allonlinenovel Chapter 275 Like giving alms
Chapter 275 Like giving alms
Chapter 275 Like giving alms
"What did you talk about with your father?"
Qin Xiuyun still had to take care of Qin Jichen until he woke up. Qin Xiao found a silver needle as long as his arm and several as long as his palm, and stabbed the longest one along the back of the man's neck, leaving only a short part exposed, and the rest were vertically stabbed into the top of the skull, throat, chest, navel, lower abdomen, and elbow joints of the limbs, and Qin Xiuyun was told not to take them out.
"This can seal his meridians. Even if he wakes up, his Qi won't be able to circulate and his body won't be able to move. It won't be able to eat away at his physical strength. Don't worry." Qin Xiao explained while pinching the man's chin and feeding him a pitch-black pill. "This can suppress the poison."
It was the first time that Qin Xiuyun saw Qin Xiao display such a skill. He felt somewhat curious and nodded repeatedly in response to Qin Xiao's instructions.
After Qin Xiao explained everything, he felt a little tired, so he left with Mo Hanyu.
On the way, Mo Hanyu asked about the communication between the two.
"You'll know once you think about it, right? Why are you asking me?"
Unexpectedly, Qin Xiao gave him a cold look and strode forward without looking back.
Mo Hanyu felt something was wrong: "What's wrong with you?"
Qin Xiao sneered: "What can I do? Of course--"
Mo Hanyu suddenly grabbed his wrist and probed it to check.
Qin Xiao froze and tried to shake him off, but was held tightly.
"Let go." Qin Xiao's face darkened.
Mo Hanyu checked for a week and confirmed that there was no remaining poison, then he immediately let go.
He was indeed angry.
"Why...are you angry?"
Mo Hanyu trotted to catch up with Qin Xiao, still confused.
"Don't you think about it? Think about it again?" Qin Xiao smiled, but his eyes were cold.
Mo Hanyu's heart trembled.
Qin Xiao said so, and he was not a fool, so he naturally understood why he was angry.
"Are you blaming me for misusing that ability? But I told you I was just trying to help you, and you weren't the one when I did it before—"
"Is this what I am angry about?!" Qin Xiao looked at him suddenly and saw his confused face. He took a deep breath, grabbed his wrist and quickly went to his residence.
Miao Kaijie and Lan Huaiqiu had not returned yet, so Qin Xiao threw them on the bed and unbuttoned the collar of his coat in annoyance.
"My father was still there at the time, didn't you see it?!" Qin Xiao took off his coat and sat next to him, "How can you be so bold? It's so bright, your eyes——"
Qin Xiao grabbed his cheek and tapped his temple twice: "Do you know that every time you use that ability, it's almost like the words "I have a weirdness" are written on your face?"
Mo Hanyu felt pain and wanted to refute, but Qin Xiao's expression was so gloomy that it was a little scary.
"You're my dad today, okay. Have you thought about the future? You don't even have the ability to protect yourself now, how dare you show it so nakedly?"
"I will use it because he is your father." Mo Hanyu struggled to escape from his hand and held Qin Xiao's hand. "Because I believe in you, I also believe in your father. You won't hurt me."
Qin Xiao paused.
Mo Hanyu stared at his slightly red eyes, gently pinched his palm, and said gently: "Listen to me, I'm not a fool. I can understand what you said, and I will remember it. If something like this happens again in the future, I will communicate with you privately."
"I just saw that you were so upset, so I wanted to help you." Mo Hanyu's eyes had long since returned to their icy blue color, and they were as gentle as a spring. "You also know that if I wanted to, I would immediately know the murderer behind the scenes. But I didn't, right? Because I know you don't want me to get involved, and you'd rather figure it out slowly yourself."
"You're overthinking it. I just want to find someone who can be held responsible for this matter as soon as possible." Qin Xiao said coldly.
Mo Hanyu was still not annoyed: "That was my wrong guess."
Qin Xiao looked at him for a few seconds and fell silent.
"Do you want to know what happened between me and Mo Ze?" Qin Xiao asked suddenly.
Mo Hanyu was stunned: "I do want to know, but——"
"I can tell you." Unexpectedly, Qin Xiao looked at him, "But we have to wait until we get back."
"Of course." Mo Hanyu was overjoyed, but suddenly felt a little uneasy, "Why did you suddenly say this?"
"Nothing, it just suddenly occurred to me."
"Was it your father? The one who saw those memories?"
An ordinary person would not like his probing questions, but Qin Xiao was not displeased at all.
"Half." Qin Xiao lay on the bed tiredly, his bangs lifted, his clothes disheveled, his collar buttoned down to below his collarbone, "You don't want to listen?"
"……Do not."
