Novel Full Chapter 550 - Chapter 550: Chapter 263: Luo Changfeng: Is This Tea Really That Hard to Drink?_1
Chapter 550: Chapter 263: Luo Changfeng: Is This Tea Really That Hard to Drink?_1
After making his decision,
Yan Buming, the reigning emperor of the Great Flame Dynasty,
began to ponder on how he himself should act
to shatter the somewhat delicate balance within the Da Feng Dynasty.
What should his own side do,
to both observe the battle from the sidelines and subtly add fuel to the fire in the shadows?
To plunge those three forces back into a maelstrom of conflict.
To achieve this, Yan Buming was well aware that it was no simple task.
After all, within the formerly chaotic territory of the Da Feng Dynasty,
those who had survived till now and grown to their current strength
were unlikely to be fools lacking in cunning.
Thus, to accomplish this,
conspiracy alone might not be enough.
One could only resort to overt schemes.
He needed to make the three forces within the Da Feng Dynasty, despite knowing that the Great Flame Dynasty was stirring trouble behind the scenes, have no choice but to take arms against the other two powers.
Otherwise, if not careful,
the Great Flame Dynasty might just capsize in a gutter.
…
Time flew swiftly by.
In the blink of an eye, three days had passed.
Early in the morning, when the sky was not yet fully bright,
and the air was still slightly cool and carried a hint of earthiness,
in Qingshi City, on the Luo Family ancestral land,
within the courtyard where the Ancestor of the Luo Family resided,
below a simple stone pavilion constructed from ordinary bluestone,
Luo Changfeng, the Patriarch Changfeng stationed in Qingshi City Luo Family, was now sitting silently beneath that stone pavilion,
holding a cup of hot tea in one hand, his eyes slightly narrowed, enjoying the peace and tranquility of the moment.
The pleasure of that feeling was indescribable.
Of course, the one hundred high-quality Formation Disks had already been refined, and the formations successfully inscribed within them, all a day earlier.
Next, he only needed to quietly wait for the Carefree Monk to come and get them.
After all, it was only after completing this task
that Luo Changfeng could enjoy the rare peace and quiet.
Otherwise, even if he wished to rest properly,
he reckoned it would be somewhat difficult to fully calm his mind and sense the fluctuations of the world around him, as well as the time that inadvertently slipped away.
“Patriarch Changfeng.”
Suddenly, a voice, youthful yet tinged with maturity,
abruptly rang in his ear.
Although Luo Changfeng didn’t turn his head,
he could clearly identify
that the one who had entered his courtyard was Luo Youwei, the little girl who had been away from the family for some time and had only just returned a few days ago.
“How have you been adjusting since returning to the family these past few days?”
Underneath the stone pavilion,
after finishing the cup of tea in his hand,
Luo Changfeng finally turned slightly,
looking at Luo Youwei beside him, who seemed to have shed her childishness, and, as if matured by the years and the cold, harsh teachings of society,
appeared increasingly sophisticated.
He asked in a calm voice.
“It’s been okay…”
Luo Youwei smiled and then continued, “Even though I wasn’t away from the family for too long, the changes within the clan are so great it feels somewhat unbelievable. Who could have imagined a few years ago that our Qingshi City Luo Family could develop to this point, to be named one of the Da Feng Dynasty’s three major forces alongside the Royal Feng Family of the Da Feng Dynasty and the White Brahma Temple, one of the three great Demonic Path forces of Buddhism?”
“The situation of three powers in balance certainly shocked countless eyes.”
Under the pavilion,
Luo Changfeng first poured himself another cup of tea.
Then, he took an unused ceramic cup
and poured Luo Youwei a cup as well.
He pointed to the cup in front of her
and slowly said, “This tripartite balance is merely superficial. The forces within the Da Feng Dynasty today are like solitary boats afloat in a hurricane. Despite seemingly maintaining calm at the moment, as time goes by, this delicate balance will inevitably be forcibly shattered one day.”
“And with this delicate balance disrupted,”
“the peaceful Da Feng Dynasty, I fear, will once again be tossed into tumult.”
After Luo Changfeng finished speaking,
he lifted the cup of hot tea in his hand
to his lips,
blew on it gently, and then began to sip it in small mouthfuls.
Luo Youwei, hearing these words,
frowned slightly
but did not continue to inquire further.
She just quietly sat opposite her Patriarch Changfeng,
then gently lifted the cup of tea he had poured for her with both hands
and silently began to drink.
However, as soon as the tea entered her mouth,
her brow involuntarily furrowed tighter.
The calm expression on her face was involuntarily disrupted.
This tea… so hard to drink.
Unbearably so, as always.
If she remembered correctly, she had tasted the tea poured by Patriarch Changfeng when she first left the family.
She had thought that with the passage of time,
even if Patriarch Changfeng continued to drink tea, the tea itself might have changed.
But unexpected…
The flavor of the tea was almost exactly the same as the one she had tasted before she left the family.