Chapter 79 Fighting Between Generals and Handsome Men

This Fan Zhang is recognized as the number one calligraphy sage in the calligraphy circles of Zhao State. He is not only famous in Zhao State, but also has an extraordinary influence in the surrounding countries. Moreover, he has been dead for more than two hundred years, and all the works he left behind are masterpieces.

This "Yun Dao Lu" is a collection of poems he wrote after seeing the towering mountains and the white clouds flowing over the mountain road like cloud roads during a mountaineering trip. Although his literary talent is not very good, the rhyme of his writing is unrivaled in the world, and he was respected by the calligraphy circle of later generations of Zhao State as "the first calligraphy of Zhao State".

It's just that Fan Zhang was a free and unrestrained person who didn't like Huang Bai and Huang Lao. In his later years, he actually gave this sticker to a Taoist priest in the mountains.

The whereabouts of this "Yun Dao Lu" have been unknown since then. Most of the records left in the world are fakes. However, for some reason, after going around and around, it was actually hidden in the middle of a yellow genuine fake copybook, and was finally obtained by Liang Yan. The hidden secrets in this are naturally not something that the two of them can know at the moment.

"Senior Brother Ma is indeed a master of calligraphy. He can tell the details at just one glance. Junior Brother, I just guessed that there must be something extraordinary in this, but I don't know the real work of Fan Zhang." Liang Yan said with a slight smile.

At this moment, Ma Yuan's eyes were fixed on the copybook. He had no intention of moving away, and he didn't bother to talk to Liang Yan. Instead, he leaned in front of the copybook and observed it carefully.

"It is indeed an authentic work, tsk tsk, there is such a person in the world, this rhyme is a masterpiece!" Ma Yuan finished speaking to himself, raised his hand to put away the copybook, and threw it directly into his storage without any hesitation. in the bag.

Liang Yan coughed when he saw this and said, "Since Senior Brother Ma likes it, how about I exchange it for 'Tianbao Copper Coins'?"

Unexpectedly, Ma Yuan rolled his eyes after hearing this and said, "Junior brother, what nonsense are you talking about? The 'Tianbao Copper Coin' was left by the previous emperor, and this 'Yundaolu' is nothing more than a common possession of an ordinary scholar." There is no comparison between the two! Junior brother, if you want to use just a copybook in exchange for my antiques, you are thinking too much, right?"

"you!"

When Liang Yan heard what he said, he was so angry that he couldn't speak. If it weren't for Liang Yan's reminder just now, Ma Yuan would hardly have remembered the "Tianbao Copper Coin". But when he saw the "Yundaolu", he had a look of shock on his face. Which of the two was more important, anyone with a discerning eye could see it. Then you will know.

"This person is deliberately making things difficult, and I don't know what he has in mind." Liang Yan thought to himself.

However, before he could speak, Ma Yuan continued: "Well, I think junior brother really likes that 'Tianbao Copper Coin'. Why don't we have a bet? If junior brother wins, I will be a beautiful man; if Senior brother, I won by luck, and this 'Yundaolu' will stay here, what do you think, junior brother?"

"I don't know how senior brother is going to do gambling?" Liang Yan asked with a frown.

Ma Yuan smiled mysteriously and said: "It's simple, you and I can fight for a while."

Dou Xuwei means fighting crickets. Liang Yan didn't react at first, but after a moment he waved his hands and said, "Junior brother has never been exposed to this method, and he has no crickets to fight with. How can he compete with senior brother?"

"Junior brother, don't worry. I have five generals and one commander here. You and I will each choose one to start the battle. To be fair, I will let you choose first."

"But I don't know whether crickets are good or bad, how can I choose?" Liang Yan asked.

"This depends on Junior Brother Liang's own ability, but it has nothing to do with Ma."

Ma Yuan put his hands behind his back and said leisurely. He glanced at Liang Yan and saw that he was still hesitant, so he sighed and said, "Since Junior Brother Liang doesn't sincerely want this 'Tianbao Copper Coin', then please Go back."

"Okay! Since Senior Brother Ma has set this path, I will continue it no matter what. If Liang is lucky enough to win, I hope Senior Brother Ma will keep his word and give me the 'Tianbao Copper Coin' as a gift." Liang Yan took a deep breath and said.

