Chapter 4
Chapter 4: The Tomb of Hui Wang of Pixian [2]
Translator: Xah
Their Zhang Family had
nothing to do with Zhang Daoling[1] and Zhang Tianshi[2].
Their Zhang Family was
an authentic peasant, only with a predestined coincidence, had they obtained
two books, an incomplete books; <<The Complete Law of
Magic Text>> and <<The Practice of
Taoist Scriptures>>, the former was about drawing
magic talisman, and the latter was about measuring location by feng shui.
Later, they came into
Zhang SanLian hands.
Zhang SanLian was an
extremely talented person. Even with the incomplete books he still could
comprehend some things, and his fame slowly spread. Otherwise in those years,
no one would intentionally deceived Zhang LiuDuan to go to tomb
raiding using psychological method. They wanted Zhang SanLian,
but Zhang SanLian was just an upright person and would not do these ‘imitate
the dog and steal chicken‘[3] behavior. In contrast, Zhang LiuDuan
was different. Zhang LiuDuan was young and lived
under Zhang Sanlian’s fame. He tried to get rid of his Big Brother’s
influence and proved himself to be very powerful.
Zhang
LiuDuan’s feng shui position measurement was really good, and yet he was
anxious to stand out. After several movements, he had truly drifted along some
fame. However, all of them were the paths of tomb raiding. People knew him as
Liu Ye. Later, he was praised by people that it made him smug and
conceited. He went back home to prove his strength in front of Zhang
SanLian’s face. The result, he was whipped by Zhang SanLian. After the
reprimand, he was not allowed to go tomb raiding. At the end of the trouble,
the two brothers broke their relationship.
Later, Zhang
LiuDuan retired from the path because of some matter and did not go down
the tomb anymore. On the contrary, because Zhang SanLian’s
reputation for providing Feng Shui to ancestral home and drawing magic
talisman, his fame spread farther and farther. In the end, he was directly
referred as the descendant of Zhang Daoling and Zhang Tianshi.
“So, that old man
is Zhang LiuDuan ?” The thin middle-aged man in the room asked the
leader, known as Big Brother.
The leader took a long
time to say it. Although he had never seen Zhang LiuDuan, he had heard the
previous things of the Zhang Brothers before. When he was driven out in the
afternoon, the eldest son of Zhang SanLian called the old man Little
Uncle, thus the assumption should not be wrong.
So he nodded and said:
“Zhang SanLian has a loathsome temperament and does not like us groping in the
dark.”
“What does Big
Brother mean?”
LaoSan couldn’t
stand the air, he beat the time with a clapper and said, “Directly kidnap, let
see if he dare not to obey.”
The leader, LaoDa
himself took this idea and listened with a satisfied nod. “At once, set it on
today and be careful not to alarm Zhang SanLian.”
LaoSan was happy
all of a sudden. He always looked at that old fellow’s disobedience. If he
didn’t listen to them this time, he would just took the chance to punch him
twice.
LaoDa might also
be aware of LaoSan’s disposition and rest assured that LaoSi and LaoWu
would follow. He rushed to LaoEr and said: “Pack up things, and drive
straight away.”
“Big Brother, next door
-“
LaoDa knew
what LaoEr was worried about and didn’t care to smile. “Onwards,
things will only be for us five brothers.” Pointing to the next door,
“Unidentified origin, skill is a little better, might he possibly able to block
the gun? This time we go down, always need to put a bait to explore to find the
road. You tell LaoSan that they will have to pay attention when they
go down.”
LaoEr smiled with
yellow teeth and greedy eyes.
This was a large tomb
of the Han Dynasty. He really wanted to be cheap to the outsider. He was
naturally reluctant. Originally Big Brother used this idea.
LaoDa personally
knocked on the next door and smiled kindly on his face. “There are temporary
changes in the plan. We have to go.”
Li Shu glanced at
his eyes, eyes flashing cold and he nodded.
