◇ Chapter 66 What kind of fairy is hidden

“Knock knock…”

“Knock knock…”

The door was knocked loudly, accompanied by chattering and shouting. Such a loud noise would wake anyone up.

Lu Fangchi frowned his beautiful eyebrows and closed his eyes to look into Zhou Zheng's arms.

Zhou Zhengnong frowned and raised his hands to pull up the quilt, trying to block out the noise.

But the noise outside the door became more and more intense. The knocking turned into kicking, "bang" "bang" again and again, the door frame began to shake, and the momentum was overwhelming.

As a result, Lu Fangchi's sleepiness was completely driven away. He struggled to get up, but was held down by Zhou Zheng. The alpha raised his chin and signaled him with his eyes to continue sleeping.

Zhou Zheng got up from the bed, quickly put on the clothes hanging on the chair, and walked towards the door.

Zhou Zheng opened the door, put his hands on the door, and whispered, "What are you doing?"

The alpha was in a low mood, his eyebrows were furrowed, the corners of his lips were tightly pursed, and his eyes were deep. He scared the three or two aunts and uncles at the door and they were quiet for a moment, and then they started chattering.

The master pointed his finger at Zhou Zheng's nose and said in a stern voice, "How many times have I called you? What are you doing hiding here?"

Zhou Zheng raised his chin in displeasure, avoiding the uncle's rude finger. The aunt at the side reached out and held the uncle's hand, and said earnestly like a peacemaker, "Zhou Zheng, your uncle has a bad temper, don't bother with him."

The blocked master slammed the door hard and walked away.

The eldest mother added, "But you are such a fool, child. The dead are the most important. How could you..." She hesitated and stretched her head to look inside the room to see what kind of demon was hiding there.

Zhou Zheng blocked the door tightly, not letting them see anything, and said hoarsely, "I know, you guys go back first."

The mother stood still, not moving at all.

Zhou Zheng saw her raise her hand and point inside, then she winked and said, "Let's go together. You might as well ask him to come along. That way you won't get lost again later." The old lady spoke the second half of the sentence in dialect, quickly and vaguely.

Zhou Zheng didn't hear it clearly, and thought it wasn't a good thing. He opened his mouth to refuse, but Lu Fangchi's voice came from inside the house: "Zhou Zheng."

The voice was firm and gentle, as if soothing. Zhou Zheng turned off the engine, frowned, said "hmm" impatiently, raised his hand, closed the door and went back.

Lu Fangchi listened to the general situation and took the initiative to say, "I'll go back with you." At this moment, he wanted to be with Zhou Zheng and also wanted to know more about Alpha's previous living environment.

Zhou Zheng frowned tightly, opened his mouth and licked his lips, with an expression as if he wanted to say something but hesitated.

From the savage behavior of the group just now, Lu Fangchi could guess the Alpha's current concerns. He raised his hand and hooked Zhou Zheng's hand hanging by his leg, saying, "I'm unfamiliar with this place."

Zhou Zheng seemed to be convinced by these words. He held Lu Fangchi's hand, rubbed it in his palm, and said with annoyance: "Sometimes I may not be able to take care of you."

"It's okay. I'll wait for you here. It will be fine once you're done with your work." Lu Fangchi pinched Zhou Zheng's palm with his fingers.

That's fine, after all it's happening right under my nose. Zhou Zheng clenched Lu Fangchi's restless fingers and agreed with a knotted face.

After following Zhou Zheng back home, Lu Fangchi finally understood what the alpha wolf looked like this morning.

There was an iron gate. When I went in, the ground was inexplicably ten centimeters lower. It was a cement floor. In the middle of the narrow space was a large coffin. In front of the coffin was a stainless steel basin with yellow paper money burning in it.

Lu Fangchi had never seen such a situation before. His eyelashes blinked rapidly several times. Zhou Zheng pulled him aside and asked him to sit down. He saw that the alpha was wearing a layer of white cloth, a circle around his head, and a hemp rope tied around the white belt around his waist.

This is... wearing mourning clothes?

What a feudal dregs! Lu Fangchi's brows wrinkled slightly.

Even more exaggerated scenes were yet to come. There was a constant stream of noise in front of the door. Everyone who came in howled like ghosts, muttering words that Lu Fangchi could not understand, mixed with words like "hard life" and "difficult".

There was a thick layer of straw on the ground. Zhou Zheng knelt beside the coffin and kowtowed to everyone who came in to mourn and pay their respects.

Lu Fangchi's brows were furrowed more and more. He didn't understand the rural customs and didn't want to comment on them, but the scene was too depressing. He couldn't help but get up and walk to the backyard to take a breath.

Compared to the oppressive atmosphere in the front hall, the atmosphere in the backyard was relaxed and divided, like the south and the north. People in white mourning robes gathered together to chat, men smoked, and women cracked melon seeds in groups of three or five.

There was also a person who was crying heart-wrenchingly in the front hall the previous second, but as soon as he arrived in the backyard, his expression changed and he joined the chatting team with a smile on his face.

Lu Fangchi had no intention of eavesdropping, but the sound of their loud discussions came into his ears without missing a word. He could not understand some of them, but he could get the general idea of ​​some of them.

"Li Xia's son is so cold-blooded. From the day before yesterday till now, I haven't seen him shed a single tear."

