Qilin Jue [Tomb Raiders Notes]

"Brother Xiaohua?" Huo Xiuxiu walked into the room and called out.

The chestnut-haired young man by the window turned around and smiled slightly, "What's the matter?"

"That..." Huo Xiuxiu stood there awkwardly, her eyes wandering, as if she didn't dare to look at Xie Yuchen.

"What's wrong?" Xie Yuchen walked to the table and sat down, motioning for Huo Xiuxiu to continue.

"I, my brother, did they make things difficult for you?" Huo Xiuxiu walked over with a complicated expression, "I'm sorry..."

Xie Yuchen was silent for a while, then smiled lightly and said, "It's not a big deal, you don't mind."

"How could I not mind, they!" Huo Xiuxiu said excitedly, she suddenly stopped and lowered her head, "I always trouble you, I already told them yesterday, let them not force Xie Jia."

Xie Yuchen lowered his eyelids and didn't speak. After a while, he cast his eyes out of the window and said calmly, "I don't blame anyone. I knew it would happen a long time ago. You are just the little girl of your family. You can't fight against your two elder brothers in this regard."

"They were not like this before," Huo Xiuxiu said helplessly, "We haven't seen each other for a few years, and they have changed a lot."

"Everyone will change," Xie Yuchen sighed, "Besides, it is impossible for the heir of the family to take over the family without staying the same."

"Brother Xiaohua, don't worry about them," Huo Xiuxiu bit her lower lip, "I know you hate this kind of coercion, but to me it's just... I'll make it clear to them."

Xie Yuchen didn't answer.Huo Xiuxiu didn't know what to say anymore, she held the teacup in both hands but didn't drink, looked casually to one side, and saw the ancient black knife on the sandalwood table in the distance.

Involuntarily recalling Xie Yuchen's frail and uneasy state after seeing Xie Yuchen falling asleep holding the knife a few days ago, Huo Xiuxiu was stunned for a while, and a thought suddenly popped up in his heart, and couldn't help asking: "That knife... Brother Xiaohua Do you value it?"

Xie Yuchen followed her gaze and was taken aback for a moment. His originally plain expression became soft and painful, but he didn't show it. He said in a low voice, "Yes."

"Actually, it should be two, right?" Huo Xiuxiu continued to ask.

"……Um."

"Then," Huo Xiuxiu looked at Xie Yuchen, "Where is the other...?" She knew it, but she still couldn't help asking.

Xie Yuchen was silent, looking at the black ancient knife, not knowing what he was thinking. After a while, he turned his head and stopped looking, "It's the same everywhere."

Huo Xiuxiu was stunned, and then she was a little puzzled, "Couldn't it be that Brother Xiaohua is very important?"

"It doesn't matter anymore." Xie Yuchen didn't look back, but his tone was self-deprecating and bitter.

"But you clearly..." When Huo Xiuxiu almost said it directly, she was interrupted by a knock on the door.

The guy's voice sounded outside the door: "Master Hua, Fifth Brother and the others are here."

Xie Yuchen said, "Let them in."

After a while, two men walked in from outside the door, and after saluting Xie Yuchen, one of them said: "Master Hua, those people who stayed here in the Zhang family suddenly made a movement the day before yesterday, we followed behind to release the net, and we have already found it." information."

"Yeah." Xie Yuchen nodded and let him continue.

"Those people were divided into two groups yesterday. Some stayed, while others went to a nearby seaport. Two people were picked up from there. One of them is probably the head of the Zhang family."

"Where are they now?" Xie Yuchen stood up abruptly.

"We were almost discovered, so we retreated, and the follow-up work was not completed, please punish Hua Ye!"

Xie Yuchen swayed slightly, then waved his hand, and said, "It's okay, let those who stay over there continue to search and report the situation at any time. Go down."

"Yes."

After the two left, Huo Xiuxiu looked at Xie Yuchen, hesitated to speak, and finally asked tentatively, "Is it... Zhang Qiling?"

Xie Yuchen raised his eyelids, looked at Huo Xiuxiu, paused, and said helplessly in his voice, "You know?"

Huo Xiuxiu lowered her head so that Xie Yuchen could not see her expression, "Brother Xiaohua cares about him, right?"

