Chapter 165
The people of Yanqi, west of the Pamir Mountains, were calm. The herdsmen scattered cattle and sheep on the grass slopes, but people disappeared.
Yanqi was a branch left behind when the Great Yuezhi was driven away by the Huns. They established the Yanqi Kingdom, which was rich in Yanqi horses with good endurance and foot strength.
After Liu Gan and his party arrived in Yanqi, Norton had to come out to seek help from King Yanqi.
King Yanqi was happy to help Norton, after all, they were in the same mood.
Norton and others moved into the backyard of the palace to avoid the hunt by the Huns.
Mu Erta led his men into Yanqi's capital. They searched for all corners of the city without seeing Norton and others.
Mu Erta had already guessed that Norton and his party might be hiding in the palace.
The palace was harshly garrisoned, and Mu Erta dared not trespass. When he was at a loss, news came from the palace: "The little prince is going to select martial artists nationwide!"
The selection competition three days later was held in the palace's school martial arts field. Mu Erta and his more than 20 confidants signed up to take the exam.
On the day of the competition, all the martial artists wore uniformly distributed clothing and held competition tokens to enter the school martial arts field directly from the side door of the palace.
There were about 150 people participating in the competition. The first round of the competition was the archery. The rule was whose shooting range was long and the hit rate was high.
More than 50 people were eliminated in this round of competition, and the rest entered the second round of competition, with the huge rock competition.
There are five huge rocks of different sizes on the field, and the smallest one is about 180 kilograms.
Those who practice martial arts are born with extraordinary strength can lift weights. Such people usually practice external exercises, while those who practice internal exercises can lift weights based on their internal strength. People with deep internal strength can lift a thousand pounds.
The Huns like to compete for brute force, and most of them practiced foreign martial arts. In the end, only eleven people were left to enter the next round of competition.
The third round of the competition is sitting skills. The martial artist who needs to participate in the competition sits upright on the wooden barrel. Whoever has a long endurance can enter the next round.
Fifty wooden barrels were divided into two rows, one meter apart. Mu Erta walked to the wooden barrel and sat up. After he sat cross-legged, he found that the person opposite him looked familiar. He looked carefully and found that the man was actually Jiang Yu.
"Ha! It's really a good saying, it's not that enemies don't get together!" Mu Erta stared at Jiang Yu with his eyes narrowed.
Jiang Yu didn't expect that he would sit opposite Mu Erta. He glanced at Mu Erta expressionlessly, then closed his eyes.
Jiang Yu is here, where is Bo Langjun? Mu Erta's eyes looked at the people beside Jiang Yu. Bo Langjun was sitting next to Jiang Yu, and he was looking at Mu Erta with a sarcastic look.
Luo Jiaojiao, who was sitting on the wooden barrel next to Bo Langjun, also saw Mu Erta. Only then did she understand why Bo Langjun was coming to participate in the martial arts selection competition.
"The competition begins!" Jia Chu, the deputy commander-in-chief of the Yanqi Palace, pulled out the hourglass baffle.
Jia Chu set the game in Shenshi, where Riyang is setting, to avoid the exposure of the scorching sun to affect the real abilities of the martial artists.
Bo Langjun and Mu Erta kept looking at each other. An hour later, the two martial artists were eliminated. Sweat was oozing from the tips of everyone's noses.
Luo Jiaojiao closed her eyes and practiced the internal skills taught her by her master Shanchen, so she didn't feel anything.
Bo Langjun no longer looked at Mu Erta. He also slightly closed his eyes and used his energy to regulate his breathing and unblocked the meridians throughout his body.
Half an hour later, only sixteen people were left on the wooden barrel. Only three people were still holding on.
"Time is up! The remaining 16 people are ready to participate in tomorrow's actual combat competition! We will stay in the house where the guards in the school's martial arts court will live tonight! Split!" Deputy Commander Jia Chu said loudly.
