Chapter 213

No wonder it was so effective at hitting people; if it wasn’t sturdy and solid, how could it withstand the prison?

Li Zhuiyuan opened the closed blank book again. It was still that one page, but this time, the picture was no longer a disheveled and dirty old man grabbing the railing and roaring. Instead, it had changed to a green-clothed woman curled up in the corner of the prison, covering her face and crying.

A few sparse strokes, fully showing a pitiful sight.

That “Evil Book” really wasn’t lonely. Even in its current situation, it was still racking its brain within its capabilities to spread its evil nature.

Li Zhuiyuan closed the book and then quickly opened it again. In the prison picture, the green-clothed woman had changed to a red-clothed one with long black hair scattered. She was standing on a stool, both hands grabbing a rope ring hanging from above, preparing to hang herself.

The youth’s fingers gently stroked the book page.

The woman who was about to hang herself extended one hand forward, as if weeping and complaining.

Her performance was very delicate. Even if you flipped through the old book market, you’d probably be hard-pressed to find another comic strip with such a sensational painting style.

Li Zhuiyuan closed the book and threw it onto the book table.

“Such a dramatic performance.”

The blank book itself had an imprisoning effect. After the “Evil Book” was absorbed, there was no need for further sealing action.

Carrying the basin out to wash his face, Li Zhuiyuan went to bed, preparing to rest.

He deliberately didn’t do any brain-consuming research today because he still had to go out tomorrow.

Although the return journey was a bit tiring, it didn’t compare to the time consumed by properly walking the river. So, the necessary recovery had also happened early.

Therefore, his sleep was a bit short, and when he woke up, A Li hadn’t come over yet.

However, Li Zhuiyuan heard the sound of the east room door opening. Although the girl’s footsteps were light, they were the most familiar to him.

He lay back down straight, closed his eyes, and pretended to sleep.

The girl entered the room, first walked to the bedside to look for a while, then stood in front of the painting table to continue completing last night’s painting.

Li Zhuiyuan then woke up at the right time, turned his head, and looked towards the girl. He saw that although the girl was holding a brush, she was half-turned today, with the corner of her eye always looking at him.

He was pretending to sleep, and she knew he was pretending to sleep, because even Li Zhuiyuan himself didn’t know that there would be a trace more relaxation between his eyebrows when he was asleep than when he was awake.

The two smiled at each other, completing today’s meeting ritual with tacit understanding.

Li Zhuiyuan first went to wash, then came back to help A Li grind ink and mix colors. After she finished painting a section of the pattern, the two walked out of the room, sat on a rattan chair, and started playing chess.

One always lost, one always won, yet neither of them tired of it.

Aunt Liu, who was boiling water on the kitchen stove, leaned against the kitchen door, gazing towards the terrace. The corners of her lips occasionally pursed slightly. A person who loves eating sunflower seeds can still eat them even without sunflower seeds.

The originally peaceful morning was broken by the arrival of a taxi.

Driving the taxi was Liu Changping, the driver from Jinling who had waived Tan Wenbin’s fare and knew about the little nurse’s boyfriend.

He had just held his wedding not long ago. Yesterday, he took a long-distance trip, coming from Jinling to Nantong. Before departing, he packed some special products from his hometown in Jiangxi as well as some wedding candies and celebratory gifts in the car.

He arrived last night but didn’t want to disturb anyone at night, so he slept in the car for half the night and came to the door to deliver gifts early this morning.

Actually, the last time he left, although Li Sanjiang had given him a first-time door red envelope according to local custom, he had also specially left a return gift he bought from town. Originally, there was nothing owed.

But it was precisely this kind of relationship where neither side was willing to take advantage of the other that allowed them to get along long-term.

Li Sanjiang got up and came out of the room, went down to talk and chat with Liu Changping, and kept him for breakfast.

Li Zhuiyuan originally had to go out, so he simply booked his car for today.

After the meal, Li Zhuiyuan took Runsheng and sat in Liu Changping’s car.

Liu Changping took out a red envelope from the car’s drawer, put more money in it from his pocket, and then clipped a piece of candy, handing it to the youth sitting in the back seat.

“This is for you.”

Li Zhuiyuan didn’t refuse, reached out to take it, and replied:

“May you have a noble son soon.”

The scholar’s burial place was near Taihu in Suzhou, not far from Nantong.

This was also the reason Li Zhuiyuan chose to go home first and then fulfill his other promise.

After arriving in the approximate area, Li Zhuiyuan took out a compass and began directing Liu Changping to drive.

