Chapter 712: Concealment (Part II)
The late autumn night in the north is so cold that it makes people chill in their bones, but this kind of cold can't cover even a trace of the fiery atmosphere of the Great Chongjiao banquet tonight. This banquet is either to reward those young people who have stayed in the aura of the ancestral soul monument for several years or even more than ten years like an ascetic, or it is indeed a grand way to wash the dust for Zhang Hao's first meeting, or there are other intentions, in short, the richness of the dinner is far beyond imagination.
When young people get together, the vitality of youth does not need to be exaggerated, and the atmosphere is immediately lively. In addition, everyone is about the same age, so not long after the dinner party started, with the assistance of alcohol, acquaintances will make a fuss, and people who don't know each other can quickly introduce their acquaintances, and they can also drink together. Of course, just as Xiong Wuji secretly pointed out at the beginning, tonight's Zhang Hao was the focus of the dinner, and from the beginning, many young people present pointed the finger at the former. And on such an occasion, if you use force to ease the strength of the wine, it will definitely be inappropriate, so at the beginning, Zhang Hao was still sober-minded and warmly exchanged a few words with the person who clinked glasses, and later, he only felt that his eyes were full of halos, but whenever he saw someone coming, he instinctively raised the wine glass in front of the table, laughed and drank it all, as for the other party sitting next to him or hooking his shoulders and back, what he said, he didn't even listen to half a sentence.
Because Bing Yao's girls and Zhang Xin met after many years, the conversation was also hot, and they had the support of Zhang Hongyu and Xiong Wuji, so they also left Zhang Hao behind for the time being.
"Uncle Hao, are you okay? How do I think you look like you're about to die?" On such an occasion, I met so many beautiful women who kept coming to surround Zhang Hao, where was Xiaoqiang willing to give up any opportunity to get close to the girl. Therefore, he turned into a steadfast guard, and squatted beside him, only to talk to him several times in a row. was always prevaricated by the phrase "little kid playing", which made his interest plummet, and at this time he saw Zhang Hao holding up the wine bowl and dangling it in front of him, but he couldn't hold it to his mouth, he reached out and took the wine bowl and asked.
"I'm okay to come, keep drinking. ”
"Your lips are on the floor. I can't straighten my tongue, and I can't drink anything?" It is to spend a qiē time on cultivation, and there are very few opportunities to indulge the body and mind like this, but at this time, it is indeed a little too much, Xiaoqiang shook his head and smiled bitterly. Then he poured a bowl of water with the kettle next to him and fed it.
"Goo-goo"
A bowl of underwater belly in a row. Zhang Hao shook his head in a daze, as if he was a little sober, immediately rubbed his temples to relieve himself for a moment, and finally asked: "Fat brother, didn't he keep blocking the wine for me just now? Why is this gone?"
"Don't mention it, just his cowardice still blocks the wine, faster than you die! No, I don't know if I was really dizzy or intentional half an hour ago. took the opportunity to show the little girl to the palmistry and wanted to rub the oil, but was discovered by Sister Dalian. He was half dead on the spot, and he was thrown directly outside the hall, not knowing where he ran at this time. ”
Hearing this, Zhang Hao blinked his eyes a few times, and when his vision was a little clearer, he glanced around, looking at the corner of the hall on the right, Da Lian was sitting next to Bing Yao, posing like a female man, holding up a huge barbecue leg, and holding a wine bowl to drink, I don't know what a few people are talking about, in short, he shook his head and smiled.
"Mouse, look who my brother has brought!"
However, just when Zhang Hao's head was somewhat relieved, a voice came from below without warning, and he glimpsed a bruised and swollen head that couldn't even be distinguished by his eyes coming out from under the table.
"Second uncle, is that you?"
didn't wait for the fat man to come out from under the table, a trembling voice from the side made Zhang Hao's face turn involuntarily, and when he raised his eyes, he saw Xiao Qiang standing up excitedly like a demon, and most of his wine strength suddenly dissipated, and suddenly turned sideways, and he saw a face that made him worry about his stomach all these years.
"Second brother. How could it be you? Why did you appear in the Great Chongjiao?" At this time, Ma Lao Er still had a beard, but the beard was cut short and there was only a layer of stubble, and the person looked more mature than before.
