"Shopkeeper, how did you get this tree?" Qiu Ling asked curiously, looking at the tree in the yard.

"Is it beautiful?" Yuan Yuanyuan did not answer, but asked her directly what she thought of the tree.

"It's beautiful." Qiu Ling said, "It's just like in a fairy tale."

After finishing her cram school class, she came to the pub to find Tang Shi. In comparison, Qiu Ling obviously had much less spare time than Tang Shi, and this was the first time she came to Yuan Yuanyuan during this period.

Yuan Yuanyuan looked at the tree, then turned around and looked at the person she had laid flat on the corridor.

The man was now covered with two layers of quilts, with a fire burning next to him, and he was still wearing the same hospital gown.

…

Originally, Yuan Yuanyuan wanted to take this guy directly to the police station, but after thinking about it, she suddenly gave up the idea.

This person...just when he passed by the yard, he seemed to see the trees in her yard.

Yuan Yuanyuan lay beside him and sniffed for a long time, but couldn't figure out what kind of creature it was... If it was a human, it felt a bit strange, and if it was a monster, the monster's aura was not strong enough. So Yuan Yuanyuan didn't dare to call the police directly for the time being.

She and Tang Shi carried the man to the corridor, covered him with two quilts, lit a fire, and waited for him to wake up. Whether it was a human or a monster, as long as they had spiritual power, they would not die so easily, so Yuan Yuanyuan was not too worried about him getting into trouble for the time being.

Just like that, Yuan Yuanyuan completely forgot about the guy behind her. She turned around, got a basin of water, and continued to wipe the windows and doors.

…

Oh shit...where is this?

He opened his eyes dazedly and looked at the surrounding environment. Before he could fully open his eyes, he was dazzled by the green color.

What the hell…what the hell…what is going on?

He turned to the big tree next to him. The sunlight shone through the leaves, casting mottled shadows on the ground.

Not far away there was a pile of swept snow, piled up into a small snowman. He looked at the snowman, then looked at the big green tree over there, and suddenly he felt as if he had come to an extraordinary place.

He rubbed his eyes and looked for several times, but it was still the little snowman and the big green tree, without any change.

After looking around again, he found himself lying in a small corridor. Not far from him, there was a man wearing a black down jacket, completely covered from head to toe...

"Hello, um." He asked cautiously, "Excuse me...where is this?"

"Ah?" The man in the black down jacket turned around and saw only a dark patch. "This is my home. You fell at my doorstep."

"...I'm sorry." His tone was awkward.

This feeling... inexplicably feels like a scam.

"No problem." The man in black in front turned his head back and said, "Where is your home? I'll take you back."

After hearing this, he sat there and fell into inexplicable silence.

…

Yuan Yuanyuan watched the man behind her wake up. After he sat up, his eyes were very confused.

...This look made Yuan Yuanyuan feel a little threatened, because although she had taken this man in for a while, she didn't want to play the old-fashioned plot of "Who am I? Where am I? What's my name?" with him at all.

So Yuan Yuanyuan chose to strike first and asked him directly where his home was. If he really ran away from a hospital, she would do a good deed and send him back.

The man sat there for a while, staring blankly at the side. Yuan Yuanyuan kept looking at him cautiously, worried that he would suddenly say "Where is this?" Fortunately, the guy was not that stupid and just turned around and said something to Yuan Yuanyuan.

He was very careful when he spoke:

"Brother, do you tell fortunes?"

…

Three days later.

The branches of the trees in the yard were dancing slowly in the wind, and a row of quilts and clothes were hung on a bamboo pole.

The man hanging the clothes was wearing a military coat and his hair was messy like a chicken's nest.

Yuan Yuanyuan was sitting on the corridor, looking at the man over there, thinking to herself what the hell I have done, he was originally a handsome guy, how come he has become this rough guy after just three days.

As a clothing store owner... after opening the store for a few months, she finally started to look a bit like a boss and she finally hired a clerk.

Congratulations, congratulations.

This guy's name is Liu An, and he's a little monster.

She is quite pretty, with a baby face, but she never smiles and always has a wooden expression.

According to what he said, he was receiving treatment in a hospital when he suddenly met a Taoist priest. He was frightened and had to run away halfway.

Yuan Yuanyuan asked him where he was from, and he said he was from S City.

Yuan Yuanyuan asked him again why he went to the hospital. He said that there was a big monster causing trouble in the city recently, and he was one of those involved.

The big monster who had been protecting him was accidentally attacked and he was injured. The monster hospital was overcrowded, so he went to a human hospital.

When he said this, his tone was very calm. Yuan Yuanyuan admired his attitude. Although his experience sounded terrible, he obviously seemed to have a strong ability to endure it. To be more precise, he was very open-minded.

According to Yuan Yuanyuan, S City has been in chaos recently because of Yu Wu. On the day when C City opened, many monsters from S City came in. They all fled here because they couldn't survive.

However, the monsters that escaped to the larval area were relatively few. At least Yuan Yuanyuan only saw one in all these days, while there were dozens in other areas.

Yuan Yuanyuan found that Liu An liked to be in a daze when he had nothing to do. She didn't know what he was thinking about, but for her, she didn't have to stay on the first floor to look after the store all day these days. Sometimes she could go home to catch up on some sleep.

"Shopkeeper, how do we do this?"

"Well... try to pronounce the spell more clearly, and then learn the last one first."

