When he got home, Lu Qingjiu made a roast chicken for Bai Yuehu. The roast chicken was coated with a layer of honey. After roasting, the skin became extraordinarily golden and attractive. The skin was crispy and the meat was tender in the mouth. , There is a thick gravy in one bite, and the unique meaty aroma of chicken lingers in the house, making people want to twitch their noses.
Bai Yuehu had always eaten chicken without spitting out bones, and after eating the whole chicken, he returned to his rocking chair and sat down again. It just so happened that Li Xiaoyu came over from next door to ask Xiaohua for some practice questions, and Lu Qingjiu took out the grapes that had been frozen before, put them in a bowl and handed them to Li Xiaoyu.
After the grapes are iced, the pulp and juice inside are in the state of smoothie, sour and sweet are very refreshing.
Li Xiaoyu and Xiaohua liked it very much. One person and one pig were lying on the table, and they continued to do exercises that Lu Qingjiu couldn't understand.
After the water payment incident, Bai Yuehu didn't speak much for several days, and completely returned to the lazy state when he first came. Except for eating and farming, he was almost completely integrated with the rocking chair.
Lu Qingjiu was afraid that he was in a bad mood, so he thought of a way to make him something delicious to make Bai Yuehu happy. In summer, everyone likes to eat cold dishes. The chili oil is used very quickly. The inventory at home is running out. When Lu Qingjiu saw that the sun was going down, he planned to go to the field to pick some fresh chili peppers to make oil chili.
The oil and chili here are specially made by themselves. The chili peppers are dried and cut into powder, and then sesame seeds and various spices are added to the powder, and then scalded with boiling oil, and the hot oil and chili is ready. The key point of this kind of oily chili is not spicy but fragrant, and it is very flavorful when placed in cold dishes.
Lu Qingjiu went to the ground with a bag on his back.
The weather was very hot, and although the sun had gone down, the heat rising from the ground still burned his ankles. Lu Qingjiu went to the ground and saw the peppers of the white moon fox species.
The chili peppers grown by his fox spirits were really different from those from others. All the chili peppers were huge and full. Lu Qingjiu picked one and licked it on his lips, and he felt a burning pain. After the chili is eaten, it is not a taste but a pain that gives the mouth. This pain can stimulate the secretion of pleasant substances in the brain... To put it further, the spicier the chili, the better the quality of course.
Lu Qingjiu picked about two or three pounds of peppers, and it was already dark. The night in the mountains is different from that in the city, because there is no light pollution, as long as the weather is still sunny, you can see the fascinating sky full of stars. There is no moon tonight, but the stars are very bright. Even if you look closely, you can find a white, star-filled Milky Way in the night sky.
The wind at night is different from the daytime, with a little coolness, blowing on people's skin, there is a kind of inexplicable comfort.
Lu Qingjiu put the peppers he picked in the ground into the bamboo basket he was carrying, and after tidying up, he started walking home.
He took two steps forward, but he seemed to have kicked something under his feet. When Lu Qingjiu looked down, he saw a hundred-yuan bill lying beside his feet, which stood out in the black mud.
"Who lost the money?" Lu Qingjiu bent down and picked it up. Everyone in the village is not rich, and 100 yuan is not a small amount. If it was lost by an aunt, I'm afraid it will be distressed for a month. . But having said that, since Tai Feng gave him the cloth bag, his luck has improved with the naked eye. Picking up money on the side of the road is a routine operation. The most exaggerated thing is that he bought a lottery ticket for fun the day before yesterday. , that the lottery actually won the third prize.
But in the end, Lu Qingjiu didn't redeem the prize. He always felt that this kind of money earned by luck was not reliable.
Lu Qingjiu was thinking about going to find the owner of the coin tomorrow, but he stepped on something. This thing is hard and a little stubborn. Lu Qingjiu scratched it with his hand and found a coin with a strange pattern from the ground. , This coin is the size of a thumb, and the surface has a dull yellow color. Lu Qingjiu took it into his hand and determined that it was not the country's general currency, but rather like a game coin left over from somewhere. He originally wanted to take a closer look at what pattern was drawn on the coin, but it was too dark and he didn't bring his mobile phone, so he had to give up.
