Age of Heroes, 10-game winning streak

A couple walked in.

Su Haoran looked at the old man who walked out of the kitchen carrying the steaming ginger bean braised pork, and was speechless for a moment.

He thought the other party would come to him on his own initiative.

I didn't expect him to come back and cook a meal first, and he only rushed over after hearing the news from the neighbor downstairs.

"Why are you still standing there? Wash your hands and get ready to eat."

Bai Potian laughed and scolded, "I, an old man, haven't been back for so long. I've asked you two to take care of Xiao Yujing for ten years. Even if you don't thank me for your kindness, I can at least treat you to a meal."

Shang Ming'e finally breathed a sigh of relief and took the initiative to help serve the rice and tidy up the table.

A simple four dishes and one soup.

It is already very rich.

"My skills are a little rusty. I don't make it often in Rome." Bai Potian picked up the chopsticks and said, "Eat now. Don't be shy."

"If you were coming back, you should have told me earlier." Su Haoran did not forget to bring a bottle of wine, and he opened it and filled a glass.

Bai Potian smelled the aroma of wine and realized: "This is the wine from Biluoquan."

Su Haoran said, "I remember that you like this kind of wine the most, old man."

"Of course I like it. My wife is the professional winemaker at Biluoquan." Bai Potian picked up the wine glass and clinked it lightly, looking at the emerald liquid and muttering, "She can drink more than me, but she always advises me not to drink too much."

He tilted his head back, drank it all in one gulp, and then had another glass of wine.

"You can't drink this pure Biluo wine abroad."

"I can finally satisfy my craving for alcohol tonight."

The atmosphere is very nice and warm, and it feels like reminiscing about the past.

But Su Haoran and Shang Ming'e both knew that this was just an illusion.

The kindness shown by the old man came from his gratitude to the couple for taking care of Bai Yu for ten years, but no matter how much they thanked him, he would not change his mind.

Use courtesy first, then force.

Just waiting for an opportunity to make it clear.

After three rounds of drinks, the old man seemed a little drunk and said a lot of things, but they were all the same things from ten years ago.

Sometimes he would listen quietly, listening to the things he had missed in the past ten years.

Finally, Shang Ming'e, not as patient as her husband, could not help asking, "Why did you choose to return home at this time?"

Bai Potian swirled his wine glass. "I'm also from Daxia. What's so strange about returning home? I can come back whenever I want... Do you really think that ban can stop me? It's not like that silk-gloved gentleman gave the final word."

Although Su Haoran had drunk a lot, he was not drunk. His rationality was still very clear. He asked, "So you just came back to see Yujing?"

"That's true, but not accurate enough." Bai Potian put down his glass: "I want to take him to Rome."

"It's okay for him to stay with you for a while." Su Haoran asked deliberately: "Of course it's okay... Then when will you send him back?"

Bai Potian pointed at Su Haoran and scolded him with a smile, "You little brat, you're already in your forties or fifties, but you're still the same as before, a master at playing dumb!"

Su Haoran said, "Family members don't need to be polite."

Bai Potian glared: "Do you really need me to make this clear?"

He said bluntly: "I want to have a great-grandson soon!"

Chapter 321 The most meaningless thing in the world is regret

The old man just wants to hold his grandchildren.

What could he do wrong?

Hearing this, the expressions of the Su couple became slightly strange.

Su Haoran said with an untimely humor, "How about we give them a call and urge them to do something?"

Shang Ming'e glared and said, "What nonsense are you talking about! Ruoli is not yet an adult! No matter how anxious you are, you have to wait until she turns twenty."

Su Haoran rubbed his brows and said, "It's not impossible to be a little more open-minded."

Shang Ming'e asked in return: "How can it be so easy to conceive a child with the bloodline of a heroic spirit?"

"Alright, alright." Bai Potian interrupted directly.

The old man took out a stack of photos and threw them on the table. "These are all the candidates I've picked for Yujing. If he likes any of them, we can go back to Rome to get to know each other and get married within six months!"

Shang Ming'e took a look at the photo and thought that it was true.

She still couldn't help: "I don't agree——!"