After there was no road to continue forward, Li Zhuiyuan and Runsheng got off. Liu Changping also followed suit. The youth glanced at him but didn’t say anything.

Suzhou’s industry was developed, and its development level was also very high. Fortunately, the scholar’s burial position was still a primitive scenery, which reduced a lot of trouble.

Runsheng brought all his tools when he went out. After extending the Yellow River shovel, he followed the position specified by Li Zhuiyuan and began to dig.

Liu Changping was originally holding a cigarette in his hand. After seeing this scene, the cigarette butt started to tremble.

He had been a driver for this group of people several times, but the strangest thing he had seen was still Xue Liangliang running naked because he had mistakenly taken her clothes.

One youth, bringing one person, came to a place, and without saying anything, started digging a hole.

Liu Changping swallowed his saliva, looked left and right, instinctively panicked, and at the same time, acted as a lookout.

Runsheng’s hands were very agile. Soon, he dug a hole that connected to the cave below.

Runsheng squatted down, backed up to the youth, and then jumped down.

The area inside the cave wasn’t large. The scholar had arranged an array here to maintain the basic environment inside the tomb, but with the erosion of years, the array was already nominal.

The ground was already covered in water above the knees.

On the corpse platform, the female corpse was completely frozen in ice. The corpse hadn’t rotted, but the array inside the corpse platform had already stopped operating. The jade pendant used to maintain the corpse’s non-rotting state in memory had also shattered. The last bit of power was freezing the female corpse.

If he hadn’t come, the corpse would thaw and rot soon, the tomb would be filled with lake water, and the corpse and the burial objects inside would all be washed into the lake.

“This array is indeed crude.”

He had only seen it once in memory, and now witnessing it personally in reality, Li Zhuiyuan confirmed that that scholar… was actually just a “Runsheng” dressed like a scholar.

“Runsheng brother, there, there, and there…”

Li Zhuiyuan instructed him in one breath, and Runsheng finished listening and only responded with: “Okay!”

Runsheng began to dig the tomb. First, he released the accumulated water, then rearranged the array flags according to the youth’s requirements.

Li Zhuiyuan then focused on modifying the array on the corpse platform.

After everything was completed, several new arrays arranged by Li Zhuiyuan started. The array eye stood in the west position, echoing the tide of Taihu, borrowing the momentum of Taihu, allowing the array to be maintained for a longer time.

After finishing these, Li Zhuiyuan and Runsheng together tidied up the burial objects that had been soaked and knocked over by the accumulated water. The silt was also shoveled away by Runsheng with the Yellow River shovel. The entire tomb chamber suddenly became much tidier.

Runsheng leaned on his shovel and said, “It’s better to cremate to ashes, save the cleaning.”

Li Zhuiyuan: “You must not tell your grandfather these words.”

Mountain Big Grandpa and Great Grandpa have already selected good coffins and auspicious graves, and are still waiting for earth burial.

Li Zhuiyuan added another sentence: “Also don’t tell Mengmeng.”

Runsheng heard and laughed.

Those who make coffins are naturally against cremation.

Li Zhuiyuan actually quite supported cremation. It not only saved land but also greatly reduced the risk of corpses becoming walking dead or zombies.

But one generation has its own cognition and ideas. That scholar himself could accept turning to ashes, but in his heart, he still hoped his wife’s corpse could be properly preserved.

Li Zhuiyuan: “Okay, let’s go back.”

After coming out, Runsheng restored the hole.

At first, he didn’t see Liu Changping, but after a while, Liu Changping tiptoed over, lowered his voice, and said:

“Hurry up and go, I just looked, there’s no one here.”

As he spoke, his gaze fell on Runsheng’s backpack. It was bulging when they came, and it was still bulging now. He really couldn’t tell if they had dug out anything good.

When driving back, Liu Changping was a little uneasy. His lips moved several times, but he ultimately didn’t ask anything.

When they arrived in Nantong, Li Zhuiyuan signaled Liu Changping to drive to the city department store first. After he went in and bought some mother and infant supplies, he let Liu Changping drive the car to the river bank.

This place, Liu Changping was familiar with.

Li Zhuiyuan signaled Runsheng to stay in the car, and he got off with the things.

Walking to the river bank, he first drew out a talisman paper and threw it out. The talisman paper burned itself and floated down onto the river surface.

Soon, with a “gurgle” sound, a water curtain appeared from the bottom of the river, revealing an elegant woman in a white long skirt. The woman’s abdomen was slightly bulging, and her pregnancy wasn’t obvious.

