Translated by Nessie
Ye Yingzhi’s car was still waiting beside the road that was lined with trees outside the Chi’s mansion. The warm light in the car was turned on and the rear window was opened halfway. A man wearing a long black trench coat sat leisurely with his eyes closed.
Chi Yan pulled the car door, rushed in and hugged the man’s arm.
Ye Yingzhi embraced him, held his chin and lifted his head to face him. He saw his red eyes and felt the pain in his heart. He leaned over and kissed him, “What’s the matter? Who bullied you again?”
One thing that Chi Rong had guessed correctly was that Ye Yingzhi indeed really liked to bully Chi Yan. He often bullied Chi Yan until he was full of tears and then begged for mercy and acted coquettish before he was willing to stop. Then he would hold Chi Yan in his arms and coax him slowly. But this was just their private interactions and outsiders shouldn’t meddle in their affairs. However, if Ye Yingzhi discovered that Chi Yan was bullied elsewhere, he would keep a serious account of it in his heart, and then carefully coax Chi Yan personally.
Chi Yan shook his head and whispered on his chest, “My father passed away.” His voice was choked with tears and he could hardly control himself when he said the word “father”. He hadn’t called Chi Yuan Shan “father” for the past ten years. Their father-son relationship was severed and he left the Chi family when he was sixteen years old. Prior to that when he was still staying in Chi’s house, he was already sensible to know that Chi Yuan Shan had done unforgivable things towards his mother and him, so he had detested him, refused to speak to him and he even refused to call him “dad” or “pa pa”.
Of course, Ye Yingzhi could hear the change in the way Chi Yan called his father. He stroked his back to comfort him and responded without commenting on it.
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Chi Yan told him the story he had just heard from Chi Rong between sobs. Ye Yingzhi listened quietly. After he finished speaking, he carried him onto his lap, hugged him face to face and kissed his eyes gently. “Baby, don’t think about it anymore, take a good rest and ge ge will send someone to check it out.”
Chi Yan lowered his head and nestled to the side of his neck, wrapped his hands around Ye Yingzhi’s waist and responded with a low “um” sound. His eyes were still red.
After resting for a while, he asked softly while maintaining the same posture, “Yingzhi ge ge, can you do a ritual and send my father off, so that he can have a better journey? Chi Rong said that he was manipulated by the black magic of Gu and since the Gu worm in his heart died, he naturally died along with it. He was not peaceful when he passed away, I just want him to have a smoother journey. “
“Sure.” Ye Yingzhi replied, “If you recognize him as your dad, then he is also my dad. I’ll surely give father-in-law a proper send-off.”
He looked out of the car window and pointed to the little forest on the left side of the road, “It’s not appropriate for me to enter Chi’s house with my current status to perform a ritual for father-in-law. Can we send him off here?”
Chi Yan nodded with his eyes still red and subconsciously acquiesced to Ye Yingzhi calling his father, “father-in-law”.
The driver turned off the car engine, took some materials for the ritual from the trunk and followed Ye Yingzhi and Chi Yan into the forest. He turned on the light on his mobile phone to brighten up the surroundings. Ye Yingzhi’s car had these magic tools all the time which saved a lot of trouble.
The three people stopped after finding a flat and open space. Chi Yan was in charge of brightening up the place with the light from the mobile phone. Ye Yingzhi took the cinnabar pen from the driver, half-knelt on the ground and quickly drew a death formation. Then he used a few pieces of yellow paper to seal a few key areas of the formation. After that, he closed his eyes to cast spells.
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Chi Yan closed his eyes and knelt beside him, chanting the death eulogy silently in his heart.
The wind suddenly blew in the woods, and the cold penetrated into their neck, making the place look spookily gloomy and chilly. Chi Yan shivered and opened his eyes. He saw a blurred shadow coming towards him, looking at his figure, it was Chi Yuan Shan.
“He” looked at Chi Yan all the time, his mouth moved hurriedly, as if he was saying something. When he saw that Chi Yan had no response, he was even more anxious and started gesturing and waving towards one side. Chi Yan looked at him and couldn’t help standing up and shouted, “Father, what are you saying? I can’t hear you!”
//T/N: Chi Yuan Shan was telling Chi Yan to stay away from Ye Yingzhi.
Chi Yuan Shan moved closer to him and closer to the death formation on the ground. Chi Yan started to gradually see the shape his mouth was making. Suddenly, a strong force emerged from the centre of the formation, which suddenly pushed Chi Yuan Shan away. He gradually blurred and disappeared…Just before he disappeared, he kept waving to the right of Chi Yan.