She was also willing to risk it all for the sake of her own child: "Uncle Bai, you told us to raise Yujing as our son! I won the fight, and Bei Mingyao and I are like sisters. It's not too much to consider me Yujing's biological mother! Now you just decide the marriage with just one word, how can this be justified!"

The old man said stubbornly: "Isn't this still undecided?"

"What's the difference? We all want to marry a girl from Rome!" Shang Ming'e glanced at the photo.

Su Haoran picked up the stack of photos and took a look. There were eleven girls in total.

There are red, blue, yellow, purple and white ones, from strong queens to legal lolita, it can be said that...

"It's not suitable, they are all foreign girls!" Shang Ming'e just couldn't stand it no matter how she looked at them.

"There are also Lolita types." Bai Potian added.

"Western women age quickly!"

"Then pick someone five years younger."

“This is a crime!”

"It's not a crime in Rome; it's a noble thing to do."

"You foreigners have no sense of shame, why are you so shameless, old man?"

"I'm thinking about my grandson! It doesn't matter if I lose my sense of shame. At this age, moral standards should be more flexible."

"Stop...it's a mess." Su Haoran said helplessly: "That's not the problem...If these girls were to marry in Daxia, it would be fine to let Yujing make his own decision, but if we just take him to Rome like this..."

Mother Su asked bluntly, "What should I do with Ruoli?"

Bai Potian snorted, "Su Ruoli is definitely not a good match! If it was Ruoji, I could still reluctantly agree, but not her!"

Su's mother immediately became furious.

Su Haoran explained, "Ruoli's personality has changed a lot. She's not the same as she was ten years ago. She's become a steady and gentle woman now... And the two of them have been together for so many years, eating, living, and living together. They're more than just childhood sweethearts. Even if you want to break them up, will Yujing agree?"

He pushed the photo back and asked, "Uncle, do you think Yujing is just a girl who gets carried away by her beauty? A Chen Shimei who has forgotten his wife?"

Bai Potian snorted: "Don't flatter me, and don't use such rhetoric!"

Su Haoran smiled: "Look, doesn't uncle think so too?"

He said confidently, "Excuse me, I've seen all the photos here—she's indeed pretty, but she's still a long way from being my daughter."

In the eyes of Su's parents, Bai Yu and Su Ruoli have become an unshakable couple.

Don’t say that you, Bai Potian, are unshakable. As long as your parents dare to object, they will just run away from the marriage.

Bai Potian drank his wine gloomily. "The Bai family's fortune is all in Rome. I've been out there working hard for ten years. You all know what I'm trying to achieve. Eventually, someone needs to take over this business."

Shang Ming'e said dissatisfiedly, "So you think that after ten years of hard work, you should just enjoy a life of enjoying your grandchildren, and you want to separate these two young people?"

She muttered, "Don't think you can do whatever you want just because you're a Martial Saint. My daughter will definitely reach the fifth level in ten years. By then, she'll really try to steal my husband away."

Bai Potian was pricked by the sharp needle and immediately rolled his eyes. If it were anyone else, he would have been furious, but he was too embarrassed to act arrogantly in front of this young couple.

"That's my Bai family's centuries-old legacy, not just the work of my past ten years," the old man emphasized, his gaze turning nostalgic. "My father originally planned to give up part of his overseas assets and return to China to work hard. What happened? His investments were wiped out."

"I've been keeping a low profile, but in this land of Daxia, a dragon must coil and a tiger must lie low... My son has been missing for years and can't be found, and my daughter-in-law has been imprisoned at her parents' home and hasn't seen her biological son for ten years—I've endured it all!"

"But I don't want to leave this kind of grievance to Xiao Yujing anymore!"

"In Rome, as long as he doesn't poke a hole in the sky, he can live comfortably for the rest of his life!"

The old man took the initiative to complain, his feelings were sincere and touching.

"But what does this have to do with you breaking up the couple?" Shang Ming'e still held on to it.

Bai Potian took another sip of wine, took a step back and compromised, "Then I can take your daughter to Rome!"

"Ruoli is of heroic blood... She can't go. Even the national level will never agree." Su Haoran said with a wry smile. If it weren't for Su Ruoli's special status, the couple wouldn't be reluctant to let her go and stay in the West for a few years before coming back to recuperate after childbirth.

