Who says sleep is not spiritual practice?

Only there is no price tag.

And in an inconspicuous corner on the left side of the room, an old woman with a kind face is sewing a new dress.

The old woman was stooped, with gray hair, sitting on an old wicker chair. Although her eyes were cloudy and the candle was dim, she could thread a needle without any difficulty.

Seeing this scene, girl Xiaoman couldn't help muttering in her heart:

Who would have thought that such an old woman who had devoted most of her life to the tailor shop would be the landlord of the top three killer organization Huamanlou in the world?

Moreover, the seniority is frighteningly high, and even his own master has to be honored as uncle when he sees him!

"Grandma!"

The little girl looked cautious, like a granddaughter who had done something bad, walked behind the old man with a smile, and began to beat his shoulders.

At the same time, she glanced at the dress that the old woman was sewing.

Although the clothes were only in its infancy, it was not difficult to see from the exposed python patterns that it was a python robe that only princes were qualified to wear.

"Grandma, you are making clothes for the prince again!"

"Isn't this going to cost a lot of money?"

Granny Zou had a slight smile on her face, and her needlework did not stop at all while chatting:

"Little girl, you always come to the door for nothing, so tell me, what do you want me to do this time?"

Xiaoman increased the intensity of her shoulder pinching, and said coquettishly:

"Grandma, I want to make a dress."

Granny Zou joked with a smile:

"Little girl, it's unlucky to make a shroud at your age!"

Xiaoman looked aggrieved:

"No, grandma, I want to make an alien costume."

"A dress that only Princess Beidi is qualified to wear!"

As soon as this remark came out, Granny Zou's smile faltered and she stopped her sewing.

She is good at making clothes, let alone the clothes of Princess Beidi, even the dragon robes of successive emperors and the phoenix robes of queens, she can perfectly copy them.

But with the little girl's temperament of playing games in the world, the request she made is not just as simple as wearing clothes!

She probably really wants to be the princess of Beidi once!

"Bullshit!"

Granny Zou scolded:

"Do you think that Huamanlou is opened by your family? I have to help you realize any wish?"

"Last year, you wanted to be the most talented woman in the capital. We kidnapped 24 lecturers and students from Jixia Academy and locked them in a brothel to write poems and essays all day long!"

"at last……"

"Someone hid a distress letter in a poem, and the murdered Jixia Academy rushed out in a rage, almost completely erasing our stronghold from the capital!"

"Do you know how much our loss was that time?"

However, the little girl muttered confidently:

"Who told you to lock people up in brothels and not let them touch women?"

"I've said it earlier, if you put them in the gentle village to boost their talents, maybe they will be reluctant to leave!"

Granny Zou snorted coldly:

"The rules of the Jixia Academy are strict, and people in the Academy are not allowed to enter dirty places like brothels."

"If the group of students and lecturers who read sage books all day are forced by us to sleep with women and break their hearts, that old guy Xun Yong will have to open the door of Huamanlou!"

Xun Yong is the sacrificing wine of Jixia Academy, and his awe-inspiring righteousness, which has been practiced for more than 150 years, is comparable to the legend of the fourth-rank congenital star-picking realm.

The old man has written three books in his life, and after reading each book, someone has an epiphany. They are all sage books, so they are also called semi-saints.

Xiaoman said unconvinced:

"That's not because you stole the wrong question!"

"Last year, Mr. Xun came up with three difficult questions. He said that those who answered all three questions could be admitted to his sect. I wanted to take this opportunity to become famous all over the world, so I pretended to be a student and entered the capital. But, but... ..."

"It wasn't until the day of the exam that I realized that what I had memorized by rote for a month was useless at all, and the questions the old man asked were completely different from what you said in advance!"

"That's why I had no choice but to kidnap the students and lecturers of Jixia Academy to compose poems and essays for myself and make my name in the capital."

"Otherwise, I would have been the first female disciple under Mr. Xun's sect, not to mention the number one talented woman in the capital, and no one would dare to compete with me for the title of the best talented woman in the world!"

Granny Zou couldn't help breaking the stage and said:

"Little girl, I admit that you have read a lot of books, but you have nothing to do with the word "talented girl" at all!"

While beating the old man's back and shoulders, Xiaoman coquettishly said:

"Grandma, I don't care, this time I will be the princess of the Di clan!"

"I failed to be a talented girl last time, this time you have to promise not to fail!"

Granny Zou saw through the girl's mind at a glance:

"Is it for your son?"

Xiaoman remained silent, acquiescing to this point.

Since the young master didn't take her to Beidi, she went by herself.

And go quietly, do a few earth-shattering things, and wait until the next meeting to give the young master a big surprise!

Seeing the silly girl Huaichun, Granny Zou seemed to think of the absurd years of her youth.

If I was half as stupid as a little girl at that time, I wouldn't be reduced to the sad end of sewing shrouds all day to remember the old people.

So she said helplessly:

"Forget it, I will allow you to mess around again."

"Who told..."

"Huamanlou was originally opened by your family."

Chapter 74 If someone has a problem, just kill them

"Hee hee, grandma is the best!"

After getting a satisfactory answer, Xiao Man walked up to Grandma Zou, opened her arms, and spun around, allowing her to measure her physical condition in order to make the most suitable clothes for her.

