Translator: Dj2203
Editor: Dj2203
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Lin Xin got up and couldn’t find Shen Lou, so he went out to ask his master.
Shen Qirui and Zhu Xingli were drinking under the big maple tree in the courtyard. Seeing Lin Xin come out, Shen Qirui turned to say hello to him. Zhu Xingli took the opportunity to flick a snowball into Shen Qirui’s cup, “Xin’er, come here and pour wine for me.”
“Where’s Qingque?”
After completing his master’s unreasonable request, Lin Xin stood under the maple tree and asked directly.
“He just took medicine and fell asleep,” Zhu Xingli said vaguely, holding up the wine glass and raising his chin to Shen Qirui, “Come on, let’s go.” After that, he drank the wine in one gulp.
Shen Qirui raised his glass without looking and filled his mouth with snow.
“Hahahaha…” Zhu Xingli burst out laughing.
Lin Xin frowned slightly when he saw the two people’s postures. This was Fengjin, Shen Lou’s residence. Despite being teased like this by Zhu Xingli, Shen Qirui had no intention of getting up and leaving. He was obviously worried about something.
In the guest room, Huang Ge was standing guard outside the door. When he saw Lin Xin coming, he saluted immediately, “Master Marquis, the prince has just fallen asleep. You can come and see him later.”
“Get out of the way!” Lin Xin said with a cold face. Then he pushed open the door to the guest room.
“Hmm…” A low groan of pain rushed into Lin Xin’s ears the moment the wooden door opened. It was like a thunder, causing pain to the tip of his heart. Shen Lou on the bed frowned, as if enduring great pain.
“Master Marquis!” Zishu, who was standing by the bed and wiping the prince’s sweat, saw Lin Xin coming in and suddenly panicked.
Shen Lou opened his eyes. There were beads of sweat on his eyebrows, hanging tremblingly, but his eyes were very calm, even showing a smile, “Xinxin, you’re awake.”
“What’s going on?”
Lin Xin threw off his shoes and climbed onto the bed, hugged Shen Lou into his arms, then he felt that he was shaking slightly, so he took out a pill for him to take.
“Mr. Zhu has restored his soul.” Zishu replied on behalf of the Crown Prince.
Shen Lou shook his head to reject the pill. Although Xiaoyao Pill was good, it would paralyze his consciousness. He needed to fight against the newly added souls and devour them, so it was best to stay awake.
“You can go out.” Lin Xin waved his hand and asked Zishu to leave. He took off his socks and sat on the bed.
Zishu also felt that she was quite redundant, so she silently exited and closed the door, and she and Huang Ge acted as door gods with their hands folded.
“What did Master give you?” Lin Xin gently touched the top of Shen Lou’s hair. Although this did not do much to alleviate the pain in his soul, it was better than nothing.
Shen Lou was quite relieved and felt that the pain had been relieved a lot. “I don’t know. It’s not a human soul, so I didn’t worry.” Regardless of whether the soul was alive or dead, it would cause memory confusion, so using other people’s souls to replenish one’s soul was not a good idea. It was also not a good thing. Zhu Xingli had been out for the past six months, looking for some weird materials, and had patted his chest to ensure that Shen Lou could be cured this time.
Shen Qirui was worried, so he stayed in Fengjin and endured Zhu Xingli’s mischief.
After finding Shen Lou and smelling the cold fragrance of grass and trees on his body, Lin Xin, who was still weak, yawned again.
“Still sleepy?” Shen Lou motioned for him to lie down.
Lin Xin lay down calmly and climbed onto Shen Lou’s body like an octopus. After a while, he said, “I shouldn’t have killed Zhong Changye.”
“In your last life, you paid for it with your life.” Shen Lou touched his back.
“But I killed his next life and the life after that.” Lin Xin buried his face in Shen Lou’s neck. He didn’t know if he was qualified to hug Shen Lou with his blood-stained hands.
For a long time, no answer was heard from Shen Lou. Lin Xin looked up at him anxiously, only to see that he had tilted his chin slightly and the veins in his neck were tight, obviously enduring great pain.
