The trust between us

chapter 16 "To Conduct One self Well"

"Controlling corpses Wei Ying  isn't that to advance," Lan Zhan stated

They both knew that to control puppets or corpses would require the yin iron or the Stygian Tiger Amulet, also known as the Yin tiger tally

Wei Ying understood Lan Zhan's concerns It wasn't possible to control living people except the dead ones but with the people missing and their resentment he couldn't help feeling that this master mind could some how control this people and if he was correct he was feeding on their resentment

The Lan juniors had heard the tales and seen Wei Wuxian control corpses, and they knew the only other person was Xue Yang, but he was dead.

"It impossible Xue Yang is dead" Lan YI shouted his voice louder than the rules permitted it to be luckily no one was listening to the group of cultivators they were all drunk around them

His voice lowered as he spoke the next sentence, "His dead isn't he Wei Wuxian?" Lan Yi was blinking rapidly, nervous, his heart beat, increasing, waiting for the answer.

"He should be, but it might not be him--"

Wei Wuxian was rudely interrupted by Lan Fen

"Master Wei, you were dead once, weren't you?" Lan Fen looked at Wei Wuxian, not blinking once

Wei Ying felt the sting in his words he understood Lan Fen's theory but he didn't know if he was liked by Lan Fen he never did talk to him except he was sent or if Lan Zhan was around he decided not to dwell on it "that true but--"

"Exactly then we can't safely assume he is dead he might not be" Lan Fen cut Wei Wuxain's sentences again while looking  at the low table where his tea cup was placed on, admiring the beautiful designs on the tea cup his eyes left the tea cup to look at Wei Wuxian's eyes "Master Wei"

"Let us focus on finding the missing people first and not bring up past matters that don't relate with the case." Lan Wangji's look of displeasure showed for only Wei Ying's eyes to see.

Lan Fen bowed his head back, his gaze leaving Wei Wuxian's face. They all chorused together. " Yes, Hanguang-Jun."

Wei Ying laughed and held Lan Zhan's cold palms in his own palms greatful for the support "I agree with you my dear Hanguang-Jun and I think i know how we should proceed from here I can sense little resentful energy and i can follow the trail with the use of the Yin burning tails man till it leads us to where the resentful energy is most thick and we can draw whatever is causing this out"

"Master Wei, we could use the spirit attraction flags," Sizhui spoke, delighted to show his intuition. He had used them before when he met master Wei as Moxuanyu

"Brilliant Sizhui we can use that to draw out the resentful beings and the corpses" he reached out to pat Sizhui on the head he was sitting opposite him beside Lan Yi while Lan Fen was beside Lan Zhan and Lan Haoyu was beside Sizhui.

Sizhui was happy he knew the more experience the user has drawing the incantations and motifs, the greater the flag's effective range and the more powerful spiritual beings it can attract

"We leave for the morning then," Lan Wangji said quietly, eager to finish up what he had started with his beloved earlier and go on with their case the next morning.

He had a lot of suspicious thoughts, and he just hoped they were all wrong.

He looked at Wei Ying, noticing the white forehead ribbon around a finger's width, Cloud patterns sewn onto them, sitting beautifully round Wei Ying’s ebony black hair on his forehead

Lan Zhan was staring at him thinking of the motto of the GusuLan clan, which is  'righteousness,'  the meaning of the forehead ribbon meant 'to conduct one's self well'.

Wei Ying was the opposite of what the motto and what the forehead ribbon stood for, yet it sat proudly on his forehead like a mockery.

Lan Zhan looked at the ribbon still thinking that his beloved didn't still conduct his self like a Lan recounting all the times  when Wei Ying kept breaking all the rules despite knowing what the forehead ribbon stood for which was still sitting proudly on his fore head presently.

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Lotus pier compared to Gusu was busy, noisy, and lively.

Market sellers were advertising their products.

Women in brothels were making up by beautifying  themselves and then inviting men over.

Restaurant owners were cooking and serving their guests.

Yunmeng jiang junior disciples were currently on the training ground their leader, a direct disciples, wore a silver bell on his belts, engraved with the signature motif,nine-petaled lotus

He had been trained well by Jiang Cheng, the current Sect Leader.
So when the Sect leader was busy, he would be the one training both the junior disciples and the senior disciples who were direct disciples.

All that was remaining was for him to become Head disciple, but that hadn't happened so far

Jiang Cheng was currently sitting on his chair in the hall, going through reports he was adorned with his violet jianxiu robes of the Yunmeng Jiang Clan and his silver bell that didn't make noise when he walked

He was thinking about his brother. He missed him even though he would never admit it he missed his Shijie, though Lotus Pier had been peaceful since the wedding he hadn't seen his older brother.

He was willing to fix their relationship slowly and wanted to have a talk with his brother about some matters even though he wasn't a Jiang disciple anymore he still considered him one.

The was the matter of the twin jades of Gusu, the elder he respected as a fellow Sect Leader and he could be friends with him because of his beautiful personality and friendly nature but the younger jade was a stone and he tolerated him because of his brother he remembered all through his stay at Cloud Reccess he never liked his brother's love interest and he disliked him even more now that he took his brother away from him.

He attended their wedding because it would make Wei Wuxian happy, but he still couldn't phantom being in Lan Wangji's presence and not pick a fight with him.

He just hoped that his brother was happy and that stone -faced husband of his doesn't hurt him or he would have to make good on his promise that he made to the both of them after their wedding to break Lan Wangji's legs if he hurt his brother.

While he was holding the reports of his junior disciples achievements he was thinking all these and he was suddenly pulled out of his thoughts when a senior disciple came running into the hall panting and looked like a ghost had scared the day lights out of him.

"Sect Leader Jiang, some of our disciples have been kidnapped they are missing, and we haven't seen them, and" 

The senior disciple looked like he was bracing himself for the next statement he was going to make. "The worst news is that they had been missing for over a week now."

Jiang Cheng suddenly developed a headache, his heart palpitating faster. How was it possible that in the whole of the Yunmeng clan, no one not even he had notice their absence.

Well, here you have it, Jiang Cheng. I thought about him and decided let leave our couple for a bit and know what going on with our favourite angry lotus 😄

These disappearances are happening everywhere, not just in Gusu 🤕

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