Chapter 41 Ji Shuyang
How would you describe something that suddenly appeared in his field of vision?
A small hill covered in a jumble of wildflowers? A giant bonsai, meticulously shaped into a hill, with a unique aesthetic?
etc!
That huge, bright red flower blooming right in the center looks so familiar!
So familiar with it that Gu Zhao's back began to break out in a cold sweat!
He should have followed his instincts and pressed the accelerator instead of subconsciously moving his foot to the brake for fear of hitting something!
With a one in ten thousand chance, he tentatively, cautiously, and silently moved his foot to the accelerator and pressed it down hard!
"Boom!" The engine roared under the strain, and the tires began to spin rapidly, but the car remained motionless!
Damn it, the familiar thing is completely still!
He encountered another strange demon!
The worse news is that last time this strange demon put on a coat to disguise itself as a human and knocked on the window to lure him out of the car, but this time, it didn't bother to pretend at all and used its bizarre true form to block his car!
Cold sweat dripped from Gu Zhao's forehead. At this moment, he truly realized that he was being targeted by the alien demon!
Fortunately, he wasn't completely unprepared. Before he came out, he asked Feng Qing for a magic weapon. Feng Qing told him that as long as he carried this magic weapon, no alien plant could harm him!
When necessary, it can also kill alien plants.
After all, Feng Qing is the queen of all exotic plants!
He pretended not to be frightened, pretended that his hands and feet were not shaking. He was waiting, waiting for the alien plant to crawl under the car like last time. He was going to use his magic weapon to kill the alien plant once and for all!
He held a smooth, jade-like branch in his hand with trembling hands.
Seeing that Gu Zhao was stunned by her beauty, Shi Meili couldn't help but feel a little proud. Back then, when Shi Yuan asked her if she wanted to be given a name, she immediately chose the name Meili (meaning "beautiful") for herself. These two words were the most suitable for her natural beauty!
Shi Meili stretched out her vines and, under Gu Zhao's fearful yet expectant gaze, firmly wrapped them around the car. There's an idiom that goes, "lifting heavy objects with ease," and Shi Meili just like that placed the several-ton car in the spot designated by Shi Yuan and Gu Linyuan.
Yes, it's that alleyway piled with clutter. The car was placed behind the clutter and completely blocked off.
His vision suddenly went black, and Gu Zhao felt his body lighten as he was lifted up along with the car. He realized, was this the power of the alien plant? Was the hole it drilled under his car last time just a small test?
He heard his breathing become heavier and his fingers tremble more violently. Then, he felt himself and the car being gently lowered.
Although it was inappropriate, he suddenly remembered that Feng Qing had once told him that he had a special aura that attracted exotic plants.
Could it be that this strange plant has taken a liking to him?
He is indeed an exceptionally good husband, but apart from Feng Qing, he will not fall in love with any other exotic plant.
What's more, this exotic plant looks so...unusual!
He tightened his grip on the magical artifact. Although he felt apologetic, he decided to kill the alien plant so that he wouldn't be bothered by it again in the future.
Thinking of this, he slowed his breathing and reached for the car window switch.
He mentally simulated the scene of stabbing the magical artifact into the alien plant as soon as he opened the car window, making sure to hit the target on the first strike. This was not difficult for him, as he had handled guns before.
Huan Ni circled above the car once and returned to Shi Yuan's shoulder, wondering, "Last time he was so scared he wet himself, why didn't he make a sound this time? Could he have fainted from fright?"
Shi Yuan and Huan Ni looked at Gu Linyuan at the same time. Gu Linyuan shook his head: "No, he was sent to the military camp by Grandpa Gu to receive formal training in his early years."
"Although his mind is different from ordinary people, he should still have some willpower." The last words carried a hint of uncertainty.
Gu Zhaozhen wasn't scared out of his wits. In fact, he was very brave and prepared to kill Shi Meili!
No wonder people look down on the Seventh Division; it turns out he himself is a master!
