Chapter 51: The Race Begins
There is a huge open space two or three miles forward from the north gate of the family, originally the Li family wanted to build a granary here, but due to the recent battle with the beast mountain, it had to stop. Now after the armistice with the beast mountain, the project that should have been continued was inexplicably stopped by the military department. In the days before that, the military headquarters had successively sent several waves of people to set up various facilities, such as viewing platforms and martial arts arenas. After working day and night, the vacant land was finally transformed into a place large enough to accommodate 10,000 people.
Today, the entire Li family is in a state of excitement, regardless of men and women, young and old, they all rushed to that place early to occupy a good position to watch the Li family's annual clan meeting. The Li family meeting was originally held at the end of the year to pray for Haotian's mercy and hope for the family's prosperity in the coming year. After years of evolution, the clan association now has another meaning, that is, the youth competition in the clan. Dabi uses the usual ring match, one-on-one, and finally selects ten winners to issue generous rewards to motivate the clansmen's enthusiasm for cultivation.
Dabi does not distinguish between identity and identity, whether it is a criminal in Xicheng or a person from the border township outside the clan land, you can sign up to participate. Compared with the history of thousands of years, I don't know how many humble clansmen have become phoenixes by virtue of their blockbusters, flying on the branches and becoming phoenixes, which has inspired the Li family, who are unwilling to be ordinary, to come to participate in batches.
In the patriarch's mansion, Wen Wan was standing in front of Li Brahma to sort out his clothes. Twisting his eyebrows, he advised: "When the time comes, you must be careful, don't hurt yourself." ”
Li Brahma responded with a smile: "Don't worry, with my ability, a few people may hurt me." ”
Wen Wan stretched out her hand and slapped Li Brahma on the chest, and said with white eyes: "Come on, I don't know who made Xiao Tiantian chase after the whole house yesterday." ”
When Li Brahma heard his embarrassment, he blushed and was about to refute. From outside the room, there was an urging voice from Elder Zhang: "Brahma, the carriage is ready, let's go." Li Brahma had no choice but to go hand in hand with Wen Wan.
The carriage left Haotian Pavilion, and when I walked on the street of the clan land, I found that the street was already overcrowded, and the carriages of each house and vein were blocked by random people, and the Praetorian Guards on the street were maintaining order, but it seemed that there were no effective measures. There are even those hot-tempered people who don't care what kind of elders are sitting in you, and they scold at the carriage.
Seeing this, Li Brahma asked Elder Zhang, who was acting as a coachman, in confusion: "Grandpa Zhang, why is the Praetorian Guard not majestic?"
Zhang Lao sat on the chariot and said calmly: "The Praetorian Guard is different from the other three major legions, in the case that the family is not fundamentally threatened, the Praetorian Guard only acts as a guard, so when you can't see the bloody side of a person, you will naturally not be afraid." ”
Li Brahma nodded in agreement and listened to Zhang Lao continue: "But no matter how gentle a tiger is, it will not be a sheep. ”
Sure enough, a moment later, a sergeant in armor stood on a carriage and shouted at the chaotic crowd: "Pedestrians to the left, carriages to the right, Da ahead of the contestants." ”
The sergeant's command has not changed much, and the people still go their own way. Seeing this, the sergeant angrily yelled at the soldiers beside him: "Go, arrest all those who disobey the order." ”
Finally, after arresting more than a dozen pedestrians who did not obey the order, the scene was slowly controlled, and Li Brahma's carriage also drove out of the city gate and galloped towards the arena.
Today, God may have sold the Li family a face, it can't be said that it is sunny, but it is still much better than the dark clouds in the past.
Li Brahma's carriage fought his way out of the northern city with great difficulty, and before he had gone far, Li Brahma saw the clan meeting place that had just been built in recent days. In the harsh winter, there is no green grass on the ground, because of the continuous snowfall, coupled with the fact that the road has become muddy due to the fact that it has been trampled by cars today.
Dozens of carriages stopped outside the venue one after another, and the voices in the carriages gradually became muffled, and the participants were more or less nervous.
The periphery of the site is a high wall of more than 10 meters high built of blue bricks, and the high wall encloses an ellipse. Entering through the only two doors, there was a clearing, which was divided into thirteen small areas, in which Tabi would be held. Immediately against the high wall are the tiers of staircase seats, which are the spectator seats.
Wen Wan followed Li Brahma into the venue, and when she saw the dense crowd of people who had already taken their seats, she couldn't help but say nervously: "You must be careful later." ”
Li Brahma smiled slightly, but instead told Wen Wan and said, "You will follow Grandpa Zhang in a while, don't get lost." ”
Wen Wan touched Xiao Tiantian in her arms, pouted, and said dissatisfiedly: "I'm not a child anymore." ”
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The participants got out of the carriage in turn and went to the side of the entrance to wait for the referee to come and take the roll call. Li Brahma was no exception, and after saying goodbye to Wen Wan, he approached the crowd, and there were no longer a few acquaintances Li Brahma had met in the crowd. The participants come from different places, but most of them are selected from the three thousand doll army, and the others are selected by each house and each village in the clan, and there are nearly a thousand people before and after, but there are so many people that they are concentrated on the entrance side and do not appear crowded at all, which is enough to see the spaciousness of the venue.