Everyone got off the wooden barrels one after another and led by two guards to the house.
There were two houses, each with eight people, all of which were sleeping on the floor. Bo Langjun and the other two leaned against one end of the bed and sat down. Luo Jiaojiao was in the innermost, Bo Langjun was in the middle, and Jiang Yu was next to the other contestants.
Sitting on the shop and rested, Bo Langjun frowned. He was really not used to sleeping with so many people.
Mu Erta naturally would not be in the same room as Bo Langjun and the other three. He and his subordinates lived in the next room.
While taking a shower, Mu Erta did not notice the shadow of Bo Langjun and Jiang Yu, so they knew that they wanted to wait until everyone finished washing before coming.
This is a good opportunity! Mu Erta put on her robe while thinking about it with smugness.
Jiang Yu used coins to ask the person in charge of the bathroom to clean the pool. He also specially ordered a bathtub and a screen.
Bo Langjun and Luo Jiaojiao walked into the bathroom and saw Jiang Yu bringing people to carry hot water into the bathtub behind the screen.
"This pool..." Bo Langjun looked at the bathhouse built by Black Stone and frowned in disgust.
"Or why you wash in the bathtub!" Luo Jiaojiao saw Bo Langjun's expression and knew that he would not go to the pool to bathe.
Bo Langjun took off his clothes and went into the bathtub. Jiang Yu entered the bathtub. Luo Jiaojiao hid in the locker room and fell asleep.
Mu Erta ordered his deputy general to take two men to the bathroom to expose Luo Jiaojiao's identity so that they could be bombarded. Because he knew that their martial arts skills were not as good as those of Bo Langjun and the other three, they would not be able to gain any advantage.
Mu Erta's deputy general and two subordinates whispered to the window where the screen was placed.
In order to avoid peeping, the bathroom windows are higher than ordinary windows, so they have to squat down one person and let the other step on their shoulders to reach them.
As soon as the Huns' head reached the window, they saw something shiny coming towards him. He was so scared that he leaned back, and his feet fell down with an unstable slump.
"Ah," they shouted together, attracting the guards of the palace. Mu Erta's deputy general hid behind a rockery.
The Huns who fell to the ground climbed up in a mess. The guards asked in surprise what they were doing?
"There is a woman taking a bath inside!" the Hun said according to Mu Erta's words in advance.
"How is it possible? Could it be that you miss a woman crazy!" The guards laughed.
"Really! You'll know when you go in and take a look!"
"Okay! If you are really a woman, you will be exempted from your punishment!" The two guards pushed open the bathroom door and walked in, but only saw Jiang Yu sitting in the bathtub looking at this side in confusion. After they turned to the screen, they only saw Bo Langjun staring at them coldly.
"No! There is one more person in them!" The Huns followed in.
"Are you looking for me?" Qiu Zijun walked out of the locker room.
"I really look like a woman!" Before the guard finished speaking, he was slapped in the face!
Another guard stopped the angry Qiuzijun and said, "It's all a misunderstanding!"
"It's not him! Search! That woman must be here!" The Hun entered the locker room.
There were many bath towels and clean guard uniforms hanging in the locker room. The Huns were searching in rows, but Luo Jiaojiao was not seen.
"You shameless villain! Why don't you come out and be punished!" Bo Langjun walked out of the screen after dressing neatly. He came to the door of the locker room and shouted sternly.
"No! He absolutely can't escape! There is only a ventilation window here!" The Hun said inadvertently.
A palace guard pulled the Hun out. The beating guard stood outside and glanced at Qiu Zijun, and then walked out of the bathroom with his companions.
Seeing this, Mu Erta's deputy general rushed to report to his master. Another Hun saw that his accomplice was taken out, so he secretly followed them to the inquiry room.
"You won't come out yet!" Qiu Zijun shouted into the locker room.
"Where is she hiding?" Bo Langjun also looked into the locker room curiously.
Chapter completed!