Chapter 209
When Tao Youyu and the others came back, they went straight to the Lord of Jiutian City to discuss something. Jiaojiao, holding Su Cang and holding something in her hand, happily ran to find her father with her short legs.
The afternoon sun cast mottled spots of light through the treetops, and the leaves that had left the branches fluttered down. Under the tree, Li Yubai sipped Biluo wine. His snow-white robe made him look nothing like a demon cultivator, let alone a demon lord who walked out of a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood. In this appearance, he looked more like a cold and aloof immortal king from some sect.
Hearing the noise, he opened his eyelids slightly and looked sideways, and saw Jiaojiao running in with short legs and holding something in her hands.
"Daddy."
Jiaojiao ran forward and shouted crisply, reached out and grabbed her father's robe and climbed up.
Seeing that he was having difficulty climbing, Li Yubai reached out, held his armpits, picked him up and placed him on his lap.
Jiaojiao, who was sitting on his lap, placed Su Cang in her arms on the stone table, and then handed the thing in her hand to Li Yubai: "Daddy, look!"
Li Yubai glanced at the thing in his hand: "Kongming lantern?"
He had seen mortals come to pray for blessings in mortal towns.
"Dad, let's go release the lanterns!" Jiaojiao looked at him with sparkling eyes, with undisguised anticipation and excitement in her eyes: "Let's go release the Kongming lanterns and pray for Dad."
Li Yubai reached out and touched the back of his round head: "Do you know what praying means?"
Pray! Pray for God's blessing?
Li Yubai has never believed in these things, and apart from himself, no one has the ability or qualifications to protect him!
Not to mention asking him to pray!
"I know, praying means, that's it, that's it..." Jiaojiao scratched his head, unable to put it into words. He lowered his head and thought hard for a while, then suddenly looked up and said, "Praying means letting Daddy have lots of blessings!"
Li Yubai was about to lecture Jiaojiao that no one was qualified to make them pray, but when he looked down into Jiaojiao's bright eyes, he was speechless for a moment.
After a long while, he said, "Do you like to light lanterns?"
Jiaojiao nodded: "It's bright, it looks very beautiful in the sky."
Li Yubai patted Jiaojiao on the back and said, "Then let's go."
It is not for praying or seeking protection, it is just for the sake of beauty.
"Then wait until the dads come out of that dark place and then set them off." Jiaojiao said happily.
Wait till they come out——
Li Yubai took the Kongming lantern from Jiaojiao's hand, hugged him and walked out: "Let's release it now."
Jiaojiao, who was lying in his arms, blinked doubtfully: "Not waiting for Daddy and the others?"
"No."
"Why?"
Why?
Of course, it was because he didn't want to release it with those people who spoiled the mood.
Jiaojiao, who didn't get an answer, tilted her head, held her little hands and sighed, "It's so hard to guess what daddy is thinking!"
The rosy sunset shone on the streets of Jiutian City. Willow trees on the street were swaying. People passing by were talking about the competition two days ago and the developments outside the city. The whole street was bustling and prosperous.
Li Yubai and Jiaojiao rented a houseboat, and while eating on the boat, they waited for dark to release Kongming lanterns.
Jiaojiao was sitting next to her father, eating with a spoon in her hand. While eating, she was telling her father what happened in the morning.
Li Yubai listened to him patiently and fed him some food from time to time.
Li Yubai was of course aware of what Jiaojiao and the others had encountered in the morning. Even Hesniemen and the others in the deep ravine knew about it. However, since Jiaojiao was not in danger, they were just bystanders.
"Jiaojiao is amazing. She saved my brother and the others."
Speaking of this, Jiaojiao puffed out her chest, looked at Li Yubai with a slightly shining look in her eyes, and the words "praise me quickly" were written on her face.
Li Yubai smiled and picked up a piece of steamed fish and fed it to him: "Mm, amazing."
Jiaojiao curled her eyes happily when she was praised, but the next second she suddenly lowered her head, covered her throat, and became speechless.
Li Yubai's face changed. He thought the food was poisonous, which he couldn't even identify. He was filled with murderous aura. He hurriedly checked Jiaojiao's condition and found that he was stuck by a fish bone. He was suddenly stunned.
