The sleeping child was holding a dead man, Liu Fengmian just took over, there was a gap with his expectations, and he was almost crushed, but when he just stabilized, he was so shocked by Zheng Quqi's words that he almost fell.

"Brother, brother and sister, what are you talking about?!"

Zheng Quqi didn't even think to appease his frightened emotions, and the person had already walked towards the densest crowd and shouting and hustle and bustle.

"Brother and sister, ......"

Liu Fengmian was startled and anxious, and hurriedly ran up the child and followed her, but his body was bulky, and he had to avoid the flow of people, twisting left and west, and soon separated from Zheng Quqi for a considerable distance, seeing that he couldn't catch up, he was angry with others: "Didn't you see me holding the child?" Let one go, let one go. ”

The people around him were stunned by his sudden angry reprimand, and when they saw that he was unspeakably expensive, holding a child and chasing a woman bitterly, they immediately "understood".

The young master of a merchant family squeezed his eyebrows at him and said, "This Langjun, your lady ran away?" ”

Wife?

Lady, you are big, didn't you hear him shouting brother and sister just now? Aren't these people all a pile of scrap in their heads?

"......" Liu Fengmian rolled his eyes at him very elegantly, he was self-assured and noble, and he didn't want to explain nonsense with strangers, so he only said vaguely: "Uh, ah, let me make trouble." ”

The young master gave way with a big belly, and he glanced ahead: "Okay, but your lady, why does it seem that you are going to the ring?" ”

"She's really up?!"

The location of Liu Fengmian was just in the blind spot of his vision, and when he heard someone say this, he was shocked.

The young master was not mistaken, he immediately looked disapproving: "Huh? Why did your lady run up, isn't this nonsense? ”

"You're just messing around!" Liu Fengmian said angrily.

The other party was stunned, and then said angrily: "It's really kind to be a donkey's liver and lungs, today's swing is Ao Qi, he is a short-tempered guy, if your wife wants to go up and make trouble, he doesn't care if the other party is a man or a woman, he will do it directly!" ”

"Really?!" Liu Fengmian was stunned, and then stopped chatting with this person, and quickly squeezed away the blocked flow of people and ran over.

But suddenly his eyes were flashed by a bright light, he subconsciously looked to the side, and then seemed to see something that he cared about very much, so that he couldn't even care about the situation on Zheng Quqi's side, and chased after the child directly, and the person disappeared behind the curtain of the porch door......

It didn't take long for Liu Fengmian to walk out again, holding his sleeping sister, and the fat-headed and big-eared merchant young master saw him and said strangely: "Huh? Where have you just been, your lady is arguing with that Aoqi now, you should hurry up and pull the person down. ”

Liu Fengmian glanced at him, and at that glance, the inexplicable young master of the merchant was a little stunned, but the next second, he smiled again: "I can't pull it down, but I have to look at her, so as not to be bullied by some stupid people." ”

"Huh?"

No, who is stupid, the fight on this gold stage is all to elevate his status, win a good reputation, and "sell" himself at a good price.

At this end, Zheng Quqi waited for the champion to defeat an aspiring young man, and then hurriedly took advantage of the gap time to come to power.

At this time, the people in the audience were still discussing the excitement of Fang Cai, but the next second, they saw a woman dressed as a noble lady in the ring.

Immediately, someone shouted below: "This lady, you have gone to the wrong place, the ring is a place for competition, you have to choose craftsmen to make furniture, you have to come down to the steward and negotiate the price with them privately." ”

"Why is there a woman on stage?"

"It's a mistake."

"Can't you see the dart flag hanging on the stage?"

Zheng Quqi turned a deaf ear to the sounds around her, and she walked straight up to a man sitting in a rocking chair fiddling with a carved wooden sparrow.

She asked, "Are you the champion?" ”

When he heard this, he raised his eyelids and glanced at her, if he had been before, he would have scolded people away with a mouthful of feces, but this sister-in-law, no, looking at her dressing up, she should be married, this dress is worth a lot of money, he deliberately endured his temper and said: "Madame went to the wrong place, this is a place to put on display, not a place to ask for a price, who do you like, you should go down to the steward to discuss." ”

Zheng Quqi said: "I'm not wrong, I'm here to fight." ”

When Ao Qi heard this, he first plucked out his ears as if he had heard it wrong, and then when he saw her serious, he patted his thigh and laughed: "Madam, this is not the occasion of your daughter's house, you better leave quickly, don't make trouble for me here." ”

He gave her the steps, but Zheng Quqi didn't get off the donkey down the slope, and she even asked provocatively: "Don't you dare to compare?" ”

Ao Qi immediately smiled, got up and said angrily: "You are looking for death, come to me to make trouble, I Ao Qi is not interested in any man who does not beat women, if you provoke me, I can beat anyone!" ”

Zheng Quqi was sometimes really annoyed by their arrogant and despised women, so she didn't discuss it with him, went straight to the gong, took out the wooden hammer wrapped in red cloth and struck it hard.

