Chapter 54
Considering that the possibility Youlan mentioned was too terrifying, Su Yun didn't think too much about it. He just ate a little and wanted to take a nap. He didn't even want to eat the lunch prepared by the boss.
However, it was not quiet at this time. The college students had left, and the travel companions had actually returned from outside. A group of people were clamoring to eat, drink water, and pack various things, and they couldn't sleep again.
Su Yun opened the door and looked down, sighing, "How come everyone in this B&B has a different schedule and can live so comfortably? They can sleep well at night."
Youlan poked her head out from under Su Yun's armpits and said, "Come to think of it, A Ming and I's room was near theirs last night. They went to bed very early and got up earlier than us in the morning. They didn't complain at all and seemed to be working really hard for the trip."
Looking at others and then looking at himself, Su Yun decided not to act badly anymore and took Youlan downstairs.
The boss had agreed before that breakfast could be delivered to the room, but it would not be delivered if requested. For lunch and dinner, you have to go downstairs to the lobby and restaurant to eat, and it will not be delivered upstairs, because the boss will prepare some Chinese food, which is not included in the delivery.
Canglongzhai is just on the edge of the Tibetan area. In fact, it is considered to be within the Sichuan-Tibet area. The buildings and daily life are no different from modern life. The houses are the unique cement houses in the Sichuan-Tibet mountainous areas. They are staggered and have red tiles on the roofs. They look very artistic when photographed from a distance.
But only you know how crowded and inconvenient it is to live nearby.
Su Yun was not used to eating with a group of people squeezed at a narrow table, especially when there were not only customers of the B&B present, but also people from other B&Bs. There were old and young, tall and short people. It was not easy to tell the gender of the group. The main thing was that they didn't know where they came from, they smelled bad, and they came to eat without washing.
While eating, the boss secretly asked Su Yun if he wanted to take his sister to the kitchen to eat. Usually, there are all kinds of people traveling, and there is no guarantee that there may be bad people among them. It would be bad if the children were hurt or lost.
But Su Yun wanted to hear what they saw when they went out to travel early in the morning. Perhaps there would be the clues she wanted. Even if it was a little unbearable, she could endure it, so she refused the boss.
The boss reminded her: "Then you should pay more attention, sister. Only half of these people are my guests. I don't know the others, but they can come and eat after paying for the meal."
"Oh, are they from the same tour group?" Su Yun asked quietly while drinking water.
"No, they didn't join a group. Just like you, they came here on their own. And it seemed like several groups of people met on the road and just walked together." After the boss said this, he curled his lips and went back to the kitchen.
As a woman who runs a B&B in a tourist area with two children, the owner is most sensitive to the guests coming and going. She can tell at a glance who can be approached and who should not be contacted. From her expression, you can tell that she is not very satisfied with the group of people here today, but she didn't say anything for the sake of the money.
Su Yun smiled silently, enduring the strange smell and continued to eat, but he always felt that the aroma of the food could not cover up the stench, but everyone around him seemed not to smell it.
After a while, the boss brought up a few more dishes. Taking into consideration that the guests were all Han Chinese, she served some basic Chinese food, such as fried meat with dried bamboo shoots, scrambled eggs with tomatoes, and stir-fried shredded pumpkin and black fungus. These dishes are foolproof and easy to prepare.
The boss also prepared yak steamed buns, Tibetan noodles and fried potatoes. These are all dishes that have been selected by tourists and locals. There is no difference in taste and they are all delicious.
However, even the aroma of fried potatoes was so fragrant that Su Yun felt that it was a little difficult to cover up. When the boss went back to the kitchen again, he couldn't help but ask Youlan: "Youlan, do you smell anything? It stinks."
Youlan liked the tsampa and potatoes, and was eating them with both hands, on the verge of choking to death. When she heard Su Yun's words, she raised her head and sniffed, then shook her head blankly: "No, is the food bad?"
"It's not food, it's..." Su Yun was stuck for a moment. She couldn't describe what kind of stench it was. Looking at Youlan's expression, it seemed that she didn't smell it. Could it be that her nose was broken?
"If it's not food, let's eat first?" Youlan pushed the fried potatoes to Su Yun's hand and recommended it sincerely.
