Chapter Eighty-Three: Notes on the Cottage
In the face of the ill-intentioned questioning of the gentleman, the young man in the green shirt who was dressed in a majestic and righteous manner did not look panicked, calmly gave a salute, and said without humility or arrogance:
"Third brother, Bai Yi doesn't dare. β
Wu Ye listened secretly on the side, and then looked up and down the outfit of the young man in green shirts, and he had three points in his heart.
The Bai family is one of the three major families of Wuwei State, and it is also the overlord on the ground of West Qinzhou, and has been fighting with demon beasts in this desolate and barren land for hundreds of years, tempering a strong army that is not afraid of death, and even King Wuwei calls the Bai family "the pillar stone of the country"!
The head of the Bai family of this generation is known as the first fierce general of Wuwei Country, Bai Chonghu, the Marquis of Western Qin, when King Wuwei has not succeeded to the throne, he has followed Bai Chonghu to practice martial arts, and he has also received strong support from the Bai family to succeed to the throne, so in the past few years after he succeeded to the throne, the power of the Bai family has become greater and greater, and he has faintly become the head of the three major families.
Since this young man in a green shirt is surnamed Bai, he also calls this gentleman "third brother", both of them should be the family members of Bai Chonghu, the Marquis of Western Qin, and it is very likely that they are both Bai Chonghu's heirs.
However, it seems that they are both Bai Chonghu's heirs, but the status of the two is very different.
This is not surprising, there is no contraception in these years, and there is no moral constraint, it is common for powerful men to be merry and happy, and it is even more common for people to die without paying attention, Wu Ye has long heard that Bai Chonghu, the Marquis of Western Qin, is a hungry ghost in the color, with a great appetite, and the ten women of the night are not tired of it, and they have left hundreds of heirs over the years.
Among these heirs, only a few of the three ladies were able to get a title and be honored as "son" when they were born.
The rest of the concubines, maidservants, singers or simply children born of bitches, in the strict Western Qin Marquis Mansion, are not much better than domestic slaves, unless they are talented and have outstanding skills, otherwise they will be cattle and horses for the rest of their lives, and it is difficult to have a chance to get ahead.
This bejeweled gentleman should be the son born to one of the three wives of Bai Chonghu, the Marquis of Western Qin, and this young man in green shirt is the result of Bai Chonghu's overnight romance and confusion, and the status gap between the two is huge, so even the evil slaves around the young man dare to laugh at Bai Yi, the young man in green shirt.
Sure enough, the gentleman sneered: "Bai Yi, everyone has their own duty, do their duty well, so that there will be no trouble! Father has asked you to read and write since you were a child, so that you can understand the account book and deal with so many accounts that come and go in the family, not to let you practice martial arts!"
Bai Yi opened his mouth, and was about to distinguish it, when the gentleman suddenly raised his voice: "Father has already charted the path that should be taken for every family member, your path is to be a bookkeeper with your heart! Your mind is full of thoughts of practicing martial arts, if you miscalculate the accounts and cause losses to the family, what will you take to bear it?"
Bai Yi didn't blink his eyelids, and said calmly: "Third brother, I don't." β
The gentleman laughed strangely, pointed to a sheepskin scroll held by the young man in the green shirt, and his face was full of hideousness: "Bai Yi, when death is coming, don't be hard-mouthed, what are you holding in your hand instead of exercises? Just now, Xiao Liuzi obviously heard you ask the guy for a copy of Li Yan's notes!"
Li Yan is the first master of Wuwei two hundred years ago, it is said that several cultivation sects in the Central Plains have been instructed, and they have created a set of "big monument wrestlers", which has reached the limit of martial arts, and is still a compulsory martial art for masters in Wuwei [***].
The gentleman thought that he had taken Bai Yi's handle, and said with a smile:
"Bai Yi, our father ruled the family with the military, and it was not easy to start! Last month, I just secretly advanced fifty silver knife money in the family, you have to tell my father unforgivingly, and I will suffer a full fifty family laws! His old man hates his family the most for not obeying his orders and breaking the rules, if he knows about you stealing martial arts, I don't know how much family law is worth it?"
The evil slaves around him also sneered in a weird way.
