Chapter 64 Chapter 64

Xu Zhaoyi was just impulsive, thinking that Qin Sheng didn't have any close friends except Ling Huan, and he didn't know where another good friend who had taken a bath with him would appear.

He didn't mean that he didn't want Qin Sheng to have other friends, but could they not be friends who could take a shower together?

Noodles said that it had only suggested that Qin Sheng become sworn brothers with him, but it was Qin Sheng who insisted on marrying him. Although sworn brothers didn't sound very reliable, marriage was obviously not something that ordinary people could think of.

So Qin Sheng should have known for a long time that he likes men, so he should be careful and avoid being with the same sex, right?

Fortunately, Qin Sheng didn't react.

He felt relieved, and at the same time realized that Qin Sheng was just being mean.

Sometimes Xu Zhaoyi really wanted to skip Qin Sheng and confess directly to Ling Huan to see what expression that bastard Qin Sheng would have. But it was just a thought. At least he couldn't do that now, otherwise there would be no way to end it.

So Qin Sheng missed the opportunity to know the answer in advance. Yes, his wife was really jealous.

Xu Zhaoyi was guarding the door. Qin Sheng didn't come out until about half an hour later. Then he found that Qin Sheng was wearing home clothes and slippers, and was casually wiping his hair with a towel. Except for the graffiti mask on his face, he looked exactly like his real self.

Why didn't he see it at all at that time?

Oh, because Ling Huan showed his unfathomable strength as soon as he appeared and saved him, which made him distinguish him from Qin Sheng in advance. Also, Ling Huan was half a head taller than him!

Xu Zhaoyi's gaze fell on him, and after a while he suddenly sighed, "I say, you're already so tall, and you still like to use insoles to increase your height. How can others survive?"

"I thought you didn't care about this. Isn't your husband taller than you?" Qin Sheng smiled indifferently.

"He is taller than me because of his legs!" Xu Zhaoyi emphasized with amusement and anger.

Qin Sheng reasoned with him, "I'm taller than you because of my legs, and I'm taller than your husband because of a height-increasing pad."

Xu Zhaoyi: “…”

This person is really becoming less and less pretentious in front of him. When they first met, the character Qin Sheng showed could best be described as gentle as jade.

Now what?

Noodles only speaks nonsense because he is not good at Chinese. Qin Sheng is just being mean on his own initiative, fearing that he will feel too comfortable listening to it.

"Why do you have to be taller than him?" Xu Zhaoyi asked deliberately with a sneer. He also began to dislike Qin Sheng's arrogance. Although Qin Sheng was actually very restrained in his emotions at all times, he could just see the other party's arrogance that he had not explicitly expressed.

He used the same sentence structure to counterattack: "I thought you weren't the type to compare heights. Is this funny?"

Qin Sheng answered every question: "It's quite interesting, especially when you look so petite next to me."

Before Xu Zhaoyi could say anything, Noodles couldn't stand it any longer and snorted, "This is simply slander!"

Who would use the word "petite" to describe a 5'85" tall man? Although Xu Zhaoyi wasn't exactly a big man, his height was there, and his slender and strong body made him quite an imposing figure.

Qin Sheng said that he didn't care about what Noodles felt, as long as he felt it, because he was the head of the family and Xu Zhaoyi was his wife.

Xu Zhaoyi silently gave up the fight. He was not as good at talking as Qin Sheng, and he was totally slick. But anyone who rushed forward was a fool.

After the two took turns washing up, Xu Zhaoyi asked Qin Sheng to go to the tent and continue sleeping. He still remembered what Qin Sheng said, that if he didn't sleep well at night, he would have a headache during the day.

"Starting from tomorrow, you guard during the day and I guard at night. Is that okay with you?" Xu Zhaoyi suggested. This way they wouldn't need to sleep in the same tent at the same time.

Qin Sheng had no objection to the time allocation, but: "What about you eating? Is the food you make edible?"

Hearing this description, Xu Zhaoyi narrowed his eyes: "How do you know my cooking is bad?"

"That's what your husband with the slotted mouth said."

“………”Okay, you win.

Xu Zhaoyi no longer had any temper towards people like him who he could even casually insult.

