Grafting

    Grafting

    “Brother, what exactly is wrong with you? Isn’t Boss Chen still abroad?”

    Lin Qichi’s heart sank.

    Wen Ren Shu continued, “Right, I’ve turned down the secretary’s requests, but Boss Chen suddenly went missing, so I can understand his desperate measures.”

    Lin Qichi’s pale lips parted, wanting to say something, but he didn’t know where to start. In the end, he still asked, “Where’s the family head?”

    “In the main hall. People from the Meng family have come, saying they want to discuss a tomb that appeared in the Meng family’s back mountain.”

    “What about Meng Yu?” Lin Qichi asked urgently. His wrist bone felt a burst of stinging pain, the result of insufficient blood supply after being still for so long and then suddenly exerting force.

    “Meng Yu?” The confusion in Wen Ren Shu’s eyes didn’t seem fake. He spoke words that chilled Lin Qichi’s heart, “Who is Meng Yu?”

    En Sihan was beside them, her lips moving slightly as if wanting to say something, but in the end, she said nothing.

    “Who is Meng Yu?”

    Lin Qichi was hallucinating again, hearing Chen Yan’s voice.

    There seemed to be something at his waist, stuck there, burning hot, making it hard to ignore.

    “What day is it?” Lin Qichi changed the question.

    Wen Ren Shu rushed to answer, “It’s been three days. The scrap yard suddenly collapsed that day. Luckily, Grandpa was passing by and saved us, but when we found you, you had already fainted. Grandpa said your soul was damaged and didn’t let us touch you.”

    “Was the lower-ranked formation broken?”

    Wen Ren Shu, “It was broken, it was broken. We pieced together that box. It had a diary written on it. En Sihan just finished reading it, and that male ghost dissipated.”

    Lin Qichi: “What about the other one?”

    Wen Ren Shu scratched his head, also confused about this: “It seems like…you completely scattered it?”

    “That talisman can only fixate him, and it was also his own power.”

    After Lin Qichi said that, both he and Wen Ren Shu’s expressions changed.

    A ghost scattered by his own power – a very high probability that it was not the main body, or rather, it was a replica mixed with other powers.

    En Sihan was absentmindedly wringing her sleeves. Lin Qichi could tell she had something to say and asked Wen Ren Shu to leave first to notify the family head.

    “Mr. Wen Ren, you…be careful.” In the end, En Sihan didn’t dare to say anything more, leaving behind a sentence before hurrying away.

    But it also made Lin Qichi understand that she remembered Meng Yu and knew Wen Ren Shu’s reaction.

    Was it because…she wasn’t from this world?

    “Who is Meng Yu?”

    Still Chen Yan’s voice, but it was impossible to tell where it was coming from.

    Lin Qichi pulled off the jade pendant from his waist. It had been scalding hot for a long time.

    As soon as the jade pendant was removed, the burning sensation disappeared. It felt like ordinary warm jade, smooth and cool.

    “Chen Yan?” Lin Qichi held the jade pendant up to eye level. The light from the window passed through the jade pendant, and it looked like there was a person inside.

    “Wow, crap! Brother Wen Ren!”

    Chen Yan’s voice was finally not a repeating machine.

    “You’re inside?” Lin Qichi looked at the thin jade pendant in disbelief. When he saw Chen Yan, he was more than just a living soul; he was a living, breathing person with a body and flesh.

    “You finally found me.”

    Lin Qichi carefully tried to identify the direction of the voice. It was faint and unclear where it was coming from. However, the gardenia jade pendant was flashing with faint light.

    He should have noticed it a long time ago.

    Meng Yu hid Chen Yan in layers of yin energy to prevent him from being discovered by those who would fill the gap, otherwise, a living person entering would inevitably turn into a walking corpse in the silkworm breeding slaughter.

    But how did he put Chen Yan into the jade pendant?

    More importantly, how was he going to get him out?

    In any case, this jade pendant was also a love token between him and Meng Yu. It was still awkward for a living person like Chen Yan to be inside.

    “Did Meng Yu say how to get you out?”

    “Meng Yu? Who is Meng Yu?”

    Chen Yan’s question made Lin Qichi’s heart drop even further.

