Translator: Dj22031
Editor: Dj22031
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Chen Hua and his senior brother returned to the parking lot and saw Jiu Ding lowering the car window and sticking his head out to look around. When he saw Chen Hua, his eyes lit up, and he opened the car door and said happily, “You’re back?”
Then he looked at Yin Xuan beside him and frowned slightly: “Who is this?”
“My senior brother.” Chen Hua thought that the ice cream cone was not bought in vain, and he still cared about him.
Then he explained to Yin Xuan, “This is a kid from my boss’s family. My boss doesn’t have time, so I brought him to the mall to buy some things.”
Chen Hua skipped over Jiu Ding’s identity and only mentioned it briefly.
Although the person he was facing was his senior brother and he did not want to think badly of him, but the two of them had had no contact for a thousand years, and Jiu Ding’s identity was involved with the Qian faction, so just in case, he chose to keep his mouth shut.
Fortunately, Yin Xuan had no curiosity about Jiu Ding. He smiled politely at Jiu Ding and ignored his question about Chen Hua’s recent situation: “Boss? Are you working now?”
“Well, I work in a private company, and my boss is a demon.”
After letting Jiu Ding sit in the back seat, Chen Hua motioned for Yin Xuan to get in the car and lightly summarized the events of the past thousand years of separation: “I was able to kill Yuan Li thanks to the help of the boss. Later, I burned the thatched cottage and Yuan Li’s body, and I have been following the boss ever since. One reason is that I had nowhere else to go, and the other is that I want to repay the boss.”
But he didn’t expect that more than a thousand years would pass in the blink of an eye, and he went from being an ignorant little Painted Skin who was superstitious about his savior to a humble social animal who wanted to curse Dogcoin whenever he saw Ying Qiao.
He sighed deeply: “Time flies by so fast.”
Yin Xuan also sighed: “Time has indeed passed quickly. Occasionally when I think of the past days, it still feels like yesterday.”
He turned his head and looked at Chen Hua deeply: “I didn’t expect that I would have the chance to see you again.”
“I didn’t expect that Senior Brother would still be fine.” Chen Hua was driving the car, with a sincere and happy look on his face. “You don’t know, when I saw the jade pendant you often wore in Yuan Li’s alchemy room, I thought you had also suffered from his murderous hands like those poor people. But I searched the alchemy room and only found that jade pendant. At that time, I almost built a cenotaph for you, but I thought that if you were not dead, wouldn’t it be a curse on you if I built a cenotaph for you? So I simply burned down the thatched cottage.”
“But fortunately, you didn’t do that at that time, so we can be reunited as brothers today.”
Chen Hua smiled and asked, “Where have you been all these years, Senior Brother? It seems like your cultivation has improved? Your appearance is still the same as before, without any change.”
Although they all followed their master Yuan Li to practice Taoism, in fact, neither he nor Yin Xuan could be considered a true human.
Yuan Li had two disciples back then, the elder one was Yin Xuan and the younger one was Chen Hua.
The original form of Chen Hua was a picture of a human skin skeleton. The age and author of the picture were unknown. In short, over time, the skeleton in the painting began to have consciousness. Later, the painting happened to fall into Yuan Li’s hands. The skeleton in the painting was enlightened by him, then he broke free from the constraints of the scroll and walked out of the painting.
Later, the Skeleton followed Yuan Li to practice Taoism and named himself Chen Hua.
When Chen Hua just came out of the painting, he was still a snow-white skeleton. Yuan Li said it was inconvenient for him to go out like this, so he asked him to learn painting from his senior brother Yin Xuan.
It could be said that the exquisite skills that Chen Hua later learned to make leather bags for himself were all taught by Yin Xuan.
Yin Xuan was gentle and polite, well-informed, and made rapid progress in his Taoist practice, leaving Chen Hua far behind. It was only after he became close to Yin Xuan that he found out that Yin Xuan also had half demon blood – he was originally an abandoned baby of a human-monster hybrid, picked up and raised by Yuan Li. Although he looked young, he was actually over a hundred years old.
“At that time, I saw that Master… Yuan Li had died and his thatched cottage had been destroyed. I also thought that you had also met with an accident. So I was disheartened and went to a remote mountain to retreat and recuperate.”
Yin Xuan said: “After a breakthrough in my cultivation, I encountered a bottleneck, so I had to go out to practice and often travel outside.”
He sighed imperceptibly, his expression somewhat haggard.
Chen Hua noticed it but pretended not to notice and continued chatting with him about recent events.
Although his senior brother didn’t say it, Chen Hua knew that his senior brother and he had completely different attitudes towards Yuan Li.
Although he was enlightened by Yuan Li and worshipped Yuan Li as his master to learn Taoism, in fact, Yuan Li was close to the five decays of heaven and man and had been looking for a way to break through, so he did not have much energy to teach him. Most of his things were thus done by his senior brother Yin Xuan, so compared with Yuan Li, he had a deeper relationship with his senior brother.
Later, he unexpectedly discovered that Yuan Li was not as indifferent to life and death as he appeared. In order to prolong his life, he had been refining red pills with ordinary people as materials. The alchemy room that they were never allowed to enter was filled with countless bones. Even the enlightenment of Chen Hua was just to explore another way to prolong his life. Later, he found that Chen Hua was not obedient enough and could not become a stepping stone for his immortality and ascension, so he wanted to refine him into a red pill as well.
