Don't be angry, lady, I'm just worried about you here. ”

Sanniang sighed lightly and said, "Even you can see that my senior brother has other plans." Chao Gai said, "Exactly." Have you ever heard of this? Those who know me say that I am worried, and those who do not know me say what I want. Chao is worried about you, lady. ”

Sanniang turned her head sideways and couldn't help laughing: "Where did Brother Baozheng learn the words?" Chao Gai said honestly: "But I learned a few words from Wu Junshi." Sanniang held back her laughter and said: "Brother Baozheng, you just do your best, learn what bookbags others hang?" There is no reason to weaken your reputation, just be the master of your village. After a pause, Sanniang said again: "Brother Baozheng, my senior brother's business." You don't have to pay attention, I have my own way, rest early, and compete tomorrow. ”

After saying that, he turned around and was about to leave, Chao Gai couldn't help but stand up and asked, "Lady stay, there is a word I want to ask." Sanniang turned around, and Chao Gai snorted: "Chao just wants to ask, are you willing to compete in martial arts, and I can win?" ”

Sanniang heard this. Seeing Chao Gai's sincere face, and thinking of Huang Wenbing's words, his heart softened and whispered: "If you want to win, you can win, why ask me?" Then he turned around and left. But when she heard Chao Gai behind her and roared to the sky, Sanniang couldn't help but shudder, and said secretly: "Aren't you crazy?" ”

Following. It's a good day. Chao Gai got up early in the morning, and his own Zhuang customer service served the morning food. Eat very well. When he was young, Li Kui, Liu Tang, and Wang Ying all gathered in Chaogai's house, and after making tea once, the steward of the village came to summon him: "Please Liangshan Chao Tianwang to the meeting!" ”

Liu Tang hurriedly got up and responded: "This is here, can you bring a blade?" The steward said: "On the competition field, you can choose your own weapons, and you don't need to carry armor." Chao Gai smiled when he heard this: "Hu Niangzi is well arranged. ”

After covering the whole set of clothes and hats, he got up and went out of the house first, and Liu Tang, Li Kui, and Wang Ying followed. When I got to the house, I saw a soft sedan chair resting there, and the steward asked Chao Gai to sit in the soft sedan chair, and Liu Tang followed the steward with a hug.

The steward led the way, and along the way, he saw a group of heroes who participated in the competition and recruited relatives to sit in a soft sedan chair and gradually converge from everywhere, and the group went out of the village. Liu Tang saw it and asked, "But isn't it a martial arts competition in the village?" The steward said: "No, just because the school field in Zhuangnei is small, so this event will be held in the newly built Dulongzhai martial arts school in Dongzhuang." The heroes suddenly realized.

Turn out of the village, after passing two or three miles of Pantuo Road, faintly see a wooden fence covered by green willows, when you come closer, you see that this is a hill highland, three forks in the road under the gang, Chao Gai has come to this Dulonggang, recognize the three roads, one road is to Zhujiazhuang, one is to Lijiazhuang, one is to Hujiazhuang. Chao Gai looked at it and thought secretly: "Hu Niangzi has a unique vision, the terrain here is dangerous, and if you control the path of the three Zhuangzi, you will set up a camp here." ”

In front of the camp, I saw the three words "Dulong Village" on the door of the village, and saw that the whole week was up to the wooden wall of more than two zhang, and the flags were planted all over it, and there were soldiers patrolling the sentry back and forth, but under the wall was a deep trench, which was full of bitter bamboo guns, and filled with water, and did not know the depth. This camp is condescending, and such a deep trench and high wall are arranged, they are all secretly amazed, and Dong Ping looked at it secretly and said: "If there are one or two thousand soldiers and horses stationed inside, as long as there is a water source and sufficient food and grass, it will be 10,000 officers and soldiers to fight here, but I am afraid that it will be difficult to break him." ”

In front of the walled gate, put down the drawbridge inside, a group of people sat in a soft sedan car from inside, turned to the inside, and saw a walled wall, there is a deep trench under the general wall, everyone took a deep breath, I don't want to be here is two walled walls deep trench arrangement, it is really like a copper wall and iron wall.

After passing the second walled gate, the eyes suddenly opened, only to see a wide hall in the middle of here, a wall on both sides of the wall is the ear room with a brick and stone tile roof, the wooden wall in front of the main hall is enclosed, only to see that the wooden sign is erected in the right place, and the three words of the martial arts field are written in the book.

A line of soft sedan chairs are parked outside the hall, a group of heroes have got off the sedan chair, the stewards welcome into the hall, only to see the palace Hu Taigong, Hu Cheng, Hu Sanniang three sat in the middle, Huang Wenbing stood behind Sanniang, Hujiazhuang and a group of leaders stood behind the hall, more than 60 chairs were laid on both sides of the hall.

