“I… cough cough…” Lin Xiao straightened his breath, “Big Brother Hu and I came to Luxi City not to tour and play, it was my dad who let me come to look for Sixth Uncle, to demand back an item originally stored here from him.”
Lin Wei asked: “What item?”
Lin Xiao wiped his mouth, “It’s said there is a phrase of secret words; once I speak it Sixth Uncle will understand.”
Hearing this, Lin Wei’s eyes brightened, yet he feigned distress, letting out a sigh, “Regrettably my dad he… how about cousin you say it for me to listen to; who knows, I might be able to help look for it?”
“Sure, this is truly splendid!”
Lin Xiao slapped his thigh, cleared his throat, “Cousin, you listen well: Why not use urine to reflect your own face. Just this phrase.”
Lin Wei hurriedly motioned to the young servant to record it down.
Then the three faced each other in silence.
Lin Wei asked: “Cousin, do you still have business?”
Lin Xiao: “Probably none.” He again looked toward Jiang Zhou, “Big Brother Hu, do we still have business?”
Jiang Zhou expressionlessly rose, and again violently sat down, a head crashing onto the table.
Lin Xiao suddenly saw the light, his head immediately tottering, and following that fell onto the table all at once too.
“Haha-haha-ha”
Ensuring the two of them had both fallen, Lin Wei clapped his hands with grand joy, walking close to unceasingly pat Lin Xiao’s head with his palm,
“Cousin, oh cousin, I was just worrying that I couldn’t undo the restriction on my dad’s secret chamber, and you delivered yourself to the door, saying it stored the things of my Third Uncle, which can only be opened when someone from your house comes. Dead old man, having good things yet not knowing to leave them for me; am I in the end still his son or not?”
As he spoke, he lifted the alcohol jar to suspend it above Lin Xiao’s head, like watering a flower pouring the remaining half-jar of alcohol onto his head.
“What were you called again? Lin Xiao, right? A cultivator, incredible yo. There are so many people in our Lin family, yet only your family climbed onto the high branches of the five major sects; very majestic, right? Ah? Do you look down on this ordinary mortal cousin of yours?”
Lin Xiao had fainted dead, so how could he still manage him. Lin Wei cursed on his own accord for a while, and his gaze shifted onto the other side to Jiang Zhou’s body.
He walked close with a tse-tse-tse, staring at the half-face Jiang Zhou exposed, “Brother Chamber Pot, if you want to blame someone, blame yourself for being unlucky. Growing into this look, just like that Qi Zixiu, you are a fellow who relies on his face-skin to eat food; do you also want to seduce my Xiao Lan?”
Lin Wei pinched his hand behind Jiang Zhou’s ear, trying his utmost to tear this face-skin off. The flesh on his face squeezed together viciously, grinning out a mouth of large teeth, the grey eyeball in his right eye socket protruding to the absolute extreme.
“Handsome! Truly handsome! Truly inviting of girls’ liking. I saw it outside; you relied on this face to unceasingly seduce the women on the streets of our Luxi City… Brother Chamber Pot, you are cousin Lin Xiao’s friend, then that is my Lin Wei’s friend; borrow this handsome face for me to play with too.”
Finished speaking, he withdrew his hand on his own accord, commanding the young servant to the side with self-satisfaction, “Give you three days, bring the technician who makes face-skins to me; this Family Head is going to change to a new face lou.”
Following that, he saw the wrapped item on Jiang Zhou’s back, a thread of greed welling up at the depths of his eyes, his hand going to take it.
It was merely that his hand had just grasped onto it across the cloth when his entire body shuddered, only feeling a stream of blood-aura rush straight to his forehead, his heart looking as if it were tightly grasped by something, forcing his breathing to be unfluid and his two eyes dizzy.
The young servant saw he wasn’t right, and hurriedly pulled him away, letting his hand leave that item, shouting: “Family Head? Family Head?”
Lin Wei snapped back to reality violently, staring at that item, uncertain and suspicious.
