On this morning, while talking, the three of them saw the outline of Raozhou City from a distance.

It was a winter morning, the air was cold, and the scenery was depressed in the morning light. On the post road west of the city at your feet, the leaves on the trees on both sides have long since fallen off. The northwesterly wind blowing from the countryside swept through the bare branches of the trees and onto the pedestrians, pouring a chill down their necks into their collars. On the roads outside the city, there is an endless stream of pedestrians entering the city, most of them shrinking their necks and hurrying with their heads in a hurry, hoping to enter the city as soon as possible, find a place to rest, and warm their bodies.

Of course, although these northwest winds blowing around the body were cold, they had no effect on the three of them. In the cold wind, Xue Yi's expression was more relaxed than usual, and the jade-like plain hand carried a coarse cloth bag and followed behind Xingyan. At this time, Qiong Wei was still so active, running forward and backwards, and occasionally found a dead leaf left on the branches of the trees beside the road, as if he had encountered a big discovery, and excitedly asked the hall owner's brother Xue Yijie to look up together.

Seeing her innocence, the young man who was about to be in a mood in the township couldn't help but calm down a little, and a smile appeared on his face.

Not long after, the three of them stepped into the gate hole of Raozhou City. When I came to the city, the tall city wall behind me blocked the cold wind blowing in the wilderness, and the street in front of me was bustling with pedestrians, and the vendors on both sides of the road were shouting and shouting. The brisk city scene makes this cold winter day a little warmer, and at this time, the bright sunlight shines in from the battlements of the city wall and shines on people, making people feel so warm.

Entering Raozhou City, listening to the noisy and cordial country sound, breathing the unique aroma of food in the morning market in his mouth and nose, the wanderer who has been traveling abroad for two years suddenly felt for the first time in his life that there was a familiar smell in his hometown; no matter how far he walked and how long he left, he would never forget it.

"Is this the city my brother used to talk about?"

Beside the young man with a complicated expression, Qiong Wei was rolling his dark eyes, looking around curiously.

"Yes! This is Raozhou City. Brother has been in this city for more than ten years!"

Speaking of which, this Raozhou City is not big, and he is fighting in the city when he is young, so it stands to reason that those neighbors should have recognized him a long time ago. It's just that after walking for most of the day, although there are many pedestrians in the market behind him, and the traders and citizens next to him also point fingers at them, but after a few streets, no one called out his name!

Perhaps, the teenager of that year has grown up. Two years of cultivation and tempering have been enough to change him from a poor little guy who lives all day long to a handsome son, and more importantly, the two girls around him at this moment are both delicate and beautiful, the little girl is bright, the eldest daughter is out of the dust, and the action is like a heavenly person.

The posture and posture of the second daughter, even if it is placed in the beautiful Yangzhou City, is already extraordinary; now walking in this small city, how can we not let the city be full of commotion! For a while, even those neighbors who had a great relationship with Xingyan back then all stared at the two peerless girls beside him with two eyes - a pair of eyes is no longer enough, how can they care to check who is walking with them?

These amazing citizens still couldn't believe their eyes: "Are you dazzled?

Not to mention the commotion of the crowd everywhere he went, and then he said soberly, with the two female disciples in the hall, he turned two more streets and came to a place he was very familiar with.

As soon as he arrived here, Xingyan saw a fat man shouting hard in front of the steps: "Uncles, aunts, sons and ladies who come and go from the south to the north! Come and enjoy breakfast in our Daoxiang Building! Our Daoxiang Building, but the restaurant that the master of the Shangqing Palace once took care of!"

...... Listening to this duck-like broken gong voice, needless to say, it must be the miserly fat shopkeeper. Immediately Xingyan stepped forward and greeted with a smile: "I said shopkeeper Liu, business is good!"

"That's that, Cheng Hui Cheng Hui!"

Hearing someone praise, the shopkeeper Liu, the owner of Daoxiang Building, quickly turned his head to see who this good man was.

"Are you...... Oops!"

After all, he is a person who opens the door to do business, and this chubby Boss Liu really has amazing eyesight; Immediately, the shopkeeper of the restaurant, who was in good health, turned around suddenly, ran up the steps and fled to the door of the restaurant.

"Stop!"

The fat shopkeeper who was in a panic almost ran two steps, only to see a figure flashing in front of him, and the young man who was offended by him back then was already in front of him!

