Chapter 70 Gathering at Wolffang Castle
The Shen family is one of the six major families in the empire. The current head of the family, Shen Xiaofeng, is the eldest grandson of the old master Shen Beichen. He inherited the Shen family's hereditary first-class Duke Weiyuan just two years ago, but he already took charge of the household a few years ago. The Ministry can be said to be high in rank and prosperous in officialdom.
Shen Feiyun is the son of Shen Xiaofeng, and has the same mother as Shen Binghong and Shen Jiayun. His mother is Lin Yu, the only daughter of Lin Hongdao, Marquis of Sishui in Mingshan Kingdom.
Although the three Shen Feiyun brothers and sisters were side children, they were very popular with their father and the old man, so they adopted him into the direct branch. In fact, this was also because Shen Xiaofeng's first wife, Du Yunong, had no children.
Shen Xiaofeng and Du Yunong had no children after being married for a hundred years, so they married Lin Yu when they were two hundred years old. They later had two sons and one daughter, but they were all extremely talented and highly valued by the family.
The Shen family is extremely powerful. It has a vast fiefdom 3,500 miles northwest of Chaoge. It covers an area of about 560,000 miles. It has mountains, rivers, and plains and grasslands. The population under the duchy is about 50 million. . Most members of the direct branch of the Shen family live in several wealthy houses in Chaoge, but the Weiyuan Principality is the foundation of their family.
There is a high mountain in the north of the principality called Langya Ridge. The foot and mountainside are lush with trees and there are many spiritual beasts, but the mountain is covered with snow-capped peaks and alpine pastures that remain unchanged all year round. This is one of the hunting grounds of the Shen family, and it is also the place where Shen Feiyun invites everyone to hunt and play this time.
After several hours of flight, at dusk, Shen Feiyun parked the spacecraft on the spacecraft docking platform in a magnificent stone castle under the snow peaks. This castle was called Wolf Fang Castle, which was the destination of their trip.
Outside the Wolf Fang Castle is a large area of beautiful alpine pasture, with rocks of varying sizes scattered among the grassland. Below the grassland is a dense and tall forest.
It was already winter, and there was a layer of white snow on the rocks and the roof of the castle. There was also some sparse snow on the grass and on the top of the trees. Under the setting sun, the majestic snow-capped mountains turned into bright gold, matching the colorful clouds in the sky. Reflect each other.
Everyone walked out of the cabin and stood on the terrace of the castle, all intoxicated by the beautiful scenery in front of them.
The castle is clean and tidy with complete facilities. According to Shen Feiyun's request, the housekeeper took people to clean up, prepared the required food, fruits and other items and then left, leaving Shen Feiyun and his party to play freely.
Everyone played here freely for a few days. During the day, they went to the forest to hunt or climb snow-capped mountains. At night, they gathered around a bonfire to barbecue, drink, brag and fight. The days were extremely comfortable.
That night, it snowed heavily, and everyone could no longer light a bonfire outdoors, so they opened the large main hall of the castle and set up a charcoal stove for barbecue.
Qingshi was naturally the chef. He led three female generals and Jia Yun to tidy up the birds and beasts they had hunted during the day, and then brought them into the hall to prepare for roasting.
Xiaoji Zheng Fangyi and Teng Shouqian were each responsible for taking care of a fire pit. Tang Zui learned Qingshi's method and arranged levitation arrays for all three fire pits. Teng Shouqian also wanted to learn a skill and pestered Tang Zui to teach him. Shen Feiyun held a lyre and played it tinklingly, while Duan Wutian and Chen Tianye were doing nothing but lying on the animal skin carpet, drinking and bragging.
While Qingshi was teaching Duan Xiaoyu and others who were interested in playing barbecue how to operate it, he listened to Duan Wutian loudly say: "As for the living treasures of Lao Hu's family, they are not worth mentioning at all. I can give them all by myself." Crippled."
"Tch!" Chen Tianye said with disdain, "Do you think it was still three years ago? Let me tell you, Boss Hu has already broken through the Yuan Dan realm last year, and his nineteen-kill serial killing sword of the Hu family has reached the level of Dacheng. , if we have to fight, you will probably be the one who gets maimed!"
"This is unreasonable!" Duan Wutian said angrily, "How can my sun gun be comparable to his bullshit serial killings?"
"I've learned about your sun gun," Chen Tianye said, "It's nothing more than that."
"you....."
"What's wrong with me? I'm dissatisfied again!"
Duan Wutian had just been beaten up again by Chen Tianye yesterday. Although he was not convinced at this time, he could only give up.
