Before we knew it, it was the end of another year.

Early this morning, the inside and outside of Yaowang Villa was covered with snow, the eaves of trees and roofs were hanging, and the cold wind was bleak.

Su Chen had finished practicing the "Mascene of the Dormancy" for an hour, wearing a blue shirt, and came to the courtyard of the Servant Hall as usual. However, he saw many disciples busy cleaning, asking for incense, offering sacrifices to the kitchen, and preparing to welcome the festival.

There are also some new young disciples from the errand hall who, under the guidance of young senior brothers and sisters such as Kong Xinqiao, made large red lanterns hanging high, filled with saltpeter with thin bamboo tubes to make numerous explosive rods to drive away the plague.

Some disciples were preparing Laba porridge, chicken, duck, fish and other sacrificial items. The choir courtyard was filled with laughter and lively.

"It's... Laba again?!"

When Su Chen saw this familiar scene every year, he couldn't help but be stunned. He just remembered that tomorrow will be Laba.

He felt depressed and sighed softly.

In recent years, every Laba Festival, he always remembered that he used to worship his ancestors with his parents in his hometown of Zhouzhuang, and then cooked salty Laba porridge at the stove of the old fishing boat. He always added a small spoon of lard, small grains of minced meat, a little salt and various onions and garlic, and a strong aroma of oil was wafted.

The second brother and the third sister were holding the small wooden bowl and shouting, looking at the Laba porridge in the stove clay pot, looking hungry, lively and happy, that happy day.

I wonder, how can my parents be safe? Can my second brother and third sister buy new clothes?

Over the years, he often asked the Butcher Zhang to take the silver back to Zhouzhuang.

When Uncle Zhang came to Yaowang Villa to visit Tie Niu, he never said anything wrong with Zhouzhuang's house. He just sent a few words for his parents, asking him to work in the mailroom and not worry about his family, and repay the favor of the Yaowang's helper to take him in.

I think everything should be in the house.

However, in the cold twelfth month of that year, he ran away from home sadly and came to Gusu County to seek life, and almost starved to death on the streets. Fortunately, his good brother A Chou helped him through the difficulties and only survived the days of wandering after joining the Medicine King Gang.

Thinking of that winter, he often woke up and sat in his dreams, feeling panicked and unable to sleep all night. I don’t know how long it will take to untie the knot in his heart.

Su Chen was just thinking that little snowflakes were falling from the sky again.

"It's snowing again...it's still normal cold!"

Su Chen looked a little sad. He reached out his fingertips to catch a cold snowflake and looked at him blankly, as if Dugu Jiongran had left the world.

"Senior Brother Su, what's wrong?"

"Yes, Senior Brother Su's face is a little dull and not good-looking? Is it caused by the cold? Senior Brother is resting! We are in the work in the hall!"

Some low-level errand disciples who entered and left the errand court were stunned when they saw Su Chen, and they couldn't help but wonder and greeted him, quite concerned.

"Where is it? Senior Brother Su is becoming more and more master-like! When he saw Piaoxue being in a daze, he must have an understanding of the cultivation mind. He was thinking that his unique skills are different from those of us disciples with low cultivation talent!"

Kong Xinqiao was busy teaching a few new girls to lay red lanterns. After listening to the discussions of the low-level servants, he couldn't help laughing and looked quite envious.

"Oh!"

Su Chen touched his nose and smiled.

Not long ago, he received a token of an intermediate deacon from the hall. A disciple in the second-rate realm can be promoted to an intermediate deacon in the paramedic hall.

This is because he concealed most of his strength.

Otherwise, according to his true cultivation, he had long been promoted to a senior deacon, second only to the chief and deputy chief of the Secret Hall, and belonged to the senior management of the Secret Hall.

Su Chen didn't want to cause too much trouble, nor did he want to be a senior manager in the classroom, so he just wanted to be an intermediate deacon.

But his low profile is different in the eyes of other people in the Jae-do Hall.

With Su Chen's young age, among the hundreds of disciples in the Meridian Hall, it was extremely rare to break through the second-rate realm and be promoted to an intermediate deacon in just four or five years.

Over the past three years, many new disciples have joined the Servant Hall. All the new disciples have regarded Su Chen as a young master in the Servant Hall, and they are extremely admired and respected.

Besides, Su Chenren is very kind and never bullies the younger generation in the Servant Hall. He has always had a great reputation. Even the senior executives of the Servant Hall are quite appreciative.

Every time Zhou Miyan saw Su Chen, he felt crazy in his heart, but he didn't dare to provoke Su Chen.

Because he was only a second-rate realm, he had been in the middle of the game for decades to reach his current status. It can be foreseeable that Su Chen was comparable to him at the age of seventeen, and would sooner or later he would jump above him in the Servant Hall. Naturally, he did not dare to offend Su Chen.

"It's nothing, it's just that I've been in the villa for too long in the past few months and haven't gone out. I'm feeling a little bored. You guys do it, I'll just go to the county town for a walk!"

Su Chen smiled at Kong Xinqiao and the new servant disciples, sighed and stopped thinking about those troubled things.

Since tomorrow is Laba, the streets of Gusu County will definitely be very lively. On the streets of Gusu County, every household is decorated with lights and is preparing for tomorrow's sacrifices, praying for a good harvest year next year.

Su Chen wanted to go to the lively place in Gusu County to relax and enjoy the festive atmosphere so as not to feel frustrated.

Moreover, the people of villages and towns in the villages and towns come to the city to sell New Year’s goods, and there are many small vendors in the county town, and they will bring rare specialties from all over the country to sell them.

Maybe he could collect a few spiritual materials in the county town. If he couldn't find them, he should just take it as a relaxing place.

