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"Many years?" Pei Ling repeated these three words in Zhao Ming's mouth.From these three words, he can probably understand that this elegant Douxianghui has changed into something unbearable inside.What Zhao Ming said next confirmed Pei Ling's conjecture.

"As for the young master Xuan you asked about. It seems that he is here for the first time this year."

"How do you know he's here for the first time?" Seeing Zhao Ming was so clear, Pei Ling subconsciously blurted out this sentence and asked him.After realizing his rudeness, Pei Ling explained in a panic, "I didn't mean anything else, just, just..."

Zhao Ming smiled lightly, so that Pei Ling didn't have to explain, "I know you don't have any malicious intentions. Don't look at me like this, but my family used to be quite famous. As long as you have the heart to do this, you can still do it. I can find out. That young master Xuan seems to have invited him over this year after he had a business relationship with the Tang family. I heard that he is not very good in other aspects, but he has never been inferior in terms of play. This is the first time he has come here Of course, try to be fresh, or grab the person you like first before others. Those distinguished guests other than him will at least wait until the first real incense match begins. After all, the previous pediatric screening methods, they I'm not interested, and I don't think there will be hidden gems among those who were screened out earlier."

Pei Ling nodded straight when he heard it. He felt that the upper-class society's gameplay was really complicated enough. In addition, he was surprised by the information that Zhao Ming knew. After knowing too much information at once, Pei Ling's mind was still a little messed up. Unable to restrain himself, he said what was in his heart, "You know so much."

Zhao Ming knew the rules of the Douxiang Club, both overt and secret, and the character of the participants.Compared to Pei Ling and the others, Zhao Ming was the one who was really well-prepared. Pei Ling felt a little overwhelmed for a while. He and Sai Tianxian only came to hug each other temporarily. They didn't know much about the Tang family, but this time they came to participate There must be many people in the Douxiang Club who are as clear as Zhao Ming. Can he and Sai Tianxian really win to the end?

Zhao Ming saw that Pei Ling had a worried look on his face after listening to what he had said. He thought it was because he couldn't accept what he said all of a sudden, so he could only persuade him, "Why? Can't accept these rules? Now the worries are gone. It's late, since you've come in, there's no reason to quit."

Pei Ling shook his head, "I'm not worried about the unspoken rules here, I'm just thinking that there are not a few people who come to participate who know this clearly like you, and they all come prepared, and the chance of us winning seems not so great big."

Zhao Ming smiled and told him, "That's not necessarily the case."

Pei Ling looked at Zhao Ming with some puzzlement.

Zhao Ming, who had been pale since his illness, looked energetic now because of the little confidence on his face, "Others may not know it better than me. Because when the Tang family held the first incense fighting meeting, my family came to participate Pass."

When the Tang family held the Fragrance Fighting Club for the first time, there were not as many rules and levels as today. It was just because of their wealth and wealth that they wanted to make the Fragrance Fighting Club bigger and released a lot of news. Anyone who wanted to come could come. Visitors will be given a check, and they are allowed to fill in the numbers and present a piece of old pit ice jadeite as a gift. The only requirement is that visitors must bring a rare object as an admission ticket. Only this rule has not changed since the beginning of the year.

"At that time, my family was not completely down, barely supporting the appearance, but the family's money was not a solution after all. When I heard the news, the family members were all moved by the conditions offered by the Tang family. Who can resist the temptation of money. So the first When the incense fighting meeting was held for the first time, quite a few people actually came. The news spread overseas, even people from Kyoto.”

"Kyoto?" Pei Ling was a little surprised, "You mean Japan?"

"What's so strange about this is that Kyoto's incense is quite famous. Not only in Japan, I remember that people from Southeast Asia seem to come here too? After all, Southeast Asia is also a place rich in spices."

"Southeast Asia?!" Pei Ling's heart skipped a beat when he heard this, because he thought of Ming Ming. He remembered that Ming's father seemed to have come to China and hadn't heard from him again. That's why Ming went to Qiu's factory in Southeast Asia, because The enemy has a ship.

"En." Zhao Ming nodded and continued, "At that time, there were too many people who came to the Fragrance Fighting Meeting. Maybe the Tang family didn't expect to attract so many people, so they tried their best to screen out some fake ones. The last ones left Those people had a total of three competitions, after the first two competitions, there were only three people left in the end."

Pei Ling hurriedly asked, "Which three people?"

"As I mentioned earlier, one is from Kyoto, one is from Southeast Asia, and finally there seems to be a local."

"what."

After Zhao Ming finished speaking, Sai Tianxian suddenly opened his mouth and let out a soft cry.Pei Ling followed the sound and looked back at Sai Tianxian, thinking that he was not feeling well, so he asked him, "What's wrong?"

