Chapter 148:

It is indeed normal to invite guests to dinner, but it also has to be divided into times, at least in Zhang Jin's consciousness, the day of the Chinese New Year's Eve is not to invite guests, people who know each other will not go to other people's houses to eat on this day, and there are more outsiders in the family reunion, how to think about it is uncomfortable. He can generously classify Jiang Protector and Zhou Protector as relatives, which is also for the sake of his grandmother's face, as for the others, then he will be embarrassed.

It seemed to see the persistence of the little pot friend of the Zhang family, and a relatively young martial artist wanted to tease people, so he stepped forward and came to Zhang Jin and said with a smile: "Mr. Zhang, right, are you giving it to those children?"

Zhang Jin nodded.

"Shall I help you?" said the warrior as he reached out his hand, "By the way, I'll help you taste it first." ”

"No need. Zhang Jin dodged his hand, and the person was already a few steps away, and said with a very serious face, "These things are useless to you." ”

Uh, it's useless to him, what do you mean? The warrior who was easily dodged was still surprised that the young man in front of him was as simple as the legend said, and he heard another sentence that puzzled him.

"Let's go in first. Dongfang Yao glanced at the children scattered around, there were about five or six, but because they were standing here, those children had the intention of walking away at any time. He didn't know what the use of those things Zhang Jin made, but with his understanding of his little guy, this person was not generous, and he must have the other party's intention to do this at this moment.

Although the other martial artists wanted to continue to try the ability of this legendary Mr. Zhang Xiao, Dongfang Yao spoke, and they were embarrassed to continue to stalemate here, so they nodded and walked towards the gate.

Seeing Dongfang Yao and his entourage disappear at the door of the small mansion, a group of children who had been hiding on the side before, and were curious about the small house, walked out with their heads shrunk their heads, among them were the ones with the throwing cannon in their hands, and they were throwing them while walking, crackling, pretending to be something.

Zhang Jin didn't care about that, glanced at the children who had already emerged, and said in Beijin native dialect with a local accent: "Don't hide, I saw you, I have fruit here that has just come out of the pot, which is made by learning the practices of Beijing City, you want to eat, come over quickly." ”

The children who had been staying here because they were hungry immediately couldn't help but pop their heads up. Those who pretended to play with throwing guns simply took two quick steps forward to see the strangeness.

Zhang Jin generously lowered the wooden basin to show them, the fruit in the small wooden basin he served was not a single popular 'bench leg', but in order to cater to his own and children's preferences, the style and color were diverse, what five-star, spherical, triangular, banana-shaped, etc., how to look, it is very different. And the round and oval fruits are full of sesame seeds.

Don't look at the fact that almost every household in the countryside will grow some sesame seeds, but they are used for oil extraction, but few people are willing to use them to make snacks for their children.

So, after watching it, there were children who couldn't help it.

Zhang Jin blocked the black claws stretched out by himself who bore the brunt and said, "I'll catch it for you, there aren't many fruits today, I want to distribute it equally, but if someone doesn't want it for a while, I can give you more." If there is more, I can give some to the second stunned man later. ”

The second stunned, the second stunned man was naturally one of the only two people Zhang Jin knew in this village, and this was when he overheard the old man scolding his son.

The children's minds were very simple-minded, and although they were also vigilant, when they knew that this person was one of the people sent by the state, and that there were people they knew in their village, this vigilance immediately became much less. After holding the heart of 'I only eat his things and don't go with him', the least daring person also walked out boldly after seeing the child in front of him get benefits.

Zhang Jin was very generous and grabbed a handful of them for the child who was the first to stand in front of him. The kid was a little embarrassed, but in the end, he was probably a thick-skinned person, and after being shy for less than a second, he couldn't wait to throw the fruit into his mouth.

As soon as he ate it, he jumped up directly, and shouted while jumping: "Wow, it's delicious, it's meat!"

Although the village of Zhujiawa is already very wealthy compared to many nearby villages, it is still impossible to eat meat every day. Therefore, even if the children have already eaten meat at the New Year's dinner at home today, when they heard that there is meat in the snacks, those who are grinding have also pushed me and ran over.

Zhang Jin just gave you a handful, and he gave it away. When the children were still unsatisfied with the different fruits of the fruit, they did not forget to explain: "That's all for tonight, if you like it, you can come back tomorrow, come to my house tomorrow morning, I will prepare other snacks, of course, you can also bring people you know." ”

"Are there apples?"

"Yes, and oranges and bananas. I just forgot to buy it, Zhang Jin added in his heart. However, in order to attract the children of this village to come, he still listed a lot of food, many foods that ordinary rural children do not see, or rarely see.

In fact, in many rural areas now, let alone apples and oranges for guests in the New Year, even melon seed candy is also underprepared. In order to show that they have a lot of surplus food, when they are served to guests, they are often mixed with peanuts and dried sweet potatoes. In fact, there is only a small handful of melon seeds in a pot, most of which are peanuts and dried sweet potatoes.