Shi Meili handled the car gently without disturbing the neighbors, and smugly hummed. Just as she was thinking about how to get Gu Zhao out, she noticed that the car window was slowly rolling down.
Huh? Gu Zhao is just going to walk right into the trap without even putting up a fight?
That would be fantastic!
As Shi Meili extended a thin vine, she loosened the thick vines surrounding the car window. The window rolled down halfway, and the thin vine "whooshed" into the car, completely covering Gu Zhao's face.
Gu Zhao mumbled "Ah!" a few times, and tried to poke the vine with his right hand. Perhaps because the vine was too thin, he couldn't hit it. Gu Zhao was so anxious that his hand was almost blurring out afterimages.
So he didn't notice that another vine had reached into the car and rolled the window down completely. By the time he realized it, he had already been entangled in the vine and pulled out of the car.
"Ahhh!" The gasp was muffled by the vines. Shi Meili smugly shook her body, as shrewd as she was!
Her tremor was slight, but by sheer coincidence, she pushed her thickest vine toward Gu Zhao's right hand. And by sheer coincidence, Gu Zhao, in his nervousness, was gesturing wildly, and his right-hand weapon accidentally poked Shi Meili's vine.
Gu Zhao stopped struggling and screaming. He was waiting, waiting for the alien plant to turn to ashes!
Then, in the quiet night, he heard a crisp sound of jade breaking.
Gu Zhao rubbed his fingertips together, his palms empty. He said to himself: "Talented people emerge in every generation, and the same must be true for the Otherworld. After all, Feng Qing has been a human for decades, so it's understandable that she might not be familiar with the current situation of the Otherworld."
He first found a reason for his wife to worry about his own safety.
Shi Meili brought Gu Zhao in front of Shi Yuan and Gu Linyuan, stretched out a thin branch to plug Gu Zhao's ears, and said, "This person is really not very smart. He actually used a low-level alien demon's bone-transformed branch to attack me."
"No wonder he looks down on this and despises that; it turns out his limited perspective restricts his understanding."
"Are you alright?" Shi Yuan asked worriedly.
"No, those little demons would explode in front of me like fireworks, it's nothing!"
Under the moonlight, a car drove out of the northern part of the city and headed towards the outskirts of Beijing.
"Ding ding ding!" When the hour hand pointed to ten o'clock, the clock struck ten, and it was time for Feng Qing to go to sleep.
She yawned, drew back the curtains, and looked out. There was no sound in the pitch-black night.
Feng Qing angrily flung down the curtains: "Men are all untrustworthy! He promised to be back before I went to sleep! Liar!" She wasn't worried at all that Gu Zhao would get into trouble like last time.
What's there to worry about?
Gu Zhao took her original body, which she had refined before, with her. That was the most beautiful original body she had ever refined!
Feng Qing slept peacefully.
These past two days, the first thing Gu Lie did upon returning home was to look for his elder brother. As soon as he got back to his room, he instructed his wife to knock on his elder brother and sister-in-law's door.
"Why don't you go yourself?" The wife scooped out some face cream and rubbed it on her hands, sounding quite impatient. She had married into the family hoping to become Ji Shuyang's sister-in-law, but who would have thought that her sister-in-law would turn out to be such a nonsensical person? Who would have the patience to deal with her!
"It wouldn't be right for me, as the younger brother-in-law, to knock on my sister-in-law's door every night."
"How can I, as a younger brother's wife, have the nerve to knock on my brother-in-law's door every day?"
"Just ask your sister-in-law and brother-in-law if they've come back yet."
"Why don't you just go and ask your older brother if he's back yet?"
"I'm talking about you!"
"What? Who was that person knocking on the door the other day? Aren't you embarrassed that I'm knocking on your door every day?"
"Fine, fine, I'll go, I'll go." Gu Lie put on the coat he had just taken off and reluctantly left the room.
His wife rolled her eyes and muttered to herself, "He's almost fifty, not five years old. Is it really necessary?"
