Chapter 398

Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Zhuiyuan walked down from upstairs; in just this short while, the darkness had already spread over the courtyard, closing in on the living room door.

Xiao Hei stood at the entrance, panting and sticking its tongue out at Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Zhuiyuan, its hairless, half-severed tail wagging quite vigorously behind it.

Its current appearance profoundly illustrated just how difficult it had been for it to return here.

Xiao Hei leaned its head over, wanting to be petted, but Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Zhuiyuan pulled his hand away.

Its head was a bloody mess; even the slightest forceful touch could tear away a large patch of flesh.

Although this was a false "world," the pain was real, and so was the damage.

"I won't die, and you won't die either."

Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Zhuiyuan picked up the leash and gripped it in his hand.

Xiao Hei turned around and led the young man behind it into this expanse of darkness.

……

Upstairs, in the room.

Even though it was obvious at a glance, Liu Liu Liu Liu Liu Yumei still placed her palm above the wick; there seemed to be a hint of residual warmth, yet it also felt like her own palm's heat.

The old lady's heart was very conflicted right now; a torrent of emotion—the feeling that Xiao Brother Brother Brother Brother Brother Brother Brother Brother Yuan had completely died—was pressing against her chest. The only reason she could hold it back was because her granddaughter had been calm from beginning to end.

A Li was currently still focused on sharpening that dull carving knife.

Liu Liu Liu Liu Liu Yumei could only believe that A Li knew some of Xiao Brother Brother Brother Brother Brother Brother Brother Brother Yuan's secrets, and therefore was certain that Xiao Brother Brother Brother Brother Brother Brother Brother Brother Yuan would definitely recover.

Otherwise, she would go insane!

Of course, if the old lady knew that the reason her granddaughter could be this quiet right now was because of a promise Xiao Brother Brother Brother Brother Brother Brother Brother Brother Yuan had once made to her, and that her granddaughter believed it unconditionally...

Then the old lady would surely go even more thoroughly insane.

Liu Liu Liu Liu Liu Yumei touched her nose; in Xiao Brother Brother Brother Brother Brother Brother Brother Brother Yuan's room, she smelled the scent of a meat-lingzhi.

Furthermore, this scent originated from Xiao Brother Brother Brother Brother Brother Brother Brother Brother Yuan himself.

"A Li, Grandma wants to ask you something..."

"Woof."

Before she could finish speaking, Liu Liu Liu Liu Liu Yumei heard a faint, ethereal dog bark.

The wick, which had almost lost all its heat, suddenly produced a flame the size of a mung bean.

It was tiny and weak; Liu Liu Liu Liu Liu Yumei's eyes widened, and she subconsciously held her breath, afraid that the air she exhaled would blow it out.

After a long while, Liu Liu Liu Liu Liu Yumei finally eased the indescribable ecstasy in her heart:

"A Li, look, look quickly!"

A Li turned her head to glance at the little flame, then withdrew her gaze and continued sharpening the carving knife.

Liu Liu Liu Liu Liu Yumei reached out and gently patted her own forehead.

Fine, it turned out both children knew what was going on, and only she was here, constantly worrying about gains and losses.

Liu Liu Liu Liu Liu Yumei left the room; A Li was here to accompany Xiao Brother Brother Brother Brother Brother Brother Brother Brother Yuan, and Xiao Brother Brother Brother Brother Brother Brother Brother Brother Yuan just needed to wait quietly to continue his recovery.

Walking onto the balcony, Liu Liu Liu Liu Liu Yumei saw Xue Xue Xue Xue Xue Xue Xue Liangliang carrying the drunken, unconscious Li Sanjiang down from the engineering vehicle.

Her gaze first focused heavily on Li Sanjiang, then shifted and landed on Xue Xue Xue Xue Xue Xue Xue Liangliang, and finally, looked at the tattered straw mat in the back of the vehicle.