Looking at it, this child wouldn’t be so easy to give birth to.

The woman retreated three steps, placed both hands in front of her, preparing to solemnly bow.

“No need.”

“Yes.”

The woman lowered her head halfway, not daring to look directly.

Although Xue Liangliang hadn’t asked him to do this, since he had returned once, Li Zhuiyuan felt he should come and send some things and greet her.

However, this job should originally have been Tan Wenbin’s responsibility, but Tan Wenbin wasn’t here now. His personal visit, instead, would put too much pressure on others.

After throwing the gifts into the river, the gifts were wrapped in a layer of special water flow and quickly submerged.

Li Zhuiyuan didn’t say anything more, turned around, and left.

Behind him, the woman performed the not-small ritual of bowing to the youth.

After the youth’s distant figure was no longer visible, she slowly sank and submerged into the river surface.

Next, they just returned to Siyuan Village.

Li Zhuiyuan was preparing to calculate Liu Changping’s car fare for the day. Before he could open his mouth, Liu Changping’s pager rang.

“My wife, I’ll go back and make a call.”

Driving the car to a small store by the roadside and stopping, Liu Changping got off to make a call. Not long after, he excitedly ran back, seemingly forgetting he was a driver, and actually patted the car window.

Li Zhuiyuan rolled down the car window.

Liu Changping: “Haha, my wife is pregnant, my wife is pregnant!”

This good news instantly washed away the haze of suspected accompanying grave robbery from the morning.

He drove Li Zhuiyuan and Runsheng back to Siyuan Village with a silly smile all the way. Midway, Li Zhuiyuan wanted to give him the car fare, but he pushed it off, saying he was happy today and wouldn’t take the money.

Li Zhuiyuan also didn’t force him.

The car drove back to Li Sanjiang’s home on the dam. Liu Changping happily shouted to Li Sanjiang, who was sitting on the dam:

“Grandpa Li, my wife has conceived, I’m going to be a dad.”

Li Sanjiang laughed and said: “Oh, this is good news. Come, I’ll properly drink a cup with you… Forget it, you should go back first. Drive safely on the road.”

“Then I’ll go first, Grandpa.”

Liu Changping reversed the car out and drove out of the village.

It was really a coincidence. He felt that every time he encountered this group of people and drove them, he could always receive good news.

From getting to know his girlfriend, to getting married, and then to getting pregnant, it was a whole one-stop package.

On the dam, Li Sanjiang laughed and said: “This kid, looking happily silly, wishing he was driving not a taxi but a rocket right now.”

As he spoke, Li Sanjiang’s gaze subconsciously fell on Li Zhuiyuan’s body, then naturally began to search for that girl’s figure.

After searching for a while, Li Sanjiang patted his forehead. The child was still young. What was he thinking? He was truly not ashamed.

“Little Yuanhou, accompany me to see your grandpa again.”

“Okay.”

On the dam, Liu Yumei, who was just sitting there drinking tea, her gaze first fell on the youth’s body, then moved to her own granddaughter.

A Li was the only bloodline of the Qin and Liu families. To say Liu Yumei didn’t think about this was, of course, impossible.

Just before A Li’s illness was serious, she basically gave up on the idea of A Li marrying later. Now that she saw A Li’s illness continuously improving, she was already pondering how to divide the surnames.

Anyway, Little Yuan also followed his mother’s surname Li, so he shouldn’t be that attached to surnames. At that time, she would shamelessly beg a little, and it should be possible…

Aunt Liu suddenly appeared in front of Liu Yumei.

Liu Yumei was startled, and anger showed on her face.

Aunt Liu said aggrievedly: “I’ve already called you several times, asking what you want to eat tonight. You didn’t respond, so what exactly were you thinking?”

Liu Yumei’s anger turned slightly red. She replied: “Thinking about A Li’s new clothes, what material would be good to use.”

Aunt Liu: “Give birth to one!”

Liu Yumei: “Not enough!”

Aunt Liu laughed.

Liu Yumei raised her hand: “Cheap skin, deserves a beating!”

Aunt Liu smiled and ran ahead, with the old lady chasing behind.

Uncle Qin carried his hoe and stood in the field, looking at the scene on the dam from afar, a smile also showing on his face.

As if everything had returned to his and A Ting’s childhood, whenever A Ting made a mistake, the mistress would always chase her to teach her, and the mistress, who clearly had a body of skills, could never catch up to the unwilling to suffer and practice skills A Ting.

