Meng Ran, who was already hopeless, suddenly turned gloomy for some reason after hearing this, raised his voice slightly, and said, "Could it be that your father watched you marry into a wealthy family as a concubine? Could it be that the people of your Ji family are so inflammatory? Could it be that the old ancestor of your Ji family just watched you jump into the fire pit?"

Ji Furong's lips were flattened, her eyelids were immediately a little wet, and after a few turns in her eyes, tears fell wantonly like beads with broken threads.

Meng Ran sighed softly in his heart, took the girl into his arms, and comforted: "Things will always take a turn for the better, don't be too desperate, I will do my best to help you." ”

Ji Furong hummed sullenly, pressed her cheek tightly against Meng Ran's chest, and let the two streams on her face flow sideways.

After a while, Meng Ran pushed Ji Furong away and asked softly, "Miss Ji, do you have any countermeasures?"

Ji Furong told her second uncle's plan and her father's countermeasures one by one, and said softly: "So the person who really broke the game is the one who won the Ji family's competition to recruit a son-in-law." If the person who wins in the end is not from the Xiao family, then things will take a turn for the better. ”

Meng Ran frowned and thought for a while, and asked, "So you don't need to marry into the Xiao family now, you just need to wait for the competition to end, is that so?"

Ji Furong bowed slightly: "That's the case, but the people of the Xiao family have come to Tongli Ancient Town, and I am afraid that they have the intention of participating in this competition, so it is still unknown whether I want to marry into the Xiao family." ”

Meng Ran sighed and said, "Xiao Zhengyang told me about this, he intends to participate, and he has the will to win the championship. ”

Ji Furong smiled bitterly and said: "With the Xiao family's family tradition, few people are his opponents, it seems that my fate has long been doomed, it is my wishful thinking, in vain to change this irreversible life." ”

Meng Ran had the heart to comfort him, but he didn't have a suitable suggestion, so he had to say softly: "It's man-made, even if the Xiao family is a fierce dragon crossing the river, there will always be a time when they hit a wall, so many young heroes, there will always be one or two people who are the best, and it is not impossible to defeat Xiao Zhengyang." ”

In the end, Meng Ran's voice unconsciously lowered a little, because he knew that he was telling a lie.

What kind of family is the Xiao family in Shengzhou, there are countless exercises and cheats, Xiao Zhengyang, as the son-in-law of the general of Zhennan, naturally began to practice martial arts since he was a child, and at this age, not to mention the invincible opponents of his peers, but it should not be something that ordinary rivers and lakes can defeat.

Ji Furong didn't pay attention to the authenticity of Meng Ran's words, and said in a low voice: "Thank you, no matter who wins this competition in the end, I remember your kindness." ”

Meng Ran sighed and said, "There is still hope, don't be too decadent, there will always be a time when the clouds will see the sun, I hope you can hold on a little longer." ”

Ji Furong smiled reluctantly and said, "Okay, then I'll wait a little longer, hoping that a miracle can happen." ”

At this moment, a rumbling sound sounded in Meng Ran's abdomen.

Meng Ran smiled embarrassedly and said, "Let's go out, it's not too late to find a way to eat a full meal." ”

Ji Furong glanced at Meng Ran with a loss, and hummed softly.

With a roar, the stone chamber was once again deserted and empty as it had been for a hundred years.

After a while, the two of them were already on the ground, standing on the side of the rockery.

After leaving the formation, Meng Ran shouted softly in front of the inner courtyard of Ji Jiawuyuan: "Senior, senior, where are you?"

In a moment, there was already an additional figure in front of the young boy and girl, it was the sword immortal Li Baiyi who brought Meng Ran here.

After Ji Furong saw Li Baiyi, she instantly understood a lot of things.

After Li Baiyi appeared, he looked at Meng Ran with a strange expression, and asked softly: "Didn't you let you save people? Why is it so slow? Could it be that you two are there to fall in love?"

Meng Ran glanced at Li Baiyi angrily, and saw that Ji Furong was nervous.

Ji Furong tugged at Meng Ran's sleeve and said in a low voice, "Meng Ran, do you know who this senior is?"

Meng Ran shook his head as a matter of course and said, "I don't know." ”

Ji Furong smiled bitterly and said, "This senior is a sword immortal in the Earth Immortal Realm. ”

After Meng Ran listened, he looked Li Baiyi up and down, and said in a strange tone: "The masters of the Earth Immortal Realm are dressed like this, will it be a little too shabby?"

Li Baiyi flicked a finger at Meng Ran's forehead, and said angrily: "Could it be that everyone in the Earth Immortal Realm has to wear gold and silver? ”

Meng Ran was about to say something, but Li Baiyi grabbed his arm, and the three of them immediately disappeared in front of the gate of the inner courtyard of Wuyuan.

After a few breaths, Li Baiyi put the two down in a relatively remote and cold place, and then waved his hand to signal that Ji Furong could leave.

When Ji Furong saw Li Baiyi's posture, she naturally knew that he had something to say to Meng Ran, so she didn't stay anymore and strode away.

Before Meng Ran could say goodbye to Ji Furong, he saw her back gradually walking away, with a bit of indescribable gloom in her back.

