Unparalleled Double Harmony

Chapter 30 Duel in the arena

Today, Xuzhou City...is very lively.

There is a duel.

Zheng Mukai, the head of the Guangxing Escort Bureau in Kaifeng Prefecture, wants to compete openly with Ge Shi, the fifth leader of the Huai'an Chivalry Sect, in the arena in the city.

These two are well-known figures in the arena.

That Zheng Mukai is thirty-five years old this year, known as the "Kaifeng Three-Armed Sword". Of course, he is not a "three-sword style", he only has one sword, but he uses it with a fast sword, which is so fast that it makes people I feel like he has three arms.

And Ge Shi is not a fuel-efficient lamp. He is 31 years old, nicknamed "Scorpion Tail Spear", and his seven-foot flower gun is ever-changing and extremely fierce. It can be said that everyone in the Huaihe River area knows it.

These two people... Although they didn't have much friendship at first, they wouldn't fight, let alone sign a life-and-death certificate to fight in the arena.

But today they are going to fight, and they must fight.

why?

It's not hard to guess—two men fight to the death, mostly for money or women.

Money, they have, enough to spend.

So, the answer is women.

There are also many types of women. Both Zheng Mukai and Ge Shi have wives in their families, and their wives are also women, but they are obviously not fighting for the wife who is far away today.

They... were fighting for a woman they had never even met face to face.

That woman, nicknamed "Chuxue", is the number one in the largest brothel in Xuzhou City, "Seven Willows Youlan".

Brothels in those days were also divided into three, six, and nine grades; the second- and third-rate ones were not mentioned, and usually there were not so many rules, but the first-rate brothels...then there were many rules when shopping.

The kind of brothels that can achieve a reputation must have quite powerful backers behind them, so the top names in brothels like this are not seen by ordinary people at all.

It doesn't mean that if you have money, you can walk into the kiln with your mouth open to roll your name and sleep with the top card. Sorry, there is no such operation.

For those who have status, whoring must also be elegant and classy, ​​and they cannot lie down and sleep when they enter the house like ordinary people who visit the lower-level kilns. In their eyes, they are animals.

What the real dignitaries and literati seek is not just physical release; before that, they must first be satisfied spiritually.

Therefore, if you want to see the top card in this high-end brothel, you have to "ask for a meeting" like a door-to-door interview.

Regardless of whether others will see you in the end, you have to put down the money first, and let the bustard confirm that you are willing to spend the money.

Then, generally, I invite you to drink tea in the room first, and let the girl take a look at you in the dark first. If you look like no one, crooked, rude, etc... then basically you You can go back after drinking tea.

If your appearance and temperament are all right, then there is the next step, that is, the girl comes out to chat with you...

Of course, it's just for chatting, if you see someone come out and start to move, or show a stupid anxious look, that person will turn around and leave.

You still have to carry it, hold it, you are obviously here to visit the kiln, and you have to put on a calm look, chatting with others about piano, chess, calligraphy, painting, romance... Then they will start toasting you with tea, Flying eyes flirtatiously.

Talking like this until midnight, the girl had to take the initiative to say hello to the maid beside her, let her pass the message out and close the door, and then "please" you into the back room to rest together, so that you can go in and fulfill your real purpose of coming to the brothel.

This series of operations...to us today seems like taking off our pants and farting, but in the eyes of the upper class at that time, foreplay is more necessary than foreplay.

In fact, if you taste it carefully, you will find that this matter is also reasonable.

One thing, if you get it too easily, it will reduce your happiness when you enjoy it...

Even if it's shit, the refreshing feeling when you have a little urge to relieve it is completely different from the refreshing feeling when you feel like you're about to pull it on your pants.

Can Gao Fushuai feel as happy after spending a day sleeping as a goddess, and licking a dog after spending a year sleeping as a goddess? Can that compare?

Therefore, this kind of initiative to create difficulties for one's own actions and enjoy the feeling of worrying about gains and losses that may fail or be rejected is a higher state and a skill to subtly induce one's brain to secrete more endorphins .

Of course, having said that, you have to have the strength to operate like this. If you don’t have the strength, no matter what you do, there is a high probability that you will lose nothing.

It's a bit far away... Closer to home.

So what happened to Zheng Mukai and Ge Shi?

With my foreshadowing above, the explanation is relatively simple: they both went to Qiliu Youlan last night, and they both wanted to see the girl in the first snow, so they were invited by the bustard to drink tea together.In the end, Chuxue didn't show up either, but just looked at the two from behind the curtain for a while, and said, "Everything is indistinguishable (read yu, second tone)."

After the two came out, they were a little confused, so they asked the old bustard to ask Miss Chuxue what she meant.The old bustard saw that they had already spent money, and they were all famous people in the world, so they went to ask. As a result, Miss Chuxue wrote down those six words again and handed over a note.

So what exactly does she mean?

