Chapter 581

"Tail Fire Tiger, Sea Yaksha, Xu Guidao, Pool Sword—all are famous heroes who have been famous for a long time. There is no one on both sides of the river and the three mountains who hasn't heard of them. It's just that there is always someone stronger than the strong, and one mountain is higher than another..."

"Fallen leaves tornado, silver light flashes, Xu Guidao and Pool Sword roll out. Looking back, a big spear flickers like a dragon, and the mountains are in an uproar..."

"Everyone, what are the twenty-eight constellations of wolf smoke?" The old man with a goat beard stepped on a stool and pointed to the sky. "They are the Martial Arts Stars descending to the mortal world to govern injustice!"

"Nonsense!" An onlooker heckled. "The martial arts examination is once every three years, twenty-eight people at a time. Isn't there only one Martial Arts Star?"

"It is naturally a mysterious method of divine manifestation and thousands of incarnations..."

Inside the sheds all over the market, storytelling singing arose, mixed with the lively applause of ordinary people.

The passing Huo family disciples had complex expressions, and listening to it felt very unpleasant.

Literature has no first, martial arts has no second.

If someone rises, someone must fall.

It's just unfortunate.

The one who fell was their own family.

Further out.

Many villagers even walked more than ten miles of loess road to rush over, squeezing into the crowd shoulder to shoulder, just to take a look at who the winner was and get some martial luck.

However.

After walking through the entire market, the several large paintings on display seemed to be the same person, which was completely different from previous years.

"876, are there 1,000 spirit items this year?"

"300 flying, 300 swimming, 300 running, 900!"

"Not much was lost this year, were they all caught?"

"Old fellow, why does everyone in the portrait look like the same person?"

"Harm, because it is! There is a large painting for the first place this year."

"What about second and third?"

"They weren't prepared."

The servant threw down a towel and answered while wiping the table and chairs.

In previous years, the top three, and even the top five, would have paintings a foot high on display.

People have selfish motives.

It is not uncommon for the Great Hunt to sweep the rankings, but it is mostly to promote one's own family into the top ten.

It is rare to see someone sweep the top two or even the top three in a year.

But this year is like this.

Sweeping the top six!

Hey.

Don't talk about seeing it.

Among the six, five of the names hadn't been heard of much, so naturally, it was impossible to have large paintings prepared in advance.

As for the ones originally prepared, they all slid to seventh, eighth, and ninth, so it was embarrassing to take them out.

Thus, only Liang Qu was left with a portrait on display.

"Why does he look familiar?"

Zheng Xiang stood under the scroll and pondered.

"They're here, they're here! People are coming out! Everyone is coming out! Go and see quickly!"

A shout.

The people in the entire market surged toward the edge of Chishan Ridge like a tide.

Zheng Xiang was carried forward, but when he reached the place, he couldn't see anything; it was too chaotic.

A sea of people.

Those carrying children were carrying children, those who were tall were tall, it was just a wall of people.

He could only smell all kinds of sour sweat.

"The court is full of mediocre people, unable to make the moral order orderly; the hero is alone, enough to make all things prosperous. Huangzhou has such a talent as you under its rule. Within five years, you will definitely be able to lead a great achievement, unfortunately..."

Department Magistrate Xu Wanxing held Liang Qu's hand tightly, revealing regret.

Regardless of whether it was true or false.

Liang Qu cooperated and thanked him.

If you don't look at the Department Magistrate's face, you still have to look at the reward's face.

A little chat.

Xu Wanxing waved his hand, and the servant bowed and handed over a large red tray.

Uncover the red cloth.

A piece of green wood, three jade bottles, and large yellow croakers stacked in a "pin" shape.

In an instant.

Countless hot gazes were cast over.

Jealousy, envy, admiration...

Chi Ang and Xu Jiangming fell behind, speechless.

Five-inch beryl wood, three bottles of pulse marrow jade liquid, three hundred taels of gold!

The effect of beryl wood is similar to the soul golden lotus, which helps strengthen the spirit. Even if it is slightly inferior to the third-grade golden lotus cultivated by the Imperial Court, it is still of great value and priceless!

Two hundred or so spirit fish are nothing now, merely providing some water essence, but the few items in front of him are truly cut-and-dried necessities!

The Heavenly Bridge is within reach!

*Whew! *

The excitement of the dust settling surged into his heart.

Busy for two days and three nights.

Worth it!

Liang Qu straightened his spine, and the slight dust and fatigue were washed away by emotion, glowing with spirit.

After the three big items, it wasn't over.

In addition to the substantial rewards, first place also came with many miscellaneous small items, presented one by one like a wreath, including a winner's token cast in brass, a scroll, three pieces of treasure-patterned satin, and even...

