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"Kill someone and destroy their heart, Shuixi, isn't it time for you to leave now?"
That gentle voice came from Hui Zifeng, but it merged with the Hui Jiwu in front of Shuixi now.
Pottery on stone, harmony, clarity and strictness.
Shuixi stiffly poured the cup of tea and brought it to Huijiwu. The sun was strong and the wind was raging, causing the shadows on the ground to sway constantly with the wind.
Huijiwu took the cup of tea, turned his head away as if he didn't want to see him, and put the cup of tea on the table, "Go and ask the girl to come over."
Shuixi took the order and stepped back, looking at Tao Shangshi's smug face. With the swaying shadow, he gradually disappeared.
At the same time, in front of Shan You Fusu's shop, four men in suits and ties got out of a car that had braked suddenly, carrying axes and hammers, and a crusher followed slowly behind them.
Their eyes were fixed on the two stone lions at the door, and before they even reached them, they were ready to raise their hands to smash them. Suddenly, a woman in elegant clothes rushed out, "What are you doing? This belongs to me."
Several people looked at each other. One of them took out his cell phone and made a call.
"Sir, someone is stopping us. It's a woman. She looks... I'm not sure if it's..."
The scene was silent for a few minutes, and then the inopportune chirping of summer cicadas sounded, which was very noisy.
"Let's go, let's not smash it anymore." The man said after hanging up the phone.
He had seen a portrait of this woman. It was a portrait, not a photograph. If one carefully compared the portrait, the person in front of him bore absolutely no resemblance to the person in front of him. However, he discovered that the two people had a completely identical temperament.
She wasn't breathtakingly beautiful, the kind you couldn't look away from after just one glance. She was the kind of person you felt familiar with, yet also felt certain you'd never met before. She carried a weight of time, a sense of someone always by everyone's side, silently accompanying and protecting them.
Is that a kind of...divinity?
When he thought of this word, he was suddenly startled and wanted to look back, but she was facing the light and he could only see a shadow swaying like a willow.
"What's wrong? Who is she? She said she wouldn't smash it, and she's not going to smash it? We came all the way here just for two stone lions, and we even brought such a heavy car with us. And she's not going to smash it, and ...
Someone under his command expressed dissatisfaction.
"That's an antique. If we smash it, we'll be sinners forever."
The fifty-year-old house, the four-thousand-year-old guardian beast, and the unknown secrets underground will continue to endure summer after summer.
Some regrets are not resolved. They don't want to be disturbed.
"There are a pair of Luoshen Pearls."
Shuixi gave the other one to He'an, giving him the chance to save Lu Zangyue, and watched the two of them walk away from him step by step.
"Come with us!"
Shuixi remembered what He'ai had said. But when he looked back at Hui's grave, and saw his own and He'ai's stone bodies, he rejected the idea with silence.
Someone has to guard these things.
You protect Lu Cangyue and Si Tan's relics. And I protect our responsibilities and our home.
That's what he'd thought at first. Why had he forgotten? Why had Lu Cangyue chosen He'ai and not him? Because He'ai had chosen Si Tan and Lu Cangyue, and no one else was to blame. He was just jealous. Why had He'ai abandoned everything and left, leaving him alone to guard the place where his old friend was gone, shouldering this increasingly heavy responsibility.
He forgot that it was he who chose to do this in the first place. It was he who wanted to stick to it.
Si Tan is dead, and Lu Zangyue is no longer his master.
There is also Ming Yan.
There was a moment when he thought about pretending to be an ordinary person and living an ordinary life with Ming Yan. He regretted many nights why he didn't choose this path.
Now, there is nothing to regret, and there is no chance to make amends.
Killing someone destroys their heart. Huiji Wu was right in saying this.
Looking at the face that mimicked Ming Yan, Shui Xi suddenly felt as if his heart had melted under the scorching sun. The hateful person was still alive, while the beloved was gone. His body had reached its limit, unable to gather itself together and speak a word to the nonexistent woman.
Shuixi is dead. He'ai is also dead.
Born together, died together. If they lived, they lived together; if they died, they died together. But they couldn't live together, and they couldn't die together. Does that count as defying fate?
The floor beneath my feet continued to crack. Two helicopters flew to the window, and several rescue workers quickly sneaked in. Shen Liang and Song Shiwen sent away the irrelevant people one by one, until only they and Hui Zifeng were left.
"What are you going to do?"
Song Shiwen noticed that Hui Zifeng seemed reluctant to flee this dangerous area. He had initially been in the best position to be rescued, but he had given up the opportunity to others. Now, everyone had evacuated, and Hui Zifeng was approaching the edge of the crack.