It's really worth it!
A short while later, Gu Lie hurriedly returned and told his wife that his elder brother had not yet come back, and asked her to watch the house while he went out to look for him.
His wife was stunned and said in disbelief, "No! It hasn't been that long since that happened!"
She muttered a curse under her breath, resigned herself to her fate, put on her clothes, and went to the living room to wait for news.
Gu Lie certainly wouldn't go out to search alone; he was afraid of dying too, you know.
If the person isn't found, fine. But what if they are found and the strange demon is still there? Is he going to deliver vegetables?
But we can't just not look for him. It's only been a short time since that incident, and Gu Zhao was only summoned for questioning. If he were to rant about murdering his wife again, it wouldn't just be a matter of questioning.
The best outcome would be that he is certified to have a mental problem and is forced to retire from his position; a more serious outcome would be that the entire Gu family would be investigated.
There have been people in the military investigating Ji Shuyang's affairs all along!
Even if the Gu family can withstand investigation regarding Ji Shuyang's matter, there are always areas they can't cover.
What time is it now?
People are already setting things right!
How many people have gone down and how many have come up in the last ten years? Now is a critical moment!
Once you get through this, everything will be smooth sailing!
Even if he's not quite there yet to maintain the status quo, the situation isn't as dire as it used to be. He can retire successfully once the next generation is trained.
But his good older brother, he couldn't let the Gu family get through this period peacefully!
Thinking about how old Master Gu was, yet he still managed to get up and shamelessly contact Gu Linyuan, asking him to send someone to find Gu Zhao, he became extremely agitated. He shouldn't have tolerated Gu Zhao when he did that beastly thing more than twenty years ago!
Gu Linyuan's office was naturally guarded. When the phone rang, He Tian answered it, using Gu Linyuan's voice.
Hilarious! Master Gu had long anticipated that the Gu family would keep an eye on whether Gu Zhao came home late for a long time. If Gu Zhao got into trouble again, the Gu family would definitely call, whether to ask for help or to test whether Gu Linyuan was behind it.
He Tian had followed Gu Linyuan for so many years that he had a very good grasp of the tone of his voice when speaking to him, so the old master Gu didn't realize that the other person wasn't the real Gu Linyuan.
"As you know, the Seventh Division receives an extra allowance for fieldwork." This extra allowance is paid by the individuals involved; it's not explicitly stated, but it's a customary practice.
Grandpa Gu choked on his breath, wanting to say a few words as an elder, but he knew the other party wouldn't pay him any attention.
In the quiet of the night, he would occasionally have an inappropriate thought: if it had been Gu Linyuan who had been corrupted, and Gu Linfeng who had become the head of the Seventh Division, then the Gu family would be at its zenith now, instead of showing signs of decline.
“Okay,” he said. “I’ll have someone send the fieldwork allowance over tomorrow.”
He Tian said, "Alright, then I'll go find the person myself. However, I can only guarantee that I'll find the person; I can't guarantee anything else!" He intentionally or unintentionally revealed a hint of schadenfreude in his words, which Old Master Gu noticed.
Grandpa Gu managed to squeeze out a "okay" and then slammed the phone down.
He Tian smiled and put the microphone back, then sang a section of "Su San's Release" in a low voice, looking extremely happy.
Meanwhile, Gu Linyuan and his group led Gu Zhao into a cave that had been arranged beforehand, where Huan Ni wove an illusion for him.
This illusion was woven based on Gu Linyuan and Gu Linfeng's memories of that incident from back then. To ensure it was foolproof, Huanni had practiced beforehand, so the process went exceptionally smoothly.
Just like last time, they succeeded, but instead of leaving, everyone silently stood guard outside the cave, listening to the screams inside.
As he listened, Gu Linyuan began to tell Shi Yuan about the past that had been covered up by the Gu family for more than 20 years.
"Actually, my mother doesn't like taking care of others, or rather, she doesn't like getting married and having children in a conventional way."
