Since Ergou had a fight with Zhang Hu, the outer disciple of the Wuji Palace, in the ring a few days ago, he was ordered by his master to fight in this Chu City for ten days.

In fact, it is the easiest thing to fight in the ring in Nantang, and almost no one cares, because there are too many people in the ring.

The Li family of the Southern Tang Dynasty was good at martial arts, so several to dozens of rings were built in various places, and if someone wanted to swing, it was enough to go to the government and spend ten taels of silver to report it.

But Ergou is different, no matter how many other people make provocations, it takes seven or eight days to fight a hundred games, but Ergou only takes three days to fight a hundred games.

This is still because those Jianghu men saw that he was not able to do enough and let him rest for a while, otherwise, I am afraid that it will only take two days to break through a hundred games.

Speaking of the reason why he can fight so many games, it is very simple, his master Wang Xuanlang also set up a sign in his ring to provoke other martial artists: Lao Tzu is a ranger from Da Chu, and he has no other ability, just to resist beating, no matter how many people you come, I will take it.

It's good if it's just this sentence, others think that Ergou is a newborn calf who is not afraid of tigers, and it will be forgotten after a lesson, so Ergou only fought about 20 games on the first day, of which only four or five were beaten.

But the next day, the old man secretly changed a sign for him: I said, are you people in Nantang quite poor, can't you eat enough? I didn't have the strength to beat me last day.

Good guy, as soon as this sentence came out, Ergou instantly became popular in Chu City, and he fought more than fifty games the next day, but after the fight, he was miserable.

In addition to the regular blue nose and swollen face, it probably comes out of the side of the mouth when you drink porridge.

After the next day passed, the old man changed his flowers in the following days, and he was full of hatred every day.

But he didn't really care about Jiang Ergou, every night after Ergou fell asleep, he would quietly sneak into Ergou's room, use his deep internal strength to stretch his meridians for him, and then send him to the ring the next day to be beaten.

Don't look at Ergou's appearance every day is very miserable, but his progress is really not small, today is the last day of his ring, and in the morning he has already stepped from the strength of the fifth grade to the realm of the fourth grade.

At this moment, Ergou barely became half a master, but as soon as his breakthrough aura appeared, he withered to the extreme, and he didn't look like a person who had just broken through.

"Bell, bell!"

The sound of this gong is also a feature of the Southern Tang Dynasty, it is the unified closing time of the government, and at this time, even if the two people in the ring are still fighting to death, they must stop and wait for the next day to continue fighting.

With the sound of this retraction, Jiang Ergou, who had been nervous, suddenly relaxed, and the whole person fell backwards in the ring, not because he was injured, but because he was asleep.

But seeing Ergou fall in the ring, Xu San's heart was nervous, and he hurriedly ran to the ring and knelt down to Ergou's side to check his pulse, and only exhaled a long breath after making sure that he was just out of strength and not exhausted.

Then the lips opened lightly, and I didn't know what he was saying, but if someone could read the lips, they would understand what he was saying: Fortunately, the daughter-in-law didn't go to the soup.

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The Great Chu and the Southern Tang Dynasty were different, the Great Chu followed the ancient law to govern the country with the state and county system, while the Southern Tang Dynasty introduced a new calendar to govern the province system.

But if you want to say which of these two systems is better, it is that there is no comparison, and if you take some scholars from both countries, they can count the advantages of their own national system and devalue the system of the enemy country to the point of being useless.

And this is the so-called reasoning among readers, and it is often the one who opens his mouth first who is reasonable.

From a geographical point of view, the Southern Tang Dynasty faces the sea on both sides, and the vast desert on the west, so except for the confrontation with Dachu in the north, there is no border in the Southern Tang Dynasty.

The province where Chu City is located is called Guangfu Province, and it is also the only border province among the five provinces of the Southern Tang Dynasty, and under the province, the region is not divided by counties, but by urban areas.

As a border city, the city of blocking Chu was not divided into any administrative area, but was directly under the jurisdiction of the imperial court, but after the two dogs came out of the city of blocking Chu, they entered the boundary of Helu District, Lu'an City, Guangfu Province.

