At dawn the next day, Qin Su and Hu Tan went out early and went to Zhaojiazhuang to investigate.

At this time, the wind and snow were blowing again. The sky is full of white flocculents, and it seems to be bigger than the day before. Both of them put on thick clothes and hid in the leeward outside Zhaojiazhuang to look inside.

This Zhao family's courtyard is really big.

The cloud wall stretches for thousands of feet, the corner eaves are stacked on top of each other, and when you look from the outside to the inside, the pavilions of the buildings are scattered, all hidden behind the dead branches of the giant trees, covered by thick white snow, and the white expanse. It is worth the wind and snow again in the morning, this tall and huge gate, in the dense cotton, looks especially magnificent and solemn.

The heavy door is as deep as the sea, although the depth of Zhaojiazhuang can not be compared with the mansion of the prince of the general, but its area and scale, in the city of Longde Mansion can also be regarded as a name, Quxie Corridor, Lotus Pond Jinshan, this layout is quite bold, it is compared with the big families in the east and west of Beijing, and it is not necessarily inferior. The old man left Shushan in his early years, and he had no long things, and began to walk darts for people with a spell, and his hands and eyes gradually widened, and then he set up his own dart bureau, opened a museum and taught apprentices, and fought for decades to build this family business, which is really very human.

However, no matter how big the old man's courtyard is, there is no way to accommodate nearly 1,000 people to participate in the birthday feast at the same time. There is not enough open space to arrange tables.

Zhaojiazhuang encountered a big accident this time, and no one up and down expected that this 70th birthday would attract so many congratulatory guests. Since mid-September, dozens of sect leaders have sent letters to their disciples saying that they will personally rush to Lund Mansion to attend the banquet. Even the elders and disciples, there are 917 people recorded in the roster, not counting those sects that have no time to send letters in remote places, as well as some high-ranking knights whose whereabouts are uncertain.

Banquet for nearly 1,000 people. Even if there are eight people per table, there must be at least a hundred tables in a row to be able to sit down. Even if there is a flowing water seat, many of these guests who have to watch the excitement after eating will need a place to settle down. The courtyard can't be put down no matter what. So, you have to line up the table seats on the street outside.

When Hu Tan and the others arrived at Zhaojiazhuang, they saw more than a dozen servants of the Zhao family shouting to move the table outside. On a street in front of the door, there have been more than ten seats, and on the top of each seat, a shelf has been set up, and a cloth tent is made of yellow and red cotton cloth, and a charcoal stove is placed at the foot of the tent, which is thought to be for the guests to shelter from the wind and snow and keep out the cold.

Qin Su looked at the long queued table and froze. Her previous fears finally came true. Zhaojiazhuang really can't accommodate so many guests, it seems that there will be a lot of people blocked out of the village, Qin and Hu want to mix inside, they have to find a way.

Look left and right, and see the place facing the village gate, at this time, there are more than a dozen people gathered in the black press, all with their hands in their sleeves, talking and laughing loudly. It seems that this is an idler from the left, come to see the excitement. Qin Su pulled Hu Tan. Quietly approaching the past, blending into the crowd and standing still, wanting to hear them.

Unexpectedly, there was a sudden commotion in the village at this time. Someone shouted: "Chen Pai has arrived, hurry up, hurry!

Six or seven young disciples with colorful flowers on their chests rushed out of the door. Scattered to the left and right, one carrying a long hanging firecracker. Twisting incense in his hand.

"Hurry up, don't miss the auspicious time!" shouted someone inside the door.

Not much. A deafening whip sounded. It turned out that this was a ritual to worship the heavens.

It has always been a birthday for the people, the general order is to sacrifice to the heavens and the earth in the early morning, and then face the north three times to thank the emperor, and finally calculate the auspicious time, before the banquet can be held, the message of the Zhao family is that today Shen Shi two o'clock into the auspicious time, so a group of guests will be seated at that time.

Hu Tan has never been through a New Year, seeing some fireworks, very strange, attention was immediately attracted to the past, happily watching people burn firecrackers. Qin Su didn't have the heart to look at these bustles, through the cyan smoke, he looked straight towards the village, and saw that in the village gate, there were two square tables against the wall, and there were pen and inkstone books on the table, and several disciples were moving chairs. It appears that this is used to keep track of guest identities and gift lists. If two people want to get inside, they have to pass this level first.

