As night falls, the lanterns come on.
The Zhongfu family on Cangbao Street is like thousands of families, with lights shining like stars in the sky.
After sitting and waiting for a day, the Shen family still did not show up.
Sanchongyuan study room.
Zhong Xiaozhong said: "Master, according to the journey, we should arrive today at the latest, but there are no abnormalities in the four city gates, and no cavalry has entered. Could there be an accident on the road?"
Zhong Yan was also a little surprised. He pondered for a moment and said: "There are more than a dozen monks traveling together. It is not so easy to get into trouble. They are probably already in the city at the moment and entered in disguise."
Zhong Xiaozhong said thoughtfully, "Sir, the number of people who have signed up as guests is full. When will the selection be made?"
"It doesn't matter. There will be a banquet tomorrow and screening the day after."
As Zhong Yan spoke, his consciousness glanced at the storage bag, and Lin Zhengping sent a message - don't worry, you can get married freely, and you can refuse if you don't like it.
"..." Zhong Yan blinked, feeling suspicious.
literal meaning?
To be honest?
Or does it have a deeper meaning?
After a flash of thought, Zhong Yan smiled and just pretended to be stupid and took it as a superficial meaning. There was nothing wrong with it, it was a good thing.
Suddenly, he raised his head and looked towards the door. There was a head poking around on the edge of the door. It was Gongsun Nuannuan, who was extremely cute.
"My dear, please leave." Zhong Xiaozhong bowed and retreated.
Gongsun Nuannuan trotted in and saluted with a smile: "Nuannuan has met senior!"
Zhong Yan looked at her and asked with a smile: "Did you get beaten?"
"No!"
Gongsun Nuannuan has no sense of restraint and is very familiar with herself: "Senior, do you know my identity?"
Zhong Yan said with a smile: "What do you think?"
Gongsun Nuannuan smiled and knelt down again: "Nuan Nuan greets Uncle Zhong!"
Zhong Yan stood up and walked forward to pull her up, "Your cultivation level is higher than mine, but I can't afford it."
Gongsun Nuannuan was suspicious and didn't believe it. He blinked and asked, "Really? You didn't hide your cultivation?"
"Didn't your senior sister tell you?"
"No, they all treat me like a child and don't tell me! Uncle Zhong, do you know where my master has gone?"
"I went on a long trip and I didn't tell you?"
Gongsun Nuannuan nodded and shook his head and said, "I know, but I didn't say where exactly I was going!"
Zhong Yan thought for a while and said: "I have been to Qingyang once, and then I went to the sea to Qi State. Maybe I will appear in front of you sometime."
"Oh, I guess so."
Gongsun Nuannuan nodded and said with a playful smile: "I don't miss Master that much now. She will force me to practice when she comes back. I have to take advantage of this time to have fun!"
"Aren't you afraid that I will send a message to your master?"
Gongsun Nuannuan's face tightened, and he stepped forward and took Zhong Yan's arm.
"Uncle Zhong! Please don't tell Master that Nuannuan only came out once with great difficulty. You must practice hard when you go back, okay?"
"Okay." Zhong Yan couldn't help but reach out and pinch her pink face, and then touched her head.
"Uncle, you are so kind!" He said with a squinted smile, Gongsun Nuannuan rolled his eyes and said: "Uncle, you have so many spiritual stones!"
Zhong Yan asked, "What about you, how much do you get every year?"
The little girl wrinkled her nose and said dissatisfied: "It's only thirty yuan a month. It's so little, it's not even enough!"
Zhong Yan was amused: "Just be content, I have also been in the Huoyun Sect, and it only costs twelve yuan a year!"
"Ah?" Gongsun Nuannuan scratched his face, "Uncle Master is lying! The disciples on the peak get at least five yuan a month!"
Zhong Yan blinked, put his arm on her shoulder in a familiar manner and walked out. He said to the maid at the door: "Let Mrs. Ping prepare some special dishes and deliver them to the pear garden."
"Yes, sir!"
Gongsun Nuannuan raised his face and asked: "Uncle, what is a special dish?"
Zhong Yan smiled and said: "If you can't eat it outside, you'll find out later. Where is your fifth senior sister?"
Gongsun Nuannuan said proudly: "Fifth Senior Sister locked me in the room and couldn't trap me at all. I don't know where she went..."
The two of them left the attic and went all the way to the pavilion in the courtyard.
After sitting down, Zhong Yan took out a bag of spiritual stones, placed it on the stone table, and spread it out.
Gongsun Nuannuan stretched out his hand to grab it, but he stopped him and said with a smile: "Nuannuan, what do you think of me?"
"Uncle, of course he's good! He's good-looking, but not fierce."