"Oops!"

Seeing that there was no way ahead, Shopkeeper Liu hurriedly turned around, but as soon as he turned around, he only felt a cold air coming, and the two pretty girls in front of him were blocking in front of him with an unkind face.

Seeing this, the fat shopkeeper Liu had no choice but to turn around, and said to the young man in front of him with a sneer: "Ahem, Hall Master Zhang, it was wrong to be small back then, it was my dog's eyes that looked down on people!

After smiling and pleading, he waited for the young man to fall, but when he really raised his eyebrows and wanted to speak, the shopkeeper Liu immediately turned pale with fright, and hurriedly begged: "Hall Master Zhang!

Seeing that he was so scared, Xingyan smiled and said: "Old boss, where did you say you went? I, the hall master, am not in vain, how can I care about those trivial things with you back then!"

"Huh?"

As soon as these words came out, the anxious shopkeeper Liu suddenly heard of the amnesty. I don't know if it's a psychological effect, as soon as the lazy young man finished speaking, the bone-chilling coldness behind him suddenly disappeared. It's just that the shopkeeper Liu breathed a sigh of relief, and after thinking about it, he felt that something was wrong, so he cautiously asked: "Since the hall master doesn't want to take revenge, then I don't know why he wants to catch me?"

"Hah!"

Hearing his question, Xingyan laughed again, and then said solemnly: "That's the case, just now I heard you using me as a guise to attract customers -- you should know that back then, when I and the old man Qinghe walked the streets and alleys to help people clean their houses and invite God, the goodwill was excellent;

"Whew~"

Although the young man's expression was serious and he spoke seriously at this moment, Shopkeeper Liu was really relieved from the bottom of his heart. After settling down, his fat face smiled profusely, and he hurriedly invited Hall Master Zhang and the two fairies to go upstairs to inspect together. Listening to his invitation, Xingyan took Xue Yiqiongwei upstairs happily, checked the price of the dishes with great interest, and then roughly looked at the dishes that had been served in front of the diners in the building, and knew that this Daoxiang Building, although it was quite bad in the past, but now it is really refreshing, and the price is cheap. Looking at the empty place to ask the reason, the shopkeeper Liu immediately said that this is all the credit of the awakening, because with his golden signboard, the natural guests are like clouds, so why bother to ...... Speaking of this, the fat shopkeeper suddenly woke up and quickly shut up.

After the inspection, Shopkeeper Liu tried his best to keep Xingyan and a few people to eat in the restaurant, but at this moment, Xingyan was like an arrow, how could he be in the mood to eat. Seeing that he insisted on leaving, the shopkeeper Liu, who was sincerely grateful, had no choice but to tell the chef in the room to make a first-class banquet and send it to Zhangfu in Horseshoe Mountain later.

After that, Xingyan asked some more general questions, and then left the restaurant with Qiong Wei Xueyi and went to the east of the city.

When they walked away, the happy shopkeeper Liu suddenly solved a doubt in his heart: "Ah! The old man of Qinghe that Hall Master Zhang said is not the real person of Qinghe in the Shangqing Horseshoe Courtyard!"

Thinking of this, the shopkeeper of the wine shop couldn't help but be in awe and awe, and thought sincerely: "Alas, it's all mortals like me who have no eyesight! No wonder this old man and young man walked so close back then, it turns out that they are not mortals!"

Not to mention the awe in his heart, but also to a corner of the two streets across the Daoxianglou, where there is now a porridge shed, in which two small Taoist priests are sitting in the shed, responsible for giving porridge to the poor and distributing winter clothes.

However, it is a little strange that if it were changed elsewhere, there would have been a crowd of people in front of such a good porridge shed, and there would be an endless stream of people in ragged clothes. But now this porridge shack marked "Shangqing Good Fate Place" is full of doors, and no one has come for a long time. Therefore, these two little Taoist priests, who had nothing to do, were now leaning against the bamboo poles that held up the shed, basking in the sun with their hands in their hands.

Just as he was lazily passing the time like this, one of the young Taoists suddenly pushed the little Taoist priest next to him who was staring at the back of the pedestrian, and said, "Brother Jingchen, do you see that the young man who passed by just now doesn't look like the original Zhang Xingyan?"

"Oh?"

