What did Master just say? A scepter! What scepter? There are only ordinary tables and chairs here, not even a bed, where would a scepter come from?
Looking around and carefully searching every inch of the place, they found nothing unusual except for the thick stone walls.
Xiao was puzzled. After standing in the cave for a moment, he shook his head and said to himself with a self-deprecating smile, "Master is no ordinary person. If he says it exists, then it exists. Why should I worry unnecessarily? Right now, I should take the child home. My wife can't have children, so I can just say this child is my own..."
The scene shifts to more than ten years later, in front of a farmhouse, where a plump woman with dark skin, wearing a cotton dress with oil stains on the chest and messy short hair, sits on a bamboo stool.
She was looking down, grinning, elbow bent, and tearing at a piece of meat she was holding in her hand, smacking her lips. "She's really enjoying it."
"Qiao Mei, wow, chicken dinner!" A young man walked from the path in front of the door. His shout startled Qiao Mei, who was keeping her head down.
Qiao Mei raised her head, her swollen eyes staring at the newcomer, greasy lips, looking dazed and confused.
The young man reached out and snatched the half-eaten roast chicken from her hand, then turned and walked back, saying, "This one is mine."
"Give it to me." With a "whoosh!" sound, a burly, dark-skinned figure appeared like an arrow released from a bow, bypassing him from the side path and blocking his way.
"Why are your eyes red?" The young man felt a chill run down his spine as he looked at Qiao Mei, who was standing with her hands on her hips and her round body with red eyes. His face turned pale, and he reached out to push Qiao Mei away. "I, I'm leaving first."
"Mine!" Seeing the roast chicken that the man hadn't put down, Qiao Mei suddenly spread her arms, jumped forward, and tackled the man to the ground. She then opened her mouth to bite the chicken leg that he was covering his head with...
"What are you doing?" Just then, Qiao Mei's father appeared. He shouted and reached out to pick up Qiao Mei from the ground.
The man was now lying on the ground, trembling, and kept saying, "Here, here, don't bite me..."
"The Xiao family's silly daughter looks old. She likes to flirt with handsome men, and if they don't comply, she'll bite them..." Rumors of Qiao Mei's lust and cruelty quickly spread throughout the village.
"Alas! My dear Qiao Mei! From now on, I must keep you hidden away. You'll have to stay in this little building." One quiet midnight, Mr. Xiao sighed, standing in front of the building. With a casual flick of his wrist, a hidden spiderweb stretched endlessly into the darkness, covering the entire rooftop of the old building...
As the rooster crowed at dawn, an old man on his way to gather firewood in the mountains, carrying a long knife, passed by the Xiao family's house. He walked past, then took a few steps back, standing there stunned by the roadside, scratching his head with a puzzled expression. "Their house...it seems like it's been moved to a different direction..."
"Uncle Liu, good morning!" Old Xiao suddenly appeared at the door and greeted the old man.
"Good morning," Uncle Liu greeted Old Xiao, smiling as he passed by him, muttering to himself, "Maybe I'm just seeing things."
Turning around and standing by his own door, watching Uncle Liu's figure disappear down the mountain path, Old Xiao grinned bitterly, "Luckily, I had the foresight to cleverly use my magic. Only the people of this village can see this building, but they can't see the people inside. As for my Qiao Mei, she can't see the people outside the building, and she can't get out either..."
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