The hunchbacked old man hadn't heard this sound for a long time, and he didn't feel a little familiar, and when he raised his eyes, he was shocked into a cold sweat. After being stunned for a moment, he immediately became flattering:

"Oh, it turned out to be Zhang Gongzi, it's been a long time, and you're also here to compete?"

As he spoke, he hurriedly rolled out the booklet, picked up a pen and prepared to write Zhang Wenliang's name on the straw paper, Zhang Wenliang said unhurriedly:

"Write Li Changyuan, remember my friend's quota, and he will come to the competition tomorrow."

The pen turned sharply for half a circle, and Li Changyuan's name was written.

After arranging things, Zhang Wenliang asked Li Changyuan to go around, saying that he still had some personal matters to deal with, and it was inconvenient to go with Li Changyuan. After saying that, Zhang Wenliang walked into an alley and cut off Li Changyuan's gaze at the corner.

Li Changyuan didn't secretly chase after him to check, obviously feeling that something was wrong, but after all, the other party had the heart to help him, and if he had any reason to blame and suspect him, it would be a little off.

"Hey, this little brother."

Seeing that Zhang Wenliang hurriedly walked away without a trace, and Li Changyuan was about to go shopping elsewhere, he turned around, and the hunchbacked old man greeted him and stopped him.

When I turned around, I saw the old man smiling:

"Hehe, nothing else, I just want to ask curiously, is the little brother Zhang Gongzi's cousin?"

"It's not."

"Oh, that's fine, I hope I'll forgive me for a lot of chatter."

After saying that, he no longer had a good face, and immediately put back his face and put away the register and other written papers on his desktop.

Look at this guy...... There was a kind of displeasure that came to Li Changyuan's heart,

It's nothing more than snobbery, right?

I didn't care much about it, and most of the people who came here liked money and power, and if they didn't have status, they were nothing.

I went to wander around, the town here is so lively, but unfortunately I don't have a penny on me, and I can only look at a lot of stalls with the novelties I want. Regardless of the flattery of the vendors, Li Changyuan didn't want to make a fool of himself when he picked his pockets, so he could only smile and wave his hands and shake his head in the face of those people.

After walking around for half an hour, I returned to the inn.

When I went upstairs, in the tea hall on the first floor, there was a little episode -

There was a guest who seemed to have no money to pay, and was arguing with Xiao Er and the shopkeeper, watching the shopkeeper quarrel with the diner to the point of red-facedness, and the shopkeeper yelled the most, that is, let him pay for it.

"Don't talk about those who don't, which of us here dares to eat white food, and if we don't have money, we will go to the back kitchen to wash dishes!"

"Huh? What is your status, and you deserve me to wash your dishes!? ”

"A pot of peak clouds, five taels of zero, I don't tell you more, give the capital eight taels of silver, and let you go immediately!"

"What kind of fart, just your peak clouds, the tea leaves stepped on with your dog's legs are more authentic than yours, are you embarrassed to ask for eight taels of silver?"

"Hey? What kind of mouth do you have, you can't taste it!? ”

The surrounding diners didn't think it was a big deal to see the excitement, and they were whispering:

"The son of a rich family, he can afford to drink peak cloud tea."

"Where there is money, I think it's a mouthpiece."

"It is estimated that the shopkeeper is about to beckon the guy to get on the stick."

"Isn't it?"

“……”

Li Changyuan didn't look at it for long, and felt a little tired, these two people were talking back and forth, and they didn't know how long they would fight. Tired, walked over to borrow a way, Li Changyuan wanted to go upstairs and go back to the room to rest.

Only then did he break the place from the crowd, and the front foot stepped up the stairs, and before the back foot went up, he only heard the noisy voice of Fang Cai coming towards him:

"Eh, big brother! It's been a long time, it's you! ”

The shopkeeper saw that this was not ......

Li Changyuan felt bad, and glared at him very unhappily, a young man in his twenties and thirties called a little boy who seemed to be only twelve or thirteen years old as a big brother, I was really afraid that he would not be laughed at?

"If you want to find a fight, just say it."

Li Changyuan's eyes were full of anger, he turned his head with a sentence, he ignored everything, and walked upstairs by himself.

"Uh......"

The people around him, including the shopkeeper, and the diner who shouted at Li Changyuan to make up a ridiculous reason to get out of the way, everyone present looked confused.

Is this little boy so bold?

After going upstairs, the quiet downstairs guest hall, the sound of discussion and noise gradually changed from small to loud, and soon became lively.

Without Li Changyuan's knowledge, something spread before yesterday:

It is rumored that Zhang Gongzi has a good friend, I don't know if it is a relative friend or a close friend, many people see Zhang Gongzi taking great care of the very young boy, and outsiders see that Zhang Gongzi is kind and smiling to the little boy.

You say, it's nothing to provoke a little fart, but if you say, there will be revenge from Zhang Wenliang's sinister hypocrite later...... no one who understands will be stupid to that point.

Only Li Changyuan still doesn't know Zhang Wenliang's true face.

In the evening, Zhang Wenliang came back from outside, looking happy. When he came back, he also brought Li Changyuan some packed street food, sweets, drinks, barbecue, everything available.

That night, Li Changyuan was addicted to eating and was very happy and satisfied.

Li Changyuan also noticed that Zhang Wenliang inexplicably, looking at the way he ate, he would also show a natural smile. But Li Changyuan can feel that his smile is natural, and it has nothing to do with the pleasure of eating, speaking of which, after going to the venue at noon today to register, he went to hang out by himself, what did Zhang Wenliang do in the alley and street that is better than you?

‘……’

Li Changyuan was a little concerned, but he didn't open his mouth to ask.

