It's early winter, and it rained again last night. It was so cold that my little pair shivered under the quilt.
It was just that the Hong family was going to have distinguished guests recently, and he didn't dare to delay important matters. He gritted his teeth and got up from the bed, wrapped himself in two layers of cotton clothes, and felt better.
The rain outside has not stopped yet, and the scene of fireworks in the Hong family mansion has also lost some of its color. Xiaoshuang rubbed his hands and ran to the inner room in the light rain.
"Have all the rooms been packed out?"
The person below answered "Yes", and Hong Qisheng's face looked better. The rain came at an untimely time, knocking all the flowers in the courtyard to the ground, adding to the image of depression.
When Xiao Shuang came in, Hong Qisheng had just finished explaining the banquet. He sat down with a white porcelain tea bowl, raised his eyelids to look at him, and said: "There are a lot of things going on these days, please keep an eye on it, don't make any mistakes." .”
He paused and then said: "Tell Qianqian to restrain herself and don't be rude in front of the distinguished guests."
The closer the day of recruiting a son-in-law comes, the more bizarre her daughter becomes. Hong Qisheng was so tempered by her that he would buy everything he wanted and satisfy her with everything, except that he could never put off the matter of recruiting a son-in-law.
Xiaoshuang nodded in agreement and stood aside silently, reading the account book for Hong Qisheng.
"I don't want to force her, but how can anyone in the world have everything go smoothly? I don't know how many people in this city are watching me. I have to choose a good one for her to avoid being taken advantage of by villains.
"Say I don't love her, I'm just a daughter, how can I not feel pain in my heart!"
Hong Qisheng rambled on for a while, and Xiao Shuang listened. He was a slave bought by Hong Qisheng. He was only twelve or thirteen years old at the time. Later, he learned literacy and arithmetic and became a housekeeper. In a daze, more than ten years have passed.
The parasol trees outside the house have long been covered with trees, and half of the ropes on the swing built for the young lady were broken. She has become a bride to be married, no longer a little girl dangling her feet on the swing.
"Sir! The guests are here!"
The two of them had their own thoughts and didn't even know someone had entered the house. They came to their senses only when they heard the sound. Hong Qisheng stood up and said hurriedly: "Let's go! Come with me and go out to meet us!"
The rain came unexpectedly, and Zhao Shun and his party were not prepared. It was the waiter of the inn who brought bamboo hats to prevent them from getting wet.
When the servants of the Hong family saw Feng Sanchu handing over the token, they welcomed everyone in without stopping, served hot tea, and then sent people to deliver the message to Hong Qisheng.
He arrived quickly. After all, he was a bodyguard when he was young. Zhao Chun saw that he was powerful and capable, and he did not look like a man over fifty years old.
"Lingzhen sent distinguished guests to our door, but Hong was disappointed to welcome them from afar. I hope the guests won't blame them!"
"What do you mean, Fellow Daoist Hong, I'm the one who's bothering you!" People respect me one foot, and I respect others one foot. Feng Sanchu saluted in return, and Zhao Chun and the Liao brothers and sisters also raised their hands.
Meng Han, on the other hand, was sitting on the chair with Da Ma Jin Dao, and the tea bowl was like a toy in his hand, too small.
"Who is this?" Hong Qisheng was also a human being. Seeing that Meng Han had no scruples, he realized that his identity was not simple.
Feng Sanchu knew that his senior brother had a temper and was used to being a fool. He was not afraid of anything. He smiled and said, "This is our senior brother Meng Han. He was going to Huiming Villa to obtain spiritual objects. We happened to be on the same road, so we came together." ”
From practicing Qi to building foundation, monks need to refine the spiritual objects of heaven and earth as their own spiritual foundation. Huiming Villa, three hundred miles away from the market city, supports an earth spiritual fruit tree, which is most suitable for earth monks to build foundations. Huiming Villa was not strong enough to protect the treasure tree, so it used the spiritual fruit as a source of support and sent it to the three nearest sects. It was agreed that the earth-attribute monks in these three sects could receive a share of the spiritual fruit from the village when they reached the later stage of Qi training. It was exactly like this that Meng Han came with us.
