The sound of horse hooves sounded on the streets of Chang'an City, breaking the twilight tranquility.

Xue Qing, who was standing outside the blacksmith shop, looked back and saw that it was a servant from the government passing by, and he was hurried and looked solemn, not knowing what an urgent matter was.

"Brother, is this OK?"

The blacksmith's voice came.

Xue Qing retracted his gaze and looked over. The blacksmith raised an iron bar, the two fingers were as thick as a thin one, the two ends were flat, and the length of a knife. The blacksmith seemed to be unfamiliar with his works because he had no idea what this was, so he could only call it an iron bar.

Xue Qing said: "Okay is that way." She reached out to take it, carried it in her hand, and the weight was appropriate. She handed the remaining five money to the blacksmith and raised the iron bar and picked it up and picked it up.

"Ruyi Golden Cudgel." She laughed, "It turns into an embroidery needle... Uncle Blacksmith, can you turn it into an embroidery needle again?"

The golden cudgel...the embroidery needle...the blacksmith was a little confused and said, "...it's okay to grind it into an embroidery needle..."

Xue Qing smiled and held the basket in one hand and waved the iron bar in the other, just like a child who had a new toy... Well, for the young boy, this was just a toy. The blacksmith withdrew his gaze and continued to work hard.

Xue Qing waved the iron bars and walked back to the Guo family's house. He saw horses parked in front of the Guo family's door. Manager Wu was sending a servant out, which was the one I saw on the street just now... Is the urgent matter for the Guo family?

When Xue Qing saw Manager Wu’s face was smiling and stuffed a corner of silver to the servant.

"Drink tea, drink tea." He said.

The officer pushed and shoved and said, "I dare not, I dare not."

In this way, the servant finally grabbed the money and said, "...it is indispensable in three days."

Manager Wu looked solemn and said, "Don't worry, how can you miss such a grand event?"

The officer then smiled and said, "It's good, it's good...and don't act like others' homes, let me tell you the truth, the adults above are not stupid."

Manager Wu nodded repeatedly and said that it was natural. The servant said goodbye: "There are still a lot to send, so stay."

Manager Wu stood up and watched the servant leave, and a servant at home led his horse out.

Manager Wu urged: "Go quickly and go quickly, be sure to let the lady come back tomorrow."

The servant rushed to the horse and galloped away. Manager Wu was shocked when he saw Xue Qing standing by the door.

"What are you holding?" he said.

Xue Qing raised the iron bar and said, "My weapon."

What kind of weapon, where did you pick up iron sticks in a mess?... Manager Wu frowned and waved his hand, "Young Master Xue, don't hurt yourself." After saying that, he wanted to go in, but Xue Qing called him.

"Is Miss Guo coming back?" she asked.

Manager Wu immediately looked at her vigilantly and said, "Young Master Xue, please study hard."

Xue Qing smiled and said nothing more, and waved the iron bar in front of the door and walked past on his shoulder. Manager Wu was almost swept away and hurriedly retreated to avoid it.

"Don't mess with these things," he said.

The concierge said on the side: "Young Master Xue has been learning to play sticks and spears recently...boys like to play with this."

Manager Wu hummed and shook his sleeves and went in.

Xue Qing put the iron bars on the basket. It seems that this is what the eunuch Zong is going to meet the girls in Chang'an City this afternoon. Guo Baoer should be taken back very happily. The Guo family doesn't believe she will be selected...what to choose to go to the palace and fight?

Xue Qing pursed her lips and smiled. As expected, as she guessed, she also heard students talking about this in the social school the next day.

"... Three days later, the banquet was held in Shuangyuan, and all the famous and surnamed gentry in Chang'an City invited... to bring their families and children."

"...How many people do you have? Is the Double Garden enough?"

"...I'm not stupid or not, I'm not going to go, there are age restrictions..."

