When the bridge was extended to his feet, Shen Zhu stretched out his hand sideways to Nalan Yuanshu, who looked surprised, and said, "Brother Nalan, please." ”

"Brother Shen, please too."

Nalan Yuanshu restrained his surprise, smiled and motioned for Shen Zhu to go with him.

If the sand side is regarded as the north and the shore is regarded as the south, then Shen Zhu and Nalan Yuanshu followed the circle-shaped bridge and walked to the east and sat down.

As soon as he sat down in the chair, Nalan Yuanshu's eyes first glanced at the situation on the other side, and then said: "Brother Shen, I have issued a military order with the Governor, and we can't lose this time in the competition with the foreigners. ”

Nalan Yuanshu doesn't have much affection for foreigners, sometimes he really wants to crush the throat of foreigners with one hand, but because the foreigners' guns are more powerful than the imperial court, and those people in the capital are engaged in the Westernization movement, they want to be friends with foreigners, so they control officials and tolerate foreigners everywhere. It made him feel bored.

The night before yesterday, Shen Zhu proposed to him to hold a martial arts competition, to compare his fists and feet with foreigners, so he was very happy, guns and cannons could not compare with foreigners, but in terms of fist and foot skills, he was very confident that foreigners were not comparable to Chinese, in this way, he also relieved his long-depressed mood.

It's a pity that he can't compete in person, and he is now in the position of governor of the state capital, so it is really not suitable to compete with foreigners in the open.

It is precisely these thoughts that Nalan Yuanshu wants to see foreigners beaten by the Chinese today, so as soon as he sat down, he told Shen Zhu that they could not lose.

"Brother Nalan, today's martial arts competition has recruited all the martial arts halls and gangs in Guangfu, and we can select the five strongest players in Guangfu based on merit, and then compete with foreigners, do you think we will lose to foreigners in this martial arts competition?"

"Oh, could it be that the Lingnan Ten Tigers are also here?" Nalan Yuanshu was a little surprised, and then a rush of thought lingered in his mind, he was a martial artist, and he also wanted to compete with many opponents.

"Brother Nalan, I only know that Huang Feihong will come, and the rest of the Ten Tigers don't know." Shen Zhu said with a confident expression.

While speaking, Shen Zhu's eyes were looking at a certain direction in the crowd on the other side, and it could be seen that Huang Feihong was standing in the crowd at this time, and he was talking to a good-looking man, and this man was facing Shen Zhu's line of sight sideways, but Shen Zhu could see who this man was at a glance, it was Sun Wen.

In this way, Shen Zhu was a little puzzled, why did Huang Feihong contact Sun Wen again? Hey, how did he come up with the word "again"?

"Brother Shen, what are you looking at?"

Nalan Yuanshu followed Shen Zhu's line of sight, but only saw a dense half of the light and half of the black head, so he was a little puzzled about what Shen Zhu was looking at.

"It's nothing, Brother Nalan, time is limited, we have to compete with foreigners at sunset, and we still select the players who will compete with foreigners as soon as possible."

Shen Zhu was not ready to tell Nalan Yuan that he had seen Sun Wen also come to the scene of the martial arts competition, after all, he had his own plans, and he needed Sun Wen to cover his actions in the open, otherwise why would he bother to pay money and efforts to hold a martial arts competition, he is not the kind of hot-blooded person who "has no hope of serving the country and can only discuss fists and feet with foreigners".

"Okay, then let's start watching how the fists and feet of the Cantonese warriors are."

Although Nalan Yuanshu guessed that Shen Zhu had seen some important person, since Shen Zhu didn't want to say more, he didn't have to ask more, after all, he was not the kind of person who was full of curiosity, so he directly nodded in agreement with Shen Zhu's suggestion.

After receiving the instructions of Shen Zhu and Nalan Yuanshu, one of them walked to the nearest position on the shore, and Langkou said loudly: "Fellow villagers, please be quiet, the martial arts competition is about to officially begin, and now I invite all the participating masters to go to the front." ”

As soon as the words fell, the contestants of the martial arts hall and the gang crowded to the shore.

"This competition is not only a competition for us Chinese, but also a competition with foreigners, so before the official competition, please go to the ring.

Also, I have two points to remind you:

First, no part of my body should touch the bridge I am standing on, including this chair;

Second, do not step on the mud and sand in the river with your feet.

Anyone who violates any of the above points will be eliminated from the competition. ”

After hearing this, everyone on the other side of the river was puzzled and discussed.

"Make no mistake, you didn't say these two rules before!"

"There is no bridge, how can I walk?"

"Do you want us to fly over?"

……

After Shen Zhu and his party passed, they shrank the bridge back, so now, the masters on the other side looked helplessly at the ring in the river.

The weaker ones are those contestants who are fishing in troubled waters, their opinions are greater, and they can even be said to be annoyed and angry, and they scolded the Divine Tree Sect for not keeping their promises, saying that anyone can participate, but now there is a preliminaries, so that people can only participate in the competition when they go to the ring, but no matter how to go, there is no way. I can't jump, the ring is not far from the shore, but the ring is two or three meters high above the shore, like this, how can they jump over.

"Jump?"

The stronger people are basically the masters of the martial arts hall, they are very calm now, they don't believe that the Divine Tree Sect and the government will come up with a problem that people can't solve, there must be a way to get through.

Now I heard that people have suggested jumping directly to the ring, after thinking about it carefully, this plan is not possible, because jumping into the ring needs to pass through the guardrail in the ring around the circle shape of the bridge, and the bridge is higher than the ring, and there are many chairs arranged on it, what if you accidentally touch the chair?

At the end of the 19th century, the river between Shamian and the other side of Quang Fu was still very clear, and you could see the sediment in the river.

At this time, when many masters were trying to find a way to get into the ring, the sun gradually rose into the sky, and the sun shone on the sparkling river, coupled with the breeze that blew from time to time, which made the river slightly undulating and refracting dazzling light.

It just so happened that some masters with good eyesight saw something strange in the river, and they found that there was a shadow in the river.

This discovery immediately made them secretly happy, and they lowered their heads to take a closer look, there was a wooden pillar hidden in the river one or two steps ahead, and then they successively found the wooden pillars in other directions, and after running the information of the various directions of the wooden pillar in their minds for a while, they came up with a route to the ring.

"So that's the case, the wooden pillars are arranged according to the arrangement of the Bagua Array."

This is a master who has worshiped in the capital Cheng Pai Bagua Sect to learn martial arts, Cheng Xuewu, due to more than ten years ago in the middle of the family, he had to return to Guangfu to preside over the overall situation of the family, and now he is to open a martial arts hall to teach Cheng Pai Baguazhang for a living, he is very familiar with the Bagua Array, so he is the first person to find out the route.

"Ha, it seems that today is the time for my Cheng faction to become famous."

After laughing loudly, in the puzzled and surprised eyes of everyone, Cheng Xuewu suddenly jumped into the river.