Chapter 68

Chapter 68: The Silkworm Road [2]

Translator: Xah

Xiao Jiang’s mood was not very high in the morning. Zhang Qiu had asked him for half a day but nothing was uttered, and only held Xiao Jiang high and kissed him.

“Daddy, I’ve grown up.” Xiao Jiang said with some displeasure that the tiger’s teeth appeared.

Zhang Qiu kissed again, smiled and said, “That’s not what your eyes said.”

Xiao Jiang was exposed by Daddy and felt awkwardly embarrassed. Finally, keeping a straight face, he said in a very serious manner. “Then, after I grow up a little bit, Daddy can’t kiss anymore.”

“Well, then you can kiss your wife.” Zhang Qiu casually said. Boys could be so huggable and amusing when they were young but not until a few years later, their temper would be very bad in adolescence. He thought of that moment which was really like cats and dogs. His Dad chased after him all day long holding a sole of a shoe to beat him.

After changing clothes, Zhang Qiu saw Xiao Jiang furtively glanced at Li Shu. He reached out and put Xiao Jiang in his arms into Li Shu’s hands. While smiling, he said, “Help hold him or a while. This boy is getting heavier and heavier now.”

“Xiao Jiang is not fat.” Xiao Jiang grunted unhappily.

Zhang Qiu talked nonsense without thinking through, “You’re not fat, but heavy. This shows Xiao Jiang is very strong. You see all that muscles, which are heavier. You must to be much stronger than the children of the same age.” [XJ is chubby lol]

Li Shu bowed his head and saw Xiao Jiang in his bosom was happy that his tiger teeth show up. This one big and one small people were quite easy to amuse.

Going downstairs, there was a back figure like Pei Qing’s at the front, but in his arms, he was hugging a woman in pink dress. The woman with big maroon waves had a small stature and very charming appearance. Pei Qing occasionally bowed his head and kissed the other on the side face.

Zhang Qiu was about to blow up. He didn’t expect Pei Qing to be such a slag man, messing around behind Little Ling Dang’s back.

“Is Pei Qing at the front?” Just in case, Zhang Qiu asked Li Shu for confirmation.

Li Shu nodded and looked at Zhang Qiu puzzled. “Are you angry?”

“Of course, I’m so angry that I have to ferociously sort Pei Qing out and introduce Little Ling Dang a better one!” Zhang Qiu moved forward in a fierce manner. Pei Qing at the front turned around after hearing the stirring, and greeted with a smile, “It’s you guys! Let’s have breakfast together.”

Zhang Qiu snorted, “Eat you big headed ghost, Pei Qing, you don’t let down little Ling Dang ah! Behind Little Ling Dang’s back——”

“Your-your Excellency, why do you scold Gege? Gege has not turning back from me ah!” The charming girl in Pei Qing’s arms said softly and blankly.

Zhang Qiu was momentary choked by a series of words. Stunned for a long time, he stuttered incredibly: “Little, little Ling Dang?!”

Pei Qing had guessed that Zhang Qiu might have misunderstood, so he was not angry. He was happy for Ling Dang. Zhang Qiu really regarded Ling Dang as a friend in this way.

Zhang Qiu was too 囧 (shocked). He whispered to Li Shu, “You didn’t warn me. Did you see it long ago?” It’s too awkward.

“You rushed too fast.” Li Shu calmly greeted the two people, then went away holding Xiao Jiang in one hand and pulling Zhang Qiu, who was standing in awkward position in the other hand.

Out of the hotel door, Zhang Qiu even had a mystified face; the shock was too great. “It’s the first time that I saw a boy wearing a woman’s dress so beautiful that I didn’t even recognize. You say, how Pei Qing’s things can be so well equipped?!”

Zhang Qiu thought of fair and delicate Ling Dang, wearing a small pink Western-style dress, giving the impression of very Lolita-like with the lipstick smeared on and small leather shoes worn.

“No wonder I’m too impulsive. Ling Dang is so beautiful.” Zhang Qiu made up for his impulse just now.

