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Chapter 172 Fighting Swords
Fang Yankai just left the county government office and planned to go to the south of the city to inspect houses.

Considering the time, it was time for him to save Li Xia.

This is the time for him, as the master book, to show his pattern and demeanor.

Not long after leaving the county government office, Huang Shi hurried up to meet him and said, "Master, it's done."

Fang Yankai nodded, with a look of understanding, he kept walking, and continued to walk forward.

"Then we should go there, and we can't embarrass Feiyu too much." He said, "Let's talk as we go, what's the situation?"

Huang Shi took small steps to keep up, deliberately lagging behind a few steps, bent his waist and said in a low voice: "The leader of Wu Ban shouted 'Brother Bao shouldn't be blind in one eye and bumped into Li Xianwei', Li Xianwei couldn't bear it, Said to make a bet with them."

"Young man, you are full of energy and can't hold your breath. Bet?"

"If Li County Lieutenant loses, he will resign and leave."

"What if he wins?"

"He didn't say."

Fang Yankai was taken aback, smiled, and said: "What he is asking for is nothing more than the classes being assigned by him, so it goes without saying."

"I don't know why the villain doesn't need to say it?"

"This is the power of the county lieutenant. It should be taken for granted. How can you use it as a bet? Not to mention, it is to show his demeanor, and if he wins, everyone will naturally obey him."

Huang Shi said: "But in the eyes of a villain, he can't win."

"How to bet?"

"He said that in a wheel battle, one person is against 44 people."

Fang Yankai sneered, "What's the proper way to order an official to fight with soldiers?"

"Yes, Team Leader Wu also thinks that it would be inappropriate for the archers to get caught up in a fight."

"Li Xia has placed such a big bet, and with one opponent against the crowd, I am afraid that the rules will be determined by him."

Huang Shidao: "Finally decided to fight swords, it can be regarded as an elegant way."

Fang Yankai stopped in his tracks, slightly surprised.

"Sword fighting?"

~~
Han Chengxu and his son took Liu Jinsuo for a long walk along the Fujiang River, and chatted with several big merchants on the pier, and they didn't return to the county until the afternoon.

"There are so many bamboos in this place." Liu Jinsuo said: "If we can't reach an agreement with those merchants, can't we make bamboo rafts ourselves?"

"Brother Liu, don't say it's useless, but you should practice water skills, otherwise you will really start a water battle..."

"That's right! It's time for me to practice water." Liu Jinsuo said loudly, "My mother said that fire can defeat gold and water can defeat fire. I have to practice."

The three of them talked about what they had and what they didn't, as they walked into the east gate, they saw a group of people yelling and running into the city.

"Go and see, the new county lieutenant is about to lose face..."

Upon hearing this, Liu Jinsuo strode up to pick up a thin man, and asked, "What happened?!"

The man was picked up like a chicken, and he was a little dazed, and murmured: "The new county lieutenant competes with the bow squad, we're going to watch."

"Where is the match?"

"Over there."

"How do you compare?"

"It's a sword fight, the county lieutenant is fighting against 44 people, whoever hits the opponent's fifteen swords first will lose."

"What do you mean? Sword fighting?"

"Of course it's not a real sword. There is a cloth bag tied to the wooden sword, which is covered in flour."

"That's good." Liu Jinsuo asked: "The county lieutenant wants to stab 44 fifteen swords? How many swords do you need?"

"Six...six hundred?"

"It's 660 swords." Han Qi'an said.

"Yes, but...you don't need to stab so many times. Li Xianwei only needs to hit fifteen swords to lose."

"Huh? Does it count if 44 people stabbed him fifteen times?"

"Yes."

"Damn, what a shame! Excuse me?"

Liu Jinsuo cursed, scratched his head, and exchanged glances with the Han father and son.

"You're being brave." Han Chengxu sighed, and said, "Ah Lang is impulsive, no matter how wronged he should be."

"Yes, a hard-earned official position...there should be a more secure method to resolve conflicts." Han Qi'an was a little puzzled: "Alang always makes decisions before acting, why is he so impulsive today?"

"Let's go and have a look."

"Oh."

Liu Jinsuo put the skinny man down and said, "Lead the way."

He was still puzzled, and murmured to himself: "You should also take me with you. I'll take three or four hundred stabs with a gun, wouldn't it be all right?"

A group of people walked towards the stage in the middle of the county seat, and the more they walked, the more people around them, talking about it.

Many vendors have also moved their stalls to nearby roads. Unlike Lin'an, the stalls in Qingfu County mostly sell dried bamboo shoots, oranges, and bamboo baskets, and the business is not very good.

