Chapter 101
Judging from what Xie Changshi knew about Feng Si during those two days, Feng Si was definitely a ruthless person.
really.
After hearing Xie Changshi's slightly presumptuous but reasonable question, Rong Jing blinked and said seriously, "Of course he's still alive. Killing is against the law!"
Then he changed the subject: "They were also poisoned and fainted."
He emphasized the word "poison" when he said this.
He was really poisoned and fainted.
He only found out about it later.
After realizing that his fellow apprentices had tricked him into eating chili peppers and then told the younger Rong Jing about the incident, the vengeful Uncle Feng Si immediately hatched a plan for revenge. He went to Yingzi Mountain to find some poisonous wild vegetables to use in the hot pot. The aroma of the hot pot captivated the apprentices, and they sat down to eat.
As a result, as soon as the wild vegetable entered his mouth, he felt his lips go numb and he fell down.
It is said that when he fell, his eyes were full of disbelief.
...I don't know what I'm so unbelievable about. After knowing Master Feng Si for so many years, doesn't he know that Master Feng Si looks cold and ethereal, just like the high and mighty immortal in novels, but in fact he is vindictive.
Rong Jing's face was filled with tenderness, lost in memories. He whispered, "But Senior Brother Feng Si was very good to me. Sometimes when I made him angry, he would just hold my head down and tell me to stop following other Senior Brothers and imitate them."
Through his words, Xie Changshi could imagine the cute look of a young child, still a follower, pestering his elders to eat hot pot.
He sometimes felt that he had really bad luck.
He lost his parents at a young age and grew up alone in a tube-shaped building.
The world seemed to be full of malice towards him.
But sometimes he felt that he was lucky enough, because he was able to meet the lost Rong Jing twelve years ago, and let Rong Jing go home with him.
His fingers gently touched the boy's soft short hair, and Xie Changshi whispered, "It's a pity that we didn't meet early enough."
Otherwise, he would have been able to see the Rong Jing at that time with his own eyes.
"But I think the timing of our meeting was just right." The regret in the man's words was particularly obvious. Rong Jing wanted to comfort him, so she picked up the largest piece of beef and handed it to his bowl, explaining, "And I think it was early too. It was my first time down the mountain when I met you, which shows that we are really destined to be together. Didn't Grandpa Taixu also calculate our fate later? He tacitly agreed that I should stay by your side, which means that we are a pair favored by the Grandmaster, so there is no one more suitable for each other than you and me."
"It's never too late to meet the most suitable person." Rong Jing looked at him with bright eyes and promised him, "After everything is settled and Xuantian Temple moves back to Yingzi Mountain, I'll take you to live there for a while. How about that?"
Xie Changshi laughed.
Rong Jing has mentioned "after everything is resolved" more than once.
He laughed and joked, "You'll have a lot to do after everything is settled."
Rong Jing raised his chin and said confidently, "Of course. We still have such a long future ahead of us, and of course there are still many things to do."
His tone was full of certainty.
Xie Changshi thought, this is the most beautiful love words in the world.
…
Xie Changshi was very satisfied with the hotpot meal because he heard sweet love words.
Different from those "I love you" and "I like you the most in the world", that sentence was ordinary, but it brought him and Rong Jing's future.
Rong Jing was also very satisfied with the meal. Xie Changshi always boiled the dishes for him, so he only needed to eat what was in the bowl and fill his stomach.
To help digest the food, and to express his gratitude to Xie Changshi for feeding him, Rong Jing took the initiative to shoulder the burden of clearing the table. Xie Changshi also helped, so the twenty-minute task was completed in half. Rong Jing rubbed his still full stomach and offered to go for a walk downstairs.
Xie Changshi naturally did not refuse.
Rong Jing watched Xie Changshi walk around with him, feeling inexplicably guilty. He couldn't help but ask, "You didn't eat much tonight, and you're walking around so many times. Won't you be hungry later?"
"I'm hungry, so I'm hungry. I have to eat later anyway."
Um?
Do you want to have a midnight snack later?
Why didn't Xie Changshi tell him about this beforehand? Then he should eat less and empty his stomach.
As his thoughts raced through his head, Rong Jing suddenly realized that Xie Changshi's gaze had been fixed on him. He was stunned for a few seconds before blinking at Xie Changshi, who raised an eyebrow at him.