    Why didn’t even he remember? What about the Meng family?

    “Oh, I remember now. A great immortal said that as long as Wen Ren Shu is present, I can come out.”

    “Great immortal?” Was it Meng Yu?

    “Yes, that great immortal said that he was an immortal and couldn’t stay in the mortal realm for long and had to go back, saying that as long as you wake up and Wen Ren Shu is present, I can leave.”

    Lin Qichi slowly rubbed the patterns on the jade pendant, the shape of the gardenia flower, which didn’t look special at all. There was no aura of any living creature.

    “Did that great immortal say anything else?”

    Chen Yan paused for a long time before continuing, “He said…beware of the person beside your pillow?”

    “Huh?”

    Lin Qichi didn’t think there was anything wrong with the person beside his pillow. Although he was hiding many secrets from him now, they were married after all, and they couldn’t just divorce. They would just have to make do.

    The premise was, to find the person, or his soul.

    “Uh, I don’t think Wen Ren Shu has any problems.”

    “What are you talking about?”

    One wave subsides, another rises.

    After Meng Yu went missing, Lin Qichi had a new discovery.

    His good brother was hooking up with his younger brother.

    But if the two of them really had that kind of relationship, he could use the grafting technique to get Chen Yan out of the jade pendant.

    However, how did Meng Yu know?

    Lin Qichi sincerely praised, “You two are really something!”

    “Cough, cough, accidents, accidents, all accidents.” Chen Yan’s voice became weaker and weaker.

    “Who started it?” Lin Qichi asked.

    “It should be me.” Chen Yan answered uncertainly.

    “So that time you blew me up, you were acting for real?” Lin Qichi suddenly understood, “Pretty sneaky.”

    Chen Yan did not deny, “I was planning to tell you.”

    “Alright.”

    Lin Qichi put the jade pendant into a small box and stopped asking.

    “Your body hasn’t recovered, don’t run around.” Chen Yan had an extra layer of protection and could actually see the outside situation.

    “I’ll get you out first.”

    The Wen Ren residence was laid out strictly according to the Five Elements and Eight Trigrams. It was difficult for ordinary people to get in and out. Lin Qichi carried the jade pendant, turning left and right, not afraid of him remembering the way.

    “Brother Wen Ren, where are we going now?” Although Chen Yan had never been to Lin Qichi’s residence, he had been to Wen Ren Shu’s a few times. The more he looked at the road, the more wrong it seemed.

    “How far have you two gone?” Lin Qichi inquired seemingly inadvertently, mischievously not planning to tell him directly.

    Lin Qichi’s tone was very light, making it difficult for people to be wary of him.

    “We’ve done…everything that should and shouldn’t be done.” Chen Yan said, finally relaxing a lot.

    Lin Qichi quickly stopped him, “Alright, alright, I won’t ask.”

    His own wife had just disappeared, and hearing Chen Yan becoming increasingly shy inevitably made him feel suffocated.

    Wen Ren Shu’s small courtyard was directly opposite Lin Qichi’s. On the way, he was suddenly stopped by the family head as he passed the main hall.

    The people from the Meng family were still there, and the discussion hadn’t yielded any results. The family head rarely involved him.

    Filled with doubts, Lin Qichi stepped into the main hall.

    “Family head.”

    The Wen Ren family head was already over sixty years old but still had a full head of black hair. His gaze was like a torch, his face youthful, just with a few more wrinkles.

    “Well, Xiao Yi ah, the Meng family’s back mountain suddenly has an unmarked tomb and they have come to borrow someone. What do you think?”

    The family head’s gaze swept over the jadeite box in Lin Qichi’s hand. He only smiled, took a sip of tea, and said nothing more, waiting for Lin Qichi’s reply.

    Lin Qichi didn’t think he could hide it from the Wen Ren family head. He could be so unbridled until now only because of the Wen Ren family’s ancestral teaching of not interfering in worldly affairs.

    Lin Qichi bowed again, respectfully saying, “Yi believes that the Meng family has come to ask for help from our Wen Ren family, but they are hiding things everywhere. It is not worth lending them someone.”