There were many people in front of the stage.

Seeing this posture, Han Chengxu's eyes became even more worried, and he murmured in a low voice: "I'm afraid these soldiers deliberately let the news out, trying to make a big fool of A Lang."

He looked around and saw Li Xia standing on the stage, with his head unbuttoned, sleeves tied up, and a blue official uniform with fluttering sleeves, with a superb temperament.

Han Chengxu looked at it for a long time, then murmured calmly: "Fortunately, A Lang doesn't look like he was provoked..."

On the stage, Li Xia held up the wooden sword in his hand.

He closed his eyes, feeling the gazes of the crowd, and feeling the temperature of the sword hilt in his palm gradually warming from the cold.

In my heart, there was actually only one thought.

"Finally able to compete."

"Dangdang!"

The gong sounded.

Li Xia opened his eyes, faced the man opposite, and stabbed out with a sword...

~~
Han Qiaoer sat on the side of the table with her feet side by side watching, her eyes seemed to be crazy for a while.

The demeanor of Li Xia's sword strike seemed to fly from her heart...

When the gong sounded again and someone shouted "Lixian Weisheng, next", Han Qiaoer came back to her senses.

"Oh, what I wrote down today... seems to have been forgotten..."

~~
"what?"

Jiang Chun thought he heard it wrong, so he asked again: "How many did you say you picked?"

"Eleven."

"He hit ten hits?"

"It's four times."

"Four times?" Jiang Chun paced a few steps, then asked again: "Has the landlord registered?"

"It's over."

Jiang Chun stroked his beard and pondered for a while, then said, "I should go too."

"That's right." Zhan Gang nodded, and said, "Dong Weng can't pretend to be ignorant of this matter, it's time to come forward."

"Just, this rhetoric?"

Zhan Gang hesitated for a moment, then pondered: "If Captain Li loses..."

"If he loses, Fang Zhengshu will speak properly, and pretend to rescue him in public, but in fact it is just empty." Jiang Chun said: "But if he wins..."

"Win? Since he dared to fight swords, Li Xianwei's swordsmanship must be high. Judging from the current situation, this is also the case. However, if you choose four swords out of 11 people... you will probably lose. After all, the later he goes The worse your physical strength."

"What if he wins?"

The two on the main screen looked at each other and were silent for a while.

Zhan Gang said: "At that time, if Dong Weng thinks Li County Lieutenant will win, he can stop this game."

Jiang Chun knew what it meant, but he still couldn't believe that Li Xia could beat 44 players by himself.

He turned and walked out of the public room.

Behind him, Zhan Gang said another sentence.

"Did Dong Weng find out? County Lieutenant Li just took office on his first day, and there are already many people in the county government who are not interested in official duties."

Jiang Chun sighed and said nothing.

When he walked to the Yamen, he was taken aback again.

"Where is the sedan chair?"

"Reporting to the county magistrate, the madam has gone out with the little yamen and the little lady, and the villain is preparing the sedan chair."

"Move quickly." Jiang Chun frowned.

Then Li Xia only needs eleven more hits to lose. If he can't catch up, it will inevitably appear that he, the county magistrate, is deliberately avoiding trouble...

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"Boom!" Another gong sounded.

"Lixian Weisheng, next!"

Wu Ang looked up, with some shock in his eyes, and murmured: "How many?"

"How many?"

"Ten...eighteen?"

"No way?"

"I really don't believe it."

"I don't believe it either, but damn it, here's the thing."

"Gou Shuan, tell me, what's going on?!" Jiang Fan scolded: "You coward, seeing that he is an official, let him go?"

"Brother, it's not that I didn't get stabbed alone. I really couldn't get stabbed. I can't chop or slash. I'm not used to it. Before I could react, I got fifteen hits."

"Yes, me too, mother, I was stabbed by him as soon as I rushed over..."

"Brother Jiang, you go first." Wu Ang said: "But he is too fast, let's change our style of play to drag his strength."

"Understood, I don't want to stab him as a cripple, so I drag him."

"Pay attention to your steps, have you noticed?"

"Um……"

Jiang Fan responded, striding towards the stage.

Listening to the yelling around him, he felt an inexplicable sense of tension under the gaze of everyone.

He held the wooden sword, the hilt was wet.

The palms of the 18 defeated players were sweating a lot.

Jiang Fan licked his lips, and wanted to say something, to raise his prestige.

However, looking around, I saw Li Xianwei's face was still sinking like water, and the word "guawazi" came to his mouth, and he finally swallowed it...

(End of this chapter)