"Xiao Hao, it's me!" Hearing this, Ma Lao Er glanced at Xiao Qiang with some confusion, as if he didn't recognize the identity of the other party, and then turned his eyes slightly and smiled.
Hearing this familiar tone, the past emerged, Zhang Hao suddenly felt a slight sourness in his heart, and threw a fist on Ma Laoer's chest, and then hugged the other party, and said: "Where have you died all these years? I don't know if the fat brother and I are always thinking about you, why don't you say to bring home a letter?"
Feeling the powerful embrace, Ma Lao Er sighed deeply and said, "I'm sorry, it's all my fault." When you went back to the Azure Capital to participate in the clan election, I wanted to go to the Zhang family to have a look, but Lu'er had some things delayed, and I missed it again and again, and finally I really waited for it to be idle, and I bumped into the imperial royal family and other forces to destroy the Cheng family. Later, I heard that you and the fat man had left the Zhang family, and I didn't know where to go to find you. ”
"Lu'er, is that the girl who dragged you to the Desperate Swamp with Zhongping Academy back then?" keenly seeing the softness in Ma Laoer's eyes when he mentioned this name, Zhang Hao stretched out his palm and rubbed his face, most of the wine dissipated, and asked.
"Look, even my father is here!"
Looking at Zhang Hao's puzzled face, as if he had something to say, the fat man on the side raised his eyebrows in a timely manner, stretched out his hand and pointed in the direction of the head of the hall seat, and said: "Don't look at the second brother's usual simplicity, if you don't make a move, you can take down a princess." No, the news of the Ancestral Soul Conference came out before, and the second brother thought that you would come to participate, and bring your daughter-in-law and father from the Northern Wilderness seven months in advance, so you have a big face, right?"
Looking in the direction pointed by the fat man, sure enough, at this moment, Zhang Hongyu and Xiong Wuji stopped chatting with each other just now, and got up together and went towards the direction of the side hall gate, and the atmosphere in the hall was slightly stagnant because of the arrival. When he saw the appearance of the two people clearly, Zhang Hao raised his eyebrows: "Shui Xihuang and Shui Lu'er?"
"Second brother, is she the Lu'er you just mentioned?" Zhang Hao is not a stranger, because Shui Fangjin's death at that time had a close relationship with the other party, and it also caused a series of questions in the future. But in the end, it was diverted by the royal family's plan to eliminate the Cheng family. But this so-called mysterious princess who left the royal family since she was a child, in Zhang Hao's impression, does not seem to be a fuel-efficient lamp.
"Don't be stunned, sit down first. ”
Seeing that Emperor Shui Xi was enthusiastically greeting Zhang Hongyu and Xiong Wuji, he also shifted his gaze, and his eyes were handed over, and Zhang Haozhi smiled back. Then the fat man grabbed Ma Lao Er and sat down next to him, looked at Xiao Qiang and said, "Second brother, do you still know this young man?"
"I don't know, but just now he called me second uncle? It seems that before I left. There are no juniors in the family, right?" Glancing at it again, his eyes were slightly red at this time, staring at his Xiaoqiang, Ma Lao Er shook his head and said.
"This kid is Xiao Qiang! Xiao Qiang still has an impression? That mutated misty cloud wolf beast!"
"Transfiguration, could it be that before the Yang Clan was born, it was rumored that there was an extremely young Misty Cloud Heavenly Wolf King who inherited the mantle of the Four Saints of the Sealing Land. Could it be that you mean Xiaoqiang?"
"Second uncle. It's me!" Since he was a child, Zhang Hao has been struggling with practice, and the fat man looks like a hanger all day long, and he is really the deepest feeling, for Xiaoqiang, he does not belong to the second horse who has been with him all day and night for the past two years, and he will see him again after three or four years, and Xiaoqiang is also excited to cry at the moment.
"What a stinky boy!" After coming back to his senses a little, Ma Lao Er almost subconsciously stretched out his palm. directly pressed Xiaoqiang in his arms, just like countless times at the beginning, rubbing the other party's head fiercely.