Lin Xin leaned over and kissed his chin. Shen Lou overcame the severe pain and kissed him back, “You have paid back what you have to pay, so there is no need to blame yourself.”
“Huh?” Lin Xin felt that Shen Lou’s words were not simple, so he went to ask again, but Shen Lou held his head down.
“Trust me, slave.” Shen Lou said softly and slowly closed his eyes.
Lin Xin woke up after sleeping for a while, then he looked at Shen Lou’s face lustfully with his eyes open. He was too attached to Shen Lou. This man was his only comfort in those painful years, and he was reluctant to let go no matter what.
Eyelashes trembling slightly, Shen Lou slowly opened his eyes. The tonic should have melted away, there was no pain on his face, and the muscles in his limbs were relaxed. But his dark eyes looked at Lin Xin curiously with a bit of confusion.
“You’re awake, does it still hurt?” Lin Xin reached out and pinched his face.
Shen Lou let him squeeze it obediently, and finally gave him a gentle lick on his palm.
“Huh?” Shen Qingque would never do this kind of action. Lin Xin didn’t find it cute, only creepy. He sat up and asked, “Shen Lou, do you still recognize me?”
Shen Lou sat up and tilted his head to look at him. This was even more strange, a grown man making such childish and innocent actions.
“Xinxin.”
Fortunately, he still recognized him. Before Lin Xin could breathe a sigh of relief, Shen Lou pushed his head onto the bed and rubbed himself against his chest back and forth.
“Master!” Lin Xin shouted loudly at the top of his voice.
“Xinxin!” The window in the guest room was smashed, and Zhu Xingli jumped in instantly, “What’s wrong? What’s wrong?”
“What did you give him?” Lin Xin was about to cry but was pressed down on the bed by Shen Lou and licked. Then his neck and head were rubbed.
Shen Qirui followed and couldn’t help but blush when he saw the scene in front of him, “What a shame! Qingque, get up quickly!”
When Shen Lou heard his father speak, he sat up and coughed lightly, “I have some control. But I can’t stop myself. I just had a long dream, dreaming that I was running through the forest, eating extremely fresh grass, and drinking spring water that was sweeter than pear wine. When I woke up and saw Lin Xin, I couldn’t help but want to rub my head against him.
“Come on, let me see, let your soul leave the body.” Zhu Xingli ordered Shen Qirui to close the door, pulled Shen Lou to sit down, and quickly placed a few pieces of Luli around him.
Then he closed his eyes and his soul left his body.
In the Luli‘s light, Shen Lou’s bright soul appeared. The soul was no different from an ordinary soul, except that there was a strange antler on the left side of the head.
“Ah, it’s the Nine-Colored Deer.” Zhu Xingli understood clearly, pointed at the center of Shen Lou’s eyebrows, and shouted, “Return to the body!”
The soul returned to the body, Shen Lou opened his eyes, held his head and endured the sensation of the world spinning.
“What is that?” Shen Qirui also saw the appearance of his soul and frowned slightly.
“You replenished his soul with a beast soul!” Lin Xin looked at his master in disbelief, “Didn’t you say that a beast soul is useless?”
“This is a spirit beast soul.” Zhu Xingli took out the eight-sided Huangquan Pearl. Now, the pearl was sparkling like a brocade bag filled with precious stones, proudly showing off its gold value.
In addition to ordinary livestock and wild beasts in the world, there were also some spiritual beasts that were similar to Gu Eagles. They were born with spiritual veins and souls, were much smarter than ordinary beasts, and only lived in inaccessible places.
Zhu Xingli had been looking for this kind of spiritual beast for the past six months. After searching for so long, he only found three, the nine-colored deer, the snowy moon wolf, and the red-tailed fox.
“They are all complete living souls. It is a great supplement. Three of them are almost enough.” Zhu Xingli threw the Huangquan Pearl to Lin Xin. “When he digests the deer, I will give him another one.”
