Chapter 41 - When you’re serious, you look very handsome. (1/2)
Lin Mu felt as if he had made a remarkable discovery. He went silent for a while and then said, “he said he was called Qin Chuan.”
“Oh.” Over on his side, Di Wu answered, and asked Lin Mu to take a picture to show him.
Lin Mu walked out of the train station, then peeked out and took a picture.
This self-proclaimed dragon vein, Qin Chuan, who seemed to be quite unlucky in the records, was completely unaware of his surroundings. He sat in front of the sub-district office’s door, listless and curled into a ball, looking like a rebellious teenager who had ran away from home and wasn’t willing to go back.
With this train of thought, Lin Mu found out that Qin Chuan actually looked quite young — to be exact, he looked too young, just like a teenager, and didn’t seem the slightest bit steady at all.
Lin Mu sent the photo to Di Wu.
Di Wu glanced at the photo, and felt that Qin Chuan’s foolishness couldn’t be obscured by a photograph. His voice sank, and he said, “Lin Xiaomu, don’t betray me.”
Lin Mu was stunned, “what?”
“You’re not allowed to tell him where I am.” Di Wu said. “I’m going into the mountains now, and the signal might not be that good. You take him back first, this brat’s a little silly, don’t leave him alone outside.”
Lin Mu responded, thought about the things that Di Wu had said to him, and felt that these Dragon Veins were quite innocent, and in fact, they were also Di Wu’s indirect benefactors.
“I’ll bring him back, but why can’t I tell him where you are?” Lin Mu asked.
“Because it’s annoying.” Di Wu rolled his eyes, “this silly boy is too annoying, and likes to use his young age as an excuse to act shamelessly. He still owes me hundreds of spiritual medication.”
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Lin Mu’s face was full of question marks, “why would a Dragon Vein owe you so much spiritual medication?”
“He has a bad hand and always loses while playing cards.”
Di Wu answered, a little angrily.
However, Di Wu fell silent for two seconds, thought about Qin Chuan’s really bad luck and reminded Lin Mu, “he pesters people too much, so don’t let him know where I am, but remember to take him back.”
“……Oh.”
Lin Mu felt that the contradiction in Di Wu’s words were kind of awkward.
But Di Wu knew how bad Qin Chuan’s, this Dragon Vein, luck was.
Over the years, there were ninety-nine Dragon Veins across the land. At this limit, the number would only decrease, not increase. Because the Great Wilderness was a projection of the Central Plains, these Wandering Veins that were born of the land could pass freely between the Central Plains and the Great Wilderness.
Therefore, in order to catch these Wandering Veins, both good luck and the right time was needed.
Amongst these dragon veins, as far as Di Wu knew, only Qin Chuan was this unlucky.
But to say that he was really unlucky, his luck was actually quite good.
After all, a Dragon Vein that had been caught so many times by humans, yet didn’t die, since ancient times, there was only Qin Chuan.
Almost all of the other Dragon Veins died for various reasons not long after they were caught. Only Qin Chuan, who had been repeatedly caught, was not only alive and kicking, and even gained spiritual awareness.
To place this matter on any other Dragon Vein was an unbelievable thing.
But Qin Chuan actually did it; and was extremely unlucky yet lucky at the same time.
It’s just that there were more times when he was unlucky.
— At least from the card table’s point of view, Qin Chuan hadn’t had much good luck.
Di Wu felt that the level of bad luck Qin Chuan, this little idiot, had, if he was left outside own his own for too long, soon, they probably wouldn’t know where to find him anymore.
After all, he was an unlucky little fella that would be caught by taking a stroll outside and brought back to contain the overflowing Yellow River in his hometown.
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Di Wu was still uneasy, and told Lin Mu, “Qin Chuan’s situation is a little strange, you watch him and keep a close eye on him. Pay attention to your own safety, and Yan Xuanjing ask first. Your safety is the most important and remember to bring your father along when you run, understand?”
