Chapter 161: Fate 7: Unconditional Trust
Li Yanze was pulled back and when he saw it was Qi Youwei, he smiled brightly.
"Why are you here?"
"What?" Qi You smiled, but his tone sounded chilly. "Did I bother you?"
Li Yanze knew that he was unhappy again. His face had turned blue. Maybe his spiritual power was almost exhausted and his heart disease was about to flare up again. Li Yanze shook his head, got up and pulled him to the side under the shade of a tree where there were not many people.
"Are you feeling uncomfortable?" Li Yanze still held the steamed bun in his hand. He wiped his hand carefully on his clothes before reaching out to Qi Youwei, wanting to check his heart pulse.
"Why should I feel bad?" Qi You slightly sidestepped and glanced at the steamed bun in his hand. The smile on his face turned into an expressionless face.
"Why should I feel bad? Whose buns do you eat? I don't care."
Li Yanze was sometimes extremely confused by Qi Youwei's behavior and stared at his blue face for a while.
"Okay then." Li Yanze nodded, leaned against the trunk of the banyan tree to enjoy the coolness, and continued to eat his steamed bun.
Really just ignore him.
Qi Youwei clearly felt the pain in his heart, but he was used to enduring it, enduring it until his smile was distorted and he was almost blacking out in the spring sunshine.
Li Yanze on the other side happily finished his steamed bun and stretched lazily under the shade of the spring trees.
He had a fever the day before, but today his fever subsided and he went to work in the fields. He didn't feel tired at all. Instead, he felt refreshed after working.
At this time, I thought of the person who was standing aside.
"Youwei, if you're fine, go back and have some tea. You won't be used to the mud and dirt here."
Li Yanze was in high spirits. He looked at Qi Youwei and gave him sincere advice.
"Do you think I'm an eyesore?"
Li Yanze felt that Qi Youwei was being unreasonable and vaguely missed the Qi Youwei who always laughed and said polite words.
"No." Li Yanze raised his hat and looked at him. "I feel like you're unhappy today. Can you tell me why? Don't be like this..."
Qi Youwei smiled slightly, chuckled, lowered his eyes and looked at him, and asked word by word: "What's wrong with me?"
Li Yanze obviously didn't realize that the subtext of "What's wrong with me" was obviously, "How dare you find me annoying? What do you mean, do you think I'm being unreasonable? Hurry up and coax me and say a few nice words."
"It's like I did something really sorry for you, and I don't know what it is yet."
Qi Youwei suddenly closed his eyes and took a deep breath, feeling like he had met his match. This fool was really good at seducing him, trying to resist but also trying to welcome him, forcing him to be anxious.
And he was almost fooled. Why was he in a hurry? There was nothing to be in a hurry for. Anyway, Li Yanze was interested in him.
"Yeah, you didn't do anything."
Qi Youwei was becoming more and more unpredictable. Li Yanze watched him walk away with his sleeves swung, and sighed for the first time in his life.
On Qingluan Mountain, the master is playful and lazy, while the senior brother is gentle and steady, and everyone can understand what he says. There is no bad temper caused by guessing things.
However, Li Yanze thought of this guy as his savior, so he said goodbye to Uncle Feng in the afternoon and walked towards the creek while the day was still good, intending to catch a big fish and bring it back, then cook the fish himself.
The stream in Taoxi Village flows directly from the mountain stream into the village. After thinking about it, Li Yanze decided that he should go upstream to catch fish to ensure that they are fresh.
Li Yanze walked while adjusting his sleeves. When he was about to roll up his sleeves, a small red sachet fell out.
This sachet was found under the stone when they went up the mountain to break the formation. There was an eight-character horoscope inside it. Due to the tight schedule, Li Yanze did not take a close look at it at the time and he forgot about it in the past few days.
Li Yanze did not rush to look at the eight characters, but walked slowly along the stream, stopping from time to time to calculate.
