When Shen Manqin called, the Baitang siblings were talking to Dad Bai in his room. Dad Bai glanced at the calling number, gestured to the siblings, and answered the phone: "Hi, Who?"
Then, Baitang saw that Papa Bai's expression changed slightly. She looked at the armrest of the wheelchair, Papa Bai's hand was holding the armrest slowly and vigorously, and he hung up the phone after hearing Papa Bai say "OK". She raised her head, and there was no trace of change on Papa Bai's face.
Bai Nan was not interested in this phone call at all, and she didn't notice any difference from Bai's father's face. Seeing that he hung up the phone, she excitedly continued what she said before: "Dad, you must not have imagined that the scene at that time was so different. How beautiful, in front of all the teachers and students in the school, she told all the things about blaming a good friend in the past. It deserves it!"
Papa Bai listened patiently, and when Bai Nan finished speaking, his eyes flicked over the two siblings. In the end, even Bai Nan felt the difference from this attention, and the exaggerated smile on his face retracted. , waiting for Papa Bai's next words. "Tangtang, Xiao Nan," Bai's father's eyes stopped on Baitang's face, "Your mother wants to see you."
"Father has already promised for you," Bai Nan suddenly raised his eyes, and Bai's father looked back at the past calmly, and then explained slowly and softly, "Before, Dad thought that you would not have any contact with each other." It doesn't matter whether we meet or not. Now, when we return to Bai's house, we will meet these people sooner or later. It's only good for you to meet earlier to know what kind of person they are. "
Bai Nan was silent. Although he himself wanted to find a day to meet that person, but this kind of meeting proposed by the other party directly determined the result, he still felt a little uncomfortable, even if Bai's father said the reason was right.
Bai Tang patted the child's head, turned to look at Papa Bai, and answered Bai Nan's words: "When?" Back then, there was no development that the other party offered to meet with each other. Could it be that he wanted to take it for him?" Wronged" daughter to seek justice? This idea was suppressed by Baitang before it came out, that woman would not do something meaningless to the result.
"Friday night."
On Friday, Gu Yan drove Dad Bai over to pick up the siblings from school, and Bai Feng went back in the driver's car as usual.
Shen Manqin booked an appointment at an unobtrusive western restaurant. The exterior decoration of the restaurant has a medieval quaint taste, but when you walk inside, the style still refers to the western medieval layout.
Bai Nan looked up at the waiters in formal attire who looked like social elites, and pulled their school uniform awkwardly. Although he lived in Bai's house for a long time and learned the etiquette from the etiquette teacher invited by the old man for a period of time, he was still not used to this kind of place that was out of tune with him. He likes small restaurants outside the school where he can chat and laugh loudly with his peers, rather than high-end restaurants where a slight increase in volume will attract others' attention.
"Sir, how many people?" Gu Yan didn't come in with them, so Papa Bai was pushed in by Bai Tang. Seeing their trio, the waiter didn't show any expression of surprise. He walked up to Papa Bai in a very professional manner, bent down and asked with a smile.
"Is Ms. Shen here?"
The waiter immediately responded when he heard the name, "Are you Mr. Bai? Ms. Shen is already waiting for you in the private room, please follow me." After speaking, he took the three of them to the elevator to the second floor.
The moment Bai Nan knew that the private room was on the second floor, her expression dropped. But Bai Tang knew that this time the other party did it unintentionally, and it was not because he wanted to embarrass Papa Bai. Fortunately, the facilities of this restaurant are still very complete.
When they came to the private room that Shen Manqin had booked, the waiter opened the door for them and retreated. When Bai Nan was about to reach the private room, her footsteps fell behind Bai Tang. Now, she turned sideways, her head protruding from Bai Tang's arm in a small arc. In the private room, Shen Manqin looked down at a fashion magazine. Hearing the movement at the door, he lifted his eyes from the magazine. Bai Nan was caught off guard and met her gaze, but in fact Shen Manqin was looking at Papa Bai.
"Jing Yu, long time no see." Shen Manqin stood up from her seat, opened the chair and walked over. After she walked out, Bai Nan also saw her full appearance, which didn't seem to be much different from the one in the photo that day, and her body was well maintained, she didn't look like she had given birth to three junior high school children Middle-aged woman.
He subconsciously grabbed Baitang's arm, and as he got closer, he saw a few places on the other's face where he and Baitang were similar to her, but he also saw more clearly that pair of slightly cold Eye.
Bai Nan didn't know how to describe the first impression, it was very different from what he had imagined, and it felt like it was taken for granted. Coupled with the other party's calmness when facing Dad Bai, Dad Bai didn't show any disgust. He was a little shaken by the information he found last month, and he couldn't help but turned to look at Bai Tang. He was taken aback by his indifference.
He turned back to look at Shen Manqin's face quietly and seriously, and found in frustration that he couldn't see anything. Then, Shen Manqin's voice rang to the siblings: "Hi, I'm Shen Manqin." The introduction by name and surname did not mention the relationship between them.
"Hello, Mrs. Su." Baitang smiled politely.
