Chapter 38

Chapter 38: The Tomb of Emperor Hui of Jin [6]

Translator: Xah

Editor: Ayish

Li Shu shielded Zhang Qiu behind him. Little Zongzi, who was dozing in his bag, also perked up his head to peek. His small face was tight, his big eyes flashed and swept around the room.

Zhang Qiu did not notice the look of Little Zongzi in his bag. It should be said that all the flashlights in everyone’s hands were shining at the door.

It was unknown whether it was the first impression, there was a feeling that there were footsteps in the corridor, but after listening carefully there was no sound. The quiet was a little weird. Hearing noises in the pit was not scary, but the sudden excessive of quietness was.

After a long time, maybe only a few minutes, it was still quiet outside, as if the thumping had not happened.

Zhang Qiu’s heart slowly lay down and was about to open his mouth, suddenly his heart throbbed with terror. He heard the sound of panting, which seemed to be coming from above his head. He looked up unconsciously, just happened to meet two eyes, and his consciousness was blurred instantly.

“Baba!”

Zhang Qiu shook his head when he felt a pain in the back of his hand. He found Little Zongzi jumping out of his bag, grabbed his hand and bit him. The pain sobered him up. Looking around, he stepped back two steps and avoided looking at the top of his head.

“What is it?”

Zhang Qiu swallowed and his voice was so dry that he dared not look up. “There’s someone up there.” Almost after he had finished, everyone leaped off in a flash. The moving board above moved, and the individual jumped out straight from the inside.

“I heard you’re going to eat me?”

The ‘human’ stared directly at him and took the lead in opening his mouth.

Zhang Qiu’s scalp numbed. For nothing else, he was not ‘human’ at all. He wore the clothes of ancient servant which was corroded and damaged by the years. His skin was grey and inelastic. His facial features were stiff. He should be over fifty years old and appeared to look honest and naive. At the moment, he held a human head in his arms. The human head was clean and had no flesh. Looking carefully at the tooth marks, it seemed that it had been gnawed by something.

Bald Head stood in the back, and was greatly frightened when he saw the ‘human’. “It’s the slave, but when I saw him, it was a dried corpse—” The voice disappeared from the slave’s movements.

The slave turned stiffly and looked mechanically at Bald Head. “You want to eat me?” Word by word was said very slow, the voice was dry and unpleasant.

Bald Head’s forehead was cold sweating. Even Pingquan, who had been on this road for so many years and had seen a zongzi, but had never seen a zongzi who could speak and think.

Several people did not speak. The empty eyes of the slave stared at them tightly, and the mechanical repetition in his mouth was ‘You want to eat me?’.

Zhang Qiu was afraid when the slave did not come out, but he was more afraid of the things that had disappeared; it’s just fear of the shadowless thing. But now, standing in front of him was a living thing, and his fear faded. Especially, the slave’s appearance, though terrible but he could talk. Only when he thought it was the same as zongzi, but he had a higher level zongzi beside him, who could speak and ‘papapa’. So, it seemed that the slave was such a low-level zongzi, nothing terrible.

But this slave was really not right, if Bald Head did not lie, seven years ago the slave was still a dried corpse. Right now, not to mention it had become a zongzi and the skin had recovered, but also had a bit of thinking and judgment; such as climbing from the above track and not rushing to fight, but watching them.

Zhang Qiu was scrutinizing the situation, and just happened to see Su WanTing at the back with eyebrows erected and shouted, “It’s just a zongzi. My dad paid so much money, why are you just standing there?”

As soon as the voice fell, the slave who had just mechanically repeated the words seemed to be stimulated. He threw the skull in his arms at Su WanTing. His figure jumped over quickly, but Pei Qing was faster. He was directly in front of Su WanTing. He called out unconsciously, “Tingting.”

At the back, Pingquan pulled out his gun and shot twice, the slave let go of Pei Qing and turned to Pingquan. The Liu brothers and Bald Head came forward to help. They were in a mess for a while. Several people were entangled with the slave.

It was unknown how Li Shu did it from behind; he took advantage of the gap, the dagger in his hand quickly and accurately inserted into the back of the slave’s neck, leaving only the handle. The slave paused and ‘thump’ fell to the ground.

Pingquan was breathless and frightened; he did not realize that the four of them had been confronting the slave for a long time but the slave had been subdued by Li Shu, whom he had always looked down upon.

“Your wanted slave.” Li Shu said coldly, “Don’t remove the dagger if you don’t want to die.”

Pingquan’s cold sweat had not gone down yet, he nodded quickly. “Thank you very much.”

Su WanTing laughed a little proudly. “I said already, big brother Li Shu is much better than you guys, but my dad was not reassured.”

