Chapter 111: Brother's Request
Lin Xiao patted his pocket, the pocket of his clothes was empty, and there was nothing in it. He touched his left finger again, and the storage ring on his finger was refined to ashes in the Forbidden Immortal Battle, and there was no residue left. Bai Botang gave him a credit card as a gift, Lin Xiao is a polite person, and there are Bai Zhongyuan and other family members waiting to see him, the freshly released second uncle, second uncle, and second great-grandfather, how can he be empty-handed?
With a wry smile, Lin Xiao glanced at Bai Botang apologetically: "Boss~ Big brother, brother is ashamed, he was in danger a while ago, and some bits and pieces of his body were lost, this~~~"
Before Lin Xiao's words were finished, Bai Zhongyuan had already taken his brothers, children and grandchildren to stand in front of Lin Xiao, bowed to Lin Xiao respectfully and uniformly, and shouted loudly: "Second uncle (second uncle, second great-grandfather)!"
Okay, as soon as a 'second uncle' came out, Lin Xiao's hands trembled, and he smiled bitterly: "Big brother~This, a meeting gift~"
Bai Botang grinned, shook his head again and again, and said: "What do you say? The eldest brother and you hit it off at first sight, probably we were good brothers in the last life, and what do you say about meeting gifts or not meeting gifts? These boys, can they still be cheapened for nothing? There is no such statement, there is no such statement! Oh, children, hurry up and put on the flowing water seat, Lao Tzu and the second brother are not drunk!"
Grabbing Lin Xiao's wrist, Bai Botang laughed: "Second brother, if you really have a heart, just do my eldest brother a small favor." ”
"Oh?" Lin Xiao raised his eyebrows, looked at Bai Botang and asked, "What did the eldest brother say?"
Although he didn't mind, Lin Xiao still felt a little pimple in his heart, why did he have an extra big brother for some reason? This second brother's position is not even hot on the buttocks, how can something find on the head? Lin Xiao shook his head, and was secretly thinking in his heart that his skin was still too thin, but he heard Bai Botang say: "Zhongyuan, hurry up and call Ji Le's kid back, hey, Lao Tzu called his second great-ancestor his master, his rank is twice as high as his father, he didn't talk nonsense this time, right?"
"Huh?" Lin Xiao was stunned, he looked at Bai Botang blankly, and his brain couldn't turn this corner for a while.
Bai Zhongyuan looked at Bai Botang stupidly, and his face was all twitched.
Among the children and grandchildren of the Bai family, a middle-aged man in his fifties turned pale and black, and he looked at Bai Botang with great resentment, almost without tears. Several brothers around him, who were about the same age as him, looked at him gloatingly, and some of them almost didn't stretch out their hands to applaud.
Lin Xiao smiled bitterly and let Bai Botang pull him back into the hall.
"The skin is too thin, and it has to be thicker! If this thing is bald, they will not inexplicably recognize someone as their eldest brother, and they have to accept an apprentice inexplicably, right?"
Lin Xiao sighed in his heart, he finally found out how correct the bald and fat people were in their evaluation of themselves: Lin Xiao is a good person, a good person who is too good, so in this world where wicked people and sluts are rampant, he, a good person, will inevitably suffer!
Bai Botang's family can't be regarded as wicked, but to say that they are all a bunch of sluts, it is undoubted.
Can a normal person be like Bai Botang? I just hastily inquired about Lin Xiao's origin, and didn't even verify whether what Lin Xiao said was correct, so he pulled Lin Xiao to worship. What if Lin Xiao is a wicked person, a great villain?
In the cultivation world, how serious and sacred it is to become a righteous brother, Lin Xiao always feels that Bai Botang's behavior today is really too child's play.
