Sorry, I am still number one in the world [Comprehensive]

From the gray-haired old housekeeper to the fire-burning girl in the kitchen, all the people in the city lord's mansion have recently noticed that their city lord seems to be in a good mood.

There are many specific manifestations. For example, the kitchen accidentally made him a dish he didn’t like, but he ate it without frowning; He didn't get angry; for example, when his cat knocked over his favorite inkstone in his study, he only sighed when he saw it, and pursed his lips towards the cat.

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"I have been in this mansion for more than ten years, and I have never seen the city lord so happy. What happened?"

"What is more than ten years, I have been serving the city lord since he was born!"

"But the problem is that you don't know what the city lord is happy about..."

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A group of people were extremely curious, but after discussing and discussing, they still couldn't guess a single one.

Obviously a few days ago he was still frowning all day long so that no one dared to approach him at all!

The only one who saw some clues was the old butler who had been in the City Lord's Mansion for decades.

But he didn't point it out, he just smiled and watched Ye Gucheng feed the cat on the porch after finishing his business.The cat was not as clingy to him as before, and even raised its paw to hit his hand, disliking the things he fed.

However, Ye Gucheng never got angry with it, even if his hand was scratched with bloodstains, he just patted it helplessly: "Okay, don't be naughty."

Fortunately, this cat is skinny, and he knows how to accept it when he is good. Every time he really scratches him, he immediately behaves.

After finally feeding the cat, he turned around and asked the butler waiting there: "Is Wei Bo looking for me?"

The butler said it was nothing, but he just wanted to ask him if he would go to this year's South China Sea Discussion of Swords Festival, and an invitation was sent over there.

The Sword Discussion Conference he was talking about was held jointly by the three largest sword sects in the South China Sea. It was held once every ten years. The last time Ye Gucheng hadn't started practicing swords, but this time it was different. Two years ago he He teamed up with Yan Liushuang to repel more than 20 swordsmen who came to his father's funeral to make trouble. With such a record, it's strange that they didn't send invitations to Baiyun City.

In fact, this invitation has been received for a while, but Ye Gucheng didn't even look at it before, and didn't say it or say no. The people in the house saw that he was in a bad mood, so they didn't bother to ask this bad luck.

Now that he was in a better mood, someone happened to be sent over there to ask him what he thought, and the butler Wei Bo came over to mention something.

Ye Gucheng thought for a moment after hearing this, and said, "Then go."

Wei Bo hurriedly replied: "Okay, then I'll go and reply to them now."

Ye Gucheng nodded, and stopped him when he was about to turn around, and asked: "This time, the chief salute is still the sword made by Uncle Yan?"

Wei Bo said that this has not been said yet, but according to the previous practice, it should be the same.

The Sword Discussion Conference will be held at the end of July, only ten days away from this time.

Ye Gucheng hadn't seen Yan Liushuang in the past ten days, and he thought she was busy trying to persuade the child Yan Feng brought back to learn swordsmanship from her.

Thinking of what she said she would not leave if the persuasion was successful, Ye Gucheng felt that it was okay not to see her these days.

Moreover, the Sword Discussion Club is considered a major event in the South China Sea. With the status of the Yan family in the South China Sea, Yan Feng, who has just returned, will definitely receive an invitation, and they will still be able to meet at that time.

When thinking this way, Ye Gucheng never expected that he would become the biggest obstacle on her way to accept apprentices.

The matter still has to start from the Sword Discussion Conference held once every ten years.

Just as Ye Gucheng thought, the leader gift this time was still the sword cast by the head of the Yan family himself, and Yan Feng also received the invitation.

In this way, at the end of July, most of the young talents in South China Sea gathered together.

The rules of the Sword Discussion Club are also very simple. The opponent is determined by drawing lots, and the winner advances to the next round.

With Ye Gucheng's swordsmanship, it can be said that it is effortless to pass all the way.

Two days later, his name spread across the South China Sea again.

I don't know if it was deliberately arranged by the three sword sects who held the Sword Discussion Meeting. In the final battle on the third day, his opponent was Yan Feng.

In the past, no one in the Ye family used a sword, and they had a good relationship with the Yan family, so naturally they had never faced each other, even if they had a private discussion, it would not be humane.

But this time it's different. The whole South China Sea is wondering whether the descendants of the Yan family who have occupied the number one sword in the South China Sea for generations can win, or the new city lord of Baiyun City is better?