In fact, when he discovered the formation last time, he felt it was a bit strange. Looking at the remaining traces of talisman ash, this formation must not be just one, but should be multiple small formations merged into a large formation.
However, this formation has no effect on demons, but it is effective on mortals and Taoists, especially cultivators like him.
Because they find their way by deducing and observing the direction of the spiritual veins, and this formation can disrupt the direction of the spiritual veins.
Li Yanze was walking in the forest carrying a small red sachet. As expected, he found several traces of formations and dug out the same small sachet without exception.
Li Yanze had lost his spiritual power, but he could use his golden elixir to sense and quickly confirmed it.
Someone has set up a maze array targeting cultivators in the back mountain of Taoxi, where no one usually comes, as if to trap someone here.
No wonder, he had stayed in Taoxi Mountain for such a long time before. The breath of the great demon attracted him here, but after entering this area, he wanted to track it but always felt that it appeared and disappeared from time to time.
Li Yanze could sense that it was there, but he always tried to find it in vain. In the end, he had to stay in Taoxi Mountain. This formation cost him a lot of money, otherwise it would not have been so difficult to destroy it in the end.
Li Yanze sat cross-legged by the stream, with four small red sachets in front of him and a large black carp next to him, flapping its tail and still struggling.
He should have gone home early to cook fish to appease his savior, but he was furious when he recalled the experience of being trapped in Taoxi Mountain, not to mention that it almost cost him his life.
This red silk cloth felt quite expensive, cool and smooth to the touch. Facing the light, Li Yanze could see faint golden patterns and a dragon looming in the distance.
The paper with the eight characters written on it is an even rarer treasure. If you smell it closely, you can smell the pine smoke from the ink.
These things are quite valuable...
Li Yanze finally looked at the eight characters on the paper. Without his spiritual power, he had to slowly calculate with his fingers to roughly outline the man's temperament and traits.
A descendant of the Emperor, surrounded by the imperial aura, extremely intelligent, but physically weak...
Li Yanze did not calculate any further, his face suddenly turned cold. The green carp beside him was still struggling and jumping. It looked like the fish meat must be fresh and tender, and tasted delicious.
The fish was struggling, and suddenly a hand slapped the fish on the head with its bare hand as if to vent its anger, and the fish immediately stopped moving.
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The faster Qi Youwei walked, the tighter his heart felt. In the end, he bit his lips in so much pain that he couldn't utter a word.
But what made him even more angry was that fool.
But when he sat at the table in the yard and saw the chickens being fed and the vegetable garden being tidied, he couldn't help but want to laugh. How come the two of them really lived like an ordinary farm couple?
Qi You was startled for a moment, and finally realized where that strange feeling came from in the morning. He became a delicate and lazy young wife, and that fool became a hardworking farm man.
Qi Youwei's face turned pale. Was he unreasonable? Was he a tough guy?
Obviously, he should be angry, but Qi Youwei felt better for some reason. He held the teacup in his hand and smiled at the chirping chickens.
Something like a leaf floated over and slowly landed on the wooden table in front of him.
Qi You's smile faded slightly, and he tapped the leaf two or three times with his fingers. The leaf turned into paper, and against the light he could see dark patterns on the paper, which was the pattern of a dragon.
"The formation has been broken. I hope Your Highness will make a decision soon. The effect of the elixir will be lifted soon. I'll attach the medicine to the letter so that he can continue to take it as soon as possible. Otherwise, something bad will happen."
The tea in Qi Youwei's hand had gone cold, his smile had faded, runes lit up on the letter paper, and a small black pill appeared on the table.
The wind in Taoxi Village was gentle and full of vitality. He blew it for a long time and was completely absorbed in it.
He and that fool were destined to be together, but it was just a bad fate.
If Li Yanze were to take out the golden elixir, he would die. If he didn't do anything, he would have less than a year left.
