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After winter, there were three or four heavy snowfalls on Shaoyang Mountain, and the seven peaks were all covered in silver snow.

Although the snowy landscape was beautiful, it was quite inconvenient to move around, and from time to time there were cases of new disciples falling through the air and getting injured.

Early this morning, He Danping brought more than a dozen young disciples with her to clear the snow from in front of the courtyards of Shaoyang Peak. The snow is piled up by the side of the road, as high as one person, so one can imagine how big the snow is.

In the past few years, Shaoyang has received many new students, the Min generation is no longer the smallest generation, and there are more new students of the next generation, causing the Min generation to raise their eyebrows in pride, to be seniors.

The snow on Shaoyang Peak is serious, and the dozen or so disciples He Danping brought out are not enough, so she ordered Chen Minjue, the second eldest of the Min generation, who is instructing new disciples to clean the snow: “Minjue, you go to Qianshan Entrance Disciple Yard, and then ask a few people to sweep the martial arts training field, otherwise the sunlight will be gone soon, and everything will freeze too much.”

Chen Minjue is now a young man in his 20s. In the past, he used to pretend to be old and touch his chin without a beard, but now his chin has grown. Now that a goatee has grown on his chin, he finds it unsightly and shaves it every day as a matter of priority. The first thing he does every day is to shave, but it’s a habit he’s had for years, and he can’t change it.

He then stroked his bare chin again and smiled, “Madam, why don’t you let Sixth Brother and the others go? He just came out of retreat, so he must be very idle. I’m not sure how much time I have to spare.”

He Danping stared at him, seemingly smiling rather than laughing, “You know your brother has just left the retreat and you still have the nerve to be lazy. It’s okay, you can go get him. I’m sure LingLong is with him, so let’s get them to clean up the arena.”

Chen Minjue laughed twice, touched his head with his hand and left.

After the Flower Ceremony four years ago, Master Chu has changed his strict and pragmatic style and personally taught his talented students, regardless of their seniority. Not only did the Eldest Brother[1] learn the most profound Yang Que Kung Fu, but his sixth brother, Zhong Minyan, was also given a chance to learn not only the Yao Hua Sword Technique, but also many spells and magical arts from his wife.

He, the second senior brother, is the least surprising among the Min generation and he only knows how to use the sword. He has not learned a single thing.

It’s not that he isn’t jealous, but sometimes he wakes up in a dream at night and laments that he is not very talented and that his master and mistress are biased, so he always tries to think of ways to get ahead. He is not jealous, he is still happy for his younger brother, who is a member of the same generation.

A year ago, the master passed on Yang Que Kung Fu to Zhong Minyan, and fearing that he would be distracted by other matters and delay his training, so he ordered him to go to Beiyang Peak’s Mingxia Cave for retreat.

The reputation of Mingxia Cave, people of Shaoyang Sect are all aware. Four years ago, his youngest sister Xuanji was locked up inside the cave for a few days and came out in fear. However, Mingxia Cave is not only a place to punish offending disciples, but also a good place for training disciples to retreat.

But Zhong Minyan was hard-hearted. He had been in the cave for a year. He only left three days ago and even his hair was already knotted in knots. I heard that he broke through the most difficult first hurdle, and his skill is not the same as before, but he didn’t know how powerful it was.

When they get to the other side of the hill, Chen Minjue knows that Zhong Minyan will not be in his own yard and will be hanging out with Linglong.

As the kids grow older, their innocence gradually turns into a reserved and restrained one. Only Ling Long and Minyan were still laughing and playing without a care in the world. However, it seems that Master Chu and Madam were happy to make a pair of the two of them. The whole community at Shaoyang Peak almost universally recognizes the pair as a golden couple, so there are no idle talkers who want to know when they will be named and when they will get married.

Sure enough, as soon as they approached the small courtyard of Linglong, they could hear the sound of giggling and chattering in the courtyard. He didn’t know what they were playing, laughing so happily.

Chen MinJue pushed in the door with a smile and said, “You two are always so happy. What kind of jokes are you talking about again? Can you tell me too?”

Two people in the room looked up together. They are Ling Long and Zhung Min Yan. They are playing chess, wearing small household jackets and with a fireplace by their sides. As soon as she saw them, Ling Long smiled and waved, “Second Brother! I was just saying it’s better to be lively! Are you coming to play a game?”

She is now fifteen years old, and her body is getting bigger, showing a bit of a young girl’s flavor. Her long raven hair is wrapped around her ears with a wrap-around bun, and from her ears hung two thumb-sized pearls, with black hair and red lips, a friendly smile, and a bright and moving beauty.

Chen Minjue walked over and glanced at the chessboard at random, stroked his chin, and said, “This game…Junior sister is about to lose.”

Ling Long snorted, “Not necessarily. I don’t believe I can’t beat Little Six!”

