Chapter 276 Brother Liang, In Front Of And Behind People
Early March, the spring day poked its head out from behind the horizon.
In the library of the Hundred Lotus Sect’s Main Peak, an oil lamp was still lit. A man, dressed in the Hundred Lotus Sect’s Elder sect uniform, turned his head to look at the dawn light filtering through the paper window and let out a sigh:
“Mmm…”
Unknowingly, dawn had arrived.
However, the desk in front of the man was still piled high with documents. He had been sitting here sleeplessly for five days.
Liang Zhu wondered if he could slack off now.
When he first came with Ye Anping, he knew that as an outsider, and moreover, a wanted criminal cultivator, his position was extremely delicate.
Just like those laborers who hadn’t signed contracts.
Ye Ao could kick him out at any time if he wished, and wouldn’t even have to give him any compensation.
Although Ye Anping had repeatedly assured him that he and Liang Acting could stay at the Hundred Lotus Sect with peace of mind, but…
The assurance of a maternal half-brother’s triplets…
Heh heh…
Therefore, ever since arriving at the Hundred Lotus Sect, Liang Zhu had worked with all his might. Serving Ye Ao tea and water was considered minor. He gifted all the elders of the Hundred Lotus Sect according to their preferences. He took on any dirty or tiring work that he could do, as if he were on stimulants.
As long as he made himself seem useful enough, Ye Ao would have no reason to kick him out.
And if Ye Ao didn’t kick him out, Liang Acting would have a stable environment to grow up in, so she wouldn’t have to roam around aimlessly with him like before, braving the wind and sleeping under the stars.
He was quite puzzled now, why did he have to bring Acting… back then…
“Forget it, forget it. There is no medicine for regret in this world. The path was chosen by oneself, so one must walk it no matter how difficult it is… Sigh—”
Liang Zhu sighed, picked up the next document, and unfolded it to read.
However, upon seeing the content, his deep eyes, full of dark circles, widened slightly:
“…Dead?”
This document belonged to the category of “condolences.” After the death of some distinguished cultivator, a document would be sent to various sects to announce the death. It would then be distributed to the marketplace and published in newspapers by the small hall responsible for printing, for the perusal of passing cultivators.
The person sending “condolences” in the document was Liu An, a侍郎 from the Central Domain’s Imperial Sect, a cultivator in the Core Formation mid-stage.
A rare hint of anger flickered across Liang Zhu’s face, but after a moment of hesitation, he returned to his usual expressionless demeanor, wrote “Read” below, and then used his spiritual energy to send the document to the pile of papers destined for the marketplace.
“I’ve been with Acting for so many years, what does it have to do with me? Why think so much.”
Bang—
Suddenly, a loud noise echoed, and the door of the library was violently kicked open.
“Godfather!!!”
Liang Zhu, who was already somewhat neurasthenic, trembled instantly from the fright. He looked up and saw it was Liang Acting.
He took a deep breath, quickly got up, and walked over to inspect the door kicked by Liang Acting, scolding:
“Acting!! Who taught you to kick doors?!”
As he spoke, Liang Zhu glanced around. Seeing that no one was watching, he breathed a sigh of relief, took out repair tools and paint from his storage bag, and began to repair the dent Liang Acting had made on the door.
“Godfather has told you many times, be good and don’t cause trouble.”
“But but Godfather…”
Liang Acting’s face was full of anxiety, and her words were somewhat incoherent.
“Wait until Godfather finishes repairing, and then we’ll talk. What’s so urgent?”
Liang Zhu quickly repaired the door, leaving no trace. He couldn’t give anyone an excuse to seize him. If Ye Ao used “your adopted daughter damaged the library door” as an excuse to kick him out, it wouldn’t be good.
“Aunt!! Auntie!! She’s back!! What do we do?”
?
“Back?” Liang Zhu didn’t understand why she was so flustered. “They’re back, so they’re back. Did you do anything guilty, girl?”
“No, no, no! But Auntie, Auntie, she’s back and then… she’ll break my bones again. Godfather, tell her I’m not at the Hundred Lotus Sect, okay? I’ll come out after they leave…”
“What if they don’t leave?”
“Then… then Godfather, let’s go! Auntie is too scary!”
“…”
This girl wanted a stable place to live at first, but now she wanted to run away… Liang Zhu sighed faintly and said:
“I’ll talk to your aunt later and tell her not to break your bones.”
As the voice moved with the wind, Liang Acting’s ears twitched slightly. She seemed to sense Pei Lianxue’s approach and was startled. She quickly rushed into the library and hid behind a bookshelf.
“Acting…”
“Godfather, don’t call me!!”
“Alas—”
Liang Zhu sighed softly, then mustered his spirits, tidied his robes again, and returned to sit at the desk, continuing to review documents.
A moment later, Ye Anping and Pei Lianxue entered.
Upon their first step inside, Pei Lianxue asked:
“Brother Liang, where is Acting?”
“I don’t know.” Liang Zhu glanced at the wardrobe beside him and said, “She’s probably playing somewhere.”
“Is that so…” Pei Lianxue was a little disappointed. “Then I’ll ask elsewhere. Senior Brother, I’m going to find Acting.”
“Mmm.”
Ye Anping nodded slightly. After watching his junior sister fly away on her sword, he scanned the piles of documents in the library, feeling a little sympathetic, and asked:
“Brother Liang, I haven’t been back for half a year, and my father has been ordering you around like this? Don’t you know to talk to him?”
Liang Zhu’s expression was flat:
“If he gives me spirit stones, I’ll do the work.”
Ye Anping looked at his dark circles, pursed his lips, brought a stool, and sat down opposite the table:
“Then you should rest properly too. By the way, you made a lot of money following me back then, didn’t you? Are you still short of this little bit of monthly spirit stones?”
“Would you ever think you have too many spirit stones?”
“No.”
“Mhm.”
Liang Zhu shrugged slightly. Seeing that Ye Anping had come to find him the moment he returned, he thought a big business was coming. He put down his brush and leaned back in his chair, with his arms crossed.
“Old rules, speak first.”
Ye Anping looked a little embarrassed and raised his eyebrows:
“I just came to care about you, to see how you’re doing, is that not allowed?”
“Does that look like me?”
“Alas… Brother Liang, we’ve known each other for a long time, why are you being so formal?”
“Get to the point.”
“Alas—” Facing a poker face, Ye Anping was truly helpless. There was no detailed description of Liang Zhu in the game, so he really didn’t know his past and could only probe slowly. “Never mind, I have something I want you to help me sell.”
“Mmm, something from the Southern Domain?”
“…勉强算.” (Roughly counts.) Ye Anping considered for a moment, then took out a glazed bottle wrapped in oiled paper. “This…”
Liang Zhu had initially expected Ye Anping to have acquired some Heavenly Treasures from the Sword Sect, but seeing a bottle wrapped in oiled paper, he couldn’t help but furrow his brows:
“What kind of pills?”
“Cannot say, you see for yourself.”
Liang Zhu reached out to take it, glanced at Ye Anping again, as if afraid he would give him a bomb, and carefully tore open the oiled paper to look into the bottle.
His movements froze, and then he immediately rewrapped the paper.
“…”
“…”
For a moment, the two men in the room looked at each other, their expressions frozen.
After a long time, Liang Zhu’s gaze slowly shifted to Ye Anping’s crotch, his eyebrows raised.
?
Noticing his gaze, Ye Anping blinked and asked with a frown:
“Brother Liang, is your gaze polite?”
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