Carefully holding the strawberries, the two of them took a small truck back home.

At home, Yin Xun had no idea what had happened. He and Bai Yuehu were quietly cleaning the yard when Bai Yuehu's phone rang. After checking it, her expression changed drastically. She threw down the broom and walked out. He didn't dare ask Bai Yuehu what had happened. He had planned to tell Lu Qingjiu when he returned, but he saw that Bai Yuehu and Lu Qingjiu had returned together.

"Why are you two together?" Yin Xun was a little confused.

"Oh, I called Bai Yuehu over for something." Lu Qingjiu said, "and then I came back with him."

Yin Xun didn't think much of what he had said. Lu Qingjiu sorted through the things he had brought back, took out some strawberries, and asked Yin Xun to wash them. Then he asked him to go to the backyard to pick some eyeball fruits. The eyeball fruits were quite juicy and would be delicious in candied haws.

Yin Xun happily went to wash the fruit, while Lu Qingjiu put on an apron and went to the kitchen to get some rock sugar to start making the icing.

The sugar coating must be cooked over low heat, not too fast, otherwise it will easily become burnt. After cooking, the hard rock sugar will melt into soft syrup. Put the washed strawberries and other fruits on bamboo sticks in advance, and then dip them in the syrup. After cooling, the candied haws are ready.

Yin Xun and Bai Yuehu stood by, waiting intently. When Lu Qingjiu saw that the sugar coating had solidified, he said it was ready to eat.

They both reached out their hands almost simultaneously, each grabbing a bunch, both of them strawberry. They placed the candied haws in their mouths, biting off the thin, crispy coating with a snap, releasing the juices of the strawberries. The rock sugar perfectly diluted the tartness of the strawberries, enhancing their sweetness and making the fruit richer, softer yet with a hint of the crispness of the candy.

"It's delicious." Yin Xun's eyes lit up like little stars, "I've never eaten anything so delicious..."

Lu Qingjiu looked at the two of them kindly and picked a bunch of strawberries for himself. He didn't eat the strawberries but took the grapes instead. Because he had eaten a lot of strawberries before, he didn't like them particularly at this moment. Since Bai Yuehu and Yin Xun both liked strawberries so much, he might as well leave them to them.

While eating candied haws, Lu Qingjiu casually asked about what happened today, saying that it turned out that non-humans and humans were cooperating, which would solve most of the household registration and ID card problems.

Bai Yuehu chewed the candied haws with a crunching sound and hummed.

"Then why did Shaohao say that you don't have an ID card or household registration?" Lu Qingjiu was a little curious.

Bai Yuehu said: "Because I am not on the payroll."

Lu Qingjiu: "Fuck, this is still considered a staffing?"

Bai Yuehu said, "Yeah."

He further explained the meaning of "establishment," which essentially meant that any non-human who wished to obtain these things had to enter the human world and live there. After obtaining a household registration, they had to work there for at least a few years, or their household registration and ID card would be revoked. Bai Yuehu, unable to leave Shuifu Village, naturally couldn't fulfill this requirement, so he had no choice but to become an unregistered resident. Zhu Rong, however, showed some compassion. While he didn't grant Bai Yuehu a household registration or ID card, he did give him a driver's license and a small truck he could drive.

Lu Qingjiu didn't expect that the small truck was actually delivered to her home by Zhu Rong. She said that she could invite Zhu Rong to have a meal to express her gratitude when she was free.

Bai Yuehu snorted, expressing his disdain.

The fruits in the human world are delicious when made into candied haws, and the eyeball fruit is also delicious when made into candied haws, especially because it has all kinds of flavors. The only drawback is that Lu Qingjiu doesn't like some of the fruits, but you won't know until you bite into them.

In addition to buying fruits, Lu Qingjiu also bought a lot of other ingredients in the supermarket, such as steak and seafood, as well as some things that Bai Yuehu had definitely never eaten.

After putting the candied haws outside and giving a bunch to Xiaohua and Xiaohei, and feeding a few to the little fox, Lu Qingjiu got busy preparing lunch. Yin Xun was sent outside to clean the yard, and Baiyuehu stood beside Lu Qingjiu to help.