Chi Yan’s legs weakened and suddenly sat on the ground. He turned his head to the left to look at Ye Yingzhi, “Yingzhi ge ge, what do you think my father was trying to tell me? Did he leave properly?”
“His soul has already gone for reincarnation.” Ye Yingzhi hugged him in his arms, helped him to stand up and kissed his forehead, “Don’t be afraid, no matter what, ge ge will protect you.”
Chi Yan responded dispiritedly and was brought back into the car by Ye Yingzhi.
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On the second day, Chi Yan and Ye Yingzhi attended Chi Yuan Shan’s funeral.
As it was during the period of the praying ceremony, many guests had come to attend the funeral. The person who had just passed away was Chi Yuan Shan of the Chi family, so many of the guests went to the funeral to pay respect and express their condolences. Chi Yan was no longer part of the Chi family and had long since dissolved his father-son relationship with Chi Yuan Shan. Many guests had come to know that this young man standing next to the Ye family’s patriarch, who was also said to be the boyfriend of Xu Er Ye’s daughter, was actually the eldest grandson of the Chi family. But for now, he could only be like all the other guests, stand on one side to observe and offer a bunch of flowers.
Old grandfather Chi was still in retreat, and hadn’t even come out since his son’s sudden death. Everything at the funeral was managed by the butler and several other relatives of the Chi family, including welcoming, thanking and sending off guests. Some people already started whispering and wondering where Young Master Chi was.
The Young Master Chi they were referring to was Chi Rong. The butler explained to the guests that Chi Rong was stricken with grief and had fallen ill. He was recuperating in the room and could not see the guests. There was a hint of worry in his eyes.
The sudden death of Chi Yuan Shan itself was a bit weird. He was dead, his son was sick in bed, and grandfather Chi was in retreat and couldn’t come out. There was practically nobody in the entire Chi family to make decisions and everything depended on the few clan elders to take care of matters. Everyone was also reminded of the unexplained death of one of the Chi’s elders a few days ago, who had to be buried underground with the soul-suppressing song. They couldn’t help discussing secretly which deity the Chi family had offended.
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Ye Yingzhi was quick with his actions. The person he dispatched had found some information and by the time they returned from the funeral, the information was passed to Chi Yan.
Due to the influence of films, TV dramas, novels and other artistic creations, people generally thought of the Yun Gui region when the witchcraft of Gu was mentioned. That was because Yun Gui had a lot of miasma and the mountains had a lot of poisonous insects. Its geographical conditions were ideal for developing this kind of witchcraft. But Chi Rong’s mother inherited another line of witchcraft, which originated from Qiong Zhou, now known as the Hainan area, and was called the Qiong Zhou Gu Witchcraft. Qiong Zhou’s terrain was high in the middle and low around the sides, the island was surrounded by the sea and the mountains were prone to fog. Some secret witchcraft techniques originated from the central mountains, but many of them were gradually lost. And Chi Rong’s mother was the heir of the most secretive Qiong Zhou Gu Witchcraft. From this point of view, what Chi Rong said yesterday was almost certainly true, but whether Chi Yuan Shan was under the control of Gu witchcraft, they had to do an autopsy to confirm.
It was impossible to open the coffin again to do an autopsy. Ye Yingzhi sent someone to ask an expert who understood the Central Plains Gu witchcraft and described the death of Chi Yuan Shan. The other party replied that the description of Chi Yuan Shan’s death did indeed look like he had been infected with Symbiosis Gu. One of the characteristics of Qiong Zhou Gu Witchcraft was that after the owner of the Gu died, the worm would not be able to last long and die as well. And this type of Gu which had been used to control the victim (host) for decades, the Gu had already entered the heart of the host and formed a symbiosis with the owner of the Gu. When the Gu worm died, the host would soon be exhausted and die as well.
Chi Yan couldn’t close his eyes all night with the investigative news that he had received. Even if there was no conclusive evidence, he already believed that his father’s behaviour in the past and his family being broken up in this manner was because his father was poisoned by the black magic of Gu. The murderer was Chi Rong’s mother, but Chi Rong’s mother died five years ago, and there was no way he could take revenge. And according to what Chi Rong said that day, there should be someone else behind it who contributed to the situation.
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Chi Yan sorted out the thoughts in his mind and found a logical problem in this series of events: suppose his father was controlled by Gu witchcraft all these years, and only managed to gain a moment of sobriety when the Gu worm died just a while before that, and told him to hurry up and leave should be to his benefit. Regardless of the motive or reason for the time being, Chi Rong, who had also urged him to leave many times too, should also be for his own good. But if Chi Rong was helping him, then why did he set up the He Jia village to kill him?
