ACultivator'sCampusLife

Chapter 80 Parents Were Children's Best Teachers

Lu Yiqian loved to drink, but he couldn't drink much. After drinking a few cups of wine, he was already a little drunk.

Although it was Lu Yao's first time drinking, he was still young after all. Besides, he had practiced a lot during cultivation. Therefore, the wine didn't seem to work on him.

Many people would talk endlessly after they drank much. But Lu Yao and Lu Yiqian were the exact opposite.

As they drank and ate, they talked less, and the atmosphere became a little dull.

Although they had a deep relationship with each other, perhaps because there was no woman in the family, they were not used to expressing their love to each other.

Neither of them was good at expressing their feelings.

Especially Lu Yiqian. He usually loved and doted on Lu Yao to the extreme.

As long as he got something rare or good, he would instinctively think of leaving it for Lu Yao.

But if he was asked to say something to express his feelings in front of Lu Yao, that was absolutely impossible.

He was exactly the same as most of the fathers.

When his son was young, a father might have been able to say some loving words to him, but as the kid grew older, he would never express his love to his son in a candid way. It was impossible for him to say things like "Boy, I love you" or "Son, I miss you".

However, even so, other kids were much luckier than Lu Yao.

Although their fathers might not be good at expressing their feelings, the other kids had amiable mothers who could express love for them and therefore the kids would not feel anything strange about their lives.

However, Lu Yao did not have a mother. To be more accurate, he had never seen his mother. As he grew older, he had never heard any loving words from Lu Yiqian.

Today was the day that Lu Yao ended his high school life. After today, he no longer needed to go to school.

The college entrance examination, which could change the fate of so many families, would start soon. With Lu Yao's current strength, he would be able to get the admission notice of any university in Shina.

Of course, every coin had two sides. This also meant that there were not many opportunities for the two of them to sit down and eat together like this from today onward.

The new semester in universities usually started at the beginning of September every year, so in September, Lu Yao would definitely go on a train to the east. He would leave his hometown and go to university alone.

Although both of them had been looking forward to this day for a long time, when it came in the blink of an eye, they hoped that they could have more time being together.

Although Lu Yao was not good with words, he was very sensible. He knew that it would be better for him to speak first in such a situation. So he drank a cup of water to moisten his throat and said, "Godfather, I will be participating in the college entrance examination in a few days!"

"Yes, I know. Do your best. Don't be nervous. Recall all the things you have learnt. Even if you don't do well in the end, it doesn't matter. I only hope that you won't regret it!" Lu Yiqian put down the wine glass and chopsticks in his hand and said earnestly.

"If things go smoothly, I should be able to be enrolled by Xijing University!"

"Oh, that's good. As a man, you should keep your word. After all, you promised Ruoyun that you would go to Xijing University with her. This can also be considered as fulfilling your promise to her!" Lu Yiqian paused for a moment and then said.

"Godfather, I want you to go to Xijing with me. Will you consider it?" Lu Yao carefully observed Lu Yiqian's expression.

"No need! I am old and won't be able to help you when I get there. I will only drag you down if I go there with you. Your learning progress will be delayed because of me!" Lu Yiqian seemed to say it casually, but Lu Yao knew that he must have thought about it for a long time. Otherwise, he would not have said it so smoothly.

"I heard that there are a lot of ways to earn money in big cities, and Mr. Yang told me that with my grades, it should not be difficult for me to find a part-time job as a tutor with a monthly salary of two to three thousand yuan. So I want you to go with me, and we can take care of each other when we get there!" Lu Yao insisted.

He had also considered these words for a long time. He had even considered this before the heart surgery. However, at that time, Lu Yao was not qualified to say these things.

He was afraid that when he arrived in the big city, they had no way to make money. If they did jobs that required only manual labor, he was afraid that his honest Godfather would be exploited by others.

Because Lu Yao knew that the contractors on the construction sites liked to bully honest people the most. At least in Shuangta city, that was the case. In the past, they were often bullied on construction sites.

It would be better to ask his Godfather to stay in Shuangta City. Although he had no relatives here, after so many years, he had known some workmates. They might be able to take care of each other.

However, all of this was his previous plan. Now Lu Yao did not need to worry about how to make a living.

With his mastery of the Qihuang Art and pill refining skills, it was easy for him to earn money. Besides, as his cultivation increased in the future, Li Jiang still had many more profound skills to teach him.

However, the difficult thing now was that he could not tell his Godfather everything that had happened to him in detail, nor did he have a better reason to convince him.

Hearing Lu Yiqian's words, for a moment, although Lu Yao insisted on Lu Yiqian going with him, he was also in a pickle.

Seeing Lu Yao like this, Lu Yiqian wanted to agree, but after thinking about some things, he could only make up his mind and reject Lu Yao, "Forget it. Even if you find a part-time job, your health conditions might not allow it. Moreover, I am from the countryside. I may not be used to living in a big city!"

"But..."