"This is natural!"

Ma Yuan smiled, his face full of excitement, as if he had met a close friend he hadn't seen for many years, and urged Liang Yan to walk to the backyard.

The two came to the backyard, and Ma Yuan activated his spiritual power to draw a circle on the ground, which was obviously the venue for the competition. Then he took out six exquisite small cages from the storage bag, each containing a cricket.

"Junior brother, please invite me first!" Ma Yuan waved his hand generously.

Liang Yan looked at the six crickets and saw that some had round heads, strong legs and yellow flesh, some had golden teeth and long beards and smooth wings, and some were ordinary and covered in gray. It's just that he doesn't understand this at all, and he can't tell the difference between good and bad.

Liang Yan squatted on the ground and glanced secretly at Ma Yuan, only to see him with his hands behind his back and a look of leisurely contentment.

"He said before that there are five generals and one commander. If he chooses the commander, he is sure to win. If he chooses the wrong one, he will definitely recognize the commander, and I will have no chance."

Liang Yan pondered for a moment, then suddenly smiled and said: "So that's it, this is the marshal in the process of organizing."

"What? You actually know it!" Ma Yuan looked up at the ground with a shocked face, but saw that Liang Yan did not choose, but looked at him with a half-smile.

"Good boy, you want to defraud me!" Ma Yuan said angrily.

"Hehe, Senior Brother Ma accepted the concession." Liang Yan said with a smile. He had deliberately spoken to scare him just now just to see Ma Yuan's reaction. When Ma Yuan was frightened, the direction he immediately turned his eyes was to the left. The first and second crickets.

Liang Yan followed his gaze and saw that the cricket had oily wings, golden teeth, a square face, and pure beard. He couldn't help but secretly rejoiced: "He really looks like a handsome man!"

Without any hesitation, he walked up to take the cricket and said to Ma Yuan: "Junior Brother has chosen, please ask Brother Ma to pick one and let's compete."

Ma Yuan shook his head, with a gloomy look on his face, walked to the remaining crickets, and took one seemingly casually.

Liang Yan turned around and looked around, only to see that the cricket was all gray and black, and was ordinary from top to bottom. In terms of pure color, bulging eyes, and sufficient aura, any one present was better than the one in his hand. Only several times stronger. But for some reason, Liang Yan suddenly had a bad feeling in his heart.

I saw Ma Yuan put the small cage on the ground and opened the iron door. The cricket crawled out slowly and turned around a few times on the ground, looking listless.

"Junior Brother Liang, please."

Liang Yan nodded and opened the iron door. His golden-toothed cricket jumped out, without any urging, and went straight to Ma Yuan's gray-black cricket.

Unexpectedly, just as he arrived in front of him, the originally listless gray-black cricket suddenly jumped forward, bit the golden-toothed cricket in one bite, and then pushed his legs down, knocking the golden-toothed cricket almost over.

"hiss!"

Liang Yan took a breath of cold air. This gray-black cricket looked like it had no power, but he didn't expect it to be so brave. It chased the golden-toothed cricket all the way, biting and kicking it, almost rendering the golden-toothed cricket unable to fight back.

"Haha, boy, you've been fooled!" At this moment, Ma Yuan laughed happily.

It should be said that before Ma Yuan cultivated immortality, he was a gangster. Later, a foundation-building deacon of Yixing Pavilion was out on business and saw that his spiritual root could barely penetrate his eyes, so he brought him back to the sect and taught him the immortal method.

When it comes to the intrigues and deceit among the merchants, Liang Yan is still a little behind him. He had seen through Liang Yan's plan a long time ago and deliberately pretended to be fooled. In fact, he was tricking Liang Yan into choosing the gold-toothed cricket.

At this point, Liang Yan still didn't know that he had set a trap for himself.

Ma Yuan was in a good mood and laughed and said:

"You are still too young, don't you know that there are five things you don't want to choose from a cricket: short and slender whiskers, oily wings, empty back, thin ribs, and hard waist, flat, thin and slippery, and impure color. Choose. You gold-toothed cricket is good at everything, but you are guilty of the red slippery rule, and you are destined to be a general in front of the formation, not a commander-in-chief. Hahaha."

