For more than a year after Tang Zongbo returned to Hong Kong, due to the death of his wife, Xia Shao and Xu Tianyin were not always there, so Zhang Zhongxian moved in to live with him so that he could take care of them. Zhang Zhongxian's disciples have also dealt with foreign industries, and are based in Hong Kong. Qiu Qiqiang, Zhao Gu, and Hai Ruo live in a villa not far away. They go to the Old Fengshui Hall every morning. They are used to coming over to ask for peace and make breakfast for the two elderly people by the way.

  This morning, just as people who can be trusted were there, Xia Shao explained Yinni’s suspicions and her own guesses last night at breakfast.

  These speculations are naturally shocking people around the table. Especially when I heard that it was last night, Tang Zongbo said, "You girl, why did you say it? Why didn't you say it last night?"

Xia Shao smiled, and said, "Last night's banquet ended very late. I said that you might want to think about it all night." After all, Master is old. Although his cultivation level is advanced and his body is always good, Xia Shao still hopes The old man sleeps better at night, and it is never too late to say these things in the morning.

  Tang Zongbo sighed, "You kid, such a big thing..." Having said that, the old man's eyes were still very moved. In his entire life, accepting these two disciples is very affectionate, although it is regrettable to have these two disciples. [

"This cold old man! In the past, he kept his life clear and watched the sect infighting! Now the head brother Nian did not drive him out of the sect for sympathy. He didn't know how grateful he was when he went abroad, and he also found such a grandson-in-law! I think he is. On purpose!" Zhang Zhongxian said angrily at this time.

"Junior Brother Leng's temperament is a bit scary. Because of this, I don't think he knows the truth. Moreover, the girl Yi said, she is not sure whether it is Xiao Yi or not. But Xin'er, she really did not expect that she Know how to learn black magic." Tang Zongbo's view is not as emotional as Zhang Zhongxian, he just has a solemn expression, "I saw Xin'er at Leng's house last night. Seeing that this child has a lot of cheerful temperament, I thought she really wanted to open up. Now, I don’t care much about the abolition of her exercises back then. Unexpectedly, this child still got a bit of a horn."

"That matter, brother-in-chief is correct! Killing the same school, if it weren't for the poor old man Leng, for her granddaughter's sake, changing to other disciples would be a capital crime! It would be a capital crime to save her life, but to abolish the merits. Fa is already very affectionate! In this matter, if Xiao Shao's guess is correct, Xin'er has practiced black witchcraft, and that is her own problem." Zhang Zhongxian said.

  Tang Zongbo sighed and asked Xia Shao: "How sure are you about this matter?"

  Xia Shao took a deep look at Master, "80%."

  Tang Zongbo was taken aback, others could not understand the meaning of Xia Shao’s glance. As a master, he taught her the inheritance of magic techniques since she was ten years old. Can the tacit understanding between the master and the disciple still be understood? This girl, I'm afraid I saw something openly. If her temperament were not certain, she would not say that she was wronged.

  Qiu Qiqiang and the three looked at each other, 80%? Isn't that the same as being sure?

   "I think the most important thing at the moment is to figure out whether Head Xiao is the one who calculated us behind the scenes." Hai Ruo frowned. She has always had a gentle temperament, but at the moment she looked solemn, and she glanced at Wen Ye, her eyes slightly cold. Leng Yixin practiced black witchcraft again, her techniques had been abolished, and even if she was obsessed with it, she would not be able to let go, the threat to Xuanmen would be relatively small. The problem is that Xiao Yi, he is the head of Maoshan, a master of refining the gods and the realm of emptiness. If he has the heart to deal with the Xuanmen, except for the head master and the two uncles, the other disciples are not his opponents.

  But it's not Xiao Yi's opponent, if it is proved that he is really the person who hurt Xiao Yezi, she will never let it go!

   "Indeed! This matter is the most important thing! The person behind the scenes is to find out, and now it has an eyebrow, even if it is only possible, we must check it out!" Qiu Qiqiang said.

Xia Shao looked at Xu Tianyin, "Brother, this matter is up to you. I remember that when the Dragon Mai accident happened, Master had called Xiao Yi, and he said that he was dealing with the sect and the industry in Maoshan. If this is the case, then. At that time he should be in the interior."

