Chapter 77

Chapter 77: The Heirloom Jade Seal of the Realm [1]

Translator: Xah

At the beginning, Zhang Yushui paid bribe to the Underworld; it was purely for Xiao Lin’s reincarnation journey so that he didn’t get bullied when he arrived in the Underworld. It was totally unexpected that the Underworld’s people took the huge bribe and looked at the cheerful, tall and big Xiao Lin, who had a good physique, looked also fierce and courageous enough and did not seem scary, which were suitable for this business of guarding the little ghosts.

Hence, Xiao Lin was clapped on the shoulder and was asked if he would like to work in Hell as a messenger. Of course, people now called it in a trendy name; a civil servant.

“Boss said that I’m now in the internship period. I can take three days off a month, black and white for two nights. If my performance is good, my bonus will be high. Plus, housing in the Underworld is neither expensive. If I become a full-time employee, I will get two days off and my salary will doubled. I can even stay on the Surface on my day off. I think that maybe I will not have such a good job opportunity if I reincarnate. It’s better to stay. Anyway, my life is good now.” Xiao Lin said happily.

Zhang Qiu heard Xiao Lin’s talking nonsense about these reasons, but most fundamental reason was that Xiao Lin couldn’t forget Lin Jiahe.

“Staying on the Surface on your days off is for the convenient to peep at your Young Master.” Qi Xi said with a laugh: “It’s really convenient. Also, your Young Master is not married and now he is broken-hearted because of your death.”

Xiao Lin’s expression looked awkward, clearly shown what Qi Xi said was right. After a moment’s stupefaction, he realized. He grabbed Qi Xi’s sleeve and said anxiously: “Young Master is not married? Why? How does he know I’m dead?”

“You don’t know?” Zhang Qiu thought Xiao Lin knew Lin Jiahe did not marry before he stayed [in Underworld]. Lin Jiahe could be regarded as the local talented youth and highly eligible bachelor. Su family was also a famous local family. The whole city knew about the hype of the two families joining by marriage. On the wedding day, Lin Jiahe fled on the spot. No need to use the brain to know that it had become the hot topic of idle conversation.

The white faced man beside him said coldly: “Do you guys think our Hell is so careless to find civil servants? Can let him take over the duty without pre-job training?”

“I really don’t know. I just wanted to have a look at Young Master secretly. After he got married and had a baby, I can help him watch over some things, but I didn’t think it would turn this way.” Xiao Lin whispered.

The white faced man next to him scolded: “why are you being so shy just for liking a loathsome man? I say, you are most unfortunate but as my apprentice, can’t you be strong-willed, otherwise you’re growing to such a tall stature in vain; really annoyed me. Are you that bastard Old Hei’s mole, squeezing in here to deliberately ruin my performance?”

Old Hei was the one who asked Xiao Lin if he wanted to stay as a civil servant.

Xiao Lin waved his hands in fright and shook his head like a rattle, which made Zhang Qiu, who watched him, felt dizzy.

The white faced man snorted, “I’m afraid you don’t dare.”

Xiao Lin was a little dizzy. At that time, Officer Hei knew that he liked his Young Master and asked him to report at this side.

“Today is my first day out as intern.” Xiao Lin took a look at them and said, “I can take a day off in two days. I’ll talk to you guys later.”

Zhang Yushui looked at Xiao Lin with a smile and joked, “You’re willing to come to see us for that one day off?”

Xiao Lin’s face showed embarrassment and said honestly, “I, I’ll wait until Young Master went to sleep before I went to see you guys.” He glanced at Boss Bai, whose face was dark and aware that it was time of work and did not dare to slack off as he hurriedly said, “I’ll work first, and then I’ll look for you guys on day off.”

“Work hard.” Zhang Qiu wanted to pat Xiao Lin on the shoulder, but then thought that no one else could see Xiao Lin and if he did pat, people would think he was insane, so he quitted.

The white faced man and Xiao Lin had already finished their work. They could still hear the white faced man’s angry words to Xiao Lin from afar.

