According to the commentary, Shi Danai's beating was because he accidentally killed someone and got into a lawsuit. However, King Luo Yi of Peiping cherished his talents and was reluctant to kill him, so he ordered him to set up a beating in Shunyi Zhuang to atone for his sins.
But now Song Xiang's "Hundred Day Challenge" has no such reason.
When it comes to human life lawsuits, Song Xiang directly or indirectly killed many more people than Shi Danai, and he did it on purpose, and there is no such thing as a "miss".
It’s just... Song Xiang has a backer, so it doesn’t matter.
So, his arena was purely for showing off; in addition to the provocative couplet hanging under the stage, he also set up a silver reward, and a sign next to it read: "Whoever can attack and win will be given a hundred taels of silver as a gift."
Everyone, this is a lot of money.
One hundred taels, if you look at it now, even if you include the purchasing power and the possible errors caused by productivity, it would still be more than ten or two hundred thousand. At that time, some poor people would really spend their whole lives. You can't even make that much money.
As the saying goes, there must be a brave man under a heavy reward. For the one hundred taels of silver, many people dared to do it even in the face of the bully Song Xiang.
However, how could it be so easy to defeat him?
Song Xiang is eighty-eight years old this year. He has been practicing martial arts since he was a child. The teacher hired by his family is not very clever, but he is not a liar after all. He has indeed taught him something.
Song Xiang's fierce internal strength, coupled with a few sets of powerful fists and kicks, can almost reach the level of a third-rate martial artist.
If you want to compare it with the characters who have appeared in the previous article, Zheng Mukai and Ge Shi can beat him casually; Ma Si can have a 70-300 against him; People like Shan Taisui and Zhu Chao who specialize in Turtle Breathing Technique and Bone Shrinking Technique should be able to go back and forth with him...
However, these people mentioned above will not come to challenge him.
Why? It's very simple -
People in the world don't bother to fight.
It is difficult to beat people in the green forest.
Song Xiang was not a member of the martial arts world, he was just a second-generation ancestor.
The Song family behind him has an official background and is backed by the power of the eunuchs in the court; that is to say, although he is not a court eagle and does not hold any official position, he is to a certain extent protected by official forces.
In this way, he is just an ordinary citizen with certain privileges.
If a master in the world comes to fight with such a person, it will be disgraceful to win. When the time comes, he will be blamed - what kind of ability do you have in bullying a layman? Just for the money?
The people on Green Forest Road do not have such scruples about face, but they are afraid that after defeating Song Xiang, they will be swarmed by the Song family's henchmen and arrested and sent to prison...
< p>Song Xiang can do this kind of thing completely.This guy, in today's terms, is a giant baby who is bad to the core. He can't bear any grievances or losses. He refuses to admit when he has done something wrong. If he is unhappy, he must do it.The type that passes negative stress onto others.
Just for fun, I was walking on the road and saw someone else had a better one. I opened my mouth to ask for it. If they didn't sell it, I would grab it. After grabbing it, I would beat them up.
Let’s fight with a cricket. If he wins, he will have to pay for it. If he wins, he will insist that the opponent is cheating, smash the other person’s cup, trample the cricket to death, and turn his head. Just leave.
Sometimes he goes too far and is scolded by his father, so he will hold back his anger and go to the streets to find trouble. Whoever he finds will be unlucky, and he can find any reason I'll beat you up, and you'll be beaten to death.
It’s just such a thing. How dare you enter the arena he set up?
You just go up and lose. At most, he will beat you up, humiliate you, and drive you off the ring; if you win, or if he sees that you are about to win... you guess he will Aren't you going to cheat?
It is true that Song Xiang’s martial arts is not very powerful, but the people around him are not vegetarians. Just next to the ring, there are more than a dozen evil slaves of the Song family, all of whom are tall and thick. It can be said that he is a professional thug.
There are two others, one is Song Xiang's current master, Ma Chu, known as "Yanhui Yizhu" in the world, and the other is Song Xiang's bodyguard, Zhao, nicknamed "Shadowless Sword". Far away.
These two... are both people sent by Song Xiang's father to his son; Ma Chu is fine, and he is only a second-rate figure in the world, but Zhao Youyou is different... He You have to be considered a "swordsman" on the green forest road.
As we said before, the "swordsman" of Green Forest Road has no weapon.
Although this "no weapon" is not equivalent to the "swordless realm" of being alone in the Jianghu system, its strength is undoubtedly equivalent to the first-class masters in the Jianghu system.
With these two people in charge, Song Xiang is confident.
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It’s the day and the beginning of time.