Su Yun looked at the golden fried potatoes, bent down to smell them, and found them to be very fragrant. This meant that it was not a problem with the food, but something had entered the lobby of the B&B with a foul smell, and she was the only one who smelled it.
After barely eating two bites of the soft and chewy fried potatoes, Su Yun still felt a little hungry. He started to knead tsampa, but in fact he was looking around the entire lobby.
The tourists who came back at noon almost occupied the entire lobby. There were also people sitting in the restaurant. Everyone who came out to travel had a huge luggage bag to carry food, clothes, thin blankets, and even emergency items.
Some of those luggage bags were very new, while others were so old that they had wear and tear, and it was obvious that they had been used for a long time. Some were also quite dirty, and no one knew where they had been, they were very filthy.
Su Yun thought that the dirty luggage bags were dirty, so they had a bad smell. But then he thought, if the luggage bags were dirty, there was no reason why the boss and Youlan didn't react. Especially the boss, she was very clean and probably wouldn't allow anyone to eat with a dirty bag in the lobby and affect the appetite of other guests.
Therefore, we still have to think in the direction that humans and monsters cannot smell.
Before she could finish her thought, Su Yun was suddenly poked on the arm. She looked down and saw Youlan looking at her aggrievedly: "Director Su, you pinched too much, I can't eat it in time..."
At this moment, Su Yun looked down and found that he had already pinched a whole plate of tsampa. Youlan couldn't catch up with it even if she grabbed it with both hands. She was probably choked to death.
"Sorry, sorry, I'm just thinking about something. It's okay. If you can't finish it, leave it here. I'll make some butter tea with it later. I like to drink it in a porridge-like shape." Su Yun apologized quickly. She didn't even notice that she pinched so much.
"Then let's eat slowly. Director Su, are you still thinking about the question just now? But I didn't smell it. Could it be a scent that only you can smell?" Youlan whispered softly so that the people at other tables wouldn't hear.
Su Yun frowned: "I also suspect that it is a smell that only I can smell, but my cultivation level is here, is there any smell that you can't smell but I can smell?"
Youlan looked at all the passengers present and said, "Could it be...something that is not human? I remember Ah Ming said that some people may have died but don't know they are dead and continue to live like human beings. However, people will rot and emit a very special smell."
This smell is just like the one Su Yun smelled on Chu Feidu. When people are facing death, it is always difficult to get rid of this smell as if the body is rotting from the inside out. Many dying elderly people are like this.
But Su Yun had lived in a funeral home for four years. Not only was he familiar with this smell, he could even tell when the person was going to die and how long he would have been dead just by smelling it. However, the smell at the moment was not the smell of a dead person.
Su Yun shook his head: "No, I am very familiar with the smell of dead people. There are no dead people in here. Could it be something they brought with them?"
If something special was picked up in the luggage bag, it would not be surprising to have a smell.
Thinking of this, Su Yun began to look closely at the luggage bags on the ground. Some were placed on individual chairs, seemingly put together randomly. Only a few more cautious tourists chose to place them at their feet.
Looking at these luggage bags of varying sizes, Su Yun's gaze was probably too direct. The tourists noticed it and asked an older aunt to come over and ask what Su Yun was looking at and whether he wanted to travel with them.
After all, judging from their clothes, Su Yun and Youlan could tell at a glance that they were here for a trip, and they were the kind of young people who came here on impulse and found that they were not prepared for anything.
Su Yun smiled dryly and said, "No, no, I'm lazy and came here with my friend and sister. I noticed that some of your bags were particularly dirty, but I couldn't understand why. Aren't you guys here together?"
"Yes, they were together, but the luggage bag got dirty accidentally on the way, and so did the clothes. You must have what those young people call... obsessive-compulsive disorder. You can't stand the same things, right?" The aunt was good at talking and she directly found an excuse for Su Yun.
"Yes, hahaha, that's why you feel uncomfortable when you see things that are not in order. Sorry for disturbing you." Seeing that she couldn't get anything out of him, Su Yun apologized directly. Anyway, she was just looking and others would not pursue her staring at other people's luggage bags too much.
The aunt praised Youlan for being cute a few more times and went back to continue eating. She smiled and said to the others that it was time to clean their luggage bags, as some of them were really dirty.
