The fifteenth day of the first lunar month in the twenty-fourth year of Zhaohua.
Lantern Festival!
For Ningguo, the festival of Lantern Festival is extremely important.
This is the first full moon day of the new year.
It is also the time when the One Yuan begins again and the earth returns to spring.
Every family will reunite again tonight, light lanterns to pray for light, and eat bowls of glutinous rice balls in the hope of reunion.
I'm afraid many lanterns have been hung on the streets and alleys of Yujing City, and the literary world will also hold a Lantern Festival Gala tonight.
Zhouzhuang also has a festive atmosphere.
Of course, it cannot be compared with the grand occasion in Kyoto, but Zhou Garden is particularly lively.
Not because of the Lantern Festival.
It’s Zhou Dashan’s sixtieth birthday!
Zhouzhuang market town is two miles away from Zhouyuan. From morning to noon that day, people walking in small and small groups along this two-mile road almost never stopped.
Most of them are people from the world of martial arts.
All of them carry swords, guns and swords.
They came from all over the world, but because the sect was not very famous, or their own reputation was not very famous, they were not invited to stay in Zhou Garden.
But this did not affect their enthusiasm for going to Zhouyuan to attend the birthday banquet.
Originally, their enthusiasm was higher, but the battle that took place at the Yuelai Inn yesterday made their enthusiasm drop a lot——
The name of the Peach Blossom Island sect was already extremely loud in their ears.
A concierge on Peach Blossom Island is a half-step grand master... This is beyond their imagination!
After all, in the current world, let alone half-step great masters, there are not too many strong men in the first realm.
But if a concierge is a half-step grandmaster, aren't all the core masters a grandmaster?
Who the hell can afford to offend this?
But later I heard that Peach Blossom Island is not a sect in Jianghu, but a hidden sect——
Hidden sect!
Almost no one in the world remembers this thing.
Too long ago.
The distance between each other is also too far.
According to the Shushan Agreement a hundred years ago, the Yin Sect is not allowed to interfere in Jianghu affairs.
The Yinmen sent out to travel in the rivers and lakes must not exceed three people.
This seems to be nothing to fear.
Zhou Dashan's birthday banquet may have thousands of people in the world.
Even if Peach Blossom Island sent out three Jianghu Walkers, even if all three of them were half-step grandmasters... If they dared to cause any trouble at the birthday banquet, there wouldn't be many others in Jianghu, but there would be a lot of people!
I heard that the biggest problem with Yinmen is the lack of people!
No matter how good their martial arts skills are, once they fall into the waves of Jianghu, they will probably be drowned in it.
"You're so scared!"
"Don't say what kind of arrangements Zhou Dashan will make. If they violate the original agreement, then all the martial arts people in the world will definitely attack them!"
"They're people too!"
"Not a real god!"
"People are afraid of getting stabbed, afraid of bleeding and dying!"
"The Hidden Sect is already depleted of talents. If one dies, one will be missing!"
"The most important thing in our world is people!"
"Let's go and see the sword that Zhou Dashan collected, and see how that young man named Xiaoqin died!"
"..."
As a result, on the road leading to Zhou Garden, or just inside Zhou Garden, all that could be heard was laughter and laughter.
Although dozens of people died at the Yuelai Inn yesterday, including even Wei Changhe, these were nothing in the eyes of people in the world.
If you wander around the world, you will get stabbed sooner or later.
They are all people who go out with their heads in mind.
Or become famous.
Or... sixteen years later, I will be a good man again!
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Yuelai Inn.
The proprietress Yin Ruming personally cooked a large pot of glutinous rice balls and a dozen poached eggs.
Li Chenan and others had gone downstairs and were sitting around the big table.
Xiaoqin was the last one to go downstairs.
He was still holding his coffin.
He carefully put the coffin aside and tapped the coffin board three times with his fingers as if unconsciously.
He came to the table, smiled shyly, and said sheepishly: "I've kept everyone waiting for a long time."
Perhaps because of the fatigue from traveling these days, or because of her trust in Li Chenan and others, Xiaoqin, who has always been extremely self-disciplined and cautious, slept very deeply last night.
This was probably the best night of sleep he had had in sixteen years.
These people made him feel at ease.
Having them here made him feel safe.
He was like a stray cat, but he found a companion he could trust here, but he was not good at expressing his inner feelings.
Yin Ruming asked the waiter to bring bowls of glutinous rice balls and poached eggs.
There was no joy on her face, but she was still very nervous.
She knew what these teenagers would face when they went to Zhouyuan.
She is going too.
It doesn't matter if she dies, but they are still young and it is of course best for them to survive.
Wen Xiaowan had told Li Chenan last night the news that her father Wen Boyu Feige had sent a message. She originally thought that Li Chenan would choose to leave here.
But after Li Chenan heard the news, he just pondered for a few breaths and still decided to go to Zhou Garden today.
Wen Xiaowan didn't ask why.
Because Xiao Baozi didn't ask why.
Amu and the others didn't even care.
In this case, let's go to death together!
There was no rush to go to Zhouyuan, so everyone ate slowly.
Xiaoqin suddenly looked up at Li Chenan and said, "Zhou Yuan, I have to go! You don't have to go with me."
Li Chenan held the glutinous rice balls in his mouth and thought for a while before asking, "Can you wait two days before going?"
"I can't wait any longer."
"So I have to go today?"
Xiaoqin nodded firmly.
Li Chenan swallowed the glutinous rice balls in his mouth and said, "Then we will go with you."
Xiaoqin was startled, he didn't think much about it, he just thought it was out of loyalty from his friends.
He also ignored that he had not asked the names of these people until now——
If there is still life to come back, it will not be too late to ask again.
He hesitated for three breaths, but did not refuse his friend's help. He still looked at Li Chenan and said very seriously:
"Zhou Mingfang is mine!"
Li Chenan nodded: "Okay, if the others attack you, they belong to us."
Xiaoqin felt warm in her heart, and this time he didn't say thank you again.
Because there is no need to say thank you between friends.
No one noticed that Yin Ruming, who was sitting aside, looked at Xiaoqin, a look of extreme pain flashed in her eyes, and then she lowered her head and ate glutinous rice balls again.
No one noticed that there was an extra poached egg in Xiaoqin's bowl.
It's time.
it's very windy.
There was also a lot of snow.
After Xiao Wu applied medicine to Xiao Qin and bandaged the wound again, they were ready to set off.
Xiaoqin carried the coffin on her back and tied it carefully with the hemp rope.
His back hunched down again, and he carefully carried the coffin out of the door of Yuelai Inn.
Wang Zhenghaoxuan took Su Meng and stopped Su Xun and Butler Liu.
He said to Su Xun extremely cautiously: "Go back to Pingjiang City now!"
"Xiaomeng, you also go back together."
Su Meng was startled: "I don't!"
"Be good and be obedient. You have to go back and dress up nicely until my father comes to the Su Mansion to propose marriage!"
Su Meng bowed her head shyly, then heard Wang Zhenghaoxuan say again:
"I estimate that my father has arrived in Pingjiang City and will go to Su Mansion soon."
"I'll go two days later."
"Second uncle, go back early and prepare two dogs!"
Su Xun was startled: "Why are you preparing the dog?"
Wang Zhenghaoxuan stepped out of the door. Su Meng looked at his back and pouted: "Of course it's stewed...he likes it!"
When Xiao Baozi heard this, he felt a little regretful, because after what happened here, they would go to Feng County.
The group walked into the snow and wind.
Just go to Zhou Garden.
