Chapter 46 Chapter 46 Confidant
Qingjue remained noncommittal.
Seeing that he was too tense and indeed preoccupied with this matter, Qingjue simply asked, "Did you think of any other solutions during the day?"
Jie Zhoujian lowered his head, feeling a vague sense of shame, realizing that he had just been venting for no reason: "...Zhoujian didn't know, he only wished for Master's safety."
"Master also wants you to be safe," Qingjue simply raised his hand and patted his head: "I believe that if you were in the same situation, you would make the same choice."
After a moment of silence, Jie said, "Master is right. I was just sulking. I was being petty."
Qingjue can actually fully understand and resolve the unease and anger during the day.
He had just experienced what was probably the biggest emotional rollercoaster in his life.
Qingjue carefully recalled the restlessness he felt when he returned to the modern world. After returning to this world, he indeed found it difficult to empathize with his past self.
However, he understood what it felt like to be overwhelmed by emotions, and even several knife wounds couldn't calm him down.
After the frustration came sadness, a bottomless sadness, so sad that he wanted to cry, and he did indeed shed tears.
Now he felt incredibly fortunate, as if he had survived a disaster.
The Yun family, which should have been wiped out, was saved, and people who could not gather together before became family.
Is this his most important mission after transmigrating? Or rather, regardless of whether this is his mission or not, Qingjue feels that this is it.
He didn't know when he would completely forget his original world, if his memories would continue to fade... He wanted to at least remember every little thing about this world forever.
His family died in that world, but lives in this world, and he has a new family here, which he doesn't want to forget.
Seriously, what if we're forced to go back after completing the storyline?
...Suddenly I felt a little sad again, and I wanted to go back and see my teacher again to see if she was safe and sound.
"Quan, how's it going in Zhangzhou? Have the elders said anything?"
Jie Zhoujian said, "Senior Sister Qingfeng said that Master needs to rest and recuperate. The Yun Family Mountain Range is very suitable for healing injuries because it gathers the spiritual energy of heaven and earth. So she plans to let you heal your injuries before you leave. The Yun Family Head has no objection at all. Senior Brother Qinghuan will take the others to leave in two days."
"Alright, it seems I'll have to bother the Yun family for a while longer."
"My father agreed, but I haven't agreed yet."
A voice came from afar. Qingjue and Jie looked over and saw Yun Yuelin standing outside the pavilion. He was only wearing a thin inner garment and a not-so-thick outer coat. At the open collar, they could see layers of bandages wrapped around his chest.
Qingjue whistled and said, "Looks like you weren't allowed to get out of bed and sneak out?"
Yun Yuelin walked over to them: "You talk as if you're not the same."
"Hey, I'm innocent! This time it really wasn't me. Qingfeng said that moving around is good for recovery and helps with blood circulation, understand?"
“Who can argue with you as well as you do?” Yun Yuelin walked into the pavilion and sat down opposite him.
During the day, Jie nodded to him, which was considered as if they had met.
Yun Yuelin picked up a teacup and asked, "What's the matter that you're in such a hurry to find me as soon as you wake up?"
"I'm not in a hurry. I just told you to come over when you have time."
"Tsk, get to the point. If you don't want to say anything, I'm going back now?"
Qingjue laughed twice and then said during the day, "Master, should I leave?"
"It's nothing, we're all family, there's nothing we can't talk about," Qingjue waved his hand and said, "I don't have anything important to say, I just wanted to check on our young master Yun's health."
Yun Yuelin raised an eyebrow: "I'm perfectly fine, and I woke up earlier than you."
Qingjue: "Look how smug you are. We drew in the competition inside the house."
Yun Yuelin: "We'll see, I'll definitely beat you next time."
Qingjue couldn't find any other topics. He had just guessed that the Yun family should have been wiped out, but now that he saw the energetic young master and junior members of the Yun family, he couldn't tell which side was a dream.
Qingjue realized that he didn't know much about this place, and it was his first time coming to the interior of the mountaintop.
If I bring up unlucky things here, Chunhua might throw me out despite her wounds.
"...It snows so often in your area, it's so cold, wouldn't that be harmful to your health?"
"...How can a cultivator fear the hardships of physical suffering? The disciples of the Yun family have long since cultivated themselves properly and are able to adapt to this environment. Besides, winter is the coldest season of the year. If they can't even endure this little bit of hardship, they cannot enter the Yun family."
"The Qing family doesn't do that, although they are quite strict about time and have many rules..."
The two chatted casually, seemingly as if nothing had happened, but in reality, they both had other thoughts in their minds.
One wanted to express gratitude but didn't know how to say it, while the other was preoccupied with his own reasoning about the massacre of the Yun family.
Jie could tell at a glance that everyone else had something on their mind. At first, she thought it was because she was sitting there and the two of them couldn't open up to each other, but then she realized it seemed to be their own... problem.
During the day, Jie asked a passing Yun family disciple for a pot of fine tea and brewed a cup for each of them to warm their hands.
Then they fell silent.
They drank tea in silence.
"..." Jie Zhoujian sighed and said, "Master Yun, you two can speak directly."
Jie Zhoujian said expressionlessly, "My lords, please don't act as if you have some unspeakable secret."