Mo Hanyu suddenly discovered a red mole on Qin Xiao's neck, which could not be seen without careful observation.
The cold fingers slid across the collarbone, Qin Xiao lifted his eyelids and looked at him half tiredly. Mo Hanyu lowered his eyelids, gently rolled his fingertips over the smooth skin, and pulled up the jade pendant hanging on his neck.
Perhaps because it has been worn for many years, the surface of the jade pendant has a watery sheen and the dense cracks in it seem to have diminished.
"This...how did it break?" Mo Hanyu asked softly.
"……forget."
Of course Mo Hanyu wouldn't believe it, but he thought something painful must have happened to him...
Mo Hanyu lowered his eyes: "You make me feel a little uneasy when you say that."
"Why?" Qin Xiao looked at him.
"Don't you know?" Mo Hanyu turned his head to look at him, "People who usually make such promises usually don't keep their promises."
Qin Xiao:……?
"It's like saying things like 'We'll get married after this war', 'My daughter is waiting for me at home', 'We'll live in seclusion after this is over'... Usually, people die after saying these things." Mo Hanyu said seriously.
"Where did you hear this?"
"…In the novel."
Qin Xiao: ...
Perhaps because Qin Xiao's eyes were too strange, Mo Hanyu added: "But these are also--"
"This kind of setting is just something the writer uses to make people cry, right?" Qin Xiao looked at him with disdain, pulling the corner of his mouth, "Can you be more mature?"
"I'm only twelve this year." Mo Hanyu was dissatisfied.
"If I remember correctly, you are a few months older than me." Qin Xiao said faintly.
"So what?" Mo Hanyu curled his lips.
Qin Xiao shook his head and slowly got into bed: "I'll sleep for a while."
"Oh……"
Mo Hanyu knew that he had not been sleeping well recently and nodded in agreement.
When Qin Xiao woke up again, it was already dark, the door was closed, and everything around was quiet.
When he opened the door, he found that Lan Huaiqiu and Miao Kaijie had returned and were sitting cross-legged on the bed with Mo Hanyu, chatting about something.
"…Are you sure?"
I don’t know what they talked about before, Mo Hanyu frowned and looked solemn.
"Anyway, I'm sure." Miao Kaijie still looked nonchalant. He shrugged his shoulders, glanced at him leaving the house, and greeted him with a smile.
"Me... me too." Lan Huaiqiu picked at his fingers, a little nervous. When he noticed Qin Xiao coming out, he nodded at him.
Qin Xiao nodded in agreement one by one.
"What's wrong?" Qin Xiao asked, sitting next to Mo Hanyu.
Mo Hanyu looked at him with a dark look in his eyes: "They don't plan to transfer."
Qin Xiao was a little surprised: "Why?"
"Why so many whys? If you don't want to think about it, then you don't want to think about it." Miao Kaijie lay down on his side, supporting his head with his right hand, and said nonchalantly.
"There must be a lot of rules here, trouble."
Although Lan Huaiqiu's reason was not as casual as his, it could still be called bizarre: "I feel... a little uneasy. I've finally gotten to know the people there, and now I'm going to a new environment..."
Lan Huaiqiu was a little embarrassed: "It's too troublesome."
Mo Hanyu looked at Qin Xiao.
Even a fool can figure out that the future here will be better than in Yushi. Whether it is resources, teaching materials, venues or other conditions, they are incomparable to Yushi.
But these two people seemed to be blind to it and only focused on the details.
Qin Xiao didn't think there was anything wrong: "Forget it then."
Lan Huaiqiu was a little surprised to see him agree so easily: "I thought you would persuade me."
"Why?" Qin Xiao was puzzled. "This is your own choice."
"...That's it." Lan Huaiqiu smiled and looked at Mo Hanyu.
Seeing this, Mo Hanyu said nothing.
"…So, what's the situation now?"
After listening to Qin Xiao's experiences over the past two days, Miao Lan and the others raised questions.
"Actually, it has nothing to do with me anymore. In my brother's case, I only need to prove that his mentor was indeed poisoned." Qin Xiao had contacted Qin Xiuyun before this and was told that Shan Qiushi would arrive tomorrow afternoon. "I have an appointment with the people from my mother's clan tomorrow morning. After I prove it in the afternoon, I can go back after my brother wakes up in two days."
Qin Xiao said, looking at Lan Huaiqiu: "Haven't you finished your work? You don't plan to stay here. If you want to go back, let Qiongqi take you back tomorrow."
"No, no." Lan Huaiqiu shook his head quickly, "I'll just go with you guys."
Miao Kaijie also expressed his approval.
In that case, Qin Xiao didn't say much.