Xue Xue Xue Xue Xue Xue Xue Liangliang: "Grandma Liu, where is the family?"

He wanted to find someone to lend a hand to settle Old Man Li.

Liu Liu Liu Liu Liu Yumei lifted her chin.

Xue Xue Xue Xue Xue Xue Xue Liangliang looked down toward the courtyard and saw Qin Shu riding his tricycle back.

With Qin Shu's help, Li Sanjiang was settled onto the bed in his own room.

There was no major problem; it was just a hangover combined with emotional agitation that had caused him to pass out.

Xue Xue Xue Xue Xue Xue Xue Liangliang asked: "Is Xiao Brother Brother Brother Brother Brother Brother Brother Brother Yuan not home?"

He knew Xiao Brother Brother Brother Brother Brother Brother Brother Brother Yuan had good hearing; in the past, every time he came here, Xiao Brother Brother Brother Brother Brother Brother Brother Brother Yuan would walk out of his room in advance.

Qin Shu: "Xiao Brother Brother Brother Brother Brother Brother Brother Brother Yuan is sick."

Xue Xue Xue Xue Xue Xue Xue Liangliang: "Is it serious?"

Qin Shu: "He'll be better soon."

Qin Shu didn't know the specifics either, and he didn't dare ask, nor did he dare to go see for himself, even though Xiao Brother Brother Brother Brother Brother Brother Brother Brother Yuan was lying right next door.

Xue Xue Xue Xue Xue Xue Xue Liangliang: "Can I go take a look?"

Qin Shu didn't know how to answer.

The mistress had told him to hurry and bring Uncle Sanjiang back, wanting to use Uncle Sanjiang's good fortune to try their luck.

Liu Liu Liu Liu Liu Yumei: "Of course you can."

"Alright, I'll go see how Xiao Brother Brother Brother Brother Brother Brother Brother Brother Yuan is doing."

Xue Xue Xue Xue Xue Xue Xue Liangliang walked out of Li Sanjiang's room, stood at the door of Xiao Brother Brother Brother Brother Brother Brother Brother Brother Yuan's room, and waved at A Li, who was sitting inside, through the screen door.

A Li glanced at him, then lowered her head and continued sharpening the carving knife.

Xue Xue Xue Xue Xue Xue Xue Liangliang slowly pulled the screen door open and walked in gently.

Qin Shu also came out of Li Sanjiang's room and looked at Liu Liu Liu Liu Liu Yumei with some confusion:

"Why is he able to..."

Liu Liu Liu Liu Liu Yumei didn't rush to answer, but instead walked downstairs, and Qin Shu followed.

"The things that Uncle Sanjiang has, this young man has as well."

Qin Shu: "Is he also..."

Liu Liu Liu Liu Liu Yumei shook her head: "It's not the same thing."

Qin Shu: "I don't understand."

Liu Liu Liu Liu Liu Yumei: "When you were young, I taught you not to just know how to practice martial arts; when you have time, read a few books on Feng Shui. It's not like our family lacks the conditions for it."

Qin Shu scratched his head, feeling a bit embarrassed: "Our family has the conditions, but I don't have the brains for it."

With both Long Wang family lineages having declined to such a point, Liu Liu Liu Liu Liu Yumei naturally wouldn't have any sectarian prejudices.

When she was raising A Ting and A Li, she had actually thought about letting them practice both Qin and Liu techniques.

But in the end, she had underestimated the difficulty.

A Ting had only learned a bit of the Qin family's external martial arts, while A Li hadn't even learned the basics of the Liu family's Feng Shui.

Liu Liu Liu Liu Liu Yumei: "This person's destiny, it wasn't apparent when we first met, but every time we meet again, there's a new atmosphere rising. This is the most standard... 'Hidden Dragon in the Abyss'."

Qin Shu: "You mean a dragon among men?"

Liu Liu Liu Liu Liu Yumei: "It's even more narrow than a dragon among men."

