"No need, Master."
"Let's go back. Yu Ying is in the Hall of Mental Cultivation."
"Thank you, Master."
Zou Heng then left the Hall of Mental Cultivation. When Xiao Xi'er came out of the hall and entered the courtyard, she saw Qin Jue smiling.
"Daddy, what are you laughing at?"
"Laughing at your Uncle Zou Heng?"
"What's the matter?"
Qin Jue started telling Xiao Xi'er a story again.
"I understand."
"Uncle Zou Heng is afraid of ghosts."
"Yes"
Little Xi'er has transformed into a "curious baby".
"Daddy~, why is Uncle Hengheng afraid of ghosts?"
"It's a simple matter to explain, Xiaoxi'er, would you like to hear it?"
"I want to hear it, hehe."
Qin Jue just looked at Xiao Xi'er like that, then tilted his head slightly, and Xiao Xi'er understood what Qin Jue meant.
Xiao Xi'er snuggled up to Qin Jue and kissed him on the cheek, making Qin Jue happy.
"When your Uncle Zou Heng was little, his family thought he ate too much, so they often locked him in a dark room."
"At first, your Uncle Zou Heng was quite scared. But then he saw rats in the dark house, so he made friends with them and gradually got used to it."
"But later, your Uncle Zou Heng's older and younger brothers started dressing up as ghosts to scare him."
"He would faint from fright every time, and yet he still had to work in the fields during the day."
"Later, his father and daughter sold him into the palace to work as a guard. Even in the palace, people would pretend to be ghosts to scare him, so he is now very afraid of ghosts."
"ah?"
Little Xi'er started to feel sorry for Zou Heng, "Why don't Uncle Zou Heng's parents feed him?"
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