Chapter 52: Sneaky Like Stealing
Xie Yanyu originally didn't plan to look for Helan Wei.
She was annoyed by his moodiness and didn't want to waste time with him, but now she could stay here for a few more days, and she had more time. The engagement jade pendant was nowhere to be found, and she had nothing to do for the time being, so she changed her mind and decided to go find him to see what he wanted to see her for.
So she replied to his message.
Fearing that he would find fault with her, she made an excuse, saying that she had fallen asleep before, which also explained why she didn't reply to him immediately.
After leaving the pawnshop,
She returned to the inn, left Xie Chengjin behind, and knocked directly on Helan Wei's door.
But it's strange.
It was clearly he who first sent her a message, asking her to come find him.
But when she really came to see him, he stopped talking and sat at the table, busy with his own things.
Xie Yanyu waited for a while, but he didn't speak.
So she took the initiative to ask: "Master, is there something you want me to come over for?"
Helan Wei finally looked at her.
She was wearing the Mingxin Talisman, and although she was still blindfolded, she could still "see" the surrounding environment, so she was not as uneasy as before when she couldn't see. At that time, she came to him to ask for the Mingxin Talisman, and she sat here, beating around the bush, and she didn't seem to think it was a waste of time.
On the contrary, it is now.
He asked her indifferently, "Are you in a hurry to leave?"
He didn't answer her question, but just asked her a question in return. Xie Yanyu didn't know if it was an illusion, but she felt a hint of sarcasm and accusation in his words.
She thought he probably wanted her to deny it.
But she was indeed a little anxious, so she still said to him: "Yes, a little."
"What are you in such a hurry for?"
Xie Yanyu said sincerely, "I came here with Xie Chengjin. He was afraid that I would destroy the family tradition, so he kept a close eye on me."
She just sent Xie Chengjin away for a while. With the intensity with which Xie Chengjin stared at her, if he came back and she was still with Helan Wei, Xie Chengjin would really lock her up. After all, this man was her breadwinner, so she was still very afraid of him.
"I've been here with you for too long. I'm afraid he'll notice something's wrong and punish me."
So she came to see Helan Wei in a sneaky manner.
Like cheating.
Helan Wei suddenly felt depressed. He was a little annoyed by this sneaky feeling, which made him seem like he was too shameful to be seen in public. On the contrary, Xie Chengjin was staring at her and controlling her openly. Wasn't it just because he had the status of a stepbrother that he was entitled to it?
He glanced at her and was about to say something.
But when the words came to his lips, he sneered and swallowed them back.
He had told her that he could marry her just once, but she had rejected him. He wouldn't go back on his word and ask her a second time.
But in the final analysis.
Xie Chengjin follows the rules and cannot stand the Xie family's out-of-line behavior.
She and he were not in a proper relationship. When she saw Xie Chengjin, she was like a mouse seeing a cat. During this period, she was under Xie Chengjin's nose, but she didn't contact him frequently. It didn't necessarily mean that she wanted to distance herself from him, but probably because she was afraid of being punished.
Helan Wei found a suitable excuse for her and stopped picking on her.
He lowered his eyes and continued to work on his own things. He didn't throw away the Mingxin Jade Talisman in the end. He completed the final steps, then raised his hand and threw the thing to her: "Use this."
Xie Yanyu raised his hand to take it: "Bright Heart Talisman?"
She was really a little surprised: "Master, you called me over here to give me this?"
Helan Wei didn't answer: "Throw away the one on you."
*
The Mingxin Talisman is, after all, a talisman from the Helan family.
Therefore, compared to that monster, Helan Wei has a deeper understanding of the Mingxin Talisman, and the Mingxin Talisman he made is naturally more effective.
He asked Xie Yanyu to use his, and Xie Yanyu would not disobey him on such a trivial matter. She threw away the one given to her by the monster and replaced it with the one he gave her.
After the change,
Helan Wei ignored her and started to deal with his own affairs.
Xie Yanyu looked at him, but vaguely felt that he seemed to have changed a little.
