Originated from mountains and seas, life never ends

Chapter 168 Gu

Qin Xiao was pulled by Mo Hanyu to a river bank in the garden. There were lawns on both sides of the river, and no one was around. Only the faint chirping of insects and the gurgling of water could be heard in the grass.

Although it was already autumn, there were still many insects hiding in the grass, but these were nothing to Mo Hanyu and Qin Xiao, who had lived in the mountains for several years. The two sat there and talked until the crescent moon rose.

"...In that case, the situation is indeed very complicated." Mo Hanyu rubbed his temple, his face showing a hint of pain.

What he thought turned out to be true.

Mo Hanyu's eyelashes trembled slightly, and his mind was still sorting out the information he had received.

Xiao’s good friend in his previous life... turned out to be the current emperor.

And what they said...

Mo Hanyu suddenly hesitated.

Can I really tell him something like this?

"...Xiao, you can't tell anyone else about this." Mo Hanyu said seriously. He didn't dare to think about how many people would regard Qin Xiao as a lunatic if this matter was made public, and how many fatal disasters would be caused.

"I know. I didn't want to tell you at first." Qin Xiao looked at him puzzledly. "Isn't this what you always want to ask?"

Mo Hanyu: ...

Mo Hanyu closed his eyes.

It was so well said that he couldn't refute it.

"What do you think those people from Lei Ting want to do? The person Li Yun mentioned should be the mother of Yin Xihui's brother, right?" Qin Xiao saw that he didn't speak, so he lay gently on the grass, looking at the bright moon in the sky, and asked himself.

"Hmm." Mo Hanyu thought for a moment and nodded, "Her name is Yu Qingling. She used to be a general. Now she seems to be a royal guard."

Qin Xiao said "hmm" nonchalantly and didn't say anything more.

Mo Hanyu suddenly thought of something and looked at him suddenly: "You just said that she likes Wang Ji?"

Although Mo Hanyu's words could easily be misunderstood, Qin Xiao still understood who he was referring to and nodded.

"She said it was interesting. What's wrong?"

Mo Hanyu stared at Qin Xiao, who was confused, and opened his mouth: "Because, from what I saw before... I felt that she should be very important to you. She has someone she loves, don't you feel anything?"

"Feeling?" Qin Xiao was stunned, and thought for a while, "A little bit."

"What does it feel like?"

"Hmm...how should I put it." Qin Xiao frowned slightly, "It's a bit unexpected. After all, I haven't seen her take a fancy to anyone in such a long time."

"It's not that feeling." Mo Hanyu felt his throat dry and tight, and he felt a little nervous for some reason, "It's just... won't you feel lost?"

"Lost? Why?" Qin Xiao didn't quite understand what he was saying this time.

"It's just... the person who has been with you for so long suddenly has someone more important and whom he likes more. Wouldn't you feel empty?"

Qin Xiao: "No. Isn't it good that she has someone she likes? - Even though I don't like him very much, it's OK as long as she likes him."

Mo Hanyu looked at Qin Xiao's indifferent expression, and his eyes darkened slightly when he thought of his previous life that he had just mentioned.

"Who is she to you?" Mo Hanyu turned to face him, his face full of curiosity. "You told me before that she was an old acquaintance, but from the story you just told, it doesn't seem like she was just a casual acquaintance."

Although Mo Hanyu had never met the other protagonist in the story, she could vaguely sense from Qin Xiao's words that she should like Xiao. It was not the kind of affection between siblings, but the love between lovers.

But... I don’t know what Qin Xiao is thinking.

Judging from his situation, does he treat her as his sister?

"Hmm..." Qin Xiao listened to his words, tilted his head and thought seriously, then suddenly smiled, "My mother also asked this question."

Mo Hanyu:?

Mo Hanyu: "You, your mother?"

Mo Hanyu looked at him blankly, not understanding what he was saying for a moment.

"Yes. My mother also asked me this question when I was one year old."

Qin Xiao thought back to the past. Ever since he first spoke in front of Qin Xiuyun and his mother, his mother had been teasing him from time to time, wanting him to talk more.

