Forced to take office
Zhu Wanling clasped her fists towards Lin Yuan who came running over, "Young Master."
"Well, what happened to the host?" Lin Yuan's mouth corners drooped slightly when he looked serious, giving people a cold and distant feeling, which made Zhu Wanling have the illusion that the young master had returned to his original appearance.
Zhu Wanling: "The situation is not good. The doctor said that the owner of the building already had an illness caused by practicing martial arts, and he has been busy with the affairs of the sect for many years. He has become ill due to overwork and his old illness has relapsed... Also, when the owner of the building was bedridden, there were rumors in the sect that young master, you..." she stammered.
Lin Yuan frowned impatiently, "If you have something to say, come on, when did you become so shy?"
Zhu Wanling took a deep breath, then spoke in a flurry, "They say you disregarded the others in order to spend time with your beloved under the moonlight, and that upon hearing the news of her death, you intended to commit suicide with her. When Palace Master Yu heard this, she was furious and threatened to kidnap her fiancée."
She found it interesting, her eyes curved into crescents, "Tsk tsk, this storytelling is quite realistic!"
Zhu Wanling didn't know whether Lin Yuan was talking about the rumormonger or her. The young master had become strange since he returned from Jinghu Sect, but the young master's temperament was also strange and unpredictable before.
She gathered her thoughts and remained silent.
Lin Yuan ignored her and turned to check on the poster's condition.
Under the scrutinizing gazes, Lin Yuan walked past quickly in fear, secretly cursing herself for being such a coward.
Cui Shancheng stood in front of the bed and watched her walk towards him step by step, his eyes as sharp as an eagle. Lin Yuan gently glanced at the doctors, elders and the bedridden owner in the room.
The host spoke in a hoarse voice, like a cold wind blowing through a torn paper window, "Yuan'er, Yu Liushang, ahem... come here, all of you step aside."
After the others left, he said, "I know my life is coming to an end. For so many years, as a father, I have been neglecting you, ahem..."
Wen Si was writing quickly with a brush in his hand.
Lin Yuan knelt in front of the bed, feeling faintly uncomfortable and angry. Should he express his confession to the original owner? Would his sudden enlightenment and deep sorrow before his death be considered as accumulating good karma for himself?
What were you doing so far?
She lowered her head and said nothing. In the blink of an eye, two tears spread on the mattress. She thought of her father, the father who ran away with his mistress, looted the house, and forced her mother to jump into the river. But she never heard an apology from him.
"Liushang, I leave Yuan'er to you."
Lin Yuan was so startled that she raised her head instantly, only to see the host holding her hand with Yu Liushang's.
"Ten days from now, the day Yuan'er becomes the owner of the building will be your wedding day."
Lin Yuan was about to retort when Yu Liushang interrupted her: "Master, rest assured, I will serve you wholeheartedly."
"Hmm... cough cough..." The poster gasped for a few times, his eyes suddenly widened, his gaze became unfocused, and he let out a long breath and died.
Wen Si naturally did not dare to be negligent and wrote down everything with a stroke of his brush.
Lin Yuan was stunned for a moment. "Fuck you! Are you some Wong Tai Sin fortune teller?" He died immediately after finishing his will, without even giving her a chance to refute.
Yu Liushang covered the old owner's head with a quilt. They opened the door and told everyone that the owner had passed away and his will.
Wen Si touched his neck and decided to keep it.
Lin Yuan looked at the people with different expressions and knew that now was not the time to feel sorry for herself, so she said coldly: "Now that the owner of the building has made his last words, those with ulterior motives should not hit the wall before they can turn back."
The sky and the earth were vast, without clouds or wild geese, so empty and desolate. Pale white paper money filled the sky and fell onto the lake. The believers wore dark mourning clothes, their faces sad, and they bowed their heads in remembrance, but no one was weeping, for there was blood but no tears in the Jifeng Tower.
Ten days later, Lin Yuan became the new owner of the building. She postponed her marriage with Yu Liushang because she was heartbroken over the loss of her father and had no intention of getting married.
Donning the elaborate ceremonial garments, she felt with deep sorrow the lightness of life and the heaviness of responsibility.
…
The lights emitted a strange glow, and three young children huddled in a dark corner, crying inconsolably.
"Zhu Huaili, have you finished refining the elixir for youth and longevity?" A man with a green face and a ghostly mask stared greedily at the blazing alchemy furnace.