“I didn’t rush you. You looked so scared like a quail. Forget it. It’s still me who coax you after scolding and making you cry; so annoying. The bastard Old Hei really doesn’t let me be worry-free…”

Xiao Lin was working in Hell now and it was unknown whether it’s good or not, but as long as Xiao Lin was happy, it’s good.

The group of several people returned to the hotel.

Zhang Qiu and Xiao Jiang took Lao Er to the bathroom. The bathtub was full of water. Xiao Jiang took out many precious toys from his Cars Backpack and put his most favorite yellow duck in the water. He was so happy that his dimples were out as he stared at the crimson fog.

“Meimei, Meimei, Gege give you my duck to play. It’s fun to float on it!” Xiao Jiang’s chubby fingers carefully touched his beloved Meimei and not a moment later, he was so happy that his tiger teeth appeared as he said to Zhang Qiu, “Daddy, Meimei is playing with me. So lovely.”

Zhang Qiu came in after he grabbed some clothes and saw the crimson fog of Lao Er vaporized into a continuous stream and surrounded Xiao Jiang’s fingers. Xiao Jiang’s face was red as he giggled in happiness.

Despite not knowing what fun it was, Zhang Qiu also wanted to be nuzzled by Lao Er.

So when Li Shu came in, he saw the father and son lying on the edge of the bathtub with butts stuck out as they teased Lao Er.

When Li Shu’s eyes moved to certain someone’s round and full butt, the crimson in his pupils got stronger. Zhang Qiu moved his hips as he was feeling a chill in the back. As soon as he looked back, he saw Li Shu’s perfectly enlarged face, tightly clinging to his back and there was something hard poking on his butt.

Zhang Qiu blushed, “what are you doing with the children are still here?”

“What do you say I want to do?” Li Shu lifted up the corner of his lips as he asked in reply.

Zhang Qiu laughed at the ‘do’ word and scolded the hooligan in a low voice. As a result, Hooligan Li became a real hooligan just as Zhang Qiu thought. However, with Xiao Jiang at the side, Li Shu didn’t dare to go too far. They clung to each other for a while just like a sticker. Zhang Qiu’s heart itched and couldn’t help but hold the other person’s eyes.

“Xiao Jiang, Daddy hands over this arduous and sacred thing to you.” Zhang Qiu thickened his skin and couldn’t speak well while facing his son’s simple and cute eyes. Li Shu hugged Zhang Qiu’s waist and said in a low voice, “you help Didi take a bath. Didi may like to play with the yellow duck, just like you did before.”

Xiao Jiang’s eyes twinkled and nodded in all seriousness. He patted his chest as he promised, “Don’t worry, Daddy, I will help Meimei take a bath.”

Zhang Qiu did not correct Xiao Jiang’s thought of Lao Er as his Meimei, because now he was full of thought of doing something shameless and impetuous with Li Shu. He nodded indifferently, “be careful not to drown.”

“They won’t.” Li Shu held Zhang Qiu’s waist as they went out.

Click, the door was closed tightly.

In the bathroom, Xiao Jiang was holding his beloved meimei in his soft chubby hands. When he saw the crimson fog turned into a ball, he “pupu” smacked his lips on it, “Meimei, you are so sweet.”

There was a muffled gasp outside the door.

“Songbao, don’t be so loud, Xiao Jiang will hear you.”

“You, ah, hand don’t, don’t……”

“It’s been a long time not doing it; you’ll get hurt if I don’t loosen it, darling. Anyway, it seems your lower half doesn’t say no.”

“Ass—asshole!”

Li Shu became a complete asshole and infected Zhang Qiu with his smell from inside to outside. Only in this way, he let go of his hand contentedly, hugged the sleepy man who couldn’t lift his arm and kissed him, “Darling, take a bath and then go to sleep.”

“Sons.” Zhang Qiu sleepily said.

“I’ll take a look.” At this moment, Li Shu thought that it’s not good to have too many children. It was too troublesome.

When the door opened, Xiao Jiang was sitting down beside the bathtub with a bath towel wrapped around him as he dozed off. He was still carrying a crimson fog in his arms. Li Shu reached out to hold Xiao Jiang up. Xiao Jiang squint his eyes, held the fog tightly in his hands and murmured “Meimei”.