"Knock~"

As soon as the gong sounded, the contest began.

"Stage 17, the Lord is on the fight."

Tall, a steward overseeing the affairs of the hall heard a loud shout.

This is the rule of the Golden Terrace, there are eighteen seats, there are eighteen auxiliary rooms, the hall is a hundred work competition, the wing room is a civil and military test, and there are rules and restrictions on the Tao, which restricts all the people who enter the Golden Stage.

For example, if the gong is struck in the challenge, the champion must participate in the competition, which is the rule that the champion of the golden platform must abide by.

Ao Qi glared at Zheng Quqi viciously, and when he saw that she had made up his mind, he also rolled up his sleeves: "Okay, you have to compare, if you lose in a while, Lao Tzu will tell you to fly down." ”

"This little lady is really here to compete?"

"Isn't this a gong? Look at the appearance of a rich and noble family, why did she come to compete with craftsmen, isn't it that she is idle at home and makes a special trip to have fun? ”

"Don't laugh at the dead, still take the lead, I guess she just had a good time and deliberately went to the ring to have fun, but she was unlucky, she met Aoqi, that guy was very grumpy, if she couldn't show some skills when she stood on the stage for a while, maybe Aoqi would really do it."

The noisy voices in the audience were full of gossip, all of whom were not optimistic about Zheng Quqi and the people who shouted for her to step down.

What they want to watch is a wonderful matchup, not this kind of uninteresting farce, she is a woman who runs to the ring to challenge, and it sounds ridiculous.

Zheng Quqi's ears were filled with all kinds of foul language, but her expression was still flat, she has been encountering this kind of thing recently, what can she do?

She curled the corners of her mouth, and the red lantern hanging in the hall reflected on her face, revealing a pink red, and she said, "If you have the ability." ”

As soon as Ao Qi stood up, compared to Zheng Quqi's short and delicate, his tall momentum was immediately revealed.

"I am the main ring, then I guard the door has three, one for the screening of wood, two for the cutting of the same specific gravity of the wood, three for the fine splicing."

The champion of the golden platform, you can freely choose three of the "seven doors" to guard the ring, the "seven doors" is the content of the competition customized by the golden platform, one is a project, the entry of the skill category, one is fine and one is dry, and the champion naturally enjoys the right of first choice.

After Zheng Quqi listened, he was a little stunned.

"How are these three evaluated?"

"One is more knowledgeable and more recognizable than anyone else."

"The second door, the accuracy of the ratio, is evaluated by the supervisor to win or lose."

"The three doors are faster and more complete, and everyone can be present as proof."

After Zheng Quqi listened, he sighed softly: "Okay." ”

It turned out that the competition in the hall was such a simple level of competition, and she suddenly had a feeling of bullying the small.

When Ao Qi saw the sighing appearance, he thought that he had stumped her, so he sneered: "Scared? If you're afraid, get out of here. ”

Zheng Quqi looks at the other party now, as if he is looking at a bear child, and he just wants to teach him a casual lesson, telling him to try to be a low-key person in the future.

"Come on."

Since she insisted on comparing, Ao Qi was not polite: "Put things on the table." ”

There was a special servant at the bottom who was in charge of the affairs of the ring, and when they heard the summons, they carried a dozen logs in cages to the ring.

"There are more than a dozen pieces of wood in here, all of which are strange trees found by Jintai from famous places, which are rare in the market, please start with the two of you."

Ao Qi was full of confidence at this time, he was familiar with most of the wood in the cage, after all, he had compared this door twice, just as he was about to speak, he heard the other party pointing to this pile of wood, and said in one breath: "Yellow sandalwood, small leaf red bean, ebony wood, Jinlan wood, ......"

She reported the names of more than a dozen kinds of wood in one go, and without pause, Ao Qi was stunned from doubt, doubt, and shock.