*
Zhang Qiu was
licking a string of specially sour caramelized hawthorns in his dreams. His
teeth were sore and tasted sour when he bit. His face was immediately scrunched
up, vaguely heard a shouting of ‘hurt’.
Something coldly poked
on his cheeks. Zhang Qiu was leaning, this touch was really familiar, and he
immediately woke up. The object was a perfectly beautiful enlarged
face. Zhang Qiu subconsciously fell backwards. With a bang, his head
hit the roof.
Only then did he found
out that he was sitting in a car, and that the car was still rickety, like
walking on the bumpy mountain road.
It was not right! He
obviously slept with his Dad at Big Uncle’s house. He
was listening to his Dad until felt asleep. How did he end up in a car?
Zhang Qiu had only woke
up, his head was muddled, he did not understand the situation, but he also
found a problem. He quietly looked all around. He just turned his eyes to see
the long-haired man. Not knowing whether it was an illusion or not, he actually
saw a smile in the other’s eyes.
“…Is your brain
loaded? Can’t do anything about this small thing. Told you to kidnap
Zhang LiuDuan. You see what you did!”
There was someone in
the front passenger seat who was stricken with impatience. Zhang
Qiu recognized at a glance that it was LaoDa among the five people
whom he had only seen yesterday afternoon.
LaoSan gasped and
his forehead was blue, while LaoSi played the round field. “Big Brother
don’t blame us. Who knows the old man’s vigilance is so good. At the time, the
situation was urgent. The old man started to fight with us. We were scared to
alarm Zhang SanLian and his son, could not directly took advantage to
return. Who let this boy slept like a pig? But we left a letter and had a kid
in our hands, don’t be afraid if Zhang Sanlian won’t come.”
“Forget it, anyway, we
had been guilty of evil.” LaoEr at the side smiled and acted like good old
people.
LaoDa’s face was
green, but as LaoEr said, the two sides had
already vilified each other. Fortunately, Zhang Sanlian did
not mix up on this path, or else he was afraid that the other party would
disturbed their financial situation.
Zhang Qiu sat in
the last row and tried understand him. He first played in his mind what the man
who just said that he was sleeping like a pig, ‘Your whole family is a
pig!‘ Yesterday, Big Uncle had agreed to partner with this
group of people, but at that time, they did not leave a contact information at
all. He was thinking about the next day. He did not expect that this group of
people could not help it and slipped into the courtyard at night.
But what’s wrong
with them kidnapping his Dad?!
LaoWu turned to
find Zhang Qiu was awake and called out. “His Excellency has woken up.” He
also said wickedly to Zhang Qiu, “You don’t want to think about
running, or else you’ll be humiliated.”
LaoDa did
not seem to be interested in Zhang Qiu. He said lightly:
“You guys are bullish people.”
The car was actually a
van, driving was LaoSi, LaoDa was in the passenger seat,
and LaoSan, LaoNi with LaoWu were in the middle seat. Zhang
Qiu remembered the identity of several people in his heart. It looked like
he could not move, he was sitting next to a man with a long hair
named Li Shu, and on the other side, several black luggage bags.
Zhang Qiu always
felt that this man was out of tune with the five men. It was not like a
passer-by. He was scared and frightened when he met him for the first time.
However, this time, full of people, he actually felt that the other person was
not like a bad person.
As soon as the car was
ascending, it was a mess. It was a mountain road that you did not want to look
at.
“How long have I been
asleep?” Zhang Qiu asked in a small voice.
At the front,
LaoWu threatened with a cough. Obviously Zhang Qiu thought that
no one would hear or be heard. After all, no one in the car spoke and it was
very quiet.
Zhang Qiu thought
himself; coughing chicken feathers and saw the man with the
long hair next to his eyes was holding up his wrist. “Six hours.” Then he took
a glance and gave him a very serious look.
However, when Zhang
Qiu thought that he slept like a pig, his face became red. Being shaken
and kidnapped by somehow confused strangers, unexpectedly he could sleep
straight for six hours. This, no one could understand.
