Chapter 15

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After that, everyone walked cautiously, but they were all in peace.

Gu Chenyan wanted to go find the agarwood fragrance alone, but considering that the mountain roads are slippery and it is too dangerous to be alone, she decided to go another day.

So she curiously followed Yin Yin and the others to see the legendary divine doctor Jia.

“Sir Wu,” Yin Yin and Sir Wu walked side by side at the top of the line. “I wonder what kind of person Doctor Jia is?”

Sir Wu’s eyebrows moved as if thinking and said, “He is eccentric and unsociable. He has no friends.”

“Oh.” Yin Yin looked at the lush trees ahead and nodded thoughtfully.

After walking for about an hour, they arrived at an ancient house. Behind the house is a verdant bamboo forest. There is also an abandoned well next to it. The croaking of frogs could be heard from the bottom of the well from time to time.

Several people followed Sir Wu into the house. There was a pool in the house with water lilies planted on it. Unfortunately, the season is wrong so the water lilies are not open yet.

On the long corridor across the lotus pond, several people stopped in front of a loft.

Yin Yin looked up at the plaque, on which was written with vigorous and powerful characters – Yinyue (Hidden Moon) Pavilion.

“Just a moment. I’ll go in and call for Doctor Jia.” Sir Wu said this with a blank expression, then pushed the door open and entered the house.

Yin Yin was thinking: I wonder if Divine Doctor Jia can cure facial paralysis?

After a while, the door was pushed open again, and Sir Wu came out. “It seems that you have come at a wrong time. Divine Doctor Jia is not there.”

“Not here?” Yin Yin looked sideways at Ling Long. Ling Long’s expression slightly constricted. “When will Divine Doctor Jia come back?”

“I don’t know.” Sir Wu said. “Every time he goes out to collect herbs, it would take him ten and a half days at most, or three to two days at least.”

Ling Long lowered his eyes, and there was a faint smile on the corner his lips.

Sir Wu considered it for a while and said to everyone, “Why don’t you take a rest inside first, and then make plans afterwards.”

“Alright.” Yin Yin was the first to respond. “I really can’t walk anymore.”

Everyone followed Yin Yin and walked into Yinyue Pavilion. The furnishings in the loft were very simple. In addition to some tables and chairs for entertaining guests, there was also a large desk filled with books.

There was a faint smell of medicine in the room. Yin Yin could not tell what medicine it was, but it was not pungent at all. On the contrary, it smelled good.

Sir Wu sat down at the desk on his own, without any intention of addressing anyone.

Yin Yin blinked, looked at the person reading at the table, and called out, “Sir Wu.”

Sir Wu looked up from the book. “What’s the matter?”

Yin Yin smiled at him and said, “When I went up the mountain just now, I asked Sir Wu what kind of person Divine Doctor Jia was. Sir Wu replied ‘He is eccentric and unsociable. He has no friends’. Since ‘He has no friends’, then who is Sir Wu?”

Sir Wu was stunned, and did not reply.

Yin Yin put away the smile on her face, looked at him and said, “There is no Sir Wu at all. You are Jia Qing. In fact, you have told us a long time ago that ‘Wu’ means ‘Nothing (Wu)’, that is, it does not exist. “

“What? Sir Wu is Divine Doctor Jia?!” Gu Chenyan seemed very surprised, and looked at Sir Wu sitting at the table.

But Sir Wu’s expression was still the same, without any trace of panic. “Just based on one word, Miss Yin came to this conclusion. Isn’t it too hasty?”

Yin Yin laughed twice and said, “Then, I would like to ask, where did Sir Wu, who had been living in seclusion on the mountain, learned of the news that Xue’er was about to be burned to death?”

Sir Wu was taken aback again. He frowned silently.

Yin Yin went on to say, “I think it must be from your master Jia Renyi? Of course, you can also say that Jia Renyi told Jia Qing, and in turn Jia Qing had told you about it. But later in Shigu Town, I casually picked Uncle Zhang’s house to ambush, and Jia Renyi actually appeared there. Isn’t that too coincidental?”

Sir Wu looked at Yin Yin and hooked the corners of his mouth. “If it is not a coincidence, what does Miss Yin think it is?”

“There is only one possibility.” Yin Yin said. “You told Jia Renyi in some way. But Jia Renyi is a recluse, and he ignores everyone except his disciple. Why should he care for you?”

“Maybe because I am Jia Qing’s friend?”

“Well, the question goes back to – does Jia Qing really have Sir Wu as a friend? Or, does Sir Wu really exist?”

Sir Wu lowered his head, and a few low, muffled laughs came from his throat. “Miss Yin, you seem to be very different from the rumors.”

“Oh?” Yin Yin was very curious. “What is the rumored me like?”

“Unruly and willful (刁蛮任性), insufferably arrogant (不可一世), stupid (蠢).”

Yin Yin: “……”

Shouldn’t it be all four characters? What happened to that ‘stupid’ word in the end?!

Ling Long nodded in agreement. “It’s true.”

Yin Yin: “……”

Is this rumor spread by you?

Sir Wu looked up, and there seemed to be a smile in his eyes. “Yes, I am Jia Qing. When did you begin to doubt me?”

“After learning that the so-called ‘ghost’ is Jia Renyi.” Yin Yin wasn’t angry at all.

Jia Qing looked at Ling Long and asked, “You came to me just to see my master, right?”

Ling Long replied, “That’s right.”

“What’s the matter?”

“I just have a few questions to ask Senior.”