“Sleep.” Li Shu carried Xiao Jiang and put him in the small bedroom. Looking back, he saw Zhang Qiu’s naked body lying on the wrinkled white bedspread and his milky white skin was red and mottled. Li Shu’s eyes couldn’t help but went darker and he kissed Zhang Qiu’s red ear. Li Shu’s voice was low as he said, “I’ll take you to the bath.”

Zhang Qiu stopped talking and was too lazy to move, thinking that Li Shu still had a little conscience.

As a result, when he got to the bathroom, he just knew that Li Shu had no conscience as he had hidden his evil heart!!!

The next day, Zhang Qiu slept until the sun was three poles high. His back was aching. Xiao Jiang lay beside his bed with his eyes opened and stared at him with big eyes.

“What is it?”

Xiao Jiang unhappily said: “the little duck I gave Meimei is gone.”

Zhang Qiu knew that little yellow duck was gifted by Hua Hua. His son’s first toy was a treasure. Later, Li Shu lost his memory and Xiao Jiang gave it to Li Shu solemnly. Now it was back in Xiao Jiang’s hands and Xiao Jiang took it out in bath last night for his Meimei to play with.

“It can’t be lost. It must be in the hotel. It was here last night.” Zhang Qiu touched his son’s head and got out of bed by sheer force as he said, “Daddy will help you look—my waist.”

Falling back to bed, Zhang Qiu covered his waist and groaned. He and Li Shu didn’t do it for nearly four months. He didn’t know what came over him last night when initially, he said he didn’t want to do it, but as soon as he saw Li Shu’s face, it was as if he was possessed by the devil and he agreed to do it again. Then the last time was….

How many times did they do it for it to be the last time?

Zhang Qiu couldn’t remember clearly.

“What’s wrong, Daddy?” Xiao Jiang asked worriedly with his head askew and his hands touching Zhang Qiu’s waist, “I’ll rub it for Daddy.”

Zhang Qiu ached and grimaced in pain. Towards his son’s innocent and caring look, he certainly couldn’t say: I was forced by your big Daddy to do such a shameful papapa thing for all night.

“My back hurts for sitting too long in the car. Daddy will help you find the duckling now.” Zhang Qiu moved to get out of bed. Li Shu happened to come in with breakfast when he saw Zhang Qiu get out of bed. Xiao Jiang ran over to hold Big Daddy’s leg and said the duckling was missing.

Li Shu put down the breakfast plate, touched his son’s soft hair top and said to Zhang Qiu, “go wash up and have breakfast first. I will help Xiao Jiang find the little duck.”

Zhang Qiu indeed felt that he couldn’t bend down. He went into the bathroom to brush his teeth and saw that the little duck wasn’t there. Outside the bathroom, Li Shu asked about Xiao Jiang’s Didi. Zhang Qiu was brushing his teeth as he stuck out his head and saw that Xiao Jiang took out the crimson fog from his pajama pocket. As if he had been woken up, the crimson fog scattered little by little, wrapping around Xiao Jiang’s white and delicate fingers.

“Meimei, the little duck is gone!” Xiao Jiang was very happy to see his beautiful Meimei. He touched Meimei’s hair with his pinkie. “I’ll save money for you to buy another.”

Zhang Qiu rinsed his mouth and wiped it. He saw his Lao Er’s just woken up eyes were still wet and misty and his long eyelashes blinking as though he didn’t understand Xiao Jiang’s words. However, Xiao Jiang thought that Lao Er also felt it was a pity that the little duck was gone, so he came over to kiss Lao Er’s hair top and with his little tiger teeth out, he said, “Er Bo said, I can make some little money now!”

Earn what money! Zhang Qiu funnily looked at Xiao Jiang’s small and short stature; no one would believe he could catch ghosts and draw talisman with this appearance.

In the fog, Lao Er rubbed against the soft crimson fog under his body, stretched out, twisted and turned before he sat up. The delicate and beautiful finger twined a strand of red fog and within the red fog was a little yellow.

