Chapter 428: The Grand Scene of the Three Towns Martial Arts Competition, Intermarriage and Integration

The matter of the Ji Hong siblings can certainly be considered a big deal in Hong Sect City;

But if placed in the entire Great Xia territory, it certainly wouldn't stir up much of a splash.

It is no exaggeration to say that except for the Long Wu Army, the Xu family, the Zhao family, and a small portion of people who have some connection with the Ji Hong siblings or know them, most people wouldn't take it to heart at all after hearing about it.

Great Xia is, after all, too big now.

At the Cold Origin Banquet at the beginning of the year, Director Yu Wen Tao, the Secretary of the Military Department, officially announced Great Xia's latest map. Great Xia's current total territory area is 23,000 square kilometers, the total population is as high as 2.66 million, and not counting the 22 jurisdictions of the outer city, there are 65 external footholds alone.

Each of the 22 jurisdictions of Xia City has a population of over 100,000; the population of the 65 external footholds varies, but even the smallest foothold has a population of over two thousand, and larger ones like Longshan, which has already built a city, also have a population as high as 100,000, and even more extreme ones like Hong Sect, a port city, have a population of over 300,000, and it is still continuously soaring.

With such a large territory and so many people, what day doesn't something happen?

Although Great Xia is no longer what it used to be, the dangerous tone of the Frozen Abyss world has never changed. Even today, in the 22 jurisdictions of Xia City, people going out still go missing and die every few days. Xia City, which has the protection of the Sacred Tripod and is well-prepared, is still like this, not to mention those external footholds.

In fact, if it weren't for Ji Hong's supreme combat body aptitude and his identity as a Long Wu Army soldier, his defection wouldn't even have become a hot topic, and his sister Ji Jiang's death wouldn't have had any possibility of spreading at all.

Since last May, when Great Xia officially went east to develop exchanges with the Eight Towns and integrated into the Southern Foothills of Mount Mo'ao, the entire camp ushered in a round of rapid development. The subsequent opening of the port in July and the Three Towns Integration proposed by Xia Hong after the war in September added two more fires to this round of development craze.

The overall development of the camp is closely linked to individuals.

Just the opening of the Hong Sect port contains how many opportunities to get rich. One doesn't need to be too smart; anyone with a little brain can see it.

Not to mention the subsequent Three Towns Integration.

For individuals, as long as they can keep up with the camp's round of development craze, improve their cultivation, enhance their strength, change their class, completely reverse their destiny, and rank among the middle and high levels of Great Xia, these are all very possible things.

The entire Great Xia, from the upper echelons to the ordinary hunting teams and gathering teams, is now busy and happy. There are endless things to do every day, and everyone wishes they could split one day into two. Who would have the heart to pay attention to the Ji Hong siblings?

So the popularity of the siblings only lasted for more than a month in Hong Sect City, and then gradually few people mentioned it.

Time passed slowly, and when it came to May, with a more lively and sensational piece of news spreading, the matter of the Ji Hong siblings was truly completely forgotten by no one.

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Great Xia Year 9, May 8th, night.

Hong Sect, Nancheng Archway.

A team composed of more than twenty young men and women looked at the bustling main street of the Nancheng, their faces full of shock and emotion.

"Are there too many people here?"

"I feel like there are more people than in our town city!"

"Didn't the second uncle say when we came that Hong Sect's population was only a little over 400,000?"

"Just looking at this area, there must be more than 100,000, right?"

"I heard people say in the town city before that the liveliest place in the Nine Towns now is Hong Sect City. I didn't believe it before, but now I really believe it."

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Xia Hou Qingqing heard the surprise of the group next to her and showed a smile on her face, explaining, "It's because of the population density. Hong Sect's total area is only 25 square kilometers, less than one-tenth of our town city, but its population is already more than half of ours. Naturally, it looks much livelier than our town city."

Hearing her explanation, everyone understood immediately.

"Wow, look over there, so much delicious food!"

Jiang Yining, the youngest in the team, had long drifted her eyes to the stalls selling food on both sides of the main road. Seeing her eyes shining, everyone couldn't help but tease her with a smile.

"A-Ning, I heard people say that there are at least a thousand kinds of delicious food in Hong Sect. We will stay here for more than a month, enough for you to eat them all."

"Won't that make you eat until you become a little fatty?"

"Hahaha, it's okay, A-Ning is not afraid of getting fat."

"Then when A-Ning goes back, maybe the third uncle won't recognize her because she's fat."

"Hahahaha……"

"Go, go, go, you are the ones who eat until you become little fatties!"

Jiang Yining just turned fifteen this year, and her personality was jumpy. Being teased by a group of brothers and sisters, she naturally retorted immediately. However, she remembered something else, turned her head to look at Xia Hou Qingqing, rolled her eyes, and said with a teasing face, "Sister Qingqing, your fiancé is a bit unkind! We have so many people coming, and he doesn't even come to show some courtesy."

"Right, right, right, Xiao Heng said when he came to Jiangxia to plead last month that he would treat us to dinner when we came to Hong Sect this month! Where is he? Where is he?"

"Sister Qingqing, go call your fiancé over."

"Right! Go call him over."

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With everyone making such a fuss, Xia Hou Qingqing blushed immediately, stammering and unable to speak.

"Sorry to keep you all waiting, sorry, sorry!"

However, soon, someone came to relieve her.

A handsome youth in a black Xia uniform walked quickly from the direction of the North City. Seeing the group from Jiangxia, he immediately smiled and bowed to apologize.

"Wow, Brother-in-law Xiao, you really came!"