After a few seconds, it seemed as if a ray of white light suddenly flashed through Rong Jing's mind.
He raised his hand and slowly pointed at his nose.
And asked uncertainly: "Isn't that the midnight snack you want to eat me?"
Xie Changshi: "Isn't it obvious?"
Rong Jing: “…”
Thank you. It turns out that he thought the capitalists were too friendly.
…
After knowing that it would be eaten as a midnight snack, Rong Jing wanted to walk downstairs ten more times. Moreover, his steps became smaller and smaller, and the speed of his legs became slower and slower. Gradually, he crawled like a turtle.
Xie Changshi found this amusing and asked him, "How about we stay here and watch the stars tonight?"
Rong Jing: "It's not impossible."
Then I looked up and found that the sky was dark. Not to mention the stars, even the shadow of the moon was nowhere to be seen.
He remembered that the weather forecast said that tomorrow's weather would be bad and there might be heavy rain tonight.
...It would be strange if there were stars.
Then there are no stars, what is he looking at here?
Rong Jing was brainstorming frantically, and the next second, Xie Changshi's hand was on his head. When he raised his eyes, he met the man's lowered eyes. There was no smile on Xie Changshi's face, and there was a hint of solemnity in his narrow and deep eyes.
He didn’t know if it was Rong Jing’s illusion, but he always felt that Xie Changshi... seemed a little unhappy.
This thought was lingering in my mind when I heard Xie Changshi's slightly hoarse voice ask, "You don't like doing those things with me? Why?"
Rong Jing's hair exploded.
Why did you ask this so suddenly?
"Do you like platonic love?" Xie Changshi frowned slightly and said, "If you like it, you can tell me directly. Although I don't want to, I will respect your opinion."
……ah?
Rong Jing was confused.
Xie Changshi continued: "I won't touch you, I won't kiss you, and I won't have sex with you."
Rong Jing: “!”
That won’t do!
His eyes widened, and he said anxiously, "How is this different from how we used to live together? I don't want it."
After he finished speaking, his fair face flushed slightly, and he whispered, "It's not that I don't like having sex with you, I just feel...I feel that you are a little too fierce. Last time, my legs were weak for a long time and I felt uncomfortable."
It turns out I just thought he was too fierce.
Xie Changshi raised his eyebrows slightly, his dark eyes staring straight at Rong Jing. As their eyes met, the evening breeze blew across Rong Jing's face. His mind seemed to be instantly cleared. He paused for a second, his eyes widening even further: "You did this on purpose! Are you waiting for me to say I like you?"
hateful.
Bluff him again!
Seeing the little zombie about to explode again, Xie Changshi raised his hand, put his arm around the boy's shoulders and pulled him into his arms, laughing softly and saying, "I just wanted to know why you rejected that thing. Now that I know the reason, I will be gentle tonight."
Rong Jing: “…” Is that so? He didn’t believe it.
But in the end, Xie Changshi proved with facts that he was a man of his words.
Heavy rain poured down in the second half of the night. Amid the dripping sound, Rong Jing lay on the bed. His back was tense and his breathing became more and more rapid in the darkness.
He felt as if he had fallen into a calm sea, a boat supporting him, but the water would slowly splash onto his legs and waist with the slightest waves. That cold yet gentle feeling lasted for a long time, giving him the illusion of being too peaceful, so he began to urge the sea breeze in his heart, hoping it would roll up bigger waves.
Rong Jing couldn't remember how long he had been drifting on the sea. He only vaguely remembered that the faint smell of peach had long since disappeared in the rain.
He opened his eyes in a daze, and as the man's kiss approached, he subconsciously raised his head and body to kiss him.
Tick, tick.
The rain outside the window gradually subsided, and the breathing inside the house gradually calmed down.
Rong Jing buried his face in the pillow, his voice hoarse, a little tearful: "Next time, why don't you be a little more aggressive."
It is gentler today, but also more torturous.
"Right now." Xie Changshi answered him.
"But I can't." His voice was already thick with sleepiness. He said, "I want to sleep."
Rong Jing slept until the afternoon of the next day. When he woke, the afternoon sun streamed in through the window. He squinted his eyes and reached out to touch the spot beside him. The other side of the bed was empty and cold. He guessed Xie Changshi had gotten up early.