"I can eat instant noodles."

Qin Sheng thought for a moment and said, "When I hand over my shift, I'll make you some easy-to-store lunch boxes like sandwiches."

He brought his wife, who couldn't sit still, out to relax. Even if the situation here was difficult, they couldn't resort to eating instant noodles.

"Thank you." Xu Zhaoyi didn't say that he thought the instant noodles were not bad. He just smiled and said, "Has anyone ever told you that you are quite virtuous?"

Qin Sheng didn't get angry either, and asked a fatal question: "Who is more virtuous, me or your husband?"

Xu Zhaoyi had almost become desensitized to the word "your husband" after hearing him talk about it endlessly. He asked, "Why do you always want to compete with him in everything?"

If he didn't know the truth, he would have suspected that Ling Huan was unable to express his love for Qin Sheng, and that he would be suffocated to death if he was separated from Qin Sheng in just three words.

Qin Sheng was originally smiling in a relaxed manner, thinking it was just a casual remark, but when he thought about it again he was suddenly stunned.

He just wanted to tease Xu Zhaoyi, so he deliberately said these words that would cause the other party to fluctuate emotionally, but the question is... why did he subconsciously feel that mentioning himself in front of Xu Zhaoyi would best achieve his goal?

This doesn't make sense, but he is very aware of the logic of his behavior. He must have subconsciously thought so and acted this way. It's just that he couldn't figure out where his...confidence came from.

He looked at Xu Zhaoyi strangely, and Xu Zhaoyi was also stunned by his look.

"What's wrong?" he asked awkwardly. It was just a casual remark, but how could it really make this person reflect seriously? Did Qin Sheng separate him and Ling Huan so much?

Qin Sheng was rarely frank: "I was thinking about the question you just asked. First of all, I don't really want to know who is more virtuous, me or your husband. I was just teasing you..."

Xu Zhaoyi's mouth twitched when he heard this. Does this guy know what he is talking about? Isn't it too immoral to openly say that he is teasing his best friend's fiancé?

"I think based on this, the topics I used to prompt you to change your expression were unconsciously selected. Obviously, I think you were most emotional when you heard topics related to your husband."

Qin Sheng was so rigorous as if he was doing some academic research. Xu Zhaoyi listened with trepidation, afraid that his next sentence would lead to a stupid conclusion about whether she liked her husband or not.

He doesn't mind if his secret crush turns into an open love, but which good person would be so open about love?

Fortunately, Qin Sheng is a wooden man.

Because his next question is: "Are you very resistant to being defined as a wife?"

Xu Zhaoyi replied calmly, "Why would you resist this? I'm happy to indulge him."

Qin Sheng was stunned: “…” Although he did not need Xu Zhaoyi’s indulgence, the feeling of being indulged by someone was quite subtle.

So the topic ended tacitly.

The two took turns camping in the Xu family yard for seven days. On the last day, the yard looked brand new. Looking up from the yard, the sky finally turned blue and white again.

At the same time, Qin Sheng received a new task notification, marrying Xu Zhaoyi and moving back to the Qin family. The reward was a purple talisman.

This was purely a gift of the purple talisman. Qin Sheng looked at it and saw that there was no time limit, so he ignored it. Anyway, he had already planned it, and he would definitely get married and move back in half a month.

However, it was also a side reminder that it was unlikely that Xu Zhaoyi would be able to establish his foundation before solving the Qin family's problem, so they didn't need to hesitate any longer.

When the two came out of Xu's house, for some reason, they both felt relieved and almost couldn't wait to separate.

Xu Zhaoyi returned to the manor and saw Qin Sheng, who was wearing casual home clothes, petting a fake cat and basking in the sun in the courtyard. Without the graffiti mask covering his face, his angular face seemed to be covered with a layer of dazzling light in the sunlight.

It's so beautiful that it makes your heart beat faster.

"I'm back." Xu Zhaoyi put down what he was holding and walked towards Qin Sheng. Even though they had been together day and night and had never been apart, he found that he actually had a sour feeling in his heart as if they had met again after a long separation.

He and Qin Sheng's face had been separated for too long.

I miss you a little bit.