Lu Qingjiu lowered his head to cook, then remembered something and said, "Oh, I forgot to ask you, has my grandfather not been found yet?"

"Yeah." Bai Yuehu responded.

Lu Qingjiu said: "Why can the Phoenix find my grandfather?"

Bai Yuehu said, "In fact, the Phoenix Clan and the Dragon Clan were both gods at the time, and their abilities were comparable. However, due to some events, they were wiped out, and there are no descendants of them in the other world anymore."

Lu Qingjiu listened carefully.

It turns out that although the phoenixes of the other world were exterminated, some of their bloodlines remained in the human world. However, these phoenixes' bloodlines were usually much diluted, and coupled with the thin spiritual energy in the human world, they almost lost the powerful power they once had. The phoenix's greatest power is the ability to see into the eyes of all birds and understand their spirits. Simply put, they can connect with all birds. With so many birds, it naturally formed a huge surveillance network, perfect for finding people. Originally, Zhu Rong wanted Shaohao to help, but Shaohao's phoenix was even more unreliable than Xiaomei. After becoming addicted to gambling, he went straight to Nirvana. In desperation, Zhu Rong had to transfer a phoenix from another place to help.

Lu Qingjiu was a little worried after hearing this. The last time Zhu Rong found his grandfather, he cut off one of his grandfather's hands. If his grandfather was found again this time, he would definitely suffer other injuries.

Bai Yuehu saw Lu Qingjiu's worry and reached out to gently press Lu Qingjiu's shoulder, saying, "But don't worry too much. In fact, Zhu Rong is looking for more than just your grandfather when he asked Fenghuang to come this time."

"Who else is there?" Lu Qingjiu asked.

"A candle dragon escaped from another world." Bai Yuehu said, "This is Zhu Rong's main target."

Lu Qingjiu suddenly realized: "Is that so."

Bai Yuehu nodded: "Of course, we didn't announce this to the outside world because we didn't want to cause panic. You don't have to worry too much."

Lu Qingjiu sighed, feeling a little better, but he was still worried about his grandfather. He really wanted to see him again and have a good chat...

…

After the arrival of summer, the night comes especially slowly. It is after eight o'clock before the sun completely disappears from the horizon. The air is filled with a heavy and sticky smell. Swallows are gliding in the low sky. A huge storm seems to be coming.

The dark clouds unknowingly covered the moon and stars in the sky, and a strong wind was howling on the roadside, blowing up sand, stones and leaves.

Wu Xiaohang worked a bit of overtime today, and by the time he got off work, it was almost ten o'clock in the evening. The rain was pounding down relentlessly, and his umbrella, fragile as a toy, was completely useless. In a matter of moments, he was completely soaked. It was hard to get a taxi at that time, so he had no choice but to walk home with his shaky umbrella.

Fortunately, his home was not far from the company, and he only had to go through a few remote alleys to get there.

Although the rain was a little lighter in the alley, there was no light. Wu Xiaohang walked forward slowly, but when he reached a corner, he heard strange voices, as if someone was talking.

Wu Xiaohang approached carefully and finally heard the sound coming from the other side clearly.

"Hand over the money quickly." Someone threatened in a vicious tone.

"Wow, wow, I don't have any money." The person being threatened seemed to be a soft-hearted boy, with a hint of crying in his voice.

"No money?" The robber shone the flashlight in his hand towards the victim. After seeing his appearance clearly, he suddenly changed his target. "You are quite good-looking, kid. No money? It doesn't matter if you don't have money. Take off your clothes..."

"Take off your clothes?" The boy was stunned. "Why are you taking off your clothes?"

"Take it off just like I told you to! Hurry!" The man raised the dagger.

Seeing this, Wu Xiaohang felt something was amiss and quickly pulled out his phone to quietly call the police. After calling the police, he looked back and saw the boy slowly taking off his shirt. Although the light was dim, with the help of the flashlight, Wu Xiaohang could still see the boy's soft, fair skin and his delicate, tearful face.

