Although Wu Xiao's dream of listening to the tree spirits speak came true, he inexplicably gained a tree tribe partner. Lu Qingjiu was in a very complicated mood and didn't know what to say. When he called Wu Xiao again, Wu Xiao had calmed down and asked him if there was any other solution.
Lu Qingjiu replied that there was no such thing at the moment... After learning the truth of the matter, he asked Bai Yuehu in advance whether the engagement could be cancelled. Bai Yuehu's answer was that the Tree Clan had always been a couple for life, and once engaged, there was no way to divorce. There was only widowhood, no divorce.
So Lu Qingjiu gritted her teeth and told Wu Xiao the answer. After hearing it, Wu Xiao said in despair: We can only make do with each other, there is no way we can get divorced.
Lu Qingjiu wanted to laugh but felt it was inappropriate, so she could only force herself to hold it back. She also tried to comfort Wu Xiao, saying that Lao Shu actually had a good personality and that if they spent more time together, they might fall in love with him...
The feud between him and Wu Xiao ended in this way. Lu Qingjiu didn't know what to say. He could only ask Zhu Miaomiao to give Wu Xiao a big red envelope in private to express the vague apology in his heart.
When Zhu Miaomiao asked him why he handed over the red envelope, he didn't dare to explain and just gave a vague answer.
Wu Xiao, who received the red envelope, asked Lu Qingjiu what this meant. Lu Qingjiu said, "Isn't this your wedding..."
Wu Xiao hung up the phone with a snap. This time, Lu Qingjiu couldn't help but laughed softly on the other end of the phone.
The weather in August was extremely hot, and the chicks in the yard were unwilling to move due to the sun. After half a year, the chicks had grown into half-grown chickens, but the appearance of this chicken was a little different from the others. Whether male or female, the feathers were very colorful and looked very beautiful, but I didn't know how they tasted... Lu Qingjiu thought that when he had time, he would ask Bai Yuehu to kill one to try.
Xiao Hei and Xiao Hua haven't grown at all. They are the same size as when they came. Yin Xun despises them for being a waste of money. They eat and sleep every day but don't gain weight.
When Xiaohua heard Yin Xun's words, her eyes almost rolled to the sky.
Yin Xun saw this and yelled, "Fuck, Lu Qingjiu, please take care of your pig. It rolled its eyes at me."
Lu Qingjiu said, "Before you say bad things about someone, can you please take your head away from their stomach?"
Yin Xun refused firmly: "No."
Xiaohua was so angry that she almost hit him.
Ever since Yin Xun discovered that Xiaohua's cool belly was a great way to beat the heat, he started holding Xiaohua all day long. Sometimes he would even carry Xiaohua on his back when he went out to pick vegetables. After Xiaohua struggled several times in vain, she had no choice but to give up and completely became Yin Xun's exclusive ice pack.
Looking at his expression, Lu Qingjiu felt that if Xiaohua could speak in front of Yin Xun, she would have opened her mouth and scolded Yin Xun.
Yin Xun should really be grateful for his ordinary identity...
In the summer, cooling foods are essential. Lu Qingjiu made some sour plum soup, refrigerated it, and drank it every afternoon after waking up. Yin Xun and Bai Yuehu also enjoyed this sweet and sour drink. During the hottest part of the day, they would all cool off with something cold inside.
The little fox also likes to eat ice cream, but Lu Qingjiu is worried that it is too weak and will have diarrhea if it eats too much, so he always controls the amount.
That day, the three of them were enjoying Lu Qingjiu's freshly made cold shrimp in the house. Cold shrimp was a dessert unique to their place. They used glutinous rice paste, which was dripped into water through a colander to form small shrimp-shaped rice balls. Then, they added a thick red soup and sweet and sour hawthorn. The dish had a soft, glutinous, and refreshing texture, with a rich rice aroma, and was very popular with the family. Lu Qingjiu felt that the sugar content was a little low, and just as he was about to go to the kitchen to add another spoonful of red soup, he heard a "dong dong dong" sound from the yard—someone was knocking on the door.
"Who is it?" Lu Qingjiu asked from a distance.
