Yangzhou belongs to the south of the Yangtze River, although it is not said that the four seasons are like spring, the climate of this winter is not very cold, and there is rarely such a heavy snow as today.

Approaching the New Year's Festival, the goose-feather-like snow flutters down, and the original flowers in the garden of the ancient mansion are red and willow green, and they are covered in silver overnight.

On the deep path, Luo Lan moved his steps, stepping on the snow on the ground, making a "creaking" sound.

In the distance, in a wooden house, two gardeners huddled in thick cotton jackets, poking their heads out through the door.

"On such a cold day, the second young master actually came to the garden!" A dark-faced man rubbed his hands with surprise on his face.

It is rare for Yangzhou to have such cold weather, and even adults can't stand the cold.

"Maybe our second young master likes to visit the garden!" Another man covered his ears with his hands, but his tone was a little ridiculous.

"I like your sister!" Luo Lan secretly rolled his eyes, and immediately touched his hungry stomach, "If it weren't for the fact that I couldn't stand the hunger, the ghost would be willing to come out on such a cold day." ”

Although the two of them spoke in small voices, Luo Lan had been meditating for many years, and his mental power was far beyond ordinary people, and he was even more deaf and clear-sighted. Not to mention clairvoyance and ears, at least any wind and grass within 100 meters can't hide him.

As if he was tired of walking, Luo Lan stretched out his immature palm to hold a bowl-thick pine tree opposite, stopped to rest, and at the same time gave an order to the system: "Absorb one percent of the tree's nutrients." ”

"Drop! Received the instruction and the absorption began to ......"

As the absorption began, a stream of heat immediately poured into Luo Lan's body, and the original hunger suddenly disappeared by a small half.

Although he was still a little hungry, Luo Lan still let go of the pine tree he was holding.

These trees have limited nutrients in their bodies, and taking one percent of them by themselves does not have much impact on their growth, but if they are extracted endlessly, it will inevitably affect the growth of these trees, and once they attract the attention of others, I am afraid that there will be big trouble.

As the so-called caution is not a big mistake, Luo Lan continued to swing forward, and by the way, he extracted some nutrients from the other trees again.

Half an hour passed, Luo Lan extracted a total of four trees, and at this time he felt warm in his body, and even a little full, so he stopped.

"Hiccup!"

Luo Lan hiccuped comfortably, then turned around and walked towards his small courtyard.

When he was full, he naturally wouldn't be wandering around the garden.

Inside the small courtyard.

Although Aunt Chunxia has been taking care of it, in the past six years, no one has cared about it, and the house building is still dilapidated.

Some of the windows are broken, some of the pillars are peeling off the paint, and the original elegant and chic courtyard is now like a peacock that has lost its feathers, losing its original brightness.

As soon as he walked into the small courtyard, Luo Lan twitched his nose.

The aroma of meat came from the room.

"I guess it's a hallucination!" Luo Lan shook his head, he almost forgot when the last time he ate meat.

"Second young master, the kitchen brought you braised pork just now. By the way, Steward Zhao came just now, and he also said that tomorrow is the annual festival of the Gu family, and all the clansmen of the family who have reached the age of six must participate. Seeing Luo Lan come back, Chunxia happily walked out of the house.

"Braised pork, New Year's sacrifice." Luo Lan pursed the corners of his lips, and suddenly felt a little disdainful in his heart.

"I only remembered that I was the second young master of the Gu family during the New Year's Festival, what do I usually do." Luo Lan walked into the room and looked at a food box on the table. The tempting smell of meat comes from here.

Lift the lid to reveal a plate of braised pork with a bright red color, still with a hint of heat.

"I finally remembered me, are you going to send me away with a bowl of braised pork?" Luo Lan stretched out his chopsticks, and then flicked them a few times, a sneer flashed in his eyes.

In ancient times, this pork was also known as cheap meat, and only those who did not have a high status would buy it for cheapness and eat it. The upper class is generally dismissive of pork, preferring beef and lamb, especially beef.

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; Gain's cattle help plough the fields and are the foundation of agriculture and cannot be slaughtered easily. Rare is expensive, and this beef is naturally highly sought after.