So in the evening of the second day, some people came to Ye Gucheng's resting place to inquire.

Ye Gucheng has always been impatient with idlers, and waved away before he finished listening.

After a group of people scattered like birds and beasts, he turned his head and saw Yan Liushuang who had climbed up the fence at some point.

Yan Liushuang was staring at him and smiling, and said while laughing, "Ah Cheng can be so fierce at times."

He walked over, deliberately maintaining the previous expression and not speaking, wanting to see her reaction, but she didn't expect that after staring at her for a while, she reached out and touched his face directly.

The cool soft palm came up, and the fingertips touched the corner of his mouth with a little force.

Then he heard her say, "I told you that you should smile more."

Ye Gucheng hummed, grabbed her wrist when she wanted to take back her hand, and then pulled her down from the wall with force.

At this moment, there should have been a short hug, but unfortunately she was so good at it, even if she was pulled down so unexpectedly, she immediately turned around and stood firm.

After standing still, he bared his teeth at him: "I'm praising you, why are you angry?"

He let go of his hand and pursed his lips: "I'm not angry."

After the two sat down in this small courtyard, Yan Liushuang began to complain to him.

She said: "Do you know that Xiao Jiu is less willing to talk to me than you were when you were young, and he didn't even talk to me, am I scary?"

Ye Gucheng was a little surprised: "He doesn't want to learn knives?"

She shook her head: "I didn't say I didn't want to, but I ignored me, and I ignored me whatever I told him."

"It's fine if you really ignore me at all." She paused at this point, "but he often stares at me without blinking."

Hearing what she said, Ye Gucheng also felt very strange, but he had never been in contact with that child, so he couldn't give any useful advice, so he could only say in harmony: "Take your time."

"You can only take your time." She puffed her face and sighed, "He's still young anyway, so he won't be more difficult to deal with than you."

"..." Ye Gucheng didn't know what to say.

"Okay, I'm not going to settle an old score with you." Seeing him fall silent, Yan Liushuang immediately curled the corners of her lips, "And I was the one who went too far at that time, knowing that you like swords and still saying that all day long."

Maybe it was because the moonlight was too good, or maybe her smile at this moment was too bright. Ye Gucheng sat beside her, and for the first time, he had the idea that it would be great if time could stop here.

He has never regretted insisting on learning swords, but now that he thinks about it, he still misses the two years when she pestered him to learn swords.

Because at that time the most he saw in her eyes was himself.

After the two chatted for half an hour, Yan Liushuang stood up and said goodbye to him: "If I go back too late, I will be nagged by my brother. See you at the game tomorrow."

He wanted to send her to the door, but she waved her hand at him, and jumped up the wall in a hurry, saying that it was still so convenient.

After saying this, she will jump down.

Ye Gucheng didn't know what he was thinking, so he stopped her suddenly at this moment and asked, "Who do you want to win?"

Yan Liushuang was inexplicable: "It doesn't matter how I wish, it must be you who win, my brother is much worse than you."

After that, she patted him on the shoulder as if remembering something and said: "By the way, I heard from my father that the sword he forged this time is no worse than the one he gave me back then!"

At this time, she was sitting on the wall, her legs were outside the wall, so it was quite inconvenient to turn around and talk to him like this.

But from Ye Gucheng's point of view, she only felt that her waist wrapped in black was surprisingly thin.

He looked away after only one glance, but neither his heart nor his mind could calm down at all, so that he didn't hear what she said to him at all.

"Huh?" He took a deep breath and forced himself not to think about it, but when he met her eyes, his heart beat a little faster again.

"I said, the sword that you will win tomorrow is the sword that my father is most satisfied with in recent years." Without thinking much, she repeated it, and then said, "Okay, I really have to go , Save my brother and said that I turned my elbow to you."

Ye Gucheng had heard this from Yan Feng countless times, but like Yan Liushuang, he felt that Yan Feng was thinking too much.

Because between him and Yan Feng, she has always been more inclined to Yan Feng.

In the past, he thought it was normal, after all, they were biological brothers and sisters, but now if he heard Yan Feng say that again, he couldn't help but reply in his heart, it's just as good as it is.

Yes, he wanted Yan Liushuang to care about him more like Yan Feng said.

In other words, he wanted Yan Liushuang to care about him the most.

He didn't know exactly when he had this thought, but when he realized it, the thought could no longer be extinguished.

That night he had a very beautiful dream.

