The next morning, Fang Zhan slept until dawn. It was the first time in five months that he had spent the night at home and slept soundly.

After getting up, he looked out the window and saw a scene that surprised him.

I saw Fang Ping sitting under the pear tree, holding bamboo strips in his hand, and weaving bamboo baskets. Chu Suili squatted beside him. Fang Ping explained while weaving. Chu Suili listened very carefully.

Fang Zhan rubbed his eyes, looked at it again, and couldn't help but laugh. Ya'er's voice came: "God, your father is really, does he have any magic powers? ”

Fang Zhan thought for a while and said, "Everyone is hiding, in fact, the one who hides the most is my father!" He sighed and said: "My father was originally a champion in the literary examination, for me, the soldering iron ruined his face, and he has never written a word or read a book in front of outsiders for many years. You know how painful this is for someone who has grown up in a book. ”

Ya'er was silent for a while, and said a little bitterly: "That's right, your father is the one who hides the most." He has doubts about everyone, but he doesn't mention it, he just wants to raise you as an adult, endure humiliation, cough. ”

Fang Zhan didn't speak again. After looking at it quietly for a while, he said, "You said that this Chu Sui didn't rest in the house until he died, could it be that he would sleep under the pear tree every day in the future?"

Ya'er said: "Look carefully." ”

Fang Zhan was stunned when he heard this, looked out the window, and saw a lot of wood, strong bamboo, and some thick ropes tied under the pear tree, and immediately understood: "It turns out that my father is going to build him a house under the pear tree, hey, this old man, well, it's good, just do it!"

Today is August 15, and it is the day when I agreed with Zhou Jiyuan to participate in the three major family festivals. According to his previous habits, Fang Zhan washed up well and had breakfast. Chu Suili still squatted outside and ate a bite randomly. Fang Zhan's persuasion several times was fruitless, and he was really helpless.

Shang Ke and Li Xuanyi both arrived, and before they reached the door, Li Xuanyi's sunny voice had already come: "Let's go!

Fang Zhan didn't plan to let Chu Suili go with him, smiled, and said to him, "You're okay, just stay at home with my father...... Well, I'll tell you, since you recognize me as the master, then you have to listen to me, and if you don't listen to anything, then what do you recognize me? The first task assigned to you now is that in the future, you will listen to my father, and you will do whatever he tells you to do. He tells you to eat, and you eat, and when he tells you to weave a bamboo basket, then you weave a bamboo basket. After all, it is very important for me to be with my father. So, the task is very heavy! Very, very heavy! You have to brace yourself and keep him with me. ”

Chu Suili lowered his head, slowly raised his head, and glanced at Fang Ping, who was also looking at him. The two were really embarrassed.

Fang Zhan walked out, took two steps, and suddenly turned around, and a smile immediately flashed on Chu Suili's face that no one would notice.

Fang Zhan stretched out his hand and pointed at him: "Also, don't say I'm stupid again in the future! Not once!" The smile on Chu Suili's face that moved slightly immediately froze and disappeared without a trace. Slowly lowered his head.

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The garden ceremony of the three major families has always been the most concerned and valued thing in Gujing Town. Originally, on August 15 every year, the town's leading figures would be invited. Including the clansmen scattered in other places by the three major families, they will all rush back as promised.

No one asks why it was August 15th. Outsiders were invited to participate only because of the Sanzhang Monument. In the beginning, the three major families were very self-contained and did not invite outsiders, but because the people of the town were grateful for the contribution of the three families to the town, some people would spontaneously come to help, and over time, it became what it is now. Although the date and invitation to outsiders seem a little abrupt, after all, the general ancestor worship activities will be set in the four major dates of except, Qing, Jiu, and Yu. Of course, there are always exceptions due to the differences in local customs.

But after the last cemetery incident, the people of the town can simply describe the three major families as having a change of color. There are really a lot of people who are relatively close to have quietly moved away. Therefore, today's sacrificial garden is particularly deserted. There are only three family heads and a few clan relatives who are relatively close to Gujing Town.

Fang Zhan and the three of them were invited by Zhou Jiyuan early, so they also went together after breakfast. When Fang Zhan and the three of them arrived at the Lin Mansion, they were told by the servants of the Lin Mansion that everyone had gone to the cemetery. Fang Zhan and the three of them looked at each other, thinking that they had come very early, but they didn't expect it to be a little late.

Lin Shushan and his wife saw Fang Zhan and the three of them coming, and hurriedly came over to say hello. After some politeness, Fang Zhan looked left and right, couldn't help but wonder, and asked, "Master Lin, why didn't you see the daughter of the mansion and the son of the Zhou mansion?"

Lin Shushan and his wife were stunned: "We were about to ask you, they plus Ma Guo'er and Huang Shengxiang went to invite you early in the morning, why didn't they come back together?"

Fang Zhan was immediately stunned and shook his head: "I didn't see it, maybe I missed it?"

At this time, someone was calling Lin Shushan, saying that the time had come, and Lin Shushan and his wife answered, and then went to work again. So, at the appointed hour, the ceremony officially began.