   "Yeah." Xu Tianyin nodded, he always went straight to the point, "All the information of Xiao Yi will be handed over to you a week."

Xia Shao understands what all the information represents. She nodded immediately, and the others were also relieved. Xu Tianyin's identity and ability should not be difficult to do these things.

   Xu Tianyin collects these data, which must be extremely confidential. He needs a week, but Xia Shao cannot stay in Hong Kong for a week. She originally planned to start working in the company after the annual leave, and she would go to the company and sit there for a few days to deal with matters. Unexpectedly, bringing Adam to Hong Kong, all the itinerary was disrupted. It was originally dealing with Adam's affairs, but now Adam has returned to England, and Xia Shao has something to do at home. When Tang Zongbo met Xiao Yi last night, he asked him what his plans were. He said that he would live in Hong Kong for some time. As for the future development, it depends on the decision of Mr. Leng and Leng Yixin.

  Xiao Yi wants to live in Hong Kong for a while, and Xia Shao wants to go home, but he is not too worried. If this person is really the person behind the scenes who calculates the profound sect, his mind must be deep and hide extremely deep. With his acting style, he would definitely hide in the dark and stabbing a knife, without knowing it. That being the case, he is highly likely to avoid his time in Hong Kong. But before Xia Shao left, he still asked Master and others to be careful.

  The day Xia Shao left Hong Kong was the day when Xu Tianyin returned to the military area to report. The two separated, Xu Tianyin returned to Beijing, and Xia Shao returned to Dongshi.

  ……

  My daughter came back three days after going to Hong Kong. Xia Zhiyuan and Li Juan were surprised and very happy. But seeing their daughter brought a friend back, the couple were even more surprised.

   "This is?" In the living room of the Xia family, Xia Zhiyuan and Li Juan stood up and looked at the petite and exquisite girl next to Xia Shao. [

   "My college classmate, Yini." Xia Shao said with a smile.

  Yini stood beside Xia Shao, and looked a little cramped at Li Juan's gaze with a smile, "Uncle, Auntie."

  She was going back to the capital, but Xia Shao wanted to invite her to the Lantern Festival. From the time she left the stockade to the present seven or eight years, she has never been to other people's homes for festivals. This year is an unprecedented time to go to Hong Kong. She followed Xia Shao to the East Market. Yi Ni still has no idea why she didn't refuse to the end.

  I came to Xia Shao’s house, but Yi Ni did not bring any gifts. Although she grew up in a stockade, she has survived outside for several years, and she also knows the etiquette of human relations. But after Xia Shao got off the plane and took a taxi back to Xia's house, she didn't have time to buy anything. At this moment, facing the scrutiny of Xia Shao's parents, Yi Ni was a little embarrassed rarely.

Li Juan smiled and stood up and said: "Xiao Shao's classmate? This kid, bring his classmates here without telling us. Hurry up, come and sit down!" She said as she invited Yin Ni to sit down at the coffee table. Yi Ni was taken aback. Li Juan had already pushed her to sit down. Before she could react, Li Juan had already turned around to make tea.

  Yini didn’t know, Xia Shao rarely took classmates and friends to visit her home. Before the Huaxia Group was not established, she had few friends and few people came. Now that the family moved to Taoyuan District, there are many people who want to come, but few can get in. In addition to bringing Xu Tianyin home, Xia Shao's same-sex friends, Xia Zhiyuan and Li Juan, have met, but they have never been to Xia's guest. So today, seeing their daughter bring friends back, the couple was a little more nervous than Yini.

  Naturally, Xia Zhiyuan and his wife were bothered about entertaining their daughters and classmates at noon. Originally planning to go to the hotel to eat, Xia Shao said that it would be nice to cook some home-cooked dishes at home. Li Juan couldn't help her daughter, so she hurried to buy some vegetables and got back, so she went into the kitchen and got busy. When eating at noon, four people ate, and there was a table full of vegetables. Sitting around the table, Yini's eyes were a little dazed in the steaming food.

Xia Zhiyuan saw that Yi Ni was stunned and could not move the chopsticks, so he smiled and said to his wife: "I told you not to do so much. You see you set this table, but don't be like the last time, you can't finish it. It broke people."

  Li Juan looked at her husband with a sigh, “Is it because I made a lot of wrong cooking last time? It’s not that some people eat the jealousy of my son-in-law and don’t give others a good look, and force them to find a way to please us?”

