Chapter 43 Don't Just Tell a Bad Joke
Repairing the water pipes was a big project. According to Ye Feng's description, there was a spring on the mountain. Someone had broken open the rock wall and carved out a water channel. Then, a water pipe was connected to the bamboo tube from the gap.
Because the terrain on the mountain was steep, the vegetation was lush, and it was wet and slippery, it was difficult for Su Yun to climb up. He could only find new pipes and let the night wind carry the water out again and into the bamboo pipes that had been built.
Thick bamboo pipes were used to construct and secure the structure all the way down the mountain.
There is a small pool of water made of cement over there.
No wonder Su Yun always felt that the vegetation at the foot of the cliff was particularly lush; she had even found tomatoes nearby.
It must have been a reservoir built by the villagers after they brought water down from the river.
Following the wisdom of his predecessors, Su Yun built a wooden vegetable washing platform next to it, with an old stone mill that he had dug out from a corner. Water dripped slowly from the bamboo spout onto the stone plate, making it perfect for washing and picking vegetables.
Then the water in the stone mill was full, and it automatically flowed down through the gap into a lower stone basin, which Su Yun had found. It was probably used for pounding rice before. Finally, when the water was full, it flowed down the bamboo tube into the water pit, and then down the ditch into the farmland, slowly irrigating the fields.
Su Yun dredged all the ditches in this area and unexpectedly discovered that the ditches seemed to lead all the way to the village pond, which always had fresh water, which was a good thing.
Su Yun felt that her fish farming business was about to flourish. There were many more fish in the pond now. When she collected the fines before, she asked Wanwan to catch some fish of suitable age and put them all into the fish pond for breeding.
By now, there are many more fish.
Occasionally, we also have to cut grass and feed them.
It was almost a week later when I finished doing all this.
The fields, now connected to the water supply, seemed to have regained their vitality, with vegetation flourishing even more.
In addition, there seem to be more small animals and insects. Ye Feng has been catching wild rabbits and pheasants more often by the ditch.
Moreover, the area began to become lively, with the sounds of frogs, crickets, and unknown insects filling the ponds, ditches, and fields.
Su Yun felt that since he connected the irrigation canal to the mountain, he had supported at least ten choirs.
As evening approached, the sounds of frogs, cicadas, and crickets mingled together, giving Su Yun a headache.
The summer heat crept into the room along the windowsill, echoing the magnificent symphony, keeping Su Yun awake.
She sullenly picked up the old palm-leaf fan she had found and fanned herself vigorously, but the weather was unbearably hot and humid, and the fields were very noisy. She tossed and turned like a fried egg, unable to fall asleep.
Su Yun stared at the ceiling for a long time with her eyes open.
Sigh, it's no good to be unable to sleep alone, so she turned over and started bothering the night breeze.
Su Yun called out softly a few times, "Night Wind, Night Wind, are you asleep?"
Night Breeze, perhaps exhausted from a day's work, seemed completely unaffected by the outside noise and drifted off to sleep. Then Su Yun called softly, "Night Breeze, are you asleep? I can't sleep..."
Cats are always alert, so they were naturally woken up by the noise.
Her soft ears twitched slightly, picking up the sounds outside, and then she heard Su Yun calling her.
It turned out she couldn't sleep again.
Although I was woken up from my sleep.
But Night Wind remained good-natured and didn't get angry. Instead, it handed its tail to the other party and replied softly with a nasal tone, "Here, tail."
"oh!"
Su Yun reached out and naturally took the tail, then stroked the limp tail a few times, just as listless as its owner, before belatedly realizing, "Wait, something's not right. Why did I suddenly start stroking the tail? No, I don't want the tail."
"Don't want a tail? Oh!" The night wind automatically pulled its tail back.
But Su Yun grabbed him and coaxed him softly, "Good boy, tail. It's not that I don't want you, it's just that I didn't want a tail in the first place."
Night Wind still couldn't understand the complicated words, and with a heavy nasal tone, he uttered a "Hmm?" Although his eyes were still hazy, his ears were obediently perked up, listening attentively to what Su Yun wanted to do, and then doing everything he could to satisfy all her wishes.
"I just can't sleep, and I want to chat with you."
"Want to chat? Tell a story?" Ye Feng was still half asleep, and his voice had a heavy nasal tone, sounding soft and cute, making you want to pet him. "Want a bedtime story?"
Before they went to bed earlier, they would often talk for a while, mostly about silly bedtime stories that Su Yun made up.
Xiao Ming's head looks like a kite. When he went to school, his classmates laughed at him, so he ran outside the classroom crying. As he cried, he suddenly flew away...