A Li, who was painting in the second-floor room, walked out of the room, glanced at her grandma and Aunt Liu chasing each other, then turned back into the room and continued painting.

The originally solemn auspicious clouds in the painting were added with a few strokes by the girl, adding some freshness and brightness.

Li Sanjiang brought Li Zhuiyuan to Li Weihan’s house again, just happening to see Li Zhuiyuan’s little uncle also here, holding a bowl in his hand, the bowl containing meat.

When Li Zhuiyuan ate dinner last night, he just instructed Xiong Shan to send meat.

Little uncle saw Li Sanjiang, first shrank his neck in fright, then forced a smile: “Grandpa Sanjiang.”

He knew that Li Sanjiang didn’t like their four brothers. Sometimes when he saw them in the village, he would “spit” at them from afar and scold them as “white-eyed wolves.”

Li Sanjiang laughed and approached, ignoring the meat in the other’s bowl, and turned to ask: “Your dad told me he had to move bricks in the kiln factory, and you four brothers would give him the surgery fee when he came back.”

Little uncle: “I don’t want to, it’s my brothers they…”

He saw Li Sanjiang picking up a stick from the ground.

Little uncle immediately held the bowl and ran away.

Li Sanjiang threw the stick, hitting little uncle’s back. Little uncle straightened up with an “ouch” but still continued to protect the meat in the bowl from spilling, and continued to run home.

Li Weihan and Cui Guiying heard the noise and walked out of their room.

Cui Guiying saw Li Zhuiyuan and first ran up to hug him, touching his head and then his face, very intimately.

Li Sanjiang then glared angrily at Li Weihan, who explained:

“Shanhou sent meat today. I saw that Fourhou’s family had many children who were also small, so I just let him take it to the children…”

Li Sanjiang heard, first lowered his head to look at Little Yuanhou beside him, then looked at Li Weihan, let out a cold laugh, and scolded: “This year is not like before, it’s not easy to starve a person with hands and feet. Who the hell are you doing this for!”

Li Weihan was confused. Yesterday he was scolded by Uncle Sanjiang, who knew Uncle Sanjiang would scold him even more severely today.

Li Sanjiang: “Tomorrow you and Guiying go to Shanhou’s place, help plant peach trees and harvest peaches, count the wages, including two meals.”

Li Weihan immediately responded with: “Hey, helping you, Uncle Sanjiang, is what I should do, wages are not…”

Li Sanjiang scolded: “Old devil, no wages, how are you going to return your four sons’ money!”

Li Weihan saw Uncle Sanjiang was so angry and could only nod.

Li Sanjiang said again: “Including meals means only eating and not taking. Don’t think of taking advantage of the old man!”

Li Weihan busily waved his hand: “No, no, we understand.”

Li Sanjiang sighed, too lazy to get angry again, and just faintly said: “Take care of yourselves. Don’t end up not living longer than me.”

“Yes, yes, yes, I know, I know.” Li Weihan kept nodding with a smile, thinking: To live longer than you, Third Uncle, I really don’t have that confidence.

Li Sanjiang said again: “If you and Guiying are not well one day, and need to be served in bed, the good show will just begin.”

After speaking, Li Sanjiang led Li Zhuiyuan away.

While walking on the field ridge, Li Zhuiyuan peeled the boiled egg his grandma had just given him, and first passed it to his great-grandfather. His great-grandfather lowered his head and took a small bite:

“Little Yuanhou, you eat it yourself.”

“Okay.”

Li Zhuiyuan was afraid his great-grandfather was angry, because his great-grandfather should have guessed who let Xiong Shan send the meat.

“Little Yuanhou ah…”

“Yes, Great-grandpa.”

“Great-grandpa, I’ve lived so long and realized one truth: some people, ah, that’s just their fate. Don’t think about changing other people’s fate. Even if you’re good to him, he may not appreciate it.”

“I understand, Great-grandpa.”

“Come, Great-grandpa will carry you!”

Li Zhuiyuan was on Li Sanjiang’s back. Li Sanjiang weighed him: “Ho, the sparrow is getting bigger and bigger oh.”

Back home, they ate dinner.

Li Zhuiyuan and A Li went back into the room. The two sat facing each other, the blank book placed in front of them.

On this page, in the prison picture, the red-clothed woman had already hanged herself, her face purple, her tongue sticking out long.

Li Zhuiyuan’s biggest problem now was, the “Evil Book” was taken in and closed, but how to use it after closing?

