Let's say that Yuan Lang and others brought back the news, saying that Duanjiazhuang in Huangnigang was in the ring, and Duan Sanniang wanted to compete in martial arts to recruit relatives. This Sanniang looks better than a fairy, and she is a well-known beauty. Since you want to compete in martial arts to recruit relatives, of course, there must be conditions for the heroes and heroes who come to fight, one is between fifteen and thirty years old, and the other is that the people who fight must be dignified, handsome and chic, otherwise any crooked melons and cracked dates will come to fight, in case Sanniang loses and marries an ugly man, then don't flowers be inserted into cow dung?

In fact, Duan Sanniang's post that she wanted to compete with her relatives had been scattered everywhere as early as a year ago, but at that time, Zhao Chongyang and they had already gone to Jiangnan and did not hear the news, and Yuan Lang and they went around delivering goods or pulling ores to Anpeng, and they barely had much time to stay in Nanyang. Only Qian Xiaoan stayed in Tongbai County at the time and heard this little news, but he didn't pay attention to it, and then forgot about it. Now, hearing the news, Qian Xiaoan also remembered that there was indeed such a thing.

And the news that Yuan Lang brought back this time was very detailed, because he hoped that his younger brother Yuan Kai could go to the fight and marry Duan Sanniang, who was like a flower and jade, as his wife. The specific news is: The competition has been going on for seven days, and the time stipulated by the Duan family is fifteen days. If Duan Sanniang has not chosen Ruyi Langjun within fifteen days, Duan Taigong will marry him to Wang Qing as his wife. Because, last year, Wang Qing sent a matchmaker to come together and wanted to marry Sanniang as his wife. At that time, there were already five women around Wang Qing at this time. But he just treats these women as concubines, and has always wanted to marry a beautiful woman from a big family as a formal wife. In order to use the power of these big families to strengthen his own power.

It just so happens that Duan Sanniang's family has this situation. The ancestors of the Duan family were born in the green forest, and later built a village in the wilderness far away from Nanyang, Xiangyang and other busy cities, which also has the nature of half people and half bandits, which is very suitable for Wang Qing to cooperate with this kind of green forest giant. The Duan family has operated in the Huangnigang area for four generations, and has also become the largest number of powerful families in Xiangyang Prefecture. In addition to the main village in the middle of Huangnigang, the Duan family also built four branches around Huangnigang, each of which has more than 1,000 people, plus the thousands of people in the main courtyard, at least 10,000 tenants and employees for his family every year. In addition, the Duan family had its own caravan, which was brought out by Duan Da and Duan Er every year to sell ironware, illicit salt, tea, silk, and porcelain. Therefore, the money accumulated by the Duan family is innumerable.

And Duan Taigong actually agreed to Sanniang to set up a martial arts competition to recruit relatives this time, also to find a good son-in-law in this troubled era, so as to consolidate and strengthen the power of the Duan family. Duan Taigong is still very confident in their Duan family's family martial arts, Duan Da, Duan Er, Duan Wu and Sanniang have practiced martial arts since childhood, and Sanniang has the highest understanding and the best martial arts. When she grew up, not only Duan Da and Duan Er were not her opponents, but even Duan Taigong couldn't beat her. The martial arts teacher hired by Zhuang Li couldn't win at first, and after a while, after Sanniang learned their moves, those martial arts instructors were not her opponents. Therefore, Duan Taigong believes that the young heroes who can really win against Sanniang in the ring can be called masters in the rivers and lakes.

Based on the above thoughts, Duan Taigong said very tactfully to the person sent by Wang Qing to propose marriage: "The old man is only one daughter, it is inevitable that he is a little pampered, a few days ago he promised her to compete in martial arts, anyway, she is not bad, and her vision is also high, after she failed in the competition to recruit relatives, she naturally allowed Wang Yingying, and then the old man personally brought her to Huaixi and married Wang Yingying......

Originally, such an ordinary martial arts competition should not have attracted Zhao Chongyang's attention, but now I heard that if Sanniang can't choose her favorite Langjun, she will marry Wang Qing. I was a little unhappy in my heart. He knew that in another time and space, it was because Duan Taigong married Duan Sanniang to Wang Qing, Wang Qing used the Duan family's manpower and financial resources to recruit troops and horses, raise the flag and rebel, although the Duan family was prosperous for a few years, but in the end, it brought the Duan family into a state of no return, and let Duan Sanniang, a generation of heroines, die of hatred. Therefore, Zhao Chongyang decided to take Fang Tianjie, Qian Xiaoan, Lu Fang, Guo Sheng and others to fight, and let Fang Tianjie win Duan Sanniang, so as to pull the Duan family into their camp.

Thinking of this, on the night of Yuan Lang's return, Zhao Chongyang summoned Hu Tianxiong, Yuan Lang, Fang Tianjie, Qian Xiaoan, Lu Fang and others to a meeting to discuss the matter in detail.