Those who want to save face and have melon seeds on their plates often can't reach the second day of junior high school, and they are divided up by the surging waves of 'little bandits' who carry bags to their homes to pay New Year's greetings.

But not to mention anything else, Zhang Jin believes that the small snacks he just distributed will be able to attract a large number of children to him tomorrow. If the adults here allow it.

To say that Zhang is really not a generous person, but there is no way, today he got Dongfang Yao and his party back, it is estimated that tonight, those who open the formation will act again, otherwise there is no ghost resentment to fill the formation, and the formation will easily collapse.

He couldn't save his own people, but he wanted to kill these children and be used as aura. I just hope that the other party will be merciful tonight and give him some time.

The children ate various flavors of fruit, and took the fruit that Zhang Jin gave them, and was going to go back to share it with the neighbors and other younger siblings, and promised that they would come early tomorrow morning, so they reluctantly left.

Zhang Jin watched the children disperse in a hurry, and then turned around and went back to the small house. In the house, he pasted couplets and cleaned them by the way, but the front yard was empty, and the lights were turned on at this moment.

When Zhang Jin passed by, he found that there were a few more square tables in a conspicuous position in the room, and at first glance it was Dongfang Yao's masterpiece - simple, generous and thick.

There were also a few large fires, and those ancient warriors were sitting around the fire in groups of three or five discussing something, but looking at their expressions, their expressions were a little dignified, and most of them still had a thick tiredness hidden on their faces.

"Why don't you get some bone broth and buns, fried meatballs or something for them later?" Zhang Jin thought weakly and tangledly. He doesn't like to have strangers when he eats the New Year's dinner, but it doesn't mean that he really has no edge, not to mention the situation in the mountains today, although he didn't go in person, but from Dongfang Yao can bring these people over, he knows that these people must be helping today.

It's just that there are too many people who have come, and although he bought a lot of food, the ones processed today are enough for these people to eat. And if they were able to come back safely, shouldn't the country be treated well? Why are they all thrown here?

"Buzzing ......" a few car engine sounds interrupted Zhang's belly, and his consciousness was naturally released, and his heart immediately relaxed a lot. Because Zhang Jin saw a small truck parked in front of the small house, and on the small truck, there were not only quilts and other things for the rest of the twenty or so people in the house, but also rice, noodles, meat and vegetables, etc., and even he vaguely saw a few steaming hot pots.

Well, it looks like this! Zhang Jin breathed a sigh of relief, took one last look at the people in the main room, and then turned into the corridor leading to the backyard.

In the backyard, the light bulbs temporarily installed when Zhu Jiawa was resting the house were lit, illuminating the entire backyard very brightly. Dongfang Yao, Jiang Mo and Zhou Xiaomei were going in and out to bring the food made by Zhang Jin to the square table in the main room.

Jiang Mo took out a pot of tall stewed bones from the single stove in the west wing where they lived, which was a pot of big bones that Zhang Jin deliberately stewed over there, in order to eat comfortably, he deliberately chopped each one very large, so that everyone could eat meat, and it was also convenient for everyone to eat the bone marrow in the bones, and each one had a lot of fat and thin meat, and the color was red and mellow after coming out of the pot, just looking at it was extremely attractive.

So when Zhang Jin came in, the Jiang Protector, who usually looked very fan, and had a face of about thirty or forty years old, was holding the basin with a tangled face, and his eyes were looking back and forth in the basin, as if he was studying which one to steal and eat.

Finally, he finally studied it, but when he looked up and saw Zhang Jin entering the courtyard, Jiang Mojiang's old face was stunned for a moment, and then he said very seriously: "The young master is back?"

"Hmm. Zhang Jin nodded, his eyes paused on the pot of red and mellow stewed bones, and unconsciously remembered the people in the front yard in his mind, and somehow said, "Uncle Jiang, is there still anything in the bone pot?"

Jiang Mo nodded: "Yes, it can also hold a big pot." I won't be able to finish it today, haha!"

"Oh. Zhang Jin responded.

"What's wrong?" Jiang Protector saw that his young master was wrong.

Zhang Jin didn't speak, on the other side, Zhou Xiaomei came out of the kitchen with two dishes, and when she saw Zhang Jin, her face was also full of joy: "The young master is back, hurry up and sit in the house, it's really troublesome for the young master today." I didn't expect to have such a sumptuous New Year's dinner when I went out on a mission. ”

"Yes!" Jiang Mo said while paying attention to Zhang Jin's expression, "Such a sumptuous New Year's dinner was only available at the annual banquet of the sect's reunion in the past. ”

"Hehe!" Zhang Jin laughed dryly, looking embarrassed, just as Dongfang Yao came out of the house, he said, "Brother Yao, there is still a lot left in the pot, otherwise, let's take some to the front, today you go to the mountains, they should help a lot, right?"

"......" Dongfang Yao hesitated and nodded, "It's okay, these stews are all medicinal food, which can help them recover quickly, I can't say that there will be a situation tonight." ”

Will there be a situation tonight? Zhang Jin's heart trembled when he heard this, he didn't expect the matter to be so serious. I want to ask right now.