Li Shu suddenly stopped. Zhang Qiu was thinking of Ling Dang and had not noticed, so he was head bumped. “Why aren’t you walking? We arrived?” As soon as he looked up, he saw that beautiful face of Li Shu and was unconsciously bedazzled.

“Nothing, let’s go.” Li Shu was satisfied seeing Zhang Qiu was spellbound by his face. In that split second when he heard Zhang Qiu praising other man’s beauty, he surprisingly even felt very angry?! [Li Shu’s POV]

This feeling seemed to have existed before. [Li Shu’s POV]

Zhang Qiu walked next to Li Shu. Only after a while that he found out Li Shu seemed to be angry just now, but was good very quickly that he couldn’t figure out clearly how Li Shu had gotten angry. However, when they arrived at the breakfast shop, Zhang Qiu forgot everything as soon as he saw his favorite breakfast; particularly thoughtless.

Xiao Jiang asked for shrimp filling soup dumplings. Two white milky incisors bit the soft transparent dumpling skin, and the small mouth whirring ‘huhu’ before sucking the soup in it. Immediately satisfied, the whole person was soon bubbling.

“Daddy, so good!”

Zhang Qiu had half a dumpling in his mouth and half squinted eyes which seemed he enjoyed it very much. He followed his son repeatedly nodded his head in approval.

Li Shu watched the two people eating the same food with amusement, thinking that they had too much appetite. He put a dumpling on Zhang Qiu’s plate and said, “After eating let’s go watch movie. I heard recently there is a pretty good animated film.”

“I didn’t expect you even researched.” Zhang Qiu really didn’t expect Li Shu to plan date itineraries. As soon as he heard animated film, he knew which one was made in China. Recently, there was a great deal of praise on the Internet. He also saw it on his Weibo the day before yesterday. Being busy all the time, he had not brought Xiao Jiang to go see.

After breakfast, they went to the nearby cinema. Zhang Qiu was going to buy tickets, but Li Shu had put Xiao Jiang in his arms.

Zhang Qiu enjoyed the care of his golden thighs. He turned to Xiao Jiang and asked him if he wants to eat popcorn and dessert and found that his son was staring at the periphery of the cinema. It was an American hero blockbuster movie. In order to make campaign to attract children, the cinema had made many cartoon character models in the movie at one corner. Because it was early morning, it was deserted without a single person.

“Want to play there?” Zhang Qiu touched his son’s head. This was the first time he brought Xiao Jiang to the cinema since was born. Zhang Qiu felt that there should be more parent-child activities in the future. “Daddy accompanies you.”

Hearing that, Xiao Jiang reluctantly regained his eyes and licked the tiger’s teeth. Unfortunately, he said, “Had better not, I’m full now anyway…”

“What’s full?” Zhang Qiu pinched his son’s face and said deliberately, “If you’re full, then we won’t buy dessert.”

Xiao Jiang:… QAQ

Zhang Qiu wanted to laugh seeing the shocked in his son’s eyes, yet was afraid that his son would be awkwardly angered, and choked up his laugh to say, “But Daddy wants to eat.”

When the bill was paid, Zhang Qiu looked down and found that his son was missing. Li Shu took over the item. “What’s wrong?”

“Xiao Jiang——”

“Over there.” Li Shu looked at a corner.

Zhang Qiu looked at the corner that Xiao Jiang had been staring at, and he was relieved. He didn’t expect Xiao Jiang to say no, but his body was honest. He was indeed a child.

Ding-ding-ling-ling sound was sharp and clear.

Zhang Qiu’s footsteps stopped. When he turned back, the golden bell on Xiao Jiang’s wrist stopped ringing. He had asked Erge, who said this kind of bell would only ring when one met a ghost and the wearer used Taoism.

He could not help inclined his head and asked Li Shu, “Is there something over there?”

“You mean a crying, sniveling fat kid?” Li Shu asked calmly.

Zhang Qiu opened his eyes and looked carefully for a circle. He did not find the crying, sniveling, fat kid mentioned by Li Shu. He was surer that his son was playing with ghosts and immediately wanted to face palm. He quickened his pace and when he reached the corner, he heard Xiao Jiang say coldly with a straight face: “… cry again and I eat you.”

