I promise

Chapter 842
The main hall of the Mu family, located to the east of the Canglan Courtyard, is dedicated to receiving distinguished guests. The door has been locked all year round, and when guests come occasionally, they only open the side door.

Today, a row of doors facing south were all opened, felt blankets were laid in the hall, the table was almost dust-free, and rare fruits and seasonal flowers were placed on display at this time of year.

It is the highest courtesy of hospitality.

Mu Cangping and Chang Jihai, one host and one guest, sat on both sides of the main case facing the main door.Chang Jihai is drinking tea, while Mu Cangping is looking at a long yellow silk with a black jade scroll.

Silk is bright yellow, a color that only heavenly families can use.

——This is an imperial decree.

"Yuezu took over." Chang Jihai put down the teacup just as Mu Cangping finished reading the imperial decree and closed the scroll.When the words are right.

"The old man speaks seriously." Mu Cangping said with a smile, "It's my daughter's honor to be able to attend training in Changjiabao."

Humbly bowed, "Trouble the old man."

Chang Jihai nodded, "Leader, you're being polite." He turned his gaze to Mu Dianke on the left, stopped short, and was very kind, "I like this child Minghui too, so I can't talk about disturbing him."

After being humble to each other for a while, we got to the point.

Chang Jihai also ate tea, covered the cup with both hands, and said slowly: "Today, I came to disturb you mainly because of three things: one, so I don't need to talk about it. The second thing, I want to replace my poor The grandson is asking for a marriage. Cang Ping knows that although the two children have not known each other for a long time, they have a good relationship, and they have arranged for a lifetime in private. Young and young. I think, how can there be parents in the world who prefer their children What's the matter, they have chosen their own marriage, and we follow along to make a ready-made one, so we don't have to worry about it, how about Cang Ping's mind?"

Mu Cang smiled flatly, and there was a rare joy in Qingyuan's eyebrows, "Mr. Chang has a clean character and a successful young man. If you can form a good relationship, it is really a little girl's luck."

Mu Ziyan curled his lips, really disliked Mu Cangping's hypocritical and polite face.

He has only met Chang Qianfo a few times, and he knows what kind of character he is, because he is interested in Changjiabao's wealth and prosperity!

Even the lord's shelf was forgotten.

It was a matter of Mu Dianke's marriage, so he held back and didn't make trouble.

The betrothal gift did not go with the ox cart, it was sent by Changjiabao later, Ling Fu went to meet him at the gate, when he happened to walk in with a red wooden box with four corners wrapped in copper.

"We are all from the rivers and lakes, and we don't follow so many rules, so I just took advantage of my age to try to be lazy, come out, and do all the rituals that should be done."

Ling Fu came forward, put the wooden box on the main case between Chang Jihai and Mu Cangping, and opened it in front of everyone.

The box is spacious and divided into three layers. On the top is a pair of Geng Tie, a pair of live geese lying on the bottom of the box, and in the middle is a six-inch-long gift list with three volumes.

Ling Fu asked Mu Cangping to pick it up.

"This is the dowry money and dowry gift, please accept it, the leader, and the real thing will be delivered tomorrow morning."

This time, the other four items in the "Six Ceremonies" except for the date of invitation and the personal welcome - Nacai, name asking, Najib and Nazheng have all been done.

There has never been such a precedent.

But Chang Jihai, with his advanced age, went out to propose marriage in person, and his sincerity was full.

Two of the three things are done, and the last one is left.

"Go out and wait." Chang Jihai turned his head to look at Mu Dianke, and said kindly.

Mu Cangping understood.

The rest of the hall also retreated.

Rows of heavy carved wooden doors were closed one after another.

The people standing outside are all veterans. Looking at the situation, one knows what is going to happen inside.

There is a hint of excitement in the anxiety.

I don't want to think that in my lifetime, I will be lucky enough to experience a peak battle that is rare in a century.

For those who practice martial arts, there is nothing more exciting and exciting than this.

The hall was so quiet that no sound could be heard.

It took only a short time, about ten breaths, before everyone got nervous and excited, and the two doors facing the main seat opened.

