In a few days, it will be the Lantern Festival.

The Lantern Festival in Jiangnan is even more lively than Chinese New Year's Eve.

Legend has it that the fifteenth day of the first lunar month is the day of blessing from the heavenly officials, and the people will spread lanterns to pray for blessings on this day.

It is also said that the Lantern Festival is Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty in order to commemorate the pacification of the "Zhulu Rebellion", deeply felt that the peace and prosperity of the world was not easy to come by, so he ordered from the fourteenth day of the first month, three consecutive days to open the city gate, let the people enter and exit freely, Jin Wu can't help it. People can stay up all night to make lanterns, so Lantern Festival lanterns can be seen everywhere.

The lanterns are especially headed by Jiangnan, and Jiangnan is respected by the West Lake, and the lantern festival of the West Lake has never disappointed.

Before the Lantern Festival arrives, the local craftsmen have already made many lanterns, and every night, the streets and alleys, painting boats, and cruise ships are full of lanterns.

In order to sell a few more lanterns, the craftsmen all showed their magic powers, competed for beauty, and each lit their own lanterns to attract tourists.

When you go to West Lake, you naturally want to try the West Lake vinegar fish, and there are many cooks who can make West Lake vinegar fish, but the most authentic one is the big fat man of "Listening to Yuxuan".

Xiao Ding found an interesting thing, it seems that every chef with good skills will grow very fat, and they may choose to be a chef because they love to eat, and if they love to eat, they will inevitably gain weight.

The upstairs of "Listening to Yuxuan" was full of guests and friends.

There are some beautiful women around the characters with a bit of status, they laugh and groan, half-push and half-push, and accompany the men around them to indulge in eating, drinking and having fun, because they know that as long as the men around them are happy, there will naturally be benefits to be gained.

Ever since they came upstairs, the women couldn't laugh because the men around them didn't care about them anymore.

Those men glanced at Tang Qingqing and Ye Rongqiu from time to time, and those women also glared at Tang Qingqing and Ye Rongqiu from time to time.

Men are appreciative, women are jealous.

Originally, these women were also good-looking, and a few of them were even rare beauties, but compared with Tang Qingqing and Ye Rongqiu, they looked extremely ordinary.

Tang Qingqing is delicate and cute, Ye Rongqiu is cold and noble, Tang Qingqing is free and easy, and Ye Rongqiu is heroic. The most important thing is that both of them have a peerless face.

The most infuriating thing is that such an unattainable beauty of the rivers and lakes is accompanied by a young and gentle young man, although this young man is also handsome, but how can he have the favor of two beauties at the same time?

Then the men's eyes were filled with jealousy.

Most of the guests on this upstairs are businessmen and tourists, but they are not pan-martial arts people, and martial arts heroes are together, chatting about rivers and lakes.

"Alas, I didn't expect that the Thirteen Taibao of Lin'an would be taken overnight, it's really feng shui in turn, and there is reincarnation in heaven."

"It is said that although these thirteen Taibao have done a lot of evil, this time it can be regarded as retribution, but the strength of the people who can put them in a nest should not be underestimated."

There were three people at the table behind Xiao Ding drinking and chatting, and the outfits turned out to be characters from the Huashan faction.

Xiao Ding got up suddenly, took the wine glass, came to the table of the three, hugged his fists and said with a smile: "Excuse me, look at the costumes of the three brothers, could it be that they are Huashan disciples?" ”

The three of them saw that Xiao Ding was full of confidence, and he didn't dare to slack off at the moment, and the three of them returned the salute, and one of the older middle-aged swordsmen replied: "Your Excellency has good eyesight, and the inferior person is under the Huashan Sect, I don't know what Your Excellency has to say?" ”

Xiao Ding smiled slightly and said: "Don't dare, I have a lot of connections with the two old-timers of Songhe of your faction, and I am very concerned about Shaolin. ”

When the three of them heard this, they were very obedient, this young man was young, and he dared to claim that he had an intersection with his uncle and ancestor, although he doubted in his heart, he didn't dare to make a mistake.

The man who spoke just now asked cautiously, "I don't know your Excellency's name?" ”

"In the next surname Ding, A, B, C and Ding, everyone calls me Xiao Ding, but it seems that I forgot my real name, haha......" Xiao Ding laughed.

Xiao Ding, Shaolin Temple......

