In the river outside the city, on the white sand bank, a crescent moon hangs in the night sky. The light boat rowed across the water and smashed the starlight of the river lit by the ship's lamp.

Without waiting for the boat to stop, Gu Sui jumped over the river three zhang away with a light tiptoe, and landed on the boulder that stood quietly here on the side of the sandbar for many years.

The two stood facing each other for an unknown amount of time, and they could only hear the waves rolled up by the river wind whispering in the night breeze.

After a long time, Du Xingyan lowered his head slightly, and the hat hung deeper and deeper, covering his face into a virtual shadow.

"You're here?"

"I'm coming. ”

"You shouldn't have ......"

"But I'm still here......"

Du Xingyan sighed lightly: "Are you really not afraid?"

Gu Suiyuan smiled heroically: "What are you afraid of? Since you dare to come, you are not afraid!"

"But the organizing committee does not allow the players to meet privately before the competition, otherwise the results of the two will be lost. ”

"And this rule, how come I don't know?"

"The third paragraph of the supplementary provisions of the "Supplementary New Regulations on the Purchase Restrictions on the Lottery of the Practice Ball Competition", if the contestants or their immediate relatives meet privately before the game, depending on the severity of the circumstances, they will be given penalties such as negative results and disqualification, and they shall not buy the practice lottery ticket in the current season, and if they have purchased and redeemed the prize, they will be fully recovered, and a fine of one to five times may be imposed. ”

"Supplementary Provisions?...... Farewell ......"

"Brother Gu waits for a while, since he comes, it is useless to leave again, and listen to me. ”

"Speak up if you have something to say!"

"In the battle tomorrow, Du wants to gamble with Brother Gu. Brother Gu dares to fight?"

"What about winning, what about losing?"

"How about the winner wearing the 'Friends of Junshan' robe and greeting around the field?"

Gu Suiyuan laughed: "It turns out that you are red-eyed?

Du Xing?? Said: "Then tomorrow, I will ask Brother Gu to bring the 'Friends of Junshan' robe that he wore last time, and the winner can wear this robe to go around the field for three weeks!"

Gu Suiyuan asked, "Why do you want to use mine?

Du Xingyan said helplessly: "I just remembered it, and when I was about to do it, several silk and satin houses had already closed......"

......

When Du Xingyan and Gu Suiyuan met at Jiangxin Shazhou, Tengming, the champion of the Huang Guanguo who was preparing to defend the battle, gathered with friends and friends in a restaurant next to the Gongyuan, and Sima Zhifu, Jin Niang, and An Miao all rushed over from Maoshan to make a special trip for him.

Sima Zhifu raised his glass: "I wish Brother Zhang success tomorrow and success in one fell swoop!"

Zhang Tengming raised his glass heroically and drank it all: "Thank you Sima Jiyan!"

An Miao said: "Zhang Gongzi, I don't drink, today I will replace wine with tea, and I hope that Gongzi will be vigorous and re-elected." ”

Zhang Tengming also drank it all. After drinking, he poured it again and filled it again, but was stopped by Jin Niang: "Slow down, eat some food first, and then say that tomorrow is a big battle, leave some amount, and it's not too late to drink if you win." ”

Zhang Tengming took a deep breath, pondered for a moment, and said: "Since going down the mountain last autumn, I have participated in the cultivation ball competition, since the audition, after the group stage and the quarterfinals, I have successfully won the championship......

Sima Zhifu immediately raised his glass: "Just this understanding, Brother Zhang will not be in vain for all his hard work!

After the two of them finished drinking, Zhang Tengming continued: "After the start of this year's spring game, with the halo of the champion on my head, I felt the weight of the pressure, in these three months, in addition to watching the game every week, I am also trying to figure out the ball skills, understand the mystery, and even ask many Jindan monks to fight, just to be able to make an inch, the whole person's mind is completely immersed in it, such a day, I have never thought of it before." Until the final battle of the top 10 last week, I was there at that time, and although I was watching the cultivation ball, I was thinking about my practice. The cultivation ball is more than the ball, but the competition is more practice. At this point, I have already realized that the outcome of tomorrow's battle is actually no longer important, and whether I win or lose, I will retreat and break through the realm, and strive to be able to get married. After the knot, I will move towards the Jindan Mage Group and continue to strive for greater glory at a higher level!"

Hearing this, everyone was stunned, and Sima Zhifu was overjoyed and said, "Brother Zhang is ready to get married?"

An Miao also clapped her hands and said: "As soon as Zhang Gongzi said this, I want to sign up for the competition, and I can taste the taste of Jindan." ”

Jin Niang cried with joy, holding Zhang Tengming's hand, her eyes were red, and she couldn't say a word.

While we were talking, there was a commotion on the side of the road, the sound was getting louder and louder, and the noise was so loud that people couldn't drink, and several people opened the window on the second floor to look down, and saw that a sedan chair was surrounded by people and did not allow traffic.

"The surname Huo, there is a kind of get out!"

"Huo Tao, you are a dog official who sells your reputation, if you don't impeach the bad guys, you have to frame the beloved Lord Gan!"

"That's right, what's wrong with Lord Gan allocating some money to build roads for the people, what's in the way of your surname Huo?"

"He is a speech official, he can be framed casually if he catches the wind and shadows, and if he can't be framed, he will not be damaged, and if he is framed, he can go straight to the sky to hear ......"

"The dog officer came out to die!"

"Hit him!"

I don't know who shouted, the crowd began to pour up to the sedan chair, and many Qinglou wine shops on the street opened their windows one after another, and eggs, steamed buns, and vegetable gangs threw them at the sedan chair.

The two sedan chair drivers were squeezed to the ground, the sedan chair was also squeezed to the ground, a middle-aged Confucian student crawled out of the sedan door in embarrassment, and was guarded by two loyal sedan chair drivers, and it was easy to get out of the crowd, but the clothes had been torn to the west, and a few eggs were also hit in the bun, and the cabbage leaves were hung around his neck, and he fled in a hurry.

There was a burst of enthusiastic laughter in the crowd immediately, which means that the people in the capital have a strong sense of law and discipline, don't look at the fierceness, but they all know that they can't hurt people too much, otherwise where will people run away?

Sima Zhifu and others were puzzled, so Zhang Tengming explained with a smile: "You may not know, this Huo Tao is in the middle of the household department, a few days ago the impeachment of the household department Shangshu Ganshu and the appropriation of funds to renovate the capital, the chaos shook the court, the people of the capital talked about it, one-sided criticism of it as a treacherous villain, I heard that his residence in the Xuanjin Bridge has been besieged by the people several times, so far he has to get up every day to sprinkle and sweep up, otherwise it will stink, haha." ”

Sima Zhifu said: "Why does Brother Zhang also care about these idle things?"

Zhang Tengming said: "Brother Sima has not lived in the capital for a long time, and after living for a long time, he knows that the affairs of the Daomen and the central government seem to have nothing to do with you and me, but in fact they are closely related, and many times, it is impossible to participate if you want to." To tell you the truth, even I went to Huo Tao's house to throw rotten eggs, haha, not only him, but also the latches of Gui Cao and Zhang Xuan were also broken by me. These three people now have a bad reputation in Beijing, and the people in the capital call them three beetles!"