After returning home, Lu Qingjiu shoved the coin into his pocket, but when he put it in, his hand shook inexplicably. The coin fell to the ground and rolled towards the grass next to him. .
Lu Qingjiu reflexively wanted to catch the coin, and rushed into the grass, but he regretted it as soon as he entered the grass. He was wearing shorts, and many of the grass in the grass seemed to have spikes, and his calves were hot. It hurts.
"Ah..." Bending down, Lu Qingjiu saw bright red blood flowing from his calf, he hissed and wanted to turn back, but when he turned his eyes back to the road he had just come from , but was stunned to find that the original road had disappeared - he came to a completely unfamiliar wasteland.
Lu Qingjiu froze in place, not knowing how to react for a while. He looked around and saw that there were no roads to walk around him, only an endless wasteland. On the wasteland, there were only weeds that were overgrown, all of which had thorns on them, and the height was about Lu Qingjiu's waist.
Lu Qingjiu could barely walk two steps before feeling that there were several bloody wounds on his calf. He had to stop for a while and looked around.
Soon, Lu Qingjiu found a rather special thing in this wasteland - a dead tree standing in the very center of the wasteland. The dead tree didn't look too far from Lu Qingjiu, it seemed so out of place in the endless grass, and there seemed to be birds like crows standing quietly on the trunk.
Lu Qingjiu walked forward with difficulty, he looked at the bloody legs, he couldn't help but smiled bitterly, and laughed at himself: "That's probably how a mermaid with long legs feels..."
Fortunately, the closer to the tree, the sparser the weeds around. When Lu Qingjiu got under the tree, there was only brown land left.
The crow on the tree trunk seemed to be frightened by the approaching Lu Qingjiu, and fluttered its wings to fly into the distance. Under the night, the birdsong made the whole world seem quieter, and Lu Qingjiu even gave birth to a feeling of being abandoned by the world.
But soon, his attention was drawn to the past.
It was a stone stele standing behind a dead tree. Because of the angle, Lu Qingjiu had never noticed it until he walked behind the dead tree and saw this extremely abrupt stone stele.
However, when Lu Qingjiu could clearly see the appearance of the stone tablet, he felt that it was a tombstone rather than a stone tablet.
A party is forgotten in this world, a solitary tombstone.
It was too dark, and Lu Qingjiu couldn't read the words on it. He thought about it, and after approaching it, he touched the tombstone with his hand, and then began to rub it carefully.
The tombstone was rough and cold. There were not many fonts on it. There were about seven characters. Lu Qingjiu counted it a little bit for the first time, and then began to identify it carefully after the second time.
The first is love, which is in traditional Chinese, and the second is 子, which is easy to recognize.
However, when Lu Qingjiu touched the third word, the expression on his face froze, and his hands began to tremble. With one stroke, one stroke, one stroke, and one stroke, Lu Qingjiu touched it three or four times before confirming that the word was indeed the one he had in mind.
Lu Qingjiu's movements stopped for a moment, he lost his strength, leaned on the tombstone and took a few breaths before he mustered up his courage and touched the fourth word.
The mountain lying down, the inch standing up, that is a search.
The goose bumps on Lu Qingjiu's body exploded. He opened his mouth, but he didn't know what to say for a while. After he repeatedly confirmed, he finally figured out what the seven words on the tombstone were.
The tomb of the beloved son Yin Xun.
The tomb of Aiko... Yin Xun...
Like an electric shock, Lu Qingjiu's hand bounced off the tombstone. He stared at the tombstone as if he was staring at an evil spirit.
Why is there Yin Xun's tombstone here? Is it a prank? But how can there be such a prank in the world. The smile of his friend appeared in front of Lu Qingjiu's eyes. He seemed to be able to see Yin Xun's bright smile and the playful tiger teeth on his lips.
"Lu Qingjiu, Lu Qingjiu." The smiling Yin Xun waved at him, "Welcome back to Shuifu Village."
Lu Qingjiu sat on the ground with a wry smile.
The crow that had left came back, it babbled, stopped on the tombstone in front of it, tilted its head, and looked at Lu Qingjiu. In the night when you can't see your fingers, those black eyes are actually glowing with a little starlight.
