Chapter 52 Yuan Qing 08

  At the sound of Gu Wenkai's voice, Gu Yin hesitated for a moment, quickly picked up the quilt beside him, covered Qin Fei who was about to be stripped naked, and then looked at Gu Wenkai with a gloomy face.

  "Put down the water and get out!"

  Gu Wenkai's face was a complete blank, and upon hearing Gu Yin's words, his body swayed slightly, stiffly putting down the water basin in his hand, then turned around and walked out of Gu Yin's room in a daze. As soon as Gu Wenkai stepped out of Gu Yin's room, the door behind him was slammed shut by Gu Yin, who had followed him to the doorway.

  Gu Wenkai stood quietly with his back against the door for a while, and a chaotic string of thoughts finally began to organize itself in an orderly fashion.

  What just happened? He walked into his brother's room with a basin of water, and saw Qin Fei, who was originally lying in bed, being stripped of his top by his brother. And then he was about to take off his pants... That ambiguous action was clearly intended to do something improper to Qin Fei! But then, he just stood there stupidly listening to his brother's orders, put down the basin and came out?

  Damn it! How could he just come out like that in this situation? Even if he had to come out, he should have brought Qin Fei out together! His older brother has a past life lover, and that lover is a man, what does that imply? It implies that his older brother is into men! Even if he usually acts deeply affectionate towards that past life lover, he's still an old man who's been suppressing his desires for so many years. And coincidentally, Qin Fei doesn't look bad, it's completely logical that his older brother would make a move on Qin Fei!

  Absolutely cannot let Qin Fei and Big Brother who ripped off half of Qin Fei's clothes stay in the same room together!

  Gu Wenkai turned around and pushed the door, but it wouldn't budge. He then turned the door handle again, but it still wouldn't move.

  The bloody thing is locked from the inside!!!!!

  "Gu Yin, open the door!" Gu Wenkai started pounding on the door. "What are you going to do to Qin Fei? That's taking advantage of someone in a crisis!"

  When Shao Guan's family brought the visitor in, Gu Wenkai was pounding on the door with all his might. So when the visitor, Gu Wenchang, followed Shao Guan's family in, he saw his own brother daringly scratching at the door of his eldest brother's room, calling out his name and shouting unclear dialogue that he had always avoided.

  "What's wrong with him?" Gu Wenqing pointed at Gu Wenkai and asked the housekeeper Shao.

  Shao Guan shook his head, indicating he didn't understand.

  Gu Wenqing let out a sigh, walked over and grabbed Gu Wenkai's collar, dragging him to the sofa in the living room. Then he sat down opposite him, placing his hands on his knees, and asked: "Speak up, what were you making such a fuss about?"

  "Big Brother and Qin Fei are in that room..." Gu Wenkai said, standing up and looking at Gu Wencheng, trying to convey the content after the ellipsis with his eyes to his second brother.

  "They were in that room......and then what?" Gu Wenqing obviously couldn't read minds, and Gu Wenkai's eyes almost rolled out of his head as he still didn't understand.

  "Gu Wenkai: 'The two of them were in the room, then...then the door was locked from the inside...'"

  Gu Wenqing adjusted his glasses and asked, "What's next?"

  "Then... then... Big Brother also took off Qin Fei's clothes!"

  Gu Wenqing lowered his head, a thoughtful expression on his face: "Is there some kind of spell that requires taking off clothes? Is this the latest research from Big Brother?"

  "Hmph! I'm not telling you." Gu Wenkai said, and then he was about to head towards Gu Yin's room again.

  "Come back!" Gu Wenqing pulled Gu Wenkai back and said, "Alright, I understand. You can stop now."

  "But Qin Fei..."

  "Big brother won't do anything to him, even if he wants to, you think you can stop him?" Gu Wenqing interrupted Gu Wenkai's words and paused before continuing, "I think big brother will take responsibility for what happened to Qin Fei."

  "...", Gu Wenkai didn't know what words to use to refute Gu Wenchang, but he always felt that something was off, with a feeling of being misled from the key point.

  Gu Wenkai looked at the tightly closed door of Gu Yin's room, sat down with a bad feeling, "I said, didn't big brother already find his past life lover? That person named Jiang Xu..." From the tone of Gu Yin mentioning Jiang Xu, it seemed that Jiang Xu was a problematic character...

  "Huh? Have you seen that Jiang Xu?" Gu Wenqing took the tea handed over by Shao Guan's housekeeper and thanked him, continuing to ask Gu Wenkai, "But what is this 'past life lover' you're talking about? Jiang Xu isn't the past life lover in big brother's mouth."

  "He looks exactly like the person in the painting he drew with his older brother!"

