Zhang Baoer didn't say anything, and didn't even look at the person who stood up and pointed at him. He just grabbed a red-skinned fruit that looked a bit like an orange from the fruit plate on the side, peeled it, and sometimes fed the pulp to Cai'er.
Taking a mouthful, sometimes Xiao Wu, who had recovered from the shock, would 'steal' some of it openly, and sometimes stuff some into his own mouth.
Seeing Zhang Baoer's appearance, the second person finally stood up. This person's name was Lan Chen. He was one of the front row among all the inner disciples. At only twenty-nine years old, he was worthy of his position because he was not only
He is a close disciple of the great elder, and he also has a mid-stage Nascent Soul cultivation level, and his talent is astonishing.
Lan Chen has been very smart since he was a child and has been loved by the great elder. In fact, he had thought of a rebuttal just now, but he hesitated because of worry and did not stand up. Just then the great elder saw him sitting upright with clear eyes and realized that he had already thought of it.
He knew what to do, so he encouraged him to stand up with his eyes.
After receiving the encouragement from his mentor, Lan Chen was fearless and stood up straight. He put his hands behind his back and raised his handsome face in an old-fashioned way, and said in a cold voice:
"In that case, why do you have to come here to suffer? Why don't you resign as the owner of the valley?"
Hearing the word 'why bother', the great elder wanted to give himself a slap in the face, because this kind of counterattack is very good, but depending on the person, Lan Chen is not qualified to say this, because he is not worthy!
Among the people present, the only ones who deserve this sentence are probably the two ancestors Hai Ming and Hai Ping, and even the elders like them are not worthy!
"He is still too young, and was carried away by anger. There are definitely hundreds of people who can think of such an answer. He must not have thought about it seriously! Hey...feeling good about himself...my fault!"
The Great Elder blamed himself very much, but he did not stop him. Ren Lanchen finished those three sentences because he knew that if he stopped him, no one would dare to stand up and speak. In comparison, "No one would dare to stand up and speak."
Get up and talk' This matter is more serious.
Now, he could only pray in his heart that Zhang Baoer could not answer, or that he could answer but would not blame Lan Chen due to his seniority.
"oh?!"
After Zhang Baoer heard this, he narrowed his eyes and took a deep look at this person; at the same time, Granny Qingmu explained some of this person's situation to him.
After Granny Qingmu gave a general introduction, Zhang Baoer suddenly smiled, but he did not answer directly, but said cheerfully:
"Then you do it..."
"No!"
After hearing Zhang Baoer's words, Lan Chen took a second to come to his senses, and then jumped up like a cat whose tail had been stepped on, with a look of frightened rejection.
But...at this moment, he found that Zhang Baoer said another word:
"Give!"
With a flick of his hand, a blood-red palm-sized object was thrown out by him and landed squarely in Lan Chen's hand.
"Valley Master's Token?!"
Everyone who knew the token screamed and stood up, including Granny Qingmu. She never thought that Zhang Baoer would throw the token away so easily.
"Ah! No, no, no..."
When Lan Chen heard this, his expression changed drastically, and he immediately retracted his hand and jumped back, but... when he saw that the token was about to fall to the ground freely, he rushed back suddenly, as if he was holding a hot potato.
He tossed the token back and forth with his trembling hands, and finally caught it after a while.
"No, no, no...I won't do it..."
When he said these words in a panic and looked at the high platform again, he saw that the great elder had closed his eyes and clenched his fists and was shaking. The others looked at the token in his hand with responsible expressions, not knowing what was going on.
What was he thinking? As for Zhang Baoer, he was peeling the fruit with a smile on his face, without looking here, as if the token was just a piece of garbage he threw out casually.
People's faces were very exciting, some were puzzled, some were surprised, some were curious, some were hot, some were dull...but they didn't come over to grab the token and declare themselves to be the owner of the valley.
Lan Chen felt as if he was dumbfounded. When he saw his master closing his eyes, he wanted to turn around to look for his senior brother, but as soon as he turned around a little, he saw the various looks everyone was looking at him, so:
"I don't want to be a grain owner!"
He suddenly plucked up the courage and shouted to Zhang Baoer in a stern voice, reminding Zhang Baoer that he did not want to be the valley owner, and at the same time, he briefly stated that he was not worthy of being the valley owner.
Zhang Baoer put the last piece of peel back on the plate, but then said angrily:
"What does it have to do with me if you don't become the owner of the valley?! Don't yell and influence me to eat fruit, uh... I apologize for what I just said, because it was too irresponsible, uh... Well... let's just ask.
Whoever wants to be the owner of this valley, then give him the token!"
Everyone looked twitchy, looking at Lan Chen with pitiful eyes. There was no fool present, anyone with a little bit of brain would know who he was.
The Valley Master Token is very tempting, and the reason why they are so calm is because most of them have never thought about getting it, and those few who have thought about it just have a thought or work hard to get it in the future, and no one is doing it.