They were chatting while eating and ate slowly. Su Yun and Youlan stopped eating when they couldn't eat anymore and went to tell the boss that the remaining tsampa, butter tea and fried potatoes could be used as afternoon tea, and that they should finish all the other Chinese dishes as they couldn't leave any.
Afterwards, Su Yun took Youlan back to the third floor. At the stairs, he ran into the writer and the cartoonist who had finally gotten up to eat. All three of them looked as if their energy had been sucked dry by the goblin.
After Youlan returned to the room, she said, "They don't look very well, but they just don't sleep at night. Do they not want to sleep, or can't sleep?"
Su Yun threw herself on the bed. "I'm not sure, but when I was in college, there was a classmate who planned to be a full-time online writer after graduation. I heard that she was writing for her whole life. No matter what time of the day I went to see her, I would get the answer 'Wait a minute, I'm writing a novel'. Later, no one went to see her anymore."
Some seem to be out of touch with human society, living in a world of their own creation.
Youlan thought about that kind of life and shuddered: "Such a life may seem weird to outsiders, but if they are happy, it's okay. I'm afraid that if they are not happy, their health will get worse and worse."
One cannot interfere in other people's affairs. Su Yun turned over with the quilt in her arms, and remembered the smell she had just smelled downstairs. Now that she had returned to the room, she no longer smelled it. It should be said that she had not smelled it since she left the lobby and entered the yard.
Once the smell was gone, Su Yun suddenly felt as if he had not eaten enough. He could not sleep without eating enough, so he simply got up and prepared to eat something more.
The homestay was very simple and there wasn't even a TV, but there was a signal, so before Che Xuming left, he charged Youlan's mobile phone and tablet with a large data package so that she could watch and play directly in the room.
After dinner, Youlan didn't have the habit of taking a nap. She put on her headphones and prepared to catch up on the stupid and melodramatic romance drama that she hadn't finished watching yet, when she saw Su Yun getting up.
"Director Su, aren't you going to sleep?" Youlan took off her headphones and asked her blankly.
"Go to sleep. I need to eat something first. I couldn't eat because I kept smelling that smell in the lobby just now. Now that I'm back and can't smell it anymore, I'm hungry again." Su Yun began to gnaw on the tsampa balls he had made, breaking off a little from time to time and mixing it into butter tea to drink. He also called Youlan to come over and play the game out loud so that he could watch TV series with her.
Youlan had no objection. She was just a little lily of the valley who needed someone to accompany her. She would be very happy if someone was willing to accompany her.
After watching an episode of the TV series, Su Yun felt like his cerebellum had shrunk. "Is it good?"
Youlan, who has only been a human for a short time and has little experience, nodded: "It looks good, the people are white. I have seen other people's short videos, and they all say that humans nowadays look the best like this."
After listening to this, Su Yun felt that it was really unreliable for a man like Che Xuming to take care of a child. He didn't even pay attention to what messy things the child learned on the Internet!
Su Yun hesitated to speak, trying to save face: "In fact, we humans can also be colorful, we don't have to be all white..."
Youlan seemed to understand: "Is it like other colors of lily of the valley?"
"...If you make a comparison like this, it's actually like a garden with a hundred flowers in full bloom. Lily of the valley is also a kind of flower in the garden. There must be other flowers for the garden to be beautiful, right?" Su Yun asked back, supporting his head.
"It seems so, but many TV dramas nowadays are in black and white. Isn't it that the current human aesthetic has become black and white?" Youlan asked puzzledly as she looked at the faces in the TV dramas that were filtered to paleness.
Su Yun was silent for a while, and picked out several TV series and movies famous for aesthetics for her, all of which had been included in textbooks. When Youlan saw them, she was immediately stunned and felt that her life as a demon had been lived in vain. Why didn't she become a beautiful woman when she transformed?
I found some nice TV series for the kids. After Su Yun finished his meal, he fell asleep like a pig.
Fortunately, the group of people who were traveling in the afternoon finally finished their meal and were ready to go out. They began to prepare things clamorously and asked the boss to buy dry food, preferably something that could be eaten on the road, such as barley noodles or yak steamed buns, which were not only filling but also easy to carry.
As soon as they quarreled, Su Yun woke up and found Youlan still watching TV, so he asked her: "Youlan, aren't you worried about Che Xuming? I thought he would call you more than ten times a day when he was away."