In the past few days, everyone has to compete every night. However, everyone's martial arts cultivation is uneven, so it is inevitable that they will not be able to perform well in the fight, and their intentions are still unfinished.
Qingshi smiled at Shen Binghong and said: "We have been fighting for three days. The gap between everyone's cultivation levels is too big. There is no point in fighting like this anymore. Binghong, please think of a way to let everyone compete in a different way."
"Isn't that simple?" Shen Binghong said with a smile, "The academy often has competitions like this, such as single sword skills or body skills."
"That's right," Qingshi said, "You come up with a few competition projects. They should be interesting, and everyone can participate together later."
Everyone said yes.
Shen Binghong said: "Okay, let me think about it first. How about eating first."
"Yes, yes!" Duan Xiaoyu said, staring at the sizzling and oily roasted pheasant meat, "Think about it while you eat!"
Qingshi Cuisine uses special processing methods when cooking these spiritual beasts and birds. It uses true energy to penetrate into the meat to make the meat tender and easy to cook. When grilling, it also uses an array to allow the inside and outside to be heated evenly, so it is grilled very quickly. The coke is tender and ready to eat.
Everyone was grilling, eating, drinking and chatting, enjoying a good time.
After a while, Shen Binghong said: "Okay, I have thought of a few fun competition methods. There are two-by-two competitions and there are multiple people participating. I try to be fair, but if you want to have fun, you have to Listen to me, no cheating is allowed. Also, the loser must be punished, but it is up to everyone to decide how to punish."
Naturally everyone agreed and started laughing and discussing how to punish him. Everyone thought hard and came up with some of the funniest and 'evil' ideas. Finally, everyone took a wooden stick and anonymously wrote a punishment method, and agreed that whoever loses will draw lots to decide how he will be punished.
Duan Xiaoyu worriedly said: "I really want to write a very, very cruel punishment method, but I am afraid that I will get it."
Duan Wutian laughed loudly and said: "It's better to do this. This is called making one's own misfortune."
Zheng Fangyi frowned and shook his head.
Shen Binghong announced that the first event was a two-by-two duel. Duan Wutian and Chen Tianye were blindfolded and competed to catch a spiritual beast. The spiritual beast to be caught was a rabbit caught alive during the day. Whoever caught it would win. , if the rabbit runs out of the hall, both of them lose.
Chen Tianye and Duan Wutian both shook their heads and said it was not fun, but they couldn't stand it and everyone laughed and scolded them and had to comply.
Shen Binghong blindfolded the two of them, and while telling them not to peek or else they would be punished twice, she carried the rabbit to the innermost corner of the hall. Everyone shouted along with Shen Binghong: Three, two, one, start! Shen Binghong threw the rabbit in his hand.
Duan Wutian and Chen Tianye are both Yuan Dan realm masters. Although they are blindfolded, their mental power is constantly scanning everything in the hall. Every move of this rabbit cannot escape their perception.
After hearing the command, the two of them flew away in the direction of the rabbit almost at the same time. There were two chairs in front of Chen Tianye, but he walked around it as if he saw it with his eyes open. However, this time around, Duan Wutian rushed to the rabbit. to the front.
Duan Wutian pounced on the rabbit as soon as it hit the ground and before it could recover. Chen Tianye naturally sensed that it was too late to grab the rabbit, so he immediately kicked Duan Wutian in the butt without thinking.
Duan Wutian was secretly happy that he was about to get the rabbit, when he suddenly realized that Chen Tianye was kicking him instead of snatching the rabbit. He couldn't help but said angrily: "Slut, you are a swindler!" But he had to turn around to block it.
At the same time, Teng Shouqian Qingshi and Ji Yujia coincidentally released their mental power for a while to cause chaos. Zheng Fangyi naturally felt it and secretly thought that these guys were really bad. How could Chen Tianye and Duan Wutian be caught so easily? rabbit.
When the mental power of these three people was released, Chen Tianye and Duan Wutian were immediately confused when their mental power detection was disturbed, and the sensitivity of their perception naturally dropped by several levels.
With a bang, Duan Wutian's perception was disturbed and he could not accurately judge the direction of Chen Tianye's attack. He was kicked in the butt and flew out. He shouted to himself in mid-air: "Ouch! You hooligans... ....”
Amidst the roar of laughter from everyone, Chen Tianye landed and stood motionless, carefully discerning the movement around him. Duan Wutian doubled over and rolled in mid-air and landed gently. Although he looked a little embarrassed after being kicked, the force had been relieved when he landed. Beautiful pose.
