Eleanor’s Peak of Life and Death Chapter 8

Asher Mo lay in bed like a dead fish for three days. Just as his wounds had healed, he received a summons to go to the Red Lotus Waterside Pavilion to do hard labor.

This was also part of the punishment. During the period of confinement, Asher Mo was not allowed to go down the mountain, but he could not sit idle either. He had to help the sect with miscellaneous tasks and do some hard chores.

Generally speaking, these chores are such as: helping the lady in Mengpo Hall to wash dishes, scrubbing the 365 stone lions on the pillars of Naihe Bridge, copying extremely boring archive files, etc.

But what is the Red Lotus Waterside? It is the residence of Gabriel Chu's grandson, known as the Shura Field of Red Lotus Hell.

Few people have been to the Peak of Life and Death, and all those who have been there have come out with broken arms or legs.

Therefore, Gabriel Chu's bedroom, in addition to the Red Lotus Hell, has a more down-to-earth nickname: Broken Leg Waterside Pavilion.

There is a joke circulating in the sect: "The waterside pavilion hides a beauty, the beauty asks questions from heaven. Enter my broken leg door, and you will know the pain of my broken leg. Elder Yuheng is your only choice to help you sever your meridians."

There was once a fearless female disciple who was so bold that she even coveted the beauty of Elder Yuheng. She sneaked to the South Peak when the moon was dark and the wind was strong, and climbed onto the eaves, intending to spy on the elder bathing and changing clothes.

The result is predictable. The female warrior was beaten to death by Tianwen. She cried for her parents and lay in bed for more than a hundred days without being able to get up.

Moreover, Gabriel Chu threatened that if the person dared to do it again, he would gouge out his eyes.

See? Such rude words! Such unromantic behavior! Such an outrageous man!

In the sect, there were some innocent and silly girls who relied on their female status and thought that Elder Yuheng would be kind and gentle to them. They always laughed and joked in front of him, trying to attract the elder's attention. However, since the elder killed the female gangster, no one dared to take advantage of him anymore.

Elder Yuheng, who smokes both men and women, has no gentlemanly bearing at all. Apart from his good looks, he is not good in any other aspect. This is how the sect's disciples evaluate Gabriel Chu.

The junior fellow disciple who came to deliver the message looked at Asher Mo with sympathy, and after trying to hold back, he couldn't help but said, "Senior Brother Mo..."

"Um?"

"... Elder Yuheng has such a bad temper that no one who went to the Red Lotus Waterside Pavilion could come out alive. You see, otherwise, just say that your wound has not healed yet and ask Elder Yuheng to let you wash the dishes?"

Asher Mo was very grateful for his fellow apprentice's kindness, and then rejected him.

Asking for Gabriel Chu?

Forget it, he didn't want to be served by Tianwen again.

So he put on his clothes with great effort and walked towards the South Peak, the peak of life and death, with heavy steps, very reluctantly.

Red Lotus Waterside Pavilion, Red Lotus Hell, Gabriel Chu's residence, no living person can be seen within a hundred miles.

No one wanted to get close to where he lived. Gabriel Chu's poor taste and fickle personality made everyone in the sect stay away from him.

Asher Mo was a little nervous, not knowing what Gabriel Chu would do as punishment for him. He was lost in thought as he arrived at the top of the South Peak. After passing through the dense bamboo forest, large tracts of gorgeous red lotus came into view.

It was early morning, the sun was rising, and the sky was shining like a brocade. The fiery red clouds and the red lotus in the pool complemented each other, and the waterside pavilions stood quietly on the pond. A waterfall was roaring on the mountain, and the tiny crystal water drops were knocking on the stone wall. The mist was steaming, and the smoke was condensed. There was a bit of enchantment in the tranquility.

Asher Mo's feelings about this are:

vomit.

No matter how beautiful the place where Gabriel Chu lived was, he felt sick!

Look at how extravagant and wasteful it is. The houses of the disciples are closely connected, and the rooms don't take up much space. But Elder Yuheng occupies an entire mountain by himself, and he has dug three large ponds and planted them with lotuses. Well, although these lotuses are of special species and can be refined into holy medicines, they are just not pleasing to the eye. He wished he could burn down this broken-legged pavilion!

Although he was secretly complaining, considering that he was only sixteen years old and unable to compete with Master Chu, Asher Mo still came to Gabriel Chu's residence, stood at the door, squinted his eyes, and spoke sweetly, pretending to be a grandson.

"Disciple Asher Mo, paying respects to the Master."

"Well, come in."

The room was in a mess. The cold-blooded demon Gabriel Chu was wearing a white robe with his lapels folded high and tight, which gave him an abstinent aura. He had a high ponytail and black metal hand guards. He sat on the floor fiddling with a bunch of mechanical parts, with a pen in his mouth.

He looked at Asher Mo expressionlessly, biting the pen and said incoherently, "Come here."

The ink burned.

This was quite difficult, as there was no place for people to stay in the house, with drawings and broken metal wood scattered everywhere.

Asher Mo's brows twitched. In his previous life, he had never been to Gabriel Chu's room. He didn't know that this handsome man, who was well-dressed, lived in such a mess... It's hard to describe.