The common people have finished their lunch. Those who should go to work have gone to work, and those who have something to do have also gone to work. Only some idle people are still hanging around the ring where Song Xiang set up. , waiting to see the fun.
Today is the fifty-third day of Song Xiang's "Hundred Day Challenge".
At first, this arena was very popular and was held every morning and afternoon. However, after a month, it gradually became deserted.
Ordinary people are not stupid. After more than thirty days, people still can’t tell what’s going on in the arena? Most of the people in Runan City who dared to go up to fight have been there, but they were all beaten by you. Who dares to come?
As a result, in the second month, there were far fewer people coming to challenge, and they were basically all foreigners.
There are so many people passing by here every day, among them there will always be some who are bold and confident, relying on their strength, their eyes will turn red when they look at the one hundred taels of silver, and they will go there on impulse. .
Then... at least he was beaten with a bruised nose and face, kicked off the ring, and left sadly amid the insults; at worst he was beaten seriously injured, kicked off the ring, and then was beaten by a group of peopleDing Enu threw it away like trash.
As for the time for the arena, it has also been changed from one day to half a day. Starting at noon every day, it will be held for two hours, because if there is more, it will be empty, and it will be meaningless if no one comes up.
It was a coincidence today that not long after the arena was set up, the carriage driven by Lei Buji happened to pass in front of it. Although he had lived with his father in the mountains since he was a child and had never read a book seriously, his words He still knew them, so he saw the couplet at a glance.
"Huh?" When Lei Buji glanced at the two flagpoles, he hesitated for a moment, and then read out the two lines on the flags, "Punch the colorful tiger of Nanshan, kick it." Kick the Beihai River Dragon? Oh! That's not a small tone."
Sun Yixie and Huang Donglai in the carriage behind heard him.
After entering the city, Sun and Huang were already raising the curtains and looking around outside the car. Now when they suddenly heard this sentence, they both stuck their heads out and followed Lei Buji's gaze. go.
"What? Who said that they wanted to fight tigers and dragons? So arrogant?" When Sun Yixie asked this question, his eyes were still wandering.
"No one is talking, it's written on the flagpole over there." After Huang Dong said this half sentence, he immediately realized something and continued, "Oh, right...Brother Sun, you can't read. Come, let me show you, over there."
"Get out!" Sun Yixie pushed Huang Donglai's hand away, "I saw it!"
" Brothers, why don't we go over and join in the fun?" Lei Buji also became interested and quickly turned around to ask.
"Okay, but we'd better go to the inn to put down our luggage first, wait for the carriage to stop, and then we'll walk over and take a look. It's not convenient to park the car here." Huang Donglai responded.
"Oh! Okay." After all, Lei Buji is only sixteen years old, and he is a bit playful. In addition, this kind of competition in the ring is very suitable for him as a martial arts practitioner, so he After hearing this, he immediately shook the reins and urged the horse to speed up, hoping to quickly find an inn to stay.
Unexpectedly, in his hurry, he got into trouble.
At that time, there were no traffic lights, sidewalks, etc.; people on horseback and drivers would consciously slow down after entering the city, and pedestrians would also slow down when they saw them. I consciously stayed away. Anyway, the flow of people on the street at that time was not as large as it is now. Everyone gave in, and order was maintained.
But if you are in a hurry, you will easily get into an accident...
Now Lei Buji just speeded up a little, and when he was distracted, he heard the horse neighing. , the hooves were messed up and bumped into someone.
"Ah!" At that moment, Lei Buji came to his senses, quickly reined in the reins and got out of the car to check.
However, they saw that the man who was knocked to the ground was a thin-looking young man, dressed in a green coat and a small hat, who looked like a workman.
I don’t know if it was because the carriage was not very fast, but the man was hit by the horse.After the collision, he actually just sat down on the ground without complaining of pain, and stood up immediately.
"Brother, are you okay?" Lei Buji came over and apologized as he walked, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, it was my car that was going too fast."
The person who was hit was also rude and opened his mouth to curse in a very unkind tone: "Nonsense, it's not just you..." But as soon as the first half of the sentence came out, he choked back.
Before Lei Buji understood the situation, the man immediately changed his words and said: "It's okay, it's okay. I didn't look at the road. Besides, the collision wasn't serious. Look at me. Are you okay? You can continue on your way." After that, she lowered her hat and turned away without waiting for Lei Buji to reply. In a blink of an eye, she turned into an alley and disappeared.
After seeing this "her", many people must have realized that this person is a woman disguised as a man.
The book here implies that this person is none other than Li Qiyu, the deputy leader of the Xuanwu Banner of the Wuling Sect.
