Chapter 11: Low Chairs

Tanaka in Piyou's mouth is about thirty, his steps are firm, his expression is heroic, he walked into the martial arts hall, all the samurai hurriedly bowed and saluted, and Tanaka returned the salute one by one.

Pi Yu ran to Tanaka, "Mr. Tanaka, these people from your martial arts hall beat my apprentice, and I came to seek justice, but not only did they not apologize, but they also started to do it." How do you discipline this curator? ”

Tanaka laughed, "I heard that Sasaki worshipped a teacher with strong martial arts, it turned out to be you." ”

Pi You shook his head, "No, he wants to worship the insect as a teacher, but the insect is unwilling to accept him, I think he is pitiful and became his teacher, and the result is ......", Speaking of this, Pi You suddenly got angry, pointed at me and scolded: "Worm, why don't you accept Sasaki, he is stronger than you, seeing me being bullied, and knowing to protect me, you just want to run, like a cat and a dog, not righteous." ”

was robbed of white by Pi You, I can't say what I suffer.

Tanaka smiled: "Sasaki can worship you as his master, that's his blessing." With the guidance of you, Sasaki will definitely be promising. Tanaka teased a little, and seemed to be joking with Piyu.

Piyu didn't care, turned her anger into joy, and she said to Sasaki, "Sasaki, do you hear that?" Bugs don't teach you, I'll teach you later. Then she seemed to be thinking about what to teach Sasaki, and I thought, I'm afraid she doesn't know what to teach Sasaki herself.

Tanaka no longer paid attention to Pi Yu and looked up at me, "Your Excellency is Mr. Shen Worm, the master of Sasaki Shinbai, Mr. Shen Worm, Mr. Shen is a miracle, and I am fortunate to see you today." ”

I replied, "You're welcome, Piyu came to mess around today, so I'll follow." ”

Without waiting for Tanaka to answer, Pi You was not happy, "Pi You, where am I messing around, I am here to judge, and I didn't think about doing it." Besides, even if I mess around, I don't have Tomoko messing around. ”

As he was talking, a blue-shirted girl stepped on clogs and greeted her in the courtyard, with a graceful figure, like a willow swinging in the wind, and came to Tanaka, bowing shortly, "Brother is good, Pi You is good!" ”

I looked back, the girl didn't know when she had run down the room, at this moment, where was the rudeness just now, her tone was gentle, her face was quiet, she couldn't be more ladylike.

In an instant, my worldview is about to be turned upside down, is this Tomoko a goblin? Quirky elves, unguardable.

Tanaka looked at Tomoko, revealing brother-like pity, "Tomoko, I was afraid that you would be lonely and lonely, and I planned to take you to Piyu tomorrow, but now she is uninvited, you have a playmate." ”

Then he said to me, "Mr. Shen, can you go down and talk about it?" ”

I had no choice but to jump down the courtyard wall," Mr. Tanaka, smiled. ”

Tanaka shook hands with me, "Mr. Shen's slingshot is amazing, and I admire it from the bottom of my heart." ”

The well suddenly interjected, "Hmph, it's just a small skill of carving insects." Those who learn martial arts practice physical strength and will, and they are as opportunistic as Your Excellency, what martial arts do people still practice in the world. ”

Tanaka frowned, as if he was not satisfied with the well, but then looked at me, "I wonder what Mr. Shen thinks?" ”

Pi You snorted, "What's the difference between martial arts and fighting, it's okay to win." ”

I touched my nose and said, "Although Pi You doesn't know martial arts, he still has a point. The art of striking is said to have originated from hunting, and the answer is obvious: when faced with jackals, tigers and leopards, the ancients would first choose to fight with their bare hands or shoot them with bows and arrows from a distance. It is much safer to use a bow and arrow, and the same is true in modern warfare, where whoever has a longer range and more accurate firearm will undoubtedly have a better chance of winning. ”

I continued: "This is not to deny the kung fu of fists and feet, I once encountered a coyote in the wasteland, when the dagger was thrown aside, I had to fight it with my bare hands, and then the two sides fought with physical strength, and it was will. If the people of your martial arts hall rush in front of me wearing steel helmets and armor, no matter how accurate my slingshot is, I am afraid that it will have to fight with your fists and feet, and it is unknown who will win and who will lose. I'm afraid I'll be able to run faster than a cat by then. ”

After saying that, everyone laughed.

