Chapter 229 – Crushing your dog’s head

“Tell your Excellency that I have gone to pursue my ‘Dao’, originally I thought that was him, after this battle I realized that only the sword is my lifelong pursuit. I apologize for not being able to pay my respects in person, and I hope he will bear with me.

“- The original words I conveyed word for word.” Shen Qi said.

There was silence in the living room.

Whether it was true or not, Shen Qi’s words alone were not good enough to judge. If it is true, someone is doing death; if it is false, someone is about to have bad luck …… King Yu raised an eyebrow, revealing a smile with a meaning between gloating and watching from the wall.

Su Yan’s hand holding the tea cup froze in front of her chest, and her pair of phoenix eyes widened in shock as she looked at Shen Qi: “Seventh Lang, are you kidding?”

Shen Qi replied expressionlessly, “Take him? Not interested.”

Su Yan shook his head incredulously, ”This is impossible! Ah Chui wouldn’t just walk away, not to mention the fact that he’s with me …… right now is the critical moment to bring down the Wei family with the Seven Killing Camp and the Vacuum Sect, he has not yet avenged his great revenge, how could he just walk away without any consideration to pursue what ‘Sword Dao’? “

“That is true. He’s gone, gone so dry he doesn’t even want the sword.”

Su Yan turned his gaze to the longsword on the table: it was well-maintained, as it had been when it was first purchased, and one could only see the traces of being held and rubbed from time to time in the pulp-like translucent luster of the spiral hilt.

He remembered well the look on Chui’s face when he received the sword-

“Let’s call this sword ‘Oath’, it’s very appropriate.” Jing Hongchou gripped the hilt of the sword in his hand, raised his eyes to look at him, and said solemnly as if making an oath, “The name of the sword is like the heart of the sword. If I violate this heart, the sword path will not work, and I will never use the sword again for the rest of my life.”

“‘The name of the sword is like the heart of the sword’, the words still ringing in my ears …… Ah Chou is a person whose heart is so resolute that he is almost dead center, I don’t believe that he will go back on his word.” Su Yan muttered, “There must be something else going on with this.”

However, the one who witnessed everything with his own eyes was Qilang. If he said that there was something else going on, isn’t he suspecting Shen Qi? Su Yan’s heart was in turmoil for a while, neither believed that Shen Qi, who was deeply attached to him, would deceive him, nor did he believe that Ah Chui, who was attached to him in life and death, would leave without saying goodbye.

Sure enough, as soon as these words were uttered, Shen Qi’s face changed.

King Yu “aptly” picked up Su Yan’s words: “Is this …… the helm was cut, or the sails were burned?”

At this moment, Su Yan’s brain is messy and dull pain, it took a few seconds to react, King Yu is implying that Shen Qi and Jing Hongchou failed his previous trust, and instead of being in the same boat in the face of a great enemy, they also (suspected to be) infighting leading to the departure of one of the parties?

Shen Qi also heard that it wasn’t good words, but didn’t speak out to explain, and only let out a slight, chilling cold laugh towards King Yu.

Su Yan laughed out a trace of guilt – if this really has nothing to do with Qi Lang, he will be sad when he hears me say this, right?

–But the battle that Ah Chui fought with the camp master and the piper before he left, only Shen Qi and his men were the ones who knew about it, so what he told me is 100% the truth?

Su Yan headache, heartache, empty too long stomach also hurt, and there is an indescribable sadness and annoyance wrapped in this pain, stirring him not to live in peace.

Su Xiaojing who has been watching for a long time poked half a head in from outside the door, probably affected by the heavy atmosphere in the living room, and less of that big grin in his voice: “My lord, dinner is …… ready or not, eat your fill before you talk about things?”

Su Yan put the teacup in his hand towards the desktop: “You guys eat first, I don’t have much of an appetite, let’s talk about it later. Xiao Jing, take good care of the king and Lord Shen.” Saying this, he left the parlor with large strides.

Shen Qi and King Yu saw Su Yan’s low mood and abnormal behavior, how to rest assured that he would be left alone, immediately got up and chased after him.

Two people chased to the east side of the room, see Su Yan entered the room Jing Hong chase, backhand “bang” lock the door.

Shen Qi hesitated slightly and knocked on the door a few times. No one opened the door, he sighed silently and advised, “People have their own aspirations, can not be forced. That grass …… Jing Hong chasing to go let him go, Qinghe, look away.”

There was still no response from the door.

King Yu also stepped forward and said, “Why don’t you come out for a meal first? How can you starve yourself from the fourth night until now.”

