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On the 16th day of the first month, Dunhuang City.

Yesterday's Shangyuan Festival Lantern Festival and labor army activities were held very successfully, and the soldiers and civilians of Dunhuang City experienced the long-lost relaxation and happiness, and also released the mental pressure caused by the siege in a timely manner.

This morning, the city of Dunhuang was unusually calm, except that the air smelled of gunsmoke, candles, lamp oil, and paper and silk yarn burning.

When most of the citizens were still asleep, the people of the various markets in the city came out early in the morning to clean the markets, and there were a lot of firecrackers and fireworks debris on the ground of the markets yesterday, as well as damaged lanterns, lost shoes, hats and other miscellaneous items.

The shopkeepers carefully inspected every street, praying that the corpses of drunkards who had frozen to death due to drunkenness would not be found, after all, the 16th day of the first month was the official day of the new year, and carrying the corpses in the morning would make you lose a year.

In previous years, on the morning of the second day of the Shangyuan Festival, Fang Ding would always see drunks who froze to death with strange smiles on their faces in which alleys, and the old people said that those drunks were hooked by fox fairies or Wong Tai Sin, because the story was fragrant enough, so they would smile.

Fortunately, this year, due to the lack of materials in the city and the soaring price of alcohol, ordinary drunkards cannot afford to drink alcohol, so there are no drunks who freeze to death on the road this year.

In fact, the smile on the face of the frozen person is a natural reaction after muscle stiffening, and it has nothing to do with the fox fairy.

This wronged fox clan has been back for many years, Daomen naturally knows that this is not the truth, but no one is willing to come out to defend the fox clan, for the people of Daomen, the more afraid and disgusted the people are of the demon clan, the better, so that Daomen can consolidate its position.

Li Renfeng was walking alone in the cold street market, he felt that he was a little abnormal today, and he would think about such a boring thing.

Today he was leaving Dunhuang City, and everything had been done here, and Jingyunguan urged him to go back as soon as possible to recover his life, so he decided to meet an interesting person again before leaving.

Li Mao still lives in the small courtyard of the Xu Family Chamber of Commerce, which is very close to the warehouse, so that he can access the items he has collected at any time.

Xu Ai was forcibly left in the house by Mrs. Xu yesterday and did not come out to watch the lanterns, so Li Mao did not go out, he always felt that he was just a passer-by in the city and did not want to leave too many memories.

Mrs. Xu didn't want her daughter to follow Li Mao around all day long, there were a lot of rumors about Li Mao and Xu Ai on the street, Xu Jiuye pretended not to hear or see, but Mrs. Xu naturally had to take care of it for the sake of her daughter's reputation.

In addition, the day before yesterday, Mrs. Xu was tricked by one of her old sisters, which made her more strict with Xu Ai.

The day before yesterday, an old sister of Mrs. Xu, whom she had not seen for a long time, made a special trip to visit her, which made Mrs. Xu feel very good.

While chatting, the old sister inadvertently asked Xu Ai if she was married, and also asked if Li Mao had a family, Mrs. Xu didn't think much about it, and naturally told the truth.

As a result, the old sister was overjoyed, and even said that it was rare and was ready to help the two children, and proposed to introduce Li Mao and Xu Ai to a good family affair, but Mrs. Xu was not good at refusing in person.

The man introduced to Xu Ai was the young shopkeeper of a well-known antique shop in Dunhuang City, with a long jade face and a lot of wealth.

The day before yesterday, I saw Xu Ai in my own store, and I was shocked that I was willing to marry Xu Ai as my wife, because I knew that Xu Ai liked antiques, and I was willing to give it to the antique store under my name.

What is a flat wife, is a name for the woman married by a merchant in foreign business, which means that the original wife is the main wife, but the actual legal status in the Tang State is still a concubine.

Mrs. Xu is a beloved daughter, how can she be willing to be a wife to others, but for the sake of the face of the old sister for many years, she did not refute her face-to-face.

Mrs. Xu casually asked the young shopkeeper about his age and family situation, and he was actually 30 years old, with a wife and four concubines in the family, and three children, and the eldest son was already 15 years old, the same age as Xu Ai! In this way, he himself was still working as a young shopkeeper, and it could be said that he was a second ancestor who had achieved nothing.

