"Crack—" Another crack appeared on Liang Shishen's gray face, and a piece of debris fell off, but he seemed to be unaware of it. He was still looking at the figure floating beside the bed and chatting in a normal tone.
"You finally understand the feeling of love?" Like an older brother teasing his younger brother.
Qin Shishen said without hesitation: "Her ashes are in my body, so I am inevitably contaminated with her emotions and desires. Is this the emotion you once talked about?"
Liang Shishen: "Whether it is true or not, you should ask yourself."
Qin Shishen nodded: "Well, then, I understand."
Liang Shishen: "What do you understand?"
Qin Shi Shen: "Red, it is indeed very beautiful."
Liang Shishen suddenly laughed out loud, "You are really a scary guy."
When his laughter stopped, Qin Shishen continued in that chatty tone: "So, are you ready to be devoured by me?"
"You really came here to devour me today." Liang sighed.
"What else can I do here?" Although Qin's god looked cold, Liang's god inexplicably felt that he must have smiled very friendly when he said this. This god, who was created by the most cruel method, was such a terrifying thing.
Although he was talking about devouring, the atmosphere was friendly. When the Qin God spread his sleeves and the red lines of devouring flew, the Liang God lying on the ground even said in a negotiating tone: "Alas, I haven't said goodbye to my wife yet. Why don't you come back to devour me in a day?"
If an ordinary person heard this, they would probably laugh out loud. After all, the person here has bad intentions, and the knife is already at the neck. Who would listen to him if he suddenly asked someone to come back tomorrow to kill him
However, Qin Shishen really stopped. He bowed slightly, his long white sleeves fluttering slightly, like a guest visiting his host, very graceful and polite, "In that case, I will come again tomorrow."
Liang Shishen was not at all surprised that he agreed, and said, "Thank you very much."
Qin Shi Shen held up a red thread in his hand, and waited until the red thread floated to Liang Shi Shen, fell into his hand and disappeared. He nodded again, and the tightly closed door behind him opened automatically. He was like a white butterfly in the night, flying away.
A gust of wind blew, causing the silver bells and other items in the house to make slight sounds. When the sounds stopped, the door closed again, and the house became dead silent again.
"As the human representatives of the clan god, we have many rights. I am now managing many of the Liang family's assets. What about you? Are you not interested in taking care of the Qin family's affairs?" Qi Ji picked up the ice drink she requested, took a sip, and asked with a smile.
Luo Yu'an didn't know what she meant by talking to him so late at night, so he could only chat with her casually, "I'm not very smart. I don't know much about many things in Qin's company and I can't manage them well. Besides, Qin's company is running well and doesn't need my intervention."
She now understood that although the god in the shrine seemed to be a mascot who didn't care about anything, he actually had a firm control over the family. So there was no need for her to do anything extra.
If one day, the clan god becomes weak and the clan members are no longer willing to worship and believe in him, then she might fight for the rights of the family in order to maintain the existence of the clan god and use her power to maintain his survival.
"You don't love power?" Qi Ji joked with a smile, "You only love your clan god?"
"But do you really understand what kind of existence the God of the clan is?" She suddenly changed the subject.
Oh, here she comes. After talking about this and that for so long, she is finally going to start provoking others. Luo Yu'an sat up straighter, waiting to hear how she wanted to provoke him.
However, at this moment, a sharp ring interrupted Qi Ji's words. Luo Yu'an clearly saw her face change suddenly. He quickly took out the phone and asked sternly after answering it: "What happened! Who broke in? How could someone break in!"
I don't know what was said on the other end, but Qi Ji suddenly turned his head to look at Luo Yu'an. The resentment and disgust pierced through his previous friendliness and enthusiasm, and were clearly revealed in his eyes.
"It's you?! You and the Qin family's god have discussed this! Making a feint to the east and attacking in the west, what a good feint to the east and attacking in the west!" She held the phone tightly and said harshly, her expression looking as if she was so angry that she was going to pounce on her and tear her to pieces in the next second.
Luo Yu'an didn't know what happened, but seeing her like this, he became alert. He glanced at the dark night outside without leaving a trace, and secretly felt lucky. Fortunately, it was not broad daylight, and there was no sun.
The two of them were talking here. Both the Qin family's people and the Liang family's people who came with Qi Ji were outside the yard. If Qi Ji really wanted to take action, she really had no confidence.
Luo Yu'an's mind raced, revealing a puzzled but harmless expression, "What's wrong? I don't understand what you mean."
"You are still pretending." Qi Ji's eyes turned red. "Well, I was wondering why your Qin God chose a loser as his wife. It turns out that you are a hidden talent. I was wrong about you. He wants to destroy my God, so I will destroy you! I will never let you have an easy life!"
Luo Yu'an quickly stood up and stepped back hastily, shouting, "Ming Huang!"
Qi Ji was so angry that he slapped her face with his palm, which was glowing faintly.
Amid the sound of chairs falling over, the wind in the courtyard suddenly became louder.
Luo Yu'an raised her arm to block it, and suddenly felt a heat on her wrist, it was the red Ruyi knot bracelet that was heating up. The wind rustled, and she seemed to hear the sound of clothes fluttering in her ears. She didn't feel any pain, and when she raised her eyes, she saw a white sleeve and the braid with a red bow floating in front of her.
There was a hand gently on her shoulder, and her second brother was floating, half-embracing her from behind.