  "But unfortunately, he isn't. Big brother's past life lover is someone else." Gu Wenqing gave Gu Wenkai a slightly meaningful smile.

  Gu Wenkai took a glance at the faint smile on Gu Wencheng's lips and curled his mouth. With this attitude, even if he continued to ask about Gu Yin's past lover, he probably wouldn't get an answer, so he changed the subject instead.

  "What brings you to see your big brother?"

  Gu Wenqing put down his teacup on the tea table, "About what happened in Qing Shui Town, Big Brother asked me to investigate the aftermath. I found out some things and came over to tell him."

  ……

  Inside the room, Gu Yin listened to the silence outside the door, then carried the basin of hot salt water to the table, lit a thin white wax stick and placed it on the surface of the water in the basin, letting it float.

  The white candle flickered gently, the flame dancing on and off. Gu Yin stared at the white candle until the flame stopped flickering, the impurities in the room dispersed, before walking to the bedside, lifting the quilt off Qin Shi's body, and supporting him as he sat up. Gu Yin knelt behind Qin Fei, his fingertips tracing patterns on his bare back, drawing arrays.

  The formation was complete, and Gu Yin's gaze fell on the back of Qin Fei's waist. Then he saw the familiar and exquisite pattern, the mark he had made on Yuan Qing's soul in his previous life.

  Helped Qin Fei change into his pajamas and covered him with a quilt, Gu Yin sat on the edge of the bed watching as he curled up the corners of his mouth.

  With the memories of past lives reincarnated, the appearance will follow the soul's memory, growing into the appearance of the previous life, just like him. But for souls without memories of past lives, after reincarnation, their appearance will be determined by this life's parents, so on Qin Fei's face, Gu Yin couldn't see any resemblance to Yuan Qing at all.

  Although he doesn't look like Yuan Qing, his personality is also different from Yuan Qing's in some ways. However, when thinking back to his first encounter with Qin Fei, Gu Yin discovered that it was surprisingly similar to when he met Yuan Qing in his previous life. He had the same inexplicable feeling of disliking him, and despite disliking him, he couldn't help but provoke him, and similarly fell into a state of being unable to let go.

  ……

  In his past life, he met Yuan Qing when Yuan Qing was still a young and inexperienced monk, while he was a ruthless and murderous evil Taoist sorcerer.

  When he met Yuan Qing, he had just killed twelve sorcerers who dared to plot against him. In that piece of Shura Hell where the soil was stained with fresh blood, Yuan Qing instead focused on him and said, "You've killed those who wanted to kill you, but you're not happy."

  "How did you know I'm unhappy?" he asked back.

  "It's because I'm looking at you very seriously." Yuan Qing replied.

  "So what can I do to be happy?" he asked.

  "Will you come with me?" Yu Qing said after a moment's thought.

  At that time, Yuan Qing was just a self-righteous fool in his eyes, extremely annoying. However, he agreed to follow Yuan Qing, thinking that since killing those troublesome Taoists couldn't make him happy, maybe tormenting an annoying fool would give him a pleasant feeling.

  However, things did not go as he had expected. When he came to his senses, he had already put that monk named Yuanqing in the depths of his heart, a place that was still empty and devoid of anyone.

  Yuán Qīng is a man outside of Fāng's circle, and he is a man full of guilt, the only thing he can do is to guard that person.

  That one guard lasted for decades, and decades later, there were still so many people who wanted him dead. Not wanting to implicate Yuan Qing, he was summoned into the palace. The next day, due to his refusal of the Grand Master's request, he was sentenced to death.

  He was not afraid of death, he just regretted that the mausoleum he had built could not be used, and he regretted that he could no longer guard Yu Qing.

  But then I thought about it again and felt relieved.

  When a man dies, he is but a handful of dust; what need has he for a grand tomb?

  Yu Qing Sheng Seng, having him, a man with such deep guilt, guarding is the greatest misfortune.

  If he's dead, then let him be dead.

  Three days later, on the top of Xing Tai, the Grand Master inflicted on him the punishment of cutting flesh and scraping bones.

  He knelt on the Xingtai, looking at the crowd's cheers, and smiled faintly.

  But this calmness was shattered when he saw Xing Tai looking up at him with Yuan Qing.

  When death came, he saw Yuan Qing cry for him...

  He died, having owed too many lives in his past life, destined for him to find it hard to enter reincarnation.

  He didn't care at first, but then he saw Yuan Qing cry...

  So he chose to stay in the Yin River for those eight hundred years, fully tasting the pain of heart-wrenching and bone-penetrating suffering, to wash away his lifetime of sins, in order to be reborn as a human, in order to meet Yuan Qing again, and also for that unfulfilled longing.