Qin Xiao looked at the woman holding the baby toy and waving it in front of him, feeling helpless. Most of the time, she was very cooperative, except for sometimes when she really didn't want to pay attention, she would turn her head and pretend to sleep, and the woman would calm down.

When the woman was sleeping, Qin Xiao would open his eyes and look at her. Perhaps because of his experience in his previous life, he did not have much expectation for his parents in this life. When his so-called parents talked about him, he just watched quietly without any reaction.

He could feel that his mother in this life was completely different from the one in his previous life, but when Qin Xiuyun and his mother waved to him and gave him some toys, he still had no reaction.

Because he didn't know what to do, or how he needed to react to make them happy.

He still remembered that when he was a cradle, the woman would often lean in close, rubbing his cheek affectionately, and gently pinching his unopened palm, her bright eyes full of tenderness.

That soft gaze was like two flames, burning Qin Xiao so much that it hurt.

Adhering to the principle of doing more, making more mistakes, and finding faults when doing less, Qin Xiao never took the initiative to speak, and would only submissively say what a woman wanted to hear when she teased him.

Until one day, Qin Xiuyun asked his mother not to forget something before leaving, but she forgot it completely after Qin Xiuyun left. She hugged Qin Xiao, frowned, and thought for a long time but couldn't figure it out.

"Well...Xiuyun asked me to do something. What was it..." The woman tilted her head, her lips pursed unconsciously, and she was very distressed.

Seeing her like this, Qin Xiao couldn't help but tell her.

"Oh, yes, that's it...eh?!"

The woman nodded, and before she could even begin to feel happy, she was overwhelmed by the shock that surged in like a tide. She looked at Qin Xiao in amazement. Qin Xiao also knew that he had said something wrong, but he didn't know how to make up for it. He could only stare at her, not daring to say anything else.

"What did you just say?" The woman blinked and asked tentatively, "Say it again?"

Qin Xiao blinked and was about to pretend to be asleep when he heard the woman say.

"Don't pretend to be asleep. I've noticed it several times." The woman raised her eyebrows and narrowed her eyes in question.

Qin Xiao heard this and sighed helplessly, trying to argue: "I'm not pretending to sleep."

woman:……

After Qin Xiao finished speaking, he looked at the woman's face again. She was obviously frightened again. She then realized that she had been cheated.

Qin Xiao: ...

In short, it was a pure accident. Seeing her like this, Qin Xiao didn't want to hide it, so he told her what he remembered.

Who would have thought that after listening to him, his mother thought for a long time, and suddenly asked him with a sharp look: "So you didn't speak for a few months to tease me and Xiuyun?"

Qin Xiao: ...

That's not the point.

Qin Xiao explained it to her again, but he didn't expect that she laughed after listening carefully.

"Don't be so nervous, I'm just teasing you."

Qin Xiao: ...

Qin Xiao didn't want to talk to her anymore.

After the woman found out, she did not tell Qin Xiuyun, but told him that it was a little secret between them and asked him not to tell Qin Xiuyun.

Qin Xiao didn't know the reason, nor did he object, so he nodded.

Seeing him like this, the woman smiled with satisfaction.

From then on, the woman chatted with him from time to time and asked him some inexplicable questions.

For example, how old were you in your previous life, whether you had a wife, whether you were a man or a woman, etc.

After Qin Xiao answered honestly, she became interested in his past life again and asked him to tell her about it.

Qin Xiao could feel that the way she looked at him had changed for a while, becoming complicated, ever since she found out that she was in her forties in her previous life and still had the memories of this life. Her words during that period were also full of temptations.

But it seemed that his answer satisfied her, and gradually her eyes returned to their former state.

After she heard about his past life, her expression became a little strange. She stared at him hesitantly, just like Mo Hanyu today, and tentatively asked him how he felt about Meng Liyun.

Qin Xiao felt just as confused at that time as he does now, but he still answered her honestly.

But after hearing his answer, her expression suddenly became somewhat painful, and her eyes were filled with deep pity, and she didn't know for whom it was for.