Lin Xiao suddenly had a hint of realization in his heart, and he said to himself: Perhaps, the hearts of people on the earth are so impetuous and so chaotic, so they have articles like "Tao Te Ching" for nothing, but they haven't been able to meet a real cultivator. Impetuous people's hearts, chaotic human opinions, so that in Lin Xiao's eyes it is a very serious and solemn matter, they can treat it with a child's play attitude, but they acted like a child's play, but they still caught Lin Xiao off guard, and they didn't even have a chance to express their opinions, so they were forced to press their heads and drink this sip of water obediently.
Lin Xiao told himself: "Eat a trench and grow wise, at least they have no ill will towards me." Well, even this old man really has such a bit of brotherly emotions towards himself. Let's see what he wants to do. ”
With a smile on his face, Lin Xiao followed Bai Botang into the hall and quietly waited for Bai Jile, who was arranged to be his disciple.
Comfort Xuan, this is the residence arranged by Bai Botang for Lin Xiao.
Before Lin Xiao's future apprentice Bai Jile officially apprenticed, Lin Xiao would live here.
Comfortable Xuan, this is Bai Botang's own ink cultivation in the study, the study is spacing to Mei Lan pine chrysanthemum, a big moon arched window hole in front of a pool of turquoise water, there are three or five pairs of mandarin ducks swimming comfortably in the pool water. A few pieces of heavy rice paper were placed on the clinical big bookcase, a two-foot square inkstone was dotted with gold stars, a few feet of hand-made ink seemed to be placed on the inkstone at will, and on the pen holder, more than a dozen rabbit and wolf pens of different sizes were gently swaying with the wind. The pen, ink, paper, and inkstone are all superb, but in Lin Xiao's eyes, these things are nothing - the brush used in the Rejuvenation Valley, the pen is plucked from the beast that has become a refinement, and it is all with aura!
Therefore, Lin Xiao lazily lay on a soft couch in the comfortable Xuan, lazily holding his head in his hands, and tilted his body to look at the bright moon in the sky outside the window.
A thin wind blew out of Lin Xiao's body, bringing a stream of fresh aura. Lin Xiao didn't notice this change, he was just curious, in the past few days, he seemed to have made a lot faster progress when he practiced. What's more, when he breathes in the weather aura, he no longer smells the unbearable stench. It seems that the earth's environment is gradually getting better.
"This Bai Ji Leke is a wonderful person. I sent so many people to look for him, but I couldn't find his whereabouts. Well, although he is an illegitimate child, it is unlikely that he will take over the Bai family's business, but is such debauchery~ I take him as an apprentice, can he become a weapon?" Lin Xiao looked at the bright moon hanging in the sky, and couldn't help but sigh softly.
During the day, the duck who was driven by Bai Botang on the shelves kowtowed, and there was an extra righteous brother out of thin air. Another apprentice was forcibly stuffed, but this apprentice was too interesting, and the Bai family waited for him all day, and now there was no news at midnight. A surname, this Bai Jile is really too surnamed. No wonder Bai Zhongyuan heard Bai Botang begging Lin Xiao to accept Bai Jile as an apprentice, and there was a sudden relieved expression on his face.
"Hmm, what is Big Brother Bai doing now?" Lin Xiao was curious for a while, Xuan Gong was silent, and his divine sense covered the entire Bai family compound.
In a small Buddhist hall in the depths of the courtyard, Bai Botang sat cross-legged on a straw futon, looking solemnly at his sons and grandchildren. In the incense burner beside him, three extremely fine sandalwood sticks were emitting green smoke, Bai Botang put his hands together in front of the dantian, took a deep breath a few times, and then narrowed his eyes and asked lightly: "Haven't found Ji Le yet?"
Bai Jile's father, Bai Shuhua, a somewhat chubby middle-aged man, wiped a layer of sweat from his forehead, and said with a wry smile: "Grandpa, you don't know, it's useless for me to care about him in normal times, after all, Ji Hua's talent and knowledge and life are all first-class, although Ji Le's talent is far beyond ordinary people, but for the stability of the Bai family, it is impossible for Ji Le to meddle in family affairs, why he is so self-defeating, and he is mixed up all day, how can I control him?"