Obviously dissatisfied with my statement with the mud, he continued: "I heard that Sasaki worshipped Mr. Shen as a teacher, and presumably Mr. Shen's fist and foot skills are as good as those of a slingshot. Can this moment be an eye-opener for everyone? ”

I shook my head, "My fist and foot skills are ordinary, and they don't deserve to be ugly." ”

Inobe said arrogantly: "I think so, Sasaki's kung fu was still very good before, why did he regress by worshipping Your Excellency as a teacher." ”

Pi You was greatly dissatisfied after hearing this, "That rat by the well, don't be aggressive, you're afraid you've never seen the kung fu of insects." Worm, just compete with him, otherwise, he will bully Sasaki in the future. ”

She was afraid that I would refuse, so she leaned into my ear and whispered, "If you win him, I'll give you the picture." ”

I glared at her and cursed in my heart, "Demon, sooner or later I will be tossed to death by you." ”

But according to the words of Epiyu, he said to Ibbe: "Since Mr. Ibbe wants to learn, it is better to be respectful." ”

Sasaki was extremely excited when he heard this, and asked everyone to relinquish a circle.

The well stood there with his arms folded on his chest, and just arched his hand casually, "Mr. Shen, please." ”

Pi You became excited and clapped his hands, "Bugs, are you still an eagle catching chickens?" ”

I calculated in my heart that this well just defeated Sasaki is obviously a Japanese Tang hand technique, this Tang hand has been continuously studied by Japanese martial artists, integrating Chinese martial arts, judo, kendo and other techniques, there are kicks, hits, falls, takes, throws, locks, twists, splits, slashes and a variety of take-off and tumbling and other technical movements and methods, emphasizing one-hit killing.

Fang Cai bullied Sasaki at this well, and after the blow was sure to hit, he still did not let go, punched and kicked Sasaki, extremely insulting, completely ignoring the morality of martial arts, the Chinese competition and competition emphasized "stopping the fight", and the Japanese Tang hand also advocated the spirit of "stopping inches", which boiled down to the point and stop.

Today we must teach the well some lessons, telling him that there are people outside the sky, and there are people outside the world.

Thinking of this, I smiled and said to Inobe, "I used to fight Sasaki with a mud step, and today I have to rely on this mud step to fight Mr. Inobe." As long as Mr. Inobe can catch me, I will lose. ”

The well snorted coldly: "I don't know what I can do." "And the deceit came upon me.

I walked the mud step again, dodged diagonally, and slapped the back of the head by the well with my hand, and Piyu and Tomoko laughed when they saw it, and the samurai couldn't help but laugh.

I was deliberately provoking the well, and the well was really angry, and turned around and pounced on me again, but the mud step was not something that this clown could understand, and I changed my body again, and just went to the back of the well's head, and slapped me again.

Initially, against Sasaki, it was just a game, so I didn't attack him, but this contest I had the intention of teaching some lessons to the well, so every time I changed my body, I saw the opportunity to slap him, although the blow was not heavy, but it still made the well lose face in front of the samurai.

An angry lion had become by the well, with teeth and claws, but helpless.

Suddenly, Jing Bian jumped to the side and shouted: "Your Excellency is just relying on clever footwork to flash and move, I admire your footwork, but until now there is no fist and foot confrontation between you and me, I still don't accept it." If you come and catch me, you won't be able to catch me. ”

I laughed, "Not necessarily. ”

"Then try." After that, I set up a posture by the well, waiting for me to catch him, but I didn't move at all, so I took out my slingshot and shouted, "Mr. Well, you can run and try." ”

Well's face changed dramatically, he had seen my slingshot, and he would hit it with one hit, and it was not easy to dodge the marbles that were as fast as a meteor.

The well said angrily: "Carving insect skills, today I will fight to beat you down with a few marbles." ”

According to the well's idea, I can deceive myself in front of me by eating a few marbles, and when the time comes, I will have a chance of winning in hand-to-hand combat. Thinking of this, he hurried over.

I wanted to scare the well away, but I didn't think that this guy would attack even if he was hit by a few marbles, so he had to go. A marble shot out and hit him in the head, making a "dang" sound.

The hearts of all the people present trembled, and they really couldn't bear the pain. The well endured severe pain, went crazy, did not dodge or dodge, and attacked me.

I leaned over and dodged to my side, and another marble shot at me.

The well pounced left and right, trying to get close to me in hand-to-hand combat, but I ran the mud step without giving him this opportunity, and at the same time shot out the marbles one by one, hitting the rigid head.

In this way, it became a situation where I was caught everywhere by the well.

