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

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