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Prime Minister Xie anxiously followed the Second Young Master into the main hall. There was no one else in the main hall at the moment, except for a young man in a platinum robe, sitting on the floor with a table full of books and stationery in front of him.
"Third brother! Look who's coming?"
The second young master looked at the young man at the end who was dozing off with his head in his hands, cleared his throat and said loudly.
Xie Xiangcai stood there and tried to hold back his laughter, looking at the saliva hanging from the corners of the mouth of the third young master in front of the table to the bottom of the table.
When the third young master heard the second young master's shouting, he suddenly came back to his senses. He suddenly opened his eyes, the hand holding his chin cramped, and his whole head lost control and hit the table hard.
"Dong——"
The clear sound reverberated throughout the hall. The third young master, who had always been serious about words and expressions, could not help but look rosy at this moment. He hurriedly sat upright. Seeing that the atmosphere was a bit awkward, he raised his hand and patted his forehead, making a "pop" sound, and said quite seriously. , "It turns out to be Second Senior Brother. I've been practicing a kung fu recently called Tietou..."
When the second young master saw the third young master's appearance, he laughed so much that tears almost came out. After a while, he stood up straight again, patted the shoulder of the young man next to him, pointed at the third young master with his chin and said, "That's you Third Senior Brother, hurry up and thank me, since you entered Dongfeng City, I don’t know how much trouble your Third Senior Brother has helped you avoid!"
Xie Xiangcai didn't understand what he meant, but he nodded seriously, walked up to the Third Young Master in white, bent down and cupped his hands, "Xie Xiangcai has just met Third Senior Brother, thank you Third Senior Brother!"
The third young master stood up under the surprised look of the second young master, returned Xie Xiangcai with a big gift, then stood up and looked him up and down, and nodded with satisfaction, "It seems that the master still has foresight. The younger brother is indeed one of us." The best of them all.”
Xie Xiangcai scratched his head in embarrassment.
However, after the Third Young Master said this, he was silent for a long time, and added with hindsight, "Except for Lao Qi."
"Dududu——"
Suddenly, there was a crisp sound of wooden fish in the sky above the hall. The Third Young Master's face changed slightly, he took a step back and sat back at the table. He raised his head and said to Xie Xiangcai, "Junior brother, Master has urged me, please hurry up and go upstairs. !”
Xie Xiangcai felt a chill in his heart and nodded uneasily.
The second young master behind him strode forward, came to Xie Xiangcai's side, took a deep breath, calmed down the expression on his cheeks, and whispered, "Go upstairs quickly, go upstairs quickly, master, he has a bad temper!"
The young man nodded his head when he heard this, and followed the pace of the second young master closely, heading upstairs.
Above the attic is a spacious open space similar to the main hall on the first floor. The open space is dotted with some jagged and strange rocks.
There is an incense burner about ten feet high standing in the center of the strange rock. On the top of the incense burner, sitting cross-legged, an old man with a thin body and a fairy-like appearance.
Xie Xiangcai didn't even think about it. He took a step forward and bowed in panic, his heart almost jumping out of his throat.
"Master!!!"
The young man bent his waist so much that for a long time he did not dare to raise his head to look at the old man who was sitting on the incense burner full of fairy air.
After a while, the old man on top of the incense burner did not move at all.
Xie Xiangcai carefully raised his head and slowly looked up at the old man on the incense burner. The old man was still shaking his head leisurely and mumbling to himself, not paying attention to the young man in front of him at all.
"Why is master ignoring me? Does he have something against his apprentice?"
The young man asked cautiously, but the old man remained silent.
"Dududu——"
Not far away, the familiar sound of wooden fish sounded again. Xie Xiang raised his head in surprise and looked at a corner not far away. Behind a rugged boulder, half of his clothes and a pair of hands were exposed.
The two hands held the wooden fish in one hand and kept beating it with a mallet in the other.
Xie Xiangcai was startled, turned around and asked the second young master with his eyes.
The second young master smiled half-heartedly, pointed to the corner, and said softly, "Junior brother, why don't you go take a look?"
Xie Xiangcai glanced at the "Master" in front of him, then gritted his teeth, stood up straight, and tiptoed towards the corner where the sound of wooden fish came from.
The young man passed through layers of strange rocks and finally came to the boulder. He took a deep breath and was just about to go around the boulder and look at the person behind him when a slight voice whispered to himself.
