Poor Family

  Chapter 79 The Controversy between Li and Zhang (3)

At this time, it was not far away from the dinner time, and more than a hundred guests had gathered in the mansion. When they heard that the grandson of the Wang family was going to perform archery, everyone rushed to the archery range in the back garden of the Wang family. This is where Wang Gui usually practiced martial arts. Forty steps wide and sixty steps long, it was originally an open space, but it was bought by the Wang family and surrounded as a training ground for the Wang family's children.

  There is an archery target by the wall, and there are bow racks and weapon racks on the other side. At this time, hundreds of guests are standing on the other side of the training ground, whispering in twos and threes, waiting for Wang Gui to shoot arrows with great interest.

However, Wang Gui sat in his study room, holding his head in his hands, and didn't move in anger. No matter how his family persuaded him, he refused to get up to shoot arrows. He didn't like these squires, and it was just right to perform archery for these chubby squires. The blasphemy of his royal arrows.

At this moment, Li Yanqing, Yue Fei, and Tang Huai were called by Wang Gui's father and asked them to help persuade Wang Gui. It will work."

Li Yanqing walked into the room and saw that Wang Gui was still angry with his back to the door, before Li Yanqing could open his mouth, Wang Gui said angrily, "Don't persuade me, I don't want to go archery, treat me like a monkey , I won't do it!"

   "I'm here to apologize."

"Apologize?"

  Wang Gui turned his head to look at Li Yanqing, and asked puzzledly, "What are you apologizing for?"

  Li Yanqing said apologetically: "I asked the patriarch to make a suggestion to let you perform archery. I should discuss it with you first."

  Wang Gui jumped up immediately, and angrily questioned Li Yanqing, "Why did you make this suggestion? You clearly know that I don't like these gentry, what do they know about archery!"

   "Don't worry, listen to me!"

Li Yanqing whispered a few words to him, Wang Gui's face finally calmed down, but he still complained to Li Yanqing: "Of course I will help you, but you should discuss this matter with me first, so that I can be psychologically prepared." That's right."

   "Didn't I not find you? Who knows where you've been hiding and having a good time, let's go!"

   Wang Gui dawdled to get up and was dragged out of the room by Li Yanqing. When he reached the door, he stopped and emphasized again: "Let's make it right first, you must accompany me to shoot arrows together."

   "Sure, both Lao Yue and Ah Tang agreed."

  The four of them came to the archery range, and Wang Wanhao was a little anxious to wait. He stepped forward and complained, "Why are you here now? Everyone is waiting anxiously."

  Wang Gui pointed to Li Yanqing and Yue Fei, "Grandfather, they shoot arrows with me."

  Wang Wanhao was stunned for a moment, "My little ancestor, this is for your congratulations, what is it for you to drag others into this?"

  Wang Gui said with a serious face: "If they don't accompany me to shoot, I'm afraid I won't be able to hit a single arrow!"

  The guests next to him got impatient for a long time ago, their mouths were thirsty and their stomachs were hungry, how could they have the interest to procrastinate any longer?

  Wang Wanhao had no choice but to nod in agreement.

  The four of them discussed and decided that Wang Gui, the host, would shoot first, followed by Tang Huai, then Yue Fei, and finally Li Yanqing.

  Wang Gui shot the arrow first, and he could tell every tree and plant in his home field with his eyes closed. At this moment, Wang Gui saw Tang Yuaner, who was looking at him expectantly. His heart felt hot, and his courage doubled.

He stepped forward, drew his bow and set his arrows, and once again performed super-levelly. He hit nine out of ten arrows and won warm applause from everyone. Especially Tang Yuan'er was so excited that his eyes glowed, and his big shiny eyes were full of admiration for Wang Gui. .

  Wang Gui took a look at her, and felt rather proud.

  Li Wenyou praised Wang Wanhao beside him: "Lingsun deserves to be the top ten in the county examination! It's really amazing."

  Wang Wanhao chuckled, "No matter how powerful he is, he is still tenth! How can he be compared with Brother Qing, who is number one in civil and martial arts, and I am afraid that Xiaohe Township will not be able to find a second!"

  Li Wenyou smiled proudly, "Don't talk about Xiaohe Township, even Xiangzhou has no second!"

   His voice was a little louder. Zhang Junbao heard it and couldn't help snorting heavily. Li Wenyou looked at him and asked with a smile, "I found that Yuanwai Zhang seemed a little dissatisfied?"

  Zhang Junbao couldn't bear it any longer, and yelled angrily: "The first place in Zhangkou county test, the first place in Shukou county test, the county test is nothing!"

As soon as he said this, the faces of Wang Wanhao and Tang Lian immediately darkened, and Zhang Junbao suddenly realized that he had said something wrong, and he quickly explained: "Brother Wang, Brother Tang, what I said is not aimed at you, I am For a certain person, he dared to say that his family, Sun Xiangzhou, is the number one, he simply does not know how high the sky is and how thick the earth is!"

  Li Wenyou smiled coldly, and he said loudly to the people around him: "I'm talking about the Li family being better than the Zhang family. Brother Qing is the first in the county exam, unlike their Zhang family. Which Zhang family's children passed the exam?"

  After Wang Gui shot the arrow, many people wanted to leave, but when Li Wenyou said something sharper than a knife, everyone stopped and came back to watch the excitement.

