cause and effect

Liu Muzhe was speechless and looked at him quietly.

Ye Jing'an thought about it and realized it was normal for Brother Liu to not know. In Brother Liu's heart, he was just a friend he hadn't known for long. Brother Liu had no family, so at most, he was treated as a younger brother who needed care and protection. Even the Earth Spirit's obvious suggestion hadn't been understood by Brother Liu. Perhaps he simply hadn't thought about it that way.

It was normal that she didn't want to talk about her worries and didn't need his comfort. Brother Liu didn't know his little thoughts, so how could he understand why he was so angry.

So normal!

It was all Ye Jingan's wishful thinking. Brother Liu must have been very confused. Thinking about it carefully, Brother Liu was really a good person with a good temper. He was so sad just now, but now he was still patiently coaxing him.

But Ye Jingan is just an outsider after all...

A strong sense of loss spread throughout his body. Ye Jingan collapsed on the bed powerlessly, closed his eyes and sighed: "I'm fine, you can go."

"..." A storm was raging in Liu Muzhe's heart.

This unfortunate child is so hard to coax!

Why do you still need people to guess what you are thinking?

Liu Muze said with a bitter face: "I have been slow since I was a child, you can tell me many things directly."

Ye Jingan laughed angrily, secretly blaming him in his heart.

Tell you what? Tell you I like you?

Let me tell you that I, Ye Jingan, am angry because you don’t like me and are unwilling to tell me your feelings?

Damn, there's no solution!

"Don't be angry, let's go out and eat." Ye Jingan stood up and pulled him downstairs.

"???" Liu Muzhe didn't leave, "You don't want to say it, right? You don't want to say that I..."

"I'm telling you, don't try to play that game." Ye Jing'an interrupted him, curled his lips and said reluctantly, "You have something on your mind but you never tell me. Do you really not trust me?"

Liu Muze explained: "I didn't tell you because it's already happened and can't be fixed. Telling you would only make things worse for you."

"You also know that the matter has passed." Ye Jingan snorted coldly, "So you are just making things difficult for yourself."

Liu Muze looked at Ye Jing'an, feeling angry, amused, and distressed. He took a deep breath and said slowly, "He was my best friend. I regarded him as my only relative. But in the end, he died to save me and will never be reincarnated again..."

Ye Jingan had actually guessed it a long time ago, but he just wanted him to speak out his thoughts and not keep it to himself. But when he heard him say it himself, Ye Jingan was not as calm as he had already known. A complex emotion surged in his heart, and he didn't know what to feel. Ye Jingan reached out and hugged Liu Muze, and before he could react, he immediately let go of his hand: "From now on, I will be your relative!"

"Always." Liu Muze laughed dumbly. Ye Jing'an was still the child who had not grown up. Even the words he said were the same as when he was a child. He touched Ye Jing'an's head, which was almost as tall as him, and said, "Don't be angry, okay?"

"Yeah." Ye Jingan looked at him with complicated eyes, "Can't you let him go?"

Liu Muzhe remained silent.

"You don't think of him as your brother, do you like him?" Ye Jing'an forced a smile as if he was gossiping about others.

"This is an adult matter, kids shouldn't ask too many questions!" Liu Muzhe smiled and was about to leave the room.

"How many years older are you than me?" Ye Jing'an held him back, "Tell me, share your story."

The big ones are a bit too much.

Liu Muze looked at him helplessly. How could a grown boy like to listen to these stories? Well, although Ye Chenyi had no descendants, he could still be considered this kid's ancestor according to seniority. It wouldn't be a problem for him to listen to the good deeds of his ancestors.

"I always treated him as my brother, and he also treated me as his younger brother. It was not until he died that I realized that I, a good brother, had lost my mind a long time ago!" Liu Muzhe laughed out of anger when he said this. If Ye Chenyi came back, he would definitely be beaten.

Ye Jing'an blinked and said to Brother Liu in his heart: I am the little brother you just recognized, but my mind has already wandered.

Ye Jingan felt sorry for Brother Liu, but also found it funny. Brother Liu had no relatives, and the brother he once recognized had evil intentions towards him. That brother was gone, and now there was a younger brother who also had bad intentions towards him.

Liu Muzhe thought of what Ye Chenyi said at the end and sighed.

"I have been dull about feelings since I was a child, and it was only then that I realized that my feelings for him were more than just brotherhood. He understood me very well, and didn't want me to suffer thinking about him all the time, so he never said it until he died. He wanted me to forget him. It was really..." Liu Muzhe was hesitant to speak.

"You know he doesn't want you to be sad, yet you are often sad. I find that every time you are in a bad mood it is because of him!" Ye Jing'an showed a hint of helplessness on his face.

Liu Muze smiled lightly, his tone very gentle: "If you don't think about it, you will never forget it."

"you……"

Liu Muze interrupted him: "Okay, have you heard enough stories? Go downstairs and look at the ginseng. Don't bother me all the time."

Ye Jingan stared blankly at the spot where he had just stood, and said in a barely audible voice: "What should I do to make you actually look at me?"

In the evening, Ye Jingan went downstairs to have dinner with a heavy heart.

"What's wrong with you?" Qiu Zimu asked.

"I'm fine. I'm just tired from fighting this morning." Ye Jingan forced a smile.

"Hey, did you see that little thing open its eyes?" Qiu Zimu pointed at the earth jade spirit lying on the sofa.

