Chapter 191 Whereabouts
The day Jiang Wu left Linhai City, Han Zhong went to Xiangxie Villa, but Zhou Yannan was already unconscious when he arrived, so he sent him directly to Hualing Hospital. Facing Zhou Changming's questioning, he did not hide anything and told everything.
Zhou Changming did not speak for a long time after hearing that Zhou Yannan was involved in the Qingshui Bay incident. It was not until the hospital gave the diagnosis that Zhou Yannan would never wake up again that he said expressionlessly, "He deserved it."
Han Zhong knew how important Zhou Yannan was to Zhou Changming, but he couldn't say anything to comfort him. After all, it was Jiang Wudong who did it. Before Jiang Wudong, he also planned to settle the score with Zhou Yannan after learning the truth.
Zhou Yannan did it to save his own life, and it was not unfair, but he could not say that.
Later, the Zhou family held a funeral for Zhou Gaozhen. Zhou Changyi came to the hospital in person to find Zhou Changming, and brought with him a will, leaving both Zhou Gaozhen and the Zhou family to Zhou Changming, hoping only that Zhou Changming could carry his coffin at the funeral.
Zhou Changming never understood Zhou Gaozhen's obsession with his descendants' prosperity, nor did he want to understand it. He didn't even read the will and directly drove Zhou Changyi away. Later, he never cared about the Zhou family again. He even handed over the management of Xinghe Entertainment to the vice president and took care of Zhou Yannan in the hospital.
But the time Zhou Yannan woke up, he had fallen asleep due to excessive fatigue and was discovered by the nurse who came to check on him. Zhou Yannan, who should have been unconscious, stared at Zhou Changming, who was lying on the side of his bed, with his eyes closed. He had no expression and did not speak, and it was unclear whether he was conscious or not. The nurse immediately ran to call for help, but when others came, the person on the bed was sleeping with his eyes closed again, as if he had never woken up.
Although the machine did not respond, the nurse insisted that she was not mistaken and even saw Zhou Yannan raise his hand. So the hospital notified Han Zhong for safety reasons.
"That old man really knows how to mistreat people. I've been watching over him for so long and he never woke up once. But he woke up after sleeping for a short while last night." Zhou Changming looked at the man on the bed with a calm expression, "Don't tell me he's pretending. He just wants me to serve him like his grandson."
The person behind him didn't respond. The ward was silent. Zhou Changming pushed a chair to Han Zhong and sat down facing him. "I heard you went to many places. Have you found your whereabouts?"
Han shook his head.
Zhou Changming was not surprised, otherwise he would not have rushed back, hoping to get something out of the vegetative man on the bed, "The president has resigned, the Han family doesn't want him anymore, and the person hasn't been found. Are you in love, buddy?"
His voice was a little hoarse, and he coughed twice while speaking. Han Zhong stood up and poured a glass of water and handed it to him. He took a sip and looked at Han Zhong again, "So, how long do you plan to look for it?"
Han Zhong rested his elbows on his knees, interlaced his fingers, lowered his eyes to look at a certain spot on the ground, and said slowly, "He has a physical problem."
Zhou Changming paused while drinking water. "...Because of the incident in Clear Water Bay?"
"He was already injured in the beginning. He was caught in a weak spot and plotted against in Qingshui Bay." Han Zhong took a deep breath, still regretting his negligence. "He told me once, but I thought he was just not feeling well."
"You don't understand. Have you found out the origin of the black fog?"
"No, but I found something else."
Han Zhong handed him the information in his phone. "The abbot of Qingyang Temple said that more than 500 years ago, a person with accumulated evil spirits appeared. At that time, a Taoist priest subdued him. Later, before his death, the Taoist priest entrusted a black jade ring to the abbot of Qingyang Temple at that time. In the past two years, someone has been stealing the black jade ring from the temple until I took it away."
Zhou Changming knew about this. At the beginning, Zhou Yannan went to find Jiang Wu for the black jade ring. Although Jiang Wu acted differently from ordinary people, he was still reasonable. He just didn't want to hand over the black jade ring at that time. He originally thought that it was because the black jade ring was given by Han Zhong, but later he thought it was strange that the black jade ring could be picked up by Han Zhong.
"Later, I found this incident in the sect history records of Longdan Mountain and discovered that the Taoist priest's surname was Zhou."
week……
Zhou Changming responded immediately, "Zhou family ancestor!"