Sai Tianxian shook his head and said he was fine.But Pei Ling saw that he was listless and didn't seem to be okay, so he reached out to touch his forehead, looked at his face and asked seriously, "What's wrong, Xian'er?"

Sai Tianxian still shook his head, "I, I don't..." He was going to say that he didn't know what was wrong with him, but his chest was very tight, and he couldn't say why, so when he looked up at Pei Ling's worried face, Sai Tianxian Tianxian could only pull himself together and said to Pei Ling, "I'm fine."

"Are you all right?" Pei Ling was still worried about him. He always felt that Sai Tianxian was acting a little strange today, as if he was a little uneasy.

Sai Tianxian nodded repeatedly and said that he was fine, Pei Ling then turned his head away and continued to listen to Zhao Ming.Just as Pei Ling turned his head, Sai Tianxian silently raised his hand to caress his chest.

Pei Ling was actually a little concerned about the Southeast Asian, so he asked Zhao Ming, "Do you know the name of that Southeast Asian?"

Zhao Ming shook his head to express that he did not know.

"Then what happened in the end, who won, and did all those people go home in the end?"

"Actually, there was no result in the first Douxiang meeting. It is said that among the last three people, one gave up his qualifications, and the other said he was smuggled in and was repatriated. The only person left is the person from Kyoto. Only one person left can't compete with him." It's over, the Tang family only gave the man from Kyoto a sum of money to go back and forth. However, there are also rumors outside that the Tang family does not want to give the check, and is worried that the winner will fill in an astronomical number and send it to him. The Tang family was hollowed out, so they secretly tried to make these three people give up the game."

It was the first time that such a big and powerful incense fighting meeting was held, but in the end there was no result, and it was indeed criticized.Pei Ling frowned for a long time after hearing this.Zhao Ming continued, "But I always feel that things are not that simple. You said that the Tang family has nothing to do with such a bloody fight, so what kind of incense fighting party will be held?"

Pei Ling, who was frowning tightly, didn't care about the purpose of the Tang family's incense fighting meeting. Unexpectedly, Pei Ling asked a very common question, "When was the first incense fighting meeting in the Tang family? organized?"

"I remember it was more than ten years ago? It should be. I was in junior high school at that time. I can't remember exactly how many years ago. It was about ten years ago."

"More than ten years ago?"

Pei Ling was accidentally sold to Southeast Asia more than ten years ago, and also had a relationship with the real Yin Chengyu at that time. Could there be some connection between this?

A knock on the door brought Pei Ling back to his thoughts. Someone came to deliver medicine and porridge.Pei Ling got up to pick it up. Seeing someone bringing medicine and porridge, Zhao Ming coughed and turned his face away for fear of being questioned.

Pei Ling took the medicine and porridge and turned around to see Zhao Ming coughing badly. Thinking that he was not in good health, she took the tray to the bedside and asked him, "How is it? Can you do it yourself?"

Zhao Mingyuan didn't want to bother them anymore, but he coughed too hard just now and couldn't stop it for a while, his coughing body trembled and his hands trembled, seeing this, Pei Ling had no choice but to pick up the porridge bowl and plan to feed him.

"Brother Ling!" Sai Tianxian, who had been silent by the side, suddenly called him.

Pei Ling, who was holding a spoon, glanced at him, and naturally knew what Sai Tianxian meant when he called him.Pei Ling had no choice but to hand the spoon in his hand to Sai Tianxian, and told him to take good care of Zhao Ming, who was not yet fully recovered, and not to take care of him roughly like last night.After all, Zhao Ming fell asleep last night, so it doesn't matter if Sai Tianxian didn't take good care of him, but now Zhao Ming is awake, so he can't treat him casually.

Sai Tianxian was a little dissatisfied with Pei Ling's extra instructions, and it sounded like Pei Ling cared about Zhao Ming very much.

Zhao Ming, who was coughing violently, managed to calm down a bit, and looked up, the person who came to feed him turned out to be Sai Tianxian, and he still had a very displeased look on his face.However, no matter how bad Sai Tianxian looked, she was still beautiful. The beautiful Zhao Ming didn't want to be polite to Pei Ling at all.

"Mmm." Sai Tianxian put a spoonful of porridge in front of Zhao Ming very stiffly, and Pei Ling, who was watching behind him, couldn't help reminding, "The porridge is a little hot, you need to blow off the heat first. And you directly What's the matter with sticking a spoon in front of someone? Is that how I usually feed you?"

