Chapter 49

Chapter 49: Xiezhi [5]

Translator: Xah

Editor: Ayish

Li Shu looked at Zhang Qiu with a little teasing in his eyes. “Oh?”

With that single word, Zhang Qiu felt that Li Shu was teasing him for fun and had a kind of attitude to seduce him. However he just didn’t buy this now, and answered back with a grin to counter flirt, “Xiao Shushu, you didn’t see it?”

“Look how smart you are.” Li Shu said, turning his head and looking at the figure that had gone far, his voice coldly said. “Su Zhicai is not hiding the actual situation; he’s anxious. He’s doing it on purpose with great fanfare probably afraid we didn’t know.”

After the cocktail party, the other side had already come to the light from the dark. Both parties involved impeded each other. Zhang Qiu’s party wanted to revive Zhang Yushui through the God Vein and Su Zhicai wanted more. There was Phoenix Bead in Pixian Hui Wang’s hand, the not yet awakened blood inheritance Pei Qing, and the already known Xiezhi Qi Xi.

But for now, it was still a step for them to leave behind Su Zhicai. Who knew what’s going on in Xinjiang waiting to jump on them.

“In fact, we can let Pei Qing stay.” Zhang Qiu said.

Li Shu looked cold. “I’m afraid we can’t choose.”

Su Zhicai had stood firm in the open, how could he let Pei Qing go? Zhang Qiu also thought it was true. When they came to the door, they suddenly heard a whining cry inside. A shadow had rushed up and Zhang Qiu was knocked back but held up by Li Shu. When Li Shu saw Zhang Qiu holding a person in his arms, his face sank like water.

“Your— Your Excellency, His Ma— Big brother is missing.” Ling Dang whimpered and cried; his eyes red, like a rabbit.

Li Shu separated both people. Ling Dang was afraid of the importance of Li Shu’s fear. He did not dare to go up to hold Zhang Qiu again. His tearful eyes looked very pitiful. “Beg Your Excellency to save big brother. It’s all because Big brother saved me.”

“First, don’t be anxious, speak clearly.” Zhang Qiu pacified Ling Dang. Lu Feng and Hua Ting in the living room came along. “He’s here at five o’clock, crying until now. Pei Qing was captured last night.”

Ling Dang cried terribly and told them about last night.

Ling Dang wanted to do his best to repay Zhang Qiu’s kindness when the surveillance of Su’s father and son was put forward in the ward. In his mind, he would have died if Zhang Qiu hadn’t had the spirit bead on him. However Pei Qing disagreed with the idea of the surveillance, feeling that it was dangerous. Ling Dang then gave up this intention.

Last night, Pei Qing took Ling Dang to the neighborhood for supper. Ling Dang could already have entity at night. When Pei Qing went to the toilet, Ling Dang saw Su Zhicai’s son, Su Yu coming towards him.

“When he looked at me, I was confused. I was so scared that I wanted to run away. I didn’t know what he had done. I couldn’t change into void form. Later, big brother came after me. In order to save me, he was caught up. There were dark shadows still chasing me. I ran for half a day…” Ling Dang blamed himself, “Blamed me for my uselessness. I can’t save big brother. Hic, blame me—useless.”

The crying had turned to hiccup and gasping out of breath.

Zhang Qiu smothered Ling Dang’s hair, looked at Li Shu with a calm face. “You’re right; Su Zhicai really wants to round up all enemies in one fell swoop.” He said to Ling Dang, “You can rest assured that Pei Qing should be okay. Su Zhicai is going to make big reinforcing pill. He haven’t collect all the materials, and waiting for us dropping dumpling to come up.”

If he collected one to solve one, Su Zhicai would not try to lead them all to Xinjiang.

Ling Dang stopped crying and then began to cry again. He asked Zhang Qiu pitifully, “Your Excellency, will they hit big brother?”

