Chapter 82

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In which the <del>band</del> group is back together again.

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Wenren Heng said, “Does Xie Junming start feeling unwell if he doesn’t cause some trouble every day?”

Ye You let out a laugh and lowered his head to eat the food that his Senior Brother had grabbed for him.

The bandages on his eyes hadn’t yet been removed, and he was completely unable to see anything he grabbed. Fortunately, Wenren Heng knew his tastes and, even without his having to open his mouth, would place food in his bowl — actually, Wenren Heng had originally wanted to feed him personally, but Ye You had refused, and so Wenren Heng also didn’t try and force him.

But that face truly caused too much disaster, so before leaving, Wenren Heng helped disguise him, and now he was simply an ordinary blind man. Those nearby immediately lost interest the moment they saw him and returned to discussing the big Jianghu matters.

Ye You listened to all that with interest, and after swallowing down the things in his mouth, he said, “He was originally someone who didn’t like being idle. Now that he’s spending the whole day with a bunch of righteous faction members, if he wasn’t finding something to interest him, then he wouldn’t be himself.”

Wenren Heng said, “In the future, when the matters between you and me come out, who knows what they’ll say about it, since in a short few months, you’ll appear to have changed partners three times.”

Ye You laughed and said, “Does what other people say have anything to do with me?”

Wenren Heng helplessly shook his head. He had just known that it would be like this.

With deeds as equally infamous as Xie Junming, his Junior Brother, Sect Master Ye, had calmly taken to being cursed by the righteous faction for this many years, truly a completely unconcerned party.

Ye You said, “If you don’t like hearing other people ridicule me, then why don’t we just let them change how they’d talk about it.”

Wenren Heng was coincidentally also thinking about this point.

Since Xie Junming dared to make the first move, he’d certainly dare to make the next fifteen. He would definitely dig a pit for Xie Junming, letting other people know that it was Xie Junming who didn’t know how to treasure someone, and that it wasn’t Sect Master Ye who was frivolous or half-hearted with affections.

Ye You didn’t wait for his Senior Brother to reply and asked, “Thinking about what to do when the time comes?”

“No.” Wenren Heng internally thought that if he wasn’t able to take care of a single Xie Junming, then he might as well give up on accomplishing anything else. He stroked his Junior Brother’s hand and tenderly said, “You don’t need to worry about these matters. Eat.”

After the meal, the two rested for a night, and when the next morning arrived, they waited for an hour before the scarred man hurriedly arrived.

Previously, when Wenren Heng threw aside the white piece’s people and hurried to Shaolin, the scarred man had remained behind to impede the other party, and it wasn’t until now that the person had managed to reunite with his Sect Master. Upon seeing the Sect Master supporting a person out the door, he felt his expression change immediately.

Although this person had changed faces, he could tell with one glance that this was Young Master Xiao.

Young Master Xiao was that incredible so how did he get blinded? Was it real or not? Wasn’t the previous ‘going missing after falling into the river’ all an act? How did he become like this after not meeting for a few days? Or could this be also an act? The person opened and closed his mouth as he looked at them in shock.

Wenren Heng gave him a look.

The scarred man hastily regained his senses and helped them pull open the carriage curtains.

Wenren Heng supported his Junior Brother onto the carriage before turning around and asking his subordinate, “What movements have there been recently?”

The scarred man said, “There haven’t been much. It’s only that Abbot Ciyuan’s group and Sir Wei and Sir Ding have all sent letters these past few days, inquiring whether we’ve found Young Master Xiao yet…” He paused for a moment and finally couldn’t help saying, “Sect Master, Young Master Xiao is?”

Wenren Heng said, “He’s been injured a little. He’ll be fine after a few days. Don’t let outsiders hear of this.”

The scarred man was thus relieved and went to find the Shuangji Sect members, making preparations to set out. Meanwhile, Wenren Heng entered the carriage and saw his Junior Brother already sitting down. He then moved over to pull the person into an embrace.

Ye You leaned against him, relaxed, and, upon feeling him link their hands together, said, laughing, “Admit it then. You like the way I am right now.”

Wenren Heng said, “I just think that you’re quite well-behaved right now.”

Ye You said, “I’ve always been very well-behaved.”

Wenren Heng declined to comment.

What he liked was actually this image of his Junior Brother relying on him.

In the past, when they hadn’t yet opened up and spoken about things clearly, every time he had been furiously angered by his Junior Brother, he had wanted to kidnap this person and lock the other up, allowing his Junior Brother to see only him. And whenever the person decided to be more honest and well-behaved was whenever he would release the person. Now that this person had become temporarily blind, the other had to rely on him for everything, leaving him especially satisfied.

