"Ah! Qin Zhi!" Ming Hui looked at this scene in surprise and anxiety. She subconsciously wanted to stop those people's atrocities, but soon she remembered Luo Yu'an beside her. She could only stand there with her eyes wide open, and pleaded in a low voice: "Sister An."
Luo Yu'an smiled at her soothingly and waved to a nearby car. Two bodyguards in black suits immediately got out and hurried over. Because of her request, this time, in addition to Ming Hui, only two members of the Qin family followed her.
"Go over and help them stop fighting."
The young man with silver-gray hair was kicking excitedly and swearing at random, when he was suddenly stopped by someone. He turned around angrily and glared at the two bodyguards and Ming Hui who were walking over.
"Who are you, you idiot? Get out of here if you have nothing to do. Otherwise, I'll get angry and beat you up too!" He waved his hand impatiently like he was shooing away a fly.
Luo Yu'an didn't react yet, but Ming Hui and the two bodyguards all looked gloomy. Ming Hui changed her usual calm and shy demeanor in front of Luo Yu'an and said bluntly: "Who do you think you are? How dare you talk to us like this in Yuzhou and bully our Qin family? Do you want to die?" Her tone was no less arrogant than that young man.
The silver-gray-haired young man looked at them and said sarcastically, "Oh, you are also from the Qin family? So what? It's not just your Qin family that has a clan god. Who are you trying to scare? Doesn't your clan god stay in the old house? How can he come here to teach me a lesson? Besides, I'm teaching Qin Zhi a lesson. There is no such person in your Qin family. Even if I beat him to death here, your Qin family's ancestors won't care whether you believe it or not?"
"I care." Luo Yu'an stood in the shadow of the black umbrella and said, "I don't care who you are, get out of here now."
"Fuck, you're so arrogant. Why are you pretending to be awesome in front of me? I hate it most when people pretend to be awesome in front of me." The young man with silver-gray hair was obviously a person who was used to doing whatever he wanted. Unexpectedly, he walked forward and kicked the two of them.
Luo Yu'an quickly pulled Ming Hui back a step to avoid them. At the same time, the two bodyguards rushed up to hold down the young man. However, the people he brought with him were not ordinary people either, and their number was twice as many as theirs. They quickly snatched the young man back from the two bodyguards.
"Damn it, what's your name? Are you the wife or lover of someone in the Qin family? I'll remember you!" The impulsive young man had his arm almost broken by two bodyguards. With a distorted face, he was protected by several men behind him, but he still didn't forget to curse.
Luo Yu'an was wearing a long-sleeved dress and a shawl. She pulled the shawl down to cover the back of her hands and said calmly, "Luo Yu'an, Qin's God's wife."
The young man's first reaction was disbelief. He sneered, "Who are you kidding? Your wife is not hidden in the ancestral hall. Why are you running here with two minions?"
The man beside him showed a solemn expression, quickly looked at Heishan and Luo Yu'an, pulled the young man and whispered something. The young man's face changed slightly, and he looked at Qin Zhi who was curled up on the ground with his head down unwillingly. He suppressed his anger, pulled the corners of his mouth to show a smile, and forced himself to change his words: "Forget it, no matter if you are or not, give your Qin family a face."
After saying that, he quickly led his people away. But before leaving, perhaps still unwilling to give up, he kicked Qin Zhi hard when he passed by him.
"You!" Ming Hui was so angry that she was shaking. If it weren't for the years of teaching by her daughter, she would have had countless dirty words to curse.
The silver-gray-haired young man quickly got into a sports car parked on the side of the road and drove away, cursing with an unpleasant expression: "Shit, I'm not going to be tricked by that bastard Qin Zhi, am I? I was wondering why he had been hiding for so long and couldn't be found. Today, there was suddenly news that he was here. I just stopped him and gave him a beating, and then I ran into the wife of their family's God... This bastard did it on purpose, he had it all planned!"