"Damn it, I'm really blind. I originally wanted to find a closed disciple, but who would have thought of finding such a stupid ass? Tell me yourself, is that kid's eyes covered with cake..."
The expression on Xie Xiangcai's cheek suddenly froze, and an unbelievable thought flashed through his mind. He took a sudden step and walked around the boulder, looking behind the boulder to look at the man knocking the wooden fish.
The moment Xie Xiangcai stuck his head out, the man raised his head at the same time, and his bright eyes full of resentment looked into Xie Xiangcai's eyes.
The whole attic suddenly became quiet.
Xie Xiangcai's body seemed to be turned into stone, frozen in place motionless.
Behind the boulder, the white-haired boy dropped the wooden fish in his hand, stood up with a half-smile, kicked away the jagged boulder beside him, walked up and patted Xie Xiangcai on the shoulder, and said in a sinister way, "Hey, hey, this isn't it. The Eighth Young Master who has never been seen before or since in the Yushu of Dongfeng City?"
Xie Xiangcai's face immediately turned pale as a sheet. The apparently light force on the white-haired boy's palm made the boy's legs weaken and he knelt on the ground with a "plop".
"Get up, you don't have to pay such a big courtesy, what age are you in?"
Hu Jie immediately stretched out his hands, trying to help Xie Xiangcai up as he fell on the ground.
When Xie Xiangcai saw this, he screamed and pushed Hu Jie away, who was approaching him. He moved his butt back quickly, with an expression on his face as if he had seen a ghost.
Hu Jie pressed forward, bent down and put his face close to him, stared into Xie Xiangcai's eyes, and smiled strangely, "Eighth Young Master, how about calling me Master?"
Xie Xiangcai took a deep breath and screamed in the loudest voice in his life, "Are you the f*cking master?!!!"
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With a smile on his face, Hu Jie tilted his head slightly and asked, "Damn it, why can't I be the master?"
The young man who fell to the ground, at this moment, the past scenes emerged one by one in his mind. The more he recalled the original incident, the more wonderful the expression on his face became.
He recalled what the second senior brother said when he entered the pavilion, "It's just because I'm in this mountain." Now thinking about it, it really made sense!
Xie Xiangcai took a deep breath and felt cold all over his body.
Hu Jie squatted in front of Xie Xiangcai, stretched out his hand, and waved towards himself, "Come on, Master Eight, show me that bullshit King of Martial Token that you snatched in Yishan Mountain!"
Xie Xiangcai trembled and subconsciously touched the jade plaque at his waist.
But he didn't dare to reach out and hand it out.
Hu Jie looked at Xie Xiangcai with a smile. At one moment, the smile on his face suddenly disappeared. He stood up, clapped his hands, and shouted, "Second brother, get over here and hold down your little junior brother!"
The second young master who was not far away heard the words and immediately rolled up to Hu Jie. He looked at Xie Xiangcai who was lying on the ground with some sympathy, then rolled up his sleeves and pulled him up from the ground. He couldn't help but drag him. He got a huge stone coin, pressed his hands on the young man's back, and lifted his robe to reveal his back.
Hu Jie flexed his muscles, stretched out his hand, and a long whip broke through the window and landed in his palm.
He walked forward with a long whip in his hand and cursed with a smile on his face, "Damn it, I didn't want to teach you a lesson at first. After all, Xu Aoxue will most likely surpass me in the future. If you are honest, Come back and admit your mistake and forget about it. Who would have thought that you were so smart and asked for someone else's jade token to fool me? If I hadn't been there at the time, would you have fooled me?"
Hu Jie raised the long whip in his hand and fell heavily towards Xie Xiangcai's back.
"Snapped--"
The crisp sound of the whip falling on the back was heard.
"Oh--"
The young man yelled loudly.
"Snapped--"
"Master, please be merciful——"
"..."
After a long time, Hu Jiecai threw away the whip in his hand due to his backache. He looked at Xie Xiangcai's red and swollen back with satisfaction and waved his hand to ask the second young master to let go of his younger brother.
Xie Xiangcai stood up straight with a cold sweat on his head, twisting his body in pain, looking resentfully at his abominable master who had been pretending to be a pig and eating the tiger in Dongfeng City for so long.
