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Chapter 4737 [The Legend of the Condor Heroes]

After chatting and laughing for a while, it was evening and Lin Ruhai asked Xiang Nan and Lin Daiyu to have the New Year's Eve dinner with him.

Xiang Nan agreed with a smile.

"But as for my grandmother..." Lin Daiyu felt a little embarrassed.

Of course, she also wanted to have New Year's Eve dinner with her father, but Grandmother Jia also invited them to have the dinner together. If they didn't go, wouldn't that make Grandmother Jia sad?

"Don't worry, I have a way to reverse time and space. When the time comes, I guarantee you'll be able to catch up with our ancestors' family dinner." Xiang Nan said with a smile.

Lin Daiyu was surprised when she heard this.

Afterwards, Xiang Nan and Lin Daiyu accompanied Lin Ruhai to have the New Year's Eve dinner and talked with him for a long time.

Lin Ruhai was naturally satisfied, and happily sent Xiang Nan and Lin Daiyu away, "Remember to come often in the future~"

Xiang Nan and Lin Daiyu returned to the Jia Mansion, then took out the time converter, reversed time and space, and took Lin Daiyu back to three hours ago.

"Oh my God, time has really reversed." Lin Daiyu said in surprise.

When she was at the Lin family, it was clearly already eight o'clock in the evening and they had finished their New Year's Eve dinner.

But it was still five o'clock in the evening, the lights had just been turned on, and the Jia family's New Year's Eve dinner had not yet started.

"Second brother, you really are worthy of being a god. You are so capable." Lin Daiyu said admiringly.

Xiang Nan could actually reverse time and space. This was something she had never thought of. I'm afraid even the Monkey King Sun Wukong couldn't do it.

"You're welcome." Xiang Nan waved his hand and smiled, "It will be more convenient for you to go home and visit your father in the future. No one will know you're out."

"Yeah." Lin Daiyu nodded with a smile.

"Let's go, the ancestors are waiting for us to have dinner." Xiang Nan said again, and then took Lin Daiyu to Rongqing Hall for the banquet.

……

After eating the New Year’s Eve dinner, Xiang Nan stopped the heavy snow.

The snow at this time was five inches thick, enough to alleviate the drought this winter.

However, with his ability, he can only affect the climate of a certain place, not the whole country. Therefore, most areas are still experiencing drought or floods.

Xiang Nan couldn't do anything about it. The weather was not right now, and it was difficult for him to influence the overall situation with his own strength. After all, he was just an immortal with limited magical power.

But despite this, the heavy snow that lasted for a whole day still shocked the people of the capital and even the civil and military officials in the court.

……

After eating the New Year’s Eve dinner, Xiang Nan, Sanchun, Li Wan, Lin Daiyu, Xue Baochai, Wang Xifeng, Mrs. Wang, Aunt Xue and others sat together to accompany Grandmother Jia to stay up all night.

Wang Xifeng, Mrs. Wang, and Aunt Xue accompanied Lady Jia in playing cards, while Xiang Nan told stories to Sanchun, Lin Daiyu, Xue Baochai and others. The stories they told were about The Legend of the Condor Heroes.

However, because the audience were all girls in the boudoir, in order to "have innocent thoughts", Xiang Nan made significant deletions to the emotional scenes and even directly changed Huang Rong into a boy.

The story of Guo Jing and Huang Rong, a man and a woman, wandering the rivers and lakes, was changed to a pair of brothers wandering the rivers and lakes. Even so, the story is still extremely attractive.

After all, there were many types of novels at that time, including novels about gods and demons such as "Journey to the West" and "Journey to the East", historical novels such as "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" and "Romance of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty", short novels such as "Water Margin" and "The Biography of Hai Rui", and love novels about talented scholars and beautiful women...

However, these novels basically have fixed routines, and there are not many that are outstanding enough. So when Jia Mu listened to the female teacher's storytelling, she could immediately tell the rest of the story.

