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Bei Quan shifted in Wei Fuyuan’s hold, turning to face him directly. He gently pressed down on Wei Fuyuan’s hand that had slid down to his waist.
“We’re in your house, remember?”
Bei Quan reminded him with a playful smile. “And, it’s almost lunchtime, isn’t it?”
Wei Fuyuan reluctantly withdrew his hand that was about to slip into Bei Quan’s shirt.
Indeed, they were still at his parents’ house. If things were to escalate into a ‘real intimate embrace’, it would be nearly impossible to keep it completely hidden from their family. Unless he wanted to anger his parents and be kicked out on the spot, it was better to exercise some restraint.
Although the ambition of wanting to have sex for 300 rounds with his beloved in the place he grew up may not be achievable for now, Wei Fuyuan still didn’t want to let go of Bei Quan. So, he simply maintained the position of keeping Bei Quan close in his proximity, resting his chin against Bei Quan’s temple, and playfully nuzzled against it.
“How do you see my father’s strange illness?”
Wei Fuyuan asked, ”Is it caused by ‘evil spirits’?”
Bei Quan didn’t answer directly and instead asked, “What do you think?”
Wei Fuyuan thought that Bei Quan was probably trying to test his opinion again.
“My dad’s illness is indeed quite peculiar.”
If it were before entering the “Sāntúchuān” Wei Fuyuan would have thought that his father must have some rare and difficult-to-diagnose illness, but unfortunately, the doctors in Fengxing City haven’t encountered it before, so they were temporarily at a loss.
But now, after encountering so many supernatural and mystical things, Wei Fuyuan was starting to consider the possibility of supernatural forces when faced with inexplicable phenomena.
“However, I just used my Heavenly Third Eye and didn’t detect any negative energy or evil spirits attached to my father.”
Wei Fuyuan’s eyes lit up as he suddenly thought of a possibility.
“If there is something causing trouble, could it be hidden in this house?”
“Exactly,” Bei Quan laughed.
“At least you can score a 70% for that deduction.”
Wei Fuyuan was quite surprised that his casual remark turned out to be correct.
But then he furrowed his brow and asked, “But what exactly is this ‘thing’ causing trouble? And where is it hiding now?”
Bei Quan answered, “Actually, rather than an evil spirit, it’s more like a curse.”
Wei Fuyuan exclaimed, “Are you saying that someone has cursed my father!?”
“I can’t say for sure right now.”
Bei Quan smiled and continued, “But once I find the source of the curse, we should be able to figure it out.”
Wei Fuyuan’s eyes immediately lit up upon hearing this.
He had great confidence in Bei Quan. With his partner by his side, there was nothing they couldn’t solve.
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Wei Fuyuan quickly asked, “Are you going to investigate now?”
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However, only Bei Quan and Wei Fuyuan were sitting at the large dining table.
Ever since Wei Fuyuan’s dad grew hair on his face, he rarely stepped out of the house except for medical appointments.
Wei Fuyuan’s mother came out briefly, greeted her son, awkwardly nodded at Bei Quan, and then personally took her husband’s lunch back to the room.
As for Auntie Zhang, she had to go to the hospital to help Wei Fuyuan’s father get his medicine.
After preparing lunch, she hurriedly left with the driver. Although the Wei family was well-known in the business district of Fengxing City, their lifestyle was not extravagant. They simply ate regular home-cooked meals.
For lunch, they had three dishes and a soup: stir-fried green peppers with pork, salt and pepper fish chunks, stuffed eggplant, and a bowl of soup with pea shoots. The dishes may be ordinary, but Aunt Zhang’s cooking skills were excellent.
Bei Quan enjoyed the meal and even had an extra half serving. After finishing their meal, they started exploring inside and outside the villa.
To better understand the problem, Bei Quan took out a rarely used compass and started walking around the house with a professional and mystical vibe.
Wei Fuyuan followed closely behind, mimicking his every move.
“What are you looking for?” he asked.
“Is there something wrong with our house?”
“It’s just a suspicion.” Bei Quan smiled slightly, with a mysterious expression.
“But I still need to confirm it.”
Wei Fuyuan was already accustomed to his tendency to be mysterious, so he didn’t rush to ask or urge him.
Instead, he patiently accompanied him as they walked around in circles.
Bei Quan was very meticulous in his exploration, not even leaving out the garden. They went around for a good half an hour before he finally felt satisfied.
Then he reached out his hand to Wei Fuyuan and said, “Give me paper and pen.”
Wei Fuyuan cooperatively brought him paper and pen.
Bei Quan sat at the dining table and began drawing the floor plan of each level of the villa. The Wei family’s house faces north and south, with a total of three floors and a spacious balcony on the rooftop.
The design of the mansion was quite conventional. The first floor consisted of a living room, dining room, kitchen, public restroom, and a housekeeping room where Aunt Zhang slept.
The second floor had the master bedroom suite and a study on the southeast side.
The third floor was where Wei Fuyuan’s bedroom was located, along with two other temporarily vacant guest rooms. Wei Fuyuan sat next to Bei Quan, attentively watching him draw the floor plan.
Bei Quan’s hand, accustomed to writing in flowing clouds style, was extremely steady.
