The layout of the second floor of Tingxiang Garden is quite different from that of the first floor, and there are private rooms on it, so not only can they not be seen from each other, but also add a lot of privacy.

"Shen Gongzi, our young lady has instructed that if you come, we will bring you here for a short rest, and then the young lady will come over to receive you personally. If you need anything, you can let me know, and the slave will help you prepare. Zi Mo led the two to a luxurious wing room and slowly introduced the two.

"When is your young lady coming?" Shen Guo asked.

The young lady said, come over when you're done. The specific matters are not for the slave to ask. Zi Mo leaned over slightly and answered Shen Qian one by one.

"I have other things to do in a while, and I can't stay here for a long time, so tell your young lady that we will wait for half an hour at most."

Zi Mo seemed to expect Shen Jing to talk about this problem, so he smiled and said, "Childe, don't worry, Miss said, the Yuwen family has already said hello." ”

Hearing this, Shen Jing nodded and didn't say anything.

Then, Zi Mo saw that Shen Jing hadn't asked again for a long time, so he retreated with interest, and the attitude of the whole process was similar to before, and he was even faintly proud.

The atmosphere of Ting Xiangyuan tonight is very different, there is no fat powder Yanran as a green building in the past, there is no laughter, and there is no strong smell of wine, and some are just the continuous sound of the piano in the hall on the first floor, which is long and moving.

After Zi Mo withdrew, Shen Jing and Su Yao sat in front of the window and began to leisurely enjoy the dancing of the women downstairs. There's nothing really going on behind him, he just doesn't like this kind of environment, that's all.

The tea and snacks in the wing room tasted very good, and Shen Jing ate two or three pieces after a while. Su Yao also likes it, but compared to Shen Qian's feasting, her daughter's family eats a lot of food, she gently twisted a piece of osmanthus cake and tasted it in small bites, with a smile on her face at this time, and she was in a good mood.

Su Yao also felt the different atmosphere in Tingxiang Garden, she felt that tonight this place no longer looked like a green house, but more like a famous tavern, attracting a lot of people to party here. She sat opposite Shen Jing, and after noticing all this, she couldn't help but say curiously: "The atmosphere here seems to be a little different. ”

When she spoke, her eyes were still downstairs, but the words were for Shen Jing. Shen Jing was also looking downstairs, and when he heard Su Yao say this, he nodded in approval, as if Su Yao, who turned his head away from such an action, could see it.

"Looks like you've found out too! Originally, I thought that tonight was just a simple party, and Yu Wenyuan and Jiang Ning happened to meet together. But now that I think about it, they not only know each other, but they have made an appointment in advance, and they all chose here. ”

Speaking of this, Shen Jing turned his head to look at Su Yao and said, "There are also those people downstairs, although they look like they are unwavering, they are obviously a little restless, and they are just pretending to be calm. ”

Su Yao also looked at Shen Jing and asked, "How do you know?" ”

Shen Guan pouted downstairs and replied naturally: "You see, those people always look around after sitting for less than a moment, and there is not only one person like this. And have you ever noticed the seats of these people in them. ”

"Is there anything strange?" Su Yao glanced at the distribution pattern downstairs, and there didn't seem to be anything wrong.

"It's not that there's anything wrong with it, it's that they're all a bunch of people gathered together, one by one, and there's a faint feeling of confrontation with each other. Moreover, when we came up from the first floor before, I also saw the Thirteenth Prince Yuanwu, who was staring at us viciously. So, there should still be quite a few people on the second floor. "I wanted to laugh a little when I thought of Yuan Wu's murderous eyes just now, but I laughed and laughed, it was really a little uncomfortable to be stared at by such a second ancestor.

After hearing Shen Jing's words, Su Yao pondered for a while and said: "Downstairs are some of the sect families on the rivers and lakes, and I recognize a few, for example, the one in the east corner is the Badao Sect and the Falling Rain Sect, the one in the south is the Yanque Terrace in Xindu, and the people from the Jinyang Xu family and the Pingcheng Zhou family are sitting in the west. ”

She pointed out Shen Jing one by one as she spoke.

Shen Jing followed the direction she pointed and looked over one by one. "Jinyang Xu family? Isn't the Jinyang Wang family the most famous? ”

It was all Shen Guo who was saying that she was listening just now, and now the identities of the two sides have been reversed, so Su Yao smiled a little proudly: "It seems that you are not so stupid, and you still know something." These sect families on the first floor can only be regarded as second-rate forces at most, and the Jinyang Wang clan can be regarded as a wang clan in the entire Great Wei, and there are even strong people in the clan who are in the Grandmaster Realm, so naturally they will not be separated from these people. So they must be on the second floor, just like the people from the two outer buildings who came to you the day before yesterday, and these forces on the second floor are the protagonists tonight. ”

"On the second floor? Then why didn't they come to us and wait for us here? Shen Jing wondered.