Immortal Immortal, his mother's name sounds like an old man. How could he be such an out-of-place young man who looks about the same age as himself?
Hu Jie snorted coldly, "Old Ba, I originally wanted to break your legs, but now I'm giving you a few whips. Don't be so good after taking advantage of me!"
Xie Xiangcai grinned and nodded vigorously, not daring to reply.
Hu Jie stretched his body, turned his head to look at the second young master, and asked lazily, "Second brother, go ask the third son if the banquet is ready. I'm afraid your junior brother will be hungry because of the whipping!"
The corner of Xie Xiangcai's mouth twitched.
The second young master on the side nodded quickly, flashed to the railing, stuck his head out and asked loudly to the third young master who was sitting in the underground hall, "Third, master, are you ready for the banquet? Junior brother is hungry!" "
Upon hearing this, the Third Young Master waved his sleeves, and the table in front of him and the mountain of books on it immediately disappeared. He straightened his clothes and said loudly, "I've already prepared everything. I'm just waiting to take a seat."
After hearing this, the second young master turned around and looked at Hu Jie, who had changed into a set of dark golden robes at some point. He straightened his expression, then consciously walked forward to support the grinning Xie Xiangcai, and took the lead in walking slowly towards the main hall downstairs. go.
Xie Xiangcai was helped down the stairs. When he looked up at the main hall, he found that the place had changed drastically.
A half-person-high seat was built on the spot where the Third Young Master was sitting. On both sides of the seat, four smaller but identical mahogany embroidered and carved wooden stands were placed.
After looking around the hall for a week, the second young master nodded with satisfaction, and then supported Xie Xiangcai and walked out of the hall.
Outside the main hall, five young masters were already standing in order, all wearing black gold robes with jade plaques hanging from their waists.
The eldest son, who was standing at the head, saw his junior brother limping out while rubbing his butt. His fierce face immediately turned funny. He walked up and laughed like thunder, "Junior brother, I heard that you I was taught a lesson by my master, hahahaha! Long time no see!"
Xie Xiangcai smiled bitterly and cupped his hands.
Behind the eldest young master, the third young master, who was wearing an unexpected white gold robe, still had a solemn face. He looked at Mr. Xie and smiled slightly, then said nothing more.
Behind the Third Young Master, a seat was vacant. After the empty seat was the Fifth Young Master, Murong Mingzhu, who had not been seen for a long time.
Murong Mingzhu gave Xie Xiangcai a thumbs up, "Little junior brother, I heard that you defeated Shen Lianxue of the Shen family with the wooden sword I gave you. Yes, you see, the sword taught by senior brother is an ox. The wooden sword broke It doesn’t matter, senior brother will make you another one, how about it?”
The second young master who was supporting Xie Xiangcai hurriedly interrupted, "Go, go, you still have the nerve to take out that broken wooden sword! Junior brother, don't be anxious. When you come to Qingmeng City in the future, let the master know about the old sword." Slave, let him help you make a good sword, and then the master will teach you some serious swordsmanship. If you learn it and become an invincible swordsman in the world, you should have no problem!"
Xie Xiangcai nodded slightly, and then his eyes came to the Sixth Young Master behind Murong Mingzhu.
The Sixth Young Master nodded lightly. The two of them had been getting along day and night these days, so naturally there was no need to say anything. They just communicated with their eyes and then said no more.
At this time, the Seventh Young Master, who was behind the Sixth Young Master with his open mind, could no longer bear his temper. He stepped forward and gave Xie Xiangcai a bear hug. He immediately took off the wine gourd from his waist, put it into Xie Xiangcai's hand, and signaled him to take a few sips.
Only then did Xie Xiang understand what Brother Seventh was thinking. He unscrewed the wine cork with his hand, and a scent of sweet-scented osmanthus hit his nostrils.
The young man smelled the refreshing aroma, smiled slightly, and then took a big gulp of wine into his mouth.
As soon as the wine touched his lips and teeth, a soft force flowed down his throat to each of Xie Xiangcai's meridians, quietly repairing the injuries on Xie Xiangcai's back.
Feeling the changes in his body, Xie Xiangcai was stunned for a moment, and then looked gratefully at the seventh senior brother who cared about him the most.
The second young master understood without saying a word, consciously let go of Xie Xiangcai, walked towards the eldest young master and the third young master, and squeezed into the gap between the two.
