Chapter 23

Chapter 23: Past Lives [1]

Translator: Xah

Zhang Qiu listened to Li Shu’s words implied a dangerous tone, and his heart thumped. His little mind possibly could not be hidden, could it be that Li Shu was also bend?

After a moment of entanglement, Zhang Qiu decided to pay attention to it. His face was suffocating red, with great courage, his body was honest and deliberately rubbed down bit by bit.

Move, move! What do you want to do? Come and stir me up!

Zhang Qiu was excited and nervous at the thought of the next blushing affair. He bent over a man for the first time, and the man might be interested with him. There was nothing happier than that.

“Pa!”

A palm slapped on the warped meat buttocks and made a crisp sound. It didn’t hurt very much, but Zhang Qiu’s ears were red, didn’t know if he was shy or excited. Then he noticed that the cold big hand rubbed against his waist and abdomen——

“Finished?” Li Shu had a very light voice tinted with a smile.

When Zhang Qiu released, he felt a little soft. When he heard Li Shu’s words, he was inconsolably ashamed and resentful. But it was a fact, his face turned red with anger. He took Li Shu’s hand off and held it up indiscriminately. He lifted his T-shirt and wiped away the evidence for concealment, “I—I usually don’t do that.”

“Oh?” Li Shu’s end sound was slightly upward, obviously not believed.

Zhang Qiu was so angry that he opened the quilt and got out of bed quickly. He turned around and inadvertently swept to the key part of Li Shu, where it was still stood up like a gun. Through his wide shorts, he could distinguish that the contents under the quilt were bigger than the average person’s. He swallowed his saliva, frightened. Fortunately, he had not seek death.

“Making the grandeur grand is useless. I am too tired today. I will definitely surpass you next time.” Zhang Qiu stood beside the bed, not forgetting to put cruel words to regain his male dignity, seeing that Li Shu was about to get up, he was immediately frightened and withdrew.

Li Shu was amused to see Zhang Qiu’s bluff, especially when the other runner’s legs were soft and spaghetti-like, and his little buttocks twisted. Li Shu was staring at the door and when he could not see the shadow, only then he regained his gaze.

Zhang Qiu fled to the backyard washbasin, and the little grandson was watering the garden. When he saw Zhang Qiu coming down, he said, “Brother, you wash up and have breakfast. Today, Ah Ye steamed Mantou.” Then he looked carefully at Zhang Qiu. Zhang Qiu was seen to be a little guilty, went to the side of the washbasin and asked, “What’s wrong?”

“Brother, what is that white stuff on your face?” Little grandson naively pointed to his cheek and gave Zhang Qiu a hint. “There’s also on your clothes.”

Bang!

Zhang Qiu, who was about to become a steamed crayfish, washed it carelessly in cold water and said, “Maybe it’s something I accidentally touched.”

Little grandson didn’t keep asking. He brought the bucket back to help his grandfather.

After washing and staying in the courtyard for a while, the reddish crayfish felt calm and went back, only to meet Li Shu when he entered the room. His face turned red unconsciously and he lowered his head to tidy up and went downstairs for breakfast.

The old grandpa at the dinner table asked about Jin LaoDa and his party, Zhang Qiu was still thinking about how to tell a lie, and Li Shu said lightly, “Camping in the mountains.”

This side of the mountain was not very steep, and often some young people came to play in the evening camping outside, the old grandpa did not doubt and nodded, “not to the south of the mountain, just fine.” Perhaps the old grandpa was thinking of the dead son, his face was also sad.

Zhang Qiu was affected by the atmosphere; thinking of Zhang YuShui should have return with him but became a bead, and so he did not feel like thinking of anything else. Before he left, Zhang Qiu gave the grandpa all the cash he had, the old grandpa pushed it aside and said the bill had been paid.

“I’ll buy your bacon, you made it delicious.”

Zhang Qiu, carrying a large bag of bacon, arrived at the parking. Li Shu sat down at the copilot, and Pixian Hui Wang was in the backseat. Zhang Qiu was muddled, “You guys don’t drive?”

Apparently they couldn’t drive. Zhang Qiu stood in the same spot and finally put the bacon on his head and got into the driver’s seat.

“Let me think about it first, where the accelerator is, oh, oh, handbrake, handbrake, why not move!” Zhang Qiu was sweating in the driver’s seat. When the engine roared, Zhang Qiu sat upright and talked like he was repeating what the coach had told him.

One foot on the throttle, the car jumped quickly forward.

Li Shu was heavily sprung back, not to mention, Pixian Hui Wang almost planted down.

“I haven’t drive for a long time, out of practice, out of practice; it will be good after a moment.” He twisted his head to Pixian Hui Wang at the back seat and laughed awkwardly.

Pixian Hui Wang just sat down and changed his face. “Look ahead, look ahead!”

Zhang Qiu turned around and saw the car jumped into a ditch field, slammed the steering wheel and slammed on the brake. Pixian Hui Wang, who had just sat down, threw himself in front again. The bead in his pocket jumped straight to the front. Li Shu quickly picked it up. The palm felt warm and there was also an inexplicable closeness.

“What about the bead?!” Pixian Hui Wang said urgently.

Li Shu passed over the bead, and Pixian Hui Wang took it and put it close.

Zhang Qiu was a little embarrassed and apologized to everyone. When he got his driver’s license, he happily drove his Dad car on the road. After that, the car was scrapped. No one was okay. He never drove it again.

Li Shu dizzied by Zhang Qiu’s driving skills, said helplessly, “you sit here.”

“You drive?” Zhang Qiu changed his place with Li Shu, and Li Shu asked him, “how do you drive?”

