Chapter 1968: One Truth (Two in One)
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In the hall, the candles are lit up.
When Ji Xiaobai heard Ye Bai's words, his dark eyes rolled slightly.
"Mother, I don't want to be a smuggler of salt!"
After a while, Ji Xiaobai cried with a sad face and coquettishly towards Su Liuli, obviously only thinking that the future that Ye Bai planned for him was to take over his class.
"What's wrong with the smuggler of salt, what you eat and wear, all earned by your father, although your father made a lot of money, but most of them built bridges and paved roads, accumulated good deeds, in Huaishui City, which one does not praise your father. ”
Su Liuli's face became a little majestic.
Ji Xiaobai muttered: "They said that after being caught, they would be beheaded!"
Hearing this, Ye Bai and Su Liuli's complexions changed at the same time, and Ye Bai's complexion was even more difficult to look at, gloomy and a little terrifying.
"Shut up!"
Ye Bai snapped, put down his chopsticks, and looked at Ji Xiaobai with an unusually threatening look in a pair of tiger eyes, and the breath in the hall suddenly became cold.
"Mother save me!"
Ji Xiaobai was still a child in the end, and he was shocked by Ye Bai's eyes, so he stood up and hid behind Su Liuli, not daring to look at Ye Bai.
In Ye Bai's eyes, his expression gradually became complicated and sad, perhaps thinking of his father Ye Dafu, who lost his head because of selling smuggled salt.
"Roll me back to class tomorrow, I'm not allowed to go anywhere!"
After snorting coldly, Ye Bai walked out of the door directly and entered the night.
“...... Mother, why is Dad so angry?"
After a while. Ji Xiaobai whispered.
"Xiaobai, don't talk nonsense in the future. ”
Su Liuli said unusually gently and tolerantly, without explaining much.
Ji Xiaobai nodded ignorantly.
"Let's eat. ”
Su Liuli said again.
Ji Xiaobai walked back to his seat and ate again, looking depressed, no longer interested.
......
The moon is getting higher.
Su Liuli finished cleaning up the dishes and chopsticks. After Ji Xiaobai fell asleep, when he entered the bedroom, Ye Bai was standing at the window, looking up at the direction of the starry sky, his expression was still a little depressed.
"Xiaobai is just unintentional, childish and unscrupulous, you don't have to blame him too much. ”
Su Liuli walked behind Ye Bai, grabbed his waist from behind, and said softly.
Ye Bai nodded slightly.
Su Liuli said again: "Ye Bai." When are you going to teach Xiaobai the Tao?"
Ye Bai sighed slightly and said, "When I fulfill my father's expectations for me, before that, I don't plan to expose my body as a monk, let alone teach Xiaobai to cultivate." ”
"When will your father's expectations for you be fulfilled?"
“...... Come on, wait for the one in the capital to send me the plaque of the world's number one salt merchant, and that is when I have fulfilled this expectation!"
The corners of Ye Bai's mouth hooked, and his eyes lit up.
Su Liuli nodded happily. She is naturally clear about how big Ye Bai's business is. However, he suddenly frowned and said, "Don't you really plan to go back to your previous sect? ”
Hearing this, Ye Bai's eyes became depressed again.
With his temperament, after returning to the Sea Breeze Star and returning to the Blue Sea Continent, how could he not go back to take a look at the situation of the Lianyun Dao Sect. Even if the divine sense swept it, the result was a big disappointment.
Lianyun Dao Sect is long gone!
After spending a long time of sixty or seventy thousand years, this season is boundless, Ye Bai and others. The sect that worked hard to rebuild, and I don't know what changes it has undergone, and it has split into seven small sects, corresponding to the seven peaks of the year.
The disciples of the seven sects, most of them are frivolous and impetuous, selfish, in order to compete for Lianyun orthodoxy, in order to compete for the magic powers passed down by Ye Bai and others, they are inseparable, and there are many casualties, and the angry Ye Bai almost wiped them out together!
