It was still early, Zong Ziheng went to the back kitchen to make some Zong Zixiao's favorite snacks, and sent them to Bailu Pavilion.
Zong Zixiao was practicing swordsmanship, and anyone who was interested in showing off his skills at the Jiaolong meeting in a few days' time would be nervous and excited at this moment, so seize the last time to improve himself.
Zong Ziheng put the snacks aside, stood against the wall, and quietly looked at the younger brother he had raised with his own hands.
Children of this age grow up too fast. In half a year, Zong Zixiao's stature has obviously been stretched, and he is taller than his peers. His facial features have also faded from immaturity, and their edges and corners have emerged, completely upright. The embryonic form of a boy.
He is dressed in black and strong clothes, his body is as agile as a monster, and he dances Zongxuan's swordsmanship so chicly and wildly, it is so fierce that people are reluctant to miss every move.
After finishing a whole set of sword dances, Zong Zixiao stopped his gesture slightly out of breath. He turned his head and smiled at Zong Ziheng, and asked confidently: "Brother, how are you?"
"Okay, very good." Zong Ziheng clapped his hands, "Come here and rest for a while."
Zong Zixiao walked over, took the water handed over by the elder brother, and drank a big glass, but when the elder brother was holding a towel to wipe his sweat, he snatched it: "I will do it myself."
"En." Zong Ziheng opened the bamboo basket, "I made some snacks, all of which you like."
"Thank you, brother." Zong Zixiao smiled brightly, picked up a piece of glutinous rice cake, and stuffed it into his mouth.
"Is someone robbing you?" Zong Ziheng scolded, "Be careful of choking." Seeing Zong Zixiao's cheeks bulging like a little squirrel hiding food, he couldn't help laughing again, "Eat all of them." It's on my chin." As he spoke, he was about to reach out to wipe it off.
Zong Zixiao hurriedly took a step back to avoid it, and wiped it off by himself: "Don't keep treating me like a child."
Zong Ziheng raised his eyebrows, and said with a sneer, "Oh, are you so anxious to become an adult?" During this period of time, he really felt the change in his younger brother, especially after returning from Yancheng, he no longer came to pester him Sleeping with him will not ask him to carry or hug him anytime and anywhere like when I was a child, never act like a baby in front of outsiders, and always pretend to be mature and steady. These changes all mark one thing—growing up.
"I'm going to be an adult soon, and I'm going to be an adult in two years."
Hearing this sentence, Zong Ziheng was really taken aback, and he sighed softly: "Yes, there are still two years left, and you are an adult, how come you are so fast." The youngest brother has grown into a heroic young man.
"Anyway, elder brother will slowly treat me as an adult."
"Oh, tell me, how do I treat you as an adult?"
"Well...you have to discuss everything with me, don't scold me and punish me, especially in front of others, take me with you wherever you go, and don't leave me to play alone because I'm young."
Zong Ziheng knocked him on the head: "Let's talk about it after you are reincarnated as a big brother in your next life."
"How can there be such a thing!"
Zong Ziheng smiled and watched him protest while eating snacks happily, then asked: "Xiao Jiu, are you nervous?"
"Don't be nervous." Zong Zixiao looked confident, "Those people are nothing to be afraid of."
"The young head of the Huaying School, the nephew of the empress, the young apprentice of the owner of the Juling Mountain Villa, and the female cultivator of the Cangyu Sect who participated in the Flood Dragon Association for the first time and whose depth is unpredictable, should not be underestimated. It is a big taboo to underestimate the enemy. ,do you know?"
"I know, I don't underestimate the enemy. No matter how powerful they are, they will never be stronger than you. I'm not even afraid of you, so why be afraid of them?"
"Brother won't really compete with you."
Zong Zixiao curled his lips and looked at Zong Ziheng: "When you hit me, you didn't show any mercy."
Zong Ziheng smiled lightly: "That's for your own good."
"Anyway, I just think I will win." Zong Ziheng puffed up his chest, "Because I was taught by my elder brother."
When Zong Ziheng became an adult, their uncle went into seclusion. From then on, he had to ask other uncles for advice on the cultivation of the Tao. Although Zong Zixiao could directly ask Zong Minghe to give advice, Zong Minghe had a lot of affairs, and he generally brought them out. He thinks that he is not as good as his parents, but he should not be much worse than other people's masters. However, he has always been self-modest; "The juniors of other families have also started to practice as soon as they can remember, and they may not be worse than you. I have said so much because I am afraid that you will be arrogant and arrogant, and you will underestimate the enemy and lose in the competition field."
"Don't worry." Zong Zixiao said seriously, "I really want to win, so I will not treat any opponent in a perfunctory manner." He thought of something, and bored on his face, "Especially that Li Buyu , if I happen to draw him, I will beat him to pieces."
"Don't talk nonsense, there is a future in silence, don't underestimate others, and you also have to take into account the face of the empress, so stop as soon as possible."
Li Buyu is Li Xiangtong's nephew, the grandson of the current head of Wuliang Sect, Li Buyu's biological mother left early, so his father often sent him to Wuji Palace to be with his aunt. Although Li Buyu was closest to Zong Zimo, Zong Zimo liked to play with girls since he was a child, but Li Buyu would find Zong Ziheng every time he came, which made Zong Zixiao very unhappy.
It's fine for brothers and sisters to snatch his elder brother from him, but it's unreasonable for an outsider to want to play with his elder brother.