Not long after, a shout came from the pavilion in front of the seven young masters.
Immediately afterwards, the eldest son standing at the front cleared his throat and said, "Enter the palace!"
On weekdays, it's all joking, and the master and apprentice can laugh and joke, but whenever the master meets with all the brothers at the same time, all the young masters present must abide by the rules.
The seven young masters entered the hall one after another, bowed and saluted the Immortal Immortal in dark gold robes on the seat one by one, and then took their seats one by one.
Xie Xiangcai came to the seat with some embarrassment and did not bend his knees to sit on the seat with a backrest specially selected by the master.
Although the injury on his back was better after drinking the wine from the Seventh Senior Brother just now, the Master was not merciful when he whipped him. If he sat down and leaned against the back of the chair like this, I'm afraid the taste would be extremely sour.
"Baby, if you haven't sat down yet, do you think you have something against Master?"
Hu Jie smiled lightly.
Xie Xiangcai waved his hand quickly, "Don't dare."
After saying this, he had no choice but to bite his lips tightly, ignoring the severe pain in his back, and bent his knees to sit on the seat.
Hu Jie scanned the eight seats on both sides with great satisfaction. However, after a moment, his eyes stopped on an empty futon on the right side.
His expression changed slightly, "Where are the four old people?"
When the eldest son heard this, his body trembled, and he immediately turned his head to signal the third son who was not far away with his eyes.
The Third Young Master looked a little ugly. He endured the pressure released by Hu Jie, stood up and said, "Fourth Junior Brother is guarding the border fortress and won't be able to come back for a while."
Hu Jie stood up and said, "Is it because I can't come back in time or because I can't come back? Don't the fourth son know the importance of today's banquet?"
The third young master sighed, "Master, the fourth junior brother received the news early and was ready to leave and rush back to Qingmeng City, but yesterday..."
"What yesterday?"
Hu Jie raised his eyebrows and raised his voice by three points, making all the powerful young masters unable to raise their heads.
"Yesterday, the palace issued a letter from Flying Arrow and detained the fourth junior brother there."
The third young master was covered in cold sweat and his voice was trembling.
Hu Jie nodded slightly, and in the next breath, his figure suddenly disappeared into the hall.
Xie Xiangcai was stunned and moved back subconsciously.
He felt a trace of terrifying energy remaining at the Hujie seat not far away, and the cold sweat slowly wetted his clothes on his back.
The young man recalled what his master said to him in the tavern a long time ago.
"Below the Immortal, there is no invincibility on earth."
At first, Prime Minister Xie thought this was just a joke, but now it seems...
Every word is true!
Time passed by breath by breath. After half a stick of incense, a sound of breaking wind came from outside the hall. The seven young masters present followed the sound and saw Hu Jie in a dark gold robe, carrying one person in each hand, rushing in. Main hall.
He first threw the young man in armor on his left hand to the empty seat on his right hand, and then threw the middle-aged man on the other hand to the open space in the center of the hall. After doing this, he ducked into the hall. There are towering seats at the end.
The Fourth Young Master, who was wearing armor, had just regained his composure. With an embarrassed look on his face, he took off his heavy silver armor and put on the same black and gold robes as the other brothers.
He stood up first and gave a big salute to Hu Jie, who had a very unhappy look in his eyes. Then he turned his attention to Xie Xiangcai, who was not far across the way, and said in a hoarse voice, "Junior brother, I am the fourth senior brother."
Xie Xiangcai hurriedly stood up and bowed to the fourth young master opposite, who was tall and muscular and had a hideous scar on his cheek.
Hu Jie knocked on the table impatiently, "You brothers want to chat and have fun by yourself after the banquet! Third brother, tell the guys in the kitchen and let's go!"
The Third Young Master nodded in understanding, and with a thought in his mind, his consciousness flew out towards the kitchen a few miles away.
Hu Jie nodded with satisfaction, stood up immediately, and walked step by step to the frightened third-grade Wen Xiang of the Imperial City who was kneeling on the ground. He played with the black gauze hat on his head with his fingers, and his chuckles echoed throughout the hall.
"Lord Wen Xiang, how about writing a poem before the banquet starts? After you finish the poem, I will ask our seventh child to write a poem. If you can beat him, I will spare your life. How about that?"