Although he could not see the fat ghost kid, he could indescribably feel the tension of the air for a moment.

Once Xiao Jiang saw Daddy coming, he put his hands behind his back and looked very clever. If it hadn’t been for Li Shu’s words, Zhang Qiu would have thought that his son’s sweet and naively wanted to play at this corner and he would have followed him with great interest to take photos.

“You can’t bully other little friend—uh, little ghost friend?!” Zhang Qiu raised his eyebrow, followed along.

Xiao Jiang muttered and snorted in grievance. “There is no time to bully, blame him for crying all the time. I haven’t eaten him, I am very good.”

Faced with Xiao Jiang who showed his cleverness, Zhang Qiu couldn’t bear to say anything. His son was different from ordinary children. He was also a novice Dad. He gropes for each other on his way to education. He touched his son’s face. “Be good, the movie has started. We should go in.”

Better let the little ghost friend go!

A family of three went in. Zhang Qiu found Xiao Jiang looking back while baring his small tiger’s teeth and knew the little ghost friend was following. He poked Li Shu’s arm next to him and whispered, “You take care of it.”

Li Shu stopped, slightly turned his head and glanced at the back.

Xiao Jiang jumped forward happily. “Haha, he was scared away! Coward little ghost!”

Zhang Qiu was speechless at once. He wanted Li Shu to take care of Xiao Jiang, not the little fat ghost!

When they got in the broadcasting hall, the first time Xiao Jiang was curious to see everything. He sat on his chair assuming a clever (child) posture. As soon as the animation was put on, he was unable to take his eyes off for a while. When he saw a happy scene, a small dimple showed and he laughed without making any sound at all.

Zhang Qiu watched halfway and had to go to the toilet, having drink too much. He pulled Li Shu’s sleeve and whispered, “I’ll go to the bathroom. You look after Xiao Jiang.”

“I’ll go with you.”

“I’m not schoolboy who has to go to the bathroom hand in hand.” Zhang Qiu got up in a hurry and halfway through, he thought that maybe he could do something after using to the toilet. Why did he not think of such a great opportunity?

You looked at Pei Qing, he was thinking about intimacy twenty minutes before boarding the plane. He (ZQ) really had no brain at all.

Zhang Qiu regretted it, but he had come out and could not call Li Shu. He could not say that he was afraid to go to the toilet alone. There was no ghost in the toilet.

Wait until he was washing hands after using the toilet, Zhang Qiu really wanted to hit his face; crow’s mouth!

Red skirt flashed in the mirror, with long black natural curly hair and deathly pale face. In the mirror, a slender bony hand stretched slowly to his waist, and a whole side face leaned on his shoulder. Zhang Qiu saw his own face in the mirror was almost stiff. He simply continued pretending that he saw nothing, and quickly sided. The ghost behind pounced into the air and the originally gentle face suddenly turned fierce, tongue immediately extended longer and eyeballs protruded.

Zhang Qiu touched his windbreaker pocket for a small fruit knife. He didn’t know whether it was useful to deal with ghosts.

“I advise you to stop and go enter reincarnation as soon as possible.” He put on the appearance of a huckster that he learnt from Erge, and said very profoundly in an easy manner: “You do not belong to this world anymore, why persist?”

As Zhang Qiu’s cover was over, he saw the ghost’s fierce face coming near.

He immediately rained curses and quickly dodged. He went towards the door, and who would have known that the door handle could not be opened. The ghost grinned grimly, “You do not love me, you did not love me, we end in mutual destruction, end in mutual destruction.”

“Sister, you are fair-skin and beautiful. I am not match with you!” Zhang Qiu’s mouth said carelessly while his hands exerted too much force and the doorknob was pulled down, yet the door was still closed tightly. Zhang Qiu easily smashed the doorknob over. The female ghost had some human’s consciousness and subconsciously dodged. The female ghost was soon irritated, and the originally beautiful face, opened a large mouth to Zhang Qiu’s side.

