Chapter 48 - Di Xiu’s mind was ringing. (1/2)

Lin Mu didn’t go to the cemetery very often, that is, he went only once per quarter.

Usually, Grandpa Liu, who was responsible for guarding the tombs, would help to take care of these tombstones, but in the end, he wouldn’t be particularly meticulous at all.

Every time Lin Mu came, he would clean it up carefully.

As he cleaned, he would ramble on about the matters that had piled up in his heart.

Ever since he graduated last year, Lin Mu had always been alone when he was at home, so there wasn’t much that he could talk about. Thinking back a little, in the past year, apart from occasionally going out to sign bills with new customers and going to the flower and bird market, he hadn’t really verbally communicated with anyone else.

Nothing significant had happened when he stayed in his own house, so when he came to see his mother, he became silent and didn’t know what to say.

Thinking about it like this, no wonder he wanted a dog to accompany him when he saw the picture his mother had left.

“I originally wanted to get a dog, but I don’t need one now.”

Lin Mu wiped away the moss growing at the base, thought about the group of monsters at home, sighed softly, and his tone became lighter, “at home, there’s a nine-tailed fox, a dragon, ginseng, mimosas, and potatoes. And a Dad. Raising them is much livelier than raising a dog.”

“It’s just that it’s a pity that you can’t see them.”

Lin Mu murmured, and Di Xiu’s virtual image stood behind him with his head slightly lowered. His eyes were gentle as they focused at the picture on the tombstone.

He hadn’t seen this picture in the album. It wasn’t a serious and formal portrait, but instead, a photo that looked like a selfie that was taken from an angle.

The woman in the photo had a bright smile, and her eyes were curved when she smiled. Her eyelashes were long and thick, and the light that fell on them made it look like there was gold crushed all over it. It was bright and glittering, and others couldn’t help but be happy when they saw it.

This appearance, was the woman that Di Xiu was familiar with.

He looked at the photo quietly and listened to Lin Mu ramble on, starting from when he had gotten the job, half complaining and half happy as he recounted what happened, one by one, with endless details.

Lin Mu kept talking from nine in the morning to one in the afternoon, and in the end, he would slowly stop and needed to think for a moment before he could continue.

Lin Mu spoke until he was tired, then turned to Di Xiu and asked, “what happened back then?”

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Di Xiu answered quietly, “en?”

“What happened before I was born,” Lin Mu explained, “if you don’t want to say it, it’s okay.”

Di Xiu didn’t think that there was anything he couldn’t say.

“It’s a very common matter, I met some greedy people and for a moment, didn’t notice……”

It’s just that even with an expressionless face, he had something that reassured others.

So everytime Qin Chuan went out to play, Yan Xuanjing followed along.

After all, in order to draw away the attention of those humans, couldn’t they just give them an aim?

Qin Chuan, this dim little idiot, couldn’t be more suitable as bait.

Anyways, Yan Xuanjing was always trailing behind him, so nothing would happen.

Lin Mu looked at the fox spirit that closed his mouth and widened his eyes.

You really thought so?!

Although it was the truth.

But could just slightly, just slightly, bend a little bit!

What happened wasn’t that long ago, and Di Xiu remembered it quite clearly.

Due to a reason that everybody knew, he wasn’t good at recognising the way, so every time he followed Lin Xueji into the city, he didn’t even move a single step away from her.

Di Xiu didn’t like being noticed by too many people, so he was always careful to hide himself away from others, and only showed himself to Lin Xueji.

As a result, it was then moment when Lin Xueji went to the bathroom that Di Xiu was seen by a human cultivator in the crowd.

His appearance was really exceptional, and at that time, what he was wearing was incompatible with the Central Plains.

Along with the fact that he hadn’t met any human with special talents and abilities in the past two years when he came out with Lin Xueji, so Di Xiu himself also relaxed, and he ended up getting followed, with some people coming to his door to look for him.