"Master, what are you doing?"

"Night-walking God."

"What?"

Gabriel Chu was a little impatient, probably because he was holding a pen and couldn't speak: "Night Wandering God."

Asher Mo silently glanced at the pile of messy parts on the ground.

His master was known as Grandmaster Chu, and it was not a false reputation. To be honest, Gabriel Chu was a very strong man. Whether it was his three god-level weapons, his barrier technique, or his mechanism manufacturing technique, they were all worthy of the four words "reaching the pinnacle". This was also the reason why, despite his bad temper and being so difficult to serve, the major immortal cultivation sects were still fighting to get him.

As for the "Night Wanderer", the reborn Asher Mo knew it very well.

It was a kind of mecha made by Gabriel Chu. It was cheap and powerful, and could protect ordinary people in the cultivation world at night from being disturbed by ordinary ghosts.

In the past, a well-made Night Walker had become a must-have mecha for almost every household. Each one cost as much as a broom, and was much more useful than a grinning door god.

After Gabriel Chu's death, these night wandering gods still guarded those poor families who couldn't afford to hire a Taoist priest. This compassionate heart, coupled with Gabriel Chu's coldness towards his disciples... Hehe, it really made Asher Mo despise him.

Asher Mo sat down, looking at the "Night Walker" which was just a pile of parts at this moment. The past flashed through his mind. He couldn't help but pick up a finger joint of the Night Walker and held it in his hand to take a closer look.

Gabriel Chu fastened the nut of the parts, and finally freed his hands. He took down the pen he had been biting in his mouth and glared at Asher Mo: "That one has just been painted with tung oil, don't touch it."

"Oh..." Asher Mo put down his knuckles, adjusted his mood, and still looked harmless and cute. He asked with a smile, "Master called me here. Do you want me to help you?"

Gabriel Chu said: "Yeah."

"do what?"

"Clean up the house."

Asher Mo's smile froze. He looked at the room that looked like it had just been hit by an earthquake: ...

Gabriel Chu is a genius in immortal arts, but also an idiot in life.

After cleaning up the fifth broken teacup that had not been swept away in time, Asher Mo finally couldn't stand it anymore: "Master, how long have you not cleaned this room? My God, it's so messy!"

Gabriel Chu was looking at the blueprints and said without even looking up: "About a year."

Asher Mo: ...

"Where do you usually sleep?"

"What?" There might be something wrong with the blueprint. Gabriel Chu was disturbed and seemed even more impatient than usual. He rubbed his hair and answered angrily, "Of course it's the bed."

Asher Mo glanced at the bed, which was piled with various mechas that were already mostly completed, as well as a series of tools such as saws, axes, and files, all of which were shining coldly and extremely sharp.

Awesome, why didn’t this guy cut off his own head while sleeping?

After working for most of the day, the sawdust and dust on the floor filled three dustpans, and the white towel used to wipe the shelves of the bookcase turned more than ten black. By noon, only half of the work had been tidied up.

Fcuk Gabriel Chu, this guy is even more vicious than a vicious woman.

Cleaning the room doesn't seem like a serious punishment, and it doesn't seem like hard labor, but who knew it was such a ghost place that hadn't been cleaned for 365 days? Not to mention that I have scars all over my body, even if I am in good health now, I would be exhausted by this!

"Master..."

"Um?"

"Your pile of clothes..." has been there for about three months.

Gabriel Chu finally reattached one of Night Wanderer's arms. He rubbed his sore shoulder, looked up at the pile of clothes on the suitcase, and said coldly, "I'll wash them myself."

Asher Mo breathed a sigh of relief, thanking God, and then he became curious: "Hey? Master can also wash clothes?"

Gabriel Chu glanced at him, and after a while, he said coldly: "How difficult is that? Throw it into the water, soak it, fish it out, and dry it."

... I really don't know what those girls who are in love with Master Chu will think when they hear this. Asher Mo deeply feels that this good-looking but useless man is really disgusting. If he were to tell others about it, it would break many girls' hearts.

"It's getting late. Please follow me to the canteen. We can take care of the rest when we come back."

People were coming and going in Mengpo Hall. The disciples from the Peak of Life and Death were eating in groups of three or five. Gabriel Chu brought a few dishes on a lacquered wooden tray and sat quietly in the corner.

With him as the center, the area within twenty feet around him gradually became empty.

No one dared to sit too close to Elder Yuheng, fearing that he would be unhappy and throw out Tianwen to beat him wildly. Gabriel Chu himself was actually very clear about this, but he didn't mind. A cold beauty sat there, eating the food in the bowl politely.

But today, it's a little different.

He brought Asher Mo here, so naturally he had to stay by his side.

Others were afraid of him, and Asher Mo was afraid of him too, but after all, he had died once, so his fear of Gabriel Chu was not that strong.

Especially after the fear after the first meeting gradually subsided, the hatred for Gabriel Chu in the previous life slowly emerged. No matter how powerful Gabriel Chu was, it didn't matter? Didn't he die in his hands in the previous life?