He had been practicing fasting for too long, and in the past three hundred years, there had been almost no real mortals around him. In addition, Jiaojiao had always appeared beside him in the form of a spirit, so he didn't have to worry too much about food and clothing. As a result, he actually didn't know how to raise children over the years.
The fact that fish bones can get stuck in children's throats almost touched his blind spot in knowledge.
Although Li Yubai had learned a lot about raising children and read a lot of densely packed jade slips during this period, none of them mentioned the fact that Jiaojiao would be stuck with a fish bone.
After removing the fish bone from Jiaojiao's throat, Li Yubai stared at the bone, which was as long as a finger joint, for a long time.
After recovering from the shock, Jiaojiao looked at her father, then puffed out her cheeks in anger, leaned on Li Yubai's arm, pointed at Yu and said, "Yuyu is bad, Daddy is good."
With just one sentence, he put all the blame on a plate of steamed fish for what should have been the father's irresponsible mistake.
Li Yubai's eyes froze, he put down the fishbone in his hand, looked down at Jiaojiao who was leaning on his arm, raised his hand and poked his chubby face which was squeezed into an arc, feeling speechless and a little bitter.
It's funny to say that when getting along with Jiaojiao, he has always been the one being indulged and tolerated.
The two-year-old Jiaojiao accompanied him through the bloody storms and mountains of corpses and seas of blood over the past century.
The little ball curled up in his arms, gnashing its thin white teeth, with red and swollen eyes, dragging his hand countless times to pull him out of the pile of dead bodies.
Rather than saying that Jiaojiao cannot live without him, it is better to say that they cannot live without Jiaojiao from the beginning to the end.
If it weren't for the breath of life he was holding on to, if it weren't for the little ball curled up in his arms, who could have crawled back from the sea of corpses and blood again and again with hundreds of bones broken and internal organs shattered.
"Daddy, eat."
Jiaojiao picked up a piece of pancake with chopsticks and handed it to his mouth crookedly.
Li Yubai lowered his head, took a bite of the biscuit, and chewed it slowly. At the same time, he secretly sent a message to his men to collect more comprehensive jade slips about raising children. If they couldn't find any, they would go to the mortal towns and find women who had raised multiple children and write them down orally.
His eyes fell on Jiaojiao's bulging cheeks. If she didn't understand, she could go and learn. If she made a mistake, she should remember to never make it again. No matter what, he would always raise Jiaojiao well.
After dinner, the stars in the sky began to emerge, and wisps of starlight spread down from the sky. The sunset glow that was burning to the extreme in the sky had not yet completely sunk, so the red, orange, smoky pink, light purple and deep blue merged into one, and were reflected in the river water with an extremely complex and gorgeous look.
Jiaojiao, who was sitting by the boat, pulling at her father's robe and looking at the fish in the river, noticed this scene and happily pointed at it for her father to see.
Li Yubai sat by the boat and looked down, seeing his and Jiaojiao's appearance in the gorgeous reflection in the river. He raised the corner of his mouth and turned his head to look at Jiaojiao beside him, a light and pleasant emotion flooding in his heart.
The lights were just coming on and the place was crowded with people. Jiaojiao was standing on the boat, writing crookedly with a brush. Seeing how seriously he was writing, Li Yubai couldn't help but take a look. Wow, the words were so crooked and irregular, with even several black lumps, it was impossible to tell what he was writing.
It seems that in addition to teaching Jiaojiao how to practice, we also have to keep up with the culture.
After finishing writing, Jiaojiao wiped her face, adding a few different colors to her fair face, and grinned at Li Yubai: "Okay."
Flying Kongming lanterns is a very novel experience for both Jiaojiao and Li Yubai.
Warm yellow candlelight shines through the thin Kongming lantern. From a close distance, the candlelight is reflected in the bright big eyes, flickering as if reflecting the starry sky.
In the distance, Tao Youyu was running on the street so fast that his legs were smoking.
After telling the Lord of Jiutian City about what happened in the ravine, Gu Yufei and the others left for their own things. Tao Youyu, who was hungry, went to the street to eat something good. Since he was eating alone and Jiaojiao was not present, he had a few drinks.
The alcohol from the Canglan Realm was quite strong, and he felt dizzy after drinking only three glasses.
