The fireworks faded, and the brilliant lights and shadows gradually disappeared into the night sky, leaving only wisps of green smoke.

Everyone’s gaze also withdrew, as if waking up from a beautiful dream.

Li Shimin, Qin Shihuang and Zhu Yuanzhang, these “old foxes” who had experienced the vicissitudes of life, looked at each other after watching the fireworks, and walked directly towards Liu Bang with tacit understanding.

Before Liu Bang could react, two people, one on the left and one on the right, firmly held his arms.

“Hey, hey, hey, what are you doing!!”

Liu Bang was suddenly horrified and shouted while struggling.

“Let me go! The Immortal is still here!”

But his shouting obviously had no effect. Li Shimin and Zhu Yuanzhang held him and kept walking.

Qin Shi Huang followed with a smile on his face, jokingly saying:
“We’re not doing anything to you, why are you so nervous, Xiao Liu?”

The nickname “Xiao Liu” was given to Liu Bang by Qin Shihuang.

In Qin Shihuang’s mind, he was the first emperor, and although Liu Bang was the founding emperor of the Han Dynasty, he was ranked after himself. Calling him “Little Liu” was somewhat subtle. After all, Liu Bang destroyed the Qin Dynasty, and not calling him a “traitor” was considered the “magnanimity” of the First Emperor.

Li Shimin also echoed:

“That’s right, we’re just asking you to play mahjong, why do you have to worry about that?”

Zhu Yuanzhang smiled so hard that his eyes narrowed into slits:
“Brother Liu, please stop struggling. Immortals won’t care about our private affairs.”

When Liu Bang heard the words “playing mahjong”, he instantly struggled like a cat whose tail was stepped on. He even cried:

“I don’t play mahjong!”

“I don’t play mahjong!”

“I don’t… play mahjong!”

He has been playing mahjong with the three of them these days and has lost all his money. If he continues to play, he will lose everything, not even his underwear.

Ye Jiangnan looked at Liu Bang who was struggling desperately over there with doubt, then turned to Yu Shu beside him and asked:

“What’s up with him?”

“Why does it feel like Zheng Ge and the others are trying to kill him just by playing Mahjong?”

He was away these days and had no idea what was going on here.

Yu Shu covered her mouth and chuckled:
“Sir, Xiao Liu is struggling so much because he has been playing mahjong with Zheng Ge and his friends recently. He loses hundreds of taels of gold every time he plays. So, when he hears about mahjong, he dares not touch it anymore.”

After hearing this, Ye Jiangnan shook his head helplessly and said with emotion:
“Sure enough, gambling harms people.”

At this time, people had gathered in groups of three or four, each seeking fun.

Empress Changsun took Yu Shu, Huang Rong and Wang Yuyan to play mahjong leisurely on the other side, and bursts of laughter could be heard from time to time.

Li Lizhi and several children sat aside, watching the movie attentively, deeply attracted by the scenes on the screen.

Fusu, Hu Hai, Li Zhi, Liu Xiu, Zhu Biao and Zhu Di sat together and enthusiastically discussed the issues of governing the country.

It is worth mentioning that Hu Hai was able to participate in it only because Fusu did not hold grudges and was determined to change him.

In addition, without the influence of Zhao Gao, under the influence and teaching of everyone, Hu Hai did undergo a significant change. His personality became much gentler than before, and he began to manage the Qin Dynasty seriously.

Cheng Yaojin, Meng Yi and other ministers were divided into groups of two. Some were competing in martial arts, with each move being powerful and vigorous; others were competing in literary competitions, quoting from classics and making witty remarks.

Ye Jiangnan looked at this happy scene, his heart filled with relief. He picked up the wine glass and took a sip.

At this time, the giant panda Moyu that Zhu Di gave to Ye Jiangnan slowly walked to his side, rubbed his thigh affectionately, and made a “hmm” sound in his throat.

Ye Jiangnan smiled and touched Mo Yu’s head, and asked:
“Miss me?”

Mo Yu seemed to understand and nodded, then simply hugged Ye Jiangnan’s thigh.

Ye Jiangnan was amused by its cute appearance and rubbed its soft, furry head.

suddenly.

Mo Yu raised his chubby paw and pointed at the big box next to where he slept.

Ye Jiangnan looked in the direction it pointed and asked in confusion:
“Training cabin?”

“What’s wrong, do you want to go in and practice?”

When Mo Yu heard this, he shook his head like a rattle. He didn’t want to go in.

But it saw with its own eyes that every time Chenxiang came out, he was so weak as if all his blood had been drained. That look scared the “bear”.

The reason why it asked Ye Jiangnan to see the training cabin was because it had been almost a week since Chenxiang last went in.

In the past, Chenxiang would come out after one or two days in there, but this time he has been in there for so long and hasn’t come out yet. Moyu was worried that he might have died in there.

But it couldn’t speak, so it could only worry and kept pointing its claws at the training cabin and then at Ye Jiangnan.