It was three in the afternoon, the hottest time of the day. The sun was blindingly bright, and the whole world seemed enveloped in a giant, scorching steamer. People who went out for less than a minute would return drenched in sweat. If Lu Qingjiu had heard a knock on the door at any other time, he would have opened it without even asking. But today, it was so hot that the three of them exchanged glances, clearly unwilling to move.
"Bai Yuehu, Bai Yuehu!" A man's voice came from outside the door. He called Bai Yuehu's name and knocked hard on the wooden door, which was already flimsy. "I'm dying of heat. Come and open the door for me!"
It turned out that they were looking for Bai Yuehu. Lu Qingjiu and Yin Xun breathed a sigh of relief and turned their gaze to Bai Yuehu. Since they were not looking for them, they didn't have to leave the air-conditioned room in the heat to open the door.
Who knew that Bai Yuehu raised his eyelids, changed his tone shamelessly, and replied to the person outside the door: "Bai Yuehu is not here."
Lu Qingjiu, who was standing next to him, almost spit out the contents of his mouth when he heard the sound. Yin Xun and Lu Qingjiu had similar reactions, and were obviously shocked by Bai Yuehu's shamelessness.
"Fuck, Bai Yuehu isn't here? Then who are you?" The person outside the door was angered by Bai Yuehu's answer and started banging on the door. "Hurry up and open the door for me. I'm really going to die outside—"
Bai Yuehu was about to say something when there was a loud noise at the door. Lu Qingjiu watched helplessly as the fragile door panel of his house fell to the ground with a "bang". Along with the door panel fell a disheveled man. He didn't seem to expect that the door panel would be so fragile. He fell to the ground in the yard and fell flat on his face.
"Ah! Holy shit!" The man was badly injured after the fall. He lay on the ground for a long time without reacting, groaning in pain, "Ouch... fuck..."
Seeing this, Lu Qingjiu hurried over and asked, “Brother, are you okay?”
The man raised his head. Lu Qingjiu laughed when he saw his appearance. The man's face was covered with bruises. His originally handsome face was ruined by these wounds.
The man looked at Lu Qingjiu with a bitter face. Lu Qingjiu was about to ask him if he was okay when he saw him spit out half a tooth from his mouth.
"Fuck." The man cursed, "I fucking—"
Lu Qingjiu thought that this man was too unlucky, so he quickly helped him up. The man seemed to have injured his leg, and he limped into the house.
Bai Yuehu saw him with a look of disgust.
Bai Yuehu asked, "How did you know I was here?"
"I heard it from the Su family." The man sat down and rubbed his legs. "You really are..."
Bai Yuehu took a sip of the cold shrimp and didn't even look at him.
The man's eyes fell on the cold shrimp and he sipped his saliva: "What is this? Is it delicious?"
Bai Yuehu said, "It's delicious." Then he drank it all in one breath.
man:"……"
Lu Qingjiu found it funny watching from the side, but he was not as calm as Bai Yuehu. He felt that the man looked too miserable, so he turned around and went to the kitchen to make a bowl of cold shrimp for the man, and added some extra brown sugar, thinking that it would replenish the man's blood.
When the man saw the cold shrimps in front of him, he almost cried with excitement. He kept saying that Lu Qingjiu was a good man and that he would be lucky in the future, and then he started to eat happily.
Bai Yuehu said, "Shui Feng, what on earth are you doing here?" The man's name turned out to be Shui Feng, which sounded a little strange.
"I've come to ask for your help," Shuifeng said, "My dear fox..."
Bai Yuehu gave Shui Feng a cold look, and he quickly changed his tone: "Mr. Bai!"
"I told you I can't save you." Bai Yuehu said lazily, "Didn't I tell you before?"
Shui Feng: "...I think I can still be saved." After he said this, he scooped a large spoonful of cold shrimp with a spoon, stuffed it into his mouth, and was about to take it out when Lu Qingjiu, who was sitting next to him, heard the crisp sound of porcelain breaking, followed by a shrill scream. The man screamed and spat out a mouthful of blood - the originally good ceramic spoon actually broke in his mouth.
"Holy shit!" Yin Xun was shocked by the scene, his tone full of fear, "Brother, even if you're hungry, you can't eat the spoon. It's ceramic - you can't eat it!"