    Chen Yan, in the jade pendant space, was full of surprise at the way they interacted. Before long, his gaze was completely attracted by the utensils, furniture, furnishings, and layout in the main hall.

    Although the people of the Wen Ren family were all mystical, they had no shortage of rare treasures.

    There were even precious antiques that only appeared in related materials. Chen Yan’s gaze was fixed on the cup in the Wen Ren family head’s hand, looking at it in disbelief.

    The family head was satisfied with Lin Qichi’s words and took another sip of tea, hiding the corners of his mouth from rising. The lower-ranked Meng family members heard the family head’s words and guessed Lin Qichi’s identity. They could only dare to be angry but not dare to speak.

    The family head waved his hand, sending them away, which meant there was no room for discussion.

    The Meng family members could only leave dejectedly, not daring to say anything more.

    Although they didn’t know why the superiors wanted them to do this, they were indeed hiding something.

    They came to see the Wen Ren family head, but they only kept drinking tea. When Wen Ren Yi came, they only got the word “unworthy.”

    “Xiao Yi is going to the Meng family?”

    “Returning to the family head, yes.”

    “Why have you become more estranged after going out?”

    Lin Qichi twitched his lips, complaining in his heart: Who was the one who said to pay attention to addressing me recently?

    “Are you talking about me again?” The family head tilted his teacup, clearly guessing Lin Qichi’s private complaints.

    Lin Qichi cupped his hands to the family head, “Yi is taking his leave first. Grandpa, don’t skim off the foam anymore if your tea is cold.”

    The family head awkwardly stopped his actions, glanced at Lin Qichi, and ordered his subordinates to bring new tea.

    “Grandpa, Yi is leaving first.”

    “Go, go.” The family head helplessly waved his hand at him, still so fussy about some formalities.

    When Lin Qichi arrived at Wen Ren Shu’s small courtyard, he happened to see him sitting on the peach tree in front of the house, feeling sad and sentimental.

    He was slightly different from his usual self.

    Before entering the courtyard, Lin Qichi asked softly, “You weren’t seduced like this, were you?”

    “Not entirely.” Chen Yan knew what he wanted to ask, but he wasn’t sure himself, and he was too embarrassed to tell him directly.

    “Wen Ren Shu.” Lin Qichi tapped the peach tree trunk at the entrance, indicating.

    Wen Ren Shu turned around and, seeing it was Lin Qichi, hurriedly jumped down from the tree, “Brother, why are you here? And wearing so little.”

    Lin Qichi shook the box in his hand and said, “Chen Yan.”

    “Ah?”

    Lin Qichi got angry at his silly appearance. No wonder Chen Yan’s secretary gave him so many calls. It turned out they had been having an affair for a long time, but he was the only one who didn’t know.

    However, the person in the jade pendant still had to be released.

    Lin Qichi plucked a peach tree leaf, folded it into three parts from the center, and tore it open in sequence.

    In the jade pendant space, Chen Yan quietly picked up his phone. Wen Ren Shu was looking down at him, which was a rare view, from bottom to top to take pictures, then touch it up, ugly photo accomplished.

    Wen Ren Shu helped open the box, revealing the jade pendant inside, even more confused.

    When did his brother get this kind of jade pendant?

    Why did it look so familiar?

    Grafting was a very ancient technique. The original host had never learned it. Lin Qichi found it in the Wen Ren family’s library after he came.

    There was no technical content, and it was quickly completed.

    When Chen Yan came out, he still had a leaf on his head.

    Wen Ren Shu watched as a leaf in his hand turned into a living person after his brother’s tongue-twistering spell.

    Lin Qichi patted off the leaves that floated onto his body, put away the jade pendant, and turned to leave, not even wanting the box.

    He waved his sleeves, deeply concealing his merit and fame.

    Lin Qichi carefully cleaned the jade pendant several times and still wore it close to his body. During the day, it was fine, but once it got to night, he would start to feel chest tightness and shortness of breath.

    At first, Lin Qichi only thought it was due to his damaged soul.

    Until…

    When checking Chen Yan’s follow-up problems, he was euphemistically pointed out the kiss marks on his neck.

    Lin Qichi:?

    Lin Qichi decided to go all out, working late into the night to see who this flower thief in the moonlight was.

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