"It's a male."

One sentence,

Like a bolt from the blue,

The husky was dumbfounded.

That hotness,

That temper,

That resistance,

That spiciness,

The flavor it liked,

Was instantly given another layer of interpretation.

Woof, damn it!

It's a male!

How could it not resist when I did that to it!

Blind Man Bei reached out and picked up the erhu he had placed on the side of the piano, carefully wiping it with his sleeve.

"I've missed the sound of this instrument and the feel of these piano keys for more than half a year, but I realize now that in this era, the erhu and I seem to be a better match."

Saying that,

Blind Man Bei raised his head, facing Winter in front of him,

"I don't have much interest or meaning in teaching you how to play the piano. The heavenly music to you is just a repetition of what others have done.

If you want to learn, I can teach you how to play the erhu. At least, even if you end up in a miserable state, even if you break your leg, you'll have a skill to beg for food and not starve to death."

Winter nodded, but his eyes were still fixed on the husky standing behind the blind man.

Obviously, he still had expectations for the magical beast that had been with him.

"I don't believe it! I don't believe it!"

The husky suddenly let out an angry roar,

Raising its paw.

Blind Man Bei, with his back to it, remained unmoved, simply plucking the strings of the erhu lightly.

Buzz!

"Bang!"

The husky's paw,

Slapped directly onto its big face,

In an instant,

Blood flowed freely.

At this moment, it confirmed that its mental consciousness had already been invaded by the other party in advance.

As a magical beast with mental talent, it naturally knew what mental invasion meant.

Everything you see is what that person wants you to see;

Everything you hear is what that person wants you to hear;

All your senses no longer depend on reality, but on that person's will.

This kind of method made the husky extremely terrified.

On the other side,

Seeing his big dog slap himself to the ground,

Winter lowered his head helplessly and rubbed the bridge of his nose.

Then,

He raised his head again,

And said very freely:

"Alright, now my life and my dog's life are both in your hands."

After speaking, Winter suddenly felt that there was something wrong with what he said.

"I'm not interested in your life. What I want is cooperation. What just happened was just a process request you made yourself. I wanted to skip this part, but you insisted on the integrity of the process, so I could only satisfy you."

"Actually, I think the safest thing would be for you to threaten me with my life, then I spend money to buy my life back, and then you disappear with the money," Winter suggested.

"But that's also the most short-sighted approach. What we want is not just a few hundred warhorses, nor just a few hundred sets of military equipment. Our appetite will only grow bigger and bigger."

"I think, you probably don't know how valuable my life is."

Blind Man Bei smiled when he heard this, and said:

"You wouldn't happen to be the illegitimate son of some great noble, would you?"

Winter's eyes suddenly narrowed,

And he said:

"You know more than I imagined."

"I didn't investigate that much." Blind Man Bei shook his head. "It's just that oriental underdog tropes and western illegitimate son tropes are both clichés that have been used to death."

"............" Winter.

"What you're pursuing shouldn't just be making money. You came to the distant East through the desert. Gold coins are not the only thing attracting you.

You want to create your own career here, you want to prove your ability through this, and use meritorious service to wash away the brand of being an illegitimate son on yourself.

Now, I've already given you the opportunity."

"Can I understand this as a threat, or is it a negotiation?"

Blind Man Bei shook his head again and said, "This is a request."

"You're joking. You have my life in your hands."

"Your life and your dog's life are not worth much in my eyes."

"............" Winter.

"............" The husky.

"Okay, I can agree, but I have one condition."

"Speak."

"You said just now that you have a master?"

"Yes."

"I don't know who your master is. If we're going to cooperate, I'll only recognize you, and I'll only cooperate with you. You can choose to leave your master, and I can even help you get rid of your master."

"San'er." Blind Man Bei called out.

"Here."

"Kill him."

"Alright."

"............" Winter!

"Okay, I'm willing to take a step back!" Winter hurriedly shouted.

Blind Man Bei nodded and raised his hand to signal him to continue.

"I want you to teach me piano. I don't want to learn your erhu!"

"San'er."

"Here."

"Kill him."

"Okay."

"No, no, no, I don't have any conditions anymore!"

"Heh heh heh............"

Blind Man Bei laughed and waved his hand to signal Xue San to release Winter.

Winter twisted his neck and said:

"You, I find you very interesting, very attractive to me."

When Xue San heard this, he immediately looked at Blind Man Bei and asked:

"Kill him or not?"

Blind Man Bei took the initiative to walk over, facing Winter,

"We oriental people are more reserved and don't like to say such explicit things."

