Do you really think you can get me with just a banana?

Chapter 179 His Secret

The door opened, and Jin Yu stood outside with his arm hanging.

The scar on her forehead hadn't faded, and her injured hand hadn't healed. When Guan Shanyu opened the door, she was greeting the passing disciples. She hadn't expected him to open the door so quickly. Turning around and seeing Guan Shanyu, she was stunned to see that he was almost unharmed. She said in surprise, "Shanyu, your injury healed so quickly."

Guan Shanyu opened the door wider, turned sideways to greet him, and explained, "I don't have any injuries on my face. The injuries are all on my body, and they haven't healed yet."

Hearing this, Jin Yu chuckled and waved his hand to indicate that there was no need to go into the house. He said, "I won't go in. I have something to tell you."

Guan Shanyu nodded, motioning for her to continue. Jin Yu's expression turned serious, and he said, "Hu Qi recently received a commission from down the mountain, hoping we could send someone down to exorcise an evil spirit. Before he left this morning, he went to Ruchen's former room and found many of your belongings. He asked me to ask if you needed them."

Guan Shanyu raised his eyebrows slightly when he heard this. After a moment's thought, he asked, "Are you looking for us to exorcise the evil spirit?"

Jin Yu nodded and explained, "Although Ruchen's last words at Wangshuiling were spread by those with ulterior motives, few believed them. Everyone considered him a heroic sacrifice, so when there are requests to exorcise evil spirits and avert disasters, we will still be given priority."

"Oh." Guan Shanyu came back to his senses, nodded, and said, "Let's go, let me see what it is."

Jin Yu nodded, turned around and led the way. Guan Shanyu walked silently for a while, then suddenly remembered something and asked in confusion, "Wait, Jin Yu, are you saying we should go to Yan Ruchen's room?"

Jin Yu nodded as a matter of course: "Yeah, what's wrong?"

Guan Shanyu frowned slightly and asked in confusion: "Doesn't he live in a tent? Doesn't he have a dedicated room?"

Jin Yu was slightly surprised when he heard this, and turned to look at him with amusement: "Of course there is. The first room the disciples built was for him, but he doesn't live there very often. Didn't he tell you when he lived with you?"

Guan Shanyu closed his eyes for a moment, turned his head, took a deep breath, shook his head, and said calmly: "No."

The man said at the time that he had no spare rooms and was sleeping in a tent.

Jin Yu was stunned for a moment, then suddenly realized, and explained softly: "The house may have been built, but the inside has not been cleaned up yet, so Ruchen has not lived in it yet..."

Hearing this, Guan Shanyu said sternly, "Let's go and talk to him."

On Wangshui Ridge, Chen Rongrong had specially marked out a patch of flat land for the construction of residences for his disciples. Compared to Guan Shanyu's isolated and quiet residence, the disciples' houses seemed more clustered together, neatly arranged dozens of meters apart. They featured white walls and green tiles, and each house had a small courtyard for the disciples to freely arrange their own arrangements.

Guan Shanyu followed Jin Yu to a humble house. The other disciples' courtyards were either planted with flowers or furnished with swings, tables, and chairs, but Yan Ruchen's was completely empty.

Jin Yu pushed open the door, and a strong smell of dust instantly filled the air.

Guan Shanyu raised his sleeves to cover his mouth and nose, fanned the air in front of him, and stepped into the house. Jin Yuze stood at the door and did not follow him in. He only said, "Before, we would only ask Ruchen to come over unless we really needed him, but he doesn't like to be disturbed, so I won't go in. Those cabinets are all the things he left behind. Take a look and see if there is anything you need."

Guan Shanyu looked back at Jin Yu and saw her standing alone outside the door waving to him. He nodded and turned to look around the room.

The furnishings inside the house were simple, similar to those outside. Before entering, Guan Shanyu was still thinking about how Yan Ruchen had said before that he liked him, but he had never brought him here once. Didn't he also think that he was an outsider and therefore not worthy of coming?

But after coming and seeing it himself, Guan Shanyu felt that there was really no need to bring him here.

Apart from three cabinets and a table, there was not even a stool in the room, let alone a bed.