He looked at his Junior Brother’s profile and moved over to drop a kiss on the other’s lips.

Ye You’s injuries weren’t serious, and after two more days of care, the bandages were removed.

The party rushed to reunite with the righteous faction, and they received news mid-journey. Abbot Ciyuan and the others had been slow by a step, and when they hurriedly arrived at Shengyin City, the Alliance Leader’s house had already been burned. They had walked around the ruins and rubble but hadn’t found the slightest clue.

Ye You wasn’t the least surprised at this development.

Even if burning the house would let the righteous faction members consider the possibility of the Alliance Leader having accomplices, the white piece still had to walk this path, or else they’d definitely be exposed.

He said, “Reply to the letter then. Say that you’ve found me, and let them first wait for us at Shengyin City.”

Wenren Heng had the same thought and sent people to deliver the letter. He then instructed the scarred man to bring more bandages and carefully wrapped them for his Junior Brother.

It was coincidentally evening when they arrived at Shengyin City.

Abbot Ciyuan’s party was currently eating, and upon suddenly seeing them enter, the group stood up one after the other. Ding Xilai and Wei Jiangyue along with the Junior Sect Masters simply ran over directly. Both of Ding Xilai’s eyes were red as he said, “Sir Xiao, it’s great that nothing happened to you!”

Ye You said, “I must have worried all of you.”

Academy Master Ge walked over and asked, “How’s your health? Were you injured?”

Ye You said, “All right. At that time, I was washed away by the water and lost consciousness, waking up only after a few days.”

Wenren Heng added, “Afterwards, he also suffered from a fever for three continuous days. He’s only just somewhat recovered.”

The moment everyone heard, they supported him at once to a seat, afraid that he’d injure himself once again.

Previously, with Sir Xiao’s life and death unknown, the righteous faction’s morale had lowered by no small amount, and there were even quite a few people in their midst sporting grave expressions. Now that this person was revealed to be still alive, even if he did really turn out to the black piece’s man, they all thought that it wasn’t bad to have him on their side, and that he was quite reliable.

Xie Junming was sitting nearby and watching the righteous faction look all doting while tsking in his heart. He internally thought that if Ye You’s identity was ever revealed one day, then the righteous faction members would probably grow extremely indignant and ashamed before grabbing their blades to cut this person into pieces.

He laughed and said, “It’s good that Sir Xiao has returned. These past few days, all I heard was them harping on about you.” When he finished speaking, he looked at the person next to him. “Darling, this is the Sir Xiao I’ve mentioned to you before. Weren’t you quite curious previously. Hurry and look.”

“…” Elder Baili was wearing the Sect Master’s mask, and his mouth was pulled into a “Sect Master-esque” shallow smile, as he silently looked at his own Sect Master.

In his innermost heart, he was deeply anguished to no end.

If he had known early on that he’d have to pay such a bitter price later on, then from the start, he wouldn’t have tried to pursue such petty comeuppance in a moment of indignant anger. Over these past few days, if he hadn’t known that Xie Junming had no interest in men, then he really would’ve started suspecting that this monster had started fancying him.

But thinking of these things right now was useless. Since he still had to put on an act, he let out a faint smile. “Sir Xiao, I’ve been looking forward to meeting you.”

Ye You said, “You flatter me. It’s nice to meet you, Sect Master Ye.”

Elder Baili lazily made a sound in acknowledgment. Out of the corners of his eyes, he saw Xie Junming grab some dishes for him that he hated, even putting on a face full of indulgent pampering while doing so, and he couldn’t help but sink into grief once again. He endured the impulse to walk down the path of mutual destruction with this rascal and instead picked up this food to eat.

Xie Junming had about had his fill of this kind of fun over the past few days and so had grabbed only those few dishes before changing his line of sight. He waved a hand at Ye You. “Has Sir Xiao eaten yet? If you haven’t, come over and let’s eat together.”

Ye You said, “No thanks. I’ll eat with my Senior Brother.”

Xie Junming said, “Ah, that’s easy to accommodate. Sect Master Wenren can also come over.”

Ye You politely refused, using the excuse of his ill health, and indicated for the waiter to have the food brought upstairs before then leaving.

The room they entered had been set aside for them by the righteous faction, and after sitting for only a short while, Ding Xilai and Wei Jiangyue both came to knock at the door. Ren Shaotian was actually carrying the food, following after to place the dishes neatly on the table, before then giving Sir Xiao an assessing look. Upon seeing that the other was in decent spirits, he retreated to the side, relieved.

Ye You looked at them. “Have something to say?”

