Chapter 318: The Engagement Banquet
Ten days passed in a blink of an eye, during this time, Ye Chen was very satisfied with Wang Feng's cultivation speed, far beyond his expectations, he didn't expect Wang Feng to successfully step into the realm of broken body in just ten days, although he provided him with enough body nourishment liquid, but Wang Feng's speed still surprised Ye Chen.
"Master!"
Wang Feng got up early in the morning, and after running outside for a while, he said to Ye Chen breathlessly.
Ye Chen nodded, then looked at the blazing sun that had risen in the east, and said, "Tell me where the banquet starts, I'll go by myself, you stay here and continue to cultivate!"
In fact, Ye Chen originally wanted Wang Feng to take him there, but after thinking about it for a while, he decided to go by himself, because in the past two days, his ominous premonition has become stronger and stronger, stronger and stronger, if he goes, something really happens, Wang Feng, a cultivator in the Broken Body Realm, will only become a burden to himself, rather than this, it is better to let him stay at home.
"I know the master!" Wang Feng nodded and said, "As soon as you arrive at the center of the city, you will see that the place where the engagement banquet is held is in the central square of the city." ”
Ye Chen nodded, then turned around and walked directly outside
At this time, in the Shen family, Shen Xin was sitting in his room sadly, and there was a charming-looking middle-aged woman next to her, who looked a little similar to Shen Xin if she looked closely, this woman was Shen Tao's wife and Shen Xin's mother.
"Xin'er, I know you don't want to, but what can you do?" Shen Xin's mother sighed and said, "You have ten brothers and sisters. The three of your second uncle's family are all boys, and the two of your third uncle's family, although there is a woman. But the age is less than ten years old, and besides, your fifth uncle has a daughter, but she has already been engaged to someone else! Besides, your father has already been engaged to this family a long time ago. ”
Shen Xin listened to her mother's words, and tears flowed from her eyes. Said: "Mother, I don't want to! weishenme, you don't even think about my feelings, you have to be with that prince!"
"Xin'er. I think that your father and I also belonged to a family marriage, and I didn't want to do it like you, but now you don't know what the relationship between me and your father is? We are living a very happy life now!" Shen Xin's mother said with emotion.
Shen Xin shook her head violently and said in tears: "No, I'm different from you. Mother. I beg you, I beg you, go and tell my father, I beg you!"
Shen Xin's mother looked at her only daughter's sad appearance, and her heart ached, and then she gently took her into her arms and said, "Xin'er, don't you know what your father's temper is? I'm afraid it's useless for me to go to him!"
Shen Xin listened to her mother's words. The crying was louder
Shen Xin's mother looked at her daughter in her arms and cried heartbreakingly. I couldn't help but shed tears
At this time, Ye Chen had already come to the location of the central square.
The square in front of me was full of people everywhere, but in the center of the place, hundreds of tables and banquets had been placed at this time, and most of them were already seated, but compared with the people around them, it was still many times worse.
Ye Chen walked around the crowd and realized that if he wanted to go to the central position, he had to be a cultivator in the first level of the Yuan Dan realm, otherwise he could only look at it from the periphery.
After knowing this, Ye Chen walked calmly towards the entrance.
"Childe, please show your cultivation, otherwise, you can only watch the ceremony outside!" The guard was in front of Ye Chen, and said to Ye Chen very politely.
After all, these guards all know in their hearts, ordinary cultivators of the Yuan Dan realm, they and others can't see it at all, if they are disrespectful to the visitors, if they offend some Yuan Dan realm cultivators, although they and others will not have anything to do with the identity of the Shen family, but there will still be some troubles, so these guards show an extremely polite appearance when they see people who are going inside.
Ye Chen glanced at the guards, and then a fivefold momentum of Yuan Dan directly broke out of his body and pressed towards the two guards.
Ye Chen didn't want to be too prominent, after all, there were so many strong people here, Ye Chen didn't think that he was capable of overpowering the crowd, but the Yuan Dan five-fold cultivation had already surprised the guards, and the reason for the surprise was very simple, that is, Ye Chen had the five-fold cultivation of the Yuan Dan at such an age.
