Chapter 67: The Murdered Wife's Testimony (23)
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Zhu Qingchen originally didn't want to accept a disciple, but Cheng Yi pestered him all day long, asking him if he didn't like him anymore, otherwise why wouldn't he accept him now.
Zhu Qingchen had no choice but to hold a disciple-taking ceremony at the front line.
He originally didn't want to be too extravagant. After all, he was leaving soon and couldn't be of much help.
But who would have thought that Cheng Yi would advertise everywhere like a monkey, shouting to everyone he met: "I want to become your disciple! The day after tomorrow, everyone come!"
Zhu Qingchen lay in the tent and silently pulled the blanket over his head to cover himself.
A few days later, he accepted Cheng Yi as his apprentice at the front line.
The leaders of various sects came to congratulate, and the demon clan also came.
Chang Yuan sat next to Zhu Qingchen, clasped his hands, and looked unhappy.
Lu Nanxing was also unhappy.
He stood beside Zhu Qingchen, holding the sword, and whispered: "Anyway, I am the eldest senior brother, anyway, I am the eldest senior brother..."
Zhu Qingchen looked back at him, and he immediately shut his mouth and pretended nothing had happened.
Cheng Yi held the teacup in both hands and knelt down in front of Zhu Qingchen: "Master, please have some tea."
"Yeah." Zhu Qingchen nodded, took the teacup and took a sip.
Cheng Yi smiled and said, "Master, drink more."
"Okay." Zhu Qingchen took another sip.
"Drink some more."
"Chengyi, you better stop it."
"Okay." Cheng Yi took the teacup with a smile and put it away, then kowtowed to him firmly, "Master!"
The ceremony is over.
Cheng Yi quickly climbed up from the cushion and stood behind Zhu Qingchen: "I finally have a status! Master has given me a status!"
Why does this sound weird?
Zhu Qingchen and Chang Yuan turned around at the same time. What nonsense are you talking about? What is "status"?
People in the cultivation world are so uncultured!
Cheng Yi touched the tip of his nose and moved his feet: "Master, I will go to greet the guests. They are all here to attend my apprenticeship banquet."
Zhu Qingchen nodded: "Go ahead."
The injuries of everyone in the cultivation world have almost healed, so coming to attend Cheng Yi's apprenticeship banquet can also be considered as their own celebration banquet.
The Heavenly Dao is dead, and a new era of cultivation will begin with their generation.
Zhu Qingchen put his hands together and
Yuan, sitting upright in the main seat.
The considerate disciple brought them a plate of barbecued meat and said, "Master, your injury has not healed yet. Just eat a little and you will be fine. You will need to take medicine later."
"Okay." Zhu Qingchen pursed his lips and nodded.
Soon, several sect leaders stood up with their wine glasses in hand and greeted Zhu Qingchen: "Your Excellency has made the greatest contribution to this matter. We all want to thank you for taking charge."
“You’re welcome.” Zhu Qingchen picked up the medicine bowl prepared for him by his eldest disciple, nodded bitterly, and drank the medicine bitterly.
The demons were not to be outdone, and quickly stood up and raised their glasses to Chang Yuan: "Our Lord should be as famous as the Immortal Lord!"
Chang Yuan also picked up the medicine bowl: "Yes."
A voice came from among the demons: "I think, if it is passed down to future generations, the names of Jade Pure Immortal Venerable and our Venerable must be passed down together. I think we should just call them 'One Venerable'!"
"Okay, okay."
Chang Yuan nodded slightly: "Okay."
This group of people are quite smart.
It will be passed down through the ages together with Zhu Qingqing.
Zhu Qingchen frowned and turned to look at him.
Chang Yuan immediately cleared his throat and said seriously, "How can we seal this matter ourselves? We have to let future generations seal it."
Zhu Qingchen:?
What are you talking about again?
The demons all nodded in agreement: "Yes, yes, yes! It would be more interesting if future generations gave it a title!"
Zhu Qingchen touched his hair. At this time, the leaders stood up again, unwilling to be outdone.
"Immortal Venerable, now that Xuantian Sect has fallen, the cultivation world is leaderless. May I ask whether Immortal Venerable would you personally establish a sect and lead the cultivation world? We are all willing to obey your orders!"