This was so contradictory. He could think of two ways to explain this. The first one was that his initial assumption of helping him was wrong, and Chi Rong and Chi Yuan Shan still wanted to kill him; the other way was that someone else wanted to harm him. At noon that day in Xu family’s courtyard garden, he misunderstood Chi Rong’s lie. That aside, Chi Yan no longer believed that Chi Yuan Shan’s last sentence harboured malicious intentions and naturally he rejected the first explanation.
So he had to ask Chi Rong to find out what else he knew, why he urged him to leave this place so many times, and why he himself didn’t leave.
But thinking of Chi Rong’s appearance that night, he started cringing in fear. He wasn’t afraid of Chi Rong, but his appearance was indeed somewhat abnormal. Ye Yingzhi was after all, a generation older than him, and with his current extraordinary status, he couldn’t be asking him to accompany him to do things all the time. Moreover, he was worried that Ye Yingzhi’s body might not be able to bear it. So just in case, Chi Yan called Xu Rui and asked him to accompany him to Chi’s house to find Chi Rong.
Chi Yan went to Xu’s house by car to find Xu Rui. From a distance, he saw many people in the main hall. The expressions of those who were talking were very agitated. Xu Rui’s eldest uncle and the head butler were trying to appease them.
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At this time Xu Rui walked over, pulled open the door, got into the car and sat next to Chi Yan.
As the car drove forward, Chi Yan pointed at the main hall and asked, “What’s the situation?”
Xu Rui answered, “It is one of the Taoist masters who came to participate in the praying ceremony. Their clan leader’s surname is Ma and he had a son who was almost twenty years old, called Ma Tian. He had also participated in the ceremony this year. But Ma Tian suddenly disappeared a few days ago. The Ma clan leader urged the Xu family to accompany them to find his son every day. You say…his son is also an adult and there is nothing to play on this mountain. Maybe he had run elsewhere to play. It’s no point if they keep forcing my eldest uncle and his men if they can’t find him. Now my dad is also being asked by my grandfather every day to go help out. Luckily they haven’t asked me to help out yet.”
These days, they were performing the heavenly praying ceremony, and Chi Yuan Shan fainted at the banquet and then died suddenly. The Xu family was indeed very busy. Every family had their own problems and difficulties, so Chi Yan comforted and patted Xu Rui on his shoulder.
The atmosphere in Chi’s family was a bit solemn and the house was filled with a rotten and cold air. The mourning hall of Chi Yuan Shan was still on display. However, there were fewer people who came to pay respect and mourn than yesterday. Chi Yan and Xu Rui went in to pay respect and told the butler that he wanted to see Chi Rong and chat with him about his father.
He was also the biological son of Chi Yuan Shan and was undisputedly the eldest grandson born in wedlock. Even if he had left the family and Chi Yuan Shan had died, his request was normal and reasonable.
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The butler was the one who led him in that night before to see Chi Yuan Shan before he passed away and later helped deal with Chi Yuan Shan’s funeral. In Chi Yan’s impression, he had worked for Chi Yuan Shan and was loyal to Chi Rong, but was cold and indifferent towards himself. Therefore, Chi Yan treated him politely and in a business-like manner, asking him to help him pass a message to Chi Rong. If Chi Rong was seriously ill and had difficulty getting out of bed, then he could go directly to Chi Rong.
Chi Yan didn’t believe that Chi Rong would suddenly be “stricken with grief” over his father’s death and became “seriously ill in bed”. He had no reaction to Chi Yuan Shan’s death that night and looked energetic, how could he suddenly become ill.
The butler looked at him and Xu Rui, and respectfully led them to the side hall. Then he spoke to Xu Rui respectfully, “Can Young Master Xu leave us alone for a while?”
Chi Yan said to him, “Xu Rui is a very close friend of mine. You can just speak up.” But the butler looked distressed.
When Xu Rui saw this, he stood up, walked out and waved to Chi Yan, “Okay, I’ll go out first to get some air. If they dare to do something mean to you, I will report it to your third ge ge.”
After he walked out, the butler suddenly knelt on the ground and cried, “Eldest Young Master, the Second Young Master is gone already.”
Translated by Nessie
Ye Yingzhi’s car was still waiting beside the road that was lined with trees outside the Chi’s mansion. The warm light in the car was turned on and the rear window was opened halfway. A man wearing a long black trench coat sat leisurely with his eyes closed.
