Seeing how worked up I was, my master and martial uncles stood in the doorway and laughed.
"Relax, it's all over. Look how excited you are. We were going to tease you a little, but now we don't dare."
"But we still need to tell you this. After all, that cruise ship was full of rich and powerful people. For your safety, we still recommend that you hide out in Wangyue Village for a year or two until things blow over. People live in that village. Just think of it as spending a year in the countryside. What do you think?"
I froze for a moment, thinking that spending a year or two in the countryside didn't seem like such a big deal. I could just treat it as living in seclusion.
But what worried me was whether I would be going alone or with someone else.
Holding An Ning tightly, I asked, "Can I bring my wife?"
At that, my master and martial uncles burst out laughing.
"You're... already married. If you don't bring your own wife, whose wife are you going to bring?"
"You're the only person in Qingyang Temple who's married. We don't have any wives, just bachelors."
I immediately grew excited again. "Then... then okay! No problem!"
Master nodded. "Get ready. You'll head down the mountain in a bit, and then Shi Xiu will drive you back to Lanjiang City."
Wangyue Village was in Lanjiang City. Grandmaster, Old Master Song, and the others were buried there.
After the cruise ship sank, Li Fuguang had brought my soul back to where my physical body was. Once they confirmed I had returned, Shi Xiu and An Ning dealt with my original body, then took my soul back to the Northeast, to the cave in Zhang Family Village.
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