This "one Xu" undoubtedly refers to herself, Xu is snow; 'In the valley'.

But it's not...

She hides the word here, this "Yu" is actually not "Yu", but "even", because there are two of you "people" sitting there.

Miss Chuxue is clever and smart. Looking at the details of the clothes, boots, cuffs and belts on the two people, she knew that they were all married people, and their wives took good care of them; The word " is to remind them that there is still a wife at home; the intentional absence of a radical is to persuade them to be "human beings" and have a little conscience.

The so-called "one fluff does not separate the two" does not mean that I will not "split" myself between the two of you, but that I, Chuxue, do not want to "break up" you two "couples".

She... thought so.

But Zheng Mukai and Ge Shi didn't think so.

These two have suffered from being uneducated. What level of education do you think the girls who can be the top cards are?If women were able to test for merit, they would have been officials long ago, but you two still want to see the top card?Isn't this bad luck?

In this way, Zheng and Ge understood that sentence as a literal meaning, and interpreted according to that meaning, the other party seemed to be implying, "If only one of you two comes, then my piece of snow will fall there."

So, they followed the strategy of "two peaches kill three warriors" on their own.

The two of them are also from the martial arts, well-known and decent, they can't just fight outside the brothel at night, and go back after winning the fight?It doesn't sound good to spread the word.

So they met, and at the end of today, they will compete in the East Street Ring in Xuzhou City.

As for the reason... They naturally didn't publicly say that they were doing it for a prostitute, and they only said it was to learn martial arts and compete against each other; He said hello and signed the life and death certificate.

That's what it says on the scene.

But in fact, both of them were murderous.

I have signed the life and death certificate, can I still keep it?

This thing is equivalent to a "legal killing contract". As long as both parties sign it voluntarily, life and death are at the mercy of God after the event. Relatives and friends of either party are not allowed to seek revenge afterwards. If anyone seeks revenge or retaliates in disguise, then you have Wrong first.

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After noon, on the East Street, the crowd of spectators began to gather.

When encountering feuds in rivers and lakes on the road, ordinary people naturally hide away, because they are afraid of being harmed by the fish in the pond; but there are rules in the arena competition, they are cute to watch, and even those who have good things climb to the nearby merchants to see clearly of the roof.

When it is not, it will arrive in a blink of an eye.

Ge Shi and Zheng Mukai finally made their debut.

Both of them waited until the last moment to show up, which was also a manifestation of Jianghu experience-they both knew that coming to such an occasion early would make them prone to anxiety.

The life and death certificates had already been signed, and the two just came to the witness to give a little salute, and after listening to the other party's brief explanation, they each jumped onto the six-foot-high ring with light kung fu.

"Please."

"Please."

Holding weapons in their hands, they clasped their fists together, said a final hello in the center of the stage, and then walked to both ends of the ring respectively.

Right at this moment...

"Come on, it's the opening, buy and leave! The game will start immediately, and the last minute, if you want to bet, hurry up, what? What is 1 minute? 1 minute is you counting from one to sixty. time."

All I could hear was, at the corner of an alley about ten meters away from the arena, a man with a shrill voice was yelling without hesitation.

At the same time, there was another voice, not far from the "opener", chanting to a group of villagers gathered here in a straightforward manner: "Oh, I am a professional commentator, you believe me. Let me tell you, today's match is June [-]th, Ge Shi Xiaoyou... as the saying goes, practicing swords for a hundred days, spears for a thousand days, and swords for ten thousand days, players of their level... oh no... masters, Generally, it is more fierce to practice guns, of course, this Zheng Mukai is a few years older than Ge Shi, this has to be counted, you listen to me, next to Ge Shi, that's right."

If the masters of these two voices are not Sun Yixie and Huang Donglai, who are they?

These two fellows also arrived in Xuzhou yesterday, and rumors of the duel were circulating in the streets and alleys this morning, so they joined in the fun.

Sun Yixie is worthy of being a business genius. Almost immediately after hearing the news, he thought of engaging in "handicap" near the ring; Zhu Xiaowan's black shop gave away 200 taels of silver, and he felt uncomfortable, so he wanted to make some extra money to make it back—this is because of his personality, and it's really not about money.

As for Huang Donglai, he also has a soft spot for commentary, so he came to help Sun Ge "knock the edge".

The two first stood there and chatted like a cross talk, and when more people came to listen, they changed to Huang Donglai as a storyteller alone, while Sun Yixie took advantage of the opportunity and took out the "" "Betting" began to open, and only then did the scene in front of me appear.

Listening to the unscrupulous words and deeds of those two boys, Zheng Mukai and Ge Shi on the ring also had embarrassed expressions and the corners of their mouths twitched slightly, but now that their arrows are on the line, they are unlikely to call a timeout or something.

The two could only pretend that they didn't hear, and each put up a posture, ready to fight.

(End of this chapter)