Chapter 802: Second Day of Competition

"We can't go on like this..."

"Yes, we lost so badly today. The champions were not even a fraction of the North, and only two qualified. In the first round, we sent out the top ten masters, but except for Zhu Jingu, all of them lost miserably. Oh, it's embarrassing. No wonder Mr. Dong left early. I couldn't sit still either."

"Humph, blame Geng Liangchen for making small moves outside the court and deliberately targeting us. If he hadn't dampened our morale at the beginning, we wouldn't have lost so badly!"

"Okay, they have already shown mercy to us, fearing that we would lose too badly!"

"What's the point of saying this now? Let's think about what to do tomorrow! If this continues, our southern martial arts will never be able to raise our heads in front of the northerners again!"

Night.

In the lobby on the second floor of the Golden Building, the leaders of various southern sects gathered together to complain about the disastrous defeat of today's competition.

After a day of competition, they saw the fundamental gap between the southern martial arts and the northern martial arts. Now they no longer have any beautiful dreams of "overwhelming the north". Their biggest hope now is not to lose too badly.

"How about we also deploy troops?" Someone suggested, "According to their different characteristics, temporarily assign people to the stage, what do you think?"

"Not very good!" Someone immediately retorted, "Geng Liangchen did this because he knows the characteristics of northern and southern martial arts very well, so he can make targeted arrangements. But how much do we know about the north? In addition to Bagua Xingyi Tai Chi, do you know what characteristics other martial arts have? Don't know? If you don't know anything, how can you deploy troops?"

"That's right, there's no way..."

"Hey, how can Geng Liangchen be so powerful? How old is he, how can he know so much about martial arts of various schools? It's true that there is no false reputation under a great reputation."

"In my opinion Look, he is the best at teaching his apprentices! How long has he been teaching, less than half a year! Damn, those apprentices are all very good! And the martial arts he created, called mixed martial arts, really subverts my understanding of martial arts! Awesome! Too awesome! This man will definitely be a big shot in the future! "

"He is already one now! Alas, the final of the selection will be a fight between Geng Liangchen and Master Ye, and I have no confidence at all now..."

"Who said it's not? The apprentices are so good, what level can the master get?"

"Master Ye is not bad, but compared with Geng Liangchen..."

Ye Wen, who had been sitting and not speaking, was still smiling when he heard these discussions, but his smile had become less natural.

Geng Liangchen...

I don't know when this junior brother has become a mountain in his heart.

A mountain he must climb over.

"Awen, you are the team leader, do you have any good ideas?" Master Dong asked.

Ye Wen shook his head: "If you are not as skilled as others, it is useless to say anything."

"Alas, fighting in the ring is not just about martial arts. Ah Wen, you can't hide away. You have to take the responsibility of the leader tomorrow. We southerners can't lose like this. Whether it's arranging troops or commanding on the spot, in short, you have to go!"

"I really can't do it." Ye Wen shook his head and refused.

The philosophy of life he believes in has always been that it is better to do less than more. Command on the spot? Arrange troops?

This is definitely an offensive job, so it's better not to do it.

"It's okay!" Master Rong waved his hand and said without question, "Do you know that we have discussed your matter with Gong Baosen and others? They said that once things are decided, they are decided, and no one can be an exception! Oh, there are people in the north, so we don't have to go? Then everyone just finds someone to go to the north, and then no one has to go?"

Ye Wen was startled, and then his face immediately became ugly.

"Mr. Rong, my wife and children are all in Foshan, why are you going north?" Ye Wen's voice unconsciously raised, "Who will take care of them if I leave? Besides, you know that there is always a war in the north. Isn't this putting me in danger?"

"Who doesn't have a wife and children? Who doesn't go to the north and is in danger?" Master He scolded, "Your wife and children are wives and children, but others' wives and children are not wives and children? Your life is life, but others' lives are not life?"

"Master He, if you had told me this earlier, I would not have agreed to this matter at the beginning!" Ye Wen said excitedly.

Bang!

Master Dong, who had the hottest temper, slammed the table and shouted angrily: "You are also a martial artist in the south. You are taken care of and admired by everyone on weekdays. When something happens, you just want to hide behind. Is it so easy?"

Ye Wen opened his mouth, but said nothing.

In the end, the party ended unhappily.

Lonely Ye Wen walked on the deserted street, feeling very heavy in his heart.

When you are in the rivers and lakes, you can't help yourself.