Zhao Chongyang told everyone what Yuan Lang had brought back and his thoughts, and when everyone heard that there was such a good thing, Lu Fang and Guo Sheng were eager to try, and they also said their own thoughts. In the end, Zhao Chongyang said: "Please don't ignore these two issues: one is that the person who fights must be handsome, because Duan Sanniang is a big beauty, and people who are too ugly can't play at all." The second is that Duan Sanniang's martial arts are outstanding, and people who are not good at martial arts go in vain, and they are kicked out of the ring by a woman with three punches and two kicks. As far as martial arts are concerned, only the martial arts of Brother Yuan and Tianjie can match Sanniang. Brother Yuan has already got married, so only Tianjie has hope of winning. Although the two elder brothers Lu Fang and Guo Sheng are good-looking, they will definitely not be able to beat Sanniang in martial arts. In addition, Yuan Kai's second brother is also good-looking, but his kung fu is at the same level as Lu Guo's, and most of them can't win. Brother Xiao An's kung fu is mainly small and fighting, he can only keep undefeated, and it is difficult to win, plus Brother Xiao An is thin and small, he is really not handsome, and he is not the best candidate. In addition, Second Brother Wu and Brother Shi are also candidates for fighting. Of course, this is just my own analysis. You don't believe it, after you arrive at Duanjiazhuang, you can sign up first, and Tianjie will sign up the next day, if any of you are selected first, Tianjie will not need to sign up. Whoever is selected, the dowry will be paid by me on your behalf, not everyone can get tens of thousands of dowries at once, only the Hu family and Tianjie and their Fang family can get it. ”

In the early morning of the next day, Zhao Chongyang took Fang Tianjie, Lu Fang, Guo Sheng, Gong Wang, Qian Xiaoan and other young heroes, under the protection of forty guards, to advance in the direction of Huangnigang. A group of forty-six riders set off with only a small amount of luggage. More than 80 miles of road, only two hours to reach the boundary of Huangnigang.

Huangnigang is located next to the official road from Zhushan and Fangxian to Xiangyang, and the official road from Gucheng to Baokang in the south also intersects with this east-west traffic artery, so the Duan family built a village here, which is the unique geographical location here. It is more than 60 miles away from Baokang, 70 miles away from Gucheng, 84 miles away from Xiangyang, and more than 110 miles away from Fang County. Therefore, the Duan family built guest rooms in the village for merchants from the south to the north to stay.

After walking for a few minutes on Huangnigang, Zhao Chongyang estimated that Duanjiazhuang should be almost there, and when he saw that there were farmers working in the field in front of him, he asked Qian Xiaoan to get off the horse and inquire about the specific location of Duanjiazhuang. Qian Xiaoan walked up to a farmer in his forties and asked, "Uncle, how far is this from the Duan family's village?" ”

The peasant said, "There are still more than ten miles away." See, not far from this uphill road is Dongzhuang, and Dongzhuang is the main village twelve miles past it. ”

Qian Xiaoan thanked him and told Zhao Chongyang what the old farmer said, and Zhao Chongyang ordered to move on. This uphill road is three or four hundred meters, and after walking, I came up to the high place of Gangzi, and sure enough, I saw a village not far in front, and there were two or three hundred families in the village. Zhao Chongyang thought, this is Dongzhai. They continued to beat their horses, and in a moment they were again in the woods. Zhao Chongyang saw a path leading to the depths of the woods, so he asked everyone to wait, saying that the person who was sent to explore the way in front had a carriage in the forest, and asked Qian Xiaoan to follow him to drive the carriage out.

Qian Xiaoan is the henchman of Zhao Chongyang's henchmen, Zhao Chongyang has some magical powers, and he has long been used to seeing it. The two entered the forest, and when they arrived at a place that everyone couldn't see, Zhao Chongyang conjured the carriage he was riding in from the system warehouse, Qian Xiaoan pushed it behind, Zhao Chongyang pulled it in front, and got the carriage out of the forest in a while. Qian Xiaoan put the carriage on the back, tied a horse to the back of the carriage, and waited for Zhao Chongyang to get into the carriage and sit down, he sat in front and drove the carriage forward......

Zhao Chongyang sat in the carriage and took out the dowry from the system warehouse and put it in the carriage. After a while, they came out of the forest, and not far in front of them, there was a road from north to south that intersected with the road they were walking, and Zhao Chongyang knew that this road was the official road for Gucheng to go south to Baokang. This official road is in the middle of Huangnigang. The terrain is slightly higher than that on both sides, and when you get here, the main village of Duanjiazhuang is already far away. It's a mile or two away at most.

Ten minutes later, they arrived at the main village of Duanjiazhuang. In fact, the scale of this family village is no less than that of a small county town. When they arrived at the front of the village, they dismounted, and a guest came forward to greet them and asked, "Are the guests here to fight or are they here to stay?" ”

Qian Xiaoan said: "We accompanied my father-in-law out to play, and I heard that you were fighting here, so he brought us here to fight." ”

"In that case, please come with me, find you a place to stay first, rest for a while, have something to eat, and after the afternoon begins, you can sign up." A banker said.

Around three o'clock in the afternoon, the ring competition began again. The first to line up, and the entry fee of 50 yuan paid by each person was registered. When registering, the person who registered said that if the young hero in front of him won Miss Duan Jiasan, the 50 yuan that did not play in the back would be refunded.

Lu Fang and Guo Sheng finally couldn't resist the temptation of the beauties, so they still lined up to sign up, and the money was naturally paid by Zhao Gongzi for them. Qian Xiaoan was knowledgeable and did not sign up for the fight. When registering, two ugly-looking strong men in front of Lu Fang were persuaded to leave, and one of them was not convinced and wanted to force the competition. As soon as he signed up, a strong man with a broad waist walked out of a room, looking at his age of only twenty-five or sixteen, with thick eyebrows and big eyes, although his figure was not particularly tall, but one leg was almost as thick as Qian Xiao'an's legs, and his arms were as thick as other people's thighs, and he was afraid that his weight was not 300 pounds.

I saw the man come over and shout, "Who is it who is going to forcibly beat you according to the rules?" If you want to fight, you will pass the level of the sprinkle family first. ”