Chapter 30 Chapter 30 I came back smelling of perfume again
When the preliminary preparations for going to Nanyang were almost completed, Husheng also returned to the mountain and took out the box from the mountain. He would take it with him on this trip to Nanyang, perhaps he could find out who made it.
That day, Qin Sheng suggested that they should visit Jin Nianyue again before leaving.
"Why?" Xu Zhaoyi always spoke sparingly when he needed to use his mouth to speak.
Because he had reached a bottleneck in his cultivation, his main task these days was to relax his body and mind as much as possible. Apart from spending a fixed amount of time every day with his parents to practice new ways of speaking, he spent most of his time reading the "Compendium of Dongxuan Formations".
Qin Sheng shrugged and stated his purpose: "We're going to track down Feng Lili. Zhou Jianwei might be interested in her as the source of the fox fruit. If he wants to go, you can bring him along."
In the original work, Zhou Jianwei was the "nanny" in the male protagonist's team. Now is the right time to recruit him. Qin Sheng is just giving a suggestion to avoid giving this great help to Butterfly for various messy reasons.
Xu Zhaoyi obviously didn't think so. He opened his mouth, but then realized that saying so wouldn't be very friendly to his friend Zhou Jianwei. So, with a strange look on his face, he changed his tone and asked politely, "What's the purpose of bringing him along?"
According to his understanding, Zhou Jianwei was just a masseur with some healing abilities, very close to being an ordinary person. The place they were going to was in chaos and full of all kinds of people, and Zhou Jianwei didn't look like he could be of any help.
Of course, it doesn't mean that the other party is incompetent and Xu Zhaoyi is unwilling to help him. The problem is that he can't find the necessity for Zhou Jianwei to accompany him. If it is about the fox fruit, he can just find Feng Lili and ask about it.
This is like Tang Monk packing up the old turtle from the Tongtian River and taking him with him on the journey, asking him to go to the West to seek answers from the Buddha in person, which resulted in the progress of the journey being slowed down to a snail's pace. In the end, when he returned from the journey, he found that even the Qing Dynasty had fallen.
But the strangest thing is that Xu Zhaoyi doesn't think Qin Sheng is the kind of person who would sacrifice himself for the benefit of others and is willing to bring a burden with him just to help the other person fulfill his wish, even though Qin Sheng is usually gentle and friendly and there is nothing wrong with him.
"Playing the role of a healer, right?" Qin Sheng explained to Xu Zhaoyi's extremely confused look: "His healing ability has changed a bit, probably related to the fox fruit."
[Oh.] Xu Zhaoyi suddenly realized what was going on, and he said that Qin Sheng didn't look like someone who would run a charity for everyone without distinction.
"If you're asking for my opinion, then I personally don't think this is necessary." Xu Zhaoyi pondered for a moment and said, "We all know that the information Feng Lili can provide him is probably not worth the risk."
[That's true.] Qin Sheng nodded calmly: [I said, at this stage, the Fox Fruit is absolutely unsolvable.]
At this stage...Xu Zhaoyi finally went over these three words carefully in his mind this time.
The meaning of no solution at this stage is that it will be possible one day in the future, and Qin Sheng knows the method to solve it, but the conditions for solving it cannot be met now?
Xu Zhaoyi glanced at him and said, "But this matter can be decided by you and him alone. I won't object."
It's his business that he is willing to help Zhou Jianwei for free. Qin Sheng is also right to think that if Zhou Jianwei wants him to help solve problems in the future, he will have to pay something in return.
[No need.] Qin Sheng didn't think so, or rather, he had already put Zhou Jianwei on Xu Zhaoyi's plate, so Xu Zhaoyi's opinion would determine the final outcome of this matter. If he interfered too much, the effect might be counterproductive.
His decisive abandonment of the principle of interest exchange made Xu Zhaoyi feel uncomfortable. He blinked rapidly several times, not knowing where to look. Finally, he could only lower his head and pretend to read seriously, but in fact, he was so distracted that he couldn't read a single word.
"Since we're not taking him, we can prepare and leave in the next two days." Qin Sheng stood up and looked at him, as if to inform him, but also as if to seek his opinion.
Xu Zhaoyi felt as if the blood in his body was bubbling under his gaze. It was a truly bizarre feeling, so he just nodded stiffly: […Hmm.]