Qi Ji, with an ugly face, froze half a meter away. She stretched out her hand but could not move forward. Seeing the Qin clan god appear, the resentment in her eyes became more obvious, and she asked sternly: "What did you do to my clan god!"
Qin Shi Shen pressed Luo Yu'an's shoulders, gently wrapped her in his sleeves, looked at Qi Ji who was anxious and angry, and said: "Liang Shi Shen wants to say goodbye to you, you should go back to see him for the last time."
Qi Ji's face changed drastically, misunderstanding that he had devoured the Liang family god, and he turned around and ran out in a hurry without caring about anything. Someone who heard the noise in the courtyard happened to come to see what happened and bumped into Qi Ji who was in a hurry.
"Madam? What happened?"
Qi Ji pushed him away with all his might, and screamed, "Go back! Go back quickly!"
Although the Liang family members didn't understand why, seeing her speaking so harshly, they had no choice but to follow her. In the end, only Ming Huang and Qin's people were left. Ming Huang walked into the courtyard with a puzzled look on his face, "Sister An, what are they doing? They act as if their house is on fire. Are they leaving? Liang Wenye is still resting in the backyard. Are they ignoring him?"
Luo Yu'an glanced at the clan god beside him and found that the others should not be able to see him again.
Ujigami lowered his head slightly, leaned over and rubbed her forehead, "An, come back soon."
Luo Yu'an suddenly forgot about Qi Ji and replied softly, "Okay, I'll be back right away."
As soon as she responded, she pulled the sleeve in her hand away and disappeared.
Ming Huang didn't hear clearly what she said, and took two steps forward, "Sister An, what did you say?"
Luo Yu'an shook his head. "Now that the guests have left, we should go back to the old house. As for Liang Wenye, find someone to send him away. Maybe he can catch up with the Liang family's people."
After a while, someone came back hurriedly, "Madam, Liang Wenye is not in the room."
"Has he left on his own after hearing the noise?"
"No, there are traces of blood and flesh in the room." The person who reported back had a trembling voice.
"Blood and minced meat," Luo Yuan paused and ordered in a normal tone, "Then clean up the room."
When Luo Yu'an got on the car and returned to the old house in the night, Qi Ji had already rushed back to Jinzhou. She didn't trust anyone else, and came to the secret Liang's house alone without bringing anyone. When she saw the broken bell on the corridor, her hair was slightly messy. She pushed the door open layer by layer and rushed into the innermost room.
"Shi Shen!" She rushed to the bedside and saw the gray and cracked statue on the bed. She hugged it without hesitation and buried herself in the quilt.
"I'm back." Liang's voice was mellow. "Qin came just now. I remembered that I hadn't said goodbye to you yet, so I asked him to come again tomorrow. Let me see. You haven't been here for a while. How have you been recently?"
Qi Ji raised his head suddenly, tears falling from his eyes, "There must be a way, you can continue to live!"
Liang Shishen: "You have lived long enough, Aji, death is not scary."
Qi Ji screamed, "No! I want you to live! Live for tens of millions of years, live longer than anyone else!"
"Why is it like this..." She said, and her whole body became depressed, clutching the quilt tightly with her hands, muttering: "What went wrong, why is it like this, why is the old man in the Qin family still so powerful, but you are so weak, I have clearly tried very hard to let my people reproduce and let them believe in you, why..."
The Liang clan god's stone statue-like hand pressed down her soft hand, "I know, you've worked hard. If it weren't for Aji, I would have disappeared like many other clan gods. But, in the end, you still have to suffer the consequences."
Qi Ji was irritated by the word "bad consequences", and his eyes revealed a strong resentment and unwillingness, "What bad consequences! Why do you have to bear such serious bad consequences when everyone else did the same thing, but Qin God doesn't have to! It was obviously him who started to devour his people first, and didn't he gain new power different from faith by devouring his people? Why can't you!"
For more than two hundred years, she has been suffering from the despair of this "why" and has become more and more paranoid.
Liang Shishen stared at her motionlessly. Her face was frozen at the most beautiful age of 19, like a flower frozen in amber. Even though a thousand years had passed, he still remembered what the child looked like when he first saw her.
More than a thousand years ago, the Liang clan was at its peak, even surpassing the Qin clan. The Liang clan's cities were spread across the two states. Clans are different from countries. At that time, there were many countries, big and small, with constant changes of dynasties, but clans were very stable and had a system completely independent of the dynasty. Every country wanted to win over as many big families as possible, so every year, the Liang clan would welcome envoys from nearby countries.
Aji was a princess at that time, still young, and curious about what the clan god looked like, so she sneaked into the team of messengers and came to Liang's. She mistakenly thought he was a sickly member of Liang's clan, and saw that he lived alone in a "remote" hut by the lake. During the time she lived in Liang's clan, she often came to visit him secretly.
At first, she wanted to help him. Later, she came every day and promised to find the best doctor to treat him so that he would not be trapped in that small yard. There were vast reeds by the lake. In the autumn sunset, she waved the reeds, chasing the brilliant gold, and her laughter was as moving as a silver bell.
Such a lively and kind child, bravely pursued her love in that era when women were greatly restricted. She fell in love with him, so she asked her father to marry a sickly man without status.
The king was furious and placed her under house arrest, hoping to find a husband for her, but he ended up waiting for the team led by the Liang clan god to marry the princess.
From a princess of a country, to the wife of her beloved, the wife of the god of the clan, it has been a thousand years. Countless countries have perished, countless clans have declined, and she has changed a lot.
His flower-like Aji finally... rotted.