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Walking forward, it was Xiangguo Temple, which was far away. The noise of Xiangguo Temple had reached Zhao Xing and his group.

It was like a big cauldron with a pot of boiling, noisy, howling, chuckling, shouting, and shouting. The scene was like a modern free market.

There are several sumo wrestlers coming to the front, which are "wild fields" - there are two types of sumo wrestlers in the Song Dynasty. One is the military sumo wrestlers. During major festivals, the court will send them to perform. These people call them "Neiwaizi". The other is folk sumo wrestlers who make a living by performing. This kind of sumo wrestling scene is called "wild fields".

There are several "wild fields" at the entrance of Xiangguo Temple. What is being performed is now a female sumo wrestler. The female sumo wrestler performance in the Song Dynasty is quite similar to the female wrestling competitions in later generations. These female sumo wrestlers wrestled in wrestling performances. After performing for a while, their clothes were pulled away during the fight, so the two female sumo wrestlers continued to fight while almost naked.

Such sumo wrestling performances seem to be more obscene than modern "sumo wrestling shows". This was actually the Song Dynasty, which was called the harsh ethics of the Song Dynasty. The main force of watching this sumo wrestling competition was not the city people, but the court officials and their families.

It is still in the inner city, and you can see the performance of Xiangguo Temple standing on the imperial wall. After shopping, officials who are not obsessed will bring their families to Xiangguo Temple to watch the sumo wrestling performance. When officials who are worthy of it stand on the imperial wall, they will stand on the imperial wall and look at the performance here.

Song people are pure and do not know the difference between performance and competition. In this sumo wrestling performance, whoever wins and loses is arranged, and the factor that determines the outcome lies in the amount of "bet money". The audience bets on the performance stage. A thick layer of copper coins was piled on the performance stage, and a line was drawn between Taichung, representing the left and right sides of the competition. The bets selected to bet one side.

Some officials who watched the performance were purely evil spirits. They didn't care about winning or losing, they just wanted to have a more intense competition. They would sprinkle the copper coins in their hands on Taichung - all of them were won.

According to convention, the thicker the copper coins on the sumo wrestle, the more ornamental the game seems. So, the officials and families watching from the audience threw the copper plates on the stage while shouting and cheering at the top of their lungs. Their emotions were excited, just like the passionate scene of watching boxing matches in modern times.

Zhao Xing was a little uncomfortable in it. After all, seeing the woman fighting so nakedly in front of him made him very uncomfortable. He looked carefully and found that Chaoyun and Cheng Azhu had no disgusting expressions on their faces. Chen Yiyi actually sprinkled copper coins on the stage as he imitated the women on the sidelines.

Is it me wrong? Zhao Xing asked himself.

But this is something that people in the Song Dynasty were so weird.

It is said that Sima Guang, who smashed the jar, was also disgusted with this phenomenon. He once said in a memorial: "The emperor is the emperor, the people of the people below, the concubines are the servants, and the wife is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who

This is the Song Dynasty.

The Song people had extremely heavy gambling habits, and the Song Dynasty was also the era with the most heavy gambling habits in China. Folk legends, the rules of dice were determined by Zhao Kuangyin. Since the founding emperor was so easy to block, the ministers also followed the example. The famous female poet Li Qingzhao once described the style of gambling: "The husband and wife,..., have long travels, leaves, buzz, and play chess, and have no preaching in modern times. If you beat brown, big and big pig nests, tribe ghosts, Hu paintings, count warehouses, and gambling fast, they are all vulgar and uninformed; hidden strings, bupa, double furrows, and are abandoned in modern times; select immortals, add or subtract, insert Guanhu, and appointed by Taizhilu, and have no wits to do anything; big and small elephant plays, chess, and only two people can accommodate them; single-color selection, horse plays, and are especially elegant plays in the boudoir." It can be seen that this famous female poet is also a fanatical gambling enthusiast.

It is precisely because of this that gambling behavior in the Song Dynasty was open and legal. Most gambling was "contributing to local taxes". Therefore, if you see someone catching gambling in the Song Dynasty, you can basically be sure that this person is a time traveler, at least from the Ming Dynasty.