The ceremonies of the garden are nothing more than some conventional rituals, such as reading, washing hands and faces, offering incense, prostrations, offerings, and so on. In front of the Sanzhang Monument, a few people stepped forward to worship the Sanzhang Monument. There are immediate family members who go to the cemetery behind the monument to sweep the grave. Because of the previous reading, there was a rule at the scene, no noisy frolicking, and solemn and solemn. So, it doesn't have to be noisy.

Fang Zhan and the three of them didn't go inside, but just stood at the door, looking at the Sanzhang Monument from a distance. When the sun is shining, the weather is fine, and the three-zhang monument looks particularly solemn from a distance.

Li Xuanyi couldn't help muttering in private: "Cough, it's good, I have to come to the festival garden, what's good, it's not interesting at all." ”

Fang Zhan hurriedly whispered: "You be quiet, it's not good to be heard." ”

Li Xuanyi lowered his head, touched the corners of his clothes, and muttered in a low voice: "It was originally." ”

Fang Zhan shook his head and looked at Shang Ke, only to see Shang Ke turn his head from elsewhere, look at him fixedly, and say, "That's it!"

Fang Zhanyi lowered his head: "Okay! That's it!"

The sacrificial garden ceremony was going on in an orderly manner, and the three of them had nothing to do, although it was inconvenient to move around, but the three of them couldn't help but walk slowly everywhere and take a look.

After walking around, I never saw Zhou Jiyuan, Lin Yanqing, Ma Guoer, and Huang Shengxiang. Fang Zhan couldn't help muttering: "They went to pick us up, even if they missed it, they should come back." ”

But I saw two Taoist priests standing outside the gate of the cemetery. One of them is Guan Qingyun, who is holding a whisk in his hand, with a transcendent artistic conception, but the martial realm makes people anxious. The man next to him, who was about the same age as him, carried a long sword, did not smile, and always kept a calm face, as if someone owed him eight hundred and one thousand silver coins.

Guan Qingyun saw Fang Zhan and the three of them, smiled slightly, stepped forward, shook off the dust, saluted with one hand, and said: "In the past, I often miss it, and the three of you are fine." ”

Shang Ke and Li Xuanyi looked at him a little strangely.

Fang Zhan smiled: "Immortal Elder came early. ”

Guan Qingyun didn't seem to mind at all about being slashed by Jian San and Jian Si before, and said with a smile: "It's not early, it's too late." ”

The one next to him always had a calm face. Guan Qingyun smiled and said, "This is the junior brother of the poor Dao, Wu Qingyue. ”

Fang Zhan bowed his hand, but Shang Ke and Li Xuanyi just raised their hands casually. Obviously, the feeling for Guan Qingyun stayed on the previous sanctimonious but ordinary appearance. It's just that the two of them will find that behind Guan Qingyun, this time he is also carrying a long sword.

The Taoist priest who was introduced as Wu Qingyue still had the momentum of the frozen Nine Heavens, and his face didn't even move. He also raised his hand very reluctantly.

Lin Shushan and the other three masters came out at this time, and after some greetings, they saw that some people had begun to leave one after another. Originally, most of the sacrifice garden had already been carried out, because of the strangeness that happened in the cemetery last time, those who had to come because of the reluctance to save face and family affection were only hastily finished, and they couldn't wait to leave immediately and hide from him for 108,000 miles.

The three masters had already expected this, so they pretended to be polite and did not send it away.

However, for the words that the old man Lu Fenghe said at the last moment of his departure last time, everyone present also remembered it vividly, in fact, the three masters of the sacrifice garden this time were really worried. That's why Zhou Jiyuan was asked to be the plenipotentiary representative to send an invitation to Fang Zhan and the three of them. After all, everyone could see the performance of the three of them clearly last time. Thinking that if these three people could come, at least they would have some confidence in their hearts.

Guan Qingyun smiled and said, "What about the little junior brother of the poor road, why didn't you come out to meet my senior brother, I'm afraid that I am hiding where to eat chicken legs?" he said and smiled again.

At this time, except for Guan Qingyun and Wu Qingyue, the two came a little late, but the three masters, including Fang Zhan, really trembled at the same time.

Yes, these four little guys said that they went to pick up Fang Zhan and the three of them early in the morning, but there is still no trace of them. Coupled with the appearance of Lu Fenghe last time, everyone immediately felt a shadow of fear in their hearts. The three ladies of Lin Zhouma were even more crazy.

If Lu Fenghe had followed what he had said on his last trip, then he would definitely have made some moves today. It's just that no one knows what he's going to do. Combined with the sudden disappearance of the four little guys, this made the three family masters, including the three ladies, only feel a chill in their hearts, and went straight to the top door.

Guan Qingyun didn't know anything about this, and when he saw the few people present, his face suddenly became solemn, and he knew that something bad should have happened. couldn't help but put away his smile and asked, "What's the matter?"

Lin Shushan shook his head and said heavily: "These few, I went to pick up Fang Zhan and them early in the morning, and I haven't come back yet, it's been almost half a day." ”

Guan Qingyun's face immediately tightened.

As Mrs. Lin covered her heart and exhaled in horror, a terrifying cloud of suspicion instantly enveloped the front of the cemetery.