The robber was in high spirits and was about to reach out to grab the boy, but Wu Xiaohang felt that he could not wait any longer. He shouted "Stop!" and turned on the flashlight on his phone to shine at the robber: "What are you doing!"

The robber was startled by the sudden appearance of the person, but he quickly calmed down after finding that Wu Xiaohang was alone. He said, "Don't mind your own business." As he said that, he gestured with the dagger in his hand.

Wu Xiaohang said, "I've already called the police. Get out of here right now! Otherwise, when the police show up, you won't be able to leave!"

The robber's expression darkened as he heard this, cursing profusely. He grabbed a dagger and rushed towards Wu Xiaohang, who immediately dodged. The alley was narrow and dark, and as the robber rushed over, he seemed to trip over something and fell to the ground. Seeing this, Wu Xiaohang rushed towards the robbed boy, grabbed his hand, and yelled, "Run!" The two of them rushed out like a gust of wind.

However, Wu Xiaohang did not notice that just after he left the alley, a dazzling flame ignited behind him. The flame burned from the robber's feet directly to his head at an extremely fast speed. In the blink of an eye, the man turned into a pool of black dust and was washed into the sewer by the wet rain.

Wu Xiaohang ran for a long time, and when he saw that no one was chasing him, he stopped panting. After he stopped, he noticed that both he and the boy were soaked, and hurriedly asked the boy if he was okay.

The boy shook his head and said he was fine, but his face was frighteningly pale.

This place wasn't far from Wu Xiaohang's home. He looked at the boy's naked torso and said, "Little boy, why don't you go to my house and find some clothes to wear first?" He was worried that the boy would be scared, so he added, "I'm not a bad person."

The boy looked at Wu Xiaohang and agreed hesitantly.

Wu Xiaohang took the boy to his home, first let him take a bath, and then found him some clean clothes. Putting on the clean clothes, the boy looked like a pearl that had been cleaned of dust. His beautiful face and clean temperament were extremely attractive.

Wu Xiaohang asked the boy several questions, and he answered them all, but when it came to his name and family situation, he avoided the question. Wu Xiaohang felt helpless and thought about taking him to the police station to have them investigate. However, the boy stood up and tried to leave when he heard he was going to the police station, and Wu Xiaohang was unable to stop him.

"Okay, okay, I won't call the police. Did you have a fight with your family?" Wu Xiaohang could only compromise temporarily. "You're young, and your family will be worried about you if you go out like this... What if you run into a bad guy like that again?!"

The boy didn't speak.

Wu Xiaohang said, "Well, I won't call the police, but you have to tell me your name, right?"

"Ruhuo." The boy said, "My name is Wu Ruhuo."

Wu Xiaohang didn't expect that he had the same last name as him, and he felt a little happy. He thought for a moment and said, "How about this, you stay at my house for a few days, and when you figure it out, we can go home, okay?"

The young man looked at Wu Xiaohang and nodded slowly.

Wu Xiaohang simply assumed Wu Ruhuo was a runaway kid. Judging by his appearance, he must have come from a well-off family. He must have had a falling out with his parents and would figure it out after a few days. So he didn't take the matter too seriously, simply considering it a good deed by keeping him home for a few days to prevent him from running into any bad guys again.

However, at this time, Wu Xiaohang did not know that he had welcomed the King of Hell home.

As for Lu Qingjiu, the weather had been hot recently, and since Lu Qingjiu's body was too cold and he couldn't use air conditioning, he moved his activities to the backyard. There were thick vines over the backyard, blocking the glaring sunlight, and there was also a well to absorb heat, so it was quite cool.

Bai Yuehu also accompanied Lu Qingjiu in the backyard to enjoy the cool breeze. Their watermelons were ripe, big and round. When they were cut open, red juice overflowed, revealing the crunchy flesh inside. After the watermelon was cut, the whole yard was filled with the refreshing aroma of watermelon. Lu Qingjiu couldn't eat cold food, so he saved a piece for himself and put the rest in the refrigerator to chill.