Xie Yuchen sat down slowly, neither answering nor denying.

"Actually, I know all about it." Huo Xiuxiu clenched her hands, "You have changed a lot recently, I can see that it's because of him, right? Although, I don't know what he did, but you look very depressed recently. I came to you that day and saw you fell asleep with that ancient knife in your arms...I didn't mean to...and you gave him the other ancient knife, didn't you?"

……

In the softly lit room, there was a heavy and oppressive atmosphere.Five or six people stood outside the screen, and no one spoke.

"Go down." A deep voice came from inside the screen, "If someone wearing sunglasses comes to me later, just bring him in."

"Yes." Several people outside responded in unison, and then walked out, the room was completely quiet.

Behind the screen is a soft couch, and a faint agarwood floats in the air.A person sat halfway beside the soft couch, staring at the sleeping person on the couch in a daze, without moving for a long time.

After a long time, he raised his hand, stroked the cool and handsome cheek of the sleeping man, and murmured: "It's all my fault, I didn't come to you sooner... If I found out earlier, you wouldn't be like this... Hey, patriarch, once I thought, let you be free and do what you want, I just need to help you silently behind you and hide my feelings for you. But now I find that I was wrong, I shouldn't treat you So indulgent... If one day you leave like that, I will definitely go crazy..."

He finished speaking slowly, then leaned over, his head slightly staggered, and his lips gradually touched.

"Boss, the person you mentioned is here." A subordinate's voice came from outside.

Zhang Haike didn't get up until the kiss was enough, and then said, "Let him in."

There were hurried footsteps outside, and within a few seconds, they were already in front of them.

The black glasses walked in, and when he saw the unconscious person on the soft couch, his whole body froze.Clenching his fists with both hands, he walked over quickly, half-squatting in front of the couch, with a terrified and bewildered expression, "How could this be..."

"When I found the patriarch, he was already unconscious." Zhang Haike held Zhang Qiling's hand tightly, but gently stroked his fingertips back and forth, his eyes full of remorse and pain, "If I had rushed earlier... It won't be like this anymore..."

"Who did it? Who made him like this!" Black Glasses roared out of control.When he thought of someone who had hurt his beloved like this, he was so angry that he wanted to tear that person apart.

"I have no idea at all, but if there is someone..." Zhang Haike's eyes flashed a hint of cruelty.

"Damn... I shouldn't have left, I shouldn't have listened to his words and left!" The black glasses lowered their heads against their arms, then raised their heads to look at the person in front of him who was sleeping deeply with closed eyes, and hugged him tightly with both hands, The voice was broken and panicked, "Qi Ling..."

When Zhang Haixing came in, she was startled when she saw Zhang Qiling, then looked at the black glasses and Zhang Haike, paused and said, "Brother, the patriarch..."

"I'll explain the matter later. The patriarch needs to rest. I asked everyone outside to retreat." Zhang Haike whispered.

Zhang Haixing nodded and sat aside, feeling more and more anxious.

After a long time, when both of them calmed down a little and found a place to sit down, Zhang Haixing asked, "Brother, what happened?"

"I can't figure it out either," Zhang Haike sighed weakly. "At first, I thought that everything was planned, but accidents just happened. I had to wait for the patriarch to wake up and ask him in person."

"When did you go?" the black glasses asked him, and his eyes kept looking at the person on the couch.

"It's about the same as you." Zhang Haike said.

"Then, do you have any plans for the future? I mean after the patriarch wakes up." Zhang Haixing asked.

"Stay with him." Black Glasses and Zhang Haike blurted out at the same time.After finishing speaking, both of them were taken aback for a moment, and then looked at each other with obvious exploration and suspicion.Zhang Haike was exploring the meaning of the eyes in the black glasses, and the black glasses began to wonder if Zhang Haike also had something in mind for Zhang Qiling.

"Why are you accompanying Qi Ling? Aren't you going back to manage the family?" Black glasses stared at Zhang Haike warningly, "As the leader of the branch family, Brother Haike probably doesn't have the time to worry about these things."

"He is the patriarch, and I regard him as the sky. Why do you say I accompany him? Isn't it right?" Zhang Haike said naturally, "It's Hei Ye who follows our patriarch all day long, so don't worry about your side business?"

