Chapter 26: The Ancient and Modern Lengths of the West Mountain Qiyun (II)

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Han Gang accompanied Gao Zunyu to stand on the school platform, watching the players below move their bodies and warm up. Keju is prevalent in the world, and Han Gang has long known this. Even at home, when Su Xin and Yun Niang are idle, they will kick two feet with Zhao'er, because there is no goal, so it is called 'white play'.

However, before seeing it with his own eyes, Han Gang found it hard to believe that there were already special football boots in this world, and the professional team - called Qiyun Club or Yuanshe - even the football was a double layer of inside and outside that was not much different from the style of later generations. The soccer ball is sewn with twelve pieces of nitrate cowhide on the outside, and the stitches are hidden and not exposed. The inner tank is made of a cow bladder, which can be inflated, also known as an air chest, and its weight is also specified as twelve taels.

Despite the high demands of soccer production, Kemari was the easiest and most popular of all the group sports in Hanoka's time. Because of the bad impression left by his previous life, Han Gang is not interested in football. It was only because of the world's love for Keju that he planned to use the sport.

The Tubo people are actually better at polo, but there are not so many horses to waste in Guwei Village, so Han Gang made a plan the day before yesterday to strengthen the exchange activities between Han and Fan with the Keju sport. In the afternoon of the same day, he found a few big merchants through Feng Congyi, said a few words, and immediately scraped together thirty yuan as a lottery.

On the sanatorium's side, Zhu Zhong was ordered to have the surgery and internal medicine departments each put together a team. Although the candidates are all wounded and sick, among the hundreds of people, it is easy to find a few who are about to be discharged from the hospital and can run and jump. However, according to Han Gang's instructions, this team is half Han and half Fan.

In addition, Han Gang directly changed all the current rules of the competition, and the reason given was retro, and privately said to Gao Zunyu and Wang Hou that if the rules and skills are too complicated, the Tubo people participating in the competition are afraid that they will not have time to learn and lose the original intention of participating together, so the simpler the better. Now it's 20 people fighting for a ball, and they just kick it into the opposite goal. There are no other rules other than not touching the ball with your hands and not deliberately beating an opposing player.

It was about the time just after the time passed, and the officials who were free today finally arrived, on the one hand, because of Han Gang's face, and on the other hand, because Gao Zunyu personally came to cheer.

Han Gang was not interested in coming out to talk more, and he didn't arrange any mat performances in advance. A gesture was made, and a sharp flute sounded inside and outside the school field, and the game began.

On the RED team, Rupin, who is nearly seven feet tall, is the most eye-catching, and his tall body usually looks clumsy, but Lupin's movements are unimaginably flexible, with his size, he can easily snatch the ball away and bypass the opponent who rushes to grab the ball. With a kick, the ball went straight to the Browns' goal.

Although that kick didn't score, it still drew the first cheer since the opening kick-off. Wang Hou covered his ears and asked Han Gang in the deafening noise: "Yukun, which team do you think will win?" ”

Han Gang shook his head and leaned closer and said, "I can't tell, I have to look down to find out what is going on." However, the handicap of the red team is relatively high, because there is a player who has been a ball leader in Qinzhou Qiyun Club for three years. ”

Wang Hou was already very familiar with Han Gang's way of speaking: "How can you listen to Yukun, your tone doesn't seem to be optimistic about the red team?" ”

"The rules have changed, and so should the style of play. It's a pity that some people's habits are already ingrained. Han Gang sneered slightly, as if he was expecting a bad smile that could gloat.

On the field, Lupin picked up the ball from his heel, and the twelve-tael ball rolled over his back, over his head, and landed at his feet. This wonderful performance set off another burst of jubilation in the audience. But when Lu Ping was about to show off his skills again, he was slammed down by a player from the brown team, allowing another teammate to snatch the ball.

Han Gang's voice immediately sounded: "In fact, when it comes to skills, the brown team is far inferior to the red team. The shaved Lu Ping is also well-known among the people who play football in Qinzhou City...... But how can the power of one person be worthy of the power of ten. What's more, he is used to playing through the net, and when he encounters this rule, he will definitely suffer. ”

"How can you kick the ball like that!?" The middle-aged Qingke who accompanied Gao Zunyu screamed. His surname is very special, the fifth compound surname, and a single name with a Feng character. I can't get down to business at all, but I'm an expert in poetry and songs, blowing, playing and singing, and kicking a ball.

Han Gang showed a very surprised look: "What does the fifth brother mean by this, why can't he kick like this?" ”

"People are on turns, stepping backwards, people are stepping shoulders, stepping back, these are all forbidden moves!" Wufeng pointed his fingers, and the few words he said are the rules of the Keju competition that are common today, that is, no tripping, bumping, or trampling.