Shui Feng was in so much pain that he was about to cry. His mouth was full of ceramic fragments. He staggered into the front yard and wanted to turn on the faucet to rinse his mouth. But as soon as he turned on the faucet and put his mouth on it, he screamed in excruciating pain again.
Lu Qingjiu was stunned for a moment, then he understood what was going on. Their faucets and pipes were all exposed to the sun, and the surface temperature was almost close to 70 degrees. It seemed that the water coming out of the faucets that were heated by the sun would not be much cooler... This was simply adding insult to injury for Shui Feng.
The man looked like he was about to faint from the pain, but he still endured it and managed to rinse the fragments out of his mouth with water.
Lu Qingjiu and Yin Xun stood by the door and watched, both with horrible looks on their faces. The scene looked so miserable that to describe Shui Feng's luck as having a tooth stuck in his mouth after drinking cold water would be an understatement.
Shui Feng roughly cleaned his wound and returned to the house with tears in his eyes. Lu Qingjiu thought he was going to say something, but he picked up the remaining cold shrimp and drank it in one breath. He also praised Lu Qingjiu: "Brother, your cooking skills are really good."
Lu Qingjiu: "...Friend, are you okay?"
Shui Feng said, "It's okay, I won't die."
Bai Yuehu said lazily: "Don't worry about him, he's used to it."
Shui Feng was really used to it. This was a very painful thing for ordinary people, but he quickly recovered. After drinking the cold shrimp, he wiped his mouth and said to Bai Yuehu, "Yuehu, let's go out and discuss it."
Bai Yuehu glanced at him without saying anything.
"Moon Fox." Shui Feng said, "Just help me."
Bai Yuehu looked at Shui Feng without saying anything, but his expression had already given Shui Feng the answer. Shui Feng was about to persuade him again, but he heard Bai Yuehu coldly ask, "How long will you continue like this?"
Shuifeng: “…”
Bai Yuehu said, "You are not annoyed, I am annoyed."
Shui Feng opened his mouth to speak, but then seemed to notice Lu Qingjiu and Yin Xun sitting next to him, so he said, "Let's talk somewhere else."
Bai Yuehu finally agreed. He and Shui Feng left the room and found another place under the grape vines in the yard to talk about private matters.
"What do you think is the relationship between this person and Bai Yuehu?" Yin Xun asked Lu Qingjiu in a low voice.
"I don't know," Lu Qingjiu said. "Maybe he's a friend." Judging by the way the two spoke, they seemed to be close friends who had known each other for years. It was just unclear what this person was looking for, and why Bai Yuehu was acting like that. However, judging by Shui Feng's tone, he probably wasn't human either.
Bai Yuehu and Shui Feng talked in the yard for a long time, until the sun was about to set, when the two seemed to have reluctantly reached a consensus.
Bai Yuehu, returning to the house, wore a slightly unhappy expression, clearly having had an unpleasant exchange with Shui Feng. Shui Feng's smile had faded, replaced by a complex expression that Lu Qingjiu couldn't fathom. However, this complexity only flashed by, the next moment masked by his usual smile.
"Hey, what are you guys having for dinner?" Shui Feng asked, "Bai Yuehu, just let me have some dinner."
Bai Yuehu didn't say anything, but stood up and walked out. Seeing this, Shui Feng laughed out loud, revealing that half of his teeth were missing.
Lu Qingjiu hurriedly called out, “Yuehu, where are you going?”
Bai Yuehu pointed to the door and said, "I'll go fix it."
Shui Feng's smile froze on his face.
"Oh, okay." Lu Qingjiu said, "It's okay, I'll make some more food tonight."
Bai Yuehu nodded and walked to the door.
Shui Feng whispered, "I'm sorry, brother, I knocked down your front door." He reached into his arms and fumbled around for a moment, pulling out a small bag. "I don't have much money, so I'll give you this as compensation."
Lu Qingjiu said, "No need, my door should have been replaced anyway."
"Take it." Shui Feng said with a smile, "It's not a valuable thing."
Lu Qingjiu wanted to refuse, but seeing his firm attitude, she had to put it away, thinking of asking Bai Yuehu what was going on in the evening.