Knowing that Qin Sheng might be interested in him is one thing, but feeling the other party's barely concealed attention is another.
Even so, you still take the initiative to ask him for a divorce in the future?
Xu Zhaoyi sighed inwardly. He could hardly make sense of his messy mood. Perhaps he was instinctively resisting wasting and betraying other people's sincerity.
Although Qin Sheng never said it explicitly, he always had excuses and he was always being pushed around.
Qin Sheng naturally noticed his strange reaction, but he knew that Xu Zhaoyi was a sensible person. If it was something he needed to know, he would definitely tell him. If he didn't say it, it meant it had nothing to do with him, and asking more questions would seem like crossing the line.
The two people had completely different thoughts in their minds, but they both tacitly wanted to leave room for each other, so before they knew it, some misunderstandings had successfully circled the earth.
Xu Zhaoyi did not go to see Jin Nianyue, but Qin Sheng still took the time to go out quietly before leaving. He had something to confirm with Feng Li Li.
Noodles was sitting on Xu Zhaoyi's lap, holding his mini laptop, preparing fake identities for the two of them to travel, when he heard the silent Xu Zhaoyi suddenly ask, "Did your father go to see the person who helped him get the Lingxi Ring?"
"No." Noodles denied it without thinking. Strictly speaking, it was the manufacturer of the Lingxi rings, no, it was the agent.
"Who did you meet?" Xu Zhaoyi subconsciously asked, but just as he finished speaking, he realized that something was wrong and quickly said, "Oh, can I ask that? It doesn't matter if I can't say it."
It sounded like he cared a lot, and it didn't seem like it really didn't matter if he didn't say it. Noodles, whose train of thought was always rather dramatic, even stopped typing with his chubby hands.
After thinking for a moment, its fat face turned serious, and it explained very seriously: "Little Daddy, you must know that during the period of marriage contracted with the heaven and earth, if you cheat, the price you will pay is very high, not to mention that your marriage contract with Dad has been blessed."
"...Why are you suddenly saying this?" Xu Zhaoyi was a little confused. Who wants to cheat?
It took him a long while to realize that the only person in the family who could use these two words was obviously either him or Qin Sheng.
"You think I'm...jealous?" He was so incredulous that his heart skipped a beat. The tone of his voice when he said the last two words was like he had eaten a can of herrings mixed with blue cheese.
Noodles wasn't completely unable to read the air. He knew he'd misunderstood and stepped on a landmine, so he shrank his neck and said, "That's not what I meant. It's just, uh, in case you didn't know, just a reminder."
This explanation was so weak and unconvincing that Noodles blinked twice and quickly changed the subject: "What name do you want to give yourself as a fake identity when you go to Nanyang?"
It asked, pointing at the laptop screen.
"...Keep the word 'zhao', and the others will be random?" Xu Zhaoyi replied after snorting on its head a few times in annoyance.
This was also because Qin Sheng seemed to be accustomed to calling him that. To prevent the other party from blurting it out at some point, it would be better to rationalize this name from the beginning.
Noodles glanced at him in confusion.
In its opinion, the strange thing was not that Xu Zhaoyi chose the former between Zhao, which only Qin Sheng liked to call him, and Yi, which was called by everyone including his parents and childhood friends.
What’s strange is that he chose to keep the word instead of reminding Qin Sheng to call him by a different name!
The key point is that its host doesn't call him "A Zhao" very often, right? Or has the telepathic communication between the two of them already etched this name into its DNA without its knowledge?
Despite his doubts, Noodles still entered the word "Zhao", and the new name randomly generated was Su Ci Zhao.
"Is this okay?" it asked.
"Okay." Xu Zhaoyi repeated it silently and didn't feel there was anything wrong. Fortunately, it was not at the level of "Qin Mianmian". It was not that Qin Mianmian was not nice. It was mainly because the meaning behind the name given by Noodles was really not acceptable to straight men.
Noodles clicked confirm and quickly got Xu Zhaoyi's ID. When it was Qin Sheng's turn, it was much simpler. He directly retrieved one of the identities he had used to secretly acquire assets before, a venture capital company boss named Tang Ling.