However, after Ji's parents sacrificed their lives, Grandpa Gu and several of Ji's parents' comrades-in-arms took good care of Ji Shuyang. In traditional thinking, they believed that Ji Shuyang would only be worthy of Ji's parents after he got married and had children.
Ji Shuyang refused several times, but later he was wounded on the battlefield and was no longer suitable to go to the battlefield, so the topic of marriage was brought up again.
This time, after considering it, Ji Shuyang did not refuse again. He chose Gu Zhao because the Gu family only had two sons, and Old Master Gu favored Gu Zhao. In the future, Gu Zhao would definitely become the head of the Gu family.
Gu Zhao isn't very clear-headed. If she has a child in the future and is properly nurtured, there's a high chance she'll replace Gu Zhao and take her place.
She is a very pragmatic person. If she can't go to the battlefield, she will find another battlefield and take another path, which is the same.
However, Gu Zhao's lack of discernment far exceeded Ji Shuyang's expectations.
He actually fell in love with a demon!
This really surprised everyone!
Because Ji Shuyang treated Gu Zhao very well, giving her the dignity of a husband and doing everything a wife should do, everyone thought that their relationship was very good.
Especially Ji Shuyang, who initially seemed to have little affection for her, but later clearly showed that she regarded her husband as her everything and was deeply in love with him.
Who is Ji Shuyang? Let's just say that even the two Gu brothers combined can't beat her!
The key is that she is very capable, but she also has a gentle personality and is good-looking. Back then, the competition for a partner was incredibly fierce.
Well, Gu Zhao hit the jackpot, but people don't appreciate it!
At this point, Ji Shuyang had a clearer plan for the future, and he was grateful that Gu Zhao was so clueless as to get entangled with a strange demon.
Grandpa Gu now only has two choices: either to raise Gu Lie or to raise her two sons.
Gu Lie is a good person in many ways. In terms of choosing a partner, he would be considered between the second and third best choice in their circle. Overall, he is quite average.
Ji Shuyang never considered him an opponent.
Based on her understanding of Old Master Gu, as long as he can still hold onto the Gu family, he probably won't kick Gu Lie out of the game early on, but her two sons have a better chance of winning.
Thinking of this, Ji Shuyang felt completely at ease, believing that Gu Zhao would eventually return to his family under pressure from Old Master Gu.
But after Gu Zhao made such a scene, she no longer needed to play the role of a good wife; she just needed to be a presentable eldest daughter-in-law of the Gu family.
Finally, she no longer had to deal with Gu Zhao. She had even planned where the doors to her bedroom and study would be, so she could live directly in the study from now on.
But who would have thought that Gu Zhao was a madman!
Gu Linyuan will always remember that day.
Ji Shuyang took him and Gu Linfeng to a state-run restaurant for a meal, and then to the supply and marketing cooperative to buy clothes for the changing season. She told them that they would be learning more things in the future, which would be a bit tough, but the rewards would be great, and encouraged them to persevere.
She also said that they would go out to eat, drink, shop and have fun whenever they had time off, combining work and rest. Gu Linyuan and Gu Linfeng were completely taken aback and readily agreed to study hard.
"I still remember how warm the sunlight felt on me that day." Gu Linyuan looked up at the moon. "For many, many years afterward, I felt that the sunlight was cold."
On their happy way home, a patch of thin yellow vines suddenly appeared in their path, blocking their way.
Ji Shuyang was very perceptive. He immediately dropped what he was holding, picked up the Gu brothers, one in each arm, and ran away.
She had some guesses about the identity of the thin vines, and cursed inwardly. How dare this thing come out in broad daylight? The control of strange demons in Beicheng is very strict!
But no matter how strict they were, they couldn't stop Gu Zhao from personally bringing in the shrunken form of the strange demon, which he had hidden in his chest pocket!
Of course, at this point, he still didn't know what his beloved demon was going to do; he just wanted to be with her day and night, and that was not wrong.