"...Really? Well...it's okay, haha." She laughed dryly, trying not to say anything and turned her head away.

Qin Xiao didn't understand why she was like this.

"...So, what is your answer?" Mo Hanyu became even more curious after hearing what Qin Xiao said.

"that is……"

I don’t know if it was an illusion, but Qin Xiao’s speech seemed to be much slower.

"——My daughter."

Qin Xiao said without blinking.

Mo Hanyu: ...

He began to understand Qin Xiao's mother's feelings.

So pitiful...

Mo Hanyu's brows twitched, and he looked away, unable to bear to look. He suddenly felt pity for the person he had never met, and there was a hint of pain in his eyes.

If my sister still has a chance...

Mo Hanyu couldn't help but closed his eyes.

"? Why do you have the same expression?" Qin Xiao was even more confused.

Mo Hanyu: "...No, nothing. I'm just curious, why do you think so?"

"Why?" Qin Xiao didn't understand why he had so many whys. "When I met her, she was just that little, dirty, and looked pitiful, so I brought her with me. Then I realized that if she stayed with me, she would be implicated, and she happened to want to find a home, so I entrusted her to someone else."

"She was quite quiet when she was little, but who knew she would become so irresponsible when she grew up." Qin Xiao felt a headache when he thought about the past. "I told her a long time ago that there was nothing good about being with me, but she was still so stubborn... In the end, her adoptive parents were so stubborn because of me..."

Qin Xiao said this with a gloomy look and a hint of hostility in his eyes: "I didn't do it well at the time. If I had cut the grass and eradicated it earlier, there wouldn't have been so many problems later."

"You didn't think about it at the time." Mo Hanyu saw this and comforted him, "You were following the teachings of your master and didn't take the initiative to cause trouble... It's their problem."

"No." Qin Xiao shook his head and said, "Whether it's their fault or not, it's me and the people around me who will be hurt. So I should try my best to avoid this kind of thing from happening, instead of blaming those people after it happens, because this won't cause them any harm."

Mo Hanyu looked at Qin Xiao's eyes filled with resentment, and suddenly understood why his behavior in this life was so different from that of Xiao in the story.

In the story, he just has a cold attitude and is relatively gentle in doing things. He avoids man-made disasters whenever possible and his attitude can even be described as weak. He will only kill them all if they are forced into a desperate situation.

But in the mountains, whether it was 9 and 11 during training, or the attackers and companions he encountered in the mountains later, he wiped them all out with an almost cold-blooded attitude.

...Is it because of her?

Mo Hanyu's eyes flickered as he stared at him.

Qin Xiao turned his head and looked at the river, his voice cold: "I will never let this happen again."

"Ah."

Mo Hanyu put his hand on his shoulder and spoke softly.

"I believe you."

……

"A-choo, ah--a-choo!"

Nangong Huaxue, who was sitting on the soft bed, suddenly sneezed twice, rubbed her nose, and kept her eyes on the screen in her hand, muttering softly: "First thought, then curse... Who is cursing me behind my back?"

"Hua Wujian, Hua Wujian..." Nangong Huaxue looked through the information presented by his subordinates and narrowed his eyes.

Looking at the graceful young man on the screen, Nangong Huaxue had a complicated expression.

This temperament and the sarcastic smile on his face basically confirm that it is him.

Thinking of Qingyi's attitude before, Nangong Huaxue rubbed his face in embarrassment.

Does she really need to find him?

Thinking of his mouth, she felt really conflicted.

But words once spoken are like water spilled, and since she had already asked Xiao, she was too embarrassed to take them back, so she could only wait and see -

Nangong Huaxue's thoughts suddenly stagnated, and she instinctively turned off the light screen. Almost at the same time, the room darkened, and the lights on could not illuminate a single shadow - or rather, shadows were everywhere around.

A bone-chilling chill followed.

There was a slight chill on her back, and a cold hand rested on her shoulder. Before she turned her head, she was embraced by the shadow behind her. At the same time, the shadows on the wall and the ground quickly faded away, converging into the cold air behind her.