Just closing it had no meaning. He still hoped it would reform.

Placing the book aside, Li Zhuiyuan took out a red string and kept threading it on his fingertip, at the same time beginning to deduce the team array.

He had just started deducting for a while when the youth felt his brain was tired.

The girl stood up.

The youth looked up at the girl, a little worried she would go out to the kitchen and make him red sugar boiled eggs.

However, the girl didn’t leave. Instead, she reached out from the youth and also took a red string, imitating the youth’s previous steps, and began to shuttle it on her fingertip.

She was helping him deduce together.

Li Zhuiyuan watched the red rope roll on the girl’s fingertip while pinching with his right hand.

Not long after, A Li also stopped her action.

The girl frowned slightly, seeming to want to force herself to continue, but Li Zhuiyuan stopped her.

“That’s enough. This deduction consumes a lot of energy. No rush at the moment.”

The girl nodded, stood up, and left.

Li Zhuiyuan thought she was tired and went back to rest, so he carried the basin to wash.

After washing and returning, his head was a little dizzy, and he walked with some sway. He pushed open the door and entered the room, only to find the girl had returned, holding two sea bowls in her hands, the bowls containing red sugar boiled eggs.

“A Li, let’s eat together.”

The girl nodded.

Tonight’s red sugar boiled eggs were more delicious than last night’s, not that sweet and greasy. Aunt Liu must have helped make them.

After eating, the girl went back to the east room, and Li Zhuiyuan carried the bowls to the kitchen.

Aunt Liu was still tidying up inside. Seeing him, she asked: “Delicious?”

“Aunt Liu…”

“Next time I’ll make you other sweets.”

“Thank you, Aunt Liu.”

“You’re welcome, hurry back and rest.”

After Li Zhuiyuan left, Aunt Liu looked at the large teacup of red sugar on the table.

This morning, she just found that the large teacup of red sugar which was still full yesterday was gone. Earlier, if she hadn’t gone back to the kitchen again, A Li would have added a full large teacup to the pot again.

After eating the late-night snack and recovering some energy, Li Zhuiyuan returned to his room, continued to pinch with his right hand, and began to consolidate the part he had deduced earlier.

This was a vast project. Not only were its principles complex, but it also had to be designed and adjusted separately according to the characteristics of each person in the team.

Even with A Li helping him, at this speed… Li Zhuiyuan suspected that without a whole year, he really couldn’t deduce it.

To calculate with a profound secret method, deducting it in one year was already divine speed. Many forces’ inheritance methods required several generations to complete.

But for the youth, one year… was really too long.

Although he had shown unified value in the river water, he could avoid that sudden attack wave mode.

But next, the difficulty pushed to him by the river water would also increase accordingly. If he didn’t quickly enhance the overall strength of the whole team in the gaps between each wave, he would easily be shattered by the increasingly fierce waves.

The youth lowered his head and looked at the blank book again.

On that page, the woman still maintained the previous hanging ghost image, unchanged.

Hmm, why did you suddenly have a lower desire to perform today?

Li Zhuiyuan continued to pinch with his right hand, and placed his left hand on the book page.

This time, the youth suddenly discovered that as he continued to deduce, a special sense of boost appeared, a feeling like when Zhao Yi was beside him before, lending his brain to him through the crack of the door between life and death.

Li Zhuiyuan immediately lowered his head and looked at the picture.

In the middle of the picture, she was no longer hanging but had started to go mad, lying on the prison ground, rolling around.

Li Zhuiyuan continued to deduce and unconsciously accelerated the speed.

In the middle of the picture, the woman’s image changed to a man, who started to scratch his face skin, appearing very terrible.

As the deduction continued, the man changed back to a woman, her body lying on the prison wall, constantly twisting, blood dripping.

But the youth still didn’t stop, continuing to deduce. There was no other way, who told this guy to have a history of playing the victim before.

The person in the middle of the picture began to hunch, their body began to shrink, no longer clear whether it was male or female.

The deduction still continued, until… one of its legs exploded and was gone.

Li Zhuiyuan paused for a bit. Only one leg exploded, there was still one leg and two arms.

Continue deducing.

The other leg was also gone.

The arms were all gone.

It wasn’t until it was left with only a head topping a large piece of rotten flesh that Li Zhuiyuan stopped.

The part he had just deduced was already enough for ten days’ worth.

Actually, the true responsibility for the deduction still rested with Li Zhuiyuan himself, but through the blank book, he could draw on the “Evil Book” for computing support.

