The Demon Emperor of the Perfect World

Chapter 574: That was the spring of childhood, but also the winter of life
despite this.

Yutian and the witch still couldn't persuade him.

The teenager finally took their advice.

I went to a bigger prince to study in the city.

The witch smiled slightly, shook her head, and ignored the matter.

Only on rainy days, I would look at the boy's receding back, stunned and dazed, not knowing what he was thinking.

evening.

It was getting dark and the streets gradually became deserted. There weren't many people living in this place, but lights were still lit sporadically.

Yutian and the witch were busy all day. When the tavern was just closing, Xia Youyu and Xiao Yuxuan came back with a group of little ones.

"Dad! Mom! We are back!"

Xiao Yuxuan had grown into a young lady, standing tall and graceful. She wore a blue-green fairy dress and was stunningly beautiful, no less beautiful than any goddess or saint from a major sect. As soon as she arrived, she lay on Yutian's back.

Yutian laughed and scolded with a rather doting tone:

"You are already 42 years old, but you are still as clingy as a child. You have no shame!"

"Hehe! I'm just making up for my lost childhood. Besides, I'm my dad's child. I'm still a child no matter how old I am."

Xiao Yuxuan wrinkled her pink nose, pouted her little mouth, and hummed softly with a light voice.

Don't care what Yutian says.

Seeing that his eldest sister was monopolizing his father.

The other little girls were not happy.

"Daddy, I'm hungry, let me eat!"

"... "

The little ones chirped around Rainy Day.

The little girls took his hands.

Some of them crawled into his arms.

Those who were slow could only grab the corner of his clothes.

Blinking eyes, feeling wronged...

These naughty monkeys were careless and walked as if they didn't care about their relatives. Some of them sat with their legs crossed, lying on their backs, like a group of little bandits.

They are just little yellow-haired hooligans and gangsters, and some young girls are following their example.

He doesn't know how to stand or sit properly.

"Lao Deng! Hungry! Food! Understand?"

"Waiter, serve the wine and the food!"

"Absolutely lawless!"

Yutian's face suddenly turned black.

He immediately picked up a rattan stick and planned to stir-fry meat with it to treat these little ghosts.

The little ones were immediately frightened and ran away for their lives.

It was Xiao Yuxuan, who had grown into a big girl, who came forward to help.

This saved some leaky cotton jackets and leather jackets with holes from being suppressed.

"Pfft..."

The witch and Xia Youyu were amused.

Afterwards, the family happily had dinner. Xia Youyu and the children needed to practice, so they didn't need to waste time staying in the shop during the day.

Winter passes and spring comes.

Yutian has been running this small shop for ten years.

Apart from the group of mercenaries who visited every now and then, the two young men seldom came here often.

At the beginning, we could see each other every few months or half a year on rainy days. Later, we saw each other almost once a year, and sometimes only once every two or three years.

This day, early morning.

The mercenary leader came in, but he only had a few subordinates left. He looked dusty and haggard after many years.

"Waiter, serve the food! Bring the wine!"

"Okay! Just a moment!"

The waiter served the drinks and left.

"Sister-in-law, is my brother here? Ask him to come out and have a drink."

"Yes, he is coming!"

The witch smiled and nodded.

He closed the account book he had just checked, nodded at Yutian who came out of the kitchen, and gestured to the mercenary.

"For so many years, you have been drinking so early in the morning. This is not good for your health!"

Yutian, a middle-aged man who had become a hands-off boss and dressed in a blue robe as a scholar, sat down and poured a bowl of wine for the other party and himself respectively, and joked with a smile.

The mercenary leader immediately refuted when he heard it.

"Hey, nonsense! I, your elder brother, have been hunting in the wilderness for many years and I am in good health. Your sister-in-law has a rosy face every day and cries every night."

The witch blushed.

Rainy day fun.

"Oh! You used to serve the wine first and then the dishes. If the order of ordering dishes hadn't changed, I would have believed you!"

It's about a man's dignity.

The mercenary leader immediately started to talk tough.

"I'm old now, so it won't hurt to eat some food first to warm my stomach, and then drink some wine."

"Besides, with your brother's physique, I will still be as strong as a dragon and a tiger in ten years. It won't affect my strength at all, right?"

