Chapter 61: Surfacing part 1
“Did you forget?”
Shen Yunqian lowered his eyes to hide his emotions, looking at this back garden which was completely different from the desolate and dilapidated Shen Family Old Residence.
“You dug it out with your own hands.”
Lu Xunye asked uncertainly, “The skull?”
Blood Jade, skull…
Lu Xunye pondered these seemingly unrelated things, his gaze falling back on the pattern on the ground. He muttered to himself, “Yellow talisman?”
The words from earlier echoed in his ears.
So if you want the Blood Jade to bring good luck, you have to find the corpse of the ‘blood’ owner and seal the resentment with yellow paper?
En! You are as smart as me.
…
If burying a corpse, one certainly wouldn’t bury it in one’s own home.
Was the skull that bizarrely appeared in the Shen family’s back garden buried there intentionally by someone?
That bone was very small, the size of a palm.
The coronal sutures fit together tightly; it definitely wasn’t an animal’s. Since it wasn’t an adult, it must have been a child’s.
To curse the Shen family with bad luck, burying a child’s skull in the Shen home—if the dead soul had resentment, then the Shen family would suffer misfortune.
Although the Shen family couldn’t compare to the Lu or Si families, they were still a wealthy family with housekeepers guarding the entrance.
To be able to enter openly and bury something unbeknownst to anyone, the person behind it must know the Shen family.
Maybe even an acquaintance.
But who would be so cruel? And what does it have to do with the Blood Jade?
No, no.
Lu Xunye smacked his own head. These are all feudal superstitions. Why should I believe this?
Even if someone buried it on purpose, it at most proves this person had a bad relationship with the Shen family and was just someone who believed in ghosts and gods.
But even the absurd thing of transmigrating into a book has happened to me, so other things don’t seem that surprising.
Lu Xunye’s rationality and unconstrained imagination fought fiercely.
He turned his head and found Shen Yunqian staring straight at him. In an instant, he felt the terror of being eyed by a venomous snake.
When Lu Xunye looked again, the other party had already retracted his gaze.
“I might be seeing things a bit.”
He closed his eyes and habitually went to lean on Shen Yunqian’s shoulder, but the other party stepped aside.
Caught off guard, he fell straight into the vegetable patch.
“Hiss.” Lu Xunye’s face scrunched up.
He lay image-less in the carrot patch, broad leaves blocking his vision. Groans spilled from his throat; it looked like it hurt terribly.
Shen Yunqian’s hand, which had subconsciously reached out, retracted slightly before slowly lowering. “You’re lying to me again.”
“I really can’t get up. I hurt my hip bone.” Lu Xunye looked at him pitifully, sucking in cold breaths between words.
Shen Yunqian hesitated, unconsciously pressing the bandage on his right wrist, then leaned over to pull him up with his left hand.
Lu Xunye grabbed his hand. Before the other party could exert force, he pulled first, yanking the person down with force.
Shen Yunqian rolled onto the soil only to realize the earth was loose and soft; falling on it didn’t hurt at all. Lu Xunye had lied to him.
“Sorry, I was wrong.”
Lu Xunye quit while he was ahead, helping him sit up.
“I was just talking nonsense earlier. Didn’t you lie to me before too, saying I was meeting a lover?”
“The question you asked me, I’ll give you the answer now.” Lu Xunye said seriously, “I hope you regain your memory. It’s fine if you don’t recover it either. Shen Yunqian, you are just you.”
Shen Yunqian was stunned for a moment, the light in his eyes dimming inch by inch. “You’re lying to me again.”
Lu Xunye was choked speechless. Why won’t he believe me?
“Xiao Shen, Mr. Lu, time to eat.” Guo Yi’s voice drifted over from a distance.
“Hey, I sent what you wanted to your email. Why are you investigating this person out of the blue? Wouldn’t it be better to ask the Lu family to check for you?”
Lu Xunye stood in front of the floor-to-ceiling window looking down. The sky had darkened. The branches were shaking violently in the wind, as if they were about to be uprooted.
The wind, howling like ghosts and wolves, swept through, blowing the water column of the fountain in the center of the courtyard off course.