"There is no long-lasting sect in the world, even the Cloud Dao Sect will always disappear one day, let them go, even if I forcibly unify the seven factions, after I leave, they will still split one day, I am very disappointed in them. ”
Ye Bai's voice said coldly, he had seen through the world, maybe this was also the reason why the Lianyun juniors who were still in the Firmament Continent were unwilling to come back to clean up the mess.
When Su Liuli heard this, she was noncommittal.
There was silence.
Ye Bai was in a mood today, and after being silent for a moment, he gently took Su Liuli's arm away and said, "I'll go to Guizang Island and sit down, and I'll come back later." ”
After speaking, he opened his arms and tore them empty.
......
Returning to Tibetan Island, after Ye Bai came back, he was another sad place.
After a long time, this famous island of loose cultivation, which was once famous for Ren Xiaoyi and Ye Nannan, has also been deserted.
On the surface, it is still gloomy and gloomy, but in fact, it has lost all its aura, and it has become an ordinary island, and I don't know what kind of war it has experienced, and even half of the island is missing, and the small half is sunk into the sea. Not to mention the monks, there are not even half mortals on the island, only the extremely deep brick ruins buried by the grass, telling the traces of the people in the past.
On today's island, not to mention monks, there are not even mortals, and the descendants of Ren Xiaoyi and Ye Nannan's bloodlines may have died out long ago, or they may have been scattered in all directions.
After Ye Bai came back, he had searched for several years with his sensitivity to the Ye family's bloodline, but he didn't find it.
After tearing the air and coming to Guizang Island, Ye Bai found a beach, took out a wine jug, and drank it.
The wine became more and more bitter in the bowels.
......
From this day on, Ji Xiaobai became even less interested in learning.
I slept in class, and after class, I went to the mountains and wilderness to go around in the crown, looking forward to my immortal fate, just like Ye Bai back then. If it weren't for Ye Bai and Su Liuli's good reputation, I am afraid that they would have been dismissed by the academy long ago.
And what Ji Xiaobai did was not limited to this, I don't know how many times, this kid took the pocket money he saved, bought a bunch of dry food, and walked towards the deep mountains and dense forests far away outside the city. The final result, of course, was that he was caught by Ye Bai and beaten up.
Why Ye Bai can always find him is always a mystery for Ji Xiaobai.
Mortal time, just like that, day by day.
Ji Xiaobai will eventually grow up, and the fire that once burned in his heart. It seems that he gradually calmed down, no longer mentioned the matter, and concentrated on studying, but he didn't go to the test for fame, but helped Ye Bai take care of the family's business, as if he was a young master.
With Ye Bai's wisdom and means, even if he didn't rely on magic powers, he gradually turned a small salt merchant business into a unique one in the Great River Country. It is no longer the original smuggler of salt, but a serious salt merchant, and even began to faintly affect the finances of the Great River Country.
This is obviously not something that an emperor can allow, openly and secretly, the current monarch of the Great River, I don't know how many means he has used to give Ye Bai's business a success, and how many masters on the rivers and lakes have been sent to assassinate, but they all failed inexplicably.
And eventually. It's bound to be the monk's turn!
......
Two young men on the crowded streets. One after the other.
One was eight feet tall, with a slender figure and a handsome appearance, with an angular facial contour, an evil smile hanging from the corner of his mouth, and a bright and clear gaze. Wearing a blue brocade robe, but with his sleeves rolled up high, his hands behind his head, and a crisp whistle in his mouth, he looked like a son-in-law.
It doesn't seem to be in shape. But I don't know how many women have been killed, and in the roadside shops, I don't know how many young women are secretly looking at him.
It is Ji Xiaobai, and now Ji Xiaobai is eighteen years old.
Outstanding appearance, coupled with a rich family background, and no bad temperament of bullying men and women in general, of course it will arouse a lot of admiration, and the footsteps of the matchmaker almost trampled on the threshold of Ye Mansion, but they were all rejected by Ye Bai and Su Liuli one by one.