"If you weren't tossing outside, how could you have today's incident?" Bai Zhongyuan glanced at Bai Shuhua angrily, and smiled at Bai Botang: "Father, don't worry, it's not the first time that you can't find Ji Le's person like this, and there won't be any big problems with him." I've had his card suspended, and he'll come back as soon as he runs out of cash. ”
"Hmph!" Bai Botang snorted and said in a low voice: "Not only do I think that something will happen to him, but it's just that it's easy to meet a strange person like Brother Lin, and after waiting for a whole day but not seeing Ji Le show up, isn't it snubbing?"
Bai Zhongyuan didn't say anything, Bai Shuhua opened his mouth and looked at the brothers beside him. Bai Shuhua's second brother, a tall bald middle-aged man, smiled and said softly: "Old man, that Lin Xiao~"
Bai Botang rolled his eyes and snorted coldly: "It's called Second Uncle Ancestor." ”
"Yes!" The middle-aged man bowed slightly and said with a chuckle: "Although the second uncle ancestor has a magical martial arts, but in this era, any martial arts and the like are all for nothing, and it is power, wealth, and various relationships that work, you value him." Even if the second uncle has a life-saving grace for you, you treat him too well. ”
"What do you know?" Bai Botang sneered and said lightly: "Worshipping Brother Lin is indeed to repay him for saving his life. Well, Uncle Counselor is not bad, in this era, it is different from the years when Lao Tzu mixed the rivers and lakes, it is useless to fight and kill, and martial arts do not mean anything. However, a strange person like Brother Lin, well, it is my luck to meet him. ”
Shaking his head, Bai Botang said solemnly: "You don't understand, you don't understand anything." Brother Lin, what about what he showed, hehe, you are still a little behind the boss in terms of your ability to look at people!" Squinting his eyes, Bai Botang smiled proudly: "After making friends with Brother Lin, our Bai family will have no worries in the next hundred years." Moreover, it is just to solve the big hidden danger of Ji Le!"
Bai Zhongyuan, Bai Shuhua, and Bai Shuhua exclaimed at the same time: "Hidden danger?"
Bai Botang sighed deeply, and he said lightly: "Yes! Ji Hua's talent is the best among ordinary people, and he is enough to take over everything in my Bai family in a few decades." But Ji Le, he is a natural talent, and his talent and ability are ten times better than Ji Hua! But because of his background~Shuhua~ This matter, you did an errand, you took him back to the Bai family after Ji Le was sixteen years old, and at that time, Ji Hua had already been determined to be the successor of my Bai family. Your name is Ji Le, how can you rest assured that you will be under Ji Hua in the future?"
"This~" Bai Zhongyuan and the others collectively lost their voices.
"Therefore, it is okay for me and Brother Lin to become New Year's friends, but for Ji Le~ After I married Brother Lin, I let Ji Le worship Brother Lin as a teacher, and Ji Le had nothing to say. Brother Lin's cultivation is amazing, even if Ji Le is a genius among geniuses, if he wants to learn Brother Lin's skills and learn them thoroughly, it will take more than ten years of hard work. Brother Lin has learned to be a Taoist lineage, and after more than ten years of immersion in silver, Ji Le will also fade his mind of competing for family property in the future, and my Bai family is truly worry-free!"
Bai Shuhua grinned and said with a wry smile: "Grandpa, Ji Le is now wandering and playing every day, will he have the heart to compete for the family property?"
Bai Botang closed his eyes and said in a cold voice: "You haven't flown for three years, you've soared into the sky, you've not made a splash for three years! You underestimate your son too much! He wanders and has fun every day, but he has 179 accounts in the stock market, do you know it? The pocket money you have given him in the past few years has been more than 70 times more than 70 times in the stock market, do you know it? He himself is outside, and he already has a small financial consulting company, and the name of a close friend of his is hanging on it, do you know it?"