Zhang Qiu was surprised when he saw it. Xiao Jiang opened his mouth slightly as he pointed at something that gradually appeared inside the crimson fog and said, “Little duck!”

All of the disappeared little yellow duck was exposed and was lifted to Xiao Jiang by the red fog. Lao Er’s eyes were bent down and the cinnabar mole at the bottom of the eye looked beautiful like a red glimmer.

“Gege, ducky[1].”

The soft childish voice was very small but when Zhang Qiu heard it, his heart was almost softened into a pool of water. His family’s Lao Er was really a soft little angel, but the first sentence of Lao Er was gege [gurgle]. Zhang Qiu pinched Xiao Jiang’s chubby cheek; stinky boy, I am so envious.

Xiao Jiang was so happy that he jumped in place, almost flying.

“Meimei is so clever.”

Zhang Qiu face-palmed. “Dear son, it’s actually Didi.” He moved his hand to lift Lao Er’s long hair that obscured his body, but Lao Er, whose face red in embarrassment softly called Daddy. Immediately, Zhang Qiu abandoned his principal; whatever Meimei or Didi were all left aside as he only had his prosperous beautiful[2] Lao Er in his eyes.

At the side, Li Shu couldn’t help but shook his head and kissed Zhang Qiu’s face. “Eat first. Didn’t you say that you wanted to buy milk powder and clothes?”

“Yes, yes.” Zhang Qiu’s mouth said that but his eyes were glued onto Lao Er’s body without moving away. “Tell me, how my genes could be so good!”

Li Shu told a lie with his eyes opened as he curled up his lips and said, “of course, it’s all your credit.”

“You don’t have to be too modest. There are also a little bit of yours.” Zhang Qiu was a bit embarrassed even if he was cheeky. Looking at Li Shu’s perfect face, he gestured with his fingers apart, “This much, it’s not a little bit.”

Sitting down to eat breakfast, Zhang Qiu saw the little yellow duck and thought of the scene just now. He felt excited and said, “That crimson fog of our Lao Er is really awesome. Crimson fog, crimson. Ah, I think of something. Lao Er is named Li XiaoFei.” [Fei=crimson]

Compared with Xiao Hong[3] and Xiao Xiao[4], Li Shu was quite satisfied with this name.

Xiao Jiang also thought it was very pleasant to listen to and he nodded with great support. Zhang Qiu clapped, “Then, Li XiaoFei it is.”

After breakfast, Zhang Qiu and Li Shu, a family of four, went shopping in the mall. His Erge Zhang YuShui was entrusted to make discreet inquire about Yue QinCang’s residence. The Yue family already moved from the villa in Pan Shan, so they could only wait for the news. Meanwhile, Kai Ming’s walking ability remained unchanged and he stayed in the hotel. The tenderhearted Little Ling Dang then took Pei Qing to chat and talk with Kai Ming.

Zhang Qiu bought milk powder first. When they arrived at the toy store, Xiao Jiang’s eyes were bright. He ran to the Barbie Dolls area and stared at it closely. He turned his head and said with his dimples out, “Daddy, buy it for Meimei. Meimei will like it.”

It would be weird if Xiao Fei likes it!

As a result, a strand of red fog came out from Xiao Jiang’s bulging pocket, lively nodding. Zhang Qiu really didn’t know what to say. Did he really have to buy a Barbie Doll for Lao Er?

Zhang Qiu thought that Lao Er might had some misunderstanding about his gender. After all, as soon as he was born, he was always with Xiao Jiang, the “sis-con”. With Xiao Jiang’s nonstop call of “meimei”, it was indeed normal for him to acknowledge this gender. However, this needed to be straightened out.

After buying milk powder and clothes, the family of four returned fully loaded. Xiao Jiang, who also had ice cream and stinky tofu, upon seeing Big Daddy’s face as if avoiding him, he moved his mouth that had just ate stinky tofu nearer to demand a kiss. Li Shu’s face had black lines as he restrained from casting Xiao Jiang away. At the side, Zhang Qiu bent over with a laugh.

Xiao Jiang was deserved to be called his good son.

It was past four o’clock in the afternoon when they went back. For Zhang Qi, who was studying in Xi’an, the winter sun in Chengdu was warm.