“You mean, let me open it and take a look, right?”

Ye Jiangnan seemed to understand Mo Yu’s intention.

Mo Yu nodded quickly, his eyes full of anticipation.

“Okay, I’ll open it and show you.”

Ye Jiangnan thought Mo Yu was curious and wanted to take a look inside.

He had not been in the store recently and had long forgotten about Chenxiang’s practice inside.

Ye Jiangnan walked to the training cabin and looked at the display above, wondering:
“Who is practicing in there?”

As he spoke, he opened the training cabin.

As soon as the hatch opened, a figure fell out with a bang.

Ye Jiangnan was startled and instinctively dodged to the side.

The figure fell straight to the ground, making close contact with the ground.

“Bam—”

Ye Jiangnan took a closer look and found it was Chenxiang. He was puzzled:

“Chenxiang?!”

Ye Jiangnan hurried forward to check on Chenxiang’s condition and confirmed that he was still breathing but extremely weak. Only then did he breathe a sigh of relief.

He quickly sent a stream of true energy to Chenxiang, and with the nourishment of the true energy, Chenxiang slowly woke up.

He opened his eyes with great effort and saw that it was Ye Jiangnan. He quickly greeted him:
“Goddess! Thank you so much!”

He knew in his heart that if Ye Jiangnan had not supplied him with true energy in time, he would not have been able to wake up so quickly.

Ye Jiangnan looked concerned and a little reproachful, and asked in a deep voice:
“How long were you in there?”

Chen Xiang scratched his head a little embarrassedly and replied:
“I was in there for about seven days.”

When Ye Jiangnan heard this, he was speechless and said:
“You don’t want your life?”

“There is no rush in cultivation. Why are you working so hard for so long?”

Chen Xiang lowered his head, his voice was somewhat helpless and firm:
“I want to rescue my mother!”

“The gap between me and Erlang Shen is too big. With my current state, it is far from enough to rescue my mother.”

After the previous confrontation with Erlang Shen, Chenxiang deeply realized the huge gap between himself and his uncle, which is why he practiced so hard.

“Then you can’t be so desperate, right?”

Ye Jiangnan understands Chenxiang’s eagerness to save his mother, but he is also worried that his neglect of his health will backfire.

“If you don’t want to live anymore, how can you talk about rescuing your mother?”

After hearing this, Chenxiang lowered his head again and said sincerely:

“That’s what the Immortal taught me.”

Ye Jiangnan shook his head helplessly and said:

“Okay, go take a shower first, then eat something and rest for a while, then we can talk about training.”

Chenxiang nodded and slowly left with his weak body.

Looking at Chenxiang’s departing back, Ye Jiangnan sighed secretly. Young people are always full of youthful vigor, arrogant and eager to achieve success.

Chenxiang wanted to save his mother, and there was nothing wrong with his filial piety, but the child was too impatient and wanted to achieve success overnight.

Ye Jiangnan thought to himself: “I’ll ask Sizi and the others to teach Chenxiang how to practice. We can’t let him practice blindly like this anymore.”

Suddenly, Ye Jiangnan reacted and realized that he had not seen the three little guys.

“Hmm? Where did these three little guys go?”

He looked around and indeed there was no sign of Xiao Sizi, Ying Yinman and Zhu Wanqing in the yard.

“That’s weird. I just saw three little guys.”

Ye Jiangnan remembered that when the fireworks were set off before, the three little guys were still there. How come they disappeared in the blink of an eye?

Before he could figure it out, an explosion suddenly came from the direction of the Wanjie Store.

“Bam—”

“Bam—”

“Crackling——”

The sound was crisp, breaking the original liveliness and peace.

Ye Jiangnan’s face was full of confusion, and he subconsciously looked towards the Wanjie Store. At this moment, everyone’s attention was attracted by the sudden voice.

Yu Shu had a bewildered look on her face, and Mo Yu also opened her round eyes, looking around curiously.

Li Shimin and others also stopped what they were doing and started to speculate.

“what sound?”

“Does this sound like fireworks?”

“No, the sound of fireworks is not that quiet. It’s more like the sound of firecrackers.”

“Firecrackers? Who set off the firecrackers?”

Just as everyone was talking, three little guys ran out of the Wanjie Store.

The originally cute and rosy faces of Xiao Sizi, Ying Yinman and Zhu Wanqing were now dark, as if they were covered with soot from the bottom of a pot.

The clothes of the three little guys were torn and hanging on their bodies, making them look very miserable.

Not only that, they also had a big transparent bag hanging on their bodies, which was filled with all kinds of firecrackers, including long strings, sky rockets, and small firecrackers.

But the three little guys didn’t care about their dirty and tattered appearance at all, instead their faces were full of excitement.

Little Sizi stretched out his chubby right index finger, and a ball of fire instantly appeared at the fingertips. In his left hand, he held a sky rocket.

As soon as the flame touched the fuse of the rocket, the fuse began to emit a white light with a “sizzling” sound.

