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Yu Sui will not tell Su Feng that she knows about Qing Kui's existence.
Given Su Feng's intelligence, he would realize that Madam Su's lukewarm attitude towards him over the years was due to the possibility of her having another child.
If she knew of Qingkui's existence and still lived like this for eighteen years, then in Su Feng's eyes she would be somewhat pitiful.
Even if Su Feng's pity for her was well-intentioned, Yu Sui still didn't really want it.
Once Yu Sui was involved in the mother-daughter relationship between Madam Su and Qing Kui, she felt disgusted.
Just like when she looked up amidst the three thousand forks in the road and discovered that her father's face was Nangong Ming, she didn't feel disgusted, but rather repulsed.
Yu Sui was just born atop Mount Luo. When Qing Kui faked her death, Yu Sui was still an infant. She would never have known or remembered Qing Kui's existence.
But Qingkui remembered Yu Sui.
Regardless of how Nangong Ming taught his daughter, Yu Sui believed that with Qing Kui's talent, she should be very much liked by Nangong Ming.
Nian Qiuyan also said that Nangong Ming would not interfere with the decisions of the Qingyang bandits, which was an acknowledgment of Qingkui's abilities.
Qingkui thought Mei Liangyu was in the way and wanted Yu Sui to take action to get rid of this trouble.
In Qingkui's view, the moment a man becomes infatuated with a woman, that's when he falls into a deadly trap.
Nangong Sui entered Taiyi and was accepted as a disciple by a sage, transforming from a person of ordinary arts into a practitioner of the nine schools of arts.
With this information, Qingkui would not underestimate Yu Sui; sending her to kill Mei Liangyu was a test.
What can a person who has been incompetent and weak for eighteen years possibly achieve?
This reform of the Listening Wind Ruler has caused the students of the academy to hold onto it tightly from the moment they wake up, and to discuss the new functions opened up by the Communication Academy with great enthusiasm.
After the restrictions on telepathic communication were lifted, Yu Sui received a telepathic message from her third brother, Sheng Fei, early in the morning.
Sheng Fei, with his fiery temper, immediately launched into a barrage of questions after the call connected: Where are you? What are you doing? Why aren't you at the academy?
Sitting opposite Sheng Fei, Mu Mengbai looked on with disbelief, holding up a piece of white paper with the words "calm and gentle" written on it and shaking it frantically at Sheng Fei.
Sheng Fei took a deep breath, suppressing his anger. With a forced smile, he asked slowly, "Where are you?"
From the moment the telepathic connection was established, Yu Sui left the Wind Listening Ruler on the table and didn't pay any attention to it. Sheng Fei's question didn't give her a chance to speak, so she turned around and went to boil a pot of tea for herself. When she came back and heard Sheng Fei's question, she turned her head and looked out the window. The sun was rising in the west today.
Yu Sui didn't see the sun rise in the west, but he did see Mei Liangyu climb over the wall and come in.
Yu Sui pointed towards the door, silently indicating: Senior brother, there's a door.
Mei Liangyu shrugged, pretending not to see it. Yu Sui then picked up the Wind Listening Ruler and showed the ruler to Mei Liangyu.
Mei Liangyu glanced at it and noticed that she was sending a telepathic message, still from Sheng Fei. She then slightly raised her chin and said, "Fine, I'll shut up."
“Third Brother,” Yu Sui said, “I’m on Mechanical Island. Something happened in the waters here, and the Saints are dealing with it, so I can’t go back to the academy for the time being.”
Sheng Fei: "What are you doing in that godforsaken place, the Mechanical Island? Did the Wen Yang family kidnap you? That's outrageous! Why don't they kidnap Mei Liangyu instead!"
Mei Liangyu placed the fruit tea and red plum cake that Yu Sui wanted on the table. She only raised an eyebrow when she heard the conversation on her end, and didn't pay any attention.
Yu Sui patiently explained, "No, I came to the Mechanical Island to find my senior brother, but unfortunately the sea eye on the Mechanical Island erupted and blocked my way."
"The Sea Eye?" Sheng Fei asked suspiciously. "Isn't that thing fixed over in the Abyss Sea? Why are you going to such a dangerous place to find Mei Liangyu? What is Mei Liangyu doing in the Abyss Sea? He went, so why are you following him?"