"Auntie, we went around the corner and jumped in, expecting that they wouldn't find out. When he was thinking about it, Hu Tan happened to come over, and when he saw the layout in the village, he whispered. "I don't believe in such a big yard, they have people guarding every corner. ”

Qin Su shook his head, this method was too risky. Fang is in chaos today, and there will be a fight and killing when he raises his eyes, and Zhao Jiazhuang must have taken precautions for holding this birthday banquet this time. Although Hu Tan is right, it is impossible for every corner to be guarded, but what if there are people watching the corner where the two of them jumped in?

"Or ...... How many insects shall I put to poison them?" Hu Tan saw Qin Su's objection, his eyes rolled, and he stared at the smiling disciples at the gate of Zhuang and came up with another idea, "While they are in a mess, let's run in......" He thought about it, shook his head again, and refuted the plan himself: "Eh, I'm afraid it won't work, if they make a mess, everyone will look this way, and it will be difficult for us to enter." ”

"You don't have to think of these methods," Qin Su glanced at him and said, "If it was so easy for you to fish in troubled waters, other people's Zhuangzi would have fallen a long time ago, and it would still be able to open until now?"

"What then?" said Hu Tan. Looking at the stone lion with a red ribbon at the entrance of the village, pondered. After a while, he suddenly turned his head back and smiled: "Auntie, we don't have to be so troublesome, or just follow the method I said, go up and tell them that we are from Master Kou's house, saying that his house is on fire, or someone in the family is injured, just ask Master Gong to come out and talk." ”

"Nonsense, you want to deceive your master again. Qin Su knocked him and said, "We have a bad reputation now, don't you don't know, now you are here to ask Shigong for help, you used these ridiculous words to deceive him, do you still expect him to believe what we say? If even Shigong doesn't believe us, there will be no one who believes in us in the future." ”

Hu Tan grinned, touched his head, and after a moment, turned his head to think, and then turned his gaze from a few disciples to the table two feet away from the door.

"Auntie, you say...... When they have dinner, I will give some anesthetic to the people at the table? Make some noise, and the people at the door should come out, right? Let's take the opportunity to sneak in, and not too many people will see us. ”

This time, Qin Su didn't even look at him, this little boy had evil thoughts in his head. Don't bother with it.

But how can we get mixed up in the village? Qin Su sighed. The plan she had originally envisioned. When everyone has a banquet, they will casually report their names and go in to celebrate their birthdays. Anyway, there are many sects in the world, and sometimes a few new sects are established in January, and no one is suspicious of indiscriminately setting up an inconspicuous signboard.

Who would have thought that the situation was unexpected, and the disciples of Shushan would use the birthday feast to light the lamp to open the way, which caused a large number of shrimp and river crabs to come to see the excitement, and the qualifications to enter the village were raised. If Qin Su casually made up a name to report to the door, people would see that she was not enough, and they would definitely place her aunt and nephew outside the door.

"What should I do?" Qin Su looked at Zhuang Men in a trance.

As the sun lifted into the middle of the sky, people who came early gradually came forward to report. Sure enough, a few people entered, but more than a dozen people were stopped by the dealer and asked to settle down at the seats on the street. Qin Su heard a man who was dissatisfied: "We came all the way from Fuzhou, why don't we even let the door in? Hang us on the street, Zhaojiazhuang's shelf is inevitably too big!"

One person also helped: "We have come from all over the world to sincerely congratulate the old-timers on their birthdays, how can we say that we are also guests, if we say that there are many people, we are not prepared." It's just that we can't eat the birthday banquet, but we won't even let the village door enter, what kind of hospitality is this?"