Liang Yan glanced at the field and said with a puzzled expression: "According to what you say, then how can your cricket become a commander-in-chief if it can be said that he is completely ruined?"

"You don't understand this. This insect's name is 'Eight Defeats'!"

I saw Ma Yuan looking proud, shaking his head and saying: "This insect is completely corrupted, and not one of them is really ridiculous. The pearl of wisdom is not dusty, and all eight are defeated, it is the King of Insects!"

Liang Yan was stunned by what he said, and said with a wry smile: "So, this is an insect king?"

"That's right, kid, your defeat has been determined. I will accept Senior Brother 'Yundaolu', hahaha!"

"That's not necessarily the case!"

As Liang Yan spoke, he suddenly stretched out his finger, and a blue light emitted from his fingertips and shot into his gold-toothed cricket. The gold-toothed cricket suddenly seemed to have been injected with chicken blood. It pressed its legs against the gray-black cricket and bit back at it.

"Boy, you're cheating!" Ma Yuan shouted angrily upon seeing this.

Unexpectedly, Liang Yan rolled his eyes and said, "I don't! Although I don't play cricket fighting very much, I also know that the only rule is that people outside the field cannot kill the opponent's crickets. It doesn't say that you can't help your own crickets, right?"

"You!" Ma Yuan was choked by what he said.

It is true that the common law only stipulates that you cannot kill the enemy's cricket, but it does not say that you cannot secretly help your own cricket, but that is because it is simply impossible to do this with mortal means.

Seeing that Liang Yan's crickets were beating his own insect king back steadily like chicken blood, Ma Yuan finally couldn't help but stretched out his hand to seal the secret and shot a blue light towards his own crickets.

Two crickets were seen flying up and down with their four forelimbs, and from time to time light blue light flashed across, leaving several traces of different shades on the ground.

At this time, it seemed that it was not a cricket fight, but a battle between Liang Yan and Ma Yuan.

It's just that the matter of infusing spiritual power into the cricket's body and competing with each other is not about whose spiritual power is abundant, but about skill. It should be noted that a cricket is nothing more than an ordinary thing and cannot contain too much spiritual power. If the spiritual power is transported slightly too much, there is a danger of exploding to death.

The two crickets come and go, fighting fiercely. The two people standing outside the circle were also staring at each other with big eyes and small eyes, and they were at war with each other.

Suddenly, the golden-toothed cricket lowered its head to avoid the slash from the gray-black cricket, then turned around and kicked, and a ray of blue light hit the gray-black cricket's lower abdomen. The gray-black cricket screamed and rolled back.

"Stop, stop, stop!"

Ma Yuan exclaimed, waving his hands repeatedly, looking distressed.

He quickly rushed into the circle, picked up the gray and black cricket and put it in his hand. After observing it for a long time, he put it into the small cage with lingering fear.

"Accept!" Liang Yan said with a smile on his face and cupped his hands.

"Oh, it's really unlucky to meet such an idiot like you! Unlucky!" Ma Yuan said as he touched the storage bag at his waist, then raised his hand and saw a flash of light flying towards Liang Yan.

Liang Yan reached out and took it, only to see it was a simple copper coin with the words "Tianbao Eleven" engraved on it. It was Tianbao copper coin!

"I didn't expect that although Senior Brother Ma is weird, he is still a man of his word." Liang Yan thought to himself.

He wanted to say some more words of thanks, but Ma Yuan didn't even look at him, waved his hand and said: "Go, you have taken the things, and quickly tell me where they came from, and go back to where they came from!"

Liang Yan smiled awkwardly, cupped his hands and said, "That's it, I'll thank you, Senior Brother Ma, and Liang will say goodbye!".

That night, in the Zhenmai handyman dormitory.

Liang Yan sat cross-legged and quietly placed three items in his storage bag, namely "Monkey Wine", "Intoxicating Fragrance" and "Tianbao Copper Coins".

"In this way, all three items are complete. Next, we just wait for the day when the 'Miao Calligraphy Ceremony' will be held."

Thinking like this, Liang Yan began to meditate with his eyes closed, slowly adjusting his condition to the best.