Chapter 013 Me and My Enemy Father and Brother
As soon as Aunt Xu finished speaking, the person who looked like he could eat three children in one meal turned out to be Ning Bufan.
He withdrew his gaze from Lin Yaoge, put the fish basket on the ground, rolled up his sleeves and went to ask Aunt Xu what was going on, and whether she had randomly matched up a man for his precious brother again.
Aunt Xu looked frightened, as if saying, "It's not me, I didn't do that, don't talk nonsense," and she pulled Ming Shaotu's clothes for help.
Ming Shaotu was busy stopping his excited brother and winked at Chen Yunli, indicating him to take Lin Yaoge away.
Lou Zhixi was so happy eating the melon that he even forgot that he came to apologize. He was also in a difficult situation. The way he looked with his hands in his pockets and his head sticking out looked like the old men and women watching the fun at the village entrance.
The three of them were in a commotion over there. Lin Yaoge was helpless. Needless to say, she knew they were too busy to take care of her. So she simply put down the rice bag and said to Chen Yunli, "Come on, I'll take you to pick some rice."
Although Chen Yunli was reluctant to watch the drama of the family members fighting the matchmaker, business was more important, so he could only follow Lin Yaoge, looking back every three steps.
Before leaving, he did not forget to grab Chen Wenjian's sleeve to let him follow.
Chen Wenjian took two steps forward, suddenly tilted his ear, seemed to hear something, and after a moment he nodded slightly in the direction of Ming Shaotu.
At that time, Chen Yunli had already walked to a position side by side with Lin Yaoge. While chatting with him, he kept glancing at Chen Wenjian with curiosity in his eyes.
Chen Wenjian pursed his lips, walked between the two of them unnoticeably, and took the initiative of the conversation naturally and directly.
"Mr. Lin, do you know about the murder that happened at the Jiangnanchun restaurant yesterday?"
Chen Yunli raised his eyebrows and looked at him sideways - so straightforward?
Chen Wenjian smiled back.
Lin Yaoge's expression didn't change. "I heard about it. Over ten people died, and the authorities are still investigating. But I don't know anything more."
"Really?" Chen Wenjian asked, "Jiangnanchun Restaurant uses rice from the Lin Family Rice Shop, and Master Lin doesn't know about this?"
"The rice shop sells at least a hundred bags of rice a day. I seldom go to the rice shop, so I don't know the specific whereabouts of all the rice sold." Lin Yaoge made an extra effort.
"Jiangnanchun is a restaurant that's been operating for many years, and presumably has a long-term partnership with your rice shop. Mr. Lin is willing to carry a bag of rice ten miles to deliver it to a regular customer, but he didn't know his rice shop had such a partner?" Chen Wenjian's eyes were deep, like the dense shadows cast in the deep forest on a rainy day. "Interesting."
He spoke the last four words in a low and gentle tone, as if a blade as thin as a cicada's wing was cutting across the skin on his neck. Chen Yunli was frightened just listening to it, let alone Lin Yaoge who was facing his oppressive aura.
Lin Yaoge's cold expression finally changed color: "What do you mean? Are you trying to say that Jiang Nanchun's case is related to the rice from my rice shop?"
"There are many people in this world who don't know the value of things, but there are also many who do." Chen Wen Jianxu wiped his cuffs, and when he withdrew his hand, there was a hint of fragrance on his fingertips.
Chen Yunli grabbed his index finger and smelled it. It was the same fragrance he had just smelled.
"Is there something wrong with this smell?"
Chen Wenjian twirled his fingers. "I was reading a book a while back and stumbled across several incredibly toxic drugs. Even highly skilled practitioners could die if they took them. These drugs all had distinct characteristics. One of them resembled a dead tree, and only after burning did it activate its toxicity and release a strange odor—something like the fragrance of flowers, yet also a foul odor."
He spread out his hands: "This is the taste."
“…”
Lin Yaoge's mouth twitched, as if he wanted to smile, but it looked hideous because it was too forced.
He shook his sleeves. "Sir, you've got it wrong. This isn't the scent of burning poison, but a foreign incense I often use. You might not be used to it, so you might have this misunderstanding."
"Misunderstand?"
Chen Wenjian waved his hand, and the rice that Lin Yaoge had just placed at the entrance of Cuiye Village appeared out of thin air on the ground. The mouth of the bag opened automatically, revealing the pearly white rice inside.
“Hmm!”
A strange fragrance rushed out of the rice bag and went straight into the nasal cavity like a ball of sticky liquid. Chen Yunli covered his mouth and nose, his facial features distorted by the smoke.
Chen Wenjian avoided it uncomfortably, and a breeze blew around him, blowing away the smell.
He sneered, "Master Lin not only uses exotic spices to fumigate his clothes, but he also uses them to fumigate his own rice?"
"...This is the unique aroma of my rice," Lin Yaoge argued. "Besides the smell, sir, do you have any other evidence to prove there's something wrong with my rice? If not, you're just slandering me."
Chen Wenjian raised an eyebrow, but before he could reply, he saw Chen Yunli bend down, pick up a handful of rice grains, and slowly pass it to him: "Since the rice is fine, why don't you try it?"
“…”
Lin Yaoge narrowed his eyes sinisterly, dropped his pretended indifference, and raised the corners of his mouth, almost to his ears.
He smiled strangely, as if only his face was moving, his muscles didn't change at all, and there was no smile in his eyes.
Chen Yunli was startled by the sudden change.
"I didn't mean to kill anyone today." Lin Yaoge's mouth opened and closed, making a clicking sound like the sluggish operation of an old machine. "You... are looking for death!"