At this time, because only a clear head was left, the picture was enlarged.

That head’s face was full of panic and horror.

It was the “Evil Book”. Since its birth, it had manipulated and guided who knows how many human tragedies and extermination disasters. It fed on this and took pleasure in it.

But since falling into the hands of this youth, it finally realized what true evil ruthlessness was!

Li Zhuiyuan picked up his pen and wrote on the prison wall in the middle of the picture:

“Continue tomorrow, same intensity.”

The head started shaking madly, then its tongue stretched out, licking the blood below. The next moment, the page picture changed, and bloody dripping characters appeared on the wall, written with the tongue:

“Please let me rest, I will die!”

Of course, it was better to sustainably drain the pond to get all the fish.

But the problem was, Li Zhuiyuan didn’t know this guy’s bottom line. It had already deceived him once, and he no longer trusted it.

The youth picked up his pen and wrote a simple warm response:

“Oh.”

…

The ward door was pushed open, and Tan Wenbin walked in.

Looking at Tan Yunlong, whose lips were still pale on the bed, Tan Wenbin smiled and said:

“Congratulations, Officer Tan, oh no, Team Leader Tan, oh no, Director Tan… You say this time can you try not to oh no, strive to get Bureau Chief Tan?”

At this time, there was only Tan Yunlong in the ward, and Tan Wenbin was also uninhibited.

He didn’t want to pretend to cry and throw himself into his dad’s embrace.

In fact, compared to more serious injuries, he had already experienced them several times.

With more experience, the concept naturally changed. As long as he didn’t die, recovering was good. Besides, although his dad’s injury wasn’t light, it didn’t touch a key area, so the problem wasn’t big.

Tan Yunlong, lying on the bed wearing patient clothes, rarely wasn’t angry because of his son’s naughtiness. Instead, he was like re-recognizing his son, and said with a hoarse voice:

“How much hardship have you suffered outside?”

Before he was busy, every time father and son communicated, they both seemed to wear a layer of shell.

Tan Yunlong was now recuperating, and his shell was temporarily broken, so with his excellent old detective’s eyes, he immediately saw the difference in his son.

This carefree attitude towards life, Tan Yunlong had only seen in a very few special people before.

He really didn’t expect that one day, he could detect a similar feeling in his own son.

Tan Wenbin busily waved his hand: “Don’t, Dad, we are close father and son, no need for sensationalism. Save some emotions, you can vent them when the TV station comes.”

Tan Yunlong’s chest puffed up. The feeling of heartache for his son was personally stirred and broken by his son. He held back his panic and only spit out one sentence:

“Brute.”

“Hey hey hey!”

Tan Wenbin picked up the orange on the bedside cabinet and peeled it.

“Dad, I might have to say you well. You know you want to be Bao Qingtian, why didn’t you carry a gun when you went out of the police station?”

Tan Yunlong opened his mouth, saw Tan Wenbin put the peeled orange segments into his own mouth, and Tan Yunlong only pursed his lips and said:

“How would I know they could be so stupid.”

He had already reported the details of the stolen goods. Any retaliation against him at this time was meaningless.

But the result was, the other party actually gathered a group of small hooligans to retaliate against him.

It was said that the district chief who had already been taken away by the disciplinary commission was directly scared paralyzed after knowing his younger brother did this.

Originally, if it had followed the normal corruption process, once this kind of thing happened, the nature would directly change.

Correspondingly, even if he was injured, even if he wasn’t enthusiastic about this, Tan Yunlong was very clear about how much subsequent influence this matter would bring him.

Tan Wenbin finished eating the whole orange and then picked up his dad’s malted milk, making himself a large cup.

“You haven’t eaten?”

“Knowing you had an accident, I immediately changed my ticket and came to Jinling.”

“You can also eat at the airport.”

“Hehe, how expensive are things sold at the airport?”

“You’re not short of money.”

“No mood to eat.”

The father and son were both silent.

Tan Yunlong turned his head and closed his eyes.

Tan Wenbin accidentally made himself sentimental and busily remedied the atmosphere by saying:

“Dad, you say, can this matter of yours be made into a TV series later? The front is a god detective series, and at the end, add an injury, the corrupt official is pulled down, perfect, simply too typical to be untypical.”

Tan Yunlong sighed and said: “Be more serious.”

“Huh?”

Tan Yunlong: “To them, be more serious.”

“Okay.” Tan Wenbin responded obediently, “I know.”

