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

All in all, the scene where Yan Feng was expecting Ye Gucheng to be stabbed still didn't happen.

This made him very unhappy, and he was even more unhappy when he thought that Yan Liushuang would live on Feixian Island and not go home for the next two months.

So before leaving, he didn't forget to give Ye Gucheng a hard look.

Ye Gucheng had just learned the whole story from Yan Liushuang, and now he was so grateful to him that when he glared at him, he just kindly told him to be careful on the road.

Yan Feng: "..." Don't you want to be so proud!Please collect it!

Ye Gucheng just pretended not to understand his eyes.

Yan Liushuang was used to the way the two of them got along, so she wasn't surprised at all.

Gong Jiu, on the other hand, looked back and forth between the two of them a few times, looking thoughtful.

Knowing that she was going to stay here for a while, everyone in the City Lord's Mansion was very happy, including the grizzled old butler Wei Boyou.

Wei Bo pulled her and said, "That Miss Shuang still lives in the same courtyard as before?"

Yan Liushuang was a little surprised, and after being surprised, she refused: "There has been no one living there for two years, so it should be quite troublesome for you to clean up. I can just stay in the guest room with the two of them."

Wei Bo immediately waved his hand: "No one lives, no one lives, but the yard is cleaned up every month, and Miss Shuang's things are also kept."

Speaking of this, Yan Liushuang really couldn't justify saying no.

So she nodded in response, then turned to Ximen Chuuxue and Gong Jiu, and said, "Let's go, let's take you to the place where you live first."

Ximen Chuuxue had no objection, but Gong Jiu raised her head after oh and asked her, "Can't I live with Master?"

Yan Liushuang was stunned, but she didn't immediately say no, she just asked doubtfully, "Do you want to live with me?"

Gong Jiu lowered his eyes and hummed.

Yan Liushuang had seen this expression before, it was like that when he said she was a bit like his mother before.

So after hesitating for a while, she still softened her heart: "That's fine, it's also convenient for me to watch you practice."

Ye Gucheng, who was silent all the time, frowned upon hearing this.

He really didn't expect that Gong Jiu, who refused to pay attention to Yan Liushuang before, would be so clingy to her after worshiping her teacher, but at this moment, he was just surprised and didn't think much about it.After all, Gong Jiu is too young, it's normal to want to get closer to people who are a little closer to him.

In contrast, Ximen Chuuxue, who was only two years older than Gong Jiu, was easy to handle.

He didn't have any complaints about staying in the guest room, because his attention was already on Ye Gucheng's sword.

As someone who has experienced it, Ye Gucheng can fully understand his mood.

So every morning after the two of them met by Xijian Pond, Ye Gucheng would have a brief chat with him.

Most of the time, they talked about swords.

Although Ximen Chuuxue is young, his understanding of swords is not shallow.

After Ye Gucheng chatted with him for the first time, he never regarded him as a child again.

It is said that he was asked to take Ximen Chuuxue to practice swords together, but in fact Ximen Chuuxue doesn't need Ye Gucheng to bother with him.

He still practiced swords by the sword washing pool as before, the only difference was that there was an audience who knew swords very well.

Compared with the quietness on their side, Yan Liushuang and Gong Jiu, who were also two people, were much more lively on the opposite side of Xijian Pond.

Across the entire pool, Ye Gucheng can still often hear Gong Jiu exclaiming that Master is so amazing!

When Yan Liushuang heard such words, he usually laughed twice and then patted him on the head, saying that Xiao Jiu also practiced well.

When Ye Gucheng practiced the sword, he could keep his mind free from distracting thoughts, but when he put away the sword, only her crisp voice was left in his ears.

He felt that the voice was more refreshing than the autumn wind in the South China Sea, and it was a cloudless and sunny day in his heart.

It's a pity that two months passed in the blink of an eye, and when it rained again in the South China Sea, Father Yan left the customs.

As soon as Father Yan left the customs, Yan Liushuang would naturally take his cousin Ximen Chuuxue back.

Ye Gucheng only nodded when he knew about it, and said that he would send them off when the time came.

Yan Liushuang waved his hand: "It's not that I don't know the way, you are so busy, don't bother."

He pursed his lips and said seriously: "No trouble." How could your affairs be troublesome.

So, Yan Liushuang did not refuse.

She only thought that he was too close to Ximen Chuuxue, who also loves swords, and joked with him on the way back: "Axue is more like your brother than my brother."

Ye Gucheng was noncommittal about this evaluation, but when he heard it, he still glanced at Ximen Chuuxue who was sitting in the stern, and it turned out that Ximen Chuuxue was also looking at them.

