At the imminent outbreak of war, everyone thinks differently.

Some people are determined to serve the country, and some people try to avoid disaster. Cao Zheng, the ghost who operated the knife, is the latter kind of person.

It's a good day, but what are you going to fight in Xixia? Whoever likes to fight will fight, anyway, I won't fight. This is the ideological realm of people like Cao Zheng.

Originally, he didn't want to fight, and no one forced him to fight, and he didn't have to think about anything, there was a tall person on top of the sky when the sky fell.

But since Lin Chong was arrested and sent to Cangzhou, the situation has taken a turn for the worse.

Because the Imperial Boxing Gym was allocated a quota to participate in the war by the imperial court, the imperial court required that the number of people participating in the martial arts should not be less than 100 in the entire Jingshi Kaifeng Prefecture area, of which the Imperial Boxing Gym, as the first boxing gym in the capital, sent no less than 25 elites.

What are you practicing martial arts for? In addition to strengthening your body, you should be defending your family and the country, otherwise what are you doing when you practice martial arts? Do you want to rebel? If you practice secretly at home, no one will know about it, and gathering people to practice must be banned!

Lin Chong is the representative of the elite warriors of the Imperial Boxing Gym, and he is the head of the 800,000 forbidden army, and it was natural for him to come forward and lead the disciples of the Imperial Boxing Gym to participate in the martial arts.

Lin Chong himself also expressed his willingness to go, if he did not participate in the war, he would not be able to obtain military merits, and without military merits, he, the head of the 800,000 forbidden army, would never be promoted to an official position, and he would not be able to raise his salary.

The only worry is whether the imperial court will remove him from the qualifications to participate in the martial arts because he is an active military officer, but through some inquiries and feedback, it seems that the imperial court does not stipulate that active low-ranking officers are not allowed to participate in the martial arts, because these low-ranking officers have no martial arts merits.

There are not a few people who think like Lin Chong. Originally, if you want to support your family with martial arts after learning martial arts, there are a few ways out.

The first is to join the army and serve the country to receive salaries; the second is to open a museum to teach apprentices and collect tuition, but this second requires a high level of martial arts; the third is to earn a few hard-earned money from street performers; and the fourth is to earn ill-gotten gains for doing evil.

Therefore, Lin Chong and those who think like Lin Chong have already filled these twenty-five places, and there is nothing to do without him. But Lin Chong's offense has changed, Uncle Zhao has already said that Lin Chong's vacancy will be filled by Cao Zheng.

Cao Zheng is not a timid person, nor is he afraid of fighting with others, but he has the value of working hard, and Cao Zheng feels that it is not worth working hard for the so-called emperor and the Great Song Dynasty.

Because even if you go to be a soldier and try your best not to die, you won't get any benefit when you come back. Is it better to be a petty official like Lin Chong and bully Gao Yanei? It is better to live a nourishing life as a pig killer and meat seller.

In other words, the butcher in this era seems to be an extremely noble profession, otherwise how could Zheng Tu dare to call the town of Guanxi? Otherwise, how could Cao Zheng be able to mix in the capital?

Therefore, Cao Zheng saw that the situation was not good, so he arranged a way back for himself, he found Wang Huang's younger brother Wang Mu to borrow a huge amount of money, and vowed that he could quadruple the principal with interest when he came back from a trip, and promised heavy profits, planning to sneak out of the capital and go to Shandong in the next few days.

As for the hidden dangers brought about by this, he is not afraid, he has Wang Hao's younger brother to take care of it, and no one will investigate him for the crime of escaping from the battlefield, and he is not a soldier who escaped on the battlefield, but just evaded the martial arts exam for some reason.

But in any case, this kind of thing must not be said to the people of the Royal Boxing Gym before the trip, so he was so frightened after hearing Bai Sheng's inquiry that he didn't even have time to think about whether Bai Sheng knew Lin Chong, and directly sarcastically mocked Bai Sheng.

Bai Sheng said with a smile: "That's right, I was arrested by a group of people, but after they arrested me, I mentioned to them that Lin Chong was my eldest brother, and they let me go, which is really righteous! ”

As soon as he said this, Cao Zheng felt a little embarrassed, and hurriedly looked at the junior disciples: "Where is my master's letter?"