Crazy.
The great elder and a few other elders had thought about getting it, and they were almost obsessed with it, but at this moment they knew very clearly that they had given up that thought; they also wanted to pick someone other than Zhang Baoer.
There was no one else who was qualified to be the owner of the valley, but they searched countless times in their minds and still couldn't find it.
Seeing that there was silence all around, not only did no one walk out, but everyone also stepped back to keep a distance from him, Lan Chen almost collapsed and looked at his master in a daze:
"Master?"
"Eh..."
The Great Elder closed his eyes and let out a long sigh with pain on his face. Then he opened his eyes and jumped down, using both hands to take the Order of Heavenly Selection from the hands of his closed disciple.
"Da Chang..."
Granny Qingmu was startled and stood up with a loud noise. However, she did not finish her words because Zhang Baoer suddenly squatted down and stuffed a piece of fruit pulp into her hand, and said with a smile:
"Senior sister, eat fruit!"
So, she did it again.
Some people were happy, some were angry, some looked puzzled, and some were so shocked that they opened their mouths... all kinds of expressions stared at the great elder and the token in his hands.
However, the great elder did not look happy, his face was very calm and a little bitter. In the breeze, he seemed to have aged more than ten years, and his long clothes, long hair and long beard were a little messy by the wind.
He just scanned the crowd and found that there were less than a hundred people who were happy to receive the token for him - the total number of people in the scene plus those family members was less than ten thousand. In other words, they recognized him.
There are less than 1% of the people of this valley owner; and this...already includes those who meet his eyes and hastily reveal an untrue smile.
"Oh……"
The great elder smiled miserably, as did the four elders on the stage.
However, when they finished laughing, their faces suddenly calmed down. This time, their calmness revealed a deep joy, just like what the Buddhists call 'detachment'.
Whoosh!
The great elder's body swayed, disappeared from the stage, and immediately appeared in front of Zhang Baoer.
Boom!
He knelt down and held the Heavenly Selection Order in his hands and presented it to Zhang Baoer.
"Please Valley Master take back the token!"
Zhang Baoer was unmoved and looked at him coldly.
At this moment, the fourth elder also came out, knelt down not far behind the first elder, and shouted:
"Please Valley Master take back the token!"
"this……"
Granny Aoki stood up again, staring at the two people with complex eyes. At this moment, the remaining six elders and four seniors also stood up and walked over.
Boom!
They also knelt down and shouted:
"Please Valley Master take back the token!"
"Please Valley Master take back the token!"
Lan Chen suddenly trembled, immediately turned around and knelt down, his voice was very loud.
Immediately afterwards, everyone knelt down one by one, including Deacon Snow. Although she looked in pain and shed tears, she still shouted like everyone else:
"Please Valley Master take back the token!"
Afterwards, everyone fell into silence. They all knelt on the ground and raised their heads, looking at Zhang Baoer with burning eyes.
Logically speaking, Zhang Baoer should stand up and express his position at this time, but he still did not get up. After swallowing the pulp, he wiped his mouth and leaned back on the chair to speak:
"I can be the owner of this valley, but..."
His voice rose in vain, there was no trace of laughter in it anymore, and it became extremely serious.
"First of all, I want to declare to you...I, Zhao Zilong, am a shameless person!"
What he said... everyone was confused, but... fortunately, they found that Zhang Baoer's words were not finished:
"But... there is one thing I can guarantee. Although I am shameless, I am at least a human being. Okay..."
At this point, his tone changed and became less serious again:
"If you have no objection, I will accept this token!"
Everyone did not answer immediately. You looked at me and I looked at you. Except for the great elder and others who were kneeling on the stage, they seemed to have become convinced of Zhang Baoer as the owner of the valley.
"without……"
Seeing no response from everyone, Xiaowu, who was worried about Zhang Baoer, couldn't help but put his head forward from behind the chair a little bit, and weakly shouted "No".
Zhang Baoer was at a loss of whether to laugh or cry, and was about to turn his head to tell her to shut up, but unexpectedly, the people in front of him seemed to be ignited by this little "no".
"No objection!"
"No!"
"without!"
…
Since everyone had not been trained, the bustle was very complicated. When the voices finally subsided, Zhang Baoer stood up.
"good!"
He roared and grabbed the token from the great elder's hand.
"stand up!"
He shouted again, causing everyone to tremble physically and mentally, and Xiao Wu's ears hurt from the roar.
"yes!"
Under the leadership of the great elder, everyone stood up one after another.
Seeing that Zhang Baoer still had something to say, the elder and others looked at each other and quickly stepped aside so that everyone could focus on Zhang Baoer.
Zhang Baoer took a step back, stood on the stool he was sitting on, pulled off the hat on his head, held the token high and said loudly:
"Just now is my first order as the Valley Master. I would like to make a supplement to this order: from now on, all people in the Silent Valley, except parents and parents, are not allowed to kneel to others except under special circumstances!"