No matter how powerful Ji Shuyang is, he has no chance of escaping with two children and no weapons.
She and the Gu brothers were eventually drawn into a strange cave.
The tendrils receded from Gu Zhao's head. After shaking his head to regain his senses, Gu Zhao immediately looked around to see where he was and where he could escape.
By the faint green glow, he could see that he was in a cave. Yellow vines were intertwined on the cave walls, forming strange patterns. The green glow in the center of the cave seemed to come alive and slowly seeped into his seven orifices.
This scene feels strangely familiar!
As he thought of something, Gu Zhao's hands began to tremble violently. His throat felt like it was being choked. He wanted to cry for help, but he couldn't make a sound, just like they had back then!
Escape! As soon as his brain issued the command, tiny umbel-shaped inflorescences of green fluorescence bloomed, bursting open like stars, and the scattered pollen drifted into his brow and entered his brain like a galaxy.
He knew that these pollen flowers would drain his life force, infuse it into the fluorescent light, and nourish the strange demon within it, allowing it to slowly grow human flesh and bones. This was the secret method of the dodder, which used parasitism as a cultivation technique, to transform itself!
He actually encountered another dodder plant!
He wanted to say that his current wife was Dodder, and that she was also the Queen of the Demons, so that Dodder would be wary of him.
But he couldn't speak.
The next moment, excruciating pain struck. He felt as if every bone in his body was being shattered, and his head was being hammered. He rolled on the ground in agony, wanting to beg for mercy and scream, but he was powerless to do anything.
Cold sweat streamed down his body, and his pupils began to dilate.
But this is not the end, but the beginning.
"At that time, Feng Qing said that she was pregnant with a child, a half-human, half-demon being, who would not survive."
But they, the dodder vines, have a secret method to plunder human life force and use it for themselves. She said she could let one go and let Ji Shuyang choose.
Ji Shuyang, covered in cold sweat, gripped the Gu brothers tightly with both hands. She looked at Gu Zhao, who had rushed over, and a sliver of hope remained in her heart. She used all her strength to shout, "Child, child!" She was pleading with Gu Zhao for mercy, pleading for the Gu brothers.
She admitted it was because she misjudged people, because she was greedy for family, and because her intentions were impure!
But the child is innocent!
"You, child!" After struggling to utter these words, she could no longer speak, only looking at Gu Zhao with pleading eyes.
Feng Qing spoke, her voice soft and delicate, a stark contrast to Ji Shiyuan's roar: "Gu Zhao, who do you choose?" Gu Zhao understood that she wanted him to choose either her or Ji Shuyang.
Of course he would choose Feng Qing, but the Gu brothers are his children.
"Gu Zhao, you must give birth to my child safely. It's your child too! It's the fruit of our love!"
Upon hearing this, Gu Zhao avoided Ji Shuyang's eyes.
Feng Qing said charmingly to Ji Shuyang, "Since you're not choosing, then let's keep them all."
"I know you look down on a demon like me, but what can I do? Your flesh and blood, your soul, will form my human body, oh, and your son's too!"
"It doesn't matter if there's one more; we dodder plants will never refuse extra nutrients!"
"Feng Qing," Gu Zhao finally couldn't bear it, "Could you... spare the child's life?"
"Since you've already asked, how could I refuse?"
"Gu Zhao, I am the King of the Demons. I can transform into a human, and I can also turn a human into a demon. You must treat me very, very well from now on, or I will refine you into a demon as well!"
"How could I treat you badly?" Gu Zhao looked at Feng Qing with deep affection. "You are the love of my life!"
"Gu Zhao!" "Feng Qing!"
Taking advantage of the moment when the human and the demon were gazing deeply into each other's eyes, Ji Shuyang used all his strength to bite off the thin vines that were binding Gu Linyuan and his brother, and pushed them away.
Even if she ran away, she wouldn't survive, but she hoped her children could live; their lives were just beginning!
