Under One Person: Starting with the Dual Cultivation of Body and Soul

Chapter 118 Wanting to Buy Osmanthus Flowers and Share Wine

"I was telling the truth."

"————————" Lu Lin was speechless: "You're just wasting my feelings."

Li Chang'an laughed and said, "There's no need for such a small thing."

"I don't really care—" Lu Lin paused, not continuing. Actually, he was subconsciously trying to protect Li Chang'an's image. After all, it was Li Chang'an who came up with the idea of ​​deceiving people. If he said that his senior brother had told him to do it, how disloyal would that be?

"Excuse me, gentlemen!"

Just then, a deliveryman pushed his cart past.

The two quickly moved aside.

Looking at the man's back, Lu Lin whispered, "He's really good at pretending. I can't tell he's an extraordinary person at all."

"He's not faking it, he's just a regular courier!" Li Chang'an said. "Don't forget, Dutong is a real courier company. Their full-time employees can't be working themselves to the bone while also delivering packages, can they?"

"That's true!" Lu Lin nodded. "If that's really the case, then their lives are a bit too miserable."

The two walked out of the company. The air was slightly cool, and the sky was already turning a pale white.

Lu Jin stood at the door, dressed in a well-tailored suit, with his hands behind his back and his long silver hair neatly combed.

The older women who came to pick up their packages all turned to look at him, and even after walking quite a distance, they kept turning back, thinking to themselves, "What a handsome old man!"

"Grandpa."

Lu Lin called out first. After last night's bloody battle and today's interrogation, seeing Lu Jin made him feel incredibly at ease.

Lu Jin turned around and looked at them with gentle eyes.

"I heard you had a fierce battle tonight. How was it?"

Lu Lin lowered her head and truthfully reported her feelings, emphasizing that she had lost her composure and was aroused by the other party's "soul-calling" technique, which almost caused her soul to leave her body. She apologized and said, "Grandpa, it's because my cultivation is not up to par and I have dragged my senior brother down. After we go back, I will definitely work harder to make up for my shortcomings in this area."

Lu Jin nodded noncommittally. He knew very well that with Lu Lin's current cultivation level, it was already quite remarkable that she could protect her spiritual platform under such methods.

Then, Lu Jin turned to Li Chang'an and asked, "Chang'an, what about you?"

"It was alright, quite thrilling," Li Chang'an replied.

"Thrilling? Where did you feel the thrill?!"

Lu Jin pressed for details, saying that he had been protecting her the whole night and had seen the entire process clearly.

He saw no danger, only Li Chang'an's almost cold composure and his effortless skill in killing, as if cutting paper.

Lu Lin, on the other hand, seemed a bit flustered, scrambling and stumbling along.

Li Chang'an said, "These are just small fry. If it were some of the tough guys from Quanxing, then it would be dangerous."

Lu Jin remained silent. Indeed, that was how his senior uncle and senior brother had died. If those guys really targeted him, not to mention Li Chang'an, even he himself might not be able to escape unscathed.

"Besides the thrill, didn't you feel anything else?" Lu Jin pressed, "Like the disgust, unease, or fear of killing for the first time?"

At his age, he had comforted many descendants who were heartbroken by seeing blood for the first time. He was ready to give his two disciples a lesson on "killing and protecting life".

Li Chang'an said, "I'm fine. Killing them didn't give me any delusions. Killing these bastards doesn't give me any delusions. I just feel good and my mind is clear. But my cousin seems to be feeling a bit unwell."

"Really?" Lu Jin looked at Lu Lin.

Lu Lin did have some reservations. But since his senior brother had already said that, what could he say? He could only force a smile: "Everything else is fine, but seeing Mr. Xiao's methods at the company... it really made me uncomfortable. The way he kills people—"

"Too—" He thought of a better word: "Too cruel."

Lu Jin nodded: "That Mr. Xiao was indeed a bit cruel, but he is actually a good person and never harms the innocent."

As someone also plagued by inner demons, Lu Jin felt a certain empathy for Xiao Zizai's state.

But he was different from Xiao Zizai. Xiao Zizai had a place to vent his inner demons, but he had no room to vent them and could only digest them on his own.

Lu Lin nodded: "He works for the company, so he's definitely not a criminal."

Li Chang'an looked at the sky: "Grandpa, are we still going to stop the developers from conducting the survey?"

Lu Jin waved his hand: "It's not important anymore. You two made quite a fuss last night. It seems that the developers noticed something and went home early this morning."

"What's going on?" Lu Lin asked.

"When you two went to chase after them one after the other, they saw you, and some even took pictures," Lu Jin said.

"Will there be any negative consequences?" Lu Lin asked quickly.

"It's alright, the company has already resolved it," Lu Jin said.

"Did the company confiscate their cameras?" Lu Lin asked.

"Not really. The company remotely deleted it when they uploaded it to the computer," Lu Jin said.

Lu Lin was somewhat surprised. Was the company's technology really that advanced?

Li Chang'an realized that this must be Gao Erzhuang's ability.

"Does this stop them? Will they still want to develop it?" Li Chang'an asked.

"It seems like they are planning to do that. However, I will put pressure on them through the company to make them give up."

As one of the Ten Elders, Lu Jin actually wields considerable power, but he doesn't like to use his status and position to suppress others; however, sometimes he has no other choice.

"Shall we go back to the old place now?" Lu Lin asked.

"Of course we're going. We're not going for anything else today, just to go back to the Ancestral Hall. Let's have breakfast and then we'll set off," Lu Jin said.

The three of them left the company, and Lu Jin took them to a time-honored restaurant for breakfast.

The shop is located at the end of an old alley. The owner is a woman in her thirties who is very efficient.

The three sat down, and Lu Jin ordered three bowls of wontons, three bowls of stir-fried rice noodles, and three servings of steamed cakes!

"Although it has moved several times and changed stores multiple times, the signboard has never changed!"

Lu Jin pointed to the signboard, a hint of reminiscence in his eyes: "Back when I was learning martial arts on the mountain, my two senior brothers, Shuiyun and Changqing, would often take me down the mountain to eat delicious food."

"It was still dark then. The three of us sneaked down the mountain, ate, and then sneaked back. We were caught by our uncle, and he told us about the past together. Lu Jin's eyes softened."

"But those things happened a long, long time ago. Speaking of which, the last time I ate here, the owner was a young old lady in her sixties. Now it's a different person. I don't know if the taste has changed."

The food was served quickly.

Lu Jin picked up her chopsticks and couldn't wait to take a bite.

But after chewing a few times, the smile on his face slowly disappeared. He put down his chopsticks, stared at the steaming soup in the bowl, and remained silent for a long while.

"It doesn't taste the same as before, the MSG is too strong!" He sighed, "Everything moves so fast these days, even this bowl of noodles has changed."

Lu Lin took a bite and thought it tasted quite fresh, but seeing his grandfather's dejected expression, he didn't dare to say anything.

"Grandpa, I wanted to buy osmanthus flowers and share wine, but it's not like when we were young. Eating them at the same shop at different times will definitely taste different," Li Chang'an said.

"I wish to buy osmanthus flowers and share wine with you—" Lu Jin murmured to himself: It's just a pity that when will we be able to meet again?

He looked down at the bowl and chopsticks in front of him and understood that it wasn't so much that the taste had changed, but rather that the people who had brought him here to eat noodles back then were no longer there.

After eating this bland breakfast, Lu Jin, along with his two disciples, set off on the mountain path leading to the former site of the Sanyi Sect.

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