Zhu Qingchen shook his head: "No need. The sect was founded in the past to unite as one and fight against the Demon Abyss. Now that the world is peaceful, why do you need me to lead it?"
"But……"
"Let the younger generation handle these things. I'm tired." Zhu Qingchen looked at Lu Nanxing and Cheng Yi, "You two should work hard. In the future, let Master be the 'founding ancestor'. There is only one thing -"
"Cheng Yi, give the sect a proper name. Don't call it the World Destroying Sect!"
"Got it." Cheng Yi replied with a grin, "It's called 'Aotian Sect'!"
Zhu Qingchen:?
"Let your senior brother think about it, and don't get involved in things like names."
The two disciples sat together with the younger disciples from various sects, discussing what to give.
It’s fun to name the new sect whatever you want.
At this time, someone asked: "So what should your sect focus on? Knife? Sword? Medicine? Talisman?"
Cheng Yi and Lu Nanxing looked at each other and said seriously, "Self-cultivator!"
"What?" Everyone was puzzled.
"Maintaining 'free cultivators'!" Lu Nanxing raised his glass, "Free cultivators from all over the world are all under my sect. There will be no morning classes and no need to pay tribute. Whenever a free cultivator encounters problems or is bullied, he can come to my sect to seek help!"
"Cheng Yi and I were both casual practitioners. If it weren't for Master's help, I would have died without a burial place. So our sect doesn't practice anything but 'casual cultivation'!"
Zhu Qingchen looked at his high-spirited disciples and couldn't help but smile. This time he didn't object.
"System, you can go now."
"good."
Zhu Qingchen closed his eyes, and the blazing bonfire was reflected on his face.
Chang Yuan confirmed that he had left, then quietly reached out his hand, put his arm around his shoulders, and pressed him into his arms, like a hug.
"Leave."
*
On the way to the fourth world, the system said to Zhu Qingchen: "You will definitely like the next world."
"What world is it?"
"Guess." The system said confidently, "I guarantee you'll like it."
"Um……"
Before Zhu Qingchen could finish his words, he felt dizzy and finally lay on a soft bed.
Zhu Qingchen reached out and touched the bed beneath him, and it seemed as if he pressed a spring.
Zhu Qingchen was startled and jumped up from the bed. He touched the head of the bed, found the light switch, and turned on the light.
In an instant, the room was as bright as day.
"Ah!" Zhu Qingchen happily held up the system with both hands and raised it high, "It's the modern world!"
The little blue light ball blushed shyly: "I promised to give you milk tea in the last world, so I specially adjusted a modern world for you."
Zhu Qingchen held it in his hands and pressed his cheek against it: "Tongtong, I love you so much!"
The system was bewildered by him: "Chenchen, me too, you are the best host I have ever met..."
This is the first time that a host called it a reduplicated word and said that he liked it.
Fainted.
After a long while, the red glow on the ball of light disappeared.
The system cleared its throat and said, "First,
Take a look at the plot outline of this world. The protagonist of this book..."
"Wait a minute!" Zhu Qingchen put down the system, immediately picked up the phone on the bedside, and skillfully opened the food delivery app, "I'll order a cup of milk tea first."
The system choked: "...Hurry up."
"Okay, wow, there are new products."
Zhu Qingchen crossed his feet, ordered the takeout, and put down his phone.
The system continued: "The protagonist of this book..."
"Wait a minute!" Zhu Qingchen stretched out his hand towards it, "Give me my slime."
"Okay..." The system took out the slime helplessly, "Don't interrupt me!"
"Okay." Zhu Qingchen took the slime apart and played with it on the table. "The coffin is buried deep in the valley - there is no eternal secret -"
The system choked: "Haven't you been in the Immortal Cultivation World for several months? How come you still remember these things?"
Zhu Qingchen tapped his ears and said, "It's engraved in my mind."
The system, which was so moved just now, raised its electronic screen high and said, "Don't force me to beat you, you bastard."
"You just called me 'Chenchen' and said I was your 'favorite Chenchen'." Zhu Qingchen sang loudly, "Oh oh——"
The system was speechless: "Dead child!"
Title: Lost Fairy Tales
[Era: Modern Fiction]
[Tags: modern city, sadomasochism, reunion]
The protagonist of this book is named Xia Shu.