Youlan said without even looking up: "His message couldn't be sent. I called him at noon, but it seemed that only this village had a signal. After they left the village, we couldn't get in touch with them."
In other words, apart from this village, the surrounding areas are isolated from the outside world, and no one will know what happens.
Su Yun pondered this special situation and always felt a little uneasy. However, the funeral home employees and Che Xuming both had high cultivation levels, so there was no need to worry about being robbed. Even Che Xuming, who had the lowest cultivation level, was protected by the Jingling Sect. His master was An Jinghe, who could use a teleportation formation. Even if someone wanted to take action, they would have to think twice.
Unable to figure out what was going on, Su Yun said to Youlan, "It's almost time. Let's go out and chat with the grandparents. They should be outside basking in the sun. We can chat with them and ask them about wolves. They should know about it given their age."
Youlan reluctantly turned off the video and stood up: "Then what do we need to take with us? I saw on the Internet that mysterious organizations like this in the village all need to bring melon seeds and the strong tea that the elderly like to drink. Oh, yes, and oranges?"
These three things are simply standard equipment. They are all over the floor after every chat. But in the countryside, you don’t have to worry about them. You can just sweep them into the yard. Chickens and ducks will eat the melon seed shells and fruit peels, and even tea leaves.
Su Yun thought for a moment and said, "It seems that what is said on the Internet is correct, but do the old men and women in Sichuan and Tibet also like to eat this?"
Everyone’s snacks can’t be the same across the country, right?
However, as long as you take out melon seeds and oranges, you won't go wrong. They are essential items for chatting. Su Yun thought about it and decided to bring them with him. He had a whole bag of roasted melon seeds, and asked the boss to make milk tea. Youlan asked for sweet one, but Su Yun preferred salty one.
As for oranges, they are Gongga oranges provided by the boss. They taste not much different from ordinary oranges, but this geographical location usually has a lot of sunshine, so they are quite sweet.
Carrying a bag of oranges and two pots of milk tea collected from the owner, Su Yun and You Lan left the B&B and wandered around like little kids, going wherever they wanted.
The woman who led the way yesterday was sitting under the shade of a tree at the entrance of the village again. There were many old men and women around her. The old men were weaving things. They looked like specialties that they would sell to tourists. They were all handmade and looked very hard working.
As for the old ladies, they are the ones who knit and make various knitted products. Some tourists who come to Tibet will buy one or two pieces to take back. There are also those who knit blankets. The patterns and colors are very aesthetic and are no worse than those so-called big designs.
Su Yun came over with oranges and melon seeds. Seeing the woman leading the way, he gave her a handful of melon seeds in a familiar manner: "You are here too? Are you waiting for customers?"
Melon seeds are not uncommon in normal times, but eating them in this weather is purely a crime against your mouth. Women don't really want to eat them because they will have to drool while talking to tourists later. But once they got the seeds in their hands, they couldn't help themselves and started eating them subconsciously.
"Yes, waiting for tourists. Every afternoon to evening is when there are most tourists. We wait here and can receive the most guests." The woman said while crunching melon seeds.
"Oh, do you usually accept the agency fee from the guesthouse or the B&B?" Su Yun was a little curious and didn't think that the woman was trying to cheat them.
The woman was a little embarrassed: "Basically it's a B&B. The guesthouse has a bad environment and is cheap. It doesn't make any money. That's why you saw it yesterday. It was shabby and no one was there to entertain you."
Su Yun thought so too. If she wanted to live here, she should at least get up to greet guests, right? Even when she wanted to recruit customers, she had to greet them with a smile.
Then Su Yun saw that the woman was choking, so he gave her another cup of milk tea and an orange, and then continued to chat with her: "That's true, I also prefer to stay in a cleaner B&B, but the guests we encountered this time were not good, too noisy, college students, and tourists, they got up very early."
The woman probably heard a lot of complaints like this before, and she asked nervously, "Do you want me to re-arrange your B&B? If you are unhappy, I can ask the boss to give you a small gift, but no other hotel is willing to give you a discount."
Seeing that the woman had misunderstood, Su Yun hurriedly said, "No, no, we're just chatting. I just felt that there were too many people. Wasn't there only five of us when we lived here? And then when we had dinner today, suddenly a lot more people showed up."