After dinner and a few drinks, Tao Youyu shook his head and walked out the door, bumping into a boy of about sixteen or seventeen years old. He was a very handsome boy, and his features were somewhat similar to Jiaojiao. He was already dizzy and was stunned by the look on his face, which resulted in him getting into trouble.
The young man hit his shoulder with something. He felt a pain in his shoulder and realized that he had been hit. His mind became clear instantly, but the young man disappeared in the blink of an eye.
Realizing that something was wrong, Tao Youyu ran away. Not long after he started running, an extremely strong murderous aura came towards him.
The cultivation level of the person who came was unfathomable. The reason why Tao Youyu could hold on until now was thanks to the many good things Jiaojiao gave him, otherwise he would have died long ago.
On the boat, Jiaojiao looked up at the Kongming lanterns swaying and heading towards the stars. Suddenly, he thought of something and took out a black and white kitten pendant from his collar and handed it to Li Yubai: "Daddy, give it to me."
This small cat storage device was bought by Jiaojiao to please her father when she first came to Jiutian City because she heard others saying bad things about her father and was afraid that her father would be unhappy.
It’s just that a lot of things happened that day, so I forgot to give it away after I bought it.
Li Yubai took the kitten storage container. After listening to Jiaojiao's explanation, his eyebrows softened slightly. He hung it around his waist, squatted down, looked at Jiaojiao and said, "Thank you, I like it very much."
Hearing daddy say that he liked it, Jiaojiao pursed her lips and waved her little paws happily: "You're welcome..."
Before he could finish his words, a noisy sound coming from afar attracted Jiaojiao's attention. He turned his head and saw a figure flying into the air and then falling heavily to the ground. It slid a long way and stopped after hitting a stone pier on the shore.
The figure curled up in pain, vomiting blood.
Jiaojiao wrinkled her nose, tugged at her father's robe and stood on tiptoe to see more clearly. She felt that the figure was inexplicably familiar.
Li Yubai turned his head and easily saw the man's face. He then looked into the distance and saw two people coming quickly outside Jiutian City.
Tsk, these two are a bit troublesome!
"Is Tao Youyu important to Jiaojiao?" He suddenly asked with his hand on Jiaojiao's head.
Hearing this, Jiaojiao looked up at her father. Although she didn't understand why, she nodded and said, "It's important."
Li Yubai looked down at Jiaojiao, a hint of teasing in his eyes, without Bai Ren: "If something happens to him, will Jiaojiao cry?"
Jiaojiao thought for a moment, raised her hand and used her fingers to indicate a small distance: "I will cry for a while."
It's totally unbelievable what Jiaojiao said about crying for a while. I guess she will cry for most of the day.
Li Yubai chuckled softly and waved his hand to block the attack that was coming towards Tao Youyu again.
Curled up on the ground, unable to stand up, Tao Youyu thought he would die here today, but he didn't expect that the attack was blocked. He turned his head suddenly and looked back, and saw the child standing on the boat in the middle of the river, looking at him on tiptoe. At that moment, he almost burst into tears. The impact of such a sudden relief in such a desperate situation was too damn unbearable: "Jiaozi, brother, I really love you!"
Jiaojiao didn't see the person clearly, but she heard the voice clearly, and she was so anxious that she almost jumped off the boat.
Li Yubai grabbed him by the back of his collar and held him in his arms.
Jiaojiao flapped his wings and pointed at the shore: "Daddy, Brother Youyu!"
"Don't worry, it's okay." Li Yubai said slowly, his eyes penetrating the crowd and falling on the two people who came in from outside Jiutian City.
The lord of the ghost realm is Xie Shuyu, and the lord of Xizhou is Shang Que.
The two people's gazes passed through the crowd and fell on... Jiaojiao in his arms.
Li Yubai's aura instantly became sharp and cold when he noticed their gazes. He hid Jiaojiao in his arms. The candlelight floating on the shore fell on the lower half of his face. The upper half of his face was hidden in the shadow and could not be seen clearly. The lower half of his face was exposed to the candlelight. The corners of his mouth were slightly raised, and an indifferent and cruel smile suddenly appeared on his face.
I'm stuck on a writer's block. No matter how I write the second chapter, I'm not satisfied. I've deleted it several times, but I still feel like I've gone astray. As I write slowly, I've only updated one of the original two chapters, and then I took a day off. So there are two chapters left in total. I'll continue writing today and make up for it.
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