Lu Qingjiu recovered from the shock the tombstone gave him. He wanted to approach the tombstone again, but vaguely heard someone calling his name.
"Lu Qingjiu, Lu Qingjiu." The voice was very weak. At first, Lu Qingjiu even thought it was his own illusion, but soon, the voice of the call became louder. Lu Qingjiu followed the call and finally found the voice. The source of - this sound came from the black crow.
The crow was a little far away from Lu Qingjiu. At this time, it was hovering in the air, and a human voice came out of its mouth: "Lu Qingjiu, Lu Qingjiu—"
Lu Qingjiu tentatively walked in the direction of the crow, and found that the grass under his feet began to fade towards both sides.
Like Moses dividing the sea.
This is probably the right path. Although I don't know who is guiding him, it is clear that the person guiding him is not malicious.
The crow was still calling his name, and Lu Qingjiu followed the call. He didn't know how long he had been walking, until the crisp sound of a coin landing in his ear made him tremble all over, and he was suddenly shocked. I returned to my original world.
No weeds, no dead trees, and no tombstones. Instead, there is the familiar land and the faint starlight overhead. The silver coin was spinning at Lu Qingjiu's feet, and Lu Qingjiu bent over to pick it up. This time, the coin was safely put into his jacket pocket, instead of rolling into the side of the coin like before. among the grass.
Lu Qingjiu, who found the coin, walked towards the house. To be honest, if the wound on his calf still existed, he would have thought that he had had an absurd dream.
Lu Qingjiu walked into the yard, but Bai Yuehu, who had closed his eyes for a nap, suddenly opened his eyes and looked in his direction: "Are you injured?"
Lu Qingjiu said, "Well, I was accidentally scratched by a grass thorn when I went to the ground."
Bai Yuehu's gaze fell on Lu Qingjiu's calf, and he said, "Thorns in the ground?"
Lu Qingjiu nodded.
Bai Yuehu said, "Come here, I'll give you medicine."
Lu Qingjiu originally wanted to refuse, but seeing Bai Yuehu's firm attitude, he had to agree. He found a chair casually and sat down. Bai Yuehu half-squatted beside him. He first washed the coagulated blood stains on his feet with clean water, and then put on the special ointment that Bai Yuehu gave Lu Qingjiu before. These wounds are actually only skin injuries, and they are not too serious. After applying the ointment, they are cool and cool, and they will soon recover.
"I... I found a coin." Lu Qingjiu lowered his head, looked at Bai Yuehu who was treating his wound with a serious face, took out the coin from his jacket pocket, "Look at the coin. See anything special?"
Bai Yuehu glanced at it and shook his head: "It's nothing special."
"No curse or anything?" Lu Qingjiu was a little strange.
"No." Bai Yuehu said, "There is no power on it, it's just an object in the mundane world."
Lu Qingjiu sighed, he washed the coin with clean water, and saw the pattern on it clearly, but it made him feel strange that he seemed to have seen such a coin somewhere, but he couldn't remember it for a while. .
"I was pulled to a strange place by this coin." Lu Qingjiu said with a little hesitation, "I saw a wasteland and a bottle of tombstone..."
When Bai Yuehu heard the word tombstone, he raised his head and glanced at Lu Qingjiu.
Just when Lu Qingjiu thought he would say something, he said, "If you want to know, you should ask him in person."
Lu Qingjiu was stunned when he heard the words: "He?! Do you know what I saw?"
Bai Yuehu nodded.
Lu Qingjiu said, "Then what is the situation? Is Yin Xun human?"
Bai Yuehu shook his head: "It's more appropriate for him to answer this question himself."
Lu Qingjiu pursed his lips. In fact, after he returned here, he vaguely felt that something was wrong with Yin Xun, but Yin Xun had no intention of harming him, so he did not go into it. But even if he noticed Yin Xun's strangeness, Lu Qingjiu never thought that this friend he had played with since childhood was not even a human being.
Bai Yuehu obviously knew Yin Xun's identity for a long time, but he didn't plan to tell Lu Qingjiu just like that, but let Lu Qingjiu ask Yin Xun himself.
Lu Qingjiu touched the coins in his pocket, thinking that since that's the case, then go ask Yin Xun tomorrow.