After a long time, he let out a deep breath, rotated his neck, and walked outward while rubbing his grey eyeball, “Go, take that secret words to probe my dad’s secret chamber.”
“Family Head, then these two people”
“Lock them first.”
The next instant the door closed, Jiang Zhou straightened his body expressionlessly. The table he had just prostrated on split into two halves straight from the middle.
Lin Xiao also hurriedly got up, squeezing the alcohol fluid on his hair unceasingly in disgust, “My goodness… does this Lin Wei have a mental illness? Big brother, how are you?”
Jiang Zhou raised his hand, stroking the spot behind his face that had just been twisted, and said: “No matter.”
Lin Xiao stamped his feet with rage, “I long since felt that kid wasn’t right… what’s wrong with me cultivating? What’s wrong with you being handsome, big brother? How did it hinder him in any way? To think he still wants to exclusively swallow my dad’s things, what kind of thing! Why don’t you use urine to reflect your own self!”
He again reversed his talk-topic, looking toward Jiang Zhou with incomparable emotion, “Big Brother Hu, you truly are a good person. Discovering there was material inside the alcohol, you even specially reminded me. You rest assured, I, Lin Xiao, am a person who knows to requite kindness. When I meet my dad, I will definitely help you ask clearly about the matter of my family.”
Jiang Zhou nodded, stroking his own collar. Lin Xiao had thanked the wrong person; it wasn’t him who was good, it was Tantan who was good.
After Lin Xiao finished being restless, he sat back onto the chair, “What do we do now, big brother? My dad’s things certainly must be obtained. Just now I gave Lin Wei a fake secret words, letting him reflect himself with urine; he estimatedly won’t be able to react for a short half-day.”
Jiang Zhou said: “Follow.”
“Follow him to my Sixth Uncle’s secret chamber?” Lin Xiao rose immediately, walking to the doorway together with Jiang Zhou, yet said with difficulty, “The guards and young servants inside his residence are not few ah. Speaking of it is shameful, big brother; although I cultivate, normally I merely help those young masters and young ladies write schoolwork, or use spiritual energy to drive a broom to sweep the floor; fighting and killing I don’t know a single bit at all—”
Before his words finished speaking, Jiang Zhou opened the door, bringing him along to leap onto the highest point of the Lin family’s residential courtyard in a single bound, searching out the direction Lin Wei had just left.
Lin Xiao barely stood steadily, lamenting: “Big Brother Hu, you truly are reliable!”
Jiang Zhou pointed in a direction.
Lin Xiao looked over following it. He saw Lin Wei carrying ten-odd young servants, leaving the main gate in a great hurry.
“Could it be that my Sixth Uncle’s secret chamber isn’t in the Lin family, but outside?”
Jiang Zhou grabbed him and left.
Within Luxi City, the ten-odd young servants carried by Lin Wei suddenly dispersed into two groups. One group of people followed Lin Wei to walk toward the back street where human habitation was sparse, while the other group turned their heads onto the stone bridge leading to the bustling market. Lin Xiao looked left and right, saying: “Big brother, we certainly follow Lin Wei, right?”
Having not received a response for a long time, he tilted his head to look at Jiang Zhou. He saw his gaze was precisely falling upon the stone bridge not far away. Looking along to see, he saw a bright and eye-catching silhouette amidst the crowd.
The red-clad youth was currently prostrating by the edge of the bridge utterly bored, his posture languid, his purple eyes slightly drooping, teasing the fluttering small fish pinched in his hand. The silver chain on his wrist appeared and vanished at the cuff with his movements.
Lin Xiao swallowed his saliva, turned his body around, and said toward Jiang Zhou: “If I didn’t see wrongly, Big Brother Hu, that should be Ji—”
Before the words finished speaking he shut his mouth. The big brother simply hadn’t listened to him speak at all, his eyes staring straight and dead at that red shadow ahead.
Lin Xiao was currently pondering this gaze of his that at a glance was very full of stories. In the next instant, Jiang Zhou lifted his steps to walk toward the stone bridge.
Lin Xiao: “…”