Zhang Qiu didn’t want to listen to Su WanTing; he was afraid that he couldn’t help hitting people.

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The tomb of the squire was dangerous. They took the slave zongzi. The Liu brothers opened their bag and put the zongzi very cautiously in it. Why did Zhang Qiu feel that Su Zhicai had a problem for asking for the slave’s body? Which normal person wanted an antique zongzi? He couldn’t help thinking of what the slave zongzi had been repeating just now.

You want to eat me?

Who wanted to eat the slave?

Speaking of the disgusting thing of eating zongzi, Zhang Qiu naturally took the lead in associating it with Jin LaoDa. Now Jin LaoDa was enclosed in a coffin, so Su Zhicai who appeared now wanted the zongzi. It’s no wonder that he made mental association too much. It was really too coincidental. The normal people would avoid zongzi as far as possible; who would pay a lot of money for it?

The Liu brothers, carrying the slave, went to the main tomb next door, where there lay a rotten body with no head. According to Bald Head, this was the squire he cut off at that time.

The squire was very rich. In those years, Bald Head grabbed two pieces and escaped in a hurry. Now there were many funerary objects in the tomb. All kinds of treasures were in front of them. The Liu Brothers and Pingquan forgot the danger they had just encountered. They went looking around. Zhang Qiu was an archaeology student. He mostly went to the tomb under pressure of circumstances. Every time he went down the tomb with Pixian Hui Wang and Li Shu, they would solve the situation and then walked away, never taken any antique objects except boxes. Now when he met the real Earth Master, Zhang Qiu couldn’t help it for a while.

“These are all against the law.”

A few people who were searching were stunned. Da Liu seemed to hear something interesting and said with a laugh, “So what are you doing down with us? Be a bitch, and want to build a memorial archway[1]?”

The voice just fell when a figure flashed by and ‘pa’ slapped directly on Da Liu’s face. Da Liu coughed a mouthful of blood, fixed eyes on Li Shu, the other party moved too fast, he simply could not see how he reached him, like ghost.

Li Shu’s face was cold, and he stared down at Da Liu, who was on the ground. He did not hide his murderous aura.

Zhang Qiu was afraid that Li Shu would actually kill people, so he hurried up and said, “It’s my inopportune. They’re just— forget it.”

“Since we are all people on the road, here are the rules: you want to go home empty-handed, in any case can’t let us be in wild-goose chase. It’s a deadly collaboration work.” Bald Head stubbornly said, seeing Li Shu’s body bore evil tendency, he hurried to play round field. “So you guys won’t take it, anyhow we will pick two things, not many.”

Zhang Qiu also regretted that he had spoken too quickly. Bald Head was an Earth Master. The villains’ livelihood was like killing their parents. Now everybody seemed afraid of Li Shu, so they conceded.

He pulled Li Shu down. Li Shu took back his sight and took the lead in saying, “We’ll go first.”

Su WanTing was reluctant and shouted at Bald Head, “Is there not enough money for my dad to feed you? From which period is this original calligraphy? What junk is valued rarity! Still not going?!”

The Liu brothers hated Li Shu’s action just now. Pingquan thought that Li Shu had just rescued them. He said, “Forget it, just pick up two pieces and quickly go.”

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Out of the water, Zhang Qiu returned to find that the sweet fragrance in the water was gone, but a hot line of sight behind him burned through his back, knowing that several people in the back boat hated him for talking too much just now.

Zhang Qiu was somewhat depressed. His first lesson was the difference between tomb robbery and archaeology. The professor always emphasized that tomb robbery caused great damage to cultural relics, but now he was a member of Earth Masters.

Li Shu pinched his hand. “You’re not wrong.”

“But I still feel very sad.” Zhang Qiu looked at Li Shu pitifully. “Want a hug.”

Li Shu hooked up his lips, wrapped the poor grumbling Song Bao in his arms, and kissed the head of his Song Bao.

Zhang Qiu was indeed sad, but he did not want Li Shu to be depressed with him. This kind of thing may not be avoided in the future. Deliberately speaking in this tone could be regarded as telling the other party that he was all right and there would always be a solution.

When they were intimate, Zhang Qiu didn’t notice the head of Little Zongzi who peeked out from his bag. The black circles under his eyes were several points thicker, showing small fangs, he stared fiercely at the back. Li Shu looked down at Little Zongzi and nodded slightly. Little Zongzi closed his sharp teeth. His eyes immediately became ‘lively’ and he licked his mouth and smiled happily.

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It was almost morning when the boats reached to the river. The village was quiet and nobody was up yet. They quickly put away the boats. Da Liu scratched his neck. Xiao Liu asked, “What’s wrong? Is the face still painful?