Chang Jihai and Mu Cangping came out one after the other.

Looking in from the open doorway, the furnishings in the hall are complete, and nothing is out of place.

No trace of a fight!
The only evidence that the two had fought was that Mu Cangping's sword was not in its sheath.

The sword is in Mu Cangping's hand, but it is not in the posture of fighting.That kind of grip is more like someone holding the hilt upside down and handing the sword back to him.

The person who handed the sword was naturally Chang Jihai.

There was a dead silence.

——The number one sword in the world, Mu Cangping, the leader of martial arts with no defeat since he came out of the rivers and lakes, was actually robbed of his sword in the battle?

Chang Jihai still had the same gait when he came here, with a stooped back, walking neither fast nor slow, just like an ordinary old man.

Everyone was in awe, no one dared to underestimate him.

Mu Dianke walked away with Chang Jihai.

Two lines later, the old man put his hand on Mu Cangping's sword-holding hand and patted it lightly, his voice was as old as a sigh.

"I've been sick for a long time, it's time to take a rest."

***
The red pine on the waterfront shines.

Mu Dianke looked back at the end of the carriageway and confirmed that there was no one coming. Feeling lost, he lifted his skirt and boarded the boat.

The light boat left the shore and broke through the water.

"Wait! Little Four, wait—"

A voice came from a distance, and a figure dressed in red, green and blue rushed towards Dongsongtan.

It's Liao Shiqi!

Among the people she knew, only Liao Shiqi could wear such clothes.

"Little Four... Huhu—" Liao Shiqi paused the food box at his feet, panting heavily with his hands leaning on his knees, "I'm exhausted, I've caught up with you."

"Xiaolan gave it to you." She calmed down a little, and she knelt down and brought out a bowl of noodles from the food box.

Seeing the situation in the bowl, she herself couldn't help but let out a "huh", showing a disgusted expression,

Running all the way, the noodle soup was spilled, leaving Qianqian's small half bowl, dry and lumpy, with a white jade-wrapped golden poached egg in the middle frozen.

Mu Dianke was sitting on the bank, eating the bowl of cold and tasteless noodles earnestly, tears poured down the bowl, salty and astringent, and she swallowed it with the noodles.

Liao Shiqi also cried, "Xiao Si, don't be too sad. You have done nothing wrong, why can't you pay her back if you only allow her to harm you?"

But how can things in the world be explained only by right or wrong?

She killed the woman her own brother had loved deeply since he was a boy, perhaps the only woman he had ever loved so far.

His mother is dead, no one cares about him, and he has no one to cherish.

He once said: Xiao Si'er and Lan Lan are his most important people.

……

But he eventually forgave her.

***
Xinma set out from Luoyang and ran towards the vast rivers and lakes in all directions.

Mu Cangping issued the Fengyan order.

In addition to urgently summoning the two pavilion masters of Jiange Li Mubai and Daoge Nanpengye to come to Luoyang quickly, they also advertised that the martial arts conference originally scheduled to be held in the autumn of next year will be brought forward to the [-]th of the twelfth lunar month.

The boulder was thrown, and there was a great uproar.

People speculated that it might have something to do with Chang Jihai's abnormal coming out of the mountain, but Mumen kept silent. No one knew what happened to Chang Jihai after he entered Mu's house.

Early the next morning, the green water lake outside Changjiabao was full of red boats, and boxes of betrothal gifts wrapped in red silk and satin were carried out from the east, west, and south sides of the ferry, winding for several miles, and converging in the city. The largest three-fork intersection in the East, spreading out into a vast and unrestrained Red Sea.

A trickle of water flowed into the Mu family's mansion in Hongli Lane.

It lasts from dawn to dusk.

However, what is unbelievable is that the two parties involved in this grand Huapin - Chang Qianfo and Mu Dianke, are not in their respective positions.

Chang Jihai personally sent Chang Qianfo out of Luoyang the day before, and an imperial decree from Jiankang allowed Mu Dianke to enter Changjiapu ahead of schedule.

This year is destined to be a very unusual year with frequent occurrence of strange things.

(End of this chapter)