"Ah!" A sharp pain shot through her, and Feng Qing's entire body began to tremble. Ji Shuyang sneered, thinking that only this fool believed that this dodder was some kind of demon king. Whose demon king's body could be bitten off by her?
She was too careless and took it too easy to believe that Grandpa Gu would handle the matter quickly. She admits defeat, but those two won't get away with it either!
She continued to bite the thin vines with all her might, hoping to die together with the monster, or at least buy the children time to escape.
The next instant, her jaw was removed—it was Gu Zhao!
Ji Shuyang's last glance at Gu Zhao was filled with hatred. She didn't hate him for betraying their marriage, because her marriage to him was also full of calculations and schemes. But she hated him for being inhuman, actually cooperating with the alien demon to persecute her and her child.
Even a tiger won't eat its cubs!
“Feng Qing reacted quickly, and countless vines chased after me and Lin Feng.” Gu Linyuan clenched his fist. “Finally, Lin Feng threw himself on me, and countless vines burrowed into his body.”
“He dared not move, afraid that if he did, the vines would pierce through my body.”
"The blood dripped onto me, staining my body red. I was powerless to do anything but hate!"
Later, Gu Zhao said, "Feng Qing, I want to see you refine people into strange demons."
Feng Qing stopped absorbing Ji Shuyang and Gu Linfeng because of these words. At that time, Ji Shuyang and his mother were on their last breath.
Feng Qing, having undergone a transformation, was already exhausted. At this point, refining Gu Linyuan into a demon would be a burden for her.
These two are such a perfect match!
Despite her exhaustion, Feng Qing stretched out her vines towards Gu Linyuan once more. Although they still looked overwhelming, their speed and intensity were not as good as before.
At this time, Gu Linyuan and Gu Linfeng were only six years old. They couldn't see through Feng Qing's outward strength but inner weakness. Gu Linyuan only knew that he was about to become a monster.
He looked at Ji Shuyang, who was holding on to his last breath and looking at him with despair, and reached out his hand. He wanted to tell his mother: It doesn't matter if he becomes a monster. He will grow up well and avenge his mother and brother when he grows up.
Just as the vines were about to engulf him, Gu Linfeng's small body unleashed astonishing power, and he once again shielded Gu Linyuan beneath him.
"Brother." This was the last sound Gu Linfeng uttered in this world as a human being.
No one knows whether Gu Zhao and the others saw this scene. Gu Linyuan only saw Gu Zhao carrying Feng Qing away through the gaps in the gradually dissipating branches.
That night, Gu Linyuan's eyes were bloodshot, and then he fainted.
When she woke up again, Ji Shuyang was gone. The place where she had been bound was only covered in bloodstains that had soaked into the ground. Gu Linfeng was also gone, with only a small peach branch wrapped around his wrist.
Six-year-old Gu Linyuan had no choice but to cry, but it was as if he had grown up overnight. Just like he had said before that he could no longer feel the warmth of the sun, he could no longer shed tears.
What's the point of shedding tears?
You have to be strong and powerful to succeed.
He used Gu Linfeng's clothes to wrap the soil soaked with Ji Shuyang's blood, and then buried it in a place.
“I actually wanted to keep it with me.” Gu Linyuan was still looking at the moon, his eyes moist. “But at that time, I didn’t even know if I could survive.”
He never returned to the Gu family. When he reappeared in Beicheng, he was already the director of the First Division, someone even Old Master Gu had to treat with respect.
No one knows what hardships he went through during the years when he was missing or presumed dead to grow into the outstanding person he is today.
Shi Yuan turned to look at Gu Linyuan, their silhouettes framed by the moon.
"Gu Linyuan, you are amazing!" This was a genuine compliment. What kind of existence is the Seventh Bureau? What kind of scale is the black market? It's unimaginable that Gu Linyuan, who had nothing, could get to where he is today.
