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Granny Li's tone carried a warmth of affection.
"I'll stay here a while and learn more about the Bamboo-Splitting Ceremony. Mr. Hu, are you leaving with Mr. Luo?" Zhang Yunxi asked Hu Jin.
"Uh... Mr. Luo is going to rest. Wouldn't I just be disturbing him? I'll stay," Hu Jin said.
"I'll go with Luo Bin..." Before Miao Miao could finish-
"You need to stay. Your grandfather should wake up soon, by nightfall. There are things we need to discuss with him, preparations to make." Granny Li's words put an end to Miao Miao's plans.
Luo Bin nodded to Zhang Yunxi and Hu Jin before leaving Granny Li's Courtyard.
He walked along the paths of Thousand Miao Village.
The many Miao People around him looked at him differently now. Their gazes held an indescribable trace of reverence, and even a little fear.
Luo Bin did not stop along the way. As he walked, he noticed more places decorated with lanterns and streamers. Even the stilt house where he stayed was covered in colorful ribbons and lanterns, looking thoroughly festive.
He went upstairs and entered the Main Hall.
Huang Ying's door was closed, but faint sounds came from inside, as though she were cutting something.
Luo Bin did not disturb Huang Ying. He sat quietly on the bamboo sofa, thinking in silence and going back over Granny Li's earlier words and expressions.
He compared Granny Li's every move with the descriptions in the Physiognomy Arts.
His greatest fear was that Granny Li was saying one thing to his face and doing another behind his back-that the mark he bore looked promising on the surface but was actually part of a conspiracy.
Yet he could find nothing amiss in her features, expressions, or words.
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