  Xia Zhiyuan suddenly knew that he had said the wrong thing again, and said with a wry smile: "Yes, I am wrong, you are right."

  Li Juan pursed her lips and smiled.

   Yini looked at the middle-aged couple across from the heat of the meal, listening to the two quarreling, she couldn't help but cast her eyes down. She has never seen her father, and since she can remember, there is only her mother in her life. She never knew what it was like when her parents were together.

"Xiaoyi, don't look at the many dishes, in fact, the taste is far worse than the hotel. We Xiao Shao don't often bring friends back for dinner, and we don't know how to entertain. If there is something improper, don't see it." Seeing that Yinni had not moved her chopsticks, Li Juan looked at her worriedly and explained with a smile. Isn’t it because you have to cook too many dishes and greet you too much and frighten people?

   "No, no." Yi Ni then reacted and waved her hand hurriedly.

  Xia Shao still saw Yini so busy the first time, it was very different from her usual staunch and sharp. She naturally knows the reason, and this is also her intention to let her mother cook in person. Bring Yin Ni back. First, she didn't want her to stay in Hong Kong. Her temperament was too strong and her mother's grudges were not reported. Xia Shao was worried that Yin Ni would do irrational things when she was away. With her temperament, whether Xiao Yi is her enemy or not, she is very likely to "would rather kill a thousand by mistake than let one go." But her cultivation base is too far away from Xiao Yi, and it's only her who will be in trouble by that time. For her safety, she must also leave Hong Kong. But when she brought her back to her own home, Xia Shao also hoped to bring her more warmth. People who live in hatred are always tired, and a warm and relaxed life is good for Yinni.

  The atmosphere during the meal was still very harmonious. Li Juan gave full play to her preferences when Xia Shao brought Xu Tianyin back, and asked how old Yinni was, what major she studied, and where her home was. But Li Juan still has a sense of measure. She never likes to inquire about other people's family backgrounds, and she asks about familiar things.

  When asked where Yinni is from, Yinni obviously stiffened her hand holding the bowl, but she finally replied, "Southern Province."

   "Yo!" Li Juan was surprised, and looked at each other with Xia Zhiyuan, Xia Zhiyuan said: "That's a long way from Qing Province..."

"Isn't it? The children are all independent nowadays. When we are at this age, how can we go out so far?" Li Juan said while looking at Yini, and asked with a smile, "Look, you are about the same age as Xiao Shao. , Your parents should be about the same age as ours? Don't worry, you can run this far alone."

   Yini's hand holding the bowl stiffened again, and she lowered her head and said: "I haven't seen my dad, grandma... is no longer alive."

   "..." When Xia Zhiyuan and Li Juan heard this, the couple was stunned. The smile on Li Juan's face suddenly turned into concern, "Then how did you come here if your parents weren't by your side? Living in a relative's house?"

  Xia Shao turned her head and looked at Yin Ni. She was only thirteen when she ran away from the stockade. She didn't know how she survived outside these years. [

   Yini lowered her head. She has no relatives. When she first came out of the stockade, she didn't understand anything. At a young age, there was no place to hire her. In the first two years after she came out, she went to the streets and alleys to pick up the dumped swill from the restaurants. For this reason, she robbed the street and fought with the street vagrants. She subdued those people by using the release of Gu, and got the attention of a small local underworld boss. The underworld in that place is the site of a triad society, and the man knows that the law is bigger, so he pays him to help him change careers. From then on, she used people's money and money to eliminate calamities, and within two years she helped that person release Gu merchants and made that person a huge wealth. And she took the money to study, live, and inquire about her enemies. But people are greedy, the man became a huge rich, and tasted the sweetness, so he dared to beat her and wanted to support her. It happened that his wife and children got the news that the people who hired the underworld wanted to kill her, and she killed her in a fit of anger. These people took up that person's property and left the city.

  Since then, she has spent many years studying and living with the money.

  But Yi Ni did not elaborate on these matters. She didn't want to see the fear of alienation from friends or friends' family members. She didn't want to go back to those days when she lived alone without friends.

   Yini lowered her head and said nothing, but Li Juan looked pitying. Her parents also passed away early that year, and only survived in the village with the help of the neighbors, so she felt most deeply about these things. She is also a mother, and she always feels a little distressed when she sees a child without a mother. So after the meal, Li Juan was already warming up to Yi Ni, and she took care of her. She pulled Yi Ni to talk for a long time in the afternoon. When she went to bed at night, she deliberately thickened her bedding.