"Not yet. Let me take a look." Ye Jing'an walked over and saw it. He held the earth jade essence in his hand and looked left and right.

"This is what this little thing looks like when it opens its eyes." Ye Jing'an waved his hand in front of its eyes. Its black eyeballs had no whites, but you could feel its eyes following you.

"I'm not called Little Thing, I have a name!" The Earth Jade Fairy slapped Ye Jing'an's hand away and said in a baby voice, "My sister said I'm white and tender like a coconut egg, and juicy, so she calls me - Coconut Coconut."

Ye Jingan felt a pang in his heart.

Coco...Grandpa

"Oh~ Coconut." Ye Jing'an poked it lightly with his hand, "Let me see if I can poke out the coconut juice."

The Earth Jade Spirit's eyes rolled up, and although they were still black and seemed unchanged, you could understand that this action meant it was looking down on you.

It jumped back onto the little girl's shoulder and rubbed her face. Then, with four little hands on their waists, like a white bow, they shouted at Ye Jingan: "Humph, you bad guy!"

"Hey, this little carrot has two faces." Ye Jing'an was a little surprised, thinking that this little thing was the same to everyone.

"That's not so bad. It even jumped out to comfort her and acted coquettishly towards her." Qiu Zimu had become accustomed to its attitude. After all, he had been wrong.

Ye Jingan disliked this discriminatory treatment the most. He said to the Tu Yu Jing: "No! Ye Ye, come on, act like a spoiled child to me!"

"Bah!" The earth jade spirit hid.

Ye Jing'an looked at the little girl and asked her name.

The little girl found Ye Jingan teasing her very amusing and replied with a smile: "My name is Wenxuan."

"Wenxuan, Yeye, can you lend me your money to play with you for two days?" Ye Jingan coaxed her softly.

Qiu Zimudan squinted his eyes and looked at Ye Jingan. His expression made him look like a child trafficker.

Ye Jingan received a call from Qian Cheng, saying that his wife had returned on her own. However, she seemed to have lost her memory and didn't know what had happened. She only remembered having a long dream in which she was killed and hung from a tree. When she woke up, she was lying in a villager's house.

Qian Cheng expressed his gratitude by transferring a large sum of money as requested, insisting on treating him to another meal. He Cheng had booked the same luxurious hotel as last time, and in a private room, a young woman in a long black dress was chatting and laughing with Qian Cheng.

The moment Ye Jing'an and Qiu Zimu walked into the box and saw her, they were stunned. The woman's face was very familiar to them. When she was tied and hung on the dead tree by the earth spirit, it was this woman who was hanging next to her. But at that time, her face was pale and bloodless, and she was already lifeless.

"Brother Ye, you're here! Please take a seat." Qian Cheng said with a smile, "Let me introduce you. This is my wife, Jiang Qian. I'd like to express my special thanks to you for rescuing her today!"

"Hello everyone, although I don't know what happened, Lao Qian told me everything, thank you." Jiang Qian said.

Xuanxuan, who had been keeping her head down, raised her eyes when she heard the familiar voice and immediately lost control of her emotions: "You killed Mom and Grandpa! You are a bad person!!"

"Hey, kid, don't talk nonsense. Who knows your mother and grandfather?!" Qian Cheng said.

"Old Qiu, take Xuanxuan out to the mall and buy some delicious food." Ye Jing'an said.

"Okay." Qiu Zimu led Xuanxuan out.

"Brother Ye, whose child are you taking care of? What's going on?" Qian Cheng said displeasedly, "My wife was almost killed by a monster, how can you accuse her of harming others!"

Through Xuanxuan's words, Ye Jingan seemed to have discovered the connection between his wife and the mountain people and the local spirits in the village. He asked, "Miss Jiang, are you in the wood business? Did you buy a batch of high-quality red sandalwood not long ago?"

"Yes, I work in a furniture factory. When I was hiking up the mountain before, I found a nearly thousand-year-old red sandalwood. It was the best wood I have ever seen. My boss made a lot of money from it, and he gave me a promotion and a raise, and gave me a month-long vacation." Jiang Qian smiled.

Ye Jingan suddenly realized that everything was connected. It turned out that the beginning of this tragic story was just for money.

"Ms. Jiang, the ancient tree has spirits, not all money can be earned." The two left the hotel, and Ye Jingan asked Liu Muze, "Can the earth spirit bring the dead back to life?"

"He didn't kill those people, he just used spiritual energy to seal their life characteristics." Liu Muzhe said.

"What about the people who died in front of the mountain temple? They were torn into pieces, yet they are still alive!" Ye Jing'an said in surprise.

"That's an illusion. The Earth Spirit can gather the spiritual energy of heaven and earth and possesses a very powerful hallucinogenic ability. The illusion it creates is indistinguishable from the real world, and even the pain can be clearly felt." Liu Muzhe said, "In the end, he still couldn't make up his mind."

"You knew it was an illusion, yet you still fought so hard!" Ye Jingan said angrily.

"I only discovered it later." Liu Muzhe said.

Ye Jing'an sighed softly. Even when the earth spirits were killed by the people he protected, he couldn't bear to kill them. Being a god can be quite powerless sometimes. He thought of his own ancestor. If the Ye family no longer believed in ghosts and gods, where would the ancestor go?