The reason why sumo wrestling was so popular in the Song Dynasty was that it was inseparable from gambling. Most of the people who watched sumo wrestling matches were wins and who lost. Everyone was worried about the game on the court, but they didn't expect that this was just a performance and the winner had been arranged.

After a while, the ending was as Zhao Xing expected, the female sumo wrestler who had the most finale lost unexpectedly. The person in charge of the casino in the field took the bets and then paid the winner of the bet. He was satisfied with the surplus gambling money and transferred to the backcourt with the surplus gambling money. There were screams and scolding in the field. Only those who did not throw money on the sumo wrestler looked at the end of the game with satisfaction. They were feasted on the eyes, but they had no desire to gain or lose, so they were naturally satisfied.

There were three major gambling festivals in the Song Dynasty, namely Lantern Festival, Winter Solstice, and Cold Food Festival. During these three days, people across the country could openly gambling, and the main form of gambling was "Guanpu". In addition to these three days, the only forms of gambling were casinos and sumo fields. The nature of sumo gambling in broad daylight made gamblers particularly addicted. Therefore, after the female sumo wrestler left the venue, the people watching the game still did not retreat, but gathered more and more because the main show began.

The next one was the male sumo wrestler - it was still a performance-oriented game, but it was much more intense than the female sumo wrestler. When the performance of the two teams of male sumo wrestlers ended, the champion who was struck the stage first performed the sumo wrestling skills with several apprentices, and then brought out a large plate with silver ingots stacked on it. The person holding the plate circled around the field, then placed the silver plate in the center of the stage and covered it with a piece of red silk cloth - this is the red. If someone can defeat the champion, he can hold this silver ingots away.

But, can you win?

Sumo wrestlers who set up a bell will be challenged to set up many rules, for example: using the excuse to make a life and death case, requiring you to find a local person in Tokyo as a guarantee - however, you will not find a guarantee;

Then, they will ask you to fight with his apprentice first, fight with one apprentice first, and after the fight, two or three apprentices will fight with you, and then a female sumo wrestler will come on the stage... This is called "breaking the three levels", which proves that you have the strength to challenge.

Among these three levels, it is the most tiring to deal with female sumo wrestlers because you can't take serious measures against women, so that people on the sidelines will make fun of you and scold you for not being merciful. These female sumo wrestlers are the most tangled. They will squeeze out your strength little by little, and then don't give you any rest time, so that the champion can take action to knock you off the stage.

This kind of scene was described in "Water Margin". Yan Qing fought for the third time for a woman, Optimus Prime's wife. Yan Qing had to "take it lightly" on the stage, and then passed the third level.

Zhao Xing is a modern person and has long been familiar with these gambling cheating skills, but the few followers behind him didn't know that they were excited by the people on the ring, and kept instigating Zhao Xing to go on stage, or asking him to allow them to go on stage to show their skills. Later, even Chaoyun looked at him with anticipation.

Zhao Xing remained indifferent: "I'm stupid. I'm tired and sweaty. I'm letting others make money, but I only get a laugh. I can't do this... Not only can I not do it, but you can't do it either."

Seeing that his words didn't work, Zhao Xing changed his perspective and continued: "It's not easy to make a living. It's hard to earn some money to support his family. Even his wife and daughter have to go out for naked scenes. What are you doing? Is it a waste of money?"

These words finally worked, and several followers suppressed their impulses.

But they were calm and the people off the field were unwilling to do so.

Zhao Xingchang was so majestic that he stood out from the stage. The people on the stage and the people on the stage had already set their sights on this man with a calm face. The people on the stage were already on the mission of teasing people to come to the stage, and there were also those idle people in the audience, who specifically encouraged people to go to the stage to compete in order to entertain the audience.

When the large plate of ingots were placed there, they encouraged and incited them, and they could always let a few impulsive ghosts go up and fight, but now Zhao Xing is standing out in the crowd, and everyone is staring at him. He heard the meaning of the few followers around him, and this person is still a little skillful. Now he is not on the stage, and no one dares to jump. As a result, after a wink on the stage and the other two gang members squeezed towards Zhao Xing.

"Officials, we usually ask for food on this street. I have seen that sacred eagle who is too good to see. That guy is just ordinary martial arts. Why don't the official come forward to try his skills... That plate of silver is 300 taels!" said a gangster licking his face.