"It's normal not to cry. When you were a child, your father didn't love you and your mother didn't care about you."

"Ah? What do you mean?"

"The Zhou family is famous." The aunt spat out a mouthful of melon seed shells, raised her hand and asked everyone to come closer, and said with a sly look on her face, "Zhou Dawei likes to gamble and drink. He gets drunk every day and goes to gamble. If he wins, it's okay, but if he loses, he will take it out on that child. In the past, you could hear the child howling every few days."

"Ah? What about Li Xia? She doesn't care at all?"

"How can I care? Li Xia is the most bizarre woman I have ever met. She only cares about herself. She dresses up beautifully every day to go out and play. If she remembers, she will leave some money for the child. If she doesn't remember, she won't even leave money at the door. There were many times in the hot summer, when the sun was scorching at noon, the child stood at the door of my house after school at noon, swallowing his saliva, his stomach growling with hunger."

"Then can you give me something to eat?"

"Give it at the beginning, and then as the number of times increases, just ignore it. Can you give it every time?"

"Yeah, it's not like I don't have a father or a mother."

"Everyone has their own destiny, so everyone should take care of their own business."

The women who had gathered together all sighed.

"Li Xia's brother was a piece of shit. They made a big fuss about his death. They got so many red envelopes that their hands were numb."

"Shouldn't it be given to the Zhou family kid?"

"Give me shit. Zhou Dawei and Li Xia went to the city to work. Do you think the Zhou family boy looks like us country people now? He doesn't understand the twists and turns here. But they may not think highly of us."

"That's right. The Zhou family kid is so well behaved now that he was so stingy as to hire a suona team."

"The richer a person is, the more careful they are with their spending."

"He never smiles when he sees me, even though I fed him a few meals when I was a kid. I would say he is an ungrateful person."

"Although Zhou Dawei and Li Xia are not good people, they are both good-looking and their children are also good-looking. The Zhou family boy is very handsome. Did you see that?"

"Yes, tall and good-looking, an alpha, right? Do you have a date?"

After listening for a long time, Lu Fangchi, who was sitting in the corner, felt the women's eyes on him. They looked him up and down in a seemingly covert manner, nudging each other's stomachs with their elbows, and whispered, "Look, that's the one the Zhou family kid brought back."

"Oh, he looks very handsome, and he looks gentler. I feel more comfortable with him than the boy from the Zhou family."

"He seems to be an alpha, maybe he's just a good friend? How do you know he's the one?"

"Friends, s***," the aunts whispered to each other, "They were staying in Vienna this afternoon. Brother Li Xia and his wife and sister-in-law went to catch them together."

Lu Fangchi pursed his lips into a straight line. This was a bit too harsh. What was wrong with sleeping with your partner? It was as if he was caught having sex with someone of questionable character.

"Oh my, why is it like this? A pa relationship? This is such a sin."

"No one cared about him when he was little, so he became a pervert when he grew up."

"Really, alas..." Aunt shook her head repeatedly, looking frustrated that she couldn't make the best of it.

Lu Fangchi's chest rose and fell slightly, his palms clenched into fists, and he ground his back teeth again and again, ready to go up and argue with them.

Just as he took a step forward, his wrist was grabbed. Lu Fangchi turned around and looked into Zhou Zheng's gentle eyes.

Zhou Zheng pulled Lu Fangchi into a small room nearby, raised his hand and shook his wrist, looked at his tightly pursed lips, and coaxed him in a low voice: "Let's not bother with them."

It would have been fine if Zhou Zheng hadn't mentioned it, but once Lu Fangchi mentioned it, he couldn't help himself. His beautiful eyebrows wrinkled into a frown, and he said with a face full of displeasure: "How can they talk nonsense?"

"Don't be angry, don't be angry." Zhou Zheng rubbed Lu Fangchi's wrist with his thumb and coaxed, "They are like that, just don't listen, just treat them as farts."

Lu Fangchi was still not very happy, his lips tightly pursed, but he also knew that Zhou Zheng was telling the truth. Rural women were the most difficult to deal with, and ignoring them was the best solution.

Lu Fangchi let out a breath, calmed down, and when he turned back, he had regained his composure and asked Zhou Zheng, "Are you done?"

"Yeah." Zhou Zheng sat on the chair, opened his legs a little, reached out to pull Lu Fangchi between his legs, buried his face in his belly and sniffed hard, as if he was absorbing energy.

The alpha's tired voice sounded, "It's time for dinner. The table is set outside. It will be lively soon."

As soon as he finished speaking, Lu Fangchi heard two "Hello"s. The host at the door tried the microphone, and then started the warm-up activities. Suona music sounded, accompanied by cheers.

Zhou Zheng explained, "It's just a custom of funerals. I argued with them for two days, but I didn't say anything. I put the ice coffin at home for two days. The weather is hot, and it won't look good when the time comes. I can only give in."

"I'm sorry to make you laugh."

Without complaining, just a few words of narration, Lu Fangchi could imagine how helpless Zhou Zheng was at that time. With a look of heartache on his face, he touched the alpha's hair and pinched his earlobe.

Unable to find any good words to comfort her, Lu Fangchi could only ask, "When will this end?"

"It will be done soon," Zhou Zheng said. "It will be finished tonight, and the cremation will be done at three in the morning. Then we can go home."

"Um."