Listening to the meaning of the old sister, the other party is very interested in the Xu Family Chamber of Commerce, and is willing to help Xu Jiuye set up a household and manage the Xu family's industry.

Mrs. Xu tried hard to suppress her anger, and did not attack on the spot, this young shopkeeper is really a toad who wants to eat swan meat, wants to deceive his daughter as a concubine, and wants to annex the Xu family's property, how can such a son-in-law with wolf ambitions recruit into the door.

The Xu family is preparing to leave Dunhuang City, and the news of returning to Yuezhou has been blocked very well, except for the government and a few relevant people, no one else knows, so some people are delusional, calculating the Xu family's property, and there is a farce of door-to-door proposal.

Mrs. Xu thought that she was about to leave Dunhuang City, and there was no need to offend this old sister, so she deduced that her daughter was still young, and she would talk about marriage when she turned sixteen in the summer next year.

This old sister said that she was happy, but she didn't see Mrs. Xu's displeasure, seeing that Xu Ai's marriage was not successful for the time being, she wanted to tell Li Mao to have a daughter-in-law.

The woman's family is a middle-class family in Dunhuang City, dignified in appearance, knowledgeable, absolutely a good match, the only regret is that the age is a little old, already twenty-two years old, before the promise of a family, but before the door, the man died of illness.

Mrs. Xu's face flushed with anger when she heard this, it turned out that the woman was a widow, but she treated Li Mao as a nephew, and Li Mao herself was so heroic, how could she be embarrassed to come to the door to talk about this family business?

Mrs. Xu asked lukewarmly: "Sister, since that girl is so outstanding, why haven't you found someone to marry for so many years?"

The old sister hurriedly explained: "Sister, let's just say it! First, the girl has good conditions and high vision, and she can't look down on ordinary people; second, she has experienced a misfortune and wants to find a husband who is hard-working. Isn't Li Mao just right?

She has a strong martial arts, and her life is also very hard, and she has made great achievements in killing enemies several times out of the city, isn't it a good match for this girl?"

Mrs. Xu was so angry that she stood up directly, in total, this girl is a Kefu life, and she has to find someone like Li Mao to stop her!

Shi Ke can't be humiliated, Mrs. Xu didn't have the heart to pay attention to this unreliable old sister, so she brushed her sleeves and left, making this old sister leave with an embarrassed face.

After this incident, Mrs. Xu felt that her daughter was really old, and it was time to find a mother-in-law, but she was about to leave Dunhuang City, and now she was going to find a mother-in-law for a woman, and then the mother and daughter would have to go their separate ways, I am afraid that there will be no chance to meet in this life, this is absolutely not good!

Mrs. Xu saw Xu Ai's girl for the first day and knew that she was running east and west with Li Mao, did she not have the defense of men and women, or did she really fall in love with Li Mao?

Mrs. Xu decided to ask her daughter clearly, but before she made a clear decision, she resolutely couldn't let her daughter and Li Mao be too close, so on the night of the Shangyuan Festival, Mrs. Xu personally watched Xu Ai not go out, and slept in Xu Ai's house at night, so angry that Xu Ai didn't talk to her mother all night.

Xu Ai was depressed all night, and the next morning he had a loophole, and finally slipped out, took two bowls of porridge, fried dough sticks, boiled eggs and two plates of side dishes from the kitchen, took a food box and ran to the Xu family Chamber of Commerce on the front street to see Li Mao.

Li Mao still maintains the habit of practicing knives in the morning, although he can practice now, but now the lethality of his demon method is not far as strong as the knife technique, and the demon clan exercises pay great attention to sharpening his body, so the habit of practicing knives in the early morning has been retained.

When Xu Ai came, Li Mao had just finished practicing knife techniques, sweating profusely, he brought a basin of warm water, and simply stood in the courtyard to wipe his body.

Xu Ai rushed into the small courtyard as soon as she saw Li Mao's naked back, her face was flushed, she didn't look back to avoid it, but lowered her head and flashed into the house with a food box, leaving Li Mao's muscular upper body in her head.

Li Mao is not tall, only two inches taller than Xu Ai, but his figure is very good, and the lines of his muscles are also very good-looking.