The Phutian Diao?! Zhao Xing almost laughed out loud. Everyone knew that the Song people liked to give themselves a nickname, but they didn't expect that the champion was also nicknamed "Phutian Diao".

Zhao Xing was indifferent. He turned around and called several followers and prepared to continue wandering. The people on the stage were anxious and laughed at him: "Who is the one from the audience, Bai Chang is so silly, but he turns out to be a turtle with a head-shrinking head. Come on, come on, look at this large plate of silver, come on and take it away."

Zhao Xing could still bear it and greeted the people indifferently, but some people in the audience were reluctant. A strong man with a strange hairstyle flipped onto the ring, stared at the clamoring sumo wrestler on the stage, and asked fiercely: "Who are you scolding?"

This is a man from Liao, he is the second highest man in the field. Zhao Xing was walking out, and he was the highest in front of the sumo wrestling, so he thought he was being insulted, so he jumped onto the stage to fight.

According to the research on tombs of descendants, the remains of the Song people in the south are below 1.57 meters, while the height of the Song people in the north is as high as 1.7 meters. However, the lowest height of the tomb tribesmen in the Liao tomb, Xixia tomb, Jin tomb and other tomb tribes of the same period is above 1.59 meters.

In other words, during the same period, the average height of the people of the three countries of Xixia, Liao and Jin was at least two centimeters taller than that of the Song people. It proved that the Liao people were short in front of Zhao Xing, but his height of over 1.8 meters was also a majestic giant who was about one meter five meters tall among a group of people. Therefore, it is not an exaggeration to think that the sumo wrestlers on the ring were talking about him.

In this era, the Song people liked sumo wrestling, and the Liao Dynasty sumo wrestling competition was also very popular. The scenes of sumo wrestling competitions can often be seen in Liao tombs. Moreover, the sumo wrestling competitions eventually spread to the north until the 21st century, and gradually disappeared in the south. Therefore, the Liao people prefer sumo wrestling games more than the Song people.

It proves that the Liao people were obviously also a person who had played sumo wrestling. As soon as he came on stage, after yelling for a few words, he immediately grabbed the sumo wrestler on the stage with his chest, picked up the other party with a skillful action and threw it off the stage.

There was a noise behind him, but at this time, Zhao Xing had no choice but to continue to rush down.

The antique shops in Xiangguo Temple sold fake antiques. The Chinese craftsmanship of making fake antiques reached its peak in the Song Dynasty. Song Huizong loved antiques. He recruited talents to make fake antiques into the palace and set up a special forgery workshop to forge ancient jade in batches in the palace, which also led to the largest number of antiques in the Song Dynasty. The antique shop near Xiangguo Temple was a distribution center for fake goods.

However, the ancients had no trademark awareness, and they did not think that forging antiques was a fraud. Therefore, even if the emperor bought fake antiques from this era, he would only blame himself for his lack of vision, lack of knowledge, and failed to distinguish the authenticity.

This has also become a tradition, and this tradition remains until the 21st century.

Others don’t know the secret of antiques, but Zhao Xing knows it, so he has no intention of buying antiques at all. Since he doesn’t have this intention, he looks particularly leisurely when he walks around. He looks along the way, and takes out his ability to sell prices on Xiushui Street and bargains hard. As a result, the group of people walked all the way, and there was a lot of sadness behind him.

Can the owner of the antique shop not crying without tears? He called for a price of 300 taels of Yuxi, and Zhao Xing bargained for one tael, and never bothered him. If he didn't sell, he would leave. As a result, the boss was crying without tears.

Chaoyun has never seen such a ruthless person in his life. Su Dongpo also likes to visit this antique shop, but when he met the boss who offered a price of 300 taels, he fought hard for 280 taels at most. Unexpectedly, a few days ago, Su Dongpo happily bought a jade pen holder that he bought for 250 taels. Today, Zhao Xing bought two taels.

Cheng Azhu had no concept of high or low quality of these luxury goods. Chen Yiyi was happy. According to the store owner's recommendation, the porcelain with simple shapes was all antiques from the Han and Tang dynasties, which were extremely precious. As a result, Zhao Xing said to her that he bought a bunch of them... and took them back to the palace like this, so the sisters would not envy them to death.