The two slept in separate rooms, and at night, the lights in the room were not turned off, and the more Li Changyuan thought about it, the more curious he became.

'What is there, is there his house?' ’

'No, he's like a rich boy, how can he live there......

'Why don't you go there now?' ’

Such thoughts echoed in Li Changyuan's mind, and all kinds of strange speculations popped up, constantly urging curiosity, asking Li Changyuan to get out of bed and clean up and go to an alley over there to find out.

'Stop, stop, stop!' …… It's time to go to bed, and we'll have a joust tomorrow......

‘……’

Giving himself an order, Li Changyuan rubbed his face vigorously with both hands, then buried his head in the sheet and fell asleep.

In the middle of the night, I still didn't hold back......

There was no sound of insects chirping in the distance, only the gong that beat the watchman could find the direction.

Boom! ~

Boom! ~

Boom! ~

"Air dry! - Watch out for the candles! ——”

At this time, ordinary people turned off their lights and fell asleep, and there was no bright fire on the whole street. Only the kerosene street lamps hanging from the wooden stakes on the side of the road shone a little.

In those alleys, I did hear some news,

Not a good thing......

That night, Li Changyuan went to go back quickly, and between dawn, he pretended to sleep sweetly for a night, and when Zhang Wenliang came to knock on the door and shouted to get up, Li Changyuan got up from the bed with his eyes open.

"Hah, it's so early."

The slightly lazy performance did not let Zhang Wenliang notice anything wrong, and Li Changyuan deliberately did not look at Zhang Wenliang, for fear that the other party would see clearly the bloodshot in his eyes that he had not slept enough.

"It's past the fifth watch, hurry up and get ready to compete."

Zhang Wenliang urged.

What's so unusual today?

That's right, after today, he has no use value for Zhang Wenliang. Li Changyuan was glad that he went to that alley last night because of curiosity, and saw some things, gray things, and he didn't have any good feelings, and he probably knew Zhang Wenliang's abacus.

No one will be inexplicably good to themselves, some time ago it was pig breeding, and now is the time to slaughter pigs, of course there will be no good face.

After going out, I walked a little way to the venue.

This is an open-air square, covering an area larger than the Iron Bull Sect, and it is no exaggeration to say that the stone slab ring in the center of the venue alone is half the size of the Iron Bull Sect. With a circle of auditoriums around, there is a 100-square-meter area.

Long before Li Changyuan and Zhang Wenliang came, there were many people here, of different sizes, and there were also many weak scholars, who were as poor as Zhang Gongzi, probably to see the play.

"Come on, just do your best."

Zhang Wenliang patted Li Changyuan's shoulder with a smile, and after speaking, he turned around and walked away, went to the audience behind him, and found a front seat to sit down.

There were no less than five or six hundred people present, and the seats at the front of the audience were arranged for the contestants, so that they could go on stage at any time. Matches are played in a round-robin system, where players can choose to rest or continue to play after defeating an opponent. Players who choose to rest on their own will be passively challenged by the referee or players on the field.

If there is a failure in a martial arts, even if they are eliminated, the name of the eliminated player will be erased from the register, and the reward will be arranged as early as possible according to the ranking. There will be no repechage matches, and there will be no latecomers who will pull up the rankings, and the players who have decided the rankings early will not be very high.

This is the rule of this martial arts meeting.

For the sake of fairness, there were two referees, one was an official from the county government, and the other was a hunchbacked old man who had registered for the competition. Saying......

"Who's that hunchbacked old uncle?"

Li Changyuan noticed it when he was sitting in the first circle, so he naturally whispered to his neighbor. The lean guy sitting next to him responded:

"You're new here, he doesn't know who he is, that hunchbacked old man is a local head snake, the head of the big landlord of the Ma family, and the officials can't afford to mess with him."

"The ...... of the ruler Ground snakes? ”

Li Changyuan seems to understand whether he understands or not.

At the beginning of the first game, the name of the person who was called to the ring began the one-on-one knockout round.

"The first one! Deng Rong and Tu Changxi are in place! ——”

Soon, two people went up, both of them were about the same physique, and they were both thin type players, so they couldn't see anything peculiar. Once the stance is in place, one with a one-handed sword and the other with a long stick.

"Let's go!"

The referee gave an order, and the competition was about to start.

The jingle bell rang for a while, and the two on the field were inseparable,...... It's just that it looks like this, the layman looks at the excitement, and what he sees in Li Changyuan's eyes, there is no way, it's just two little ghosts playing with weapons.

In the past, in the Iron Bull Sect, the library pavilion was the bedroom of the master, and ordinary disciples did not have the right to enter the bedroom of the master, so they could only learn the Iron Bull Fist passed down by the bald elder. But Li Changyuan is different, after he is proficient in Iron Bull Boxing, he personally subdued the head and went to the head of the bedroom to turn around.

During this period, I saw a lot of martial arts books, but unfortunately, those are all fragments, and the martial arts of one and a half moves are not successful after learning. It's like this, but the weapons, the most basic moves, and the postures associated with martial arts are all the same.

In this way, the flower shelf on this stage ...... Li Changyuan thought it was very funny.

"In the first game, Tu Chang was overjoyed! ——”

The winner was soon decided, and everyone in the audience applauded.

"Wonderful!"

"Well played!"

"Not bad, Tu Changxi's stick method is one in a hundred."

After a while, the referee raised his hand to signal silence, and the next sentence:

"The second one! Li Changyuan, Wang Fengyang! ——”

The referee who shouted was a junior official from the county government, and the hunchbacked old man was sitting at the table behind him, with his legs crossed, trembling as if he was suffering from epilepsy, watching the play without saying a word, and the melon seeds clicked at the corners of his mouth.

Li Changyuan frowned.

‘…… It's fast. ’