About that — Zhang Qiu couldn’t say. However, with Little Ling Dang cried like this, he could only soothe him and say that nothing would happen. Little Ling Dang slowly stopped crying and then fell asleep on Zhang Qiu’s chest.

Zhang Qiu felt cold eyes sweeping across his chest. He didn’t need to think who; he knew it was Li Shu. Xiao Shushu was really jealous!

“Ling Dang was injured last night, also over-thinking. It was normal for him to cry until he sleep.” Zhang Qiu explained. Ling Dang was now an entity, but because he was young and short, and beautiful like a little girl, with height less than 1.7 meters, Zhang Qiu had no difficulty holding him but Li Shu wanted to take over. “Don’t, he’s not heavy anyway.”

When they went to take Ling Dang to the guestroom, Zhang Qiu saw on Ling Dang’s eyelashes were tears and his high nose snorting heart-brokenly. He was even cuter than his family’s Xiao Jiang. Zhang Qiu couldn’t help imagining it would be nice to have his family’s Xiao Shushu to become a mini youth version. Li Shu was so beautiful, if he was a little bit smaller and lay in his arms—

Heart rippling ah!

“Don’t dream.” Li Shu opened the door lightly and pulled Zhang Qiu’s collar to circle him in his arms.

“Eh, how do you know what I think?”

Li Shu looked down at the person in his arms, hooked up his lips and said, “You just said it, silly Bao.”

“You, enough ah!” Zhang Qiu retorted, but upon seeing Li Shu’s gaze, he snorted, “As if I’ll argue with you.”

Lu Feng in the living room saw them come out and said, “I have something to tell you. After the party, I have been sending someone to investigate Su Zhicai’s movements. Only then I knew that Su Zhicai invested in a movie yesterday.”

“Desert Falcon.” Zhang Qiu interfered.

Lu Feng stunned. “How do you know that?”

“I was going to tell you guys.” Zhang Qiu repeated Qi Xi’s conversation with his agent, “This Qi Xi, I guess, was the Xiezhi on the night of the accident.”

Lu Feng looked at Li Shu and asked for the truth. Li Shu nodded. Lu Feng looked at the back of Hua Ting, who he had found an excuse to send him to the kitchen, and asked in a low voice, “Are you going to that place with the God Veins? I want to go with you.”

Zhang Qiu just wanted to say that it was too dangerous, but when he saw Lu Feng’s insistence and earnestness, he immediately remembered Senior Brother’s life span. Despite breaking the array, his life and even his next life were short-lived.

“I’ll get it back for you.” Li Shu said.

Lu Feng shook his head. “Just in case it happens at a particular time. You don’t have to persuade me, I dare not bet on Hua Ting’s life.”

“Good.” Li Shu nodded, saw Hua Ting come out and stop talking.

Back in the room, Zhang Qiu sat by the bed and stared at Li Shu, who was undressing. Without raising his head, Li Shu asked, “What do you want to ask?”

“You and Senior brother long ago—”

Li Shu, who was undressing, looked up at Zhang Qiu on the bed and came over naked. “It’s not the things your brain imagined.”

“You know what my brain is imagining?” Zhang Qiu said so, but he was relieved to hear Li Shu’s answer. It was true that Li Shu treated Senior Brother relatively special. He didn’t forget when he had asked Li Shu why he went down the pit, Li Shu said he wanted to save people. Senior brother Hua Ting was the one he wanted to save. No wonder Zhang Qiu thought too much.

Li Shu pinched Zhang Qiu’s face which panting with rage. It felt good and he touched it again before he opened his mouth and said, “Your senior brother was of gentry class in Gu Mu, unlike me. We had different political opinions and were hostile everywhere, but I never expected that it was my opponent who actually saved me in the end. He was implicated by me.”

