Su Ye saw him picking up his cane and slashing at him, and hurriedly raised his sword and said, "Ah! Why are you so impatient, old man? It's not a good thing to be so impatient at your age." He shook the cane away, already sensing the old man's strength. Feifan, who is either an elder or a deputy in the sect, is no match for him in terms of strength, so he sheathed his sword and said with a smile: "You don't really think that I am here to deliver the news to ask you to come and pick people up, right? Understand the current situation, people are here In our clan, the decision of whether to kill or behead is decided by our clan leader, and your Qinggui Sect has no room for bargaining."
The old man tightened his grip on his crutches. He couldn't figure out how the sect could fail if the sect had clearly sent out its strongest disciple and made a detailed plan.
"It's enough to search for Taoist geniuses among the people, but I dare to set my sights on the Sheng family. If something happens to Young Master Sheng, or you really capture him... Ha!" Su Ye handed over the letter: "I thought. Just think about how the once-famous Mingxu Sect fell out of the top ten sects, that will be the fate of your Qinggui Sect!"
"you!……"
Su Ye stuffed the letter into his arms and said, "The news has been delivered, farewell." After that, he raised his head and walked away gracefully.
The letter in the old man's hand was clenched into a ball, and the anger in his chest was getting deeper and deeper. His disciples had always been respectful to him, but they had never heard a young boy point at his nose and say something like this to him: "How unreasonable..." How unreasonable! Su Ze's lineage... ruined our sect's plan! How unreasonable!"
*
"It's time to head north..." Su Ye sat on the rocks by the river and washed his face casually. Facing the water, he put the fake skin back on. Suddenly, his appearance was very different from the original one, and he said something to himself He said: "Yesterday I received a letter from Brother Yan, asking me to meet him at Shaoquan. I heard that there is a spring banquet there? Most of the five tribes are here, why go there?"
"Could it be that...that boy Sheng Xuanyuan still remembers the promise he made to me when we were children?" Su Ye thought and was overjoyed. "It just so happened that he had attended the Spring Banquet and went north with me to look for Cang Yu Sword."
"You haven't written to me yet. Do you want to surprise me?"
Thinking of this, he couldn't help but laugh. He tied the rag wrapped around the Wind Sweeping Sword several times to make it strong, hung it on his waist, and then looked in the direction of Shaoquan and walked briskly.
*
The Spring Festival Banquet is not only a feast for the five ethnic groups, but also a folk custom to bid farewell to Ji Chun.
Shaoquan, at the foot of Jiuhua Mountain.
The streets and roads in the city have long been filled with spontaneous stalls. It is a large-scale market held once a season, which the locals call "Shichun". The festival lasts for five days, starting one day earlier and ending one day later than the Spring Banquet. There are cars and sedans tied with flower branches on the streets. They are the last spring flowers offered by the people to repay the five tribes for protecting the peace of the world. They are also a sign of respect and love for the ancient Xianmen tribe.
After completing the assessment and skipping classes, Qiong Yi and Sheng Xuanyuan arrived in Shaoquan at the beginning of the "Food Spring Festival". Gorgeous cars and sedans with splendid flowers were carried all the way from Shaoquan City Gate to the foot of Jiuhua Mountain. The convoys were in groups and the gongs and drums were noisy. This cheerful scene is more than just "lively".
It was not only the first time for Qiong Yi to see such a grand scene, it was also the first time for Sheng Xuanyuan, who had been here twice but had no luck, to see it with his own eyes. The "prosperous age" that Qiong Yi knew in the past was just two words written lightly in books, but he didn't expect that it would be so peaceful and prosperous, with clear seas and rivers, and ordinary people would so enthusiastically support the five major clans that protected them.
She was standing on the street to join in the fun, looking around, and her head was covered with petals scattered from the high-rise building. Seeing her panic and dodge, Sheng Xuanyuan picked off the peach petals on her head for her, and her face fell. Couldn't help but chuckle. Qiong Yi shook herself off and looked up. The girl scattering flowers upstairs was wearing a red and pink dress, with a melodious voice. She smiled at them and sang: "Pretty sister, take advantage of the spring flowers when they come -"
Qiong Yi didn't know whether to sing back to the duet or salute, so he simply smiled and waved to her, which attracted the other two girls standing next to the girl in pink to notice them, and sprinkled a lot of money to Sheng Xuanyuan with a smile on his face. Petals, "Brother Jun - look here -"
Sheng Xuanyuan retracted his gaze and tightened Qiong Yi's hand, saying without looking back: "Let's go quickly."
Qiong also saw his ponytail with a few petals flying in front of him and his ears with some light red. She teased him with a smile, "Are you embarrassed?"
Sheng Xuanyuan held her hand with a little force, as if complaining secretly. Qiong Yi chuckled and walked quickly through the crowd with him in the market. She was looked down upon by the people because she had a sword on her waist. The person who made the Immortal Pulse presented flowers all the way, and by the time she got to the other end of the long street, she already had a whole bouquet of flowers in her arms.
"Are you going to the inn now? The spring banquet will start tomorrow, right?" Qiong Yi pinned the most beautiful and plump peach blossom to Sheng Xuanyuan's ear. When he raised his hand to pick it off, she pulled it away. She held his hand and smiled on her lips. Seeing her sly smile, he pursed his lips and retracted his hand, letting her handle it: "Place your luggage first. I've already arranged it as we agreed."
"Really?"
