"Captain, what's wrong...?"
A soldier approached the patrol captain and asked in a suspicious tone.
"There's a sound there...!"
The captain looked towards the depths of the street corner, his eyes slightly narrowed, as if trying to see what was happening there.
"sound......?"
The soldier was slightly taken aback, then followed his captain's gaze and stared intently.
In the soldier's sight, he could see someone carrying a lantern walking deep into the street corner, and he could vaguely hear the barking of dogs and the sound of a night watchman striking his clapper.
"It must have been the watchman who made the noise, waking up some people and causing those beasts to bark so wildly..."
After confirming that he hadn't misheard, the soldier looked at his captain with a smile.
The captain nodded. "Hmm, maybe so!"
The soldier asked, "Captain, should we go in and take a look?"
The captain shook his head: "No need. This street is full of scholars. If we go there, we'll only cause trouble!"
After saying that, the captain took a deep look into the depths of the street corner, and then left with the patrolling soldiers.
The person holding a lantern deep in the street corner was none other than the scholar.
The scholar arrived at the gate of a mansion and gently knocked on the door knocker a few times.
Soon, the door opened, and a man who looked like a butler came out and welcomed the man inside.
This residence belongs to the Li family of Qingzhou.
Inside the courtyard, hundreds of scholars and officials who had been invited by the Li, Han, and Zheng families gathered.
In the spacious living room, the heads of the Li, Han, and Zheng families sat at the head of the table, while the other scholars were arranged in three rows on the front and three rows on the back, according to the strength of their respective families.
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