No one can understand the helplessness of this sentence better than Ye Wen at this moment.

He doesn't want to be competitive, and he doesn't want to leave his hometown to go to the dangerous north to teach martial arts. He just wants to live a peaceful life. Why is it so difficult?

Learning martial arts is to strengthen the body and pursue a higher level of martial arts. Why should it be mixed with so many ambitions for fame and fortune, fighting and conspiracy?

Isn't it comfortable for everyone to happily learn martial arts and make progress together?

Why do we have to do this?

For this event, he has sent his wife and children back to her parents' home. He has paid enough. What else do you want from him?

If it is just to play in the game and show off, he can accept it, but the burden of the southern martial arts is too heavy, and he really doesn't want to carry it on himself.

Thinking about his own thoughts, Ye Wen walked to his doorstep unconsciously, and saw a figure standing outside his door from afar, standing with his hands behind his back, like a mountain standing in the deep.

Geng Liangchen?

Ye Wen recognized this man at a glance, and his eyelids jumped.

Although they were brothers from the same school, Ye Wen and Su Yi had never communicated or interacted with each other.

Why did Geng Liangchen come to see him?

Ye Wen was puzzled, but hurried over and bowed to Su Yi from a distance: "Junior Brother Geng, why are you standing here? Come in and sit down."

"No, Senior Brother Ye." Su Yi turned around and smiled at Ye Wen, "I just passed by here on a walk at night, and I remembered that there was a letter that Senior Brother Chen asked me to send to you, so I waited for you here."

When Su Yi went out, he knew that Ye Wen and others were discussing matters on the second floor of the Golden Building, so he naturally knew that Ye Wen was not at home.

"I'm so sorry, you've been waiting for so long, haven't you?" Ye Wen asked. "Would you like to go in and have a cup of tea? I can't let you stand outside the door."

Su Yi smiled and shook his head again: "Wait until the game is over, then come to visit Brother Ye formally."

He took out a letter and handed it to Ye Wen: "This is from Brother Chen."

Ye Wen hurried forward and took it with both hands.

"Is Brother Chen doing well in Tianjin?" Ye Wen asked. "Last time he wrote to me, he said that the Wing Chun martial arts school in Tianjin has been opened. I wonder how it is going?"

"Brother Chen has accepted 45 apprentices, including seven or eight good seedlings." Su Yi said with a smile, "According to the rules of our Wing Chun, the true teaching can only be passed on to two people. I guess he is now struggling with what to do. Maybe he will discuss this with you in the letter."

"So many people?" Ye Wen was stunned. "The times are different, and the ancestral system cannot be copied. If Brother Ye really wants to accept more true teachings, I don't think it's a big deal."

Ye Wen is still very open-minded in some aspects.

"Has Brother Ye not accepted any apprentices in these years?" Su Yi asked.

In fact, he has always been very surprised about this. Ye Wen started teaching boxing after going to Hong Kong Island because of life pressure, but he is 40 years old this year, but he has never thought of accepting apprentices.

If there is no war, the Ye family has always been Peideli Ye, then when does Ye Wen plan to accept apprentices and pass on kung fu?

Ye Wen smiled and shook his head: "I learn kung fu just because I like it. The inheritance of the sect is my senior brother Chen Rumian. He inherited the master's mantle and went to Guangxi Province to open a martial arts hall. Wing Chun has successors. It doesn't matter whether I accept apprentices or not."

You are still a quiet handsome man...

Su Yi smiled at Ye Wen and said: "It is our obligation and responsibility to spread branches and leaves and carry forward the past and the future. As the saying goes, the greater the ability, the greater the responsibility. Brother Ye, in fact, I hope you can make a career for Wing Chun."

The golden sentence "The greater the ability, the greater the responsibility" did not touch Ye Wen, because Ye Wen did not think so.

In his opinion, whether I have great ability or not is my own business, and whether I am responsible or not is also my own business. Why should I let others decide? Or why should I be coerced by the world?

He smiled and said, "With you and the two Chen brothers, Wing Chun is enough to create unprecedented glory."

Then he changed the subject: "It is the mixed martial arts created by you, Geng, that is refreshing. I think this kind of martial arts that abandons moves and integrates martial arts from various schools will become the mainstream of martial arts in the future, and it is also the direction of future martial arts development."

"Brother, are you so optimistic?" Su Yi was a little surprised.

