Chapter 70 Capital 1
◎Bai Chen's Gift◎
Knowing that his life was not in danger, Yan Yue completely relaxed.
"I'm too full. I'll eat this later."
She put the sweet duck behind her without hesitation and reached for the wooden box. "What is this?"
When the wooden box was opened, a long black whip was revealed, like a thin black snake, quietly lurking inside, so exquisite that one could not take their eyes away.
"Is this... for me?" Yan Yue held the whip in her hand in surprise, unable to suppress the smile on her face.
Bai Chen saw that she was so happy that her eyebrows were not visible in her eyes, and the nonchalant smile on her face became even more leisurely. He said cheerfully: "To be my disciple, Bai Chen, your weapon must be the best in the world!"
Yan Yue couldn't put it down and looked at it again and again, asking: "What's so good about this whip?"
Bai Chen choked: "I can't see what's good about it, why are you laughing like this?"
Yan Yue said honestly: "It looks good! So delicate and domineering, I wonder if it hurts when it hits someone? Don't be good-looking but useless."
Bai Chen had no choice but to explain: "This is the material I carefully selected! The center of the whip is made of beef tendons, and the outer layer of woven cowhide strips has been specially processed. The texture is tough and elastic, and it is absolutely powerful."
The strips of cowhide were woven tightly and neatly, without a single gap. Yan Yue believed that Bai Chen had put a lot of thought into it.
Bai Chen continued, "The whip handle is made of rhino horn. The auspicious animal pattern on the handle was carved by me myself!"
Yan Yue studied the pattern carefully and couldn't help asking, "Is this a dog? Or a fox?"
Bai Chen was exhausted: "It's a wolf!"
"Oh, oh, oh!" Yan Yue suddenly realized, and was deeply moved: "Master, you are so kind, you know I like Xiaobai the most, so you carved Xiaobai on it, right?"
Bai Chen neither admitted nor denied it, but the anger on his face faded. He changed the subject and asked, "There is a trick to this whip. Can you try to find it?"
Yan Yue looked for a long time and only found a small hole at the end of the handle. She put her finger in and asked, "Is that so? Do you want to set a gem for me?"
Bai Chen held his forehead helplessly, sighed, took the whip, and put it directly behind Yan Yue.
"You refused to learn swordsmanship before, saying that you needed to carry an umbrella on weekdays and were too lazy to carry a weapon. So I made this whip thinner so that you can wear it around your waist as a belt to decorate it. It won't take up your hands, and you won't be reluctant to carry it with you."
He squatted in front of Yan Yue, wrapped the whip around her waist, and finally passed the tip of the whip through the small hole on the whip handle. He said, "Look, it matches the color of your clothes."
As he spoke, he raised his head and met Yan Yue's shining eyes. "You haven't come to see me for a while. Did you go to make a whip for me?"
"Um."
Bai Chen saw the joy and emotion in her eyes carefully, then moved his gaze down to her pink lips, wondering when he could kiss them without restraint?
Before I could even think of anything, the person in front of me threw himself at me.
"Ahhh Master, you are so nice! You are so considerate and attentive! I like you so much!"
A soft and delicate body crashed into his arms, and Bai Chen froze for a moment. Hearing the irrepressible joy in her voice that she tried to suppress, my mood couldn't help but soar to the clouds.
He gently held her back, ruffled her hair, and teased, "Is it good for you to see me this time?"
What Qi Zhaoyang can give you is just a talisman, but what I have is a whip made of the tendons and skin of a bull demon. How can he compare with me? Bai Chen, who had won a great victory, was a little too proud of himself and said casually: "Follow me, more than just good food and drink, from now on, all your tools will be the best in the world!"
Yan Yue quickly let go of Bai Chen and took the opportunity to climb up the pole: "Then I have also learned the Emei Thorn!"
Bai Chen's smug expression froze, and he wished he could take back what he had just said, but since he had already boasted, there was no reason to take it back. Otherwise, where would he put his face?
"I'll leave it to you, Master."
For some reason, Yan Yue felt that Bai Chen's words seemed to be spoken with his back teeth gritted? But she still happily hugged him again, "I knew that you, Master, are wise, capable, and nothing can stop you!"
Bai Chen felt much more comfortable, but for some reason he felt that these words sounded familiar?
"Amazing! I knew you were smart, agile, and smart, Xiaobai. Nothing can stop you!"
Bai Chen was angry for a moment: When I played with toys with her before the New Year, she praised Xiaobai in the same way!
But it was only for that moment.
He changed his mind and realized, isn’t Xiaobai also him? Are you still jealous of yourself? Alas, too much charm is really a trouble! No matter whether it is the original form or the human form, she is so obsessed with it. There is really nothing we can do about it!
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Yan Yue ate too much at noon and had sweet sauce duck in the evening, so she refused dinner and went straight back to her room.
After a whole day's journey, I feel exhausted.
Fortunately, those people were considerate and had prepared some clean clothes for her. She jumped directly into the hot water, feeling her scattered bones slowly returning to their original positions. She stretched out her body comfortably and exclaimed, "Ah! I'm alive again..."
As soon as Bai Chen opened the window, he saw a pair of arms as white as lotus roots. Drops of water rolled down the porcelain-white skin and burned into his heart. He quickly closed the window again, and without leaving, he stood outside the window, leaning against the windowsill to enjoy the cold wind. After blowing for a long time, I finally felt the heat in my body subside.
He stood there until the waiter moved the bathtub out and the house returned to peace again. Then he tried to calm himself and jumped into the house.