Of course, Han Gang knew all about it, he had asked someone to ask him beforehand, but he was not interested in letting people comply, he smiled and said, "Fifth brother's words are wrong. It's not the daughter's family who is waiting for the word boudoir, why should there be so much attention? They are all swordsmen who take fire on the guns, with rough skin and thick meat, bump into it, roll and get up, why do you need so many rules. ”

With this in mind, the rules of the game were relaxed a lot by Han Gang, as long as he didn't deliberately hurt people, he would let them go, but because of this, the chance of conflict increased.

"It's all bloody!" Fifth Feng suddenly pointed to the court and said angrily.

At this time, Lu Ping, who got the ball again, was shoveled to the ground, and the wound that may have been stitched up was cracked, and the blood suddenly soaked through the fine linen bandage that wrapped his head. The sound of the wooden flute sounded rapidly, and the referee in black interrupted the game, while the medical staff who had been waiting for him since before the game started ran up to check on Lu Ping's injuries.

"It's good to see blood!" Han Gang smiled disapprerovingly, "Keju is a method of military training, if you kick across the net, you will lose your original intention." It will also make the Tibetan people look down on it. When it comes to frontal killing, Han'er should not lose to the Tibetan people, why bother to do the old rules, so that people can't kick happily. Master Fu Zhai, do you say? ”

Fu Qing coughed dryly, not daring to talk. However, Wang Sunchen has a cheerful personality, and he is not afraid that Gao Zunyu's Qingke will dare to do anything to him, "What the third brother said is not wrong at all. The left can't, the right can't, wilting like a bride, how can it be compared to kicking happily now...... Just kick it to death, hit it to death! Didn't the third brother say it, this was also the practice of the Tang Dynasty. ”

Wufeng sneered, Wang Sunchen's words were exactly what he was waiting for: "I don't hear Tang Shi say this, I have only seen Wang Youcheng [Wang Wei]'s 'Juju repeatedly over the birds, swings out of the weeping poplars'." ”

Wang Wei's sentence 'Keju repeatedly over the birds', although there is an exaggerated element, but only by kicking the ball to the net a few feet high can such an exaggerated rhetoric be used. If it's just a team kicking at the enemy's goal, it won't be an exaggeration to describe how high the ball is.

The nonsense he said casually in front was exposed by people with allusions, but Han Gang didn't blush, Ha Luha laughed twice, and said unmindfully: "Maybe I remembered wrongly, maybe it was from the Han and Jin dynasties." ”

The fifth abundance knot, speechless for a while. If Han Gang's identity is shameless, even if he is Gao Zunyu's Qingke, he can only call in vain. People are clearly trying to cheat, and he will only find himself unhappy when he points it out. The most important thing to be a clear guest is to look at people's eyes. Fifth Feng understands very well that in Gao Zunyu's eyes, he can't even compare to one of Han Gang's toes.

Han Gang didn't take the fifth feng to heart at all. He just needs the two teams to fight face to face, not like now, you kick me into the middle of the court, hanging high in the net, and there is no fierce fight, the sissy is impatient. So just using retro as an excuse, where will he really go to archaeology? Wang Anshi's change of law is also holding the banner of retro, but where is it 'ancient'?

The more intense the sport, the more people will like it, otherwise sumo wrestling would not be hot from the capital to the frontier, and a sumo match can attract thousands of spectators casually. And the largest elephant shed in the Sangjia tile in the capital, the female sumo wrestling in it, is not full on any day, and even the Son of Heaven can't help but let people enter the palace to perform.

Han Gang is actually very idle, so he will take out Keju to pass the time after reading. Of course, he doesn't like to do useless work, even if he kills time, he still wants to bring back some benefits.

If it had been a few months earlier, there had been a battle around Weiyuan Fort, and then there was the presiding over Tuntianβ€”at that time, not only Han Gang was busy, but other civil and military officials were also as busy as he wasβ€”how could it be like now, an internal ball game in a sanatorium that attracted all the officials to go out together.

Gao Zunyu didn't know that Han Gang's intention was just to pass the time, and after hearing Han Gang's words yesterday, he thought he was going to do it seriously. In all fairness, in Gao Zunyu's opinion, this game was not played well, and the gap in skill was really far from that of the masters in Beijing.

But now such a match is even more exciting, and even the spectators, who were wondering how the Kemari match turned into a sumo wrestling, began to roar wildly.

A brilliant dash steal that gets the opponent rolling far on the ground always gets a round of applause. And when a player leans on a violent momentum, rampage through the pitch, knocking away several enemy interceptions in succession, and kicking the ball into the opponent's goal. At this time, the cheers can almost break the sky. Whether it is ordinary people and soldiers, or officials on the platform, they all let go of their usual restraints and indulge in shouting.