Blue, Red and White Dark Abyss Cauldron

"Yixing, you must behave properly in front of the Lord God. Kneel down!" said a beautiful woman with half-white hair and wearing a brocade dress with black silkworm and golden flowers, with a serious face.

"Lord God, Lord God, the Lord God doesn't care about big or small matters. What's the point of kneeling?!" Bai Yixing was extremely reluctant in his heart, but he couldn't say these words in front of his mother.

"Kneel down!" The Bai family mistress's tone became a little stern.

Bai Yixing had no choice but to kneel down reluctantly.

“Follow me!”

"Okay, okay, I'll tell you what you say..." Not long ago, Bai Yixing was playing lottery balls on the street with a group of friends. He was very happy when he won, but his mother sent people to catch him and brought him back. He was very angry.

"God is above, the snow is boundless..."

"God is above, the snow has no boundaries..." Bai Yixing followed and chanted.

"Bai Yixing, the 17th generation head of the Ice City Bai family, is willing to inherit the ancestral system and do business diligently, in the future to revive the family business, prosper Ice City, and worship the Lord..."

Bai Yixing's heart trembled, and he recited it again obediently.

"I am willing to correct my mistakes and follow my father's wishes to propose marriage to the Ling family..." the mistress of the Bai family continued.

"Mother, I would never go even if you kill me!" Bai Yixing became anxious when he heard that he was going to propose marriage to the Ling family.

"Why do you keep making excuses?!"

"No reason, I just don't want to go!" Bai Yixing curled his lips and said stubbornly.

The Bai family mistress scolded: "In front of the Lord God, put away your lazy temper!"

Bai Yixing said nonchalantly, "You only know how to call her God Lord. Look at her. The jade paint on her body is almost gone. Her pants are torn. She doesn't even have a decent set of clothes. Even two of her raised fingers are broken... She can't even take care of herself, how can she take care of our Bai family?!"

The mistress of the Bai family was extremely angry. She could not believe that this rebellious son would say such frivolous and disrespectful words in front of the jade statue of the God. It was difficult for her to accept it for a moment and even had difficulty speaking: "Yixing...how could you...how could you say such...treasonous words in front of the God?!" She was so excited that she actually shed tears.

Bai Yixing panicked when he saw his mother crying. He stood up quickly and supported her, saying, "Mother, I'm not saying anything bad about you, but this statue of the God was made by our Bai family forty years ago. Over the years, you have been worshipping it every day and every month, but our Bai family is getting worse year by year! I heard from my father that fifty years ago we were one of the most famous families in the Snow Country. We not only had dozens of cargo ships, but also convoys and horse teams, and there were two or three hundred people guarding the house. But what about now? Except for those seven or eight broken ships, the rest are gone! The God can't even protect herself, how can she possibly protect others..."

Before he could finish his words, there was a crisp "slap" sound, and Bai Yixing was slapped loudly in the face by his mother.

The mistress of the Bai family said angrily: "Shut up, rebellious son!"

Bai Yixing rubbed his left face which was scalded by the beating and said unhappily, "You asked me to work hard in business and I agree, but I won't go to the Ling family to propose marriage, even if you kill me!"

The mistress of the Bai family rubbed her chest and said, "Although you and the third daughter of the Ling family, Shu Xue, were engaged fifteen years ago, how could she marry you if you didn't take the initiative to propose?!"

Bai Yixing sneered and said, "It's just fine that she doesn't marry. I don't care about her."

"Rebellious son, you...you...you are going to piss your mother off to death..." The mistress of the Bai family couldn't catch her breath and almost fell to the ground.

Bai Yixing finally became anxious at this time and asked worriedly: "Mother, are you...are you okay?" He slowly helped her sit on a chair next to the ancestral temple.

The mistress of the Bai family had empty eyes as she stared blankly at the jade statue of the god that was more than two meters tall, thinking of many things.

Her surname was Dai, and when she was less than 20 years old, her parents arranged for her to marry into the then wealthy Bai family. Her husband's name was Bai Yuzhong. Three years later, she gave birth to a son and named him Yixing, hoping that he would be brilliant and respected.

Since Yixing is the couple's first and only child, they hold him in their hands for fear of dropping him, and hold him in their mouths for fear of him melting. They spoil him and dote on him to the extreme.

Bai Yixing has been spoiled since he was a child, so he has always been disobedient. He refuses to work hard when asked to read and write, and he cannot bear the hard work of learning martial arts and opening his force. He fishes for three days and rests for two days, and the mediocre skills he has learned are a mess.

He was already nearly twenty-one, but he was still idle and had no proper job. Every day he either hung out with other rich kids in the city or took a few servants to the outskirts of Ice City to kill time by shooting foxes and deer. He even got into group fights with some teenagers in the city who didn't like him. He was truly a dandy.

More than fifty years ago, the Bai family was the most prominent family in the Snow Country. The family mainly engaged in trade, lending and collecting rent. Not only did they have two fleets, they also had a carriage team of hundreds of horses, and even two to three hundred warrior guards who helped to transport goods.

The business was not limited to the Ice City in the Snow Country, but was also thriving in the surrounding Storm City, Fengcheng, Chuanyun Peninsula, Seahorse Island, Fire Spirit Island and other places. The business was even expanded to the Cangmu Country thousands of miles to the south.

The family is extremely wealthy, which is a very glorious and glorious thing.

Unfortunately, things have not been going well in the past twenty years.

Seventeen years ago, a large group of horses and carriages carrying snow-covered medicinal herbs and precious commercial goods such as black gold, tung oil gold, and spotted gold mysteriously disappeared after encountering a blizzard in the mountains northeast of Storm City. Only two idiot guards escaped back, and no matter what they were asked, they would only say "Don't eat my feet... Don't eat my feet...", leaving people confused.

Ten years ago, a fleet of twelve ships encountered a hurricane on their way back to Bingcheng from Anfeng City in Cangmu Country. The ships were destroyed and everyone on board died. No one escaped, and not even a trace of news was brought back. The reason for the hurricane was calculated by a fortune teller in Bingcheng who was good at astronomy and geomancy.

Not only did they lose all their money in these two incidents, but even the compensation for the hired coachmen, boatmen, and guards was a huge amount, which seriously damaged the Bai family.

The next few years were also full of setbacks. Last year, Bai Yixing's father, Bai Yuzhong, led people to Hanshi Mountain in the northeast of Bingcheng to buy cold iron. They were robbed by bandits on the way. Bai Yuzhong was stabbed seriously by the bandit leader and died less than three days after returning home.

The Bai family naturally reported the matter to Qi Qinghe, the lord of Bingcheng, and asked him to uphold justice, capture the Hanshishan bandits and bring them to justice, and avenge Bai Yuzhong.

Qi Qinghe twisted his brows into the shape of ice bindweed, saying that the bandits were rampant, not only were they very cunning and fast, they were impossible to catch, but also that it was hundreds of miles to Hanshi Mountain and the road was extremely difficult to travel, and they might even suffer casualties... In the end, he was just advising the Bai family to consider themselves unlucky.

Dai gritted his teeth and said that he could pay 100,000 gold to help City Lord Qi send troops to eliminate the bandits in Red Stone Mountain.

Qi Qinghe was overjoyed and successfully sent 5,000 soldiers to Hongshi Mountain to suppress the bandits.

Under the siege of the soldiers, the bandits were finally driven away, captured, or killed. The bandit leader was captured and beheaded in public after being brought back to Ice City, and the Bai family finally got their revenge. However, the huge donation of 100,000 gold coins was a complete waste of the Bai family's wealth.

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