After a long time, Su Yan’s slightly tired voice came out from the room, “I know. You guys let me have some quiet time to clear my head, okay?”

The two people who had both eaten the closed door glanced at each other with reluctance and helplessness.

King Yu whispered, “Can’t you press this matter first, or just say that Jing Hongchou will hide for a few days in order to avoid the wind for the time being? The impeachment of the Wei family has not yet been completed, and once Jing Hongchou leaves so irresponsibly, what if Qinghe suffers an emotional blow that affects his performance at tomorrow’s court meeting.”

“I wanted to hide it for a while, but who knows it was so unfortunate that it hit me at both ends.” Shen Qi stared at the closed door of the room, her gaze like a knife trying to pry open the doorway, “Qinghe can prioritize things. But it’s just a guard that’s gone, Qinghe may be uncomfortable, annoyed, and even have so much sadness, but he’s a person who is both smart and practiced, and I believe that it won’t take him long to figure out the reasoning of the fates being over and the water being over.”

The smart and practiced Su Qinghe in his mouth was in Jing Hongchou’s room at this time, holding a bellyful of aggression and fire to search in all directions.

Last time he left without saying goodbye, at least he left a handwritten letter, this time he just entrusted Shen Qi to relay two sentences – not even fucking human words – what kind of thing is that! Damn Jing Hong chasing, this better be a joke of a jerk, or when you come back, your head will be twisted off!

Su Yan huffed and puffed and searched for a long time, not finding anything unusual or left behind. Jing Hongchu’s room was just like him, hard, neat, and sharp, without any fancy and superfluous decorations, the only thing that remained was a gourd of wine in the bedside cabinet.

Picking up the wine gourd, Su Yan sat on the edge of the bed deflatedly, pulled off the lid and poured a mouthful.

The mouthfeel is silky and strong, but with a bit of a sour tail – it’s a home-brewed red currant.

He suddenly recalled that on his birthday on the seventh day of the sixth month last year, Jing Hongchou stopped in front of himself carrying such a gourd of wine, his cold and resolute face vaguely tense and expectant, as if he was about to turn around and flee in the next moment, but in the end, he still handed the gourd over and said in a low voice, “I wish your lordship good health and a long and blessed life.”

“…… Stretching a fart, it is still not said to be broken, said to go.” Su Yan muttered, pouring wine into his mouth one mouthful after another, drinking in a hurry and woefully, spilling wine all over his lapel, “I don’t care what reasons or hardships you have, to walk away like this is failing me! You don’t believe that I can solve my problems, you don’t believe that I can accept change, and you don’t believe in my choices when faced with trade-offs, you just want to take the blame for your own fucking problems.

“Son of a bitch! I thought at least there was you to be more obedient and save people’s asses, but what happened? There’s one or the other, all of them are bastards ……”

Su Yan card muttered curses, the gourd of wine as Jing Hong chased himself like viciously swallowed, cheeks and neck soon floated a large reddish color.

Outside the door of the room, Shen Qi and King Yu felt more and more panic in their hearts. Suddenly, they heard a “thud” inside the room, like the sound of something hard hitting the floor, and King Yu couldn’t help himself: “No, this king wants to go in and take a look.”

Shen Qi spat out his palm energy as he spoke, shattering the bolt and pushing the door directly in.

The two of them turned the screen, and at a glance they saw Su Yan sitting on the edge of the bed with his head hanging down, a wet empty gourd lying on the floor, and the room was full of steaming wine.

Drinking so much wine on an empty stomach? Shen Qi and King Yu rushed forward to check Su Yan’s condition. To say that Su Yan’s usual drinking capacity is not bad, not very strong wine, if you drink slowly, two or three pounds is not a problem, but at the moment, he is drinking urgent wine, boring wine, it is especially easy to get a headache.

King Yu lifted Su Yan’s jaw, and saw that his face was flushed and his eyes were lost, at least seven or eight points of drunkenness.

“Borrowing wine to pour out sorrows.” The thousand cups of Yu Wang sighed half sourly, half emotionally, “It is quite good to get …… drunk.”

“Good shit, mulled wine hurts the body.” Shen Qi touched Su Yan’s hot forehead and palm, frowned and said, “I’ll go find a boy to make sobering soup.”

He was just about to turn around when Su Yan clutched his wrist. “First, don’t go …… first,” Su Yan pleaded.

Shen Qi, in King Yu’s sour eyes, covered the back of Su Yan’s hand with her other hand and said in a warm voice, “I’m not leaving, I’ll stay here with you, let him go get the sobering soup.”