"But you, my dear brother, your sister-in-law is so pretty, and you have thin arms and legs. You are not like us who have to hunt all year round. If you can't bear it, tell me, my elder brother. I will bring you some old ginseng, old medicinal wine or something like that next time!"

The witch and the maid in the store both blushed and secretly spat.

Yutian smiled and waved.

"You also know that you are getting old, right? You don't need this ginseng wine!"

This time, the mercenary leader did not refute.

His eyes became vicissitudes.

The tone also showed fatigue.

"Yeah, when you get older, how can you not know... People have to accept their age!"

Yutian also nodded in response.

Then he said:
"Then you should stop drinking, especially so early in the morning. Drinking is not good for your health!"

The mercenary looked at Yutian, nodded, and then shook his head.

"I can't give it up... I just like this. When I think of the burden on my shoulders, I think... even if the wilderness is dangerous, even if I die in the mouth of a ferocious beast one day, I won't be that scared."

"Hey, hey... you're not going to listen to me anymore. We're all trying to make a living, and we don't like to hear unlucky words."

Yutian glared at him with a smile and scolded him.

The mercenary laughed awkwardly, admitted his mistake humbly, and drank the hot wine in the bowl as punishment.

Then he muttered to himself.

"Yeah... we're all trying to make a living!"

After a moment of trance, he looked up at Yutian and the witch and laughed heartily again.

"Although we are all trying to make a living, you and your sister-in-law are very happy. You opened this small shop and don't have to run around like me, your elder brother. Your children have also entered the Butian Pavilion and become practitioners. You have great hope for the future."

"Alas... No way! There is still a long time to come, who knows!"

Yutian modestly waved his hand in denial.

The mercenary leader did not say any more on this topic.

Transfer:
"Speaking of which, brother, you were lucky that you listened to my advice and hired someone. Otherwise, with your stubbornness, how long would you have worked so hard?"

"It's good like this now, I can just lie down and collect money..."

"Only you, my dear, don't seem to like money!"

"Otherwise, in my opinion, you have made a good harvest these years. While you still have the energy to work hard, you should open a few more chains so that you can enjoy a peaceful life with your younger brothers and sisters when you are old!"

A bitter smile on a rainy day.

I quickly rejected this idea.

"Ah! I'm getting old. It's good to be like this now. I can't do more. My family knows their own business. I can't worry too much."

Originally according to the majority of people's views.

Yutian should have been scolded for having such a bad temper.

But the mercenary leader seemed to understand.

"That's right! Money! As long as you earn enough..."

"exactly!"

Yutian agrees with this statement.

But the mercenary suddenly said:

"That being said, people don't understand! Even if they do, they can only pretend not to understand. How much money is considered a lot? How much is considered enough? After working hard all your life, what is your goal?"

"Brother, tell me, why do people work so hard to make money? Why do they do everything they can to become stronger?"

After the mercenary finished speaking, he gulped down several large bowls of wine.

It seems like he is paralyzing himself.

Perhaps, he was asking the rainy day, the world, and himself.

This question is difficult to answer.

Yutian thought for a while and responded according to the mortal's understanding:

"For living! If one day, when you meet someone who makes your heart beat faster, you won't have to say: How dare a penniless man miss a beautiful woman? When a relative gets sick, you won't have to beg for money everywhere, you won't have to kneel in front of the doctor and wipe your tears, you won't be helpless for a few taels of silver, and let someone who should have lived give up treatment, and you won't be ridiculed, looked down upon, and despised by your relatives."

After listening to Yutian's words.

The mercenary, who had spent half his life in the wilderness and experienced life and death, cried.

"Life! Life... What is the purpose of it? It's so hard to be born and live!"

"I was also a talented person back then, but because I had no family background, I was exiled to the frontier. I thought that the sky was high and the birds could fly freely, the sea was wide and the fish could leap freely, and I could become stronger and rise through my own practice."

“But after wasting half my life, I realized that without a background and resources, I was nothing. As a casual cultivator, I fought hard for opportunities, but my foundation was destroyed and I almost lost my life.”

"In the end, I had no choice but to give up the love of my life, who had an unattainable background. I had no choice but to start a family with someone I didn't hate. Now I live on the edge of a knife for my life and the future of my children."

(End of this chapter)