Asher Mo sat down in front of him and calmly chewed the sweet and sour pork ribs in the bowl, crunching and soon spitting out a small mountain of bones.

Gabriel Chu suddenly threw down his chopsticks.

Asher Mo was stunned.

"...Can you please stop smacking your lips when you eat?"

"How can I chew a bone without smacking my lips?"

"Then don't eat the bones."

"But I like eating bones."

"Go eat over there."

The noise of their quarrel was getting louder and louder, and some disciples were already stealing glances at them.

Asher Mo resisted the urge to put the rice bowl on Gabriel Chu's head, pursed his greasy lips, and after a while, he narrowed his eyes and kneaded a sweet smile at the corners of his mouth.

"Master, please don't shout so loudly. If others hear us, won't they laugh at us?"

Chu Wan Ning has always been thin-skinned, so his voice softened and he whispered, "Get lost."

Asher Mo laughed so hard that he fell down.

Gabriel Chu: ...

"Hey, Master, don't glare at me. Eat, eat. I'll try to keep my voice down."

Asher Mo had laughed enough and started to act cute again. The sound of him gnawing on the bone was indeed much quieter.

Gabriel Chu was a soft-hearted person, and seeing that Asher Mo was obedient, his expression softened a little, no longer looking so bitter and resentful. He lowered his head and ate his vegetables and tofu politely.

It didn't last long before Asher Mo started to act up again.

He didn't know what was wrong with him, but whenever he saw Allen Chu, he wanted to act up and make her angry.

Gabriel Chu then discovered that although Asher Mo no longer chewed loudly, he began to eat the ribs with his hands, until his hands were greasy and the sauce was shiny.

Gabriel Chu's forehead veins bulged, and he couldn't help it.

He lowered his eyelashes, not looking at Asher Mo, and ate his own meal.

I don’t know if Asher Mo was enjoying his meal too much and forgot himself, but he accidentally threw the bone he had just eaten into Gabriel Chu’s bowl.

Gabriel Chu stared at the messy and hideous piece of ribs, and the air around him quickly condensed and froze at a speed visible to the naked eye.

"The ink is burning...!!!"

"Master..." Asher Mo was a little panicked, not knowing how much was true and how much was false, "Um... uh, I didn't mean it."

No way.

...

"Don't be angry, I'll pick it out for you right away."

As he said that, he really stretched out his chopsticks, stabbed them into Gabriel Chu's bowl, and quickly picked up the piece of ribs.

Gabriel Chu's face turned pale, and he looked like he was about to pass out from nausea.

Asher Mo's eyelashes fluttered, and there was a pitiful and aggrieved look on his pretty face: "Master, do you dislike me?"

...

"Master, I'm sorry."

That's all.

Gabriel Chu thought.

Why bother with the juniors?

He gave up the urge to summon Tian Wen to beat Asher Mo, but his appetite had been wiped out. He stood up and said, "I'm full."

"Eh? That's all you ate? Master, you barely touched the food in your bowl."

Gabriel Chu said coldly: "I'm not hungry."

Asher Mo was so happy in his heart, but his mouth was still sweet: "Then I won't eat either. Let's go back to the Red Lotus Land - ahem, the Red Lotus Waterside Pavilion."

Gabriel Chu narrowed his eyes: "We?" There was a hint of sarcasm in his eyes, and then he said, "Who is talking to you? There is a hierarchy of seniority, so you better speak properly."

Asher Mo responded diligently, his eyes curved with a smile, he looked well-behaved, sensible and cute.

However, this person was thinking, respect for elders and juniors? Talking nicely?

Haha, if Gabriel Chu knew what happened in his previous life, he should know that in the end, only he, Mo Weiyu, is respected in this world.

No matter how noble, arrogant, and domineering Gabriel Chu was, in the end he was still just a piece of mud on the bottom of his boots, and had to rely on his charity to survive?

He quickly followed his master's pace, with a bright smile still on his face.

If Jasper Shi was the white moonlight in his heart, Chu Wan Ning was the broken fish bone stuck in his throat. He wanted to crush the bone or swallow it and let it be corroded by gastric juice.

In short, this time he is reborn, he can let anyone go.

But he would never let Gabriel Chu go.

However, Gabriel Chu didn't seem to intend to let him off easily.

Asher Mo stood in front of the Red Lotus Hell's library, looking at the fifty rows of ten-story bookshelves, and thought he had heard wrongly.

"Master, what did you say?"

Gabriel Chu said calmly: "Wipe all the books here."

...

"Wipe it off and then register it."

...

"I'll check it out tomorrow morning."

"!!!"

What!!! Is he going to stay in Red Lotus Hell tonight?

But he had made an appointment with Jasper Shi to change his medicine at night!!!

He opened his mouth to bargain, but Gabriel Chu was too lazy to pay attention to him. He waved his sleeves, turned around and went to the control room, and closed the door of the control room in a haughty manner.

Asher Mo, whose date was ruined, fell into deep disgust towards Gabriel Chu - he wanted to burn all of Gabriel Chu's books!!

No!

After a while, he came up with a more malicious idea...