But before he could speak, he listened to Dongfang Yao say, "Xiao Jin, let's talk about it after eating." "Thinking about the situation I encountered before, I'm afraid I won't be able to eat if I say it.

Zhang Jin was silent for two seconds and nodded, then turned around and went into the kitchen. Although tonight's dishes look very ordinary, in fact, each dish is medicinal food, for fear that Dongfang Yao and the others will be too seriously injured when they come back, or they will be corroded too much by Yin Qi.

This is also the reason why Zhang Jin doesn't want to give it to those warriors, maybe ordinary people don't feel much after eating, at most they have diarrhea or something, but the nerves of martial artists are very sharp, diarrhea is different from diarrhea, people are old connoisseurs. I'm afraid you'll know how good these things are when you eat them.

However, I can't care so much about it now, I just hope that these meals will work better, otherwise it may not be able to stop the retaliation of some people tonight.

The food sent by Zhang Jin and Dongfang Yao was naturally welcomed by all the warriors in the front yard, in fact, after all the warriors tasted the food, they directly gave the rest of the troops. Only those who really didn't have enough to eat barely ate some hot pot prepared by the army.

Because he was worried about the affairs of Beibi Mountain, Zhang Jin's sumptuous New Year's dinner ended after only half an hour, and the four of them drank a glass of wine during the banquet.

And with the end of the reunion dinner, Zhang Jin knew what happened to Dongfang Yao and the others in Beibi Mountain today.

“…… If it weren't for this ring, I'm afraid we would have folded it in it today. Dongfang Yao fumbled with the storage ring in his hand.

Jiang Mo and Zhou Xiaomei also frowned.

Zhang Jin listened to Dongfang Yao's description, but the inheritance in his mind was automatically searching for things related to it. It's best to lock it down - ninety-nine-eighty-one chain formation.

“…… Although I didn't finish it or go deeper, I guess there were a lot of formations in it, and the one we went in happened to be a time-related formation. Dongfang Yaowu speculated, "...... As for Lieutenant General Shen, on the surface, it was because they were a sword formation. ”

"Ninety-nine-eighty-one chain formation. Zhang Jin said lightly.

Dongfang Yao, Jiang Mo, and Zhou Xiaomei looked at him together.

Zhang Jin repeated: "Among the formations I know, there is a formation called the Nine Nine Eighty-One Serial Formation, when they are running, they are like clocks, different people encounter different things when they enter the formation at different times. Brother Yao said that when you enter the formation, you will enter the formation hand in hand according to what I said, so you can all be in one formation. Otherwise, they may be separated at the same time as Shen Zhong entered. ”

"What does the young master mean, there are ninety-nine eighty-one formations in this?" After everyone was silent for a long time, Jiang Mo looked at Zhang Jin with a twitch in his cheeks. Although their Thousand Machine Sect also started with the Fu Gong Formation, compared to the formations they sect and the formations they encountered today, it was really a small thing.

"Well, in fact, the last time this formation appeared was during the Yin Shang period. ”

"It can't be the legendary god at that moment, right?" said Jiang Protector with a look of swallowing poop.

Zhang Jin snorted silently: "Well, I only saw it in books." "This is a lie, but he can't say that I got the ancient inheritance, this is what the inheritance says, right?

Jiang Protector slapped the table, raised his eyebrows and said: "Damn, then how to break this, now there is not even a cultivator, even if there is a cultivator, it is not a foundation, according to the ancient saying, it is not counted." ”

Zhang Jin glanced at Dongfang Yao vaguely, and said in his heart: "There is one here." But he also knew that if it was really as the inheritance in his mind said, that formation was a ninety-nine eighty-one chain formation, then not to mention Dongfang Yao, who had just built a foundation, even if there was a golden pill, Yuan Ying's estimate would be enough.

"Maybe ......," Dongfang Yao, who had been silent for a long time, said, "This formation is not as powerful as it was in ancient times. ”

Zhou Xiaomei laughed when she heard this, looked at Dongfang Yao speechlessly, and said, "Mr. Dongfang, so, that's also possible." Judging from today's situation, except for you, all of us, including Lieutenant General Shen, are a burden. ”

"So, this ...... Basically, it can't be broken. Jiang Protector rubbed his hands.

Zhang Jin hesitated for a while and said: "The ninety-nine-eighty-one serial formation is just my guess, and this formation has already started, unless it stops by itself, otherwise, it will have to keep filling things inside." ”

"Can it be stopped?" Dongfang Yao is very good at grasping the key.

Zhang Jin glanced outside the door: "I just used these cannons and fireworks to let you out." ”

Jiang Mo and Zhou Xiaomei looked at the firecracker paper all over the ground outside the gate. They vaguely remembered that they didn't know how to walk at the time, and then they heard a vigorous explosion, and then Dongfang Yao said that they were following the sound, and then they came out, and on the way they met Lieutenant General Shen and his party, who also followed the sound.