Chen Hua did not sit there and wait for death but tried his best to kill him.
Over the years, he had never regretted killing Yuan Li.
But Yin Xuan was different. He was picked up by Yuan Li when he was an abandoned baby and had been raised to adulthood. The master and disciple had been together for hundreds of years. Yuan Li was both a master and a father to him. With Yin Xuan’s character, even if Yuan Li wanted to kill him, Yin Xuan probably would not resist and would just regard it as returning the life to Yuan Li.
Chen Hua disagreed with his idea, but Yuan Li was dead and times had changed. He didn’t want to disagree with his senior brother over the past and create friction for no reason, so he simply pretended to be ignorant.
The two chatted about their recent situations and soon arrived below Chen Hua’s building. The three of them went upstairs together.
Jiu Ding followed them with a shopping bag. Looking at Yin Xuan walking beside Chen Hua, talking and laughing, he couldn’t help but secretly make a face at him.
He didn’t like this senior brother at all!
Ying Qiao drove to the downstairs of Chen Hua’s residential area and went to his door as he was familiar with the place.
However, when Chen Hua came to open the door, he found that there was a new face in Chen Hua’s house today. Chen Hua was talking and laughing with the new face, and it seemed that they had a very close relationship.
Ying Qiao: ???
He glanced at Yin Xuan and nodded his chin: “Who is that?”
Chen Hua let him in and said, “He’s my senior brother.”
Please be polite.
Don’t treat my senior brother as an outsider!
“Where did your senior brother come from?” Ying Qiao frowned and recalled for a moment, then sighed, “Didn’t your senior brother die? I remember you were crying and wanted to erect a monument for him, right?”
Why is he pretending to be alive again?
Chen Hua rolled his eyes at him. Did he really expect Old Dog Coin to speak human language?
Impossible.
He was asking for too much.
“Senior Brother is fine, but I always thought something happened to him.”
As they were talking, the two of them arrived at the living room, and Chen Hua introduced them to each other; “This is my boss, Ying Qiao.”
In front of outsiders, Ying Qiao always behaved very well. He nodded coldly to Yin Xuan and sat down on the other side.
Yin Xuan, on the other hand, showed surprise, and then he politely bowed his hands: “I have long heard of Mr. Ying’s name. I didn’t expect that the boss that Junior Brother was talking about was you. Thank you for taking care of him all these years.”
Chen Hua was about to take a sip of tea from the cup, but he almost choked when he heard this: “Brother, do you know him?”
Yin Xuan smiled slightly and said, “Although I am only a casual cultivator, I have dealt with the Special Management Bureau once or twice, and I have also heard of the Monster Management Bureau. Mr. Ying’s name is well-known.”
As for what the matter was that had made such a name for itself, it was hard to say.
In short, just be polite and save face.
“…”
Chen Hua’s expression was hard to describe.
After all, he simply couldn’t think of any other glorious deeds that Ying Qiao could have done that would have made him famous, other than those nonsense.
It is true that good news doesn’t travel far, but bad news travels far and wide.
If the boss doesn’t do his job well, even his subordinates will feel ashamed.
On the other hand, Ying Qiao, the person involved, was not ashamed but proud. He had no clear and objective understanding of himself and took Yin Xuan’s compliments for granted: “It’s too much, it’s just an empty reputation.”
“…”
Chen Hua and his senior brother looked at each other and their smiles turned slightly awkward.
The three of them exchanged a few polite words, then Ying Qiao got up to leave, taking Jiu Ding back with him.
Chen Hua saw them out.
Ying Qiao turned around and glanced at Yin Xuan, meeting Yin Xuan’s gaze. Their eyes met and then separated, and Yin Xuan nodded politely at him.
Ying Qiao frowned and looked away, waiting for the elevator before asking, “How did you two meet?”
People have been dead for more than a thousand years, and it is a coincidence that they suddenly appear at this time.
“I met him by chance when I went to the mall today. He said he was asked by someone to investigate a case. I didn’t ask any more questions.”
Chen Hua understood what he meant and said, “Don’t worry, he is my genuine senior brother, but we have not seen each other for more than a thousand years, so we need time to get to know each other again. I will not be unguarded just because we are fellow brothers.”
Ying Qiao nodded: “It’s good that you know it.”
After saying that, he waved his hand and told him to go back, then left with the Jiu Ding.
After getting on the car, Ying Qiao thought for a while and sent a message to Bi’an: [I want to take Jiang Lan and Xiao Ba to stay with me for two days.]
Bi’an who saw the message: ???
He suspected Ying Qiao had lost his mind: [What are you daydreaming about?]
Ying Qiao raised the corner of his mouth and typed happily: [Chen Hua’s senior brother is back, and he’s staying at his house tonight.]
“???”
Grass!
Bi’an’s forehead veins jumped, and he asked: [What senior brother? Chen Hua has a senior brother???]
How come he didn’t know?!
[We’ll talk about this when we meet tomorrow.]
Ying Qiao only replied with this sentence, and regardless of how anxious Bi’an was, he put away his phone and drove back with a happy face.
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