Rong Jing got up slowly like a turtle and put on Xie Changshi's pajamas. The pajamas were slightly too big and looked very loose. He moved to the bathroom mirror and bent over to brush his teeth, and saw that under the scattered collar was a dense and conspicuous kiss mark.
Rong Jing: “…”
His mind suddenly recalled everything that happened last night, and a faint blush gradually appeared on his fair face.
Then, I thought—
She seemed to be gentle again, but why were there more marks on her body than that day?
"A Jing." The bathroom door was pushed open, and the mirror showed Xie Changshi wearing home clothes. The man's gaze almost immediately fixed on his collarbone, his eyes slightly dim.
"Does it look good?" Rong Jing asked in a faint voice, not missing his gaze.
"Very beautiful." As if he didn't hear any other meaning in the boy's tone, Xie Changshi walked behind Rong Jing and gently touched the mark on the right collarbone with his soft and slightly cold fingertips.
Xie Changshi has always had an excellent memory, and he can easily recall the scene when he sees this trace.
"Your expression tells me that you are thinking about something bad."
"It might be a good thing for me." Xie Changshi laughed, and before Rong Jing could get angry, he told her the real reason for knocking on the door. "Chi Bai just called you, and he asked me to tell you that Taoist Ling Xiao has been caught."
Caught?!
Rong Jing's eyes lit up, and after quickly washing his face, he eagerly followed Xie Changshi to the living room. Sitting cross-legged on the sofa in the living room, Rong Jing called Chi Bai back. The other party's voice was carefree and full of obvious joy: "Hey, are you awake from your nap?"
...Why is it another nap?
Rong Jing glanced at the time on the clock and thought that it was indeed time for a nap.
He touched his nose guiltily and replied vaguely, "Xie Changshi said you captured Taoist Ling Xiao?"
"Yes, this old fellow was really hard to catch. Elder He Yu was seriously injured before we could barely fight him to a draw." Needless to say, the difficulty involved was immense. Chi Bai dropped the subject and simply said, "He's been brought back to Yancheng. The Special Department is planning to have Aqiu try to cast a spell on him. If he's too resistant, we'll use Senior Si's method and stab him half to death."
Rong Jing: “…”
He vaguely felt that Senior Si Liu seemed to have made a bad start.
But dealing with a scum like Ling Xiao is not a bad thing.
"By the way, we also plan to ask Ling Xiao if he knows the specific location of the statue under the dragon vein. If he can tell us, we plan to split into two groups, one to Taozi Temple and the other to the dragon vein."
"What if I can't find out?"
"Let's go all the way to Taoziguan, all the way to the Dragon Vein." Chi Bai showed a few of his big white teeth, "It's just that dealing with the Dragon Vein statue will take a little longer. After all, it may not be that easy to find."
Rong Jing hummed, hung up the phone, and looked thoughtful.
Xie Changshi sat beside him and whispered, "Do you want to go with us?"
Rong Jing wasn't surprised that Xie Changshi guessed what he was thinking. He nodded, hugged his knees, and thought, "I feel like things are almost over. Now that the most capable leaders of Taoziguan are either dead or captured, I think Yancheng should be safe. The only difficult person left is the ancestor of Taoziguan, who is surrounded by many legends but has never been seen. I have a feeling that this ancestor will not come to Yancheng."
On the contrary, he might appear in Nanling.
"If you're going, be prepared."
Rong Jing knew that what Xie Changshi meant by being prepared was to have him tell his fortune first. After all, the fortune he told was always accurate, which to some extent was a reassurance.
He took out his tortoise shell and copper coins and quickly told the fortune.
The hexagram indicated that all was well and even encouraged him to go to Nanling.
Rong Jing breathed a sigh of relief, but soon thought of the man beside him, so he turned around and asked, "Then I'm going to Nanling, do you want to go with me?"
During the days since their reunion, Xie Changshi had followed Rong Jing almost everywhere he went. Even when dealing with evil spirits, Xie Changshi would find a safe corner to wait for him to finish. However, Nanling was a long way from Yancheng this time, and it seemed a bit unreasonable for Xie Changshi, the president of the Xie Group, to be away for an extended period of time.
Xie Changshi said, "I'm not going."
