Chapter 017: Six Years Later
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On the tenth day of the first month of the sixth year of Tianyuan City Qiansheng (the year name of Chengjun Yuanba), heavy snow fell.
I don't know if it's because of the accident in Beicun six years ago or something else, since that year, the winter snow in Jianye City has been a lot and long, but this year has not passed, and the amount of snow has exceeded that in February and March of previous years.
In the dining room of the main mansion of Jianye City, a young man with a thin figure and a fair face stood in front of the main stove.
I saw him roll up his sleeves with both hands, hold a knife in his right hand, and press a small bundle of garlic seedlings with his left hand, cutting small pieces very skillfully.
At first glance, next to the stove, a big man with a stubble face is sitting leisurely on a small bench and lighting a cigarette.
He glanced at the young man's knife technique, and said lightly: "This garlic looks like it was cut by a human!"
The young man knew his temperament, smiled slightly, and opened the cauldron with skillful techniques.
The pot is a stewed big fish, the skin is cracked, the juice is delicious, the young man picks up the kitchen knife in his right hand, and sprinkles all the garlic seedlings of the same size into the pot.
"呲~"
There was a noise in the pot.
"Call it a day!"
Garlic sprouts, at one end of the pot, a large pot of steamed fish with all colors is officially completed!
"Boy, how many leopards do you dare to go up the mountain tomorrow morning to fight?"
The big man looked at the darkening night outside the house, stood up and stretched, and proposed.
Yun Yu was allowed to finish all the work, but it made him a little inert.
"Who is afraid of whom? I wasn't scared to death when I went to fight tigers with you last time, but now it's different!"
The boy said with a smile, and the person had already walked out.
The big man looked at the back of the young man leaving, the corners of his mouth raised slightly, and he didn't know what he was thinking.
The boy who left was Yun Yu, six years have passed, he has grown into a handsome young man, although nominally he is still the assistant of the chef Niu Baibiao, but in fact, since last year, almost all the dishes in the City Lord's Mansion have come from Yun Yu's hands, which also makes Niu Baibiao happy.
"Squeak!"
Yun Yu returned to his residence and pushed open the door.
"Woo~"
A big blue-and-white tiger pounced, almost knocking Yun Yu to the ground.
"Wow, Xiaobai, you're fat again!"
Yun Yu caressed the big tiger and laughed.
The big blue and white tiger seemed to understand human speech, baring its teeth and grinning to express its dissatisfaction, and if others saw it, they would be scared half to death.
Yun Yu has grown up together since he was a tiger cub to the present, and he is naturally accustomed to its temperament, and he has no fear at all, but feels more kind.
Six years ago, he was ten years old.
Back then, Beicun was attacked by unknown thugs, and after the village was burned, he was taken in by the city lord Yuan Shoucheng and stayed in the city lord's mansion as a chef helper.
On the third day of waking up, he was taken by Niu Baibiao to the hinterland of the "Soul Broken Mountain Range" to fight tigers, and since then he has been associated with this blue and white tiger.
However, Yun Yu felt a little guilty many times, after all, he took it away from his family with his own hands, how was that different from losing his parents?
Yun Yu tried many times to take it back to the blue-eyed tiger's lair, but it was unwilling in every possible way and vowed to stay, which was what completely made Yun Yu settle down and cultivate it well.
Thinking of the past, Yun Yu couldn't help but calm down, and his hands clenched into fists again.
For six years, he had no news about the thugs who destroyed the village at the beginning, and Tian Yuan City made no progress on this, until the year before last, when he had no choice but to officially list it as one of Tian Yuan's unsolved cases.
Although helpless, it can't be changed, after all, there were too many strange things back then, and there was almost nothing else except for the clues of the small copper ball.
As for the small copper ball, there is still no trace of it, and it is difficult to investigate its source.
Yun Yu's clenched fist loosened and sighed,
"You still can't rush it!"
He got up and undressed, and sat down in the hot tub again.
His body has grown, and the bath bucket has become smaller and smaller year by year, but it does not hinder his interest in bathing.
"Whew~"
Yun Yu leaned back in the bathtub and shouted with a smile, "Xiaobai, do you want to wash together?"
But he didn't want Xiaobai to seem to understand human nature, so he yelled at him from afar, as if complaining about Yun Yu's ridicule.