Yin Xun felt a little hot, so he sat by the well, fanning himself with a palm-leaf fan. Lu Qingjiu went to make some hawthorn juice, which was made by adding ice cubes to the hawthorn jam he had made earlier after adding water to it. It was sweet and sour, refreshing, and heat-relief. He also had frozen milk popsicles ready to eat. Lu Qingjiu was also thinking about making some ice cream... However, these summer-relief products had nothing to do with him. He couldn't touch any ice this summer vacation.

"It's so delicious." Yin Xun drank ice water and ate watermelon, feeling very happy. Bai Yuehu never spits out the seeds when eating watermelon. If Lu Qingjiu hadn't been watching him, he would probably have eaten the whole rind.

In the evening, after the sun went down, there was finally a cool breeze in the air. After Lu Qingjiu finished his dinner, he originally planned to sit in the backyard for a while. However, as soon as he arrived at the backyard, he saw the female ghost in the well climb out again. She sat by the well and thought about life with a serious face.

Lu Qingjiu brought a stool and sat next to her, saying, "What are you thinking about?"

The ghost girl said, "My name is Fu Ziying, right?"

Lu Qingjiu didn’t expect that she remembered it, and didn’t deny it: “Yes.”

After becoming a deity, Miss Ghost seemed to have lost many memories, but because she hadn't asked about it and didn't seem to care much about her past life, Lu Qingjiu hadn't mentioned it to her either. Of course, if Miss Ghost wanted to know, he wouldn't hide it. After all, Miss Ghost was the primary productive force in his family, and their income almost entirely depended on the hair growth water.

"I'm thinking about a question." The ghost girl exuded a soft light all over her body, like a striking firefly in the dark night. The light was not dazzling, but rather had a holy smell. "Why do you think I am so obsessed with my hair?"

Lu Qingjiu thought for a moment and said, "I don't know about this either."

The female ghost said, "I need to think about it carefully."

Lu Qingjiu: “…”

The ghost girl pondered this all night. The next morning, when Lu Qingjiu went to the backyard to pick onions to make fried eggs, the ghost girl grabbed her and said that she had finally remembered everything about her life, her scumbag boyfriend, and many other past events. Lu Qingjiu instinctively felt that this was a long story, so she tactfully asked if she could go back to cook first, then bring some sunflower seeds over to listen to the story.

The ghost girl thought about it and asked Lu Qingjiu to bring her some sunflower seeds. She hadn't eaten sunflower seeds for a long time...

Lu Qingjiu agreed.

After breakfast, Lu Qingjiu did what he was supposed to do, then went to the backyard, bringing with him a bag of sunflower seeds. These seeds were bought in town, and there were all kinds of flavors. Lu Qingjiu preferred caramel ones. Yin Xun followed Lu Qingjiu to join in the fun. The two of them took a small stool and sat in front of the ghost lady to listen to the story.

The ghost girl grabbed a handful of melon seeds and began to eat them slowly, then told the story of her past life in a deep voice. It turned out that the ghost girl came to Shuifu Village to relax with her boyfriend. They had some relationship problems and wanted to repair them, but a fierce quarrel broke out after they arrived in Shuifu Village.

Yin Xun spat out the melon seed shells and said, "Why are you arguing like this?" Usually, couples would just break up at most after a quarrel, but these two had even quarreled to death.

The ghost girl said, "You know, people nowadays are under a lot of pressure and have irregular work and rest schedules. When you're under a lot of pressure and have a bad work and rest schedule, it's easy to... that."

Yin Xun was confused: "What?"

The ghost lady pointed upwards.

Yin Xun finally understood and clapped his hands, saying, "Oh, bald... um." Before he could finish his words, a ball of hair was stuffed into his mouth. Under his horrified gaze, the ghost lady said quietly, "Please don't say that word to me."

Yin Xun nodded repeatedly, and the hair was removed from his mouth.

The ghost girl continued, "He just dislikes me. It was my birthday, but when he took out the birthday present, I hated him."

When Lu Qingjiu and Yin Xun heard what the ghost girl's birthday present was, they almost choked on the melon seeds in their mouths. They really didn't know how the ghost girl's boyfriend found a girlfriend. He actually pulled out a wig and a set of hair growth products from his bag at such a romantic moment.