And Ji Xiaobai is a little opposite to Ye Bai when he was more than ten years old, and he is not too interested in it.
On the side, the height is about the same as Ji Xiaobai, but the figure is much burlier, with a Chinese face, thick eyebrows and big eyes, a dignified appearance, a strong shirt, and a powerful appearance.
This son is Ji Xiaobai's small hair and friend Qin Hu.
Qin Hu is the same as Ji Xiaobai, and he is not a material for reading, but this kid doesn't know where he learned a good martial arts, and the good players in the idle rivers and lakes are not his opponents, and under Ji Xiaobai's repeated questions, Qin Hu refused to say.
After becoming an adult, Qin Hu inexplicably entered the Ye family's business to work and made a personal guard for Ji Xiaobai.
The two are like brothers, of course Ji Xiaobai will not treat him as an outsider. But Qin Hu showed extreme respect for Ji Xiaobai, and he didn't dare to go beyond it, and even followed behind him with a retinue posture when he walked. Ji Xiaobai said it several times, but Qin Hu still insisted, so he had to go with him.
On this day, Ji Xiaobai came out instead of his father and talked about a business with a businessman surnamed Huang, and the conversation went quite smoothly.
"Little White Young Master!"
"Little White Young Master!"
Along the way, there were people greeting each other from time to time, and they didn't look flattering, they looked like they were from the bottom of their hearts, and thanks to Ye Bai and Su Liuli, although they made a lot of money, most of them were taken from the people, used by the people, and accumulated a good reputation.
Ji Xiaobai smiled and nodded.
When I walked to a cake stall, I habitually shouted: "Aunt Wang, come and have two cakes!"
Ding Ding -
With a sound, the copper coin had been put down.
Aunt Wang, who sells cooking cakes, is a little older than a few years ago, but her expression is as kind as ever, and she handed him two cakes with a smile and said, "Thank you Young Master Xiaobai for your care." ”
There is no move not to take money from him, he really knows Ji Xiaobai's temperament too well, and he never takes advantage of this.
"Aunt Wang is polite!"
Ji Xiaobai took the cake and handed one to Qin Hu, and the two ate together as they walked.
Qin Hu ate quickly, and the three or two ate it cleanly, returning to the previous appearance of the guard. Ji Xiaobai ate slowly, as if he was eating the most delicious thing in the world, chewing carefully.
Suddenly, between heaven and earth, there was a sword roar, as if it came from afar, it began to be faint and gradually wide.
All the people on the street were startled, and looked towards the place where the sound came from, only to see a white light suddenly flying in the distant sky. It turned out to be an ice-white long sword, drawing a white rainbow in the sky, stabbing straight in the direction of Ji Xiaobai, and the speed was fast!
"Young Master, get out of the way!"
Qin Hu snorted and pushed Ji Xiaobai away.
Ji Xiaobai snorted heavily. Fell to the ground.
"Huzi!"
Seeing that the long sword was about to pierce Qin Hu's chest, Ji Xiaobai's face instantly receded from blood, and he shouted.
The people on the street, naturally, all of them were cut off from breathing.
Qin Hu's pupils also condensed, but it was too late to react more, after all, he was just a human martial artist who knew a little kung fu.
Time seems to stop at this moment!
And in the next moment, the ice-white long sword seemed to have been caught. Strangely stopped an inch away from Qin Hu's chest, hanging in the air, not moving at all.
A drop of cold sweat leaked from Qin Hu's forehead.
A drop of cold sweat leaked from Ji Xiaobai's forehead.
Above the streets, there was silence.
"Who is the master, sneaky, who dares to ruin my good deeds?"
After a moment. An old voice was gloomy, like thunder. It sounded in the ears of the people, and all the mortal people instantly felt pain in their eardrums.
The voice fell, and no one answered.
After a few more breaths, the ice-white long sword made a sharp U-turn. The lightning shot away, and soon disappeared without a trace.
A few mortals, still in shock and pain, the streets are still as silent as death.
