Chapter 121: On the Day of Final Victory, Each Demonstrates His Abilities
Something went wrong in the farming competition, but under the thunderous tactics of Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty, everything quickly returned to calm.
Xie Xin still won the first place, and at the same time, his work was highly valued by Emperor Ling. After awarding the award, he spent two quarters of an hour asking in detail what peanuts looked like and how to grow them.
More importantly, in front of everyone, he asked Xie Xin if he wanted to become an official.
The number of scholars personally recruited by the emperor may not be small in the entire Han Dynasty, but during the period of Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty, Xie Xin was the well-deserved number one.
The contestants may be very jealous of this, but Xie Xin has come all the way and the strength he has shown has to be admired.
Many people even feel that it is a waste if such people cannot be used by the country!
However, as a few people expected, Xie Xin rejected Liu Hong's proposal and stated his determination to open a private school to cultivate talents for the country.
When Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty heard this, he was a little disappointed. But after hearing Xie Xin's words, he couldn't help but feel a little touched.
If nothing else, it was because of the words in the thank you letter: 'One person in the court can only influence three generations; once a school is established, the Han Dynasty will no longer lack talents!' It was enough to move him.
Since Xie Xin rejected the expedition, Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty returned to the auditorium without interest.
After all, there is one music competition today that has no comparison.
The last item today is, of course, the music competition.
The title is a cheerful piece of music, it can be the same piece of music, but if someone has played it before, then unless the person behind plays it better, they are bound to not get better results than the person in front of them.
In other words, strength and luck are the keys to winning this competition.
Zhang Ming also participated in this competition. He did not get a place in the private school competition before. He also spent some time practicing music and successfully integrated the music taught by Xie Xin with the music he had learned earlier. The artistic conception
Great improvements have been made in this regard.
It's just that in this game, he met a formidable opponent.
Speaking of which, he is quite famous, that is, the Governor of Soochow, Zhou Yu, known as "Meizhou Lang" - his father, Zhou Yi, the commander of Luoyang.
It is said that if the music is wrong, Zhou Lang will take care of it. Zhou Yu has such a high musical achievement, and he obviously has a profound family background.
It has to be said that Zhou Yi's piano skills are indeed first-rate. Although Zhang Ming's music style is novel and beautiful, he is still a bit immature in terms of artistic conception due to his limited age.
As a result, Zhang Ming still got the second place, and the first place was taken away by Zhou Yi.
However, both of them are members of the Lu Zhi Alliance, so there is no need to care too much about the ranking issue.
The third place in the competition was taken away by Cai Yong. This great writer and calligrapher really showed off his skills by performing a newly composed piece of music during the competition.
It's a pity that he lost to Zhang Ming, which is probably the most difficult pain in his life.
However, this great writer actually belonged to the eunuch clan, which surprised many people.
The one-day competition was officially declared over after the music competition ended.
Those who got the rankings took their medals one by one and went home happily; while those who didn't get the rankings comforted each other before returning home.
That night, everything was so peaceful, but behind the tranquility, there might be a turbulent undercurrent lurking.
Zhuangzi thanked him for his letter, and four groups of assassins came to him overnight.
One of the groups really planned to kill him, while the rest of the scattered groups came to do tricks for the next day's game. And what surprised Xie Xin was that among the group that assassinated him, there were actually some
A monk in the foundation-building stage.
For those who came to cause trouble, Xie Xin and others beat them up and kicked them out of Zhuangzi.
But all those who came to assassinate him stayed behind.
After some interrogation, Xie Xin found out that in the martial arts world, there are three titles: unqualified warrior, acquired warrior and innate warrior.
Unqualified warriors refer to those barbarians who have no brute strength. These people only rely on their body's natural strength to fight. No matter how strong they are, they are not even qualified at all.
Acquired warriors refer to those warriors who have already developed their inner strength. Discovering and starting to cultivate their inner strength is the key to not becoming a stream. This type of warrior either has external cultivation as the mainstay and internal cultivation as a supplement; or internal cultivation is mainly external cultivation.
as a supplement; or naturally, it means cultivating both internal and external aspects.
The acquired warriors may be limited by their natural physique at the beginning, so they will lose to the best among the less popular warriors. But once they become successful, even the weak acquired warriors will be able to completely defeat the strongest warriors.
A martial artist.
An innate warrior refers to a warrior who has cultivated his inner strength to the extreme, and with the help of martial arts, he has glimpsed the existence of martial arts, and then uses martial arts to enter the Tao and enter the realm of innateness.
In fact, the so-called acquired warriors, except that they do not know spells, are already equivalent to monks in the Qi training stage; and the innate warriors, who also do not know spells, are equivalent to monks in the foundation building stage.
However, in the recognition of Heavenly Dao, these are only existences that have reached the ultimate level of 'humanity', so they are not regarded as monks, but are still included in the scope of 'humanity'.
In this way, anything they do in the secular world is an act between 'human beings' and has nothing to do with monks, so naturally they will not be punished by heaven.
However, there is still a big gap in strength between innate warriors and foundation-building monks. At least a monk at the second level of foundation building can completely defeat an innate warrior at the fifth level.
