The sky was dark. The two of them looked into the flower market while talking, the magnificent high platform had already been made up, and the plum fairy was lush and magnificent, and the city center was made of bamboo, supplemented by colorful silk, flowers and plants temporary barriers, which looked clean and new, completely covering the noisy noise outside. The number of patrolling and decorating "servants" has decreased a lot, but the east and west entrances are still tightly guarded, and it is obviously too early for the opening of the meeting.

"This place looks like an open place, but it's actually very closed. Song Ran commented, "In my opinion, it's not easy to come out - you see those bamboo tables, tables and chairs, and decorative screens, in fact, they have secretly built a winding path, and the people here can only see their own surroundings. It is the people on the flower floor who know all the people and things in the flower market at a glance. ”

"It is said that the leader of the Dongshui Alliance is a mediocre person, so it seems that he is quite scheming. Shen Fengming also commented.

Song Ran smiled. "It's dawn, take your leave. See you later. ”

Shen Fengming said goodbye to him, and was about to say hello to the Yue family, but the Yue family only glanced at him, lowered his head and turned around with Song Ran.

He turned around and looked at the flower market that was getting brighter and brighter—Song Ran was right, the placement of those tables and chairs was not random, if you could find a high place to overlook it and understand the whole picture, it would be very useful. But the problem was—he looked around—that the flower market was a very good place, and there was no one nearby that was high enough except for the flower building—to see the whole picture.

Before long, even the entrance was blocked by flower stands, potted plants, and color dyeing, and the sight was obscured, and it became more and more impossible to see what it looked like. Shen Fengming retreated to Lixu, only to find a suitable bungalow, jumped to the tile and looked down for a while. The roof was not high, far away, and the weather was not good, so that only a little of the arrangement could be seen in the near distance—or even that one was quickly obscured by more colour. Those servants who were still working threw the colorful silk that was not bright, and for a while-Shen Fengming suddenly had an illusion-this Jiangnan martial arts conference seemed to have fallen into an unreal grayness, as if it was a silkworm chrysalis that had been enclosed.

The morning breeze froze, but the vicinity of the flower market became more and more bustling. After the dawn of the day, the logo of the East Water Alliance, which had been looming on the colored silk, became clearer and clearer - the same as on the flag of the Alliance, the logo was the tip of a spear inserted into the water. On a dark background, the tip of the gun and the water are intertwined with silver and white lines, and on a light background, the logo is woven with gray and black lines.

Dozens of soldiers dressed in the patrol uniforms of the Jiankang Mansion pushed the idlers and others out of the fire alley of the flower market, separated by the road barrier, and then announced that the curfew was lifted, and more than a dozen men dressed as servants checked the invitations and the number of people one by one in the narrow alleys, and were willing to let them go, but the flags of each family were not allowed to be brought into the flower market.

Shen Fengming waited for Xia Chen, who came with Cheng Fangyu, at the east end of Fire Lane. Xiajiazhuang did not carry a flag, but the banner of the Qinglong Sect was very eye-catching in the market, and it was followed by a group of headless heroes. Hearing that they were not allowed to enter with flags, everyone showed anger on their faces, so they saw that Cheng Fangyue's eyes were about to attack, and the person who was the head of the inspection could only apologize to Cheng Fangyue with a smile and confessed: "The left envoy forgives the sin, this is the rule of this meeting of the East Water Alliance, there are no less than hundreds of sects who came to the meeting today, and since they are allies, they all follow the rules, even if the Tuoba sect leader is in person, it is also the same, and I hope that the left envoy will not be embarrassed." ”

His face, which was painted with black and white oil paint, was now very strange when he smiled, and Cheng Fang looked at him more quickly, and a smile appeared on his face: "Your Excellency is serious." Since the alliance leader has scruples, we will leave the flag behind. The Blue Dragon Sect is not necessarily dependent on one or two banners to be recognized and recognized. ”

The lingren's head lowered more and more, and the smile on his face became more and more open: "Thank you Zuo Envoy." ”

At the moment, the mileage side left two people outside to guard the flags and sundries, etc., and the rest of the people entered with him, and the back sects also considered their own discretions, ganged up, borrowed the light of the post without the post, and the more people accounted for the lesser share, and most of them were still noisy and shouted along the fire alley into the flower market.

Shen Fengming also followed Xia Chen inside. There are really no other people's flags in the field except for the East Water League, which is very ironic for Cheng Fangyu's sentence "You must rely on one or two flags to be recognized and recognized". The tables of each faction were arranged very carefully, but where did the group hold those subsections—except for a few seats, no one dared to move, and the rest—the more elaborate ones also passed the table cards back and forth, exchanging them to sit with acquaintances, and those who did not pay attention to them simply sat casually according to their preferences, and no one held them accountable.

Xia Chen quickly found his place - the families in Lin'an City were not arranged in one place, and only the seats of Fang and Zheng Erjia were reserved around them, and as for the "richest man" Sun Fu and "Wushuangwei" Wei Zhen, the seats were far away. He couldn't help but look at it, Wei Zhen had already arrived early, and was sitting unhurriedly drinking tea. There weren't many people around him, but it was obvious that they were all elites—even the eldest son, Wei Ma, was here—and he was just trying to come here in a laid-back manner.

