Chapter 18: A high-profile slap in the face as a sign of respect
Cultivation can be slowly improved, resources can be slowly accumulated, and opportunities can be slowly found, but if your life is gone, everything will be gone.
"Your identity, status, qualifications, and cultivation are all extremely superior on the mainland, but at the same time, there are even more eyes staring at you, even if you don't do anything, there will be many people who are jealous of you and covet you. Even though you have not shown grace, there are people who please you and slap you. You may have offended someone, but he will taboo you and tolerate you. And these things have nothing to do with your own emotions and wishes, you have to remember, see more, listen more, think more, and feel more. ”
The children of the family have never lacked geniuses, but the name of genius and the hope of the family have made many talented young people become arrogant and short-sighted, and they think that they are proud of the sky and born extraordinary, and they have forgotten that cultivation is to endure hardships in order to become masters.
It's been a few hours, and it's not necessarily good.
Those young geniuses, there are really very few who have truly become great cultivators.
Chu Xiaoyue responded seriously, the old man Chu worked hard, every word was fine, how could she not know.
"Everything you have is both your reliance and your shackles, you have to remember my words, and think more about what I told you when you encounter problems, even if you can't figure it out now, but thinking itself is the foundation of enlightenment. ”
Looking at the mainland, how many people can compare Chu Xiaoyue's background and qualifications? But if he is not a person in this position, he only knows that his eyes are red and a few words are sour, who knows the real danger and responsibility?
"But if you want to achieve success in cultivation, but you can't look ahead and backward and get stuck in indulgence, how can you really break free and find your own way, this is your cultivation. ”
Being in the bustling, not trapped in the bustling, having thousands, but not being confined to the thousands, this is her true destiny.
Among the monks of her generation, only Xiao Shiyu was left in the Xiao family like duckweed. The Zhao family has a large support and poor qualifications. The Song family seems to be prosperous, but in fact, there is no one to take over the position of elder. The Yan family has a concubine, and there is no successor.
Only the Chu family is singing and dancing, and she is also in the limelight, but under such attention, no one knows what kind of undercurrent will be stirred.
What's more, there has always been a mysterious Xianmen, with her birth, the Xianmen sent a lot of people to the Chu family, this kind of honor is unique, there has been no precedent for thousands of years, what will they do next, what kind of consequences will be caused, everything is unknown.
Chu Xiaoyue knew very well that the Immortal Gate was not as peaceful as the world imagined, and under the pressure of cultivation and the competition for resources, how many Dao Hearts had been distorted.
Coming out of the Treasure Pavilion, it was already afternoon, and the two brothers of the Song family had not come back yet, Chu Xiaoyue didn't think much about it, and called Shanglanzhi and a few people to go out to look for them.
Today, she has one more big thing to do.
There are two large cities in Chucheng, Nanchengfang City and Dongchengfang City.
Nanchengfang City is mostly ordinary people who can't practice doing business here, here there are many Qinlou Chu Pavilions, the dance pavilion is brilliant, and occasionally there will be monks who come to have fun, but the monks rely on their own identity, and they will not be for a long time, and the business of Nanchengfang City is more for ordinary people who account for the vast majority of the population, after all, Chucheng is the core of the territory, governing seventy-two cities, and it is also the economic center of the ordinary people in the territory.
Dongchengfang City gathers the largest and best pill shops, talisman shops, spirit weapon shops, spirit beast shops, and auction houses in the territory. Due to the longer lifespan of the monks and the fact that Chu City gathers the top cultivation resources in the territory, although the number of monks is far less than that of ordinary people, the Dongchengfang City of Chucheng has always been more lively than the Nanchengfang City.
Zhao Minbai was walking in Dongchengfang City, but he was very absent-minded, the road was full of pedestrians, and there were all kinds of shops on both sides of the road, but he was not in the mood to look.
Not far away, the signboard of the Treasure Auction House has been seen, he walked a few steps quickly, and stood at the end of the line, this team was discharged from the door of the Treasure Auction House for nearly twenty feet, and he saw a black head in front of him.
He was in a depressed mood, and it seemed that whether he could make it to the line today could only depend on luck.
If not...... Zhao Minbai sighed, he couldn't think of any way, who would have thought that the auction house in Chucheng was so popular?
In fact, there are a lot of auction houses in Chu City, and the dates of each opening are lined up, and there are almost two or three auctions every day, but there are already a lot of monks in this city, and there are more monks from all over the world recently, which has hyped the already tight admission tickets to the sky.
Seeing that this was not the way to go, the city's auction industry alliance came up with the idea of canceling the admission ticket, and the monks who wanted to participate in the auction that day had to line up in person, and each person could only choose one auction house to queue up.
He has been in Chucheng for three days, and the great ancestor ordered him to prepare some gifts to have a good relationship with the younger generations of other families, but the headache is that he has never dealt with these people very much, and the things he gives are expensive and flattering, and if they are cheap, they are looked down upon, and the elixir talisman is afraid that people will think it is cheesy, and he can't afford to buy a good spiritual weapon and spirit animal.
It's so nerve-wracking to buy a gift or something.
Soon there were other people lining up behind him, and the line was getting longer and longer, and the speed of moving forward was far less than the speed at which the line became longer.
Zhao Minbai moved forward with the team from time to time.
This is the third day he has lined up to attend the auction, but he has not been in line for the first two days.