"Hmph," Black Glasses sneered, "I've always been by his side, when will I need you to worry about it?"

"Hey, I don't think that members of my family have any better reasons to take care of the patriarch than you, a member of a foreign race." Zhang Haike smiled, but there was no doubt about it, "Is that right, Master Hei?"

"Ah, that's a headache," the black glasses also laughed inexplicably, "I have stayed with Qi Ling as a serious person, and your joining is very disturbing."

Zhang Haike's face sank, and his tone was full of danger: "A serious identity?"

"Hehe..." The black glasses moved closer to Zhang Haike, looked at him provocatively, and said in a voice that only two people could hear, "I'm already a spiritual person... Why, do you want to call the patriarch's wife to listen? Um?"

Zhang Haike was stunned for a moment, his eyes widened in disbelief, his face was almost contorted with anger, but he tried his best to restrain his anger, and smiled lukewarmly, "Really, why haven't I heard from the patriarch that you Don't be so self-indulgent."

"Don't believe it?" Black Glasses waved his hands indifferently, and backed away, "You don't know what kind of temperament Qi Ling is, right? He will bring people who have nothing to do with him with him? And let me always follow him Have you been around for so long? Can't you guess the reason? "

Zhang Haike didn't answer, and stared at the black glasses with a sullen face, but the black glasses looked back provocatively, unwilling to be outdone.

The anger is getting more and more tense.

Zhang Haixing had long been stunned by the inexplicable hostile words of the two. Seeing that the two were suddenly on guard against each other like enemies, she couldn't help coughing twice: "What are you talking about? Why did it suddenly become so strange?"

The two didn't answer him, and they still didn't give each other a good face.

Zhang Haixing was speechless. As soon as she looked away, Zhang Qi, who was still asleep, moved smartly, his eyelashes trembled slightly, and then slowly opened his eyes.

"The patriarch is awake!" Zhang Haixing whispered.

The two confronting each other were taken aback for a moment, then quickly ran to the soft couch, grabbed Zhang Qiling's hand respectively, and looked at him excitedly.

"Wake up..."

"Patriarch..."

The moment Zhang Qiling opened his eyes, the initial confusion in his black eyes immediately turned into sobriety, then he sat up, looked at the other three people, and after a while, said in a slightly depressed voice: "Where is this?"

"It's our temporary base, an affiliated city not far from Kyoto." Zhang Haike explained softly.

"How long have I slept?"

"Six days have passed since I found you."

Zhang Qiling didn't ask any more questions, he threw off the quilt and was about to get up, but the black glasses stopped him immediately.

"Don't move around." The black glasses hugged him, "You still need to rest."

"Patriarch, you were completely unconscious when I found you. Who made you like this?" Zhang Haike asked.

Zhang Qiling shook his head slightly, and said: "It's not important, you just need to take that thing back, everything here is almost the same."

"Then... what about you?" Zhang Haike paused, "What should I do next, many things here are inconvenient, why don't you go back with me?"

The black glasses glared at Zhang Haike.

"No," Zhang Qiling said calmly, then slowly got up, looked at the black glasses, "he and I will leave here as soon as possible."

The black glasses froze for a moment, and then he realized that the corners of his mouth raised upwards, "Come with me? Are you ready to fulfill your promise?"

This time it was Zhang Haike's turn to stare at the black glasses.

"Wait," Zhang Haixing said, "The remnants of those people have not been completely eliminated, and you are likely to be targeted again."

"Someone will solve it." Zhang Haike said.

"Who is it?" Zhang Haixing asked.

"When I went to pick up the patriarch, I was followed by a tail," Zhang Haike smiled, "I think the person behind the scenes will help."

"Brother, don't beat around the bush." ​​Zhang Haixing said helplessly.

"You don't even think about it, who else wants to get rid of those people." Zhang Haike sighed, "Speaking of it, our festival is not as big as theirs."

"You mean... Xie family?" Zhang Haixing suddenly said, "Xie Yuchen, right!"

"That's right." Zhang Haike nodded, then looked at Zhang Qiling, was silent for a moment, and said slowly: "Patriarch, during the time you disappeared, apart from Xie Yuchen and that Wu Xie, they were always looking for you. Just leave like this... don't say goodbye."