It is a very nice weather, with almost no clouds in the blue sky, and the warm sunshine shining on the earth, dispelling the coldness of winter.
Such good weather is suitable for apprenticeship.
Although in Lin Zhiming's view, this was just an episode when he came to Guangyue Province to solve a case, Lin Zhiming still took this matter very seriously. He got up at around eight o'clock in the morning, and then treated himself inside and out.
After tidying up carefully, I left the martial arts gym on time at nine o'clock with Li Feifan, Xu Bing and Su Qing.
There were tourists in twos and threes outside the martial arts hall, and four of them were walking towards the martial arts temple.
"Ip Man, today is Singles' Day, do you want to go out to play tonight?" Li Feifan walked beside Lin Zhiming and asked in a low voice.
"Is it Singles' Day?" Lin Zhiming was a little surprised. He actually had no idea about the date.
"That's right, didn't you know? There are a lot of little girls on the street outside during this festival. Everyone is busy getting out of singles. There are so many opportunities!" Li Feifan said.
"Do you want to go out to play?" Lin Zhiming asked.
"I...it's okay." Li Feifan scratched his head and said.
"Then we won't go out." Lin Zhiming shook his head.
"No, it's better to go out and have fun. After all, it's only one day a year!" Li Feifan said.
"You have an appointment tonight, right?" Lin Zhiming asked with a half-smile.
"How do you know?!" Li Feifan looked at Lin Zhiming in surprise.
"You are not someone who likes to have fun, so you have to go out tonight. That must be some reason why you have to go out to play. It happens to be Singles' Day again, and the probability of you having a date with someone is close to 100%! And that person is still a woman.
Yes, I might be relatively close to you, do you think what I said is correct?" Lin Zhiming said.
"Shh! Don't say it!" Li Fan quickly made a gesture of silence, and then secretly glanced at Xu Bing who was walking in front. After finding that Xu Bing had no reaction, Li Fan said in a low voice, "You come with me tonight.
Go ahead, to tell you the truth, I do have an appointment tonight, but I don’t really want to go alone, so you go with me."
"You don't really want to go alone? You don't dare to go, right?" Lin Zhiming said.
"You!" Li Feifan glared at Lin Zhiming angrily, as if blaming Lin Zhiming for revealing his little thoughts.
"Let me guess. You have a date in the evening but you dare not go. It proves that this may be the first time you have met. If the first meeting is on Singles' Day, then there is a high probability that the relationship between you two is still very deep. You two
Could it be the online CP?" Lin Zhiming asked.
Li Feifan's eyes widened and he looked at Lin Zhiming in surprise.
"What's going on in your head? How come you can guess everything?!" Li Fan asked in surprise.
"So, you are on the run this time, right?" Lin Zhiming asked.
"Well, well, she, she invited me to watch "Section 9" which will be released at 0:00 tonight. It should be considered a show-off, hehe." Li Fan said, scratching his head.
"Do you look good?" Lin Zhiming asked.
"Why are you so tacky? It doesn't matter whether you are good-looking or not. As long as two people have the same soul and can talk together, they can be together regardless of whether they look good or not!" Li Feifan said seriously.
"Brother Li, good job!" Lin Zhiming said with a thumbs up.
"What do you mean, do you want to go together? I'll buy you a ticket." Li Feifan said.
"Don't you think this is torture? Three tickets, three people, you two are playing with each other in the cinema, and I? Be a light bulb? How about Brother Li, you can also arrange a girl for me, let you do that
As long as the partner is young, pretty, good-looking, rich, and has no bad habits, it will be fine." Lin Zhiming said.
"That's really casual of you. I'll ask her later. I'll take it as if you agreed to this. Okay, let's not talk anymore. The Martial Arts Temple is coming soon!" Li Feifan said.
"Yeah!" Lin Zhiming nodded, and then thought of Ye Shan.
It seems that he promised her to go to the premiere, but now it seems that he has no choice but to break the promise.
Hey, I have let down quite a few women in my life!
Lin Zhiming felt quite emotional in his heart.
"We're here!" Xu Bing suddenly stopped and said.
Lin Zhiming looked forward and saw a huge martial arts temple directly in front. There was an open space at the entrance of the martial arts temple.
At this time, guardrails have been put up around the open space.
Many tourists who heard the broadcast came here.
For many people in the Dragon Kingdom, it is also very interesting to see a martial arts sect recruiting disciples with their own eyes.
Several people in uniforms were at the scene to maintain order.
Xu Bing led Lin Zhiming and others outside the guardrail. After identifying themselves, they walked through the guardrail to the open space in front of the Martial Temple.
There are two rows of Taishi chairs on both sides of the open space. These Taishi chairs are reserved for guests who come to watch the ceremony. However, these two rows of chairs are destined to be empty today.
There is a long table placed at the entrance of the Wu Temple. On the long table is a full-length portrait of Master Guan Er. In addition, there is a portrait.
The portrait shows a man in ancient costume.