"Thank you for your hard work." Qin Sheng patted the seat beside him and motioned him to sit down, then said, "Take a day off and go to Juesi Garden to find Zhou Jianwei tomorrow."

"Do you think he knows how to rule the Qin Dynasty?" After Xu Zhaoyi sat down, he realized that the double chair was a bit narrow. Two men with large frames sat side by side with their thighs touching each other.

It was normal for him to have this worry. Zhou Jianwei's skills were not cultivated by himself. Just thinking about it made it seem like he was capable of poisoning someone and not having an antidote himself.

Qin Sheng also found that it was a bit crowded. In order to make some space, he pulled out his arm and placed it on the backrest behind Xu Zhaoyi, making it look like he was hugging his wife in his arms.

He thought for a moment and said, "I think a normal person would not think of planting flowers on the molester's subordinates when doing it casually. Since he did it on purpose, he should have known what was going on."

However, he suddenly thought of something...

After a pause, he continued, "Growing flowers on the human body is no simple task, let alone the fact that the flower has achieved a perfect harmonious symbiosis with the human body, without causing any harmful damage to human tissue. Do you know what this means?"

Xu Zhaoyi didn't react at first, but his expression grew more serious as he listened. "You're saying that Zhou Jianwei's ability to allow the human body and plants to coexist might have other uses in the eyes of those with ulterior motives?"

That's an understatement.

But after exchanging a glance, Qin Sheng knew that Xu Zhaoyi understood what he had just wanted to express.

A flower growing on a person's body, in that particular place, might not seem like a good idea at first. But some clever minds might wonder, what if it weren't a flower, but a connection to a massive, long-lived tree? If this ability were harnessed effectively, could immortality be achieved?

Especially for someone like the old man who is stuck at half-step foundation building, taking the remaining half step would add hundreds of years to his lifespan. If he fails to take that step, all his cultivation in this life would be in vain.

How could he not be moved?

That is to say, most cultivators live long lives, and the old man is not yet at the age where he really has to face death, otherwise he would definitely not be able to resist using evil methods to extend his life. Anyway, he does not have to bear the consequences of his karma, it is Qin Sheng who is unlucky.

Qin Sheng even suspected that several of the Qin family's ancestors who had established their foundation might have done the same.

In short, things like prolonging life and achieving immortality are something that people are eager to pursue no matter what the circumstances.

Xu Zhaoyi frowned and thought, "Not many people know that Zhou Jianwei did this, and they wouldn't tell anyone about it. But when Qin Shi was in trouble, the person I saw the most was Zhou Jianwei."

In other words, Qin Sheng had hidden Zhou Jianwei early on, and Qin Kangnian, who was in charge, did not try hard to help Qin Shi find him. In fact, Zhou Jianwei had already been on the Qin family's list of suspects.

"He's safe in Jueshi Garden now," Qin Sheng reassured him. "Just remind him to be careful and not use this ability unless absolutely necessary. Human nature can't stand the test, even among his own people."

"Well, I still have to work hard to cultivate and reach the Golden Core stage as soon as possible so that I can extract the medicinal power of the Fox Fruit."

“That’s a lot of effort.”

For some reason, Qin Sheng was not very happy after hearing this, so he thought of something happy instead - in the original work, after Xu Zhaoyi took the golden elixir and absorbed the medicinal power, a small incident happened.

He was also looking forward to that day, and specifically instructed, "When you absorb the medicinal power for him in the future, be sure to notify me to be there."

Xu Zhaoyi thought he was afraid that the fainting incident from last time would happen again, so he nodded without thinking much.

The next day, the two men found Zhou Jianwei. The three of them chatted for a while, and Zhou Jianwei was scared to death.

The scene of the beautiful woman taking out a piece of paper and wiping her face boldly seemed too abstract to the two handsome guys in front of her.

He himself didn't care at all, but said with lingering fear: "I didn't think too much about it at the time, but this is not a good ability, so except Qin Shi, I have never done this to anyone else."

When he heard the word "eternal life", instead of being happy, he was frightened to the point of trembling with fear.

"I can indeed cure this, but I can't do it remotely. How about you knock him out and bring him over?"

