The reception banquet was held in the courtyard of the Lu family, and the courtyard of the Lu family was full of tables, as long as the residents of Laohuai Village could participate in this banquet.

When Zhang Yunan arrived, the courtyard was already full of people.

He was also followed by a girl in a black cloak, the girl's face was like gold paper, her long hair was scattered, and she had a wooden stick under her armpit, staggering in the gap between the tables, ignoring the strange eyes of others, walked in front of Meng Cheng, and arched her hand, "Thank you for the rescue grace of your predecessors." ”

The girl was the one who was rescued by Meng Cheng in the Nameless Mountain that day, and there was a short-haired man who hadn't woken up yet.

Meng Cheng put down his wine glass and nodded slightly, "After being so seriously injured, don't move around at will." ”

The girl said, "My little injury is not in the way, but I have to say thank you to the life-saver no matter what." ”

Meng Cheng picked up the wine glass, put it to his lips, and took a sip, "Thank you for sending it, let's go back first." ”

"Hmm. ”

The girl was about to leave when a pair of women came from both sides and held her up.

The woman wearing a purple shirt and a thin skirt with a red ribbon tied around her waist has an extraordinary demeanor, with a pair of red ribbons hanging on her wrists, walking with the wind and heroic, she is Wang Duozhan's mother, the proprietress of the inn, Ning Fengyun

The woman in the cloth clothes and cloth group, with a lot of grace, eyebrows and smiles, laughing and scolding is not hidden, it is Lu Anshi's mother, Shen Jiaxin.

Ning Fengyun held the girl's wrist, was slightly stunned, rubbed the girl's wrist with the red ribbon at the wrist without a trace, and said with a smile, "Whose girl is so handsome?"

Shen Jiaxin took the girl's shoulder, took the wooden stick under the girl's armpit, carried the girl to a table with many vacant seats, and said to the two little girls who were gnawing on the pig's trotters, "You two should treat this young lady well." ”

The girl with pigtails and red clothes is Tie Liu's baby daughter Tie Zishan, I saw her raise her head, her mouth was stuffed with food, she took out a free hand, grabbed a pig's trotter on the plate, handed it to the girl's eyes, and said vaguely, "This is the arrow-tailed pig that my father beat yesterday, and there is still a pig's trotter left, your matter has spread in the village, I heard that when I was sent to Doctor Zhang last night, I was still in a coma, I didn't expect to be able to go to the ground so soon, I heard that this thing is particularly nourishing for the body, you eat more." ”

Shen Jiaxin slapped Tie Zishan's head lightly, pretending to be angry, "Don't talk nonsense, if your mother is not there, no one will care about you." ”

Tie Zishan spit out the bones in her mouth, sandwiched a large piece of green vegetables, stuffed it into her mouth, drank a small cup of earth roast, swallowed the contents of her mouth, wiped her mouth, and said with a smile, "I said nonsense." ”

Shen Jiaxin scolded with a smile, and Ning Fengyun left the courtyard of the Lu family, and they women have their own small circle.

The girl took the pig's trotters, took a few symbolic bites, put down the chopsticks, and never touched them except for the occasional sip of hot tea.

Zhang Yunan was still wearing the gray robe that had been washed and was about to turn white, and he came with a spring breeze on his face, sitting next to Meng Cheng with a butt on his ass, approaching Meng Cheng's ears with a face of underbeating, biting his ear and saying, "That girl is indeed hiding something in her body, otherwise it wouldn't be so fast, she will hurt her muscles and bones for a hundred days, seeing him like this, it's half better, give her another day or two, maybe you can be your daughter-in-law, do you say this is fate, tsk." ”

Meng Cheng took the chopsticks expressionlessly, clamped the chin of the young man in the long robe, and pushed him aside, and the young man found the cup full of wine nearby, picked up the wine glass, and took a sip of it.

Smack your lips, another glass.

