Chapter 23 Chapter 23 The dedicated little water monsters...
No matter how spacious the kitchen is, it can only accommodate the space between the stove and the washbasin when it is busy. Two men, each nearly 1.9 meters tall, still look a bit cramped when standing next to each other.
There was nothing wrong with this. It was just the normal distance of occasional physical contact between brothers and friends. It was considered close at most. However, the two of them now had an additional engagement relationship, and their positions were distorted, making it difficult for them to have the right attitude towards each other.
Fortunately, no matter how Qin Sheng's heart was bubbling, he always looked calm and composed. Because he was so indifferent, Xu Zhaoyi gradually relaxed and gave himself psychological counseling. He kept repeating the same thing over and over again:
Don't be so pretentious. You've even slept in the same bed with him.
The broken jar strategy is very effective. If you ignore the fact that Xu Zhaoyi deliberately avoided looking at Qin Sheng, and only look at his face, he does have the same calmness as Qin Sheng.
"Stop it, or it will turn into slag if you cut it any further."
Qin Sheng had just finished washing the pot and turned around to see that the cabbage in Xu Zhaoyi's hands had been cut into thin strips. He didn't know whether he should praise the other party's knife skills.
Xu Zhaoyi came back to his senses, put away the kitchen knife awkwardly, and asked sheepishly, "Is it still usable?"
Qin Sheng couldn't help but laugh: "It's not dirty, of course you can, just pay attention to the heat when frying, at most it will look a little worse."
"Yeah." Xu Zhaoyi nodded and put the dishes into the prepared plate. He took the prepared garlic on the side and started peeling it. He didn't realize that the corners of his mouth curled up.
Although he didn't know what to be happy about, Qin Sheng's personality was quite compatible with his, and this realization made him feel good.
He was sure that Qin Sheng was emotionally stable and would never blame him for making things worse no matter what he thought in his heart. However, he thought that the other party would at most comfort him with kind words and tell him to throw away the vegetables and cut a bunch of new ones. After all, this young master seemed to have obsessive-compulsive disorder and wanted to control everything perfectly during the preparation stage.
What's special is that Qin Sheng's desire for control and obsessive-compulsive disorder are not obvious, and are quite gentle and silent, like the gentle rain that ordinary people find difficult to notice.
Xu Zhaoyi did notice it, but even he was surprised that he didn't mind it. Maybe it was because he had never felt such close care since his parents passed away, even though Qin Sheng had a clear purpose.
Perhaps it was because this person was usually so thoughtful that it seemed a bit fake. The worldly air that emerged from his body when he naturally expressed his habit of not wasting food just now made Xu Zhaoyi feel a little strange.
In the living room, Noodles was sitting with his legs crossed, waiting for a long time. When he got bored, he went to add a meal for the little water monsters in the swimming pool. When he came back, he finally saw a steaming bowl on the dining table.
As a result, he ran over happily, but the smile on his face froze when he got to the front.
It looked solemnly at the bowl of diced meat and vegetables, all chopped up and mixed together in the soup, which looked quite like pig food. It thought something bad was going to happen, and that its little dad would probably be cooking tonight.
The original novel doesn't mention Xu Zhaoyi's cooking skills, but doesn't that mean he's not good at all? He's the male lead, so any slight advantage should be worth highlighting.
"Go wash your hands." Qin Sheng came over with the food.
"Ah, actually...eh?" Before Noodles could find a word to politely decline the meal, Xu Zhaoyi picked her up without saying a word and took her to the bathroom to wash her hands.
When he came back, he had a fearless look on his face and walked towards his own child seat with heavy steps.
After all, it owed Xu Zhaoyi, and it really couldn't say that it didn't want to eat the food that others had kindly prepared for it.
Qin Sheng found it funny to see its tragic look. How could Xu Zhaoyi not see such obvious resistance? He deliberately didn't tell it who made the dish, interrupted its polite refusal, and personally carried it to wash its hands, all just to tease it.
Noodles couldn't understand the evil in people's hearts, so in order not to disappoint Xu Zhaoyi, they had to compromise with grievance. When they took the first bite of the dish, they were stunned for a moment, then looked at Qin Sheng and Xu Zhaoyi's expressions of suppressing laughter, snorted, and buried their heads in their food.
We just cooked a meal together and our relationship has improved by leaps and bounds. I treat it like a toy.
Noodles, who had previously tried hard to improve their relationship, felt like a clown who had shot himself in the foot.
After dinner, Qin Sheng took Xu Zhaoyi to the basement. Xu Zhaoyi didn't understand what was going on at first, but when he saw his fifth uncle who was unconscious and tied up, he felt complicated.
He was no longer the young man who felt powerless and could only struggle desperately in the face of persecution from his uncles. In his previous life, he did not try to retaliate after his spiritual roots awakened, but after Qin Sheng reminded him to re-examine the accidental death of his parents, the moment he saw Xu Wenbo again, the accumulated pain from the past erupted like a volcano, and the flowing hatred burned to every part of his body.
It turned out that he didn't hate her, but he was just carried away by various things in his previous life and had no energy to look back and care about it.
"Thank you." Xu Zhaoyi thanked softly.
He knew that if Qin Sheng hadn't been helping him investigate his parents' affairs, taking revenge on Xu Wenbo would have been a piece of cake, and there would have been no need to go through so much trouble.
"After all, it was me who proposed it, so I'll finish it right." Qin Sheng shrugged and said casually, "I heard from Noodles that your parents' inheritance has fallen into the hands of your uncles. I'll ask them about it later and take it back when the time comes."