Little Sizi excitedly threw the rocket into the air and shouted:

“Look at my invincible firecrackers!”

“call out–“

The sky rocket flew around in the air with a beam of bright light, but unexpectedly, it flew back towards Xiao Sizi.

“Sizi!”

“Princess Jinyang!”

Li Shimin, Empress Zhangsun, Li Lizhi, Li Zhi, Cheng Yaojin and others were so frightened by this scene that their faces turned pale. They wanted to rush over to stop it, but found it was too late.

“Bam—”

The sky rocket exploded in front of Xiao Sizi with a loud bang.

Everyone’s heart was in their throat, but Xiao Sizi was like nothing happened. Not only did he not feel any pain, but he was also laughing foolishly:

“Hehehe…so cool!”

Seeing this scene, Li Shimin and others finally breathed a sigh of relief, and their hearts finally settled down.

In fact, their worries were unnecessary. Xiao Sizi and the other three little ones had already become as strong as iron walls after being tempered by true qi. Even if a dozen bombs exploded in front of them, they would not be hurt at all, let alone small firecrackers.

Seeing that Xiao Sizi was having so much fun, Ying Yinman was not to be outdone. She took out a big firecracker from her bag and said:
“Big sister, look at me!”

As she spoke, she imitated Xiao Sizi, lit the fuse of the firecracker with her fingers, and quickly threw the firecracker into the air.

“Bam—”

The explosion of this firecracker was much louder than Xiao Sizi’s sky rocket. Ying Yinman looked at the firecracker exploding in the air with pride and grinned foolishly:

“My firecrackers are still the best!”

Zhu Wanqing looked at the two senior sisters and shook her head helplessly:

“Big Sister, Second Sister, neither of you know how to play with firecrackers.”

As she spoke, she walked straight towards where Mo Yu was sleeping.

Under Mo Yu’s stunned gaze, Zhu Wanqing picked up the bowl that Mo Yu usually used to drink water and eat fruit.

She took out a firecracker, lit it and quickly put the basin on it.

“Bam—”

With a dull thud, the black jade basin was blown into the air.

Zhu Wanqing said proudly:

“Big Sister, Second Sister, I’m awesome, right?”

Xiao Sizi and Ying Yinman looked at the basin that was blown away and nodded enviously.

It was their first time playing with firecrackers and they really didn’t know there was such a way to play with it. Zhu Wanqing already had a year’s experience playing with firecrackers so she was naturally more skilled.

Mo Yu looked at his basin that was blown away, feeling full of grievance.

It silently thought: You are great! You are so noble! You are playing with firecrackers and blowing up my pot!

“Sizi!”

“Yangzi!”

“Baoqing!”

“You three little guys come here!”

Ye Jiangnan shouted loudly, with a hint of helplessness and anger in his voice.

After hearing Ye Jiangnan’s voice, everyone came back to their senses from the “firecracker farce” of the three little guys.

When the three little guys heard Ye Jiangnan’s call, they were stunned at first, then looked at each other, with a hint of nervousness on their faces, as if they realized that they might have been in trouble.

Xiao Sizi raised his head carefully, looked at Ye Jiangnan’s face, then pulled Ying Yinman and Zhu Wanqing and slowly walked towards Ye Jiangnan.

Along the way, the three little guys were still whispering, as if they were discussing how to explain to Ye Jiangnan.

Walking in front of Ye Jiangnan, Xiao Sizi spoke first, his voice was a little flattering:
“Xiao Neng-jun, we…we just thought these firecrackers were fun, so we wanted to try them out.”

Ying Yinman also echoed:
“Yes, yes, Master, we didn’t expect it to turn out like this.”

Zhu Wanqing lowered her head and whispered:

“Liger, we were wrong.”

Ye Jiangnan looked at the three little guys looking dirty, and felt both angry and amused.

He squatted down, looked into the eyes of the three little guys, and said:
“It’s okay to play with firecrackers, but you can’t be so naughty. Look, you made yourself so dirty and scared everyone.”

“Besides, how could you blow up Mo Yu’s basin? It’s always been so good to you.”

After hearing this, the three little guys lowered their heads in shame.

Xiao Sizi said quickly: “Xiao Naijun, we know we were wrong. Let’s go and apologize to Mo Yu right away.”

After saying that, the three little guys ran to Mo Yu, bowed deeply to him, and said in unison:

“Moyu, I’m sorry, we shouldn’t have blown up your pot.”

Mo Yu looked at the three little ones, seemed to feel their sincerity, and uttered a soft “hmm”, which meant she forgave them.

Ye Jiangnan looked at this scene, shook his head helplessly, and thought: These three little guys are really lovable and a headache.

Then he said to the three little ones:
“Okay, now that you know you’re wrong, go clean yourself up and change your clothes.”

The three little guys nodded as if they had been granted amnesty, and ran away happily with the bag full of firecrackers. (End of this chapter)