On the way to the eastern square, Zhang Hao's eyes looked left and right, and he was amazed in his heart. Indeed, as Uncle Ge said, the people who went to the clan banquet were either talented juniors or people with prominent positions in the clan. Along the way, it was clear that the men and women walking together were all dressed in splendid robes, which were very different from the plainly dressed outsiders of the Lantern Festival.

"Mouse, why do you think we just came from a poor slum?" Looking at the magnificent arrangement at the entrance of the square, there were seven or eight handsome girls standing on both sides, wearing slender skirts, the corners of the fat man's mouth twitched slightly, under the family, the rich and the poor are only separated by a wall, and people can't help but sigh.

"Even if you don't have any status in the clan, if you appear outside as a member of the Zhang family, you are just as superior. It is precisely because of this that some people with unoutstanding qualifications are willing to become the outer disciples of the four major families even if they squeeze their heads. It's your choice, and there's no need to take it personally. ”

At this time, Da Lian had already returned to the phantom beast space, Zhang Hao replied softly, turned his eyes to Bing Yao and Meng Yurou, who were laughing on the side, and explained: "Yao'er, did you hear what I said on the road just now?"

"Hear—Hear—Hear—La"

Seeing that Zhang Hao was rambling again, Bing Yao rolled his eyes, deliberately stretched his tone very long, and said: "In this clan meeting, grandpa obviously relies on you to compete with Zhang Yu, this point, Zhang Peng's grandson has long understood, and he will definitely make things difficult for you." Therefore, no matter how provocative they are, let's try not to be provoked, so as not to let some elders in the family see the joke. These words make my ears tingle!"

Looking at Bing Yao's pouting little angry appearance, Zhang Hao stretched out his finger and tapped the other party's forehead, and said, "I'm afraid that you will have a temper." Can't remember. ”

I caught a glimpse of the gruesome scene happening on my side. The fat man retched twice for no reason. Said: "Deed, know your love, don't get here to get stuck." Mouse, don't worry, when the time comes, Zhang Yu will ride on our head and pull, and the fat brother will sit firmly on Mount Tai and don't worry about that kid. ”

"It's not that serious. ”

Seeing the fat man put on a look of death, Zhang Hao shook his head and smiled. Immediately, several people walked slowly towards the entrance of the square.

"Please present the invitation letter. ”

When he came to the direction of the entrance, a stiff sound came, which immediately attracted Zhang Hao's attention. At this time, sitting at the entrance was a gorgeous-looking woman who was in charge of greeting and registering. The woman is purple and superior, with delicate facial features, revealing a kind of aristocratic temperament of everyone's beautiful women, but her eyebrows are down, vaguely revealing a little meanness, which makes people feel a little uncomfortable.

"Are you Zhang Hao?" the words fell, and there was no answer. The woman raised her eyes and glanced at the few young people in front of her, and then her eyes were fixed on Zhang Hao with some unkindness. Asked.

"I'm Zhang Hao. I didn't receive an invitation to the clan meeting today, but my grandfather told me to come. Zhang Hao didn't know the woman in front of him, in other words, he hadn't seen a few clansmen for more than three months after coming to Zhang's house, but the hostility that the other party vaguely showed made him frown slightly.

"If you don't have an invitation, you can't enter, no matter who tells you to, that's the rule. Who knows if a cat or dog will pop out of the horn, casually pretending to be the head of the house's instructions, but in fact mixing into the family banquet to make trouble?"

The woman snorted coldly, then waved her hand casually, and said, "Go out of the way, don't get in the way of the guests here." ”

"Oops, you have such a mournful face, and you say that others are eyesore, and the fat brother feels a burst of chrysanthemum numbness when he looks at you"

"Fat brother, what did we say just now" The words came out, which immediately provoked everyone around to cover their mouths and chuckle, Zhang Hao glared at the fat man a little speechlessly. The fact that the woman in front of her can be entrusted with the important task of welcoming the guests of the family banquet shows that her identity is not simple. What's more, the other party recognized his identity at a glance, and the undisguised hostility in his words should probably belong to Zhang Yu's side.

"Dead fat pig, what did you say?"