Seeing this, Zhang Hao and the fat man glanced at each other, and they both sighed with some emotion, the sentence that things are not people and meet each other is indeed very suitable for the current scene. If it had been five years ago, their family would not have imagined that a few years later, the young man who had been forced to fall into the grass in the Northern Wilderness would become the concubine of the royal family of the Tianshui Empire. And the little beast entrusted by his mother's dying spirit has also become a powerful eleven-star divine beast.
Looking at Ma Lao Er and Xiao Qiang's excited actions together, Zhang Hao sighed for a moment and asked, "Fat brother, weren't you thrown out by Sister Da Lian just now?"
"Don't mention being beaten. Hearing this, the smile on the fat man's face quickly dissipated, and said: "This girl is becoming more and more disagreeable, regardless of the occasion, indiscriminately, she will make a move." The previous injury on his face by Xiao Qiang's hammer was not good, and this was another injury on top of injury. ”
"Not long after the banquet started, Senior Xiong told me about the second brother in advance, I was thinking of giving you a surprise! Who knows that he was almost hammered to death, otherwise, the second brother would have been invited an hour earlier!"
"Come on, you don't know Sister Da Lian's temper, aren't you doing it yourself? Hurry up and work hard to reduce the swelling, just now you suddenly appeared, I really thought it was the Garo Beast on the table that was resurrected, and ran around under the table?"
"Get out of the calf!" was ridiculed by Zhang Hao without leaving a trace, and the fat man scolded with a smile.
At this moment, as a few words fell, Zhang Hao curiously shifted his gaze to Ma Lao Er and asked, "Second brother, since Emperor Shuixi came in person." How to deal with the affairs over there in the Northern Wilderness? With his identity, it is expected that the predecessors of Xiong Wuji will not dare to slack off, why don't you live in the Great Chongjiao?"
Hearing this question, Ma Lao Er stopped messing around in a timely manner, stopped Xiao Qiang lying in his arms, and said: "Don't worry about the Northern Wilderness, the forces against the evil master family are counted in the human world and the World of Warcraft, there are thousands of them, large and small, if everyone wants to intervene, there is no need to fight at all, and they will collapse first." As early as after the arrival of the Yang Clan and the Star Clan, with the two clans as the lead, many forces formed an anti-evil alliance and elected the thirty-two leaders of the entire Northern Wilderness confrontation line. In normal times, these leaders are responsible for all kinds of affairs, and on top of that, five alliance military advisors were also selected, among which the golden phoenix girl was the leader, and the remaining four seniors were all guarded by the Holy Spirit Divine Tree, and you probably had already met before. If something big happens, these five people will study it and give an order. ”
"As for us not staying in the Great Chongjiao, it's still the attention of the water seniors. You must know that spiritual consciousness cultivation may encounter risks at any time, especially the aura of the ancestral soul tablet has a great auxiliary effect on spiritual cultivation, and in ordinary times, the inorganic seniors should often go to the vast aura of the divine monument to inspect in person, so as not to be greedy for merit when a junior breaks through the realm, so as to lose his spiritual wisdom, so he rarely has time to take care of others. If we stay in the Great Chongjiao all the time, he will have to entertain and take care of them while also having to protect those soul master juniors, and he will inevitably be exhausted. So as a complication, we live close to the outside world, and occasionally come to visit. ”
"I see. ”
Hearing this explanation, Zhang Hao nodded approvingly. Among the people left behind before the Great Chongjiao, although there were also soul masters, their cultivation was only thirty-one or two spiritual senses at most, and they were not even as talented as those young juniors. In the process of spiritual cultivation, once the spiritual wisdom is lost, if he cannot be rescued as much as possible, the consequences will be unimaginable, and he deeply understands this.
"Okay, rat, brothers don't talk nonsense when they meet. Tonight, if you don't get drunk and don't return with your strength alone, it's still the old rule for anyone to lose, go outside the Great Chongjiao Hall to top Xiao Maza!"
"Don't you know how to bully people? I almost drank a short movie just now, and now I'm doing this one?"
"Don't talk about bullying you, the second brother hasn't sent a letter to his family for so many years, and he forgot all about his brothers in Gentle Township, and punished himself first. For the sake of balance, the fat brother will accompany you to drink a bowl, and then let's start fairly!"
"Damn, at least five bowls"
"I think I want ten bowls" (to be continued......