Seeing that Gao Yanei was still alive, Su Wan shouted: "Shut up! Xu Shaoxia is my friend. Do you still want to take revenge?"

After hearing her angry shout, Gao Yanei was stunned. He just looked at Xu Ziling and did not dare to speak anymore.

Seeing Mingxia, Zhou Bangyan said, "Shishi, are you okay?"

Mingxia chuckled softly: "Mr. Zhou, I'm fine, don't worry."

Zhou Bangyan wanted to say something, but heard Su Wan say, "Young Master Zhou, everything is a misunderstanding. Look, Miss Li is okay. Shide is ignorant and said something nonsense. Can you not care about him?"

Zhou Bangyan looked at Su Wan, then looked at Gao Yanei, and snorted coldly: "Since the girl has said that, I will no longer care about him."

Seeing his proud look, Gao Yanei wanted to scold him, but saw Su Wan turning his head and glaring at him, and immediately shut his mouth.

Xu Ziling suddenly said to Su Wan: "Miss Su, my senior brother and Yue'er are worried about us, so I'll take Mingxia back first."

Su Wan nodded: "You go back with peace of mind, I will talk to him about Shide."

Xu Ziling hugged her, then turned around and took Mingxia's hand and left.

Zhou Bangyan watched the two of them leave hand in hand, and a feeling of sorrow surged in his heart and hurriedly chased after him.

Just after walking a few steps, I saw the sword behind the boy flew out and blocked him horizontally.

He couldn't move forward and shouted, "Shi Shi, do you really have no affection for me?"

Before Mingxia could speak, the young man turned his head first and said, "Young Master Zhou, we will never forget your kindness to Mingxia, but Mingxia is my Mingxia, please keep a distance from her. If you see the reality clearly and take a step back, then I will also regard you as my brother."

Mingxia felt a little uncomfortable at this time. After all, Zhou Bangyan helped her for so many years, and she couldn't bear to hurt his heart. She hadn't seen Xu Ziling before, so she could still be vague and make him have some thoughts, but now she can't. She must not hesitate about love. Since she promises that one person has favor, she hopes to be generous for the rest of her life.

Zhou Bangyan looked at the hands that were always tightly held together, opened his mouth and lowered his head. The faint expectation in his heart turned into dullness.

After leaving the Taiwei Mansion, Mingxia pulled her hand out. In public, men and women would be scolded for being insulting when walking on the road with their hands in hand.

After walking for a while, he happened to meet Lin Chong and Yue'er who were rushing to come. Yue'er rushed straight into Mingxia's arms and started crying.

Mingxia explained with all his might, and then she pulled up her skirt and turned around in front of her before she burst into tears and laughed.

Lin Chong also asked about the story, and Xu Ziling explained it to him concisely before he felt relieved.

After that, the few people returned to Lin's mansion together. It was at midnight when the day was on duty. Lady Lin had already prepared lunch, so the few people had lunch together.

Shortly after the meal, Lin Chong returned to the schoolyard, and Xu Ziling began to practice swords in the yard. Now he is eager to break through to the realm of martial arts, so he has to study hard. Most of his understanding of martial arts comes from masters, sister Fang Bai, Uncle Fang and others. It is too difficult to be unique.

In the past, he believed that there were very few warriors who entered the house. However, there were only 20 Taiwei's Mansion just now, which broke his cognition. Although the realm cannot represent strength, there will definitely be extraordinary existences based on quantity.

If he did not reach the level of martial arts, he would not be able to come and go freely in this Bianliang City, and would not even protect Mingxia.

So he practiced boxing and sword skills step by step, hoping to get from quantity to the level of martial arts.

After practicing for a long time, Xu Ziling, who was sweating profusely, sat on the stone bench in the yard, preparing to rest for a while before practicing.

Suddenly, when he noticed the movement behind him, Xu Ziling turned his head and found that Yue'er was approaching him sneakily. After he discovered it, he stuck out his tongue and made a face.

Xu Ziling laughed silently: "What do you want to do?"

Yue'er pouted: "I want to go to the Eight Immortals Tower to watch the Weaving Conference, but the lady doesn't let me go alone."

Xu Ziling pointed to Chi Xiao who was placed on the ground: "I still need to practice martial arts."

Yue'er ran over, held Chi Xiao in her arms, and said softly: "When can't you practice? This time the weaving conference in the Eight Immortal Tower is extraordinary. Many ministers in the court attended. It is said that the emperor knew it." As he said that, he ran to Xu Ziling and slowly took Chi Xiao back into the sheath.

Looking at the maid's active appearance, Xu Ziling smiled and said, "Okay, let's take you to see it. But first, there must be many people there, don't be too far away from me."

The maid immediately smiled and said, "I know." Then she inadvertently smelled the smell of Xu Ziling, covered her nose and said, "You go and change your clothes quickly."

Seeing this, Xu Ziling smelled her sleeves and there was indeed a smell of sweat. So she nodded and went back to her room to change her clothes.

The Baxian Tower is located opposite the Alum Tower. Unlike the Alum Tower, the Baxian Tower is a pure restaurant. Today, the entire pavilion was vacated to hold a weaving conference, and many wealthy officials, gentry and wealthy families in the city who love to fight weaving were invited.