Sure enough, the next moment, the woman jumped up directly, and glanced at a few snickering welcome girls next to her with an angry face, and as far as her eyes passed, these girls were silent, and they all lowered their heads with fear on their faces, and then she gritted her teeth and said: "Zhang Beak and Zhang Xian, two deacons, someone is making trouble here, hang this dead fat man for two hours, and everyone else will away." ”

"Yes!" As the woman greeted, the two middle-aged men standing on the side of the door responded in unison, and at the same time, a strong force fluctuation appeared on their bodies, and they walked towards the fat man with a fierce look.

"Little mourner, give your face back, right?" Seeing that the two middle-aged people were masters of the Saint Master Realm, the fat man's face fell.

"Ye'er, stop first!"

At this moment, an old man with a threatening face came out of the entrance, and immediately walked directly to the woman's side, pulled his face and said: "The New Year's feast in the clan, the family elite gather together, so noisy, what kind of system!"

"Daddy. ”

Seeing the visitor, the woman named Zhang Ye suddenly looked respectful and said, "These people still want to participate in the family banquet without an invitation, but I just said a few words, and they insulted them!"

waved his hand towards Zhang Yehua, swept his gaze, fixed on Zhang Hao, looking at the young face that had changed a lot, the corners of the old man's mouth curled up with a little deep meaning, and said: "Zhang Hao, after nearly four years, do you still recognize the old man?"

Raising his eyes, he saw a group of people coming out of the direction of the entrance again, the leader was Zhang Hongxing, Zhang Hao paused deliberately, and after the people approached, he said with a flat face: "You almost killed me four years ago, such a big thing, it's hard to forget!"

"Hao'er, what did you say?" Hearing the flat tone, Zhang Hongxing's originally smiling face instantly stiffened, and he took two steps quickly, staring at Zhang Peng with sharp eyes: "Have you been to the Northern Wilderness?"

"Big brother, this is a misunderstanding"

"The head of the family, it is indeed a misunderstanding. When I received information from within the clan, the Great Elder and I went to the country of Yiran in order to obtain a high-grade holy fruit, and accidentally ran into Zhang Hao in Wuyun Mountain, and we didn't know his identity at that time, so there were some disputes. Feeling the faint anger rising on Zhang Hongxing's body beside him, Seventh Elder Zhang Shenghua and Zhang Peng secretly exchanged glances and hurriedly explained.

"That's the case, what a coincidence!"

knows that Zhang Shenghua and Zhang Peng are very close. In order to win over the relationship between each other. He married his granddaughter Zhang Ye to Zhang Yu. At this time. In front of so many people, Zhang Hongxing knew in his heart that it was impossible to hold on to this matter and destroy the atmosphere of the family banquet. Let's talk about it first!"

"Good. ”

Following behind Zhang Hao, when passing by Zhang Ye's side, the fat man slammed his mouth a few times, then raised his eyebrows, stretched out his fingers in front of him, blew his nails, and said: "You can still go in without an invitation, and it was explained by the old man of the family himself! There is such a difference between the person who watches the gate and the master, do you say that he is angry?"

"You"

"Shut up!" Seeing that Zhang Ye's face was blue with anger, he wanted to fight back. Zhang Peng on the side scolded coldly. Seeing Zhang Hao and the others enter the square, he glared at the former angrily. Said: "So that the stumbling block will not be so low-level, and stop people at the door and not let them in." You're sincere in embarrassing Xiao Yu's face, aren't you?"

Touching Zhang Peng's cold gaze, Zhang Ye lowered his head with a dark face and said, "I know it's wrong!"

"Humph!"

With a flick of his big sleeves, Zhang Peng turned around and walked into the square. It's just that the scene that happened just now fell in the eyes of many people who came and went, and then it spread among the crowd of people attending the family banquet in less than half an hour. After all, today's family feast, anyone with a discerning eye can smell something unusual from it. Even those family elites who have been away all the year round, and the Hui clan who reported on their work this time, have heard a lot about Zhang Hao within half a month of returning to the Azure Capital. One of the most eye-catching incidents is undoubtedly the resolution of the Golden Phoenix Green Phantom Pill issue that spread throughout Dalu.

