Chapter 27

Chapter 27: Past Live [5]

Translator: Xah

The elevator arrived.

When the four people came out, the woman looked back in the elevator and looked down at Zhang Qiu.

Zhang Qiu unexpectedly felt a little freaked out. If this kind of imperial older sister beauty type was put out to stir up the previous him, he would have been blindly elated. Now he just thought that the woman’s smile was not interesting.

The elevator door closed slowly, and Pixian Hui Wang suddenly spoke out in cold voice. “Is it them?”

Li Shu nodded to his head down a bit, and there was something cold beneath his eyes.

“What riddles do you play?” Zhang Qiu was in a fog. “Are those four people bad? Let me said, when that woman smiled at me, I felt freaked out from the bottom of my heart. Turned out there was something wrong with them ah!”

After listening to Zhang Qiu, the cold meaning of Li Shu was somewhat scattered. “Ding -” The elevator arrived, and the three people left the elevator and returned to the room. Li Shu said, “The one who will show us the way is here.”

Zhang Qiu didn’t react. After a pause, he suddenly realized, “Do you mean they know the exact place?”

“Hn.” Li Shu laughed and said, “Have encountered them before.”

Zhang Qiu thought of what he remembered and said with surprise, “is that the subcompact car that leap to the green area?” When he saw Li Shu nodding, he asked, “But they wanted to steal the bead. Why did they steal bead and go to the tomb?”

“It shows that the four people were sent by the people behind Lao Jin.” Pixian Hui Wang opened his mouth and said with a murderous look when he mentioned the people behind the scene, coldly said, “Whatever the plot, I’m going to pull it out sooner or later.”

Zhang Qiu felt as if he had been caught in a huge conspiracy since the tomb of Gu Mu Country in  Mount Qinling, and that they were advancing in accordance with a plot deployed by the people behind it. He felt a little frightened to think of it here. The plot plotted by unknown people was more terrible than the plot plotted by a zongzi in the tomb.

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Early the next morning, Li Shu went out to buy something and left Zhang Qiu and Pixian Hui Wang at the hotel. Zhang Qiu knew that Li Shu was going to buy the outfits for going down the pit and didn’t clamor to go with him.

He followed Pixian Hui Wang to a hotel restaurant for dinner, and met Lu Feng, who wanted to buy the Phoenix Bead when they first met. The other person sat in the corner sofa, just finished talking on the phone; he looked a little heavy, then took off the glasses and rubbed his temples. Probably felt that he was being watched, he looked around and suddenly found them, then he put on the glasses again and came over.

“Mr. Liu, I want to talk to you again.”

Pixian Hui Wang didn’t raise his head and said, “if it has nothing to do with the bead.”

Zhang Qiu noticed that when Pixian Hui Wang talked about the bead, all the customers in the entire restaurant closed to them were secretly twisting their attention to them. Mr. Lu nodded, his thought unknown, he turned away.

After a while, Zhang Qiu found that the three men and one woman came.

“Here they come. Shall we go back?” Zhang Qiu whispered to Pixian Hui Wang.

Pixian Hui Wang’s line of sight moved to the people, and the faintly said, “no, they will not come forward.”

True enough, the four people sat far away from them, not looking up at their table, as if they were real tourists, and soon went out after breakfast.

Zhang Qiu waited in the hotel for most of the day until Li Shu came back with a big black bag in the afternoon. After meeting, he directing said to depart.

Not long after they got on the road, as expected their car was followed by a low-key black SUV, driven by the man dressed up as a bodyguard, not far from them, followed closely.

“In the end why did they come here? To say that the purpose is to snatch the bead but they did not start attacking, their purpose must be the tomb, therefore they have been watching us.” Zhang Qiu said, but his hand were not idle. He took apart Li Shu’s big bag, which contained not only food, water and medicine, but also ropes, gloves, flashlights, gas masks and a small Luoyang shovel. They came with backpacks, simple laundry changes, and now he divide food, water, and medicines into three parts, each bags stuffed with some to prevent them from getting lost.

Pixian Hui Wang could not help but smiled at Zhang Qiu’s diligently smoothed out the bags and said gently, “Xiao Qiu is really an essential for travel care.”

Zhang Qiu heard and lifted up his eyes which bumped into Pixian Hui Wang’s soft watery eyes, unlike the virtuous tenderness of a maiden, it’s hard to say, but it made people want to be close. The eyes seemed to be full of stars. No wonder Han Emperor would rather sacrifice his life and try to save Pixian Hui Wang.

The man was gentle enough to dissolve human into a puddle.

“I was also caught in the pit.” Zhang Qiu saw Pixian Hui Wang in a good mood, he picked up the previous experience and said, “… As soon as the coffin of Gu Mu Country’s main tomb in Qinling was opened, it was a bluish green piece. I heard the man in front of me shouting without seeing anything. I didn’t know who pushed me. I bumped into the mechanism on the wall and fell straight down. Then I saw crimson eyes and fainted —” Speaking of this he was angry, but the content after that could not be said, so swallowing his anger he said: “Then I went to your tomb and I was separated with Li Shu, but I was saved by second brother and MaoGe. There was nothing beside me at that time. I was so insecure that I thought I would take some with me if I had to go down in the tomb. This time I’m not afraid of losing my shoulder bag like Xiangxi.”

Pixian Hui Wang nodded, with his lips hooked up he looked at Li Shu in front, he smiled and asked, “I saw when you’re talking about Gu Mu Country, you’re gnashing your teeth, while mentioning the crimson eyes. Could it be, there’s a connection?”