He didn’t even need a ruler to draw straight lines.
The floor plan he drew was naturally proportioned, with a built-in scale, and it was stunningly beautiful and accurate.
After finishing the drawing, Bei Quan stuck the three sheets of paper together and held them up in the air, gesturing toward the light.
“Ah… so that’s how it is.”
Bei Quan chuckled, “You planned this meticulously, huh?”
Wei Fuyuan: “???”
He leaned in closer to Bei Quan, carefully examining the overlapping sheets of paper, but still couldn’t make out any clues from them.
“Can you explain it to me?”
Wei Fuyuan straightforwardly encircled Bei Quan, like a giant pendant, pressing his entire body against his lover’s back. “What’s the problem with our house?”
Bei Quan no longer kept it a secret and unfolded the three drawings one by one, explaining his discoveries to Wei Fuyuan…
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“Fuck!”
After listening to Bei Quan’s explanation, Wei Fuyuan was about to explode on the spot, jumping up and wanting to grab something.
“I’m going to kill him!”
“Wait!” Bei Quan acted quickly, grabbing Wei Fuyuan’s arm.
“Don’t rush, we haven’t figured everything out yet.”
Bei Quan gently interlocked his fingers with Wei Fuyuan’s, soothing his hot-tempered boyfriend.
“And as the saying goes, ‘If you don’t kill the snake, it will come back to bite you’, right?”
Wei Fuyuan took a deep breath. He understood Bei Quan’s meaning. “Got it.”
Wei Fuyuan sat back down, feeling dissatisfied. He tightened his grip on Bei Quan’s fingers and asked, “So what should we do now?”
Bei Quan replied, “First, we need to find the ‘medium’ of the curse.”
Wei Fuyuan asked, “How can we find it?”
As he spoke, he furrowed his brow and carefully analyzed the details Bei Quan had just told him. “After all, like you said, curses are different from evil spirits. Even with the Heavenly Third Eye, it’s not guaranteed that we can see them…”
“Yes, it may be difficult for us to find, but someone can.”
Bei Quan smiled and opened the suitcase, took out a bamboo tube and released the fox spirit.
The cases received by [Thriller Night Talk] in the past two weeks haven’t been difficult. The fox spirit hadn’t been needed much either. The little fox had been stuck in the bamboo tube for quite some time and was getting restless. When Bei Quan let it out now, it became extremely happy, spinning around the two of them before rubbing against Bei Quan’s pants.
Bei Quan bent down and soothingly stroked the little fox’s back.
“Go on, find the strongest source of resentment in this room,” he instructed the fox spirit.
The little fox nodded its furry head and swiftly darted out.
Bei Quan and Wei Fuyuan followed behind the fox spirit, circling inside and outside the villa once again.
Finally, the little fox gracefully jumped onto the liquor cabinet and used its claws to grab a bottle from the top.
Wei Fuyuan reached up and took the bottle down.
It was a one-liter wide-bellied wine bottle filled with homemade yellow wine. About one-third of it had been consumed, and there were still many medicinal herbs at the bottom.
Bei Quan asked Wei Fuyuan to bring a few more containers, then poured out all the wine, before transferring the soaked herbs into another large bowl.
After that, Bei Quan used chopsticks to pick through the medicinal herbs for a while, and then he picked out a flat, yellow-brown, finger-sized hard object that resembled a pinky finger.
Wei Fuyuan leaned in and asked, “What is this?”
“It’s a bone from some kind of animal. Judging by the color, it has been soaked for a while,” Bei Quan replied.
“As for the specific animal, it’s hard to say for now.”
“My dad… he drank this?”
Thinking about unknown animal bones being soaked in the wine, unknowingly consumed by his own father, and then growing a face full of fur, Wei Fuyuan felt a sense of uneasiness and couldn’t help but shiver.
“That’s right,” Bei Quan nodded with a smile.
“Most likely, it’s because of this.”
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After fifteen minutes, Wei Fuyuan and Bei Quan knocked on the door of Wei’s parents’ bedroom.
Wei’s mother opened the door and was very surprised to see her son standing outside with his boyfriend, holding a bottle of medicinal wine.
She asked, “What’s going on?”
“We have something to ask Dad,” Wei Fuyuan replied.
Wei Fuyuan brought the bottle of wine to Wei’s father’s bedside and asked, “Where did this wine come from?”
Wei’s father, with a furry monster face, emerged from under the covers.
“Are you asking about this bottle of wine?”
Even though Wei’s dad didn’t know why his son suddenly became interested in a bottle of medicinal wine, he still answered, “This was given to me by your second uncle. He said it’s Flavored Bazhen wine, made with premium ingredients like Chinese angelica, Szechuan lovage, Rehmannia, and Atractylodes. It’s very nourishing…”
He scratched the yellow fur on his chin and blinked with uncertainty, “Why? Is there something wrong?”
Wei Fuyuan thought to himself, “That doesn’t seem quite right, because besides the ‘Flavored Bazhen wine’, it also comes with a bonus bone. Have you ever tried this wine?”
“I have…” Wei’s dad nodded and then turned to look at his wife. “Just, just a couple of times… and only a glass each time…”
Bones!!!??? Damn!!!
Thanks for the chapter ☺️☺️