Lu Qingjiu hadn't slept well this night because he was thinking about something, so he got out of bed before five o'clock the next day to make breakfast. He thought that since he was going to have a showdown with Yin Xun today, let's make a hearty breakfast.
So Lu Qingjiu deliberately stewed a pot of chicken soup, and wanted to make a few bowls of delicious chicken soup and shredded chicken noodles.
But what Lu Qingjiu didn't expect was that the sun had risen above his head, and Yin Xun was still nowhere to be seen.
Lu Qingjiu sat in the room waiting impatiently, took out his mobile phone and called Yin Xun, but no one answered the phone.
"Yuehu, eat first, I'll go to Yin Xun's house to find him." Lu Qingjiu said to Bai Yuehu.
Bai Yuehu nodded and picked up the chopsticks.
After Lu Qingjiu went out, he went straight to Yin Xun's house. After arriving at Yin Xun's house, he knocked on the door for a while, but no one answered. Lu Qingjiu thought for a while, then went to Yin Xun's neighbor, Aunt Liu who often stuffed Yin Xun with things.
"Aunt Liu, have you seen Yin Xun?" Lu Qingjiu asked.
Aunt Liu was drying the quilt, and when she heard what Lu Qingjiu asked, she said, "I didn't see it, he didn't seem to be back last night."
Lu Qingjiu said, "What time does he usually come back?"
Aunt Liu said: "It's past ten o'clock. His house is not good. Every time I go home, I can hear him closing the door. What's wrong, Lu Wazi? Something happened to the youngest of the Yin family?"
Lu Qingjiu said, "No, I'm just looking for him for something. Aunt Liu, when you see him, ask him to come to me and say I don't blame him."
Aunt Liu was a little puzzled when she heard the words, but she didn't ask any more questions and nodded in response.
Lu Qingjiu couldn't find Yin Xun, so he could only go home.
Bai Yuehu seemed to have long expected that he would make an empty run, and he didn't show much surprise about Yin Xun's disappearance.
"Did something happen to him?" Lu Qingjiu, who didn't answer the phone and whose family was not there, had no choice but to go home, angrily squatting at the door of the house eating melon seeds and complaining to Bai Yuehu, "He ran so fast. What, shouldn't I be the one to run away... He's afraid that I'll catch him and eat meat?"
Bai Yuehu said, "Maybe I'm a little scared."
"Ah?" Lu Qingjiu turned his head, "What did you say?"
"I said." Bai Yuehu repeated softly, "He may be really afraid that if you catch him, he will be eaten."
Lu Qingjiu: "...Who ate it?"
Bai Yuehu pointed to himself.
Lu Qingjiu was stunned: "You eat? Is he worried that I will cook him and send it to your table?"
Bai Yuehu didn't speak, but his expression already gave Lu Qingjiu the answer.
Yes, Yin Xun was Lu Qingjiu's friend before, but now his non-human identity has been exposed, Lu Qingjiu who was deceived is very angry, and Bai Yuehu, as Lu Qingjiu's backstage, will definitely not hesitate to help Lu Qingjiu out of this. Bad breath - the logic is perfect, nothing is wrong.
However, Lu Qingjiu, who had smoothed his logic, was so angry that he wanted to hit someone.
"Am I the kind of person who would kill my friends to eat meat?" Lu Qingjiu said angrily, "He doesn't know me at all!"
"Yeah." Bai Yuehu said, "It's obviously me."
Lu Qingjiu: "…"
Probably because Lu Qingjiu's expression was too ferocious, Bai Yuehu said again, with a slightly cautious tone: "Yin Xun's meat quality should be good..."
"No! No approval! Don't even think about it!" Lu Qingjiu ruthlessly refused.
Bai Yuehu sighed, his face full of regret, it seemed that he didn't dislike eating Yin Xun at all, as long as Lu Qingjiu gave an order, he would be able to open his mouth satisfactorily, even swallowing his belt bones. .
Lu Qingjiu said, "Then do you know where Yin Xun is now?"
"I don't know." Bai Yuehu's interest in food that can't be eaten is not so strong. If Yin Xun really doesn't show up anymore, he's actually quite happy. Yin Xun didn't care about this matter at all.