“Scram.” Da Liu said angrily, remembering what had happened in the tomb, “What a fucking bad luck.”

“Come on, just now that person saved us anyway. Besides, this kind of thing would have been a blessing in disguise. These two items, counting the boss’s share of money, is enough for us to be free and unfettered for several years.” Xiao Liu persuaded.

Da Liu just wanted to talk, and he felt a pain in the back of his neck. It was crisp and numb. He touched it with his hand but there was nothing.

“Clean up quickly. Don’t think about it. The villagers will get up in a minute.” Xiao Liu urged.

Da Liu moved his neck. He felt nothing. He did not think about it, he quickly put the bag with the slave in the back carriage, quickly packed up and started the car. He thought when this was finished, he would come back again. Anyway, zongzi in the tomb had been taken away. Only a leftover dried corpse, what was he afraid of?!

Hatred for Zhang Qiu faded when he thought that all the treasures in the tomb were his own.

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In the car ahead, Zhang Qiu touched his bag and his face became anxious. “Xiao Jiang is missing? Is he still not in the car? I’ll go find—”

“Isn’t he not on your head?” Pixian Hui Wang pointed to Zhang Qiu’s head.

Zhang Qiu’s hair was a little long and soft, Little Zongzi liked to lie on it. He reached out and groped around. As expected, there was really a soft ice-cold body on his head. He couldn’t help saying, “Xiao Jiang, how did you run up there? You almost scared me to death. Don’t run around next time.”

“Baba, good know.” Little Zongzi licked the tiger’s teeth, appeared to be smart and cute.

Zhang Qiu could not see it, but when he heard Little Zongzi’s soft voice, he knew how obedient and lovely his son was. He could not bear to blame him. He turned around and carelessly swept over Pei Qing, and his face froze.

He just forgot that Pei Qing was in the car with them.

At the back, Pei Qing leaned on the seat and smiled. “Actually, I knew all about it, but I didn’t want to ask much questions until you guys said it.”

“Emm, this is my son Zhang Xiaojiang.” When Zhang Qiu said this, he stared at Pei Qing’s eyes. Pei Qing was still upright and fearless. He smiled and nodded his head then said, “Hello Xiao Jiang.”

Little Zongzi snorted.

Zhang Qiu was embarrassed. He pulled Xiao Jiang down. At first, he wanted to chide him for having no manners. As a result, when he met with his son’s sprouted lovely big eyes, his heart instantly softened. At last, he only said in one sentence: can’t finish without manners.

Little Zongzi gave Daddy a face, obediently called out ‘uncle’, and jumped into Zhang Qiu’s bag to sleep.

Zhang Qiu found that his son’s spirit was not very good in the daytime, and his consciousness was better in the cloudy days or at night, so he mostly slept in his pocket during the daytime. He patted his bag with distress and coaxed Xiao Jiang to sleep.

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When they returned to the hotel in Changsha City, they did not dare to move slave zongzi in the trunk at will. After all, the bundle was human figure. If they were found, they would all enter a situation. On that day, the hot search on the microblog might be that Changsha police cracked down a large group of grave robbers. The gossip’s headline was astonished. These men actually did this to it…

Frightened by his brain imagination, Zhang Qiu shook his head and followed Li Shu back to the hotel to sleep.

After taking a bath and lying on the bed, Zhang Qiu took out his mobile phone and wanted to ask Senior brother about Pei Qing. But the he thought of Senior Brother in the hospital, and he also had no way to contact Lu Feng. When they went back, he would ask.

“What are you doing?”

Li Shu’s voice from behind frightened Zhang Qiu; he turned around and saw Li Shu coming out of the bathroom. He wrapped himself in a bath towel and had not completely wiped dry; the water droplets slid into the bath towel drops by drops. No good, it’s a sexy temptation.

Zhang Qiu swallowed and felt his throat dry and his nose itchy. No matter how long he saw Li Shu’s face, there was no way he could get angry.

Sure enough, he was a helpless face-con.

“Why don’t you dress up right away?” Zhang Qiu muttered a sentence, but his eyes did not move half a point, even threw an ‘alluring’ sentence.

Li Shu uncovered his bath towel and approached slowly, with his eyebrows tilted up. His voice was cold and tempting, “Alluring? Hmm?” Leaning close to Zhang Qiu on the bed, he looked down and pressed down on Zhang Qiu.

Zhang Qiu’s chest felt itchy. He took a glance at Li Shu’s hair dripping with water. It was obviously the same shampoo, but now he felt it smell like aphrodisiac. Fuck, he wanted to go into heat and pounce on Li Shu again.

Every time, he became unclear: what led at the beginning was he saw Li Shu’s beauty and wanted to throw himself to be done by Li Shu. After that, he was done until he cried mercy from Li Shu, shouted at sky, begging the earth and calling for Daddy.

