Stealing the Pen: Kirin's Primordial Lotus

"Brother, what is this?"

"meal."

Little Lotus looked at the small bowl of porridge and a few side dishes on the table, closed his eyes and opened them several times, and finally accepted the meal from his brother.

"What kind of meal is this? It's so simple." Little Lotus looked at the things on the table with a bit of disdain.

"Eat." Qilin wanted to feed the little lotus, but the little lotus kept shaking its head and refused to eat.

“I’ll be hungry.”

"I'm not hungry at all. Uncle Yang and the others prepared a lot of food for me before I went out. Brother, you don't have to eat anymore. I'll get it for you." Xiao Lianhua said as she pushed the things on the table to the corner.

In the blink of an eye, the originally empty table was filled with food.

"Brother, try this, it's delicious when dipped in bean curd." Little Lotus picked out a small sugar packet and stuffed it into Qilin's mouth.

"And this osmanthus curd. Eat it with bean curd and then drink a sip of osmanthus curd. All your worries will go away."

The petite little guy sat in the empty space on the table, holding a tofu bun as big as himself, with a bowl of osmanthus yogurt beside him.

"..." Qilin looked at the food that appeared out of thin air on the table and looked out the window.

Although he didn't see anyone outside, he could feel that there were quite a few people in his small yard.

"You will find out."

"Oh, no. Uncle Yang taught me to set up a barrier for myself so that people outside can't see what we are doing." Little Lotus waved her hand and said indifferently.

“Even if you’re yelling in the room, they can only see what you normally do.”

"..."

"Oh, yes. And this is what Uncle Yang gave me, but it seems to be of no use to me now. Brother will give it to you." Little Lotus suddenly remembered something and took out a jade bottle and placed it in front of Qilin.

Qilin took the jade bottle and examined it carefully for a while. He had recently been learning how to identify the dynasties of the bottles and jars. After taking a look at it in his hand, he knew that this jade bottle was not recent, and it was definitely not a folk craft, nor was it something below.

"This was brought back for me by Uncle Qin and his friends when they went out. I thought it looked pretty, so I kept it." Little Lotus was still rummaging for food, and turned around to see her brother studying the jade bottle.

"Brother, I don't know how much of this stuff Uncle Qin brought back for me. If you want it, I'll give it all to you when we go back one day." Little Lotus said generously as she gave the jade bottle to Qilin.

"No need." Qilin looked at the little person and casually gave him a piece of Ru kiln azure porcelain from the Song Dynasty, which was specially supplied to the royal family.

"Brother, that bottle is not valuable. The things inside are much better than that bottle." Little Lotus saw his brother still holding the bottle and looked at it. He ran over anxiously, pulled his hand away and opened the bottle.

Qilin was worried that Little Lotus would fall, so he opened the bottle cap according to his strength, and a fresh fragrance filled the bottle.

Qilin swallowed the pill without any hesitation, and a moment later he felt a surge of heat rising from his stomach. Finally, it evaporated from the top of his head. Qilin got off the stool and took two steps. He felt a lot lighter, and the injuries he had received from the instructor's training were also healed.

“Don’t take it out casually.” Qilin was worried that Xiao Lianhua would be fooled by someone, so he took the thing out and gave it to someone else.

"Oh, this is not a good thing. Uncle Yang gave it to me as candy beans. Besides, how can people outside get things from me? They are not my brothers." Little Lotus waved her hand and continued to search for food.

The top priority now is to feed his brother. Whether his brother can have enough to eat is the ultimate matter. Everything else is just a passing cloud and can be put aside for the time being.

Qilin looked at the thing squeezed in the corner, pulled it over with his hand, and ate it mouthful by mouthful with an expressionless face.

"Oh my, what's the point of eating that thing, brother? It's tasteless and not delicious at all."

Little Lotus was anxious to push away those things that looked unpalatable.

"They will be suspicious." Qilin knew that if these things were not eaten, people outside would be suspicious.

"Hmph. The Zhang family is no good. Uncle Yang doesn't like them, and I don't like them either." The little lotus angrily turned into a little fat lotus with its back to Qilin.

After Qilin finished eating the food that Little Lotus disliked, he accurately found the food that Little Lotus liked from the food that Little Lotus had transformed into and poked him.

The angry little Fat Lotus shook its lotus petals but refused to look back at Qilin.

