Traveling Through the Grave Robbers' Chronicles: Starting from Meeting You

"Han Yan, why are you suddenly silent?" Zhang Qiling asked in confusion.

Zhang Hanyan came back to her senses and was about to explain, but when she remembered what the system had said, she didn't know how to start.

After thinking for a moment, she said, "Nothing, I just suddenly feel that talking too much is annoying."

Zhang Qiling frowned slightly and was about to ask her why she thought so, but before he could open his mouth, she stood up and turned around to leave.

"It's getting late. I'm going to go cook first. You can come back by yourself later. I won't come to call you."

"Ah."

When Zhang Qiling completed his training and returned, the night had completely fallen, the sky was full of twinkling stars, and the moon was rising slowly.

He walked around the corner and saw the dim candlelight emanating from the courtyard, bright and warm.

"Han Yan..."

Zhang Hanyan, who was cooking, turned around and looked at Zhang Qiling standing at the door, her face instantly filled with smiles.

"Brother, you're back. Help me clean the table. I'll cook this dish and we can eat!"

"it is good."

Zhang Qiling walked into the kitchen, took away the bottles and jars on the wooden table, wiped them clean, and then brought the dishes on the stove to the table.

"Brother, try this lotus leaf chicken and see if it's delicious."

Zhang Hanyan tore off a chicken leg and put it directly into Zhang Qiling's bowl.

The lotus leaf chicken is golden and shiny, with an attractive luster. If you smell it carefully, it also exudes the fragrance of lotus leaves.

Zhang Qiling picked up the chicken leg and took a light bite. The chicken was very tender and the delicious gravy was tightly locked in the chicken. The sweet and tempting, wonderful taste filled his entire mouth.

"good to eat."

He nodded slightly, a rare smile appearing on his face.

Zhang Hanyan was very happy that the food she cooked was praised. She happily put all the dishes from other plates into Zhang Qiling's bowl.

"This is squirrel fish, this is mapo tofu, and this is braised pork. Try them all."

Zhang Qiling looked at the rice bowl in front of him and showed a rare look of embarrassment.

He looked up at Zhang Hanyan and could only see her face full of anticipation.

So, under her expectant gaze, he ate up all the food in the bowl in small bites.

"Are you done eating? Do you want more food?"

Zhang Qiling shook his head repeatedly and held his bowl tightly, fearing that Zhang Hanyan would snatch his bowl and give him another bowl of rice.

Zhang Hanyan ate the last mouthful of rice in her bowl and began to clean up the dishes quickly.

[Host, you performed well today. After dinner, you didn't sit at the table and mutter, but stood up to clean up the dishes. Keep it up! ]

Zhang Qiling looked at her busy back, feeling deeply puzzled.

Strange, why didn’t you talk after dinner today?

Three days passed in a flash, and the early morning sunlight shone into the yard through the gaps between the leaves, casting mottled light and shadows.

Zhang Hanyan, neatly dressed and holding a long sword, stood under the eaves and took a deep breath of the fresh morning air.

"The air in the morning smells so good, with the fragrance of grass and trees and a hint of flower scent."

Zhang Qiling opened the door and walked out, what he saw was Zhang Hanyan closing her eyes, curling her lips and smiling softly as she breathed in the fresh air.

The golden light fell on her body, her skin was whiter than snow, and she was wearing a red dress that was as gorgeous as fire. The breeze blew through her hair, and her dark and smooth hair danced in the wind.

This scene, like a beautiful painting, makes people forget the passage of time.

"Brother, are you done packing? Why didn't you call me? Then... let's go!"

Zhang Qiling raised his eyes to look at the rising sun and said, "Well, let's go."

On the way to the Elders' Council, Zhang Qiling and Zhang Hanyan met many people who were traveling together to participate in the competition.

When they noticed them, they undoubtedly looked at them with surprise.

It’s just because the heights of both of them are much shorter than those who are a few years older than them.

When Zhang Hanyan and Zhang Qiling arrived at the arena set up outside the Elders' Courtyard, the area around the arena was already full of people. The elders were sitting on the stands on the second floor, with a full view of everything happening on the arena.

Zhang Hanyan and Zhang Qiling were lost in the crowd because of their body shapes.

"Little brother, let me take you to the front. It's clearer there."

As soon as she finished speaking, she grabbed Zhang Qiling's hand, passed through the gap between people, and stood in front of the ring.

The third elder and Xi Liu, who was standing beside him serving, saw at a glance the two people moving back and forth in the crowd.

The third elder glanced calmly at the first elder who had a gloomy face, and was relieved when he saw that there was nothing unusual on his face.

Fortunately, he was not discovered by the boss. When the list is announced later and everything is a foregone conclusion, it will be useless no matter how much he wants to stop it!

Hahaha, my brain is really getting smarter and smarter. If my second brother knew about this, he would praise me to death!

The Third Elder was immersed in his own one-man show, not caring at all about the First Elder next to him whose face was as black as the bottom of a pot.

"Ahem...it's almost time, Xiliu, go and announce the list of candidates participating in the competition."

Xi Liu immediately understood what the Third Elder meant by that slight blink of the eye.

He picked up the scroll on the table and walked down the stairs. When he turned the corner, he took out another scroll that had been placed in a secret place in the corner and exchanged the two.

Xiliu did all this without anyone noticing and no one discovered it.

He walked up to the arena set up in the courtyard on the first floor and announced the names of the contestants one by one.

"Zhang Hanyan, Zhang Qiling..."

When the Great Elder heard these two extremely familiar names that had been lingering in his mind, he was briefly surprised, and then gradually became filled with deep anger.

He looked at the serious Third Elder with an angry face, knowing clearly in his heart that it was the Third Elder's doing.

But there were people upstairs and downstairs, so he couldn't scold him in public and could only swallow his anger.

The Third Elder certainly noticed the First Elder's gaze. He knew that the First Elder would not do anything to him in front of so many people, so he was fearless and pretended not to see it.

While the two were arguing, Xi Liu had already announced the list of people coming to participate in the competition and checked one by one whether there were any absentees.

Xi Liu went upstairs and handed the list of confirmed personnel to the great elder.

"Great Elder, all the people who have registered have arrived, we can start now."

The Great Elder looked at the names of Zhang Hanyan and Zhang Qiling written in red cinnabar pen in the middle of the list, and suddenly felt a surge of anger.

Especially the three words "Zhang Hanyan". Whenever he saw these three words, his mind would automatically emerge of the scene four years ago when he was kidnapped by her with a sword and was completely humiliated.

That fire was about to burn out what little sanity he had left.