As for the passport for his new identity, the outlaw 'Zhang Noodle', as usual, went to a one-stop shop to get it handled without permission.
Xu Zhaoyi looked at the freshly issued certificate and felt a heavy sense of reality again - that Qin Sheng was actually not as gentle, courteous, frugal and modest as his words and deeds showed.
The last time was when Qin Sheng calmly suggested using the fish monster to torture Xu Wenbo and force a confession. Counting back further, it could be traced back to the time in his previous life when he himself was the wronged one.
He didn't mind this too much, after all, it was an emergency. He was just surprised to find that although he knew what kind of person Qin Sheng was inside, he was always confused by that gentle mask and forgot the other person's side between right and wrong from time to time.
It seems that no matter how many times he does it, he will most likely make the same exclamation the next time.
"Little Daddy, I forged a resume and family background for you. Su Cizhao is Tang Ling's newly hired assistant. This time you went to Nanyang to ostensibly conduct background checks on the company's new investment project, but in reality, you made an appointment with a master to perform a fortune-telling job."
Noodles explained to Xu Zhaoyi the script they had taken from their trip to Nanyang: "I've checked, and there are very few practitioners in China who are willing to sacrifice their own virtue to help others do such things, so many people will go to Nanyang to find ways, and we will blend in without being conspicuous at all."
After listening to this, Xu Zhaoyi hesitated a little: "When doing something that needs to be concealed, would most people bring a newly hired assistant?"
"Is that so?" Noodles slapped his thigh and grumbled, as if he had found his true identity. "I thought so too. The identity of a newly-involved boyfriend is obviously more reasonable. According to the data I've collected, most people who secretly go to Southeast Asia to do this kind of thing are accompanied by lovers or mistresses!"
"...Actually, assistants are pretty good too. No one would randomly pick an ordinary businessman's assistant to check his years of work experience for no reason." Xu Zhaoyi said dryly.
And he silently swore in his heart that he would never easily question any small decision made by Qin Sheng again.
Seeing him change sides in an instant, Noodles could only nod in disappointment: "Okay, that's what Dad said too."
Xu Zhaoyi chuckled, then suddenly thought: "What about you? How are you going to follow?"
"If you're willing to bring a cute little fly on the plane with you." Noodles' eyes turned into two twinkling stars and looked up at him expectantly.
In fact, it could hide in the mobile phone or Qin Sheng’s mind first, but that would be a bit like being locked up. It would be nice if it could move freely outside.
Xu Zhaoyi pinched his brows, suddenly feeling that it was not easy for Qin Sheng to raise such an AI son who understood human nature but not completely - an evil cartoon fat kid who would innocently use the word "having an affair" to describe his two cheap fathers.
But he finally agreed.
Qin Sheng didn't go out for too long and came back before lunch time. Xu Zhaoyi looked at him and saw him just say hello as soon as he came in and went straight upstairs. He was a little puzzled, until he came downstairs with half-dried hair, did he realize that he had just gone to take a shower in a hurry.
Maybe he accidentally came back with the smell of perfume on him, Xu Zhaoyi blinked calmly twice and guessed.
After lunch, they again instructed the nurse to take care of Xu Zhaoyi's parents, feed Xu Wenbai in the basement on time, and deal with some unexpected situations. After leaving it with enough spiritual energy, they set off.
Under Qin Sheng's incomprehensible gaze, the noodles turned into flies and flew into Xu Zhaoyi's coat pocket and hid there.
"Don't you feel uncomfortable?" Qin Sheng put himself in their shoes and thought about it. If there was a fly in his clothes, even if he knew it was a fake fly, he would still feel uncomfortable, right?
“…It’s not bad.”
Xu Zhaoyi couldn't find a good excuse for his excessive indulgence without any bottom line, so he simply turned his eyes away and got into the box they used to enter and exit the manor.
Qin Sheng raised his eyebrows and looked at them, then finally laughed and shrugged. He never liked to be the one who spoiled the fun in the crowd. Xu Zhaoyi didn't mind having a lively fly crawling in his pocket, so he had nothing to say.
The two of them changed their identities after visiting several of Qin Sheng's places of stay. Xu Zhaoyi was a little surprised at Qin Sheng's financial resources. It was not surprising that the eldest son of the Qin family was rich, but it was also clear that all the properties and luxury cars he bought outside were hidden from the Qin family, which meant that he did not spend a penny of the Qin family's money.