"Your Majesty, what are you looking at?"

The cool breath sprayed on her ears. Nangong Huaxue shivered uncontrollably. She felt a little itchy and scratched her ears.

The person behind her didn't hear her answer immediately and seemed a little unhappy, and the hand on her waist tightened a little.

"...Looking at the competition list." Nangong Huaxue said helplessly, injecting Qi. The light screen lit up again, and the list of the competition qualifiers was displayed on the screen.

"I heard that the girl we met a few days ago was scolded by the Thunder and withdrew from the competition." Nangong Huaxue seemed very curious about this and asked.

"It's an obvious provocation, but it didn't work." The man replied uninterested after hearing her say this, and pinched her cheek in dissatisfaction, "Where did your majesty go today?"

Nangong Huaxue's eyes moved slightly: "I went out for a walk, what happened?"

"Did you meet anyone?"

"I met quite a lot of people." Nangong Huaxue looked at the face so close and blinked, "What's wrong with you?"

Wang Ji lowered his eyes, his color became deeper, and he stared at her closely, as if he wanted to see through her.

Being stared at for so long, she felt a little uncomfortable. Nangong Huaxue was about to laugh dryly and turn her head away, but suddenly her eyes fixed, her gaze suddenly became sharp, and her expression changed.

"Where did you go today? What were you doing?"

Although the aura changed only for a short moment, Wang Ji still noticed it. Looking at the emperor with a normal expression, he pulled the corners of his mouth and wanted to laugh.

Wang Ji did laugh: "I met a few unimportant people."

"Really?" Nangong Huaxue casually stretched out her hand, ran it through the hair that hung beside his ear, and tugged it twice casually with her fingers. "But didn't you say it was okay before?"

"Yes." Wang Ji looked at her and suddenly felt a little bored. "But today, Lei Ting Yu Qing Ling came to me and talked about something related to His Majesty."

"Me?" Nangong Huaxue seemed to be stunned for a moment, and wrapped the two strands of hair around her fingers, then calmly took them back, "What did you say about me?"

"…What do you think, Your Majesty?" Wang Ji came closer. At such a close distance, he could even feel the other person's breath.

"How should I know?" Nangong Huaxue frowned, softened his waist and abdomen, and tried to keep some distance.

"Then what do you think?"

Wang Ji continued to move closer, and seemed not to give up easily.

Seeing that she retreated one point and the other party advanced three points, Meng Liyun was silent for a moment and couldn't help asking, "Are you going to let me just lean over?"

Wang Ji was startled, and then he noticed that her back was almost leaning against the bed, and her legs were folded together.

"……Ah."

Wang Ji was silent for a moment, chuckled, and pulled him back by the back.

"If Your Majesty had not hidden, this wouldn't have happened."

Nangong Huaxue was unstable for a moment, grabbing his arm and almost stabbing it into his chest. When she heard what he said, she couldn't help but roll her eyes secretly.

Wang Ji was even clingier tonight than before and insisted on spending the night with her in his arms.

Nangong Huaxue didn't feel much about sleeping in each other's arms, after all, she had slept like that before, but it wasn't the case today.

So she pushed him away, smiling and making excuses for a long time before sending him away.

Although Wang Ji's eyes before he left were very intriguing, Nangong Huaxue was in no mood to think about it. After confirming that he had left, she quickly took out a small sealed glass container from the secret compartment beside the bed, opened her palm, and saw that the hair that had just been pulled from Wang Ji's head was twisting strangely, as if it had some self-awareness.

Gu insect...

Nangong Huaxue looked at the twisting poisonous insect inside the bottle through the bottle, and his eyes grew colder.

There is no concept of Gu in this world.

Or perhaps, the scope of Gu is too small, resulting in people in this world never having heard of these things and having almost no understanding of them.

Before and after she recovered her memory, she had never come into contact with or seen any books or people related to Gu here.

But Nangong Huaxue had seen it before. She had also seen it when she followed Xiao in her previous life.

…It seems that she really needs to meet Qingyi.

I hope he can be in a better mood.