"eat."

When little Fatty Lian turned around and saw his brother eating the food he took out bite by bite, he instantly forgot his anger and turned into a little man again to look for something for Qilin.

There was a knock on the door. Qilin stuffed the little lotus into his collar and was about to open the door when he turned around and saw the pile of food on the table. He reached out and poked the little lotus in his collar.

Little Lotus stretched out a little paw from her collar and collected all the food.

Qilin saw that the food had been put away, then he opened the door to let the people outside in.

"Has anyone been here before?" The person who came was Zhang Ruitong. He looked around and didn't find anything, but he felt something was wrong.

Qilin shook his head.

"In a few days, you will go to the actual combat with us. Your instructor said that you are making rapid progress." Zhang Ruitong didn't care whether there were people there or not. After all, the Zhang family was not a place that any cat or dog could enter, except for those rats hiding in secret.

Although Qilin was puzzled, he nodded.

Little Lotus had only heard of the Zhang family from Uncle Yang, but he had no idea what the Zhang family did. However, he was very happy to hear the old man say that his brother was going out soon.

After all, he had been staying in this shabby place with his brother for so long and had never gone out to see the scenery outside.

As soon as the others left, Little Lotus couldn't wait to fly out and ask Qilin, "Brother, where are we going? Is it fun there? Do we need to prepare anything?"

"I don't know. It's not fun. No need to prepare."

"Why? Brother, have you ever been there? How do you know it's not fun?"

"It's dirty and black down there, and there's nothing to eat." Qilin gave a brief introduction.

"Down there? I'm not afraid of it being dirty. I'll hide inside the jade bead, and then my brother can just take the jade bead with him."

"I'm not afraid of the dark. Uncle Qin and his friends found me some glowing beads. They said that night-shining pearls can glow. But it's always bright daytime where I am, so I can't see them glow."

"If you don't have anything to eat, you can take me with you. I have lots of food here."

Little Lotus took out the jade bead that had been with her and placed it on the table for Qilin to look at.

When talking about black, he also took out several night pearls.

The little lotus stood among a pile of beads, raised her chin and looked at Qilin proudly.

Qilin looked at the jade bead and the night pearls in silence.

While waiting to be released, Qilin still followed the routine. He got up on time, washed up, practiced with Zhang Hailin, ate on time, and then returned to the room with injuries all over his body. Xiao Lianhua then applied ointment to him while he was crying and cursed the Zhang family in words he knew. She also cooked a variety of pills and food for him.

On the day of departure, Qilin set off with the jade bead that no one else could see.

Little Lotus slept soundly inside the jade bead. When he woke up and walked out of the jade bead, he found it was pitch black around him. However, he smelled the scent of the small pill he had given to Qilin before.

"Brother." Little Lotus took out the night pearl she had taken out earlier and placed it in a lantern. The bright starlight lit up the dim scene around her.

"Brother, it's dark and messy here and it's not fun at all." Little Lotus used magic to freeze the palace lantern in mid-air. Qilin reached out and took the palace lantern and walked towards the darkness ahead.

"Grave passage."

"Wooden road? A road made of wood? Are we inside the wood?" Little Lotus had never been in a tomb passage and didn't know what a tomb passage was. She thought it was a road dug inside the wood.

"No. It's someone else's grave."

"Oh. This grave is not pretty at all. It's not even as good as Uncle Qin's grave." Little Lotus looked at this pitch-black place without any interest.

"Uncle Qin? Grave?"

"Yes. In Uncle Qin's words, he is now dead in the eyes of the world, but he is still alive, but no one knows it. He also took me to his tomb. It was very beautiful, with a Milky Way flowing, stars dotted overhead, and majestic soldiers outside the palace."

Qilin can think of only one tomb with mercury as a river, and that is the Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang. So the so-called Uncle Qin mentioned by Xiao Lianhua is Qin Shi Huang who should have died long ago, but how could he still be alive?

"I have also visited Uncle Di's tomb, but it is not as magnificent as Uncle Qin's. There are only some very bulky bronze vessels. And Uncle Di's subordinates, they are not reincarnated as you said, they are all still alive." Xiao Lianhua talked about Emperor Xin's tomb, which was not as interesting as Uncle Qin's tomb.

"Next time, when I see Uncle Qin, I'll ask him to take you to see his tomb."