Spirit beasts were simple-minded and had little memory. They were thus easy to digest. Even if confusion occurred, it would disappear quickly. There would never be the situation where another soul controls the body and tries to kill someone like before.
However, what Zhu Xingli did not expect was that although the memory of the spirit beast was simple, the beast’s instinct was very persistent. So, throughout the Chinese New Year period, Shen Lou was trying to eat grass. Fortunately, his head didn’t hurt much anymore.
The north wind was howling outside the window, and there was nothing more comfortable than lying in the same bed with the one you love. Lin Xin’s warm toes soaked in hot water were wrapped around Shen Lou’s calf, “Qingque, my hand is healed.”
“Huh?” Shen Lou took his hand and looked at it after unwrapping the bandage. Those scary little holes were gone, and the palms were as smooth as ever.
Lin Xin leaned over and kissed him.
Shen Lou responded gently, licking Lin Xin’s lips back and forth, and then hugged him and fell asleep peacefully without doing anything else.
Lin Xin: “…” Could it be that the person after swallowing the deer’s soul became a monk? Even if you are a vegetarian, it is not even close to being immune to beauty!
On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, Shen Lou finally returned to normal and stopped looking for grass from time to time. Then he took Lin Xin to Huan Xinghai to watch the lanterns.
The Shen family carved various ice lanterns on the ice lake and lit them up at night, making the scene crystal clear and colorful. It was like Xian Renfang City, with no end in sight.
“Brother! Look at my lantern!” Shen Yingying, who had returned from her tour, was playing on the ice in the lake with an exquisite octagonal lantern. In the blink of an eye, she slid in front of the two of them, “A Xin, come down and play!”
“Qiuting, bring that piece of ice over here.” Shen Lou pointed to the remains of a carved ice lantern not far away.
Shen Yingying responded, broke it off with a “Crunch” sound, and threw it to her brother’s feet with one hand, “What do you want to do?”
“Carve a lantern.” Shen Lou sat down on the chair brought by the servants, then he took out a small knife and carved the lump of ice into a deer in a moment. He hollowed out the back and filled it with lamp oil, lit the wick, and slowly handed it out.
This was the first time Shen Yingying saw her brother’s craftsmanship. She was flattered and reached out to take it, but saw the lamp being directly handed to Lin Xin’s hand.
“Another little deer?” Lin Xin took it and looked at him with a smile.
“I can only carve this.” It was Lin Xin who asked him to carve a deer to apologize, so he only learned how to carve a deer.
Lin Xin was stunned for a moment, then realized it and his throat felt itchy, “This is really a specialization in the art.”
Thinking of a young Shen Lou hiding in his room secretly carving deer, he suddenly felt a little distressed. He felt sorry for Shen Qingque who couldn’t give away the deer, and he also felt sorry for himself who couldn’t receive the deer.
Shen Yingying smacked her lips and slid backward silently, but just then bumped into Zhu Xingli who was rushing towards her like the wind.
“Big niece, let’s see who can skate faster.”
“Let’s compete!”
On the ice of Huan Xinghai, people suddenly moved over and the two people on the shore disappeared together.
The author has something to say:
Small Theater:
Host Zhongzhong: Today our “Royal Questions and Answers” program will have its 65th episode. I would like to invite today’s guests to come and shout out our slogan: Asking the royal family, if you don’t answer correctly, you are not allowed to leave this door, yeah!
Host Zhongzhong: The first question, how to pursue your sweetheart?
Xinxin: Tie up to play
Loulou: Carve a deer for him
Yingying: I’m still single, don’t know (keep smiling)
Host ZhongZhong: The second question, how to coax your sweetheart to make him happy?
Xinxin: Just tie him up and play
Loulou: Carve a deer for him.
Yingying: I’m single, I don’t know (manual goodbye)
Host ZhongZhong: The third question is, how to express your missing during the days apart?
Xinxin: Send him a short bondage play video.
Loulou: Carve a deer for him.
Yingying: This show can’t be recorded (╯‵□′)╯︵┻━┻
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