Chapter 55: If You Want To Know, Go Ask Him
Xuan Xia put on an expression of listening attentively.
Seeing this, Qu Xingxuan’s little expression was full of smugness again, and he even deliberately put on airs for a while.
He leisurely swished two slices of meat, then dipped them fully in sauce and stuffed them into his mouth, chewed and swallowed, then smacked his lips with relish before starting to speak: “Didn’t I just say that when Daoist Master Qin had good legs, he was very arrogant.”
Xuan Xia thought to herself, yes, you also said he was like a spoiled young master.
But at this moment, Qu Xingxuan didn’t call him a spoiled young master anymore, he said: “It’s said that he has a great talent for divination, and he learned it very well just casually. And at that time, wasn’t he very arrogant? So he divined for himself, and guess what happened?”
“What happened?”
“He suffered a backlash.” Qu Xingxuan spoke like a storyteller, using the chopsticks in his hand as a gavel, knocking them on the plate.
A crisp “ding” sound rang out.
Xuan Xia: “…” Is this kid asking for a beating?
But Qu Xingxuan completely didn’t notice Xuan Xia’s urge to beat him. After he finished speaking, he tilted his head and thought for a bit, uncertainly saying: “Hey, no. It seems like he divined three major divinations in a row, anyway, it was particularly impressive. But not two days later, he got into a car accident. My master said that for this kind of thing, he must have divined some extraordinary heavenly secrets.”
His tone was regretful, but it also carried a bit of unconscious admiration, especially when talking about Daoist Master Qin divining three divinations in a row.
Xuan Xia, however, was thinking, he divined three divinations?
Were these three divinations because he didn’t believe it, so he repeatedly divined? Or did he ask something else?
“So my master always teaches me not to be radical, to set up the divination tray step by step, and also, after learning to drive in the future, driving must be standardized.” Qu Xingxuan shook his head, imitating his master’s manner, “Driving not standardized, loved ones in tears.”
Xuan Xia: “…”
“Then why can his leg be cured, but he doesn’t go to get it cured? What’s the reason?” Xuan Xia didn’t want to discuss driving issues with him and directly pressed on.
“This one.” Qu Xingxuan raised his hand and scratched his head, “It seems like it’s to avoid disaster?”
“Avoid what disaster?” Xuan Xia continued to press.
“Then I don’t know.” Qu Xingxuan shrugged, and the chopsticks in his hand went to pick up a meat roll again.
This bit of content was still something he overheard.
“Aren’t you curious?” Xuan Xia asked him irritably.
Qu Xingxuan dipped the meat roll into the soup base, rolled his eyes at her, “My master said, behavior can’t be too curious. Curiosity killed the cat! Especially for people in our line of work.”
Xuan Xia: “Heh.” She rolled her eyes back at him.
Qu Xingxuan seemed like he’d been stepped on, immediately unhappy, and countered: “Then what do you know? Tell me too.”
Xuan Xia withdrew her line of sight and said: “I don’t know anything.”
“Hey you—” Qu Xingxuan wanted to curse according to his temper, but seeing that the person opposite was a girl, not a classmate he was close with, he swallowed the curse words, changed his tone: “So boring!”
Continued eating meat.
Xuan Xia looked at the thin white steam rising from the pot, thinking to herself, indeed boring.
Trying to dig some dirt from this kid’s mouth, she got some dirt, but the puzzles also increased.
Qu Xingxuan slurped down several big mouthfuls, and upon lifting his eyes, he saw the person opposite was spacing out. He observed while eating for a bit, then suddenly asked: “Are you thinking about Daoist Master Qin?”
Xuan Xia slowly came back to her senses, looking through the mist at Qu Xingxuan who was eating with his mouth full of oil, and asked in a sighing way: “After getting into a car accident, why become a monk? And why must it be Changsheng Temple?”
The latter question, after she knew who Daoist Master Qin was, had always lingered in her heart.
Qin Yi could recognize Li Xinze, Li Xinze couldn’t possibly not know Qin Yi, right? If Li Xinze recognized Qin Yi, he couldn’t possibly not tell Daoist Master Qin that Qin Yi knew her, right?
But the result was, Daoist Master Qin hadn’t mentioned a single word about Qin Yi to her even now.
Was he not curious about her relationship with Qin Yi? Or did he already know clearly, so there was no need to ask?
She couldn’t help but overthink it.
Of course, as someone who knew many things, she naturally overthought anyway.
“Huh?”
Qu Xingxuan seemed stumped by the question.
Thinking on that question for two seconds, Qu Xingxuan came up with the latter answer: “That scenic area is all his family’s, it’s convenient for him to go to Changsheng Temple.”
Xuan Xia retorted: “His family has money, where wouldn’t be convenient for him to go?”
“…Yeah.”
Qu Xingxuan was stumped for a bit, probably because such questions really tested his brain cells too much. He couldn’t help but scratch his head again, then gave up: “What’s there to guess about this, just go ask him directly. It’s not some big question that can’t be asked.”
“…”
Xuan Xia: “You’re right.”
Qu Xingxuan stared at Xuan Xia, the two gazing at each other through the rising white mist for a few moments.
Then Qu Xingxuan asked: “Then why haven’t you asked yet?” He even gestured with his eyes for her to quickly pick up her mobile phone.
Xuan Xia: “…”
After two seconds, Xuan Xia saw through: “You really want to know too, right?”
“Yeah.” Qu Xingxuan admitted generously.
Xuan Xia was just about to say, then why don’t you go ask, when Qu Xingxuan’s mobile phone on the table rang.
Qu Xingxuan looked down, and immediately grinned.
He said: “Hehe, Daoist Master Qin finally has time to reply to me.” Then he picked up the mobile phone.
Xuan Xia thought he was picking up the phone to read Daoist Master Qin’s message, but then she saw him shouting at him and at the phone: “Daoist Master Qin, we have a question we’re discussing, why did you go to Changsheng Temple to become a monk?”
A “whoosh” sound, the voice message sent, Qu Xingxuan stared at the screen and started grinning foolishly.
Xuan Xia: “…………”
You’re really something!
Daoist Master Qin should have replied quickly, because Xuan Xia heard the mobile phone ring again.
The foolishly grinning Qu Xingxuan spoke into the phone again: “Yes yes yes, it’s the person I introduced to you who’s discussing it.”
Xuan Xia thought, good good good, you’d better blab even more and turn everything you just said into voice messages and send them out.
However, Qu Xingxuan didn’t get that opportunity.
He soon stopped grinning.
“Daoist Master Qin is so stingy, really too boring!”
Xuan Xia asked leisurely: “What? He didn’t answer you?”
“He said, he’ll only tell you.” Qu Xingxuan said sourly: “He said, if you want to know, just go ask him.”
Xuan Xia: “…”
After being sour, Qu Xingxuan started to egg her on: “Quickly ask. I’ve already asked, now it’s your turn.”
Xuan Xia: “…” Still talking about fairness.
Xuan Xia said: “Did you forget what your master told you? For people in your line of work, have less curiosity. Curiosity killed the cat!”
Qu Xingxuan: “…” Miscalculated!
“How can you be like this.” Qu Xingxuan called out indignantly.
But no matter how Qu Xingxuan racked his brains, Xuan Xia ultimately didn’t do as he wished.
The angry Qu Xingxuan ordered two more portions of sliced beef, which almost made her miss her flight back to Jiangshi.
But besides that, the two still reached a friendly agreement: Qu Xingxuan could go to Changsheng Temple to play during summer vacation if he had time, and she would host him.