Unfortunately, Lin Xueji was pregnant at that time, so Di Xiu made the decisive decision, and before the others could detect the existence of his wife and child, spent a lot of energy to cover up the existence of his wife and Lin Mu in her belly. Then, he turned and led the people far away from the city where the mother and child were located.

To cover the heaven’s design, he had used a lot of energy, and after killing a few humans that were chasing him, he fell into the hands of several well-prepared humans, and the result was that both sides suffered huge losses.

These kind of matters were an almost everyday occurrence in the Great Wilderness, and even if Di Xiu hadn’t experienced it before in person, when Yan Gui and the others ran to the valley to talk to him, they would often take these things as examples for him to be more careful.

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That was why when Di Xiu noticed that something was wrong, he moved so swiftly and removed himself so simply.

“I wasn’t in a good condition at that time, and had some premonition that something was probably going to happen.” Di Xiu raised his hand and touched his heart, “I gave this fruit to your mother very early…… and as long as she ate it, she would forget me.”

But Lin Xueji didn’t eat it.

Not only did she not eat it, but she also clenched her teeth and kept that secret for eighteen years, not telling anyone, including Lin Mu, one of the ones involved.

Clearly, she had decided to let her child live this life as a human.

However, many things do not follow the will of humans.

“Later, I was caught, and things progressed really fast.” Di Xiu thought about it and said, “my body was split into five parts, but my soul was a little better, and just needed a small bit before it would be whole.”

Now, they wanted to compensate Lin Mu, and it was fine even if it was for their peace of mind.

Lin Mu stared at Di Xiu, and after a while, muttered, “it must have hurt.”

Father Lin didn’t take this matter too seriously, until both brothers got a lawyer and said that they wanted to notarise the property and split everything up, only then did he become anxious and called them unfaithful ingrates.

Di Xiu froze, and wanted to raise his hand and cover Lin Mu’s eyes, but realised that he couldn’t cover anything in his current state.

“But why are you unhappy……”

He gave a slight sigh, lowered his hand and shook his head, “it didn’t hurt.”

However, this kind of urban planning and development was done part by part. Many people in the village were waiting for the demolition to start and to move into the city.

Lin Mu slightly looked up at him and knew that these words were false. He retracted his line of sight and lowered his eyes, and asked, “don’t you have anything you want to say to Mum?”

“No.” Di Xiu turned to look at the picture with the bright smile on the tombstone and gently shook his head.

“You don’t need to be shy.”

Lin Mu felt that Di Xiu probably found it too embarrassing to say something romantic in front of him, so packed his things up and said, “my colleague said that if you convey your thoughts today, Mum would be able to receive them. You can slowly talk to Mum, I’ll go back first.”

Di Xiu turned his head as Lin Mu walked away holding the bucket, sighed softly, and his eyes fell on the tombstone.

From his point of view, this place was empty, and there was no spirit of Lin Xueji left.

She was gone.

Saying that something could be conveyed was also a lie.

Every reincarnation of each soul was strictly separated, and it was impossible to find their reincarnation. This was the common knowledge that all monsters had.

There was only one possibility for those lucky enough to reincarnate and continue on with their predestined relationships. It meant that in their past life, they had accumulated great merits or great injustice, and when the reward was given to them in the afterlife, they would be given such a fate again.

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Lin Xueji did not meet this standard.

For this human that had belong to Di Xiu, any spirit belonging to her was completely gone, and couldn’t be found.

Di Xiu squatted down, looked at the two bouquets of daisies placed in front of the tombstone, watched as the wind passed over and shook the petals, then slowly returned to his senses.

It was a good thing.

His son had a good-hearted and gentle colleague.

Di Xiu spent some time quietly in a daze in front the tombstone, until someone else came, and his faint image disappeared with the wind. The thin branch in front of the tombstone suddenly couldn’t take the burden anymore and turned into ashes.

Lin Mu was a little helpless. Actually, he probably knew why Milky was unhappy, and it was likely because he wasn’t happy that he had patted a cat.