“…I’m going too…”

Hearing this sentence, Xue Qing, who had been reading books seriously, looked up and said, "Didn't you talk about girls?"

A young man looked over at him and sneered: "Xue Qing, you are so stupid... It's so ugly that girls only want to see."

Xue Qing whispered and said, "Don't everyone know this... So what's the difference? Are you pretending to be stupid..."

The boy was choked and said with some shame: "...I don't understand this at first glance, I'm a rustic bun."

Xue Qing looked at him and wanted to say something. Zhang Nian hugged her arm and said, "Qingzi, look at my article like this, right?...Sir, check it again later..." He lowered his voice, "Don't bicker with Su Fang... His uncle is a Tongzhi of Chang'an Prefecture City... He can't mess with you."

The students in the society have different identities. Zhang Nian Bai Ding's family is poor and they are a little timid and timid.

Xue Qing knew his kindness and smiled and took Zhang Nian's article seriously.

Seeing that she stopped talking, Su Fang snorted and ignored nothing, and continued to talk to other classmates: "I will go... That Lord Zong is a well-read poetry and books... He is known as the ten talented men in the palace..."

Mr. Yan came in and stomped his feet and coughed heavily. The students who were talking and joking immediately dispersed and returned to their seats. Zhang Nian also sat down quickly. Suddenly, he found that Xue Qing picked up his pen and wrote and painted something on the homework he had written. He was shocked.

"What are you doing... don't touch my homework." He whispered in a hurry, and just asked him to see that his homework was just talking casually.

Xue Qing said: "It's better to change it here."

Zhang Nian stared and said, "You have never done your homework...What do you know..."

Xue Qing smiled and said, "I just don't hand in my homework, it's not that I haven't done my homework."

What else did Zhang Nian say? Mr. Yan coughed and glared at him again. Zhang Nian had to take the homework back and sit down. He didn't dare to speak. After one class, it was time to hand in the homework. Xue Qing packed up his things and left as usual. Zhang Nian looked at the homework that had been corrected and looked sad, so he had to copy it again.

Zhang Nian quickly picked up his pen and copied it. When he wrote to Xue Qing's modification, he hesitated. This kid was too utterly speaking, so he would follow yours. When the husband scolded him, he saw what you had to say. Thinking of this, he turned around and copied it down according to what Xue Qing wrote.

I don’t know if it was because Lord Zong’s place in Chang’an City. Xue Qing felt that the atmosphere in the society was different from before. The gentlemen gave lectures for a long time and had more homework. Chu Minghui said that playing Cuju was prohibited at home. Xue Qing could understand this. In modern society, the city should be managed more strictly, especially these students, so as not to cause trouble and restrain them.

For Xue Qing, life has not changed much. It was soon the day of the banquet. When Xue Qing came home from school, she saw the Guo family's carriage and horses ready to go. Guo Baoer was sitting in the carriage, and Guo Zi'an and Guo Ziqian were also riding on the horse in a new way. Seeing her coming, Guo Ziqian raised his hand and called Brother Qingzi, without any sense of the strange sight of the people around him. Guo Zi'an only felt embarrassed and turned his face away.

Xue Qing smiled at him and went straight over. The carriages and horses behind him were ringing. In the twilight, cars and horses were rushing out of the city again.

In the twilight of summer, the Weishui River is approaching, and the wind blows brings a bit of coolness. The houses in front of you have mountains and forests light up, lights and lights, sometimes dark, sometimes far and sometimes near, as if it is Penglai Fairy Island.

Guo Ziqian immediately looked at him and said, "It is said that the Liu family's two gardens are unparalleled in the world, and it looks really good."

Liu is arrogant, and military generals like Guo Huaichun rarely interact with him. Although they are from Chang'an City, this is the first time that the Guo Zi'an brothers have come to Shuangyuan.

Guo Zi'an looked in front of him, but when he saw a lot of carriages and horses, there must be many peers inside. He wondered if the news of his loss to Xue Qing was spreading... He was not in the mood to come here.

