There are not many places to drink coffee in Jinmen, but the best coffee shop must be in Xiaobailou.
Even though it was daytime, the boss insisted on drawing the curtains halfway to create alternating dim light.
Soothing, low-frequency music echoes in the space exuding a complex aroma, making the atmosphere lazy and ambiguous.
Therefore, lovers always like to go to such places for dates, because when men and women go to such places, even if they don't want anything to happen, they will inevitably have "wrong thoughts" in their minds.
For example, Su Yi and Gong Er now.
The haloed light shines on each other, making the people sitting across from each other look mysterious and angular. The white mist from the two cups of coffee occasionally blocks their sight, and they try to cover themselves in this alternating moment.
The emotion in the eyes.
But the effect is not very good.
"I remember the first time I drank coffee when I was fourteen years old." Gong Er suddenly smiled and said, "That year, Zhe Peng people bombed Marshal Zhang to death in Huanggutun. After my father knew the news,
He laughed three times and cried a lot. He laughed because if it hadn't been for Dashuai Zhang, my uncle would not have been forced to leave his hometown and would not be able to return to his home. He cried because if it hadn't been for Dashuai Zhang, he would not have been a native of Zhepeng.
Who else can stop it?"
The topic was a bit heavy, the charming atmosphere before was gone, and the softness in Su Yi's eyes gradually turned into solemnity.
However, this was Gong Er’s intention.
"I want to serve my country with a single heart, and I shed two tears to miss my family." Gong Er said quietly, "I know my father's suffering and understand his dilemma. So I have always listened to his words and never gave in to anything.
He worries about me."
Su Yi listened quietly and said nothing.
"Dad had been feeling miserable for a long time, and one day he suddenly said he wanted to take me to drink coffee. He said he would go, so I went with him. Unexpectedly, it was only after we went that I discovered that it was not just me and dad who were drinking coffee together.
Individuals. And a father and son."
Speaking of this, Gong Er suddenly paused and his eyes flickered.
Su Yi then understood what she was going to say and why she had to be "ignorant" when the atmosphere was just right.
"Their family is powerful and has a big background in Aurous Hill." Gong Er laughed to himself, "I always thought that my father was my God. With him here, I will be happy and healthy all my life."
"But that day I realized that there is a sky outside the sky. Troubled times are coming, and my father was afraid that his sky could not cover me, so he found a higher and bigger sky for me."
Su Yi remained silent, he was still listening.
"I made a promise to someone and made an engagement with the young master of that family." Gong Er looked at Su Yi, "Actually, when dad asked me that day, as long as I said 'no', my dad would definitely obey me, because
He never forced me to do anything. Mr. Geng, do you know why I agreed to my father without saying anything in the end?"
Su Yi looked at her and said slowly: "Maybe you want to be his god."
Gong Er's eyes suddenly gained some brilliance.
She said: "I actually have some regrets, so I have been practicing martial arts all these years, and I feel that I don't need to rely on others, but just rely on myself. Maybe I overestimated my capabilities. From that day on, I have never been happy again."
Pass."
Su Yi said, "Sometimes the reason why people are unhappy is because they carry too many things that they shouldn't carry. They want to let them go, but they feel that they shouldn't let them go and they can't let them go."
"Is this the case for you too, Mr. Geng?" Gong Er asked.
"Me too." Su Yi said.
"So you're not happy either?" Gong Er asked again.
"Sometimes, but more often than not, I find joy in suffering." Su Yi said with a smile, "Actually, what life is without suffering?"
"Miss Gong, in fact, people suffer when they should be in pain, and they are happy when they should be happy. You won't be happy when you are in pain, so why do you remember painful things when you are happy?"
Gong Er looked at Su Yi, suddenly smiled and said, "Mr. Geng, do you blame me for spoiling the scenery?"
"No," Su Yi said, "I'm just thinking of ways to make you happy."
Gong Er's eyes seemed to be filled with water, and she said softly: "Many people tell me not to be unhappy. But they never know why I am unhappy, and they never think of ways to make me happy."
Su Yi smiled and said nothing.
"Tell me about you, Mr. Geng." Gong Er said, "I want to hear it."
Su Yi looked at her, and then slowly said: "Like you, I have been burdened with too many things that I can't let go of, so I have a lot of things that I have to do, such as this time in the ring, Ming Zhishan
If you have a tiger, you tend to travel to the mountains. In fact, no one likes to compete in the ring, but if you want to do something, the world needs you to fight with others."
