There are still a few days left before the New Year, but this day, it seems that the New Year Festival has entered early, and it is very lively.

Because the young prefect who had brought many shocks to all Li people in just a few months came back with the Lijun Light Cavalry who had made great achievements in combat.

They entered the city from the north gate of Licheng, passed through the most spacious main street of Licheng, and under the gaze of countless people, they walked all the way to the Prefect's Palace.

And among the bloody and powerful army, the young man in thick blood-colored armor was Luo Chuan.

Only on the next day, the results of the Northern Expedition of Lijun were sent to all directions in the territory in the form of the most official document stamped with the seal of the prefect, showing all Li people everything that a prefect who was full of ambition and imagination could bring to them.

As a result, the entire Licheng fell into an uncontrollable carnival. Even if they had heard countless good news and more rumors before, they were far from being so excited about such a document. In such a chaotic era, in such a Lijun, which seemed to be in danger on both sides, nothing is more worthy of joy than a prefect who is as strong as the first generation.

On the third day after returning to the city, this mysterious and extremely young prefect, who seemed to have emerged from nowhere and was covered in halo, finally officially held the ascension ceremony when he returned to Licheng for the third time and was crowned as the 42nd prefect of Li County.

The ceremony of ascension was held at the Prefecture Palace. Every official invited to enter the Prefecture Palace to witness this moment had to get up in the early morning to take a shower, change into brand new court uniforms, and wait in the square outside the Prefecture Palace before dawn.

The square was strictly martial law on this day, and no one could walk on it as usual. It was empty and solemn. Countless people got up early, gathering with their families on the streets outside the square, waiting for the sound of bells and drums at the end of the ceremony. This is a unique privilege for the people who left the city.

At sunrise, all officials enter the palace.

The sun is on the high wall and the bells and drums are ringing.

Inside and outside the palace, all officials, soldiers, people, merchants, all people, and merchants, knelt down and performed the supreme ceremony.

Then, the people who seemed to have participated in the entire ceremony of ascension gradually dispersed, leaving only the officials in the prefect's palace to complete the subsequent etiquette steps, and it was not until noon that all of them were completed. When the officials went out, they were hungry but had to walk solemnly without saying a word. This was a rare sight.

In the afternoon, the enthusiasm for leaving the city did not diminish at all.

The already bustling commercial districts in the past became more and more noisy.

The inner courtyard of a blacksmith shop located at the intersection is quite clean. The fire is extinguished and the workers are off work. There is only a delicate girl who is busy picking things up inside and outside. She is covered with silver jewelry all over her body, and she walks jinglingly and very lively.

The shop was not taken care of but it was not closed. Now it was the last few days before the New Year. Every household was decorated with lights and decorations to celebrate the New Year. Logically, no one would visit the blacksmith shop at this time, but today seemed different.

A spacious carriage guarded by many cavalrymen was parked at the corner of the street not far away, and several young men and women in wealthy clothes walked straight towards the blacksmith shop.

But before they could go in, two boys who were pushing and fighting rushed into the blacksmith shop in a hurry. For a moment, the iron pots and hoes that were originally hung in the shop fell all over the floor.

So the girl who heard the sound in the backyard ran out quickly. Seeing the messy appearance in the shop, she couldn't help but put her hands on her hips and scolded, "Sun Qianli, Gu Xinghe, why are you here again to fight in my shop? Don't think that if my father is not here, no one will deal with you. Let me go out!"

The two boys who were holding each other and rolling on the ground had already heard the jingle sounds coming close to the inner courtyard. They naturally knew who they were, but they could stop there, and they still hugged each other and rolled together, making the girl's angry eyebrows stand up, and there was nothing they could do.

Just when the three young men and women were in a stalemate, the young men and women just entered the store like that.

The man in the head was majestic and had extraordinary appearance, especially his pair of deep and calm eyes, which was not an ordinary person at first glance. He was followed by a woman, red armor and red boots, and two golden short swords on her waist. She was full of heroism. Behind the two were a mysterious man covered with a black cloak, with a dark and non-reflective mask on his face, which was very mysterious.

Seeing that neither of the two boys would let go first, the girl on the other side had obvious signs and was wandering around the shop on her own, she had to squat down and lower her voice and said quickly, "There are customers in the store. You two are leaving quickly, delaying my business. See if my father comes back, he won't break your legs!"

One of the two boys had a casual hairstyle and dark skin. "Will I be afraid of your father if you are a young master? If you dare to talk to me like this, be careful that I will let my father ask your family to pay double the protection fee!"

The girl who was about to get up was furious when she heard this, but before he could speak, another boy with fair skin and elegant clothes was already scolding loudly, "A real man is born in heaven and earth, he should conquer the demons and barbarians from all over the world like the prefect, and defend one side to bring peace to a hundred years. How can he be as slutty as you and bully a weak girl?!"

The dark-skinned boy smiled sarcastically, and his hand holding the other person's ear increased a little bit of strength, "Isn't my father just guarding the peace of these more than a dozen streets? Don't tell me anything about the world. If you can't even keep a street, don't think about guarding more people. Just rely on your thin arms and legs, and you are talking to me about a real man?"

Seeing that the two of them were getting more and more excessive in their eyes and noses, the girl stood up in anger and anxiously, but suddenly she found that the man in gorgeous clothes had stood behind her at some point, and was just casually watching the two boys fighting on the ground, enjoying themselves.

"This... Master, what object do you like?" the girl said with a blushing face. "If you like something, I will make a decision to give you a discount," she turned her head and looked at the two of them on the ground and said shyly, "The store is messy now, it's really..."

"It's nothing, it's the Chinese New Year, it's better to be lively," the man in the gorgeous clothes suddenly walked around the girl and squatted beside the two boys, reached out and held a jade pendant engraved with the word "Gongsun" on the waist of the fair-skinned boy in his hand and said, "She called you Sun Qianli? Should you be called Gongsun Qianli? Do you know an old man named Gongsun Cuo?"

The fair-skinned boy immediately turned red when he saw his movements. He stared at the man in a gorgeous costume and said, "Bold! How can you call your great-grandfather's name directly!"

"Great-ancestor..." The man in the Chinese dress sighed and stood up, kicked the two boys in the butt and said, "Get up, the shop is about to close. If you don't get up, throw you both out together." He turned around and looked at the surprised girl and apologized, "Your father should have come back, but because I was a little worried, I asked him to go to Baitong for me again. Maybe I can't come back all the year, so I thought about taking you to my place for the New Year. I wonder if you are willing?"

"You are my father's...friend?" The girl took two steps back vigilantly, "I haven't heard my father say that there is a friend like you, what's your name?"

The two boys on the ground immediately let go of each other and walked to the girl to protect him, looking at the people with a vigilant look on their faces.

"He probably talked about me too," the man in Chinese dress tilted his sleeves and tilted his head with his hands together, and smiled, "My name is Luo Chuan."

In a moment.

Three young men and girls.

transfixed.
Chapter completed!