He frowned slightly, as if he was wondering about something, but after a while, he lowered his eyes to read the sword manual again.

Seeing this, Ye Gucheng didn't think much about it, but when he got off the boat, he and Ximen Chuuxue were walking behind, and he suddenly heard Ximen Chuuxue say to him: "You like her."

That tone was extremely firm, as if he knew he would not refute.

In fact, Ye Gucheng did not refute. He let out an ah, and his eyes fell on the person in front of him.

As the sun sets, the girl in black is walking on the shallows with the little boy who only reaches her waist, seeming to be shining.

Ye Gucheng just looked at it for a moment, and a smile unconsciously hung on his lips.

Then he heard himself say, "Yes, I like her."

Ximen Chuuxue frowned: "Why didn't you tell her if you liked it?"

He sighed and didn't answer.

Fortunately, Ximen Chuuxue didn't dig into the root of this problem, and then followed him quickly.

The four arrived at Yan's house before dark.

The Yan's house, which has always been very deserted, is brightly lit today, and the attendants walk quickly to and fro. When they see Yan Liushuang coming back, they all say the same thing, girl, you are back!

Yan Liushuang: "Ah? Did something happen at home?"

"As soon as the suzerain left the customs, people from the Hainan faction came to visit!" The attendant said happily, "he moved a lot of things to us."

"Hainan faction?" Yan Liushuang heard that someone was giving a gift, and instinctively thought it was someone who came to ask for a sword again, and asked with some doubts, "I remember they came here to ask for a sword last year, don't they know my father's rules? ?”

Forging a sword is a very sad thing, especially for a swordsmith like Father Yan who is very demanding of himself and the sword. If someone comes to ask for it and agrees to it several times, it is tantamount to death.

So the whole South China Sea knows that no matter what sect, they can only ask the Yan family for a sword once in ten years.

And the Yan family might not agree.

"No, Miss misunderstood, they didn't come to ask for a sword." The attendant said.

"What are you here for?" Yan Liushuang frowned, "My father doesn't have much friendship with the head of the Hainan faction, does he?"

"They are here to propose marriage for the young master of Hainan Sect."

When Yan Liushuang heard this answer, her first reaction was - "Ah?!"

She paused for a moment, then grabbed the attendant and asked, "What's the matter with the marriage proposal?"

The attendant could only tell her what he heard, but he didn't hear much at first, and he couldn't make it clear in the end.

Yan Liushuang was very impatient, and simply said: "Forget it, let me go and have a look."

She ran over in such a hurry, and when she ran to the banquet hall, she remembered that there was another apprentice following her, so she hurriedly stopped and told Gong Jiu: "Xiao Jiu, go back and rest first."

Gong Jiu ran with her before, and ran with a little reluctance, but now his face was blushing, his breath was uneven, and he paused when he spoke.

He asked her, "Is Master getting married?"

Yan Liushuang poohed and said to marry a woolen yarn, she didn't even know who the young master of the Hainan faction was.

These words not only reassured Gong Jiu, but also relieved Ye Gucheng who had been shocked until now after hearing the news.

But Ye Gucheng did not leave obediently like Gong Jiu, he insisted on following in to see what was going on.

"The young master of the Hainan faction also participated in the Sword Discussion Meeting," he said.

"Really?" Yan Liushuang had no memory at all, "What does it look like?"

"It's my last opponent on the second day."

Yan Liushuang still had no memory, there was nothing she could do, the opponents Ye Gucheng encountered at the Sword Discussion Meeting were defeated too quickly, often Ye Gucheng won before she could see their faces clearly.

"Forget it, you'll know when you go in and have a look." She clicked her tongue.

"Yeah." He nodded and followed.

When the two went in, Father Yan seemed to be politely refusing on her behalf.

When dealing with aristocratic families, it is rare to speak harshly, so Father Yan still demoted her daughter first.

He was being polite, but the other party was very good at climbing along the pole. He interrupted halfway through hearing it: "At this age, children are also playful. I think they are a good match."

Yan Liushuang immediately rolled her eyes when she heard the words.

She glanced at the people present in the banquet hall, from the nonsense head of the Hainan Sect to a group of disciples wearing the black and white robes of the Hainan Sect by the door, but she still couldn't recognize which one was their young master.

Then she simply asked under the surprised eyes of a group of people: "Who is going to marry me?"

"A Shuang!" Father Yan called to stop her with a headache, "Go back to your room first."