Fuck!

Right now Zhang Qiu really regretted not letting Li Shu come here just now, but now it was not the time to talk about this. He and the female ghost were fighting around in the toilet; nobody could get any advantage over. It was annoying enough.

“Bang——”

The door suddenly opened and Zhang Qiu looked back. Li Shu stood at the door with a cold face and he exclaimed happily, “Xiao Shushu, you are here!”

Li Shu’s heart surprisingly was tickled a bit when he heard this name calling, but his face was still the same as before.

Ding-ding-ling-ling.

When the female ghost heard the sound of the bell, she screamed in horror. The whole ghost trembled as if it had been pinned in place.

Xiao Jiang came in and snorted unhappily, “Beat you to death for hurting my Daddy.”

“Dare not, dare not.” The female ghost begged pitifully for mercy.

Zhang Qiu was thinking that people could distinguish good and bad and the same were for the ghosts. The female ghost in front of him obviously met a dead end, only saying these words now but when the female ghost first chanced upon him alone, she didn’t have any leniency towards him. However, to be frightened stiff and what not was too exaggerated. Zhang Qiu asked Xiao Jiang if he has the ability to dispel persistent resentment but Xiao Jiang hadn’t learned it yet. So it was decided to pack it back and give it to Erge.

“By the way, why are you all here?”

Xiao Jiang was a little unhappy but said, “That little fat ghost who loves crying told.”

How nice of you to nickname people like that?! Zhang Qiu touched his son’s head. “You can’t nickname the little ghost friend.”

Only after the ghosts were packed that Zhang Qiu found that neither the female ghost nor little fat ghost could come out of the shopping mall. The female ghost died three days ago. She was unable to get over it because of her emotional disputes. She was supposed to have been on date with her boyfriend at the cinema, but because of a small dispute she was in a low mood. There was always a voice in her mind that told her to die as retaliation for her boyfriend making her miserable. Ultimately, she chose to commit suicide in the toilet. [What?? NO NO cherish yourself]

Because she wore a red skirt at that time of date and the toilet was a Yin place, it merely took three days later for her to have a tendency of wraith and malicious spirit.

The little fat ghost was crossing the street with his mama towards the shopping mall, and was carelessly hit. In the end, he was in the cinema after his death and could not leave no matter what. However, it happened ten days ago.

Now both ghosts looked at Zhang Qiu and the others pitifully. The female ghost asked to enter reincarnation. The little fat ghost asked him to let him go home. He wanted to see his mama.

Zhang Qiu had a headache. He was not familiar with this kind of business.

There was no other way, so he took his mobile phone and called Erge. In the phone, Erge seemed to be in a good mood. After a brief talk, he reported the address. Zhang YuShui on the other end of the phone listened, frowned and said, “Where? Well, I know I’ll be there soon. When I first passed by that place, I found something wrong. The evil Qi there is relatively heavy.”

Ten minutes later, Zhang Yu Shui arrived. After sending the female ghost to enter reincarnation, he said, “Sure enough, the feng shui here was altered by people. The evil Qi is too thick. Not to mention it is unfavorable to make money, in the long run, it’s easy for people to die here. The trapped departed spirit will deepen the Yin and evil Qi; it will be a vicious circle in the long run. If the boss at the back wanted to compensate, probably even a pants would not be left.”

Zhang Qiu also found that there was a shopping mall at the crossing, several hundred meters away. That mall’s front yard was as busy as a marketplace with many people, while this mall was very desolate. He would not have chosen this one if he hadn’t eaten breakfast near here.

“It is very possibly an industrial competition.” Zhang YuShui laughed. “It seems that I will have milk powder money in my pocket again, depending on whether the boss believes it or not!” After that, he looked down at the little fat ghost, smiled and said, “Where is your home, boy? It happens that today——”

Zhang Qiu saw Erge, who was talking well, suddenly changed face. Then he heard, “No good, something happened to Xiao Ling.”

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Xah: Death is inevitable but not invitable. So don’t seek death.

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