Guo Baoer was very interested and looked out of the car early and said, "...Are you there? Are you there?...Liu Wuer, is Liu Wuer here?"

Mrs. Guo must press her back and repeatedly reminded her not to talk nonsense here. Soon the Guo family's carriage arrived in front of the garden gate, and a servant from the Liu family came to greet her.

There were many people in the garden, and men greeted each other loudly, while the women were shining with jewels.

Guo Zian and Guo Ziqian naturally met many familiar companions. Chu Minghui was shaking the fan quickly, but he was still panting.

"...I have to wear new clothes too." He complained, "Mr. Zong wants to see the girls. What I dress up... I'm not choosing eunuchs."

Speaking of this, thinking of what Xue Qing said, he laughed and patted Guo Zi'an on the shoulder and looked around.

"Where is Michiro?" he asked, "Why didn't he come?"

What is he? How could he let him come? Guo Zi'an glared. Who had cared about this kid before, but now someone regards him as a member of the Guo family.

Guo Zi'an said: "I didn't come."

Chu Minghui was very sorry and said, "Why didn't he come? It's interesting only when he comes."

Guo Ziqian's eyes lit up, and heyed twice, saying, "Liu Chunyang is here."

The three of them looked and saw a few young men walking in front of them, all of whom were dressed in brocade clothes and beautiful eyebrows. They were the children of the Liu family. Liu Chunyang walked in there, lowering his head and wondering what he was thinking, and soon arrived in front of him.

Guo Ziqian suddenly jumped out, bowed and shouted, "Brother Chunyang."

Liu Chunyang was startled. Seeing that Guo Ziqian was a little disagreeable, he asked curiously. Guo Ziqian was generous in reporting the family, and the children of the Liu family looked even more weird.

Changle Society and Wuling Society are always incompatible. It would be nice to not be sarcastic when they meet, and call them brother... So is this also a kind of sarcastic sarcastic?

Liu Chunyang glared at Guo Ziqian with an almond eyes and whispered: "What are you shouting nonsense..."

Guo Ziqian said with plastic surgery: "No, you call Brother Qingzi, we also call him Brother, you are earlier and we are later, so I think I should call you brother."

Qingzi...Liu Chunyang was stunned and then reacted, his face turned red, he spat at Guo Ziqian, and walked away quickly.

It was indeed a sarcasm. The Liu family members knew that humiliating Liu Chunyang was humiliating their Liu family. Everyone looked a little unhappy when they saw Guo Ziqian. However, due to the face of the master, the parents also reminded that they should not cause trouble today, and snorted a few times and left.

Guo Ziqian was still smiling. Although Chu Minghui was very happy that Liu Chunyang left angry, he couldn't understand what it meant.

Guo Zian shouted: "Don't say it."

Guo Ziqian had already spoken: "We lost the bet with Brother Qingzi, so we also call him brother. Liu Chunyang and Qingzi were betting ahead, so we would feel wronged and call him brother."

Chu Minghui laughed loudly, Guo Zi'an kicked Guo Ziqian and said, "You are quite proud of losing the bet, right?"

Guo Ziqian hurriedly hid and said, "...it's nothing embarrassing..."

Is it no longer a shame to lose to that boy? Guo Zian was both ashamed and angry and in a complicated mood, and it seemed like a change in the blink of an eye.

The teenagers are playing here, while the girls are calling their friends over there.

Qin Sulan grabbed Guo Baoer who was running by her side and said, "Why are you running around?"

Guo Baoer just looked forward and said, "Where is Liu Wuer?"

Qin Sulan naturally knew what she was looking for Liu Wuer, so she hugged her arm and said, "Don't mess around, this is in the Liu family."

Guo Baoer said: "It's just right for the Liu family... the two families sat down and decided on the marriage."

Qin Sulan giggled and fell on her and said, "Are you stupid?"

