Chapter 8: Car Accident

  Gu Wenkai knew something was wrong as soon as he heard Gu Yin's request. He had seen his older brother make all sorts of strange demands on people who came to propose, but this condition was absolutely the worst case scenario.

  It's just a personal favor, and if someone else had made the request, it might not have been a difficult thing to ask. But the person making the request was Gu Yin, and that changed everything. Gu Yin was a narrow-minded and petty person who couldn't owe anyone a favor, especially not him. He usually wouldn't make such a request of people, but once he did, it was always a prelude to causing trouble for them.

  Gu Wenkai glanced at Qin Fei, seeing the other's harmless and gentle face, he really didn't know where Qin Fei had offended his own brother to make him so eager to go and bother Qin Fei. Could it be that he was worried about his younger brother for Qin Fei's sake, while Qin Fei himself didn't care at all? Okay, this guess was almost as absurd as a fairy tale, his older brother wasn't that kind of man who loved his brothers. Moreover - although he always said Qin Fei didn't care about his own affairs, in fact, it wasn't like that, Qin Fei was just too introverted, and his emotions rarely showed on his face.

  In short, the top priority is still to stop Qin Fei from accepting his brother's request. He can't just watch as his buddy jumps into this fire pit of his own accord.

  But just as Gu Wenkai's thoughts had turned, before he could even open his mouth to stop him, Qin Fei had already agreed neatly.

  "En, can." Qin Fei looked at Gu Yin and nodded slightly.

  Gu Wenkai: "Wait..."

  "Your question is unclear and the situation must be special, I need to prepare some things, you come back here in three days." Gu Yin stood up from the sofa, looking down at Qin Fei.

  Gu Wenkai: "I said..."

  "Alright." Qin Fei replied.

  Gu Wenkai: "......" Hey! Are you guys listening to me? ......

  It seems that Qin Fei finally sensed the resentment in Gu Wenkai's emotions and turned his head to look at him, "What's wrong? Do you want to say something?"

  Gu Wenkai let out a long sigh and put his hand on Qin Fei's shoulder, saying weakly: "I wanted to say don't agree to my brother's request..."

  Qin Fei turned his head to look at Gu Yin and said to Gu Wenkai: "But I have already agreed."

  "So...... why are you always so quick to react at some wonderful times?" Normally, he's as slow as an old monk, but when it comes to responding to his own brother's requests, he answers so quickly. Gu Wenkai looked at Qin Fei with a serious face.

  "That's all, you can leave now." Gu Yin bluntly dropped the guest-dispelling order and turned to leave the living room.

  "Wait." Gu Wenkai put away the exaggerated expression on his face and stood up to shout at Gu Yin, "Actually, there's one more thing..."

  "What's wrong?" Gu Yin stopped in his tracks at the living room door and turned back to look at Gu Wenkai.

  "Qin Xiaofei saw a little ghost two days ago. Second brother said that the little ghost had some problems, he couldn't help him ascend to the afterlife, so he wanted to ask big brother you to go take a look."

  Gu Yin let out a cold snort and said impatiently, "You really think I have nothing better to do?"

  "No..." Gu Wenkai shrank his neck, this matter Gu Wenkai originally did not plan to ask Gu Yin for help, this big brother was indeed not a good person to get along with. It's just that the problematic little devil may change over time, compared to contacting strong people in the clan, it's obviously more convenient to have Gu Yin, who is in S city, take action. Moreover, his second brother did not suggest he find an elder in the clan yesterday, but directly told him to find Gu Yin. Gu Wenkai was not stupid, his second brother said so, that must mean there was something unusual about the little devil's problem, and it was necessary to find Gu Yin, just like the situation 17 years ago. Gu Wenkai took a look at Gu Yin and said: "I just think... that little devil has something strange on him, maybe it's related to what big brother you've been investigating..."