Lu Qingjiu made extra dinner. He made steamed pork ribs with glutinous rice, stir-fried shredded pork with fish sauce, and a large bowl of steamed eggs. Their chickens had started laying eggs, but these were much larger than usual, with a high chance of having double yolks. They were especially fragrant when steamed, and since Lu Qingjiu had added some water, they were incredibly smooth and tender.
After the meal was ready, several people sat down at the table.
Bai Yuehu spent the entire afternoon repairing the door. He found a black wooden door from somewhere and inserted it in the place where the original wooden door had been. Lu Qingjiu looked at the wooden door and wanted to laugh. It was so grand and majestic, with dragon patterns carved on it, it was completely out of tune with the simple style of the entire courtyard. But it was installed, and there was no big problem, just a little bit out of place.
Shui Feng ate very seriously without taking his eyes off the food the whole time, but his bad luck did not stop. When he was eating steamed pork ribs with glutinous rice, he found three or four stones in the glutinous rice.
Lu Qingjiu was stunned: "Where did all these stones come from in the rice?"
Yin Xun said: "Yeah, how come I didn't get any?"
Shui Feng seemed to be used to it and waved his hand nonchalantly: "It's no big deal, keep eating, I've gotten used to it. You don't know, the time I took a bite of an apple, only to see half a worm wriggling inside..."
Lu Qingjiu: “…” He silently put down the chopsticks in his hand.
Yin Xun and Lu Qingjiu made the same move.
After finishing the meal, Shui Feng said goodbye. Lu Qingjiu watched him limp away. However, just as he walked out of their courtyard, he seemed to accidentally step on something and fell flat on his face. He lay on the ground for a long time without getting up. When Lu Qingjiu was about to go out to help him, Bai Yuehu said, "Don't worry about him. He asked for it."
Lu Qingjiu: “Hmm…” He could tell that Bai Yuehu was serious.
After Yin Xun went back, Lu Qingjiu took a fan and some melon seeds and sat next to Bai Yuehu, eating melon seeds while chatting with his fox spirit.
Although Bai Yuehu usually seemed difficult to talk to, Lu Qingjiu actually had a pleasant chat with him. Every time she asked him a question, he would answer it patiently.
"The salaryman gave me a bag this afternoon." Lu Qingjiu fanned himself with one hand and took out the bag that the salaryman had given him in the afternoon from his pocket with the other hand.
Bai Yuehu took a look at the bag and knew what was inside. He was silent for a moment and said, "Keep it."
"What is it?" Lu Qingjiu was too busy that afternoon to take a look. He opened the bag carefully and saw a strand of hair inside. The hair was yellow and black, thick and hard, obviously not human hair, but a bit like the hair of a wild animal.
"Hair?" Lu Qingjiu took out a piece of hair from the bag and asked in surprise, "Is this... any use?"
"Carry it with you." Bai Yuehu said, "It will be of some benefit."
Lu Qingjiu thought for a moment: "Is it the hair on his body?"
Bai Yuehu nodded.
"Is he a tiger spirit?" After careful study, Lu Qingjiu felt that the color of this tuft of hair was most similar to that of a tiger, so he began to imagine, "Or is it a leopard?"
"No, he is a god." said Bai Yuehu.
"God?" Lu Qingjiu asked in surprise, "Is there a god as unlucky as him?" From the moment he saw Shui Fengqi, he saw that he was constantly unlucky.
Bai Yuehu sighed and said, "It was an accident."
Lu Qingjiu keenly noticed that Bai Yuehu didn't seem to want to say more about this water priest, but then again, it seemed like the first time he heard Bai Yuehu sigh in such a tone, which had a kind of sad feeling of grief over the death of a rabbit.
Since Bai Yuehu said it was useful, Lu Qingjiu hung the bag on his keychain and carried it with him. That night, before he went to sleep, he dug out the Classic of Mountains and Seas again, carefully searching for a deity that matched Bai Yuehu's description. However, after searching for a long time, he came across a fact that shocked him. In the Classic of Mountains and Seas, there was indeed a deity whose behavior was similar to that of Shui Feng, but unlike Shui Feng, he was completely different and must have been a truly lucky person.