The Taoist friend who was looking at the pure dust was pushed by the Taoist priest next to him, and then he woke up like a dream, and suddenly said: "Zhang Xingyan, I'm ashamed, I patronized the two fairies just now, and I didn't pay attention to the ...... of others."

At the end of the sentence, Jingchen had completely sobered up, and said in surprise: "Hey, Jingming, what you just said about the good Zhang Tang Master? Isn't he enjoying Qingfu on Luofu Mountain......

Not to mention whether they were dizzy after arguing about whether Jingming was dazzled, and then speaking clearly, after walking a few streets and turning a few street corners, when he was about to reach the east gate of the city, he still deliberately paid attention to the Li Ji grocery store near the east gate. It's just that the girl in the store who was haunted by dreams didn't see it, but saw a simple-looking young man who was busy greeting customers at the counter. After looking at it, he recognized that the young man was the son of Wang Carpenter, who was less than half a street away from here, and Wang Dayou. It seems that now this big brother Wang has married his childhood sweetheart Li Xiaomei......

Walking like this, it didn't take long for the three of them to walk out of the East City Gate and set foot on the official road to Horseshoe Mountain. I don't know if it's because of the rise of the eastern suburbs of Horseshoe Mountain, the rugged country post road in the original memory has now become flat and wide, and three carriages can almost drive side by side. After wandering around the states and counties for so long, it is really rare to see such a wide and tidy official road.

Along the way, Xingyan saw many pedestrians, holding incense bags with "Shangqing horseshoe" embroidered on them. Needless to say, these must be the good men and women of the Horseshoe Dao Institute of the Shangqing Palace.

About half an hour later, Xingyan followed the instructions of the shopkeeper Liu and took the second daughter straight to Horseshoe Mountain. Not long after, the three of them saw that at the foot of the towering and cloud-shrouded mountain, there was a sunny tea shed beside the road, and a "tea-free money" banner was fluttering in the wind.

According to Shopkeeper Liu, Mrs. Zhang, who is the father and mother of Xingyan, should accumulate virtue and do good deeds in that tea shed at this moment, and provide free tea to pilgrims and tourists in the past.

Along the way, I finally have to see my father and mother.

"Ahh

Suddenly, I saw two outstanding-looking girls stop in front of the tea shed, and the kind aunt who was idle in front of the tea shed hurriedly greeted her, took the two tea bowls with her hands and feet, put some tea fragrant tablets, and prepared tea for them. It's just that when I was so busy, I saw that the two girls were motionless, standing in front of the tea shed and not coming in.

Seeing this, Xingyan Niang was a little surprised, and was about to ask each other, but suddenly heard a familiar voice coming from behind them: "Mother!

“......”

The voice was not loud, but it was extremely clear, and Xingyan Niang couldn't help but be stunned for a while. After a while, she made up her mind, and she saw that in the bright sunlight in front of the tea shed, there was a baby child who she had been worried about for an unknown number of times—yes!

After being stunned for a moment, the simple village woman finally came to her senses, and the whole person became panicked, and her hands kept rubbing, not knowing where to put it.

"The boy is his father, the child is his father, the son is back!"

After panicking for a while, she remembered to remind her wife, so she yelled into the shed.

"Panic. ”

The old man, who was chatting happily with his old man in the corner of the tea shed, saw that his wife was panicking, so he was very dissatisfied, and said, "Why are you yelling so loudly?

"Huh?!'s my son back?"

At this time, even Lao Zhangtou knew that Xingyan'er was back!

When the excitement calmed down a little, Xingyan Niang put down a wooden sign in front of the tea shed, and even took off the apron, so she welcomed her son home with her wife. And it wasn't until they walked home for a long time that the old couple realized that the two girls who were like flowers and jade, like fairies in the play, were actually with their son! Moreover, their names were still so strange.

When they arrived at home, the two girls gave the old couple a salute: "Kou Xueyi, the maidservant under the main seat of the Sihai Hall, has worshiped the old lady!"

"Brother Xingyan's little sister Zhang Qiongwei has visited her uncle and aunt!"

It wasn't until this time that Xingyan realized that he was still negligent, and he forgot to discuss with the two girls how to call them along the way.

After meeting her father, Xue Yi took out two pairs of green cloth shoes embroidered with the word "longevity" from her baggage, and presented them to her parents with slightly shy hands, saying that this was a small gift from the two sisters to the father and mother of the hall.

