Xiang Kang suddenly sighed and asked Yunhua, "Lao Zhang, have you discussed it?" Together came today. Yunhua was laughing and silent, and suddenly heard someone sigh in front of the lattice window outside the wall of the small courtyard: "Alas, I'm really "getting up early in the morning and catching up for a late meeting", but I didn't expect Yunhua and them to arrive before me. Xiang Kang heard Li Zhuoran's voice, and laughed loudly through the wall: "Lao Li, you don't pretend to be a ghost outside, and don't come in quickly." As soon as the words fell, Li Zhuoran had already gone around to the main entrance and walked in with a smile.

Qiuqiu turned around when he heard the sound, and saw Zhuo Ran dressed in a gray cloth short coat, wearing a large bamboo hat, a long knife behind his back, and a jar of wine in each of his two muscular hands. Although the others were lean, they had great strength, and the jar of wine rolled in the air, drawing an extremely high arc, heading towards the stone steps at the feet of Xiang Kang and Yunhua.

Qiuqiu saw that the place where the wine jar was about to fall was two arms away from Xiang Kang's feet, and she was shocked, thinking that this jar was bound to break, but Xiang Kang pulled out his long sword with a bang, bent his knees and stretched his arms, and lifted the wine jar upwards with the back of the sword. Everyone saw that the wine altar took advantage of the sword momentum of the true steel sword, which was both rigid and soft, and flew straight into the air, and then fell, and was caught by Yunhua steadily.

At this time, a clear voice smiled: "Brother Xiang is good at swordsmanship, I will compete with you in the future." Qiuqiu looked back, and a smiling girl, combing two slender pigtails, and holding a long sword in her hand, was standing in front of the gate. When Simon saw this woman, he whispered to Qiuqiu: "Xiao Qiu'er, you said that Aunt Jinshu and Uncle Xiang competed, who would win?" Qiuqiu shook her head and said, "I don't know." ”

Xiang Kang listened to Ou Jinshu's words, put the sword in his hand back into the scabbard and said: "This is not good, if I win you, how can Zhuo Ran spare me, if I lose to a girl's family, where is my face?" Li Zhuoran laughed when he heard this: "Old Xiang, why do you need to say it so high-soundingly, just say it." Yunhua was worried that Xiang Kang would take Li Zhuoran's joke seriously, and wanted to change the conversation, so he opened the lid of the jar of wine, and for a while, the sweet aroma of wine wafted in the small courtyard. Xiang Kang followed the aroma of wine and glanced back at the wine jar, and said, "Good wine, isn't this Qin Huaichun in Qingzhou Mansion." Li Zhuoran teased: "Sure enough, you are an expert in wine and meat, and I personally went to Lao Zhao's wine cellar to pick it up." Xiang Kang's heart was comfortable, he didn't care about the ridicule in Li Zhuoran's words, and only said in a loud voice: "Okay! Good! Then I will thank my two brothers for their kindness. ”

Li Zhuoran put the lid on the jar of wine from Yunhua's hand and took it back, saying, "It's a pity that this wine is for your old man, not for you." Xiang Kang said: "It's okay, anyway, everyone is going to the old man's place to eat at noon, so they ate this wine with my father." As he spoke, Ou Jinshu walked up to him and said, "It's a pity that there are only a few of us, it would be better if everyone arrived." Hearing this, Ximen March said on the side: "Aunt Jinshu, my master's share, I'll just eat it for her~" Jinshu turned around and saw Qiuqiu and Ximen March standing under the flower stand, and walked over with a smile: "I didn't see it, you two little guys are hiding here." ”

Qiuqiu saw Ou Jinshu's smiling appearance, and the words "Qingyang and graceful" suddenly appeared in his mind. Just thinking about it, she saw Ou Jinshu squatting down in front of her, pinching her little face and saying, "Xiaoqiu, how are you doing?" Qiuqiu called "Aunt Jinshu" with Ximen March, and said sweetly: "I'm fine." Ou Jinshu smiled and patted her head and said, "It's okay." Li Zhuoran heard Ou Jinshu's words and explained to Yunhua: "A few days ago, Jinshu calculated a hexagram in Jiangning, and it was considered Qiuqiu. He paused and said, "I told her that if something really happened to Qiuqiu, Yunhua would naturally tell us." She waited for several days without receiving any bad news before she was relieved. ”