Although he had guessed the answer, Rong Jing felt a moment of disappointment. However, his mediation skills were always good, and he quickly smiled again. He patted the man's shoulder firmly, raised his chin, and said confidently, "Don't worry, we will resolve this matter as soon as possible. Then I will take Grandpa Taixu and the others back to Yancheng."
"Okay." Xie Changshi agreed.
Although Rong Jing had already convinced himself, Xie Changshi still explained a few more words, "Old Taoist Ling Xiao was arrested. If nothing unexpected happens, Danfeng Group will have a hard time recently."
When Rong Jing heard this, he had a vague idea in his heart: "Are you trying to take advantage of this opportunity to divide up the Danfeng Group?"
"If possible, we certainly can't miss this opportunity." Xie Changshi said frankly.
The day after this statement was made, various revelations about Danfeng Group appeared on the Internet.
One of the most outrageous incidents was when Danfeng Group snagged a project eight years ago to redevelop the old city district. However, many families still lived there. If Danfeng Group wanted to build a building, they would have to compensate those families. Initially, Danfeng Group, like all other conglomerates, negotiated with the other party. However, the residents refused, arguing, "I grew up here. My parents and grandparents were all born and raised here. I don't agree to move."
The Danfeng Group's executives felt this was just an excuse to get more money. They didn't bother to argue and simply offered a whopping price. After half an hour of deliberation, the group agreed decisively.
But no one noticed that within a year of their agreement, these people died one after another.
The most common causes of death are car accidents, suicide, and being beaten to death due to gambling. There are many different causes of death.
But today, someone revealed that they were actually killed deliberately by the Danfeng Group.
The claims were mysterious, with some believing them and others refusing, but they couldn't stop Danfeng Group's volatile stock price and increasingly negative reputation. Coupled with the arrest of several senior executives and the termination of many project contracts, Danfeng Group faced a severe funding crisis within just two weeks.
Xie family.
Lu Yunji poked his head out from a pile of documents, rubbed his aching brow, and turned to ask Song Qing: "It's already eight o'clock, is your boss Xie still in the company?"
Song Qing placed the new document in front of Lu Yunji and pushed up his glasses. "Boss Xie said he felt sorry for your contribution to the company as vice president, so he decided to contribute more to the company as well."
Lu Yunji: "Speak human language."
Song Qing: "Mr. Rong is not at home."
Lu Yunji: "..."
He knew that someone like Xie Changshi, whose mind was completely occupied with Rong Jing, couldn't possibly be so careless as to work overtime until eight o'clock in the evening with no intention of going home. Either he and Rong Jing had argued, or Rong Jing had his own things to do. The possibility of the former was almost zero. It wasn't that Rong Jing and Xie Changshi wouldn't argue, but based on Lu Yunji's understanding of Xie Changshi, if they did, Xie Changshi would definitely not sit in the company and wait for death.
Lu Yunji rolled his eyes and muttered, "People whose boyfriends are not around should be tolerated even if they are mentally ill."
He picked up the document Song Qing handed over, glanced over it, and couldn't help but frowned: "Did Danfeng Group also win the Nanling Resort project?"
Song Qing nodded. "But Mr. Xie's point is that this project is located on the edge of a dragon vein, which is not suitable for a holiday resort. He hopes we can negotiate with the government."
"They will understand." Lu Yunji responded casually. Just as he was about to continue talking, he caught a glimpse of a lit phone out of the corner of his eye. On it was a group chat of high school classmates. The group owner @all members and asked: Everyone, are you all free recently? Why don't we all get together?
Class reunion?
Lu Yunji frowned, but didn't take it seriously. He looked at Song Qing again and said, "Okay, go back and tell your boss Xie that whoever lies down first tonight is a dog."
Song Qing: “…”
If you don’t know, you might think they are drinking.
However, speaking of dry wine... Song Qing suddenly asked curiously, "Did you feel uncomfortable after drinking that day? I had a splitting headache the next day, and I suspected that the wine in that store was not right."
Song Qing was talking about the day they went to the newly opened bar to drink.
Lu Yunji's eyes flickered slightly, his face expressionless: "I also think it's quite strange. Next time, I'll ask Rong Jing to check and see if drinking their wine can make you see ghosts."
"ghost?"
Xie Changshi pushed the door open and looked at Lu Yunji: "What the hell did you see?"
Lu Yunji replied in a gloomy tone: "If you see a dead person coming back, does that count as seeing a ghost?"
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