  Under the watchful eyes of everyone, Zhang Junbao couldn't bear it anymore, and said angrily: "So what if I can pull out a Zhang family child!"

  Zhang Junbao turned around and shouted, "Where is Sanlang?"

  Several Zhang's children surrounded Zhang Qiao and walked in. Zhang Qiao clasped his fists and saluted, "Second Uncle, my nephew is here!"

  Zhang Junbao pointed at Zhang Qiao, and shouted to Li Wenyou: "This is my nephew. He came third in the Xiangzhou martial arts examination. Is it better than your family's first place in the county examination?"

  People around were in an uproar. The Zhang family actually had a nephew who came in third in the martial arts test. This is not easy!

  Li Wenyou curled his lips and said disdainfully: "What's the use of juren in martial arts? If you have the ability, go to the provincial exam. That's the real martial arts person. Don't show off the chicken feathers of the exam all day long."

   There was a burst of laughter all around, Zhang Junbao couldn't hold his face anymore, and said to Zhang Qiao angrily: "You go and compare with his county test number one, and smash his stinky mouth!"

  Zhang Qiao was also full of anger in his heart. He dared to humiliate himself like this. He clasped his fists to Wang Wanhao and said, "Please come and shoot arrows."

  Wang Wanhao felt that something was wrong, he pondered for a while, and agreed, "Yes!"

  Zhang Qiao strode forward, pointed at Li Yanqing and said, "Shoot slowly, I want to compare arrows with you."

  At this time, Wang Wanhao walked slowly to Li Wenyou, and asked him in a low voice, "Brother Li, what are you doing?"

  Li Wenyou said in a low voice: "Give Brother Yu a chance, and I will buy wine to apologize to Brother Yu later!"

   Speaking of this, Wang Wanhao fell silent.

  On the archery field, Tang Huai and Yue Fei also finished shooting respectively. Both of them hit eight out of ten shots, which aroused applause.

  Li Yanqing waved his hand to Zhang Qiao, "You are a guest from afar, please go ahead!"

  Zhang Qiao was not polite, he directly picked a Eight-Double Bow from the bow stand, drew out an arrow, and gave Li Yanqing a vicious look.

  Li Yanqing raised his hands and said loudly to the crowd: "Fellow folks, this Brother Zhang proposed to compete with me, and I accepted. All fellow folks, please testify to us!"

  Everyone applauded in unison, but Li Yanqing's words were a signal. Li Wenyou understood, so he calmly said to Zhang Junbao: "How can Li Zhang Zhengqiang do without a lot of money, why don't we make a bet!"

   "Sure, you can bet whatever you want!" Zhang Junbao said without showing any weakness.

   Li Wenyou looked into his eyes and said word by word: "I bet on the boat with you, whoever loses will quit the royal fleet, just bet on this!"

  Zhang Junbao was stunned for a moment. It turned out that it was because of the fleet. He suddenly had the feeling of being ambushed. After a long while, he snorted disdainfully and said, "You just want to borrow the boat and just say so, why bother?"

  Li Wenyou said coldly: "I just ask if you dare to bet or not?"

  The reason why the aggressive method has been successful repeatedly is, on the one hand, the success of the strategy to lure the enemy into taking the bait, and on the other hand, it is also a matter of face.

  Of course Zhang Junbao knew that Li Wenyou was trying to provoke him. If he didn't agree, it would be tantamount to admitting that the Zhang family was inferior to the Li family in public, and he couldn't afford to lose face.

   But more importantly, Zhang Junbao wasn't worried at all. How could the Zhang family's son who was ranked third in Wu Jie lose to a 12-year-old country boy?

  Zhang Junbao sneered, "Why don't you dare to bet? I'll just bet with you!"

  Li Wenyou said to Wang Wanhao and Tang Lian again: "Please be a witness for us, Zhang Yuanwai and I will make a bet on the old Wang's fleet, whoever loses will let it out."

   Tang Lian smiled faintly, "Very good! I would like to see who is better, the first in the county examination or the third in Wujie."

Although Wang Wanhao has a closer relationship with the Zhang family, he doesn't want to offend the Li family, and morally speaking, he should help Li Wenyou more, so he told Li Wenyou that as long as the Zhang family is willing to withdraw by themselves, he will borrow the boat To Li Wenyou.

Now that Zhang and Li want to bet on the boat, whoever wins and loses has nothing to do with Wang Wanhao. Come ten taels of silver!"

  Wang Wanhao is rich and powerful, he held up twenty taels of silver and said loudly: "Since the martial arts competition is in my Wang family, how can I stay out of it, I will add another lottery, whoever wins, the twenty taels of silver will belong to him!"

   There was an uproar all around, but the Wang family has the courage! He actually took out twenty taels of silver as a lottery.

  Zhang Qiao's eyes lit up, it turned out to be twenty taels of silver, which happened to be a package for him to go to Beijing, he cupped his fists at Li Yanqing and said, "Then I won't be polite."

  Li Yanqing smiled and said: "Brother Zhang is superb in martial arts, and younger brother is of course far inferior, but I'm afraid that Brother Zhang will not perform well. What if we end up in a tie with archery?"

  Zhang Qiao said coldly: "If there is a draw in archery, I will compete with you in weapons again until I win!"

   "Brother Zhang still has courage, please shoot arrows!"

  Zhang Qiao stretched out his bow and nocked an arrow, drew the bow fully, and shot an arrow at the target sixty paces away.

  (end of this chapter)