During the month, Shuifu Village experienced continuous light rain for several days. Different from the pleasant rain in summer, one autumn rain and one cool, the temperature dropped slowly, Lu Qingjiu also put on two clothes. The rainy weather always makes people feel lazy. Bai Yuehu's chair has been moved into the house. It's a pity that he can't sit in the rocking chair in the courtyard like before.
Because Yin Xun wanted to eat sausages, Lu Qingjiu went to town to buy casings and meat. After mashing the meat, he adjusted the taste and stuffed it into the casings. When making sausages, you need to pay attention to many small details. For example, when filling the meat into the casings, you have to pierce the casings with a needle and release the gas inside. This will help the water in the sausages evaporate and become easier to dry. The prepared sausages To air dry for a few days, then smoke and roast it again with fruit wood.
In just such a month, Lu Qingjiu's kitchen was full of bacon, sauce, meat and sausages. Because there were too many things, he couldn't put them down, so he cleaned out a new room to hang these For the meat, a layer of newspaper was also deliberately spread on the floor to prevent the grease from dripping on the ground when the meat was air-dried.
Just when Lu Qingjiu was thinking about what to expect during the winter, two guests came to the old house.
When Lu Qingjiu heard the knock on the door, he thought it was Li Xiaoyu next door. Thanks to the efforts of Xiao Hei and Xiao Hua, Li Xiaoyu's grades have improved a lot recently. Because of his improved grades, Li Xiaoyu runs to their house more diligently, and he comes over almost every day after school. But when Lu Qingjiu opened the door, he didn't see Li Xiaoyu, but Pang Ziqi, who almost died because of the rain teacher's concubine, was standing at the door with an umbrella. Behind him was an expressionless man in black clothes. The man was a head taller than Pang Ziqi, who was 1.8 meters tall. Although he looked handsome, his rock-like temperament made him feel all over the place. It exudes a breath of strangers.
"Lu Qingjiu." Pang Ziqi said, "What are you doing?"
Lu Qingjiu said, "I'm cooking... Are you sick?"
"Okay." Pang Ziqi responded, but her eyes often glanced inside the room, he said, "Aren't you asking me to come in and sit?"
Lu Qingjiu made a gesture of invitation, Bai Yuehu went to the field now, Yin Xun went to take a nap and didn't come back, he was left alone in the house.
Pang Ziqi entered the room with the tall man behind him. They were observing Lu Qingjiu, and Lu Qingjiu was also observing them. It seemed that this man should be Pang Ziqi's colleague and also a policeman, but he didn't know why Pang Ziqi came here this time. .
"Sit down, I'll pour you a cup of tea." Lu Qingjiu greeted them and sat down in the room.
Pang Ziqi said, "No need, in fact, I came here to thank you this time."
Lu Qingjiu said, "Thank you?"
Pang Ziqi said, "You helped me deal with the thing that was attached to me before, right?"
Lu Qingjiu said, "I don't know what you're talking about."
Pang Ziqi laughed: "Don't lie, since you can see these things, you must have your own way. I didn't plan to hand you over, I just asked you."
Lu Qingjiu sat down opposite Pang Ziqi without speaking.
Pang Ziqi pointed to the man beside him who had been silent for a while, and introduced, "This is my colleague, Meng Shuiyi."
Meng Shuiyi nodded to Lu Qingjiu as a greeting.
Lu Qingjiu looked at Pang Ziqi: "You are here to tell me this?"
Pang Ziqi shook her head: "No, I'm actually a little worried about you. Since you can see those things, you should be able to feel that you are contaminated with the aura of beasts. I don't think this is a good thing for an ordinary human being."
Lu Qingjiu smiled and said, "You came here because you were worried about me?"
Pang Ziqi smiled awkwardly: "This is one of the reasons, and there is another reason. The above asked me to ask... Where did the corpse of the rain teacher concubine go?"
Lu Qingjiu was a little curious: "How do you know that I couldn't figure it out?"
Pang Ziqi said, "I don't know. Didn't this come to ask you?"
Lu Qingjiu said, "If I said I didn't know, would you believe me?"
Pang Ziqi sighed, "Of course I don't believe it."
Lu Qingjiu said, "Then why are you asking me?"
Pang Ziqi said, "Isn't this a routine thing? If you really don't want to say it, I won't force it."