"Okay, I'll ask you questions and you answer them. How about one spiritual stone for each question?"
Gongsun Nuannuan looked wary, looked around, and whispered: "Uncle Master, what do you want to know? The secret of Qifeng is something Nuannuan can't tell."
Zhong Yan shook his head and said with a smile: "I'm not interested in the secrets of Qifeng. I just haven't returned to Huoyun Sect for many years, so I just want to know about it casually."
Gongsun Nuannuan looked at the spirit stones on the table, "Oh, okay, then, uncle, you can ask!"
Even inner disciples receive very few resources every month, and most of them have to do tasks themselves in exchange.
Although the treatment of the other Eight Peaks disciples is much better, the temptation of hundreds of spiritual stones in front of them is great enough.
"What spiritual roots and realm do you have?"
Gongsun Nuannuan blinked and looked at Zhong Yan without saying anything.
"This is not a secret, right? You can't tell it? Or do you not trust me?"
Gongsun Nuannuan looked serious: "Master and senior sisters have all told you to be careful when going out for training and not to disclose your information to others casually."
Zhong Yan nodded and said with a smile: "I have a very good relationship with your master."
Gongsun Nuannuan became interested, "How good is it? Master usually doesn't go down the mountain, and rarely has contact with other people in the sect. Nuannuan has never heard of Master Zhong."
Zhong Yan pondered for a moment, made a seal and reached out of the pavilion. A big illusory hand condensed in the air, and it was withdrawn as soon as it came out.
"The Void Monument Bearer!"
Gongsun Nuannuan jumped up from the stone bench, shouted with eyes wide open, looked at Zhong Yan and exclaimed: "Uncle Master, you are a master tablet player!"
Zhong Yan smiled and said: "How? Can you do it?"
Gongsun Nuannuan shook his little head like a rattle, "This is the secret technique of the Seven Peaks. You can't learn it casually. Only senior sister and third senior sister have learned it!"
Zhong Yan was a little surprised, thinking that all his direct disciples should have learned it, "Why? You also need to use points to practice magic?"
"Generally, there is no need. Only a few secret techniques unique to the seven peaks require points to be exchanged. However, this big monument master has points and it is not enough. Master said that he will wait until the right time to teach. When is the right time, Master and Senior Sister? The final say..."
Zhong Yan was thoughtful and said with a smile: "So, you know about my relationship with your master! Do you want to learn? I can teach you."
"real?"
"Of course, I never lie."
Gongsun Nuannuan pursed her lips and thought for a while, then said: "I am Feng Linggen. I started practicing at the age of six and am now at the ninth level of Qi refining."
"Wind Spirit Root?"
Zhong Yan was stunned for a moment. He saw a single-attribute heavenly spiritual root, and it was also a foreign spiritual root!
Gongsun Nuannuan nodded, and while Zhong Yan was in a daze, he snatched two spiritual stones with his small hands and said with a smile: "Uncle, you just asked two questions!"
Zhong Yan secretly took a breath, and then said: "No, you have been cultivating Tianlinggen for seven years before you can refine the ninth level of Qi?"
"yes!"
Gongsun Nuannuan said distressedly: "Master wants me to practice hard, but he doesn't let me break through casually, otherwise Nuannuan would have already established a foundation!"
Zhong Yan understands that this is a deliberate suppression of the realm, so that each level can be cultivated to the extreme, so that he can go further in the future.
"How many Tianlinggen disciples does the Fire Cloud Sect have?"
"I don't know. I heard from Senior Sister that the three peaks have an earth spirit root."
"..."
Half an hour later.
Jiang Ping led the maids to bring special dishes.
Such as sweet and sour pork ribs, boiled fish with sauerkraut, hand-baked cucumbers... naturally they are taught by Zhong Yan.
Gongsun Nuannuan ate happily, his big eyes narrowed into thin slits.
Zhong Yan consumed more than a hundred spiritual stones, but gained hugely. He learned a lot of information about Qifeng and Huoyun Sect from Gongsun Nuannuan.
For example, Qifeng currently has seven direct disciples, the youngest Gongsun Nuannuan is ninth, among whom the fourth and eighth have died;
Pei Nanjin, who came with us, is thirty-six years old, has both water and wood spiritual roots, and is at the peak of the fourth level of foundation building;
Gongsun Nuannuan grew up in Qifeng and was adopted by Li Lin. This was the first time he went down the mountain. According to Pei Nanjin, he came to Qingyang to visit him and then went to the outskirts of Mangdang Mountain for training.
etc.
In the end, Gongsun Nuannuan, who had eaten and drank enough, got nearly two hundred spiritual stones and ran away with a bang.
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