However, Granny Zou didn't even lift her eyelids:

"Don't turn around girl, I can make your clothes with my eyes closed."

Xiaoman stuck out her tongue playfully, and said coquettishly:

"Grandma, you are my real grandmother!"

Granny Zou took out an account book from her sleeve and said with a smile:

"Grandmother also has to settle accounts clearly. The organization hires so many people to accompany you crazy once, you can't give nothing at all, can you?"

"Old rules, pay the bill."

"One thousand flowers worth, plus 500 taels of silver."

"..."

Xiao Man subconsciously covered her purse.

As a young Thousand Flower Killer, the value of one thousand flowers is almost her entire net worth in Huamanlou. As for the 500 taels of silver, that is a huge sum enough to empty the entire Ziyan Courtyard!

Only with my private money and the 400 taels of silver left by Lichun could I barely make up the 500 taels!

Sure enough, as the elder of Huamanlou, Granny Zou's grasp of information is simply terrifying!

This is to completely squeeze yourself dry!

But at the same time, Xiaoman also knew in his heart that such a small price was naturally not enough to make the organization go crazy with him once, let alone a thousand flower value, even [-] flower value was not enough!

As for the 500 taels of silver...

In the eyes of Huamanlou's elite killers, it's even more insignificant!

Granny Zou's request was not aimed at herself, but just a symbolic blow to warn herself not to be so willful anymore.

"Hey!"

Xiaoman put a stack of banknotes and scraps of silver on the account book with a distressed expression.

As for most of this sum of money originally belonging to Jiang Qingyu...

She didn't look out at all.

After all, I did this for the young master to win in the winter hunting competition, so spending the young master's money is just as it should be!

……

For the next half month, the master and servant of Ziyan Courtyard never stepped out of the gate of the palace.

Jiang Qingyu practiced swords during the day, and went to Qianjian Lake to absorb the sword energy at night, and her martial arts cultivation was successfully promoted to the peak of the second-rank Houtian.

At this rate, it shouldn't be a problem to be promoted to the fourth rank of Houtian before the start of the Winter Hunting Competition.

And with the approach of the Winter Hunting Competition, the entire three states in the northern region and even the entire state of Chu are discussing this matter. Many casinos have already opened gambling games more than a month in advance, and there is an endless stream of bettors.

Among them, more than half are optimistic about the second son Jiang Qingjian.

There are also quite a few women who support the "women don't let their eyebrows" bet on Jiang Qingzhu, the third lady, most of whom are generous.

Although the number of women in this group only accounted for [-]%, the amount of bets accounted for [-]% of the gambling table, making a group of men call prodigal wives, but there is nothing they can do.

even……

A few days ago, Jingshui Pavilion released a novel called "The Biography of Queen Jiang". And a bloody story of seven or eight princes falling in love with each other at the same time.

Jingshui Pavilion grandly announced that they will not take any money from the sale of this book, and will use it to bet on the victory of the third lady, Jiang Qingzhu!

For a while, the supply of "The Legend of the Queen of the River" was in short supply, and Jingshui Pavilion hired several groups of people to copy it overnight, but it couldn't keep up with the speed of sales.

This also feeds a group of fake book dealers.

Except for the two most popular candidates, the palace's fourth son Jiang Qingyu, fifth miss Jiang Qingyin, and sixth miss Jiang Qingmeng all have a small number of supporters, and most of them are crazy gamblers who owe a few debts and don't care about owed another.

They didn't really look up to a few people, but they just had the dream of turning salty fish over with a fluke mentality.

A group of friends even got together and rented a piece of land on the top of the city more than ten feet high, and agreed that if they and others made a wrong bet, they would jump off the top of the city together and have a good luck in the next life.

It made people laugh and cry for a while.

During this period, several major events also occurred in the arena.

One is that the news of the deaths of the great eunuch Xu Xiaosi and Xingsi, the deputy head of the Xingyun Pavilion, was picked up by someone, and the fall of the two Luminary Sun statues set off a dark tide in the Jianghu.

When the two were discovered by their respective forces, the bodies were less than ten feet apart.

Some people speculated that the two died together, and some speculated that a third person was involved and killed the two of them one by one after they were seriously injured, and then created the illusion of dying together.

There are also people who don't pay attention to the news of the two's deaths, but are curious about their motives for appearing in the barren forest at the same time.

So soon, the royal eagle and dog led troops to destroy the Gong family of the hermit family in Bingzhou, and destroyed all the ambergris.

Everyone understands the reason why the lips are dead and the teeth are cold.

Many hidden families began to no longer trust the royal family so much, and the sect forces' vigilance, resentment and fear of the royal family have also reached a new level.

And the term "Amberx" has also begun to be constantly mentioned.

Second thing.

In the Battle of Araki Forest, the corpses of Xu Xiaosi and Xingsi finally fell into the hands of Meteorite Pavilion.

In order to recover Xu Xiaosi's body, the great eunuch Yan Songyu went to the headquarters of the Meteor Pavilion in person, relying on his cultivation at the peak of the Sunshine Realm and having the royal family as his backer, and shouted to the pavilion master Xingyi.

Unexpectedly, without even smelling Xing Yi's "corpse smell", he was forcefully kicked out by the Deputy Pavilion Master Xing Er.