The three of them seemed to have remembered something, and the middle-aged swordsman asked tentatively, "Xiao Ding?" Could it be that Ding Shaoxia, who broke the three elders Tiangang Demon Formation with a single knife in Shaolin Temple? ”

Xiao Ding smiled: "I'm ashamed, it's just below." ”

The three of them were shocked, grew up suddenly, bowed down and said: "Uncle Shi has instructed that if he meets Ding Shaoxia in the rivers and lakes one day, no matter what Shaoxia sends, the children of the Huashan faction will not dare to disobey." ”

Xiao Ding hurriedly pressed the three of them to sit down, and said with a smile: "Don't be formal, I heard the three of them talk about the Lin'an Thirteen Taibao being served by someone else, what is going on?" ”

It was a young swordsman in his thirties who provoked the topic just now, and he lowered his voice and said: "It's not like that, just the night before, the Thirteenth Taibao was made by someone else, and even the old nest was burned to ashes, and the government only found thirteen masks in the rubble. ”

The swordsman sighed: "The thirteen Taibao are rampant in the rivers and lakes, there are countless enemies, and some people have long wanted to get rid of them quickly, but it is a pity that the thirteen Taibao are insidious and cunning, and they never show their true faces when committing crimes, and they will be scattered and hidden after committing crimes. ”

Xiao Ding frowned and said, "Did you leave any clues at the scene?" ”

"Nothing was found except for the thirteen masks."

Xiao Ding was a little disappointed in his heart, and said with a smile: "Okay, then I won't bother in the next place, if the three brothers see the second elder Songhe and say hello on my behalf, they will say that Xiao Ding is very worried." ”

"Certainly, definitely, there is Lao Shaoxia's concern."

Xiao Ding returned to his seat, looked at the bright lanterns on the West Lake outside the window, and smiled bitterly.

Sikong Jieyue scratched the short beard on his chin again, and said with a smile: "Looking at your listless appearance, I bet you never heard any useful news when you came back." “

Xiao Ding sighed: "That's right, the news is there, but it's really useless." “

Tang Qingqing said angrily: "Then you won't be so sad, the sky hasn't fallen." “

"The sky hasn't fallen, but all our clues are broken, there is no information about the darts, and there will be no more information about the Thirteen Taibao, we seem to have lost." Xiao Ding smiled, laughing mockingly.

Tang Xiaotian clenched his teeth and smashed his fist against the wall, Xiao Ding said so, so what hope is there.

Failure, failure sometimes does not dampen a person's spirit, but disappointment can wear down all a person's confidence.

There is a certain degree of disappointment, and the most complete disappointment is despair.

Absolute hopelessness, absolute lack of opportunity, can destroy a person's faith, what can a person without faith do?

Ye Rongqiu seemed to have suddenly thought of something, she stared at Xiao Ding and said slowly: "You said that the two white-clothed people who supported the dart, will they go to the Evergreen Dart Bureau to ask for compensation?" “

Xiao Ding pinched his brows and said with a wry smile: "This whole thing does seem to have a lot to do with those people in white, and it is even very likely that they are the robbers, they didn't even collect a single bill from the Evergreen Dart Bureau at that time and left, proving that they did not intend to go over to ask for compensation." Because their goal is not to compensate, but to defeat the Evergreen dart game once and for all. They deliberately chose to hold the dart in full view of the public on the day of the establishment of the Evergreen Dart Bureau, which is their intention. “

If the evergreen dart board does not compensate, it will be dishonest, for the dart game, dishonesty is equivalent to bankruptcy, because no one will choose a dart game without credit.

If the Evergreen Dart Bureau chooses to compensate, it will also face bankruptcy, after all, the amount of 100,000 taels of gold is too terrifying.

No one knows who is holding the dart, no one knows who is robbing the dart, and there is no clue to be found.

Zhou Ziheng sighed: "The road is one foot high, and the magic is one foot high, alas, ......"

Tang Qingqing had been pondering, she suddenly slapped her thigh, and she asked eagerly: "If the dart is stolen, the dart board will compensate for all the losses of the dart holder, and how to compensate the dart holder if he loses contact?" “

Sikong Jieyue glanced at her and said: "Look at your surprise, the dart bearer is missing, and the dart bureau should also contact the dart receiver designated by the dart bearer for compensation, do you think you can hide?" “

Tang Qingqing glared at him and smiled: "Have you noticed that this matter is settled, only the Innocent Villa will make a profit." “