Su Yao shrugged his shoulders and gave him a blank look, feeling that he had become bored again. "Then you have to ask that Jiang girl, I didn't call you here. Can you make osmanthus cake? It tastes so good. ”

After speaking, she didn't care what Shen Guo's reaction was, she picked up a piece of osmanthus cake and put it in her mouth, very satisfied.

It was not surprising that Shen Guo had changed the direction of her problem so quickly, and he had found out after getting acquainted with Su Yao these days. Su Yao is sometimes quiet and gentle like a lady, sometimes she is full of words, like a woman with a broken mouth, saying things that are not welcome, and just like just now, looking at Shen Jing is like looking at a fool again. Of course, it was a joke between the two, and Shen Jing didn't take it to heart.

Shen Guo shook his head and said, "No." Our grandma next door will meet, if you want to eat, you can go to grandma. ”

"Cut, stupid." After speaking, she no longer paid attention to Shen Jing and ate the osmanthus cake by herself.

Su Yao didn't know any of the sect families Shen Guan said, but after looking around, he found that many of those people had very high cultivation, such as the directions that Su Yao pointed out just now, there were several whose cultivation was not weaker than Mo Ying, and some even had the potential to surpass. Looking around at the people sitting downstairs, a thought suddenly came to Shen Jing's mind, he looked at the black and suppressed hundred and ten people and exclaimed, "Are they all here for Fu Xuan Sword?" ”

After being reminded by Shen Jing, Su Yao, who was eating osmanthus cake on the side, also suddenly realized, and before the osmanthus cake in her mouth could be swallowed, she hurriedly said vaguely: "Quota, I remember, they are here to compete for quotas." ”

"Places?" Shen asked a little puzzled.

Su Yao hummed and swallowed all the osmanthus cakes in one go. "Actually, I don't know too much, I've heard Uncle Mu mention it before. Uncle Mu said that the origin of these famous swords in the Hundred Swords List is special, and what is the specific situation, the people in the rivers and lakes here can no longer trace back to the source. No one could have predicted where they would appear, so others could only detect it by relying on their own leaked kendo. And the hiding place of these famous swords is strange, and there will be a layer of natural enchantment around them, the inside of the enchantment is a small space isolated from the outside, but the bearing capacity of that space is limited, so the number of people who can enter is also limited, otherwise once the enchantment can't withstand the collapse, the people who enter it will be annihilated with the collapse of the space. I remember when Uncle Mu said these things, he would always babble that the space inside the enchantment was very weird. ”

"Spooky? Have you ever been in there before? Shen Guo asked.

Su Yao shook her head: "That's not true, Uncle Mu doesn't know anything more specific." At the time, I only listened to it as interesting, so I didn't remember much. I only know that there has been no real famous sword on the rivers and lakes for many years. This time, it must have been the aura of the kendo in the Qin Mountains, so it attracted these people. ”

"Kendo breath? So why can't we feel it? After he finished speaking, he subconsciously looked at Su Yao again, waiting for her to give an answer.

Su Yao looked at Shen Jing's sincere eyes, and immediately waved his hand: "Don't look at me, I don't even have a sword, how can I know this." ”

At this moment, Shen Guo felt that both the mysterious and mysterious enchantment and the Fu Xuan Sword were shrouded in a veil of mystery. He didn't ask any more questions, and looked downstairs again.

After looking at it for a while, he asked, "There are so many people gathered here, so how should this quota be divided?" Do you want to compete on the stage? There were a lot of things he didn't know, and Su Yao seemed to know everything about everything, so he looked at her naturally again, his eyes sincere.

Su Yao didn't look at him, and said directly: "It's good that those small sects can have one or two places, most of them depend on how these forces upstairs are divided, and the extra ones will be given to them, so there will inevitably be a fierce battle." ”

"Isn't that unfair, the powerful are even more powerful, and the weak are not competitive at all." After Shen Guan finished speaking, he realized the naivety of these words.

The general trend of the world, the courts, the rivers and lakes, are not like when they were children, and they did not share food at home, and they pursued equality for everyone. In this whirlpool of chasing interests, strength is the last word, as long as the fist is big enough and the strength is strong enough, even if what you say is wrong, there will be a large number of people who will take it as a guideline; As long as the fist is big enough, the rules are up to you. Shen Kuang has always disliked these open and secret battles behind his back, and he doesn't want to be involved in this big net of the world, so his intersection with Jiang Ning and Yu Wenyuan is only to the point, he just wants to practice his sword well and become a grandmaster as soon as possible.

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The dance of the women in the audience was now over, and they bowed to the crowd along with several women who played the music, and then slowly descended the stage. Their graceful dancing did not attract the attention of people tonight, even if there was occasional spring light, they still couldn't attract the attention of the audience.

Everyone here knew that tonight's main event was about to begin, so they changed their seats one by one, full of anticipation.

In the Tingxiang Garden, the original bustling sound has now disappeared, and it is quiet.

Not long after, a woman in red walked onto the stage in the eyes of everyone.