Cambridge, England, is a small city under the jurisdiction of Cambridgeshire.
The Jian River circles around the urban area and flows northeast into the Wusi River.
Many bridges were built on the river, hence the name Cambridge.
Here, also known as Cambridge.
In the long years before 1209 AD, this place was just a rural market town, which hardly attracted any attention except for the days of the market.
Even now, it is just a small city with less than 100,000 people.
The reason why it is famous now is because of a university.
Cambridge University, founded in 1209.
The school's nearly 800-year history is longer than most dynasties, and it is now a world-renowned public research university.
Cao Yusheng's son, Cao Mian, is a doctoral student here.
The young man is twenty-four years old this year, with a handsome appearance, excellent academics, generous shots, and very good fencing skills. He is the captain and coach of the fencing team of Cambridge University.
When he was still in his junior year, he represented Cambridge University in the Commonwealth Universiade and won three gold medals in foil, epee, and sword in one fell swoop.
Although he has been a little quieter due to his busy studies in the past few years, there are still many female students chasing after him.
Those female students who chased him were not just pursuing between men and women, but were similar in nature to chasing stars, and they formed a group.
Cao Mian has a girlfriend and can't bear to be disturbed, so he usually travels low-key and avoids people.
This evening is the first team event for the Cambridge fencing team after Christmas this year.
Cao Mian had already faded out of this kind of activities, because he was about to graduate as a doctoral student and didn't plan to stay in school.
However, he was temporarily notified that the school had arranged a new coach for the fencing team today, and he had to come to the venue due to the need for job handover.
As soon as he arrived at the venue, he was a little annoyed.
Come early.
In today's Cambridge fencing team, there are not many men, and most of them are female students. It is self-evident why they are here.
As soon as Cao Mian came in, he was surrounded by groups. These female students said that they were asking for advice on fencing techniques, but their eyes were not aimed at the wrist that Cao Mian was demonstrating.
Although Cao Mian had seen this situation a lot, he still felt a little uncomfortable.
Fencing is his favorite project, and he hopes that what attracts people is his skills, not his appearance.
It's a pity that he can't control how others see him, so he can only let it go.
It's just that the performance of the fencing team has gotten worse and worse in recent years.
It's a good thing to have a new coach come over.
Talking and chatting with the female students, after waiting for about half an hour, there was a sound of high heels at the entrance of the venue.
This made Cao Mian very disgusted.
Because this is a multi-purpose venue, not only the fencing team, but also the basketball and volleyball teams usually train here, and the floor is covered with floors.
The heels of high-heeled shoes are sharp and hard, which hurt the floor.
It is neither professional nor ethical to wear such shoes into the stadium.
Cao Mian raised his eyes to look over, and was slightly taken aback.
He didn't expect this woman in high heels to be so beautiful.
With sapphire blue eyes, black straight shawl and long hair, his facial features are more three-dimensional than those of Orientals, but not as abrupt as Europeans' frequent entry and exit.
It is obviously a very indifferent expression, but because of its amazing beauty, it gives people a bright feeling.
Her dress is a set of blue evening dress, the curves are beautifully lined up, and the style should be open back.
With her body, it seemed that she should appear at a grand dinner party, not this kind of stadium.
There is no reason to dress, but the person is too beautiful, no matter where he is, it makes sense.
It seemed that no matter how she dressed, she was right, but other people came to the wrong place.
Even if her high heels were stepping on the floor at the moment, it was because the floor was in the wrong position, not because she was wearing the wrong shoes.
However, Cao Mian came from an extraordinary background after all, and his knowledge was beyond the reach of ordinary people, so he soon came to his senses.
He looked at this glamorous woman and asked in English, "Madam, who are you looking for?"
"I'm here to look for you." The woman replied in Chinese, then took off her high heels, held them in her hand, and complained, "Your Cambridge University donation dinner is really boring."
Cao Mian frowned, thinking that this matter should not be simple, and asked, "What do you want me for?"
"You don't have to wait, the fencing team doesn't have any new coaches. Your Cambridge fencing team, once you graduate, will be disbanded." The woman said lightly, "Since you haven't achieved any results for several years, there is no need to exist. , wasting our donors' money.