When Bai Nan heard her address, her somewhat shaken consciousness became sober. The person in front of me is married to someone from the Su family, and Su Moran is the daughter of this person and someone else. "Hello, Mrs. Su."
Shen Manqin was not dissatisfied with this title, but paid more attention to Baitang, "I have already ordered the dishes. After so many years, I don't know if you still like those dishes. If you don't like them, you can Order another one."
"Don't bother." Bai's father glanced back at Baitang, Baitang pushed him to the dining table knowingly, and then adjusted the wheelchair higher according to the height of the table. Shen Manqin didn't seem to have seen this picture, and returned to her seat and sat down naturally.
After Bai Tang and Bai Nan sat down, Shen Manqin spoke again: "Are you going to leave this time?"
Papa Bai looked at her sideways, at this moment Baitang handed the poured lemonade to his hand. "Not leaving."
"Then what's the plan?"
Hearing this, Papa Bai twitched the corners of his mouth and smiled softly, his smile was like a ray of spring breeze in early spring, very light but full of seductive vitality. Shen Manqin had never seen such a smile before, and the smiles in Bai Jingyu's memory were as soft and warm as the sun.
Papa Bai picked up the teacup and took a sip, then put down the teacup, the smile on the corner of his mouth had disappeared. "Want to cooperate with our Bai family? Or cooperate with me alone?"
"If there is a suitable project, it doesn't matter whether it's you or the Bai family."
Dad Bai smiled, it was the polite smile Bai Nan was used to seeing with strangers, "What a coincidence, I am not interested in cooperating with the Su family at all. By the way, I heard that Ling Qianjin also joined Qiming this year. , must have done well in school, right?"
Shen Manqin was startled in her heart, she looked at this man who didn't give up at all because of his crippled legs, there was still a familiar shadow in his brows, but after the confrontation just now, there was nothing she was familiar with. However, after more than ten years, it is not incomprehensible that everything has become strange. What's more, the reason she chose to meet was not to rebuild her relationship with Bai Jingyu.
"The child is still too young, so he always has no sense of propriety in doing things." Shen Manqin dismissed her daughter's topic lightly, "Are Bai Tang and Bai Nan still getting used to school?"
"Very good, thank you for your concern." Baitang said seriously. Bai Nan, who was sitting next to him, was dumbfounded long ago. She clearly said that she came out because she wanted to meet them. Why did the other party not only not look at them directly after meeting them, but only talked to Papa Bai. It's as if he and Baitang have become transparent people here.
"Boom boom boom!"
After the door opened, the waiter walked in with the prepared dishes and served them. When all the dishes were served, Bai Manqin said "Let's eat", and there was no other sound in the private room except the clash of knives and forks.
After the meal, Bai Nan was very tired, and what made him even more tired was that after the meal, the meeting ended together. When he got back in the car, Bai Nan counted the numbers. From the end of his meeting with that person, he only said the greeting at the beginning and goodbye. "What's the point of meeting like this?" He couldn't figure out what kind of person the other party was now.
"do not know."
"You sure know."
Bai Tang smiled, "Want to know?" Bai Nan nodded hastily, "Think for yourself."
Bai Nan stared at it directly, and then, seeing Bai Tang closed his eyes and rested, he could only wonder to himself. At first, he wanted to find out about the past, the behavior of the other party at the meal just now, and Su Moran, his half-blood sister... Thinking of the end, Bai Nan frowned with a headache. He thought of what Dad Bai would promise to give at the beginning Reason—to let them know what kind of person Shen Manqin is.
Bai Nan had to admit that after the meeting, he responded to what he said to Bai Tang, "It's better not to see each other". From the beginning to the end, that person never saw him and Baitang as his own children, completely ignoring him and Baitang. That's why he didn't understand the significance of this meeting. Is it just to tell them that she does not recognize their existence
He shook his head and denied it, but he had a little more trust in the information he found earlier. "Baitang."
"Um?"
Bai Nan secretly glanced at the co-pilot, touched Baitang's shoulder and whispered: "Do you think Dad hates her?"
"Hate?" Bai Tang opened his eyes, "Father won't waste this kind of affection on her." After more than ten years of precipitation, Bai's father is also a person who hides his secrets.
Bai Nan didn't understand the real meaning of this sentence, but she also understood that Papa Bai no longer had any feelings for that person, and he was inexplicably relieved in his heart. "Baitang, from now on, we will only have dad alone."
Baitang nodded. "Then you teach me how to practice the sword? Okay?"
Baitang didn't give him an answer right away, she was thinking about the pros and cons of it. After a while, she turned sideways to face Bai Nan, and replied seriously: "I'll answer you after tomorrow."
"Why wait another day?"
"Then can you wait?"
"… Wait!"
The next day, Bai Tang left the Bai family early in the morning. This time when she went out, she asked the driver to take her to the city center and let him go back. After walking for a while in the city center, she reached out and stopped the car to go to the address that Zhou Ting sent to her in the text message. It was Zhou Ting's small villa in the suburbs. After Baitang asked for a quiet place to live in, he lent her the villa and arranged for someone to clean the villa up and down. .
