Chapter 67
Li Yang originally thought that he was too lazy to go downstairs to return the hair dryer, so he dried his hair on the first floor. But when he turned off the hair dryer, he thought that Zhou Du might also need it, so he took it upstairs.
Pushing open the door, Zhou Du was putting on his shirt, and the texture of his abdominal muscles was clearly visible as he moved his arms.
His neat short hair was wet, and Li Yang gave him the hair dryer.
After Zhou Du got dressed, he went to the bathroom to blow dry his hair. Li Dongqiang had already changed into his pajamas and was sitting with his legs crossed, watching TV and eating pizza.
The hair dryer was returned and Li Dongqiang had finished eating. After they washed up, Li Yang carried a quilt to the simple double sofa and curled up to lie down.
Zhou Du didn't say anything, just said: "I turned off the lights."
"Yeah." Li Yang buried himself in the quilt.
Zhou Du reached out and touched the switch. Except for one light in the bathroom, all the other lights were turned off.
Li Yang wasn't very comfortable lying down, but he felt sleepy, and soon it was time to go to bed.
However, Li Dongqiang had basically slept the entire way. His eyes were shining brightly in the darkness. He immediately asked, "My benefactor, are you cold? The bed Xiao Zhou and I sleep in is so warm and big. It can accommodate three people."
Because you turned on the electric blanket.
Li Yang: “Not cold.”
Then he asked again: "My benefactor, are you feeling crowded? I can just kick Xiao Zhou down."
Li Yang: “You kick.”
Li Dongqiang: "...Then, you and Xiao Zhou can sleep on the bed. I'll sleep on the sofa."
Giving up the bed is literature, and it's quite sensible. But the winter melon spirit is thinking: I can just crawl back in the middle of the night, it won't be a problem.
Li Yang's sleepiness was interrupted again and again, and he became angry.
A snow-white wrist stretched out from the quilt and made a gesture of magic. Li Dongqiang was speechless.
Got banned.
In the silent room, when Li Yang's shallow breathing became even, Li Dongqiang lifted the silencing spell himself, but he also calmed down, trying to accept the fact that he would sleep with Zhou Du.
But in the past six months since it became a spirit, it has slept with Li Yang every day. It is not easy for it to adapt to a different person all of a sudden.
After turning over several times, it couldn't help but shook the man beside it: "Xiao Zhou, Xiao Zhou, Xiao Zhou..."
Zhou Du slightly opened his eyes. The light from the frosted glass of the bathroom was like a thin layer of warmth coated on his face. His facial features were incredibly handsome. He looked at it leisurely with a tired look on his face and half-closed his eyelids.
"Can I secretly move my benefactor to the bed?"
Zhou Du smiled immediately, his tiredness faded away, and there was a little light in his eyes, "You move it."
Li Dongqiang decisively turned around and made a gesture like Ultraman Zero. Then with a "hmm!", the young man who was sleeping soundly on the sofa was lifted up into the air with his quilt.
Li Dongqiang was afraid of waking him up, so he carefully moved Li Yang over. The process took three minutes, and finally, he gently placed him on the bed.
The young man still didn't notice it, and rubbed his pillow in the quilt.
Li Dongqiang let out a sigh of relief, then contentedly lay down between the two adults and went to sleep.
In fact, the double bed room is not that big, and it is still a bit crowded for three people to sleep.
Li Yang woke up and found something on his head.
I looked up and saw eight-pack abs.
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His eyelids puffed up slightly, and his upper body bounced back, waking up the owner of his abdominal muscles.
The young man was used to curling up when he slept. Before he woke up, he was squeezing Li Dongqiang in the middle, nestling in the man's arms, even rubbing the corner of the man's clothes and rolling them up. Only then did he open his eyes and saw things he shouldn't have seen at close range.
Li Dongqiang woke up early, suffocating because he was sandwiched between two people who were getting closer and closer, causing him to have difficulty breathing.
"What's wrong?" Zhou Du raised his wrist and used the back of his hand to block the white light coming through the window.
Li Yang calmed down and said, "Nothing."
But thinking that the cause was that she had somehow ended up sleeping on the bed, Li Yang looked at the man and winter melon, and narrowed her eyes slightly, "Who moved me to the bed?"
Zhou Du had already sat up, leaning against the head of the bed and looking at him, his expression frank and upright, but his eyes were smiling, as if genuinely asking him for an answer: "What is my motive?"
Yes, what motive could he have? Li Yang analyzed it quickly and said.
At the same time, Donggua was very nervous and was particularly afraid of Li Yang beating him, but he was too small-minded to think of any good excuse to exonerate himself, so he imitated Zhou Du and said, "What is my motive?"
Li Yang already understood what was going on, so he picked up Li Dongqiang and beat him to his original shape.
Donggua was very unconvinced. Why didn't the benefactor suspect Xiao Zhou if the words were the same?
It rolled around on the bed and said, "Xiao Zhou's motive is to sleep with you!"
Why not beat him!
Li Yang: “Nonsense.” He beat him even harder.
Zhou Du applauded Gua: You are right.
The morning is the key to a day, and the morning’s key is to beat the baby.
Leading the winter melon spirit with a swollen right cheek downstairs.
Li Dongqiang was white and fat, so any injuries were obvious. But ordinary beatings would not leave any marks at all, and this injury was inflated by its own magic power. It felt that if it did not leave some evidence to make Li Yang feel sorry for it, it would be in vain.
The innkeeper saw it and exclaimed, "What happened? It looks like a poisonous insect has bitten you."
Li Yang said: "Don't worry about it."