A disciple of Zhaojiazhuang made amends to them and said with a smile: "Senior Brother Cheng." Senior Brother Kuang, forgive me, my friends on the road can afford it. Today, so many people came to congratulate him, and the family teacher is really grateful. Brother Cheng lives in Fuzhou. Although we have never visited the door, Hong Hantang is loyal and chivalrous. The disciples are all good men, and Zhaojiazhuang is extremely admired. There is also Senior Brother Kuang's Guangyi Boxing, although today is famous for the first time, but looking at Brother Kuang's bearing, it is expected that he is also an extraordinary person, in the past, the family teacher knew that a few people arrived, he must be very happy, and he will go out to greet him. It's just that today, all the heroes of the world have come to Zhaojiazhuang, a little later Uncle Ye of Qingye Gate, Uncle Tan Congrong of the Twelve Bridges, Liu Zhenlu and Liu Daxia are all coming to congratulate the birthday, the village really can't be arranged, so I can only temporarily grieve the senior brothers, and the family teacher will definitely come out to thank you when you are young. ”

This Hong Hantang has never been in contact with Zhaojiazhuang, and he also came to celebrate his birthday at this time, obviously to see the excitement. The disciple will respond to the guests, first say the words of loyalty, courage and chivalry, heroes and heroes, and promote people together to eliminate hostility, and then bring out the names of Ye Yu and others, so that Hong Hantang and the introspective identity of the surname Kuang know that they cannot sit at the same table with these masters.

Sure enough, after Hong Hantang's surname Cheng heard the words, he immediately softened, and he was stunned for a while, and his tone became stupid: "However, when we eat on the street, we can't see the birthday star, since we are here to celebrate the birthday, we can't even see Uncle Zhao's face, and I really can't say it." ”

"Senior Brother Cheng has a heart! Thank you. The disciple smiled and said, "The senior brothers will meet the family teacher, and the family teacher will come to the front hall to thank him during the banquet." Later...... Senior Uncle Ling Fei, if they have anything to say, they will also be in the front hall. Let's leave the doors open for everyone to see. ”

As soon as everyone heard this, they knew that the Shushan faction was lighting the lamp in the front hall, so they stopped talking and apologized and returned to their seats. At the moment of consideration, more than a dozen people came to report the number, but two or three people still went in, and more than ten people were stopped outside, and they couldn't help but explain again.

Qin and Su stood outside the door, thinking hard, and they could stand guard for more than two hours, seeing that the end was approaching, and the number of cars and horses coming and going on an avenue gradually increased. The door of Zhaojiazhuang has been crowded with guests at this time, and on the streets on both sides, more than a dozen tables a little closer to the door have also been filled with people. Dozens of light carriages, or velvet curtain paint cars, or gold and jade yokes, neatly lined up in the empty space across the street, and more than a dozen tweed warm sedan chairs were mixed in between. I don't know what kind of rich gentry are the substitutes for them. Old Man Zhao is not a pure person in the art world, he is a businessman in the dart industry, and it is not uncommon for him to have friends on some scenes.

Hu Tan grabbed the corner of Qin Su's clothes and said quietly: "Auntie, have you seen that there are several people who don't know martial arts and spells and have entered, and it seems that they are not all divided according to their sects. Qin Su also saw it, not long ago, a fat man with a face full of wine and flesh came out of the sedan chair and was hugged by four Zhuang guests.

"Could it be that the gifts are divided by the gifts?" Hu Tan said, "The gifts given are expensive, and they are distinguished guests, and this is the case in many places." ”

Qin Su nodded. This is a righteous principle, no matter how the world changes, the things of people by wealth will always not change. If you can accumulate more money than others, you are also a capable person, and generally a capable person. It will also be respected.

In the first few years of Qin and Su, they encountered the disadvantages of cold clothes and food lists. I know this very well. Later, Hu Tan sold the charm to make money, and bought a lot of expensive clothes. put on makeup, and since then I have not been troubled by people who are inferior to clothes.

"Why don't we go in as a rich man? Hu Tan said. He had a lot of gold in his hands, and at that time gold was expensive and cheap, one tael of gold could be used as nearly a hundred taels of silver, and there were several thousand taels of silver in the hands of the two of them. However, these things are not suitable for gifts, and it is too late to buy a delicate gift in a hurry.

Another half an hour passed, and the end of the hour had come, and I heard a gong sound of the disciples of Zhaojiazhuang at the front door "boring!", and the colorful music in the village was in full bloom. Qin Su also made up his mind at this time.