Because there are too many people participating in the weaving conference, the Eight Immortals Tower is divided into six venues, and there are two venues on each floor of the main building. When the winner is selected for each venue, let everyone move to the courtyard behind to enjoy the final battle.

However, the turban conference cannot be watched just by wanting it. Each person needs to pay five taels of silver to enter, and the number of people is limited.

When the maid looked at Xu Ziling at the entrance of the Eight Immortals Building, Xu Ziling said with shamelessness that he forgot to get his purse when changing his clothes.

The two of them froze at the door. The maid didn't believe that he didn't bring any money, so he reached out to touch his pocket. Xu Ziling kept hiding around and prevented the maid from touching his pocket.

The manager in charge of the receptionist at the Eight Immortals Tower saw the couple playing at the door, and quickly spoke out and drove him away: "If you don't have money, get out of here, don't hinder other guests."

Upon hearing this, the maid immediately stopped moving, fearing that she would be driven away. Then she stared at Xu Ziling fiercely: "Isn't it just five taels of silver? Why are you so stingy?"

Xu Ziling defended: "I was wrong, it was ten taels! Do you know how long it takes for a ten tael of silver to spend for an ordinary family?"

The maid grabbed her hair angrily: "How could a lady like a bastard like you!"

Xu Ziling couldn't listen: "This is not the same thing. My love with Mingxia, how can it be related to money..."

"Old Wu, he is my friend, let them in!" Just as Xu Ziling was arguing, a voice came from the second floor.

Hearing the voice upstairs, the manager at the door immediately had a smile on his face, and he advised Xu Ziling, who was chattering: "Two, don't be hurt by the mere ten taels of silver. Since they are Mr. Geng's friends, please come in quickly, and there is no need to pay that silver."

The maid stared at Xu Ziling, snorted lightly, stepped on Xu Ziling hard before turning around and walking into the restaurant.

Xu Ziling, who was not painful, looked upstairs and said, "Thank you, Brother Geng!"

The person who was talking upstairs was Yu Ge'er who had not seen for a long time. After parting in Xikou Village, Xu Ziling and his friends had not seen each other for more than ten days. Unexpectedly, they saw him again here.

Following the maid to the second floor, Xu Ziling saw Brother Yu by the window and Yang Qi who was almost inseparable from him.

The maid ran over and said, "Thank you, Brother Yu", and then ran everywhere to see crickets.

Xu Ziling walked over and greeted the two of them a few times, and asked, "Brother Geng is also here to attend the weaving conference?"

Yu Ge'er smiled and said, "I don't have any good crickets to attend such a conference. I just came to see the world with Qi Shao. Such a grand event may not be available once in a few years. This restaurant is my grandfather's property, so it's just right to take a look."

Xu Ziling said in surprise: "Brother Yu is indeed a big family and a big business."

Brother Yu slapped him and shook his eyes and said, "Don't talk nonsense, my grandfather hasn't said he wants to give it to me yet. Hahaha..."

Xu Ziling smiled with her and said something bad for a moment.

The venue where a few people are located is the second venue on the second floor, code-named "D", and the rest are respectively A, B, B, Wu and Ji. A, B are on the first floor, and most of the gatherings are small merchants and relatively wealthy people; C, D, gatherings are famous merchants and wealthy gentry in the city; Wu and Ji are officials in the court who like to fight and urge to weaving.

In order to cater to the officials with high status and authority, this weaving conference did not replace crickets, but instead replaced crickets. That is to say, a person can have multiple crickets participating in the competition. This is the advantage of officials.

After a while, noisy sounds came from the first floor, as if the competition had begun, while the second and third floors were still waiting for people, although the buckets had been put in place.

Xu Ziling, who was chatting with Yu Ge'er, accidentally saw an old man walking up from the first floor. The old man seemed to be over 60 years old, but he was still tall, with his waist straight and his back straight, and his path was full of vigor.

Behind the old man was a follower holding a cricket jar. When passing by the second floor, the old man glanced at the window and happened to see Xu Ziling who was also looking at him. After a moment of looking at each other, the old man turned around and walked towards the third floor.

After the old man went upstairs, Xu Ziling patted Yu Ge'er on the shoulder and asked, "Do you know that old man just now?"

Brother Yu said in surprise: "If you don't know me, you dare to stare at him?"

Xu Ziling said in a daze: "Why, I can't see that he can't do it? Have such a great official power?"

Yu Geer leaned into his ear and whispered: "The old man is called Tong Guan, and he is very favored in the court. The old man is a castrator. There used to be a short-sized official staring at his waist. He thought the official was looking at his bird, and in anger he beat the official to death on the spot. But the emperor did not punish him."

Xu Ziling said in surprise: "I didn't look at it, it's probably okay."

Seeing Xu Ziling's lingering fear, Brother Yu laughed: "I'm afraid of him."

...

After a long time, the downstairs had already competed for several rounds, and the second floor had just begun.

As more and more people gradually blocked their vision, Xu Ziling looked around for the maid, but could not see her. So he waved to Yu Ge'er and the others, and said goodbye to find the disobedient maid.
Chapter completed!