There were only three people in the room, and the excluded “he” of course referred to King Yu.

Before King Yu had time to counterattack, he only saw Su Yan draw back his hand, and while gesturing a persona in the air in a haphazard manner, he said with a big tongue, “No need to …… accompany …… me I just want to ask, ask, have you seen my family’s concubines …… I put there …… so big a concubine?”

Shen Qi: “……”

King Yu: “……”

“How did you lose it? Which one of you, which one of you saw it? Did you hide it? Give it back to me! Damn it, I knew you guys were up to no good ……”

King Yu looked around and saw a pot of cold tea on the tabletop, lifted the lid and tried to splash him.

Shen Qi stopped him with a hand, “He’s drunk! Drunken words don’t count.”

“Spitting out the truth after drinking.” King Yu resentfully grinds his teeth, “He only remembers the ‘concubine’ that’s gone in his heart, and he turns a blind eye to the living person standing in front of him, and even hits him upside down!”

Shen Qi’s heart was not in a good mood, and he said with a cold face, “Whether it’s a person or a thing, after it’s gone, you will remember his benefits, isn’t that human nature?”

“So you’re going to let him read like that for the rest of his life?” King Yu scoffed.

“Can’t read for a lifetime.” Shen Qi used his sleeve to wipe away the wine stains on Su Yan’s hair, his tone was low and calm, and from the calmness seeped out a trace of coldness with the flavor of blood, “It’s just like a flabby organism on the skin, wait for the right time to cut it off with a knife, maybe he’ll be in pain for a while, but with me by his side, the wounds will heal in the end.”

King Yu pondered Shen Qi’s words, not only sniffing out the blood, but also a kind of sinister paranoid morbidity, more and more feel that this person is not a good thing.

Su Yan initiated a drunken madness. His way of going crazy is quite special, neither the martial arts madness of provoking trouble, nor the literary madness of chattering, he is crazy especially into the theater.

“Emily is a beautiful woman, but why is she a thief?” He tugged on Shen Qi’s sleeve and asked with an air of vigor.

Shen Qi was stunned and pacified him, “I’m not a thief, I’m Qilang. You’re drunk, get a good night’s sleep and you’ll be fine.”

Su Yan slapped away the other party’s hand that tried to pick him up, “The line is wrong! You have to answer ‘Achievement is a king, defeat is a thief’.”

Shen Qi was helpless: “Achievement is a king, defeat is a thief.”

Su Yan revealed a look of awe, “A thief is a thief!”

Shen Qi: “……”

King Yu couldn’t help himself.

Suyan: “Please.”

Shen Qi: “…… please?”

Suyan: “That’s the right line. Pick up, pick up.”

Catch what? Who knows what’s going on in a drunken man’s head? Forced to do nothing, Shen Qi stared at the back of Su Yan’s neck, calculating whether pointing at his sleeping point could end this unknowable scene.

King Yu held the mindset of watching a good show as he pulled Su Yan to his side: “Yes, proceed, let him continue.”

Su Yan glared at Shen Qi: “Keep talking!”

Shen Qi sighed deeply, “Say what?”

Su Yan was very dissatisfied: “Have you done your homework or not? You always fail to memorize just a few lines! You have to say to me, ‘With Your Majesty’s insight and composure, there are few people in the martial arts world who can match it, and if Your Majesty enters the jianghu, he will definitely be ranked among the top ten masters’.”

King Yu turned his head to look at the “His Majesty” who was barely standing on his own arm, and his heart flashed with shock: I didn’t expect him to harbor such ambitions …… Also, who in the world doesn’t want to hold the power and reign over the world?

Shen Qi was also a bit baffled. Su Yan hiccuped and waved his hand, “Forget it, see you are still a newcomer, director I reluctantly give you to talk about the drama …… words that there is a sword god.”

“Sword …… gods?” King Yu raised an eyebrow – why did you bring up gods again?

“Yes, the God of Swords. ‘God’ refers to his realm in the Way of the Sword, it has nothing to do with, with the Gods …… Don’t interrupt me, let me finish. You’re so annoying!”

“Fine, fine, you say.” King Yu smiled bitterly and helped him sit on the round stool next to the table.

Shen Qi narrowed his eyes and looked at Su Yan thoughtfully.