"You're still shy, but you can't fit in if you come! You're a lot fatter, half as tall as me!"
Yun Yu lay on the bathtub and looked at the blue and white tiger from a distance, and said with a smile: "The tigress is shy!"
The blue and white tiger simply ignored Yun Yu and fell asleep beside Yun Yu's bed.
Yun Yu remembered Yuan Shixin, after she went out of this room that night six years ago, she heard Niu Baibiao say that she had a cold and fever the next day, and she hadn't seen her since then.
During this period, Yun Yu occasionally asked Niu Baibiao or Aunt Ma about it, and probably learned that he had gone to the academy, "That's a good place to practice," Aunt Ma said to him with a smile.
Yun Yu naturally knew that the academy was a place of cultivation, but the tuition fee was not something that ordinary people could afford.
In the past six years, Yun Yu has only seen the city lord Yuan Shoucheng once, and that time he asked him if he wanted to go to the academy to improve, Yun Yu was grateful for the stagnation of his cultivation, and his reluctance to ask for more from others, and finally chose to continue to stay by Niu Baibiao's side.
"It's not bad!"
Yun Yuwu smiled to himself, thinking of Niu Baibiao's "ferocious" treatment of him over the years, although he sometimes has to make a few tricks now, but after getting along, he also found that the helpers in the kitchen did not necessarily fall too far behind in the training of the honor.
Besides, occasionally they would go up to the mountains to hunt tigers.
It's strange to say that Xuan Xuehu can still meet a few times during the period.
"Ahem~"
Yun Yu sighed, remembering the short time he had with Yuan Shixin before, as if it was just yesterday, and the first person he came into contact with was that little princess!
But then he laughed at himself and said, "I haven't thought of her for a long time, why are you so idle now?"
Yun Yu shook his head, sat up straight, and sat up in the bathtub.
"In six years, I have been promoted from the original city protector to the city secretary, and I have only stepped up one level, what is wrong?"
Yun Yu still couldn't understand that since he first stepped into the city protection, his cultivation progress had been very slow in the past few years, and many times the Xun Yuan he had absorbed often disappeared in the chaos, causing a lot of losses.
"But I don't know where it went...... Is it really as the city lord said, consumed by the fire poison in my body?"
Yun Yu frowned slightly, and tried to spy on the unknown residue in his body again, but after several times, he finally returned in vain.
Night had completely fallen, and the snow continued to fall from the window of the small room.
Yun Yu was still sitting naked in the bathtub at the moment.
He was used to cultivating in a bathtub.
In the beginning, the hot water in the bath bucket would always change from hot to cold, but in recent years, Yun Yu has been able to easily control the water temperature during his cultivation, saving him the trouble of adding hot water back and forth at the beginning.
The room was quiet, Xiao Bai, who had been asleep for a long time, raised his head and yawned, he got up and stood by the window looking at the snow outside the window, his eyes were slightly shining, and many times he turned around and took small tiger steps, and came to Yun Yu.
"Woo~"
It looked at Yun Yu and blinked its tiger eyes, and let out a low groan, as if to say:
"Practicing shirtless in the bathtub again, it's really eyeless!" Then he turned around and returned to his place and continued to sleep.
"It's just a little bit close to breaking through to the Joto Rank!
Yun Yu thought of this, raised his hand towards the open wardrobe in the room, grabbed a large towel in the air, and stepped out of the bathtub to drape it.
The sleeping blue-and-white tiger opened its eyelids and raised its paws to block its view.
Yun Yu walked over and touched its headplate and sat on the bed.
Although he has not had much contact with Steward Chen in the past six years, he has also received several honors, and although there are only a few words in the words, they are all the core, and there are great benefits after diligent cultivation.
On the night of the tenth day of the first lunar month, it snowed all night in Jianye City, and when Yunyu went out on the second day, the snow outside had been paved thickly.
Before Yun Yu arrived at the dining room, Niu Baibiao was already cleaning up the snow in the small courtyard in front of the dining room.
"It's early for the old cow!"
Yun Yu and Niu Baibiao said hello and entered the dining room to do some work as always, although they are going to the mountain today, but the work has to be arranged first, right?
When Yun Yu was ready to walk out of the courtyard, Niu Baibiao said to him:
"Wait, there's two more with you. ”
"Who?"