This matter is not a secret, all the casual cultivators know it. Hong Qisheng still didn't understand, so he hurriedly stepped forward and bowed, and said respectfully: "It's actually a senior who is in the late stage of Qi training who has arrived. Hong is blind and doesn't recognize Taishan, so he didn't notice it! I will set up a trap in the house later today." Let’s have a small banquet to welcome Senior Meng and several Taoist friends! I hope Senior Meng will come in person at that time, and Hong will definitely sweep up the bed to welcome him!”
Meng Han only waved his hand perfunctorily and continued to play with the tea bowl. Hong Qisheng understood that this was an agreement, so he wisely stopped interrupting, turned to Feng Sanchu and said, "I don't know the names of my fellow Taoists yet."
"These two are Liao Duanyi and Liao Xiaoyi, a pair of brothers and sisters. This..." Feng Sanchu moved his hand down and put it on Zhao Chun's shoulder, saying: "Although Junior Sister Zhao Chun has not yet broken through the third level of Qi training, , but she is extremely talented, and she has already advanced to the second level in less than a year after entering the Tao."
Hong Qisheng didn't dare to be dissatisfied and praised the three of them all over. Zhao Shun had long been fostered by the handymen in Hemerocallis Garden to be thick-skinned, so there was no movement. Liao Xiaoyi, on the other hand, was shy and hung her head in embarrassment.
After chatting for a while, seeing Meng Han's face becoming more and more impatient, Hong Qisheng quickly shut up and asked his servants to take them to the wing to rest. The recruitment of a son-in-law was scheduled for seven days. During this time, they could have a good stroll in the market city.
Not knowing that there would be a monk in the late stage of Qi training, the banquet prepared by Hong Qisheng was indeed considered a "small banquet" now. He hurried back to the room, asked people to prepare double the original specifications, and opened the warehouse again. Prepare a generous gift, hoping to form a good relationship with Meng Han.
How worried Hong Qisheng was, Zhao Chun didn't know that what troubled her was that a girl failed to climb over the wall and got stuck on an old tree with all its leaves beside the wall.
Liao Xiaoyi had never seen anything like this before. She froze under the tree and looked at each other with the girl.
"Can you go and call someone for me?" the girl asked, hugging the tree trunk.
Liao Xiaoyi said "ah" and didn't know how to help. Zhao Shun walked over, opened his hands to the person, and said: "Jump down, I will catch you."
"Little sister, how old are you? I'm afraid of hurting you!" The girl refused to move and advised: "It's better to call someone. Over there in the main room, there is a tall, round-faced man named Xiaoshuang!"
Zhao Shun looked at her and blinked: "Let go first!"
The girl didn't know why, so she put her hands in front of her and sat on the branch. However, Zhao Shun took two steps back, turned around and kicked the trunk of the tree hard. The old tree shook violently, and the girl screamed and fell from the top. Zhao Shun used her arms to stop her half a foot from the ground.
She was so shocked that she turned over and sat on the ground. She took Zhao Chun's arm again and made sure there was no injury. Then she covered her heart and said, "It's so scary! It's so scary..."
"How did you do it? You are so young!" she asked in surprise, and then suddenly realized: "You are like my father, you are the guest he said he wanted to come!"
The girl hurriedly got up from the ground, holding her crooked bun, and said with a smile: "My name is Hong Qian, welcome to the market city!"
Zhao Chun pointed at himself: "Zhao Chun." He turned to the side again and said, "This is Senior Sister Liao Xiaoyi."
"Yeah!" Hong Qian smiled brightly, "I didn't expect you to be so young! It's not like the immortals in the city who are almost old."
Liao Xiaoyi is only fifteen or sixteen years old, petite and looks like a child.
Hong Qian was about to speak again, but was pulled over by her father who suddenly barged in: "Look at what you look like. Go back to the house to freshen up and get dressed up before the immortal master sees the joke!"
After receiving the news, Hong Qisheng hurried over and saw his daughter, half-dressed with dirt, chatting with two guests. He was so angry that he blew his beard and glared, apologizing to the two of them: "My little daughter was reckless and offended two fellow Taoists. , I’ll take her out right now, so I won’t disturb you two’s rest!”
Before the two of them could say anything, they carried their daughter out of the door like the wind.
Zhao Shun's eyes followed and fell on the third person. The "tall, round-faced person named Xiaoshuang" in Hong Qian's mouth followed the father and daughter from a distance, with his back hunched over and showing the utmost humility.
