There were still a few days before the start of school, Cheng Liu listened to Aunt Mei's introduction, and went to San Francisco's Chinatown alone the next day. Chinatown is the largest Chinese community in the western United States, and its customs are the same as those of old China.

Chengliu walked through it, and heard that the shouting and shouting were all in Chinese, and he felt that the pain of going to the country was a little less. He devoted his mind to browsing, trying not to think about Liu Nan, but the more he didn't want to, the more sad he felt when he saw pairs of pedestrians on the street. He thought, with such a result, why did he let himself know Liu Nan in the first place? He never blamed Liu Nan in his heart, without her, he would not have today's knowledge, he thanked Liu Nan for letting him jump out of a small well, and thanked her for letting her know that a person's life is not for others to live. A person is an individual, and his parents, friends, and environment are just pre-selected conditions for his own growth, and he can not choose at all. The thinking, insight, world view, and outlook on life in the environment are only your own reference, but not your own inevitable choice. She told herself that people can be friends with characters in history, companions with characters in novels, when their worldview is formed, they can refer to the giants of history, and when faced with a choice, they can ask the ancients. She said that the greatest sorrow of people is to fall into their own narrow world, and all their opinions come from the words of those around them. At this point, Cheng Liu has more knowledge than Liu Nan, he knows that most of the words of the people around him are false, and if he falls into it, he can only live in other people's opinions, and most of these views are worldly. Therefore, Chengliu can understand Liu Nan's thinking, she pursues freedom, and she will not be bound by the traditional concept of love, even if she sees one and loves the other, it is also her freedom.

While thinking about it, I heard the sound of gongs and drums in front of me, and many pedestrians rushed over there, and Cheng Liu also walked over with the crowd. In a square in the center of the street, a Chinese martial arts company advertised here. A pair of lion dancers jumped back and forth on the piles, attracting the applause of visitors. This kind of lion dance, Cheng stayed in Nanyue and often saw it, so he didn't feel the novelty, and turned his head and wanted to leave. At this time, a young man with a flyer stopped him and said in English: "This little brother, do you want to know about the Nanquan Martial Arts Gym?" Chinese Kung Fu? Cheng Liu looked at his appearance, black hair and yellow skin, he was a Chinese, but I didn't know how many generations of Chinese this was, I didn't know if he could still speak Chinese, so he tried in Chinese: "I want to learn." ”

When the little brother heard this, he was happy in his heart, and he also said in relatively unfamiliar Chinese: "Your Chinese is very authentic, just came to the United States." As he spoke, he gave Cheng Liu a flyer, and said, "There is no one-and-a-half trick in the United States, it is easy to be bullied by the old black, and the Chinese who come here will learn a few tricks." Those bully the weak and fear the hard, and if they make a few moves in front of them, they will run away in disgrace. ”

Cheng Liu looked at the leaflet in both Chinese and English and replied, "I just came to study abroad. ”

The guy said: "Then you should learn even more, school bullying is very common in the United States." ”

This is another guy coming over, but the martial arts hall costume he is wearing is different from the previous one, obviously from another martial arts hall. The man approached Cheng Liu's side and said, "Brother, don't be fooled, if you want to learn, come and learn Wing Chun, they are just some showmen." When the Nanquan guy saw that someone belittled his martial arts hall, he said angrily: "Wing Chun is a little child, and he dares to go wild here?" Hearing him roar, a few more Nanquan guys came over and scolded the Wing Chun brother.

When the Wing Chun guy saw that he was weak, he whistled, and several Wing Chun guys with leaflets in their hands surrounded him from all sides.

The red-clothed Nanquan guy said: "You Wing Chun just want to get along with us, right?" ”

The green-clothed Wing Chun guy said, "So what? Don't want to think about it, how do you slander us? ”

At this time, a few more young men wearing white martial arts hall costumes came over, and one of them said arrogantly: "Yohe, today the two major martial arts halls are actually making a big fuss for a disciple, wouldn't it make people laugh off their big teeth." ”

When Nanquan and Wing Chun heard this, they looked at each other angrily and said, "What do you have to do with it? ”

The white-clothed guy had the word Tai Chi written on his chest, and he turned out to be a disciple of the Tai Chi Martial Arts Gym, only to hear him smile and say: "You can recruit people, but we can't recruit Tai Chi Sect?" As he spoke, he said to Cheng Liu: "This master, Tai Chi is the authentic martial arts, overcoming rigidity with softness, and dialing thousands of catties in four or two, which can be compared with these small sects?" Enter my martial arts, and I will make you invincible in San Francisco. ”

Cheng Liu smiled and was about to answer, when the people of Nanquan and Wing Chun scolded one after another. At this time, there were more and more people, and Cheng Liu saw that there were still yellow Xingyi Boxing Gym and Hong Quan in black clothes around the crowd, and each of them had more than a dozen disciples, watching the quarrel of the three families on the sidelines, some were laughing, and some were arching the fire on the side.

At this time, a beautiful yellow woman in her twenties walked over with seven or eight people, these people dressed as students must also be international students from Asia. The woman was holding five flyers from different martial arts halls. When the people of Wing Chun, Nanquan, and Tai Chi saw it, they all thought that these people must have come to learn boxing with flyers in their hands, so they stopped scolding and introduced themselves to the martial arts hall with good words.

The disciples of the gym all quarreled about their temperaments, and they didn't ask if the woman was Chinese, so they thought that the woman was staying all the way with Chengliu, and they all introduced them with Chinese, who knew that the woman was not Chinese, only heard her say in English: "How many of us want to learn Chinese kung fu, I don't know which of you is the best?" ”

As soon as these words came out, it was Wang Po who sold melons and boasted about herself, and the disciples of the major martial arts companies introduced them one after another, and even Hong Quan and Xingyi Quan who were watching the battle also participated. talked for a long time, and didn't distinguish between high and low.

The woman waved her hand to signal everyone to stop and stay quiet, and the woman said: "You can't tell the winner from this quarrel, it's better for you to compete separately, and the final winning martial arts hall is our choice." ”

When the martial arts guys heard this, they all looked at each other, not knowing how to answer. Because the master is not there, the disciples dare not make decisions about this kind of big thing of setting the ring to determine the merits and disadvantages. Seeing everyone's hesitation, the woman continued, "We are willing to pay double the price." ”

No one in the martial arts hall still expressed their position. The woman shook her head and pretended to be disappointed: "It seems that you don't dare to compete, and it is estimated that it is not a real kung fu." ”

At this time, a middle-aged man said loudly: "Who said that you don't dare? My Nanquan Martial Arts Gym is willing to compete in martial arts. As soon as these words came out, the disciples of Nanquan applauded. It turned out that this person was the director of the Nanquan Martial Arts Gym and the master of the Nanquan Gate, and he had been standing at the scene because of today's publicity activities. The disciples quarreled with other sects, and as a teacher, they hid aside and did not want to fall into their identities, but when they heard that someone suspected that their sect did not dare to participate in the challenge, they stood up.

When the other martial arts halls saw that the director of the Nanquan Martial Arts Hall responded to the competition, they picked up the phone and reported to their own curators. Such a big thing, if you should not fight, people will be considered cowardly, sure enough, not long after, I heard the disciple of Hong Fist say: "Hong Fist should fight." Then Xingyi Fist also said: "Xingyi Fist should fight." Subsequently, Wing Chun and Tai Chi also responded. Everyone agreed on a time, and tomorrow at two o'clock in the afternoon in the largest boxing gym in Chinatown, there will be a martial arts competition, regardless of life or death. This quarrel arose because of Chengliu, and he was also invited to visit.