"After this time in the ring, there will definitely be another ring waiting for me, and I will continue to fight. Whether I want to or not, I have to stand in the ring again and again, use my fists, use my
Use the sword to defeat the opponent or even kill the opponent."
After a pause, Su Yi looked at Gong Er and continued: "So I am destined to miss a lot of scenery in my life, and I am destined to leave a lot of regrets."
"Like now?" Gong Er suddenly asked.
"Yes." Su Yi said.
The two looked at each other, Gong Er's eyes were a little misty, she smiled, as if joking: "If you have a chance, buy a train ticket that doesn't ask where you want to go. Are you willing to drop everything and go with me?"
"Can you let it go?" Su Yi asked.
Gong Er looked deeply at Su Yi and shook his head slowly.
At this moment, Su Yi suddenly breathed a sigh of relief.
He suddenly thought that maybe Gong Baosen had the same mood when he asked Gong Er if he would marry that young master.
So when Gong Er shook his head just now, was it the same reason as before?
"Mr. Geng, I'm happy to meet you," Gong Er said.
"Me too." Su Yi said.
Gong Er smiled and stood up: "Actually, the coffee is not that good, it's too bitter. Mr. Geng, I'll pay for this cup of coffee."
She turned and left without looking back.
Su Yi pinned himself down on the sofa for a long time, until he was sure that he could no longer catch up to Gong Er.
Gong Er said that she was stubborn and competitive, and had never given up to anyone in her life.
But she still admitted it just now.
Su Yi told her that in this duel, whoever loses will get a treat.
In the end, Gong Er paid for this cup of coffee.
Since that day, Gong Er has never been here again.
In fact, after returning from Xiaobailou, Gong Baosen waited for his daughter at Zheng Zhai's martial arts arena as usual, but he did not wait for Gong Er to come, only Lao Jiang.
"Master, the girl said she won't come." Lao Jiang said, "She won't go either in the future."
Old Jiang was about to speak but stopped.
"What do you want to say?" Gong Baosen asked.
"There seems to be something wrong between the girl and Geng Liangchen..." Lao Jiang said hesitantly.
Gong Baosen's expression changed, his eyes were uncertain for a long time, and then he asked in a deep voice: "Is it accurate?"
"In the past five years, I have never seen a girl as happy as she was during this period." Lao Jiang said, "But today, the girl from before is back."
Gong Baosen was silent for a long time and sighed: "It's time to let Shan Ao send a letter to the newspaper."
"Yes, sir."
The next day, the headlines of major newspapers in Tianjin published a news - the Chinese Warriors Association will hold the Chinese Elite Warrior Competition at the Jinmen Chinese Martial Arts Hall in ten days, aiming to select the elite Chinese martial arts from various sects.
Come, form a national martial arts elite association to promote national martial arts and carry forward the spirit of martial arts.
The Elite Samurai Tournament is divided into four stages.
The competition system of the first stage is the "Challenge Champion Challenge". All invited sects and individuals need to draw lots and compete randomly. Those who win three games in a row can become the champion. The champion needs to win ten games in a row and is regarded as a defender.
If you succeed, you can enter the second stage of the competition.
The Challenger Challenge lasts for ten days. Challengers who have not completed the games must compete at least twice a day, or accept challenges from others, or randomly select opponents.
The loser will still have a chance to continue participating in the Champion Challenge, but if he loses two games in total, he will lose the chance to advance to the second round.
Champions who successfully defend the title within ten days will advance to the next round. The second stage of the competition will be the "Championship Competition".
All the champions are drawn into groups and then fight against each other. Each group has four people, and each player needs to play three games. A points system is adopted, with one point for winning and zero points for losing.
Only the first place in each group will advance to the third round.
The third stage of the competition is called the "Guo Shi Competition". In the second round, the top champions of each group will take turns to fight against each other. The top three will be determined based on the points system. The Chinese National Martial Arts Museum will award "Guo Shi, Xia" respectively.
The title "Swordsman and Samurai".
At this point, the main part of this Chinese Martial Arts Elite Challenge is completely over.
But there is a fourth stage of the competition, which is the "Heritage Exhibition Competition".