When Baitang arrived at the villa, he walked around the villa to familiarize himself with the surroundings. Not long after, the medicinal materials she ordered were delivered to the door by the deliveryman. After moving the medicinal materials upstairs to a room that no one seemed to have lived in, Baitang took apart the medicinal materials and went to the bathroom inside to fill in the water.
After finishing all this, Baitang opened the backpack she brought over. There were some rare medicinal materials that Zhou Ting had purchased through channels, as well as some special materials needed for medicinal baths. There was also a piece that cost her a lot of savings to buy. Fine jade.
Then, Baitang took all these things to the bathroom and began to prepare the medicinal bath. About an hour later, Baitang finally put on her ideal medicinal bath, her face was already covered with sweat. She stretched out her hand to test the temperature of the water, and when it was just right, she took off her clothes and submerged her whole body under the water.
After a few seconds, Baitang's face turned pale.
Master can rest assured that although the medicinal properties of this medicinal bath are a bit stronger, the effect is quick, and after a few pastes, the smallest bones will definitely be reborn.
Baitang bit her lip, she compared with one-tenth of Xiaofan's original medicine bath, who knew that a body without spiritual support would be so difficult to persist with just a little medicine.
Bai Tang feels very uncomfortable now, every bone in her body seems to be broken and reassembled, but this is just her illusion. The pain she feels now is just the medicinal bath stimulating the potential in her body and transforming her physique.
She held back her body that was about to tremble, and began to close her eyes and practice the martial arts internal skills and mental methods collected last time when she returned to the cultivation world. Although physical training is a path, before stepping into physical training, she can use internal strength to lay the foundation first. In this case, she can also have the ability to protect herself in a short period of time.
Fortunately, people in Tianyuan Continent and people here have the same body structure, and they don't need spiritual support to practice martial arts. Baitang entered the door without any hindrance, and because she practiced the martial arts mentality of many schools, and modified one that was most suitable for her current body, so although the pain from her body was getting worse and worse. Strong, but under the support of Yuanhun, she was able to stay awake and guide the power in the medicinal bath to better improve her physique and speed up her cultivation.
Baitang practiced this practice for a full three hours.
Stepping out of the bathtub, the medicated bath inside was only pitch black, and the scent of medicine permeating the bathroom also disappeared without a trace. Baitang drained the water inside and took a shower again.
Walking out of the bathroom, Baitang felt refreshed, not even when he formed a pill back then. Thinking of Dandan, Baitang's mood, which was clear just a moment ago, sank, her pursuit has actually become so low. It's just a matter of practicing internal skills, and she was actually satisfied just now. If the senior brother in charge of the sect knew about it, it would probably mean that she didn't want to make progress.
Putting on his clothes, Baitang came to the garden of the villa, broke a branch from a tree and practiced his sword moves "shuashua". With the support of internal strength, Baitang's sword moves finally took shape, and he also found a little bit of the feeling of practicing swords in Qingyunzong. However, this internal strength is really not enough.
After Baitang practiced a set of sword skills, he threw the branch away regretfully, there was a faint crack from the inside on it.
In the afternoon, Baitang took another medicinal bath, which was an auxiliary medicinal bath for the morning medicinal bath. Long-term use can eradicate the hidden danger of leaving the last medicated bath in the body.
After taking the medicinal bath, Baitang practiced the branches for another hour before leaving the villa. On the way back, she was thinking about Bai Nan's request yesterday. If she only practiced the sword, she would not have any hesitation. What she hesitated was whether to give it to Bai Nan together with the martial arts mentality. If it is given, it will definitely break the balance of this world. But to put it another way, if people in this era have learned martial arts and kept developing it, then, after hundreds of thousands of years, will they develop another cultivation mode that can reach a level similar to that of cultivating immortals
Bai Tang was suddenly moved. After all, her ability alone was limited. If she could really develop to that level in the future, she would go down in history and become the founder of all factions. She doesn't really care about fame and fortune, but in the cultivation world, there are things like karma and luck that cannot be seen or touched. This kind of reputation is of great benefit to her. But, is there such a future, and can she live to that time
Just as he was thinking, Baitang saw Yang Jincheng who had seen both sides from a distance, ran into an alley in front of him as if fleeing, and chased after him several young men in black suits. When the car drove through this alley, Yang Jincheng fought with these young people. Noticing Yang Jincheng's skill, Bai Tang raised his eyebrows unexpectedly, it turned out that she had misread it the first time.
Back at Bai's house, as soon as Baitang reached the door of the living room, he heard uncle Bai Jingyang's voice coming from inside: "Xiao Yan, I know that you and your second brother have always had the best relationship, but the company's interests are not for the sake of it." For personal convenience. If you do this, who will be responsible for the company's losses?"
Bai Tang pushed the door open, Gu Yan was sitting on a corner of the sofa, holding a document in his hand, and Bai's father was sitting next to him, reading a newspaper. Opposite them, Bai Jingyang was also holding a document in his hand, looking down at Gu Yan with an angry look on his face, but there was no servant around.