Liu An has been quietly hanging up the quilts and clothes. He has been living here these days. The salary in the store is very low...it might as well be nothing. Food and accommodation are provided every month, but you don't have to worry about other things.

He has recovered a little in the past few days, but for him, these two days are like a complete transformation.

So he didn't want to do anything now. He just wanted to stay quietly in this small place, look at the tree honestly, and rest for a while.

The tree in the yard is very big, and it is a real treat to look at it in the dead of winter. Liu An thinks that the reason he stayed here is because of this tree.

Otherwise, with such little salary, who would be willing to do this job?

He was hanging out the clothes when he suddenly heard someone coming in the door. He turned around and saw a very beautiful female monster in white clothes walking in.

Liu An slowly stopped hanging the clothes. He looked at the female monster in white coming in, then looked at the boss who stood up, his eyes moving slowly.

"That's the shop owner's girlfriend." said the little girl standing next to him. "But she doesn't come to see the shop owner often. But the shop owner said she is a lotus fairy."

Liu An sniffed it and indeed there was a pleasant scent of lotus.

Gradually he began to move again and continued hanging the clothes.

The place that took him in was a clothing store, and it was only after he stayed there for several days that he realized that this was a place that sold clothes.

The key point is that there are hardly any customers in this store. If the boss hadn't told him personally that this is a place to sell clothes, he really wouldn't know what this place is for.

When he went out to buy groceries these days, he asked about the situation of this store. According to other people's description, this place is a place with a very bloodthirsty, very eerie and strange monster.

While listening to them, Liu An silently turned his head to look at the yard where the big tree grew.

No way...

The courtyard behind me, which originally had a small and fresh style, suddenly became inexplicably gloomy and terrifying.

According to the vegetable seller, the big monster lives here because this is a monster breeding area, so he wants to take the opportunity to catch the lone little monsters and then eat them to practice some evil magic.

A big tree grew in their yard to confuse the little monsters, the aunt said as she scolded a little monster next to her, telling her not to always think about playing in that yard because there was a very scary monster there.

Hey...you guys are the monsters.

However, even other monsters are afraid of this big monster, which is enough to show how scary this character is.

Liu An's eyebrows wrinkled slightly when he heard it for the first time. He returned to the store and when he entered again, he became interested in this store.

However... these days he discovered that there seemed to be only one real clerk in this store, and that was the black-clad boss in a down jacket when he first met him.

"Why don't you say anything?" said another little girl next to her.

"Well... because I've been in a bad mood lately." Liu An said.

This was another little girl. He saw her for the first time and it took him a long time to finally confirm that she was a real human being.

He was puzzled for a long time, but he couldn't say much about it, after all, he was just a taken-in partner.

"Why are you in a bad mood? You always have a stern face. You have a stern face more often than your boss." said the girl named Qiu Ling.

Liu An looked down and saw Qiu Ling sitting in the corridor, wearing a down jacket and holding a thick "Wu San" in her hand.

"Are you preparing for the college entrance examination..." He squatted down, looked at the book in Qiu Ling's hand, and inexplicably recalled the past few years.

"I'm in a bad mood... maybe something happened to me." Liu An said.

He looked at Qiu Ling's curious eyes and didn't know what to say to this little human girl. There were many things that he couldn't say... But he was willing to talk more with this rare little human girl.

In this completely unfamiliar place, only this little girl could make him feel a sense of familiarity.

"It's just... academic matters." Liu An said finally.

He looked at the big tree in the yard and said, "It's just... I worked so hard to get into a school that I thought I would never be able to get into, but suddenly I was expelled."

"I dropped out of school." Qiu Ling suddenly stuttered. She felt like she had asked a bad question.

"When I first went to school, it was quite hard in the beginning. In fact, at the very beginning... I felt that I was different from other people." Liu An said with his head down.

He thought for a moment, then smiled and continued, "Others were picked up by their parents, loved by their teachers, and had a smooth life. I started out by carrying a sack of homemade steamed bread and kowtowing and begging for mercy before I was admitted to school... But now I've been expelled, and I don't know where to go."

"Then, then why not ask the teacher for mercy?" Qiu Ling was completely stuttering this time.

"No way." Liu An simply sat next to Qiu Ling. "The school is very strict. I committed a crime, so I deserved to be expelled... Now, I don't know where to go. In fact, I just wanted to get a degree at the beginning, but after so many years, I feel that all my efforts have been in vain."

This time Qiu Ling didn't dare to answer at all.

"So you should study hard on the exam." Liu An suddenly turned around and said.

He thought about a lot of random things.

Actually, he talked a little too much today, but at this moment, he was still very happy to find someone to talk to about recent events.

Suddenly, there was a chaotic noise coming from outside the door.

"What's wrong?" Liu An said.

"Shopkeeper, something happened over there?" Qiu Ling said.

The two of them watched as the man who had just gone out with the female monster in white suddenly came back. His footsteps were so hurried that it seemed as if he was carrying the wind.

"What's wrong with the boss?" Liu An asked.

"I don't know, seems very anxious?"

Yuan Yuanyuan was indeed very anxious.

She had just heard from the female demon in white that someone from the Taoist priest group had recently begun wanting to kill her.

Yuan Yuanyuan remained confused until the female monster in white showed her the most recent wanted warrant.

…For a moment, the whole world seemed to be spinning for Yuan Yuanyuan.

OMG.