Qin Shu: "I'll go ask A Ting in detail later."

Liu Liu Liu Liu Liu Yumei: "Sometimes, I really have to admire our Xiao Brother Brother Brother Brother Brother Brother Brother Brother Yuan's ability. When Xiao Brother Brother Brother Brother Brother Brother Brother Brother Yuan met him and brought him home for the first time, he hadn't even graduated from college yet, right?"

Qin Shu: "Yes, I remember at that time he and Xiao Brother Brother Brother Brother Brother Brother Brother Brother Yuan were being chased by the Bai family's rats."

Speaking of this, Qin Shu thought of the soy sauce bottle again.

He had had many opportunities to help the soy sauce bottle; the only time he followed the mistress's instructions to go to the Bai family town by the river, he had barely managed to help, and was constrained by the seal on his body, so it didn't look very impressive.

Although, in the eyes of the boy at that time, Qin Shu was already incredibly formidable, and for a long time, the youth's expectation for Lu Lu Lu Lu Lu Lu Lu Lu Lu Runsheng was that he could become the next Qin Shu.

But for Qin Shu, he wished the Bai family rats would come ashore and cause trouble again, giving him another chance; he could prove to Xiao Brother Brother Brother Brother Brother Brother Brother Brother Yuan that no matter how fast that Xue Xue Xue Xue Xue Xue Xue Liangliang surrendered, he could be even faster.

Liu Liu Liu Liu Liu Yumei: "A 'Hidden Dragon in the Abyss' can only be befriended when he is truly still in the abyss; once his momentum is formed, it's meaningless. Yet, people with this kind of destiny often don't show their style in the early stages; not only do they seem no different from ordinary people, but sometimes they might even seem more sloppy and foolish than ordinary people.

Historically, many emperors had this kind of destiny.

Logically, we people of the Profound Sect should actively avoid contact with such people, as it's easy to get entangled in dynastic karma."

"Then should we remind Xiao Brother Brother Brother Brother Brother Brother Brother Brother Yuan..."

"Xiao Brother Brother Brother Brother Brother Brother Brother Brother Yuan is different; whose karma is actually greater, it's really hard to say."

"I understand."

Liu Liu Liu Liu Liu Yumei walked to the engineering vehicle and placed her hand on the tattered straw mat.

Inside the straw mat, something was sensing her and moving.

Qin Shu: "This is clearly a knot tied by Lu Lu Lu Lu Lu Lu Lu Lu Lu Runsheng; every time he bundles paper effigies, he likes to tie this kind of knot, and he pulls it very tight. Mistress, I'll go untie it."

Liu Liu Liu Liu Liu Yumei: "Don't untie it."

Qin Shu's outstretched hand stopped.

Liu Liu Liu Liu Liu Yumei: "You move it down later, just move it to... find any place that can shelter it from the wind and rain and put it there for now."

Qin Shu: "Alright."

Liu Liu Liu Liu Liu Yumei: "There is one thing that I should have had you run an errand for."

Qin Shu: "Please instruct me."

Liu Liu Liu Liu Liu Yumei: "I can't instruct you, because I don't know where to tell you to run."

Qin Shu: "Then I'll just stay at home for now."

Liu Liu Liu Liu Liu Yumei lowered her head, rubbed her fingertips together a few times, and said: "I'm going to get a good sleep; I haven't closed my eyes for several days."

Qin Shu asked with a smile: "Is Xiao Brother Brother Brother Brother Brother Brother Brother Brother Yuan okay now?"

Liu Liu Liu Liu Liu Yumei: "Yes, otherwise I wouldn't be able to sleep soundly."

After watching the mistress walk into the east room, Qin Shu immediately returned to the west room to tell this good news to Liu Yi, who was still lying on the bed.

Liu Yi: "If that's the case, this tribulation can be considered completely avoided."

Qin Shu: "How is it avoided?"

Liu Yi: "That's just what I meant; why haven't I seen you being so pedantic elsewhere?"

