Chapter 63: The Mysterious Cave
When Lin Bing turned on the light, and the scene behind the entire iron gate appeared in front of Xie Cunguan's eyes, he couldn't help but be taken aback. Behind the iron gate, there was a huge arched cave, the size of a football field.
Xie Cunguan walked into the iron gate, and what caught his eye was the flat cement floor, and in the middle of the field, a huge iron cage was placed there, and even the base was cast in iron. Around the cage, there are rows of benches. But apparently, this iron cage is not a modern thing either, and the benches were added later.
On the surrounding cliffs, there are caves one after another, and the entrance of the cave is full of iron fences. To Xie Cunguan, these caves should be where prisoners are held. Some of these fences have rusted to the point of not being shaped, and some of the slightly formed ones have been repaired and painted with black paint.
At a glance, you can see that the entire architectural style here is not modern architecture at all.
Xie Cunguan suddenly felt that something was wrong, and he couldn't help but walk towards the other end behind the iron cage, because it was obviously dark, and in the place where it was dark, there was a row of iron railings, and there seemed to be a roaring sound of water coming up from below.
The closer he got, the more his judgment seemed to be confirmed, and the sound of the water became more and more pronounced, and gradually there was wind, and the smell of saltiness and humidity in the air was already there. Finally walked to the side of the row of iron railings, Xie Cunguan was even more surprised, there was a space several times larger than the flat ground, as soon as the person walked to the iron railing, an extremely strong air flow almost blew him unsteady, looking down from above, although it was dark, but Xie Cunguan could still conclude. There was sea water down there.
This underground boxing ring. It went straight to the sea.
In the middle of the iron railing, there was obviously a gap, and Xie Cunguan saw that there were steps leading down. Moreover, the waterfront side of the stairs has been repaired with guardrails. However, due to the age of the place and its proximity to the sea, the guardrails have been completely rusted, except for the top section. All that remains below is a section of decayed columns.
It's just a section closer to the top, and if you stay there, you won't be able to see it at all.
At this time, Lin Bing had already approached Dai Ruoxi. When Dai Ruoxi saw this scene, she couldn't help but let out an exclamation: "What kind of place is this?"
Xie Cunguan looked at Lin Bing and said, "This is your boxing ring, it doesn't look like a modern building!"
Lin Bing nodded and said, "Of course this won't be a modern building, who is building such a thing here now! This is the military base built by the Japanese when they occupied Sabah." However, some people say that it is a prison ......" Lin Bing said, pointing to the caves around the venue with his hand, and Xie Cunguan saw just now said: "Do you see those small caves, they look like they are the places where people are locked up, and there are shackles, handcuffs and the like, as well as old torture tools from the past...... And. When we first found out about it, there were still bones inside...... After this place was discovered, the local government wanted to develop tourism, but because the old gentleman who bought the house did not agree, it was finally discontinued......
"Later, the owner of this house belonged to me!" Lin Bing smiled bitterly: "That old gentleman is my uncle and grandfather! However, when he left the house to me, he made a will, and I only have the right to use, not the right to buy and sell! This house has been given away a long time ago, and it is said that one day, someone will come to me with that voucher and ask me to take it back. Otherwise. I had already sold this house to guard such an uninhabitable place. Later, when I saw that this place was empty, I used the place to become a shareholder, cooperated with the current community, and opened a restaurant here and a gambling and boxing arena below......
"Unexpectedly, the business was very hot, and the gamblers, especially the sailors, liked this place very much, and everyone jokingly called it a place where pirates buried their treasures...... However, who knew that as soon as the boxing arena improved, it encountered the current situation! If this boxing match is lost, this boxing ring will belong to the other party. Although the place is mine, the right to use it belongs to the other party......"
"Oh?" Xie Cunguan looked at Lin Bing and said, "You installed all the facilities in here?"
"Oh, no!" Lin Bing looked at the huge iron cage and said, "Except for these benches and lights, everything else is the original thing. Of course, in those caves, the club also put some tables and chairs and the like to make a rest room for guests to rest and relax!"
"It's usually so deserted here?" Xie Cunguan couldn't help but say.
"How come!" Lin Bing listened, and his face was a little embarrassed: "This is the best underground gambling boxing stadium in the entire Sandakan business, but we gambled on boxing some time ago and kept losing to the Malay Gang, so we can only suspend business and drag boxing, and spend a week to find a boxer, and the night after tomorrow we will either go out to compete, or we will lose to others and give up the place!
Xie Cunguan sighed softly.
Lin Bing hesitated slightly and said, "Mr. Xie, there is still a question!"
"You say......" Xie Cunguan looked at him.
"You said that you would fight for us the night after tomorrow and fight with them, but at least three fights a night, and you only have one person......" Lin Bing said in a hesitant voice: "How to race?"
"Isn't it allowed for one person to fight three times in a row?" Xie Cunguan thought for a while and asked rhetorically.
"Of course you are allowed, but you ...... alone" Lin Bing said with a frown, and the following words were not finished. Obviously suspicious, you can't do it alone. To be honest, it feels a bit dangerous to fight Lin Bing once, let alone fight three games in a row.
Xie Cunguan smiled and said, "You always see that I'm not strong enough, right?" It's okay, I'll find a strong one to shake me up the day after tomorrow, right?"
When Lin Bing heard that Xie Cunguan still had someone, he said in his heart: "I see!" but he obviously showed a relieved expression.
