Chapter 47: Behind the Scenes

What Yun Xiaobao said was actually not a very long story, and there were no major twists and turns in the middle, but the amazing thing was that it was somehow related to the spirit jade that my master gave me.

I vaguely remember what the spirit jade looked like back then. It had a carving of a fat baby with a disproportionate body and limbs. It was a baby, but Master said it was a potato. It was a potato with bumps and dents.

I don’t think even the children of wealthy families would want to wear a jade of this kind.

So, the unlucky Yun Baogen, at a young age, was coaxed and even threatened by his family into wearing this jade… and was severely warned not to take it off.

When Yun Baogen was young, it was okay, but when he grew up, he found the jade ugly. He had no choice but to wear it all the time because the biggest rule in his family was that he could not take it off.

The rest is not worth mentioning. In any case, it was fate or something, but Yun Baogen’s growth was not smooth. There were natural disasters, man-made disasters, and even illness. But every time he came through unscathed, even though he paid a certain price.

Later, the Yun family discovered the crack in the jade. At first, they thought Yun Baogen had bumped into it and blamed him for it, but Yun Baogen vehemently denied it, saying that his family was so insistent on taking care of the jade that he didn’t dare to bump into it… Then, they discovered the coincidence that the crack corresponded to the disaster.

Yes, this kind of thing is really not strange. Lingyu protects people from disasters. A good jade that ordinary people raise has the same effect. However, it is not as good as the jade that cultivators raise for ordinary people. After all, a strong magnetic field protects a relatively weak magnetic field.

“This crack incident is actually a seed.” At this point, Yun Xiaobao sighed… In the meantime, I left once. A photographer came to take my picture or something, and I had to fill out a form. I guess they were using it to get my driver’s license.

This made me feel that having money can sometimes really give people a lot of convenience.

So, surrounded by such an environment, it is curious to know what kind of seed will be planted in the heart of a talented person like Yun Baogen. Both my master and I looked at Yun Xiaobao curiously. Yun Xiaobao smiled bitterly and poured himself another glass of wine, saying, “At that time, Baogen also understood things. Seeing so many things happen around this spirit jade, he naturally had to ask… As you know, the Yun family only has this precious treasure. After he made such a fuss and asked, we told him that we bought the jade from a high-level expert, and that the expert had saved our ancestors. Of course, that year, Master Jiang sold the jade to me in private, and we naturally didn’t say anything about his identity. But do you know now? What kind of seed has been planted in Baogen’s heart?

“He wants to become a monk?” The master couldn’t help but take a sip of his wine.

“Well, to be precise, he discovered a new world. Every day, he would ask us about mysterious and magical events, about the affairs of the wise… He increasingly felt that the world of ordinary people was meaningless, and he wanted to live a different life. In fact, I can understand this kind of thinking. Just like when we were young, we were all adults, reading martial arts novels, and still yearning to be a great hero… It’s normal for him to have such thoughts. The difference is that Baogen may have been spoiled by us. Anyway, when he wants to do something, he definitely wants to do it that way…

“So, when the so-called master appeared ten years ago, your Baogen immediately followed him?” The master also realized where the problem was. Although it had little to do with us, we were also a hidden cause among many causes. It would be bad if we didn’t help.

“Yes… when the master appeared and showed off some of his skills, Baogen didn’t hesitate. Although in our hearts, we longed for Baogen to live an ordinary life, marry and have children, and take over the family business, our family only has one heir…” Yun Xiaobao said this, and his eyes began to redden. He took a deep breath and took some time to calm down.

“Didn’t you stop him?” I couldn’t help but wonder. I hadn’t drunk much wine before, but now I couldn’t help but put myself in Yun Xiaobao’s shoes and felt quite sad. So I couldn’t help but pour a glass of wine and drink it.

The wine was good, sweet and long in the throat, and a warm feeling spread out… But it also rushed my emotions, and I wanted to say something, but my master stopped me by lightly touching me with his foot.

