As night falls, the lights of Luoyang City turn on, and the lanterns in the back garden of the Bai family are also lit.
Jade stood alone in the back garden, looking up at the sky full of stars. There was no moon tonight, and the stars in the sky were particularly bright. She was a little worried about Li Fenglan. This girl, Hu Bo, was usually very irritable. If something happened, she didn't know if she could protect Li Fenglan.
Just as she was thinking about it, she heard the footsteps of a man. When she looked up, it was Bai Shuyu.
"Miss Jade," Bai Shuyu greeted with a smile, "I received some information. I was going to tell Miss Li, but who knew that he had left with Taoist Master Zhu of Qingfeng Guan."
Jade just nodded and said nothing. Bai Shuyu walked up to Feicui and asked, "Is it okay for the girl to live in my house?" Bai Shuyu had a usual frivolous smile on his face.
Jade didn't answer, she sniffed slightly and said, "Third Young Master, the smell of makeup and powder on your body is a bit deliberate."
"Really?" Bai Shuyu raised his arm and smelled it himself, then nodded, "It was indeed a lot."
Jade stopped talking and continued to look up at the stars in the sky. Bai Shuyu was a little convinced. One of these three girls is unpredictable. If you say half a sentence to her, she can guess the last three sentences of you. An innocent person with nothing in mind. A person with an indifferent nature, it seems that except for matters of life and death, nothing can concern her. I just chatted for a few words that day, and there was no more conversation, and I didn't want to start a fight with you at all.
Fortunately, Bai Shuyu was quite good at chatting. He opened the folding fan, looked up at the sky, and said, "Young lady Li Fenglan, I don't know whether you are smart or not."
Jade asked: "How do you say this?"
Bai Shuyu replied: "I just had a few quarrels with my second brother, and I blame my second brother. This Zhu Mingyu, Taoist Master Zhu, you don't even know if he is himself, so he just left with others. So let me tell you, Miss Li is smart after all. Still stupid."
Feicui said: "She recognized you right away when she entered Luoyang City. Li Fenglan is very good at reading people, and you can't be wrong."
Bai Shuyu smiled and asked, "Really?"
Jade nodded and said, "Really. For example, she doesn't know martial arts, but she sees the hidden skills of the Third Young Master."
Bai Shuyu was a little surprised, and immediately cried out sadly: "I can't hide it, I won't dare to provoke your Miss Li in the future."
Jade stopped looking at the stars and turned to look at Bai Shuyu. This look made Bai Shuyu a little fussy. Jade's eyes were expressionless. Usually, the girls he met looked at him with either flattering, hot, disgusting or vicious looks. But there is no such thing as Jade, empty and emotionless.
He subconsciously asked: "What's wrong?"
Jade asked him: "How many are hidden?"
Bai Shuyu waved his fan and replied: "Three-legged cat, just for self-defense... Speaking of this, Miss Jade, listen to my elder brother, the martial arts of you and Miss Amber are better than his, right?"
Jade just nodded. In her eyes, yes is yes, and there is no need to be modest.
Bai Shuyu folded his fan and said, "Miss Jade, I have a heartfelt invitation for you."
"Speaking."
"Can I spar with Xiaosheng? I've been hiding this skill since I mastered it, and I've never done anything with anyone."
"Okay, but I have a request."
"Speaking,"
"Don't use the word niche when talking in the future."
"……no problem."
Jade walked to a relatively large open space, stretched out her hand and said, "Come on."
Bai Shuyu shook the fan in his hand and said, "I use this fan as a weapon, what about you, girl?"
"Just two hands."
Bai Shuyu chuckled and thought to himself: You are such a crazy girl, you will suffer a lot later.
"Please enlighten me!" Bai Shuyu finished speaking and stepped forward.
He did not practice the fan skill, but the acupuncture pen, which was quite solid. Jade used the Cloud Piercer Palm that Amber had used against the enemy a few days ago.
After half a stick of incense.
"Hey...ha...wait a moment...I'll take a break..."
Bai Shuyu bent down and held his knees with both hands. He was so tired that he couldn't straighten up and his voice broke when he spoke. It wasn't that he was in poor health, but that he was too tired from fighting Jade. From the beginning to the end, Jade didn't seem to take it seriously - or in other words, Jade was feeding him tricks. Even though Bai Shuyu had spent his whole life learning, he was easily defeated in front of Jade. The more he fought, the more anxious he became. In the end, within less than half a stick of incense, Jade drained him of all his energy.
"Third Young Master, I accept the offer." Jade finally had a smile on his face, not mocking, but seemed really happy.
Bai Shuyu waved his hands, walked to the pavilion and sat down, but his breath was still not smooth.
Jade asked: "You said that the Bai family has been under surveillance. Where did you learn this skill from?"
"Baihualou." The breath finally became smoother.
"The lame girl?"
"Do you all know this?"
Jade said: "Although she has a wooden leg, her steps are even and unaffected when she walks. Her breathing is also very long, and she is a master of internal martial arts. But... why did she only teach you acupuncture points, but the inner martial arts and mental methods are so-so? ?”
Bai Shuyu smiled and replied: "This is Miss Ling'er's secret, little... no, it's not convenient for me to tell you. I will introduce you to you when I have the opportunity, and let her tell you herself."
