A sound of pleasure
"Yuanli isn't a true reincarnation. It's a little special. How can I explain it to you? It's quite complicated. You can understand it as Yuanli being you after you lost your memory. After I reunited your scattered soul threads, I personally took you through the Samsara Eye. You've been reincarnated in name, and you have a body, but in reality, your soul hasn't developed a new consciousness. All your memories and powers have been wiped clean. Furthermore, I retrieved those scattered parts of you so that you can regain your strength and protect yourself. I restored your memory because I felt you wouldn't want to forget Heqi. Otherwise, I wouldn't have given you the possibility of remembering that bastard."
After a long silence, Li Wan finally spoke, "Under the grounds of the Yellow Spring Inn is the ancient kingdom of Kasi, once buried by yellow sand. The treasure you seek is in the temple and mausoleum of the ancient kingdom of Kasi. The proprietress of the Yellow Spring Inn is the gravekeeper. Only through her can the door to the temple and mausoleum of the ancient kingdom of Kasi be opened."
"You said the ancient kingdom of Kashi was buried in the yellow sand. Even if I found the door, I might be buried alive by the sand behind it as soon as I opened it. You are repaying kindness with enmity."
Even though Li Wan is now a collection of yellow sand without any facial features, her speechless attitude towards Cha Suxun is very obvious.
"It's only been tens of thousands of years since we last met, how could your temperament have changed so drastically?"
"Perhaps I was like this from the beginning, but someone was obsessed with male beauty and didn't care about me. He couldn't see me, so he didn't notice. Now I've figured it out. I can't hide it anymore. My love is quite presentable, and I want you to see it. A beautiful lady is a good match for a gentleman."
Li Wan was particularly unaccustomed to his overwhelming affection. Avoiding the topic he brought up, she said, "Of your two tasks, the second one will be relatively easier to complete. The so-called demon mountain god, or the burial spirit you guessed, actually contains the last high priest of the ancient country of Kasi. The high priest's original body was a mountain spirit, and it seems that he naturally cultivated into a mountain spirit from ginseng or Ganoderma lucidum, and later transformed into a human form to experience the human world. He was brought back here by the King of Kasi, and since then he has become the high priest to protect the ancient country of Kasi. However, he could not resist the fate of heaven, and the country of Kasi was destroyed. According to the customs of the ancient country of Kasi, the high priest set up a burial spirit at the entrance. She used her own spiritual power to make the burial spirit look like the wild Buddha you mentioned in the eyes of outsiders. It has no sins, but has merits and has accumulated many good deeds. If you kill it, it will damage your virtue."
"Okay. Do you know the High Priest? I haven't asked you yet why you chose to seal your memories with Tsurugi here? Could it be that this place has also received your favor?"
"No. However, I owe their king a favor. He asked me to protect their souls in their eternal resting place if Kas ever perishes. When you go to the temple to retrieve the treasure you seek, do not open the coffin and disturb them."
As she was speaking, Li Wan suddenly paused, turned to look behind her, and said goodbye hurriedly: "Someone broke in again, I have to go, you guys, be careful."
"Okay, goodbye, Ari."
She did not say anything more in response. She glanced at the sleeping Heqi reluctantly and then blended back into the yellow sand.
The horse and the sand cart continued to move towards the Huangquan Inn. Cha Suxun sat next to A'li, leaned on A'li's shoulder, and his breath sprayed on her neck, but A'li did not push him away or argue with him.
Cha Suxun became more and more aggressive and moved closer.
He chuckled and said, "Are you jealous?"
"No."
"You still say no. From the moment she pulled me into the barrier to talk, your peripheral vision was always on me. I saw everything clearly from inside."
"No means no. You originally belonged to her. I just temporarily occupied her place. I'm just a little confused about some of the things she said to me and to Tsurugi."
Hearing this, Cha Suxun's smile froze on his face, and he felt a little angry and unhappy. "Why aren't you jealous?"
"You seem even more unhappy than I am. I don't understand what you're upset about. Isn't it better that I'm not jealous? From what I've seen in mortal picture books, most men want a generous woman who isn't jealous or quarrelsome. It's really okay. I've already said it in Hedong Village. I don't mind if you divorce me and go be with your Wanwan."
"You! You have no conscience! If it was Heng Jin who was talking to Li Wan, would you be jealous?"
"How can I be heartless? Even if it's Heng Jin, I won't be jealous. This time I came to the mortal world, I thought more clearly. Wen Yici is dead, and Heng Jin is not him, so it doesn't matter to me which woman Heng Jin talks to or marries."
"Wen Yici, Wen Yici, you keep repeating Wen Yici. I'm also your mortal husband in this life. Why don't you like me as much as you like him? Then let me ask you another way. If your first-life husband was me instead of Wen Yici, would it be me you liked? I want to hear the truth."