Throwing the oil-paper bag on the table, Bai Chen pretended to be lazy and said, "Here, snacks. You didn't have dinner, if you're hungry at night..."
His voice stopped abruptly when he saw the sleeping face lying on the bed. He shook his head helplessly and sighed: "How tired are you? You just fell asleep on the bed without even covering yourself with a quilt, as if you were the one pulling the cart. How unfair it is for the horse!"
He kept muttering, but his hands were still moving. He picked her up with one hand, lifted the quilt and stuffed her in, then skillfully pulled the corner of the quilt for her.
"noob……"
Yan Yue grumbled, and Bai Chen softened again, lying on her side, patting her arm gently.
In the small courtyard of Linjiang City, Chu Zhi and Nan Qing were not sleepy at all.
She was as anxious as an ant on a hot stove. She paced around in the yard, muttering to herself, "What should we do? How can we explain this to her? Should we tell her that Xiaobai was lost the day before you left?"
"We can't talk to those ghosts, and we can't ask those distinguished guests to help find Xiaobai. What can we do?"
"The boss cares so much about Xiaobai. If he knew that Xiaobai was lost, would he blame me? Sister Nanqing, would she not want me anymore?"
Nan Qing comforted him, "No. The boss likes you very much, too. Without Xiaobai, and then without you, isn't that a double loss?"
Chu Zhi was even more desperate: "Sure enough, I knew that Xiaobai's status is no lower than mine! It's over, it's over, will the boss think that I am competing with Xiaobai for favor and deliberately lost Xiaobai? Otherwise, how come Xiaobai was lost right after she left?"
Nan Qing: "...She probably doesn't have the brains to do that. But if you remind me of this, it seems possible that it really wasn't you who did it?"
"I didn't!" Chu Zhi cried out in injustice, "Although Xiaobai always snatches food from me, I can't go against a little wolf just for a bite of food! It's so small, I will always give in to it, how could I deliberately lose it? After all, it's a life..."
"Wait..." Nan Qing's eyelids jumped, and he suddenly raised his hand and asked, "What did you just say?"
Chu Zhi didn't understand: "It is a life after all..."
Nan Qing continued to ask: "The first two sentences."
Chu Zhi thought about it and said, "I can't go against a little wolf. It's so small..."
Nan Qing's eyes suddenly widened, and a chill burst out from his sharp eyes, which scared Chu Zhi so much that he asked, "What... happened?"
Nan Qing asked back: "How long has Xiaobai been brought back by the Dong family?"
Chu Zhi thought about it and said, "I brought it back not long after winter began. It must have been at least three months now, right?"
Nan Qing continued to ask: "Has it changed?"
Chu Zhi thought for a moment and said, "Yes! At first, my leg was injured and I asked the boss to burn my hair and shave half of my body. I looked so ugly. Now my hair has grown back and is smooth and shiny...ah!"
She finally realized what Nan Qing meant, her scalp tingled instantly, and she covered her mouth in horror!
“It hasn’t grown!”
Nan Qing nodded: "It's been more than three months. Even if he was injured, his body shape shouldn't have changed at all."
Chu Zhi felt the coldness penetrate his cotton coat and pierce into his bones. He could no longer hold back and shivered. His voice was trembling: "Then...what is it?"
Compared to her, Nan Qing seemed much calmer. "Ghosts can't get close to the boss, so... it must be a demon."
Chu Zhi asked in a tearful voice: "What kind of monster is this? Even if no one noticed it for so long, why didn't even Brother Qi notice it?"
Nan Qing said: "It can only mean that its power is no longer something Qi Zhaoyang can detect and deal with."
Chu Zhi was so anxious that she wanted to cry: "What is its purpose? Will it hurt the boss?"
"It shouldn't be." Nan Qing analyzed, "Do you still remember that when the rabbit demon Yang Jin came, Xiao Bai risked his life to fight and even took the risk to grab the talisman. It's obvious that it's helping us, but for some reason it didn't really take action."
Chu Zhi asked: "Maybe it is hiding its strength?"
"Maybe! But if it wanted to hurt us, we would have died long ago." Nan Qing knew very well that if it was a monster that even Qi Zhaoyang couldn't detect, then all of them combined would not be its match.
Chu Zhi said with a sad face: "Another one that I can't beat. Why are all monsters so powerful? Then who is more powerful, Bai Chen or Xiao Bai..."
The voice suddenly stopped, and Chu Zhi's mind flashed with inspiration. Recalling the past scenes, he suddenly grabbed Nan Qing and asked anxiously: "Think about it, have Bai Chen and Xiao Bai ever appeared at the same time?"
Nan Qing looked around carefully and it seemed that there really was nothing! She quickly understood: "You are suspicious..."
Chu Zhi said anxiously, "It's very possible, right? On the first day when the boss thought Xiaobai was lost, Bai Chen suddenly showed up. After that, they appeared once in the daytime and once at night, as if they had never met before! And the later Bai Chen left our house, the later Xiaobai came back!"
“It’s true!”
Nan Qing suddenly realized, and then remembered something else, and asked Chu Zhi: "And do you remember that when the boss killed Yang Jin and was injured, the talisman in her room inexplicably became ineffective! So Zhou Lin, Jiang Lao, and I can come and go freely?"
Chu Zhi was so excited that he slammed the table. "Yes, yes, yes! He must have done it! Because he is a demon, he destroyed the talisman a long time ago!"
At this point, the two were even more certain: "Xiao Bai, it's Bai Chen!"
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