Chapter 88: See you in three days

Such a daughter might make Master Liu a little embarrassed. The look in his eyes told me what he was thinking.

I certainly understand how much pain that body has caused her, and I also understand that this sudden feeling of health, like a prisoner who has been released after a long prison sentence, must be an extreme excitement.

I have no right to criticize others for their attitude towards their own bodies, although this statement is a bit strange.

“It’s okay,” I said to Master Liu, understandingly.

Master Liu said to me with some apology, “Go wait for me in that room. I still have some things to tell you.”

“Yes,” I nodded and turned to leave, but I was stopped by Liu’s daughter, who had taken over the body of Guan Laidi.

She asked me with a smug look on her face, “I don’t have a mirror here, but tell me, does this face look good? I haven’t been in love yet, but I envy the love on TV. Have you been in love?…”

This question made me a little embarrassed. What did she mean?

Master Liu couldn’t bear to see his daughter say such suggestive things to a young, unfamiliar man. He couldn’t help but scold, “What are you talking about? Stop it. Dad hopes you’ll be more stable!”

I can understand how Master Liu’s daughter felt. Once you have health, you feel like you have the whole world. I tried to be polite and said, “This face is very pretty.”

But perhaps Master Liu’s daughter had never been lectured in such a harsh tone by her father, and she immediately became angry. She shouted in a shrill voice, “It’s not me who wants to live, it’s you who forced me to live. Now that I’m better, I’ve endured for so many years. I want to say and do whatever I want. If you want to kill me, go ahead!”

This is obviously a kind of madness after being suppressed. I felt that Master Liu was quite embarrassed, so he simply turned around and walked out.

But as I walked out, I still heard her shrill voice saying, “What is this outfit? Give me money, I want to buy pretty clothes…”

I didn’t want to hear any more. I knew she was pitiful, and the pain she had suffered was something no ordinary person could endure. So I told myself not to hate her arrogance at that moment, because she was also pitiful. Her father had paid such a high price, but all he had gotten in return was two years of normal girlhood.

Sitting in that dark room, I pinched the corner of my forehead to relieve the headache. Then, I lit a cigarette and thought to myself, many people think their lives are ordinary, but in retrospect, everyone’s life is a story, and it is these ordinary things that ultimately make up the extraordinary.

Time is passing, history is advancing, and our lives today, if placed five hundred years ago, would have made the ancients exclaim, “This is the life of a god, isn’t it?”

And what about 500 years later? Could metaphysics flourish again? Could people today exclaim that the hearts of people at that time were pure and carefree like those of immortals?

I laughed when I exhaled the smoke. I admit that I was thinking too much.

I waited for Master Liu for ten whole minutes before he finally appeared. Although his daughter’s recovery caused a little bit of unpleasantness, I had to admit that Master Liu seemed to be in a much better mood.

“I’m sorry to have embarrassed you. Zhenmeng was a bit out of control. I just told her to go downstairs and pretend to be Guan Laidi, and I greeted the Guan family, saying that she would be with me in two years and that they shouldn’t worry. However, Guan Laizi didn’t care, and kept urging me to pay him in cash, not with a bank card. It was the woman who looked relieved.” Master Liu went on and on, and it was clear that he was in a state of excitement.

Zhenmeng? I had never heard of Master Liu’s daughter’s name before. Precious dream? I never doubted Master Liu’s love for his daughter. I asked, “Why didn’t you tell your daughter that she only had two years?”

Master Liu paused for a moment, then sighed and said, “First, she can enjoy life normally. I don’t want to tell her the truth and hurt her. Second, well… you know, after so many years of a dark and depressing life, Zhenmeng, this child, has a little, a little…”

Master Liu was at a loss for words. After all, it was his daughter. I guessed that he didn’t want to use such extreme words to describe his daughter. In order not to embarrass Master Liu, I waved my hand and said, “Okay, Master Liu, you don’t have to say it. I can understand.”

Faced with my attitude, Master Liu smiled gratefully and then said to me very seriously, “But don’t worry, in two years, I will take her with me and I will complete this spell, but…” Master Liu took out the best yin instrument and handed it to me, then looked at me.

I understood what he meant, and took the best yin instrument containing Guan Laidi’s soul, saying, “This is also my karma. I will keep it well and guard it! Two years later, Guan Laidi’s soul will be returned to me.”

“Thank you, I will do my best to help you, really.” Master Liu looked at me with grateful eyes for the first time. He was promising that he would spare no effort to help me with the Kunlun matter.

Perhaps he will do more than he promised me!

“Master Liu, thank you.” This is what I sincerely said. In fact, I was thinking, if it weren’t for Master Liu’s daughter, would he have also set out on the road to find Kunlun? After all, he is also a descendant of Kunlun, and unlike our lineage, all news has been strictly blocked in our generation.

“Don’t thank me, you little brat. I like you. I’ll be here in the morning in three days. I need to sort out some information for you. First, I need to sort out some information for you. Second, you know I have a lot of things to deal with, like going to the bank tomorrow to get money for the Guan family. They want cash. And there’s my daughter’s health…”

Yes, it’s fine to withdraw money for the Guan family. Liu Zhenmeng’s previous health was indeed a problem, but Master Liu has been in business here for so many years, and his connections are also terrifying. I believe he has a way.

In theory, the matter should be over here, but I have one thing that I can’t rest assured, I couldn’t help but say to Master Liu, “Master Liu, I have a request, you take out 500,000, is it really all for Guan Liangzi? I don’t like him! You know that the one who pays the price for this is Guan Laidi.”

“My money is not much, but it’s not little either. I have a few million. How could I be stingy about this? In fact, I had prepared one million. This 500,000 is for the Guan family. I can’t actually control how they use it. I just quietly told the woman that I would give most of it to her to keep for the children. Whether she listens or not, this…” Master Liu said softly.

I understand. There are people you can only describe in this way: pity their misfortune, but not their lack of resolve. After all, it is their own fate, and there is nothing anyone else can do about it!

“As for the other half a million, I’ll give it to Guan Laidi in two years. Maybe I’ll give her more. In a way, she’s also my daughter.” Master Liu said to me.

I nodded, and said that this was the best way to handle it.

“Chengyi, Guan Laidi is a bit silly. Her life is so similar to my daughter’s. When I see her, I see my daughter. I hope you can take care of her in the future!” Master Liu said to me seriously.

I stood up and said to Master Liu, “Actually, I would have done the same thing even if you hadn’t said it. In a way, I also owe her two years of life. For my own selfish reasons, I want to find my master. Let’s meet in three days.”

It was already 9 o’clock at night when I left Master Liu’s home. At this time, there should have been a sky full of stars, but unfortunately, I had forgotten when it had become difficult to see stars in the city.

Driving on the street, the unique hot and humid summer air came at me, but I didn’t use the air conditioning. I just lowered the window and let the hot wind blow on my face. There were so many people walking on the street in groups of two or three. What kind of stories were behind each of them?

The world is a place to practice the mind. I have experienced too many stories of others in the past few days. When I am nostalgic for the world, I also feel the bitterness of the world.

But the most important thing is to cherish the world. My state of mind has always been at this level. I just feel that no matter how bitter it is, when the lights of the world are on, these little bits of warmth will soothe my inner pain. Those lights are the best proof of the warmth of the world.

I hope that I can have such ordinary happiness for the rest of my life. Behind the lights are the joy and peace of my parents and my master in their old age, and the love and peace of my wife and I…