Seeing that they looked like they were about to leave, the proprietress introduced them to some delicious restaurants in town.
The three of them went to have breakfast, left the West District attractions, and walked to the East District.
We passed by gray-tiled houses along the way, but they were basically empty and there weren't many pedestrians on the road until we followed the map on our phone and came to a door and stopped navigating.
Although it is called a palace, it does look more like an ordinary old mansion. Judging from the scale of the palace, it can only be regarded as a very small one.
The paint on the wooden plaque on the top has become mottled and peeling, and it is impossible to tell whether it was painted red or gold before. Only the carved concave characters can be made out: "Lingfeng Palace" is written on it.
The wooden door has also been through the years and has white scratches all over it.
Zhou Du stepped forward, grabbed the rusty door knocker, and knocked three times slowly and heavily.
After a while, no one opened the door.
Li Dongqiang looked at the door and wall. Although he couldn't see what was inside, the atmosphere was already eerie. He felt that it was a bit like the haunted house that Lu Xiaoguo had described. He hid behind Li Yang and beeped, "Is there anyone living here?"
"You'll know if you fly up and take a look." Zhou Du teased it slowly again.
"I don't!"
Li Yang pulled out the corner of his coat that was grabbed by Li Dongqiang, and held his little hand instead, "Let's ask the neighbors first."
However, the three of them circled the alley around the yard.
These houses all had big doors and walls, and the doors were not open, so I was not sure if there was anyone living inside. It was not convenient to knock on people's doors so early in the morning, so I could only keep walking and try my luck to see whose door was open.
They didn't meet him until they got out of the alley. But the exit they took was not the same alley they entered.
At the end of this alley is a one-acre fish pond. Three old ladies are sitting by the side picking vegetables and chatting, while the domestic chickens, ducks and geese are pecking at the leaves on the ground.
Li Yang and Zhou Du looked at each other and walked over. Zhou Du half-crouched while greeting them, and the chickens, ducks and geese immediately scattered. The chickens clucked and ran, and the ducks and geese flew into the fish pond.
"Grandma." Zhou Du called the three old ladies and started chatting with them, asking some common questions.
The young people in the town all went to the city to make a living, and the young people from outside also mostly went to the prosperous West District. The grandmothers seldom saw new faces on weekdays, not to mention that this strange young man was good-looking, polite, and spoke nicely. The grandmothers seemed to be bewitched and told them everything they knew.
And because there are still a few families living here, they have lived in the street for decades, so they know everything. They don't have the desire to gossip every day when they get together. But when they chat with Zhou Du, seeing that he is supportive and interested in the things in their town, the grandmothers quickly dug out all the old stories of the town, and their enthusiasm was faintly showing signs of being unable to stop.
In a short period of time, Zhou Du and Li Yang already knew that Grandpa and his wife from the east were taken to the city by their son to be raised. Grandpa Tan fell in love with an auntie who danced in the square and wanted to divorce Grandma Tan, so Grandma Tan drove him back to the town and forbade her son to raise him. The follow-up is still unknown and is still developing.
Uncle Yuan, the third family from the south, lost all his fortune playing mahjong when he was young. He got drunk and wanted to jump into the fish pond. He did jump in, but the pond was not deep enough to his waist, so his attempt failed.
The old lady of the first family in the west has three daughters and one son. Because of her preference for boys over girls, she did a lot of evil things and was abandoned. She is currently suing in court.
"After the girl from Lao Fu's family in the north married into the city, she discussed with her husband and decided to bring Lao Fu to the city to be raised. Wasn't it the day before yesterday that was the Chinese New Year's Eve? He came back to the town and looked so radiant. I saw that his legs and feet were much more flexible and he didn't need a cane anymore." An old lady put down the vegetables and took out a handful of melon seeds from her pocket, sharing them with the two sisters, and then with Zhou Du and Li Yang.
Zhou Du took a small handful, and Li Yang also took it.
"Isn't it? I think it's best to have a daughter." The grandmas were cracking melon seeds. Now that the Internet is well developed, they can be exposed to some new ideas and viewpoints. Even those exaggerated special effects short videos targeting the elderly, with some inspirational stories, can indeed bring about some ideological changes for elderly people like grandmas.
As she spoke, she started scolding men, from the old grandfather who had passed away but had done bad things to the little grandson next door who chased chickens and dogs when he came back with his children to celebrate the New Year.
"Damn it, all men are bad."
Three boys: "..."
Li Dongqiang thought about it and realized that if it put on a skirt, it could also be a baby girl.
The grandmothers sensed the silence of the three boys, waved their hands that were pinching melon seeds, and said, "You don't count. You are watching carefully. The young man who doesn't speak is more handsome than the girl."
After the grandmas finished chatting, Zhou Du spoke again: "Grandma, you have lived here for decades, how much do you know about the Lingfeng Palace?"
"What palace?"
"The mausoleum... the third courtyard in the second alley to the south, where the statue of the god is enshrined."
The grandmas suddenly realized, "Old Xu's family..."
"Yes, he always said his house was some kind of palace or temple, not a temple."
"Some people want to burn incense, but when they go in, they don't know what deity they are offering incense to. When they ask what the deity can bless them with, they say it can't bless them with anything." Grandma laughed at this point and said, "If it can't bless anything, what's the point of offering incense? It's been closed for more than ten years."
"I even suggested to him that he should worship Guanyin instead. Guanyin is so wonderful."
The other two grandmas nodded.
Zhou Du and Li Yang looked at each other. The grandmothers didn't know much about the history and origin of Lingfeng Palace.
"Is there anyone living there now?" Li Yang asked.
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