The formation has been broken, and the eight characters on the red sachet are in Li Yanze's hand. I think he should already know who the eight characters belong to.
Qi Youwei felt cold all over in the smoke. His heart trembled and he couldn't breathe whenever he thought of Li Yanze dying with a bloody hole in his heart.
It would have been best to take action when they found him in the mountains, but Qi Youwei always felt disgusted by this behavior.
He has the bad qualities of being scheming, ruthless, and ambitious, but he also has an innate arrogance. Even if it wasn't Li Yanze, he wouldn't be able to attack an innocent person right away.
It's not that he is soft-hearted, he just feels that this is a humiliation for himself, or perhaps it can even be called a way of living a miserable life.
But to survive, these three words on this side of the scale were enough. It was too tempting, and he really didn't want to live on this earth for only a short thirty years.
Qi Youwei took a deep breath and put away the Fengling Pill. The silver ring on his wrist knocked on the wooden table and made a sound, but it never lit up from beginning to end.
Unwilling to give up and not believing in fate, he held back his anger throughout his life, and lived a much more exciting life than most people in this world. At the end of the day, he met such an interesting fool again, and it was really... hard to let him go.
A bamboo green figure appeared on the small path in front of the courtyard gate. The boy's steps were not as brisk as before. He carried a hoe in one hand and a green carp in the other.
His tattered hat was askew, and his expression could not be seen clearly.
Qi Youwei couldn't stop himself from feeling a happiness he had never experienced before from such a simple and inexplicable scene.
"You're back." Qi Youwei watched him push open the gate and come in. His voice was very soft and inexplicably weak.
Li Yanze said nothing, turned around and walked past him, heading straight to the kitchen in the backyard. Qi Youwei was flustered for a moment, but immediately calmed down, stood up and followed him, holding onto the table.
Qi Youwei couldn't force a smile at the moment. She leaned against the door and watched him make a fire, lowered her head to deal with the fish she brought back, methodically picked vegetables from the vegetable garden, and fished out a few eggs.
"Yan Ze, take a rest." Qi Youwei was unable to help and was ignored by Li Yanze when he tried to take things several times.
Li Yanze doesn't smile often. He likes to look at others seriously with his clear and bright eyes. He would never ignore others like this, and would never put on such an obviously cold face.
Smoke rose from the cooking stove, and their remote little thatched house, like other small homes in Taoxi Village, was filled with the smell of life.
Qi Youwei had never done this before. He was frantically trying to guess every change in his facial expression, following him closely, and even trying to help him do things in a flattering manner.
The smoke was choking, and the precious Crown Prince felt a stuffy pain in his chest due to coughing, but he didn't dare to walk or leave.
Li Yanze quickly prepared all the dishes, and of course he did not forget to cook a fish for him as he had promised.
At the dining table in the main room, Qi You, with a pale face, looked at Li Yanze with almost panic as he lowered his eyes to wash his hands for the last time, put down his shoulder band, and sat beside him with a cold and indifferent expression.
"Your Highness, I'm sorry to bother you with eating these today." Li Yanze bowed to him, very distant.
Qi Youwei covered his chest, his Adam's apple trembling twice: "Call me Youwei, isn't it called Youwei?"
Li Yanze nodded and didn't argue with him at all: "Okay, Youwei."
"Are you angry?" Qi Youwei clenched his palms tightly, and he was sweating a little. His heart veins, which were gradually losing the protection of spiritual power, began to ache.
"Eat first." Li Yanze just raised his chin without touching the bowl and chopsticks in front of him.
Qi Youwei picked up the chopsticks and looked at Li Yanze's indifferent expression.
"I didn't drug you, I didn't do anything." Li Yanze looked at Qi Youwei and added with a smile: "I hate lies the most, so I won't lie."
Li Yanze picked up the chopsticks and reached out to pick up some food to eat first. Qi Youwei's breathing became rapid and he suddenly grabbed his wrist.
"I believe. I believe you."