Li Baiyi coughed lightly and threw something into Meng Ran's arms.

Meng Ran hurriedly caught the thing that was thrown over.

When I looked closely, it was a fairly neat piece of bamboo, with the words 'eighty-one' engraved on it.

The back of the bamboo piece is a word 'count' written in ancient seal script.

Meng Ran looked at Li Baiyi with a puzzled expression and asked, "Senior, what is this little bamboo piece?"

Li Baiyi smiled and said: "This is a voucher for participating in the Ji family competition to recruit a son-in-law, you take it carefully, don't miss your life's events." ”

Meng Ran was stunned for a moment, and was about to return the bamboo piece in his hand to Li Baiyi, and said, "I have a marriage contract, and I can't participate in the competition of the Ji family to recruit a son-in-law." ”

Li Baiyi rolled his eyes and reprimanded: "If you promise that you can win, I won't let you participate, if you can't guarantee it, wouldn't it be good to increase your knowledge and have a few more fighting experience?"

Meng Ran wanted to say more, but was blocked back by Li Baiyi's words, "Do you want to say that you are injured and inconvenient to compete?" Don't worry, I'll help you solve it." ”

As soon as the words fell, there were already a few more afterimages in front of Meng Ran.

Li Baiyi's fingers tapped more than a dozen times on Meng Ran's chest, covering all the big points on his chest.

In an instant, the true qi in Meng Ran's body flowed like boiling water, and there was less of a sense of condensation, and after several days of operation, those dark injuries that were not exposed to the surface gradually improved.

Li Baiyi shot again and slapped Meng Ran's chest.

After a burst of vomiting, Meng Ran spat out a pool of black and thick blood.

It's not so much blood as a somewhat disgusting nameless liquid.

After Meng Ran vomited, he only felt refreshed, and the qi in his body was circulating steadily, even more than before.

Li Baiyi said: "Boy, are you willing to participate in the Ji family's competition to recruit a son-in-law now?"

Meng Ran smiled bitterly and said, "That is the case, then the junior is better to be respectful than to obey his fate." ”

"Okay, I hope you can shine and live up to my hard work. ”

After dropping this sentence, Li Baiyi left without looking back.

Meng Ran stood in place for a while, and when he was about to leave, he suddenly found that he didn't know the road here, and muttered in a low voice: "What's the matter, how should I go back?" ”

He glanced around a few times, and finally chose the direction in which Ji Furong left.

As soon as he walked out of a hundred and ten steps, he saw a figure wearing filial piety clothes standing in front of him, it was Ji Furong, who had already left.

He looked at the dazzling white filial piety clothes, and sighed in his heart, just now in Wuyuan, he didn't even notice what Ji Furong was wearing, did any relatives in her family have died?

Meng Ran walked up to Ji Furong with doubts and asked softly, "Miss Ji, are you waiting for me here?"

Ji Furong rolled her eyes, and said coquettishly: "Who are you waiting for? Do you know the way back?"

Meng Ran smiled, secretly saying in his heart that Furong's mind was so delicate, and he said: "There is Miss Laoji, I want to go back to Tongfu Inn, I don't know which direction to go?"

Ji Furong's mood was a little lost, and she asked in a low voice, "Are you in such a hurry to leave?

Meng Ran hurriedly denied it and said, "It's not like this, I just want to go back and rest, after all, I still have something to do in the afternoon." ”

Ji Furong knew that Meng Ran didn't plan to participate in the Ji family's competition to recruit a son-in-law, so she didn't ask Meng Ran what he was busy with, but just said softly: "No matter how busy you are, you have to eat, you have been busy with my affairs for a long time, I can't invite you to a meal, right?"

Meng Ran smiled and said, "I don't dare to ask for it." ”

Boys and girls walked side by side towards the nearest restaurant.

On the way to the restaurant, Meng Ran glanced at Ji Furong's filial piety clothes intentionally or unintentionally, with a look of wanting to say something.

At first, Ji Furong didn't care much, but when she turned her head to speak, she saw Meng Ran's hesitant expression, she thought that there was something dirty on her body, and at the moment she lowered her head, she suddenly understood that there must be something hidden behind Meng Ran's desire to speak and stop.

She pretended not to know, and asked, "The surname is Meng, do you have anything to ask me?"

Meng Ran hesitated for a moment and asked softly, "Are there any elders in your family who are gone?"

After hearing Meng Ran's question, Ji Furong endured the grief in her heart and said in an inconsequential tone: "Yes, my father and second uncle are gone. ”

Meng Ran looked at the girl with a little more pity in his eyes, and hurriedly said, "I'm sorry, I don't know ......"

Ji Furong waved her hand and said very generously: "It's okay, anyway, you will leave in a few days, and we won't see each other again at that time, so I'll bypass you this time." ”

Meng Ran knew the grief behind Ji Furong's pretending to be indifferent, because he also had such a muddy formative years.

Although he was still young at that time, the feelings of a childlike child were purer than that of an adult, and he understood the grief of his heart, the sadness and sorrow of losing his father, and the feeling that the sky had fallen......

So Meng Ran looked at Ji Furong's eyes, adding a little warmth, and he decided to do his best to help the girl in front of him who had just lost her father.