Guo Huai shook his head and said with a smile: "Master, I didn't see Senior Brother Xiaoye this morning, maybe he went there to practice again!"

Zou Yunian nodded, didn't say anything, and walked away.

In this way, when it was time to have breakfast, not to mention the meticulous sect master Zou Yunnian, even some careless disciples also noticed that something was unusual.

The ninth junior brother Lu Ping sat at the table, holding a snow-white steamed bun in one hand, the steamed bun and porridge are pickles, and he was spitting and spitting, eating with relish, his eyes looking around in the dining room, and he kept patrolling.

After a pause,

Lu Ping smiled and shouted in a vague voice: "What's the matter today, Senior Brother Xiaoye didn't come to eat, why didn't even the Second Senior Brother, Eighth Senior Brother, and Old Thirteen come to eat, are they sleeping collectively today?"

A little junior brother smiled: "Sleep lazy, when I got up, the old thirteen got up early, and besides, he got up very early, and the bed was cold!"

Lu Ping asked, "Is there something important that Master assigned to Senior Brother Xiaoye, so they left in the middle of the night?"

The little junior brother shook his head and said with a smile: "No, the second senior brother has been out of the house for almost half a year, he just came back yesterday, how can he rest at home for a few days, even if the master has any urgent matters, his old man will definitely assign someone else to go, how can he let the second senior brother go down the mountain for the time being!"

Lu Ping winked at the little junior brother and said with a playful smile: "Little junior brother, second senior brother, they have always been deeply favored by the master, they must have obtained some secret method from the master, and they are proud, so they found a hidden place to hide, and they are cultivating hard!"

The little junior brother smiled and said: "Senior Brother Lu, you actually dare to say that the master is biased, and the master is not arranged, if you let the master know about this matter, you should be careful that the old master will lock you up in Siguo Cliff and not give you food!"

Lu Ping pointed his finger at everything around him, and said with a smile: "Little junior brother, God knows this matter, you know, I know!"

Everyone laughed, but some people laughed and laughed, their expressions froze, and the laughter stopped abruptly, that is, they hurriedly buried their heads in eating.

At this time, Zou Lingnian walked in slowly from the outside with his hands on his back and light steps, his brows furrowed, his face worried, and he looked preoccupied.

Lu Ping turned his back to the outside of the hall, and he didn't know that Master Zou Zhennian walked in, so he was still bragging and pretending to be with everyone, he grinned and shouted triumphantly: "Senior Brother Liu, why are you looking at me like this, what are you afraid of, Master originally favored the second senior brother and them, what I said is the truth, even if Master and his old man are here, I dare to say this about him!"

Immediately, seeing that everyone's eyes were all looking behind him, showing a wicked smile at him, and an expression of seeing how you died, he finally noticed that something was wrong, and he couldn't help but glance back, and found that the master was standing behind him, and he was startled.

Lu Ping sighed, his buttocks seemed to be burned by a red-hot soldering iron, he jumped up from his seat, his butt brought down the stool, and the steamed bun in his hand also fell off, rolling on the ground.

Lu Ping's face turned red, his face felt hot, the corners of his lips twitched, scratched the back of his head, smiled, nodded at Zou Yunian, and snorted: "Ahem, Master, I, I laugh with them, in fact, in fact, in fact, your old man has always treated his disciples equally, without partiality, and has always been the most just and fair!"

Zou Yunian was preoccupied, his heart was in turmoil, he didn't know about Lu Ping's broken mouth at all, at this moment, listening to Lu Ping's words, it was really messy and inexplicable.

Zou Yunian was stunned for a moment, then picked up the steamed buns on the ground, blew off the dust on them, stuffed them into Lu Ping's hands, and asked with a gentle expression: "Lu Ping, have you seen your second senior brother, eighth senior brother and Xiaoye senior brother?"

Lu Ping sighed, came back to his senses, his nervous expression relaxed, he smiled, quickly shook his head, and replied: "Master, we didn't see Senior Brother Xiaoye this morning, and everyone hasn't seen Senior Brother Xiaoye!"

Zou Yunian's brows tightened more and more, and after a little thought, he said to the people in the hall: "Don't eat it, let's look around and see where the second child has gone, and whether he is still on the mountain!"

The attentive person heard Zou Yunian's words, his thoughts flashed, he noticed something wrong, responded, hurriedly put down the food in his hand, and went around looking for Zou Chengye and others.

However, at this moment, a young disciple ran in from outside and shouted, "Master, down the mountain, down the mountain, come and see, come out and have a look!"

Zou Yunian's heart moved, his brows jumped, he turned around, and hurriedly walked outside.

Lu Ping and others also hurriedly followed.

Zou Lingnian and others walked out of the house quickly and came to the playground in front of the door, and immediately, they heard the sound of gongs and drums and suona from the bottom of the mountain

Yang's is very cheerful and festive.

