Chapter 100 The enemy of my enemy is my teammate (two chapters in one)
The wooden plaque just now was engraved with the names of the two newlyweds who were getting married today.
The man’s name is Wu Changsheng, which happens to be similar to the name of the village, Wuchang Village. I wonder if there is any connection.
The woman's name was Huang Lili, the same name as the mysterious woman who was inextricably linked to the fugitive Yan Nanan in the clues.
Yan Nan'an naturally noticed this, which is why he wanted to disrupt the ceremony.
The old woman in black who was in the lead naturally refused and released the water ghost in the tank to attack him.
I don’t know what kind of feed these water ghosts are fed with, but they can grow so strong in the water tank. If they are allowed to attack Yan Nanan, he will definitely be eaten to the bone.
The so-called enemy of my enemy is my teammate. Although I don’t know what kind of person Yan Nanan is, people who raise water ghosts must be bad people. Xu Chuchu decided to help.
She used her spiritual power to quickly move forward, stuck the Taoist talisman on the peach wood sword to increase its power, and joined the fight between Yan Nanan and the water ghost.
The wooden sword was imbued with spiritual power, and it chopped the ghosts and monsters as easily as chopping tofu. It was much stronger than the tattered and rusty sword in Yan Nanan's hand, and it quickly shared his pressure, allowing him to temporarily breathe a sigh of relief.
"Of course, little girl." Yan Nan'an laughed heartily, "I guessed you were capable, but I didn't expect you to be so capable. Uncle is very optimistic about you."
Xu Chuchu had never expected this person to be so familiar. She rolled her eyes and said, "Shut up and focus on killing monsters, uncle."
Xiao Yu was responsible for covering the rear, and he pushed down several wooden signs erected on the street along the way, and pushed several porcelain jars placed in a courtyard towards the crowd.
These people who caught up with us really had no brains. They just kept chasing us without even knowing how to dodge. They bumped into wooden signs and porcelain jars and fell down one after another.
But Xiao Yu was worried about Xu Chuchu. When he heard the two people talking on the other end, he became anxious and hurried to chase after them.
Xu Chuchu almost single-handedly dealt with all the water ghosts. Turning around, he saw the old woman in black chasing after him from a distance, and hurriedly said, "Let's go, let's talk somewhere else."
"Okay!" Yan Nan'an agreed verbally, but suddenly exerted force with his hand and hit Xu Chuchu's elbow with the blunt end of the broken sword.
"Hiss." Xu Chuchu was caught off guard, and his entire arm was numb and unable to move, and the peach wood sword fell to the ground.
Yan Nan'an burst into laughter again: "The little girl is good at learning the mystical arts, but her swordsmanship is almost non-existent. It would be too easy for her to launch a sneak attack."
After saying this, he immediately slipped away: "I'm slipping away. I, Yan, never deal with people from the government."
Unexpectedly, as soon as he turned around, a cold sharp blade was placed on his neck.
Xiao Yu arrived at some point and said coldly from behind him, "You look down on her swordsmanship, why don't you try mine?"
Yan Nan'an guessed Xiao Yu's skill from his action, and his pride instantly turned into a cowardice. He said with a wry smile, "No, no. Let's go somewhere else quickly, and go together."
Xiao Yu naturally didn't believe him. He quickly took a rope and tied his arms and upper body together, and tied the other end to his own wrist.
He first watched Xu Chuchu kick Yan Nanan's leg in anger, and then took the two of them away.
Because the main road back to Guzhu County was blocked by villagers, they had to go the other way and return to the side of the mountain away from Shuijing Lake. They found a concave part of the mountain to rest in, which could barely be considered a narrow cave.
"There shouldn't be any danger tonight." Xiao Yu looked at it from a distance. "I saw those villagers stop at the village entrance. They haven't come out for such a long time. They might be restrained by something and can't leave the village."
"That's good." Xu Chuchu felt relieved. "I can focus on interrogating certain people tonight."
"What certain people? I, Yan, have names." Yan Nanan shouted.
"So, certain people." Xu Chuchu turned around and looked down at Yan Nanan who was sitting on the ground. "Tell me, why did you escape from prison? What are you doing in Wuchang Village? What does it have to do with Huang Lili?"
"I need to pee." Yan Nanan said.
Xu Chuchu was speechless for a moment, thinking that this guy really had the style of a "gangster".
It would be fine if he wasn't grateful for having his life saved, but he first attacked me by surprise, and now he's being deliberately rude and annoying.
And now, looking closely, it can be seen that Yan Nanan is still wearing the prison uniform he brought out from prison. In order to cover up the "prisoner" mark on the back of the clothes, he wears the clothes inside out, with the threads and seams exposed.
