Chapter 84
Jia Rui could only stand still and said with a smile: "Do you have any other instructions from Si'er?"
Zhao Jinluo said angrily: "Who told me to take me to watch a fighting show just now? Are you not admitting it just now?"
Jia Rui scratched his scalp: "Uh... Isn't it just something like this? Arrangement!"
"That's pretty much it! Let's go, where are we going?"
Jia Rui thought for a moment and said, "How about we go watch Cuju?"
Zhao Jinluo frowned and said, "That guy Gao Qiu just relies on Cuju to please his father, don't look at it!"
Jia Rui said again: "Then let's go see a cricket fight?"
Zhao Jinluo said: "What's the fun in a group of people standing around a small jar with their heads stretched out?"
After three or four comments, Zhao Jinluo was not satisfied. Jia Rui gritted his teeth and slapped his thigh and said, "Let's go, I'll take you to watch sumo wrestling!"
Sumo wrestling was called "corner wrestling" in its earliest days, which can be traced back to the primitive society period.
Later, it was used as a way to select soldiers. In the Tang Dynasty, it gradually developed into a leisure activity. In the Song Dynasty, it became as popular as Cuju among the royal family and the people.
As the most playful emperor, Zhao Ji naturally often watched sumo wrestling matches in the palace. Zhao Jinluo originally had no interest.
However, when she arrived at a certain place, she realized that her knowledge was short-sighted.
What Jia Rui brought him to watch was women’s sumo~
If it were placed during the Renzong period a few decades ago, women's sumo wrestling would have been a common occurrence.
But Song Renzong Zhao Zhen was so obsessed with watching women's sumo wrestling that he often brought beauties from the harem and his children to watch together, which is a bit unjustifiable.
After all, people who like to watch women's sumo wrestling go there because of what they want to see. It's just a tacit understanding.
As a result, Sima Guang and other ministers who had smashed the vat could not stand it and wrote letters of impeachment one after another.
Song Renzong listened to his ministers' words and changed this "bad habit" that everyone liked.
In the future, although there were private women's sumo competitions and even betting on them, they rarely appeared in the palace.
On the sand in the middle, two strong women, with their bare backs and legs, were wrestling with all their strength. A group of old and young men in the stands around them were cheering at the top of their lungs with their eyes raised and their beards raised. Zhao Jinluo was already dumbfounded.
So it turns out that women can still fight like this? Doesn't this seem more interesting than watching men's sumo wrestling...
At that moment, the winner on the field was decided, and those who won the bet cheered loudly, while those who lost were either dejected or stamped their feet and cursed.
Jia Rui bumped Zhao Jinluo, who was still stunned, with his shoulder: "How is it? Is it better than the sumo wrestling you saw in the palace?"
Zhao Jinluo didn't want Jia Rui to feel that he was ignorant: "Oh, that's all. The sumo wrestlers in the palace are much better than them!"
"Ah...Is that so? Forget it, stop reading and let's go play something else."
"Forget it, forget it, I'm here now, just try to watch a few more shows!" Zhao Jinluo suddenly became easy-going.
As soon as the venue was leveled, Master Washe came out and said, "Ladies and gentlemen, the next match will be between the Hedong Lion and the Iron Arm! I invite two strong men!"
As soon as these words came out, the audience burst into applause, which made Jia Rui a little confused as to who the famous actor was.
He also heard that there was women's sumo wrestling here, but he had never come to see it.
Guarding the three beauties, Pan Jinlian, Li Shishi and Zhao Yuannu, who has time to watch women's sumo? Wouldn't it be nice to just have a male-female melee?
However, the next two people who came on stage also surprised him. Hedong Shi was naturally a strong woman, but Iron Arm turned out to be a man?
Is this a competition between men and women? Jia Rui couldn't help but sigh: He really knows how to play!
"The odds are 2 for 1, hurry up if you want to bet!" the host kept shouting, and the spectators took out their banknotes and placed their bets.
The two sumo wrestlers were sitting on the sidelines, stretching their legs and stretching their arms to warm up.