In the dream, she saw through his mind and asked him straightforwardly, which made him very embarrassed.

When he was most embarrassed, she raised her hand and hooked his neck.

At this time, the arm capable of performing the Fengyun Changer Saber Technique is surprisingly soft, like clouds in the sky, and also like water plants on the seabed, looping around his neck, it is obvious that he has not exerted any force, but it has the ability to make him unable to break free at all.

Ye Gucheng also realized at this time that this must be a dream.

It's a dream anyway, he thought.

Then he grabbed the slender waist that kept him distracted all night.

The touch from the fingertips was more delicate and smooth than he had imagined, making him use force unconsciously, until she exclaimed and called him Ah Cheng in a very sweet voice.

"Acheng...Acheng..."

"Acheng..."

Finally, he woke up from the sound of Ah Cheng, raised his hand to cover his slightly hot face, and stayed on the bed for more than a quarter of an hour before turning over and getting out of bed.

It was already dawn outside, he finished dressing up, and took advantage of the morning light to practice a complete set of swordsmanship in the courtyard before he finally calmed down.

When he arrived at the competition venue, Yan Feng hadn't arrived yet, but many young swordsmen who had been defeated by the two of them in the past two days had already gathered there.

After all, South China Sea has always been a place where swords and strength can be used to speak, so when the group of swordsmen saw him, they stopped discussing for an instant, and the whole place fell into silence for an instant, until the master of the sword sect and the Yan family who held the sword meeting came together.

Yan Feng frowned when he saw Ye Gucheng.

After frowning, he greeted Ye Gucheng aloud: "Hey, are you here so early?"

Ye Gucheng didn't care about his attitude, just nodded: "You are not too late."

However, what Yan Feng disliked the most was his attitude of being too lazy to argue with him, so after that, he simply ignored the greetings and polite words, and directly stepped forward and said: "Since we are all here, let's start."

This day happened to be a cloudless and sunny day, and the two swords were unsheathed at the same time, emitting a cold light, which shocked the minds of the surrounding observers.

Yan Liushuang and her father had the best view, but neither of them took it too seriously.

The one who watched most seriously was Gong Jiu standing on her right hand with a cold face and silent.

Yan Liushuang was looking around boredly at first, but then she lowered her head and glanced here, noticing that his eyes had been on Ye Gucheng, never moving away for a moment, and suddenly had a bad premonition.

She remembered that Ye Gucheng said that he fell in love with swords because he saw her father and his father's sparring when he was six years old, and decided to learn swords.

So now seeing him and Yan Feng competing, will Gong Jiu also want to learn swords because of this...

Thinking of this, Yan Liushuang heard another exclamation from the crowd.

She looked intently into the arena and found that it was Ye Gucheng's sword that knocked off the golden crown on Yanfeng's head.

At this time, Yan Feng looked a little embarrassed, but he was still able to avoid Ye Gucheng's sword with all his strength.

In contrast, Ye Gucheng seemed to be more at ease. His sword was greatly influenced by the Yan family's swordsmanship at first, and he followed the path of lightness. Later, because of too many competitions with Yan Liushuang, he unconsciously became a little more mad. , so at the moment it seems that it has a meaning of its own.

There were many seniors who were a round or two older than him. Although their swordsmanship was average, they were well-informed and had a bit of vision.

Seeing this scene, they discussed in low voices, saying that they did not expect the Ye family to produce such a swordsman.

There was also a good thing, thinking that the Yan family could not hear it, and began to gloat over there, guessing that if the winner was Ye Gucheng, whether the No. [-] swordsman family in the South China Sea who had been robbed of the limelight would draw a line with Feixian Island and stop dealing with it.

Yan Liushuang only sneered when he heard it, but didn't take it to heart at all.

Compared with this group of third-rate swordsmen who are inferior in skills and don't focus on swords and only know how to chew their tongues, she is more concerned about whether Gong Jiu will also go to learn swords.

Facts have proved that this concern is not unfounded.

When Ye Gucheng's sword touched Yanfeng's neck and won the leader of the Sword Discussion Club, Gong Jiu's eyes lit up again.

Yan Liushuang: "..."

It's over, it's over, I'm afraid I will also be infatuated with the sword!

Noticing that her expression was not very good-looking, Father Yan thought she was uncomfortable, and asked her what was wrong softly.