"I said dad, after all, this is my lifelong event." She talked about this topic without any hesitation, "Can't I still know?"

As soon as these words came out, everyone in the hall was silent for a moment.

After a while, a young man sitting on the right hand side of the head of the Hainan faction stood up with a bang: "Yan...Miss Yan..."

Yan Liushuang followed the voice and looked at the past: "You want to marry me?"

Probably because this posture was too domineering, the young man stammered a bit when he spoke again: "Yes yes yes ... it's me."

Yan Liushuang: "..."

In fact, she really wanted to ask who are you.

But after hesitating for a while, she still spoke more tactfully.

She said sorry I don't seem to know you.

The young man blushed, but after taking a deep breath, he still mustered up his courage and said, "When I came with my father to ask for a sword in Mid-Autumn Festival last year, I was lucky enough to meet Miss Yan at the seaside."

As soon as he mentioned Mid-Autumn Festival, Yan Liushuang remembered it.

Because her master's death day is the eighth day of August, every year at that time, she would go to Feixian Island and Ye Gucheng to worship her master, stay for two or three days, and finally go home before the Mid-Autumn Festival.

But even if it happened to be at that time, so what?

She felt very baffled: "So you came to propose?"

The young man lowered his head and cupped his hands and said seriously: "At that time, I had a quick glance, and then I will see Miss Yan at the sword meeting..."

Yan Liushuang: "..."

Just when she didn't know what to say, Ye Gucheng, who followed along, said, "On the sword?"

Ye Gucheng said: "A Shuang used the saber, but he didn't make a move at the sword discussion meeting. It seems that I am the one who is competing with you."

In fact, the young master didn't mean that at all. After all, everyone knew that Miss Yan's family didn't learn swordsmanship, but when Ye Gucheng said that, the focus of the group of people became his last sentence.

And he was also sarcastically mocked by Ye Gucheng in front of Yan Liushuang.

So as soon as Ye Gucheng finished speaking, he lowered his head in embarrassment.

Also embarrassed was the head of the Hainan faction, he chuckled twice, and said, "Master Yecheng's swordsmanship is superb, and the dog is indeed far behind."

Ye Gucheng accepted the unwilling compliment with his expression unchanged, and then turned to Father Yan, who was on the main seat, and said, "Uncle Yan has a guest, and Gucheng shouldn't bother you, but it's about Ah Shuang's life, so you can't do it in a moment of urgency." I followed in, and I hope Uncle Yan will forgive me."

The use of this "momentary urgency" caused the complexions of the Hainan faction to change again, especially the young master who was lowered by what he said just now, almost instantly stared at him with wide eyes.

As for Father Yan, upon hearing this, the corners of his lips slowly curled up.

Seeing this, the head of the Hainan faction almost understood.

But seeing his son's dejected appearance, he still wanted to fight for him: "Although the child is dull, but he is sincere to Ling Ai, brother Yan might as well think again."

Yan Liushuang wanted to laugh when she heard this, but she held back.

She directly said before Yan's father and the head continued to be polite: "It's useless to ask my father to think about it. Even if he agrees, I won't marry if I don't want to marry. It's getting dark soon. Please invite me." Come back."

"Okay, Ah Shuang." Father Yan stopped her again, "How can you talk like that."

"I've always been like this." She said confidently, "It's not the first day you know, and I'm not wrong, can you still force me?"

If the daughter of an ordinary family dared to talk to her father like that, the whole family might be turned upside down.

That is Yan Liushuang, who took it for granted and didn't take it seriously at all.

Father Yan laughed for a while, and said: "I wouldn't force you."

As soon as these words came out, the head of the Hainan faction knew that his son was completely useless.

As the leader of a faction, he certainly doesn't want to lose any face, no matter how much he feels sorry for his son, he can't say anything else, so he stood up and cupped his hands and said: "Since Brother Yan has made a decision in his heart, let's leave. "

"It doesn't count as a decision." Father Yan smiled, "You all know that I am too forgetful. If Gucheng didn't happen to come here today, I would never have remembered that Brother Ye and I had an appointment to be our children's family. , so it’s still my fault.”

The head of the Hainan faction didn't know whether his words were true or whether they were giving them a chance to step down, but when the other party said this, of course he could only follow along: "It's okay, it's okay, Brother Yan is expensive after all. I'm busy with personnel, so let's do it, it's really getting late, it's not appropriate for us to interrupt, let's sit down and talk about it when we have a chance."

Father Yan also stood up and said, "I'll see you off."