With Zhang Yu's breakthrough through the Divine Master Realm, his prestige in the Zhang family undoubtedly skyrocketed overnight. In addition, Zhang Peng has been running the Zhang family for many years, and now half of the clan still has management power. In fact, this family event is a decisive opportunity for the future direction of the Zhang family, but nine out of ten people are not very optimistic about Zhang Hongxing returning to the Zhang family. Even many foreign Saint Master Realm masters who had an important voice in the clan also changed their previous neutral attitude before returning to the clan, and repaired the book in advance to make friends with Zhang Peng. Now, after learning of Zhang Hao's existence, their attitudes began to be ambiguous again. After all, it didn't matter to them who sat in that position, what really made everyone care was that before the situation was completely clear, if they could, these old foxes didn't want to offend either of them.

Walking into the square and scanning the scene in front of him, Zhang Hao couldn't help but be amazed by the grandeur of the Zhang family banquet. The diameter of the whole square is afraid that it will not be a hundred zhang, and there are four long tables like assembly lines coiled in a spiral shape in the field, the long tables are four or five meters apart from each other, and they are full of beautifully made sumptuous food, and the crowd shuttles among them, and can eat at will, so it is not lively.

In the center of the square, surrounded by long tables, there is a stone platform about one zhang high. There are thirty or forty seats on the stone platform, and at this time there are already many old people sitting on it, looking at that appearance, the person who can be qualified to sit on it should be the most backbone elite of the Zhang family.

"Hao'er, you go eat something first, today's protagonist is late, and the clan meeting may have to be postponed a little. As he spoke, Zhang Hongxing sighed softly and shook his head without saying anything.

"Grandpa, even though I don't know much about the family rights dispute, I can still recognize the overall situation. What you need to do in a while, I just have to cooperate!" Sensing Zhang Hongxing's embarrassment, Zhang Hao smiled calmly and said.

"I've been out for so many years and have suffered so much. Not long after I returned home, I have involved you in the clan dispute again, the old man is really ashamed!" Looking at Zhang Hao's serious face, Zhang Hongxing said in a grateful tone.

"It's okay, you can go get busy first. We walked around all night and were indeed a little hungry and needed to get something to eat. ”

"Good, good!"

Seeing Zhang Hongxing nodding again and again, he left first, Bing Yao on the side grabbed Zhang Hao's arm, and said in a low voice while walking towards the nearest banquet table: "Brother Hao, why do I think the so-called head of the family, grandfather, is such a wretch?"

"Alas, it can't be said that! He also has a lot of suffering. A family has tens of thousands of people, and it is often passed down for 10,000 years, which involves many complex interests. ”

Sighing softly, Zhang Hao shook his head and said, "Even if Grandpa holds the Zhang family in his hands now, it is impossible for everything to come according to his temperament." Because, all his actions represent the interests of the family. Otherwise, it is easy to lose people's hearts. And as soon as the hearts of the people are scattered, the foundation of the family will collapse, so it is not far from the disintegration of the ethnic group, Zhang Peng has made the Zhang family a miasma in the past one or two decades, resulting in the loss of a large number of talents, isn't it the most haode example?"

"What's more, now half of the power of the entire Zhang family is in the hands of Zhang Peng, and with Zhang Yu's rapid growth, the situation is even more unfavorable to grandpa. Now that his old man has taken a step back in everything, he is in Taoguang to raise obscurity, and find the opportunity to directly give the grandson a salary. Understood?"

"I don't understand, it's so complicated!" Meng Yurou on the side pursed her lips and said.

Looking at Bing Yao's indifferent expression, Zhang Hao smiled bitterly: "In short, now that the Zhengyuan Dalu Evil Master Family is sprouting, a new round of war may break out at any time. Zhang Peng is narrow-minded, and Zhang Yu is young and vigorous, if the Zhang family is handed over to them at this juncture, it will definitely be inappropriate. It is also for this reason that Grandpa must regain control of the family in order to deal with the threats he may face in the future. Do you understand this?"

"Understood, understood. Absent-mindedly replied, Bing Yao reached out and grabbed a fresh fruit on the table beside him and put it in his mouth, and immediately smiled: "It's delicious." ”

As she spoke, she picked up a fruit again, handed it to Zhang Hao's mouth, and said, "Come, Brother Hao has worked hard to care about family affairs." Feed a fruit and be full!"

"Vomiting"

Staring at the nausea scene in front of him, the fat man directly bent down and retched a few times, and then said with a dissatisfied face: "Enough is enough! Always play like this, sincerely don't you let the fat brother eat a big meal?" (To be continued......)