Zong Zixiao snorted coldly: "Got it. By the way, did you go to see Xu Zhinan today?" He licked the fruit puree on his lips and asked casually.
"Well, I'm going to go drink with him at night."
Although Zong Zixiao is not as clingy as he was to Zong Ziheng when he was a child, he still follows wherever he goes, but this time he didn't take the initiative to ask to go with him, because it was still a knot in the hearts of the two brothers when he robbed the public and lost the moment, he asked : "What do you think about Yan Shu?"
"When Qi Mengsheng arrives, let's discuss together. The name is our territory, it's better than being in Wuling. No matter how powerful Yan Shu is now, in order to prevent him from harming more monks, we must let his true face be revealed to the world."
Zong Zixiao frowned, even with his fearless temperament, he knew what it meant to be an enemy of Wuyunmen: "Yes, let him be judged and punished by the whole world of cultivating immortals. Ask, what exactly is he trying to do to us.”
Zong Ziheng didn't answer. Yancheng and his party, he did not tell Zong Zixiao about two things, one was about Cheng Yanzhi, Zong Zixiao didn't need to know about it, he should have kept the secret for Xu Zhinan; The target is actually only himself, and he specifically ordered not to hurt Zong Zixiao. Chen Xingyong's subordinates said that they wanted to take Zong Zixiao's pill, which was probably just intimidation and messing him up, but he also couldn't tell Zong Zixiao about this matter. It will cause people to think wildly, and it will do no harm but no benefit.
"Okay, don't eat too much, you still have to eat tonight." Zong Ziheng looked at the sky, "Brother is gone, don't be too tired from practicing sword these days, and keep in the best condition."
"Understood... wait, big brother, I heard that Hua Yuxin is also a famous person, you... haven't seen her yet, have you?"
"No."
"Then, what are your plans?" Zong Zixiao's face was full of boredom.
Zong Ziheng didn't want to say too much, because he didn't even know what his "plans are", so he could only say: "I will listen to my father and mother."
"What the hell is that!"
"Brother doesn't know either." Zong Ziheng turned around and left in a hurry.
Zong Zixiao bit his lip, his eyes were cold—
Zong Ziheng hosted a banquet for Xu Zhinan at the best restaurant in the name. Three years ago, Xu Zhinan took good care of him when he was injured, and the two became acquainted with each other. He had wanted to invite him for a long time.
During the dinner, they tacitly didn't mention those troublesome things, but just talked about the current situation, the customs of the daimyo, and the strength of the juniors of the Flood Dragon Association this time, and so on.
The revelry was in full swing, and I heard the second servant downstairs yelling in a very obsequious tone: "Second Highness, you are here, and I will pay my respects to Second Highness."
Zong Ziheng's hands stopped.
Xu Zhinan looked at him questioningly.
Zong Ziheng shook his head: "My second brother often comes here, so just pretend not to know, we eat ours."
"good."
But immediately after, Xiao Er shouted again: "His Highness Ninth Prince has also come, and all the immortals, the small shop is full of splendor."
Zong Ziheng frowned and put down his wine glass.
Why did Xiao Jiu come here to eat with Zong Zimo? The two hardly played together.
Although this Wangxiang Tower is well-known in the city, Zong Ziheng never brings Zong Zixiao here, because there is a brothel alley across the street, and there are many fireworks women going in and out here, he is afraid that Zong Zixiao is at the age of youthful sprouting, Indefinitely, he has contracted Zong Zimo's bad habits, indulged in sensuality, and self-destructed.
Thinking of this, Zong Ziheng couldn't sit still, he was afraid that Zong Zimo would ruin his Xiaojiu, so he stood up: "Brother Xu, let's go down and have a look."
"Walk."
The two walked downstairs, Zong Zimo was leading a group of people upstairs.
"Second brother." Zong Ziheng said, "What a coincidence." His eyes drifted to Zong Zixiao.
Zong Zixiao looked away guiltily.
"Oh, it's Big Brother, what a coincidence. This is..."
Xu Zhinan arched his body and said, "Chunyang teaches Xu Zhinan, he has seen His Second Highness, and his Ninth Highness."
"It turned out to be Xu Zhenren, the head teacher of the Chunyang Sect, who has been admiring him for a long time." Zong Zimo smiled and said, "I am here today to entertain all the distinguished guests of the Huaying Sect. This is the young master of the Huaying Sect."
A tall and handsome young man took a step forward, cupped his hands neither humble nor overbearing, and said, "Hua Ying sent Hua Juncheng, and I have seen Your Highness, Master Xu."
Zong Ziheng was taken aback, this group of people belonged to the Huaying faction, that is to say... He quickly scanned the crowd, and behind Hua Juncheng, he found a stunning girl in a blue-purple monk's uniform secretly looking at him.
The young girl looked extremely delicate and nimble, like a budding flower, and every dewdrop shone with the moving brilliance reflected by the morning sun.
The two looked at each other silently, and then looked away at the same time, but their hearts were throbbing.
There is no doubt that she must be Hua Yuxin.
Everyone present was exchanging pleasantries, only Zong Zixiao kept staring at Zong Ziheng, and after seeing Zong Ziheng's reaction, he was so angry that he almost gritted his teeth.
I saw Hua Yuxin walking out from behind her elder brother, and cupped her hands vigorously: "Hua Ying sent Hua Yuxin, I have seen His Highness, I have seen Master Xu."