Chapter 15

 Chapter 15: Phoenix's Blood [4]

Translator: Xah

Pixian Hui Wang’s appearance looked too good. Zhang Qiu had only seen the murals in the tomb corridor, but it went deep into his brain. Of course, his second brother Zhang YuShui was similar to the little emperor, and the spring murals of the little Emperor and Pixian Hui Wang were particularly impressive.

If Li Shu was the most beautiful man he had ever seen, then Pixian Hui Wang looked more feminine, with some feminine beauty.

Zhang Qiu endured all the way, and when he got off the car, his face couldn’t be restrained. Jin LaoDa thought Zhang Qiu was hungry. He laughed at Li Shu and said, “Fellow Li Shu, you guys can help yourselves. I’ll talk to you about that later.”

The driver was impatient with Jin LaoDa’s exchange greetings, and one of them said, “Mr. Jin, the boss is still waiting for you.”

“Right away, right away.”

Jin LaoDa left. Zhang Qiu saw people coming and going at the entrance of the hotel, he could not speak very well, especially when they were out in the sun, only said:  “Go back to the room and talk.”

The hotel in Changsha was decided by the boss behind Jin LaoDa. The location was somewhat off the city centre but luxurious.

“Sir, are you sure it is a King bedroom? Do you need to change or re-process one?”

Li Shu looked a bit cold, and he simply said, “No need.”

The front desk girl looked at them with ambiguous eyes. She smiled and handed the room card to Li Shu. She said thoughtfully, “I wish you two happy housing.”

Zhang Qiu: you seem to have misunderstood something, little sister.

When Zhang Qiu opened the door, he internally said Fuck. He thought he had misunderstood the little sister. Which fool booked the room?!

In the King bedroom, there were a heart shape of the rose petal on the bed and pink balloons. Zhang Qiu was embarrassed for a long time. He stood at the end of the bed, hemmed and hawed: “I think we got the wrong room.”

Li Shu was very relaxed. He looked at the embarrassed Zhang Qiu, he hummed and said, “the room is nice.”

Zhang Qiu didn’t want to argue with Li Shu in this regard, in the end he would be the loser. He said directly about Pixian Hui Wang, “It’s just a quick look, but the appearance can’t be wrong. Pixian Hui Wang has been dead for thousands of years. How could he possibly survive?” He thought of the spirit bead hanging around his neck. If it was really an empty coffin, where did it come from?

Li Shu seemed to see the entanglement of Zhang Qiu, and bluntly said: “it’s Pixian Hui Wang.”

“How are you so sure?”

Li Shu looked at Zhang Qiu, and said: “we got hand-in-hand in the tomb, and the map was snatched away by him.”

“It’s a thousand year old zongzi!!!” Zhang Qiu, though certain of his own speculation, still found it incredible. He walked around the room, thinking that Pixian Hui Wang was a thousand-year-old jiangshi, and then thinking that he still had a Jiangshi fetus in his stomach, he started sweating all over his head. Finally, he sat down and asked Li Shu, “A Jiangshi should be afraid of the sun. How does he come out in the daytime?”

“You watch too much TV.”

Zhang Qiu held his forehead, “you don’t stimulate me first, I’ll say it slowly.” After a minute of silence, he couldn’t stay any longer. After he was afraid, he was just curious. He turned his head and asked Li Shu, “spirit bead that Big Uncle mentioned?”

Li Shu did not deny, nodded, “I brought it back from him.”

This was Pixian Hui Wang’s thing; Li Shu so straightforwardly said it, like taking his own stuff instead of robbing it from someone.

Zhang Qiu tensed. Suddenly afraid that Li Shu knew he was pregnant with Jiangshi’s child. He didn’t care about it before, but in the front of Li Shu, he was afraid that the other party would know, so he hesitantly asked, “How could you rob this bead?”

Li Shu didn’t see Zhang Qiu’s tension mood, and said carelessly: “You guys went down to the tomb wasn’t it specially looking for this? I got the map back, and this was just in passing.”

Zhang Qiu breathed a sigh of relief, but he held back another breath; the bead was just in passing.

Zhang Qiu, who was suppressing a sulky stomach was not interested in Pixian Hui Wang’s life. It would be better to go downstairs and eat a big bowl of rice. Li Shu didn’t know what happened to Zhang Qiu, who suddenly looked in a bad mood and unconsciously followed by low pressure. The waiter next to him was too scared to serve.

–

Back in the room, the roses and balloons on the bed had been disposed of; the hotel attendants might have noticed that they had made a mistake. However, Zhang Qiu saw such a clean room, the good mood he had just had after a good meal was lost and he went back to his usual mood.

It was strange that he didn’t know that his mood could change so quickly and so complicated now. He was as inexplicably angry, it was strange.

“I’ll take a bath.”

Li Shu stared at the back of Zhang Qiu and looked at the clean sheets.

–

That night Zhang Qiu was still sulking, and when he fell asleep, he unconsciously rolled into Li Shu’s arms. The cold body temperature and the unique smell of Li Shu made the frowning Zhang Qiu relaxed and slept more steadily.

The next morning, Zhang Qiu woke up and Li Shu was not in the bed, nor was he in the room. He washed himself and the doorbell rang.

He thought it was Li Shu, but didn’t expect Jin LaoDa standing at the door. Jin LaoDa saw Zhang Qiu, who had just taken a shower, with an obscure look in his eyes, “Eh, I say little brother, we’re going to do this. Why don’t you help us? You can give Li Shu some strength.”

Zhang Qiu didn’t understand it at first, but at last he did. He was so angry and kept a straight face, “What are you talking nonsense about? Li Shu and I are in brotherly relationship.”