"That place is not suitable for a girl like me."
"Call her to the house. Anyway, I have a bad reputation and I don't care about that."
It was over, the chatter was gone, and Jade was silent again.
Bai Shuyu smiled and asked, "You have been in Luoyang for several days, but you haven't visited Luoyang City yet, right?"
Indeed, they have been in the White House these days and have never left the house.
Jade shook her head.
"Girl Jade, how about enjoying the glory and following me to visit the Luoyang City Night Market?"
Jade didn't know why she wanted to go shopping with Bai Shuyu. Logically speaking, their current situation was not safe.
Walking on the bustling streets of Luoyang, you can hear the shouts of street vendors, the sounds of children playing and laughing, and the heroic chatter and laughter in the nearby wine shop. Noisy, noisier than Chaolan Valley, but more lively. Jade doesn't hate such an environment. Amber was right, she did prepare the ceremony secretly that night, and she knew that Li Fenglan would definitely take her out of the valley. This is the least honest she has ever been in her entire life.
As the two of them walked, Bai Shuyu introduced her to everything in Luoyang City.
"That building, look."
Jade followed Bai Shuyu's gaze and saw a large house not far away, much larger than the Bai family. A five-story high-rise building in the center of the house was particularly eye-catching.
Bai Shuyu introduced: "That is Changfeng Tower."
Jade stopped and looked at the building.
Bai Shuyu continued: "After you, the owner of the valley, took your people and fled into the Chaolan Valley, this big house was abandoned. Ordinary wealthy people knew that this was once the residence of a big gang and did not dare to buy it. Jianghu sects thought it was unlucky, so they also I didn’t dare to buy, so I kept it empty.”
Jade's eyes were a little yearning. Eighteen years ago, her parents also lived here. Thinking of this, she unconsciously walked towards Changfeng Tower. Bai Shuyu followed and asked, "Girl Jade, do you want to go inside and take a look?"
Jade didn't answer and had already reached the gate. There was no lock on the door and even the latch was rusty. She stretched out her hand to open the door, but Bai Shuyu stopped her with a paper fan.
"Jade girl, forget it. Although no one dares to buy it, the beggars in the city will spend the night here. At this point, we'd better not go in."
Jade's hand stopped in mid-air, and it took a while before he took it back. She turned and walked towards the noisy street market.
"Third Young Master, I want to ask you something."
Bai Shuyu was almost moved to tears. This was considered as speaking on his own initiative.
"Excuse me, girl."
"Do you know about my father and my mother?"
Bai Shuyu scratched his head and asked, "Where is your father's hall?"
No wonder Bai Shuyu asked this. In the past few days since arriving here, the Bai family only knew her name was Feicui, but they didn't know whose child she was.
"My father's name is Zhou Xiao, and my mother's name is Chen Yi."
These two names surprised Bai Shuyu slightly.
Jade noticed Bai Shuyu's surprise and asked, "What?"
Bai Shuyu shook his head and replied with a smile: "It's nothing, I just didn't expect it. At that time, your mother's reputation was very great, but there was no rumor in the world that she had any close friends. As for your father...compared to your father's reputation, your reputation is much worse. .As for the rumors in the world, most of them come from your parents.”
"Tell me."
Chen Yan's deeds back then were indeed outstanding. The Chen family in Xiangyang is not a well-known family. Chen Yan's father, Chen Zhiyu, has mediocre martial arts, but has a good reputation and has been a chivalrous and righteous man all his life. When Chen Rong was sixteen years old, Chen Zhiyu was seriously injured. At the age of seventeen, he first entered the martial arts world to avenge his father. Then he became the "Sword Immortal Killing Yama" that martial arts people talk about.
At that time, there was a well-known organization in the underworld called Yama Luodian. There were four leaders in the gang, known as the Four Kings of Hell. Most of the gangs with this name are not serious, and they engage in robbing families and homes. In order to save people from Yama Luodian, Chen Zhiyu was severely injured by them, and all his muscles and veins were severed. Chen Yan avenged his father and entered the world. In the first year after she entered the martial arts world, she slaughtered the entire Yama Hall alone.
After that, Chen Yan's reputation soared. There were six people on the Tianzi master list who had fought against her. Except for the fourth place, Fu Yanhe, who was indeed defeated, the other five were all tied. Two years later, Chen Yan joined Changfeng Tower. Within a few months, what happened eighteen years ago happened.
Bai Shuyu spoke in detail, Jade listened quietly. Until everything was told, the father still did not appear in the mother's story.
Bai Shuyu said: "I only know that your father came from Yigongmen, other than that, there are no other achievements."
"Ikyoumon?"
"Oh, this sect has some connections with the Tang Sect in Sichuan. It is good at bows and arrows and hidden weapons. There are not many disciples in the sect, and they don't like to be public. There are relatively few stories about them in the world."
Jade also knows some things about her own family, such as her grandpa's house. When my mother was eighteen, her grandfather died of an injury. Coupled with what happened eighteen years ago, all contact with her mother's family had long been cut off.
What Bai Shuyu said was similar to what the people in the valley told her.
It was late at night, Jade was in no mood, and there were fewer people walking on the street. She said to Bai Shuyu, "Third Young Master, let's go back."