"Ahem, how about we go see something else?" Jia Rui asked tentatively.
"Why? Why, you haven't seen men and women fighting each other?" Zhao Jinluo looked calm.
"I..." Jia Rui was also a little unsure. Could it be that he was really stupid?
Come to think of it, who knows what tricks Zhao Ji can pull off in the harem?
For a moment, the host came around to Jia Rui and asked with a smile: "You two gentlemen, why don't you place a bet? A small bet will make you happy, a big bet will make you rich~"
"Pledge! I'll pledge the East Lion of the River!" Zhao Jinluo said and stretched out his hand: "Lend me some money!"
Jia Rui had no choice but to take out a wad of banknotes from his arms.
Just as he was about to draw a card for Zhao Jinluo, Zhao Jinluo unexpectedly snatched it all and gave it to the host: "I bet on the Hedong Lion to win!"
The host obviously didn't expect this little kid to be so generous. He sang a song, counted the banknotes and said loudly: "This young man bets 357 coins on the Hedong Lion to win!"
Suddenly there was an uproar. This kind of washer is meant for entertainment for the middle and lower class people. A bet of ten strings is considered a big bet, and a bet of more than three hundred strings is already an astronomical figure.
Everyone looked at Zhao Jinluo, and even Hedong Shi clasped his hands and said loudly: "Thank you for your attention, little brother!"
Zhao Jinluo stood up, put his hands on his mouth and shouted: "Hit him!"
After the bets are placed, the gong sounds, and the competition officially begins.
Seeing a half-naked man and woman pushing their chests, arms, waists, and legs in the middle of the field, the whole audience burst into cheers.
I don’t know whether it was because he placed a bet, thought that a woman could beat a man, or was infected by the atmosphere. Zhao Jinluo couldn’t sit still. His fair and tender little face turned red and he waved his little fists and shouted excitedly.
Shouting to cheer up the Hedong Lion.
As expected, the Hedong Lion lived up to his reputation. He finally seized the opportunity to hug one of Iron Arm's legs, and then with a loud roar, he threw a man out with a fierce force.
After the victory, the Hedong Lions were obviously very excited. They walked back and forth in the field with arms raised and shouting, not caring that the tube top had already been pulled off and the two iron balls were beating up and down.
Holding the money he won, Zhao Jinluo followed Jia Rui out of the hook fence with excitement on his face.
Perhaps it was due to his overwhelming luck that Zhao Jinluo had a sharp eye and hit the mark repeatedly after several gambling games. After paying back Jia Rui's capital, he still had more than a thousand dollars left.
"Jia Rui, is there any other interesting place like this? You can take me there next time!"
"I..." Jia Rui was speechless for a while. If Zhao Ji knew that I brought you to watch such an erotic show, would he chop off my head?
Hua Qiang and Guozhu were also sweating on their foreheads. If this news were to reach the palace, they would probably be in trouble.
"Let's just play today... I'm here for a private visit incognito. I'm going back. I'll give you a gift."
Jia Rui chuckled and said, "Thank you Si'er for the reward."
Zhao Jinluo said to Hua Qiang and Guozhu: "You two don't have to be on duty in the palace from now on. Just follow Jia Rui."
The three of them stood stunned on the spot after hearing this!
Jia Rui was the first to react: "Di Ji, these two are the imperial guards of the Imperial City Department. Isn't this... illegal?"
"What's wrong with this? Now that you're being targeted by Gao Qiu, isn't it right to let the two of them protect you?
Besides, if you encounter any cases outside in the future, can't you ask the two of them to send their hearts to the palace to let me know?
Are you two willing?"
"How dare you disobey the Emperor Ji when she speaks?" The two of them answered with their mouths, but their hearts were filled with joy.
When on duty in the palace, the most fucked up job is to follow Zhao Jinluo.
The other emperors and princes were obediently squinting in the palace, but this emperor Ande refused to live in peace and always wanted to run out of the palace.
The two of them had been scolded countless times for this matter.
Chapter completed!