On the fifteenth day of August in the Tang calendar, the Mid-Autumn Festival, the city of Yuezhou was lively at this time. On Yuezhou Square, four high platforms have been set up at this time for the ancestral tablets of the four major families.

In the center of the square, there is a quadrangular tripod, the four major families, Chen, Ou, Zhang, Wu four heads side by side in front of the tripod, holding a few pillars of green incense in their hands.

The four masters held incense above their heads and respectfully bowed down to the high platform.

Incense was put on sequentially.

This incense order is also interesting, and Chen Hetian is in first place.

This Yuezhou City is led by the four major families, there must always be a backbone, the Chen family sits in this position, among the four major families, the strongest is the Chen family.

Behind the wheel were the group of Chen Jiadong's generation, and the young children of the other three families who were going to participate in the big competition.

After everyone was next to each other and the incense was applied, Chen Hetian turned around, opened his hands to the sky, and sang loudly: "The ceremony of sacrificing to the heavens begins!"

Under his order, the people of the four major families all moved, and each walked to his own high platform, following his own sacrificial rules.

Chen Li hid in a shady corner, holding a book and reading there.

Chen Hedi came to persuade him and asked him to participate in the sacrifice to the heavens, but he still used the same rhetoric a few days ago, so that Chen Hedi had nothing to say.

There is no Chen Li in the Chen family's genealogy, why should he participate, those ancestors on the high platform have nothing to do with him now.

In addition to reading, he was also observing the people around him.

Today is a grand event in Yuezhou from time to time, make an exception, let the refugees from the thirteen cities outside the city also enter the city to watch the people have been blocked at the gate of the city, some people can't see the people of the four major families at all, but in order to know the situation of the event for the first time, they are reluctant to leave.

This family competition has also been held in other cities in the Tang Dynasty, which can be regarded as a consensus among the various families in the Tang Dynasty.

Datang established the country with martial arts, so it is particularly enlightened and martial, for this kind of competition, Datang also supports, and even based on the family's competition winners, Datang will hold various competitions again, pick out the strongest among them, and hold important official positions in Datang.

This way of martial arts reminded Chen Li of the ancient imperial examinations in his previous life, and the forms of the two were quite similar.

The four major families have been busy for a long time, and all kinds of rules have been followed, jumping left and right, so happy.

Chen Li looked at the rules of some families as if he was watching a big drama, which made him laugh from the bottom of his heart.

For example, the Ou family.

The head of the Ou family pretended to be an old actor, and the other people of the Ou family played Tsing Yi, and the harlequin dissolved the history of the rise of the family.

The ancestors of the Ou family in Yuezhou were born in the opera troupe, and every time the family had a big competition, they would sing this play, and it was not easy to emulate the rise of the Ou family at that time.

The Zhang family started as an orion, everyone wore animal skins, the Wu family was decent, and the traditional ancestor worship went a set, without many characteristics.

The Chen family is much more arrogant than them, opening warehouses to release grain, and spreading silver tickets, completely like a local tyrant. Chen Li knows this, the Chen family started in business, and the business was done in the whole Tang Dynasty back then, and I don't know how much money was made.

Chen Li was skeptical about this statement, if the Chen family's business was really so big at the beginning, why would they be nesting in a small border city like Yuezhou now.

Therefore, he didn't take the so-called history of the Chen family to heart at all, but said that it was blown by his predecessors.

As the head of the four major families in Yuezhou, there is always something more brilliant than the other three families, and these have nothing to do with him, Chen Li just wants to fight with Chen Dongsheng.

Seeing him fly away that day, Chen Li knew that the gap between his strength and Chen Dongsheng was far from a star and a half.

But this fight must be fought, if Chen Dongsheng does not kill him, he will fight again in the future, see him once, fight once, until Chen Dongsheng is sent down to his mother to make amends.

The ceremony of sacrificing to the heavens is over, and the competition of the four major families has entered the main topic, and there are five competitions today, and there are no Chen Li's games. So he didn't move his nest, but he didn't read anymore, but spent a lot of time watching the young children of the four major families acting on the stage of the martial arts competition.

The competition is divided into the acquired field and the innate field, but none of this has anything to do with Chen Li.

The things of his previous life have left him, and now he is Chen Li, an orphan in Yuezhou City. Now, the purpose of his life is to defeat Chen Dongsheng and send their mother and son to the Netherworld to meet his mother.

It's not interesting to watch the play, it is said to be a fight and killing, but there is no blood spilled, which in Chen Li's eyes, is a little doll playing at home.

I don't know when, Wang Bing came to his side and sat down.

"Since you don't participate in the martial arts competition today, why don't you go back to the big banyan tree to meditate and read. ”

Chen Li looked back at Wang Bing and saw a joke in her eyes, but he didn't smile anymore.

Looking back at the competition in the field, Chen Li's eyes lost focus.

"I'll wait for one more person, the person I'm going to wait for in this life, and the biggest enemy in my life. ”

Wang Bing was originally in a good mood, but he was tossed by Chen Li like this, and he couldn't laugh anymore.

"You know what, after returning to Yuezhou City, you have changed a lot, and I prefer you when I was in the barren mountains. ”

For no reason, Wang Bing looked at Chen Li, his eyebrows furrowed, and he looked at Chen Li, his eyes were full of distress.

This is something she can't think of herself, if she knew, she would think of what he said to him at the beginning.

A woman's love stems from interest, and is strong in distress and sympathy.

In her eyes, the current Chen Li is the skinny cat shivering in the snow.

Lonely.

This is the only adjective that Wang Bing, who lacks vocabulary, can think of.

"Before the barren mountain, it was because I hadn't met Chen Dongsheng yet, and there was hope for revenge. ”

"And now, don't you have no other goal in life than revenge?"

"Yes. ”

Wang Bing's eyes lit up, swept away his sad emotions, and said with a smile: "By the way, look at the point and tell me what are the unfinished goals." ”

"Improve your strength and send Chen Dongsheng to the underworld to make amends to my mother. ”

Wang Bing suffocated, stood up angrily, with an expression of hatred that iron is not steel, and ran away.

"You're hopeless!"

Running out of the distance, Wang Bing turned around and shouted at Chen Li: "I will leave in a few days, and my parents will send someone to pick me up." This time, Chen Li stood up, straightened his clothes, and replied loudly: "I wish you a smooth journey." ”

All eyes in the square were on the two of them, and they were too loud.

"Aren't you going to keep me as a guest for a few more days?" asked Wang Bing without giving up.

Chen Li smiled, shook his head, and said loudly: "What are you leaving to do, I'm about to leave, don't come here to find me!"

Wang Bing bit his lip, stomped his foot hard, and turned to leave.

The movement of the two attracted Chen Hedi, and when he heard Chen Li's words, he knew that he was leaving, and his eyes revealed a complicated expression.

Chen Li chose to ignore Chen Hedi's gaze, and sat in the corner again, closing his eyes and recuperating. At this moment, a heavy fog rose from the sky, as if to meet the parting breath.