His skin tore apart the moment he finished speaking, and dozens of twisted strands of black mud were thrown out, rushing towards the two of them with bared fangs and claws.
The sky suddenly darkened, and a damp and fishy smell hung in the air, making people dizzy.
Chen Yunli's wide-open eyes reflected the overwhelming black sludge that was surrounding him. When it fell, it seemed as if the entire sky was collapsing. The heavy feeling of oppression made him hold his breath involuntarily.
As for Lin Yaoge's real body, it no longer looked like a human form. It looked more like a pool of black mud, slowly expanding and shrinking and wriggling, which was disgusting.
"snort."
Chen Wenjian reached back and grabbed his shoulder, and golden light overflowed from between his fingers. The light stretched and elongated, and then burst out, revealing a slender and long knife shaped like a seedling.
He twisted the handle of the knife and swung it at the black mud above his head. With a "hiss", the shadow was cut in two neatly like thin paper, separated in the middle, and leaked into the bright skylight.
Without waiting for Lin Yaoge to regroup his attack, Chen Wenjian's figure turned into light and flashed out, circling around Chen Yunli. The sword light splashed like thunderbolts, forming a dense net that instantly crushed every inch of the mud covering it.
Scattered shadows fell like rain. Chen Yunli looked up at the golden sword light that had not yet dissipated, and seemed to think that Chen Wenjian had set off a firework display for him.
After resolving the imminent crisis, Chen Wenjian did not put away his knife. Instead, he turned the back of the knife and chopped it hard on Lin Yaoge's body. Lin Yaoge was knocked away like a pancake, knocking down several trees in succession.
Chen Wenjian's figure flashed like lightning, and the next second he appeared above Lin Yaoge's head. He held the knife in one hand and pierced his heart, nailing him firmly to the ground.
The irregularly shaped black mud shrank at the edges, gradually turning into a thin human figure, then expanded like air, spontaneously carving out limbs and facial features before returning to its original shape.
Lin Yaoge raised his eyes blankly, opened his mouth, and spat out a mouthful of thick blood.
Chen Wenjian avoided him with disgust.
"You've used this trick against ordinary people a lot before, right? Has it always been successful? It makes you full of confidence that you're second to none?"
Chen Yunli walked forward and said, "What a pity! This person here is also a cultivator, and his strength is much stronger than yours."
Lin Yaoge was stunned, as if she didn't understand what he was saying.
"Something's not right."
Chen Wenjian frowned and pulled Chen Yunli back. Before he could react, he saw Lin Yaoge's body wriggling and trembling on the ground, twisting and twitching. The whole person was like a balloon that was inflated to the extreme and exploded with a "bang".
Chen Wenjian quickly covered Chen Yunli's eyes, and the splattering blood and flesh were blocked by him, crackling and smashing everywhere like a heavy rain.
Chen Yunli blinked blankly, his eyelashes sweeping across his palm again and again, and the stiff pause seemed a little helpless.
The strong smell of blood came from all directions, his Adam's apple moved slightly, and he felt a little nauseous.
"What happened to him?" Chen Yunli said with difficulty.
"It's broken."
Chen Wenjian retracted his arms, and Chen Yunli crashed into his arms. His eyes were tightly covered by his palms, and even his sense of smell was blocked.
Chen Yunli heard the clang of a knife being sheathed, and Chen Wenjian turned with him and slowly walked to the other side of the woods. In order to divert his attention, he explained to him as they walked.
"The evil arts he practiced were incomplete. Rather than being a spell, they were more like restrictions that the evil cultivators taught him to control him. Perhaps sensing his predicament, that person detonated the restrictions within him, silencing him."
“…”
After walking for a few dozen steps, Chen Yunli gently pulled down Chen Wenjian's hand.
He swallowed and turned back despite the discomfort. Chen Wenjian wanted to stop him, but seeing him shaking his head, he had to let him do as he wished.
When Chen Yunli saw the messy scene with broken flesh and blood all over the ground, his stomach suddenly churned and he almost vomited on the spot.
"Don't look at it." Chen Wenjian stood in front of him, "You don't have to look at this."
"It doesn't matter. After watching it, I know what I should do next." A feeling of nausea was churning in his chest, and Chen Yunli suppressed it with a pale face.
"So what are you going to do?" Chen Wenjian asked, "I'll listen to you."
Chen Yunli pressed his lips into a straight line, his expression firm. "Report this to the police! Go to Jiangnanchun Restaurant and tell the detectives investigating there."
Chen Wenjian's eyelashes trembled slightly, and his handsome face was like a sparse, cold and profound landscape painting in the scattered light and shadow of the forest, so quiet that it was unfathomable.
In fact, he has a lot to say.
For example, during the twelve years he wandered around, the most important thing that reality taught him was not to pin his hopes on anyone.
If Chen Yunli wanted to punish the evildoer, he had a million ways to bring the evil cultivator behind Lin Yaoge to his death, and he could also make that person feel the despair and pain of every deceased person before he died.
Handing the matter over to the government would be time-consuming and slow, and would be more likely to encounter various accidents. It might even allow the evildoers to escape, causing the deceased to be wrongly accused.
Of course, Chen Wenjian agreed more with his own approach and was confident that he could convince Chen Yunli. However, when he looked at Chen Yunli's bright eyes and felt his hand trembling slightly on his sleeve, he swallowed back all the words of persuasion.
He didn't trust the government, but since Chen Yunli wanted it that way, then so be it.
"good."
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