He seemed to have become more tolerant recently. To say he was tolerant was not quite the right word. She could only occasionally sense a hint of concession in his behavior, but this feeling was vague and not obvious. Even though she was keenly aware of some signs, she still couldn't tell whether it was an illusion or not.
But when it comes to giving in, no matter what the reason, there will always be a second time.
If he could give in a little, he could give in more, which would be a good thing for her.
Xie Yanyu was quiet for a moment, intending to test the waters. Then he spoke again, "Sir."
"how?"
"I heard that the Helan family is proficient in the art of tracking. I want to find a jade pendant. I wonder if you have any help?"
In the past, Xie Yanyu always mentioned what he wanted in a roundabout way, but this was the first time he was so direct, as if he was taking a step forward with one toe and lightly treading to test the invisible boundary line between the two of them.
Helan glanced at her dangerously, his expression normal. It was unclear whether he hadn't noticed her probing attempt, or if he had noticed but didn't take it seriously. "Do you remember what the jade pendant looks like?"
"Remember."
Upon hearing this, Helan Wei raised his fingertips slightly and used a spell to find something.
Immediately afterwards, the Mingxin Talisman in Xie Yanyu's hand began to tremble, and the spell on it flashed with a faint white light.
He then spoke: "Place your hand on the incantation of the Heart-Clearing Talisman, think about the jade pendant, and you will be able to see its location through the Heart-Clearing Talisman."
Tracking Technique and Enlightenment Talisman are considered to be magic from the same lineage.
It is not surprising that Helan Wei can use the tracking technique on the Mingxin Talisman.
Xie Yanyu followed his instructions and began to imagine the appearance of the jade pendant.
Not long after,
Some information suddenly emerged in her mind, and she repeated it in a low voice: "Twenty miles west, among the lotus leaves."
Helan Wei raised his eyes when he heard this.
Twenty miles west from here is the moat, but it is not on the edge of the moat, but in the center of the moat. It can only be reached by boat. There is a cluster of lotus leaves there. It is summer now, and among the lush lotus leaves, there are a few sparsely blooming lotus flowers. They are white and not eye-catching.
Beneath this lotus leaf, underwater in the moat, is where the demon world's sealing formation is located.
He had just visited the seal of the demon world today, so he naturally knew where it was.
But Xie Yanyu didn't know.
She really couldn't figure out where exactly the lotus leaves twenty miles west were.
So she looked at Helan Wei again and continued to ask him: "Sir, do you know where this is?"
Helan Wei: "I know, this is——"
When he said this, his voice suddenly paused.
Xie Yanyu likes to hold the initiative in her own hands to the greatest extent possible. If he gives in, she will tentatively move closer. As long as she senses something is wrong, she will seize the opportunity and snatch a little initiative from his fingers.
He answered every question at this time.
She vaguely realized that the change she had sensed before in him was not entirely an illusion, so she asked again, "Where is this?"
As soon as the words fell,
Helan Wei glanced at her.
The responsive attitude just now seemed like an illusion and disappeared in an instant.
He pursed his lips and said slowly, "Go back and check the map yourself."
*
Xie Yanyu didn't stay in Helan Wei for too long.
He asked her to go back and check the map, but she didn't continue to test him. After all, she had gained a lot from him, including the new Mingxin Talisman and the location of the engagement jade pendant. This trip was not in vain. But when she was about to leave, she felt that the plot could be advanced a little further.
In the original plot,
She had shown her affection to him many times, and there were many small details, such as giving him some small gifts and snacks. She had given him a sachet before. At this time, after racking her brains, she remembered that she had a few jade pendants on her.
Before leaving for Yuan's house, Xie Chengjin asked someone to take her out to buy some things.
She bought a lot of spiritual jade, absorbed the spiritual power inside, and her cultivation broke through the sixth level of foundation building.
After absorbing the spiritual power, the jade pendant made of spiritual jade became an ornament without any spiritual power. After all, she had spent money on it. Although it was not her money, she did not throw it away just like that. She kept it in the mustard seed bag.
Thinking of these jade pendants, she took one out of her mustard seed bag and gave it to Helan Wei: "Thank you for the Mingxin Talisman and the Tracking Technique. I don't have anything valuable on me, so I always carry this jade pendant with me. I'm giving it to you as a token of my gratitude."
