In Central Continent City, within Flourishing Heights’ courtyard[1], there was a different type of grand atmosphere.

In the central hall, Flourishing Heights’ dozen or so shopkeepers gathered with all of their wives and children.

There was an incense burner table leaning against the east wall, on it a large iron pot surging with clear soup. There was no wine, ginger, or anything else to get rid of fishy smells, only some salt and wild scallions, the strong smell of lamp and fragrance interweaving intensely.

This was Flourishing Heights’ Sheep Head Feast that was carried out year after year.

The reason why Flourishing Heights had this type of tradition was because when Flourishing Heights was founded, there was a year where they were left in a sorry state, their brothers unable to eat meat for a long time. Right when it began to snow, Cheng Family’s ancestor thought of an idea, using all of the remaining money he had to buy a lamb, making it seem like a wild sheep, arranging for it to barge in on purpose when he entertained his brothers for dinner… making it seem like it was the heavens who were helping them, seeing that they couldn’t eat meat, so they sent a sheep to them when it snowed. Baci then, these brothers whose morale was at the absolute bottom immediately bounced back, Flourishing Heights thus sticking it through.

That was why this type of Flourishing Heights feast was carried out immediately whenever the first snow fell in Mountain Yin Province.

However, this year, Flourishing...