Not everyone could be as lucky as Tan Yunlong to be stabbed twice and still have no big problem. Many people who silently guarded sacrificed themselves at their posts.

Tan Wenbin: “Dad, you still have to be careful in the future. If something happens to you, what will Mom do? It’s already hard enough for her to marry you. Don’t even give her a life after retirement.”

Tan Yunlong used all his strength and softly “ummed.”

“And, I haven’t come to research the policy yet, I still don’t know if I can get bonus points if you become glorious later.”

Tan Yunlong closed his eyes. What a pity, patient clothes can’t be belted.

At this time, the ward door was pushed open again, and Zhou Yunyun walked in carrying the meal from the hospital.

“Binbin, you’re back?”

Tan Wenbin said in surprise: “You’re taking care of my dad?”

Zhou Yunyun: “Auntie has been taking care of him for several days, she’s too tired. I let Auntie go back and sleep for a while first.”

Tan Wenbin: “It’s hard on you.”

Zhou Yunyun: “Uncle Tan is very good to me. Isn’t taking care of him what I should do?”

Tan Yunlong opened his mouth and said: “Yunyun is a good girl. Your mom and I both approve of her. You boy must not mess up later.”

Tan Wenbin: “I know, this bedside service is second only to accompanying the funeral wearing hemp and filial piety.”

Tan Yunlong: “…”

The three people ate together. Just as they put down their spoons, a group of leaders came from outside the ward.

Tan Wenbin asked Zhou Yunyun: “Many people visiting?”

Zhou Yunyun nodded: “After Uncle Tan woke up, there were always many people coming to visit.”

Tan Wenbin packed up the bowls, chopsticks, and lunch box while saying: “Dad, you’re tired, I’ll go back and see Mom first. She must have been scared badly these days.”

Standing up, he walked to the ward door, opened the door, looked at the leaders standing outside, and enthusiastically made a gesture of invitation:

“Uncles and uncles, please come and see Uncle Tan. Just right, Uncle Tan just finished eating and is awake. Please hurry in.”

Tan Yunlong watched his son leave just like that. The leaders who came in one by one said:

“This nephew of yours is not bad. He’s very energetic and also very polite.”

…

One’s heart, closer to home, beat faster.

Lin Shuyou took a deep breath, slowly exhaled, took another deep breath, and exhaled again…

Although the branch did not divide the temple, everything was as usual in terms of framework, but returning this time to do things was no less than a new coming-of-age ceremony for Lin Shuyou.

Walking out of the alley, walking up the stairs, stepping into the temple door.

“A You is back.”

“A You, your school is on holiday again?”

The senior brothers and uncles in the temple enthusiastically greeted Lin Shuyou. The last time he came back for New Year, Lin Shuyou showed a very high tacit understanding with White Crane Boy to everyone. Coupled with his reputation as a child prodigy in the spirit medium lineage from an early age, this next term’s temple master unexpectedly would also be surnamed Lin.

Lin Shuyou returned the greetings one by one. Knowing that his grandpa and master wouldn’t be in the temple right now but were at a meeting, he just wandered his gaze, found a junior brother, and asked him to run an errand to inform them he was back.

Immediately, Lin Shuyou walked into the main hall.

As soon as he entered, he saw White Crane Boy being singled out and placed there among the statues of various officials and generals.

Because the craftsman who was repairing the adjacent Officials and Generals Temple had been hospitalized before, this also led to no skilled masters nearby daring to take this repair job temporarily.

The Boy statue was also still dilapidated.

“Ha, Boy, didn’t expect, your actions were faster than mine.”

Lin Shuyou threw his backpack up and also jumped up to sit down. This row just had one statue of Boy, which was very spacious.

Leaning against the Boy statue, Lin Shuyou’s gaze swept to the other officials and generals in the main hall.

He and Bin brother both changed their tickets, so after Little Yuan brother and they boarded the plane and left, he and Bin brother sat in the waiting hall for a long time again.

Bin brother told him that some things, Little Yuan brother didn’t mention, but they had to think ahead first.

For example, what was your Lin Shuyou’s position in the team? That was your identity as officials and generals. You now have one tree, but you don’t want to have a forest? Like your surname.

Bin brother also said, after our South Passage field is set up, who will have more things placed there, and who will have greater discourse power?

Compared to people, who can compare to you?

She Yin Meng will at most place one Fengdu Great Emperor in the future, you will place a group of officials and generals later, not afraid of her at all!