  Yini stayed in Xia Shao’s house, accompanied her to the Furuixiang antique shop or ceramic company during the day, and came back to have dinner with Xia Zhiyuan and his wife in the evening. During the period, I also accompanied Xia Shao to Qing City, and spent three days at the headquarters of China Group. I saw Xia Shao resolutely deal with company affairs, and accompanied her to a friend who learned witchcraft.

  Xia Shao arrived in Qingshi. Although she was to deal with company affairs, she still took the time to visit the Hu's villa. Hu's family has already been renovated by people from Ada Real Estate. Hu Jiayi stayed with her parents at home. When she saw Xia Shao, she seemed in good spirits.

"Xiao Shao!" Hu Jiayi rushed over, her happy appearance was no different from before, but when she heard that Yin Ni was a Gu Master, her cheerful smile faded when she thought of her own affairs, "I am connected. Before. , When I first arrived in the UK, no one around me was kind to me, only Adam protected me. I looked forward to him, depended on him, and thanked him. Later I thought I liked him, but now that I think about it, it may be really adulterated. There are a lot of impure feelings in it, maybe... I plan to stop seeing him, and let time to verify if I really like him."

  Xia Shao raised her eyebrows when she heard this, that worried little witch, Hu Jiayi, could show such a quiet and emotional smile at this moment. She must have really figured it out, "Then what do you plan to do in the future?"

"I will still go there in the UK. But I won't go back to the magic school. I'm already preparing to apply for withdrawal materials from the school. My dad's company has expanded its business over the years and opened up markets in Europe. He has some in the UK. A business friend has already contacted Cambridge University for me. I plan to go to school to study business management, and after graduation, I will return to my family company to help take care of it.” Hu Jiayi said.

  This decision made Xia Shao a little surprised. She didn't expect Hu Jiayi to make a decision so quickly and decisively. This made her see some potential for her to inherit the family business in the future. Xia Shao naturally agreed with Hu Jiayi's decision. She only asked: "Since you have decided, I hope that you will try not to contact the students in the witchcraft school in the UK. You should be aware of the hostility of those people towards you. Don't provoke them again, so as not to give yourself. Bringing danger with friends around you."

  As for whether to see Adam, Xia Shao didn't remind him much. She didn't know the danger Adam faced, and if she reminded her, and let her guess something, then it would bring her danger instead.

  Hu Jiayi nodded. That night, Xia Shao and Yinni stayed at Hu’s house. Hu Guangjin and his wife were very happy and emotional about their daughter’s decision. They felt that she had finally grown up.

  Early the next morning, Xia Shao drove back to Dongshi. The next day was the fifteenth of the first lunar month.

On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, the Xia family gathered again. Xia Zhiqin's family has returned to Qingshi, and only two elderly people, Xia Zhimei and Xia Zhitao, came to Xia Shao's house that day to eat together. Except for the addition of Yinni in the banquet, it was no different from before.

  The atmosphere of the reunion dinner on this day was still very lively. The family discussed the engagement of Xia Shao and Xu Tianyin. Before I had time to set a time, Xia Shao came back, and Xia Zhiyuan said: "I have discussed with your mother, and I think the engagement time should be set during the winter and summer vacations. This will not delay your studies, but we only mentioned this matter. For a plan, you will return to the capital tomorrow to bring the words to Mr. Xu for us and ask Mr. Xu what he means."

  Xia Zhitao listened and laughed: "Winter and summer vacations? Summer vacation is still half a year away. If it is booked for winter vacation, then there will be another year! Isn't that going to kill Xiao Xu? Last time I saw Xiao Xu...Huh? Xiao Xu?"

  Xia Zhitao was speaking, her voice stopped abruptly, and Na Na turned her head and looked out the door.

  At the door, a man in an expensive suit has walked in, holding a bouquet of roses and lilies in his arms, and looking into the room from a distance, his eyes on the woman who is eating.

  "Brother?" Xia Shao stood up, unexpectedly Xu Tianyin would come to Xia's house from the capital.

  But in a daze, she remembered that the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, which is just one week away from Xu Tianyin's so-called period, happened to come.