Hearing this, the woman thought about it for a moment and said uncertainly: "Are you sure it was a lot of people? There were only five guests at the B&B I recommended yesterday."
Su Yun couldn't eat any more melon seeds. She slowly turned her head to look at the woman: "But the boss said that those people came here together yesterday. They said they met on the road, but they didn't live together."
“Oh, if it’s from other B&Bs… I didn’t pick up so many people. Maybe it was someone else who picked them up. Wait for me to ask for you.” The woman seemed to think something was strange, so she took the remaining melon seeds and went to talk to a man under another tree not far away. She couldn’t understand what Tibetan the two men were speaking.
The more they talked, the stranger their faces looked. Soon the woman came back and said, "I asked. He also received a group yesterday. There were about a dozen people. They stayed in the B&B next door. What you saw might be them."
A group of more than a dozen people would not make a woman so nervous. Su Yun intuitively felt that there must be some secret. Perhaps it was for business reasons, so the woman was unwilling to say more.
Su Yun smiled silently and did not ask any further questions. Instead, he handed her the orange he had peeled. "So that's how it is. I just thought it was a bit noisy. There were too many of them. It was very crowded during lunch. I don't know if they will come back in the evening. If they do, I want to eat in the room with my sister."
The woman immediately said, "Let's eat in the room. There are too many people here. It's not safe for you to bring your child with you. What if there are human traffickers?"
Since the other party had reminded him like this, Su Yun naturally agreed. Taking advantage of these strange tourists, Su Yun began to chat with the woman about Canglong Village. The woman had actually already introduced it yesterday, such as how this village came about and what scenery one can see by living here.
These were all things that a normal tour guide would say. Su Yun wanted to take advantage of the woman's restless mood today to ask some key questions, such as things about wolves nearby, not legends, but whether there were any things related to wolves.
The woman thought for a moment and said, "You came here for the wolves? They are not easy to see. Even bears are rare now. Animals don't go to human areas. With more tourists here, wolves are almost gone. They can still be seen in remote places."
Su Yun's eyes lit up: "Oh? How biased do you want it to be?"
"Soon, we have to walk hundreds of kilometers into the Tibetan area. It's too far. We might as well wait and see the blind bear." The woman bluntly broke Su Yun's fantasy.
"So far?" Su Yun was stunned. She thought that by reaching this village, she would be not far from the wolves, and at least she could ask about the situation.
If there is still more than 100 kilometers to go, it means we are deep in Tibet. By then, we will suffer from altitude sickness and will be easily ambushed, which will greatly increase the degree of danger.
Su Yun thought for a while and asked again: "Sister, if there are no wolves around here, then are there any stories about wolves in the past?"
The woman looked at her with amusement: "You like wolves so much? You came to the plateau specifically to see wolves, but it's actually not easy to see them here. Why don't you go see the prairie wolves?"
Not knowing what excuse the woman had come up with, Su Yun quickly explained, "It's my grandfather. He served as a soldier here when he was young and saw wolves. I heard that there were still wolf packs at that time. Now that he's old, he misses those days, so I came to take a look."
Compared to Xin Dechang, the woman was relatively young. She didn't know the legend about the wolf pack, but after listening to Su Yun's detailed description, she couldn't help but become curious.
"Really? There are wolves helping to fight those robbers?" The woman was obviously attracted by the story of mutual help between man and nature.
"Of course, the wolves would also bring food to the soldiers. It was hard to get food in the winter at that time. My grandfather said that the wolves would occasionally bring musk deer and some small animals, such as rabbits. Although they were small, if they were made into jerky, they could trick themselves into thinking they were not hungry." Su Yun described it vividly.
After saying all this, Su Yun did not forget to add, "If you don't believe it, ask the grandparents here, they must have heard of it."
All the preparations were made just for this sentence, so that the woman could ask the old people without any doubt about the story between the military garrison and the wolf pack in Tibet sixty or seventy years ago.
This question is not easy to ask, and it is best if you can speak Tibetan, otherwise you won’t understand. When Su Yun came here, he felt that communication would probably be the most troublesome thing. At that time, he thought about taking one step at a time. After he came here, he was glad that Mandarin has been popularized in the country. Although young people have accents, they can speak it to some extent and can communicate.
With young people acting as translators, the elderly may be more willing to speak.