Zhang Qiu never heard Li Shu talking about Gu Mu Country before, and so he listened with rapture. Li Shu saw Zhang Qiu like to listen, so he said more, “I wasn’t clear about the memory before I was nine years old. I had been living in the army since then. I didn’t have a family, nor did I know whether there were parents. Although Gu Mu was small, but all parties had power conflicts. My origin had been criticized by the gentry, but I was highly valued by Gou Wang, probably because I didn’t have backing support.”

Zhang Qiu could guess what happened afterwards. Gou Wang regarded Li Shu highly, but he absolutely never thought the one who wanted Li Shu’s life was precisely Gou Wang. For a moment, Zhang Qiu’s mood was downcast. There were many example of ‘so great is one’s achievements as to make one’s boss feel uneasy or insecure’ in history, and there was no good end. But these were all cold words in history books, not the Li Shu standing in front of him.

“Don’t be sad for me.” Li Shu reached out and took Zhang Qiu in his arms. He kissed Zhang Qiu’s soft hair and half-squinted with warmth. “If it weren’t for him, I would not have met you.”

Zhang Qiu’s heart was still vexed, but he also knew that it’s not meaningful to think about it now. He didn’t want Li Shu to suffer the pain he once suffered. But if Li Shu didn’t die, he would have never meet Li Shu, and practically joined the vicious circle.

Forget it, don’t be entangled with these. Zhang Qiu breathed out and suddenly remembered, “That time in Mount Qinling, did you see that I was handsome enough and caught me to papapa? When I woke up after sleep, it was such a shame that I knew I was taken advantage by other people.” He murmured, “If you weren’t good-looking, I would really be under Big Uncle’s teaching and be a Taoist monk specialized in zongzi elimination!”

“Fortunately, I am more beautiful.” Li Shu said with a serious face.

Zhang Qiu laughed and fell on the bed while holding his stomach. From the very beginning, Li Shu was a serious and indifferent person. Zhang Qiu had ever thought that one day he would hear such a sentence from Li Shu’s mouth.

Li Shu saw that Zhang Qiu was laughing too happily on the bed, and he also had a smile in his eyes. As Zhang Qiu rolled on the bed, he revealed a section of his white slim waist. The atmosphere suddenly became a bit wrong. Li Shu’s line of sight became more and more intrusive.

“Stop, stop ah!” Zhang Qiu coughed and stressed, “I’m a wounded man now. My head is still hurting.” Damn hurt. He didn’t mean hurt the head but hurt the chrysanthemum. Although it’s a pleasant thing to do, it still hurt later——

Li Shu’s eyes rose a faint layer of dark red. Zhang Qiu saw it and was a bit infatuated. They embraced each other in bed and kissed until they gasped for breath. Zhang Qiu himself a little emotional, and a small tent set up underneath.

“You’re injured. Take an early rest.” Li Shu slightly wrapped Zhang Qiu like a silkworm baby, and embraced him to sleep in utterly well-behaved manner.

Zhang Qiu:…

The flame had been raised, the little brother was hard and the pants were off. Now you made me purely sleep covered with a quilt!

Zhang Qiu wanted to bite Li Shu’s core. He furiously closed his eyes and decided to sleep being covered. In the end, it didn’t take long to hear the long breathing sound in the room. Li Shu embraced Zhang Qiu in his arms, kissed his forehead and went out.

Zhang Qiu slept until noon. Xiao Jiang and Hua Hua were building blocks in the corner of the living room on the first floor. At the side, Ling Dang was nesting on the sofa in a daze. His eyes were as swollen as peaches. Knew it at first glance the he had been crying secretly; his face would be wrinkled in order to prevent crying.

Zhang Qiu greeted Ling Dang. Ling Dang saw Zhang Qiu like having a backbone; he came over and asked in a pitiful low voice, “Your Excellency, when are we going to save big brother?”

“Soon. You can rest assured that Pei Qing will be fine.” Zhang Qiu patted Ling Dang on the shoulder.

Ling Dang felt better after listening.