Jin LaoDa wanted to say again, suddenly felt a chill behind him, he looked back; standing behind was Li Shu. Li Shu held a bunch of roses in his hand and glanced coldly at Jin LaoDa. Jin LaoDa immediately turned aside and smiled awkwardly, “Talking business, talking business.”

Li Shu ignored Jin LaoDa and handed the rose in his hand to Zhang Qiu.

Just now he said that he and Li Shu were in brotherly relationship. Who will send roses to his brother?! Zhang Qiu, who was hit in the face, was very happy, but his mouth said, “all are brothers, why do you even send flowers!”

Li Shu didn’t say anything, but swept his eyes at the ‘grinning till behind his ears’ Zhang Qiu. He was in a good mood and turned to Jin LaoDa to say, “Come in and talk.”

“Everything’s ready, but the boss wants to send a team down with us, and you know the rich and powerful bosses don’t trust all of us, Earth Masters.” Jin LaoDa talked about the departure time, and eventually got into a good relationship with Li Shu, “This time down the pit, there’s still a lot of work for Fellow Li Shu to take care of.”

Li Shu just nodded, Jin LaoDa didn’t dare to talk more and hurried away.

Zhang Qiu and Li Shu were left in the room. Zhang Qiu felt a little foolish with a bunch of flowers. He was a big man who didn’t have a passion for flowers, but he thought they were going to start at nine o’clock and gave the flowers to the front desk girls before they left, so the front desk girls could keep them for a while.

Li Shu saw Zhang Qiu gave the flowers to the girl. His eyes narrowed slightly, he was very cold. The girl, who was arranging flowers at the front desk had a shiver.

“Li Shu, let’s go.” Zhang Qiu at the front, yelled.

The front desk girl looked up at the direction of the cold sense, there was only a pair of customers’ backs. She smiled and felt that perhaps she was a little tired working overtime to have cause hallucination.

–

Three Land Rover SUVs were parked at the entrance of the hotel. The black body looked expensive. Two people were in the front. Jin LaoDa was standing at the front passenger seat talking to a man. He saw Zhang Qiu and Li Shu came out and waved, “Get on, just waiting for you guys.”

They got in the last car, Jin LaoDa was in the same car with them, and the driver was a tattooed man with dark glasses and a long black sleeve coat. Zhang Qiu listened to Jin LaoDa calling him Lao Fei, but Lao Fei’s attitude towards Jin LaoDa was not so enthusiastic.

There were only four of them in the car; it was very relaxed. Zhang Qiu and Li Shu were sitting in the back, and nobody was talking in the car. After the car sped up, Zhang Qiu sleepily squinted and fell asleep on Li Shu’s shoulder. He didn’t know it; first he leaned on Li Shu’s shoulder, then he felt boneless in Li Shu’s arms, and finally he laid flat on Li Shu’s leg.

The driver’s Lao Fei looked behind in the rear mirror at Zhang Qiu, with disdainful eyes that thought that the two were in the same-sex relationship. Seeing this, he thought ‘what fierce character that Jin LaoDa boasting about?‘; it was estimated that Jin LaoDa wanted to pit a head of money.

Li Shu had closed his eyes and kept it closed; he didn’t pay attention to the probing eyes at the front.

Zhang Qiu didn’t know how long he slept. By the time he woke up, the high-speed scenery outside his window had been replaced by the smoke from the kitchen fire. In the distance, there were many wooden buildings and tiled buildings. He lived in a city far north. He had never seen such a rural scene. It was just as beautiful as the one in the documentary.

The car went into a village; it was already a dirt road. Fortunately, the chassis of the car was not very high. When they arrived at a wooden building, the car stopped.

Jin LaoDa said, “We’ve arrived.”

Zhang Qiu stretched out and opened the door. Unlike the dry sun of Yuncheng, this was a humid subtropical monsoon climate. It was humid and sultry hot, after a while he was sweating and the back was wet.

A pair of grandfather and grandson came out of the house. The Grandpa spoke the local language, Zhang Qiu couldn’t understand it. The Grandson spoke some Mandarin beside them and talked with Jin LaoDa. LaoFei took the luggage; saw Li Shu standing next to him, he wore a malicious smile, “catch.” He threw two bags of luggage directly. He saw that Li Shu was tall, but thin and very white, and had long hair, like a woman. The luggage had to be at least 40 kilograms. He didn’t believe Li Shu could receive the two bags at once and deliberately watched Li Shu make a fool of himself.

Unexpectedly, Li Shu took the luggages lightly. Zhang Qiu saw such big bags and reached out for it. Li Shu held two bags in one hand. He looked very relaxed and said lightly, “No need.”

The house was not very big, two floors up and down, usually and occasionally received visitors to travel climbing; the things were still clean.

Zhang Qiu and Li Shu were divided into a room; a narrow bed of one meter and five, a small fan, a simple arrangement of clothes rack, table and so on. Li Shu put his luggage on the ground, and Zhang Qiu opened his eyes curiously; water can, flashlight, medicaments and ropes, in any case totally complete.

The room was small and narrow, the floor was boarded, and Zhang Qiu always felt like it would collapse at any moment. He walked very cautiously. He opened the window, and a cool wind blew in. The sultry air in the room dissipated a lot.

“I didn’t expect it to have a good view.” Zhang Qiu exclaimed.

The window was facing the gate of the small building, and the mountain was in the distance. Looking at it for a while, he saw another car coming this way. Zu grandson and grandfather stood at the door to pick up people, waiting for the car to stop slowly to the side of the road.

When Zhang Qiu saw the man’s appearance, he suddenly froze.

“Second brother?!”

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