"But why haven't you finished talking yet? I remember you said it before?" Miao Kaijie vaguely remembered that Qin Xiao mentioned talking to the Pei family a few days ago.
Qin Xiao: “…I forgot.”
Miao Kaijie: ...
The next day.
Qin Xiao asked the Pei family to meet at Yuxi Pavilion. Three people from the Pei family came, and fortunately Qin Jichen's room was large enough to accommodate so many people.
Mo Hanyu also came, but his task was to stay in the inner room with Qiongqi to prevent him from going berserk.
Qiongqi shrugged off Qin Xiao's worries.
Two young men and an old man came to the Pei family. Qin Xiao always felt that one of the young men looked familiar.
"You invited us here, have you thought it through?" the young man, who was not familiar with the man, spoke with a haughty tone.
The familiar young man frowned slightly, as if he wanted to say something, but the old man remained indifferent.
"Ah, I wanted to say something." Qin Xiao looked at him, "I heard that the Pei family wants to recognize me?"
"It's not recognition, it's letting you come to the Pei family to practice." The unfamiliar young man half-closed his eyes, and it was impossible to tell whether he was happy or angry. "The Pei family can ask a master to guide you, and can also help you improve your strength. You have a high talent, and there is a good chance that you will surpass Qin Jichen."
"Then what identity should I go with? What kind of return does the Pei family want for all their efforts?" Qin Xiao asked.
"Of course it's a disciple of the Pei family."
"But my last name is Qin."
"Can't you change your last name?" The man said coldly, "The Qin family is a small family. The resources and connections are not as good as the Pei family. What's there to remember?"
Qin Xiao frowned but said nothing.
"Uncle, that's a bit too much." The familiar young man finally couldn't help but speak and looked at Qin Xiao, "Do you still remember me?"
"I don't remember." Qin Xiao told the truth.
"Stop, why are you wasting time talking to him?" The man stretched out his hand, and the golden ring on his index finger flashed with light, and a mountain of crystals suddenly piled up on his hand. "You can recognize crystals of this level, right?"
Just like buying and selling in the ordinary world, when people become wealthy to a certain extent, the items they exchange are no longer gold and silver, but more rare jewels and jade.
The same is true in the Qi cultivation world, but the items used are called Lingjing.
Spirit crystals are divided into two types: flawed and flawless, with flawed being the most common. The limit is to find only one flawless crystal out of thousands.
And what the young man was holding in his hand was a flawless crystal.
Although Qin Xiao had always used gold, silver and copper coins, he had seen people trading in this way in Luo Yunjin's casino before. Because the crystal was too dazzling, he remembered it.
The spirit crystal contains Qi, and unlike the magic crystal, it can be absorbed by the cultivator steadily and without any risk.
"I have seen it, so what?" Qin Xiao was unmoved.
"Then do you know that one of them is worth tens of thousands of gold coins?" The young man saw that he looked indifferent and did not believe in evil.
"I know, what next?"
youth:……
The young man was surprised, he felt that he had hinted very clearly.
"You still don't want to go back to the Pei family?" Pei Zhixing finally couldn't stand his uncle's stupidity anymore and asked Qin Xiao.
"Yes." Qin Xiao looked at him, a look of doubt in his eyes.
"My name is Pei Zhixing, we've met before." Pei Zhixing recalled the scene when they first met, feeling a little helpless.
Qin Xiao thought for a while and nodded: "I remember it."
"Can you tell me why you refused?" Pei Zhixing asked, "Is it because... you still blame the Pei family?"
"No." Qin Xiao was puzzled, "I have never blamed you."
"Then... why don't you accept the Pei family's kindness?"
You know, in this Yangtianzhou with convenient transportation and prosperous economy, the Pei family is truly rich enough to rival a country, and the only family that can compete with it is the Yu family.
Although the Yu family can compete with them in terms of money and connections, the Pei family has produced three people in the Heavenly Realm in a row, so the gap in strength is extremely large.
For ordinary people, being able to enter the Pei family is a matter of gratitude to heaven and ancestors. Even the lowest-level cook is vying for the job. The only reason is that the rewards are too much.
The Pei family could give rewards just for a few months' expenses of an ordinary family, and precious and rare herbs were also given at will. Looking at the entire Yangtianzhou and several surrounding towns, no family was more generous than the Pei family.
No one could refuse the olive branch extended by the Pei family.
It would be stupid to reject the goodwill of such a family, unless you are crazy.
Pei Zhixing also thought so before, until he met Qin Xiao.
Not only did he refuse, he also pointed at him and cursed at him.
For Pei Zhixing, who had been smooth sailing since childhood, this was simply unheard of.
“Because I don’t think it’s well-intentioned.”
As expected, Qin Xiao said indifferently.
“It feels like alms.”