Chapter 231: Guests Gathered
The days of preparation seemed a bit rushed, and every day there were always places that needed to be corrected, and when the first guest handed over the gift list outside the mountain gate, the Moon Shadow Sect seemed to realize that the ceremony of the founding of the sect was just around the corner. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
The disciples put down their work and stopped training, and ran to the financial management hall on the martial arts field and construction site, each wearing two finely made samurai uniforms, a gold silk soft armor, long and short swords shining with cold light, leading long knives with short swords, leading long swords with short swords, and leading long swords with short swords, from head to toe from the inside to the outside of a new look.
"The festival is coming, the double happiness of the opening of the sect is coming, and the head of the sect has preached: in addition to the usual practice, each disciple will be rewarded with one hundred taels of silver on the festival, and two hundred taels each for the opening ceremony and the founding ceremony. ”
The disciples of the Moon Shadow Sect are in charge of food, clothing, housing and transportation, and they are also paid pocket money every month according to their positions, which is slightly lower than the salary when they serve in the army, which is enough to make the family worry about food and clothing, most people do not have a home, but the head of the sect has long passed the word that there is no conflict between practicing martial arts and refining qi and marrying a wife and starting a family, and there must always be a home in the future.
"Gao Yuan, go through the back door, first record my son in his name, Moon Shadow Sect, better treatment than when we were in the standard camp. ”
The sect was established, and the old fox misheard the slander, Hua Yue did not send an invitation card to scatter a challenge book, so that Dugu could not cry or laugh after taking office, and the reissue of the invitation was a bit prestigious, so he had to send someone to invite the elder to watch the ceremony as a remedy, the Wolf God Sect, Cuihua Palace, Donghai County Palace, Meiling General Village Lord and Xiangyun Yanhou Mansion, who knew that An Yuanhou Zhuo would be the first to come to congratulate.
"I remember that I didn't send you an invitation, I didn't invite myself, the old prince is not to blame?"
"This sentence is regarded as an apology to me, my father doesn't dare to come, what if you want to leave all the four county kings as hostages, and seize the spies to ransom the silver, hahaha. ”
Excellence came to congratulate, only the name was written on the gift list and did not mention the official, and Gao Yuan and others talked to the name and surname, Dugu was worry-free and less worried, and his friend Lizong rushed to congratulate the common feelings, and did not make the suspicion of the prince of the county.
"Before I came, my father called me to scold, I was obsessed with women, my cultivation was slow, I love to fight for power but I don't have the strength, anyway, I scolded me badly enough. My son is six years old, hehe, of course it's not a grandson, I can afford the tuition, you have to collect it if you can collect it or not, and my father probably has a knack for making friends. ”
Zhuo Zhuo asked people to bring his son, and without waiting for Gao Yuan to speak, he kowtowed and said, "Zhuo Min, call Master." The child's eyebrows are delicate, and there is a faint shadow of excellence, Gao Yuan remembered the years of the standard camp, and did not avoid accepting the apprenticeship ceremony, helped him up and said with a smile: "Zhuo Min, you also want to enter the academy and practice all kinds of introductory skills, the master is poor, and there is no good way to meet the gift, go to the martial arts hall to receive the original heart method." ”
"Master Xie. The Moon Shadow disciple led Zhuo Min to the martial arts hall, and Zhuo Zhuo scolded enviously: "There is a cultivation method at the beginning, Lao Tzu must know it early and have a few more children." ”
"Marquis An Yuan Zhuo, the disciples and the gift list are all accepted, you go and play, no one will greet you. Gao Yuan hugged his fists and said goodbye, flicked his sleeves and led the person away, Zhuo Zhuo's heart was warm, and he told his entourage and guards: "Don't embarrass Benhou, don't trespass on the island, and wait for the ceremony if you want to play." ”
A few days later, Meiling's team arrived at the lake, Meilian jumped ashore from the boat, crying out of the corner of her eyes, among the guards, the witch protector, the head of Meiling, and her father Mei Yinglong pretended to be an ordinary guard, and came to marry her in person.