"But the coin you picked up yesterday should have other uses." Bai Yuehu said, "You can think about it carefully, where have you seen this coin."
Lu Qingjiu frowned, he returned to the room with the coin in his hand, and placed it on the table to observe carefully.
No matter how you look at it, this is an ordinary coin. Although it is not a circulating coin issued in China, there is nothing special about it. There was a bull in the front and a crown in the back. Lu Qingjiu watched it for a while, and he did feel a little familiar in his heart.
He has seen this coin, where is it, when and what scene... What does this coin mean to Yin Xun
Lu Qingjiu couldn't think of an answer.
It was noon now, and it was time to cook again. Lu Qingjiu had something on his mind, so he made something to eat with Bai Yuehu.
Bai Yuehu stared at the dishes on the table and fell into thought. Usually, there are four dishes and one soup. Today, Yin Xun was away, so they made do with a bowl of fried rice and some pickles. Although the fried rice tastes good, Bai Yuehu has already started to have other ideas...
Lu Qingjiu didn't know the taste of the food he ate. He was still thinking about Yin Xun, Yin Xun must be real, otherwise people in the village would not know him. But obviously there has been some kind of peculiar change in him, and even he may no longer belong to the category of human beings, but is moving closer to the non-human side.
"Brother Lu." Li Xiaoyu next door had already had summer vacation. After lunch, he came over to play with Xiaohua as usual, and called Lu Qingjiu from a distance from the door.
"Come in." Lu Qingjiu finally recovered and said, "Have you eaten yet?"
"Let's eat." Li Xiaoyu smiled and looked very happy, "I'll come over and tell Xiaohua, I won't study in the afternoon."
"Where are you going to play?" Lu Qingjiu asked.
"Well." Li Xiaoyu said, "Xiaolong and I are going to play in the town in Uncle Chen's car."
Xiaolong is Li Xiaoyu's playmate. There are three or four children of Li Xiaoyu's age in the village. They occasionally hang out with each other and go to the town to play. They don't have much money, but they can still play happily. Play game consoles, eat cool popsicles, browse the only supermarket in town…
Lu Qingjiu's gaze passed through Li Xiaoyu, as if he saw Yin Xun and himself in the past. He and Yin Xun came together like this back then.
Lu Qingjiu put down his chopsticks, lowered his head, and saw a coin looming in his jacket pocket. The next moment, accompanied by Li Xiaoyu's questioning "Brother Lu?", Lu Qingjiu finally remembered the coin in the end. what is.
This is indeed not an ordinary coin, but a game coin. It was one of the game coins that he and Yin Xun worked hard to save and bought. When they were young, they didn't have much money. The pocket money they saved in a month could play at most two or three times. This was already the best thing for Lu Qingjiu when he was a child.
And when Lu Qingjiu was about to leave Shuifu Village, Yin Xun, who was still a teenager, cried and wanted to hand over the coins he had worked so hard to save into Lu Qingjiu's hands, but at that time Lu Qingjiu had already boarded the departing train. , can only sit in the carriage, through the thick glass, watching the childhood play accompanied by the running train running, and finally gradually disappeared at the end of the line of sight,
Since then, the two have separated from each other, and it has been many years since they met again.
Yin Xun was no longer the thin boy Lu Qingjiu remembered, but the smile on his face was still the same, and the tiger teeth on his lips were as playful and cute as before.
"I..." Lu Qingjiu said, holding the coin, his voice was slightly hoarse, "I remembered."
Remember what this coin represents.
The author has something to say: Bai Yuehu: Look at what I found, a wild Yin Xun, without the head, has five times the protein of chicken.
Yin Xun: Jiu'er, help!
Lu Qingjiu: Bai Yuehu, calm down! ! !
Yesterday, I was a bit confused when I read the comments. Emmmm, I think a normal human being has been relieved of his illness without contacting non-human beings. The first reaction should be to thank the magic of modern medicine instead of thanking relatives and friends. Pray for yourself to be successful, and if you are lucky, this kind of metaphysics is even more... Tai Feng did not bring the girl into the non-human world, the two just get along like ordinary people. Tai Feng saved herself, I am afraid she can make her attending doctor laugh _(:3∠)_
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