"Of course, the martial arts performed by your disciples today, Geng, touched me a lot..." When talking about martial arts, Ye Wen became very interested.

He really loves martial arts.

The two chatted for a while at the door. Ye Wen invited Su Yi into the house again, but was rejected by Su Yi again.

It's not that he didn't want to have a deep exchange with Ye Wen, or deliberately keep a distance, but because he had something to do today.

His fifteen disciples are still waiting for him to go back and "lecture" and summarize the gains and losses of today's game.

All fifteen of Su Yi's disciples competed today, four of them qualified, nine of them were promoted to champions, and two were eliminated.

Such a result shocked everyone.

Nine northern warriors qualified, and four of them were Su Yi's disciples!

There are a total of twenty-one northern champions, and nine of them are Su Yi's disciples!

It is no exaggeration to say that Su Yi's disciples support half of the northern martial arts!

From now on, he will be Geng half of the wall!

But Su Yi was not very satisfied with such a result, because he carefully selected the fifteen most outstanding disciples, but two of them lost two games in a row and were eliminated!

One of the nine who were promoted to champions was injured, and he would not be able to hold on to tomorrow's game. It was a foregone conclusion that he would be eliminated.

The remaining eight people did not play at the level they should have today, which disappointed Su Yi.

Several of them were promoted to champions reluctantly, and their wins were very difficult and thrilling.

So for Su Yi, it was natural for his disciples to achieve good results, but they did not fully demonstrate their true level, which was their fault.

Su Yi was always strict with his disciples. At this time, his disciples were very nervous waiting for him to go back and lecture. It can be imagined that a storm of scolding was inevitable.

After watching Su Yi leave, Ye Wen felt much better.

At least his junior brother was a person who was easy to get along with.

Moreover, in the exchange just now, although the junior brother didn't say much, every word he said could hit the point and was thought-provoking, which showed that his understanding of martial arts was very profound.

This made Ip Man very excited. He liked to exchange martial arts with masters like Su Yi.

He is now looking forward to the duel between Qi and Su Yi.

He hopes to compete with Su Yi in the ring to verify what they have learned.

As for the price to pay for this event——

It's useless to think about it, it will only increase your worries, so just don't think about it.

The next day, God was not kind and it started to rain continuously in Foshan.

The rainy days in the south are cold and humid, which northerners are not used to.

The competition in the rain also affected the performance of the northern warriors to a certain extent.

Maybe it was the southerners who had learned from the pain and bottomed out, or maybe it was the influence of the continuous rain. The match between the two sides was extremely fierce today, and the southerners achieved better results than the first day.

After one day of competition, a total of thirty-two champions were born, including fourteen from the south and eighteen from the north.

The number of challengers between the two sides today is almost the same.

However, there are still not many players from the South who qualify directly, only three players, and there are nine players from the North who qualify for the second day of competition!

In two days of competition, a total of 23 people qualified!

Including Su Yi and Ye Wen who are exempted from the competition, they already occupy twenty-five places!

There are only thirty-five spots left for the rest to compete for.

On the second day of the competition, nine champions were eliminated, including four champions from the south and five champions from the north.

In this data, the South rarely wins.

Of course, after this day of fierce fighting, the total number of people eliminated was 461, which was almost three times the number on the first day!

After the two days of competition, in addition to those who have already qualified, there are a total of fifty people who have been promoted to the championship, that is, all the remaining players.

Of these fifty players, the last batch of qualifying players will be determined tomorrow, but it may not necessarily be the full thirty-five. It is very likely that the final qualifying players will not be enough for the 60 places, and there will be vacancies.

After several masters unanimously agreed, it is better to have a shortage than to overfill, and the vacant places will not be filled through additional methods.

In the competition on the second day, two more of Su Yi's disciples were eliminated!

In addition to the disciple who was injured yesterday, he gave up the competition due to his serious injury, and there was another disciple who was also eliminated.

This disciple may have been overly nervous because of Su Yi's instructions on the first day, which led to his opponent's surprise attack in the first game in which he had the upper hand and led to his defeat.

In the fifth match, we met a master from the South and were defeated cleanly by the opponent. He lost two games in a row and was eliminated.

Four of the remaining seven people advanced directly, and three others had one win and one loss in two games each, for a total of four wins and one loss in five games. Tomorrow, we will face the final battle that determines our fate.

This result made Su Yi very dissatisfied.