At this time, the old Zhangtou couple saw that these two girls were gentle and polite, and they were so happy that they couldn't keep their mouths together! And the awakening lady first showed her husband the cloth shoes, and then took them to her hands to watch them repeatedly, and the more she looked at them, the more surprised she became, and she couldn't help but praise: "Miss Kou, you are really a popular woman! Look at this stitch, you can't do it without more than ten years of hard work!"

Xingyan Niang only praised Xueyi, because such a delicate stitch is unlikely to be pierced by the pink little girl. After hearing his mother's words, he quickly reminded him and asked his mother to call Miss Kou "Xueyi" directly.

At this moment, the little sister who was waiting for praise with a shy face hurriedly reminded her brother's mother: "Auntie, that word was written by me~"

"Really?"

Hearing Qiong Wei say this, the Zhang couple suddenly stood in awe: "This word is so beautiful, just like an auspicious cloud!"

To them, those who are literate are very respectable, and not to mention such a small girl!

After meeting for the first time, the Zhang couple hurriedly gathered lunch. Although the father and mother of the awakening suddenly got rid of poverty because of their son, they are used to being mountain people all their lives, and they are still very kind and simple. Now for their two elders, the return of their son is not so important, how to entertain these two distinguished guests is a first-class problem!

And in the midst of this busyness, the two fairy-like distinguished guests were always thinking of helping, so in this mountain dwelling, the sound of excuses was endless.

After a while, just as Lao Zhangtou was about to go to the chicken coop in the yard to catch chickens to kill, a few city companions came to the door with food boxes, saying that Boss Liu from Daoxianglou asked them to send them and invited Zhang's family to enjoy them.

Aside from the gossip, in the afternoon of this day, the news that the little brother of the Zhang family brought two girls home for the New Year spread throughout the entire Horseshoe Mountain Village like wings. The Zhang family has always had a good relationship with the neighbors, and after becoming rich, they do not look forward to helping the poor in the village; so now that they heard that the son of the Zhang family had returned, those enthusiastic mountain people asked their mother-in-law to hold the chicken and duck pickles and give them to the Zhang family.

And in addition to the adults coming to the door, the little ladies in those villages also came to see the "sisters" and "daughters-in-law" brought back by the Zhang family's elder brothers.

Looking at the children lying on the doorpost and looking at him curiously, Xiao Qiongwei was very hospitable and invited them into the house to play. When the initial timidity was over, this group of little men who were still wearing open crotch pants began to ask: "Sister Qiong Wei, are you really the little sister of Brother Xingyan?"

"Yes, it's still a child daughter-in-law~"

Someone called her "sister", and Qiong Wei suddenly smiled on her face.

"But, Sister Qiong Wei, why has Er Ya never seen you?

The one who raised this question was a fat girl who wore a floral cotton jacket and was a head shorter than Qiong Wei. This little girl is questioning in a milky voice: "My brother and I have known each other in the village for a long time~"

Listening to her ridiculous question, Qiong Wei replied confidently without thinking about it: "Sister Erya, sister was picked up by your brother Xingyan halfway!"

"Is that so?"

Listening to Qiong Wei's answer, the children around were a little skeptical. However, the chubby Erya accepted the answer: "It turns out that my sister is the same as Erya! I asked my mother, and Erya was also picked up by her halfway!"

"That's it!"

After listening to Erya's words, there was a chorus of echo all around him. It's just that in the midst of this applause, a slightly older boy has an objection: "Fat girl, you are not right! I heard my mother say that I picked it up from the haystack behind my house! So—"

The boy said with great confidence: "So the fat girl and everyone else should have picked it up from the haystack in my backyard!"

Immediately, this remark caused a controversy among the children.

"It's so cute!"

Seeing this group of children arguing, Qiong Wei sighed a little in her heart: "What a child! The idea is so weird and interesting!"

Thinking of this, Xiao Qiongwei hurriedly turned around and took a box of candy bought on the road and distributed it to this group of cute friends.

After skipping the gossip, about an hour after lunch, a Taoist boy suddenly came to the door of Xingyan's house. I saw this little Taoist priest in green clothes and white socks, after entering the door to salute, he bowed to Xingyan, and said in a clear voice: "Uncle Yu, Jingyun has received the order of Qinghe Zhenren, please go to the back mountain to think about the cliff and talk to the real person!"