Zhang Qiu could not operate in practice, but he had rich theoretical knowledge. He gave Li Shu all the words that the coach had said, verbatim from his memory, “……backing up needs to look behind a bit, two points one line…”

The car whined forward, fast, but quickly settled down, except at first a little too fast and too slow, and soon the car was moving at a constant speed, so Li Shu was hardly a beginner. When they got out of the village, they abandoned their car and rented a new car. They really didn’t know the way. And Li Shu didn’t have a driver’s license.

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It’s been two days since he returned to Yuncheng.

“Mom, this is my friend Liu Yan.” Zhang Qiu introduced Pixian Hui Wang to his family, avoided his Dad’s eyes, and smiled as he carried the bacon out to testify to their delight. “This is Xiangxi’s local bacon. I bought it to honor you.”

Zhang Mama was coaxed and happy, regardless of Zhang Qiu’s sudden run out of the water without saying goodbye, clapping her son on the shoulder, “You take your friend to the guest room, just right that I tidied it up. Li Shu will have to squeeze a room with you.”

His mother was a godsend! Zhang Qiu was so happy that he did not consciously bring it on his face, but when he thought of Li Shu’s thing, he felt a pain in the chrysanthemum. His expression was drawn in an instant. He took Pixian Hui Wang to the room first.

Since came back from Xiangxi, Pixian Hui Wang had rarely spoken along the way, always holding the bead, wondered what he was thinking.

“Son, your friend is really beautiful.” Zhang Mama looked back at her son with a dislike in her eyes. “I thought you could be a handsome guy with my genes. Now you’re the ugliest when I look at Li Shu and Liu Yan. It must be your Dad who dragged my genes behind you.”

Zhang Qiu, the ugly son, laughingly flattered his mother, you need to wait and see, the good-looking Li Shu will be our family afterwards.

After dinner in the evening, Zhang Mama returned to her room to change clothes and went downstairs to go dance. Zhang LiuDuan immediately stopped his son’s way back to his room and dragged him to his study.

“Hey, tell me, what have you been doing these days?!” Zhang LiuDuan said, keeping a straight face.

Zhang Qiu didn’t think about it, smiled and said, “Dad, you know that I went to Xiangxi, where the bacon is super delicious -”

“Stop giving me these ridiculous.” Zhang LiuDuan raised his face with a tiger’s face. “Who is that Liu Yan who you brought back?”

Zhang Qiu was staring at his Dad’s serene eyes and was a bit scared. Would he not be found out? He hesitated and said, “just playing with people. People saved me.”

“Lies!”

Not really be seen by his Dad?!

Zhang Qiu looked to be ready to risk everything and said, “I tell you, don’t tell Big Uncle and my mom. Liu Yan is actually my second brother, Zhang YuShui’s boyfriend. This time I went out to play with second brother. Later, he left first when something happened, and let Liu Yan come back with me first.” Then added a sentence, “Dad, you must never say anything.”

Zhang LiDuan looked embarrassed. He also didn’t see anything. He was going to fool Zhang Qiu, but it was unexpected.

“I see, OK, I have to dance with your mother.” Zhang LiDuan was relieved, it was bit uncomfortable to mention Liu Yan and Zhang YuShui, but said, “Take good care of your brother’s friend, don’t fault our family.”

Zhang Qiu nodded. When he came out of the door, he hurried to wipe his sweat, Dad was almost blown out.

There were only three people left in the house. They moved to the study and Pixian Hui Wang took out the box. Inside it was a half leathered map. It was the map in Xianxi’s tomb along the bead. Li Shu followed taking out his map and grabbed the map in Pixian Hui Wang’s, both ancient paintings of mountains and rivers, southeast and northwest were not clearly distinguished, let alone the specific direction, probably even the city could not be distinguished by the three people.

Zhang Qiu tried to piece together the two incomplete maps.

“This won’t do, there should be a missing part of the map.” Zhang Qiu turned to Li Shu and asked, “how did you first recognized this map is Xiangxi?”

“Jin LaoDa himself knew something about it. After you’ve been tied up, this map was borrowed by Jin LaoDa, I don’t know the specific.” Once Li Shu got the map, he also compared with the modern map, but didn’t have the slightest clue.

The maps were in hand, but did not understand it was kind of depressing.

A QQ prompt sounded on the computer. Zhang Qiu lost his mobile phone and didn’t buy a new one. He looked down to see it was professor’s apprentice in Beijing, precisely Senior brother Hua Ting.

[Junior brother, the black pillar research has some results, it’s the Nine Palace Locks Immortal Array [1] handed down in ancient mythology. It is said that this method is a trap by divine pulse, the teacher is studying it, these do not reveal to others, only you know. ]

Some pictures and documents were sent out together. Zhang Qiu opened a sheet and said, “Look, this is Gu Mu Country excavated in the Mount Qinling. The identity of the man in it is unverifiable, but the pillars, like Xiangxi’s, are all nine, and the colors and patterns are identical. I guess the owner of this tomb of Gu Mu Country and Xiangxi’s tomb must have something relations. ”

Zhang Qiu finished saying and had an idea, he hit the keyboard on the computer.

[Thank you, Senior brother. I have a question for you. My father has an ancient map in his hand, and there are no marks. How can I find a modern location? ]

[Send to see, in fact, the ancient map left a lot of information, you can use modern technology to determine the general orientation of the screening.]

Zhang Qiu looked up and asked Pixian Hui Wang and Li Shu if they wanted to send it. Li Shu nodded and Pixian Hui Wang didn’t mind. Zhang Qiu took a picture of the map in Pixian Hui Wang’s hand and passed it on. The other side accepted and quickly replied.

[It may take a while. I’ll check out and contact you.]

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(1) Xian仙 Zhen阵 = immortal array/spell

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