  At the moment Gu Wenkai's voice fell, Qin Fei saw Gu Yin's face freeze into ice in an instant. But that icy expression didn't stay for long, and soon disappeared from his face, replaced by his usual look of disdain.

  "I'm busy today, I'll go see you tomorrow when I have time. You can leave now." This time, Gu Yin walked out of the living room without looking back and entered the study next door.

  Although Gu Yin didn't say he would definitely go, from the way he spoke, Gu Wenkai knew his big brother had more or less agreed. As long as it was related to any clue about that thing seventeen years ago, his big brother wouldn't let it go easily. What he needed to worry about was if that little ghost had nothing to do with what happened seventeen years ago, how would he deal with his own big brother's inquiry.

  Gu Wenkai sighed and started the car, turned around and drove away. After leaving the community, Gu Wenkai glanced at Qin Fei in the passenger seat and couldn't help but mutter, "Qin Xiaofei, Qin Xiaofei, how can you be so stupid? My brother made a request and you agreed so quickly, why haven't I seen you react so quickly before?"

  Qin Fei's gaze returned from outside the car window and he said to Gu Wenkai, "It's just a personal matter, not that serious, is it?"

  "My elder brother's finicky personality makes it absolutely not a good idea to owe him a favor!"

  Seeing Gu Wenkai express his opinion so solemnly, Qin Fei couldn't help but laugh and say, "It's not that serious, is it? Your older brother may have a bad temper, but he's not a bad person, right?"

  Gu Wenkai thought back to the various things he had done with his older brother when they were young, and finally said with a wooden face, "No, I think my older brother is just an anti-hero boss."

  Qin Fei: "......"

  After returning from Gu Yin's place, it was almost lunchtime. Qin Fei and Gu Wenkai found a small restaurant to have lunch together. After finishing lunch, they sent Qin Fei back to Weichen Bookstore, then planned to return to the office. He had taken the morning off, so he naturally needed to go back to work in the afternoon.

  "Wait a minute, Wenkai." Qin Fei had just gotten out of the car when he suddenly remembered something he had forgotten to tell Gu Wenkai, so he turned back to knock on the window of Gu's driver's seat.

  "Huh? What's wrong?" Gu Wenkai rolled down the car window and asked in puzzlement.

  "I forgot to tell you something about that girl...” Qin Fei paused, “The case Song Baozi and Old Zhou received the day before yesterday was about finding that girl. The girl's name is Jiajia, she went missing in this area a month ago, I don't know much more than that. Song Baozi and Old Zhou went out today, if you need to know more about the girl, you can call Old Zhou."

  "I understand," Gu Wenkai said. "Take care of your own situation, if you need any help just let me know, don't try to hold on by yourself."

  Qin Fei smiled and said, "I understand."

  "It's not like you'd understand!" Gu Wenkai rolled his eyes at Qin Fei, "I don't know you? 'This matter is useless to this person, so there's no need to tell him' - can you explain, don't you always use this strange logic when dealing with things?"

  "What's wrong with this?" Qin Fei asked back.

  Gu Wenkai was taken aback, and for a moment he didn't know how to refute strongly. Finally, he gritted his teeth and said: "In short - if you have something on your mind, tell me! Don't worry whether I can help or not!"

  During the two days Qin Fei and Gu Wenkai were running in and out, Zhang Zhixin, Qin Fei's third uncle, left S city for a small town in D city. He was looking for someone, the owner of an incense shop in the town, but the owner wasn't always at the shop. Zhang Zhixin ran three trips without seeing him. Zhang Zhixin stayed in the small town for two days until he finally saw the person he wanted to find in the incense shop on the afternoon of the second day.

  As he walked into the incense shop, Zhang Zhixin finally let out a sigh of relief when he saw the thin old man standing behind the counter arranging white candles. This time his luck wasn't bad, it had only taken two days to see this person.

  "Old Master Qi." Zhang Zhixin called out and walked towards the dark and thin old man.