But the walls were covered with a row of weapons, including bows and arrows, long swords, and short knives. It looked more like an armory than a bedroom.

Guan Shanyu curled his lips, not looking at the row of eerie weapons on the wall, and walked towards the cabinet. He covered his nose with one hand to block the dust, and gently opened the cabinet door with the other.

Although the cabinet door was not locked, judging from the traces left on the cabinet surface, Yan Ruchen must have sealed it with a spiritual talisman during his lifetime. However, after his death, the spiritual power of the talisman attached to the cabinet disappeared, and the cabinet door opened with a slight pull.

At this moment, the sun was blazing outside, and a beam of light shone into the house through the small window, shining on the open cabinet door. As soon as Guan Shanyu's eyes touched the corner of the cabinet, he saw a circle of mold.

The black and gray mold climbing on the cabinet door has grown very tall.

Guan Shanyu widened his eyes and looked at the thin, loose mold clinging to the cabinet door with some horror, wondering if this person had secretly placed some human organs in the cabinet. But when he moved his eyes downwards, he saw only half a cake.

Half a cake?

Guan Shanyu lowered his hand from covering his nose with some confusion and carefully opened the cabinet door wider. As more sunlight streamed in, he noticed that there was a piece of paper pressed against the side of the cake.

He carefully pulled out the paper, trying to avoid touching the dense mycelium. Once the paper was in his hand, he took a deep breath, stepped back, away from the mold, and then began to carefully examine the paper in his hand.

The paper was yellowed, with two lines of words written on it in red. Guan Shanyu frowned, looking at the thing that looked like a threatening letter, wondering if Yan Ruchen had used it to threaten someone before.

But after slowly unfolding the paper, the first few words he could see clearly were his name.

Guan Shanyu was shocked and quickly spread out the whole piece of paper to take a closer look. When he read to the end "...remember to eat this cake", his face was full of confusion.

This note and dry food were left behind by him and Su Yi and others when they first came to Wangshuiling. Yan Ruchen went out late at night and did not return. They wanted to look for him the next day.

But why would Yan Ruchen keep this thing?

Don't eat it and don't throw it away, just let it get moldy.

Guan Shanyu frowned slightly, glanced at the cabinet door that was still half open, and then realized something belatedly. He slowly walked forward and opened the cabinet door on the other side.

At this moment, the sunlight completely poured into the cabinet, revealing the items inside to him.

The cabinet is divided into three layers. The second layer is where the moldy cake is. In addition, there is a suona placed in the innermost layer. Guan Shanyu just took a quick glance and recognized that this was his "Xinghe".

Considering that he had only used the Galaxy for a short time before, he was slandered as a murderer because of it, so he was terrified of this thing and didn't dare to touch it at all.

Unexpectedly, he was taken in here by Yan Ruchen.

I think that when Yan Ruchen met him getting medicine at Wuzijian by chance, he secretly took this thing from him.

Guan Shanyu shook his head and cursed him inwardly as a scumbag.

The first floor is higher, and there is a wooden sign and several thick stacks of notes. These are the medical books of various immortal sects that Guan Shanyu copied on Wangshui Ridge, as well as his homework and excerpts in Lingcao Xuan. I don’t know how he kept them all, and they are neatly placed in a cabinet.

As for the wooden sign, Guan Shanyu picked it up curiously and took a look at it, then threw it back angrily.

It was the sign with the words "QQ Farm" that he had originally stuck in the ground. He thought it was lost, but it turned out that he had kept it.

This time Guan Shanyu was so angry that he laughed.

He glanced at the third layer, where several pieces of paper lay quietly. Picking them up, he saw that they all depicted the same person, in various postures, some lying flat on their backs, some rolled over, but all sleeping.

Previously, when Yan Ruchen said that he couldn't sleep at night, Guan Shanyu asked him what he did at night. Now it seems that he was lying next to him and drawing.

His painting skills were really average. If each picture was not marked with the date and his name, Guan Shanyu would almost not have recognized it.

There were also a bunch of things that Guan Shanyu had used before in the cabinet, just like the girls in his class who bought peripheral products to chase stars when he was in school.

It's simply the behavior of an elementary school student.

He slowly closed one cabinet and opened another.