The gongs and drums were noisy, the tune was pleasant, and the sound was getting louder and closer, as if the person playing it was coming up the mountain.

Zou Zhennian stood on the martial arts arena in front of the door, holding the white jade guardrail at the edge of the playground, facing the mountain roots of the Yulan Gate, looking into the distance, but the trees under the mountain were forested, verdant, and he couldn't see anything clearly.

Zou Yunian instructed: "Lu Ping, you have a flexible brain and dexterous legs, you take a few senior brothers down, give me a look at the situation, find something wrong, come back and report it immediately!"

Lu Ping nodded, and walked down the mountain quickly with a few of his classmates to investigate the situation.

Moment.

Lu Ping and several people came back, but they followed them up the mountain, and there was a group of blowers, that is, musicians who set off the excitement and livened up the atmosphere on the occasion of red and white ceremonies, and there were about fifty of them.

The musicians who wore festive and wealthy clothes walked up the mountain, and they saw the identity of Zou Lingnian's door owner at a glance, and knew that Zou Lingnian was a person in charge, so they went forward and crowded all kinds of musical instruments in front of Zou Lingnian, blowing and beating, but they were happy.

This kind of thing happened on the mountain, and there was such a loud noise, which naturally attracted many people from the Yulan Gate.

Everyone came to the martial arts arena in front of the door, gathered together, looked at the musicians, laughed and laughed, exchanged ears, and discussed.

Everyone looked at this group of musicians, their hearts were strange, and they were a little puzzled, their eyes glanced at the musicians, and then glanced at the door owner Zou Zhennian, thinking in their hearts.

Why did the owner of the door invite so many musicians to go up the mountain, what was going on, and was there any happy event going to be held on the mountain these days?

But, however, I haven't heard of anyone on the mountain celebrating his birthday recently, or getting married and having children?

At this moment, seeing this large group of musicians who suddenly went up the mountain, not to mention that there are 10,000 whys in the hearts of the people of Yulanmen, even the owner of the door, Zou Yunian, is also knotted in his head, and he was confused for a while.

Take a break.

Zou Yunian came back to his senses, secretly commanded a few subordinates, and then, with his arms raised, his palms pressed into the air, he made a silent gesture at the musicians, and asked softly at an elderly musician, with a pleasant face: "Old man, what do you mean by this? Who invited you to come?"

Those musicians listened to Zou Yunian's inquiry, and they didn't say anything, so they divided into two groups and retreated on their own, standing left and right on the stone steps of the Yulanmen Palace, and then continued to shake their heads, with a look of intoxication, and played the music vigorously, and their emotions were a little excited.

Zou Yunian saw that the musicians ignored him, the master of the Yulan Gate, and continued to make music on his own, behaving a little strangely, and his head was even more confused, he frowned, his face sank, and he was about to ask someone to drive the musician away, but was stopped by Lu Ping.

Lu Ping grinned and stepped forward to explain: "Master, you old man don't have to be confused, just now on the road, I have asked these musicians clearly, in fact, they are all invited by Zou Bo, Zou Bo said that a great happy event will happen on the mountain today, and these musicians are here to add joy to us, add joy!"

Zou Yunian didn't listen to Lu Ping's explanation, but after listening to Lu Ping's explanation, he was even more confused, and he didn't know why, he was stunned for a moment, and asked in surprise: "What! Happy event? There are no more people on this mountain, and there is no wedding to marry, where is the happy event?"

"Master, have you recently had any more children and grandchildren on the mountain, and you have to ask your old man about this, how do I know!"

Lu Ping spread his palms and replied with a smile, when he looked at his beloved master, he didn't know which tendon in his brain was wrong, and suddenly a thought popped up, and he actually made up his brain like this.

I haven't heard of anyone's birthday on the mountain recently, or who has married a wife and had children.

Uh! Looking at the mysterious and sneaky appearance of these musicians, should it be, could it be that our beloved master and old man really couldn't stand the bullying of the Yaksha master, and secretly raised his aunt outside and gave birth to a little junior brother!

Could it be that the aunt and the little junior brother outside specially came up the mountain today, to find the master to recognize their relatives and return to their ancestors!

Zou Zhennian carefully looked at the noisy musicians, his brows were tightened, his thoughts were like wheels, and he glanced at him at random, and saw his apprentice Lu Ping secretly looking at him, his eyes were not right, and he had a wicked smile on his face.

Zou Yunian was stunned for a moment, pulled Lu Ping to the place where he was carrying the person, and asked, "Lu Ping, why do you look at Master with such eyes, can it be that even you have found out that there is something wrong with today's events?"

Lu Ping came back to his senses, sighed lightly, quickly shook his head, and replied: "No, no!"

Zou Yunian asked again: "Lu Ping, I looked carefully, why didn't I see Uncle Zou?"

