Huang You finished speaking, beckoned a little weasel over, whispered something to it, and the weasel scurried off to the back of the hall. A moment later, a shrill voice whined with impatience:
"You damned yellow-skinned idiot, why are you so busy in this freezing weather instead of sleeping?"
The sound came from far away and soon a little old man wearing a gray cotton-padded jacket, just over four feet tall and with a rat-like mustache appeared at the door leading to the inner room in the hall.
Perhaps Huang You woke him up from his sleep. The old man in gray had two big lumps of eye boogers in the corners of his eyes. He yawned and walked to the mahogany armchair in the hall and sat down without even looking at Yin Zheluo and the others.
Huang You got angry when he saw how lazy he was, and slammed the table hard, scaring the old man in gray so much that he jumped up from his chair.
"Oh my god, Old Huang, what are you doing? Are you trying to scare your Gray Grandpa to death?"
"What nonsense! Why don't you clean yourself up and come meet Junior Sister!"
"Junior sister? Where did this little junior sister come from?"
After hearing what Huang You said, the old man in gray stopped crying out for sleepiness. He opened his eyes wide and looked curiously at everyone's faces in the hall. When he saw Qingshan, his eyes lit up. He jumped off the chair, ran in front of Qingshan, and looked her up and down with his hands behind his back.
"Girl, are you the junior sister that Old Huang mentioned? But... you are clearly a human being, so why would you be ranked by seniority with us demon cultivators?"
After hearing what the gray-clothed old man said, several members of Qilin breathed a sigh of relief: Thank God, Consultant Chen is a human being, not some mountain goblin or monster!
Qingshan smiled, revealing two round dimples at the corners of his mouth, and replied, "Brother, my uncle is the Green Branch Fairy!"
"What? Say it again!"
The old man in gray was from some kind of animal, but he had amazing jumping ability. After hearing Qingshan's words, perhaps because his emotions were too agitated, he kept jumping on the spot as if he had stepped on two big springs.
Huang You looked at his grimacing expression and cursed inwardly, "What a shame!" He wanted to throw the tea bowl in his hand at him and scolded him, "That's enough, stop embarrassing yourself and go back and sit down!"
The old man in gray did not refute this time. He obediently walked to the chair next to Huang You and sat down, but his eyes were always fixed on Qingshan, flashing with disbelief.
"Junior sister, let me introduce him to you. His name is Huishu, also known as Kanjing. He is my junior brother, and his true form is a rat!"
Qingshan bowed to Huishu and called him "Senior Brother Hui". Huishu also changed his usual image of an old naughty boy, returned the greeting solemnly, and kept praising Qingshan for being a blessed man.
"Junior sister, if I'm not mistaken, you're here to look for someone, right?"
"Exactly. Five of our team members are missing, four men, one woman, and a ferret. I wonder if you've seen them, brother?"
Without waiting for Huang You to answer, Huishu flaunted his two rat-like mustaches and cheerfully showed off to Qingshan:
"I've seen them, not only have I seen them, I've even caught them! Old Huang caught two, and I caught three, one more than him. Chirp, chirp, chirp—!"
Qingshan was shocked. Although these two were in human form, they were animals at heart and were ferocious and aggressive by nature. They didn't hurt him because of Luzhi's kindness, but they didn't know Ma Ben and the other four. What if they became ferocious and hurt the students?
"Brother, they came here with no ill intentions. Please spare them and don't hurt them!"
"Don't worry, Junior Sister, those five people are unharmed and resting in the back room. Since Junior Sister and the others are here to look for them, take them away!"
After Huang You finished speaking, several big weasels ran to the back room to lead people. After a while, Ma Ben, Zhang Yang, He Youfang, Qian Duoduo and Jiang Ling appeared in the hall following the weasels. The ferret Yuanbao also jumped over, climbed quickly onto Huang You's shoulder, and stared at everyone in the room with his round eyes.
Ma Ben and his companions immediately saw Consultant Chen and Yin Zheluo sitting on the chairs, both with excited expressions on their faces. Jiang Ling was already in tears, biting her lips hard to stop herself from crying.
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