Ding Xilai said, “No, I just want to eat with you.”

Ye You looked at Wei Jiangyue. “How about you?”

Wei Jiangyue really had things he wanted to say.

On one hand, he had lost his gamble to Sir Xiao, and he wanted to hear Sir Xiao say something, anything would do.

On the other hand, he had been extremely miserable these past few days. Every time he thought that this person might have already landed in the white piece’s hands, he felt himself incapable of eating or sleeping, and during the time when there hadn’t been any news, he had continuous nightmares. Now that he was able to see the person, he felt as if he was practically about to break into tears, and there was an instant when he truly wanted to pull this person into a fierce embrace and tell the other about all his thoughts these past few days.

However, right now was clearly not an opportune moment, whether it was that Ding Xilai and Wenren Heng were both nearby or his current precarious situation, so he could only say, voice hoarse, “I also don’t have anything.”

Ye You naturally didn’t believe him and gave him a look but didn’t investigate further.

Ding Xilai quietly accompanied him for a while before asking, “Since Uncle Zhong’s house has been burned, is there a possibility that he’s been wrongly accused? For instance, his house originally didn’t have anything, and so the white piece burned it to let people purposely believe that his house had something.”

Ye You was very surprised. “You can actually think of something like this.”

Ding Xilai scratched his head, embarrassed. “Ren Shaotian was the one who told me.”

Ye You looked at Ren Shaotian and praised, “Quite good at coaxing people.”

Ren Shaotian laughed, still giving off that same sort of wicked intent like in days past. Conversely, Ding Xilai was struck dumb and, looking at them, asked what they meant by this. Ye You then said, “Mr. Xiao is the Alliance Leader’s man. How would you explain that?”

Ding Xilai, “…”

“Also, if he was truly innocent, why would the black piece be dead set on him?” Ye You looked at his expression and said, “No matter what it is, the Alliance Leader isn’t clean. This point is true. The question is, to what level has he immersed himself in the dirt.”

Ding Xilai’s shoulders collapsed, and he was sure now that, since he had received several shocks over these past few days in quick succession, Ren Shaotian had purposefully used those words to placate him. He then became gloomy for a time, asking, “Then where could Uncle Zhong have gone?”

Ye You said, “Yes, this is something that we would do well to think about.”

His thoughts hadn’t changed; he still felt that the Alliance Leader had gone to find that monster.

If that monster learned that the white piece wanted to make him into a drugged person, then he would probably come to find the white piece for payback, and at that time, everyone would know the white piece’s identity. The white piece would also be able to guess this turn of events, but the strange thing was that the white piece’s reaction was very calm. The white piece not only had kept anxiety at bay but also had the mind to plan a move when they were all leaving Shaolin.

Thus, he imagined that either they had something to rely on or there were some other secrets regarding the place that the monster was hidden and they were confident that the Alliance Leader wouldn’t be able to enter. Regardless of which of these two it was, both of them were worth considering.

Ding Xilai asked, “Do you have any ideas?”

Ye You said, “No. Did the black piece make any moves these past few days?”

Ding Xilai said, “No.”

Ye You laughed and said, “Then the suspicions of my being the black piece have grown even bigger.”

Ding Xilai startled. “Are you saying that the black piece wants to throw the white piece’s suspicions on you instead?”

Ye You said, “Yes. Anyway, regardless of what I want to do right now, the white piece still wants to kill me.”

“Shameless.” Ding Xilai was furious. “I can’t believe that I had thought that the black piece was all right. How could he do this? Boss[1], after we catch the white piece, let’s also catch the black piece. We’ll get them both here and let them see who’s truly the incredible one.”

Ye You repeated, “Boss?”

Ding Xilai took a moment to react before explaining, “I misspoke.”

Ye You raised a brow.

“…All right then,” Ding Xilai said, “During those days you were missing, I once got drunk because I was in a bad mood and told them that you were my boss, so now they all know.” He couldn’t help but grab Ye You’s hand. “Boss, you should just accept me. If you want me to go east, I definitely won’t go west. If you want me to jump into a river, I definitely won’t jump off a cliff. I’ll be your man alive, and I’ll be your man dead too… Oh, wait, that won’t do. If I die, I’ll probably still be buried in the Ding family’s tombs. I won’t have any control over this.”

The group, “…”

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[1] 老大 So this term, when used between non-relatives, is a kind of “boss” or “big bro” kind of title. I thought “boss” sounded closer to the kind of ‘respect’ Ding Xilai wants to bestow upon Ye You, so I went with that.

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Today’s going to be a double update, since next chapter has lots of Ding Xilai, haha. Expect it in a few~

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