He slowly turned his
face back. Deadpanned sleeping six hours was very commonplace. He said,
“I’m still young, I have to sleep longer.”
He heard a ‘hmm’ sound
in his ear. It was faint and sounded cold, but it drilled into Zhang Qiu’s ear,
like a fire could burn him until he was red inside and outside.
The car jolting was not
good, and Zhang Qiu was still maintaining his image for a
second. Before long, he was shaken and felt like vomiting. “Park!
Parking!”
“What do you want
Bunny?” LaoSan firstly scolded. He was beaten today, and he was punched by
the old man. Although LaoWu gave him a revenge and knocked back a
sap, he was still in a bad mood. He angrily said to Zhang Qiu, “shouting,
shouting what?”
When he stood up and
raised his hands, he wanted to hit against Zhang Qiu’s head but was
stopped by Li Shu, who looked at the other person and said coldly:
“Stop the car.”
LaoSi looked at
the passenger seat. LaoDa was impatient in his eyes but at the thought
of this thrilling tomb and the other person’s skill, he nodded.
With a fierce
brake, Zhang Qiu rushed out of the car and was grabbed at the back of
his collar like a chicken, but the place where he fell backwards was not quite
right.
Hard and cool.
Zhang
Qiu shivered, his brain had yet to figure out what to do, but his stomach
was overwhelming. He was pushed lightly by a pair of big hands which opened the
car door, and he rushed off the car straight in a 100-meter race, and the
figure behind him quickly flashed. Zhang Qiu vomited in a dark under a
tree.
When his stomach was
empty, a bottle of water was handed over next to him. The fingers of the hand
holding the water bottle were clear and the skin was very white. Zhang
Qiu looked away and it was the man with long hair.
Zhang Qiu,
who had raised his neck, discovered that the man with a stunning
white skin was actually quite tall.
“Thank you.” After
taking over the water, Zhang Qiu took a gulp and drank two more.
He decided to make a good relationship with this man. It was strange that five
people in the car whom were xenophobic, were obviously feared the man but they
all were walking the way together. Zhang Qiu exposed his white teeth, “I
heard them call you Li Shu, which two words?”
Zhang
Qiu was looked in the eyes by Li Shu, it made him set in place,
as if his little secret in his heart was seen by the other.
“Li as in
‘to part from life and death’, Shu as in ‘different road to
the same destination’.”
When the other person
said this, the voice was very indifferent, but also with a trace of turbulence.
Zhang Qiu stood in the spot and could not move for a long time. The other
person had already got on the car. He said to himself again; I assumed
the surname is Li?
LaoSan in the car was
foul-mouthing, Zhang Qiu rolled his eyes. They were the people under the
eaves, he had to get on the car quickly. He was running in the wild and he did
not know where to run.
The car continued to
bump again. After Zhang Qiu had emptied his stomach, there was nothing in
his stomach, but he was still uncomfortable. He shook about for a moment, and
was sleepy again. His head nodding off and on. Finally, he did not know where
he fell to look for a comfortable place and posture and really went to
sleep.
It was already late
when he woke up. Zhang Qiu just woke up and saw the situation was
worse than fainting.
He fell asleep
on Li Shu’s thigh!!!
And with his vision of
5.3, why did Li Shu have a suspicious water mark on his thigh pants?!!!
“Awake? You sleep
well.”
Li Shu had always
been indifferent, but why did Zhang Qiu hear a ridicule from his
voice?
However, his face was
thick. Zhang Qiu looked as if it was not him who was holding the thighs and
slumbering in his sleep.
“Hmm, sleep well.”
Zhang Qiu praised
himself for being cheeky. This kind of embarrassing scene he was able to answer
calmly and it was really awesome!
Footnote:
[1] DaoLing = Principle
of Imperial Tomb
[2] TianShi = Heavenly
Teacher [title of the head of Taoist religion]
[3] (idiom) to dally
with women; to have affairs
tsk tsk
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