In addition, I went to the City God's ruined temple in the eastern suburbs to find A Chou. Su Chen has been practicing in a villa behind closed doors recently and has not seen A Chou for several months.

...

In the eastern suburbs of Gusu County, the City God broke the temple.

A young warrior with a dark face and a scar was practicing martial arts in an open space in front of the temple. His temples were raised on both sides of his forehead, his muscles were strong, and his back was steaming. It was obvious that his internal family's true energy was quite strong.

"puff!"

A Chou made a quick hit with his bare hands and fist, instantly tearing the cold air, and a light sound burst out, fierce and powerful.

The snowflakes in front of the temple were moving with the wind, and a strong and powerful true energy surged within a few feet of his surroundings, stirring up the snow around him.

Su Chen knew that Ah Chou was fond of martial arts and liked to practice boxing in the Chenghuang Temple in the east of the city. Few outsiders would disturb him here.

Not far from the City God Temple, he saw Ah Chou practicing boxing, which was quite like a first-class master in martial arts. He couldn't help but admire him.

In the past three years, not only has his own cultivation improved rapidly, but Ah Chou's cultivation and martial arts have also progressed quite rapidly.

When Ah Chou practices, he works hard and is immersed in the practice. He maintains high-intensity practice for four hours almost every day.

In just four or five years, he became a first-class mid-term master and was also one of the best in the younger generation in the Tianying Sect.

Especially in the past six months, many new disciples of the Tianying Sect know that there is a martial arts fanatic named A Chou who has cultivated from a sect with no status to a first-class master and has gained fame. Even the senior executives of the Tianying Sect appreciate it and often encourage new disciples in the sect to take A Chou as an example, to endure hardships and endure hard practices day after day.

What is different from Su Chen is that Ah Chou takes a completely fierce trick, and the martial arts he learned are still messy, completely mixing up hundreds of completely different martial arts and moves of the Tianying Sect.

Originally, this is not a good method of practicing martial arts.

However, there is a herbal prescription prescribed by Su Chen himself, which uses herbs to temper the body and replenish qi. The foundation of A Chou's lower dantian and the true qi in the middle dantian are very solid. As long as the foundation is solid, the power of martial arts is naturally fierce.

In addition, in the past four or five years, A Chou often had the opportunity to compete with the master Su Chen, and his practical experience became stronger and stronger. Instead, A Chou broke out a martial arts path that suited him and figured out some strange tricks.

A Chou specializes in practicing "random moves". Some young first-class experts from the Tianying Sect are not convinced and fight with A Chou, and are caught off guard by A Chou's "unconventional and unpredictable" moves disrupt the rhythm, and they often lose in vain.

Ah Chou glanced at Su Chen's appearance at the corner of his eyes, and he stopped in surprise, closed his fists and said, "Brother Chen, I haven't seen you come to the county town for a long time. Why are you free to come to the county town to play today?"

"A Chou, I haven't seen you for several months, and your cultivation has improved a lot! I have been in Yaowang Villa for a long time and am a little bored today, so I came to the county town for a while. Thinking that you might be practicing martial arts here, I came here to take a look first."

Su Chen smiled faintly and walked to the temple.

"Ha, that's right! I have been practicing hard for three months and my martial arts have improved greatly. Come on, let's talk and try some of my new martial arts! Look at the tricks--!"

Ah Chou laughed smugly, and suddenly he took a step and turned into a strange figure and shot out, attacking Su Chen with a strong wind, and used several new tricks he had learned in the Tianying Sect.

Su Chen's eyes were slightly stern, his figure shook, and he took a few steps, strolled in a leisurely manner, easily dodging A Chou's newly learned dangerous moves.

Su Chen has only practiced three of the most simple entry-level martial arts, introductory boxing, leg skills and footwork. He has never practiced any advanced martial arts.

But he had long passed the state of "using moves to break moves", but "using no moves to break no moves".

Because for him, his opponent's martial arts and moves were instantly broken into simple body movements.

These physical movements obviously have no secret to Su Chen. Even if these movements contain strong true energy, there are obvious signs.

Su Chen himself has no moves. In his eyes, the enemy also has no moves.

Ah Chou shouted loudly, and his fists burst out like lightning. He was fierce and domineering, and several inches of fist power, true qi fist light penetrated his body.

Unfortunately, even Su Chen's shadow can't be touched.

"Come again!"

Ah Chou shouted loudly, knowing that this would not defeat Su Chen.

He stepped on the ground with a foot of his foot containing strong true energy. "Boom", the three-inch thick stone slab cracked and disintegrated into powder fine sand inch by inch.

In an instant, sand and stones flew away, and fog and dust covered the land ten feet in a radius, completely obscuring the vision.

Only by creating a large piece of sand and dust that blocks the view, there is a little chance for him to take advantage of the chaos and win a punch or two in the competition.

However, A Chou was shocked to find that he could not touch the corner of Su Chen's clothes in the mist and sand.

Ah Chou used his full force to kick a series of kicks, but failed. Su Chen's trace was lost in the sand and dust. He couldn't help but look shocked, "Brother Chen, sand and dust are everywhere, you can't see it, how can you avoid me and make a move?"

"I can hear it... I have warned you that you must leave room for action, otherwise you will suffer when you encounter a master."

Su Chen said calmly, lifted his foot and swept it, instantly kicking A Chou's leg. The force was average, but it was enough to instantly make A Chou lose balance.

Ah Chou let out a "thump" and fell to the ground and suddenly became depressed.

After practicing hard for several months, it still doesn't work. With his first-class mid-stage realm, he is now hard to meet among the young generation of the same age as the Tianying Sect. However, he can't even beat Su Chen's corner of his clothes. This strength is not a little bit inferior.
Chapter completed!