Upon hearing this series of questions, Mei Liangyu couldn't help but burst out laughing.
There was a moment of silence on Sheng Fei's side. Mu Mengbai was shocked. He had just written the character "plum" on the paper when he saw his friend's eye twitch violently for a moment. He asked expressionlessly, "What's that sound? Why is a dog laughing?"
Yu Sui: "..."
Mei Liangyu didn't argue with Sheng Fei and sat down at the table as if nothing had happened. Yu Sui said, "What was that sound? I didn't hear it. Was it coming from your side, Third Brother?"
Mu Mengbai pointed at himself, opened his mouth in shock, but hesitated to speak.
Sheng Fei sneered, "It's either on my side or your side, there's a dog barking."
Yu Sui glanced at Mei Liangyu beside him, and Mei Liangyu noticed. He slowly poured fruit tea into his cup and casually said, "Keep talking, pretend I'm not here."
"Mei Liangyu is by your side, right?" Sheng Fei asked directly.
"Yes! My senior brother brought me breakfast. We're all stuck on the mechanical island." Yu Sui added before Sheng Fei could go crazy, "And Li Jinshuang, Zhong Lishan, and the others. We're staying at Situ Jin's house right now."
There seemed to be a lot of people, and Sheng Fei's emotions, which were about to erupt, were suppressed again.
Yu Sui patiently explained to Sheng Fei what had happened these past few days, but didn't say anything she shouldn't have.
Mei Liangyu sat opposite Yu Sui, watching her respond to Sheng Fei with gentle and obedient words, but she was focused on eating the red plum cake on the table. She remained unmoved by Sheng Fei's irritable remarks, as if she hadn't listened at all.
Perfunctory.
But the listener couldn't tell that it was just a perfunctory response.
Mei Liangyu pondered, and it seemed that it couldn't be said that it was all perfunctory. It was just that the attitude, the expression, and the tone, when combined and appearing at the same time, created a myriad of expressions.
It doesn't feel real.
However, since his junior sister wasn't avoiding him anymore, he didn't care whether it was real or not.
After coaxing Sheng Fei, Yu Sui ended the telepathic communication and looked up at Mei Liangyu: "Senior brother, the Communication Academy has lifted the telepathic restrictions and added a lot of new gadgets to the Listening Wind Ruler. Do you want to play with them?"
She handed the Wind Listening Ruler to Mei Liangyu, but Mei Liangyu didn't take it: "I heard from Zhong Lishan and the others before I came that the new function is just so-so."
Mei Liangyu didn't care much about the Wind Listening Ruler and casually said, "But your third brother, sometimes his temper is so bad that people think he's been bewitched."
Yu Sui said, "He had a better temper when he was a child than he does now."
However, the mention of being poisoned by a curse did make Yu Sui somewhat concerned.
Sheng Fei was naturally arrogant and spoiled since childhood, so he had the temper of a young master. He and Gu Gan were also at odds since childhood, and everyone was used to their fighting and arguing.
Everyone assumed that Sheng Fei's irritability and temper were due to his spoiled and pampered nature.
"Do farmers have this kind of Gu technique?" Yu Sui asked curiously.
Mei Liangyu raised an eyebrow and said, "The peasant family has all kinds of Gu techniques. There's nothing they can't do, only things you can't imagine."
Yu Sui asked, "Really? Is there such a thing as a Gu technique that can bring people back to life?"
Mei Liangyu: "Yes, they become like zombies."
Yu Sui: "That doesn't count."
Mei Liangyu: "No, that's not the case."
“I know that the Farmer Clan has the Love Gu.” Yu Sui bit into a red plum cake and gestured in the air with her hand. “I heard that this kind of Gu is used by the Farmer Clan disciples to tame poisonous creatures.”
Mei Liangyu nodded and said, "That's true."
With an inquisitive look, Yu Sui asked, "If the Love Poison is used on a living person, will the person afflicted with the poison fall in love with the caster?"
"It's hard to control one's emotions," Mei Liangyu explained. "The biggest benefit is that the person under the influence of the Gu will not attack or harm the caster."
Originally, these were used by peasant sorcerers to tame overly aggressive poisonous creatures, in order to prevent them from turning on their masters and harming them.