Gu Linyuan turned his head and looked at Shi Yuan: "I've met many people, good people, bad people, benefactors, and enemies." He paused, then said seriously, "I'm so glad that I stopped you at the entrance of the black market in Qinglin Bay that year."
"I was happy too." At that time, she was really short of money.
The two seemed to be talking about the same thing, or perhaps not, but the atmosphere was good, especially with Gu Zhao's devastating roar coming from inside the cave at this moment.
How much pain did Gu Zhao suffer?
His skin and flesh were torn apart, his soul was shattered, and he could still hear the sound of his bones being crushed!
The torture continued, and Gu Zhao's mind was on the verge of collapse.
Gu Lie found Gu Zhao's car. He looked at the cosmetic gift bag on the passenger seat with a sarcastic expression. He angrily crushed his cigarette butt, exhaled a breath of stale air, and didn't want to say anything more.
say what?
Is it true that he found Gu Zhao's car here last time? Or is it that he never knew a person could be so incredibly stupid?
He just wants to find Gu Zhao as soon as possible, so that he won't be as disgraced as last time and implicate the Gu family!
Thinking back to how he had once regarded Gu Zhao as a hypothetical enemy, he felt quite foolish.
Someone thoroughly inspected Gu Zhao's car inside and out, but found no traces of it, and there were no holes drilled in the bottom of the car.
Gu Lie rubbed his temples; he really wanted to go back to sleep!
His subordinate jogged over with new information, saying that someone had spotted a car heading towards the outskirts of Beijing under the cover of night, but it was uncertain whether Gu Zhao was in the car.
"Go and take a look." Gu Lie left one person behind to report back to the family, and led the others to the outskirts of the capital.
Gu Zhao was already "dead." He lay silently in the cave, his eyes unfocused, his hands and feet twisted into strange shapes.
Huan Ni clicked her tongue in amazement: "I had no idea that the illusion I created could be so powerful!"
Shi Meili showered Huan Ni with compliments, then curled herself into a flower crown to crown Huan Ni, the two of them having a great time.
Looking at Gu Zhao's miserable state, Gu Linyuan's eyes were filled with indifference. He sneered, "The next script is about alienation. I hope he likes it."
“He probably likes it,” Shi Yuan said calmly. “Look how excited he is.”
Gu Linyuan turned to look at her, then smiled faintly: "Judging by the time, the Gu family should be extremely anxious right now. Otherwise, how about we do a good deed?"
"Of course, the field work allowance can't be taken for nothing."
Shi Meili climbed off Huan Ni's head, rolled up Gu Zhao, and dragged him down the mountain. Gu Zhao had many more bruises and scrapes on his body, but he didn't cry out in pain, so he probably didn't care.
Gu Lie arrived shortly after.
Gu Linyuan said, "I'm leaving the person to you," and started the car and drove away.
Gu Lie didn't immediately pay attention to his foolish older brother, but instead watched the departing car with a constantly changing expression.
He genuinely suspected that Gu Linyuan was behind it, but he had no evidence. Just like all these years, Gu Linyuan knew that Feng Qing and Gu Zhao had killed Ji Shuyang, but because he had no evidence, he had remained silent.
He couldn't help but ask himself: Was Gu Linyuan planning to take action against the Gu family?
After calling the family doctor and settling Gu Zhao in late at night, Gu Lie finally asked the question.
Grandpa Gu shook his head again: "I called the Seventh Division, and Gu Linyuan accepted the commission."
"Dad, why do you believe that Gu Linyuan won't make a move?" Gu Lie was very tired. In his memory, his father had always been wise and insightful, but for some reason, whenever something involved his older brother, all of his father's wisdom and insight would be diminished.
But when Ji Shuyang was his sister-in-law, his father wasn't like this.
Oh, so even though his older brother was stupid back then, he didn't do anything outrageous, and Ji Shuyang cleaned up the mess for him.
"Dad, what are your plans for the future?"
“Your elder brother has become like that, I have to get justice for him.” Old Master Gu sighed and said, “I will have the Seventh Division do everything in its power to capture the strange demon.”