"Childe, hurry up, please!" The guard hurriedly said respectfully to Ye Chen: "Childe is a five-fold cultivator of Yuan Dan, and he can sit in the third row. ”
"Fourth row?" Ye Chen was stunned for a moment, and asked suspiciously, "Aren't you just sitting after you go in?"
The guard listened to Ye Chen's question, without a trace of impatience, and explained respectfully: "Childe doesn't know, the seats in our here are divided according to cultivation, the first row is for cultivators in the Hundred Refining Realm, the second row is for Yuan Dan peak cultivators, the third row is for Yuan Dan eightfold cultivators and above, and the fourth row is the position of Yuan Dan five to Yuan Dan eight level cultivators. ”
Ye Chen nodded, and then he didn't say anything, after all, he came this time to see who the engaged person was, and it didn't matter if he was sitting there.
Immediately, Ye Chen walked inside with a calm face, and at the banquet in the fourth row, he casually found a table with few people and sat down.
"Childe, since you can sit here, it seems that your cultivation has reached the fifth level of Yuan Dan or above, and to have such an achievement at such an age, I'm afraid it's not an ordinary person!" A middle-aged man sitting next to Ye Chen said with a cool face: "Under the Flying Eagle, people give the nickname Flame Flying Eagle!"
Ye Chen smiled at the middle-aged man and said, "Ye Chen!"
"Ye Chen?" The middle-aged man frowned slightly when he heard Ye Chen's name, and then after a while, he said with a smile: "The name of the childe, the first time I heard of it, I don't know what school the son inherits?"
Ye Chen smiled slightly and said, "Little sect, don't mention it." ”
The middle-aged man looked at Ye Chen's reluctance to say his sect, smiled awkwardly, and then did not continue to ask. However, at this time in his heart, Ye Chen must be a disciple of a big sect, otherwise it would be impossible to be at such an age. With such a strong strength.
Ye Chen saw that the middle-aged man did not continue to ask, and then turned around and looked towards the stage.
As the minutes passed, at the time of noon, it was finally full of people, and with the full seat of the people, the center of the square. An old man slowly descended from the sky.
"Thank you, thank you for coming here today and supporting our Shen family, thank you!"
The crowd listened to the old man's words. They all hurriedly stood up and bowed respectfully to the old man, and said, "Old Shen's words are serious!"
Ye Chen looked at everyone's respectful appearances, and asked suspiciously to the big man beside him who was talking to Zizi just now, who is this person.
Dahan listened to Ye Chen's words. Slightly stunned. As if shocked that Ye Chen didn't even know him, he immediately thought that Ye Chen might be a disciple of the Great Sect who had just come out to practice, so he was relieved, and then explained: "This person is the ancestor of the Shen family, it is said that this person's cultivation has reached the realm of the fifth level of the earth, and in our Chuyun country, it is ranked ninety-seventh!"
"Ninety-seven, what do you mean?" Ye Chen asked suspiciously.
The middle-aged strong man's face turned grim, and he said, "We are in Chuyun." There are a total of one hundred places on the Heavenly List, which is the strongest one hundred cultivators in our Chu Yun Kingdom!"
"If only one day. How nice it would be if I could make it to the top of the charts!"
Ye Chen ignored the middle-aged man's later yearning words, just frowned and looked at the ancestor of the Shen family, and said secretly: "If that's the case, then wouldn't this person be Xin'er's grandfather?"
Ye Chen guessed correctly, this person is Shen Xin's grandfather and Shen Tao's father!
This person was not in the Shen family before, it is said that after he gave birth to Shen Tao, he went away alone, and did not come back until decades ago, and when he came back, he was already a cultivator of the earth-level realm, otherwise it would be difficult to develop the Shen family into what it is in such a period of time with this Shen Tao's ability.
At this moment, two people fell from the sky again, one of them was about two or four years old, and the other stood behind the young man, an old man.
After everyone watched the young man fall, they didn't show so much respect to the old man of the Shen family, but they still stood up and shouted together: "Twelve princes!"
"The Twelfth Prince?" Ye Chen muttered to himself suspiciously.
The middle-aged strong man looked at Ye Chen's puzzled look, smiled slightly, and said, "This person is called the prince, and that must be the twelve princes of our Chu Yun Kingdom!"