After saying that, he thought of something and added, "And I think if they really were responsible for your parents' death, then this might be related."
If you think about it carefully, if they were only fighting for the family property, there would be no reason to target only Xu Zhaoyi's parents. People from other families have been living in peace over the years. Even a dog will always eat shit, let alone a bastard who can murder his own blood relatives.
Most likely, Xu Zhaoyi's parents possessed something extremely rare, sparking their greed and murderous intent, but after obtaining it, they found they couldn't use it, so they gave up. Their attack on Xu Zhaoyi was probably purely to eliminate the root of the problem.
If it weren't for the second task of the system today, Qin Sheng would not be so sure, but being listed as a target by the system task means that there are indeed good things in the relics that are worthy of the world's covetousness.
The speculation that the Xu family could not use that thing was due to the fact that the target item reserved by the system for Xu Zhaoyi was unlikely to be second-hand, and also because the Xu family had been declining over the years and did not seem to have obtained a great opportunity.
Of course, the premise of all this is that the death of Xu Zhaoyi’s parents was indeed related to his uncles.
When Xu Wenbai woke up, he found himself hanging above the swimming pool. His eldest nephew and the eldest young master of the Qin family, whom he had only seen in photos, were sitting by the swimming pool, staring at him coldly. There was also a fat baby who looked like a human but not a human standing beside him, smiling. It looked eerie and weird in the dim night.
He was so frightened that his heart was trembling. If he had known that attacking his nephew would be such a mistake and would ruin everything... No, Xu Wenbai regained a trace of clarity in the endless regret.
It would have been useless to know it earlier. They had regretted it in fear over the years, but from the moment their eldest brother and sister-in-law died, it was no longer up to them to turn back or stop.
"Xiao, Xiaoyi!" He called out with trembling lips.
Xu Zhaoyi acted as if he hadn't heard anything, not even blinking. Seeing him wake up, he got straight to the point and said, "Fifth Uncle, I won't waste any more time on this nonsense. You know exactly what fatal thing you've done."
"But..." Xu Wenbo's face turned pale. He was still unwilling to accept the fact that although he hired a killer to kill someone, Qin Sheng was now unharmed. The attempted murder failed, and now they were a family. Was it too much to ask him to pay with his life?
Xu Zhaoyi looked up and knew what he wanted to say, but he didn't give him the chance to say it out loud.
"There's no point in arguing. I'm tired of hearing that."
He smiled slightly, his tone flat and emotionless, as if trying to persuade, "Fifth Uncle, if I were you, I would think carefully about whether I have anything in my head that could replace your life. If I think it's worth it, I wouldn't mind letting you go since you didn't succeed."
Xu Wenbo's eyes lit up at first, but then he looked embarrassed. There really was such a thing, although it was not in his hand, but he knew where it was.
Even though they had been fiddling with that thing for over a decade with no results, it did have an extraordinary origin. They weren't afraid to tell the story without fear that others wouldn't be tempted.
But the crux of the matter lies here. The origin of that thing is related to Xu Zhaoyi. It should be said that it originally belonged to Xu Zhaoyi. He was not allowed to tell it out. What would be Xu Zhaoyi's reaction?
When he hesitated, Qin Sheng winked at Noodles and slowly lowered the rope hanging Xu Wenbai. Soon the water in the swimming pool covered his knees.
At first, Xu Wenbai thought that Qin Sheng wanted to use drowning as a punishment to scare him, but how deep could the water in the swimming pool be? It was not as scary as the fat kid next to him who looked like a ghost and was neither human nor ghost. He was not scared at all and even felt a little contempt for them, thinking that they were just two young and inexperienced people after all, and maybe he could get away with it.
But he soon realized that he was overthinking it.
The little water monsters in the swimming pool have not been hungry for three meals a day since they came here, and they were just forced to have an extra meal of boring noodles. They are all very full, but when a stranger falls into the water, they still follow their instinct to rush up and bite.
They don't eat, they just bite with their sharp teeth. The main purpose is to show their dedication to their job. They try to let their new owners know that not a pound of feed given in the past few days was given in vain. Don't send them back. Although this pond is small, it is much more comfortable than Luoxing Lake.
Soon a pig-slaughtering howl came out of Xu Wenbai's mouth, making Xu Zhaoyi frown.
"Don't worry, little daddy. With me here, nothing happening in the manor can be heard outside." Noodles Fat Face said proudly.
Xu Wenbai howled even louder instantly. This ghost doll could actually speak human language!
"I'll tell you, I'll tell you!"
Feeling himself sinking deeper and deeper, just a hair's breadth away from the surface, Xu Wenbai shouted with a frantic heart, "Pull me up! I know a treasure you'll definitely be interested in!"
"What is it?" The ghost doll mercifully stopped for the time being and asked curiously.
"It's... it's a jade disk." Xu Wenbai realized they were being naive and could only endure the pain of being bitten on his legs and said dejectedly, "I don't know what its specific function is, I just know that it is... Xiaoyi's... companion jade disk."
When these words were spoken, not only Xu Zhaoyi, but even Qin Sheng and Mian Mian were extremely surprised.
Possessing a companion magic weapon is a chance that only people with great luck can have. Not to mention the Dharma Ending Age, even in the period of peak spiritual energy, such a great opportunity is not common.
However, Xu Zhaoyi was shocked for only a moment, and his face turned gloomy. He was almost certain that his parents' death was not an accident, and it was closely related to his uncles!
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