"Alright, there are no buts. When you make achievements in the future, get married and have children, I will go and babysit your kids. Now, I will stay here and work to save some money for you so that you won't be criticized or looked down on by the girls when the time comes!" Lu Yiqian directly interrupted Lu Yao and made an excuse that parents in Shina often used to decline their children.

At this moment, Lu Yao felt even more upset.

He clearly had the ability to support his Godfather so that he wouldn't have to work so hard, but Lu Yao couldn't let him know.

After learning from Li Jiang and seeing certain things with his own eyes, Lu Yao knew that with his current strength, he was still unable to protect his loved ones.

Shuangta City was very small, so small that when one looked for it on Shina's map, he could only see a small black dot the size of a sesame seed.

But even in such a small place, Lu Yao still met Qian Hu, a master at the Yellow Rank, and even Jin Yulong, a cultivator who was beyond the system of five ranks.

Lu Yao did not dare to think about it. Looking at the entire Shina, the entire Asia, and the entire globe, he wondered if there would be more experts at the Heaven Rank or extraordinary cultivators? Moreover, since there were cultivators in Shina, then would there be vampires and werewolves that supposedly only existed in legends or novels in Europe and other places?

If things were really as he had imagined, then how confident could he be in dealing with these experts?

If he was really impulsive at this time and told Lu Yiqian some things about himself, then he would feel comfortable, but it would bring great dangers to Lu Yiqian.

The more one knew, the more dangerous one's situation would be.

Whether in the ancient court or in the modern era, this principle was the unchanging truth.

Although Lu Yiqian was a little drunk, he knew that Lu Yao had not given up.

"Some people were born to travel far away. They need to complete their studies, have careers, get married, and have children. Everything has to be done in an orderly manner. After they hurriedly complete most of their tasks in the first thirty years of their lives, they will use the rest of their time to mend and endure. They also learn how to enjoy themselves through hardship. Other people may have only completed half of their life tasks, but they have seen the scenery that others can't see for their lifetime. You can't say who's right and who's wrong. As long as they are happy, they can do whatever they want!" Lu Yiqian recalled that some of the people in the martial arts school had said something very reasonable when they talked about life a while ago, so he repeated it and told Lu Yao.

Lu Yao knew that if he continued, it would be useless, so he no longer insisted.

One didn't have much time to squander in life. It was said that you would know what it was like after experiencing it yourself. Some people were pursuing happiness every day, but they never felt happy. Some people, who knew how to discover happiness, would be happy all the time.

To live was to make a choice. Only by giving up certain things could people live a fulfilling and vigorous life. Without the courage to give up, there would be no wise choices. Only after one awakened would he know how to give up certain things. It was a manifestation of having wisdom. Only by learning to give up would you be able to have gains. When everything was settled, then people would truly understand that when they gave up, they had actually gained.

Lu Yao saw and remembered these two sentences about life when he was in the Latitude Book City. Lu Yao lacked experience in life. Therefore, he could not say words that were as profound as his Godfather, Lu Yiqian.

But there was one sentence that he felt was the most appropriate to describe his Godfather: if one could not accomplish great things, he would use great methods to complete small things.

There was a Buddhist story. It was a conversation between a poor man and Buddha.

The poor man asked the Buddha, "I am bent on Buddhism, but why am I so poor? Don't you feel my devotion?"

Buddha said, "I can feel it, but I cannot give you anything. Someone can give you what you need, but you have not learned to give the things you have to them."

The poor man said, "I have nothing but devotion to Buddha. How do you want me to give it to others?"

Buddha said, "Even if you have nothing, you can still give others seven things."

The poor man asked curiously, "Which seven things? Why didn't I know about them?"

Buddha said that these seven things were smiles, praises or comforting words, openness, kindness, willingness to help, modesty, and generosity.

He said as long as you gave others these seven things, you would definitely get what you want, then you would no longer have nothing. As long as you gave others these seven things, you would be the richest man in the world.

Lu Yiqian had done these small things for decades, and all the things he did were trivial things in the eyes of other people. However, he was constantly passing on to Lu Yao a positive attitude by doing these things.

Lu Yao, who had a terminal illness, didn't give up and had always been brave enough to fight against the disease.

Lu Yao was still as low-key as before even though he now possessed extraordinary abilities.

If it wasn't for his sincere heart and his upright and kind personality, no one would have known that Lu Yao was different.

Although Auntie Wang and Lu Yao had only been neighbors for eight months and were not involved in any manner, Lu Yao was still willing to take great risks to help her. Lan Feiyan and her family had nothing to do with him, but for the sake of Han Dong, he still made a move.

It was true that parents were the best teachers for their children.

Lu Yao had learned these precious qualities from his Godfather, Lu Yiqian.

After they talked about some trivial matters, the sumptuous dinner was almost over.

Today, Lu Yao had nothing to do, so he washed the dishes.

For Lu Yao, this couldn't be easier and more familiar. Therefore, Lu Yiqian let him do it. He allowed Lu Yao to tidy up the place alone. After drinking a cup of tea, he went to rest.

More than ten minutes later, when everything was taken care of, Lu Yao went to his room to carry out the cultivation at night.