A monk like Xie Xin who is about to reach the golden elixir stage can kill hundreds of warriors at the seventh or eighth level of the innate realm with one slap.
This is the strength gap between the 'monks' who have transcended the 'human' category and the innate warriors who are still in the 'human' category.
After interrogation, Xie Xin also learned that the man who sent them here to kill him was actually Yuan Shu.
It seems that his team was eliminated before qualifying in the first three rounds of the competition, but he successfully advanced. What's more, today's Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty challenged him in person, which further stimulated his huge self-esteem, so there is
Tonight's assassination.
No matter what, under the inspection of Xie Xin and others, the night quickly returned to calm.
The competition on the next day also started as scheduled.
The first competition was a weightlifting competition, and all the rules were conducted according to the rules provided by Xie Xin.
The contestants choose a weight to lift, and the one with the highest weight wins first place. But even such a simple competition has many tricks.
For example, after the first person finished lifting weights, the second person came up and wanted to challenge a heavier weight. However, when he was halfway through the lift, he realized that the horizontal bar in his hand was slippery, and he dropped it after a few lifts.
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Afterwards, when he took a closer look, he discovered that there was a slightly invisible layer of talcum powder on the horizontal bar, which was obviously left by the previous athlete.
So, he complained to the referee, but the referee said that he didn't check himself carefully, and it was understandable that he lost.
Just to allow the next person to compete better, the referee ordered the staff to change a set of barbells.
Then, a miracle happened.
The third place, a scholar from the Eunuch Party, lifted the heaviest barbell with great difficulty.
Since him, there has never been a player who can surpass him.
Xie Xin, who was just watching the competition, keenly discovered that the barbells lifted by the third contestant were all hollow...
In other words, the opponent just lifted a barbell that weighed less than the lightest weight.
The barbell that had been damaged was also taken away by employees after the competition and replaced with a set of normal barbells.
In the end, the eunuch scholar won the first place; Gongsun Du won the second place; Huangfu Song won the third place.
The second competition was a foot race. Zhang Ming also signed up for this event, as did Huangfu Song and Liu Bei.
In this competition, thanks to the reminder of Xie Xin, Lu Zhi and his team were not attacked by talcum powder. However, several members of Yuan's alliance slipped and fell to the ground not long after running.
Feet upward.
Zhang Ming finally made full use of his flying legs and ran with a puff of smoke.
However, there are still a few people who are faster than him, such as Liu Bei who has just been discharged from the hospital.
As a runaway king who abandoned his wife and children several times in the future, he already had the talent of running away at a young age, and when he started running, it would definitely be like a cloud of smoke.
"Hey! I'm first! No matter Zhang Ming or Cao Cao, they are no match for me!" Liu Bei couldn't help but happily announced when he successfully reached the finish line.
"Are you talking about me?!" came a voice from the side.
Liu Bei was startled, and when he turned around, he found that Cao Cao had appeared beside him at some point.
As expected, 'Say Cao Cao, and Cao Cao will come'...
Outside the field, Xie Xin couldn't help but shed a drop of cold sweat as he looked at Cao Cao's running speed that was close to teleportation.
In the end, Cao Cao won the first place in the race; Liu Bei second; Zhang Ming third.
Seeing this ending, Liu Bei was so depressed that he couldn't speak for a long time; and Zhang Ming, who thought he was extremely happy, also felt doubly depressed at this moment.
"Boy, do you now know the meaning of the saying 'There is a world outside the world, and there are people outside the world'? You are still young, just improve slowly." After getting off the podium, Xie Xin came to him and said to him.
"Yes!" After hearing the words of thanks, Zhang Ming nodded solemnly.
In the third archery competition, many problems arise again.
For example, the bow string will break if you apply too much force; another example is that the arrow is dropped, and there is a hollow between the wooden shaft and the arrow, so if you aim according to your habit, you will definitely miss the target.
After a competition, Han Meng won the first place; Lu Zhi won the second place; Gongsun Du won the third place.
What makes Xie Xin most helpless is that he also participated in this project, but because Lu Zhi participated, in order to avoid stealing his limelight, he had to lose on purpose. In the end, his ranking was even lower than Gongsun Du. Thinking about it,
Feel depressed.
In the fourth item, riding a horse, the problem is even more serious.
It was probably the last game of the second day, and those who were cheating had enough time to do it. So in this game, the degree of cheating was the greatest.
For example, a horse foamed at the mouth and fell to death after running around for one or two times; another example is that a horse went crazy before being mounted on it, not only throwing the knight off the horse, but also kicking the rider wildly.
One or two players nearby were kicked off their horses.
Even during the competition, it is not uncommon for knights to collide with each other and attack each other's horses with hidden weapons. At the end of the competition, only four horses and one competitor successfully reached the finish line.
According to statistics, Lu Zhi won the first place; Gongsun Du won the second place; Dong Zhuo won the third place.
It's just that these three people got off the horse and didn't take the podium immediately. Instead, they found a corner and vomited.
Obviously, they have also suffered a lot in order to survive in that environment with constant evil hands.