"Lord Department Magistrate, this is..."

Liang Qu held the many items in one hand and flipped through the thick paper with a red seal in the other.

A stack of land deeds!

Inside Huangzhou Prefecture City, a two-entry large courtyard, with a hundred acres of fertile land!

No.

It really exists.

Department Magistrate Qiu Yue laughed, "Lord Liang is a tide-rider. Pingyang Prefecture is adjacent to the Jianghuai Great Marsh, which is much better than Huangzhou's location. The Department Magistrate knows that he has no way to keep a true dragon, but he paid out of his own pocket to add some meager farmland for the first place, so that Lord Liang will have a place to stay when he comes again in the future."

"Thank you for your kindness, my lord!"

Liang Qu was pleasantly surprised.

Xu Wanxing moved his steps, saw the young man corresponding to the second place, opened his mouth, and pondered for a while before remembering the name.

After the first place, they were all surnamed Xu, the names were really too similar, and they appeared in a hurry, so it was really not easy to remember.

The second place reward was one grade lower, one treasure plant, two bottles of pulse marrow, two hundred gold...

According to the agreement, the two bottles of pulse marrow were all Liang Qu's.

Awesome.

Judging from the value of the rewards, the spending of the entire Great Hunt was not small. Prey, rewards, it wouldn't stop at 150,000 taels.

But they definitely earned more.

Second to sixth, all were upsets. It wasn't clear if there were any betting odds, but the three families were probably laughing secretly.

A burst of noise.

The rewards were distributed, the crowd surged, and the gongs and drums sounded together.

Some families were happy and some were sad, but more were happy, enjoying the warm atmosphere brought by the festival.

Without going to ask for a share of the rewards from the Xu family disciples, Liang Qu waved to his senior brothers and others. He was not in a hurry to meet them yet. He passed through the crowd and found Huangzhou Judge Tang Yuyou to tell him about Zhao Xueyuan.

Tang Yuyou was surprised: "There is such a thing?"

"It is absolutely true, it is really a coincidence."

Liang Qu was not some imperial envoy. Being in Huangzhou, if he wanted to catch someone, he had to talk to the local government office first.

"What does Lord Liang want to do?"

A small wealthy merchant, he guessed there were some dealings in the government office, but Tang Yuyou didn't mind selling a favor.

"I have to trouble Judge Tang to send someone..."

The request was not difficult.

Tang Yuyou agreed, turned around to find someone to arrange various matters, implemented the arrest, and Zhao Xueyuan was transferred out, quietly taken away, and put into the big prison.

Yang Xu noticed the abnormality: "What happened?"

Liang Qu briefly explained the process.

Hu Qi and Xiang Zhangsong were slightly surprised.

Liang Qu and Zhao Xueyuan didn't meet much, but the two of them met quite a bit. After all, they had been to the martial arts hall to learn martial arts, and their memories were still fresh.

He didn't expect him to run to Huangzhou.

Yang Xu suddenly realized: "I said why you kid kept running with those three people, and one looked like he was being escorted, I thought you caught them to be laborers."

"Cao Shixiong, I need to borrow two personal guards from you for this matter!"

Yang Xu didn't ask what to do: "Small matter, A Wu, A Ji, you two go."

"Yes!"

"Brother Liang!"

Seeing Liang Qu finished chatting with his friends and family, Xu Lijie led the Xu family disciples to rush over excitedly to discuss how to divide the top six rewards.

"Treasure plants, gold, you keep them, give me all the remaining pulse marrow jade liquid."

The Xu family disciples had no second words and gave it readily.

After receiving seven more bottles of pulse marrow jade liquid, Liang Qu kept one bottle for himself, and for the rest, besides the eldest senior brother and second senior brother, each of the several senior brothers and sisters got one bottle.

"Liang Shidi, you..."

"We don't need it."

"It's okay, we'll talk about it later if we don't need it. Sooner or later we will enter the wolf smoke, and at worst, it's the same to exchange it for other resources. What I kept for myself is enough. Originally, the rankings I swept were left for the senior brothers and sisters."

Liang Qu was not far from the completion of the Heavenly Bridge, only missing two big meridians and several small meridians. Four bottles of treasure liquid plus a piece of beryl wood were more than enough.

Hearing Liang Shidi say this, everyone stopped talking.

Catching people should be done sooner rather than later. He handed everything to Long Yao and Long Li.

Liang Qu rode Chishan and rushed to Doushan Town in Huangzhou.

……

"Is it that house in front?"

"Exactly."

Liu Shouping and Zheng Rusheng said affirmatively.