This time, the closet was no longer filled with those inexplicable objects, but with many neatly stacked clothes.

Guan Shanyu looked from top to bottom, from summer clothes to winter clothes, stacked from dark to light colors, and they were neatly arranged like military training.

Among them was a gray-white coat, the one that Guan Shanyu had thrown on the ground the night they had quarreled last time.

Now, the stains on the coat have been cleaned and it is neatly stacked on the bottom shelf of the wardrobe.

With just a little attention, Guan Shanyu could see the problem: the clothes in the closet were basically in duplicate. Each of the two identical clothes had a small label with his and Yan Ruchen's names on it.

It was obvious that Yan Ruchen had prepared this cabinet for the two of them. Looking at the materials used for the clothes, from the finest silk to precious animal skins, it was hard to tell how long Yan Ruchen had been preparing them to fill the entire cabinet.

The third cabinet, as expected, was filled with shoes, socks and other items. Like the second cabinet, all the items were in duplicate, neatly arranged and packed full.

Although the entire room belongs to Yan Ruchen, except for the weapons on the wall, everything is related to Guan Shanyu.

I don't know what he was thinking when he prepared all this. He announced to the outside world that no one was allowed to enter the room at will. Was it because he simply didn't like others to step into his territory, or was he afraid that his feelings buried in thick dust would be exposed?

Guan Shanyu has been living alone since he was a child, and has been staying with many relatives. He lives in one house today and another house tomorrow. No one would prepare these things for him.

When I was a child, I often felt confused and envied other children who had careful arrangements made by adults, but I didn’t.

But what you can't get when you're young, you can make up for it when you grow up. But it wasn't until Guan Shanyu bought a whole closet of clothes and shoes for himself that he realized he had long since stopped caring about these things.

But today, looking at the closet full of clothes, he suddenly felt a sense of heaviness in his heart.

It's like there's a chipped tooth in my heart. It's numb and insensitive, but when the wind blows, it feels a little sore.

A year is not a long time. Autumn geese fly obliquely across the sky, the sweet scent of osmanthus fills the air, the heat of summer finally fades away, leaving only the cool frost and dew of late autumn. A gust of winter chill sweeps across the mountains and fields, and the plum blossoms all over the city gradually reveal their buds.

Guan Shanyu stood in front of the gate of Wangshuiling, counting down to the last day like the countdown to the college entrance examination, but there was no sign of Yan Ruchen appearing.

Of course, this is normal.

Who said that Yan Ruchen’s birthplace must be Wangshuiling?

Tianxuan Mountain, the Ten-Li Long Street, Yuchen Palace, or the Yunze Realm are all entirely possible.

Guan Shanyu stood at Wangshuiling for a day, and asked Jin Yu and others to tell him if they saw Yan Ruchen returning, and then went down the mountain in their worried expressions.

But after coming down the mountain, he searched everywhere for a month but still didn't see Yan Ruchen.

Of course, it's normal.

The system queue is not necessarily on time. A delay of one or two months is rounded up to one year, so it may only be a slight delay.

But after five months of wandering around since he went down the mountain, he still couldn't see any trace of Yan Ruchen.

He was still standing on the mountain path at this time. He was so upset that he had forgotten where he was going. He only remembered that the engineer had said that Yan Ruchen would be back in a year, but a year had passed and he still hadn't seen him.

On the branches, a few birds shook their heads, curiously examining the frowning young man. One of them, unable to contain its curiosity, quietly flew up behind him, intending to scare him. But just as it landed from the tree, it heard the young man take a deep breath and yell, "System! I want to switch to manual mode!"

The birds in the trees were frightened by the scream and scattered. They made sharp and miserable cries, circled in the air for a while, and then flapped their wings and flew away. There was silence all around, with only Guan Shanyu's voice echoing in the woods.

No one responded to him, not even the system.

Guan Shanyu hugged his head in frustration and stomped his feet a few times, but suddenly heard the sound of branches and leaves stepping on each other behind him.

"Yamayu?"

The cry was very light, but it was like a stone thrown into a lake, slowly spreading across the valley.

Guan Shanyu's body reacted faster than his brain. He turned around immediately after hearing the voice and shouted in surprise, "Yan Ruchen!"