He closed the curtains. Waiting for Feng Chengyu on the phone to finish, he said, “I don’t want them to know. It’s more convenient for you to check.”
Feng Chengyu chuckled. “I asked my boyfriend to check for you. I had a fight with my dad two days ago, and he’s ignoring me now. But since you asked, I’ll find a way to find out for you.”
“Your boyfriend?”
At the mention of this person, Lu Xunye got goosebumps all over. He opened his email to check. “Does he know you’re checking for me? Is the information reliable?”
“What are you doing?” Feng Chengyu was unhappy. “I’m helping you, and you’re being picky.”
Thinking of that man’s arrogant manner, Lu Xunye got angry and said sarcastically, “Heh, I thank him, alright?”
“You idiot, do you know his background? And you dare to be with him?” Lu Xunye scolded painfully, hating that iron could not become steel.
“I know. I lived at my grandma’s house when I was little, and he was my neighbor.”
Feng Chengyu acted mysterious, lowering his voice. “But when he was little, he had long hair and looked like a little girl. I always thought he was a girl.”
Does hypnosis come with the effect of tampering with memories?
Soon, Lu Xunye confirmed the information was real.
As for why he knew, it was because when he opened the email, the progress bar increased by 20%. Current unlock: 60%.
Lu Xunye scrolled down the text on his phone, reading ten lines at a glance while chatting. “You really don’t recognize Ji Yanchuan?”
Feng Chengyu didn’t care at all. “I know him. A poker face. I hate people who pretend like that the most. Why bring him up?”
Lu Xunye snorted. “I really should record you. Wait until later when you…”
Forget it. Since he’s been infatuated for so many years without result, giving up might not be a bad thing.
Ji Yanchuan had belittled Feng Chengyu as worthless on the phone, and Lu Xunye had heard it too.
Recalling the tenderness in that crazy man’s eyes when looking at Feng Chengyu in the bar private room, it didn’t look fake.
“Wait until later when I what?”
Feng Chengyu didn’t get a follow-up, so he continued on his own.
“I say, is there some misunderstanding between you and my boyfriend? He doesn’t seem to like you either. How about when you come back from Jiang City, we organize a get-together and clear up the misunderstanding?”
Lu Xunye twitched the corner of his mouth. “Let’s not. I’m afraid he’ll treat me to a bullet.”
He got back to business, lowering his voice. “Let me ask you, in your opinion, if someone schemed behind the Shen couple’s car accident, who do you think is the most likely suspect?”
“There are many possible people. Former competitors, capital that cut off cooperation after the Shen Group’s accident—all are possible.”
Feng Chengyu pondered for a while and added, “But if you’re talking about the most likely person, it’s probably Si Jinyan. Everyone knows he has a feud with the Shen family.”
Feng Chengyu had to pour cold water on him. “But even if Si Jinyan really did it, you have no evidence. The police won’t offend the Si family. Even if there is evidence, the most likely outcome is that it gets suppressed.”
“If you want to go against the Si family for Shen Yunqian, your grandfather might not stand on your side.”
Lu Xunye frowned, not understanding his train of thought. “When did I say it was for Shen Yunqian?”
Feng Chengyu couldn’t be bothered to argue. “Fine, fine, fine, whatever you say.”
Lu Xunye threw himself onto the soft large bed, his voice lazy. “But you missed someone.”
Feng Chengyu: “Hmm?”
Lu Xunye: “The Shen couple fell, one son lost his memory, one crashed in a plane. Who benefits in the end?”
Feng Chengyu only paused for a moment before understanding his meaning. “You mean Shen Qizhao? He is dishonest. He embezzled public funds from the Shen Group in the past, and after the Shen couple’s accident, he carved up the remaining family assets to rise quickly and establish his own business in the past few years.”
“But to move against his own brother and sister-in-law’s family? Does he have the brains and the guts? Besides, his brother didn’t treat him badly, handing over the group’s subsidiaries to him to manage.”
Lu Xunye was just guessing too. “Who knows? What can’t people blinded by profit do?”
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