"Why are you in such a hurry, Qing Gui? I still need to take the hearts of the three children over there as medicine inducers. Ever since the Liang Family Fort was exposed, I don't have enough medicine inducers here. Damn it! I have to send people to capture them - now I can get the medicine inducers." Zhu Huaili put the medicinal materials and an unknown red object into the stove, then said to Qing Gui with a sidelong glance.
Qing Gui ordered his men to drag the three children over. He lightly stroked the blade with his fingers. The children cried loudly and struggled, but they were like soft cubs, putting up a powerless resistance.
The sharp dagger fell, and there was another flash of sword and shadow, and with a clang, a man in a dark green robe and sharp eyebrows swung his sword to block the green ghost's dagger.
The Green Ghost saw who was coming and roared, "You Yinglong! What are you doing?"
"I asked him to stop you." A clear voice sounded, and Lin Yuan walked into the room slowly. She was wearing a dark long skirt with red edges. The black pearls and jade swayed with her steps, and the scarlet pendant on her forehead added a sense of weirdness in the darkness.
"Young...Master, this is..." Qing Gui and Zhu Huaili saluted Lin Yuan.
Lin Yuan glanced at the terrified child on the ground. "Last Spring Festival, your men kidnapped a friend of mine—a 17 or 18-year-old girl. They said they wanted to dig out her heart to make medicine. What do you think of this?"
According to the 11th Stratagem of the 36 Stratagems of the Evil Man, "If I have a grudge, I will avenge it. If anyone offends me, I will kill his entire clan."
In addition to punishing the parties involved, they also need to seek revenge on their superiors.
When they thought back, it really happened. The blood of four girls was used as a medicine. They were panicked for a moment, but then they calmed down. This new owner of the building was like a little lamb. What kind of trouble could he cause?
They were all grinning. Qing Gui said, "Master, I don't remember this happening. Do you have any evidence?"
Lin Yuan smiled and nodded, and a dagger was quickly unsheathed and stabbed directly into the green ghost's shoulder, causing a scream.
"Have you remembered?" Lin Yuan asked him expressionlessly, as if he was a cold-blooded devil in hell watching the ghosts in the sea of fire coldly.
Seeing that they didn't say anything, Lin Yuan pulled out the dagger and inserted it diagonally into his wound.
"ah--"
"I remember now! I remember now..."
Lin Yuan took his hand away, but the dagger was still stuck in Qing Gui's shoulder. Qing Gui and Zhu Huaili trembled and fell to the ground, saying, "It was my men who were blind and offended the host's friend. Please forgive me."
"Well, you don't have to make pills anymore. Since you like dead people so much and like burning wood, why don't you go to the Funeral Pavilion?"
The funeral pavilion, as the name suggests, is a place where corpses are handled. Every day, one has to face the cold and smelly corpses, watching them turn into ashes or rot.
Qing Gui and Zhu Huaili looked at each other, then knelt and kowtowed: "We beg for forgiveness, lord of the house!"
Lin Yuan pulled the dagger out of Qing Gui's shoulder, wiped the blood with a handkerchief with a look of disgust, threw the handkerchief away, she sheathed the dagger, and said in a flat tone, "It's too late. My friend is very angry."
Then he turned around and left. You Yinglong didn't know where the owner was going, but he didn't ask. He just followed him silently.
As Lin Yuan was walking, she suddenly blurted out, "Right Protector, the world respects the left, but your status is higher than that of the Left Protector Zhu Wanling. Could it be that you became the Right Protector because of your surname?"
A strange expression appeared on You Yinglong's face. "Didn't you, the host, arrange this?"
"Ah?" Lin Yuan coughed lightly and said awkwardly, "I've been busy lately and can't remember much."
The original owner was really willful, but so cool!
Next, she went to "visit" Elder Cui.
Cui Shancheng has eagle eyes, a long nose, and wrinkled and sagging face due to old age, which reminds Lin Yuan of "Gargamel", an evil old wizard.
"Elder, you have worked hard over the years and devoted yourself to our sect. I am very grateful." Lin Yuan looked directly at the person in front of him with a standard smile.
Cui Shancheng didn't know her intentions, but because of her status as the building owner, he only bowed slightly and said politely, "It's my job."
"At that time, the elders' sons are all in their twenties. It is the time for them to share the elders' worries and make great plans. In order to reward the loyal and radical younger generations, I will give a hundred acres of fertile land in Dongcheng and a thousand acres of fertile land in Qingpu to the five elders' sons, so that each of them can guard a piece of land." Lin Yuan smiled leisurely and looked at Cui Shancheng's reaction.
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com