"Don't come over here, you'll die!" Hui Zifeng said calmly and gently. "Go away quickly. If you die here with me, I'll feel guilty. Besides, Shen Liang, you know very well that in my current physical condition, I won't survive more than three days."
"One day at a time is enough to live. Don't move, Hui Zifeng. I'm going to come over and pull you back." Song Shiwen said as he moved towards Hui Zifeng. The floor beneath his feet gave way, and the splash of seawater hitting the shore splashed onto his face. "I'm fine. I won't die. I can't get hurt now."
This was all thanks to Lu Cangyue. She hadn't been able to save the person she'd always loved, and he had taken advantage of her situation. The same thing happened to Tao Shangshi, and his descendants. It was always their family that ruined their happiness.
"I must rescue you." Song Shiwen walked forward, but Shen Liang held him back.
"There's no time left. Don't ruin his plan."
Shen Liang's words made Song Shiwen stop struggling. He didn't know what Hui Zifeng's plan was, but seeing that the two of them were not happy for him to rescue Hui Zifeng, he obediently followed Shen Liang onto the plane.
The three-story building collapsed instantly, and dust flew more than ten meters high.
Song Shiwen was still in shock, wondering what good plan he could have with such a situation. Could he be smashed into a meat pie and then resurrected? That was impossible!
"What plan?" Song Shiwen grabbed Shen Liang and asked. "What's your plan?"
"This plane and boat belong to him. If he wants to leave alive, he must be the first to be rescued. He doesn't want to do that. Why do you think? Huizi is dying, and he is atonement."
"But didn't he originally want to exchange Luo Yu's heart for mine?"
"He didn't." Chen Liang looked at the ruins gradually sinking into the sea. "His father also had an artificial heart. When Luo Yu and I found evidence that his father and Shui Xi had committed a crime for the heart surgery, he ran into us and knew everything. Everything in his family history is traceable."
"Those things happened a long time ago, didn't they?" Luo Yu said.
A man who once shone so brightly, buried himself in the sea. Did his wish come true?
"Yes, more than four thousand years have passed. All the love, hatred, and grudges should have dissipated, right?" Ming Yan smiled gently, sat down by the window, put his legs on the table, reached out and pulled out his hair, revealing his short men's hair.
Several people were surprised. Could Ming Yan have such a side to her? They had always remembered her as a stylish, traditionally intelligent woman. Furthermore, the person before them was a bit hard to tell whether he was a man or a woman. At first glance, he had the delicate features of a woman, but upon closer inspection, his eyes and eyebrows revealed a masculine air of heroism.
"Who are you?" Luo Yu couldn't help but ask.
Shen Liang quickly pulled Luo Yu to the back seat and handed her a bottle of water, signaling her and Song Shiwen not to speak.
Hui Zifeng has already dealt with the most important person, and the remaining secrets have their own fate.
Song Shiwen sat beside Ming Yan, still feeling uneasy about Hui Zifeng's suicide. He preferred to believe that such a large family had a hidden agenda and was secretly enjoying themselves somewhere.
Because Ming Yan had been looking at him intentionally or unintentionally, Song Shiwen did not hide his anger at all. He stared at him and found that when this man had short hair, he actually looked a bit like himself.
"To be in such a mess, I'm really incompetent."
"What the hell are you talking about?"
Ming Yan shook his head repeatedly and sighed, "Your ancestors must have left you a lot of good things, right? What kind of family raised you to be such a fool?"
"Yes, I left it. Do you want to take a look?" Song Shiwen said sarcastically, "The kind of books our ancestors left behind."
He glanced down with an innocent look in his eyes, "Miss Ming Yan, are you interested in taking a look too? But can you?"
"I just can't bear to look at that thing?" Ming Yan clicked his tongue several times and whispered something into Song Shiwen's ear.
Chen Liang and Luo Yu, sitting in the back row, only knew that after Ming Yan finished speaking, he laughed heartily for a long time, but Song Shiwen remained silent, his head bowed. When they got off the plane, they saw Song Shiwen's face flushed as if he'd been beaten up, his expression blank, his head bowed. When others spoke to him, he would just give vague, perfunctory responses.
They were curious about what Ming Yan had said.
As soon as they got off the plane, Ming Yan walked in the opposite direction from them. No one asked her anything, and Shen Liang just watched her walk away. After half a minute, Ming Yan turned around and waved at them, "I'm going home first. I won't be going with you. Be careful on the road!"