She picked up a white piece and watched it for a long time, where to place on the board, only to feel that her decline had become a certainty. The chess piece was blocked in the east, west, south, north and south, and it was useless even if it was placed on the board.

But Linglong was born with a temperament that refused to admit defeat.The more people told her that she was going to lose, the more she refused to admit it. After a while, she tossed the chess piece to the southeast corner and said, “Let’s put it here, let’s see how you can break it!”

Chen Minjue sighed with regret, “Oh my, how can you put it here! What a pity. We could have recovered the lost ground!”

Ling Long said, “Why didn’t you say so earlier?

She glanced at Zhong Minyan secretly, hoping that he would not pay attention, and she would reach out and grab the chess piece back.. As soon as she reached out her hand, it was hit by someone and Zhong Min Yan looked up at her with a smile and said, “You have no regrets.”

Linglong regretted her decision but wanted to save face again, so she hugged her arm and said, “I’m not going to regret it. Falsely accusing me!”

Zhong Minyan ignored her, looked at Chen Minjue, and said, “The true gentleman who watch chess does not speak, Second Brother, don’t tell her.”

“I’m not a gentleman at all,” Chen Minjue smiled. “By the way, you should stop playing chess, you have work to do. Auntie sent me to look for you.”

Ling Long, who was about to lose the game, wanted to cheat, so, jumped up and asked, “What is the matter?”

“It’s been snowing heavily these past few days and the roads are blocked. Madam was afraid that the arena would freeze, so she asked you to bring some new students to clean it up.”

When Ling Long heard this, she put on her cloak, put on her fox fur hat, and waved to Zhong Minyan, “Let’s go! What are you still doing? Let’s go sweep the snow!”

Zhong Minyan smiled helplessly, and could only get up and follow her to the door, and then said: “Let’s come back and play that game of chess. If you lose, you will cook tomorrow.”

It turned out that they were playing chess and betting, whoever loses will cook in the kitchen tomorrow.

“Who is afraid of whom! Come back and continue! I will definitely win!” Linglong would not admit defeat.

When he heard them bickering at the back of the room, Chen Minjue couldn’t help laughing. When he sees Zhong Min Yan pass by, he is half a head taller than him, and he felt a little emotional by the fact that a year ago, this kid was not even as tall as he is, but he’s fully grown now.

Zhong Minyan has always been a good-looking boy, and he’s very smart and sweet, which is why he’s very popular with his teachers. He is now nineteen years old, just past the age of the Crown Ceremony[2]. The other day when he came out of the Mingxia Cave, he didn’t look closely, but today he looked closer, and he was really a heroic nineteen-year-old boy, with broad shoulders and a narrow waist.

Chen Minjue became more and more jealous, realized that he was going to say something sour, but then remembered something and said, “By the way, Master said two days ago that the New Year is coming to an end, and he plans to arrange for a few disciples to go down to the mountain to practice. In the next few days, the teachers are going to bring some of their disciples to Shaoyang Peak, and I heard that Sister Xuanji will also come.”

At the mention of Xuanji’s name, Zhong Min Yan stopped talking, but Linglong immediately became excited and turned around and said, “Really? “Sister’s coming?”

“Well, that’s what Master said. But whether she will come or not is still unclear.”

Linglong almost jumped for joy.

Ever since Xuanji went with Aunt Hong to Xiaoyang Peak four years ago, she hasn’t seen her since then. Although every year, all the members of the Shaoyang Sect would get together for the New Year, she and Xuanji always got separated due to the large number of people. Plus she has double practice on weekdays, and can no longer play anywhere else at will. As a result, they are separated for four whole years, never seen once.

When she heard that Xuanji was coming to Shaoyang Peak, she jumped up and down, grabbed Zhong Minyan’s hand and said, “Little Six! Xuanji is coming! Do you hear me? My sister’s coming!”

Zhong Minyan patted her shoulder and said warmly, “I heard that, let’s go and sweep the snow first. It won’t be too late to talk about it later.”

He took Ling Long’s hand and walked towards the arena. A face as bright as snow, flickering eyelashes, and a perpetually careless expression suddenly came to mind.

It’s been four years…it turned out that it’s been such a long time!

I don’t know what has become of this girl who was neither loved nor hated, but what has she become?

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[1] Du Minxing.

[2] Ceremony to indicate someone is of age/an adult. ♕

The Guan Li (simplified Chinese: 冠礼; traditional Chinese: 冠禮) is the Confucian coming of age ceremony. The name Guan Li refers to the ceremony for men, while the Ji Li (simplified Chinese: 笄礼; traditional Chinese: 笄禮) refers to the one for women.

The age of the person is usually 18-20 and during the ceremony, the person obtains a style name. These ceremonies are now rarely practiced in China, but there has been a recent resurgence, especially from those who are sympathetic to the Hanfu movement.

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