The woman asked the old lady who was making blankets next to her as if she was chatting. The other party paused and asked something in Tibetan, as if she was questioning her.
Faced with the old man's questioning, the woman looked confused and couldn't help but raise her voice a little. After she answered, the old lady seemed to glance at Su Yun, but her cloudy eyes could not reveal any specific expression.
Watching them talking, Youlan couldn't help but ask, "Director Su, do you think this elder sister can be asked?"
"I don't know why, but I feel it's suspicious. Why do they seem to be so secretive? It seemed like this when the person who placed the order described it to me. No one wants to say anything, and there are no clues. It's as if they have evaporated from the face of the earth and have never appeared before." Su Yun became more and more worried. If the woman couldn't get anything out of her, she would have to find another translator.
The woman talked to the old lady for more than ten minutes, and they seemed to have finally reached some kind of consensus. The woman's face was full of excitement and yearning: "Su Yun! I asked and found out that there is such a group of wolves. It's amazing. It seems that they were raised by a brave female warrior. They helped the country and drove away the local village chief. Only then can we have a stable life today!"
Su Yun didn't expect that in Canglong Village, the story version was like this: "The female warrior... is that a human?"
The question was so weird that the woman was stunned. She stared at Su Yun with her two beautiful big eyes: "No, what else can it be if not a human? Su Yun, your question is too weird."
The other party had a hard time pronouncing Su Yun's name. Every time he called her name, it sounded like a foreign name. Su Yun rubbed his face and said, "Because my grandfather told me that the girl who followed the wolf pack was the leader of the wolves, like the alpha wolf, so she should be a wolf girl."
The name "wolf girl" was repeated by Xin Dechang to Su Yun. He said that when he went to ask, he heard the surrounding villages call the wolf girl "wolf girl", which means wolf demon, or the daughter of the wolf clan. In any case, it does not belong to the category of human.
The woman shook her head after hearing this description. "I didn't ask. The old man didn't seem to like to talk about it. After asking him again and again, he only said that there was such a wolf pack and a female warrior."
"What about the female warrior's father? My grandfather said that the female warrior had a hunter father who took her hunting since she was a child, so she is so familiar with the wolf pack." Su Yun prepared to start from another direction.
A new character appeared, and the woman couldn't help but go to find the old men and women nearby. This time, in order not to be perfunctorily answered, she asked a lot of people, not only the wolf girl, but also the wolf girl's father.
This time the questioning lasted a very long time, so long that Su Yun thought that the woman might know something and would not want to share it with her.
More than half an hour later, the woman came back with a serious expression on her face.
Su Yun asked her with concern: "What's wrong? Are you okay? Do you want some milk tea?"
The woman shook her head in a daze: "Thank you, but no, I'm just shocked."
"Shocked? Why?" Su Yun was puzzled. Why was he shocked after just listening to a few stories?
"Because, it seems that everyone thinks that what the female warrior told you and her father are not human beings." The woman had obviously been stimulated to the point that her three views had been shattered. Even if she had grown up listening to mythological stories, she would not think that mythological stories were true. Now, she suddenly heard the elders say that such things really happened, and she was completely unable to react.
Su Yun frowned slightly. She felt that she seemed to have always ignored this problem - the wolf girl could be a wolf demon, and the hunter might not be a human. Was his so-called death a real death, or was it the identity he pretended to be dead?
There are more and more doubts in the story, but Su Yun still hasn't found the person. The version of the story known by the old men and women is just more mysterious than what Xin Dechang knows, and the hunter is not a human either. There are no more clues.
After asking for an entire afternoon, no new tourists came. It was like I was telling stories to the tour guide agency for free, but I didn't gain much.
The sun sets in the evening and everyone goes home for dinner. In order not to be abrupt, Su Yun and You Lan also have to go back to the B&B. At this time, Che Xuming and others who went out early should also be back.
Before they had walked halfway, Youlan received a call from Che Xuming. The two were whispering sweet nothings to each other, which gave Su Yun goose bumps all over his body. It was hard to imagine that if someone saw them, they would probably want to call the police and have Che Xuming arrested.
But Youlan was frightened and couldn't return to her original size. There was really no way.