Without waiting for Han Zhong to say anything else, Zhou Changming stood up and walked out, "I'm going back to the Zhou family now. Please help me take care of this place. Call me if you have any problems!"
Han Zhong did not stop him. After listening to the footsteps outside gradually fading away, he spoke to the person on the bed, "He's gone."
The ward fell silent. The next moment, Zhou Yannan, who had been sleeping on the bed, slowly opened his eyes. There was emptiness in his light black pupils. "When did you find out?"
“When I came in.”
“…”
Zhou Yannan snorted and said, "You should have realized that your body is abnormal."
Han Zhong was silent. He had just deliberately told Zhou Changming only half of his discovery, and the other half was his speculation about his own body.
Whether it was the black mist called Sang Yuan or Qin Jiawang, they all came for the body of accumulated evil. In addition, his father and the black mist once said that Emperor Zhaowu Yan Chong was suspected of obtaining immortality and asked four confidants to secretly swear to be loyal to him forever. A truth that he did not want to admit was about to be revealed.
The so-called method of longevity is to accumulate evil spirits.
Han Zhong sat up straight and leaned back in the chair. The warm breeze in the ward made him a little dazed. He didn't want to believe that Yan Zhong would deceive and take advantage of Jiang Wu, but now the facts told him that Yan Zhong did obtain the method of immortality and faked his death to reincarnate. It was only because of the betrayal of his four confidants that he did not reincarnate immediately, and did not have time to save the Great Zhou from destruction. He could only reincarnate a thousand years later, and he also lost his memory as Yan Zhong.
Jiang Wu should have known it a long time ago, otherwise he wouldn't have left him and then went to settle the score with Zhou Yannan and Fang Zhiyuan in order to avoid him.
That's what Jiang Wu wanted to ask when he left that day. He wanted to ask why he pretended to be unconscious and hid from him. In his eyes, he was the one who betrayed him and deceived him into guarding the Great Zhou for more than a hundred years and suffered so much. Why didn't he kill himself like he killed Yu Gaoyang back then?
He slowly closed his eyes, "That black jade ring originally belonged to me... Yan Zhong."
"right."
"What's in it?"
"Yan Zhong's memory."
“…”
Han Zhong opened his eyes again, his black pupils looked a little dull, "Why don't you see Zhou Changming?"
"I'm afraid he'll scold me. The brat has no respect for his elders. He scolded me countless times while I was unconscious. If he knew I was awake, he would definitely scold me again."
Zhou Yannan muttered while looking at the ceiling. After a pause, he added with a hint of mockery, "I can't let him point his finger at me and scold me for being a villain who betrayed his friends."
"So he's your friend?"
This sentence made Zhou Yannan stunned there. After a long while, he said hoarsely, "Who knows? He said it himself."
After a moment of silence, Zhou Yannan suddenly remembered something, "Where did you get the Long Danshan sect history record?"
He remembered that the major sects valued these things very much and usually kept them in the ancestral halls. How could they bear to show them to others? Especially to someone who had a grudge against them?
Han replied, "I bought their mountain."
Zhou Yannan: “…”
"Qingming Mountain has also been purchased."
“…”
Zhou Yannan finally couldn't lie still any longer and raised his upper body with great difficulty. "Why did you buy Qingming Mountain?"
Han Zhong: "Just in case."
Zhou Yannan: “…”
Although he already knew that this person was a love-minded person, Zhou Yannan still couldn't help but feel speechless at this moment, "Let me tell you something."
"Hmm." Han Zhong said absent-mindedly, still distracted.
"I know where Jiang Wu went."
“Hmm…Bang!”
With the sudden sound of a chair falling to the ground, Han Zhong walked to Zhou Yannan's bedside, his breathing becoming noticeably faster. "You'd better not be lying to me, or I'll call Zhou Changming right now."
"Do you know why he didn't kill me but let me sleep for so long?"
Zhou Yannan slowly raised his hand and touched the teardrop-shaped scar between his eyebrows with his fingertips. "Because there was something hidden here before, and he took it away. He is looking for a place."
Han Zhong asked anxiously, "Where?"
"The imperial tomb." Zhou Yannan said word by word, "The imperial tomb of Emperor Zhaowu of the Great Zhou, Yan Zhong."