But The Legend of the Condor Heroes is a new martial arts novel, completely different from the novel routines that Sanchun, Lin Daiyu, and Xue Baochai have heard in the past. It is a completely new story, new characters, and the plot is linked one after another, with climaxes one after another... When Guo Yang and his partner fought against the soldiers on a snowy night, it was already a climax; then when Qiu Chuji and the Seven Freaks of Jiangnan fought in the Drunken Immortal Tower, it was another climax; and when Qiu Chuji made a scene at the Fahua Temple, it was another climax...

Sanchun, Lin Daiyu, Xue Baochai and others were all thrilled and fascinated by what they heard. Even Jia Mu, Wang Fu-ren and others, who were originally playing cards and making fun of it, became so fascinated by Xiang Nan's story that they stopped playing cards and joined in the listening.

Seeing this, Xiang Nan also perked up and talked incessantly, all the way to the "Martial Arts Contest to Win a Bride" and the battle between Yang Kang and Mu Nianci.

At this time, the fifth drum sounded.

Jia Mu and other people who had imperial edicts and ranks put on their court robes again and entered the palace to pay their respects.

Xiang Nan also went there.

"Second brother, what happened later? Please tell us when you come back." Xichun said eagerly.

She was fascinated by this story. If Xiang Nan did not have to go to the palace to pay tribute, she really did not want to let Xiang Nan leave.

"Okay, I'll tell you when I come back from the palace." Xiang Nan said with a smile.

……

Afterwards, under the leadership of Grandmother Jia, all the people in the Jia family who had imperial edicts and ranks went to the palace to pay their respects in sedan chairs.

This morning's greeting was similar to yesterday's morning.

The female members of the family entered the inner palace to pay their respects, while the male members of the family stayed in the Hall of Supreme Harmony. After paying their respects, they entered the Hall of Supreme Harmony to be served tea as usual.

"Thank you, gods, for sending down the auspicious snow yesterday, which has alleviated the drought in the capital." Emperor Jiaxing smiled to Xiang Nan.

"Your Majesty, you are welcome." Xiang Nan bowed and said, "It is my merit to benefit the people."

"It has been raining in Lingnan for more than a month. A large number of farmlands have been flooded and no crops have been harvested. I wonder if the gods can stop the rain?" Emperor Jiaxing asked curiously again.

"That's not difficult. I'll be back soon." Xiang Nan said, and disappeared as soon as he turned around. A moment later, he returned to the Hall of Supreme Harmony and said, "Your Majesty, the heavy rain in Lingnan has been led to the water-deficient Central Plains by me."

"Oh, it's really a divine method~" Emperor Jiaxing was very happy when he heard it.

The Central Plains is similar to the capital, and after the beginning of winter, there was no snow and it was somewhat dry. Now, introducing rainwater from Lingnan to the Central Plains can alleviate the floods in Lingnan and the drought in the Central Plains.

With such means, he is truly worthy of being a god. He really has the ability to mediate fate.

"However, if the emperor wants peace and prosperity for the country, he should do more good deeds, reduce corvée and taxes, and give the people time to recuperate." Xiang Nan suggested again.

It has been more than 300 years since the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, and the phenomenon of land annexation is very serious. The nobles such as the Four Kings and Eight Dukes each hold a large amount of land.

Ningguo Mansion and Rongguo Mansion bought land in large quantities, and there were eighty-nine farms alone. The Jia family was already considered to be in decline, and other princes must have owned more.

Since they own so much land, ordinary people will lose their land and become tenants, suffering from exploitation.

Every December, the heads of the farms would come to the Jia family to deliver New Year's goods, such as pigs, cattle, sheep, chickens, ducks, geese, rice, flour, firewood, charcoal, etc. It was unknown how many tenants were exploited.

The bully landlord Huang Shiren in "White Haired Girl" is hateful because his evil deeds are so obvious. He bullies men and women, lends money at high interest rates, and forces people to death. People can see at first glance that he is a bad person.

Although Jia's mother, Wang Fu-ren, Jia Zheng, Jia Baoyu, and Sanchun seem to be compassionate to the elderly and the poor, and are kind and charitable, they actually cause much more harm than Huang Shiren.

Therefore, this dynasty was destined to be destroyed, and even Xiang Nan would find it difficult to go against the trend.

"What the immortal said is absolutely right. I have made note of it." Emperor Jiaxing said with a smile.