Coupled with his greasy and cold face, unshaven beard and hair that hadn't been washed in who knows how many days, he looked even shabbier than a homeless person. I don't know where County Magistrate Lin got the word "handsome and elegant" from when he described him.
Xiao Yu naturally couldn't bear to hear Yan Nan'an talking to Xu Chuchu like that, so she propped her folding fan against his shoulder and said, "I advise you to behave yourself and stop playing such tricks, or I'll throw you back to feed the water ghosts at any time."
"But I really need to pee." Yan Nan'an said sincerely, "You don't know how long I've been holding it in, waiting to attack that old witch."
"Shut up!" Xiao Yu scolded.
"Oh, I can't hold it anymore, I have to pee!" Yan Nan'an yelled even louder, "If you don't believe me, just look at my pants. Look, they're almost wet..."
Xu Chuchu really couldn't stand it anymore, so she turned her head away and stopped looking at him.
At this moment, Xiao Yu just wanted to cut him between the legs to see if he could still hold it in. But she didn't want him to act like a gangster and irritate Xu Chuchu, so she grabbed the back of his collar and pushed him out.
"Hurry up!" He knew that Yan Nan'an must want to take the opportunity to slip away, but he was also confident in his own skills and was not afraid that he would escape.
"Untie me!" Yan Nan'an imitated Xiao Yu's words.
Xiao Yu was so angry: "Don't push your luck!"
"How can I pee if you don't untie me?" Yan Nan'an also looked angry. "Are you going to hold me up?"
"You!" Xiao Yu took a breath of cold air, and the first thing he did was look at Xu Chuchu on the other side.
When Xu Chuchu was looked at by Xiao Yu, she felt guilty and immediately turned sideways to cover her ears: "I, I didn't understand!"
Xiao Yu: “…”
Yan Nanan: “…”
"Interesting little girl, interesting." Yan Nan'an was quick-witted for a moment, and seeing the two young people's embarrassed faces, he comforted them, "You haven't gotten married yet, so you're so shy. Don't worry, when you get married, you'll be able to speak more fluently than me."
Xiao Yu twisted the rope hard before untying him: "I thought everyone was as vulgar as you."
He waited for Yan Nanan to solve his personal problems before tying him up like a dumpling, leaving him no chance to play any tricks.
Xu Chuchu tried her best to suppress the blush on her face and said calmly, "Yan Nan'an, we are indeed government officials. Our goal is to capture you and put you in jail again, and we will definitely do so. But now, you have a chance to tell us the truth. What exactly happened? What do you want us to do for you? If we exchange information, there may still be a chance."
"That's right." Xiao Yu also leaned against the cave wall. "You should also know that we can completely ignore the affairs of this village and just capture you and report to the mission. Huang Lili is a stranger to us, and we have no obligation to take such a big risk to care about her life or death. You only have this one chance."
No matter how cunning Yan Nan'an was, his eyes darkened when he heard the name "Huang Lili" and he muttered, "You guys are really good at threatening people."
He curled his lips in frustration: "You want to know why I suddenly escaped from prison? Actually, with my ability, I can escape from prison anytime I want. It's just that I can't wait for the last two months..."
He paused and said, "Because someone told me that Lili is getting married."
"Who told you?" Xiao Yu asked, "Lily?"
"You even know about Lily?" Yan Nan'an was secretly shocked and looked at the two young men in front of him again for the first time.
I used to think they were reckless but stubborn people. They even dared to attend that kind of wedding. What a foolhardy person they were.
He said helplessly, "It's lilies. Lili has always liked lilies. She even said that when we get married, we won't have peonies or roses, but lilies... After she was released from prison, she moved to Wuchang Village, where they grow lilies for a living."
"So when I saw the steamed lilies in the rice, I knew something was wrong," he said. "I pretended to be curious and asked the jailer why there was such a delicious thing in the rice. The jailer told me that someone had sent it to me specially."
"I know this is wrong. Lilies are so precious that the villagers themselves can't bear to eat them. How could they send so many to me? Something must have happened to Lili, and she wants my help."
"So I just grabbed the key to the prison door and ran out to find her. Sure enough, this village is weird."
"People here rest in their houses during the day, eating, drinking, defecating and sleeping. But at night they start to move around."
"I observed secretly for two days, and one night a wedding procession suddenly appeared out of nowhere. The bride was none other than my Lili!"
"I wanted to grab the bride right then and there, but there were so many of them that I couldn't..."
