Chapter 1706: Chapter 1706: Bully Them However I Want
Xu Qinglang and Xu Zhiyuan ca with gifts and were dressed very formally.
“Mr. Luo promised my father before the competition that he would teach Zhiyuan the Taiyi Divine Needle. After the competition, he reaffird that he would keep this promise. Therefore, today, as his father, I have brought Zhiyuan to formally acknowledge him as a ntor.” After entering, Xu Qinglang bowed and stated his purpose, “The Taiyi Divine Needle is a divine art in the field of traditional dicine; learning it requires seriousness. Therefore, I’ve brought Zhiyuan today to perform the ceremony of acknowledging a ntor.”
Luo Ziling had guessed the purpose of the Xu family father and son’s visit today, so he wasn’t surprised when he heard Xu Qinglang say this.
“Since Old Mr. Xu and Mr. Xu are so particular, I can’t refuse,” Luo Ziling said with a smile, “However, the formal ntor ceremony should be held in the presence of my grandfather. How about this, today we’ll hold a simple ntor ceremony, and do the formal ceremony when Zhiyuan cos to Huaxia.”
Luo Ziling calculated that if Xu Zhiyuan acknowledged him as a ntor, he and Xu Qinglang would be of the sa generation, Xu Chongzhi would be one generation higher than him, but still lower than his grandfather Luo Liansheng. In the future, if Xu Chongzhi t his grandfather Luo Liansheng, he would have to respectfully call him ntor, or ntor-apprentice, or uncle.
Being able to bring honor to his grandfather and elevate Xu Chongzhi by a generation, Luo Ziling was quite pleased.
So, in the presence of Ling Ruonan and several other won, Xu Zhiyuan perford the ceremony of acknowledging a ntor in the hotel room.
The ceremony was simple and didn’t involve setting up an incense table, but Xu Zhiyuan still knelt before Luo Ziling and respectfully kowtowed three tis.
Sitting properly, watching Xu Zhiyuan uneasily kneeling and kowtowing before him, Luo Ziling felt a bit elated.
After Xu Zhiyuan kowtowed, he stood up, respectfully brewed tea for Luo Ziling, and handed it to him.
Luo Ziling knew the ntor ceremony well, so he enjoyed accepting Zhiyuan’s tea, took a sip before setting it down.
He accepted the gifts brought by Xu Zhiyuan and Xu Qinglang.
Seeing Xu Zhiyuan’s uneasy expression, Luo Ziling couldn’t help but tease, “Disciple, do you know the ancient teaching ‘a ntor for a day, a father for life’?”
These words caused Xu Qinglang, who was quietly watching everything from the side, to twitch his mouth, and Xu Zhiyuan to grit his teeth a little more.
Actually, he didn’t fully understand why his grandfather insisted on him acknowledging Luo Ziling as a ntor. Initially, it wasn’t agreed upon that he would acknowledge Luo Ziling as a ntor. Without this premise, Luo Ziling would still teach him the acupuncture skill. But acknowledging Luo Ziling as a ntor made things completely different.
After today’s competition ended, when Xu Zhiyuan and Xu Qinglang returned ho with Xu Chongzhi, Xu Chongzhi solemnly instructed Zhiyuan to visit in the afternoon to acknowledge a ntor and try to settle the matter of learning the Taiyi Divine Needle. Xu Qinglang speculated that Xu Chongzhi was deeply affected today, knowing himself that there was indeed a significant gap between his acupuncture skill and Luo Ziling’s. Therefore, he couldn’t wait to have Zhiyuan learn the Taiyi Divine Needle. Xu Chongzhi feared that in his lifeti, he wouldn’t see South Korean traditional dicine techniques surpassing Huaxia’s, otherwise, he wouldn’t have taken this action, so Xu Qinglang didn’t express anything.
Of course, Xu Qinglang only guessed one aspect correctly, the most important purpose for Xu Chongzhi to have Zhiyuan imdiately acknowledge Luo Ziling as a ntor was to obtain so of the Luo Family’s secret formulas. To acquire those, paying a price wouldn’t matter.
