Blue, Red and White Dark Abyss Cauldron

The more Dai thought about it, the sadder she became, and she shed another string of sad tears.

Bai Yixing also became anxious and hurriedly apologized to his mother, saying, "Mother, you... don't be sad, isn't it enough that I will listen to you?"

Dai said after a long while: "You said you would listen to me, but you are unwilling in your heart. Tell me honestly, why don't you want to go to the Ling family to propose marriage?"

Bai Yixing gently patted his mother's back and said, "If I tell you the truth, you can't continue to be angry."

Dai said, "As long as you don't do anything stupid, I won't be angry."

Bai Yixing cleared his throat and said, "There is a reason why I didn't go to the Ling family to propose marriage. It has to do with Ling Shuxue's father, Ling Jiuhua."

"What happened to Shu Xue's father?"

"Mother, you may not know that after father passed away, many people came to pay their respects..." Bai Yixing slowly told the story.

The Bai family was a well-known wealthy family in Bingcheng. Although the glory of decades ago was gone, the reputation was still loud. Therefore, after Bai Yuzhong's death, people from Bingcheng and surrounding cities who had business dealings with the Bai family came to pay their respects. Ling Jiuhua, who had arranged to marry his children to the Bai family, naturally came as well.

As Bai Yuzhong's only son, Bai Yixing stood obediently at the door of the mourning hall to respond to the greetings. When he saw Ling Jiuhua, his future father-in-law, coming over, he was even more respectful and called out "Uncle Ling".

But when Ling Jiuhua saw Bai Yixing, he just glanced at him up and down. Not only did he not answer him, he didn't even nod his head. This made Bai Yixing, who was usually arrogant, feel very embarrassed. But he had no choice but to suppress his unhappiness since this was in his father's mourning hall.

But he couldn't get rid of the knot in his heart, thinking that Ling Jiuhua looked down on him.

He now recounted the entire situation from beginning to end, his tone still filled with indignation.

After listening to this, Dai also frowned and said slowly: "Your father-in-law has always been like this, you don't have to care too much."

Bai Yixing shouted, "You didn't even mention kinship, what 'father-in-law'? Calling him 'Uncle Ling' is already showing respect to him!"

Dai recalled that more than a decade ago, when the family business was still in existence, Ling Jiuhua's family had always been polite to the Bai family, and they visited each other every now and then, and even took the initiative to betroth their third daughter Ling Shuxue to Bai Yixing. Now the Bai family has become a declining family, and after their eldest daughter of the Ling family married the son of the city lord Qi Qinghe, she not only gained considerable power in Bingcheng, but also made her business bigger and bigger. Ling Jiuhua rarely visited the Bai family anymore. The last time she saw him at her husband's funeral, she didn't even get to say a few words.

She could only sigh and said, "The Ling family and our family were engaged as children, with a blood-lettered marriage contract. In our Snow Country, this is an unchangeable contract. No matter what the current situation of our Bai family is, as long as you propose marriage, there is absolutely no reason for him to refuse."

Bai Yixing was very unhappy and said, "Mother, you and father are really something. Why do you have to arrange a marriage for me? Or a blood marriage contract?"

Dai said, "It's all for you. The Ling family has many capable people. Your father saw twenty years ago that he was capable and smart, and that he would be able to make a name for himself sooner or later. Marrying him is like finding a way out for you." She paused and continued, "This is exactly the situation right now. If our Bai family wants to prosper again, I'm afraid we need your father-in-law's help."

Bai Yixing shouted, "I told you he's not my father-in-law! Mother, I don't want to go to the Ling family to propose marriage, but there's actually another reason."

"What's the reason? Tell me."

"I heard that Ling Shuxue is so ugly, with a black ghost fish spot the size of a palm on her left cheek. I don't want to..." He mumbled the second half of the sentence, which naturally meant that he didn't want to marry Ling Shuxue, such an ugly girl.

Dai asked, "Who told you that Shu Xue had ghost fish spots on her face?"

Bai Yixing said angrily: "Almost everyone in Bingcheng knows about this, except you!"

Dai said: "Shuxue's two sisters are both beautiful and are famous beauties in Bingcheng. How could she be ugly?" Women in Bingcheng seldom go out before they get married, and she has never seen Ling Shuxue, the third daughter of the Ling family.

"There are many cases where good-looking parents give birth to ugly sons and daughters. What's more, Ling Shuxue is just a pretty sister, so why can't she be ugly?" Bai Yixing always finds various reasons to defend himself.

"This is the blood-lettered marriage contract between your father and Ling Jiuhua. No matter what, you have to go to the Ling family to propose marriage!"

"You go if you want to go, but I'm not going!"

"You...you unfilial son, how...how can you say such things?!" Dai was so angry that she fainted immediately.

When his mother fainted, Bai Yixing anxiously sent someone to call the best doctor in Bingcheng.

After examining the patient, the doctor said that Dai fainted mainly because he had been worrying too much recently and had been subjected to intense stimulation. However, the condition was not serious and he just needed to rest and take some nourishing medicine.

Bai Yixing finally felt relieved. His mother had been unconscious for nearly half a day, which really scared him.

Seeing his mother lying on the bed with her eyes closed, her already haggard face looking even thinner, he couldn't help but feel distressed. He took out a bag of silver from his pocket and told the maid standing beside him: "Go to the medicine shop and buy some top-quality snow mountain ginseng. I want to make soup for my mother."

The maid responded and left.

Bai Yixing couldn't help thinking, I remember when I was a kid, when someone in my family wanted to drink snow ginseng soup, we would go directly to the pharmacy at home to get the snow mountain ginseng. I didn't expect that it would get worse every year. Now if I want to drink it, I have to go to a store outside to buy it. And how can anyone buy the best snow mountain ginseng in a store that everyone can go to?

Just as I was daydreaming, I suddenly heard a series of clattering footsteps. A short, fat man ran in, shouting, "Master, Master...someone is causing trouble in our ancestral temple. Go and take care of it!"

The man's name was Hu Yong. He worked as a servant in Bai Yixing's house. He usually followed him around and could be considered a satisfactory servant.

The Snow Country is located in the north of the continent. It is extremely cold with ice and snow all year round. Therefore, most of the people in the Snow Country have strong bones and tall stature.

However, this Hu Yong is completely different. He is not only fat, but also very short. Bai Yixing often asks him whether his ancestors came from Cangmu Country, because there would not be such short people in Snow Country.

Hu Yong would argue and give many reasons to prove that his ancestors were from the Snow Country. He said that the reason he was so fat was probably because he ate too much short and fat Fattoon fish. As the saying goes, "you are what you eat", and he became short and fat like Fattoon fish.

Bai Yixing immediately laughed and scolded him for talking nonsense, saying that in our Snow Country there is no such saying as "you are what you eat", and it is said that only in Cangmu Country there is such a saying, so you, Hu Yong, must be a spy from Cangmu Country who sneaked into our Snow Country!

When Bai Yixing heard Hu Yong say that someone was causing trouble, he immediately became angry, like a sensitive old dog who noticed that someone had invaded his territory.