She shook her head with a sullen face and said nothing, her eyes touched the two people walking here, she pursed her lips, and thought to herself, is this the retribution for pestering Ye Gucheng when she was a child to ask him to learn knives? !

When Ye Gucheng saw this, he wanted to ask her what happened, but before he could reach her, he was stopped by the three masters of the sword sect who organized the Sword Discussion Association.

They said congratulatory words to him, and finally presented the sword brought by the Yan family.

Ye Gucheng had no choice but to thank him earnestly before taking the sword.

Afterwards, he chased after him, and was first praised by Yan's father.

"In two years, I'm afraid I won't be your opponent anymore. What a hero born a young boy." Father Yan said, "Brother Ye must be very happy if Quan Xia knows."

"Uncle Yan's praise."

Father Yan laughed loudly, then patted him on the shoulder, saying that you deserve it.

"Okay dad, I've lost so embarrassingly, and you still keep praising him, pretending that I don't know that you want to take the opportunity to dislike me?" Yan Feng clicked his tongue.

"You kid..."

The father and son just kept talking, which made Ye Gucheng heave a sigh of relief.

He finally had time to turn to Yan Liushuang, who was also looking at him eagerly: "Ah Cheng..."

It was a very common sound, but Ye Gucheng had such a dream last night, so that at this moment when she heard her calling himself Acheng in a drawn out tone, he immediately recalled all the details of the dream.

"What's wrong?" After finally calming down, he heard himself ask.

"I probably still have to go." Her voice was depressed.

Ye Gucheng: "?!"

She pointed to Gong Jiu who was walking in front of them behind Yan Feng, and said, "He probably wants to learn swords too."

Ye Gucheng: "..."

Now he is more depressed than Yan Liushuang.

But what he didn't expect was that in the evening of the end of the Sword Discussion Conference, when they were about to leave, the kid named Gong Jiu came to him on his own initiative.

Thinking of what Yan Liushuang said about the kid wanting to learn swordsmanship, he probably guessed the reason for his visit.

But he didn't speak first.

Two white figures, one big and one small, stood facing each other at the ferry as the sun was setting.

In the end, Gong Jiu raised his head and asked him: "Are you accepting disciples?"

Ye Gucheng said indifferently: "No."

Gong Jiu frowned: "Why?"

Ye Gucheng didn't want to accept an apprentice not only because this was the apprentice Yan Liushuang liked.

He mainly felt that raising an apprentice was too troublesome.

After all, a creature like an apprentice must be more difficult to raise than a cat.

So when he spoke again, he was still indifferent: "Trouble."

Gong Jiu didn't expect this answer, and was speechless for a moment.

Seeing his clenched hands into fists, Ye Gucheng seemed very unwilling, so he pointed out a way for him: "If you really want to learn swordsmanship, you can learn it at Yan's house."

He thought he was being benevolent and righteous here, but Gong Jiu was very dissatisfied: "They are not strong enough."

Ye Gucheng was planning to get on the boat, but when he heard these words, he stopped almost immediately.

"Not strong enough?" He paused, "You mean Yan Feng?"

"And his father." At this time, Gong Jiu was so calm that he didn't look like a child, "It's not as good as you."

"So you want to learn swords from me because you want to become stronger?" Ye Gucheng's voice suddenly brought a smile, "Really?"

Gong Jiu frowned and nodded.

There's nothing wrong with admitting it, he ran away from home, so that one day he could go back and avenge his mother.

So he has to get stronger.

At first he thought Yan Feng was good, but on the first night in South China Sea, he saw how Yan Feng lost to Ye Gucheng.

If he didn't see clearly that time, then after watching today's competition, he was completely sure that Yan Feng would not be able to catch up with Ye Gucheng no matter what.

The head of the Yan family may be better, but it will be a matter of time before Ye Gucheng surpasses him.

I am afraid that he himself is very clear about this.

"Then you have found the wrong person." Ye Gucheng said to him, "I have been defeated by one person for six years. If you just want to become stronger, you might as well ask her to be your teacher."

"Who?" Gong Jiu instinctively didn't believe it.

"The person who wants you to learn how to use a knife." After saying this, Ye Gucheng really laughed.

Gong Jiuyi raised his head, and what he saw was the smiling swordsman who he thought was very indifferent with his eyes squinted.

He felt very strange, what is this person happy about?

What's so great about being a loser for six years? ? ?

The author has something to say: Gong Jiu in the future: Master is amazing, it is really a pleasure to be beaten by her!

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