Lin Shuyou held a slight reservation about a group of officials and generals being not afraid of Fengdu Great Emperor.

But he felt Bin brother was right. His relationship with Boy was very good, but when you’re out and about, you still rely on power.

It was also while chatting about these things in the waiting hall that A You didn’t open his vertical pupil. Otherwise, if White Crane Boy heard these, he would probably be possessed and descend next time, and the first thing he would do is beat Tan Wenbin to death.

Lin Shuyou’s gaze gradually fell on the Increase and Decrease Two Generals.

The Increase and Decrease Two Generals were among the officials and generals, having the strongest strength and at the same time the most unruly temper.

The former was an advantage in Little Yuan brother’s hands, and the latter was not a disadvantage in Little Yuan brother’s hands either.

A You believed Little Yuan brother could control Them. After all, at first, Boy also liked to hold his head high and proud, but now he was becoming more and more amiable.

Anyway, he had to establish a branch. Placing one Boy was placing, and placing two Increase and Decrease Two Generals was also the same.

Wait for Little Yuan brother to tame them…

After Little Yuan brother and Them got along well, he could take advantage of the situation and transfer Them to the South Passage field as well, saving himself the trouble of going through the ceremony again.

Lin Shuyou didn’t feel his behavior was called betrayal. In Bin brother’s words, this was called “divine staff temporary transfer.”

The stronger he was, the stronger Yin God adult would be, and then the officials and generals system would also be stronger. He was greatly promoting the officials and generals!

Lin Shuyou was just planning things on his side when Lin Fuan and Chen Shoumen had already hurried in.

If it was purely his grandson (disciple) returning, they naturally wouldn’t be so anxious. But they knew that A You was following that one’s command to return this time and would bring that one’s will.

Therefore, upon discovering Lin Shuyou was actually sitting on the god platform, the two of them weren’t as angry as in the past.

Lin Shuyou jumped down from the god platform, patted his hands, and the process Bin brother taught him emerged in his mind.

Bin brother said, follow his process, and the matter of establishing a branch would naturally happen. His master and grandpa would absolutely not oppose it, they would only be extremely happy.

“Cough cough…”

Lin Shuyou remembered Bin brother’s teaching, not rushing to greet people, but first clearing his throat.

Lin Fuan and Chen Shoumen saw this, looked at each other, and each thought: Could this day have finally come?

Lin Shuyou drew out a talisman paper and threw it forward. The talisman paper passed through the candle in front, lit up, and turned into flying ash.

“Following the Dragon King’s order…”

Lin Fuan and Chen Shoumen looked at each other again, each seeing excitement and joy in the other’s eyes:

This day, it really came!

Lin Shuyou hadn’t come to continue speaking when he suddenly saw his grandpa’s face showing shame and anger, and his master’s face showing angry emotion.

Immediately, grandpa Lin Fuan pointed at him and scolded: “You unfilial beast, I don’t have you as a grandson!”

Chen Shoumen beat his chest and stamped his feet, saying: “Heaven, how could I have taught such a disciple! I am ashamed of my master’s inheritance, ashamed of Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva!”

Eh?

Lin Shuyou was dumbfounded. He just wanted to establish a branch, why were his master and grandpa reacting so strongly?

Not to mention that establishing a branch didn’t divide the temple. Even if he really wanted to divide and build a temple separately, this was a good thing to be proud of. His master and grandpa should proudly pat him on the shoulder and say he had finally grown up and could open branches and spread leaves for the officials and generals.

Lin Fuan: “Pitiful, my inheritance, my foundation! Beast, I am irreconcilable with you!”

Chen Shoumen: “Alas, my master’s gate, my orthodoxy! Evil disciple, I cut off grudges with you!”

Lin Shuyou was somewhat at a loss for a while, why were his grandpa and master reacting so strongly and so uniformly.

After wailing, Lin Fuan waved his hand and sighed: “Forget it, circumstances force it, I can’t help it, I can only endure humiliation and choose my entire inheritance.”

Chen Shoumen said heartbrokenly: “Forget it, with people as the knife and me as the fish, as the temple master, I must be responsible for the spirits of the whole temple, up and down, I have to bow.”

After speaking, the two collectively knelt down to Lin Shuyou.

Lin Shuyou was startled, trembling and jumping back several steps to panic-avoid. What madness were his master and grandpa in!

Lin Fuan and Chen Shoumen said together:

“Strictly follow the Dragon King’s order, from today on, our temple belongs to the Dragon King courtyard!”

Lin Shuyou: “…”

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