There was Fusu's gate on the mountain. Lu Cangyue watched as the glimmer of light that had once lingered in the eyes of the house-guarding beast slowly faded. She called out "He'ai" and "Shuixi" over and over again, only to hear a faint "take care," and no more.
The cicadas' chirping grew louder and louder, and she could no longer hear anything else. Gradually, she began to feel resentful, wishing she could catch each of them and gag them.
The door behind him opened.
Could it be Shuixi?
Lu Zangyue was waiting.
"It's Shuixi's sister!" a woman's voice rang out. The door was pushed open a little wider, making a heavy squeaking sound. The woman complained, "How long has it been since Shuixi oiled it? Really. Do you want to come in and have a glass of water?"
Ming Yan solicited customers as before.
"Your brother is no longer here. He hasn't been here since I was discharged from the hospital. Are you here looking for him? He brought back those stone lions, and I think they're ugly. Look, that one's still tattered. It's been so long now, and if it's gone, it'll feel like something's missing, right? Thank you for standing up just now. I saw everything from upstairs."
"Shui Xita..."
"I know everything. You don't need to tell me." Ming Yan walked out, took Lu Cangyue's hand, and walked into the door. Nothing had changed there.
Except there is an extra fan in the glass display case.
It's a horse riding tour.
"That was given to me by Hui Zifeng, who said it was a treasure left to me by Shuixi. Who knows what happened to them? I don't care, and I can't control it. Now that you're here, don't leave. The room upstairs in Shuixi's room will be kept exactly as it was." Ming Yan took Cang Yue up the stairs one by one, admiring the treasures there.
"I'm a collector of old things, and I originally wanted to sell this place and leave, but my dad wouldn't allow it, saying it's our family's legacy, passed down through the generations, and we have to protect it. If I didn't want it, he wouldn't give me a penny. I have no choice."
She said there was no other way, but Zang Yue could see that her eyes were filled with reluctance to leave this place. She was sad.
"There's a tomb underground, didn't you know?" Ming Yan turned around, her eyes sparkling, and she forced an exaggerated smile, as if afraid others would notice her unhappiness. "I found a map of the underground tomb at home. It's the tomb of a monarch and his wife from over 4,000 years ago. Would you like to accompany me on an expedition someday?"
Zang Yue hesitated.
"Surname Hui?"
Ming Yan was surprised. "How did you know? I thought no one in the world knew about this."
"Hui..." Was it Hui Ji Wu, or Hui Ji Qing? She knew everything. Shui Xi accompanied her all the way, conveying the memories of the past events into her mind one by one, telling her that the current Hui Zifeng was Hui Ji Wu's descendant, Hui Ji Qing had died long ago, and the person she met later was Hui Ji Wu. She and Hui Ji Qing had only spent a few short months together.
Huiji Wu, using the name Huiji Qing, became a great king and buried him and Lu Cangyue with the ceremony of husband and wife.
He has already destroyed one tomb and there is still one more.
"Is it Huijiqing?" Cang Yue wasn't very interested. She didn't want to have anything to do with this person anymore.
"Hmm? You know all that? But it doesn't seem to be that name. I remember it being Si Tan. Shuixi used to call Hui Zifeng Si Tan, saying he earned that nickname because he held spittoons for his classmates. He sounds like a pretty great guy, doesn't he? I don't know what's so strange about it."
The only name that Huijiwu did not replace was "Sitan".
Under Ming Yan's expectant gaze, Zang Yue nodded.
"Actually, I promised Shuixi that I would take good care of him as my sister, even though he treated me so badly and disappeared without even saying goodbye. Don't feel pressured. Putting aside his relationship, I will treat you well. I always feel like I've seen you before!"
Mingyan treated Zangyue like a child, hugging and kissing her. Zangyue suddenly looked toward the window, listened attentively for a moment, then walked to the nearest window, opened it, and looked down.
Ming Yan followed behind, leaned out of the window, and saw two people at the door of the store.
Those two people look like twins.
One of them shouted to Lu Cangyue, "It's me! Song Shiwen!"
The other one, not to be outdone, waved even more enthusiastically and shouted even louder, "It's me! I'm your fiancé!"
Song Shiwen's punch hit the other person in the face, and the two of them started fighting.
Lu Cangyue hurried downstairs to stop them. After running a few meters and returning, he saw from afar a large billboard across the street announcing Zhao Yuwei's new promotion. His seal, this time, had a new design.
The meaning of those patterns is: Tomorrow, here, in the seven-story garden, forever friends will stay.
Some people leave, and new people come. Life is always opening a new chapter.
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