They finally boarded a flight to Nanyang in the next city, and it was already noon the next day when the plane landed.
The local guide who came to pick them up was called Ramon, and he specialized in receiving distinguished guests like them who came under the guise of tourism or business trips to spend money and engage in feudal superstitions.
After getting in the car, Qin Sheng introduced himself to Xu Zhaoyi in his mind. Xu Zhaoyi glanced at Ramon, who was driving and telling them in fairly fluent Chinese where they would be staying.
So, in his eyes, we're just two idiots who came all the way here to get ripped off?
"You're a distinguished guest." Qin Sheng smiled.
Even if from the perspective of ordinary people they really have too much money and where to spend it, there should be no distinction between spending money on art and spending money on emotional value. Of course, if we have to make a distinction, Qin Sheng personally thinks the latter is more advanced.
Because art can actually be considered an investment, and emotional value is a priceless consumable.
To this, Xu Zhaoyi simply thought: [As long as you are happy.]
Ramon took them to a villa area not far from the beach, helped them unload their luggage and move it into the house, and then said to Qin Sheng: "The appointment with Master Raphael is the night after tomorrow. If you have any plans in the next two days, please let me know and I will make the arrangements."
Qin Sheng hummed and gave him a tip. From the joy that Ramon couldn't hide on his face before he left, it could be seen that even though he was a professional entertainer of suckers, Qin Sheng's generosity was something he rarely encountered.
After Xu Zhaoyi left, he immediately opened his pocket and took out the noodles.
Qin Sheng looked uncomfortable.
"Are you a germaphobe?" Xu Zhaoyi asked with amusement.
[No, and I'm not being pretentious. You don't need to be a mysophobe to fully appreciate the impact of this image.]
[It’s not a real fly!] Xu Zhaoyi emphasized: [It’s… noodles!] He almost blurted out that it was your son, but luckily he braked in time, otherwise the atmosphere would have become weird again.
But Qin Sheng still heard his subtext and shrugged, saying, "Tolerating it crawling all over you in the form of a fly is already a sign of my fatherly love for it."
I don’t know what’s wrong with this sentence. Anyway, after hearing it, Xu Zhaoyi’s eyes drifted away and he stopped talking.
After coming out, Noodles carefully flew around the single-family villa where they lived and scanned to confirm that it was safe before returning to the house and putting on his skunk vest.
This was what Qin Sheng had agreed with it in advance. The orange cat vest could not be used, and kittens were not suitable either. Although the villas here were single-family, they were distributed a bit densely, making them easy to be seen and difficult to explain.
Although everyone who comes here will have some earth-fed creatures, Noodles' cartoon vest that can scare Xu Wenbo to death is still too advanced.
Xu Zhaoyi was so calm when he first saw the noodles that Qin Sheng thought it was not that strange.
Before Husheng came to this family, every time Noodles went to the basement to feed Xu Wenbo, people would be scared to death.
It’s not that Xu Wenbo is not afraid of protecting life. The child looks like a human, but has wild leaves on its head that move like octopus tentacles, which is also a challenge to people’s nerves. But protecting life is still within Xu Wenbo’s cognition.
Xu Zhaoyi picked up the black and white fluffy skunk Noodles and purred a few times: "How are we going to explain to Ramon that we suddenly have a new pet?"
"He probably won't ask." Qin Sheng didn't care: "If he asks, just say it ran away from outside and is kept for a few days for fun."
Noodles flicked his tail, which looked like a feather duster. "Ha, then he must be nervous. Wild skunks don't have their scent glands removed like pet skunks do."
Qin Sheng took a few steps away without leaving a trace: "I hope you remember that you are not a real skunk. Don't release biological weapons if there is no need."
"Of course I can't. Besides, this vest actually has a hidden function!" Noodles raised his head with some pride. "I can emit a simulated skunk scent, but you know that's not actually a fart. It's just a smoke screen that the vest automatically mixes, strong enough to bring down a dozen elephants. And even practitioners below the Foundation Establishment stage are not immune to it."
“…So?” He had a bad feeling.