"Miss, the owner of the village is too busy to go out of the mountain, don't be wronged, go back to the island first. ”
As soon as the accompanying elders waved their eyes, the guards carried the boxes and cages on the boat, and the dowry was used to show off, silk silk, gold, silver and jade, rare antiques, Ding furnace elixir, maid and house slave everything, and it took half an hour to carry it, and the disciples of the various sects who watched the excitement by the lake were all red-eyed, what kind of Moon Shadow Academy, grab various businesses out of thin air, you will be short of silver flowers.
"Get up, Meiling is handed over to your brother, you can come and go often in the future, go and talk to your mother and sister-in-law, Daddy will rest for a while, and go to the old fox and Qin Laoguo to compete." ”
"Daddy-" Mei Lian was ashamed and annoyed, how could there be the etiquette of a martial arts competition when they met, Mei Yinglong smiled indifferently: "If you don't take advantage of this competition, how can you let people know that the daughter of the Mei family is not easy to bully." You are busy, Daddy is measured in this matter, there is a big sacrifice, and no one will be injured by mistake. ”
"The Great Priest is also here?"
"Daddy accompanied him halfway, broke up a few days ago, and the old man was sitting on the island. ”
Mei Lian completely put her mind at ease, there are martial saints sitting on Xiaoyao Island, few sects dare to ignore the rules, look at the dowry full of several boats, and ask with a red face: "Daddy, what-" Mei Yinglong explained: "Not only Meiling, the witch king has a generous gift, I Mei Yinglong married a daughter, which one dares not to congratulate, your brother and sister-in-law are not allowed to stay, all let the packing and delivery." ”
The Mei family showed the dowry in advance, the Wen family, the Yuwen family and the Linghu family were not far behind, the three seemed to be in a competition, to see who had a thick background, and the result was that Linghu Qing won steadily, she backed Cuihua Palace, and no one could compare to Dugu Royal in terms of wealth. The queen asked people to open the inner treasury of the palace, forcing her to pick at least nine treasures that could be hidden in the royal inner treasury, which one of them was a rare treasure, which caused Yu Wenjie to make a lot of noise afterwards, and Duguying had to give her a few to make up for it.
Singing and laughing on the island, Mei Ruo was smiling in front of the snowman, and returned to the room with tears rolling, the marriage was imminent, the families showed the dowry in advance, she was separated from Washington by blood for seven or eight generations, there were no relatives in the family, she never cried on the battlefield, assassinated alone, captured and humiliated, whenever she was alone these days, the tears were difficult to control, and the daughter's thoughts had no one to confide in. Hearing Yan Ning's summons, he hurriedly washed his face, he had always been plain and did not use powder, he honed his mentality in danger, and when he walked out of the door, he had regained his calm, and no one could see the true emotion.
Yan Ning's heart is even more aggrieved, her daughter Yueying will be four years old during the New Year, she and Gao Yuan have never had a wedding, and their parents are angry when they mention it, the eldest lady of Yanhou Mansion, the owner of thousands of miles of prairie, brought back her granddaughter without saying a word, and it is even more embarrassing to go to make up for the wedding, not to mention that there are Hua Yue and Duguying in front of her.
Yan Ning was wronged, compared her heart to her heart, and could better understand Mei Ruoxue's suffering, and secretly prepared a dowry for her with complicated feelings. No one knows whether it was intentional or unintentional, once the sisters got together, Yan Ning mentioned it lightly, who knew that Hua Yue and Duguying both laughed after hearing it.
On the shore of Qingping Lake, it seems that a small town is rising, the shops are lined with pedestrians, most of them carry swords and swords, the elite instructors of the standard camp of the nine counties, gathered in Kyoto on the order of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, attracting countless noble children to come, the Moon Shadow Academy is about to open, and all sects and factions either come to congratulate on their own, or have the heart of competition, and the best of the young warriors of the empire gather.
The Sunset Empire selected the essence to respond to the battle, and more than a dozen martial arts sects brought hundreds of young disciples, from various sects, but at this time the mood was the same, defeating the arrogant Qinghui warriors, it was because they did not go to Xiaoyao Island to congratulate them, stationed in the town, and publicly stated that they wanted to teach the Moon Shadow Academy a lesson, and welcomed other sects to compete at any time, and took the lead in provoking trouble by the lakeside.