During the Spring Festival travel rush, Xiaoming suddenly needed to defecate on the train. However, looking around, the train was packed with people, and the toilet seemed impossibly far away. So, when the train stopped at a mid-station, Xiaoming quietly opened the window and cautiously stuck his butt out... The train inspector on the platform saw this and shouted, "Hey! You fat guy with the cigar! Don't stick your head out the window! It's dangerous!"
"Want me to tell you Xiaoming's story?" Ye Feng asked, still half-asleep but very helpful.
"NO! NO! NO!" Su Yun waved her hand excitedly, "In the middle of summer, what's the point of telling lame jokes? Ghost stories are the most suitable!"
"Ghost stories?" Night Wind asked, puzzled, and pricked up his ears.
Su Yun was in high spirits and told a ghost story with a corny joke...
"One day, Xiaoming went to his friend's house to play and stayed overnight. However, his friend's toilet was haunted. The host specifically told him not to be afraid, as long as he didn't accept anything from the haunted house, he would be fine. But if he accepted anything from the haunted house, well... cough cough, it's hard to say."
Su Yun deliberately left the conversation in suspense.
The night breeze was well-behaved and cute, but it didn't understand, looking completely bewildered: ???
Su Yun continued: "Although Xiaoming was very scared, he couldn't hold it in any longer in the middle of the night and had no choice but to go to the toilet. As soon as he entered the toilet and squatted down, he suddenly heard a faint voice asking him, 'Do you want white paper or yellow paper?'"
After hearing this, Xiao Ming remembered his friend's advice and cleverly replied, "Sorry, I only use newspapers."
Thus, Xiaoming successfully escaped his predicament.
But it seems that Xiaoming ate something bad; his stomach suddenly started hurting again, so he had no choice but to go to the toilet.
This time, that eerie voice came again, asking, "Do you want the People's Daily or the Entertainment Evening News?"
Xiaoming: Sorry, I only use sports newspapers.
Xiao Ming successfully escaped from the predicament once again.
But Xiaoming still couldn't hold it in and ran to the toilet again. Then the voice came again: "Do you want the tennis newspaper or the football newspaper?"
Xiaoming: Sorry, I only use basketball newspapers.
Xiao Ming escaped safely once again.
But when it was the fourth time, and Xiaoming had an upset stomach and went to the toilet again, the voice came again. This time it said, "Here's a basketball newspaper for you."
Xiao Ming had no more words to refuse. Guess what he said in the end?
The night breeze was hazy, and my eyelids were drooping. "What do you mean?"
"Haha, Xiaoming said, 'Sorry, I just wanted to pee this time.'" After telling this somewhat lame joke, Su Yun burst into laughter, plopping down on the bed.
He laughed for a while before finally raising his head.
Looking at the night breeze again, it remained hazy and showed no particular reaction.
He was neither scared nor laughing, but rather looked drowsy and confused. Why was that person hiding in the toilet peeping at people using the toilet?
Su Yun then belatedly realized that, well, to make Ye Feng understand this story, she had to start with the dregs of feudal superstition, which was a long story and too difficult.
So, Su Yun pulled the blanket over her head and announced, "This story teaches us that you should never peep at others while they're using the toilet. That's all. Time for bed!"
"Oh." Night Wind responded softly, half understanding, but finally obediently handed over its tail, gently comforting Su Yun who couldn't sleep.
Su Yun naturally took the tail, rolled over, and felt sleepy after all the commotion. She rubbed her eyes, the soft tail in her hand greatly soothing her heart. Feeling sleepy, she yawned slightly, closed her eyes, and fell asleep.
However, in the latter half of the night, Su Yun was half asleep and had no idea that what she had intended to do by telling a ghost story to scare Ye Feng had backfired, leaving her in trouble instead of frightening him.
Because she drank a lot of water before bed, Su Yun was woken up in the middle of the night by the urge to urinate.
Su Yun usually doesn't get up at night, since it's quite inconvenient to be out in the dark without lights.
But then I woke up because I needed to pee.
Because of the heat, the window was open, and the pure white moonlight streamed into the room.
The yard looks bright inside and out, so there's no need for lights.
Su Yun tossed and turned for a while before deciding to get up and go to the bathroom. Anyway, it was so bright, there shouldn't be any problems.
Su Yun groped his way to his feet.
I carefully moved the log blocking the doorway, the movement was subtle, but the night wind still woke me up.
He perked up his ears alertly, then groggily opened his eyes, which gleamed faintly in the darkness. Upon recognizing Su Yun, he asked in a low voice, "What's wrong?"