Kai Ming was still wearing Li Shu’s clothes, so Zhang Qi didn’t forget to buy two sets of clothes for Kai Ming this time. Li Shu’s face did not look very good and stared at him closely. Zhang Qiu spread out his hands. “I don’t want others to wear your clothes!”

“Are you jealous?” Li Shu asked.

Zhang Qiu thought to himself: it’s obviously you, who are jealous. On the surface, he pretended to be very unhappy and snorted, “As long as you are aware, that’s good.”

Thereupon, Li Shu stopped investigating the matter of Zhang Qiu purchasing clothes for Kai Ming.

Back to the hotel, they went directly to Kai Ming’s room. As soon as the door was opened, everyone was there. Kai Ming’s eyes were dark haze, staring at a corner. Zhang Qiu looked over and it turned out to be Yue QinCang.

Standing at the side, Zhang Yushui said, “This kid came to find us himself.”

Zhang Qiu saw Kai Ming’s ferocious look as if he wanted to peel off Yue QinCang’s skin. He really admired Yue QinCang’s courage to come to the door.

“Sorry, I didn’t discover this until I got back.” Yue QinCang handed Kai Ming the cowhide book in his hand. Kai Ming didn’t answer. He stared at Yue QinCang with fierce eyes. “Do you know what you’ve moved [from my body], boy?”

Yue QinCang braved himself and looked back.

“I know; Gold Bone. The people who came to find me said that.”

“Then you know what the Gold Bone meant to me?”

Yue QinCang shook his head. “At the beginning, they said they could avenge my dad on the condition of exchanging with the Gold Bone. She awakened my strength, taught me to paint the Jade Bi with the tip of my tongue before opening the coffin. I didn’t believe these things, but as long as I could avenge my dad, I wanted to try. I thought that the characters in the mythological story, even if they really existed, they would be only bones. I had not, had not imagined once I opened the coffin, you looked like a living person and I was scared shock.”

“Are you the guardian?” Kai Ming reached for the notebook with a mockery in his eyes.

Standing at the back, Zhang Qiu saw Yue DongHui’s words. The main point was the guardian of Kai Ming Dynasty, the capital of Shu was inherited in the family However, Yue DongHui was dubious all the time, because there was no Jade Bi of which had been passed down through spoken words from his ancestor’s era. By chance, Yue DongHui got the Jade Bi and he began to really believe that their Yue family was the guardian of Bie Ling.

Yue DongHui was only interested in this and specially invited scholars to study the Jade Bi. As a result, the news of Gao Zhihao’s design of killing and looting reached his ears.

“This book was given to me by the professor who came back after an exchange program. Only then I know…” Yue DongHui was ashamed, yet he didn’t regret killing Gao Zhihao, merely didn’t expect Kai Ming was a living man. Now, he had taken the Gold Bone which resulted in the man couldn’t walk on his legs.

Zhang Qiu didn’t know what to say. If he didn’t meet Li Shu and broke his three world views, maybe he would be like Yue QinCang, avenging his father first before the discovering the truth.

Yue QinCang said, “Why not you break my leg and I’ll compensate you greatly?”

Hearing Yue QinCang’s words, the whole hotel room turned silence. This was like children playing house; if you broke something, you needed to pay for it as it was. Kai Ming looked up and down at Yue QinCang before he said, “put your arm out.”

Wearing a shirt, Yue QinCang handed his arm over as his mouth said, “Breaking my hand is also fine.” He wore an expression of sacrifice oneself for salvation.

Zip.

“Why are you tearing my shirt?” Yue QinCang immediately shut up once he saw Kai Ming’s cold, grim eyes.

Zhang Qiu noticed that there was a scar on Yue QinCang’s arm. It was pink and looked like a centipede was slanting from the wrist to the arm joint. When they fell into the water, Zhang Qiu saw it. At that time, he thought it was a scratch when Yue QinCang came down. Now it seemed that was not the case.

“Ah, this one! That woman slashed me here and it didn’t hurt very much.”