When Zhao Xing swept the last antique shop, the entire antique dealer in Xiangguo Temple had already known that a quick knife hand broke out on the street, which was a bit of hatred and poisonous. Finally, the store owner was negotiating a business with the customer. When he saw Zhao Xing coming in, he was afraid that the other party would break the deal. He said in a crying voice: "God, don't say anything, you can take whatever you like in the store, and you will give as much money as you want."

The merchant who was talking to the boss in the store was so depressed - when will I get this treatment too?

Zhao Xing took a set of four treasures of the study, fucked a few rolls of good rice paper, and threw down two taels of silver. With the boss's farewell, he walked to the street like a gift, raised his eyes and swept the way. When the guests on the roadside saw his gaze, they hid back into the store. For a moment, the entire antique street seemed very empty.

Everyone went to both sides. The man from Liao whom I saw on the ring just now obviously won. He walked with his head held high with pride, followed by several followers.

This guy won, and he was not polite at all. He even brought the plate of silver. The follower behind him showed off the silver plate over his head, shouting at the people around him as he walked.

"What are the sumo wrestlings in the southerners? Our master poked his finger..."

At this time, with the clamor of the follower, the Song people on the street turned their faces in disgust and avoided on both sides of the road, which made Zhao Xing's figure standing in the middle of the street look particularly conspicuous.

Has it really been a fight? Zhao Xing narrowed his eyes and looked at the other party. The Liao people's clothes were not messy at all, and they didn't even sweat. Could it be that he had passed the three levels so easily?

At this moment, the Lantern Festival has passed, except for the sunshine a little lazy at noon, the weather is still a little cold now. Zhao Xing looked up at the sky. It is about ten o'clock now, and the other party really has to go through a fight. He shouldn't have sweated down at such a little road.

The Liao people's eyes stayed on Zhao Xing for a while, then turned to the Xiao brothers behind Zhao Xing, with doubts in their eyes: "Are the Song people so tall? How can the soldiers under the head of our Liao Kingdom be slaves to the Song people?"

The Xiao brothers took the things handed over by Zhao Xing and flew away from the roadside. They didn't say anything.

The ancients had no concept of a country. Most of the Han slaves who were captured and robbed into the northern country also regarded themselves as northerners. Of course, among these Han slaves, they were not those who fled back to their homeland, but as long as the Liao Kingdom discovered it, they would ask for these "escape slaves" from the Song Kingdom, and each one was accurate.

In order not to affect the diplomatic relations between the two countries, the Song Dynasty arrested the patriots who fled thousands of miles away and returned them to the Liao Kingdom. The Liao people killed these people who fled thousands of miles away in front of Song officials on the border to warn the later fugitives.

Over time, no one thought about escaping back to his hometown. Once they entered the army, their motherland would be the Liao Kingdom.

The Song people were defeated repeatedly in foreign wars, and there were also great contributions from the head army, which made the head army look contemptuous to the Song people. It seemed incredible to make them obey the command of a cowardly Song people at that time, so the Liao people opposite were surprised.

The Liao people walked along the way with great momentum, and the people around them avoided each other, but Zhao Xing was still standing in the middle of the road. At this time, Zhao Xing had already emptied his hands in the air, and his face clearly looked like he was looking for trouble. As the Liao people got closer, several yamen runners behind the Liao people could no longer hold back. They flashed and quickly rushed towards Zhao Xing.

Yes - Zhao Xing suddenly realized when he saw the figures of those yamen runners.

It turned out that this Liao man had a bad identity. He might be a famous envoy, so the yamen runners secretly protected him. The appearance of these yamen runners disturbed the sumo duel. The champion of the sumo wrestling team did not dare to trigger a "diplomacy dispute", so he believed that he was defeated and let the Liao man take away the silver plate.

"You guys are quick," Zhao Xing shouted without hesitation: "I was also in the audience just now. I originally planned to buy things and go back to clean up the kid, but I didn't expect you to take the silver plate away first. Let's wait, leave the silver plate and do some other bets?"

Zhao Xing's words had a strong southern accent, which was a typical Huainan Song language. The Liao man frowned and immediately shouted to the Xiao brothers: "Han'er, why did you arrive in the Southern Dynasty? Are you fugitive slaves?"
Chapter completed!