After all, it is not a mature approach to hastily take a position without knowing what the matter is. What Chen Chengyi can never change is the inevitable impulse when he is swayed by emotions. Compared to this, Master is much more stable than I am.

Yun Xiaobao naturally didn’t know about the tacit understanding between me and my master. He said to himself, “I wanted to stop it, but we can’t stop what that child has decided to do. Second, we have an inexplicable awe of the so-called cultivators and dare not stop them.”

Thinking about it, we can understand this feeling. After all, how would ordinary people know the complexity of the circle of cultivators? Yun Xiaobao thought that the master wouldn’t harm his own child.

“Since that’s the case, why did you say that earlier?” Master asked without a hint of emotion. He was obviously referring to Yun Xiaobao’s opinion that the sect Yun Baogen went to was not a good sect.

I was surprised. How could an ordinary person detect that the cultivator’s sect was not a good sect? How far had it gone? Or did Yun Xiaobao not want Yun Baogen to continue like this, so he looked at it with a radical perspective?

These questions lingered in my mind, so I could only quietly drink my wine and see what Yun Xiaobao had to say.

“Hey, I don’t know how to answer this question specifically. It’s a feeling. Well, let me put it this way. In my heart, cultivators all have a certain temperament, a righteous and indifferent attitude towards life. Even if you can see something on the surface, after a long period of contact, you can feel this aura… there’s no mistake. Although Baogen is a bit spoiled, we have always paid attention to his education. On the whole, he is a polite and gentle child… However, since he followed that so-called master, every time he comes back, we can feel that his temper is getting worse and worse…” Yun Xiaobao seemed to be thinking of the right adjective.

“More and more what?” The master asked again. At this time, the master’s face was vaguely unpleasant. What was he thinking about?

In the middle of the trip, someone came up and said that the driver’s license and car were already ready for us, parked downstairs, and the driver’s license was in the car.

I have to say that Yun Xiaobao is a good person, and he does everything in detail… and when I looked at the time, it was only 40 minutes… this should be the so-called efficiency of the rich.

Putting aside these trivial matters, Yun Xiaobao continued the conversation after a few sentences, saying with a heavy heart, “Yes, it can be said that his personality is becoming more and more unruly and extreme, with a vague feeling that he will not stop until he achieves his goal, and that means and methods are not important. self-centered, gradually began to take morality and restraint lightly, and even… even took his family lightly, very lightly… My father happened to pass away around that time. When he died, Baogen came back once, just once… my father sensed this change…”

Before, when Yun Xiaobao spoke, he always had red eyes and only shed a few tears. But when he talked about this, he didn’t care about losing his composure, and his tears flowed freely… He choked and said, “When my father died, he didn’t even close his eyes. He told me that he had finally understood that there is good and evil in this world, and that the circle of cultivators is not just composed of upright and virtuous people… Master Jiang and the others are good people, but Baogen’er may not have gone to a good place… He said that Baogen’er may have taken the wrong path, and that I must find a way to bring him back during my lifetime.” There is good and evil in the world, and the circle of cultivators is not just composed of upright and virtuous people… Master Jiang and the others are good people, but it’s not certain that Baogen has gone to a good place… He said that Baogen may have taken the wrong path, and that I must, during my lifetime, find a way to bring Baogen back.”

At this point, Yun Xiaobao wiped away a tear, and his master patted Yun Xiaobao’s shoulder in a comforting manner.

In fact, it is difficult to define good and evil. I don’t think my master and I are heroes who are righteous to the extreme. We are just ordinary people who have our own bottom lines and principles in our hearts and shoulder our responsibilities to do what we can.

This is the same as a man being a responsible father.

“Is this what you want us to help you with?” Master finally spoke up.

Yun Xiaobao nodded and said, “I originally wanted to plan this carefully, and there was no rush. But now the situation is urgent, because Baogen, he…”

What happened to Baogen? I also frowned!