Queen of Nongmen: Hexagrams determine the universe

Chapter 345 The Big Tree Attracts the Wind
"How can there be such a good powder that can cover the scars on the face so well? If you know of a powder shop that has such a skill, why didn't you introduce it to me earlier?" Mrs. Zhou asked angrily.

"I was just joking," Mrs. Huo said angrily, "I suddenly remembered that the Huo family had something to do, so I'll go back first."

"Don't you wait for Bai Xiuniang? Didn't you say that letting Bai Xiuniang run back and forth would delay her embroidery too much? It's only half an hour or so from the Baijia Embroidery Workshop. She should be here soon. You can wait for a while." Hold on."

"No, things at home are really urgent, so I'd better go first." She didn't want to stay here and see Mrs. Zhou's proud face.

Hmph, Mrs. Zhou really has a lot of eyes. Did she wear such a thick black veil on purpose so that she could laugh at her?

She'd be a fool if she'd been sitting here, listening to her sarcasm.

"What's the matter? Do you want me to help?" Mrs. Zhou asked.

"No, this kind of thing is inconvenient." Mrs. Huo said hastily.

She put on a serious look and left Zhou's house.

After she left, Mrs. Zhou walked to the vanity mirror and sat down, helped the hairpin on her head, and showed a smile on her face.

In the past ten years, it was the first time that she smiled so comfortably, and she felt that she was several years younger.

"Miss Ye, it's all thanks to you," Mrs. Zhou said with a touch of tenderness in her majestic voice, "The reason why Mrs. Huo suffered a loss this time is because of your ability. I will give you a favor, from now on In the future, if you have anything to ask of the Zhou family, I can promise you one thing."

"This is really too expensive..."

"You accept it!" Mrs. Zhou said resolutely, "You are still young, and now you are a big tree attracting the wind. If you don't have a bigger tree to protect you, you will be shot in the back sooner or later. I am doing this for your own good, do you understand?"

"I understand, thank you Madam Zhou." Ye Qiongdan thanked.

"Yes." Mrs. Zhou nodded.

After a while, Bai Xiuniang came over with two embroiderers. After measuring the figures of the three, Bai Xiuniang asked them some ideas about the pattern of the new clothes.

After that, they took their leave.

Mrs. Zhou raised her head and glanced at the sky outside the window: "It's probably almost Chen's time. Didn't the master send you two invitations yesterday and Tuesday? If you don't go to the sweet-scented osmanthus banquet, I'm afraid it will be too late. I'll let Shuxiang take you there."

"Thank you Madam Zhou." Ye Qiongdan and Xu Mingzhu said.

"It's just a Jianghu party, so don't hold back, just have fun." Mrs. Zhou waved her hand.

"Yes." Ye Qiongdan and Xu Mingzhu nodded slightly.

Scholar led them through the waterside promenade of the Zhou Family Courtyard, and after a full two cups of tea, he brought them to the Martial Arts Field in the West Courtyard.

At this time, thousands of people have gathered in the martial arts arena, most of them are young knight-errants. Of course, they are also accompanied by some elders from the sect.

Because there are sweet-scented osmanthus trees planted around the martial arts field, and it is July and August, the early-blooming sweet-scented osmanthus flowers exude an intoxicating fragrance, making the atmosphere even more lively.

When Ye Qiongdan came over, someone recognized her and called out, "Hey, isn't that Ye Qiongdan?"

With this shout, everyone's eyes immediately fell on her.

Ordinary people would definitely feel a little uncomfortable being stared at like this, but Ye Qiongdan looked calm and walked to the table and chair area of ​​the martial arts arena calmly.

Her hair is as black as ink, with thousands of strands of hair pulled into a single bun. On the bun is only a delicate green dragonfly hairpin. The dragonfly seems to be kissing the deep night water, its wings fluttering slightly as it walks. flutter.

Her green eyebrows are like willows, and under the willow eyebrows are a pair of smart almond eyes, as if carrying thousands of stars, as if she can speak between looking around.

She has snow-white skin and is wearing a dark green gauze dress. In the wind, she is like a white lotus in a lake. She emerges from the mud without being stained, and she is clean without being demonic.

Many young heroes held their breath and blushed quietly.

People didn't rush up to greet her, but started talking about it.

"It's so beautiful, I thought the rumors were exaggerated."

"I heard that martial arts are also very good. She competed in internal strength with the eldest daughter of the leader of the Five Poison Sect yesterday at Baoyuxuan. As a result, the eldest daughter of the leader of the Five Poison Sect lost very embarrassingly."

"I heard that her literary talents are also very good. She is known as the number one talented woman in Guazhou. When she first became famous, she wrote a poem "Chunjiang Flower and Moonlight Night". Have you all heard this poem?"

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The invitations for the sweet-scented osmanthus banquet had been distributed to all sects and factions three months ago. Since the invitations for Ye Qiongdan and Xu Mingzhu were temporarily added, their seats were arranged at the very back, just next to each other. Under a tall sweet-scented osmanthus tree.

The breeze is coming, the leaves are rustling, and the fragrance at the bottom of the leaves is even stronger.

Because of the shade, it is very cool here.

After a while, the second master of the Zhou family came over.

The Zhou family is the No. [-] family in Guazhou, and everyone in the clan is very particular about their attire, except for Mr. Zhou, who is dressed very casually. If you don't know his identity, you may think that he is just a concierge.

