Chapter 517 Encounter
When the children of the aristocratic families of Da Yan reach a certain age or level of cultivation, their elders will arrange for them to travel.
Knowledge gained from books is always shallow. Reading thousands of books is never as good as traveling thousands of miles. A caged bird that never leaves the house cannot control the family. The experience and knowledge gained from traveling around the world will become a precious wealth for the next generation to take power.
Moreover, traveling is also a common way for the children to expand their network of contacts. They make friends with people in need during their travels, and some of them will return to the family in the form of connections ten or even dozens of years later.
In the long years of the past, this habit has even become a custom, but this custom of traveling does not include children who cannot practice, especially women.
There are too many accidents in the world, and without cultivation, these children are destined to have no self-protection ability when accidents happen.
The second reason is because of blood.
Food, sex and nature.
When traveling, most of the children of the aristocratic families are at the age of first love. The senior members of the aristocratic families have all experienced that period, so they do not reject the occurrence of this phenomenon.
But the problem is that the person you are dating must at least be a cultivator.
The difference between immortals and mortals is not just talk.
This is a change of concept that you will never understand if you have never experienced it.
The majority of friends that descendants with cultivation choose to make are cultivators, while mortal descendants are completely different. In the past, there were too many mortal descendants who fell in love with some strange people for various reasons.
Widows, wives, prostitutes, wanderers, rough men, merchants, etc.
Compared with men, women are more vulnerable.
Because even if male descendants fall in love with mortals, at least they will not return to the mansion with a big belly.
Illegitimate children are always a scandal that brings shame to the family. These people come to the door with their children. Should they raise them or not?
More importantly,
if the proportion of descendants born with mortals is high, what should be done if the family's cultivation bloodline is turbid?
A large part of the power of the aristocratic family is rooted in the generations of powerful people with profound cultivation. If there is no talented next generation born for a long time, the family will inevitably decline step by step.
This is the experience and lesson that the aristocratic families have explored through the lessons of generations, and it is also the iron rule that the aristocratic families want to pass on from generation to generation.
And Long Xinling is such a child of an aristocratic family.
She is of saintly blood, but born with a useless body.
Like Xu Yuan, she won the lottery, and like Xu Yuan, she can't sit still.
She longs for freedom and the wonderful world outside the mansion.
But compared with the extremely relaxed family environment of the Xiangguo Mansion, Long Xinling can only look at the sky outside through the thin iron bars like a bird in a cage. The strict family education of the Long family in the capital has confined her firmly in the Long family mansion.
But the only thing to be thankful for is that Long Xinling, like Xu Yuan, has an elder brother who loves her very much.
On her sixteenth birthday, with the help of her elder brother, the naturally jumpy Long Xinling escaped from the cage that had imprisoned her for sixteen years for the first time without telling her elders.
It was also at that time that Long Xinling met Lou Ji, who was only twelve years old, at the brilliant age of sixteen.
Dried blood can often be seen on the brown soil of the Black Alley. Most of the streets are mixed with blood and excrement, very dirty and smelly.
However, Long Xinling didn't care. She was curious about everything new around her, jumping in the crowd with her eyes flashing.
When street vendors fought over a few copper coins, she would applaud beside them.
When she saw a drunk lying on the street, she would pinch her nose and poke him with her fingers to see if he was dead.
When she saw a snack she had never eaten before, she would directly use a large silver note to buy the street snack worth only a few coins.
Her gorgeous clothes and clear and stupid eyes naturally attracted the attention of many people.
Among them was Lou Ji who passed by.
When Long Xinling was swaggering in the most prosperous street of the Black Alley, Lou Ji passed by him in a black tights.
However, Lou Ji's attention only flashed on Long Xinling.
Let go of the plot of helping others and respect the fate of others.
She had seen the darkness of the alley swallow up some rich young men who came here to admire its reputation. If it were three years ago, she might have set her sights on this young lady who was obviously inexperienced in the world, but now that she had the help of the old man, she didn't need that.
Unfortunately, although Lou Ji let Long Xinling go, Long Xinling didn't let her go.
The curious baby immediately showed a hint of curiosity after seeing Lou Ji passing by, and wanted to call her. Seeing that she didn't respond, he ran a few steps and reached out to grab the girl with an indifferent look.
There was no other reason.
Because this is a society that values appearance, and Lou Ji was born beautiful.
The kind of beauty that can be turned back suddenly after a glance in the crowd.
Her temperament and appearance seemed incompatible with the dirtiness of the alley, so Long Xinling was curious.
And obviously, the first encounter obtained in this way was not friendly.
Long Xinling was like a jumping fledgling, while little Lou Ji was like an indifferent black cat. Her slender wrist was pulled, but the look back was so flat that it seemed as if there was no emotion.
Under Xiao Louji's gaze, Long Xinling became a little nervous, and stumbled over a few stupid questions such as "Where is your home?", so that Xiao Louji thought this young lady was mentally ill.
Out of pity, Xiao Louji kindly reminded Long Xinling after listening to her questions in silence.
Tell her not to show off her wealth in the alley, and then go home quickly, the alley is not a place for a young lady like her.
When she said this, she casually glanced at the desperate criminals around her who were ready to move.
They avoided her wherever they saw.
The three years of working under the old man made this twelve-year-old girl have a great reputation in the alley.
But what Xiao Lou Ji didn't expect was that her kind reminder did not seem to have a warning effect, but made the young lady completely let down her guard and turned on a certain switch.
He kept chattering in her ears all the way.
For Long Xinling, this cold little girl was very mysterious.
And mystery means she is curious.
In the noise that followed all the way, Xiao Lou Ji silently walked to the entrance of the alley, and then said the second sentence since they met, and the last sentence of their first meeting.
Leave the alley and go home.
Then, little Lou Ji quietly disappeared in the crowd of the black alley while Long Xinling was in a daze.
At that time, Lou Ji really didn't expect that this annoying young lady would appear at the place where they met yesterday the next day.
Long Xinling directly sold a stall there.
Sitting behind the stall, she didn't care about the attention from the people around her, holding her cheeks, and looking around the crowd with bored eyes.
It was this moment of daze that made the eyes of the two of them look at each other in the crowd.
Long Xinling's eyes were excited.
Lou Ji turned around with a cold face and left, ignoring the excited shouts behind.
The second encounter ended like this.
After a period of time, Lou Ji changed the route home specifically for this.
It was also because of this change that Lou Ji and Long Xinling's third encounter took place in the spacious house at the deepest part of the black alley.