Gu Lie really wanted to say, "Don't waste your money. Gu Linyuan definitely did the work. And you're still giving him money afterward. Isn't that hoping he'll keep up the good work?"
But if it happened again, his older brother might not be able to withstand it.
Thinking of this, Gu Lie suddenly fell silent. It took him a long time to come back to his senses. He had a thought that no one else knew: If that really happened, it wouldn't be so bad.
Gu Zhao woke up three days later. By then, Gu Linyuan had already received the generous subsidy from the Mo family and Shi Yuan had boarded the train to Haicheng.
They were originally going to drive there, but before they set off, Huanni said, "It's faster to drive ourselves." Then Shiyuan thought that experiencing a green train from the 1970s would be a meaningful thing.
So Gu Linyuan arranged a sleeper compartment, which was quite luxurious for the 1970s.
Shi Yuan took out a book and sat by the car window to pass the time. Sunlight shone through the branches and leaves of the roadside, casting dappled light and shadow on her.
Not long after, Shi Yuan put down the book and rubbed her temples.
"Why aren't you watching anymore?" Gu Linyuan handed over the enamel mug, which contained tea at the perfect temperature.
Shi Yuan thanked him, took the bottle, and sipped it lightly. "My vision is a little blurry; I don't want to look anymore."
She held her enamel mug and looked out the car window at the scenery, unaware that Gu Linyuan was also watching her.
Huan Ni had been holed up in Qinglin Bay for who knows how long, and the only time she had ever gone on a long trip was when she escorted a car north.
But that was a mission, the whole team was on edge, and time was tight, so the experience wasn't great.
In truth, this was Huan Ni's first real trip.
Yes, the trip was generously sponsored by the Mo family patriarch.
"By the way, if we just leave like this, won't the Gu family think we're running away because we feel guilty?" Shi Yuan took another sip of tea.
Upon hearing Shi Yuan's question, Gu Linyuan's face showed an expression he couldn't quite describe. He said, "Grandpa Gu has always believed that even if I were to take action, I would wait until after his death."
"He has always stubbornly believed that I still have the same grandparent-grandchild relationship with him as I do with Lin Feng."
"Of course, he has also been trying to use Lin Feng to control me."
"Seeing that I haven't taken any action against the Gu family all these years, and that I even compromise with Lin Feng and go to celebrate his birthday every year, he probably still dreams that I will turn around and protect the Gu family because of Lin Feng."
Just then, the train entered the tunnel, and the darkness concealed the expression on Gu Linyuan's face. Shi Yuan only heard his clear and gentle voice in her ear: "He probably doesn't know that when I was most repressed, I planted enough explosives in the Gu residence to take them all down with me."
Shi Yuan's heart tightened, and she subconsciously softened her voice: "They don't deserve it!" she said. "They only deserve to be condemned to eternal hell, while you, you must walk the path of righteousness!"
The train emerged from the tunnel, light dispelling the darkness. Gu Linyuan looked at Shi Yuan with tender, lingering eyes: "Yes," he said. "I will definitely walk the sunny path well." With you!
Huan Ni took Shi Meili on a tour and finally decided to come back. Shi Yuan pushed the jade cup of cooled water over to Huan Ni, who drank it all in one gulp.
Wow! The train is so lively, it's packed with people!
"Shi Yuan, guess what I just saw?"
Shi Yuan smiled and asked, "What did you see? Tell me quickly!"
Huan Ni once again marveled at how well she had raised Shi Yuan.
She said with a smile, "I just saw a middle-aged woman talking to a girl, asking her all sorts of questions. It was so worrying to watch, I was afraid that the middle-aged woman had bad intentions and was a human trafficker."
"I also want to say that if this human trafficker falls into my hands, I'll teach her a lesson she won't forget."
"And guess what happened?"
Stop keeping me in suspense and tell me!
"Hehe, let me explain in detail!"
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