The two of them stood together without saying a word and motionless. After two breaths, they rushed towards the east corner almost simultaneously. Qingshi and the other three made mischief together again, but unexpectedly a powerful spiritual force shot out and blocked the spiritual power of the three of them. However, it was Zheng Fangyi who stopped him, and the three of them had no choice but to give up and secretly call President Zheng boring.
This time, Chen Tianye was ahead. Duan Wutian sensed that he was lagging behind, and immediately followed the example and kicked Chen Tianye in the butt. However, Chen Tianye did not seem to notice the attack from behind and stretched out his arms. Chengzhao shouted: "Capture him!"
The rabbit was running away when suddenly it flew out uncontrollably and landed in Chen Tianye's hand in a blink of an eye. At the same time, Duan Wutian also kicked Chen Tianye on the butt. Chen Tianye had been prepared for it, but his body did not move at all after receiving the kick.
Chen Tianye raised the rabbit with his right hand, lowered his eyes with his left hand and laughed, actually winning the game with a kick on the butt.
Duan Wutian pulled down his blindfold and shouted: "Slutbeard, when did you master the Iron Butt Kung Fu? It's amazing! It's amazing! If you practice even harder on your face, you'll be invincible!"
Chen Tianye did not answer his words, only mentioned the rabbit and said with a smile: "Draw lots, I hope you get the good idea I came up with, hahaha!"
Duan Xiaoyu said with a smile: "Brother Qi, you are so stupid. If you tried your best to catch the rabbit in the first place, wouldn't you have won?"
"Yeah," Teng Shouqian said with a smile, "In the end, I didn't catch the rabbit, and my butt was kicked. It was a loss."
"You gangsters are still laughing," Duan Wutian yelled at Teng Shouqian, "If you hadn't caused trouble, how would I have been kicked? I definitely wouldn't have lost. You guy, Lian Si Teng, you must have been the one who caused trouble just now. Who else did something bad?" He said and scanned the crowd with his eyes.
Qingshi Xiaoji had an innocent expression on his face.
Yin Yuhuang smiled and said: "Duan Qi, you must be confused. Others are nicknamed Thousand-Hand Vine, what the hell is that?"
"They are all broken vines and smelly vines anyway," Duan Wutian said, "cheap flower vines!"
It turns out that the vine is a common roadside weed with small white flowers and is commonly known as the cheap flower vine. Duan Wutian was known as Duan Tuzi, so he also liked to give other people nicknames. Unfortunately, Teng Shouqian accidentally offended Duan Tu, and the nickname Senju Teng became Jian Hua Er Teng.
Shen Binghong smiled and said: "Okay, seventh brother, let's draw lots quickly."
Duan Wutian had no choice but to come over and smoke one. Everyone gathered around to take a look, but they saw the wooden sign saying: Drink a cup of snow water by yourself.
Xiao Ji acted quickly. After reading it, he immediately turned around and took a large wooden cup with a capacity of two liters and handed it to Duan Wutian with a smile.
Of course Duan Wutian refused to answer, staring at the wooden cup and cursing: "Whose bastard came up with this bad idea? Isn't it good to drink snow water? People are going to be tortured to death in this winter? Ji Shorty, are you looking for death? Take this The big cup should be a wine cup!" After saying that, he went to get the small wine cup on the table.
There was a lot of cheering and tugging among the crowd, but in the end Xiao Ji ran out of the hall and brought in half a cup of snow, then filled it with cold water. Naturally, I used the big two-liter wooden cup.
Duan Wutian sighed and pretended to howl a few times. Duan Xiaoyu poured a small cup of fire into the big wooden cup and said, "Look, Brother Qi, there is wine!"
Duan Wutian patted Xiaoyu's head and said with a smile: "A good girl understands me best." After saying that, he raised his neck and finished it in one breath, slammed the wooden cup on the table and shouted: "Next one!"
Shen Binghong announced the next competition event: Shen Feiyun and Zheng Fangyi competed in swordsmanship in pairs. The way of the competition was that they each tied an apple behind their backs, and each used a wooden stick as a sword. Whoever hit it first The opponent's apple wins.
However, you can only attack the apple but not the opponent's body. You cannot take the initiative to use your body to hit the opponent's sword. At the same time, your apple cannot fall. Finally, you have to tie the hand that is not holding the sword and blindfold you to use a stick of incense. Time is limited, if no one can win, everyone loses.
Shen Feiyun and Zheng Fangyi were both older brothers, calm and dignified. They only smiled and listened to Shen Binghong's rules without raising any objections. Then they allowed several beauties to tie up fruits, tie their arms, blindfold their eyes, and stuff wooden sticks in their hands.
