Have You Met My Brother?[Comprehensive Martial Arts + Sword Three] Chapter 37

Chapter 37 A Dare to Believe The Goose Bugui: (Slip away.jpg…

“Really? Really?”

Bairenyu, who was deliberately left outside the dormitory, and the parrot raised by his senior sister didn’t know what they were talking about. After muttering in a low voice in bird language, Xiaoyu suddenly started talking in human language, and his voice was so loud that several nearby households could hear it.

However, Yan Bugui had no time to pay attention to the conversation between the parrots at this time. After hearing the senior sister’s rhetorical question, he was stunned for a moment, and denied Sanlian on the spot – he first said that he was talking about a pair of sisters, not brothers, and then replied that they were indeed not biologically related. The eldest sister was the younger sister who was adopted since she was a child. She was very different in age. She said she was a sister, but she also felt like an eldest sister and a mother.

After Yan Bugui repeatedly assured that there was no blood relationship between the two, the senior sister’s expression was calm and natural, and she made a serious suggestion: “If you want to know what kind of relationship you have, just test it out…”

Having said this, the Daozong senior sister who was once “well-read” in a sense paused, as if she was organizing her words, and continued after a moment:

“First of all, since you and your brother have been dependent on each other since childhood, and he has brought you up as both a father and a brother, you must first distinguish whether you have mistaken your desire for father’s love for a relationship between a man and a woman. Secondly, you must think about whether the long time together has made you so familiar with the other person that you have a temporary impulse, or whether you are really interested in your brother.”

The senior sister looked very serious when she said this, as if she was facing a serious topic. She even dug out a thick book with an unknown cover in her bookcase and read and understood the content:

“Family affection and love are different. One of the quickest ways to identify it is to kiss – lip to lip. If it is affection, there will be no special feeling, and you may even feel that something is strange. But if it is love, there will be a tingling feeling like an electric shock, and the heart will beat faster with nervousness, and at the same time it will feel sweet – this is what the book says.”

Yan Bugui nodded thoughtfully while listening. He first corrected him again that he was asking for a female friend and that he was not the protagonist of this incident. Then he expressed his gratitude in a good voice. Finally, when the senior sister concluded that “I have a friend who is ‘me'”, he left in embarrassment. While the sky was still bright, he quietly took a boat and ran back to Penglai.

In other words, ever since he decided to send Yan Bugui to Wengzhou to learn martial arts under his master, Xie Donghai personally hung a necklace around Xiao Yan’s neck on the day he officially left home. The chain was made of unknown silk thread and was very flexible. Even though the swordsman had hung it around his neck all year round in the past few years, whether practicing martial arts or bathing, and never left his body at any time, there was still no sign of wear and tear.

What the chain passes through and is fixed is a “jade piece” the size of a baby’s fist. Its shape is a bit like a fish scale, but it can reflect unparalleled brilliance; its thickness is about the same as the shell of an old clam, its hardness is as strong as diamond, but its weight is very light, like a leaf; its texture is like jade, iron, and bone and stone… Xie Donghai calls it a “token” for entering and leaving Penglai.

Yan Bugui didn’t ask why his token looked different from other people’s tokens. His focus was on another: “If I accidentally lose it, will I not be able to get it back?” Xie Donghai replied with a very calm “yes”, making the swordsman determined to protect the “token”.

What’s more, what’s amazing is that when he wears the “token”, whether he is on someone else’s big boat or floating on a small boat, the road will be calm and smooth; even on the way back to Penglai, the ocean current will “send” him to the island without even having to identify the direction – so he borrowed a awning boat and dared to enter the sea by himself.

By the time the wild geese drifted all the way to Penglai, it was already completely dark.Because he came back with a “mission” this time, he was very careful not to disturb others – he even left Xiaoyu on the boat and went straight to the mansion where he and Xie Donghai had lived for many years.He carefully waited until the candles in Xie Donghai’s room went out for a while before sneaking into his brother Xie’s bedroom.

Xie Donghai’s habit of never locking the door undoubtedly made it easier for the ill-intentioned Yan Bugui. The young swordsman tiptoed without making any unnecessary noise. Not long after, he came to the bedside holding a bright night pearl – Xie Donghai’s eyes were closed tightly and his breathing was long, as if he had fallen into a deep sleep.

Yan Bugui, whose heart was pounding, did not dare to waste too much time. He was worried that staring at people would cause Xie Donghai’s reaction. So Xiao Yan, who was very active, held his breath, pursed his dry lips, and pointed at his brother Xie’s two light-colored lips, and gently dropped them like a feather——

He couldn’t describe how that brief moment of contact made him feel.Because as soon as he realized that they really bumped into each other, he immediately exited the room in eight steps. At the same time, he didn’t forget to close the door again, pretending that nothing happened, and got on his awning boat all the way, letting Xiaoyu act as Simon to correct the direction, and returned to Daozong overnight.

On a new day, Yan Bugui once again found the senior sister during the break and seriously reported his progress: “The first step has been completed. My friend tried it. At that time, he was too hasty and nervous, and his mind went blank. Thinking about it afterwards, I only remember that my lips were soft and it felt very exciting – I want to do it again.”