Because of the Meiling relationship, the people from the various sects of the Witch Sect were restrained, the elders went to Xiaoyao Island as guests, and the disciples stayed in the town, not saying that they wanted to pick the Moon Shadow Academy, but they didn't go to cause trouble, the warriors of the Three Kingdoms would cause melee every day, and the patrol of the criminal department was too busy, and the military department transferred two battalions of infantry and one battalion of cavalry to completely block the town from the outside, so that the situation would not get out of control.
On the lakeside, the three teams came at the same time, and all the sects and factions were a little confused, what was the idea of the Moon Shadow Academy, whether they wanted to establish a sect and run a school or get married, could they be deliberately showing off their financial resources to bully people, even some of the elders of the sect felt that they had done too much, but it did not affect the fact that they took their disciples to see the excitement. Linghu Qing's dowry has caused a storm in the aristocratic circle, and as soon as the three teams appeared, the women along the road were exclaimed, because the three teams were showing the dowry for one person, Dugu Royal, Zhenguohua Mansion and Huaiyuan Yanhou Mansion, which of the dowries were eye-popping and heartbeating.
Mei Ruoxue was stunned, she could think that Miss Huayue would buy her a dowry, but she definitely didn't dare to imagine that it would be so rich, and the leader of the escort dowry turned out to be the descendant of the Huagong Mansion, and the young lady's marriage may be equipped with this scene. The dowry of the Dugu royal family will naturally make people jealous, but everyone's eyes are on the person who gave the dowry, the young son of the Rui King of the Qinghui Empire.
"Sister, my father said that the preparations were a little hasty, and if there is anything in the future, I can come to the house to get it at any time. Duguying laughed in a low voice beside her and said: "I forgot to say, Princess Rui accepted you as a righteous daughter, hehe, Xi Miao and I don't dare to compete for the first, the team is still behind, don't cry, you should be born and die for the royal family." ”
The dowry of Yanhou Mansion is the most eye-catching, only a piece of paper is pressed on the tray at the beginning, in order to solve the confusion of the onlookers, Yan Ning pressed the flag of the Chamber of Commerce on the paper, and the well-informed old people explained to the disciples: "Generous gifts, real generous gifts, I don't understand, Yanhou regards the shares of the Chamber of Commerce as a dowry, do you know how much silver there is in dividends every year? Let's put it this way, it is enough for you to spend a few lifetimes of wine." ”
The dowries of the three families were loaded and shipped away, and the teams of Cuihua Palace and Ximiao County Lord came over, and the two sisters enjoyed the prince's salary, and the dowry they gave was almost identical, not as rich as the Rui Wangfu, but it was almost the same, not that they couldn't afford to give it, but they had to consider etiquette.
The people of the Moon Shadow Sect escorted the boat back to Xiaoyao Island, it was rare that no one in the lakeside town used a knife or a gun that day, and they did not dare to be as presumptuous as usual, the three direct children of the Qinghui royal family were present, and there were many hidden guards in the crowd.
"Ruoxue, the family rules have to be explained first, don't give Gao Yuan, he has dozens of taels on him, just enough for pocket flowers, giggles, someone didn't allow him to exceed three taels before. After settling the guests, Hua Yue, Yan Ning, Dugu Ying and Mei Ruoxue got together, Hua Yue made the words clear and said: "I won't stay and get married, giggles, save money for both governments." Neither of them is short of money, don't be fooled in the future, be especially careful of the shadow, hmph, like her mother, she has loved to calculate people since she was a child. ”
"Sister, I've changed everything. Yan Ning whispered shyly, she knew that Hua Yue had something to say, and Mei Lian designed various sects in the casino, after the sect bet, the two of them tacitly raised their own bets, afraid of gossip, one in the name of her daughter, and the other in the name of Meiling Chamber of Commerce. Dugu Ying woke up like a dream, and the Kyoto casino set off a betting wind, daring to love that Yan Ning and Mei Lian were making trouble, and reminded on the side: "Ruoxue, the business of the Chamber of Commerce will be handed over to the second sister as usual, and let Mr. Wuwu check the accounts every year, giggles, I dare to guarantee that the second sister bought other people's share capital in advance." ”
"I made a mistake in saving my daughter's dowry. ”
"Miss, they can't take it away, and the guards in our hospital won't listen to other people's orders. ”
Mei Ruoxue is not stupid, Miss made it clear, everyone's money is in charge, and if you have children in the future, you will naturally divide your relatives, Dugu Ying will not be the first to be in favor of mixing together, or she will suffer too much, who has Dugu Royal and rich, and she is still the thinnest in terms of family background.
