C1289 Late Rites

For some reason, after returning from hunting in the mountains, Lin Bai felt that the atmosphere in the Taoist temple was rather strange.

Ignoring the fact that Liu Jingtian, the playful person, was nowhere to be seen, even Zhang Sanmang had disappeared somewhere. Not only that, but Chen Baian was also busily going in and out of the training hall, carrying bags and carrying them. Lin Bai wanted to help the elderly, but he was pushed aside by Chen Baian like a thief, not allowing him to notice.

Old Man Liu pulled him to the temple hall before Lin Bai could figure out what was going on. He wanted Lin Bai to play chess with him. The old man had spent half his life in the battlefield, and then spent many years in the center of power, Yan Jing. How could he be able to do what Lin Bai wanted and kill Lin Bai so many times in a row?

According to Lin Bai's thoughts, he would've lost if he lost. It would've been fine if the old tutor had done his best. But who would've thought that old master He would actually appear out of nowhere and grab onto Lin Bai without letting him go. He'd be able to kill Lin Bai to the point where he had no way to fight back.

No one could withstand losing more than ten rounds in a row. Seeing that the game was destined to end in failure, Lin Bai raised both his hands and begged the two elders to spare him. He wanted the two elders who were in high spirits to spare him. However, the two old men seemed to have made up their minds. They wanted to defeat Lin Bai's spirit. No matter what he said, they wouldn't let him go.

Thinking that it was rare to be able to accompany these two elders, and that there was no way to escape, Lin Bai had no choice but to sacrifice his life to accompany these two elders.

Furthermore, the conditions for victory and defeat in the game were extremely simple. It was only the loser obediently giving the winner a cigarette. From Lin Bai's point of view, it would be easy for the two old men to escape the surveillance of Yan Jing's health care physicians. They wanted to take advantage of the lack of attention from their family members to get some cigarettes from him and have a good smoke.

Unfortunately, even though he had an extremely high cultivation level, he was still too far away from the two old men in terms of the art of power, so much so that he killed Jin Wu Xi. The Jade Rabbit gradually rose up, but he did not even win a single round. This battle record, it could be said that he hadn't passed since he set out on the field. It truly made Lin Bai depressed in his heart.

"Serial Cannon!" Under the dim yellow light, Old Master Liu laughed strangely and suddenly pulled up the chess piece in his hands, pushing it towards Lin Bai's Middle Palace chessboard as he chuckled: "General! You've lost again, hurry up and take out your cigarettes! "

"Don't be in such a hurry, this chess game isn't over yet! "It's not that I'm talking about you, but you've gone too far with this matter, Old Liu. We have to leave some happiness for the groom and his wife no matter what …" He lifted the cart by Lin Bai's side and shifted to the left. After breaking the chain of cannons, he said, "Damn brat, do you see that? Chess isn't just a simple matter of charging about and killing your way through the gates with courage. You have to listen in all directions and observe your surroundings!"

However, Lin Bai didn't have the slightest reaction to Old Master He's words. He only stared at his face. Old Master He touched his face in surprise when he saw this. He wanted to ask if there was something dirty on Old Master Liu's face, but he discovered that Old Master Liu was staring at him with great resentment, as if wishing he could stuff a chess piece he was playing with into his mouth.

"Lordmaster, what did you just say?" Lin Bai played with the chess piece in his hand as he stared at Old Master He with incomparable curiosity, and said slowly, "Groom? Who wants to be a groom? "

"Did I say that? How come I don't remember?" The entire family was deliberately hiding things from this kid, and he had exposed himself at this critical juncture. Old Liu was so angry that he wanted to stuff the chess piece into his mouth, so he laughed and interrupted: "Haha, you must have heard wrong. Come on, let's continue with the chess game!"

"Why did I hear Old He say that you're not qualified to be an official? You must have heard wrongly." Old Master Liu also quickly waved his hands, saying: "It can't be that you're afraid of losing and purposefully played this game with us, right?!"

The more the two elders changed the topic, the more Lin Bai felt that something was amiss.

Ever since he'd returned from the mountain, he'd felt that apart from the girls, everyone in his family had been quite strange. Now that the two elders had even said such words, he really didn't understand the situation. He even started to suspect if the reason Christina came to Mao Mountain and wanted to take care of the rest of the matters with Zhang Sanmeng was because the two old masters were hiding things from him. Was it to give him a surprise?

"Two old masters, please don't tease me anymore." Lin Bai sat down with a bitter face and clasped his hands towards the two old masters, smiling bitterly as he said, "I don't dare say anything else, but as long as it's something I've heard before, I'll definitely remember it clearly. "Just now, Lordmaster He was clearly talking about the groom and his son. If you don't make things clear, then we won't be playing this game anymore."