At this time, Dai Ruoxi on the side suddenly asked: "How much bonus can you get for winning a fight?"
"Depending on the bet, though, it's generally around RM20,000 to RM30,000...... However, the more upsets there are, the bigger the odds, and the more ...... they get," Lin Bingdao. Seeing Dai Ruoxi's dazed look, he couldn't help but sneer: "The ringgit is the unit of Malay currency. One ringgit is equivalent to two yuan!"
"Oh?" Dai paused. He asked thoughtfully, "How many ringgit does it cost for that vocal cord reconstruction?"
Lin Bing couldn't help but be stunned, obviously didn't expect her to ask this suddenly, and couldn't help but groan before saying: "I don't know about this, this is just my friend's speculation, this kind of operation may not be successful once." Moreover, I don't know if Yaya can really do this operation, but I won't know until I check it. Moreover, if you want to do it, you can't do it in Sabah, you need to do it in Malaysia...... But. I guess it's going to cost about RM30,000, right?"
Dai Ruoxi nodded and didn't speak, but Xie Cunguan looked at her deeply.
Xie Cunguan took one last look at this special boxing ring, and left the place with Lin Bing. When it comes up. Liu Fan has been standing at the entrance of the cave without moving, chatting with those Hakka men.
Back at the hotel, Xie Cunguan immediately contacted Guo Tayu and asked him to rush to Sandakan tomorrow. Although from the bottom of his heart, Xie Cunguan wanted to fight alone, but one was to let Lin Bing's heart go, and the other was to be prepared, and let Guo Tayu come to the town for a scene, which is fine.
Guo Tayu's side naturally agreed.
As a result, the next morning, Xie Cunguan was meeting with the people of the club. Guo Tayu pulled Zheng Xiuqing to arrive. The two of them entered the door arm in arm, which made Xie Cunguan embarrassed for a while, feeling that he had really disturbed other people's good things.
Guo Tayu was elated, and as soon as he came, he and Zheng Xiuqing squeezed to Dai Ruoxi's side, and the three of them muttered and chatted together, leaving Liu Fan like a stuffy gourd, sitting there and watching life. Xie Cunguan accompanied these leaders of the club to talk nonsense. He has become accustomed to it, and anyone who has a relationship with Yan Pei is this virtue.
After more than half an hour of idleness, the president of this club finally arrived. I apologize as soon as we meet. If you have been waiting for a long time, I would like to invite you to visit the enterprises under the association. Xie Cunguan couldn't help but be angry for a while, when he was something, did he come to do business? However, people politely invited. It's always hard to refuse, so the group goes out. Take a ride in the car and walk around with people. After this circle, I first visited the fishing grounds, then visited several timber processing factories, and finally visited the agricultural products processing factories, and it was time for lunch.
At lunchtime, as Lin Bing had estimated, he was invited to the famous Sea King Seafood Restaurant, and he happened to sit in the private room where Sevra had hosted Shibata Hiroshi and Hades last night. What is even better is that according to Malay hospitality, the position where Xie Cunguan sat was where Hades sat at that time, and Liu Fan sat was the position of Shibata Hong. And Guo Tayu, Zheng Xiuqing and Dai Ruoxi sat in the position of Hades's disciples.
The meal was in a good atmosphere, but it lacked the comfort of last night.
After eating, seeing off the president of the association, and sending away the car that the association was going to send them away, the group went to visit the Chinese temples in Sandakan City, the Three Holy Palaces and the Bao Gong Temple.
One of the oldest buildings in Sandakan, the Palace of the Three Saints is dedicated to the Three Sages, namely Guan Yunchang, the martial saint of the righteous Bo Yuntian, Mazu Niangniang, the protector of fishermen and seafarers, and the Wenchang Emperor, who is still believed to be the master of the fame and fortune of scholars.
When Xie Cunguan saw the statue of Emperor Guan, he couldn't help but glance at Dai Ruoxi, and the two of them remembered Emperor Guan's Temple in Xiaoyi Village, Qi County. Even the couplets on the temple gate are the same.
When Chinese people go overseas, they like to worship Emperor Guan. On the one hand, the emperor is benevolent and righteous, respects his brother and loves his brother, which is in line with the righteousness of the Chinese overseas to help each other. On the other hand, Emperor Guan was in Cao Ying, cherishing his old man, riding alone for thousands of miles, and finally returned to his eldest brother Liu Bei. There is a sense of return, which is a reflection of the feelings of overseas Chinese who cherish their homeland and miss their hometown.
As the saying goes, you can't write two square words with one stroke, and in the tradition of the Chinese, the feelings of the homeland, the falling leaves take root, and the branches and leaves are all very deep traditions. The so-called Yanhuang blood, the virtue of the thick earth, that is the feeling that goes deep into the blood marrow. Yellow-skinned and black-haired, he misses home when he walks there.
Home! The family and the country are all over the world, and the home is actually in front of the country! And the national arts, the national arts practiced by Xie Cunguan, Guo Tayu, and Dai Ruoxi, were originally traditional martial arts. It's just that in that era of deep national disaster, the meaning of giving traditional martial arts to protect the family and defend the country is called national art!
But when martial arts were called national arts, it was already a time when firearms occupied a military point. At such a time, martial arts were renamed national arts, and there was an indescribable tragic meaning of the old Chinese martial artists in their bones.
This may be the reason why we still like to use Guoshu as a martial art to this day. To be continued