As the second young master of the Gu family, although he was born to a concubine, he was also the owner of the ancient mansion, but those people in the kitchen deliberately gave him pork to eat, which was obviously humiliating.

"It seems that I was too low-key in the past, and even some subordinates dared to tease me." A hint of anger flashed in Luo Lan's eyes.

Aunt Chunxia next to her glanced at the braised pork in the food box from time to time, and kept swallowing her saliva.

"Aunt Chunxia, you can eat, I don't want to eat." Luo Lan immediately pushed the food box over, and after following her over the years, Chunxia has also suffered a lot.

"No!" "No!" "No!" ……

Chunxia hurriedly waved her hand again and again to refuse.

"Young master, this is specially prepared for you in the kitchen, how can I eat it alone. If you don't want to eat it now, I'll save it for you in the evening. ”

"No need, let you eat, you can eat, there will be many such things in the future, you can eat them all at once." Luo Lan suddenly couldn't laugh or cry.

In his previous life, he was also the strongest main god in the coiling dragon world, dragon liver and phoenix marrow, bear paw scarlet lips, what kind of good things have not been eaten. For him, he has long passed the age of appetite, whether it is bark or beef, there is not the slightest attraction for him, except for replenishing energy.

At Luo Lan's insistence, Chunxia happily took the food box away.

Looking at the happy look on Chunxia's face when she left, Luo Lan suddenly felt a little more warmth in her heart, at least there are people in this world who really care about themselves.

……

The next day, just after dawn, the housekeeper Zhao Hu took a few servants and maids into the small courtyard where Luo Lan lived.

With the help of the maid, Luo Lan was like a puppet, he was changed into the prepared dress, and then taught the etiquette of the New Year's Festival, repeating it several times, until Luo Lan completely remembered it, and then he was pulled by Zhao Hu, and the group walked to the front yard of the ancient mansion.

In the front yard, a lavishly decorated carriage is parked, pulled by a Black Nightmare horse, one of the three dragon horses. The Black Nightmare Horse, also known as the "Black Dragon Horse", is rumored to have the blood of a divine dragon, can travel 5,000 miles a day, and runs like a black wind.

Every Black Nightmare Horse is comparable to the Demon Beasts of the Acquired Peak, unless they are innate and strong, and the idle Acquired Peak Strongmen cannot tame them. In the market, the price of a black horse is more than 100,000 taels of silver, and there is no market for it.

Luo Lan was pulled by the housekeeper Zhao Hu and froze in the cold wind for more than half an hour, and then saw a graceful and luxurious young woman pulling a little boy in blue clothes and gold rim from the inner courtyard belatedly.

"I've seen Madame, I've seen the eldest young master!" Zhao Hu hurriedly stepped forward and saluted, "Madam, the vehicle is ready, we can go." ”

The young woman's eyes swept over Luo Lan, her eyes shrank suddenly, Luo Lan was tall and strong, not like a six-year-old child.

"You're Shi Gong, I didn't expect you to grow so tall." The young woman Tie Shi squeezed out a smile, and then pointed to the little boy next to her, "This is your eldest brother, Shiyou, you two brothers are so close." ”

"I don't want to be close to him." The little boy in blue and the gold rim said disdain, but he frequently looked at Luo Lan secretly with his eyes, and he wondered for a while.

How could this guy who was born later than himself be half a head taller than himself.

Gu Shiyou naturally couldn't hide it from Luo Lan, and he sneered in his heart.

In the past three years, Luo Lanhao has been cultivating the Qi Accumulation Style uninterruptedly, and all the internal force he has cultivated has been used to temper his body, his physique has surpassed his peers by a lot, and his height has naturally grown relatively fast.

"Shiyou, don't be rude to your brother!" Tie Shi glared at his son, then stretched out his hand again to pull Luo Lan and walked towards the carriage.

"Today is the first time that you two brothers have participated in the New Year's Festival, and you must fight for your father at the conference later." This sentence seems to be said to the two of them, but the Tie clan really sees people as his son Gu Shiyou.

As for Luo Lan, she didn't pay attention to it at all.

A child who has grown in the wild for six years can be of no use even if he is strong.