Chi Yan pulled the car door, rushed in and hugged the man’s arm.
Ye Yingzhi embraced him, held his chin and lifted his head to face him. He saw his red eyes and felt the pain in his heart. He leaned over and kissed him, “What’s the matter? Who bullied you again?”
One thing that Chi Rong had guessed correctly was that Ye Yingzhi indeed really liked to bully Chi Yan. He often bullied Chi Yan until he was full of tears and then begged for mercy and acted coquettish before he was willing to stop. Then he would hold Chi Yan in his arms and coax him slowly. But this was just their private interactions and outsiders shouldn’t meddle in their affairs. However, if Ye Yingzhi discovered that Chi Yan was bullied elsewhere, he would keep a serious account of it in his heart, and then carefully coax Chi Yan personally.
Chi Yan shook his head and whispered on his chest, “My father passed away.” His voice was choked with tears and he could hardly control himself when he said the word “father”. He hadn’t called Chi Yuan Shan “father” for the past ten years. Their father-son relationship was severed and he left the Chi family when he was sixteen years old. Prior to that when he was still staying in Chi’s house, he was already sensible to know that Chi Yuan Shan had done unforgivable things towards his mother and him, so he had detested him, refused to speak to him and he even refused to call him “dad” or “pa pa”.
Of course, Ye Yingzhi could hear the change in the way Chi Yan called his father. He stroked his back to comfort him and responded without commenting on it.
Translated by The Red Oak Tree
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Chi Yan told him the story he had just heard from Chi Rong between sobs. Ye Yingzhi listened quietly. After he finished speaking, he carried him onto his lap, hugged him face to face and kissed his eyes gently. “Baby, don’t think about it anymore, take a good rest and ge ge will send someone to check it out.”
Chi Yan lowered his head and nestled to the side of his neck, wrapped his hands around Ye Yingzhi’s waist and responded with a low “um” sound. His eyes were still red.
After resting for a while, he asked softly while maintaining the same posture, “Yingzhi ge ge, can you do a ritual and send my father off, so that he can have a better journey? Chi Rong said that he was manipulated by the black magic of Gu and since the Gu worm in his heart died, he naturally died along with it. He was not peaceful when he passed away, I just want him to have a smoother journey. “
“Sure.” Ye Yingzhi replied, “If you recognize him as your dad, then he is also my dad. I’ll surely give father-in-law a proper send-off.”
He looked out of the car window and pointed to the little forest on the left side of the road, “It’s not appropriate for me to enter Chi’s house with my current status to perform a ritual for father-in-law. Can we send him off here?”
Chi Yan nodded with his eyes still red and subconsciously acquiesced to Ye Yingzhi calling his father, “father-in-law”.
The driver turned off the car engine, took some materials for the ritual from the trunk and followed Ye Yingzhi and Chi Yan into the forest. He turned on the light on his mobile phone to brighten up the surroundings. Ye Yingzhi’s car had these magic tools all the time which saved a lot of trouble.
The three people stopped after finding a flat and open space. Chi Yan was in charge of brightening up the place with the light from the mobile phone. Ye Yingzhi took the cinnabar pen from the driver, half-knelt on the ground and quickly drew a death formation. Then he used a few pieces of yellow paper to seal a few key areas of the formation. After that, he closed his eyes to cast spells.
Translated by The Red Oak Tree
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Chi Yan closed his eyes and knelt beside him, chanting the death eulogy silently in his heart.
The wind suddenly blew in the woods, and the cold penetrated into their neck, making the place look spookily gloomy and chilly. Chi Yan shivered and opened his eyes. He saw a blurred shadow coming towards him, looking at his figure, it was Chi Yuan Shan.
“He” looked at Chi Yan all the time, his mouth moved hurriedly, as if he was saying something. When he saw that Chi Yan had no response, he was even more anxious and started gesturing and waving towards one side. Chi Yan looked at him and couldn’t help standing up and shouted, “Father, what are you saying? I can’t hear you!”
//T/N: Chi Yuan Shan was telling Chi Yan to stay away from Ye Yingzhi.
Chi Yuan Shan moved closer to him and closer to the death formation on the ground. Chi Yan started to gradually see the shape his mouth was making. Suddenly, a strong force emerged from the centre of the formation, which suddenly pushed Chi Yuan Shan away. He gradually blurred and disappeared…Just before he disappeared, he kept waving to the right of Chi Yan.