These woods are not the usual willows, pears, pines, etc., these are all purchased by the people of Jinjintai from far away, or some places in the steep mountains and forests, and most of the carpenters have never even heard of it.

Oaky too, he only recognized a few of them, and the rest of the wood varieties, he had never heard of.

But as far as he recognized, the other party had already said it accurately......

"Yes, right?" He looked at the supervisor of the Golden Terrace with a trembling face, and the other party was obviously frightened, and was stunned for a long time before nodding heavily: "Although the names of several wood materials are different, they are generally all right. ”

Ao Qi's face turned pale instantly: "Impossible, she, how did she know?" ”

The people below were also in an uproar and discussed one after another, obviously these people did not expect that there would be such a dramatic reversal of polar things.

Zheng Quqi now just wanted to go up to the third floor as soon as possible, she ignored the gossip around her, and only urged: "Don't waste time, continue." ”

Ao Qi's heart was full of confusion and speculation at the moment, he tried to comfort himself, maybe it was because the rich and noble people read a lot of books, and they had the opportunity to be taught by famous teachers, so they could be so well-informed and heard things that people didn't know, but then, it was a manual practice, but she couldn't allow her to cheat and play tricks.

"Go on, go on, you won't have such good luck in this door!"

The supervisor ordered the little guy to put the things to be tested on the stage.

"Here are two pieces of wood, which you cut evenly into the flattest strips of the same size, without any curved rulers, and ten strips of wood for one piece of wood."

At this time, the people in the audience began to introduce to the people who had just come next to him: "This test is the work of the hands, the hard work is tight, and the carpenter's proficiency in the control of wood, this is what Ao Qi is best at, I don't know how many people have lost in his hands before, look at the appearance of this lady's thin arms and legs, I will definitely not be able to pull the saw a few times, and I will not have the strength to give up." ”

"Yes, I've seen several people challenge and lose this door today."

"He's been on guard for three days, and it's estimated that he will be eligible to be promoted to the second floor tomorrow."

"This one goes up to the second floor, and the value has doubled directly, but I really envy me for waiting."

Zheng Quqi also heard what the people below were talking about, she looked at Ao Qi with a smug face, and asked, "You are best at this?" ”

"What, you're scared?" Oaky said contemptuously and arrogantly.

Zheng Quqi: "......, you really don't have any words, right?"

"Let's get started."

She picked up the handsaw, picked one of the two pieces of wood, the length of her arm, the width of her palm, and she first weighed the approximate weight of the piece of wood in her hand.

This is the feeling that experienced carpenters will have, but Zheng Quqi is a little cheating, and she still has a set of precise and scientific calculations in her head.

Her bright eyes first assessed the wood, and then began to find the middle point saw.

This is a very common dividing method, which divides one into two, two into four, and four into eight...... First sawing the board, then sawing blocks, slitting, pulling and pushing back and forth repeatedly sawing, the noisy sawing sound is not obvious in the hall, after all, the hall is full of people, each has its own lively place.

After she finished sawing the long wood, she sharpened it to the right size with an axe, but since she didn't have any tools to assist in straightening the length, it was all up to her feel and eyesight, and she had no regrets.

Zheng Quqi's speed and strength are very particular, first slow and then fast, simple and decisive, accurate and in place.

On the other side, Oak was sawing wood vigorously while observing the other side.

But seeing that the speed of the other party's sawing and the number of wood strips cut were not inferior to his own, he was anxious, how could this person be like this, it was completely fraud, she was obviously a delicate woman, how did she get so much strength?

Not to mention him, the people in the audience originally thought that this lady with fine skin and tender flesh would definitely sink into the sand at this level and be defeated like water, but they never expected that she had no sign of defeat at all, and she was on par with Aoqi.

Isn't this strange, this is really the most interesting and surprising thing that has happened to the Golden Terrace in recent years.

Ozy stepped up his pace, his accuracy in cutting wood came from experience, and he had been able to estimate the pound and inch accurately since he was a child.

But this does not mean that this is very simple for him, because these woods are not only different in shape, but also different in hardness and ruggedness, and each time it is a new attempt, and it is also a great test of his skill to obtain a stick of the same size and length from a large piece of wood, without the need for a ruler tool.

After about a pillar of incense, both of them finished cutting and obtained ten sticks of wood each.

These twenty wooden strips, at first glance, are almost the same, and they cannot be accurately assessed by the naked eye, which also requires the people of the golden platform to weigh and measure the scale, and then return to the ring to inform the results after the results are obtained.

(End of chapter)