Everyone turned around and saw Pan Xu coming over with a group of important members of the aristocratic family. Everyone made way for a while. Many people lowered their heads, and even the Cao sisters dared not look up. Their grandfather Cao Ping came over.

At this time, Cao Ping also saw the scroll in his granddaughter's hand and was stunned. This is not

He looked back at the prize area and saw that the first prize was empty. "Yun'er, what's going on with this painting? Why is it in your hands?"

Cao Yun handed the painting to his grandfather, but he didn't know how to explain it. Cao Yun next to him said frankly, "Grandfather, this is a gift from Li Tanhua to help Yunniang ejaculate."

Cao Ping showed a smile on his lips and returned the painting to Cao Yun, "This painting is a treasure and can be found in it. You must collect it."

"The granddaughter will collect it well."

Pan Xu next to him felt a little distressed. This painting was one of the two paintings Zhang Zeduan gave him a few days ago. He just took it out as the first prize and put it on it, but he didn't expect it to be won away by someone.

If it were someone else, he might be able to exchange something else for it, but Li Yanqing won it, which left him speechless. In fact, he did not feel sorry for Li Yanqing to win it away, but felt sorry for Li Yanqing who gave the painting to Cao Ping's granddaughter. This favor was really wonderful.

Pan Xu sighed in his heart, put this matter aside for the time being, walked up and smiled, "There is still one hour before the banquet starts, so we simply held a pot-to-pole competition. I will give you 500 taels of gold, and the winner will receive this reward!"

There was a burst of exclamation around him, five hundred taels of gold, five thousand taels of silver! The Pan family is going to make a big deal.

Cao Ping, who was standing beside him, said: "I'll add a bet too!"

He untied his sword and raised it high and said, "This is the Seven-Star Sword, one of my three most beloved swords. If you win the first place, this sword will belong to him."

The young men around were all excited. The Seven-Star Sword was obtained from the Southern Tang Palace when Cao Bin led a large army to destroy the Southern Tang Dynasty. It is said that it was made by a famous Kuaiji craftsman during the Tang Dynasty. It took ten years to cast it. It was Li Jing's beloved collection sword. Cao Ping was going to take such an important sword as a prize. Everyone found it incredible, but they were extremely excited. Many men who were not ready to participate in the competition also began to try it.

Li Yanqing felt a little pressure. Cao Ping once wanted to give this sword to him at the Lianggong Weapons Shop, but he refused. Now he took it out again, it was probably related to him.

Cao Ping's scattered the scattered master made Pan Xu feel a little unhappy, but on the surface he still smiled: "Since Brother Cao has this intention, I will refuse it. Even if the sword is the first prize!"

Gao Shen smiled and said, "The lottery is so tempting, and the difficulty must be increased! Three zhang far is enough, so it is better to replace the copper pot."

Three feet away is the standard of the army and there is no need to change it. However, the copper pot we use now has a trumpet-open mouth, and the entrance is like a small bowl, which is a little easier. Soon the servant brought a four-foot-high thin-necked round-bellied copper pot. It is no longer an open mouth, but a straight mouth. The entrance is only the size of a teacup, and the difficulty suddenly increases by more than three times.

However, there are many masters from the children of aristocratic families, so everyone is not afraid, but is ready to go, and aims at the Seven-Star Sword.

Pan Xu said again: "In order to gain time, this game adopts an elimination system. In the first round, two arrows must be shot both arrows before the third round is carried out. In the second round, three arrows must be shot all of them before the third round is carried out. And so on, if there is a draw in the last round, the final winner will be decided."

This is actually not a five-pointer. To win the lead, you have to hit all fourteen arrows at least, which is not very difficult.

As Pan Xu said 'Start!' Dozens of children from aristocratic families went to queue up one after another. Li Yanqing was about to step forward, but he felt someone patting his shoulder hard behind him. When he turned around, he saw Cao Ping standing behind him and nodding to him. Although Cao Ping didn't say anything, Li Yanqing understood what he meant very much. He nodded gratefully and walked quickly to the back of the team.

Two or three hundred people stood around, watching more than 60 young children from aristocratic families in the pot-shot competition, including many elders watching the game. This invisibly put great pressure on the young people participating in the competition. After the first round, more than half of them were eliminated, and only eighteen children from aristocratic families were left to enter the second round.

Cao Xing was in front of Li Yanqing. He looked at the crowd and whispered to Li Yanqing, "Our Cao family's little lady cares about you very much!"

Li Yanqing looked in the direction of his eyes and saw a group of young men and women standing beside Cao Ping, who should be all the grandchildren of the Cao family. Among them, six of the young ladies were all looking at him. Li Yanqing smiled and said, "They are you caring about you! You are the only representative of the Cao family, how do you care about me?"

Cao Xing smiled, "At least one person in there cares about you."

When Li Yanqing saw Cao Yun, she had a hint of concern in her eyes. Seeing that she looked at her, she lowered her head shyly again. Li Yanqing felt warm in her heart and smiled at Cao Xing and said, "If I participate in the competition, you should raise your hand to surrender!"

"Although you are good at riding and shooting, you are different from shooting archery. There are many talents here, so you may not be able to win the lead."

"Then try it!"

It was Cao Xing's turn for a moment. In the second round, it was required that all three arrows be entered into the bottle before they were qualified to participate in the third round. Cao Xing is also a family of riding and shooting. His shooting level is extremely high, just like a shooting. The three shots were shot into the bottle accurately and accurately, which caused everyone to applause.

He smiled and looked at Li Yanqing, meaning 'It's your turn!'

Li Yanqing smiled proudly, and three arrows shot out like flowing water, drawing out three beautiful parabolas, almost vertically into the copper pot, without touching the copper wall at all, and also won applause.

Gao Shen sighed and whispered to Cao Ping: "It's really the younger generation of the Yangtze River pushing the older generation. We didn't have this level back then!"

Cao Ping nodded, "This generation can be comparable to our ancestors."

At this time, Pan Xu slowly walked to them, narrowed his eyes and smiled at Cao Ping, "Brother, today your seven-star sword may not be saved."

Cao Ping smiled faintly, "If you can take away my sword without any fourteen arrows, such a talent will definitely be a pillar of the Song Dynasty. I am willing to give him the sword!"

"Haha! I'm afraid that the person who took away the sword in the end is not what my brother thought."

“This is not necessarily.”

Everyone was playing the puzzle, and finally raised their heads and laughed together

At the end of the second round, more than half of the 18 people were eliminated, and only seven people left to enter the third round. Pan Xu's face was not good-looking, and both the Pan family's children were eliminated. Among the seven people in the third round, there were two children of the Gao family and the Cao family, and the other three were Li Yanqing, Zhao Wuben and Wang Wei.
Chapter completed!