Meng Cheng reminded, "Don't forget that you still have to take care of that person at night, and there is no one to replace you when you are drunk." ”

The young man laughed and drank another glass, "What are you afraid of, isn't there still you?" ”

Meng Cheng put down his chopsticks, took a big sip of wine, and said to Lu Ke on the side, "I still have something very important, I will leave the village for a few days, and you can put that set of protective gear with Senior Kou first." ”

The big-eyed man sitting on the side picked up a piece of meat, put it in the porcelain bowl, and then poured the wine into the porcelain bowl, and there were a lot of bubbles on the surface of the fatty meat, "If there is any trouble, remember to let me know." ”

Everyone sitting around the table nodded yes.

Meng Cheng left, Lu Ke ate the fat in the bowl, his cheeks were red, and he was a little drunk.

Zhang Yunan ate meat and drank wine by himself, his ears did not listen to the things around him, and his eyes only looked at the Chinese food.

Once everyone is seated, the feast really begins.

Zhou Tianshen sat on the seat, and as soon as he turned his head, he saw Wang Duo standing on the table with his arms upright, his hands on his cheeks, and he looked at the other side of the table in fascination, where three girls were sitting.

The cloak girl was frosty, her hands around her chest, her lips white, and mountains of food on the plate in front of her.

The girl in the bright red dress grabbed the chicken leg with one hand, picked up the plate with the other, and poured the rest of the food on the plate in front of the girl in the black cloak.

The girl who followed her father to Tianxiang County to buy things in the morning pulled the corners of the girl in red from time to time, wanting her to be more reserved.

The girl in red swallowed the food in her mouth and asked inexplicably, "What's wrong?"

Sitting in the second place on the left side of Lu Anshi, the boy who looked white and clean, Danfeng's eyes narrowed slightly, teased, "Iron fat man, look at you, your face is as big as a grinding plate, and you tremble when you walk, if you eat like this, be careful that you can't marry in the future." ”

The girl in red picked up the wine jug, poured the wine into her mouth, and drank it after the earth was finished, only this sake remained, the taste of the wine was very light, with a faint bellflower flavor, and the girl in red had an endless aftertaste, "Tut-tut, white lady, you are still embarrassed to say me, you don't look at your decrepit appearance, oily and powdery, a big man learns what kind of rouge pink a girl wears, as soon as I smell the smell of you, I feel disgusted." Whoever marries you is the real one who has fallen for eight lifetimes. ”

The boy with the red phoenix eye, who was 'humiliated' by the girl, silently picked up the chopsticks, picked up the meat, and ate quietly.

The grocery store's daughter intimately tugged at the corner of Tie Zishan's clothes and gave her a look, and the girl in red muttered, "Cut, it's really boring." ”

"I'm sorry, Bai Xiaosheng, what I said just now was that I was drunk and disorderly, don't take it to heart. ”

The red-eyed boy put down the dishes and chopsticks, wiped his mouth with a tablecloth, and said with a smile, "It's okay, but what I just said was true." ”

The girl in red took another sip of wine and sneered, "I don't know as much as you." ”

Lu Anshi, who was sitting in the main seat, watched his younger brothers and sisters playing together, raised his eyebrows, stood up, raised his wine glass and said, "I haven't seen you for a year, everyone has grown up, I salute everyone." ”

Everyone toasted and drank it all.

Lu Anshi settled down in his seat and said, "Tianshen, I heard that you are going to Tianxiang County tomorrow. ”

Zhou Tianshen nodded, "Go buy something that will help you cultivate the Dao, and by the way, help Doctor Zhang auction some herbs." ”

Lu Anshi said with a smile, "It seems that I am going to refuel, if you easily catch up, I will be very faceless." ”

Bai Xiaosheng took over the conversation, "Brother Lu is definitely a genius like no other, we want to be far worse than you." ”

The girl in red said disdainfully, "Sycophant." ”

Lu Anshi said with a smile, "Why don't we go together tomorrow, so we can be companions." ”

No one refutes.

"Then it's settled. ”

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The table two steps away from Lu Anshi happened to be where Lu Anshi's fathers were sitting.