Yuanli listened more and more in silence. Cha Suxun seemed determined to get to the bottom of the matter until he heard the answer that sounded so sweet to her. A-li simply closed her eyes and concentrated, but Cha Suxun kept repeating himself in her ear like a mosquito.
"I still prefer the quiet Cha Suxun from before."
"Once you answer my questions, I can turn back into the Cha Suxun you love."
Yuanli really thought about his question carefully, and then answered: "I don't know. But the first life has passed, and the person I met was Wen Yici. I don't know what exactly I like about him, but I just like him very much. As Chi Li, I would like Chi Xun after he married me, but the me with all my memories is Yuanli. So, there is no such thing as if. Don't worry, I will keep my promise to you. I am trustworthy."
Looking at her resting with her eyes closed, and Tianshu watching the fun on the side, Cha Suxun stopped bothering her. He leaned over to Yuanli and lay down with his back to her to rest. After thinking about it, Cha Suxun muttered to himself, "Rounding it off, you will like me."
The next moment, Tianshu suddenly sent him a telepathic message: "I am ashamed of myself!"
Cha Suxun ignored him. As the sky darkened, by the time they reached the gate of the Huangquan Inn, the sky was already dotted with stars. As soon as the sand cart came to a stop, the inn's waiter came towards them with a smile on his face to greet them.
"Dear guests, are you staying in the hotel or having a meal?"
Tianshu replied, "I need two upper rooms for the hotel. Do you have any?"
"Yes! Please come in! You've come at the perfect time. Our landlady is in a good mood today, and every guest who comes will be given a free roasted whole lamb. It's always a young lamb, and the meat is so tender."
"I see you don't have many customers. If you just give away roasted whole lamb, wouldn't that be a loss-making deal?"
"We're the only inn in the entire desert. Normally, there aren't many people coming here, so we can't send many guests. Besides, you're here to see our landlady, right? As you know, we don't make money from guests staying in our inn and eating."
As you enter the Huangquan Inn, the aroma of meat hits your nose.
The furnishings inside were extremely simple, with only a few square tables and long wooden benches in the center of the lobby. The entire inn was made almost entirely of wood, and it was already quite old. The stairs creaked slightly when stepped on.
Apart from them, there were no other guests.
As the waiter led them to their room, Tianshu inquired, "Are you the only waiter in this shop? Where's your boss lady? Isn't she in the shop?"
"Yes, sir. I'm just a waiter. How could I possibly tell you the whereabouts of the boss lady? Is that right? However, our boss lady has a rule: you must stay in the store for three days. If you're lucky enough, you'll see her. If you don't see her within three days, you'll have to leave."
When the waiter mentioned the word "fate", his speech slowed down a bit, and he would turn around and look at them, which was a clear hint.
The four of them entered the room, but the waiter didn't seem to want to leave. He stood respectfully and humbly at the door, smiling at them.
"Anything else?"
"It's okay, it's okay. The table is ready for dinner. I'm just waiting for you guests to show you the way."
Tianshu smiled back and said, "No hurry. We've been traveling so long and are covered in dust. It's uncomfortable and nauseating. Let's wash up first and then see if we want to have dinner. We'll find you if there's anything else. Just go and do your thing."
"This roasted lamb won't taste good when it's cold; it has to be served hot. Wash up first, and I'll put it on the fire and roast it for you. You can come down and eat whenever you're hungry. The lamb has been killed, and it's a little gift from our landlady. Food is precious in the desert, so don't waste it. Would you mind trying some?"
As he spoke, the curve of the waiter's mouth slowly dropped, and his smile became forced and stiff.
"Since it's a gift from the landlady, we can't let it go to waste. So, please roast it over the fire while we wash off the sand before eating."
After Tianshu agreed to have dinner, the waiter regained his polite and natural smile and went downstairs.
After closing the door, Tianshu and Heqi walked straight through the wall and went to Yuanli and Cha Suxun's room to discuss.
Cha Suxun said calmly in a low voice, "You can't eat a single bite of anything here. Remember that."
"What else do you know?"
"I'll explain it after you get out. Anyway, if you don't want to stay here forever, don't eat anything here. Better yet, don't even drink the water."
Heqi agreed, "I think he won't leave until we eat roasted lamb. Besides, in this barren place, the only vegetation is a bunch of dry branches rolling around. How can we feed sheep? Don't you think it's a bit too strange? According to the routine of mortal storytelling, the next step is that we eat the meat and find out it's human flesh."
"If you eat it, you'll know whether it's human flesh or not."
Hearing this, He Qi took a few steps back, shook his head and refused, saying, "Brother-in-law, didn't you just say that if you don't want to stay here forever, then don't eat the food here? I won't go. I don't want to be here. I still have to take my sister out."
"Who said we have to go in person?"
As he spoke, Cha Suxun casually pulled out four wild fruits from his bag and threw them on the ground. The fruits were still unripe, green and hard, and they bounced continuously when they hit the ground.
Then, as they danced, they became four people.
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