Having said this,
She heard the system voice in her head.
Because Helan Wei gave her the Mingxin Talisman, which was consistent with the part in the original plot where she became night blind, the plot points advanced by 5%. She also gave him a jade pendant, which was consistent with the fragmented plot of showing courtesy, and the plot points advanced by 2%.
The system said coldly: [You are becoming more and more skilled at manipulating the plot. You are so proficient.]
Xie Yanyu: So how far along is this plot line now?
System: [25%.]
fine.
Only then did Xie Yanyu leave with satisfaction.
*
Not long after Xie Yanyu left Helan Wei, Xie Chengjin returned.
Perhaps because he had other things to do, he didn't stare at her too closely today. Seeing that she stayed in the room peacefully, he turned and left.
The seal of the demon world is a bit tricky, and there are some problems with the formation. He and Helan Wei will go there again tomorrow morning.
But before that, he needed to discuss a rough countermeasure with Helan Wei.
So he went to Helan Wei's room.
By the time the talks were over, it was already evening.
Xie Chengjin was about to say goodbye,
But at this moment, his eyes suddenly fell on Helan Wei's hand.
When they were talking about things just now, Helan Wei had been playing with a jade pendant, but only at this time did he see clearly that the jade pendant had a Vermillion Bird pattern.
Vermillion Bird pattern...
Xie Chengjin therefore looked at the jade pendant a few more times.
The jade pendant had delicate texture, soft color and regular shape, exactly the same as the one in the album presented to him by the servant before he set out for Yuan's house.
The air pressure around him dropped sharply.
Helan Wei noticed something strange and paused. Then, as if he had thought of something, he smiled and said, "Why are you staring at this jade pendant?"
He spread his palms so that Xie Chengjin could see the jade pendant more clearly, and said slowly, "Someone just gave it to me. Is there anything special about it?"
Ever since he knew that Xie Yanyu wanted to get close to Helan Wei, Xie Chengjin has been maintaining a strange balance.
He took into account the relationship between the two families and did not want this matter to make everyone look bad, so he did not explicitly forbid Xie Yanyu and Helan Wei from contacting each other, but he had been using roundabout means to obstruct them. Even every time he contacted Helan Wei, both of them knew about Xie Yanyu's affairs, but no one exposed it directly, and most of the time they just mentioned it briefly.
But if he doesn't expose it, will Helan Wei be able to take advantage of it?
In front of him, she covered her face and held her horizontally in her arms; under his nose, she whispered intimately to the easily impressed girl;
Now it has even intensified. What he said was nothing more than saying that Xie Yanyu had just been here.
Xie Chengjin raised his eyelids and looked at him, his eyes as cold as a knife.
After a long pause, he suddenly said, "There's nothing special about it. It's just that my sister really likes the jade pendant with the Vermillion Bird pattern. She bought a lot of identical ones and kept them in her sleeves. Then she got tired of them, so she just gave two away as a favor. What's so special about this thing?"
As soon as these words fell,
The smile on Helan Wei's lips faded a little.
Instead, Xie Chengjin curled his lips.
He looked at Helan Wei.
It was clearly not his fault. He knew that Xie Yanyu had to be sneaky when she came to see him, but he still insisted on pulling Xie Yanyu along and getting entangled with her.
Xie Yanyu wanted to get close to Helan Wei,
But is Helan Wei okay? If he doesn't respond, can she continue to interact with him unilaterally?
Xie Chengjin suddenly felt annoyed. He didn't want to analyze the specific cause of this emotion, but he could no longer endure it: "Stay away from my sister."
He deliberately emphasized the word "sister".
The window paper was suddenly punctured, and the undercurrent that was originally hidden beneath the water surface completely rushed out of the water.
"Really?" The smile on Helan Wei's face completely faded, and the suppressed anger in his heart suddenly ignited. He said viciously, "Who do you think you are? You told me to stay away from her? Do you really think that just because I'm a stepbrother, I can control her?"
"I've never seen a brother so lenient in other people's affairs. Do you think you're her brother or her husband? You're watching her every step of the way, even if she talks to a man?"
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