Zhang Qiu felt embarrassed and unwilling to say anything, but when he remembered the tomb, he was angry and said, “If I ever meet those crimson eyes again, I’ll never spare him. I’ll make him a specimen and put him on display in the museum.” He actually wanted to pick the other’s skin, but he dared not. Thinking of that something in his stomach, he was angry to the point of toothache, he silently looked at Li Shu, really wanted to tell Li Shu about the tomb.

All blame to that rotten zongzi!

“Big rotten zongzi!” Zhang Qiu’s insoluble hatred scolded a sentence.

Pixian Hui Wang laughed happily, echoing Zhang Qiu. “I don’t know what you’ve been through, but looking at you like this, this zongzi is really rotten.”

“Sit tight, Song Bao.” The driving Li Shu suddenly said.

Zhang Qiu was about to protest Li Shu’s nickname to him when the car suddenly sped up. He lifted his buttocks and fell back into his seat. The gentle smile on Pixian Hui Wang’s face could not be maintained, and soon the car entered the woods, making it even more bumpy. Zhang Qiu seemedd as if riding on a roller coaster, and next to him, Pixian Hui Wang looked ugly and tightly gripping the handrail with paled face.

He knew that Pixian Hui Wang was more carsick than he was, but Pixian Hui Wang had the reserve of the ancients and didn’t like to lose his manners in front of outsiders, and he held up every time. Zhang Qiu couldn’t say a word about the bump. His buttocks were split in two. Rather than slowing down, the car was still circuiting through the woods. He sat up and clung to handrail and looked behind him. The familiar black SUV was gone. He could not help but said, “Li–Li Shu, slow down, slow down, and the car behind is gone.”

In a word, all was split up and in pieces by the jolt.

Li Shu in front looked through the rear mirror at Pixian Hui Wang’s pale face, he smiled and the car accelerated instead of slowing down. Zhang Qiu held the handrail tightly, the car was windy, and plunged into a thick grass half-waist high. Li Shu slammed on the brake, and the car stopped.

Pixian Hui Wang could no longer help it. The car had not stopped but he get off the car and jumped to a tree not far away, vomiting.

Li Shu picked up his eyebrows and didn’t look at Pixian Hui Wang. He handed the water bottle to Zhang Qiu, “drink some water.”

Zhang Qiu took the water bottle and went to Pixian Hui Wang. He handed it to the other person to gargle. He saw the person was alright, just a bit of a disgrace, but even so in this state he was especially beautiful.

“Come here, Song Bao.”

Zhang Qiu was unhappy, protesting, “who is Song?! Don’t call me Song Bao later.” He took the water Li Shu handed him, drank it slowly, and then he was in a much better state. Seeing Li Shu twisting his eyebrows, he thought for a moment and said, “If you want to call, just call when there are the two of us, otherwise I’ll lose face in front of outsiders.”

“Pixian Hui Wang is not an outsider.” Li Shu himself found that his words were not right.

Zhang Qiu thought and nodded, “That’s true.”

Li Shu was cold all at once, but Zhang Qiu didn’t pay attention to it, he whispered to himself: “Pixian Hui Wang is my second brother’s wifey, he’s a family member. We should take good care of people.”

“If it weren’t for your brother’s relationship…” Li Shu said in a smaller voice.

Zhang Qiu didn’t catch it, “What are you talking about?”

“Nothing.” Li Shu looked at Pixian Hui Wang in the distance and knew that with the other’s ears he (PHW) should have heard what he had just said. If it hadn’t been for Zhang Qiu, he would not give a minor punishment as a warn to him.

It was getting late, and there were camping tents and camp lights in the back compartment. Zhang Qiu wanted to set up a tent and stove to cook. He was stopped by Li Shu. “No, people should come.”

Zhang Qiu knew that the three men and woman were chasing after them. He looked at Li Shu silently. Li Shu suddenly hugged him. At the foot of a tree -just like light work- the spark was very good. With a light posture, Li Shu jumped onto a big tree, while holding him seemed not affected by gravity.

“This is cool!” Zhang Qiu said in a startled voice. Consciously knew it was too loud, he lowered his voice to Li Shu’s ear, “How did you do that? Like a master of martial arts.”

Li Shu turned his head. The two people’s faces were very close to each other, and their breathing mingled. Zhang Qiu leaned back after few minutes feeling embarrassed, and a big hand was slowly approached from behind him. Li Shu’s lips had already attached to his. After a little tasting, Zhang Qiu turned red. Fortunately, Pixian Hui Wang knew Li Shu’s limit sense of propiety—

Before he had finished that thought, Li Shu’s lips drew closer again, this time like a storm, eager to swallow Zhang Qiu. Zhang Qiu was short of breath. Li Shu hugged him tightly as the soft legs of his loved one almost rolled down the tree with his eyes staring like a hungry wolf.

Zhang Qiu was oxygen-deficit by his beloved; his head was dizzy but his hands were still clutching onto Li Shu’s clothes when they were separated.

“Strange, your eyes…”

Li Shu kissed Zhang Qiu’s eyelid and pressed down the palpitation in his heart, “What’s the matter?”

Zhang Qiu shook his head. “It’s nothing, maybe it’s just lack of oxygen that I was seeing things.” Just now in a split second, Li Shu’s eyes were a little red. It’s possible that he really just misread.

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