"Old man, you really can! You really didn't treat your apprentice and me as a human being a few days ago!"

When these words reached the sad place, Ergou pretended to wipe away his tears.

"Three hundred and twelve battles, old man! Even the cattle in the field don't work like this, I think you are deliberately trying to toss me to death!"

"Okay, okay, how long have you been crying like a, why don't you say that you still broke through!"

A few days ago, Wang Xuanlang heard Ergou's complaints and would say a few words of comfort.

But the second dog has been chattering endlessly, which made him very unhappy, and his ears were cocooned, so he didn't have those good tempers.

"What? Why don't you let people say it? Murder your own apprentice is murder your own apprentice, who can control you. ”

Looking at the scoundrel appearance of his apprentice, Wang Xuanlang decided to come up with his killer weapon.

"Ergou, I know that there is a ring in every city in Nantang, or I won't be able to ...... next place."

"Master, look how bright the stars are in the sky!"

Ergou, who was shrewd to the bones, didn't know the meaning of the old man's words, so he hurriedly changed the topic.

"But it's daylight!"

"Master, what are we going to eat later!"

"Let's talk about the ring. ”

"Master, you ...... you?"

Along the way, Xu San, who was accustomed to seeing the master and apprentice playing tricks on each other, smiled helplessly, this pair of masters and apprentices can be described as strange among all the masters and apprentices in the world, there is no apprentice who is an apprentice, and there is no master who is a master.

However, it is the existence of the two of them that adds a lot of fun to the originally boring journey.

......

"Xiao Er, damn it, where is the wine that Lao Tzu wants?"

"Eh, here it is, this lord, your wine is here. ”

Walking in the rivers and lakes, the most indispensable thing is those broken taverns on the side of the road, which sell the roughest wine, sit in the roughest reckless people, and speak the roughest language inside.

But I don't know why, Ergou just likes this kind of environment, every time he passes by such a tavern, he will go in and sit, even if he just listens to the meaty words of those big men, he will be happy for a long time, just like he has secretly learned some peerless martial arts.

The tavern was not affected in the slightest by the arrival of a few of them, and the grass recklessness who had drunk it would still jump up and step on the stool and say that the girl in the wild kiln was the most prodigal, and looking at his expression and words, it seemed that he had already let loose the wreckage on her body at this moment.

A plate of white-cut chicken, a deboned duck as a staple dish, plus a few appetizers and a pot of bud roast, the spiciest throat in the store, the two dogs are quite complete.

The Southern Tang Dynasty is not only martial arts, but also the wine is much stronger than that of Da Chu, just like this bud Gu roast that was liked by the mud-legged men in the Southern Tang Dynasty from the first rank of the imperial court to the rivers and lakes, but it was squirted out by someone after it spread to Da Chu.

Ergou has never been to the Southern Tang Dynasty, so naturally he has never heard of this bud Gu burning, and Wang Xuanlang obviously won't tell him.

So the second dog smothered two taels of buds in one bite, and then the next second he was red from his forehead to the root of his neck, as for whether it was red or not, the main thing was that he couldn't see it.

In order not to lose face, Ergou endured it and didn't spit it out, but the consequence of this was that it was spicy all the way from his throat to his buttocks, and he couldn't cover the spicy feeling after drinking a whole pot of tea.

"Hey, I heard, recently there was a powerful swordsman from Dachu, what is Yang Dongqing, it is said that he was also rated as the first person to use a knife in the rivers and lakes by the twelve branches of Tianwulou!"

Jiang Ergou, who had improved a little, just wanted to stand up and scold the old man, but was attracted by the conversation of several people at the adjacent table, especially since the object of conversation was his acquaintance.

"What kind of bullshit is the first person to use a knife, you have asked me the swordsman Huang of the Southern Tang Dynasty, and he dares to call him the first person to use a knife. ”

Ergou actually had a good impression of the middle-aged man who wanted to teach him to practice knives, so now that someone says bad things about that man in front of him, of course he can't stand idly by.

"What are you talking about? What bullshit Huang Zheng, you dare to comment on Yang Dongqing's knife when you see him!"