"I knew you old thing, you can't stop talking. Now, you've been discovered by this brat!" Old Master Liu threw away the chess piece in his hand as if he was angry, and pushed the board around while he was at it, saying: "No more, no more. It's a pity that your father went to so much trouble with just one sentence. Old thing He, you explain it to this brat yourself! "

"Hehe, Old Liu, why are you so angry. It's just tonight's matter anyways. If you tell this brat now, you'll still be surprised." Old Master He stretched out his hand to ask for a cigarette from Lin Bai. After he stuck it into his mouth to smoke, he smiled and said:

"There's nothing else. We old fellows felt that the other person's pretty children would follow you, but in the end, we didn't even have any so-called status, so we felt rather sorry. Thus, we hid it from you, hoping to make up for their wedding ceremony. Although there are some people who do not have their fair share of reputations, they can still be considered as a sign that they have entered the house, and do not feel wronged. "

When these words left his mouth, it truly made Lin Bai dumbstruck. He really did not expect that the two elders were actually hiding this from him. They were actually preparing for such a matter. He rubbed his heart as he spoke the truth. Sometimes, he really felt that he was unworthy of Xia Xiaoqing and the rest. The other party would not care about everything and follow him, but not only was he unable to give them any points, he had never even given them a ceremony.

Sometimes, it wasn't that he hadn't thought of taking some time to complete the ceremony with the girls, but he had been hanging around outside the entire time and hadn't had the time to do so. And he had been afraid that Old Master He would feel uncomfortable after he found out about this. That was why he felt guilty when he was forced to delay the matter and face the girls.

But what he didn't expect was that the two old men would secretly decide on the matter, and the old man didn't complain at all. He even helped manage things personally, which really moved Lin Bai.

"Honored seniors, it's alright for me to say anything about your good intentions." Lin Bai's voice was choked with sobs as he thought about the painstaking efforts of the two elders. His eyes were also moist as he spoke.

"What happened? Are we the ones who did bad things out of good intentions and made you unhappy?" Old Master Liu and Old Master He looked at each other and smiled. They teased Lin Bai, "If you feel unhappy, we'll go ahead and do it now. We can't do this anymore."

"If I can't even express my gratitude in time, how could I be unhappy?" Wiping the corners of his eyes, Lin Bai slowly stood up and deeply bowed to the two elders. He said in a deep voice, "I thank the two elders on their behalf!"

"Smelly brat, if you want to thank me, then thank me! Go thank those little girls by your side!" Old Master He waved his hands as he jokingly scolded.

When he first found out that Lin Bai was a playboy who had courted so many girls, even though Old Master He didn't reveal it, he was still a little fed up with Lin Bai. He felt that Lin Bai owed Jia Er for doing this.

However, after interacting with the girls for a period of time, he realized that they truly treated him as a blood relative of theirs, especially taking care of him. He was even more meticulous than He Jia Er. As time passed, even the heart of steel would turn into a soft spot, not to mention the chivalrous and hot-tempered old tutor He.

By now, he had long since treated these girls as his own daughters. Furthermore, he didn't think that Lin Bai owed the He family. It was the He family that owed these girls, causing them to not have any status at all. It was precisely because of this knot in his heart that after he received the notice from Old Master Liu, the two immediately agreed upon this grand plan.

According to their original plans, they were going to wait until the game was over before taking Lin Bai outside to give this boy a surprise. What he did not expect was that he had leaked the information to Lin Bai at this critical juncture, allowing this kid to gain the upper hand and know of their plan in advance.

"Brat, even if you know, you still have to keep playing tricks with us." Old Man Liu heavily knocked Lin Bai on the head, then chuckled, "Those little girls outside still don't know about this. We were waiting for them to surprise us. You brat, you can't let us ruin this show!"

"I know, I will definitely put on a good act!" Lin Bai nodded his head firmly.

He knew in his heart that he had been waiting for this day for a long time. When he received this news, his heart was very excited, but the girls were probably even more anticipating this day than he was. They were even looking forward to this belated ceremony.

Although it was just a ceremony, for the girls, it was a form of acknowledgement, a belated apology and blessing. Whether the ceremony was grand or not was not important. What was important was the heart.

At this moment, the sound of fireworks suddenly resounded from outside the monastery as it shot into the sky.

"I never thought that the smelly brat Xiao Tian would actually be so good at doing stuff!" "Let's go, it's time for you to show yourself!"