Bai Zhongyuan, Bai Shuhua, and Bai Shushu looked at Bai Botang in surprise and panic.
Bai Botang sighed in a low voice, "Of course you don't know. These things are clearly written in my suicide note. In my suicide note, I also left a means of how to use violence to contain Ji Le, but I didn't want to see the children of my Bai family kill each other while I was alive, so I never mentioned it to you. God is pitiful, when Lao Tzu thought he was going to die, he was rescued by Brother Lin, and now it seems that he can live for at least twenty more years, I originally wanted to help you suppress Ji Le for twenty years, but now there is a better way~ What do you think?"
Bai Zhongyuan, Bai Shuhua, Bai Shuxuan and other high-level Bai family officials praised in unison: "You are old and wise. ”
"Hmm!" Bai Botang nodded, and said in a deep voice: "Wise fart! If Lao Tzu is wise enough, he should cut off all of your [***] after you give birth to your first son! Zhongyuan~"
Bai Zhongyuan took a step forward and said with a dry smile: "Father, Zhongyuan is here!"
Bai Botang nodded and sneered: "Ming'er will tell everyone in the family, who the fuck left flesh and bones outside, go to the hospital and get the knife yourself!"
After a long silence, Bai Zhongyuan's face was in a ball, and he smiled dryly: "Yes!"
Lin Xiao, who was spying on this place with his divine sense, also had a twitch in his face, and it seemed that his lower body was a little uncomfortable. He remembered the various things Hua Wuniang did in the Rejuvenation Hall back then in order to guard against himself and Lin Yao from competing for family property, and Lin Xiao suddenly understood Bai Botang's approach. Lin Xiao smiled lightly and sighed: "Pity the hearts of parents in the world~" At the same time, he also had a great curiosity about Bai Jile - to be so praised by Bai Botang, it is really good to think that Bai Jile's qualifications are really good. Perhaps, on the earth, should leave a vein for the Great Rodan Dao?
If the earth was not divided into his sphere of influence by other cultivators, according to the rules of the monastic world, Lin Xiao could have declared that from today onwards, the earth would belong to the Great Luo Dan Dao. In this way, if Bai Jile really had that kind of talent, it would be the best thing to accept him as a disciple and let him spread out on the earth. Especially with the financial support of the Bai family behind it, the development of Da Luo Dan Dao on the earth will definitely be relatively smooth.
"It's just that if there is no Taoist gate on the earth, then what's going on with the Tao Te Ching?" Lin Xiao got up from the bed, walked slowly to the bookcase, grabbed a large wolf pen with a child's wrist, dipped it in the inkstone, and wrote the word 'morality' on rice paper. Lin Xiao felt something in his heart from time to time, a wisp of water and fire Zhenyuan seeped into the tip of the pen when he wrote, and a wisp of thunder flashed on the two big characters, listening carefully, there was a faint 'buzz' roar on the rice paper.
With a long breath, Lin Xiao looked at the two big characters in front of him that were like white cranes flying in the sky, and couldn't help but nod with satisfaction. When he was writing, all of Lin Xiao's spirit seemed to be integrated with the surrounding heaven and earth, although it was the realm of the middle stage of Jindan, but it faintly peeked through a trace of the feeling of unity between heaven and man only the masters of the virtual realm, Lin Xiao also felt that these two big characters were more elegant and perfect than all the words he had written before.
"On the earth, there shouldn't be any Taoist sects left, right? Fat people, they know a lot of myths and legends, but the monks in the monastic world will still show their whereabouts in front of people, but no one on the earth has ever really seen a cultivator who can fly to the sky. Hmm, the monastic sect that wants to come to the earth has declined, and there should be no objection to me leaving the descendants of the Great Luo Dan Dao here. Lin Xiao pondered: "It should be like this, the aura of the earth is really incomprehensible, if there are really cultivators, how do they survive?"
(To be continued)