Master Tuesday has been used to wandering in the rivers and lakes for so many years, and the arrogance and extravagance of the children of the aristocratic family have been worn away. He feels like an ordinary old man.

He came to Ye Qiongdan's side under the leadership of Manager Xiao Zhou, and Ye Qiongdan stood up quickly: "Little girl Ye Qiongdan, I have met Master Tuesday."

"Little girl Xu Mingzhu, I met Master Tuesday." Xu Mingzhu also said.

"I heard that you are good at martial arts. You can do it. You are a formidable young man." Master Tuesday took two puffs of dry cigarette, nodded to Ye Qiongdan, and said appreciatively, "The world depends on you young men."

"Tuesday's master is overrated. The little girl is just a three-legged cat." Ye Qiongdan said modestly.

"That's talent," Master Tuesday nodded. "It's good to have talent. People who are talented and have a righteous mind will have greater achievements in martial arts."

As he said that, he looked at Xu Mingzhu again: "I've heard about you, women don't give birth to men, your father really gave birth to a good daughter, it's the blessing of the Dragon Dynasty, and it will depend on you to protect the family and the country in the future. "

"Where is it?" Xu Mingzhu lowered her head in embarrassment.

"This sweet-scented osmanthus banquet is nothing but a Jianghu banquet. You can eat and drink in a relaxed manner, and just follow along to watch the excitement. You don't need to have too much pressure. We people in Jianghu are not that particular." Master Tuesday said gently.

"Yes." Ye Qiongdan and Xu Mingzhu nodded.

"Okay, it's almost time, I have to go greet other people," said the master on Tuesday, "You should treat it as an autumn outing. If you want to eat or drink, just say hello to the servants."

After the explanation, Master Zhou walked to the first row of the table and chair area, and exchanged a few words with the elders of several Jianghu sects sitting in the first row.

"Boom..."

The sound of the bronze bell rang, and the time had come.

As soon as the guests heard the sound of the bronze bell, they immediately fell silent, but there were still some curious teenagers who turned their heads and looked at Ye Qiongdan who was sitting in the last row.

"Dear guests, hello everyone. Welcome to the sweet-scented osmanthus feast I held for you at Zhou's house on Tuesday. I hold this sweet-scented osmanthus banquet for no other purpose, which is to let the younger generation The younger generation, please communicate more. The Jianghu relies on us old bones to maintain order, and it will not last long. These children who are rising like the morning sun will be our hope for the future of the Jianghu." Facing everyone on Tuesday, the master said, Said slowly.

The crowd applauded.

"I won't talk nonsense. You can see that there are two rings behind me. It is still the old rule. They are divided into Group A and Group B to compete at the same time. Finally, the leader of Group A and the leader of Group B will compete again to decide First. As for the rules of the group arena, I don’t need to talk about them. Everyone understands that. The purpose of the sweet-scented osmanthus banquet is to promote communication. Whoever gets kicked out of the ring is considered the loser."

Everyone nodded without objection, and then started applauding again.

After the applause came to an end, Master Tuesday solemnly said: "The game begins!"

There was a circle of red big drums around the martial arts arena, and a drummer stood behind each big drum. When the drummer heard this, he immediately started beating the drums in a rhythmic tone.

The exciting drumbeat quickly heated up the atmosphere at the scene.

Amidst the more exciting drumbeat of this hammer than a single hammer, Bai Feihe, whose white clothes fluttered and was as cold as snow, stood up, performed lightness kung fu, and flew to the red ring of Group A, standing against the wind, like a white plum in the wind.

Another person flew to the arena of Group B and bowed to everyone.

Bai Feihe clasped his hands together and said to the crowd: "Bai Feihe in the white clouds, come up to the stage to defend the ring."

The boy on the ring in Group B said: "Diao Qingyun is at Xiashui Tianmen, come up to defend the ring."

The people below looked at each other, hesitating.

Both Bai Feihe and Diao Qingyun are well-known geniuses in this generation, they defend the ring as soon as they come up, how many of them dare to go up?

The Osmanthus fragrans banquet in previous years didn't start like this. Generally speaking, the masters would come out later, leaving the opportunity to show themselves to those in the front whose martial arts were not as good as them.

In this way, it can be guaranteed that most people have the opportunity to show themselves, and everyone can have more fun.

The record of the last osmanthus feast was seven games. Could it be that Bai Feihe and Diao Qingyun are both ambitious today, planning to break the record of the last osmanthus banquet?
Isn't this about using them as stepping stones?

This is too much!
Since no one is willing to go up as a stepping stone, no one is willing to go up and challenge after a full cup of tea.

The weather was hot, people's hearts were floating, and the scene became ugly.

Seeing that no one went up to challenge the ring defender on Tuesday, the master didn't blame the two people on the ring for being too ambitious. He said to the disciples of the Zhou family: "You arrange a few people to go up and challenge."

This is the sweet-scented osmanthus feast of the Zhou family. On Tuesday, Master believes that the two guards will not do excessive things. Will retain strength and leave more internal strength to deal with subsequent battles.

After discussing with the martial arts disciples of the Zhou family for a while, they sent two people to the stage to challenge.

Just now, the people who were still very impetuous suddenly calmed down.

"Next week, challenge Bai Feihe of the Baiyun sect!"

"Next week, challenge Diao Qingyun of Shuitianmen!"

The two flew onto the ring, and the two guards cupped their hands.

"Accepted." Bai Feihe and Diao Qingyun said in unison.

(End of this chapter)