Since Li Qiyu came out of the main altar and met with the White Tiger Banner leader Tang Fu, she has been tracing the matter of Gu Qiying's handbook; but after many days of investigation, the information they obtained was... Yes - the original manuscript of the notes has been sent to the capital, and there are experts like Yun Shili and Shui Hanyi guarding it along the way, as well as numerous elite guards. It is too difficult to obtain the notes from the imperial court.
So, she and Tang Fu changed their course of action and prepared to attack Huang Donglai and Sun Yixie.
Of course, this has to be done wisely, not forcefully, because in their impression, Sun and Huang are young men who dare to "endure the humiliation" and fight against Shen Youran and Gu Qiying in a terrible situation. Hero, being tough with this kind of person is probably useless.
In this way, the two of them found out the information about Shuangxie's preparation to go south from the Wuling Sect's undercover agent in the court, turned around and rushed all the way to Runan; but because they did not know that Sun Yixie was He and Huang Donglai took a detour a few days ago to deal with the "fake" matter, so they arrived a day or two earlier than Shuangxie.
Right now, when Li Qiyu was hit by a carriage, you would call it serious... It was indeed not serious. Although most people might have broken their bones on the spot, it was not a big deal to her. With her "Xuanwu" With "A" skill, let alone a carriage, even a Bentley can't beat him to death.
Actually, Li Qiyu didn’t know that this carriage was owned by Sun Huanglei and the others. She was really passing by on something at the moment, and being hit was purely an accident. She got up and wanted to get angry, but when she saw Lei Without looking at that face, she knew who was in the car, so she quickly lowered her head and turned away and ran away.
Although this little episode didn’t make the people in the car pay too much attention, it did give Lei Buji a wake-up call. After that, even if he was impatient, he would not dare to rush the horse again. Too fast.
Without words all the way, the three of them arrived at the inn, opened a room, put away their luggage, and immediately walked out and headed straight for the arena.
And when they returned to the ring, someone just happened to come on stage.
But I saw that man, who was in his thirties, about 1.8 meters tall, with a tall body, wearing a light-colored gown with many patches; on his face, he had thin eyebrows, a straight nose and a straight mouth. Fang, the momentum is truly extraordinary.
Who is this person?
He is Tang Weizhi, the 19th generation disciple of the Kongtong sect. He has a set of golden ring palms with the seventh-level power of his master, and he can be regarded as a number one figure in the world.
Some people may ask, the above document just said that people in the world disdain this kind of fighting, so why did Tang Weizhi come up?
That's because... he has basically given up, or in other words, has lost all face.
Tang Weizhi was originally a very promising person, and his martial arts skills were not bad, but he just had a problem - he liked to gamble; Youdao had been betting for a long time without a winner, and he naturally ended up being in debt after gambling. When he was in debt, the creditor came to the door. He became angry and beat the creditor to death as soon as he missed it.
This matter must be considered unlucky for the Kongtong sect. Who makes you a famous and upright sect? If something like this happens to your disciples, you can figure it out.
So, the teacher could only pay off the gambling debt for him, and also compensated a large sum of money to the family of the man who was killed, which was considered to have settled the matter; but now that the matter was over, Tang Weizhi could not help but He might not be punished, so he was expelled from the division.
After Tang Weizhi left the school, there was no one to restrain him. He was a bachelor himself and had no relatives, so he just wandered around. It didn’t take long for him to spend what little money he had in the casino. After losing all his money, he wandered around hungry and stuffed... If he was lucky, he would meet some bandits and bandits, and he could get some money by "robbing the rich and giving to the poor", but he was unlucky. In those days he was no different than a beggar.
He was passing by here today and saw someone performing a challenge, and there was such a good thing as a reward of one hundred taels of silver. How could he not participate?
Anyway, Tang Weizhi is no longer afraid of being ridiculed by his comrades. He can say that he has decided on the money now.
"This strong man." When Song Xiang finally saw someone coming up, he had to pretend to be polite to him, "You don't look like a local. I don't know what your last name is. What's the matter?" Don't you have any reputation?"
Tang Weizhi looked down on such pretentious amateurs from the bottom of his heart. He didn't want to mention his former master again, so he replied impatiently: "Are you just showing off? What about the blind date? If you want to fight, why are you talking about useless things? "Well, most people are not happy when they hear this. How can Song Xiang not be angry when he hears it?
"Hey!" Song Xiang also changed his face as soon as he said it. The flesh on his face suddenly wrinkled and his eyes widened, "You kid...don't give up, right? Huh! Okay...today you Grandpa Song is here to teach you a lesson!"