Crying pitifully.

In order to prevent Er-Sao from showing concern and sympathy for his non-existent hemorrhoid if he walked strangely, Zhang Qiu resolutely pushed Li Shu’s chest with both hands to prevent him from approaching and tempting him. It was just that it felt nice; the chest muscles were firm and compact.

Zhang Qiu swallowed his saliva and decided to change the subject, otherwise it would be too dangerous now.

“I just wanted to send a message to senior brother. I always thought Pei Qing and Su WanTing knew each other before, and they were very close.” He did not forget that inside the tomb, when the slave rushed to Su WanTing, Pei Qing cried out ‘Tingting’ affectionately. At the most dangerous time, people’s reaction was subconscious.

“It’s not only Pei Qing, there’s someone behind the Su family, but we’ve also dealt with each other.” Li Shu said, and when it came to the end, there was chill in his eyes.

Zhang Qiu suddenly thought, “The boss behind Jin LaoDa?”

Li Shu nodded. Being affirmed, Zhang Qiu was a little happy. He told Li Shu his analysis according to his train of thought. It was the slave’s phrase “You want to eat me” that made him think deeply. Su WanTing was also strange. When he first met her at the Barbie shop, she looked like a naive little princess, but her temperament was not a simple person. The second met at the auction, her style of dress and speech was not like that of eighteen or nineteen year old girl. Finally, at the tomb she even pulled out a gun. Although every time her mouth would say zongzi was disgusting, and looked very disgusted, but when really faced it, she actually had no fear and instead eagerly ordered them to grab the zongzi back as soon as possible.

“Remember that you smelled a scent and hallucinated.”

“There’s a problem there too?”

“The first one to fall is Bald Head, then Su WanTing quickly jumped down, I don’t know what’s going on in the water, but when Bald Head came up, there was a scratch on his face and it was not shallow, and Su WanTing had skin under her nails.”

“It’s normal for Su WanTing to be in hallucination and fought Bald Head.”

“Su WanTing was conscious. Bald Head didn’t die should have been Pei Qing who saved him.” Li Shu saw Zhang Qiu with a confused look and kissed him. “Don’t think too much. People behind the scene are getting more and more urgent. In any case, they will have to give the game away. As for Pei Qing, although he knows Su WanTing, it should have nothing to do with the people behind the scene.”

Zhang Qiu also felt that Pei Qing was not a bad person.

The more he thought about it, the more he felt it was a mess. When Zhang Qiu felt a pair of fervent burning eyes watching him closely, only then did he found something wrong. Li Shu’s eyes that were looking at him freaked him out– it was ‘over the moon yet shy’ kind of freak out.

“I, I say, we still have to be on the road tomorrow–” Originally refused, but Li Shu’s stare as if attracting him from resisting and supporting Li Shu’s chest muscle, into slowly sliding down, “Uh, relaxation is also possible.”

Li Shu hooked up his lips and smiled, “Good boy.”

There was an illusion that he got praise from Daddy. Zhang Qiu’s preference on bed with Li Shu was becoming more and more overwhelming. Wasn’t there a saying that people from ancient time was the most conservative and traditional? The damn Li Shu was absolutely a mutant, playing 666[2] more than him.

“Wait, Xiao Jiang?” Zhang Qiu felt that Li Shu wanted to play a big game. Now he regretted that he had spoken too early. He remembered the last time they played in the kitchen; the more he thought about it, the more he felt ashamed. He firmly decided to wash and sleep earlier.

It was also good to chat under a quilt. It was just that Li Shu’s face was a waste, if only he changed his position.

Zhang Qiu’s brain filled with images of him pressing Li Shu and did him until he shouted ‘anh, anh’, which made him pleased that his nose bled. Li Shu bit Zhang Qiu’s ear, and Zhang Qiu shivered in pleasure.

His mouth still stubbornly resisting, “San[3]!” It’s not that I don’t want to, in any case, can’t corrupt the small child! Wouldn’t your conscience hurt when you yelled in front of your son like this?!

Why did the curve on the corner of Li Shu’s lips look like a dangerous storm in Zhang Qiu’s eyes?

“Xiao Jiang is playing with the duck in the bathroom.” Li Shu said this and adding, “Very happily.”

Zhang Xiao Jiang: I just rode little yellow duck and paddling in the water, adorable.gif.

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Footnote:

[1] While doing bad things, also want to get a good reputation.

[2] (Network language) 666 is used to describe someone or something that is very powerful and convincing. It is also used to sigh when people show extraordinary abilities. Source: Baidu Encyclopedia

[3] ZQ couldn’t talk properly. It should be ‘son’

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