After scolding Qin Zhi, he still didn't quite believe it and asked the person next to him: "You didn't make a mistake just now, did you? That was really the wife of that old antique Qin? Aren't they the most particular about pomp and circumstance? How come only these few people are here?"
The man with a crew cut sitting next to him said solemnly, "The Qin family wouldn't dare to pretend to be someone like this to deceive people. I heard some time ago that the Qin family did have a wife. Mr. Liang, what you said just now was a little disrespectful. If they want to make a fuss, we can't do anything about it in Yuzhou. Just in case, let's go back to Jinzhou."
The young man was obviously a little scared, but he didn't want to lose face, so he said, "So what if it is so? Our Liang family has always had a good relationship with their Qin family. I didn't do anything. I just said a few unpleasant words. At most, I will be scolded."
After saying that, he couldn't help but add: "Forget it, the work here is almost done anyway, let's go back to Jinzhou. This crappy place is nothing compared to our Jinzhou."
Qin Zhi was helped up by two stern bodyguards. He wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, glanced at Luo Yu'an's gentle and harmless appearance, and thanked him with a slightly twinkling look in his eyes, "Thank you... What is your identity really...?"
Since Luo Yu'an had said it himself, Ming Hui didn't need to hide it anymore and answered directly: "Of course it's true. Qin Zhi, are you okay? Who was that just now? Why did he hit you? He also had no respect for our Qin family and dared to call our clan god an old antique. What kind of tone is that? I must tell the elders and teach him a lesson!"
The clan god is the spiritual symbol of their clan and the belief of their Qin family. How could they be offended like this!
Qin Zhi shook his head and smiled bitterly, "He is Liang Wenye, the young master of the Liang family. He has a high status in their Liang family. I offended him for a small matter before, and then he beat me every time he saw me."
"Too arrogant!" Ming Hui's face was stern, and her disgust towards Liang Wenye reached its peak.
Qin Zhi was talking while paying attention to Luo Yu'an's reaction. She just listened quietly and didn't mean to speak. Only Ming Hui was talking. She looked like a very weak and indecisive woman, not strong at all.
"We should go back." Luo Yu'an glanced at Qin Zhi, "Can you go to the hospital by yourself?"
Qin Zhi: “…Yes.”
Sitting in the car, Ming Hui looked hesitantly at Qin Zhi's slowly leaving figure outside the car window and whispered, "Sister An, Qin Zhi seems to be seriously injured. Shouldn't we help him?"
Luo Yu'an smiled: "He refused, which shows that he is a strong boy."
"That's right. He has been very strong-willed since he was young. He is much better than those spoiled boys in the tribe." Ming Hui's words revealed some of the girl's thoughts. Luo Yu'an heard it, but didn't react.
She went to buy some things according to her previous plan. Although Ming Hui held a big black umbrella for her, which attracted the attention of passers-by, it was not particularly conspicuous in such a hot sun and there were many people holding umbrellas on the street to shade themselves from the sun.
Carrying a lot of things back to the old house, Luo Yu'an walked into the shrine carrying a bag.
"Brother, I'm back."
As soon as she walked in, the white figure floated down from the altar, leaned slightly closer to her, and lifted up her hand from under her shawl. As the sleeve fell down, a burnt mark appeared on the back of her hand.
It was caused by accidentally exposing himself to the scorching sun while trying to avoid Liang Wenye's sudden attack during the argument.
With the indifference of a superior god, Ujigami lowered his head and licked the small charred patch on the back of her hand. His expression and actions gave people a completely opposite feeling.
Luo Yu'an felt as if the back of his hand, which was as if burned, was relieved by the gentle touch. Not only did it not hurt anymore, it even felt a little itchy.
Then, Ujigami led her to the altar as if she were a child who had been wronged outside, hugged her, let her bury herself in his arms, touched the hair on the back of her head, and kept stroking the burnt spot on the back of her hand.
Luo Yu'an: "..."
Luo Yu'an: "... Second brother? I'm fine, just a little problem."
She forced herself to crawl out from the gentle embrace of the beauty's lap, took the small bag she had brought with her, and searched for something in it.