The sun had completely set and the candles in the house flickered. It should have been a quiet and peaceful night, but the atmosphere was so stagnant.
The moment Qi Youwei put the dish into his mouth, an idea suddenly flashed through his mind.
Even if Li Yanze had poisoned it today, he would still eat it.
Qi Youwei's brows relaxed slightly, he smiled softly, and ate alone with a calm expression.
There was no other possibility, he actually fell in love with someone. This is what it felt like, so incredible and hopeless.
So stupid.
Li Yanze watched Qi Youwei finish eating quietly, then took out a small red sachet from his sleeve and placed it on the table.
"This is your horoscope."
"yes."
Qi Youwei simply admitted it, his original panic subsided, and he regained his composure, looking at Li Yanze steadily.
"Why? Did you order the formation at Taoxi Mountain?"
Li Yanze was puzzled. He and Qi Youwei didn't know each other, so there was no reason for him to harm him.
Qi Youwei's hands suddenly loosened, and the chopsticks fell on the table. He covered his chest and curled up in pain, breathing rapidly, his brows tightly furrowed, and his face and lips turned blue.
Li Yanze hesitated for a moment, then he met Qi Youwei's eyes and softened his heart and reached out to him.
Qi Youwei immediately grabbed Li Yanze's hand and fell into his arms as if he could not hold on any longer. Li Yanze sighed, half-embraced him, and stretched out his hand to share a trace of spiritual power.
In the past few days, his spiritual power seemed to be gradually recovering and he had some spiritual power again.
The golden spiritual power was about to be injected into his heart meridian, but Qi Youwei grabbed his hand.
"I didn't order it to be set up. But the formation was indeed set up for me. I didn't expect it would harm you. I just found out about this..."
Li Yanze saw that his face was turning pale and cold sweat was pouring down his forehead, and he was anxious to input spiritual power into him.
"Don't talk yet."
Qi Youwei shook his head, looking at the weak breath, but still insisted: "It was the third prince. He has always been evil. He knew that I came to Taoxi Village to recuperate, so he deliberately brought in demons and set up a large formation..."
Li Yanze didn't have time to think about it, but he noticed something was wrong.
"In this way... my people... can't come to save me. I didn't expect that I would get you into trouble. You blame me, and I have nothing to say..."
Li Yanze took a deep breath, sighed, and touched his heart with his hand.
"Forget it, stop talking for now."
The golden spiritual power entered the heart meridian. Li Yanze closed his eyes and realized that Qi Youwei's heart meridian condition was getting worse.
"Calm down and take a deep breath." Li Yanze frowned. With his eyes closed, he didn't know that Qi Youwei was staring at him closely with a faint smile on the corner of his lips.
"You hate me." Qi Youwei said softly and lowered his eyes.
Li Yanze clicked his tongue and pushed him away from his arms with a slap, making him sit up straight, his hand still on his heart.
"No." Li Yanze sighed and thought for a moment: "Not yet."
Qi Youwei's heart rate gradually calmed down.
Li Yanze breathed a sigh of relief, and Qi Youwei grabbed his hand that was about to withdraw: "Do you believe me? I won't hurt you."
This sentence was also a lie before, but now it is not a lie.
Qi Youwei was still greedy and selfish, but this time he wanted to use all means to keep him and keep him by his side.
At least wait until he's dead before leaving.
"Youwei." Li Yanze lowered his eyes and thought for a while, then looked up at him.
"Did you tell me the truth?"
Qi Youwei's heart skipped a beat.
"Forget it." Li Yanze smiled and said, "I trust you this time and will not pursue the matter of the formation anymore."
"I will only trust someone unconditionally once. There won't be a next time."
Qi Youwei couldn't tell whether he was relieved or worried.
Li Yanze withdrew his hand and calmly announced to him again.
"But it doesn't matter whether you believe it or not. This dinner tonight is our farewell dinner."
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