Twin Lotus (Part 5)
Chapter Twenty-Five
Xie Yuan was speechless. She should have been the one questioning him about the blood array, but in the blink of an eye, the conversation had turned to other things.
Is he trying to forcefully change the subject with this?
Back on Mount Luoqi, they spent every day together, and she really didn't sense that he was jealous; she was basically always the one chasing after him...
"I have no relationship with him, we're just friends." Xie Yuan explained with a sense of despair. "Stop talking nonsense. What exactly is this blood array? Are you involved in it or not?"
Song Ling chuckled, "Master, I have nothing to do with the Qian family. As for the Blood Array, they just bought it from me for a high price; it was nothing more than an exchange of interests."
Xie Yuan: Oh, just a thousand families? Is this the importance of the art of language...?
"If that's the case, you must know whether the twin lotus flowers are real or not, right? Are they really as miraculous as the rumors say?"
Xie Yuan: A trade of interests? In that case, this "lotus" thing is probably just a cover-up to conceal something that outsiders can't know.
Song Ling: "I think Master knows better than I do what the Blood Array is used for."
"So it was a lie that you sent Cangyue and Xiaotaosu ahead of you saying they were coming here for treatment." Xie Yuan had already accepted the situation of being set up by him, her tone calm and without any ripples.
He glanced at their hands, which were clasped together again, with a slightly complicated expression.
Xie Yuan: .........
"I don't know if there's a shortage of skilled doctors in Chunli. If Master really insists on helping her, I'll have Cangyue take him to find that person," Song Ling said absentmindedly.
Xie Yuan understood. It seemed that he had no intention of helping Xiao Taosu at first, and did not even take the matter seriously. He said that he would have Cang Yue bring Taosu over first, which seemed to be because he was sure that she would not sit idly by and ignore this poor little girl. He just mentioned it casually.
Xie Yuan: ......
I'm numb.
——
It was an hour later when Xie Yuan and Song Ling came out of the inn.
Cang Yue noticed that the two were going downstairs at half a step apart, and it seemed that there was no major problem. Just as he was about to breathe a sigh of relief, Song Ling had already coldly fixed her gaze on him.
Cang Yue Zu: Damn it, it seems there's a big problem. The boss wants him to go over there.
Xie Yuan sat down at the table again, her face unchanged, except that her lips were unusually red, as vibrant as a newly blooming rose.
Cang Yue, being quite sensible, quickly got up and didn't dare to investigate further. "Miss, I'll go find my boss first."
"Okay, go ahead."
Xie Yuan slowly poured herself a cup of tea.
Xiao Taosu noticed that Xie Yuan's lips were unusually red, so she tapped her own lips with her fingertip, then pointed at Xie Yuan's, and babbled a few words.
Xie Yuan looked up at her movements and body language, and accurately translated what she wanted to say verbatim.
"Little Peach Crisp wants to ask why your older sister's lips are so red, right?"
Tao Su nodded seriously. Her older sister understood her best and always knew exactly what she wanted to say. She looked at Xie Yuan with starry-eyed admiration.
"I was bitten by a rabid dog," Xie Yuan replied without changing her expression.
Tao Su was clearly shocked by the answer, because she didn't expect there to be a dog in the inn, let alone a rabid dog. "Is the sister alright?" she wondered anxiously, and tried to jump off the chair.
Xie Yuan noticed her nervousness and quickly reassured her, "It's alright, she's already been chased away by my sister."
Meanwhile, two people with exceptionally good hearing were talking about something else nearby, and they both overheard the conversation.
Upon hearing this description, Cang Yue almost burst out laughing, but she quickly suppressed it, her face turning red.
He never imagined that someone would dare to call him a mad dog to his face and get away with it. He always thought that the person who dared to do that probably hadn't been born yet. He never expected to have the honor of witnessing this scene with his own eyes.
Song Ling was not affected by these words at all. Instead, she commented with interest, "Hmm, it seems that Master understands me best."
Cangyue: ?
But the leader seemed to be enjoying being scolded...
Is this what they call the power of love?
——
At midnight.
Xie Yuan had already appeared at one of the Qian family's residences, with her Cangyue dog following closely behind her.
“Miss, since you came, I’ve noticed that he’s become much more tolerant of us.”
Cang Yue still felt lingering fear when he recalled being thrown into that awful place for "training" before. He thought he would not escape the same fate today, since he had let it slip first. But the boss seemed to be in a good mood and did not pay any attention to what he said, which left Cang Yue completely bewildered.
Xie Yuan surveyed the feng shui layout of the thousand houses. Apart from the courtyard where the blood array was set up, which was extremely inauspicious, the houses surrounding it were all very auspicious.
Abandoned pawn.
She understood immediately. This was a very basic introductory formation in the Blood Array, known in Feng Shui as sacrificing the pawn to save the king, or simply changing one's luck. But for ordinary people to do so, the price they had to pay was far more than that.