Before he could turn his gaze away, a bright yellow figure had leapt into his field of vision. Xia Chen was stunned for a moment - Wei Ying obviously intended to attract his attention, and when she saw his gaze, she seemed to want to smile at him, but then she turned her face away and looked at the daffodils on the table.

Xia Chen also subconsciously glanced at the narcissus, but his mind was not here. He and this fourth lady of the Wei family have only met so many times because of the family, this girl seems to be two years older than him, of course he never thought much about it, but Wei Ying felt a little uncomfortable at this glance.

Yes, everyone else is in charge - the big boss, the young man, they are all famous figures in the rivers and lakes, and even the youngest attendant Wei Ying is older than himself. In his own family, he is also in charge, but in the eyes of others, is he counted?

- He still can't escape such self-doubt. He wanted Wei Ying to look at him, probably out of this kind of questioning?

Shen Fengming could see it clearly on the side, and he couldn't help but be a little funny. If Sun Jue hadn't talked about it at that time, even he would have never thought that the young lady of the Wei family had a good impression of Xia Chen, and Xia Chen himself must not have known it. Compared with the left and right sources of the Sun family, Xia Jiazhuang and Wushuangwei don't move around much, but I don't know where Wushuangwei is in the muddy waters stirred up by the East Water Alliance, but is it worth Xia Chen to borrow this girl to make friends with?

Anyway, Xia Chen is a junior, and according to the etiquette, he still approached and greeted Wei Zhen. At this time, the voice of the person was slightly sensational, and it seemed that some big man had come in from the southwest. Everyone's eyes turned to see Sun Fuxi smiling, and he was greeting each other as he walked.

"Old man Sun is here. Wei Wei hurriedly reminded him. Even Wei Zhen got up - in terms of seniority, Sun Fu is also his elder.

Several people went over to greet Sun Fu, and Shen Fengming had already seen Sun Jue come with him. This young man was not too young to be entangled in the number of rites, so he looked around, and among these many people, he really glared at Shen Fengming alone, as if to ask him why he hadn't attacked Xia Chen yet. Shen Fengming glanced at him, and seeing his expression that seemed to understand or not, he waited for Xia Chen to finish greeting a few elders, and said, "I'll go over there to see who else is coming." "Just go to Sun Jue's side.

The seat of Xiajiazhuang and the seat of the Sun family are far away, although they can see each other when they stand, but if they sit down, they will be affected by the partition and cannot look at each other, and there are still many sects over there that have not been seen, Xia Chen has said: "It's good to go and see." Here Shaper also said, "I'll go around too." "Went to the other side.

Xia Chen returned to his seat and sat down with Xia Qin and Wan Xiyang first. "Uncle Wan, what does the sign of the East Water Alliance mean?" When he saw the flag of the East Water Alliance before, Xia Chen didn't care very much, but he could see the tip of this water entry gun everywhere here, and he couldn't help but be curious and ask more.

"The young owner knows that the beginning of the Jiangxia Alliance in the past originated from our old owner and a heroic man in Jiangbei. Wan Xiyang said, "That heroic man made a gun, speaking of which, he is the ancestor of today's Dongshui Alliance Master." ”

"Yes......

Wan Xiyang smiled sarcastically, "I have followed the old owner since I was a child, and I remember that the logo of the Jiangxia League has also changed several times, the earliest time, it was a sword and a gun, because the old owner used a sword, and the Jiangbei hero used a gun." Later, I felt that it was too narrow to use the blades of two people as a sign of the covenant, so I replaced it with the shape of the water flow - the water flow secretly fits the river topography of the 'river', that is, the name of the 'Jiangxia Alliance' - that shape took a long time, and even the two alliance leaders left one after another, the Jiangxia Alliance still used this as the banner, and we, the old people in the alliance, mostly recognized that banner. Later, there was also a period of time, the former leader of the Qu League, in order not to forget the grace of the two old alliance leaders, tried to re-add the gun and sword to the logo, that is, a sword and a gun into the water, but in this way, the logo was complicated, and - in the next few years, Song Jin repeatedly 'made peace', at least on the surface - this anti-Jin alliance is no longer as important as in the past, the Jiangxia Alliance is declining, and the older old people are passing away, and that banner - no matter how it changes, it has slowly faded out of the rivers and lakes, echoing the public. Recently, the 'Jiangxia Alliance' suddenly reappeared in the name of the 'East Water Alliance', and the young owner of the village remembers, when the new alliance leader first sent an envoy to bring a message to the village, the alliance flag he took was already the tip of the spear with water lines, but the sword was gone. The tip of the gun is still the shape of the tip of the old gun, but the water pattern has also changed, Qu Resheng is clearly to get rid of the shadow of the 'Jiangxia Alliance' and the old owner of Xia, this new alliance is just his one-man alliance, not the hot-blooded and rectum of the anti-gold alliance that responds to every call. ”

Xia Chen was silent. Qu Resheng's plot is self-explanatory, but when it comes to water lines, it is inconvenient to have water patterns on the piece of jade that was exchanged for Xia Yan. Although he can't remember the specific pattern now, it always proves more and more that the map of the Eastern Water Alliance probably really includes that piece of jade.