Lu Ping shook his head and said, "Uncle Zou hasn't come back yet!"

Zou Yunian was stunned for a moment, his thoughts flashed, his face sank, and he stared fixedly

Lu Ping asked, "Since Uncle Zou didn't come back, how do you know that these musicians were invited by Uncle Zou?"

Lu Ping tilted his head, glanced sideways at the musicians, Nunu's mouth, and said with a smile: "I asked them, what did they say?"

Zou Lingnian listened to Lu Ping's answer, rolled his eyes, and was almost so angry that he didn't turn his back on it, at this moment, no matter how good his temper was, he couldn't help it, so he stretched out his palm and slapped Lu Ping's back on the head, his eyes were on fire, and he scolded in a deep voice:

"You, you guy, I see that you can speak well and react sensitively on weekdays, I thought you were a smart person, but who knew that you were also a fool.

How can you release people into the mountains based on the words of the other side, and what should we do if these musicians have bad intentions against us, harbor evil intentions, and suddenly attack us?

Then wouldn't our Yulanmen be a river of blood, dead and wounded, and we would be unlucky?

Confused, confused, you're so confused!"

Zou Yunian didn't exert any force, and the palm of his hand was not heavy, but Lu Ping still had a conditioned reflex, habitually touched the back of his head, deflated his mouth, and snorted: "Master, didn't you just let Uncle Tang and the others ambush to guard against these musicians? Besides, when I was down the mountain just now, I had already secretly investigated, these musicians are all mortals, they don't know martial arts at all, they have no ability to harm us!"

Zou Yunian listened to Lu Ping's defense, and was stunned for a moment, seeing that Lu Ping observed carefully, he found his own deployment, and he had already taken the safety issue into account before, so this apprentice is not stupid!

Zou Yunian coughed twice, his expression softened, he smiled indifferently, gently stroked the back of his apprentice's shoulder, and admonished softly:

"Lu Ping, although you have already probed the other party's body and found nothing abnormal, have you ever thought about it, in case the other party has a strong ability and deliberately hides his cultivation, so that you can't investigate, in case they let them come up the mountain and make a surprise attack on us, then what should we do?

The so-called heart of harming people is indispensable, the heart of guarding against people is indispensable, be careful to sail the boat for ten thousand years, and leave a hand on the face of outsiders, so in the future, when you encounter this kind of thing, you must not be self-righteous and careless, you know?

If you encounter something like this in the future, first of all, you have to come back and tell us about it right away, so that we can work out a plan of action, so that we can prevent it from happening and nip the danger in the bud, you know?"

Lu Ping's expression froze, he nodded hurriedly, and said respectfully: "What the master said is right, the disciple must follow the teachings, obey the teachings!"

Zou Yunian sighed, nodded, and said softly: "Lu Ping, although you are active, smart and capable, but after all, you are too young, you have no experience in the rivers and lakes, you don't understand the darkness of people's hearts, and the sinister way of the world, it seems that you have to go down the mountain with Uncle Zou in the future and see the world!"

Lu Ping hurriedly nodded and agreed, overjoyed and overjoyed, because Uncle Zou was the henchman of the master, and the owner of the door asked him to go out with Uncle Zou, this is the intention to cultivate, and he wants to reuse him in the future!

Zou Zhennian taught Lu Ping some experience in the rivers and lakes, said a few words of gossip, and then came to the martial arts arena again.

At this time, a group of people came from the bottom of the mountain, all of whom were guys from some shops in Yulan Town, and they sent pots, pots, pans, tables, chairs, bowls, chopsticks and other utensils for cooking and eating.

Then another group of people came, and they brought firecrackers, incense and candles, silk cloth, flowers, and so on.

Then, another group of people came, bringing chicken, duck, fish, seafood and game.

Then, another group of people came, and they sent melons, fruits, vegetables, pastries and snacks, as well as drinks and other things.

These people, ignoring the inquiries and dissuasion of Zou Lingnian and others, neither explained the reason nor asked for money, threw things at the Yulan Gate, and left in a hurry without saying hello.

In short, in this way, half a day's work, those merchants sent all kinds of materials to buy a banquet, piled up into a hill in the main hall of Yulanmen, rich in materials, if Yulanmen really wants to buy a large banquet, there is really nothing missing.

Zou Lingnian and others were dazzled and dumbfounded by those who came to deliver supplies in an endless stream, and they were puzzled and surprised in their hearts.

People still came one by one, but after a while, this time, it was finally not the guys in the shops who came, but Zou Yunian's relatives and friends, and friends from all over the world.

These relatives and friends brought rich gifts, and when they saw Zou Yunian, they were full of smiles and shouted:

"Third uncle, congratulations, congratulations, congratulations!"

"Brother Zou, congratulations, congratulations, congratulations!"

"Xiao Nian, congratulations, congratulations, congratulations!"

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