Chi Yan’s legs weakened and suddenly sat on the ground. He turned his head to the left to look at Ye Yingzhi, “Yingzhi ge ge, what do you think my father was trying to tell me? Did he leave properly?”
“His soul has already gone for reincarnation.” Ye Yingzhi hugged him in his arms, helped him to stand up and kissed his forehead, “Don’t be afraid, no matter what, ge ge will protect you.”
Chi Yan responded dispiritedly and was brought back into the car by Ye Yingzhi.
Translated by The Red Oak Tree
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On the second day, Chi Yan and Ye Yingzhi attended Chi Yuan Shan’s funeral.
As it was during the period of the praying ceremony, many guests had come to attend the funeral. The person who had just passed away was Chi Yuan Shan of the Chi family, so many of the guests went to the funeral to pay respect and express their condolences. Chi Yan was no longer part of the Chi family and had long since dissolved his father-son relationship with Chi Yuan Shan. Many guests had come to know that this young man standing next to the Ye family’s patriarch, who was also said to be the boyfriend of Xu Er Ye’s daughter, was actually the eldest grandson of the Chi family. But for now, he could only be like all the other guests, stand on one side to observe and offer a bunch of flowers.
Old grandfather Chi was still in retreat, and hadn’t even come out since his son’s sudden death. Everything at the funeral was managed by the butler and several other relatives of the Chi family, including welcoming, thanking and sending off guests. Some people already started whispering and wondering where Young Master Chi was.
The Young Master Chi they were referring to was Chi Rong. The butler explained to the guests that Chi Rong was stricken with grief and had fallen ill. He was recuperating in the room and could not see the guests. There was a hint of worry in his eyes.
The sudden death of Chi Yuan Shan itself was a bit weird. He was dead, his son was sick in bed, and grandfather Chi was in retreat and couldn’t come out. There was practically nobody in the entire Chi family to make decisions and everything depended on the few clan elders to take care of matters. Everyone was also reminded of the unexplained death of one of the Chi’s elders a few days ago, who had to be buried underground with the soul-suppressing song. They couldn’t help discussing secretly which deity the Chi family had offended.
Translated by The Red Oak Tree
www.theredoaktree.com
Ye Yingzhi was quick with his actions. The person he dispatched had found some information and by the time they returned from the funeral, the information was passed to Chi Yan.
Due to the influence of films, TV dramas, novels and other artistic creations, people generally thought of the Yun Gui region when the witchcraft of Gu was mentioned. That was because Yun Gui had a lot of miasma and the mountains had a lot of poisonous insects. Its geographical conditions were ideal for developing this kind of witchcraft. But Chi Rong’s mother inherited another line of witchcraft, which originated from Qiong Zhou, now known as the Hainan area, and was called the Qiong Zhou Gu Witchcraft. Qiong Zhou’s terrain was high in the middle and low around the sides, the island was surrounded by the sea and the mountains were prone to fog. Some secret witchcraft techniques originated from the central mountains, but many of them were gradually lost. And Chi Rong’s mother was the heir of the most secretive Qiong Zhou Gu Witchcraft. From this point of view, what Chi Rong said yesterday was almost certainly true, but whether Chi Yuan Shan was under the control of Gu witchcraft, they had to do an autopsy to confirm.
It was impossible to open the coffin again to do an autopsy. Ye Yingzhi sent someone to ask an expert who understood the Central Plains Gu witchcraft and described the death of Chi Yuan Shan. The other party replied that the description of Chi Yuan Shan’s death did indeed look like he had been infected with Symbiosis Gu. One of the characteristics of Qiong Zhou Gu Witchcraft was that after the owner of the Gu died, the worm would not be able to last long and die as well. And this type of Gu which had been used to control the victim (host) for decades, the Gu had already entered the heart of the host and formed a symbiosis with the owner of the Gu. When the Gu worm died, the host would soon be exhausted and die as well.
Chi Yan couldn’t close his eyes all night with the investigative news that he had received. Even if there was no conclusive evidence, he already believed that his father’s behaviour in the past and his family being broken up in this manner was because his father was poisoned by the black magic of Gu. The murderer was Chi Rong’s mother, but Chi Rong’s mother died five years ago, and there was no way he could take revenge. And according to what Chi Rong said that day, there should be someone else behind it who contributed to the situation.