Su Yun hadn't expected to wake the other person, and explained apologetically, "I'm going to the bathroom."
"Want me to come with you?" Night Breeze asked in a hazy voice.
"No need, no need." Su Yun looked at the bright sunshine outside the door and figured that it was perfectly bright now, so walking to the toilet in the corner of the yard wouldn't be a problem at all, and there was no need to bother Ye Feng.
"You go to sleep first, I can manage on my own."
"Okay, sure."
Su Yun doesn't need his company every single time or every moment.
After confirming that Su Yun needed to use the toilet and didn't need his company, Ye Feng closed his eyes slightly and fell asleep again, his breathing long and even, probably because he was too tired from working in the fields during the day. Su Yun couldn't help but feel sorry for him and felt even more embarrassed to disturb him. Instead, she tiptoed to open the door, crossed the yard, and arrived at the toilet door. Although it was very bright outside the yard, the toilet was located in a corner and was inevitably a bit dark.
Looking at the dark and gloomy toilet in the corner, which had no lights, Su Yun felt a pang of regret.
At this point, those ghost stories that originally sounded funny suddenly became not funny at all.
When Su Yun pushed open that dark door, her mind was filled with terrifying legends about toilets, and even a lame joke with a humorous undertone made her heart race.
Ah, her mind was completely out of control; it was filled with all sorts of ghost stories.
What, borrowing toilet paper from the restroom?
Look up, there's someone there.
What dripping water?
Damn, this is not pleasant at all.
Although Su Yun is mostly a materialist, there are zombies in this world!
So her mind uncontrollably replayed the horror movies she had watched, and then, with trembling legs, she squatted down in the toilet and finished using it at the fastest speed she had ever experienced.
Then, with lightning speed, he pulled up his pants and rushed out of the toilet.
whoosh—
Standing once again under the bright moonlight, Su Yun's tense heartbeat finally calmed down.
"Everyone says stories are lies, I'm just scaring myself, sigh." Su Yun patted her wildly beating heart, let out a long sigh, and comforted herself, "How could there be ghosts in this world? I'm so stupid, so stupid. I can scare myself even when I'm going to the toilet, sigh~ so pathetic."
After being startled like that, Su Yun's drowsiness vanished completely, and she even felt parched from the tension. "Sigh, I'd better get myself a glass of water."
It's late at night now, and the noisy chirping of insects has quieted down. The evening breeze carries the coolness of dew, and the sweltering heat suddenly feels pleasant.
Su Yun suddenly didn't want to go back to the stuffy room so soon. She poured herself a glass of water, leaned against the doorpost, and began to enjoy the moonlight while drinking.
"The moon is so big and white tonight!" Su Yun sipped her water, marveling at the enchanting moonlight, the gentle evening breeze, and the pleasant countryside scenery.
However, before she could enjoy herself for even three seconds, a strange noise came from the direction of the toilet to her side and behind.
First came a series of soft, rustling sounds, then a loud thud—
Finally, a soft female voice said, "Ouch, that hurts—"
Su Yun: !!!
Was she hallucinating? Or was the bathroom really haunted?
Su Yun held the teacup, her palms began to sweat, and her hands and feet began to tremble slightly.
The first rule of horror movies is never to turn around when you hear something strange, so Su Yun froze, her heart churning with turmoil as she hesitated, wondering whether she should turn around.
Ah, I guess I was just imagining things.
In situations like this, all you have to do is pretend you didn't hear it and turn around and walk away, right?
Ah! Can't we just go back?
Just when she was extremely conflicted.
Everything returned to silence.
Su Yun let out a breath. She thought it was right not to turn back. Maybe, perhaps, it was just her imagination.
Su Yun's heart had just calmed down a little when a clear, melancholy female voice drifted into her ears again. This time, the female ghost directly called out her name, "Ah! Excuse me, beautiful lady over there, could you help me? I think I'm stuck."
The sound was clearly audible; it was definitely not a hallucination.
Su Yun was terrified and hurriedly turned her head to look back. It would have been better if she hadn't looked, because what she saw almost made her heart jump out of her chest.
A female ghost dressed in red, with disheveled hair, was lying on the roof of her own toilet, stretching out a pair of pale hands towards her with a mournful expression, and saying in a long, drawn-out voice, "Um... could you please save me... save me..."
Su Yun's inner monologue: Damn it! Only an idiot would save you!
Then, startled, she dropped her water glass and yelled, "Mommy! There's a ghost!"
He dashed back into the house at the fastest speed he could muster and locked the door.
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