His attitude was not bad, Lu Qingjiu also saw that his temper was actually quite violent, but now that Lu Qingjiu saved his life, he couldn't have gotten angry in front of Lu Qingjiu, and if he hadn't dealt with it quickly at that time Rainfall concubine, looking at the efficiency of Pang Ziqi's department, I am afraid that Pang Ziqi has already been cremated by now.
After knowing Pang Ziqi's intention, Lu Qingjiu felt that he and Pang Ziqi had nothing to say. He couldn't tell Pang Ziqi about Bai Yuehu, so he refused with a stiff attitude: "Sorry, I have nothing to comment."
Pang Ziqi sighed, he looked around the house, and finally his eyes fell on the chicken who was sleeping in the chicken coop in the yard at this time. He seemed to have noticed something strange, and there was a bit of stunned taste in his eyes, and said: "You... I know you. What's around here?"
Lu Qingjiu said, "I know."
Pang Ziqi looked complicated: "Aren't you afraid?"
Lu Qingjiu asked, "What are you afraid of?"
Pang Ziqi: "Of course I'm afraid he will eat you."
Lu Qingjiu said, "If he wants to eat it, he has already eaten it, so why wait until now. Besides, if he wants to eat me, can you save me?"
This makes sense. Pang Ziqi smiled: "I don't know if I can save you, but I will try anyway." Since he is a policeman, he must perform his duties as a policeman. He feels that if Lu Qingjiu was tricked into living with the beast without knowing it, so he naturally had the obligation to remind him, but now it seems that Lu Qingjiu knew exactly what he was doing, and he had full trust in the beast.
"Thank you, don't worry about me." Lu Qingjiu said, "We get along very well."
Pang Ziqi nodded.
The two were talking. Bai Yuehu, who was wearing a raincoat and a bamboo hat, pushed in from outside the house. Lu Qingjiu noticed that the moment Bai Yuehu entered, Meng Shuiyi, who was originally relaxed, suddenly straightened his back, as if Suddenly became tense.
Lu Qingjiu looked away from him and looked at Bai Yuehu with a smile: "Yuehu, you're back."
Bai Yuehu didn't say a word, just put the rain-soaked bag on the table, glanced at Pang Ziqi and Meng Shuiyi, and nodded.
"There's freshly steamed corn cakes in the pot." Lu Qingjiu said, "I was afraid that it would get cold and I kept the fire on a small fire. Go eat it."
Bai Yuehu snorted, turned and walked towards the kitchen, but before leaving, he cast a non-salty look at Meng Shuiyi, and Meng Shuiyi suddenly became more nervous.
Pang Ziqi was the one with the least keen inspiration among them. He didn't notice the undercurrent at all. He was still looking at Bai Yuehu, obviously curious about this handsome man.
It wasn't until Bai Yuehu entered the kitchen that Meng Shuiyi breathed a sigh of relief. He turned to look at Pang Ziqi: "Let's go."
Pang Ziqi was stunned: "Ah? Why did you leave suddenly?"
Meng Shui said: "Almost everything is clear."
Pang Ziqi said: "Is it clear? What is clear, I still don't know anything..."
Meng Shuiyi had already stood up and raised his chin: "Let's go."
Pang Ziqi wanted to say something, but seeing Meng Shuiyi's solemn expression, it didn't seem like she was joking, so she could only say goodbye to Lu Qingjiu, and the two left with umbrellas in hand.
"Hey, why are you leaving in such a hurry, we haven't asked anything yet." As soon as he went out, Pang Ziqi asked Meng Shuiyi suspiciously. It was the first time he saw Meng Shuiyi look so flustered.
"Ask again, I'm afraid you're going to ask someone else's belly." Meng Shuiyi said coldly, "Don't come here in the future, this Lu Qingjiu was not caused by us."
"Huh? What do you mean?" Pang Ziqi didn't understand, "Isn't Lu Qingjiu human?"
"Yeah." Meng Shui said, "But have you ever seen a human being raising a beast?"
Pang Ziqi finally tasted it: "What do you mean... That man named Bai Yuehu is a beast? Is there such a beautiful beast?"
Meng Shuiyi: "What do you think beasts look like?"
Pang Ziqi said, "At least it's about the same as you, looking too hard to chew on."
Meng Shuiyi: "..."
Pang Ziqi: "Haha, I'm joking."
Meng Shuiyi glared at Pang Ziqi, but didn't bother with him anymore. After the two got into the car, they left Shuifu Village, and it seemed that they would not come again in a short time.