The ghost girl couldn't stand this stimulation at all, and she had a fierce quarrel with her boyfriend on the spot. Then she made an irreversible move - she reached out and grabbed her boyfriend's head. After grabbing a handful of hair, she said that her boyfriend would become bald sooner or later, and it would be the Mediterranean type.

At this point, the two of them were completely estranged. In a rage, the boyfriend ruthlessly killed the ghost girl and threw her body into a deserted well.

Neither Lu Qingjiu nor Yin Xun had ever suffered from hair loss, so they were stunned. After a long while, Yin Xun finally uttered, "That's it?"

The ghost girl was furious: "What do you mean, that's all? Do you know how important hair is to me?"

After being yelled at, Yin Xun apologized weakly and said that he did not mean that.

"Oh, now I finally understand my mission to become a god." The light on the ghost girl's body became brighter. She clasped her hands together and made a prayer-like gesture. "I want to free everyone in the world from the troubles of hair loss."

Lu Qingjiu and Yin Xun listened while eating melon seeds.

The ghost girl said, "Thank you, Mr. Lu, for providing me with this path. I have a small request, can I ask for it?"

Lu Qingjiu said, "You tell me." She is the main labor force in the family.

The ghost lady said, "I want to increase the production of hair growth water."

Lu Qingjiu: "Well...it's fine, but if the production is too high, it will easily attract other people's attention." His family's hair growth water is already very popular on the Internet, but because the production is so small, not many large companies or organizations have noticed it. After all, it is not touching other people's cake. However, if you want to increase the production, it may attract other people's attention.

The ghost girl said, "That's right, then don't increase it too much, just add another hundred bottles." She now needs a stronger power of faith to maintain her divinity.

Lu Qingjiu calculated and agreed to the ghost girl's request. He also asked the ghost girl if she had any opinions or suggestions on the price.

The ghost girl shook her head and indicated that Lu Qingjiu would be in charge of the matter, as long as she didn't offer a price that no one could afford.

Lu Qingjiu nodded and said that it would be better to keep the original price.

"Also, can you send me some food every day?" the ghost girl said, "I find that I seem to be able to eat now."

Lu Qingjiu said: "No problem, are you living in the well now?"

"Yes." The ghost girl said, "In a few years, I might be able to condense into a physical body."

Lu Qingjiu thought that it would take several more years, which was really a long way to go, but he could take it slow, as there were still many days to come.

After chatting, Lu Qingjiu was about to make lunch. He stood up and said goodbye to the ghost lady. Just as he was about to leave, the ghost lady said, "Mr. Lu, I really thank you very much, but I don't know how to express my gratitude. I can only give you the only thing I have." Lu Qingjiu felt something was wrong when he heard it. Just as he was about to refuse, the hands had already gently pressed his shoulders. Yin Xun, who was standing next to him and still eating melon seeds, was not spared either. He was held down with a confused look on his face.

Lu Qingjiu: “…”

Yin Xun: “…”

They looked at each other for a moment, and saw fear in each other's eyes.

When Bai Yuehu came back from the field, the first thing he did was to go to the kitchen to find Lu Qingjiu. However, as soon as he entered the kitchen, he was startled. He saw a black figure standing in the kitchen. At first glance, it looked like a primitive man. It was not until the man turned his head that Bai Yuehu realized that it was a head of long black hair.

"What's wrong with you?" Bai Yuehu asked, "Why did you drink well water?"

Lu Qingjiu said painfully: "It's a thank-you gift from her to us."

Bai Yuehu said: "Oh, isn't it just that your hair has grown too long? It's okay, I'll help you cut it off."

Lu Qingjiu gritted his teeth and said, “It’s not just the hair.”

White Moon Fox: “……?”

Lu Qingjiu said in despair: "All the hairs are..."

White Moon Fox: "..."

Lu Qingjiu: “Just cut it off.”

Bai Yuehu had a subtle expression and held back his laughter.

Lu Qingjiu sighed painfully. At this moment, he finally understood what time flies.