Regarding Ergou's sudden interjection, the person who spoke at the next table did not feel disgusted, but found it very interesting.

"Yo, this little brother is from Da Chu, I haven't heard of Huang Chengcheng's name!Don't you know that the fourth position on the list of the twelve branches of the Martial Mansion that day was originally intended for the swordsman Huang Chengcheng?

"What if it's from Da Chu!"

The second dog blew his nose and glared.

"Hehe, little brother, this is just that you haven't seen the world, Huang Chengcheng is named a swordsman because the weapon he uses is a short knife and a long sword, and it is he who found Li Xunxu, the owner of Tianwu Tower, with his sword, and asked him to cross out his name from the list of the twelve earth branches, then Li Xunxu can also sit in the fourth position, Huang Chengcheng said that one day he will be invincible in the world with swords, and then it will be the time for him to directly become the first in the world!"

"That's... Then even if he is powerful in the sword, it does not necessarily make the knife powerful, you have never seen Yang Dongqing out of the sword, how do you know that Yang Dongqing is not as good as that Huang Cheng. ”

Ergou can actually feel the power of that Huang Zheng.

"Huh, listen to the meaning of the little brother's words, have you ever seen that Yang Dongqing come out with a knife?"

"I've seen it!"

Ergou said subconsciously, but the man who led the table shook his head with a dumb smile, obviously not believing what Ergou said.

"You don't care if I've seen it or not, but I believe that even if Yang Dongqing is still a little bit short of that Huang Zheng now, Yang Dongqing will surpass him sooner or later. ”

The man at the adjacent table probably lost interest in continuing to talk to the young man Ergou, so he nodded perfunctorily and then turned back to talk to his friends, ignoring Jiang Ergou again.

"Ergou, don't pay attention to them, the sword props are extremely difficult, old man, I haven't seen anyone who can walk two paths at the same time and still walk out of the Hall of Fame. ”

Hearing the old man's words, Ergou's heart felt better, he actually wanted to tell those people that the man named Yang Dongqing had saved his life, and his knife was really fast!

After eating, it was time to go on the road again, but as soon as he left the tavern, Ergou saw a character who should never have appeared here.

"Little Master Qingfa, why are you here!"

It turned out that the person who came was the little monk Qingfa who told fortunes for others in Hanshan Temple.

"Master Jiang, my master asked me to come out for a walk, before leaving the temple, my master had calculated a hexagram for me, the master said that my Zen opportunity was in the west of the Southern Tang Dynasty, but also said that there would be a relationship between me and the Jiang Shizhu, so I went all the way from Jiangnan to find you Jiang Shizhu. ”

The monk talks about fate, and Ergou knows this, so he agrees with what the little monk Qingfa said, as for taking this monk by his side, it is just a matter of eating with one more mouth, and he is a vegetarian, and it doesn't cost much silver.

Ergou just wanted to nod his head in agreement, but then he thought of something.

"Little Master Qingfa, you just said that your Zen machine is in the west, right, but we are going to the east, which is different from the place you are going!"

Qingfa chanting Sutra and Zen is very good, but he doesn't know how to choose these things, and he is a little embarrassed for a while, and he doesn't know what he is thinking when he touches his bald head.

"Little Master Qingfa, in my opinion, it's better for you to go to the west first, but let's make it clear first, I'm not afraid that you will stay by my side and eat my food!"

"What is Master Jiang's opinion? ”

"Little Master Qingfa, think about it, what your master said is that there is a relationship between you and me, right, but the fate of Buddhism doesn't all pay attention to the word nature, I think what your master means is that we will meet somewhere one day, and that is the fate, not that you come to me like this!"

After listening to Ergou's words, Qingfa's eyes revealed some different looks, as if he had realized something.

"Amitabha, the fate of the law comes naturally. I didn't think that Master Jiang was not a person in Buddhism, but he saw it more thoroughly than me, it was the little monk who looked at himself, thank you Lord Jiang for pointing out the direction for me. ”

After finishing speaking, the little monk made a Buddhist salute to the two dogs and turned west.