Qin Sheng shook his head: "We don't really want to cure him, we just need something that can actually cure him."

He took out a shepherd's purse leaf that he had asked the nurse for before going out, and asked Zhou Jianwei to try to input the energy that cured Qin Shi into the leaf. He also learned from the experience of putting the healing power into the noodle fly vest last time, and it actually worked.

This leaf can store energy, but the energy inside will slowly dissipate over time. Husheng can even control the speed of energy dissipation, which perfectly meets the shelf life requirements proposed by Xu Zhaoyi.

As for setting up a trap for the Qin family, just let them know that there is such a thing and let Feng Li handle it, using the trading network left by Nan Chuan. It has nothing to do with Qin Sheng.

With that done, the only thing left was the wedding. Qin Sheng suddenly thought of something and asked, "We had the Qin family prepare the dresses for our engagement. Do you want to pick out a style for your wedding dress?"

It is definitely too late to redesign. Whether it is engagement or marriage, the decision was made in a hurry, which means that the Qin family is fully capable of arranging it in a short time.

It's okay to pick out some spare styles that no one has used. Qin Sheng feels that with his and Xu Zhaoyi's current relationship, they should take marriage more seriously than when they were engaged.

Xu Zhaoyi naturally felt the difference and agreed with a smile. He didn't know the seriousness of the matter at this time and thought they were just looking at the design drawings together.

Until Qin Sheng asked the people from the dress studio to send a dozen large boxes of clothes for them to try on.

“…Does it really have to be like this?” Xu Zhaoyi went into the cloakroom every time he changed into a new outfit at the beginning, and finally gave up and undressed in front of Qin Sheng. It only took him ten minutes.

"Why don't you try?"

"These are all yours. As long as you try them on and find the one that fits you best, I can just wear the one that matches you."

Qin Sheng waited for him to button his shirt, then stepped forward to tie his tie for him and said, "You've seen me do it several times, why are you still so clumsy and can't learn it?"

"It would be great if you could learn it, wouldn't it?" It wasn't that Xu Zhaoyi couldn't learn it, it was that he simply didn't put his heart into it. He didn't like dressing up in a suit and tie, and the reason he had this need was basically because of Qin Sheng.

Qin Sheng sighed: "You have to learn it eventually. Do you still expect me to beat you up for the rest of your life?"

"Pooh, pooh, pooh! Don't talk nonsense." Xu Zhaoyi pinched Qin Sheng's lips with his fingers. He thought Qin Sheng was implying that he might die early.

Qin Sheng was inexplicably pinched into a duck's mouth, and didn't understand how this was nonsense, because what he meant was that Xu Zhaoyi would always have his own life after their cooperation ended.

But he quickly guessed what Xu Zhaoyi was thinking from his disapproving look.

[It's amazing, you care so much about whether I live or die? Think about when we weren't even engaged, when you heard me talk about my life story, there wasn't much pity in your eyes.]

He didn't resist even when his mouth was pinched, but just joked about Xu Zhaoyi's change in his heart. In fact, he also knew that Xu Zhaoyi had just been reborn at that time, and it was a sign of his high quality that he didn't gloat and say that he deserved it.

However, when Xu Zhaoyi heard Qin Sheng mention it again, his mentality was completely different from Qin Sheng's. He felt that the smile of relief in Qin Sheng's eyes when he recalled the past made his nose sour.

"I……"

Xu Zhaoyi opened his mouth, but didn't know what to say. Nothing he said could change the reality of his past indifference.

But he felt uncomfortable in his heart. He couldn't imagine that it was the first time that Qin Sheng confided his suffering to another person, but he got such a calm and indifferent reaction from him. What kind of mood did Qin Sheng have at that time?

Even though Qin Sheng just wanted his help at that time, and he agreed to form an alliance for various reasons, but liking someone is so unreasonable, and it hurts that he realized it too late and took the upper hand.

So after he let go of his hand, he couldn't help but gently stroke the curve of Qin Sheng's mouth that habitually curved up.

I can't help myself.

Qin Sheng's hand tying his tie paused slightly. This action was really a bit...

He is just blinded by one thing, not really slow.