The sound of crackling firecrackers came from the end of the long street, and in front of every house were long poles of firecrackers, and shredded red paper was flying on the ground.

Akayama shook his neck and stuck out his tongue to lick the confetti from the corners of his mouth.

The smell of sulfur in the air made it sneeze, and it didn't notice it for a while, and there were several pieces of spring flower paper pasted on its face.

At the gate of Yang's mansion, Xu Zishuai kicked the shredded paper boringly, occasionally looked at the long street, and saw Liang Qu coming on horseback shouting.

"Ah Shui! said that the time has come, why do you really step on it? ”

Liang Qu turned over and dismounted: "Something happened in the afternoon, delay a little, everyone is here?" ”

"No, I'm just waiting for you!" Xu Zishuai patted Chishan's buttocks, let this smart dragon-blooded horse enter the stable by himself, and turned his head to look at the gatehouse, "Fu Bo, everyone is together, turn off the door cannon!" Help me get rid of bad luck! Have a better next year! ”

"Ready in the morning! Keep it for the fourth young master, you go clean, and your future is bright! ”

The old man of the porter, Fu Bo, smiled, went to the door of the house and carried three firecrackers, raised them high, and burned them one by one with long incense.

Cracking sound!

The explosion exploded, and a strong smell of sulfur flowed.

Close the door before the meal and send away all the unpleasantness of the old year!

The door slammed shut in the heat, blocking the confetti.

Liang Qu walked down the stairs and asked with a smile: "Senior brother, why did you stand at the door and wait for me today?" Nothing to do. ”

"Which one is waiting for you? The cold wind is blowing outside, and when the master sees that you can't come, let me come out and take a look, saying that if you don't come again, I will close the door for you and not be allowed to enter! ”

"True or false, I believe it in the front, and the senior brother made it up in the second half of the sentence, right?"

The two of them chatted and walked through the verandah, and entered the more lively hall.

The Spring Festival couplets at the entrance of the entire hall were all renewed, pasted with red paper, and melon seeds and peanuts were broken all over the ground.

The heat from the stove blew people relaxed.

Liang Qu took off his coat, and the maid serving next to him took it and hung it on the gantry on the side.

Everyone in the hall saw Liang Qu coming, and there was a commotion.

"Senior brother is waiting for you! It's so slow! ”

"It's not too early to say that the time is the time to be the real unitary!"

"Senior brother, it's time to change the four-grade dragon blood horse, and you can't even catch up with the shadow, and you blow it a lot.

In this way, the senior brother takes care of the junior brother, suffers a little loss, and takes my red-eyed horse and Ling for a change! How is it? ”

"My, my, didn't count the time."

Liang Qu apologized again and again.

The two short spears sent by the toad were terrifying, and he didn't think about where to place them for a while.

Put it at home, put it in the boat, one didn't pay attention to the whole bomb to the sky, and it was not easy to build.

After thinking about it, Liang Qu personally placed it in the giant rock where Ah Wei and Shui Lingzhi had been found.

In the afternoon, the ship was sent over, and the time was already tight, and I came and went, but I had no choice but to be late.

Fortunately, it was not late, it was just a stuck point, and it was still early before the time to eat, and everyone sat in the hall to eat idle food.

Liang Qu stepped forward to greet the master and his mother, and sat down in his own position.

"It's just right, it's rare to get crowded." Yang Dongxiong put down the teacup, "I have something to tell you." ”

Hearing that the master had something to say, the disciples straightened their backs and sat upright.

Yu Dun asked, "Master, what's the matter?" ”

"It's not a big deal, in September this year, your sister and I are going to go to Huangzhou."

Sixth Senior Brother Cao Rang was stunned: "Huangzhou? What did Master and Master do in Huangzhou? ”

Xu Zishuai said shrewdly: "Is the master going back to her parents' house?" ”

Xu nodded: "After this year, my father's eighty-ninth birthday will be completed in November, as the saying goes, too early is not too late, and the family is preparing to organize a birthday banquet in September this year." ”

Everyone suddenly realized.

Expected.

Huangzhou wants to go out of the south to the west, saying that it is not far away, and it is not close to it.

It's not a special situation, I won't go there, everyone present, only Shi Niang has something to do with Huangzhou.

As for the birthday banquet.

Yang Dongxiong rose at the end of the year, joined the army to have a future, and when he was successful, his parents passed the age of knowing the destiny of heaven, and died at the age of 73 and 82 respectively.

The Xu family is different, born in the Xu family in Huangzhou, not to mention the third prince, the emperor's relatives, and she is a famous family.

Parents and relatives are pampered, there is not too much accumulation, and the natural life expectancy is long.

As the old saying goes, seventy years old is "big life", eighty years old is "upper life", ninety years old is "old life", and 100 years old is "period".

Liang Qu felt that it was probably "men celebrate near, women celebrate full." "Every nine is too big." and so on.

The singular number is yang, the double number is yin, and the male number is yang and the female is yin.

Therefore, nine is the largest yang number, and ten is the largest yin number.

Therefore, when a man celebrates his birthday, he should be one year in advance.

This eighty-ninth birthday banquet is actually equivalent to a ninety-year-old banquet.

But to be honest, there are too many similar rules, and he doesn't know the local customs of Huangzhou, so Liang Qu can't tell what the reason is, anyway, the final result is like this.

Xu has not gone back for four or five years, and as his biological daughter, he will inevitably return for his ninetieth birthday.

If you don't join the grandmaster, you won't have a longevity of 300, and you will see one side less in the future.

"Then is the senior brother going back too?"

Liang Qu had a flash of inspiration in his mind.

The eldest brother is Yang Dongxiong's parent, and his grandfather has a big birthday, so he should come back.

Yang Dongxiong affirmed: "Your senior brother will naturally go, he has not taken leave to visit relatives for five years, so he just took this opportunity to come out."

So let's ask you, if there is a group to accompany you, just to see the young talents and naturalist demeanor of Huangzhou. ”

Hu Qi asked, "How does Master and Master plan to go to Huangzhou?" ”

"Take a boat, along the Jianghuai all the way to the west, back and forth to say that it will take more than two months, the time is not short, if you are not free, you don't have to force it."

"Go, why don't you go, just go to see what the Central Plains is like, I haven't seen my senior brother for a long time."

Xu Zishuai was the first to respond.

He has nothing to do, he doesn't work anywhere, and he can go whenever he wants.

Xiang Changsong and Hu Qi glanced at each other and nodded in the same way.

"Let's go too, and meet the senior brother."

Xiang Changsong, Hu Qi and Liang Qu were the latest to start, and they had never seen the senior brother, so they should have met each other.

As for the martial arts hall, there is a cycle for apprentices to learn martial arts, and it is still early in September, so it is completely possible to temporarily accept apprentices in advance and stop for a few months.

"What about you?" Yang Dongxiong looked at the rest of the disciples.

Yu Dun is not sure, he started the earliest, unlike many junior brothers who have not seen the senior brother much: "There is still half a year, the disciple is not easy to say, before Xia Ploughing, Pingyang County will withdraw the county and change the government, and it may not be empty at that time." ”

Of course, Liang Qu himself wanted to go.

But like Yu Dun, he is not sure if he is free, and he will have to make other arrangements at that time.

"That's true, most of you have errands on your body, and you can't estimate what will happen in half a year, so you don't have to rush to give an answer, and you will talk about it in August, eat first!"

"Good! Open Meal, Open Meal! ”

"What good dishes did Master prepare this year!"

"Naturally, I can't starve you!"