"Oh, then tell me about him?" Ye Chen asked subconsciously, even he didn't know that he would suddenly be interested in this so-called prince.
The middle-aged strong man was a little suspicious of Ye Chen at this time, whether he was from Chu Yunguo or not, and he didn't even know the prince here.
"Prince, is the twelfth son of our Emperor Chu Yun Kingdom, now after more than 20 years, he is already a cultivator of the Yuan Dan Realm, the emperor cares about him very much, it is said that the next saint of Chu Yun Kingdom is very likely to be him! Now that he is marrying the Shen family, I am afraid that the next saint will inevitably be him. ”
Ye Chen nodded after listening to the middle-aged strong man's explanation, and said, "You mean, he is the one who is engaged this time?"
"Of course, who do you think it is!"
Ye Chen nodded, frowned, and said, "Then who is the Shen family who is going to be engaged to him?"
The middle-aged strong man listened to Ye Chen's question, completely helpless, and said: "Are you a cultivator of the Yuan Dan Fivefold, how can you say that you are also a medium person in the cultivation world, how can you even know these things, you must know that we people know about it!"
Ye Chen shrugged his shoulders helplessly and said, "I have been practicing since I was a child, and I have never come out, so I don't know much about these things at will. ”
The middle-aged strong man let out a sigh of dissatisfaction and said, "There are only three women in the Shen family's generation, who do you say?"
"Three women?" Ye Chen's heart tightened, and he subconsciously thought of Shen Xin.
"Yes, one of them is less than ten years old, and the other is already engaged, and the person who is engaged this time must be the daughter of Shen Tao, the head of the Shen family!"
Ye Chen's face was shocked, and there was a colicing pain in his heart instantly, although the middle-aged strong man did not say who the person who was going to be engaged was, and Ye Chen didn't know that Shen Xin's father was Shen Tao, but from the strong man's words, Ye Chen had already learned that even if it was not Shen Xin who was engaged this time, then Shen Xin would have been engaged.
"What's wrong with you?" The middle-aged strong man looked at Ye Chen's face and was shocked. Asked suspiciously.
Ye Chen could still hear the words of the middle-aged strong man at this time, but he just looked at the center of the square with a blank expression.
At this time, two more figures slowly fell from the sky, and the one in front was the head of the Shen family. And the person in the back is Shen Xin who makes Ye Chen think about it all day long!
Ye Chen felt as if he had been struck by lightning for a moment, and his eyes looked blankly at Shen Xin who fell from the sky.
If it was said that when he saw Shen Xin just now, Ye Chen still had a trace of fantasy in his heart, but at this time, the only hope in Ye Chen's heart was also wiped out.
Shen Xin stood behind her father with a blank expression, and suddenly she had a strange feeling in her heart. She felt a special gaze looking at her, and then slowly raised her head, those eyes that were already red from crying. Looking towards the position of the fourth row under the stage, even she didn't know that she was going to look at the fourth row.
This may be the so-called "Mind Clearing"!
However, just as she looked at the fourth row. The whole body trembled directly. With a shocked look on his face, he subconsciously said to himself: "Brother Chen"
Looking at each other, an invisible atmosphere arose between the two of them, of course, this atmosphere was not felt by the other people around them.
"Sister Xin'er, we haven't seen each other for a long time!" a gentle voice interrupted the two of them to look at each other.
It was the Twelve Princes who spoke, and at this time he had already walked in front of Shen Xin. said with a smile on his face, that smile gave people a feeling of bathing in the spring breeze. It gives a warm, quiet feeling.
However, in the fantasy of the twelfth prince, Shen Xin would nod at him tenderly, say a few words of longing, or ignore himself with a red face, he didn't expect that Shen Xin at this time just turned his head, glanced at him coldly, and then nodded to him, and there was no other expression with Ben.
Shen Tao discovered his daughter's abnormality, frowned, and said, "Xin'er, the prince is talking to you, you can't be so rude!"
Shen Xin still listened to her father's words at this time, but she lowered her head with a blank face, she didn't dare to look at Ye Chen, she felt ashamed in her heart, he didn't know how to face Ye Chen.