"Let's go back after we change our clothes, and if they ask, we'll say it's Master Kou's disciple, and we'll have something to do with him." ”

Hu Tanxi said: "Okay! Okay! Haha, it's still my way! After entering the door, I'll go to make an appointment with my grandfather, aunt, you can wait in the lobby." ”

"I only said that we pretended to be Shigong's disciples, but I didn't say that you should go and trick him out. Qin Su glared at Xiao Tong. said: "Count it up, we are all the descendants of Shigong, and now we are his disciples for emergency purposes, and there is nothing wrong with speaking in theory." I guess Shigong will not be surprised if he knows about it. ”

Two quarters of an hour later, Qin Su Xiaohu Tan stopped dressing up. Riding a horse came to Zhaojiazhuang again.

Two bankers came and took the horse by the hand. The disciples who welcomed the guests did not dare to slack off when they saw a young woman dressed in Duli and a young man stepping into the door. After singing the news in unison, someone suddenly came to greet him: "Girl." Childe, it's hard work! I don't know where you two come from?"

"We are from Mingzhou, and our teacher is Kou Jingting. Qin Su said lightly, a little nervous in his heart, but he didn't dare to show the slightest expression on his face.

"It turned out to be the junior sister and younger brother of Xianyoumen, not an outsider. The disciple laughed, glanced at Qin Su, and said, "It's just that Senior Sister's eyes are tight, last year Master and I went to visit Uncle Kou, but we didn't see the two of them. ”

Qin Su smiled slightly, to hide the uneasiness in his heart, and replied: "There are more than 100 people in the Xianyou Sect, and the senior brother naturally won't know all of them. I think I was still at the foot of the mountain at that time, the sect always had some affairs to do, how could I enjoy happiness like a senior brother, and I could stay in the Zhuangzi all day long and listen to the teachings of Uncle Zhao. ”

The disciple laughed and said, "This is also true, people can't help themselves in the rivers and lakes, in fact, we are the same, running around all year round." Speaking of which, my sister may not believe it, but we have spent more time outside than at home this year, hehe...... By the way, I haven't invited the senior sister and this little junior brother to honor their names, Uncle Kou hasn't arrived at this time, let the two of you come first, don't be happy to go to someone else's house to be a guest, right?"

It turned out that Kou Jingting hadn't come yet, and Qin Su was a little disappointed in his heart. However, when this disciple spoke like this, he had obviously temporarily dispelled his suspicions about the two, Qin Su suppressed the loss in his heart, and replied with a smile: "My name is Su Qin, and he is Hu Tan." The master told us to come first, and he arrived later...... We don't know what he did. As he spoke, Hu Tan stepped forward, took out a silk cloth package from his arms and handed it over. He smiled and said: "This is the gift we have prepared, and we are happy to give the old birthday star justice!" The master told us that the gift is too light, it is difficult to express our hearts, please don't be surprised. "This is the item he snatched from the hands of the Lieyang Daoist yesterday, although I don't know what it is for, but seeing that Lieyang cherishes it and puts it in his arms, it is expected to be worth a lot.

Qin Su saw the young man's move, and thought to himself: "In the end, it's still Tan'er who is clever." As Kou Jingting's disciples, the two knocked on the door before the master to congratulate, is there a gift of not carrying a gift? As soon as the little boy heard that Kou Jingting had not yet come, he immediately reacted and took out this object from his arms for emergency.

The disciple glanced at Hu Tan in surprise and said with a smile: "Senior Brother Hu is polite. When he got it in his hand and smelled the aroma, he suddenly 'huh', sniffed the package in front of his nose, and whispered: "High-grade hyssop! Uncle Kou gave such a heavy gift, but it was too expensive!"

Hu Tan arched his hand and smiled: "Where, where, the sword is sent to the strong man, and the rouge is sent to the beautiful woman......" was about to talk nonsense, but he felt a tightness in the back of his neck, and was gently pinched by Qin Su, so he said and stopped talking. After the politeness was over, the disciple invited the two into the village, and a servant boy came to guide the way. The aunt and nephew walked in, and as soon as they approached the flower pond in the vestibule, a disciple of Zhike shouted: "Xianyoumen disciples Su Qin and Hu Tan are here, and they are seated inside!"

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