Xia Shu's family is average, and his younger brother Xia Chi suffers from congenital heart disease, so he needs to find a suitable donor for a heart transplant before he turns eighteen.
The parents worked hard to make money and lived frugally in order to "keep their youngest son."
Xia Shu also likes her younger brother very much.
Since his younger brother couldn't go to school, he listened carefully in class and taught his younger brother the knowledge when he came back.
Since his younger brother was unable to go out for strenuous exercise, he carried him on his back when they went out to play, protecting him at all times.
When my younger brother grew up a little, I started thinking about contributing to the family income and reducing the burden on the family.
Although the family does not live a wealthy life, they are happy.
At the age of eighteen, Xia Shu was admitted to the Chinese Department of Jinghua University through his own efforts.
While studying hard, he also worked part-time outside to save money for his brother's surgery.
In the coffee shop where he worked part-time, he met Zhou Ziqian, who also came from a poor family.
Zhou Ziqian is a senior who is one year older than him.
Working part-time in a coffee shop, she knows a lot about coffee. She personally introduced him to the art of making coffee and helped him out when he encountered difficult customers.
A month later, Zhou Ziqian confessed his love to him, and they naturally got together.
They were all very poor, and even when they were in love, they would just share a pancake or a glass of juice.
Whenever this happened, Xia Shu would always say, "It doesn't matter, it will be fine once I get a job."
Zhou Ziqian nodded, then took away all the chicken fillets in the pancake, which made Xia Shu so angry that she chased him and beat him.
After getting a boyfriend, Xia Shu didn't dare tell her parents about it. She only dared to sleep with her brother in her arms when she went home on weekends and tell him the secret quietly.
A gossipy gleam appeared in the younger brother's eyes, and he asked his brother what kind of person Zhou Ziqian was.
When he heard that Zhou Ziqian was also very poor, his younger brother immediately sat up, handed the money he earned from drawing online to Xia Shu, and looked at him with shining eyes.
He said, "Brother, this is the money I saved, you can use it to date."
Xia Shu touched his head and said, "You still need to save money for surgery. I don't need much money for love."
"Brother, you always treat yourself too badly. It's not easy for you to meet someone you like. When I recover from my illness, I will make money to support you."
"Okay, then I'll be a parasite, staying at home every day, waiting for Xiaochi to come back from work and bring him food."
"Then can I meet Brother Ziqian?"
"sure."
On the first day, Xia Shu took Xia Chi to the coffee shop.
Xia Chi ordered a glass of the cheapest plain water, sat down, glanced at Zhou Ziqian, drank the water and left without asking his brother to introduce him.
Xia Shu chased him out and asked him why he left.
Xia Chi smiled at him and said, "I've seen it. Brother has good taste and looks like a good person. But if he knew that I have a brother with heart disease, he might be scared away. Wait until I cure his illness and help him calm his parents down, then you can introduce him to us."
Xia Shu felt sorry for her brother's understanding, but she didn't force him.
A year passed like this.
During the summer vacation between her freshman and junior year, Xia Shu was working part-time in a coffee shop when she suddenly received a call from Xia Chi.
On the other end of the phone, Xia Chi's voice was very weak: "Brother, I saw..."
Xia Shu felt something was wrong: "Xiao Chi, what's wrong with you? Where are you?"
"I'm at the mall, Brother Ziqian..."
The phone fell to the ground with a clang, and a passerby picked it up: "Hello, how are you..."
Xia Shu rushed out of the coffee shop: "Hello, this is my brother's phone. What happened to my brother?"
"Your brother fainted..."
"Please, call an ambulance for me. He has a congenital heart disease. Where are you? I'll be there right away! Please! I beg you!"
Xia Shu rushed out of the restaurant and ran towards the mall while calling home.
Five minutes later, the ambulance had not arrived yet, but Xia Shu arrived first.
Kind passers-by gathered around Xia Chi, but because they didn't understand his condition, they didn't dare to move.
Xia Shu pushed through the crowd and rushed forward: "Xiao Chi? Xiao Chi? Please disperse a little, my brother needs fresh air..."
Passersby dispersed, and through the huge, shiny floor-to-ceiling windows, Xia Shu saw Zhou Ziqian, dressed in a suit and tie, and a little boy he had never seen before, choosing watches in the luxury store opposite.