The senior sister listened very seriously. She once again took out her thick book in front of Yan Bugui and flipped through several pages. After a while, she raised her head and replied:

“In this case, we can move on to the second step – try to separate from your brother for a longer period of time and calm down. During this period, remember to pay attention to every thought you have, to see if your longing is lovesickness or family longing, and at the same time determine whether you have to have him, or because the most familiar person around you is just like this, so you dreamed of him. In fact, there is no extra emotion.”

One of the two dared to say it, and the other dared to believe it. Yan Bugui immediately nodded solemnly, and then spent a day writing a hundred letters. He asked his senior sister to help her send a letter to Penglai at the frequency of one letter per month. He himself boarded the ship of Lang Sangui, the master of the wandering sword, and set foot on the Central Plains…

Returning to the strange room where he woke up from his sleep, Yan Bugui’s mind gradually broke away from the memories of two years ago. The young swordsman did not dare to look directly into Xie Donghai’s abyss-like eyes in front of him. His voice was like clouds floating in the sky, and he asked inaudibly: “Brother… you didn’t fall asleep that night?”

Xie Donghai’s fingertips rubbed the pitiful Xiaoyan’s lips from side to side again, and he seemed to casually say a fact that made the swordsman’s pupils tremble:

“I knew about you as soon as you arrived in Penglai that day, and I was still wondering why you had been hiding in the corner of the yard but didn’t come to see me. So I just pretended to be asleep and saw what you were doing again – I didn’t expect that you just wanted to touch me, and then you slipped back to Daozong.”

As he spoke, Xie Donghai withdrew his hand from Yan Bugui’s face, and the fingertips that had touched the swordsman’s lips pressed against his own lips. The little goose’s eyes widened again, and his heartbeat seemed to skip a beat. However, Brother Xie who heard him then asked:

“So you’re not going to give me an explanation? Why did you go all the way back to Penglai from Wengzhou, and then suddenly go back to Dao Zong, and then without a word of explanation, you ran to the Central Plains without telling me? If you really want to go to the Central Plains to practice, I will definitely not agree… What is the reason for all this?”

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“Damn that stinking big eagle, you eat alone without taking me with you! Damn it! Damn it!”

In Bai Renyu’s energetic broken gong voice, Yan Bugui, who was sleeping in the tent, slowly opened his eyes. The next moment, the swordsman woke up completely from his sleep that contained memories of the past.Outside, two birds, one large and one small, were chirping non-stop. Even though he couldn’t understand the bird language, he could hear Xue Ling’s perfunctory tone and Bai Renyu’s annoyance from the speed and intonation of the voices.

As the master, Yan Bugui slowly combed his hair again, smoothed out the folds of his clothes a little, then took the horizontal knife at hand and walked out of the tent.As soon as the little parrot saw him, he immediately flew over and started making a small report skillfully: “Look, look – it’s this Xue Ling. She came back after having a full meal early in the morning, and she didn’t even bring us a piece!”

Yan Bugui grabbed Xiao Yu with one hand and touched its feathers, and then said leisurely: “Can you eat what Xue Ling can eat? Be good, do it yourself, and you will have enough food and clothing.”

Bai Renyu was silent for a moment, but still refused to give up the cricket sea eagle: “But you can eat what it can eat! It turns out that it not only looks down on me, but also looks down on you. Can you really bear it?”

The swordsman turned a deaf ear to the little parrot’s words. He took out a bag of melon seeds from his pouch and fed it to Bai Renyu. He plugged its mouth and put the tent away: “Before you were away, I met a local warrior and wanted to ask him to be a guide. We had agreed on a time yesterday. We will go together to see if he agrees – Xiaoyu, remember not to talk nonsense when the time comes.”

Bai Renyu was munching on melon seeds. At this time, he nodded his little head randomly and replied two sentences in succession, “I know.”As for Xue Ling, Yan Bugui just touched its wings, and it understood and flew high into the sky, hiding in the clouds and protecting its little master.

After practicing the sword and eating breakfast, Yan Bugui arrived at the appointed city gate on time with Bai Renyu standing on his shoulders. Bai Youjin, dressed in white, was outside the city gate looking at the blue sky with his hands behind his hands.Sensing the swordsman’s gaze, he immediately turned around. Even if he found that the swordsman was coming from the suburbs instead of walking out of the city, he was unmoved. He just paused for a moment on the extra parrot.

Yan Bugui stepped forward with his usual expression and clasped his fists: “Mr. Lao Bai, I have been waiting for a long time. What is your final decision?”

Bai Youjin still didn’t answer immediately, but asked curiously and casually: “Young Master Yan bought a parrot after not seeing you all night?”

Yan Bugui touched Xiaoyu, who was treading on his shoulder and obviously had something to say, and reluctantly comforted him. He replied: “I raised Xiaoyu since I was a child, but I didn’t take it into the city. After all, it would be more comfortable if I left it in the forest. Now that I have to leave, I called it back.”

Bai Youjin nodded vaguely, as if he was not very interested in this. This time he finally got to the point: “If Young Master Yan hasn’t changed his mind yet, we can prepare to set off.”

Does this mean you agreed?Yan Bugui blinked and glanced at the package Bai Youjin was carrying. Fortunately, he remembered to pack a bag for himself and take it with him, so it didn’t seem strange.

Although with the return of Xue Ling and Bai Renyu, he could stand tall and confidently say that he would never lose his way again, and he was not afraid of no one talking to him on the road, but he would not refuse to have a local traveling with him, so he immediately replied: “In this case, if Mr. Bai is ready, let’s start setting off now!”