Jingbian shouted: "Your Excellency is a Chinese, the skill of escaping is really good, faster than the Beiyang Navy back then, this is no wonder, your emperor and empress dowager are also experts in escaping, admire and admire." ”

The well suddenly mentioned the First Sino-Japanese War, when several ships escaped, losing face to the navy, and when the Eight-Nation Coalition entered Beijing, the emperor and the empress dowager fled to the ancient capital of Chang'an.

Today, when the well suddenly said this, my heart was cold, it turned out that the Chinese were so unbearable in the hearts of these foreigners by the well, even the Japanese with the same yellow skin and black eyes also looked down on the Chinese.

When my father and Anne fled to Japan with me, the ship passed through the Kanmon Strait.

The Kanmon Strait is so narrow that it is impossible to mark it on a map, and many people look at a map of Japan and think that the islands of Honshu and Kyushu are connected. When I zoomed in on the map, I found that there was a very narrow strait between the two islands. How narrow is it? The narrowest point is 700 meters.

For such an important strait, the name "Guanmen" is very simple, there is Shimonoseki City on the north shore, take its word "Guan", and there is Moji Port on the south bank, there is a "gate", which together is called Guanmen.

There is a city in the area of Xiaguan called Maguan. When my father heard this name, he insisted on abandoning the boat and landing on the shore, and asked around about a place - when Lord Li Zhangtong signed a contract with Japan, he finally stopped in front of a three-story yellow building, this small building is called Chunfan Building, facing the Guanmen Strait, climbing the building and looking into the distance, it can be seen that thousands of merchants are gathered, and the sail shadow is dotted.

When we arrived, the Chunfan Building was still the scene when the contract was signed, it was not a very big room, a round table, and several chairs had filled the space of the house.

The shopkeeper enthusiastically introduced the situation of the year, pointed to each chair one by one, and said humorously: "Back then, there was a big man's butt sitting on every chair, you see that seat was the Japanese Prime Minister Itten Hirobumi, and the opposite one was the ...... of Lord Li of the Qing Empire."

My father's face was watery, he wrung his eyebrows, tears filled his eyes, he didn't blink, trying not to let the tears fall, his hand took mine, I felt his hand clenched, I felt a little pain.

When I was young, I just felt my father feel a little sad, broke free from his hand, climbed onto the shortest chair and said to my father, "Dad, when I grow up, I will also be a big person, and I can sit in such a chair, the height is just right." ”

Unexpectedly, my father suddenly became angry and pulled me down from the chair with a hand, "Bastard, you remember for me, you are Chinese, never sit on this chair with sawn legs off." ”

Later, I learned that the chair whose legs were sawed off was the same chair that Mr. Li had signed the contract with back then.

When the head of a country negotiates with other countries, he has to sit on an inferior chair, and he has no dignity, let alone those ordinary Chinese people.

At this time, I am facing the humiliation at the well, and I don't know how many people in my home country face the same humiliation.

My mind flashed, and I seemed to understand why Mr. Wood talked about why a Chinese boy with the surname Zhan traveled to the United States at such a young age.

Knowing that General Deng was in the waves of the Yellow Sea, seeing that there was no hope of victory, he rammed the ship into the Japanese flagship and sacrificed his life to die.

understood that Tan Junji walked heroically to the execution ground, shouted "Death is where it is, hurry up", and finally drew the knife into a fast.

understood that the hero Wang Zhengyi faced the guns of the coalition army, and he had no skills, but he only ended up separating the corpse.

I also understood that my father angrily denounced Li Zhangtong as Qin Hui was sent to the prison, although he fled overseas, he still wanted to return to the motherland.

Even the man who had made a vow to "never do anything for life" refused to board the dock when he returned from a visit to the United States and changed ships via Japan, so they had to put a wooden plank between the two ships. This is also Lord Li's last stubbornness.

In fact, there are actually only two words behind all this: humiliation.

The humiliation of losing the war, the humiliation of the broken mountains and rivers, the humiliation of having no way to save the country, and the humiliation of being unable to return to heaven ...... humiliation is the humiliation imprinted on the hearts of every Chinese by Westerners and Orientals with guns, and the humiliation that cannot be shaken off by any Chinese flowing with Yanhuang blood.

Even if I am Australian, even if I am of mixed Chinese and British descent, I only have half Chinese blood. But in the minds of this well, it is also the Chinese who can only escape, and they can throw their dignity on the ground at any time and trample on it wantonly.

Thinking of this, a wave of anger rose from my heart, and I said loudly: "Okay, wellside, since you don't accept it, then I won't run away, let's have a dignified duel!" ”