“Who cares whether you were hurt or not.” Kai Ming said coldly: “It should be on your neck.” Then, he lifted his sleeve up a little, exposing the black armor plates and directly grabbed a piece before he torn it off. His white skin was bleeding but Kai Ming ignored it, as if it was not him who was injured.

One hand held the artery point of Yue QinCang, while the other hand moved very fast. Zhang Qiu hadn’t seen it clearly yet but the armor piece in Kai Ming’s hand had disappeared in Yue QinCang’s artery.

Yue QinCang covered his arm as he screamed and cried. Soon, there appeared big droplet of sweat on Yue QinCang’s forehead and he was surprised to see that pink scar on Yue QinCang’s arm looked like it was squirming. The skin above the artery broke a small opening and a soft green long worm came out.

“Kill it.” Kai Ming said.

Pei Qing held a small fruit knife in his hand and stabbed the worm directly when it fell to the ground which nailed it onto the floor. It didn’t take long for the still alive worm to slowly turn into ashes.

The originally pink scar of Yue QinCang then disappeared, leaving only the mark of the black oval plate on the artery point.

“What is that?”

“Demonic insect.” Kai Ming frowned as he said: “At that time, magic was prevalent and the demonic insect could enhance people’s potential, which was not noticed at ordinary times, but when the master wanted to manipulate the subject, the subject would lose consciousness.”

Unknowingly, Yue QinCang had become the puppet of the other party. Fortunately, Kai Ming discovered it early.

“What does that mean?” Yue QinCang’s complexion had recovered and he pointed to the black mark on the artery.

Kai Ming’s lips showed a fierce smile, “now you have become my servant. If you dare to resist my command, I will make your life worse than death.”

Zhang Qiu wanted to say that Kai Ming might have been playing with Yue QinCang, but it’s hard to say that when he saw the sinister in Kai Ming’s eyes. Anyway, the resentment between Kai Ming and Yue QinCang would be solved by themselves. Right now, he wanted to know the information about the woman.

“She’s a Chinese American with an ABC accent[5]. She’s about 1.7 meter tall and pretty good-looking with a good figure. By the way, when I handed the Gold Bone in, Pei Qing pulled off her sleeve and there was the same scar as mine with the demonic insect on her arm.” After that Yue QinCang ah-ed, “I have her picture on my phone.”

Zhang Qiu didn’t know how to describe Yue QinCang, who didn’t take out any photos earlier.

“Forget it, I even took it secretly.” Yue QinCang took out the mobile phone, rummaged through the photo album before he quickly found it and handed the phone to them.

The angle of the photo was not good, only captured half of the body shape while the other half was blocked by a man who looked like a thug. She was Chinese with wheat skin tone and head held high but looked unlike the traditional beauty. She was tall, with thin eyebrows, thin lips, high nose and narrow eyes. She was on the phone in the photo.

Even if there was a photo, they still didn’t know the other party at present. It would be fine if Qi Zhirong was here, he should know more than they did after he had investigated for so long.

Zhang Qiu looked at Qi Xi. All along, Qi Xi was not particularly in a mood as he was looking out of the window and no one knew what he thinking.

At present, all the clues were pointing towards only Christine, a Chinese woman. They did not have the Jade Bi, no map and even the Gold Bone was gone. They were always being held back by the other party from moving forward. This kind of feeling was really annoying.

Zhang Qiu and company went out. Inside the room was Kai Ming’s voice instructed Yue QinCang to take him to bath and change his clothes.

“Qi Xi, there is an express delivery at the door of your room. What did you buy and who send it here?” Zhang Qiu stared at the box. The package didn’t even have the express logistics list on it.

Xiao Jiang moved his nose. “Daddy, there’s blood in it.”

Qi Xi held the box in his hands. He didn’t know why his heart suddenly ached and his eyelids kept twitching. This feeling was getting stronger and stronger.

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Note:

[1] Xiao Fei couldn’t pronounced gege [big bro] so he actually said 咯咯    [gē gē]=(onom.) gurgle, and ya ya for duck duck

[2] A web word describing extremely beautiful boys

[3] Little Red

[4] Little little

[5] American-born Chinese accent

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