Chapter 019: Unexpected
Seeing that Zhang Taibai and Senior Brother Jiang Shan finished chatting, Yu Yi pointed to the man next to him who was wearing gold-wire glasses and looked like a white-faced scholar and introduced, "This is the fourth senior brother Gu Wenhui, if I remember correctly, you should also see it for the first time, right?" ”
"I've seen the fourth senior brother." Zhang Taibai immediately greeted him.
"Well, hello." Fourth Senior Brother Gu Wenhui smiled and nodded at him in return, but he was not as enthusiastic as Senior Brother Jiangshan, giving people a faint sense of alienation.
Zhang Taibai didn't care too much, he opened the door to do business, what kind of people he hadn't seen.
Moreover, people are different from person to person, some people are more familiar with themselves, and some people are slower to heat, which has nothing to do with good or bad. Yu Yi probably also knew the character of this fourth senior brother, and in order to avoid embarrassment, he hurriedly said, "You know the fifth senior brother, so you don't need me to introduce you." ”
"No, Brother Alex lives in Brooklyn, not far from my café, and we've seen it many times." Zhang Taibai said with a smile.
"Yes, the coffee in Senior Brother Taibai's shop is very famous, although it can't compare to Senior Brother Chef's 'Big Dragon Phoenix Restaurant', but it is also famous." Fifth Senior Brother Alex is a white man, but he speaks fluent Chinese and can hardly hear any accent.
As early as when Zhang Taibai had not joined the martial arts hall, this senior brother Alex had actually patronized the 'Rainforest Cafe', and since he was a China expert, he was also very chatty with Zhang Taibai.
Zhang Taibai also came here to find out that this old white customer who occasionally ran to his store to chat with him in Chinese would actually be one of the eight personal disciples.
"I can give you a compliment, that should be really good, there is a chance that a few of our brothers and sisters will make an appointment to go over and sit together?" Yu Yiti suggested.
"That's a good idea." Senior Brother Jiang Shan said with a smile.
This time, even the fourth senior brother Gu Wenhui was not disappointed, and happily agreed.
When talking nonsense with the four senior brothers, Zhang Taibai also secretly observed these senior brothers, especially the two who met for the first time, senior brother Jiang Shan and fourth senior brother Gu Wenhui.
As for the fifth senior brother Alex and the sixth senior brother Yu Yi, he is already relatively familiar, and his familiarity with them is second only to that of the third senior brother Hua Tianwen.
Zhang Taibai's focus is actually mainly on the strength of these senior brothers.
Because the ranking of the eight personal disciples is neither ranked according to age, nor does it represent the order of strength, but only according to the order of apprenticeship.
At the beginning, Zhang Taibai also thought that the strength of the people in front of him would be stronger.
But then he found out that this was not the case.
For example, the third senior brother Hua Tianwen, although he was the first to follow his master Li Luofeng, perhaps due to his talent, his strength could only rank last among the eight personal disciples.
Not to mention anything else, the strength of the sixth senior brother Yu Yi alone is not weaker than Hua Tianwen, and the fifth senior brother Alex is even more because of his extraordinary talent and natural possession of huge strength far beyond ordinary people, so he threw Hua Tianwen and Yu Yi out a lot.
As for the senior brother and the fourth senior brother who met for the first time, Zhang Taibai didn't know much information, but the Taibai sword qi had an early warning effect, and any target that could pose a threat to him to a certain extent would trigger the induction of the Taibai sword qi.
Therefore, he could roughly judge the strength of the four senior brothers in front of him.
As expected, the weakest of them was indeed the sixth senior brother Yu Yi, and the early warning sense of Taibai Sword Qi was almost negligible, just like when facing the third senior brother Hua Tianwen.
If it is single-handed, even if he doesn't use the 'Taibai Flying Swordsmanship' to cheat, Zhang Taibai is sure that he can solve any of the third senior brother Hua Tianwen or the sixth senior brother Yu Yi within ten moves.
But what Zhang Taibai didn't expect was that the second-to-last one, only stronger than the sixth senior brother Yu Yi but weaker than the other two, would be the fifth senior brother Alex!
Zhang Taibai has seen Alex and Hua Tianwen's actual combat exercises, and Alex can easily defeat Hua Tianwen even if he has reservations. He also compared the strength of himself and Alex, and the result was that if they played head-to-head, the outcome would be four or six.
He is four, Alex is six.
Therefore, he always felt that Alex's strength was definitely the top among the eight personal disciples, but he didn't expect that the two he met casually would be stronger than Alex.
In second place is the fourth senior brother Gu Wenhui who gives people a faint sense of alienation, and he gives Zhang Taibai the feeling that he is even stronger than Alex, probably similar to the gap between himself and Alex.
And the strongest of the four is the senior brother Jiangshan!
Different from the strong sense of threat that Gu Wenhui and Alex gave him, the feeling that Senior Brother Jiang Shan gave him was the same as when he first saw Master Li Luofeng, he would have a feeling of complete invincibility, and it was not just a sense of threat.
To be honest, just by feeling, he couldn't judge how strong this senior brother who had always been amiable and always had that warm smile on his face.
This made Zhang Taibai secretly frightened!
When he saw this senior brother for the first time, he thought that it was possible for the other party to be the same as the third senior brother Hua Tianwen, just apprenticed earlier?
Especially this senior brother's body looks so 'plump', normally speaking, it should be the kind that makes him gasp for breath even if he runs two steps, how strong can he be.
However, after some careful induction, Zhang Taibai took a closer look and found some clues...... If you pay attention to it, it is not difficult to find that although this senior brother looks very bloated, the flesh on his body is not fat at all, but pieces of flesh!
"Could it be that it's because I've practiced some kind of hard skill that I have such a strange body shape?" Zhang Taibai guessed in his heart.
If you exercise your muscles normally, you won't have this kind of body shape that looks like a big fat person anyway, and at most, all parts of your body will bulge much more than normal.
But looking at this senior brother Jiangshan, it is obviously not like that.
In the process of the five of them, the remaining disciples of the personal lineage also came one after another, and they came much earlier than the agreed time.
Among them are the second senior sister Dong Xueqing, whom Zhang Taibai had seen before, and the seventh senior sister Winnie, who was also seen for the first time, and the eighth senior brother Rex.
The third senior brother, Hua Tianwen, was the last of the eight personal disciples to appear, because he appeared with his master Li Luofeng. When the two of them appeared, Zhang Taibai had already introduced each other to the other seven senior brothers and sisters, and they had simply communicated for a while.
"Master, everyone is here, can we start early?" Senior Brother Jiang Shan saw Li Luofeng appear, and asked with a smile.
Li Luofeng was still dressed in sackcloth and hemp pants, and when he heard the words of the eldest disciple, he said lightly, "Don't worry, there is still something that has not arrived." ”
"Someone else, who is it?" Jiang Shan showed a surprised expression.
"Well, isn't that it-" Li Luofeng pointed to the door of the martial arts hall.
A group of disciples, including Zhang Taibai, looked towards the door, but saw an old lady wearing a cheongsam with her hair coiled up at the door, walking slowly towards this side.
Beside her, there were two delicate-looking teenagers, a man and a woman.