Qin Shu: "Next time, tell me directly. You know, ever since I was little, my brain has been slow."

Liu Yi: "Heh."

Qin Shu prepared to leave.

Liu Yi: "Where are you going?"

Qin Shu: "First to deliver the goods, and after I finish, I still have to farm."

Liu Yi: "Don't rush to deliver the goods yet. Brew some medicine according to this prescription and have the Lady take it."

Qin Shu took the prescription and nodded.

After brewing the medicine in the kitchen, Qin Shu carried the bowl to the east room and knocked on the door first.

"Come in."

Qin Shu pushed the door open and walked in.

Arriving at the bedroom doorway, he looked up and saw Liu Liu Liu Liu Liu Yumei sitting on the bed, bloodstains on the corners of her mouth and an even larger patch of blood on her clothes.

"Lady!"

Liu Liu Liu Liu Liu Yumei: "What are you making such a fuss about? Haven't you ever seen a backlash from a secret technique?"

When she was in that "world," Liu Liu Liu Liu Liu Yumei had used a secret technique to directly trace back her youth, skipping the standard fixed procedure, so the effect of the backlash was naturally much greater.

These past few days, with Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Zhuiyuan's condition unclear, she had kept her nerves tightly strung. Just after confirming that Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Zhuiyuan was recovering, she sat on the bed and stopped suppressing the backlash, allowing it to erupt.

"It's not that I haven't seen you use secret techniques before, but it has never been like this today. Since I was there at the time, you actually could have taken it easier."

Upon hearing this, Liu Liu Liu Liu Liu Yumei rolled her eyes at Qin Li.

Was it that she didn't want to? Was it that she insisted on showing off?

Under the circumstances at the time, if she had been even a moment late, she might have allowed her own mental speed to catch up.

Liu Liu Liu Liu Liu Yumei took the medicine bowl, drank it in one breath, and her brows remained furrowed.

Qin Li: "Is it that bitter? Was there a problem with the steps I took to brew it?"

Liu Liu Liu Liu Liu Yumei: "Mm, don't put minced meat in it next time."

Qin Li looked carefully at the bottom of the bowl: "Minced meat, where?"

Liu Liu Liu Liu Liu Yumei: "You ate it."

Xue Xue Xue Xue Xue Xue Xue Liangliang looked left and right, up and down, and felt: Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Zhuiyuan seems to be dead.

He looked at the boy on the bed, then at the girl sitting on the side, suppressing the urge to reach out a finger to check for breath.

At this rate, even if Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Zhuiyuan could recover, it would take some time, but he didn't know how much longer the teacher's side could wait.

The search and rescue operation had been ongoing, but until now, there hadn't been the slightest news about them.

Xue Xue Xue Xue Xue Xue Xue Liangliang walked to A Li's side and whispered: "When Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Zhuiyuan wakes up, help me tell him that I came."

A Li nodded.

Xue Xue Xue Xue Xue Xue Xue Liangliang left the room and went downstairs.

Since he couldn't get help from Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Zhuiyuan, he had to rush back to Jin Ling immediately to preside over the situation there.

Before getting into the car, he took a special look and found that the tattered straw mat had already been placed in the corner of the living room.

Reversing down the dam, continuing to reverse through the path in one breath, and straightening out after getting onto the village road, Xue Xue Xue Xue Xue Xue Xue Liangliang drove away.

He hadn't gone to the riverside when he returned this time, and he wouldn't go when he left either; it wasn't the right time, and he couldn't get past that hurdle in his heart.

Liu Yi's body hadn't recovered yet and she couldn't cook, so Li Sun Hua came over to help.

The Old Lady had instructed that if she was too busy and couldn't spare the attention to take care of the child, she should just bring the child over to cook.

Li Sun Hua didn't need to exert effort to take care of the child; Xiao Huang Ying had returned, and the job of taking care of the child naturally fell back to Shitou.