The participants were all calm, never looking left and right to talk to each other, not nervous, besides, they were all young talents of the family, and who would show a trace of timidity in front of their opponents in the near future. Li Brahma was not the slightest nervous, he kept raising his head and looking for Li Qing and a few people in the crowd, but unfortunately he didn't find it, but was seen by Li Hao and Li Da.
Now that he was seen, of course Li Brahma would walk over to say hello, after the battle between the new generation of Black City and Beast Mountain, Li Brahma actually had no prejudice with Li Hao. But this didn't make Li Brahma kind to him, "Yo, isn't this Li Hao who fought with Long Qi'er in the Jinye Basin for three hundred rounds without losing points." ”
Although Li Hao said that he couldn't beat Li Brahma, but in terms of the degree of poisonous mouth, he would not be afraid of anyone, so he replied: "Yo, isn't this Li Dashan who is shouting to support the veterans of the clan?"
The tip of the needle is against Mai Mang, both of them are sharp, and they don't give in to each other, only Li Da is still the same as before, he doesn't like words, he just quietly looks at his younger brother and Li Brahma arguing, I don't know what is thinking in my heart.
In the venue, the patriarch arrived, the heads of the various ministries arrived, and all the ruling elders arrived. So all the visitors and soldiers in the venue did not talk to each other, waiting for the patriarch to start speaking.
The patriarch and the adults of the patriarchs all ascended to the viewing platform in the center of the venue and took their seats in order of position, on the left hand side of the patriarch was Li Xixiang, the great elder of the family, and on the right hand side was the old man in Tsing Yi who drove the martial idiot out of the Four Elephants Hall for the first time.
"Knock knock...", the crisp bell rang, this is a call to the contestants, who were originally outside the venue, rushed in, through the entrance, towards the venue.
Patriarch Li Xiyang looked at the young talents of the family's generation, and couldn't help but brush his beard slightly, showing a satisfied and joyful smile. The Li family can still continue to enter the chaotic world, and it has not been swallowed up by the beast mountain, relying on generations of young people.
Li Xiyang didn't say anything, but nodded and signaled to an elder in the arena that he could start.
The elder in charge of Dabi saw Li Xiyang's gesture, nodded slightly, and announced, "Today's Dabi has officially begun. The shout was crisp and melodious, resounding throughout the Dabi place. The spectators in the stands heard the signal for Dabi to start, and they all stood up, raised their hands and shouted. "Long live the family, long live the family. ”
Whether it was the patriarch Li Xiyang or the elders, they were all smiling and enjoying this kind of shouting and cheering very much. Waiting for the shouting to gradually subside, the elder in charge of Dabi continued to talk about Dabi's rules: "This competition adopts a lottery competition, and if you knock someone out of the ring, you will win, remember to stop at the point, and don't hurt people's lives." ”
The elder paused slightly, and looked around the nine hundred and eighty-five participants in a circle with that sharp gaze as a warning. None of the players in the audience dared to look at him, even Li Brahma, who had never been in tune, or Li Da, who was as arrogant as ever, all of them diverted their eyes. Others may be afraid of the majesty of the elder, but the children of the family like Li Brahma are very afraid of this elder. In addition to the fact that he is the head of the previous department, the greater reason is his jealous and hateful character and not favoritism.
The elder's real name is Li Huizhi, and he is slowly called Li Tiemian because of his selflessness, and those who are familiar with him are called the nickname of Iron Pimple. When Li Brahma and the others were still the yellow-haired children, as long as you made a mistake, Li Huizhi dared to pull you up and go straight to your house, no matter how you howled and cried, you and your family would be blocked at the door of the house and scolded loudly. But it never has a dirty word, it is all about the Li family's law, and he will leave satisfied only after he knows that he feels that you have been enlightened.
What the high-ranking officials and wealthy of the entire Li family are most afraid of is that Li Huizhi pulled his own children with a blue face, but at the time of Li Brahma, he had been comparing with Li Hao and others how many times he was forced to go home by Li Huizhi, and the children naturally refused to lose face, those days were basically the busiest time for Li Huizhi, and when he just came out of this house, he would run down to another family, so that at every family meeting, the elders and directors would quietly ask their old friends around them, "Your family has been found by Li Huizhi several times this month." ”
The old friend slowly stretched out his finger and raised a finger, and the elder who asked the question looked envious, "Only once?", the old man who answered gritted his teeth angrily and said, "Ten times." ”
The melodious bell rang again, urging the players to enter the ring area.
More than nine hundred people began to divide into thirteen groups, led by an elder with a blank face, and began their respective competitions.