In this stage of the competition, Gong Baosen, Li Shuwen, Shang Yunxiang, Sun Lutang, Arm Saint Zhang Ce, Yang Chengpu, Ma Yingtu, and Ma Liang, a total of eight martial arts celebrities, will select the top three elite warriors for a martial arts inheritance exhibition competition.
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They will randomly select their favorite disciples and hold inheritance exhibition matches with them. After the challenger meets the reasonable conditions they have preset, they will reward the challenger with their special skills and unique skills.
In addition, as long as you advance to the second round, you can get a generous reward of one thousand oceans.
If you advance to the third round, you will receive a reward of 10,000 oceans.
The top three in the third round will receive another 100,000, 50,000 and 20,000 ocean prizes.
All prizes for this competition are sponsored by Liu Haiqing's "Three Youth League".
Looking at this familiar competition system, it is obvious that Su Yi has contributed a lot.
Whether it is the novel competition system or the generous rewards, they are all full of gimmicks. After the news was announced, it quickly aroused heated discussion among the people.
Moreover, the news was not only fermented in Tianjin, but also quickly spread throughout the country.
This competition system is very advanced, complete and fair, and the rewards are very generous. It can be said to be unprecedented.
Almost all martial arts practitioners across the country were attracted, and those who could come quickly started to rush here.
Ten days were enough for people from most parts of the country to reach Tianjin, but due to various reasons, few warriors from the south came, especially from the south of Guangdong and Guangxi.
Even so, ten days later, thousands of warriors gathered in Jinmen, putting great pressure on the security situation in Jinmen.
The streets of Jinmen have been very lively recently. No matter where you go, people are talking about this martial arts event.
The number of people was far beyond Gong Baosen's expectation. In Gong Baosen's original expectation, there would be hundreds of people participating in the competition, which was already considered a crowded event.
But now, there are thousands of people!
The event with thousands of people is definitely a super-large event. It is also the first time in this era that such a grand event has been held with the largest number of participants in history.
Gong Baosen and Zheng Shanao are both a little numb, they have no experience in this.
This matter even attracted the attention of Yu Xuezhong and even Jinling. Because there were too many people gathered, Jinling had already called for a halt to the martial arts competition. For a time, there was a rumbling, and bad news spread everywhere.
Come.
Fortunately, Su Yi took action in time, took over the job of "organizational consultant" without hesitation, sent his Liba people as "volunteers", and Liu Haiqing persuaded the military to come forward, and order was restored on track.
As a result, the competition format of the first round of the "Challenger Challenge" began to undergo some changes as the number of people increased. Thousands of contestants were divided into eight competition areas according to the registration time. Participants in the eight competition areas were not allowed to "
For cross-regional competition, eight competitions will also be held at the same time. The duration of the competition is strictly controlled within five minutes.
As a result, although the number of participants was nearly ten times greater than expected, the competition format did not actually change much, and it was not greatly affected.
This mature competition system astonished everyone, and they felt that the person who could design such a competition system was definitely a genius.
Some warlords who were concerned about this matter even offered generous terms to "poach" people, hoping that Su Yi would switch jobs and work under them to do "more meaningful work."
Su Yi, of course, ignored him and turned a deaf ear. This made everyone who knew about his existence praise him for his "indifferent attitude towards fame and fortune".
Competition day has finally arrived!
On this day, the whole town of Tianjin was empty, and people all flocked to the eight competition venues in Tianjin to watch this unprecedented martial arts competition.
Su Yi did not make anything special, because this game truly ignored the background and treated everyone equally. Everyone had to start from the first round.
Of course, even this cannot be completely fair. Fame and wealth are the two words that make people rack their brains and work hard one after another. No matter how perfect the rules are, there are still people who can find loopholes in them.
For example, someone may bribe ten opponents to challenge themselves in order to advance, and deliberately lose to themselves in the ring, thereby qualifying themselves to advance to the second round.
Even Su Yi didn't have a good way to solve this situation. He could only achieve his goal through subsequent punishment.
Fortunately, the champion who cheated his way into the competition won't be far away, because in the second round, everyone will be on the same starting line again.
As a contestant, Su Yi was assigned to the first division. This division has the largest number of people, with more than 800 warriors from all over the world participating. The competition venue is in the French Concession, at a racecourse run by a lighthouse man.
Five arenas have been set up here early, with two referees in each arena.