Walking back to the B&B in the afterglow, the lobby was obviously more lively than at noon. All the guests had returned, and they voluntarily abided by the rule of not going out at night. Even the college students who were brave enough to chase away blind bears did not linger outside, but came back obediently.
Su Yun saw the ghost employees sitting around a table among the crowd. Che Xuming was not there.
"What if Che Xuming is not here? Isn't he in a hurry to see Youlan?" Su Yun asked puzzledly as he found a seat and squeezed in to sit down.
Youlan bowed and said to Su Yun a little embarrassedly: "Director Su, I'm sorry, he is waiting for me in the room. He said that we haven't talked for a day and we need some time alone."
Well, it seems that Che Xuming is having a love-brain attack. There is no reason for Su Yun to stop the young couple from having some time for themselves. He just tells Youlan to remember to bring some food with her and not to worry about anything else.
There were too many people on the first floor. Youlan was relatively short, so she managed to squeeze out in no time. She didn't have to squeeze through like the tall adults.
Yan Gui had been out for the whole day. She kept drinking butter tea and eating beef patties. She took the time to ask Su Yun, "Director, we were only out for a day, why are there so many people suddenly? Is business getting better?"
"It's not that business is picking up. It's that the fellow travelers who live with us have gotten to know other tourists who are traveling with us, and then they hang out together. They can be considered temporary friends during the trip." Su Yun was also helpless about the number of people. Even as she was speaking, many people walked by and stepped on her skirt.
"So, these people are not from the B&B, they are all here to eat?" The ghost bride's veil was hooked off, she hurriedly picked it up, and asked while covering her head.
Su Yun looked at them being knocked around and said helplessly, "Yes, but we probably can't eat anymore in this situation. Why don't we give them the table? I'll ask the boss if there are any other seats. Otherwise, we'll have to be careful even when we talk."
The yard and restaurant of the funeral home are both very large. I heard that the size of the Su family's villa was used as a reference when it was designed. Su Yiling and Ji Weitang believed that even if they could not use it, they could not lose to the scumbag family who stole children, so in the end the funeral home was much larger than the Su family's old house.
Not to mention the employees' living conditions when they were alive, they rarely experienced such crowded living conditions in the funeral home later on. The two masters, in particular, looked very cramped as their tall figures were squeezed between the skinny Lin Lang and the ghost catcher Ah Xiu.
The tables in this homestay are not big to begin with, and so many people have to sit at one table. It is really unfair, so Su Yun had to get up and go to the kitchen to find the boss.
The boss was about to throw away the pot and kept cooking all kinds of dishes, including classic Tibetan food and various meals ordered by guests. The problem was that the boss was the only one cooking in the entire homestay, while the children were playing in the yard.
After listening to Su Yun's request, the boss covered the pot and said, "You can eat somewhere else. There are also tables, but you have to move them yourself, and the food will not be delivered upstairs."
Su Yun had no objection. These were all agreed upon at the beginning. There was no need to ask the boss, who was already too busy to do anything, to help now.
The meals are all the same, all residents eat whatever the boss cooks. Su Yun squeezed back into the hall and talked to the employees, asking them to move the tables and chairs to the double room on the second floor for the dinner party, because that double room is the largest and most expensive, and is currently where the sexy ghost and the ghost bride live.
Although the soundproofing in the B&B is not good, the noise is reduced a lot by closing the doors and windows upstairs, and everyone can finally report today's situation in peace.
Except for the ghost bride and Lin Lang, it was not the first time for the B&B staff to eat the food. The other ghosts had followed Su Yiling and Ji Weitong into the Tibetan area and were very familiar with the food.
After a simple meal, Su Yun first asked them if they had found the wolf.
Since everyone went to a different place, their answers were like counting, and after a round, no one said they had seen it.
"Have you searched all the places? I heard from a local elder today that there are no wolves nearby." Su Yun was not surprised that they didn't find any wolves. This was very normal.
In the end, they said they had searched everywhere, but didn't see any. However, some other small animals and intelligent spirits said that if they wanted to see wolves, they had to go deep into Tibet, as they didn't see any here.
This indirectly confirms what the old ladies said, there are no wolves here because of the wolf pack many years ago.