The name of that god is Taifeng, the auspicious god Taifeng.
Legend has it that Taifeng, with the body of a human and the tail of a tiger, controls the world's good fortune. Those who are close to him are blessed by fate, and everything they do is successful. Taifeng is a gentle being who lives on Mount He. Compared to Shebishi, he is more approachable.
But compared to the water-rewarded man who got a lump in his teeth even when drinking cold water during the day, this Jishen Taifeng was a stark difference. Could that water-rewarded man be Jishen Taifeng's younger brother, the water-rewarded man of bad luck? Lu Qingjiu pinched the fur in his pocket, feeling that their non-human world was truly complex.
The next day, when Lu Qingjiu woke up, he saw Bai Yuehu sitting in the yard.
"So early?" Lu Qingjiu looked at the time. It was just past five o'clock. On weekdays, Bai Yuehu usually got up after six o'clock.
"Well, I have to go out for a while." said Bai Yuehu.
"When will you be back?" Lu Qingjiu asked.
"Maybe in the evening." Bai Yuehu asked, "What time is it?"
"It's half past five." Lu Qingjiu said, "Do you want to have breakfast?"
Bai Yuehu said, "It's too late." He thought for a moment, "I'm going to the city hospital. Do you want to come with me?"
When Lu Qingjiu heard that it was a hospital, he immediately became nervous and asked, "Hospital? Are you feeling unwell?"
"No, I'm going to meet someone." Bai Yuehu invited Lu Qingjiu again, "Come together."
Lu Qingjiu thought for a moment and said, "That's fine." Bai Yuehu rarely invited him out, so since she had asked this time, there must be some reason. So he grabbed some biscuits and got in the van with Bai Yuehu, heading towards the city.
Lu Qingjiu also found a moment to send a message to Yin Xun, asking him to take care of his own lunch today.
They drove to the town, which took about two hours along the mountain road. Because it was a mountain road, there were cliffs everywhere, so they had to drive slowly to be safe. It took another hour to get from the town to the city, which meant that they would arrive in the city around eight o'clock.
Lu Qingjiu was driving and watching Bai Yuehu sitting next to him eating biscuits. Bai Yuehu seemed to be in a bad mood. Although his expression did not change much, Lu Qingjiu could see his mood from the corners of his eyes and eyebrows.
"What's going on?" Lu Qingjiu asked, "Is someone you know sick?"
"Yeah." Bai Yuehu responded.
Lu Qingjiu smiled and said, "Isn't it a salary?"
Bai Yuehu said, "He has a mental illness."
Lu Qingjiu laughed heartily. He said, “Are all these gods so approachable? I feel like… he’s just an ordinary person.”
Bai Yuehu thought for a moment and said, "He is no different from ordinary people now. No, there is a difference. He is a little more unlucky than ordinary people."
Lu Qingjiu thought of the miserable state of Shui Feng yesterday, and curled the corners of his mouth in a somewhat unkind way.
The pickup truck continued on, soon leaving Shuifu Village and heading towards the city. As the clock ticked past seven, the world began to awaken from its dream. The roads became filled with more vehicles and pedestrians. For ordinary people, it was just another ordinary day.
The hospital woke up earlier than other places, and before six o'clock, the hall was crowded with all kinds of patients.
Lu Qingjiu parked the car in the underground garage and walked towards the inpatient department with Bai Yuehu.
"The person is here." Bai Yuehu handed Lu Qingjiu a note.
Lu Qingjiu looked over and saw that it was Ward 102 on the 15th floor of Building A. He said, "Over there."
Bai Yuehu nodded.
As Lu Qingjiu walked towards Building A, he turned his head and glanced at Bai Yuehu. He didn't know if it was his illusion, but he felt that Bai Yuehu didn't seem to know the way after entering the hospital and had been following him. However, if that was the case, it probably explained why Bai Yuehu invited him over. When Lu Qingjiu thought of this, he felt that he was overthinking it.
While they were thinking, they had already arrived downstairs of Building A's inpatient department. Lu Qingjiu pressed the elevator button, waited for Bai Yuehu to enter, and then pressed the number 15.
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