Pixian Hui Wang had returned. He listened to the conversation and comforted Ling Dang. “The Desert Falcon Cast and Crew has arrived in Xinjiang, only waiting for Qi Xi, it should be a matter of two days.”

Qi Xi was now the living map that led them over. Su Zhicai was smart enough to let Qi Xi lead them all over.

All of them paid close attention on Qi Xi’s situation now. They had heard Qi Xi’s agent said that the audition was in the afternoon. It was over 6 p.m. before they heard the news. As expected, Qi Xi was unsurprisingly selected.

Not far from the villa, Qi Xi casually threw a candy into his mouth and played it back and forth with his tongue. Sister Ping, the broker next to him, was very happy, and no longer resented Qi Xi for not having bones. “I knew you’d be chosen. You’re lucky. Others just admire you. I still can’t get away with my work. Tomorrow, I’ll let Xiao Wang and Xiao Zhang follow you. Let me tell you, this time take advantage of this opportunity. Don’t complaint of tired and think of it as trouble. If you dare to drop the ball, then simply stay in the desert and don’t come back.”

Qi Xi turned over and lay on the sofa, nodding lazily and without saying anything; absolutely without spirit.

Sister Ping had talked for a long time, and seeing this morality and conduct of Qi Xi, she was mad half death. However, she also knew the other person’s bad shortcomings. So she endured, “This shooting is really tiresome. I’ll arrange a vacation for you when you come back.” Finished and continue again, “I don’t know what Zhang Dao thinks, hastily wants you to enter the cast and crew. You’re the second male part, what with the haste? Forget it, I’ll buy the ticket. In a moment, Xiao Zhang will come. You point to the things you want to take and let him pack them up.

Having fully recognized Qi Xi’s laziness nature, Sister Ping said in one breath.  She carried her bag, stepping on high heels and clattering away.

Before long, Xiao Zhang, Qi Xi’s assistant, came over. He was a man in his early twenties, tall and strong. When he saw Qi Xi, he respectfully called Brother Qi. Qi Xi waved his hand and pointed lazily upstairs. “You look at the clothes and sort them out.”

Qi Xi saw the man go upstairs, holding his chin, and kacha chewed the fruit candy in his mouth.

Let’s settle for what comes.

Early in the next morning, Hua Ting had sent Hua Hua to Yang Bao’s house to be cared for a while. With the last incident in Shandong, Hua Ting knew that Lu Feng might hide from him to go on down the tomb this time, and he immediately sent Hua Hua out first.

Lu Feng intended to go quietly, but Hua Ting was smart.

“What if the God Vein had to work on the spot?”

Lu Feng did not say anything and finally nodded his head in agreement. Zhang Qiu also packed up; there’s nothing to pack up with summer clothes. They went to battle in light clothing. Ling Dang went into the spirit bead and Zhang Qiu put it in his pocket.

At the airport, Lu Feng bought VIP tickets. They went into the lounge and soon heard the Xixi xixi calling outside. Little Jiangshi heard the voice and looked up at Zhang Qiu. “Daddy, it’s big brother Xixi.”

Zhang Qiu thought that the whole entertainment circle might also be happy with the fans, laughing [xixixi] every day.

Within ten minutes, the door of the lounge was pushed open. Qi Xi was wearing a T-shirt and shorts, a pair of sports sandals under his feet and yawned. Seeing them, he nodded as a greeting. He went straight to the opposite empty sofa and immediately fell asleep with sunglasses on.

Following him was two people, a man and a woman, dragging five or six suitcases. Upon seeing them, the man laughed and introduced himself, called Xiao Zhang, was Qi Xi’s close assistant, the girl next to just nodded and was playing with the mobile phone.

Qi Xi seemed to have slept enough and woke up to see a few people in the terminal room with a blank face. “Why are you guys here?”

Zhang Qiu touched Xiao Jiang’s soft head and said with a giggle, “What a coincidence, we’re touring.”

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