Cao Mian, from this point of view, your leadership ability is indeed problematic, and you really are not expected to be the head of the Cao family. "
After the woman said these few words, Cao Mian knew that he had already been touched by this woman.
"Are you from Liemen?" Cao Mian asked.
"Not yet." The woman said, "But I want to be a hunter, so I need your help."
"How can I help?"
"You're going to participate in this year's Liemen Ceremony," the woman said.
Hearing this, Cao Mian frowned.
His father, Cao Yusheng, had talked to him about Liemen's peer alliance ceremony, but he was not interested in Liemen's affairs at all, so he pretended not to hear it.
Ever since he came of age at eighteen, his father had always respected his wishes.
So he didn't take over, and his father never mentioned it again.
This woman came out of nowhere.
Could it be a lobbyist sent by his father
But a lobbyist will not talk and act like her.
Judging by her expression, it doesn't look like she asked Cao Mian for something, but Cao Mian owed her a huge sum of money.
No matter how beautiful a woman is, she can't be so unreasonable.
Cao Mian's expression became indifferent, and he said lightly: "I'm sorry, there is nothing I can do to help."
"Cao Mian, you seem to have misunderstood the situation." The woman said, "This matter is beyond your control."
"Heh." The anger in Cao Mian's heart was aroused, and he said coldly, "Could it be, can you still force me?"
"Quite confident." The woman pointed to the female student next to Cao Mian, and said in English, "You, give him the sword in your hand."
This female student, blond and blue-eyed, is quite beautiful. She was practicing under Cao Mian's guidance.
After listening for a long time now, the two of them spoke Chinese, and she didn't understand.
Although I couldn't understand what they said, but judging from the expressions of the two, this woman seemed to have angered her handsome coach.
Add to this the fact that this woman is wearing high heels into the arena, which is neither professional nor ethical.
The English girl was filled with righteous indignation, and quickly put the sword in her hand into Cao Mian's hand.
The sword in Cao Mian's hand at the moment is a foil sword, and it is the lightest sword among the three fencing disciplines, less than 500 grams.
Girls usually practice this kind of sword, and their wrists are easy to be injured if it is too heavy.
Cao Mian asked himself what he was best at, but it was actually this kind of foil.
Because his swordsmanship was combined with a certain ancient sword manual in China, and he followed the path of lightness and lightness of the sword.
At any rate, he is a son of the Liemen family. Cao Yusheng wanted him to have some martial arts skills so that he would not be bullied outside. At the same time, he didn't want him to suffer too much, so he gave him this sword manual to practice since he was a child.
Although practicing sword is also bitter, it is much more comfortable than practicing boxing.
Today's Cao Mian, as long as he holds one thing in his hand, it is no problem for ordinary ten or eight men to deal with it.
But to swing a sword at a woman, Cao Mian can't do this kind of thing.
So he looked at the sword in his hand and shook his head: "Miss, I don't know who you are, and I don't want to know, please leave here immediately."
As soon as this sentence was finished, Cao Mian felt his eyes flash and his hands were empty.
Looking up again, the beautiful woman was still standing five or six meters away from her, holding a foil sword in her hand.
The woman flicked the blade with her fingers, and said with disdain: "This kind of Western rapier is just a toy."
After saying this, the woman clamped the blade with her index finger and middle finger, and then gently folded it.
"Ding" sound.
This foil made of fine steel was broken by her two fingers just like that.
Cao Mian's eyelids twitched.
As for the female students around, after a while of breathing in, it was quiet.
Ever since Cao Mian became the coach of the fencing team, these British girls have never been so good.
"Cao Mian, if you only know this kind of pediatric swordsmanship, and you go to the Liemen Peer Alliance Ceremony, you will really lose the face of the Cao family." The woman threw the two broken swords on the ground casually, and looked at the standing on the spot. The eldest son of the Cao family said flatly, "So, you need a guardian."
"Guardian?" Cao Mian murmured and repeated.
"Yes, the guardian is the one who fights for you at the peer alliance ceremony." The woman said, "I'm idle recently, why don't I go with you. If I save the position of the six great families for the Cao family, then as a The most staunch ally of the Cao family, the head of the Lin family, should be very happy."
"who are you?"
"Oh, I forgot to introduce myself." The woman smiled sweetly, "I am the woman of Lin Shuo, the leader of the Hunter Gate, and my name is Di Lan."
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