"So I can not only fart, I can also fart any smell. You can use me as a perfume dispenser, uh... uh uh?"
He is also very frugal in housekeeping.
Xu Zhaoyi looked at Qin Sheng who closed his eyes and looked like he couldn't bear it and wanted to faint immediately, and sympathetically pinched the little mouth of Noodles who was talking nonsense.
He was trying so hard to hold back his laughter that his ribs ached. He whispered to the man who was still trying to sell his noodles, "So, the gas you release isn't actually the stench that knocks people down, but the gas itself?"
Noodles nodded with his mouth closed.
"Then we'll switch to something odorless from now on." Xu Zhaoyi thought for a moment and then asked, "Is there an antidote for the nicotine?"
"I need to search for the antidote." Noodles was still worried. "But a skunk's fart doesn't stink, and it can make people faint. Isn't that too unusual? It's so dazzling that it could easily cause trouble."
Xu Zhaoyi's mouth twitched, a dazzling sight. He stroked the weasel's head and forced a smile, "Is it possible that as long as there's no odor, no one would realize it was you who farted?"
Noodles was stunned: "Oh yeah... okay then!"
Qin Sheng didn't want to listen to them discussing the composition of farts anymore, so he carried his luggage upstairs to take a shower.
He was sure that he didn't have mysophobia, and Xu Zhaoyi wasn't the kind of person who was careless and sloppy. He really didn't know why he had such a thick filter for noodles. It was obvious that when they first met it was a small-time scammer with bad intentions.
It can't be because of those calls of "little daddy"?
If so, it would be a sin.
In the afternoon, the two of them tacitly stayed in the room to catch up on sleep after washing up. Noodles went to study the antidote for the smoke. When Qin Sheng went downstairs again, it was already dark. Soon after, Xu Zhaoyi also came down holding Noodles.
"I'll take you to the small night market here." He said to Xu Zhaoyi, who had just woken up and still had a dazed look on his face.
[Yeah.] Xu Zhaoyi responded dazedly.
Noodles discovered that ever since its two cheap fathers put on the pair of rings that made them telepathic, this family has entered a strange operating mode. For example, it had no idea what was happening, but suddenly it was carried to the door.
Ramon's service is available on call. This area must have a place for guides like them to stop and rest. When he saw Xu Zhaoyi holding the skunk to play with, his eyes paused for a moment, but he didn't ask anything.
Xu Zhaoyi, who finally came to his senses after getting in the car, actually felt a little regretful, because he realized belatedly that when Qin Sheng said he wanted to take him out to play, his tone was somewhat like coaxing his girlfriend who was tired from the journey... oh, or maybe it was meant to be a boyfriend.
He doesn't need this at all.
But when Xu Zhaoyi saw this so-called "night market", the awkwardness instantly dissipated in the air, and he felt mixed emotions as he thought that Qin Sheng was very good at figuring out other people's preferences.
[There are definitely no high-end magical instruments or the like here, but there are still quite a few interesting little things, just to provide a little 'appetizer' for the distinguished guests waiting here.]
Even if Qin Sheng really wanted to seduce someone, he would not do something cliché and take Xu Zhaoyi to a night market where young couples go to eat, drink and have fun. Not to mention whether Xu Zhaoyi likes it or not, their relationship is not yet at the level where they can get along like that.
They arrived at a hall that was large enough for a small concert. Ramon was not allowed to go in, so he just walked them to the door and stopped.
Qin Sheng explained to Xu Zhaoyi, who looked skeptical: "Because the stalls here are all the masters' apprentices, they only serve VIPs. Outsiders are not allowed in. Moreover, everything here is free for VIPs. As long as the big order with the master can be completed later, they will be able to sell it."
Xu Zhaoyi understood the simple logic of the food chain: the guests looked down on the apprentices, the apprentices looked down on ordinary people, and if the final big order failed, the guests would probably immediately understand what free is the most expensive.
The place is quite big, but the stalls are not spread out too closely together, because some of the magical little things need to be demonstrated, and if they are too crowded, many guests will surely be accidentally injured (or killed).
After all, these things are like toys and easy to deal with in the eyes of practitioners, but they still have certain lethality to ordinary people.
Qin Sheng and Xu Zhaoyi started walking from right to left.