The two stood opposite each other and each said their greetings. Shen Binghong gave an order. The two of them attacked each other with swords at the same time. Both of them used swords. Zheng Fanyi used his right hand and Shen Feiyun used his left hand.
Zheng Fangyi's swordsmanship is upright and vigorous, while Shen Feiyun's swordsmanship is elegant, subtle and elegant. But now it is difficult for both of them to display their own characteristics in swordsmanship, being restricted by the rules.
Despite this, or perhaps because of this, everyone can see that the two have profound attainments in swordsmanship.
Soon the two of them exchanged nearly a hundred moves. The two of them moved extremely fast and used their body and footwork to the extreme. They both wanted to get behind each other, so they kept moving and spinning. One moment they hit the entrance of the hall, and the next they arrived again. The easternmost corner.
There were many tables, chairs and other furniture in the hall, but the two of them never knocked over any of them. They seemed to be blindfolded as they moved around. It was almost as if they had eyes on the back of their heads. Everyone was excited to see it and cheered from time to time.
After such a fight, the time for burning incense was coming soon. Shen Binghong reminded that the time was coming. Zheng Fangyi suddenly took a breath and slashed the stick horizontally. Shen Feiyun seemed helpless and had to hold up the stick to meet him.
In fact, the two of them had been fighting for so long, and the number of times the sticks had crossed was only three or five times. This time, it was Zheng Fanyi who forced Shen Feiyun to take the fight. Zheng Fangyi was more powerful than Shen Feiyun. When the two sticks crossed, Shen Fei A large section of Yun's stick was cut off and flew to the side. Zheng Fangyi immediately gained the upper hand and stepped up his attack. Shen Feiyun was afraid that the stick would be cut off again and did not dare to confront Zheng Fanyi, so he only dodged to the side.
Zheng Fangyi was approaching. Seeing that Shen Feiyun seemed a little unable to resist, he suddenly became alert. Tingfeng Bianqi found a hidden weapon flying from behind and struck the apple behind him. He suddenly realized that it was Shen Feiyun who had deliberately let it go. He cut off the stick himself, but he used the bird-controlling skill to guide the broken stick into the wall, then bounced back and hit his apple.
Although Zheng Fangyi had woken up, it was too late to dodge, but he was unwilling to fail. The apple was bounced out by the muscles in his back while he was thinking, and he was hit by a wooden stick in the back. For a moment, both of them stopped their moves, took off their blindfolds and looked at each other, smiling.
Everyone applauded together, and then looked at Shen Binghong to see how she judged.
Shen Binghong smiled and said: "The two seniors are really good. This competition is a feast for our eyes. But it is difficult for me to judge the winner, so why don't we all talk about it together."
"I think Brother Shen won," Yin Yuhuang said, "Brother Zheng's apple fell."
"But Brother Shen's sword was broken by Brother Fangyi. Moreover, the broken sword did not hit the apple but hit Brother Zheng!" Xiao Ji naturally spoke for Zheng Fanyi.
"No, no," Duan Xiaoyu said, "Brother Zheng deliberately bounced the apple so that Brother Feiyun's broken sword hit him. This is equivalent to touching Brother Feiyun's broken sword with his own body, and also lost it. Apple. Besides, the rules don’t say that a broken sword is a negative, so naturally Brother Zheng loses.”
When everyone thought about it, it was really like this. Xiaoyu, who seemed to have no idea, saw the problem simply and directly, but clearly.
Zheng Fangyi nodded and said, "I lost." Then he went to Shen Binghong and drew a wooden stick from Shen Binghong's hand.
Watching Zheng Fangyi draw lots. Duan Wutian secretly laughed in his heart and imagined a scene in his mind: Zheng Fangyi took a wooden sign and read "fart loudly in public" and then said with a blushing face amidst the laughter of the crowd, how is this unreasonable! How is this unreasonable...
Unexpectedly, Zheng Fangyi drew a wooden stick and drank the same snow water as Duan Wutian.
Duan Wutian took advantage of everyone watching Zheng Fanyi drink water and quietly approached Shen Binghong and gave him a questioning look.
However, Shen Binghong shook his head, frowned slightly and smiled: "The idea you came up with is the most annoying. I won't help you punish them. Just let fate happen. It's best if you get it yourself. That's retribution." !”
Duan Wutian's original intention was to punish Zheng Fanyi, but Shen Binghong refused to cooperate with the cheating but had no choice but to shrug his shoulders and spread his hands. But then he remembered something and smiled at Shen Binghong: "I don't mind letting that happen in public! If you don't punish him, be careful you get it! By the way, who deliberately spilled the wine on President Zheng's head that time? "
Shen Binghong blushed and ignored him, and began to announce the next game.