The old rogue Bai Potian spread his hands and said, "That's it, there's nothing we can do about it."

"Uncle is so old, yet he still acts like a hooligan to the younger generation!" Shang Ming'e was so angry that her teeth ached.

"That's my grandson!" Bai Potian said, "He's my only blood relative and the only thing I care about in this world. Do you expect an old man like me to die abroad and have no one to collect my body?"

"Uncle, you've had too much to drink." Su Haoran said as he poured another glass of wine: "These are just drunken words, don't take them seriously."

Shang Ming'e said, "Yujing has become quite successful now...it's not necessary for you to take him to Rome to look after him."

"That's because he hasn't made it big yet." Bai Potian looked drunk, but his eyes remained clear. "Although his bloodline has been abolished, he's still the legitimate son of the Beiming family. What do you think the Beiming family would think if he could still become a genius under these circumstances? Would they support him or suppress him?"

"No matter who it is, once they get involved in the internal fighting within the Beiming family, it's bound to never end!"

"Daxia's rules are strict, and the system is rigid. Everyone has their own place. If you want to move up one step, you have to squeeze ten or a hundred people down... It's inevitable that you'll be targeted by this group of people who resent you."

"He's not even at the third level yet, so naturally he can't feel it. Once he reaches that level, he'll realize how heavy the pressure is."

"Besides, how much help and support can your Su family, who is secluded in the city, or my half-dead Bai family, give him?"

"Even if Su Ruoli has the bloodline of a heroic spirit, how many attacks can she withstand?"

"Even if she is willing to be the protector, what about Yujing?"

"Willn't he feel guilty, shaken, or sad?"

The old man said with a heavy voice, "This is Daxia. It's hard to travel... It's hard!"

If one can make it to the end just by relying on talent, then the existence of aristocratic families will become a joke.

In order to avoid becoming a laughing stock, the aristocratic families will do everything they can to create obstacles for the geniuses in their journey to becoming prodigies.

If you really can't stop it, then choose to join... Just like what Korean chaebols do to some emerging companies, either suppressing them or acquiring them.

"Will this pressure disappear once you go to Rome?"

"I am a transcendental being, well-versed in both Eastern and Western martial arts. Eastern martial arts also have considerable supporters and audiences in the West. The knight system lacks self-innovation and should have changed long ago."

Bai Potian took a swig and said, "The Bai family originally opened a martial arts school in the West!"

"At least over there, I can protect my grandson from the wind and rain!"

"In Daxia, apart from using one's anger to intimidate the scoundrels, there's nothing else one can do."

He is also a fifth-level extraordinary person, and it is natural that he feels very aggrieved to have reached this point.

Trying to deter others after the truth is revealed is not enough to remedy the situation. A truly strong person should plan ahead and hold an umbrella for future generations.

Everything he did was for the consideration of his descendants. From Bai Potian's perspective, his heart and actions were indeed as clear as a mirror.

Shang Ming'e wanted to say something, but Su Haoran gently held his wife's hand. He understood that it was impossible to convince Bai Potian.

He had been preparing for this for ten years and there was no way he would give up overnight.

Su Haoran asked, "You mentioned in your letter... In addition to the engagement, there was another matter. What was that matter?"

Bai Potian said, "I will explain this matter to Yujing in person."

Shang Ming'e's sixth sense as a woman and mother was taking effect, and she keenly sensed the breath of danger.

It seems the old man didn't return to China without a second thought. Perhaps this "event" was his trump card to convince Bai Yu to go with him to the West!

Su Haoran saw Shang Ming'e's anxious look, but did not ask any further questions.

After another clink of glasses, Bai Potian asked, "Su kid, do you have anything else to say?"

"I realize that nothing I say will convince you, so I'll just not mention it. Today is our farewell after ten years, so let's have a good drink." Su Haoran didn't want to lower his impression of him anymore. The two families were as close as one family, and they shouldn't argue and ruin their relationship.

"You're really becoming more and more like that old guy, so smooth."

"I came to Nanling because I didn't want to be like my grandfather," Su Haoran said. "I don't want to be like him, someone who weighs all the worldly wisdom and relationships."

Bai Potian nodded: "That's true... but even though you're smooth and tactful, you still have that arrogance."

"Where is it?"