"Look, this is a stand. If I go out in the future, I will put my phone here and we can video chat. Then I can show my second brother the outside and he will know what I did when I went out..."
"… and this, a comb and a hair band. I've always thought it would be a bit inconvenient for you to have such long hair hanging down your back. How about I help you tie it up?"
Luo Yu'an just tried to ask, and got the treatment of combing her hair. In fact, Shi Shen's hair was not just pure hair, but seeing that she was eager to try, Shi Shen obeyed her wishes.
The long black hair was extremely smooth. It felt like silk in the hand. If you didn't pay attention, it would slip and float in the air. Luo Yu'an hummed an unknown song, combed his hair, braided it, and tied it with a red hairband. She put the long braid on her shoulder and looked at it carefully. She still couldn't resist the urge to reach out and touch it, her eyes were a little obsessed.
He was so pretty, like a delicate doll that could be played with. Even though the word "play with" seemed like blasphemy, she still wanted to use the word because he looked so harmless and soft.
The old house is the Qin clan's ancestral hall, which is only opened for sacrificial activities in the first month of the calendar and the birthday of the god, and is usually cleaned by the clan's daughters.
It was Luo Yu'an's first time entering the ancestral hall. She walked alone into the slightly gloomy and old courtyard, passed the layers of tablets in front of her, and looked through the family tree placed inside.
These genealogies are revised every ten years, which is a huge project because everything is recorded for such a large family over such a long period of time, starting from the birth of Ujigami.
She roughly calculated the year she learned from Ming Hui and searched through the family tree from a hundred years ago. After searching for a long time, she finally found something that looked like what she was looking for.
About two hundred years ago, a branch of the Qin family disappeared from the family tree, about four hundred people. The once prosperous branch seemed to be wiped out from their family tree by an invisible hand, leaving only a silent blank. The demise of these four hundred people was recorded in only one sentence in the family tree.
—The clan god caused this bloodline to be cut off.
Luo Yu'an's finger passed over this sentence, and he opened another family tree to continue searching. Almost in the same year, another branch had an adopted son, whose name was only two characters. Among all the family trees, only this "adopted son" had a two-character name, and it was not arranged according to the Qin family's custom. Since then, all the descendants born to this adopted son have only two-character names.
Following this order, I found Qin Zhi in the latest genealogy. This genealogy was newly compiled two years ago, and at that time, Qin Zhi was the only one left in his family. His mother died when he gave birth to him, and his father died a few years ago due to illness. Since then, the twelve-year-old Qin Zhi has been supported by his family.
In addition to these, she also saw some special marks in many family trees. In almost every generation, there were several to dozens of names circled in red. The bright red that never faded fell on the black names, which was inexplicably shocking. In the latest family tree, four names were also circled, which reminded her of the previous Qin family tree and the four Qin clan members who were sentenced to death by the clan god. The red circle marks started more than two hundred years ago, at the same time as the extinction of more than four hundred people.
After closing the family tree, Luo Yu'an left.
"Sister An, there is an invitation for you." Before she entered the shrine, Ming Huang hurriedly handed her a letter with red words on a white background.
"This is the Liang family seal. It's quite formal."
The letter was sent in the name of Liang's wife Qi Ji, inviting her to visit Liang in Jinzhou. Just after I finished reading the elegantly worded letter, the phone suddenly rang, a strange number.
Very few people know her current phone number, and those who know it don't dare to call her, so she has some guesses in her mind.
After answering the phone, Qi Ji's voice on the other end was casual and natural, "It's me. Did you receive my invitation?"
Luo Yu'an held the letter and said, "I just received it." So why didn't he just call directly at the beginning
"I didn't want to invite you over so early, but there's a naughty kid in our family who didn't know your identity and said something offensive to you. So I invited you over to play this time so that he can apologize to you in person to avoid hurting the relationship. How about coming over to play? We can also talk about your little secret about your god."
Luo Yu'an: "Is that so? Sorry, I don't want to go."