Although Xu Zhaoyi was very interested, just like girls who want to go into a beautiful boutique but actually find very few things they want to buy, he didn't see anything he really wanted to buy, considering that he could make many of the things himself with the materials.
Until Qin Sheng stopped at a colorful candy stall. Just before they were about to pass by this girly stall, a beautiful female stall owner in hot clothes called them.
She called out, "Hey, Mr. Tang!" When Qin Sheng looked up, she enthusiastically explained, "I've seen you on my master's guest list!"
Of course, it was spoken in English, with a slightly heavy Nanyang accent, which Xu Zhaoyi was not used to.
Qin Sheng put on a business smile: "Do you memorize the appearance of each customer in advance?" He gave off a signal that he was willing to be approached. The fact that he could look through the master's guest list showed that this woman should be valued by Master Raphael.
"Of course not. It's your looks that are so impressive, and so are your companions." The woman smiled brightly at them and handed them a bag of candies. "My name is Ligaya, and this is my new mood candy. Blow on it before you put it in your mouth. Its flavor will change according to your mood!"
Qin Sheng took it. This was a new thing. He asked Noodles to scan it to see if there were any dangerous ingredients.
Xu Zhaoyi noticed with his sharp eyes that there was a note stuck on the outside of the candy bag. He couldn't see what was written on it, but he guessed it was probably contact information.
After they got the candies, they didn't stay long and went on to the next stall. However, after that, Xu Zhaoyi found himself losing patience with the boring things he saw next. Maybe that bag of candies was really novel, making the others look even more boring.
Finally, it was Qin Sheng who picked out a box of silver needles as thin as cow hair for him. The stall owner said that using these needles to pierce the skin would give people a very strong hallucination of happiness, and there were no side effects. They could replace certain harmful "things", and many distinguished guests liked them.
This is what ordinary people say. In fact, Qin Sheng and Xu Zhaoyi can tell at a glance that the surface of the silver needles in the box is covered with a layer of specially treated corpse oil, but it does not look like that of humans because the resentment on it is not that great.
Qin Sheng guessed that it might be a monkey or a pig, in short, an animal with some intelligence.
As for the statement that it is harmless to the human body, just listen to it. Resentment entering the body will definitely damage the spirit. It’s just that the organs of the body are not damaged, and the hospital physical examination cannot detect it.
Qin Sheng wanted Xu Zhaoyi to keep it, mainly because he valued its concealment and the fact that it could make people lose the ability to move or think for a certain period of time as if they were high. It just so happened that Xu Zhaoyi possessed the dual spiritual roots of gold and fire, and was good at manipulating metal.
[If you're in a situation where you don't want to make a big deal but still have to take action, this is perfect.] This box probably has tens of thousands of sticks, enough to last a long time.
Xu Zhaoyi closed the box and said, "Okay, I'll go back and practice with a regular needle first."
He always felt that using a needle as a weapon was weird, but Xu Zhaoyi couldn't refute the advantages listed by Qin Sheng, so he could only agree to give it a try.
After returning to the villa, Qin Sheng asked Ramon to deliver a dozen silver needles for acupuncture. Although the request was a bit rare, Ramon still did not ask too many questions. He took the tip and quickly delivered the things.
On the sofa, Skunk Noodles couldn't wait to open the bag of mood candies with his claws. The sticky note on the bag fell to the ground with his movement and was picked up by Qin Sheng.
Xu Zhaoyi held a needle expressionlessly, then slowly released it and let it float between his fingers.
Noodles nimbly took out a candy, tore open the wrapper, blew on it reverently, and then put it in his mouth.
"Huh, no taste?" Noodles chewed the candy into pieces and swallowed it in disappointment. It felt like eating a piece of glass.
Upon hearing this, its two cheap fathers stopped what they were doing on their phones and looked at it. Qin Sheng didn't say anything, but he guessed that Noodles' emotions were just a string of data and could not be sensed by Mood Candy.
Xu Zhaoyi also thought of this possibility at the same time, so he silently took a candy, tore it open, blew gently on it, and then stuffed it into Noodles' mouth.
"Thank you, little daddy!"
Noodles smacked his lips happily, but a few seconds later, the skunk's cute facial features twisted into an abstract mass.
Hey, why is it Shuanshuan’s?
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