Chapter 61: Reciprocity
October 22, morning.
The sun was fierce and easily removed from the frost that had accumulated overnight.
On the Hongfu martial arts arena, there were nine people in each of the two horse teams, which were lined up at both ends of the sand.
"All ready?"
Hong Ming crossed his arms, stood in the center, and asked to both sides.
"Everything is in place!"
The first and third teams were answering loudly.
"Ready."
Hong Ming nodded and raised his hands.
The voice elongated, tensing the heartstrings of everyone on and off the field.
Hong Fan, who was dressed in heavy armor, was in the third squad, gently pulling the reins and clenching the ash pole that replaced the horse lance.
"Kill!"
Under the leadership of Hong Lie and Hong Bo, a total of eighteen penetrating warriors kicked the horse's belly and charged each other.
Iron hooves trampled on it, and the smoke and sand flew away, like a thin sea tide.
Although the arena is open, it still looks narrow when the knights hedge.
Even if the eighteen people were all elites, no one could draw a bow and shoot without affecting the charge in such a short period of time.
But Hong Beom is different.
When he was twenty meters apart, he waved his hand suddenly, and more than a dozen blunt-headed sand bullets shot out of his head and face.
Rao is the first team to resist hard, and there are also two people who are hit.
The sand bomb was followed by sand fog.
Due to his concern for his teammates, this time the sand fog did not rise around Hong Fan, but swooped forward like a wall of sand.
If so, when Hong Bo and the others suddenly regained their vision, the opponent's gun was already in front of them.
In the first team, Hong Jie randomly split a long pole and was locked by Hong Fan with a sand circle.
The latter pulled out again, pulled his opponent off the horse, and smashed sideways to the ground.
The two teams are staggered.
When Hong Fan Lerma turned around, there was only one person missing from his family, and the other party was the only one left.
With eight against one, the victory and defeat are self-evident.
"The third team wins!"
As Hong Bo was knocked off his horse by a mess, Hong Ming announced the result loudly and nodded to Hong Lie's side with satisfaction.
"Easy ......"
"Effortless ......"
"I'm tired of winning!"
Shen Hong and Kong Hai shook their heads with a long pole, their faces full of pride.
This irritated the disgraced Hongbo even more.
"Phew, you can't win!"
He patted the sand in the nail leaf and retorted.
"Brother Bo, how can he talk angrily, compete fairly, where is not martial arts?"
Hong Lie asked with a smile.
"You have a sand world......
Hong Bo muttered, glanced at Hong Fan angrily, and then looked at Hong Jie, who joined the team at the same time and was supporting his waist at this time, full of disgust that iron does not become steel.
"Hey, Brother Bo, you are still born with divine powers, why didn't you say it before?"
Hong Lie shook his head and laughed.
"Who let Hong Fan join our team? If you are not convinced, why don't you go to find a life star and be a star monarch too? ”
At this time, Hong Bo had no words and silently led the horse away.
Seeing this, the third squad seemed to have won another victory, and they all laughed enthusiastically.
"Since Brother Fan, it seems that we have never lost the team competition?"
Kong Hai took the initiative to take the ash rod in Hong Fan's hand and said.
"What you say, it's true!"
Shen Hong took off his helmet, wiped his bald head, and said.
He said and looked at Hong Fan.
"It's only been three months since you officially joined the team, and we haven't been together for long, but my old Shen is convinced!"
"Me too!"
Sun Li, who was handing out shawls on the side, said the same.
"There are so many wealthy sons in Jinhai, I just think that our team is the most heroic and Hong Fan is the most heroic, and I am willing to follow!"
Having said that, the third squad gathered together was inexplicably silent.
Hong Lie's face was slightly unnatural.
"My methods are taught by your brothers, and I am embarrassed to speak like this......
Hong Fan smiled and humbled himself, but in his heart he felt that they meant something, but he couldn't think clearly for a while.
"I made an appointment with my cousin for dinner today, but I have to miss the company first."
After disembarking from the horse, the crowd said goodbye to each other.
Outside the stable, Hong Fan turned his head and met Hong Fu who was waiting here.
The two talked and laughed all the way back, and unexpectedly met Hong Ping and Hong An.
"Brother Fan......"
When Hong An saw someone coming, he squeezed out a smiling face and wanted to take the initiative to say hello, but Hong Ping on the side deliberately turned his gaze away and took a detour.
Hong An, who was halfway through the words, had to laugh and keep up.
"What's going on?"
Hong Fan asked.
With his acumen, of course, he could see that Hong Ping was just aiming at himself.
"What else can I do, I'm sorry for his brother."
Hong Fu replied casually.
"They're brothers."
"Hong Sheng? What happened to him? The sense of disharmony in Hong Fan's heart was even stronger.
Hong Fu was stunned when he heard this, and looked at his cousin: "Brother Fan, you really don't know?" ”
Hong Fan replied with a wry smile: "I have been bored in the small courtyard for a month, and I really don't know what happened." ”
"That's right."
Hong Fu nodded.
"If you want to say what happened, it's nothing happened."
"But nothing happened......"
The little fat man shook his head halfway through, and was scalped by Hong Fan: "Let's talk about the point." ”
At this time, Hong Fu finally spoke honestly: "Even there are rumors outside that our Hong family may want to change the concubine." ”
As soon as these words came out, Hong Fan's eyebrows suddenly furrowed.
"What's the point of this rumor?"
He asked solemnly.
"That is to say, Brother Fan, your talent is not bad, you used to be a jewel and a dust; Now that I have the sand world, I have shown Su Hui on the side of the superintendent, and I have won the attention of the great superintendent......"
Hong Fu replied that the old god was there.
"In short, it means that you are more suitable to inherit the family and be the patriarch than the eldest prince."
"I don't think it's out of the question."
"Our Jinhai is not as good as those Gaomen counties in Zhongzhou, and the rules are not so dead, and there are several family members in the city who are in charge because of meritocracy......"
Hong Fu said and spoke, and actually preached.
This made Hong Fan's brows furrow even worse.
said from the bottom of his heart that since he came to this world, he never thought of staying in Jinhai City to be a powerful family.
Even if you can't become a martial saint, even if you devote yourself to being a supervisor and a martial saint, isn't it more promising than in the border of Liangzhou?
"Where did this news come from? Can the elders of the clan express their opinions? ”
Hong Fan asked.
"This kind of thing, naturally no one is talking about it."
Hong Fu replied.
"But when I really look back, I can't think of where it was first transmitted - it's like suddenly the city is full of storms, and everyone has a nose and an eye."
The little fat man scratched his head, and there was still injustice in his heart.
"But I think it makes sense! As far as Brother Fan'er is concerned, you are now in this style, it is not Wencheng martial arts, fascinated thousands of women, how can you not be the master of the house? ”
"That's not what I meant."
Hong Fan shook his head, his expression was a little cold.
"Do you know a word called killing? But the one who preaches this is trying to harm me......"
Hong Fan said, and the two had walked back to the small courtyard.
On the stone table, Aunt Liu had just instructed the people in the kitchen to arrange the wine and food, and when she saw the two coming back, she immediately couldn't stop smiling and greeted her.
When the brothers sat down opposite each other, she poured the wine first, and then took the initiative to avoid the side compartment and did not sit down.
Although there are not so many class rules between master and servant under Hong Fan's strong request on weekdays, as long as there are outsiders, Aunt Liu becomes stubborn, and she doesn't want to hurt the young master's face.