Jiang Yining's expression was the most exaggerated, and she clearly really didn't expect Xiao Heng to appear suddenly. After being surprised, she immediately realized something and looked at Xia Hou Qingqing with a teasing face, "Good! It seems that Sister Qingqing and Brother-in-law Xiao have been in correspondence for a long time. Why don't you confess honestly, when did you start?"

Jiang Yining's sensitivity to gossip was clearly far beyond Xia Hou Qingqing's expectations. Hearing this question, she immediately showed a guilty expression.

Seeing Xia Hou Qingqing's expression, everyone around understood immediately, their faces full of smiles, and they couldn't help but gossip.

"Right, right, right, I said, why did you suddenly get engaged last month? So you two have been in correspondence for a long time, right?"

"Confess honestly, did you two get in touch after Brother-in-law Xiao saved the beauty last year?"

"Qingqing, you are too dishonest, confess quickly, confess quickly!"

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Xia Hou Qingqing, who was besieged by a group of brothers and sisters, naturally couldn't handle it and hurriedly looked at Xiao Heng with a look for help. Unexpectedly, Xiao Heng actually smiled evilly and deliberately turned his head to look elsewhere.

Xia Hou Qingqing immediately gave him a fierce white look, the meaning clearly saying you wait and see. But at this moment, the threat was useless. She had long been entangled by Jiang Yining and others to answer questions.

Xiao Heng looked at his fiancée sweating profusely while handling the questioning of the crowd, and the evil smile on his face naturally didn't stop.

He and Xia Hou Qingqing formed a bond in the Southern Foothills of Mount Mo'ao last September.

Speaking of saving the beauty, it is actually not an exaggeration. After all, that time, if he hadn't discovered the Jiangxia group in distress first and chosen to help, there would have been no subsequent rescue of Xia Hou Qingqing.

In October, Jiang Yuandong, the Deputy Military Head of Jiangxia, personally took Jiang Shouping, Xia Hou Qingqing, and everyone rescued that day to He Yin to express his gratitude.

It was also this time that Xiao Heng and Xia Hou Qingqing officially came into contact. And because their basic strength was not far apart—one was over 90,000 jin and the other was over 110,000 jin—they could really find some common topics. After coming and going, the two really started to correspond by letter.

Unlike in Great Xia territory, where every foothold has messengers and correspondence is very convenient, cross-town communication is more complicated. Xiao Heng's normal letters to Jiangxia had to be sent to Hong Sect first, and then carried to Jiangxia Zhencheng by Hong Sect's merchant teams.

Merchant teams don't have them every day, so the frequency of their correspondence was very, very low at first.

It's a coincidence that the lower the frequency, the stronger their desire to communicate.

Soon, the two were no longer satisfied with this frequency of only two or three letters per month. In December, Xia Hou Qingqing chose to take the initiative. She officially joined Jiang Shouping's hunting team and came to the Bai Song Camp, just to be closer to He Yin Village.

Once the distance was close, communication became much more convenient. At first, the two only determined a fixed contact point on the outskirts of Mount Mo'ao. Usually, if one side had a letter, they would put it in first, and the other side would come to take it away every day; slowly, the hunting teams they were in saw the signs, so they simply didn't pretend anymore and directly matched the two hunting teams to hunt together; in the end, the two could even cooperate to hunt outside alone...

The process of emotional warming is so wonderful!

In April, Xiao Heng summoned the courage to take the initiative to mention this matter to his father.

Unexpectedly, Xiao Kangcheng not only knew about it long ago but also had a clear grasp of all of Xia Hou Qingqing's information.

A cross-town marriage was thus logically formed.

Xia Hou Qingqing is, after all, the direct great-granddaughter of Jiangxia Lord Xia Houzhang. Xiao Kangcheng probably felt that his weight was not enough, so he went to beg his superior, Xu Ning, and asked him to come forward together to plead in Xia City.

Xu Ning naturally agreed happily. Xiao Heng's mood was still a bit uneasy at first, after all, in terms of status alone, he was somewhat climbing high.

But I don't know how, this matter actually reached the ears of his brother-in-law Xia Chuan.

When the marriage proposal team set off for Jiangxia in April, seeing that the leader of the marriage proposal team was his brother-in-law Xia Chuan, Xiao Heng immediately knew it was stable.

The result was as he expected, Xia Houzhang agreed to this marriage.

The wedding date of the two was finally set for October this year.

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Xiao Heng's thoughts returned. Seeing that Jiang Yining and others' questions were becoming more and more tricky, and his fiancée was blushing and stammering to the point of being unable to speak, he finally couldn't help but step forward to relieve her.

"A-Ning, everyone, you have had a hard journey. I have already booked a private room in a restaurant in the Nancheng. Let's go sit down and eat something before chatting, how about it?"

"Starting to feel sorry for her, tsk tsk tsk..."

Everyone could naturally see that Xiao Heng was relieving Xia Hou Qingqing, but hearing Jiang Yining's subconscious teasing, they still couldn't help but laugh.

Xiao Heng also couldn't help but laugh. He had been to Jiangxia Zhencheng last month and dealt with Jiang Yining. He also had a deep impression of this youngest and very talented little girl of the Jiang family.

"A-Ning, I will introduce some friends to you later. The martial arts competition will officially start in more than twenty days. Don't you want to know about your opponents?"

Hearing this, the young people from Jiangxia, including the quirky Jiang Yining, immediately became serious and nodded heavily.

"Follow me!"

Seeing that everyone's attention finally shifted away from her, Xia Hou Qingqing immediately let out a long sigh of relief. When she saw Xiao Heng taking the lead to walk forward, she was still proud, and she quickly walked up to walk side by side with him, and then stretched out her right hand to fiercely and secretly pinch the soft flesh on his waist.

"Hiss…………" ===== CHAPTER 429 =====