And Ji Xiaobai, who fell to the ground, was shining in his eyes at this moment. I remembered the ideal I had buried deep in my heart.
......
In the other direction, in the Ye family's shop.
A flying sword, also suspended in mid-air, did not move.
Five or six guys trembled with horror, and Ye Bai behind the counter looked at the account book in his hand with a slightly cold face, without even raising his head, his eyes were calm with a certain sigh, and the tip of the sword was only an inch away from his nose.
"Dad, I finally understand a truth, a mortal, unless you sit in the position of emperor, it is impossible to become the number one salt merchant in the world. Even if it succeeds reluctantly, it will definitely not last for a few days. ”
Ye Bai raised his head, stared at him slightly, and said in his heart: "If you have a spirit in the sky, please forgive me, and you will reveal the monk's means to solve the trouble!"
The words in his heart fell, Ye Bai slowly stretched out his hand, and after grasping the long sword, his mana moved.
There was a click!
The sword shattered into a pile of iron slag and fell to the ground.
Dry man, he looked dumbfounded again.
The shopkeeper has a lot of strength, but why is it that such a sharp blade doesn't scratch his hand?
At the same time as the doubts in his heart were born, he couldn't help but think about it, and soon after, looking at Ye Bai's eyes, there was a look of awe.
"Go out first, don't spread today's events. If anyone comes to me, let it be that he doesn't see it, and don't stop it. ”
Ye Bai rubbed his hands lightly and said lightly, his voice was not angry and arrogant. After reaching everyone's ears, everyone's bodies shook and woke up.
"Yes, shopkeeper!"
The guys answered, and ran out like a crawler, for fear of being killed by the fish in the pond.
Ye Bai put his hands behind his back and waited to get up.
......
After only half a cup of tea, there was the sound of footsteps, coming from a distance, hurried, getting closer and closer.
"I don't know which side of the power the senior is, the two of us were encouraged by the faint monarch and offended the senior, and I hope the seniors will forgive us!"
Before the figure arrived, a somewhat panicked old man's voice came, and it was still the voice of the gloomy old man who attacked Ji Xiaobai just now, as if he had finally figured out Ye Bai's power, and there was no arrogance in his voice.
Ye Bai looked up and saw two figures walking in.
The leader is an old man with a goatee, of medium stature, dressed in a navy blue robe, with old and shrewd eyebrows, and has the realm of the early stage of foundation building.
The person behind her is a female cultivator in her early twenties, wearing a black dress, with a green smoke veil, tall and tall, but with thin hands and feet, curved eyebrows and big eyes, her appearance is only middle and upper, and her complexion is slightly dark, so she looks like a pair of eyes, which are exceptionally bright and black and white.
Maybe it was because he felt that the two of them had stabbed Da Louzi, and his face was sad, and he didn't know what kind of fate he was going to face. Between the eyebrows, there is a look of loneliness and happiness.
This woman turned out to be the same as the old man, both of whom were in the realm of the early stage of foundation building.
When Ye Bai saw the two, the two also saw Ye Bai's appearance, before receiving this task, they didn't care about what a salt merchant looked like, even if this salt merchant was the number one salt merchant in the whole Great River Country.
But at this moment, after seeing me, both of them had a feeling of surprise in their hearts!
The other party's pair of dark eyes, like the two deepest seas, make people sink into it as soon as they see it, giving birth to a feeling of being unable to extricate themselves, when they stand there with their hands on their backs, they are even more like mountains, full of the unique atmosphere of the spiritual exchange between heaven and earth, and there is a faint detachment of spirit, and even the most powerful monk in their sect does not have such a temperament.
"Master!"
The hearts of the two of them tightened.
This kind of feeling may not be felt by mortals, and they will only feel that this person is extremely heroic, but as monks, the two of them have keenly captured the unusual.
And at this moment, Ye Bai only glanced at the old man with a goatee, and then set his eyes on the young female cultivator, his eyes were extremely strange. (To be continued......)