"I'm willing to bet on you, even if nominally, it's me and your master who are cooperating, but the reason I'm willing to invest in you is because I see something in you."

Because of the piano, because of Alice, because of everyone's pursuit and persistence for a sense of ritual in life,

Because,

Of the mutual appreciation between two pretentious people.

"Should I kneel down on one knee to express my gratitude to you?" Blind Man Bei asked.

"If you're willing to swear allegiance to me, that would be the best."

Xue San looked at Winter with some curiosity and said:

"Have the tastes of you western nobles already deviated so far off course at this point?"

"Warhorses, military equipment, food, and supplies, I can use my channels to help you get them all, but I still want to ask you one last question. My identity is very awkward, but if you are willing to follow me, when we return to the West, we will have the opportunity to obtain everything that I, as an illegitimate child, could not have hoped for!"

"Sorry, after getting used to the erhu, I don't miss the piano that much anymore."

"Okay, it doesn't matter if you don't agree. I think we can start our specific negotiations now. Also, I would like to ask, what should I, as an investor, be called here?

A sugar daddy? Or a shareholder?"

Blind Man Bei pondered for a moment,

And replied:

"We like to call them... leeks here."

............

The negotiations began.

Involving the collection, transportation, and confidentiality of materials, and even future planning, even if both sides of the negotiations were smart people, it was destined to be not too short.

The room was left for them to rack their brains.

Outside the house,

Xue San leaned against the husky, crossed his legs, and shook them.

The husky no longer showed aggression, but sighed from time to time.

"Think positively, brother, life... oh no, dog life, you always have to experience something different to make this life worthwhile."

At this time,

Mai Muti, who had received the order to deliver refreshments, came out of the house, lowered his head, and quickly left.

He didn't know why there were suddenly two more people here, but seeing his master's attitude towards them, Mai Muti very rationally didn't ask any more questions.

The husky stretched out its paw and pointed at Mai Muti's leaving figure,

And said:

"I'll catch him and let you experience a different kind of wonderful life?"

Xue San smiled sheepishly and said, "That won't do, that won't do."

"Hypocritical oriental people."

"You were clearly dealing with a male dog just now, but now you only let me use men. Aren't I losing out big time?"

The husky glanced at Xue San with some surprise,

And sighed:

"You are much more terrifying than I imagined."

"You flatter me, you flatter me."

"Have you ever thought about it? Maybe, after you and the blind man inside leave the manor, not only will you not get anything on paper, but you might also be hunted down."

"Even a dog's brain can think of that possibility, how could I not have thought of it?"

"............" The husky.

"Actually, I'm not very afraid of this possibility. You might not understand us. We have no national hatred or family grudges, and we have no ambition. You could even say that we have no pursuit at all."

"Then what are you doing?"

"Just looking for something to do for fun."

"What?"

"It's just that because we're alive, we always have to move around. Actually, I don't really like farming, and I don't really like training soldiers, and I don't like development even more. I don't like these tedious things."

"I can tell. You're very much like an assassin, an excellent assassin. In our West, there are many famous assassin organizations."

"I used to play around with that. The experience of climbing walls is pretty good."

"Hmm?"

"Let's go back to what we were saying before. If you really agree to cooperate, then we'll cooperate, do some farming, train some soldiers, and then go out to find various names to black-eat-black, rob and stuff.

If you go back on your word, it's fine too. Then we can specialize in retaliating against you. For example, you, you'll probably have psychological shadows when you want to breed again in the future."

"You underestimate us. This time, it was just that you ambushed us."

"It's you who underestimate us. You have to know that a month ago, I had nothing special about me except for that one extra-long part;

But a month later, I can already sneak into your master's bedroom and castrate him."

"I like that analogy very much."

"Your attitude towards your master is really interesting."

"Well, if he's willing to give up on the reproduction of offspring, he can get a higher position and authority in the family, and I wouldn't have to follow him to this distant East.

Western dogs are graceful, elegant, and have temperament, but you can't find them in the East at all."

"No, brother, I think you just haven't looked in the right place."

The husky turned its head to look at Xue San with some doubt,

And asked in a somewhat unbelievable tone:

"You have connections?"

"Yes, I guarantee you'll be satisfied!"

"Where is it?"

"The Yan Kingdom Imperial Palace. Didn't you know that the Yan Kingdom Imperial Family has been raising Pixiu passed down from their Great Ancestor Emperor's generation? There must be purebred Pixiu in the Yan Kingdom Imperial Palace, which is just right for you."

"............" The husky.

"What's wrong, you're still not satisfied?" Xue San asked.

The husky said somewhat aggrievedly:

"Pixiu don't have a backdoor."