Xiang Kang said: "It seems that the method of fortune-telling cannot be fully believed, when Xiang caught Zhou, he also grabbed a Guanyin jade plate, and he has not become a god until now." Everyone laughed, and Li Zhuoran said: "I've been here for a while, and I haven't seen General Xiang yet, so I won't tell you first." Jin Shu—" He turned back to greet Ou Jin Shu and said, "Let's go." Jin Shu answered, winked at Qiuqiu and Ximen, and ran to Li Zhuoran's side. Xiang Kang said: "Since this is the case, it's almost noon, let's go over together." Then everyone set off together and went to the East Sea Hall.

General Xiang's body is very strong and healthy, but his beard is much whiter than when he taught martial arts at Luyang Academy ten years ago. At this time, General Xiang was very happy to see the children he had taught in the past, standing under the hall like "in front of Taoli Luo Hall", and he was even more happy after seeing Ximen March and Qiuqiu: "Why didn't I see these two children just now?" Was it brought by Zhuo Ran and Jinshu? Yunhua hurriedly explained: "It was brought by the juniors, it was still early just now, and I was afraid that the two children would be naughty and disturb the purity of your hall, so I didn't bring them in." ”

Old General Xiang glanced at Xiang Kang and said with some surprise: "Xiao'er didn't tell me that Yunhua is already married and has children?" When Yun Hua heard this, he was very puzzled in his heart for so many years, Xiang Kang had never told his father about these two children, and he didn't know how to explain it, but Xiang Kang took over and said: "These are the two children of Brother Yunhua's cousin's family, who came to the mansion with him as a guest." Hearing this, Qiuqiu looked at Xiang Kang puzzled, and saw that Li Zhuoran and Ou Jinshu had no objections, so she knew that the three of them must be hiding from General Xiang for what purpose.

Father Xiang nodded and smiled: "Since you are here, don't restrain the child, Chunlan, bring some snacks for the child to eat." "An older maidservant girl came over with a snack box when she heard the words, and coaxed Qiuqiu and Ximen March to eat. Simon was hungry for a long time in the morning, and when he saw the dim sum, he devoured it a little. Chunlan saw that he was really cute, so she smiled and asked: "The little boy looks like this, he will be a blessed person in the future, I don't know what the name of the little boy is?" Xiang Liang was too late to answer, only to hear Ximen March say loudly: "My name is Ximen March." Old General Xiang looked at Yunhua and said, "Cousin Yunhua's child, how can you revert to the surname Ximen?" Xiang Kang hurriedly interjected: "I just said something wrong, it's the child of Cousin Yunhua's family." Father Xiang looked at Xiang Kang suspiciously, then looked at the two children, shook his head and said: "No, Yunhua claimed to have come from Qingyun Mountain and hadn't come home to visit, so he came to our house first, how could he bring the children of the two cousins' family?" Kang'er, what are you hiding from the old man? ”

The atmosphere was a little tense for a while, Xiang Kang looked at Li Zhuoran and wanted to ask for some assistance, Li Zhuoran hurriedly got up and diverted the topic and said: "Old General Xiang, Qingzhou asked me to bring you two jars of good wine from Jiangning." When General Xiang heard this, he stopped asking about the child, and smiled at Zhuo Ran: "Why didn't Qingzhou come, the old man hasn't seen him for many years." Li Zhuoran said: "He is very busy with the official family, and he can't take a break, but he always remembers your old man, and when he heard that I was coming, he asked me to send you wine." After hearing this, General Xiang nodded, still smiled amiably: "I heard that some time ago, he wrote to Prime Minister Shi Cheng, if you return to Jiangning, you will tell him for the old man, as an official, you must learn to judge the situation, pursue advantages and avoid disadvantages, and don't bring disaster to yourself." The old man is old, and I just hope that you children are all well. Li Zhuoran smiled a little embarrassedly when he heard this, and said, "The student must bring it." ”

Father Xiang nodded and said, "When everyone arrives, let's have a banquet, and talk about these two children after dinner." ”