How can I bow my head and serve the powerful officials?

Xie Chengze's words were too harsh, and the bandits could not help but glare at him. Xie Chengze relied on his protection and glared back immediately:

"Why are you looking at me? Is there any martial arts secret on my face? Do you think you can beat them just by looking at me?"

"Call your leader here tomorrow. I want to see how he taught his children to be so useless!"

He was very nagging: "If you don't want to work, just quit! But don't affect the other standing troops, they still want to climb up! Those who don't fight with you and drag you down are jealous of you and can't stand your success. But you think they share the same hatred with you!"

"That's right~strong limbs, simple mind!" Zhu Xiaobiao cleared his throat and shouted along, "How did he live to this age? Could he have survived by eating his own brain?"

A soldier heard this and couldn't help laughing. The other side caught his flaw and pinned him to the ground. The bandit soldier yelled at Xie Chengze, "Stop talking!"

He is so annoying, even more annoying than the officials! He looks so attractive, but why is he so nagging and mean?

Xie Chengze curled his lips, his face full of matter-of-factness, and said in a sonorous tone: "What's wrong with saying a few words to you? It won't hurt a piece of flesh! Besides, I am not wrong. You know that you can't beat the regular army, but you still insist on resisting in this way. In my opinion, it is really stupid!"

After he finished speaking, Zhu Xiaobiao at the side immediately raised his voice to echo him: "Extremely stupid~Extremely stupid~Extremely~Extremely~"

Bandits: ...

Nervous!

"Your Highness, they are so stupid!" Zhu Xiaobiao covered his mouth as if he was about to say something, but his voice was clearly audible in the snow. "They knew the consequences of losing the fight, but they still acted on impulse and didn't know how to adapt at all!"

"That's right! If it were me, I would definitely..."

As Xie Chengze was speaking, he suddenly covered his mouth, as if he had let something slip. He pretended that he had not said anything, turned around and wanted to leave.

Immediately, a bandit soldier shouted, "Wait!"

The bandit was the leader of a small hilltop. He stared at Xie Chengze and asked, "Second Prince, what did you just say? How do you think you can change it?"

They really couldn't stand this. They were just local soldiers, not soldiers. All they wanted was to receive a comfortable monthly salary and do easy odd jobs. But now these soldiers forced them to work from dawn to dusk. It would have been fine if they just worked, but they also called them good-for-nothings, useless mud that couldn't be helped, and smelly stones in the cesspool.

They just want to defeat the soldiers and prove that they are not useless at all, they just don't want to do it!

Seeing that they were almost done fighting, Xie Chengze said slowly, "You are not bad, but you have not been trained by the army and tempered by the battlefield. If we only talk about martial arts, these soldiers are indeed not winning fairly. Even if they beat you, it cannot prove that you are useless."

The bandits couldn't help but look at Xie Chengze in surprise, and at the same time felt that what he said was absolutely right. They just had never joined the army. If they had, they would not necessarily be worse than these soldiers!

"In our capital, it is a low-class method for men to win by fighting." Xie Chengze shook his head and said, "If the gap between the two is too big, the winner should be decided by playing ice hockey."

"Hockey? What's that?"

Not only the bandits were confused, but the soldiers were also confused.

Xie Shoujun also looked over. He had lived in the north for a long time and had never heard of ice hockey games in the capital.

"That's it..." Xie Chengze dragged out his words, then pursed his lips, "Why should I tell you that you are on strike and don't want to work? I don't want to give you a chance to prove yourselves."

The bandits were immediately anxious, "Stop!"

"We are just too tired. The snow keeps falling with no end in sight, and we haven't had much food lately. We haven't had any meat for more than half a month. We really don't have the energy to work!"

"That's right. I still get called a waste and a parasite. Do you think I volunteered to be a bandit? If it weren't for those officials..."

The bandits were indignant. After all, they were men from the north and had a strong sense of self-esteem. You can fight me, but if you insult me, I will never let you go!

"Ah, it seems like you guys have had a hard time." Xie Chengze pretended to be sympathetic, "Well, then I'll tell you how to play ice hockey."

The so-called ice hockey is the ice hockey in Xie Chengze's world, which is similar to ice football.

Xie Chengze simplified the rules. Ice hockey requires two teams, each with six players. Wearing ice skates, they swing their ice hockey sticks to push the puck on the ice. Hitting the puck into the opponent's goal is a point. The game is divided into three rounds, each round is limited to half an hour. The team with the highest score wins. The team that wins two out of three rounds wins.

This was an extremely fresh and exciting way to play for both the bandits and the soldiers. The two sides looked at each other and saw the burning desire to fight in each other.

"How about this, each of you pick out the players you think are the best and can move freely on the ice, and go to the ice rink with me to train for a few days. Once you are familiar with the rules of ice hockey, I will organize a game specifically for you."

"During this period, you can change players at any time, or come and watch them train after school."

Xie Chengze tempted them step by step, "The victorious side, I can reward you with three days of freshly slaughtered sheep, guaranteed to be enough. Not only that, I can also reward the person who scores the most goals on the winning side with a gold cake, the person who scores the second most goals with a silver cake, and the person who scores the most and second most goals on the losing side with three and two days of rest!"

As soon as Xie Chengze finished speaking, the bandits and soldiers became even more excited!

If you win, not only can you eat freshly slaughtered mutton for three days, but you can also get gold. Even if you lose, the person who scores the most goals can also take a day off?

A raging fire suddenly ignited in the eyes of both parties.

They are sure to win this ice hockey game!!!

……

Knowing that Xie Chengze was going to host an ice hockey game and would give out mutton as a reward, Shen Yuan couldn't help but ask, "Where are you going to buy the mutton? Do you have enough money?"

It's winter now and meat is much more scarce than food. If he wants to buy sheep to feed so many people, it will take a lot of effort and money. But doesn't he have much money on hand?

If we can't get the sheep out, who knows how those bandits will make trouble.

However, Xie Chengze smiled mysteriously and pointed towards the city gate, "Isn't it coming?"

Shen Yuan turned around and saw Sheng Yiren, dressed in men's clothes, riding on a tall horse and waving excitedly at them from afar. Behind her, there were more than thirty fat sheep.

He was stunned for a moment, "Where did these sheep come from?"

"I exchanged coal with the Xiongnu!" Xie Chengze rubbed his chin and smiled sinisterly. "With the heavy snow, the grassland is freezing. Compared with the mutton they have so much to eat, coal is obviously very precious. Just some coal can be exchanged for a lot of sheep!"

Coal, which only costs a few coins per pound when sold to the common people, can be exchanged for sheep worth three thousand coins with the Huns. No wonder merchants love to be middlemen. The profit made by the middlemen from the price difference is just too damn good!