The injuries on Li Mao's face have all healed, although his complexion is still a little dark, and there are two dark circles under his eyes that can never be removed, but his face is no longer so terrifying, just a medium appearance.

With a round face, small eyes and big black circles, after he put on his clothes, he couldn't tell that he was a sword master and a superb assassin at all, but more like a businessman who made money amiably, giving people a sense of harmlessness to humans and animals.

Li Mao wiped his body and returned to the house with a copper basin, he had already found Xu Ai coming in, but in order to avoid embarrassment, he could only pretend not to see Xu Ai come in.

So after entering the door, Li Mao pretended to be startled and made Xu Ai very happy.

Xu Ai opened the food box, took out the breakfast, put it on the table, put the dishes and chopsticks away, and said, "Brother Li, did you go out to see the lanterns last night? Yesterday my mother didn't let me go out, saying that there were many people outside, and I was afraid that I would be injured, so you weren't angry, right?"

Li Mao was not polite, sat at the table, picked up the dishes and chopsticks and began to drink porridge, and said while drinking: "It was really lively outside yesterday, but I walked around the door and came back early to rest." Aunt Nine didn't let you come out yesterday, naturally for your own good, why should I be angry.

Okay, let's eat it. I didn't let you out yesterday, why did you let you out early this morning?"

Xu Ai also picked up the porridge bowl and drank it and said, "I sneaked out in the morning, or my mother wouldn't have allowed me to go out today." ”

Li Mao grabbed a fritter and stuffed it into his mouth and said, "Then you can go back quickly after breakfast here, or Aunt Nine will be in a hurry." ”

Xu Ai put down the porridge bowl and said, "Brother Li, many shops will be open today, I slipped out just to let you accompany me to Taobao again, why are you keeping a straight face?"

Li Mao finished breakfast like a storm and said, "It's still early on the second day of February, and Taobao is not in a hurry for this day." You go back and ask Aunt Jiu, why don't you go out, she naturally has her reasons for doing this, you are a filial child, you can't disobey your mother's will. ”

Xu Ai slowly drank the porridge with a pouting face, looking unconvinced.

Li Mao didn't persuade Xu Ai again, but picked up a pile of "antiques" in the corner of the room and carefully identified them.

Just when the two of them were relatively speechless, suddenly a voice sounded in the courtyard: "Brother Li, are you at home?"

Li Mao's eyes lit up, this voice was Li Renfeng's voice, Li Renfeng somehow, he had recently visited him for the third time, and every time he came, he could give himself some advice and guidance in terms of cultivation, but he hadn't seen him for a few days, and he thought he was gone.

Xu Ai also heard the voice of the young Taoist, she knew that this Taoist priest was coming, Li Mao would definitely not go out with her today, hatefully put the unfinished breakfast into the food box, and then threw down a sentence: "You know that if you bully me, I will never come to bring you breakfast again." ”

After Xu Ai finished speaking, he rushed out of the house, only listening to Li Renfeng and Xu Ai in the courtyard greeting him, Xu Ai snorted loudly, and left without responding to Li Renfeng's greeting.

Li Mao opened the curtain and said to Li Renfeng: "Brother Li Dao, please inside, why are you free to come to see me today?"

Li Renfeng walked into the house with a smile and said, "What's the matter, aren't you welcome me here? Or did I ruin Brother Li's good deeds, I think Miss Xu Ai doesn't welcome me to come to you." ”

Li Mao said: "How could I not welcome Brother Li Dao, I have some cultivation questions I want to ask Brother Li Dao for advice these days." ”

Li Renfeng said: "Actually, I came to say goodbye to Brother Li today, I will leave Dunhuang City today, Jingyunguan has urged me several times, let me go back as soon as possible." ”

Li Mao said with some disappointment: "Oh, then I won't trouble Brother Li Dao today, let me send you." ”

Li Renfeng said: "I'm not in such a hurry to set off, just ask Brother Li if you have any questions about cultivation today, and I will help Brother Li answer them one by one." Actually, I came to Brother Li today to discuss something with Brother Li before leaving. ”

Seeing that Li Renfeng was so formal, Li Mao hurriedly restrained his disappointed look and said, "Brother Li Dao, if there is anything important, please tell me." ”

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