“……Okay.”
Lin Mu hung up the phone, walked out of the train station and returned to the office.
Qin Chuan was squatting at the door, watching as the ants moved houses.
As Lin Mu approached, he saw him reach out to block an ant that was leaving the team, picked it up carefully and placed it back, muttering, “wrong way, wrong way.”
Lin Mu: “……”
He looked down, raised his feet and went around the route the ants were taking, then squatted down in front of the other party.
Qin Chuan paused, and looked up.
Lin Mu asked him, “are you planning to stay here and wait for me?”
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“Yeah.” Qin Chuan nodded, a little dumbly, “after all, I have nowhere to go.”
Lin Mu opened his mouth, “why don’t you have a place to go?”
Qin Chuan held his face and looked at the group of ants, “my hometown isn’t suitable for Dragon Veins to live anymore, since the landscape has changed over the years. Other places that are suitable to live in are all wastelands and wild mountains, it’s very deserted, I don’t like it, and I can’t stay for long.”
It sounded pitiful.
But it was.
It wasn’t easy for Dragon Veins to find a place suitable for long-term living. If they stayed in a place for a long time, they would leave traces that made it easy for others to catch them — especially since the ones that wanted to catch them weren’t only humans, but monsters too.
“No need.” Lin Mu shook his head, took a few lumps of fur out of the bag and combed them. Then, as if he had thought of something, he asked, “when you lose fur like this, do you lose hair in human form?”
Seeing as how Di Wu hadn’t found any traces of other Wandering Veins after so long, one could tell that most of them would not find a place to settle down, and let others notice them.
Yan Xuanjing replied quite simply, “no loss.”
“Let’s go.” Lin Mu stood up, “Di Wu asked me to bring you back.”
“Oh, that’s good.” Lin Mu said.
Qin Chuan’s eyes brightened and he jumped up, “is Di Wu at your place?”
Lin Mu looked at the little Ginseng, then looked at the well-behaved Milky Yan Xuanjing. And under their gaze, he lifted his feet and mercilessly stepped over the struggling little Ginseng and turned towads the storeroom to search for something.
“No.” Lin Mu shook his head
Qin Chuan didn’t seem to mind at all, he happily followed behind Lin Mu, showing his teeth in all directions.
“I still don’t know your name?”
“Lin Mu, with three 木.”1
“A good name.” Qin Chuan rubbed his hands together and muttered, “as soon as I heard it, I knew it was fated to be with me, especially suitable to becoming part of my family.”
Lin Mu turned his head and glanced at him, “where’s the fate?”
“I am Qin Chuan, you’re Lin Mu.2 Water feeds wood, isn’t it predestined!” Qin Chuan’s words were clear and straightforward.
“But the Dragon Veins belong to the land.” Lin Mu said, carefully.
He remembered that wood separated the earth.3
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Qin Chuan choked, then hung his head and whimpered pitifully, “that is feudal superstition! Not desirable at all!”
Lin Mu: “?”
“This wasn’t what you said first.” Lin Mu said and bought a train ticket for Qin Chuan.
“Everything is reincarnated, attributes and restrictions, all of these things are actually made up by humans.” Qin Chuan whispered to him.
“But you said that water feeds wood.” Lin Mu said.
“I learnt it from humans!” Qin Chuan said, proudly, “when your left eyelid jumps it’s incoming fortune, when your right eyelid jumps it’s superstition, pick on demand!”4
Lin Mu: “……”
Why don’t you monsters learn some good things, instead of learning all kinds of weird things.
Qin Chuan was shorter than Lin Mu and followed behind him. When Lin Mu got off the train to pick up his small electric scooter, he stood outside the carport and went around in circles, like a golden retriever chasing his tail.
Lin Mu rode on the small electric scooter and stopped next to him, “why are you circling around for?”
“Just……” Qin Chuan sat on the back seat and whispered, “did Di Wu tell you anything else?”