After the group left the banquet hall in a mighty manner, Yan Liushuang grabbed Ye Gucheng's arm and said, "Wait ah Cheng, did I hear you right? What my father just said was that he had an appointment with Master." Do you want to be your son and daughter's family?"

When she said this, her face was full of disbelief, that expression made Ye Gucheng's heart tighten, and then he heard himself say in a deep voice: "Yes."

"He probably said that to send people away?" Yan Liushuang didn't want it to be true at all.

Ye Gucheng understood her eyes, and felt his heart drop.

He actually knew about this verbal engagement when his father was still alive.

The father and son sat on the porch one afternoon and chatted, from the weather in the South China Sea to the sword manual he read recently, sentence after sentence, but most of them were very short.

When the chat was almost over, his cat jumped in from the courtyard wall and pounced on him, and he caught it habitually.

After the cat litter was on his lap, he licked it in the palm of his hand as usual, and he smoothed its fur twice after it finished licking.

His father watched him move, and suddenly asked him: "Did you raise this cat for Ah Shuang?"

He hummed and admitted, saying that she likes cats, but she can't keep them, and cats don't get close to her.

"So you raised one for her?"

"Well, I want to thank her."

"Just thank you?"

At that time, he hadn't understood the deep meaning of his father's words, but he already knew vaguely that he was willing to spend so much time feeding a cat, not just to thank her.

After pondering for a moment, he raised his head and said to his father, "I think she is happy."

The father laughed as soon as he heard it, and the smile was very shallow. After the smile, the father asked: "Then is she happy?"

Ye Gucheng said yes, she was very happy.

Then his father asked him again, would you like to make her happy all your life?

"When your mother was pregnant with you, I made an appointment with your Uncle Yan. If it happened to be a man and a woman, we would become in-laws.

"However, this is what we said verbally twice, which cannot be counted, so that no matter who of you has someone else you like in the future, you won't hurt your friendship.

"But seeing how you are doing now, maybe you can really do it.

"It's not bad if it's true. Ah Shuang has a very good temper, and I'm relieved to have her by your side."

Ye Gucheng didn't say anything after listening to his father's words.

At that time, he felt that marrying a wife was far away from him. Similarly, it was too early for Yan Liushuang to marry.

However, in a blink of an eye, she already had an admirer who came to ask her to marry her, and he finally realized that he really liked her, so much that he couldn't help but sarcasm when he saw a rival who was not a rival at all.

He likes her, and he is willing to make her happy all his life.

"No, it's true." After recovering from the memory, he said to her, "Father did make an agreement with Uncle Yan."

"Huh?" Yan Liushuang was dumbfounded.

After a while, she ran out, "No, no, I'm going to tell my father, I can't mess around with your marriage like this."

He was so annoyed by the word nonsense, he clasped her wrist and held her back without thinking, and said, "I don't think it's nonsense."

"You...!" She jumped up and knocked on his head, puffing her face and said, "Ah Cheng, you are stupid! What will you do if you have a girl you like in the future?!"

"I already have it." He squeezed her arm tightly, looked into her bright eyes and said very seriously, and repeated it after he finished speaking, as if he was afraid that she might not hear clearly, "I already have it."

Yan Liushuang originally wanted to say when you became a girl who was used to it, but after meeting his eyes, she understood everything. Her body shook, and she subconsciously took a step back, but his hand was still held by him. There is nowhere to retreat.

"You...don't be joking." I understood in my heart, but I still tried to escape.

"No kidding," he said, "I don't joke about things like this."

The tone was so firm that Yan Liushuang felt that if she questioned her again, it would definitely hurt his heart.

But why... how did he fall in love with her?

She couldn't speak, and subconsciously turned her head away from being watched by him.

But even without looking at him, she could still hear him.

He said: "I have someone I like, and that person is you."

So the engagement was no nonsense to him.

"Why?" Her voice trembled a little.

"Why do you like someone?" He asked back.

"But you can't like..." You can't like me, if you like me, you will be sad in the future.

"Why not?" He held her shoulders, making her face himself with nowhere to hide.

She couldn't tell him the cruel reason, let alone she knew the reason, no one would believe her even if she told her, so she could only bite her lip and not speak.

That look and that look made Ye Gucheng's heart tremble, he thought it was really strange, he was the one who was being rejected, why did it seem like she was the sadder one?

But there is no way, when she is sad, his heart seems to be completely tightened.

He sighed resignedly, let go of her wrist and shoulders after sighing, took the initiative to take a step back and said, "...Sorry."

"I—I don't know how to put it," he said, "but I probably can't do it without liking you."