Sheng Xuanyuan saw that she wanted to hang out in the market for a while, so he replied: "The two inns in front are provided by the host of the wine banquet for the people of the five tribes to rest. I can participate in the banquet on the first day, and the banquet on the next day." To put it bluntly, the two-day spring banquet is a clan meeting, and it is the business of the clan leader and the others, and does not require the participation of the juniors. We will rest here for a day, and we will meet with Su Ye and the others tomorrow night."
"The Lu family sleeps in the same inn as my family. The room I booked for you is very close to mine...it's also very close to the Lu family's dormitory, with only one floor in between. Let's go there to rest first. How about I come and visit the market with you later?"
Not knowing what kind of punishment she would receive when facing her master, Qiong Yi took a deep breath to suppress her worries, hugged the flower branches in her hands tightly and said, "Let's go."
On the way to Shaoquan, she discussed many consequences with Sheng Xuanyuan, such as her master Lu Bin not agreeing to the marriage appointment between the two clans, or his parents not accepting her. Even if she had thought of every countermeasure, she was really worried. When I was about to face it, I was still a little nervous.
"Are you nervous?"
"Yeah." Qiong Yi smiled, "But they will always know."
Sheng Xuanyuan thought of his parents who were about to meet him, and the words Sheng Zijing once warned him came to his mind inexplicably, "If you want to do her best, wait until you can be on your own before talking about the future."
But he is not a patient person. He never wants to delay things for fear of changes.
He planned to be perfect now and from now on.
On the way here, Qiong also asked him: "What if your parents and my master don't agree?"
"That's up to us." Sheng Xuanyuan replied like this: "I won't marry, and I will fulfill my lifelong duty to guard Bai Feng. If you don't marry, you will pursue your lifelong wish and travel around the world. I will go with you as soon as I have free time. , we will always be together.”
In front of him, Qiong Yi smiled and pushed the large bouquet in his arms over, asking himself: "Why are you so stunned?"
Taking off the peach blossom branches beside her ears and gathering them in her hands, Sheng Xuanyuan shook his head gently and led her forward in long strides.
*
The inn is on the third floor. Sheng's resting place is on the first floor in the backyard, Lu's is on the third floor, and Qiong Yi's guest room is on the second floor.
When the two first entered the inn, an old waiter came forward and called Sheng Xuanyuan: "Young Master." His eyes stopped on Qiong Yi for a moment, not knowing what to call him, so he remained silent. When Sheng Xuanyuan saw him, he waved. The old attendant with a green beard and plain shirt nodded: "Old slave, I'll do it now."
Qiong also didn't know what Sheng Xuanyuan had ordered, and looked puzzled. Sheng Xuanyuan explained: "It's just about arranging meals. Come with me upstairs." She nodded and followed him into the guest room. The windows in the room were clear and tidy. Qiong Yi looked around after entering the house and saw a porcelain vase with exquisite patterns in the mahogany cabinet. She took the flower branches from Sheng Xuanyuan's arms and inserted them into the vase, trying to arrange them into a nice combination. The wild flowers also include pruned branches and folded flowers, which are really complicated and cannot be arranged at once.
Seeing her standing by the shelf arranging the flower branches, Sheng Xuan said resentfully: "Qiong Yi, you rest here first, I'll go and come back."
Qiong also raised her eyes to look at him, knowing what he was going to do: "Okay, go and come back quickly."
Before this, Sheng Xuanyuan had never told his parents that he had someone he liked, nor had he given any hint of an appointment. It would be too rash and abrupt to directly bring Qiong Yi in front of them. Walking down the wooden steps step by step, he adjusted his breath, thinking that a punctual man like his father should have arrived in Shaoquan, and walked straight towards the most spacious and luxurious guest room on the first floor.
The door was half open and half covered, and the sound of pieces falling on the chessboard came from inside, mixed with the voices of people talking: "I heard that people from the five tribes have arrived at Shaoquan. Tomorrow's spring banquet will be a rare sight for all of them." .
"Xiao Jing is studying in Yichuan, so he should be here by now."
"My brother will definitely be here before noon."
"Um."
Hearing the conversation between his eldest brother Sheng Xuanyao and his father Sheng Shangpei in the house, Sheng Xuanyuan hesitated for a moment and pushed the door open: "Father, brother." He bowed and called.
"Yao brother! It's a coincidence that I mentioned you to my father just now." When Sheng Xuanyao saw it was him, he put down the chess piece in his hand and smiled at Sheng Xuanyuan. Sheng Xuanyuan nodded and looked at Sheng Shangpei. His father was observing the chess game expressionlessly. After a long while, he looked back and asked, "Why are you standing still?"
"Tell dad something."
Sheng Shangpei lifted up his sleeves and took the pieces from the chess box, and said calmly: "It doesn't matter if you just tell me."
"Just now." Sheng Xuanyuan said unhurriedly: "I have asked someone to send a gift to Sect Master Lu for the purpose of proposing marriage."
As soon as these words came out, the already quiet room was even worse. Sheng Xuanyao was startled. He looked up at Yao Di with surprise in his eyes. However, due to the inconvenience of his father speaking here, the piece that was about to fall on the chessboard was Then it will be fixed in the air.
Sheng Shangpei turned around and faced Sheng Xuanyuan, with an unmistakable tone: "You? Proposing marriage?"
"yes."
Just as he was thinking about how old Sheng Xuanyuan was, Sheng Shangpei asked again: "You have a girl you like? Is she from the Lu family?"
"yes."
"No." A deep voice came from the adjacent room, and he didn't expect his mother to be in the side room behind the curtain. Before she even showed her face, a cold voice penetrated the bead curtain and reached her ears: "You are just young now, and you still have two or three years to go before you become a crown prince. Why are you in such a hurry to get married?"
