Reborn: Revenge of the Concubine's Daughter

Chapter 237 A best mystical conman

He Danggui was full of confusion. She remembered that Qi Xuanyu did get along well with Senior Lord Luo Maitong and live in Luo’s Mansion for some time. But at that time, she had not returned to Luo’s Mansion, and she might have just been reborn or not. However, Qi Xuanyu said that he had dealt with her. How could it be?

She only had a look at the Royal Prophet, Qing Jing, and Imperial Astronomer of Qintianjian Celestial Prefecture, Qi Xuanyu, from a distance when all the officials worshiped heaven in her previous life. Now she had never seen Qi Xuanyu before. Did he deceive Zhu Quan?

It was so weird. Qi Xuanyu and Zhu Quan discussed about her at first. Now why did they talk about the stars and the history? What did the stars and Daji (the Queen of Emperor Zhou of the Shang Dynasty) have to do with her?

He Danggui sat cross-legged on the ground while the leaves and grass were shaking with a wind. Since she was squatting for a long time, her calves were numb. She got more doubtful. There were Zhu Quan, Qi Xuanyu and the little guy named Qi Chuan who was “divided” from Luo Baiqian. What were they doing exactly?

Zhu Quan slowly said, “You mean, a thorn star representing an enchantress who brings calamity to the country and the people fell into Luo’s Mansion, right?”

He Danggui held her cheeks and blinked. The enchantress Daji came into Luo’s Mansion? Well, this time she understood. What Qi Xuanyu beat around the bush was insinuating that she was evil, and he told Zhu Quan not to marry an evil woman like her. But Qi Xuanyu was over the top much. He even likened her to Daji.

Ho-ho, how could she deserve such reputation? Daji was a well-known woman who completely made the Emperor Zhou of the Shang Dynasty a mere figurehead, and she was a female emperor for a long time. She was also proficient in military strategy and was able to command the army to fight against the Great Zhou Army led by Prime Minister, Jiang Ziya. She could be called heroine. As for herself... He Danggui thought, she just farmed in her own little yard. Master Qi was talking nonsense! Sure enough, as long as one lived by divination and fortune-telling, no matter how professional he was, he was a liar and mystical conman. Taoist Sage, Bai Yangbai, and Master Prophet, Qi Xuanyu, were all liars. Master Prophet, the one who leaked destinies, was a best mystical conman.

Qi Xuanyu didn’t know that someone was scolding him as a mystical conman. He kept saying solemnly, “At first, I didn’t want to live in Luo’s Mansion. I am restrained in the capital, and it is difficult for me to hang out. Who wants to come this old and boring mansion? But watching the thorn star falling above the East Yard of Luo’s Mansion, I felt unbelievable. So, I came here as a guest by my friendship with Luo Maitong. I wandered around the mansion every day, looking for clues.”

The tender Luo Baiqian asked, “So brother, what did you find out? By the way, was that Luo Baiqian concupiscent all the time? I always feel that this body is not as strong as the previous one.”

That body was not as strong as the previous one... It made He Danggui flesh creep. When she recalled that she used to feel the tender Luo Baiqian’s pulse and prepared medicine for him, she wished to hang a string of garlics around her neck to exorcise evil spirits like Chanyi.

What happened to the man? Did he revive in a new guise? Was the real Luo Baiqian dead? No. She heard that most of the time, Luo Baiqian was still normal, otherwise Dong Xinlan would have packed her things and returned to her natal family in Fuzhou City. Even if the tender Luo Baiqian pretended to be mature, how could he fool his wife?

Qi Xuanyu reproached, “Chuan, you should be content. Luo Baiqian is pretty handsome in his twenties. You are sharing a body with him, and you can live 63 years longer. So, you should be grateful. As long as you are ascetic and take more exercise when you are in charge of this body, you can do things with facility after using this body for a long time.”

The tender Luo Baiqian murmured, “Not at all. I have used it for 3 years and often stumble. The most horrible thing was that I woke up from his woman’s bed. Brother, can you understand my feeling? I am less than 10 years old, but I slept with a naked woman who was in her twenties. I was scared to cry! If there was no the interesting Sister Qingyi in Luo’s Family, I would go back to my home in the capital with Luo Baiqian’s body.”

“No. You can’t go back to the capital!” Qi Xuanyu said sternly, “I have already divined that you must stay in Luo’s Mansion for 10 years and then you can leave with his body and soul. In 10 years, you’d better convey your thoughts to Luo Baiqian and tell him to get along well with Dong Xinlan. He should not divorce his wife!”

The tender Luo Baiqian got confused, “He should not divorce his wife? Why?” He Danggui under the bushes was also curious.

Qi Xuanyu said seriously, “I have divined. Dong Xinlan has a good-luck face, and she brings good luck to Luo Baiqian, which means she brings to you. Chuan, you are a nine-year-old child. Don’t act like a child.”

He Danggui slandered that he was indeed a best mystical conman. It seemed that he could divine everything. If he was really capable, why didn’t he divine if anyone outside the yard was eavesdropping?