Naturally, the person who understood the least was Xu Zhiyuan, who was certainly unwilling to acknowledge Luo Ziling as a ntor.
Today, Luo Ziling won over Xu Chongzhi in the competition, and as Xu Chongzhi’s grandson, he felt as vexed as he could be, even seeing Luo Ziling as an enemy. Today, Luo Ziling was too high-profile, and his behavior seed to dean Xu Chongzhi and all of South Korea, making the young and impulsive Xu Zhiyuan angry. In this situation, acknowledging Luo Ziling as a ntor left him very unwilling.
But his grandfather’s will had to be executed, so he obediently followed Xu Qinglang to visit Luo Ziling and acknowledge Luo Ziling as a ntor on the spot.
After Luo Ziling accepted Xu Zhiyuan’s ntor ceremony, he pointed to Ling Ruonan sitting to the side, “This is your ntor’s mother, what should you call her? You can’t call her ‘Maternal ntor,’ as a ntor’s mother can’t be called that. You have to call her ‘ntor grandmother,’ and this is my sister, you have to call her ‘ntor aunt.’ Yes, you also have to kowtow.”
Thus, under Luo Ziling’s arrangent, Xu Zhiyuan again kowtowed to Ling Ruonan and Luo Yuqing.
Ling Ruonan and Luo Yuqing didn’t put on airs and gladly accepted Xu Zhiyuan’s grand ceremony.
After kowtowing several tis, Xu Zhiyuan’s handso face turned red.
If not for Xu Qinglang monitoring from the side, he would have almost lost control.
It was simply too much to endure!
Fortunately, Luo Ziling didn’t deliberately make things difficult for him. After these ceremonies, he graciously invited him to stand and earnestly instructed him a few words.
Finally, it was agreed that Xu Zhiyuan would co to Huaxia to seek Luo Ziling after a while. In the coming years, Zhiyuan would stay by Luo Ziling’s side to learn traditional dical techniques and would not return ho until he had mastered them.
After sending away the deeply vexed Xu Qinglang and Xu Zhiyuan, Luo Ziling couldn’t help but laugh triumphantly, “I actually have a disciple now; I can order soone around as I please. By the way, what should Xu Zhiyuan call my grandfather, do you know?”
“Ancestral ntor?” Luo Yuqing hesitated, “I really don’t know what to call him!”
“Go back and ask your grandfather, he should know,” Ling Ruonan was also quite pleased, after the Korean dical Sage Xu Chongzhi lost to Luo Ziling, he imdiately sent his grandson to acknowledge a ntor, surprising her but also making her happy.
Because this behavior indicated that Xu Chongzhi was sincerely convinced he lost, otherwise, he wouldn’t have sent his grandson to acknowledge a ntor.
However, she also thought of another point, which was that Xu Zhiyuan’s acknowledgnt of a ntor might have special purposes.
“Be careful of their ulterior motives,” Ling Ruonan reminded.
“If I’m not mistaken, Xu Chongzhi wants his grandson to learn the most exquisite acupuncture techniques and also obtain so of our unique prescriptions. Otherwise, he wouldn’t have taken the Taiyi Divine Needle technique and prescriptions as the bet he hopes to win,” Luo Ziling had actually thought of this too.
Seeing that Luo Ziling had such thoughts, Ling Ruonan was sowhat relieved.
Just as everyone was happily making a fuss, Luo Ziling received news from Ouyang Feifei, saying she would arrive in Seoul in the evening, accompanied by Ishihara Naka.
She told Luo Ziling so surprising news, that Ishihara Naka was ordered by Ishihara Tarou to seek dical apprenticeship under him.
Ouyang Feifei’s news surprised Luo Ziling for a mont, but then he laughed happily, “Xu Zhiyuan and Ishihara Naka becoming fellow apprentices, haha, this will be interesting. A Korean and a Japanese becoming the disciples of , a Huaxia person; can I strut around a bit now? In the future, I can bully them however I want; just thinking about it is delightful.”
Seeing Luo Ziling’s petty pleased expression, Yang Qingyin and Luo Yuqing both showed their disdain.
User Comments
0 comments from readers