"Don't say anything hurtful about feelings, okay? Hehe, whether people come to congratulate or fight, the academy always has to do the friendship of the landlord during the festival, and it is too chaotic to invite all the people to the island, so that the town will have a banquet for six days, and all the expenses will be recognized by the academy, so as not to send someone to greet them. ”
Duguying agreed: "Good idea, but I won't come, the royal etiquette is cumbersome, and I can't get out of it before the fifth day of the new year." Yan Ning slanted his eyes and said: "The affairs of the academy and the sect, where do you have the right to speak, giggle." ”
The four sisters all laughed, and the guards came in to report that Mei Lian, Yu Wenjie and Ling Hu Qingquan were here, and the house was lively.
"Grandpa asked me to resign from the military, hehe, I will fight in the martial arts school, and I will not lose. Yan Ning and Mei Lian objected in unison: "No, if you want to win, we will lose money, and most of the bets are on the martial school and the martial arts sect." ”
The Moon Shadow Academy does not have a strong martial arts school, and it can't hide from the various sects, Yan Ning let out the wind, Gao Yuan recovered from his injuries and had to play, most of the casinos pressed the Moon Shadow Academy to win, after all, Gao Yuan has a martial arts realm, his sword skills are among the best in the empire, and it is not against the rules to play, and the qi refining and cultivation is placed there, even the martial arts school can't reach it, and everyone knows that he was injured and lost his cultivation and resigned from the military.
"Silver or honor?"
Wen Qingrou didn't give up, she would rather lose her capital than give up the title, Yu Wenjie followed the coaxing, anyway, the Moon Shadow Academy can afford to lose money, according to the assumptions of the Ministry of Military Affairs and the Ministry of Civil Affairs, only once in the next six years will be held in the standard camp competition, and she will not suffer a loss for six years to maintain the title, she can't wait for her family to play.
"The instructor is right, let Gao Yuan deliberately lose, and he is not happy in his heart. I don't care how you two make money, you can't make a loss-making deal, and you can't trade samurai honor, so let the instructor play. Don't stare at the two of you, people don't know the details, why do you dare to bet, Qing'er is also there, and then go to Mr. Sanssouc, the four of them can't earn back the silver, and they deserve to be embarrassed. ”
In another courtyard, Qin Rufeng was also muttering, how to win and make money at the same time, and the excellence came forward to bet, the reason is very sufficient, and the young master Qin, who has never lacked silver tickets in his arms, also let Mei Lian control the source of wealth, a man must always have silver to strengthen his courage, and there is no money in his arms The hero is short of breath, he wanted to find Dugu Wuwu to come up with an idea, but he didn't say a few words to let him out, and threatened to report to the master, and a few people didn't let him go out of the door.
"A few, even if there is a way, where is the gambling book?"
The discussion was impossible in the middle of the night, and several people were deflated by his words, and Yan Ning took all the money he brought to bet, with three points of interest, no risk and high return. Li Changgong came up with a bad idea: "Don't be angry if you don't have money to spend, obviously you can't spend it if you have money." Or one of them steals one piece and takes it to the pawnshop, earns the money, and redeems it. Zhuo Zhuo slipped to the door before saying goodbye: "Three, it's late at night, I have to go to see my son, you talk slowly." ”
"Hey, you don't have to steal it, Meiling meets the gift, one pill per person, and sells it as a gambling book. ”
Mei Yinglong was generous, the core disciples had a secret medicine for each person, which had a price in Kyoto and could be sold for tens of thousands, and the three of them were afraid of poverty, so they took out the pill and found excellence, and they all let him buy it, the price was very fair, 50,000 silver per pill, and he threatened to buy it in the future.
"Outsiders don't know Ruoxue's lineage, most of them will lose if they pressure her, and we will win and make no losses. ”