Half a month ago, he received a summons from Tai Great-Ancestor after attending the academy competition in Songcheng, asking him to go to Chu City first to wait for Tai Great-Ancestor, and then follow Tai Great-Ancestor to attend the Chu family's banquet.
His great-great-grandfather Zhao Huang is the only Yuanying elder of the Zhao family at present, although he is a sidekick, but his cultivation is extremely high, this time, the team of the Zhao family to come to the Chu family for the banquet is led by Zhao Huang.
With such a good opportunity to move around, Zhao Huang naturally wanted to bring his blood children, but it was a pity that his own heirs counted down four generations, either the inferior qualifications of the four spirit roots and the five spirit roots, and they could only cultivate to the point of practicing qi, or they were ordinary people without spirit roots at all, and it was not until the fifth generation that there was a Zhao Minbai who became a dual-line earth spirit root from the three spirit roots after purging the marrow.
Zhao Huang himself has no hope of breaking through the Yuan Infant, and he knows that he does not have many years to live, and cultivating his blood children is his only wish.
For this wish, no matter what he does, he is open-minded.
Chu Xiaoyue went out of the Chu family's mansion to find the two brothers of the Song family, and several people had already met in Dongchengfang City.
After chatting a few words, a few people went to the Treasure Auction House.
Chu Xiaoyue remembered that in the original book, Zhao Minbai had bought a superb quenching bone pill at the Zhibao auction house, and later gave it to Yan Yu'er in order to pull the relationship, and also successfully tied up with Yan Yu'er officially. And Zhao Minbai seeks benevolence, relying on his friendship with Yan Yuer, he is so overwhelmed in the family that his descendants Zhao Chaoqi can't raise his head.
The best quenching bone pill is rare, when it first appeared in the auction house, it was mistakenly sold as Xuanjie Dingyan Pill, and later Zhao Minbai knew that he had given such a treasure away when his intestines were remorseful, but Yan Yu'er had already digested the pill to the point that there was no residue left, Zhao Minbai could only play affectionate, and he couldn't let go of Yan Yu'er.
This time she came to Fang City, Chu Xiaoyue's goal was very clear, that is, to win the best quenching bone pill.
The three of them came to the door of the auction house with the guards and a group of people from Hulala, and they heard the guy at the door say, "The number of people entering the day is full, all the guests please be early tomorrow." ”
The people lining up behind suddenly made an uproar, and the guy didn't care, and directly commanded a few handymen to close the door.
Zhao Minbai saw that the door in front of him was about to close, and hurriedly put his hand into the storage bag, took out a few spirit stones, and stepped forward to hold the guy.
The guy was also used to seeing this kind of scene, and when he saw his action, he knew what he meant, pulled back his sleeves and waved his hand, "It's not that the small one is not convenient, the small one is just an errand runner, and there are stewards watching it, don't be embarrassed about the small ones." ”
As he spoke, he turned around and left.
Chu Xiaoyue stood beside her, carefully looking at the young man who wanted to bribe for a long time, this young man looked like he was seventeen or eighteen years old, wearing a purple robe, the hem of the shirt was embroidered with dark patterns and gold, and the dark light of the beast head embroidered on the shoulders was the Zhao family's costume.
At this time, the Zhao family's brigade has not yet arrived, and this scene is here and now...... Could this person be Zhao Minbai?
Thinking of this, she couldn't help but take a closer look at his appearance.
Deep eyes and thick eyebrows, hanging nose and thin lips, the face is not bad, but compared to Xiao Shiyu, it is still far behind, at least this temperament is far less, she doesn't believe that the big demon king will go to Xiao Fu low for an auction, stuff money and go through the back door.
Is this person who makes Chu Xiaoyue in the original text love to die or live, and the six relatives don't recognize it?
She shook her head secretly, this original owner's aesthetic is too bad.
She glanced sideways at Lan Zhi, who immediately understood, took a few steps forward, and grabbed the guy with one hand.
The guy thought it was Zhao Minbai who didn't give up, and just raised his eyebrows and opened his mouth to scold, but saw that it was a girl with a cold face.
Lan Zhi shook a small token in front of the guy's eyes, and the little guy who still had a stinky face just now immediately turned pale, bent down and saluted Lan Zhi, and then looked at Chu Xiaoyue along Lan Zhi's figure with great eyes, bowed, and showed two lines of white teeth and smiled, "Please inside!"
The people waiting in line at the door saw that the guy had changed like this, and they all looked at Chu Xiaoyue and his party.
The fellow was also a clever man, and quickly sent a summons to inform the shopkeeper, and at the same time instructed the handymen to drive these people back, and said, "Look, noble man, this person is so noisy, don't let these people rush into you, please go in and sit!"
As he spoke, he saluted the two brothers of the Song family again, and made another gesture of please.
Chu Xiaoyue laughed, "You're clever!" Lan Zhi threw a small bag of spirit stones into the young man's arms, and the young man hurriedly caught it and thanked him with a smile.
Zhao Minbai was pushed back a few steps by the handyman, several footprints were stepped on on the surface of his boots, and he tried his best to press the urge to beat people, raised his eyes and looked forward, only to see a five or six-year-old girl being surrounded by the stars and walking towards the auction house, but the door that was originally going to be closed was wide open, and a middle-aged man who looked like a shopkeeper trotted out to greet him, nodding and flattering.