Su Yan’s mesmerizing gaze seemed to penetrate through this era and projected into another subtle world: “The Sword God is of a solitary character, the ice and snow of the distant mountains, the shooting star of the winter night. The sword is not a weapon to him, but the ‘Dao’ to which he has dedicated his life. The successes and failures of the world and the fame and fortune of the world are not worthy of him, and the peak that can be glimpsed in that moment when the swords are dueling is the eternity.”

The Sword God treated the Way of the Sword as a belief, which was why he was able to achieve that kind of realm. Shen Qi glanced at the Embroidered Spring Sword at his waist. The sword was just a sword, a killing weapon, not a “Dao”, at least not to him.

–Is there something in this world for which the obsession and love can surpass everything and even one’s own life? King Yu asked himself. The age-old scars on his chest that had long since healed flared up with numbness and itchiness, with a vague stabbing pain.

“The Sword God has gone through grueling workouts unimaginable to ordinary people, yet he still owes some distance from the peak he wants to reach, and no matter how hard he tries, that one step of distance can never be stepped over.”

“…… What should he do then?” King Yu asked in a deep voice.

Su Yan had a “young man, you’re very progressive” expression on his face and patted his shoulder, “Good question. This question, even the Sword God himself did not know, otherwise he would have reached his peak long ago. Until one day, he met the woman of his destiny.

“He suddenly had an epiphany – his sword was cold, was this the bottleneck that prevented him from asking? So snow drifted down from the mountain tops to the ground, God descended from the clouds to the earthly world, he fell in love with that woman, got married, had children, gradually became a person with fire and smoke, and his sword took on a temperature. For the sake of the person he wanted to protect, his sword became faster, sharper, and stronger – he used ‘Into Love’ to break through that bottleneck.”

King Yu smiled slightly, “Isn’t that great?”

Instead, Shen Qi revealed an unimpressed look, “If he truly pursues the Way of the Sword, he will never stop. All the temporary stays are just to go farther.”

“Young man, you are excellent! A deep appreciation of the role!” Su Yan slapped his thigh hard – too hard and grimaced in pain, but it didn’t stop the drunken, dedicated director from continuing to talk about the scene, “One day, the Sword God received a challenge from another Sword Immortal. The two men have different understandings of the Way of the Sword, and it’s a battle of betting their lives and even their faith.

“Although this amazing battle could not be accomplished due to conspiracy, the God of Swords realized that something was wrong with him – he couldn’t let go of his pregnant wife and worried that there would be no one to take care of his wife and children after he died in the battle, and this worry became a heavy yoke that bound him to the sword.

“The ‘Entering Love’ that brought him through the bottleneck has now become another, bigger bottleneck, pushing him further and further towards the sword path he seeks ……”

King Yu empathetically pursued, “And then? How did he choose between ‘sword’ and ‘love’?”

“You guess?” Su Yan grinned at him.

“Maybe go with ‘love’? After all, the gods can’t escape from love.”

Shen Qi, however, shook his head, “He will choose ‘sword’, although this is a difficult choice, the essence engraved in one’s bones will not change.”

Su Yan hiccuped as he laughed maniacally, ”All guessed wrong hahahahaha …… The reason why the Sword God became a Sword God is naturally a realm that is difficult for mortals such as myself to reach! There is no inner warring, no difficult choices, he naturally comprehended ‘out of love’! So he left his wife and children, returned to the realm of the Sword God and reached the peak of his sword skills. From then on, there was no one to fight in the world, he endured and enjoyed the loneliness, and his sword Dao was greatly accomplished.

“This ‘love’ thing, from the natural having of it, to the natural not having of it, to the final achievement of the ‘Tao’, is just a fucking most ghostly prop under the heavens – -You guys say is not it?” Su Yan laughed so hard that tears flowed out of his eyes.

Shen Qi and King Yu seemed to realize something, looking at him fixedly without saying anything, their gazes surging with intolerance, heartache, sourness, chagrin and more complex and indistinguishable emotions.

Su Yan laughed enough, with the sleeve wiped his face, and began to curse incoherently: “Bullshit, take him and the sword god than, simply lift up the sky …… mom did not have this life, get this disease, that is to say that you this son of a bitch …… ask the fart of the road. The first ask yourself whether the next meal has no landing, where to sleep at night and then say!”

Snapping his head up again, he drank at Shen Qi: “Where is the sword? Bring it over! If you don’t want it, then don’t want it, but what the hell, just smash it!”

Without saying a word, Shen Qi got up to get his sword to smash it.