"Oh, I see." Yu Sui suddenly realized, slowly breaking off pieces of plum blossom cake with her slender fingers, "No wonder I saw Zhang Xiangyun and Senior Brother Nian clashing earlier. They were about to fight, but Zhang Xiangyun just couldn't bring himself to do it. I also heard them talking about the Love Gu. After they found me, Zhang Xiangyun left immediately. I asked Senior Brother Nian what happened, and he said it was nothing, so I didn't ask any more questions."
Mei Liangyu narrowed his eyes upon hearing this, "When did this happen?"
Yu Sui answered honestly, "Just two days ago, after we came back from playing at Baili's house, didn't you get into a fight with Zhang Xiangyun and the others that day, Senior Brother? After we came back, Senior Brother ran into Zhang Xiangyun, and it seems that they had a fight because of what happened during the day."
What she said was indeed true, but she knew the inside story herself, yet she pretended not to know anything and simply recounted the scene.
Mei Liangyu showed no outward reaction, but was pondering inwardly.
Yu Sui asked again, "Is something wrong with Senior Brother Nian?"
“What could possibly happen to him?” Mei Liangyu sneered.
Seeing his expression, Yu Sui obediently lowered her head and ate without asking any further questions.
Just as the hour of You (5-7 PM) arrived, Yu Sui and the others received news that the Water Boat Saints had driven away the Sea Eye and that they could return to the academy.
These past few days, Situ Jin has been demonstrating his generosity and the wealth of the Situ family. Upon learning the news, he summoned the Situ family's large ship to send Yu Sui and the others back to the academy.
Before people even boarded the ship at the ferry dock, Situ Jin earnestly explained to them what kind of strong winds and waves his large ship could withstand.
Three academy saints accompanied them this time.
Leng Rouyin was a military strategist; Ou Rushuang was a farmer; and Wu Huaiwei was a yin-yang master.
Leng Rouyin seemed genuinely unaware of what these students were up to. On the ship, she coldly criticized them all, telling them not to run off to such a dangerous place as the Abyss Sea without a reason.
He also criticized Situ Jin, saying that when it comes to doing serious business, one shouldn't bring just anyone onto the Spirit Bird.
Situ Jin was truly wronged; none of the academy disciples on that ship were brought down by him. But he couldn't say that, so he could only bite the bullet and accept the criticism, promising to humbly repent.
The black light curtain by the sea was removed, and the sea was calm. The previous storm was just an illusion, and the huge whirlpool that could have swallowed the entire mechanical island was nowhere to be seen.
After the sage finished his speech and left, the academy disciples, who had been silent and quiet just moments before, immediately went about their own business.
Zhong Lishan leaned against the ship's railing, enjoying the evening breeze as night fell, and used a wind-listening ruler to communicate with Su Tong.
Xing Chun was communicating telepathically with Cang Shu, telling him to listen to the sound of the sea breeze, and asked Cang Shu if he could hear it. Cang Shu said he couldn't hear it.
“There’s something wrong with this wind-listening ruler,” Xing Chun asserted.
Without a wind-listening caliper to play with, Mei Liangyu, who could only lean against the ship's railing and feel the sea breeze, said calmly, "It would be a problem if he could hear this wind."
On Cang Shu's end, someone else answered the telepathic message, and Shi Yuezhen's voice came through, asking with a laugh: "What's it like to escape death from the eye of the sea?"
“That would certainly be very fulfilling, but do you have time? I feel like all my bones have loosened up since I came out. I don’t know if it’s just my imagination, but I can occasionally sense some chaotic Five Elements energy that doesn’t belong to me.” Xing Chun finished speaking and turned to look at Mei Liangyu and Zhong Lishan. “Am I the only one like this?”
Zhong Lishan turned his head and looked over: "Me too."
Mei Liangyu raised his hand, glanced at Nian Qiuyan who was playing with the wind-listening ruler next to him, and said lazily, "Let Nian Qiuyan take a look too."
“Me?” Nian Qiuyan looked up at the sound. “But I didn’t go into the sea eye.”
Mei Liangyu said, "Let's check it out, just in case."
Nian Qiuyan smiled and said, "That won't be necessary. Yuezhen is quite tired too."
"What?" Mei Liangyu looked over with a half-smile. "Afraid that Yuezhen will discover the Love Poison Gu in your body?"
