"Aunt Yuan, is he observing us?" Seeing that the man was discovered but still standing there motionless, Xu Ning couldn't help but ask Xu Yuan curiously.

"Don't worry, Ningning, let's go back and eat."

Xu Yuan pulled Xu Yuan and turned to leave. Cui Yong stood in the bamboo forest like a pine tree, gazing at the happy Xu family from afar.

"Dad, when you go buy the pig this afternoon, ask Brother Ji about the origins of the owner of the stone house."

"Okay, is there anything else you want dad to bring you?" Xu Da asked while eating from his bowl.

"Not yet. I'll tell you when I think of it."

"Eat quickly, the food is getting cold. Yuanyuan, today's mushrooms are fresh, you should eat more." Old Mrs. Xu said as she picked up a chicken leg for Xu Yuan. She wanted to give the remaining one to Xu Ning, but Xu Ning pushed it to Old Man Xu.

"Grandma, I'm tired of eating mushrooms. I want to eat mushrooms." Xu Ning picked up a piece of mushroom with chopsticks, swallowed it all in one gulp, and squinted his eyes in satisfaction.

"Drink more soup to reduce internal heat." The south is different from the north. If Xujia Village hadn't been suffering from drought, it would have been snowing by now. But in Xianyu Village, even taking a cold shower twice a day would be too hot.

"Got it, grandma!" It's really hard to eat in such a hot weather. It's better in the morning when it's cooler, but I have no appetite at noon.

After dinner, the Xu family members went about their own business. Ah Ji came back to the Xu family at about the same time.

"Aji, do you know the owner of the stone house on the cliff?" Xu Da and Aji each carried a backpack and chatted as they walked towards the town.

"I don't know him. I've only seen him twice." Aji told Xu Da that the last time he saw Cui Yong was more than a year ago.

"Has this person always lived in the village?" Xu Da asked curiously.

"I don't know. Once, there was a scoundrel in the village who tried to steal something from his house, but he beat him up. His father sent people to seek justice, hoping to steal his house, but they were all beaten back."

"Hasn't this been reported to the police?"

"How dare we report him to the authorities? That man is incredibly skilled in martial arts. People in the village even saw him fly. Even pirates suffered at his hands. Later, Lai Zi's family got scared and moved away."

"Pirates!" Xu Da just remembered the pirates and asked Aji: "Have the pirates come to the village again?"

"I've been here, but pirates don't kill people, they just steal things. But pirates don't climb cliffs."

"Aji, what's the origin of that man?" Even pirates avoid him, so there shouldn't be any problem since they live so close.

Aji shook his head. Not only Aji didn't know, even the village chief Qin of Xianyu Village didn't know where that person came from.

The people in Xianyu Village only knew that the man gave the village chief some money to buy the land on the cliff, then built a stone house with his own hands, lived there for several years, and never interacted with the villagers.

Xu Da didn't get any news and was always worried. Fortunately, the two of them arrived in the town soon. It happened that Zhang the butcher who sold pigs in the town had not closed his stall today because his business was not good. Xu Da bargained with him according to what Old Lady Xu had told him, and finally bought a fat pig weighing nearly 300 kilograms for two taels of silver. They also agreed that the pig would be slaughtered and sent to the Xu family in Xianyu Village this evening.

Butcher Zhang was also straightforward. He gave Xu Da a set of pig offal and a few large bones that he had left over from selling today.

Xu Da packed the pork bones and offal into a backpack and walked towards the grocery store with Ah Ji.

"Hey, what's that smell?" Before Xu Da even walked into the grocery store, he was stopped at the door.

"stop!"