Chapter 48 Yuan Qing 04

  "How did you know that Jiang Xu was Gu Yin's past life lover? Did Gu Yin tell you?" Qin Fei turned his head to look at Gu Wenkai, who was walking beside him, waiting for an answer.

  "It's because of his appearance." Gu Wenkai said, "When I was young and still living with my older brother in our old family home, I once saw a portrait of someone in his study. I asked him who the person in the portrait was, and he told me it was his past life lover. To be honest, I've always been half-believing and half-doubting his answer, because the person in the painting was a monk. Even if I knew my brother was capable of being with anyone, including monks, I still couldn't fully believe him! But now that I've seen Jiang Xu, Jiang Xu's appearance is almost identical to the monk in the painting. And considering how my brother has been following him around recently, Jiang Xu must be his so-called past life lover, Yuan Qing."

  Gu Wenkai, although always having an attitude of avoidance towards Gu Yin, still has a certain understanding of this elder brother. Gu Yin is someone who does whatever he wants, and there are hardly any people in this world who can restrain him, except for the "past life lover" he mentioned, that person named Yuan Qing.

  Although it can't be confirmed whether Yuan Qing and Gu Yin were truly in a romantic relationship in their past life, Gu Wenkai knew that Yuan Qing was an extremely important person to Gu Yin. Every time Gu Yin mentioned him, the tenderness in his eyes was only reserved for someone who held a unique place in his heart. Therefore, if there's anyone in this world who could make Gu Yin submit, it would be none other than his so-called "past life lover" - Yuan Qing.

  "But then, wouldn't Jiang Xu become my older sister-in-law? " Gu Wenkai suddenly stopped in his tracks. "Although I've seen her picture and knew there was someone named Yuan Qing after that, I had a vague psychological preparation that my older sister-in-law might be a man, but reality is still hard to accept. Why couldn't Yuan Qing just be reborn as a 'woman'?"

  "Can rebirth be controlled by oneself?" Qin Fei glanced at Gu Wenkai, who had suddenly become naive and innocent, and said slowly: "You just said that the portrait you saw back then was of a monk, right?"

  Gu Wenkai curled his lip, "Your meaning is, I should be grateful that Yuan Qing was not reborn as a monk in this life?"

  Qin Fei: "Isn't it?"

  Gu Wenkai looked at Qin Fei for a long time before covering his face in silence: "......Alright, having Big Sis as a monk is indeed more challenging than having Big Sis as a man."

  Gu Wenkai's heartache was beyond Qin Fei's comprehension, and he didn't have much interest in understanding it either. Gu Yin's past life lover had been found, that was great, but it also had nothing to do with him.

  What made him slightly uneasy was that Gu Yin's past life lover was a monk, and this monk happened to be called Yuan Qing. On the night he got drunk, he dreamed of a monk who was also named Yuan Qing. He couldn't quite recall what the monk looked like after waking up, but just these two coincidences were already eerie enough.

  Could it be that he had awakened the ability to dream of people's past lives, and yet it was someone else's past life? Qin Fei came up with such an unreliable idea.

  However, in the realm of the mind, dreams are a thing that can produce coincidences that science cannot explain, and there have been instances of this in reality as well. Qin Fei thought about it for a moment, then stopped his futile exploration.

  Gu Wenkai was on holiday that day, secretly following Gu Yin to investigate the reason why Gu Yin used the curse seal stone. After that, he didn't have much to do. He followed Qin Fei to the book bar, planning to spend some time there first.

  As the Spring Festival approaches, the bookstore has become much quieter. When Qin Fei and Gu Wenkai arrived at the bookstore, there were no customers, but they did see two familiar faces.

  It's been a while since I've seen Song 'Meng' and Zhou Jun, sitting in their old spot at the bar. Xie Zhe and Shen Wei are standing inside the bar, listening to Song 'Meng' gesticulating as he says something.

  "Boss!" Seeing Qin Fei come in, Shen Wei's attention quickly shifted away from Song 'Meng', waving his hand to greet Qin Fei.

  Shen Wei shouted, and the remaining three people also shifted their gaze to Qin Fei and Gu Wenkai.

  "Hey! Song Paozi, what's with your panda eyes?" Gu Wenkai was about to greet someone when he was startled by the exaggerated black eye circles on Song's face.

  Song 'Meng' is not only fat, but his skin is also white. When he has dark circles under his eyes, it's as if someone took a brush and painted a circle around his eye sockets, making them look especially black.

  "He dreamed of a geometric proof last night, but couldn't solve it after waking up, and then stayed awake until dawn." Zhou Jun took out a cigarette, held it in his hand, put on a melancholy expression, and said in a low voice, "Now, he's describing the suffering he experienced last night."

  Qin Fei: "......Isn't it just that you didn't finish the questions in your dreams? Is it that painful?"

  "You don't understand me..." Song 'Meng' looked at Qin Fei with a sorrowful expression, then turned to Shen Wei and said, "Wei Wei, get me paper and pen. I have to finish that proof question, or else I'll be losing sleep again tonight."

  Shen Wei rolled her eyes at Song 'Meng', casually picked up a notepad and pen from the cash register, and handed them to Song 'Meng'.