Lu Anshi's father was a carpenter in the village, and he was not good at words, and when he looked at his son, he could only laugh silly.

Sitting on his left, with an abacus in his hand, was the village tent man, named Wanli, who poked the carpenter's stomach with his elbow and said, "Brother Lu, look at your happiness, you can't close your mouth, come, brother toast you." ”

Ma He, who was on Lu Ke's right, also raised his wine glass, "Everyone come to toast Brother Lu." ”

Lu Ke hurriedly waved his hand, "I can't drink anymore, I have to make that set of protective gear for Brother Meng at night, if I delay the time, it will be bad." ”

Ma He put down his wine glass and said with emotion, "Alas, it's been so many years unconsciously. ”

Lu Ke also sighed, "Yes, I wanted to live my life in peace and stability like this, not trying anything else, just asking for peace and no longer hiding in Tibet like us, who would have thought that they would chase after here." ”

Wanli drank all the wine in the cup, grabbed the abacus, and crackled, "As long as the things are still in our hands, they will not give up, before relying on the old locust tree and the two mountains can also hide our whereabouts, and now the cave beasts in the mountains have made such a big move, they must have colluded with them, but we have lived such a long peaceful life, it is already a profitable deal." ”

"They are indeed more experienced than us in dealing with cave beasts. ”

The white fat man reopened a jar of wine and poured it for everyone, "It doesn't matter, as long as we hold on for a few more years, when the children grow up and let them all go out to explore the world, we will have no worries." ”

Wang Buliu dipped his fingers in wine and scribbled on the table, "It's difficult." ”

Wang Buliu's younger brother, Wang Zailiu, who has an acre and three points of land around Laohuai Village, this early wandering alone on the mainland, and later at the foot of Laohuai Village, never left Laohuai Village for half a step, still maintains his heroism and courage, "What are you afraid of, it's a big deal to fight with them, we are no longer what we used to be, why are we afraid of them?"

Wang Buliu looked at his younger brother's dark face, and said helplessly, "It's because we are different from before, so we have to be more cautious, do you think it is still the same situation as before when one person fed the whole family and was not hungry, use your brain more in everything, don't just know how to rush forward, think more about the back." ”

was reprimanded by his brother, Wang Zailiu was unconvinced and said, "I think you have become cowardly, I don't coward, no matter how they want to deal with us, just come, if I take a step back, I won't call Wang Zailiu." ”

Wang Zailiu painted with his fingers on the table and stopped talking.

Jin Dashan, a blacksmith who has always been reluctant to speak, reminded, "I saw that a few days ago, there were some unusual people living in the inn without staying, Wang Buliu, you should keep an eye on it, and beware of the fire in the back kitchen." ”

The white fat man shook his body, burped, walked to the blacksmith with blank eyes, leaned half of his body on the blacksmith, and said drunkly, "Don't worry, I'm here, everything... That's not a problem. Today we finally got together and didn't talk... Those who are unhappy, I... Do it first!"

The white fat man held the empty bowl and fell to the ground drunk on his back.

Wang Buliu and the blacksmith lifted him up, each holding one of his arms, and staggered towards the door, "I'll take him back to the inn first, you eat and drink." ”

Sitting around a table, no one spoke again.

The banquet quickly dispersed, and after cleaning up the courtyard, Lu Anshi came to Lu Ke's small room where he worked, and saw that the walls around the room were full of protective gear.

Lu Anshi took out a few brightly colored beads from the package in his hand, one of which shone red in the night, which was extremely charming.

"Dad, this is the spiritual root I seized last night, all of them are fifty to one hundred years old, you see, there is no match. ”

The big-eyed man smiled contentedly, his eyes squeezed into a slit, "No, I don't need this thing, I'd better keep it for you to use, or sell it and buy a few new clothes for your mother." ”

"Okay. ”

Lu Anshi walked out of the small room and walked into his room.

Carpenters work day and night in the dim light.