Nian Qiuyan's heart skipped a beat. Meeting Mei Liangyu's calm gaze, she forced herself to remain composed: "Where would I have gotten this from...?"
Mei Liangyu interrupted him: "If everything you say is false, then I will be very sad."
The conversation between the two went unnoticed by Zhong Lishan and Xing Chun, who kept their voices to themselves.
Mei Liangyu asked nothing and did nothing about the Milky Way Water.
But this was his final bottom line for Nian Qiuyan.
Nian Qiuyan had to pull herself together and explained in a low voice, "Last time in Mingzhu Fang in the outer city, I took the Love Potion and used it on Zhang Xiangyun."
Mei Liangyu chuckled softly, her gaze sweeping over Nian Qiuyan: "You chose Zhang Xiangyun to cast the Love Poison Gu?"
“We had exhausted all three divination methods, so this was the only way we could use,” Nian Qiuyan said helplessly. “His love curse will be lifted in two more days.”
After Nian Qiuyan provided an explanation, Mei Liangyu did not ask any further questions.
Nian Qiuyan joked, "You truly deserve to be called a Tenth-Realm Divine Soul cultivator; you even know whether someone has a Gu talisman inside their body."
Mei Liangyu didn't tell him that it was Yu Sui who said it, she just hummed softly.
But Nian Qiuyan figured it out herself.
Nangong Sui.
Nian Qiuyan felt her hand holding the wind-listening ruler getting warm, and her palm felt moist.
She definitely did it on purpose.
But why?
It was Nangong Sui who told him to keep lying, so why is he exposing his lie to Meimei today?
Did she change her mind so quickly?
Or did I say something wrong last night?
As Nian Qiuyan pondered, she unconsciously frowned, her fingertip tracing the surface of the Listening Wind Ruler, and opened Yu Sui's communication interface, asking her why she did this.
They were all upstairs enjoying the breeze, while Yu Sui slept in the boathouse downstairs. He was only woken up by Li Jinshuang after arriving at Taiyi Academy, and he walked out rubbing his eyes and yawning.
The ferry dock was already lit up with night lights, illuminating the orange ripples on the water. Sheng Fei stood at the dock with a cold face, waiting for Yu Sui to disembark from the large ship in front of him.
Sheng Fei was accompanied by Mu Mengbai. Just as he was marveling at the magnificent ship before him, he spotted Yu Sui, who had been brought out by Li Jinshuang, and waved and called out, "Sister!"
"Get lost." Sheng Fei got angry when he heard him call her "sister."
Yu Sui peeked down and waved to Mu Mengbai, who was being fiercely scolded by Sheng Fei, with a bright smile.
She followed behind Li Jinshuang, looking down at the Wind Listening Ruler.
Nian Qiuyan walked at the very back of the group, chatting and laughing with Xing Chun beside her, without ever glancing in Yu Sui's direction.
Until the wind-listening ruler in his hand began to buzz.
Nian Qiuyan looked down, her eyes reflecting Yu Sui's reply: "Senior brother doesn't like you speaking in riddles."
"Me too."
Nian Qiuyan calmly put away the Wind Listening Ruler and followed Xing Chunchao down the boat, her mind racing as she pondered the meaning of the message.
Speak only half of what you mean.
What does "she" refer to?
Nangong Sui actually used Mei Liangyu to warn him.
Nian Qiuyan frowned, his mind a jumble of emotions, including a hint of barely concealed anger. He quickly recalled all his conversations with Nangong Sui.
The fact that Nangong Sui brought up the matter of the Love Poison Gu this morning, rather than earlier or later, suggests that there was something wrong with their conversation last night.
Nian Qiuyan recalled the last words Yu Sui said when she left this morning:
"Is there any other useful information about Bai Kou Chu Jin?"
Nian Qiuyan's heart pounded as she thought of a certain possibility. She subconsciously looked up and saw the scene of Yu Sui obediently following Sheng Fei back to the academy reflected in her dark eyes.
Could it be... that she knows Chu Jin is Qing Kui?
Is this even possible?!
Nian Qiuyan felt she was going crazy; this conjecture was simply too absurd.
If one had to find the reason why Nangong Sui suddenly threatened him, there was only this one.
[Author's Note]
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