The little boy tried dozens of watches but still couldn't make up his mind. He leaned affectionately in Zhou Ziqian's arms, and the two of them were very close.
Finally, Zhou Ziqian pinched the tip of the little boy's nose and asked the salesperson to pack up all the watches. Four or five salespeople in the store joined in the operation.
so……
Did Xiao Chi have a heart attack because he saw Zhou Ziqian buying things for other people in a luxury store?
Xia Shu didn't have time to care about Zhou Ziqian. After coming to his senses, he quickly assisted the medical staff and sent Xia Chi to the ambulance.
Just at this moment, Zhou Ziqian turned his head and saw Xia Shu leaving in a hurry.
Outside the operating room, parents and relatives arrived.
Xia Chi needs to undergo heart surgery immediately, and there happens to be a suitable heart available right now. If they can raise the money for the surgery, the surgery can be performed immediately.
But the surgery is expensive, and we still need three hundred thousand.
The relatives chipped in, his parents had sold their house, and Xia Shu also took out the money he had saved over the years.
There is still a shortfall of 100,000.
Parents were calling in the corridor to borrow money. Xia Shu clutched her phone, put on a stern face and called the teachers and classmates she knew. She also called her part-time boss to get an advance on her salary.
But they didn't have much money, and Xia Shu was embarrassed to ask for too much. After making several phone calls, he only managed to get five thousand, which was far from enough.
He hesitated for a moment and dialed Zhou Ziqian's number.
He was just borrowing money, he wasn't asking for it for nothing.
He will pay it back.
When the call was connected, Xia Shu said in a hoarse voice: "Hello, Ziqian, I have an emergency, my brother..."
Before he could finish, Zhou Ziqian said, "I see. Your brother is sick, right? Either a heart disease or leukemia, right?"
"Yes, he's going to have surgery soon." Xia Shu ignited hope, "It's just a hundred thousand yuan short, can you..."
Zhou Ziqian snorted coldly and said in a cold voice: "You people always use these excuses, aren't you tired of it? You saw me in the mall this afternoon, and called me to borrow money in the evening. Xia Shu, your acting skills are too poor."
Xia Shu hurriedly said: "No, I didn't lie to you, my brother is really dying, I can write an IOU, or do you know anyone who can lend me money..."
"Then let him die."
After saying this, Zhou Ziqian put the phone upside down on the table.
He was probably at a drinking party, and someone called out to him, "Mr. Zhou, come and have a drink."
"Or the poor guy who works part-time in the cafe?"
Zhou Ziqian's voice was full of contempt: "Yeah, that poor guy. I took Xiao Xu to buy a watch this afternoon and he saw us. He came to borrow money as soon as he found out that I had money."
"Who is it? How come I don't know? Tell me."
"It's the one in the coffee shop. Young Master Zhou made a bet with us that we could get it in a week. But Young Master Zhou hid his identity and worked part-time, and it took him a month to get it."
Zhou Ziqian said coldly: "He is just pretending to be noble, but in fact he is very cheap. He came here in a month."
"Then why hasn't Mr. Zhou broken up yet? You've been dating for almost a year, right? You can't bear to let go, right?"
With a click, Zhou Ziqian lit a cigarette. "If you're tired of playing, then you can split it up. If you're not tired of playing, why split it up? I originally thought that he was different from the others, and the results were similar. If he had persisted for a few days before asking me for money, I would have given it to him. Who knew he would be so impatient?"
"Who doesn't know that Master Zhou is generous? Even if it was just one night, the breakup fee he gave was a sky-high one. He was too impatient. He jumped at the money as soon as he saw it. He was so stupid."
Xia Shu didn't listen any further.
I see.
Zhou Ziqian is not a poor boy who works to pay for his studies.
No wonder Zhou Ziqian is so familiar with coffee, and no wonder those troublesome and difficult customers become scared when they see him.
It turns out that he was the stakes in the bets made by the rich kids, and it turns out that he was a complete idiot.
Xia Shu had no time to feel sad, so she wiped away her tears and
I opened my cell phone and looked through my address book, but I couldn't borrow any money anymore.
There was no other way, Xia Shu could only open the online loan with trembling hands.
After rushing around, I finally managed to collect enough money for the surgery.