Su Yan recoiled, gripping the hem of Shen Qi’s coat: ”Three hundred gold! One thousand five hundred taels of silver! When converted into RMB, rounded up to one million dollars, he doesn’t care about it, I’m heartbroken! Don’t smash it, it’s for you-” he turned his head and looked at King Yu again, thinking that this benevolent brother is also quite eye-catching, “And you, you two share it equally.”

“Thank Your Majesty for the reward.” King Yu hooked up the corner of his mouth at the murderous aura cast by Shen Qi, and while using his sleeve to wipe clean the tearstains on Su Yan’s face, he took out the patience to coax that he did not have even with his little worldly son, “Well, the play is over, and His Majesty is tired, so the micro-minister serves you to go to bed.”

Su Yan: “I don’t want people to serve …… to sleep I won’t sleep myself?”

As he said, he climbed towards Jing Hong chasing the bed with his hat and shoes, and was dragged out by Shen Qi who immediately buckled his waist, his crown and hat fell off, and his hairpin didn’t keep, and a head of green silk cascaded down like a waterfall. Shen Qi picked him up horizontally, “We don’t sleep in other people’s beds, we want to sleep back in our own room.”

Su Yan wailed: “Turned the sky! I am the master of the house, all the beds in the house are mine, I love to sleep in which one! You all get lost.”

King Yu looked at him angry cheeks more and more flushed, misty eyes containing water mist, all body exudes a sweet aroma of wine, really delicious, could not help but say, “Good, as you sleep which one, I will warm the bed for you first?”

The word “bed-warming” somehow angered Su Yan, who punched Shen Qi’s back, unusually angry: “Get lost, you’re not as good as a soup granny! At least she won’t run away!”

King Yu was implicated by the running Soup Hanzi and suffered an undeserved disaster. Shen Qi couldn’t be bothered to taunt because he had been whacked by Su Yan to hurt his wounds and gritted his teeth to endure it.

Su Yan took the opportunity to roll over and jump down to the ground – stepping on an empty wine gourd, his whole body lunged forward, and King Yu hurriedly caught it.

The person in his arms didn’t move anymore, King Yu looked down and found Su Yan passed out because of the alcohol, and a tear that would fall was still hanging on his eyelashes at the corner of his eyes.

King Yu was silent for a moment and sighed, “If one day, the person who left was me, would he be so sad?”

Shen Qi covered the lingering pain and answered for Su Yan, “He also drinks, but it’s a celebratory drink.”

King Yu squinted at Shen Qi: “I’m afraid the reason why Jing Hong chased away is not that mysterious, right? He is now in a state of confusion and can’t think carefully, so when he investigates and digs deeper in the future, the king will wait to see how you end up.”

Shen Qi coldly said, “This is a private matter between me and him, don’t bother Your Highness. Since it’s inconvenient for the master’s family to entertain guests when they’re asleep, Your Highness, please return.” He took two steps forward, wanting to take Su Yan away from King Yu’s arms.

King Yu tightened his arms together and said in a tit-for-tat manner, “This is the Su Mansion, not the Shen Mansion, and you are also a guest, so why should I leave and you not?”

Shen Qi’s hand was clasped on King Yu’s hand like an iron vice, not feeling the weakness brought by his injury in the slightest, he spat out every word clearly and solemnly, “By virtue of me being his husband, by virtue of him being my mother.”

King Yu was slightly stunned, then laughed: “You say yes? Did you ask this king’s opinion?” He rotated his arm and easily broke free from the iron grip, “You can still stand and talk because this king thinks that beating down a person who has not yet recovered from his injuries is not a good idea. Since you are giving your face, then I will not blame this king for being impolite.”

Shen Qi s eyes were fierce, but he heard Su Yan frowning and mumbling, “All go all go, I am better …… alone Mom s dog bites the dog with a mouth of hair.”

The dog …… bites the dog? Sword drawn two people immediately extinguished the fire, and felt the situation similar suffocation – he two are dogs, who is not? Jing red chase? “Lost is always the best” is really the truth ……

“And you, don’t come back if you leave, and don’t dare come back to blow your dog’s head off!”

There was no celebration without comparison, and the two were instantly balanced.

As for the drunken Su Yan handed over to who take care of …… no matter which one of the two, the other is on its “whether to hold their own, not to take advantage of the fire” deep doubts, and ultimately did not fight a victory or defeat.

Of course, this also relies on Lord Su, who still has a certain deterrent power after his slumber, so that one of these two people does not dare to oppress others, and the other does not dare to go crazy. As well as relying on Su Xiaobei’s iron face and decisiveness –

He came close to manipulating a broom and blowing the two men in positions of power out of the bedchamber where his lordship slept.