"Excuse me for interrupting." Xu Chuchu asked doubtfully, "Isn't the wedding today? When have you ever tried to snatch a bride?"
Yan Nanan glared at her: "Hey little girl, listen to your uncle patiently. This is the first time to snatch the bride, and there will be a second time, a third time... Come every night."
"Get married once every night?" Xiao Yu was also surprised. "Is it always Huang Lili?"
"Yes, and no." Yan Nan'an thought for a moment, "They seem to have some problem. Every time I run out to interrupt them and then run away, they will stop the ceremony. However, they repeat it from the beginning the next day. Every day is the same, even the words they say are the same. I don't know if they are real people or something else."
"Do you interrupt them once a day?" Xu Chuchu also asked, "How many times?"
"Well... including today, this is the ninth time in total," Yan Nan'an said. "The first two times, they just sent people to chase me, but they couldn't catch me. Then they started releasing that black monster."
He suddenly rolled up his sleeves, revealing an arm covered in scars, proving his words were true: "Look, these were all scratched and bitten by those monsters."
Xu Chuchu recognized the wound caused by the water ghost at a glance. The wound was black with green in it, and it had been injured for some time.
"You've been poisoned!" she blurted out. "You'll die if you keep going like this!"
"Yeah." Yan Nan'an put down his sleeves nonchalantly, "So I don't care what you do to me. I won't live for many days anyway."
"I'm just a little worried about Lili. I still don't know whether she's dead or alive. Her grave is clearly on the mountain, but she keeps getting married to other people day after day. I don't know what's going on."
Xiao Yu and Xu Chuchu were silent for a while, but in the end Xu Chuchu sighed and said, "Forget it, I'll save your life."
It was such a coincidence that she left most of her luggage and medicines at the Guzhu County Government Office this time, and only brought her sword and two kinds of medicine, one of which was for treating water ghost bites.
She brought it out because she was afraid that Xiao Yu would be defeated and injured if he encountered a water ghost, but she didn't expect it to be used on Yan Nanan.
Of course, these medicines are also from Sanshan Zhenren.
"Roll up your sleeves," she ordered. "Stand straight with your arms. Don't move."
Yan Nan'an initially thought Xu Chuchu was joking. After all, in his understanding, wounds caused by ghosts and monsters could not be cured with ordinary medicines, not to mention that Xu Chuchu had never been honest since they met.
But seeing that Xu Chuchu had taken out all the medicines, he hurriedly did as she said.
Seeing Xu Chuchu about to apply the medicine to Yan Nanan himself, Xiao Yu felt so sore that his teeth almost fell out. He interrupted and said, "Let me do it. You just fought with the water ghost, now you should rest well."
"No need." Xu Chuchu didn't smell the vinegar at all and said frankly, "He has several wounds where the poison is too deep. I need to use my spiritual power to force it out, and you can't do it now."
Xiao Yu was even more shocked. He said "hmm" and stood back without saying anything else.
Xu Chuchu didn't know what Xiao Yu was thinking, but Yan Nanan, who was also a man, understood it instantly.
Oops, I haven’t caught up with her yet.
He chuckled and deliberately made exaggerated noises like "Oh oh" and "It hurts so much" when Xu Chuchu applied the medicine. While shouting, he looked at Xiao Yu with squinted eyes.
Xiao Yu was getting annoyed again, but when he met Yan Nannan's knowing and mean eyes, he turned away in annoyance.
He also didn't want to fall into Yan Nanan's trap.
Yan Nanan was not satisfied with teasing Xiao Yu, so he turned to teasing Xu Chuchu: "Little girl, you had a stern face just now, but now you come to treat your injuries. Is it because I am handsome and you don't want me to die... Oh oh oh!"
The last cry was a cry of real pain.
Xu Chuchu was unhappy to hear his smooth talk and deliberately used heavy hands.
"Uncle, you're feeling too good about yourself." She began bandaging the wound fiercely. "I applied medicine to you because I didn't want to see a living person die in front of me and damage my Dao heart. It doesn't matter who you are or what you look like."
After thinking about it, he felt that it was not enough, so he added: "Even if a puppy was injured, I would save it."
"Woof woof!" Yan Nanan said.
Xu Chuchu was even more speechless: "Oh, some people keep talking about their old friend, calling her Lili, but when they are behind her back, they still flirt with other girls. No wonder they committed the crime back then, but they also donated money and ran away, becoming the heartless man who abandoned their old friend."
Yan Nanan was caught off guard and Xu Chuchu hit a sore spot. He angrily said, "Oh, you people, you believe everything you hear. I didn't abandon her... Oh, I did abandon her, but not completely! You don't understand."
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