However, Li Sun Hua still carried Benben on her back; although the two families lived very close, Benben rarely came here to see people.

The Old Lady's move could be considered an expression of approval for the behavior and choices of Xiong Shan and Li Sun Hua this time, effectively further clarifying their family's status in the Long Wang courtyard.

When cooking, Li Sun Hua placed Benben on the dam, surrounding him with four stools to prevent him from crawling around.

But how could this slight slope stop Benben? As soon as his mother entered the kitchen, he crawled out and crawled all the way to the tattered straw mat in the corner of the living room.

Benben reached out and touched the straw mat.

Inside the straw mat, there was also a slight response.

Benben smiled, continued to touch it, and there was a continued response from inside.

Finally, at this age where even dogs find him annoying, Benben grew tired of touching the Xiao Hei inside the straw mat.

No matter how he touched it, it no longer gave him a response.

Fortunately, the straw mat still rose and fell slightly from time to time, meaning the puppy inside was still alive, just simply not wanting to pay attention to him anymore.

Benben turned his head, continued to crawl, crawled to the stairs, looked up, and started to climb the stairs.

The stairs in Li Sanjiang's house had no railings and weren't even tiled.

This was the reason why Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Zhuiyuan would hold A Li's hand every time he went up and down the stairs.

When Benben climbed the stairs, instead of leaning inward, he crawled against the outside. Several times his little body swayed, almost falling from the empty side, but he stabilized himself in the end.

Li Sun Hua was still in the kitchen, humming a tune while cooking.

Having been a hands-off manager for too long, she had lost the basic crisis awareness of a mother, completely forgetting that her son was still outside, and hadn't even come out to take a look.

Benben climbed to the second floor without incident, continued to crawl, and when passing Li Sanjiang's room, heard loud snoring coming from inside.

Crawling further forward, he arrived at the front room and took a look inside through the screen window.

Hmm...

Benben sat on the ground on his bottom, then used his tender little buttocks as an axis to quickly rotate and turn around in place!

It was too scary; the person he feared most and the person he feared second most were both inside.

A Li, who was busy, stopped what she was doing. She naturally knew that Benben had just appeared at the door, but she didn't want to pay attention to him.

She didn't like children.

If the boy liked them, she might try to accept them, but it was very clear that the boy rejected children.

However, on the corner of the drawing table, a painting in the scroll holder began to tremble slightly.

It was the painting where Tan Tan Tan Tan Tan Tan Wenbin's two godchildren were.

The two children were very sensible; Tan Tan Tan Tan Tan Tan Wenbin would sometimes come upstairs and even enter this room, but the two children had never reacted.

They knew that if they let Tan Tan Tan Tan Tan Tan Wenbin know that the two of them hadn't gone to be reincarnated, it would bring pressure and trouble to Tan Tan Tan Tan Tan Tan Wenbin.

But this time it was Benben who came up, and as former playmates, they couldn't help themselves.

Facing this endless academic work and the tutoring class street that had no end in sight, it was only because they were previously vengeful infants that they could hold on without collapsing.

But after all, they still possessed the nature of children and wanted to balance work and rest.

A Li got up and walked out of the room.

On the balcony, Benben crawled toward the stairs as fast as a rabbit.

Just as the stairs were in sight, Benben was suspended in the air.

His collar was lifted by A Li.

Benben's expression stiffened for a moment, then immediately revealed a cute and ingratiating look.

A Li didn't look at him and carried him back into the room.

Upon seeing Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Zhuiyuan lying on the bed, the smile on Benben's Human Human Human Human Human Human Human Human Face became even brighter, warm enough to melt a person.

A Li placed Benben on Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Zhuiyuan's desk.

This was dangerous, but she knew this child wouldn't be stupid enough to crawl past the edge and fall off.

Immediately after, A Li took out the painting and spread it out on the desk.

Afterward, A Li ignored it, sat back in her seat, and continued carving.