A group of girls were coming smiling. At this time, night fell, lights were lit on the pavilion and path surrounding the beads and hairpins made the girls walk around shine. Guo Baoer saw Liu Wuer at first sight and waved to her.

Liu Wuer saw that she was a little unhappy but she did not avoid it. Shi Shiran approached and said before Guo Baoer could speak: "Guo Baoer, the nobles of the Tian family are here, you'd better be honest. Be careful that you are too outstanding and you will be selected. You will be in the imperial city of the capital and never see your parents again."

This threat is the most effective for children, but Guo Baoer doesn't care.

"I'm going to go to the capital to meet the emperor, so I want him to be a general, and I'll lead troops to fight." She said.

As he finished speaking, a laugh came from the grass and trees path beside him. The sound was a man, but it was a little gentle.

Tonight, there were no men and women separated in the Liu family's Shuangyuan. Because Zong Zhou was an eunuch, he simply held a banquet in the flower hall. At this time, a group of young people were laughing and joking, and it was not surprising that a man passed by.

Guo Baoer was very dissatisfied with the smile and glared over and said, "Who? Why are you laughing?"

The girls also followed. The two gardens were exquisitely arranged, as if they were broad and winding, and the scenery was clear and the scenery was clear. Although the path was on the side under the night sky, there were grass and trees and rocks, and there was no one to see... The next moment there was footsteps, followed by a lantern, and one person walked out.

Under the lantern in the night, the man was tall, thin, white as pink, and handsome, and the girls couldn't help but be stunned, even Guo Baoer forgot to question.

Nowadays, men are so luxurious and love to dress up more than women, but those are mostly teenagers. It is rare for a man in his thirties to be so handsome.

The handsome man looked at Guo Baoer and said, "Good ambition, how about I take you there?"

His words made Guo Baoer come to his senses, but he didn't understand for a moment and then whispered. More footsteps came from the front. The men saluted the man from afar and shouted loudly to Lord Zong.

Liu Wuer first reacted and her eyes fell on the man wearing a big red brocade robe and a colorful belt... This was the eunuchs' outfit. She covered her mouth with her little hands and said, "So it's Lord Zong." She hurriedly bowed and bowed.

The other girls also followed suit in panic. The men had already approached and looked at the girls with a little uneasy expression.

"...Did it hit the adult?" they asked.

Zong Zhou smiled and shook his head and said, "No." His eyes swept over the girls who were looking down and retreating to both sides, "It's very good, both are very good."

After saying that, he raised his hand and pointed to the brightly lit hall in front of him.

"...It's getting late, let's start a banquet and let the children get in early and don't stand hungry."

The men hurriedly bowed and invited him, saying, "The magistrate has arrived, Lord Zong is here."

Zong Zhou walked with a smile and walked away surrounded by everyone. The girls raised their heads and squeezed together in shock and panic.

"So this is the eunuch of that sect..."

"The eunuch looks so pretty..."

"Hehe... do you want to go to the palace?"

The girls laughed in a low voice, and Liu Wuer shook his fan and patted Guo Baoer, saying, "It's not certain that others can go, but Miss Baoer should be fine... Lord Zong said in person that he wanted to take you there, congratulations."

There is nothing to congratulations to this. Eight of the ten girls who came here to attend the banquet today did not want to be selected. They are all delicate ladies at home. Who wants to go to the palace to serve as a servant, and they are also serving people around the nobles of the Tian family. They will lose their heads if they accidentally go, let alone when they will see their parents again.

The girls looked at Guo Baoer with gloating and sympathy. Qin Sulan, who was standing next to Guo Baoer, turned her face white.

Guo Baoer still looked the same, and snorted, saying, "You can go, what are you afraid of? He said he wanted me to be the general."

Liu Wuer bowed and said, "I have met General Guo." After that, he turned around and slammed the fan and laughed.

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Chapter completed!