Of course Pei Ling usually carefully brought the spoon to Sai Tianxian's mouth.It's not that Sai Tianxian didn't understand, he just didn't like to do that, and now he was being lectured by Pei Lingyi, and his face became even more unhappy.

It was also Zhao Ming who looked at Sai Tianxian's face and didn't care about these things, "It's okay, I have to be grateful for taking care of me, how can I ask for so many extras." He bowed his head cooperatively and swallowed I ordered porridge.

Pei Ling only thought that Zhao Ming was trying to smooth things over. He saw that Zhao Ming was no longer on guard against them as he was last night, and he had a lot to say, so Pei Ling wanted to persuade Zhao Ming again.

"Maybe you will find me annoying. But what I say next is really for your sake."

Zhao Ming, who was drinking porridge, turned his eyes from Sai Tianxian's face to Pei Ling, "What?"

Pei Ling hesitated for a moment, but said bluntly, "You were seriously injured last night. Since you know the rules in this circle, you must also know the cruelty here. What is it that Young Master Xuan beat you hard the first time?" , if you make up your mind to rely on others to survive, more serious things will happen in the future. So I want to advise you to stop in time, and you can turn back here."

Zhao Ming lowered his eyes and remained silent for a moment, then smiled and said to Pei Ling, "Thank you. Thank you for your sincere consideration for me."

Pei Ling thought he had been made sense of by himself, and was about to breathe a sigh of relief, but Zhao Ming then said, "But you don't understand, I can't turn back."

Hearing what he said, it meant that even though following Young Master Xuan made him miserable, he still chose to follow Young Master Xuan.Pei Ling was a little anxious for a moment, and her tone was anxious and sincere, "Why can't you turn back? It just depends on whether you want to. Zhao Ming, you are a man, how can you not find a way out? It's just a little hard."

Zhao Ming smiled, "Do you think I can't bear the hardships so I took this path? It's because I suffered too much, so I..."

Zhao Ming was at a loss for words. He understood Pei Ling's kindness, but unfortunately they were not in the same way, and their thoughts could not communicate with each other. It would be useless to talk more.He didn't try to make Pei Ling understand him, so he also hoped that Pei Ling would not be obsessed with convincing himself.

"Forget it, we just met by chance because of Dou Xiang this time, and it will be difficult to see each other after this time."

After all, the road ahead is different for everyone.

In turn, he persuaded Pei Ling, "Don't try to convince me. You know, there is a saying in Japan, which refers to the only one-time fate between people." Zhao Ming looked at Pei Ling, Looking at Sai Tianxian again, "I think there is probably such a fate between us, so don't argue over differences in ideas. If you don't dislike it, how about making friends for a short time?"

After Zhao Ming finished speaking, he stretched out his hand to Pei Ling, wanting to shake hands with him.

Although Pei Ling often had good intentions, she also knew that good intentions should not be imposed on others.Now that Zhao Ming explained it, he didn't persuade him any more. As for his request to make friends, why not do it.

Pei Ling smiled at Zhao Ming, responding to his proposal of making friends, and wanted to shake his hand.As a result, before Pei Ling could hold Zhao Ming's hand, Zhao Ming yelled "Ah!" and withdrew his hand.

Zhao Ming shrank his hand and covered his chin.Sai Tianxian stopped, pretending to be innocent and said, "I, accidentally."

Sai Tianxian was not careless, he saw that when Pei Ling was about to reach out to shake Zhao Ming's hand, he pretended to be feeding porridge to someone, and directly punched Zhao Ming's chin with a spoon.

Pei Ling saw it, and Zhao Ming knew it too.No one pointed it out, Pei Ling was very embarrassed and apologized on behalf of Sai Tianxian.

"How? Does it hurt?"

Of course it hurts, but Zhao Ming didn't plan to worry about it anymore, he covered his chin and glanced at Sai Tianxian who was staring at him angrily, the threat should not be too obvious, Zhao Ming suddenly smiled, "You are not such a simple relationship as cousins Bar."

Pei Ling was stunned for a moment, and seeing his reaction, Zhao Ming knew that he had hit the mark, "Is it a one-time fate between you two, too?"

The two looked at each other, both a little puzzled, are they?

One period and one meeting, the participants will leave.

Zhao Ming didn't give them extra time to think, "Since you kindly reminded me, I have to reciprocate and give you a reminder."

Both Pei Ling and Sai Tianxian looked at Zhao Ming in confusion, Pei Ling asked Zhao Ming, "What reminder?"

Zhao Ming looked at Sai Tianxian's face and said, "Although I believe that you came here purely to win the prize, other people may not think so. So I remind you to be optimistic about your little friend."

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