Xia Shu sat outside the operating room, feeling extremely regretful.
Why did he tell Xiaochi about Zhou Ziqian?
Why did he let Xiaochi meet Zhou Ziqian?
If Xiaochi didn't know Zhou Ziqian, nothing would have happened today.
After an unknown amount of time, the nurse came out of the operating room with a serious look on her face and shook her head: "Family members, please go in."
This means going in to see him for the last time.
Xia Shu collapsed to the ground and beat himself hard: "It's all my fault...it's all my fault!"
His parents suppressed their sadness and helped him up from the ground.
The whole family gathered around Xia Chi's bed, and Xia Chi looked at every family member with the little consciousness he had left.
"Dad should smoke less and exercise more, Mom, don't be sad, I will become a little star in the sky, brother..."
He paused, Xia Shu leaned closer, and Xia Chi whispered, "Brother, break up with him, he's a liar."
Before Xia Chi died, he still remembered that this was a secret between him and his brother and his parents must not know.
Finally, Xia Chi said to him: "Happy birthday, brother."
Xia Shu suddenly raised his head and remembered that his birthday was in a few days.
Xia Chi went to the mall to buy him a birthday present, saw Zhou Ziqian in the mall, and became so angry that he had an outburst.
Xia Shu's face was full of tears. She held his hand tightly and cried bitterly: "Xiao Chi, let's break up, brother breaks up, you must live, brother wants you to live... Brother was wrong... I was wrong, I was wrong..."
At this time, Zhou Ziqian called again: "Xia Shu, if you tell the truth, I can lend you money..."
"Get out! Get out!" Xia Shu smashed her cell phone against the wall and fainted from crying.
Xia Chi died due to ineffective rescue efforts. The doctor said that if he had taken good care of himself, had not been exposed to such a great shock, had raised the surgery fee earlier, and had undergone the surgery earlier, he might have had a chance of survival.
After the funeral, my parents seemed to have aged ten years overnight. Xia Shu also had to work harder to make money and pay back the money she had borrowed from online loans.
But he no longer knows what is the point of making money in this way.
He no longer needs to save money.
He lived in this muddle-headed way.
Because he could not pay the wildly increasing or even doubling interest of unscrupulous online loans, a few months later, his information was exposed to all the students in the school by the online loan company.
In school, the news about Zhou Ziqian's close friends also spread.
He was in love with Zhou Ziqian, but because he was too materialistic, Zhou Ziqian was annoyed, and the usually generous Zhou Ziqian didn't give him a dime. But he was used to a luxurious life, so he borrowed online loans.
When others gossip about him, Zhou Ziqian doesn't comment. He fiddles with his lighter and casually says, "Yeah, he's that kind of person. He's full of lies. He'll do anything for money."
The matter became more and more serious. By the time Xia Shu realized what was going on and wanted to clarify, he had already been called away by the school leaders.
He confronted Zhou Ziqian face to face and tried his best to refute him, but Zhou Ziqian nodded: "Yes, we were in a relationship, he asked me for money, I didn't lend it to him, so he borrowed money from an online loan."
He told the truth, but not all of it.
When he came out of the leader's office, Zhou Ziqian put his hands in his pocket, took out a card, and said to Xia Shu: "Here, take the 100,000 yuan you asked for."
Xia Shu suddenly raised her head, pushed him away, pinned him to the ground, and punched him hard: "Get out! Get out! What did I do wrong? Tell me what I did wrong? Why do you treat me like this?!"
Zhou Ziqian got up from the ground, covering his broken lip, and looked at his departing back viciously, determined to make him pay the price.
In the end, Xia Shu was given a serious warning, and his place in graduate school as the top student in the department was revoked. He even offended Zhou Ziqian, so Zhou Ziqian's friends made things difficult for him at school and caused trouble at his part-time job, making it impossible for him to continue his studies.
Later, Xia Shu suffered from severe depression and took a year off from school.
On the day the truth came out, Zhou Ziqian knelt in front of him and said with red eyes that he was wrong.
If Xia Shu is willing, he is willing to spend the rest of his life atonement.
——Lost Fairy Tales
[Host Mission: Become Xia Shu's teacher and help him get into graduate school successfully]
[World Difficulty: C Level]
[Mission reward: 5 health points]!
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