Bai Yi smiled, generously handed over the parchment scroll in his hand, and said lightly: "Third brother, I just asked my guy for a volume of Li Yan's "Notes on the Grass Hall", but this "Notes on the Grass Hall" is not a martial arts exercise, just an absurd notes on gods and monsters, which tells the story of Li Yan who traveled the world when he was young and heard from the Central Plains countries. β
"You-"
The gentleman's face changed suddenly, he snatched the parchment scroll from Bai Yi's hand, turned a few pages, his face became even more ugly, and he threw the "Notes on the Grass Hall" to the ground, and as soon as his eyebrows were twisted, he was about to have a seizure.
Bai Yi didn't move, and said calmly: "Third brother, when you go out, you and I are the faces of the Marquis of Western Qin, tomorrow morning, Bai Yi will also hand over the materials for this reward to the account office in the Mansion of the Lord of Pingliang City, and the third brother doesn't want anything to go wrong with this matter, right? The opportunity to be sent by my father to take charge alone is not available every day." β
The gentleman narrowed his puffy eyes like goldfish bubbles.
Of course, he didn't want to leave a bad impression in his father's heart that he was "not doing good things" for the sake of this dog-like thing, but he was unwilling to let Bai Yi go so easily.
When he was hesitating, a man came out of the next room with an antique bronze box, ran to the gentleman's side, opened the box, and said with a smile: "This guest, this is the goods you want." β
The gentleman glared at Bai Yi fiercely, let him go for the time being, and couldn't wait to take out a roll of silk from the bronze box, and shook it open, but it was several naked people entangled together.
Wu Ye thought this was some kind of high-level exercise at first, but after a closer look, he found that this was actually a picture of the Spring Palace, vividly embroidered with the most delicate brushstrokes of four or five pairs of men and women fighting under the grape trellis, and a circle of dense spiritual runes was embroidered around it, surrounding it into a serpentine talisman array that was connected from end to end.
When the silk trembles and the angle changes, the rune array faintly flashes with light, and the characters in the Spring-Palace diagram immediately seem to come to life, rhythmically moving wildly, forming a lifelike image!
Wu Ye's eyes straightened when he saw itβit wasn't that he hadn't seen Mao films, but he didn't expect that the legendary magical spells could also be used to shoot Mao films!
The world of talisman is so amazing, too mysterious, too powerful!
As soon as this piece of wool imprinted on the silk with talisman was released, the whole courtyard immediately fell silent, and everyone stretched out their heads, their eyes were blazing, and even their breathing was a little heavier.
The gentleman obviously felt these ill-intentioned eyes, glared at everyone with some disgust, and was about to scold, the guy hurriedly smiled and said: "This guest, the small shop has opened a private room next to it, and I also ask the prince to move over and appreciate it slowly, in addition to this volume, there are eleven volumes of treasures, all kinds of tricks, even people and monsters are ......."
The saliva of the gentleman was about to flow down, where could he still care about finding fault with everyone, leaving Bai Yi behind, and hurriedly walking to the private room.
Several evil slaves followed him, apparently trying to open their eyes as well.
The gentleman hesitated for a moment, but still let his subordinates enter the private room together, these evil slaves are all minions that he finally brought together, of course, he has to live well, anyway, there are eleven volumes of treasures, and some are used alone.
Bai Yi stared at the back of the gentleman, and looked at it coldly for a long time, until the door of the private room was slammed shut, and he bent down to pick up the "Notes on the Grass Hall" and blew away the dust on it.
The expression on his face was still tepid, but there was a subtle hatred blooming in the depths of his eyes, and his thin body had been burned uncontrollably by anger, trembling slightly.
"Western Qin Marquis Bai Chonghu ......"
Bai Yi gritted his teeth and pronounced his father's name, and an extremely strange demonic aura suddenly gushed out of his majestic righteousness, and even he didn't notice it, when the hatred reached the limit, his pupils suddenly contracted into two vertical slits, like snake eyes.
"Dude!"
Bai Yi returned the "Notes on the Grass Hall" to the guy, looked around for a while, made sure that there was no snooping by anyone from the Western Qin Marquis Mansion, and asked in a low voice, "Do you have any martial arts here?"
Wu Ye, who was hiding next to him and eavesdropping, suddenly held his breath.
God, he actually met a true genius who was buying exercises in an unknown shop!