"Uncle, it's okay, Xin'er may be uncomfortable somewhere! It's okay!" said to Shen Tao with a smile on his face, but there was a trace of ruthlessness in his eyes, and no one noticed it.
Shen Tao listened to the words of the Twelfth Prince, smiled slightly, and said, "See the smile, let's continue to put it! After all, there are still important things to do!"
The twelfth prince listened to Shen Tao's words, his face was happy, and then he nodded hurriedly and said, "It's all up to Uncle Shen's arrangement." ”
Shen Tao smiled slightly, then turned his head to look at the people in the audience, and said loudly: "Everyone, here today, is to let everyone witness the engagement of the little girl and the twelfth prince!
"Smack!"
"Smack"
A series of cheers rang out from the audience.
Shen Tao looked at everyone's reactions, smiled slightly, and then pressed his hands to signal everyone to be quiet, he had something to say.
"Ladies and gentlemen, today is the seventh day of the sixth month, and the seventh day of the seventh month of July a month later is a very haode day, and we have also decided to hold a wedding for the two on the seventh day of the seventh month of the seventh month, I hope you will live in my Shencheng for an extra month, and then we will come to the wedding together!" Shen Tao said with a smile on his face: " In addition, all of your consumption in Shen City this month is borne by my Shen family, and in order to celebrate this engagement, my Shen family and the royal family have each taken out twenty kinds of items, which will be auctioned for a while, and everyone can buy them to their heart's content!"
A series of cheers rang out from the audience again, and the reason for everyone's cheers this time was obvious, that is, for the forty things that were auctioned for a while, everyone knew that the Shen family and the royal family took out the things for auction on this occasion, after all, none of them were bad.
However, Ye Chen didn't listen to a word at this time, just looked at Shen Xin on the stage with blank eyes.
Shen Xin also kept her head down and didn't dare to raise it, she was afraid that she wouldn't be able to control the longing for Ye Chen in her heart, so she rushed straight up, which would only harm the favorite in her heart.
The engagement ceremony was very simple, that is, Shen Tao said these few words and it was completed, and then Shen Xin looked at the end of the ceremony and ran directly into the distance.
The Twelfth Prince watched Shen Xin run away, and hurriedly chased after Shen Xin.
Ye Chen came to his senses in an instant at the moment when Shen Xin ran away, stood up directly and walked out, he originally wanted to go to Shen Xin and ask her about agreeing to someone else's engagement, but when it came to Zuihou Ye Chen still didn't go, it was not that Ye Chen didn't love Shen Xin, but that Ye Chen loved Shen Xin too much, and he loved Shen Xin to an indescribable extent, and as long as Shen Xin was happy, he would be happy
Ye Chen walked on the road with blank eyes, he didn't know what he was thinking in his head at all, he didn't want to know, he knew that he needed wine now, he needed a lot of wine, he wanted to get drunk, he wanted to get drunk, but when he woke up, he found that what had just happened was just a dream, a dream
Ye Chen walked and walked, and before he knew it, he came to the largest and most haode restaurant in Shencheng, Mo Yu Restaurant.
"Wine, give me wine!" After Ye Chen entered, he did it with a painful face, and then shouted directly at Xiao Er on the side.
Xiao Er listened to Ye Chen's voice, hurriedly ran over, and said respectfully: "Guest officer, what kind of wine do you need?"
Ye Chen listened to Xiao Er's words, smiled like crazy, and said, "Give me the wine you can get drunk!"
Xiao Er can work here again, his eyesight must be extraordinary, he saw at a glance that Ye Chen is not an ordinary person, and then hurriedly said: "Childe, the most haode wine we have here is Sanhualu, 100,000 taels of jars." ”
Ye Chen glanced at Xiao Er decadently, then his left hand flashed, and a large number of golden tickets appeared directly in Ye Chen's hand, and then slapped directly on the table, at least a million taels at a glance.
"Is it enough, if it's enough, just serve me wine!" Ye Chen shouted with a hideous face.
Xiao Er looked at Ye Chen's appearance, hurriedly picked up the money on the table, and then said a word to Ye Chen, and hurriedly turned around and left (to be continued.) )