Translated by The Red Oak Tree
www.theredoaktree.com
Chi Yan sorted out the thoughts in his mind and found a logical problem in this series of events: suppose his father was controlled by Gu witchcraft all these years, and only managed to gain a moment of sobriety when the Gu worm died just a while before that, and told him to hurry up and leave should be to his benefit. Regardless of the motive or reason for the time being, Chi Rong, who had also urged him to leave many times too, should also be for his own good. But if Chi Rong was helping him, then why did he set up the He Jia village to kill him?
This was so contradictory. He could think of two ways to explain this. The first one was that his initial assumption of helping him was wrong, and Chi Rong and Chi Yuan Shan still wanted to kill him; the other way was that someone else wanted to harm him. At noon that day in Xu family’s courtyard garden, he misunderstood Chi Rong’s lie. That aside, Chi Yan no longer believed that Chi Yuan Shan’s last sentence harboured malicious intentions and naturally he rejected the first explanation.
So he had to ask Chi Rong to find out what else he knew, why he urged him to leave this place so many times, and why he himself didn’t leave.
But thinking of Chi Rong’s appearance that night, he started cringing in fear. He wasn’t afraid of Chi Rong, but his appearance was indeed somewhat abnormal. Ye Yingzhi was after all, a generation older than him, and with his current extraordinary status, he couldn’t be asking him to accompany him to do things all the time. Moreover, he was worried that Ye Yingzhi’s body might not be able to bear it. So just in case, Chi Yan called Xu Rui and asked him to accompany him to Chi’s house to find Chi Rong.
Chi Yan went to Xu’s house by car to find Xu Rui. From a distance, he saw many people in the main hall. The expressions of those who were talking were very agitated. Xu Rui’s eldest uncle and the head butler were trying to appease them.
Translated by The Red Oak Tree
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At this time Xu Rui walked over, pulled open the door, got into the car and sat next to Chi Yan.
As the car drove forward, Chi Yan pointed at the main hall and asked, “What’s the situation?”
Xu Rui answered, “It is one of the Taoist masters who came to participate in the praying ceremony. Their clan leader’s surname is Ma and he had a son who was almost twenty years old, called Ma Tian. He had also participated in the ceremony this year. But Ma Tian suddenly disappeared a few days ago. The Ma clan leader urged the Xu family to accompany them to find his son every day. You say…his son is also an adult and there is nothing to play on this mountain. Maybe he had run elsewhere to play. It’s no point if they keep forcing my eldest uncle and his men if they can’t find him. Now my dad is also being asked by my grandfather every day to go help out. Luckily they haven’t asked me to help out yet.”
These days, they were performing the heavenly praying ceremony, and Chi Yuan Shan fainted at the banquet and then died suddenly. The Xu family was indeed very busy. Every family had their own problems and difficulties, so Chi Yan comforted and patted Xu Rui on his shoulder.
The atmosphere in Chi’s family was a bit solemn and the house was filled with a rotten and cold air. The mourning hall of Chi Yuan Shan was still on display. However, there were fewer people who came to pay respect and mourn than yesterday. Chi Yan and Xu Rui went in to pay respect and told the butler that he wanted to see Chi Rong and chat with him about his father.
He was also the biological son of Chi Yuan Shan and was undisputedly the eldest grandson born in wedlock. Even if he had left the family and Chi Yuan Shan had died, his request was normal and reasonable.
Translated by The Red Oak Tree
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The butler was the one who led him in that night before to see Chi Yuan Shan before he passed away and later helped deal with Chi Yuan Shan’s funeral. In Chi Yan’s impression, he had worked for Chi Yuan Shan and was loyal to Chi Rong, but was cold and indifferent towards himself. Therefore, Chi Yan treated him politely and in a business-like manner, asking him to help him pass a message to Chi Rong. If Chi Rong was seriously ill and had difficulty getting out of bed, then he could go directly to Chi Rong.
Chi Yan didn’t believe that Chi Rong would suddenly be “stricken with grief” over his father’s death and became “seriously ill in bed”. He had no reaction to Chi Yuan Shan’s death that night and looked energetic, how could he suddenly become ill.
The butler looked at him and Xu Rui, and respectfully led them to the side hall. Then he spoke to Xu Rui respectfully, “Can Young Master Xu leave us alone for a while?”
Chi Yan said to him, “Xu Rui is a very close friend of mine. You can just speak up.” But the butler looked distressed.
When Xu Rui saw this, he stood up, walked out and waved to Chi Yan, “Okay, I’ll go out first to get some air. If they dare to do something mean to you, I will report it to your third ge ge.”
After he walked out, the butler suddenly knelt on the ground and cried, “Eldest Young Master, the Second Young Master is gone already.”