Jia Qing was silent for a moment before saying, “I can take you to see my master, but I can’t guarantee whether he will answer you or not.”

“I have troubled you.”

All of a sudden, there was an abrupt and loud ‘bang’ that cuts through the sky.

A burst of green smoke rose up outside the house, drawing everyone’s attention.

Jia Qing frowned almost invisibly while staring at it. Ling Long calmly looked at the gradually dissipating smoke, and said to Jia Qing, “This is the contact signal of our Spider Web. There should be something urgent to report to me.”

“Spider Web?” Gu Chenyan’s face turned white in an instant. She looked at Ling Long and squeezed her fist lightly.

“Don’t worry, Miss Gu. I won’t reveal your whereabouts.” Ling Long took a few steps outside the house, took out a signal flare from his sleeves and lit it towards the sky.

There was another loud noise, a lavender smoke curled up, and the mountain regained its tranquility.

“Are you the leader of Spider Web?” Jia Qing’s dark pupils stared at the lavender colored smoke in the sky.

“En.” Ling Long answered coldly.

“So your last name is not Ye at all?”

The corner of Ling Long’s eyes twitched. “I have never been named Ye.”

He turned around and said to Jia Qing, “I wonder if I can borrow Yinyue Pavilion for a while?”

Jia Qing glanced at him coldly. “You should have asked me before sending the signal flare.”

“Pu-!” Yin Yin couldn’t help laughing. Followed by Ling long’s gaze, Yin Yin quickly covered her mouth. “I didn’t laugh!”

Ling Long: “……”

The others: “……”

Although Jia Qing was a little unwilling, he temporarily gave up Yinyue Pavilion for Ling Long to use.

The person who sent the signal to Ling Long came soon. She was a woman in a black corset, with her hair tied high behind her head, and a small dark brown spider tattooed on her left forehead.

Yin Yin’s eyelids jumped subconsciously. If she guessed correctly, this person is called Bai Wenwu, one of the top echelons of Spider Web – and a braindead fan of Ling Long.

Because of her ‘outstanding performance’ in <<All for Prosperity>>, Ling Long successfully aroused the resentment of everyone. So he embarked on a journey to find Jia Qing alone.

The people left behind include Yin Yin and Du Qianqian, as well as Bai Wenwu herself.

As a braindead fan, Bai Wenwu keenly sensed the ambiguous little spark between Ling Long and Du Qianqian, so she performed a bitter meat drama (a trick of injuring one’s own self) of taking poison and committing suicide.

This scene successfully extinguished the small sparks between Ling Long and Du Qianqian that even Bai Wenwu herself was drenched from head to foot.

Naturally, Yin Yin, a high profile onlooker who was fanning the fire, was also shot.

Thinking of this, Yin Yin couldn’t help her mouth from twitching. I thought finding Jia Qing ahead of time would at least delay Bai Wenwu’s part, but I didn’t expect that she would show up here in a spirited manner.

If she plays suicide again this time, this old man will help her die!

Du Qianqian seemed to recognize Bai Wenwu as well. She looked at Bai Wenwu, her brows squeezed together.

Bai Wenwu’s eyes lit up the moment she saw Ling Long. “Leader, I finally found you!”

Gu Chenyan spontaneously stood up and walked outside the house, but was stopped when she passed by Bai Wenwu’s side.

Bai Wenwu looked at Gu Chenyan a few times and asked, “Miss is Gu Chenyan, Miss Gu?”

Gu Chenyan subconsciously frowned. Just when she wanted to deny it, she heard Yin Yin’s voice from behind, “No, she’s Zhao Feiyan, Miss Zhao.” (the second empress of Western Han Dynasty known for her peerless beauty; often used as a metaphor for a light and thin beauty)

Gu Chenyan: “……”

“Zhao Feiyan?” The doubt in Bai Wenwu’s eyes flashed, and then she sneered at Yin Yin. “I have never heard of this person.”

Yin Yin, unwilling to be outdone, raised her eyebrows and said with disdain, “There are so many people you haven’t heard of. Have you ever heard of Einstein? How about Holmes, heard you ever heard of him? This only proves that you are ignorant.”

“I am ignorant?” Bai Wenwu seemed to have heard the funniest joke in the world. “Miss Yin, what do you think Spider Web depends on for its food? Are you looking down on Spider Web?”

Yin Yin shook her head and said, “I just look down on you.”

Bai Wenwu: “……”

Gu Chenyan glanced at Yin Yin gratefully, and followed Jia Qing out of Yinyue Pavilion.

Du Qianqian glanced at Bai Wenwu from the corner of her eye, and followed out the door.

Yin Yin wanted to stay and listen to the gossip, but seeing that all the people had left, she was embarrassed to stay alone. She was hesitating in the same place when she heard Ling Long say to Bai Wenwu, “Why are you in a such hurry to find me?”

Yin Yin was delighted. It means I don’t have to go? Oh yeah!

Bai Wenwu frowned and stared at Yin Yin.

Yin Yin immediately gave her a harmless smile.

Bai Wenwu’s brows furrowed tighter. Why is this woman’s face so thick?

Sang Ze pulled Yin Yin’s sleeve. “Master, let’s sit down and listen.”

Bai Wenwu: “……”

This kind of face, sure enough, one person is thicker than the other.

Outside Yinyue Pavilion, Du Qianqian, who was walking at the end, secretly turned back after taking a few steps.

She listened to the movement inside the room with bated breath, but was scared by Jia Qing’s sudden voice and almost screamed out.

“If you want to eavesdrop, follow me to the next room.”

Du Qianqian: “……”

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