"That's the founder of our Duanshuishui sect!" Li Fan said, pointing to the portrait.
"He looks quite handsome," Lin Zhiming said.
"Of course, it is said that our ancestor almost became a prince-in-law back then, but because he was devoted to martial arts, he could only live up to the princess's good intentions in the end." Li Feifan said.
"Feifan, stop talking and go prepare things." Xu Bing said.
"Yes!" Li Feifan nodded, and then jogged all the way into the martial arts temple.
"Ip Man, you can just wait here. You have to be careful about the money." Xu Bing said.
"It looks good!" Lin Zhiming raised the bag in his hand, which contained one hundred thousand yuan in cash.
"Okay, the apprenticeship ceremony will start on time at ten o'clock. You should prepare yourself. I have some things to do." Xu Bing said and walked into the martial arts temple.
"Are you nervous?" Su Qing walked to Lin Zhiming and asked with a smile.
"It's okay, there are quite a lot of tourists here!" Lin Zhiming said as he looked at the increasing number of tourists beside him.
"It's a bit unusual." Su Qing said in a low voice.
"Is it unusual?" Lin Zhiming looked at Su Qing doubtfully.
"From our martial arts school to here, the radio in the scenic spot has been continuously broadcasting the news that the apprenticeship ceremony is about to begin. In the past, it was usually broadcast every five minutes." Su Qing said.
"You mean, someone is deliberately increasing the number of tourists?" Lin Zhiming asked.
"Yeah!" Su Qing nodded.
"Why?" Lin Zhiming asked.
"Maybe we want more people to witness our apprenticeship ceremony without anyone watching," Su Qing said.
Lin Zhiming raised his eyebrows and then said, "It doesn't matter."
"Well! As long as we are strong, it doesn't matter how many people laugh at us." Su Qing said with a smile.
Lin Zhiming nodded, then picked up his phone and took a look.
At this time, it was nine-thirty in the morning.
More and more tourists come to the Wu Temple because of the broadcast.
Staff at some scenic spots began to distribute leaflets to these tourists.
The content on the flyer is very simple. It just introduces the culture of accepting disciples in Shanfo City. One of the passages says: "In Shanfo City, once a martial arts master or a sect leader accepts a disciple, each of them will
Heroes of the road and martial arts masters will come to the dojo to watch the master's ceremony and give their most sincere blessings. The number of people watching directly reflects the status of the disciple in the martial arts world..."
After seeing this sentence, many people couldn't help but glance at the open space in front of the Martial Temple.
According to what is written on the flyer, the people sitting on those Taishi chairs should be martial arts masters and heroes who came to watch the ceremony. Why is there no one there now?
Time passed little by little, and the entire perimeter of the Martial Temple was already crowded with tourists, but the open space in front of the Martial Temple was still empty.
No one came to watch the ceremony.
At ten o'clock exactly, Li Feifan stood at the entrance of the Martial Arts Temple and shouted loudly, "The apprenticeship ceremony of Xu Bing, the 32nd generation leader of Duanshuishui, has officially begun!!"
As Li Feifan's voice appeared, surging music came from the speakers placed around the martial arts temple.
Accompanied by the sound of music, Xu Bing, with a serious look on his face, and Su Qing, with a smile on his face, walked out of the Martial Arts Temple.
The two of them came to the statue of Guan Gong, picked up the incense on the table and lit it, then bowed three times to the statue of Guan Gong and the portrait of the founder of Duanshuishui, and then placed the incense in the two incense burners respectively.
After doing this, the two turned around and sat on the Taishi chair in front of the statue of Guan Gong.
"Apprentice, Ip Man is entering!" Li Feifan shouted loudly.
Lin Zhiming walked to the open space from the front. Before he could go forward, someone from the tourists next to him shouted, "Why aren't the guests at the ceremony introduced? Doesn't the procedure say that the guests at the ceremony should be introduced first?"
Hearing this, Li Feifan's face froze.
According to the procedure, after his master finished offering incense, he should introduce the guests to the ceremony, but this time no one came, so he could only skip this link and go directly to the stage where the disciples entered the ceremony. Unexpectedly, at the scene
The audience was actually so familiar with the process, and some people jumped out to testify.
There was a lot of laughter from the tourists watching around.
"There's no one around, how can we introduce guests?"
"There was not a single person watching the ceremony. Isn't this leader's popularity too low?"
"Are you sure this isn't a joke? Just a discipleship ceremony for four people?"
Many people said loudly.
These sounds made the laughter at the scene even louder, and also made the atmosphere at the apprenticeship scene suddenly become awkward.
However, Lin Zhiming was not embarrassed at all, because he had already arranged everything.
"Please be quiet, everyone, and don't affect our apprenticeship ceremony!" Li Feifan said loudly.
Hearing Li Feifan's voice, the laughter at the scene became smaller.
Li Feifan took a deep breath and was about to say something when a voice suddenly sounded from outside the crowd.