  "In the quadrilateral ABCD-A1B1C1D1, point E is on the extension of edge CC1, and CC1=C1E=BC=1/2AB=1. Prove that D1E//plane ACB1......" Song muttered to himself as he silently wrote down the problem he had dreamed up on a sticky note, then began drawing a diagram to prove it.

  Looking at Song 'Meng' who was like a geometry proof question that appeared in a dream, Qin Fei and others were speechless for a while, then decided to ignore him. The five of them moved to one end of the bar, leaving Song 'Meng' alone with his proof question, while they chatted among themselves.

  "Chinese New Year is approaching, Qin Fei, when do you plan to close the book?" Gu Wenkai took over the hot tea handed by Shen Wei and sat down next to Qin Fei on Zhou Jun's other side.

  Qin Fei said: "Let's close it in two days, anyway there are no guests during this period, Xie Zhe and Shen Wei can also take a holiday earlier."

  "So early for a holiday... what's good to do on a holiday? The New Year is still half a month away!" Xie Zhe scratched his head and said.

  "I'm also free... " Shen Wei thought for a moment, then said, "Hey! Why don't we take advantage of the holiday before the new year and go out to play together? We don't have to go far, just in S city is fine."

  "This idea is not bad......" Zhou Jun expressed his approval, and suddenly felt that his sleeve was pulled.

  "Old Zhou..." Song 'Meng' pushed the sticky note with the proof question in front of Zhou Jun.

  Zhou Jun: "...... I won't!"

  "Qin Xiaofei!" Song Meng turned to look at Qin Fei, just about to hand the note over to him, but it was snatched away by Xie Zhe halfway.

  "Give me the pen." Xie Zhe stretched out his hand and asked Song 'Meng' for the pen.

  Song 'Meng' handed the pen to Xie Zhe, who looked at the question for a while, picked up the pen and started writing quickly. Before long, he had solved the problem and handed the note with the detailed answer back to Song 'Meng'.

  "Awesome! You're indeed a bookworm!" Song 'Meng' lavished praise on Xie Zhe.

  Xie Zhe silently glanced at Song 'Meng', the question was actually not difficult, but Song 'Meng' couldn't solve it because his attention had been on them all along.

  "Alright, I can finally get a good night's sleep tonight." Song 'Meng' finished reading the answer and threw away the sticky note. "Where were we just now? We were talking about finding a place to hang out together in S city, right?"

  Xie Zhe: See, as expected, their minds are all on this side.

  After discussing among the six, they finally decided to go to Guanyun Temple on Guanyun Peak together to offer incense. Qin Fei had been seriously ill recently, and Zhou Jun and Gu Wenkai had just participated in the exposed corpse case, so going to the temple to offer incense could help ward off evil spirits and bring peace of mind. Besides, in S city, going to Guanyun Temple to offer incense before the new year was also a popular activity, so it was unanimously agreed upon.

  He Xiedong has already started his winter vacation, but he hasn't left S city yet, so Xie Zhe invited him to join them conveniently.

  The day after Qin Fei's Weibo announced its official closure, the weather was fine. Seven people met at the ticket office of the scenic spot Yu Yunfeng as agreed. However, it was agreed that seven people would meet, but eight people showed up.

  "That... Jiang Xu said he had never been to Guanyun Peak and wanted to take a look..." He Xie Dong explained awkwardly about the extra person, actually he hadn't planned to bring Jiang Xu at first, but somehow he agreed. Until now, He Xie Dong still couldn't figure out what was wrong with himself, so he could only force himself to explain to everyone.

  "It's okay, with more people it will be more lively." Qin Fei said.

  Eight people bought tickets and walked up the mountain with other tourists.

  Guanyun Peak is more popular than Tengyun Mountain in the same city, with many tourists visiting all year round. By the end of the year, it's even more lively than usual.

  The entrance to Yunfeng Peak is on a gentle slope of a shaded path, and after walking through this shaded path, there are stone steps leading up the mountain. The stone steps are not narrow, and two or three people can walk shoulder-to-shoulder without any problem.

  He Yishai and Jiang Xu were walking in the front, followed by Xie Zhe and Shen Wei, then Qin Fei and Gu Wenkai, and finally Zhou Jun and Song Meng.

  Shen Wei glanced at the two people in front of her and whispered to Xie Zhe, "When Jiang Xu said he liked Gu Yin that day, He Jiedong was clearly the most shocked. I thought he wouldn't care about Jiang Xu anymore!"

  Xie Zhe looked back at Qin Fei and said, "Hm, it seems that Little He is a person with a big heart."

  Shen Wei rolled her eyes: "I just think he's a bit scatterbrained."

  "Hey! Does that Jiang Xu know you guys?" Gu Wenkai nudged Qin Fei's arm and said, "Right, his name was told to me by you! How do you know him?"

  "He and He Shidong were classmates, introduced by He Shidong to our bookstore for a part-time job, but it didn't work out." In the end, it was vetoed by Gu Yin who suddenly appeared halfway.

  Gu Wenkai: "I'm feeling quite subtle now."

  "What?"

  "Playing with future sister-in-law is..."

  Qin Fei: "......"