The man who took the letter hurriedly presented the letterhead and envelope with both hands, Cao Zheng took it and glanced at it, and said, "It's indeed my master's handwriting, it's just ...... When did Brother Bai become friends with my master, and why didn't he hear him talk about it?"

Cao Zheng confirmed Lin Chong's handwriting, Bai Shengke had to ignore it, and said with a sinking face: "Senior Brother Cao, you have to pay attention to what you say, I call you Senior Brother because I am about to enter the Imperial Boxing Gym as an apprentice." But I am worthy of your master and brother, how can you call me a brother? Isn't this a mess of seniority?"

There was nothing wrong with saying this, Cao Zheng was suddenly embarrassed, blushed and bowed and saluted: "It's reckless." But he refused to call Bai Sheng an elder.

After all, Bai Sheng looks a lot younger than him, and it would be very awkward to call his uncle and uncle.

Bai Sheng didn't pursue it, and continued: "Are the rules of your Imperial Boxing Gym different from those in other places? Could it be that Zhou Dong's seniors usually befriend who they usually befriend need to tell me Brother Lu and Brother Lin? Or do I Brother Lu and Brother Lin usually do something that they need to report to Senior Brother Cao?"

Cao Zheng was even more embarrassed, he naturally knew that Brother Lu was Lu Junyi, the jade unicorn of Hebei, so he replied: "Of course, Uncle Lu and my master won't tell me everything, but I have followed my master for many years, and I have never seen my master interact with you......"

Bai Sheng snorted coldly: "Do you mean that what you haven't seen is not true? Let me ask you, do you know that Senior Zhou took in an eight-year-old Guan disciple in Tangyin?"

Cao Zheng shook his head and said, "I really don't know about this." ”

Bai Sheng sneered: "That's right, I know about this! Could it be that if you don't know about this, your ancestor's closed disciple doesn't exist? In the same way, is it necessary for me to drink with your master and invite you to be there?"

Cao Zheng was sweating from Bai Sheng's words, and hurriedly stretched out his hand, "Since that's the case, then you can come in with me, I don't know if you have practiced martial arts before?"

"I haven't practiced it. ”

"Then I can only arrange for you to be a beginner disciple, and you can only study and practice with my junior disciples. To tell you the truth, if it weren't for my master's letter recommending you, we wouldn't have accepted an apprentice like you. ”

Bai Sheng couldn't help but be disappointed when he heard this.

Of course, he didn't know what kind of teaching model the Imperial Boxing Gym was, and he didn't know who taught people to practice martial arts in it, but he estimated that even Cao Zheng couldn't practice Lin Chong's kind of realm, so he asked, "Is there any master in our Imperial Boxing Gym who is stronger than my Brother Lin to teach boxing?"

Cao Zhengdao: "No, there are two masters, both of whom don't teach boxing, and now the disciples in the hall are all teaching me, but since you haven't practiced martial arts, you can't learn from me for a while, you have to practice the basic skills first." ”

Bai Shengxin said that even if he learns from you, he can't learn anything, let alone learn from your junior disciples? If it weren't for the idea that he could see Zhou Tong occasionally, he would have turned around and left.

So he asked: "Those two uncles must have extremely high martial arts, right? Since they are uncles, they are my eldest brother Lin's senior brothers, why don't they teach them?"

Cao Zheng hurriedly made a silent gesture, lowered his voice and said: "You don't know this, one of these two masters is the prince of the East Palace today, and the other is the prince of Yun, both of whom are disciples of the ancestors, and their martial arts are actually very ordinary, but what do you think, how can my master be their senior brother?"

Bai Sheng couldn't help but wonder, this prince of the East Palace must be the future Song Qinzong Zhao Heng, who is the prince of Yun?

Cao Zhengdao: "The prince just has a name here, and he usually doesn't come to the museum, so it's okay to say that he doesn't know martial arts." Lord Yun comes to practice every day, which is similar to my kung fu, on par with me. Lord Yun is practicing martial arts in the courtyard of Erjin at this time, you have to be careful when you speak. ”