When they arrived at the palace, they all saw the salute, and the prince invited all the heroes to sit first, only to see that the chair was written with their names and surnames, but it was easy to recognize, but some heroes were not convinced, Li Kui was the first to jump out, pointing to Shi Wengong who was sitting in front of Chao Gai and said angrily: "How can this guy sit in front of my brother?!" ”

Huang Wenbing stood in front and said loudly: "It's in the order of first come, first come, first come, don't be impatient, just sit less, and wait for the owner of my family to say a few words of rules before you can end the competition." Li Kui immediately shouted: "Hurry up over there, let's get into the cave room quickly after the fight." Everyone laughed.

Sanniang glared at Li Kui, and the guy bowed his head and didn't dare to speak, Hu Taigong got up and said: "Xiaozhuang has a daughter, raised in the boudoir, and today I invite all the heroes to come here, which is to recruit a family affair in martial arts. ”

All the heroes got up and saluted back, and Hu Taigong said: "My son is stubborn, and he doesn't know how to be polite, don't be surprised, the rules of this competition have been set, if you can win, it will be the old man, I will ride the dragon and be a son-in-law, and listen to my son's words." The heroes humbled again, and the prince sat down by himself.

Sanniang slowly got up and said: "The bad reception is not good, and I have neglected all the heroes, and I will make amends to you first." Speaking of a gift, all the heroes got up and returned the salute, and said: "The owner of the village is polite." "There's nothing wrong with the lady's thoughtful hospitality."

Sanniang said: "Later, every good man who participates in the competition to recruit relatives, the village has its own steward and two bankers, and you will go to change the protective armor, and then everything will be arranged by the steward." Those who did not participate in the martial arts competition are waiting in this hall, and when the competition starts later, they can go to the viewing platform in the martial arts hall to watch. ”

After finishing speaking, Sanniang instructed a group of stewards and villagers to come up and invite a group of heroes to change their clothes. A group of heroes arrived outside the store, outside a row of ear rooms, and each hero entered a room by himself. After Chao Gai entered the house, he saw a set of white military uniforms and a set of bamboo armor on the inner table, and a mask with blue fangs on it.

The serving steward said, "Please change your clothes and put on your mask, and the villain will talk to the king about the rules of the competition." At that moment, the two Zhuang customer service servants changed their clothes and wore armor, and the steward said: "Heavenly King, please listen, there are a total of sixty-four heroes participating in the competition this time, the first competition is divided into eight teams, each team of eight people, with red orange, red, green, blue, blue, purple and white eight colors as the points, the same color eight people are each other's allies, and then castrate to see, catch the team to fight." If you are knocked down and can't get up, you lose. The victor enters tomorrow's second game. ”

When Chao Gai heard this, his eyes widened and said: "This kind of competition is unheard of, and your owner is really wonderful." The steward smiled and said, "There is one more thing, during the whole competition, please ask the king of heaven to wear a mask and not speak." Chao Gai said: "In this way, don't I know which heroes are coming with me?" The steward said: "It is the owner of the village who ordered that if any of the heroes took off their masks or spoke during the competition, he would lose alone." ”

Chao Gai frowned and thought for a while, then understood, and said: "I understand, the owner of your family is afraid that among the heroes who participated in the competition, someone colluded to cheat." The steward smiled and said, "The king of heaven can figure it out for himself." After changing his clothes and armor, the steward said, "The weapons used in this competition are invited by the King of Heaven." Chao Gai's eyes widened and said, "Weapons have to be castrated?" The steward smiled: "Exactly, the owner of the village said that the husband she chose is all good at everything." ”

Chao Gai was castrated according to his words, but he got a single rattan card, and the steward smiled: "The king of heaven has good luck, a single knife rattan card, which can be attacked and defended." But I also want to remind the king that if you knock over other people, the weapons that fall on the ground can be picked up at will. Chao Gai smiled when he heard this: "This rule is good. ”

After putting it on, Chao Gai put on a mask and walked out of the ear room, the steward should lead the way, and sure enough, I saw a group of heroes coming out of the ear room one after another, all of them were ordinary martial arts clothes and bamboo armor, and their faces were wearing masks, but the colors of the military uniforms were different. At that time, a group of stewards led all the heroes to the martial arts arena, and took their weapons according to their own castrations, and then divided into eight directions, and the eight uniforms were separated, and they gathered together.

In the north of the martial arts arena, a high platform was erected, and all the leaders such as Hu Taigong, Hu Cheng, and Sanniang were seated, and Liu Tang, Li Kui, Wang Ying and other heroes were also present, just waiting to watch the battle. (To be continued.) )