It requires the sacrifice of a blood relative.
Twin lotus flowers, meaning twins.
Twins, one male and one female, represent yin and yang respectively.
It certainly meets the prerequisites for forming a formation.
"I know."
Xie Yuan remained unfazed by this. She knew what kind of person he was long before they met, so this outcome was not unexpected.
She suddenly remembered what he had told her at the inn that morning that the rope had broken, and the smile on her lips turned bitter.
Cang Yue: "Miss, what kind of person was the boss before?"
I never expected Cang Yue to be such a chatterbox.
"Are you curious?"
Xie Yuan lifted her skirt and sat cross-legged on the roof.
The moon is high in the sky tonight; it's beautiful.
——
“Miss, I was only twelve years old when I met the eldest brother.”
Cang Yue laughed like a fool, completely unlike the polite person he had been when they first met. It seems that the people around A Ling are all masters of disguise.
"Later, in order to survive, I picked up a sharp stone for the first time."
Xie Yuan: "First time killing someone?"
Cang Yue grinned sheepishly, "No, I was too scared to do it. In the end, when I was about to be beaten to death, it was the boss who saved me."
"The killing happened after I entered the unknown spring."
Cang Yue frankly said, "Most of those whom I don't know Chun take in are homeless, desperate, or have been driven to extinction. But the prerequisite is that they must have an extremely strong will to survive. People always say that we are wicked and heinous, but in fact we are just trying to live. It's just that there is no place for us in this world, and I don't know Chun has become our home."
Xie Yuan: "Oh? It seems you have a very high opinion of this Bu Zhichun. So what kind of person is your Pavilion Master?"
Before the name could escape his lips, Cang Yue quickly swallowed his words, then silently looked up at the sky. Oh dear, he almost messed things up again. The boss had told him to follow the young lady and take the opportunity to gather information, but he hadn't told him what information to gather. He was afraid that he wouldn't be able to find out anything, and that the young lady would have already gathered all the information about the boss.
"Forget it, let me explain. Doesn't your sect leader give the impression of being decisive, ruthless, and treating human life like dirt?" Xie Yuan said calmly, as if she were casually stating an extremely ordinary matter.
Cang Yue immediately nodded vigorously, expressing her approval: "That's right, that's right, that's exactly it. In the eyes of outsiders, our Pavilion Master can be summed up in four words: he has no heart."
"But you don't think so."
Xie Yuan's statement was an affirmative sentence.
Cang Yue replied matter-of-factly, "That's natural, but I'm not trying to speak favorably of our Pavilion Master. After all, everything I just said is true, and there's not a single falsehood in it."
"Old man, cough, but I still unconditionally trust the Pavilion Master, hehe."
"That's good."
Xie Yuan didn't ask why, but turned her head back to look at the moon, lost in thought.
Peace was restored between the two.
"Miss, don't you have even the slightest bit of curiosity about our Pavilion Master?"
In the end, Cang Yue couldn't stand the silence any longer and was the first to voice his question. Miss was the most complicated person he had ever met. Despite her young age, she possessed a gentle and composed demeanor that set her apart from others, as well as the spirit, pride, and flamboyance that came from years of experience in the martial world. She could be very boisterous or very calm, making it impossible for anyone to guess what she truly wanted.
No wonder she's the kind of woman who could win the boss's heart.
Upon hearing this, Xie Yuan glanced lazily at Cang Yue, who was standing not far away, and said, "What's there to be curious about? No one in this world knows your sect leader better than me."
Cangyue:.........
Boss, it's really not my fault. Miss is too smart. I didn't say anything.
Cang Yue pretended to be stupid and didn't reply.
Xie Yuan didn't take it to heart. She continued calmly, "A Ling has carried too much on his shoulders since he was a child. He is a person who has been killed, but no one knows what he went through before. When I took him as my disciple, he was only three years old."
"Although I later became his master, I still witnessed him killing people with my own eyes, more than once."
"Logically speaking, as a teacher, one should set a good example, teach others how to conduct themselves, repay evil with good, and be a good person."
"It's obvious that I'm not cut out to be a master, and I don't like being bothered by worldly things, but I was still bewitched and took him as my disciple. My only requirement for him was no requirement. I told him that there is no absolute good or evil, right or wrong in this world. If someone tries to kill you, just kill them back. As long as you have enough strength, you can get everything you want."
"From this perspective, he has put this into practice quite well, and can be considered to be obedient in a certain sense."
Cang Yue was greatly shocked: "Miss, you call this obedience?"
He swallowed hard, feeling increasingly uneasy. Putting everything else aside, even if the possession and rebirth had really happened, the young lady was indeed the boss's master, not some mere substitute or a substitute.
Isn't the eldest brother's behavior blatantly disrespectful and treacherous?
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