Chapter 61: Call Him Uncle

Tang Youde fell silent, wearing a gloomy expression as he ate his meal in a quiet manner.
Watching him, Lin Ke let out a long sigh and continued, "If we continue to object, won't she think—forget about our previous objection, are we now objecting simply because she is settling abroad? How she would feel about this, as her parents, don't we know clearly?"
"She is our youngest unmarried child, and she is marrying so far away..." Tang Youde said, finding it too painful to finish his sentence.
"What about Tingting, then? She also married abroad—"
However, something unexpected happened. Previously, attacks of that nature from Yu Bailian would always be effortlessly neutralized by Bai Yanran. Although this ease was merely on the surface, that was indeed how things stood.
Now the opportunity had arrived. The hometown team had extended an invitation, and it was a back-to-back championship-winning hometown team at that. How could this fail to excite Leitner? He even felt that he would be willing to pay out of his own pocket to join them.
Moreover, a huge part of the reason why Nash was reluctant to leave Dallas stemmed from his gratitude toward the team's head coach, who was also his mentor, Don Nelson.
The Elves held the harmonious coexistence of humanity and nature in the highest regard, and the majority of them adored all kinds of creatures inhabiting the forests.
"Understood, understood. We accept this and won't trouble the esteemed Young Master Cao," Ning Er said, bowing and scraping in assent. Everyone knew what Cao Gengkun's temperament was like—he was extremely protective of his people, brutally temperamental, and quick to resort to violence at the slightest disagreement.
However, soon the bad news arrived that both his parents had passed away. Under the shock of this blow, his uncle also gave his final gasp, while his aunt treated him with increasing cruelty until she sold him off two years later.
If even the Heavenly Buddhist Kingdom, which they longed to enter day and night, possessed no Buddhist dharma, then where else could be the true destination of the dharma?
"Judging by your looks, you don't seem like wealthy people. Can you even scrape together that thousand liang of silver?" Wu Qiong asked doubtfully.
However, although those people came merely to fish for fame and compliments, at the very least they came to solve problems. Just like Chen Taixuan who performed good deeds for the sake of doing good—even though his motives were slightly impure, the actions he took were nonetheless beneficial, and one should not negate those actions solely based on their intentions.
Pondering this matter, Eldest Brother Zhang put his heads together with his younger brother and reckoned that this "Peach Blossom Brew" might genuinely find itself in short supply.
At that moment, the door was kicked open, and an elderly man walked into the room accompanied by several others. These men were all villagers from Jiankou Village, and the village chief was among them. Zhao Fuxin carefully observed the old man, finding nothing particularly extraordinary about him, except that he appeared more spirited than ordinary elderly men, suggesting he likely possessed some martial arts skills.
Xuzhou City was a major metropolis in the Qi State, located only two hundred li away from Bianliang. Early in the morning, when Da Niu and his companion stepped onto the main street, they were struck dumb by the scene before them: the streets were surging with a sea of heads and bustling with immense liveliness. Xuzhou City had a massive population; during curfew the streets were utterly deserted, but once daytime arrived, the people naturally poured out to go about their activities.
The fact that Chu Qianning had regained consciousness was relayed to Mo Yichen, who was quite thrilled and loudly proclaimed that once Chu Qianning's health recovered, he would definitely treat everyone to a meal to celebrate his awakening.
"Don't make it sound like I'm dying to sleep with him... Bah, that's not how it phrasing goes. Whether he deigns to pay attention to me depends entirely on whether this lord is in the mood to entertain him," Yin Rongyu said with a haughty expression, unable to conceal a trace of joy dancing at the corners of his eyes and brows.
He believed that if this matter could be handled perfectly, he would undoubtedly win a whole new level of respect from the Ye family, which would certainly benefit his future official career.
"Can't you just forget about such an old embarrassing incident? I didn't even know you back then, so why do you remember it so stubbornly?" Chen Xing pouted with dissatisfaction.
An Xiaoxiao uttered those words through clenched teeth, her lively pair of eyes fixing a death glare upon her arch-enemy nestled in the embrace of the Beauty Gu, as if by doing so she could wish them out of existence and spare herself from having to eat them.
Although An Xiaoxiao did not voice it aloud, he knew very well that this was a deeply entrenched knot in her heart that was hard to untie. Therefore, he would take advantage of this phone call to unravel it bit by bit.