The tender Luo Baiqian chewed on dessert while muttering, “I don’t care. If Dong Xinlan is lying on my bed with bare butt when I wake up someday, I will use Foshan Shadowless Kick, kicking her to the street. Then I will give her a divorce letter and ask her to go back to her hometown, Fuzhou City, to go fishing, so as to avoid her troubles towards Sister Qingyi every day.”

Qi Xuanyu said in angry, “How do you become so stubborn in a few years? After you died 3 years ago, it took me so much to divine that your date of birth and eight characters of a horoscope totally match with Luo Baiqian’s. Do you know that? And it took me a lot of efforts to successfully use the Taoist forbidden magic to recall your 3 parts of your soul and share the same body with Luo Baiqian! Besides, I have always been suspicious that Luo Baiqian’s vitality got hurt. The tragedy happened to him, killing lots of his women and kids, because the forbidden magic’s effect violates the nature. Therefore, you should cherish the chance which is not easy to have.”

The tender Luo Baiqian didn’t give a shit, “His woman and kids were all killed by the evildoer, which was done by human not Immortal. If a meteorite falls from the sky and kills them, it will be done by Immortal.”

Qi Xuanyu said in a low voice, “I don’t know anything else. But before using the forbidden magic, I gave Luo Baiqian a divination that he was in luxury and wealth, and blessed with many offspring. After the magic, I gave him a divination again. However, I found that his numerology became a dead end, and there is no any chance of life in Eight-diagrams, which means he will have no offspring. Don’t make any more trouble, Chuan.”

The tender Luo Baiqian said in a huff, “That’s impossible. Luo Baiqian has 2 sons. Wei has a sharp mouth and monkey-cheek, and Zhu whom Sister Qingyi is looking after is plump like a piglet. Sister Qingyi has superb medical skills and can cure any disease. Being with her, Zhu can grow up healthily, so can I. It is impossible for Luo Baiqian and I to have no offspring. Brother, do you know why?”

Qi Xuanyu asked, “Why?”

The tender Luo Baiqian proudly announced, “Because I will marry Sister Qingyi when I grow up and have 10 sons with her. Each son will have 10 sons, and then we will have 100 grandchildren. So, I will have offspring definitely!”

There was deathly choking atmosphere around the yard. Imagining his innocent and childish face, He Danggui was scared.

The forbidden magic? Was it the same with the forbidden magic that Bai Yangbai prayed for her fraternal twins in her previous life? Qi Chuan and Luo Baiqian was sharing the same body. This was really weird, and it almost like reviving in a new guise. Fortunately, today she finally figured out why Luo Baiqian had “Dissociative identity disorder”, and she would never come to Qi Lu Yard to cure him. She must stay away from him completely in the future.

Zhu Quan did not take the tender Luo Baiqian’s words seriously. He questioned Qi Xuanyu, “What do you find out in Luo’s Mansion? Why do you prevent me from marrying He Danggui?”

Qi Xuanyu recalled, “I searched the whole Luo’s Mansion and did not find the meteorites formed after the thorn star fell. However, I found some caves in the Bitter Bamboo Grove in Luo’s Mansion. Those caves are really weird!”

Zhu Quan was puzzled, “I’ve been to the caves. I have stayed there for a few days to sit in meditation, but I didn’t find out what was wrong. Why are the caves weird?”

“Qi Xuanyu is right.” He Danggui said in heart. Those caves were indeed a bit weird, because they were not the caves that “grew” in the mountains, but stood barely in the bamboo grove.

In short, there was no “mountains”, but some stone “caves” popped up. Although those caves were natural and did not look like being carved, the layout and specifications of the caves were quite different from those of the caves that she had seen. On the contrary, they were surprisingly similar to the layout of the wing-room in back hall of Ting Zhu Yard. One was surrounded by another, and they were ventilated. Even the wine could blow through the innermost cave from time to time, so it wasn’t stuffy at all. And there was enough air to burn campfire. An ordinary cave or coal mine was full of methane or fog, so how could people live?

Qi Xuanyu kept saying, “The first time I saw the caves in the Bitter Bamboo Grove, I didn’t think too much. But when I went there again with a Fengshui compass, I was surprised that according to the compass, 10 days ago, it was still an open space. No caves at all! So, I doubted, or guessed, that the blue thorn star fell into Luo’s Mansion and turned into a huge ‘porous meteorite’. And those caves are the embodiment of the thorn star.”

Zhu Quan questioned, “If something big had fallen from the sky to the ground and become caves covering a few miles around, Luo’s Mansion and Yangzhou City would have been shaken heavily. In fact, you can’t get information of the abnormality, right?”

Qi Xuanyu continued, “I was surprised by my own deduction. So, in order to find out the truth, I purchased the mottled bamboo and then secretly planted them in the outer edge of the Bitter Bamboo Grove. The mottled bamboo is sacred to Xiaozhu Sect. It is said that it can be psychic. I sacrificed the altar with the mottled bamboo, burned the yellow paper, and conducted a religious ritual for 3 days and nights. Finally, the images of the trigrams showed that the blue thorn star didn’t belong to our world. It was something thrown by a person with supreme magical power from another world, and it contained fragments of a soul from another world.”