The city of Tianhongguo is no longer divided into living areas and business areas, and the shops on the street are all operating.

The streets are full of people and noisy cars, which can be seen in the economic prosperity of ancient times.

Zhao Shuang and his entourage entered the city from the north gate, and when they didn't walk long, they passed a large mansion, a tall vermilion lacquer gate, and a big lion more than one person high on one side of the door.

People who walk can't help but glance at the tall gatehouse, and sigh in their hearts or mouths: "What a magnificent house!" ”

After seeing the Forbidden City and visiting the famous palace garden in the imperial capital, Zhao Shuang didn't think that this mansion was magnificent.

Fu Ning next to him didn't have any expression.

Some of the disciples of Pai Yanshan were amazed, and some talked about the more magnificent mansions they had seen in the capital.

After walking through this mansion, an elderly disciple of Pai Yanshan said, "Do you know whose mansion this is?" ”

A young female disciple said, "Isn't that written on the Zhou Mansion?" Naturally, it is the mansion of the Zhou family. ”

The old disciple smiled and said: "Now it is the Zhou Mansion, nine years ago, this was still the Ning Mansion, the mansion of the famous Zhennan General Ning Hou in Blue Lake City. The Ning family's mansion in the capital is even more magnificent than here. In those years, General Zhennan was full of flowers, and it was really prosperous, but in a blink of an eye, it fell down, and the nine clans were punished overnight, and now the mansion has become someone else's! ”

Qiu Zhangmen said: "General Zhennan's reputation in the rivers and lakes has always been good, when Tianhong Kingdom was founded at the beginning of the country, the southern territory was only to the Yangtze River, and the Southern Chu south of the Yangtze River relied on economic wealth, harassing the border of Tianhong Country every year, it was the first Zhennan King to lead an army of 100,000 across the Yangtze River, swept Southern Chu, destroyed Southern Chu, and extended the territory of Tianhong Kingdom to the south of the Yangtze River, until leaving the river. It is said that there are also people from the rivers and lakes who assisted in the battle under the command of the king of Zhennan. ”

Qiu Ming, an old disciple of Pai Yanshan (finally a dragon with a name), said: "Yes, every generation of Zhennan kings is friendly with the rivers and lakes, if the heroes on the rivers and lakes have difficulties to find the Zhennan Wangfu, the previous generations of Zhennan kings will not hesitate to lend a helping hand." Sending some money is the smallest thing, and helping people in the rivers and lakes to go to prison to get people is also the most common thing. ”

A young disciple said, "Later, the King of Zhennan was exterminated by the Nine Clans, was it really a rebellion?" ”

Qiu Ming said: "Rebellion? How many of the people the emperor wanted to kill were not killed on the charge of rebellion? With the strength of King Zhennan, if he really wants to rebel, how can he sit at home and wait for the emperor to kill his family? ”

Zhao Shuang raised his hand and said: "There is a question, just now you said that Ninghou, the king of Zhennan, is it the king or the wait?" ”

Qiu Ming said: "The first generation of Zhennan kings was crowned kings at the beginning, but each generation of Zhennan kings was suspicious of the emperor, from the king to the wait, and from the wait to the king, back and forth, five generations of Zhennan kings, tossed many times. The fifth generation of the king of Zhennan was demoted to a candidate before he was sentenced to the nine clans. ”

Zhao Shuang said: "There is another question, since the relationship between the king of Zhennan and the rivers and lakes is very good, why didn't the knights on the rivers and lakes save the king of Zhennan at that time?" Even if you save one of the descendants of King Zhennan, it would be fine. Isn't that what is said in the book reviews? ”

Qiu Ming sighed and said: "Nine years ago, after the news that the Zhennan Wang's family was imprisoned for rebellion, the entire rivers and lakes were in turmoil, and the grand occasion was even more sensational than saving Bai Daxia today, but the Zhennan King and his old man were loyal, and they would rather be killed than disobey the holy decree. In fact, there is gossip that the youngest son of King Zhennan was rescued. The people in the rivers and lakes have been looking for so many years, but they have not found any traces, it seems that it is just a piece of gossip. ”

The ring was set up on the martial arts arena outside the Governor's Mansion of the Two Lakes, and everyone arrived at the martial arts arena while talking. At this time, the martial arts arena, which is comparable to half of Tiananmen Square, is already crowded.

Zhao Shuang took the reins of the horse and said, "What about the horse?" Shall we just lead the horses and squeeze in? ”

Master Qiu said: "There is a stable for storing horses in the east of the martial arts field, we go around and store the horses to others, and naturally someone feeds the horses." ”

The horses were stored, and the crowd followed the crowd to the central ring.

The martial arts arena was full of voices.

Zhao Shuang said: "There is no tweeter here, and no one hears the shouting, how do you know to start?" ”

As soon as the words fell, the sound of war drums sounded in the ring, and the drums shook the sky, and suddenly the human voices gradually fell, and in the end, only the drums remained in the entire huge martial arts arena.

After the drum fell, a big man jumped into the ring with an unsheathed knife on his shoulder, and arched his hand in all directions: "In the next bell, the knife is the master of today." As long as someone can beat me, you will pass the first level of the nine-day ring. ”

As soon as Zhong Mingdao's words fell, the audience suddenly burst into voices, even more boiling than just now, but most of them were scolding.

It's nothing more than some "scum of the rivers and lakes", "doing things for dog officials", "accepting lives" and the like.

Zhong Mingdao has a very bad reputation on the rivers and lakes, and he is already hated, but now he is actually doing things for the government and fighting against everyone to rescue Bai Daxia, which is even more hateful.

Zhong Mingdao appeared on the first day of the Nine-Day Ring Competition, which was even more unexpected than the disciples of Pai Yanshan.