Su Yun told them the story he had heard: "It seems that in the local legends, the hunter father of the wolf girl is regarded as the wolf king, and the wolf girl is the heir. The old wolf king in the wolf tribe will take care of the heir, and then when the heir wolf is qualified to take the position of wolf king, the old wolf king will leave the wolf pack and die quietly."
Therefore, in the eyes of the people in Canglong Village, since the female warrior leading the wolf pack might be a wolf demon, then the hunter, as her father, must be the old wolf king. During that period, the old wolf king was teaching the new wolf king things, and after teaching him, the old wolf king would disappear.
Since the old wolf king disappeared, the female warrior led the wolf pack to cooperate with the soldiers, repelled the local village chief, and then led the wolf pack to her own territory.
There are many different opinions about this territory. Everyone has his or her own guess, but no one has any evidence to prove that what they say is correct.
After Su Yun finished speaking, he asked his group of cobblers: "What do you think is wrong with this story?"
Everyone pondered for a while, and the ghost raised her hand and said, "It's the territory. They have to leave here for some reason. It's a pity that they can't leave a message for their lover who is fighting in the distance..."
As a sensual ghost, his mind is full of love and romance, and he can immediately imagine a lingering love story.
Su Yun was really impressed by her: "Don't think too far ahead. Just tell me, what was the reason for the wolf pack to migrate in that era?"
"Even if migration is not the purpose, it is also the result. There must be something else that happened but has not been spread." Lin Lang suddenly spoke.
"You're very smart for not spreading this story. It's equivalent to saying that the people who know about this are almost dead." Su Yun said with a smile.
It is predicted that they will soon die out. Those old men and women in Canglong Village must know something. Unfortunately, they all keep their mouths shut and we cannot force them to speak. They are all elderly people, and forcing them to speak will easily lead to divine punishment.
At this time, the fire-making master said, "Just because we don't have any clues doesn't mean that Master Che doesn't have any. His wife is a monster, and maybe there really is something special to discover."
However, they are enjoying their own time now and it is not easy to disturb them. I definitely cannot ask them now. I can only wait for them to leave the room.
The next step was to eat as normal. After the meal, the ghost employees began to clean up the dishes as usual. However, Su Yun remembered another thing.
"Come to think of it, when you were sitting in the lobby before I came back, did you smell any particularly bad odor? I couldn't eat at noon because of the smell, but Youlan and the others didn't react, as if they didn't smell it." Su Yun asked anxiously.
The employees looked at each other and shook their heads. If they encountered such a thing, they would definitely report it to Su Yun and would not hide it until after dinner.
Su Yun propped up his chin and said, "That's strange. What on earth is going on that would emit a stench that only I can smell?"
Yan Gui and You Lan had the same idea: "Could it be the smell of a dead person? There can't be anything stinker than a dead person."
"How could I not know the smell of a dead person? I have actually never smelled that smell, but it is really stinky, and I am the only one who smelled it. It is so weird." After Su Yun finished speaking, Ying wanted to call Su Yiling and Ji Weitong to ask them if there was something wrong with the body they had performed on her. Why was she the only one who smelled it?
Just when Su Yun was struggling, Lin Lang said hesitantly: "Maybe it's not a dead person, but an object. That object may even be alive. It mistook you, the curator, for one of its kind."
Su Yun's brows tightened. "Items? What could be so smelly? Stones from a manure pit? What did the tour group pick them up for? Do they think they can turn green?"
"Opening the green" is the jargon in gambling on stones, which means seeing jadeite. But this is not surprising. Some people who only have half-baked knowledge wander around thinking they can get a great bargain. There are not so many bargains to be found in the world.
Lin Lang shook his head: "I don't know. Even if there is a description, without smelling it, it is difficult to determine whether it is a medicinal herb or a spice, or if it is something specially made or something below that was accidentally brought up by someone."
"The things below..." Su Yun was just about to say that it was not so easy to take things out of the cemetery, when suddenly an idea flashed in his mind. The name of this village was Canglong Village!
The longest-lived person in this village is not the old people, or even the small animals or monsters, but the dragon underground!
Su Yun's mind moved. She had a strong premonition that the answer they were looking for might be underground: "Pack up your things tonight, and I'll go out with you tomorrow. There should be a huge dragon vein underground here, and maybe... there will be some extra gains."
[End of this chapter]
Su Yun: It’s time to carry forward the spirit of our parents! O(∩_∩)O
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