“You rascal…” Qingjue shook his head, rubbing his forehead: “Sometimes being too smart isn’t good, really.”
"Alright! Hiding things like this isn't how a real man behaves," Yun Yuelin said, somewhat embarrassed and indignant after being exposed, but still continued, "In short, although this matter is for the future of the entire cultivation world, not just the Yun family, among so many aristocratic families, only you have the strength to participate in this matter, so I sent you a message in my haste..."
Jie Zhoujian rarely interrupts others, but he couldn't help but say, "Young Master Yun, you'd better get to the point."
Just saying thank you...
"...Anyway, you were injured, and your disciples did their best... Anyway..."
Yun Yuelin's lips trembled slightly, and she gritted her teeth, as if she were saying something extremely difficult to say.
After a long while, he finally managed to squeeze out two words through clenched teeth: "Thank you...".
Jie Zhoujian didn't understand what was so awkward about, and sighed helplessly, "Sigh."
"Huh..."
Qingjue was also very awkward, but seeing that Yun Yuelin was even more awkward than him, he still chose to laugh.
Qingjue laughed heartily: "Hahahaha!"
"You old fox, try laughing again! I take back what I just said!"
Jie Zhoujian: "Master, stop laughing, it's your turn."
Qingjue stopped laughing instantly.
That brat, he doesn't even spare his own master.
"Alright, alright, what I really want to say is... I had a dream."
When Qingjue met the two people in front of him, they both had an "so what?" expression on their faces.
He adjusted his breathing and tone before uttering the words he had prepared: "I dreamt that I didn't come to help, I dreamt that... the Yun family didn't escape this calamity."
He waited quietly for a moment, probably waiting for Yun Yuelin to call him a jinx or something.
But the other person just took a sip of tea and said, "Oh."
"Oh?" Qingjue asked in confusion, "Just one 'oh'? Aren't you going to scold me for having such an ominous dream..."
And what if he really... he shouldn't be a person of this world.
“If you hadn’t come to help, the Yun family would have had a hard time escaping this calamity. That’s the truth. What right do I have to scold you?”
"..." That makes sense, but Meng's attitude was much calmer than he had imagined when she heard that her family had been wiped out.
“Then we can only blame ourselves for our negligence. We were unable to protect our disciples and the people,” Yun Yuelin said. “Even if something really happened, I should be the one who feels guilty. As the young master and the future heir, I failed to fulfill my responsibilities.”
He spoke very seriously. Usually, when he and Qingjue got together, they would bicker childishly, often making people forget that he was a beloved and respected young master of the Yun family.
Even though he had a bad temper, the Yun family disciples still liked him very much.
Qingjue drew an analogy, and this is probably what a boss is like—someone who may be sharp-tongued but actually helps his employees get things done.
Qingjue said, "But no one can predict such things. If something really goes wrong, we can only blame those bastards for being too ambitious, ruthless, and wicked."
Jie Zhoujian nodded, agreeing with his words: "Young Master Yun's decision to seek help from the Qing family immediately was wise, and his self-inflicted Gu poisoning also showed great responsibility and courage, which is something Zhoujian should learn from."
Yun Yuelin initially thought his words were alright, but after Jie Zhoujian finished speaking, he instantly got goosebumps all over.
"What's wrong with your apprentice? He just spouts such things!"
Qingjue laughed as he looked at Jie Zhoujian: "Hahaha, how wonderful, how frank!"
"In short, I am already very satisfied with what has come to this," Yun Yuelin said after finishing the last drop of tea in her cup. "Whatever you dream about, or whatever might happen, is our own destiny to face, and it has nothing to do with others."
He has always been open and honest about such matters. He believes that life is nothing more than living towards death, and if one dies a glorious death, then one's life has not been in vain.
Therefore, Yun Yuelin decisively cut himself open in the wooden house, which was at least in line with Qing Jue's decision.
"Even if I, Yun Yuelin, am to die, I will die with value and with beauty."
"Good!" Qingjue poured him another cup of tea and filled his own cup as well. He no longer held back his praise and didn't rebuke him: "You have a good understanding. You will definitely be a good head of the family in the future. I'll toast you with tea instead of wine."
The teacups clinked together, producing a crisp sound. The finest jade dew mingled with the aroma of the best tea. A true friend is a rare find in life, and is truly precious.
As a junior, Jie Zhoujian nodded with satisfaction, and then said, "Master and Young Master Yun, why don't you try the Liuchun specialty that I bought from the foot of the mountain?"
"Oh, you know what, I haven't been to Liuchun for long on business trips before," Qingjue said. He had smelled the aroma earlier but hadn't mentioned it. Now that it was mentioned, he did feel a bit hungry. "Let me try what good things Liuchun has. Can it compare to our Quanzhou and Zhangzhou, where we eat flowers?"
Yun Yuelin said confidently, "Then it must be..."
When you unwrap the oil paper packaging during the day, the aroma comes from the crisp dried fish.
The slender little fish were fried into crispy, golden-brown fried fish.
It looks distorted and crooked, like...
Qingjue Yunyue felt a little nauseous at the same time: "..."
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