Besides, Lu Qingjiu sent Pang Ziqi and Meng Shuiyi away. When he was about to go to work, he suddenly noticed a red mark on the corner of his clothes. At first, he thought it was some paint he accidentally got, but he could smell it carefully. After smelling it, I found that the red trace was actually blood.
Where did the blood come from? Lu Qingjiu froze in place. He checked his body and around the table to make sure that there was no blood stains anywhere except the corners of his clothes.
"It's weird." Lu Qingjiu frowned, pulling at the corner of his clothes, "Where did you come from..."
"Don't look for it." After eating the corn cake, Bai Yuehu slowly came out of the kitchen. He still had a piece in his hand and was chewing slowly, "That Meng Shuiyi is not a human being."
"Not a human?" Lu Qingjiu asked, "What is that?"
"It's the Meng Tu family." Bai Yuehu replied.
Lu Qingjiu, who was already familiar with the Shanhaijing, understood what was going on when he heard the word Mengtu. Mengtu was also one of the gods in the Shanhaijing. It is said that people in ancient times had to go to Mengtu to tell their stories. The person who lied will have blood stains on his clothes. This is Meng Tu's method of judging the case, and it also avoids the situation of wronged people.
There is no doubt that the blood on the corner of Lu Qingjiu's clothes is proof that he lied. He recalled the conversation with Pang Ziqi just now, and felt that it didn't matter if his lie was exposed. Are you clean?"
Bai Yuehu saw the blood on the corner of Lu Qingjiu's clothes: "I can't wash it clean."
"Ah, can't be washed?" Lu Qingjiu was a little surprised. The shirt he was wearing was his favorite, so it was a pity that he couldn't wear it like that.
When Bai Yuehu heard Lu Qingjiu's words, he said nothing and didn't speak again.
Lu Qingjiu thought he was comforting himself, but he didn't take it to heart. He took off his clothes and tried to wash them. Sure enough, as Bai Yuehu said, the blood on his clothes didn't move, although it didn't look like much. , but this dress is also ruined.
Although it was a pity for the clothes, Lu Qingjiu didn't struggle for too long. It was really impossible to cut the clothes short and still wear them for the little fox. The winter was coming soon, so it would be good to prepare some more clothes for the little fox.
Lu Qingjiu has always had a big heart, so he quickly forgot about it, but after a few days, someone came to the door again. This time, it was Meng Shuiyi and an old man who looked quite old. .
As soon as the two entered the room, their attitude was very respectful, and the old man called Mr. Bai several times.
Bai Yuehu glanced at the old man and continued to lower his head to eat chestnuts, without any intention of opening his mouth.
"Mr. Bai, I'm really sorry, this child is young and not very sensible." The old man said respectfully, "I brought him here to apologize to you."
Meng Shui left behind and said, "Mr. Bai, I'm really sorry." He looked at Lu Qingjiu again and said, "Mr. Lu, I'm sorry for what happened before. I brought you new clothes on purpose, I hope you I can take it." As he said, he actually took out a few shirts from the backpack behind him and carefully placed them on the table in front of him. These shirts were exactly the same as Lu Qingjiu's blood-stained shirts, apparently bought on purpose.
Lu Qingjiu didn't expect such a scene at all. He was stunned for a moment and was about to refuse, but he saw the old man cast a pleading look at him... He was asking Lu Qingjiu to accept these gifts.
Lu Qingjiu glanced at Bai Yuehu and vaguely understood something, he said, "Then... thank you."
As soon as he said these words, the expressions of Meng Shuiyi and the old man relaxed slightly.
"Shuiyi, you go out for a while, I want to talk to Mr. Bai alone about something." The old man said.
Meng Shuiyi nodded, turned and left the house. Lu Qingjiu also excused himself to feed the chickens and went out with Meng Shuiyi, leaving the house to Bai Yuehu and the old man.
Meng Shuiyi stood in the yard, watching Lu Qingjiu feed the chickens with rice, and said, "Do you mind if I smoke a cigarette?"
Lu Qingjiu said, "please."
Meng Shui lit a cigarette and took a sip: "Mr. Lu, I was offended before." When Pang Ziqi told him, he thought that Lu Qingjiu was just an ordinary human being entangled by beasts, so he didn't think much about it. But when he arrived at Lu Qingjiu's residence and saw Bai Yuehu, he realized that he was wrong.
Lu Qingjiu was indeed an ordinary human being, but he was definitely not a ferocious beast. He was someone Meng Shuiyi couldn't afford to offend—no, to be precise, even the Meng Tu clan couldn't afford to offend him.
Sure enough, within a few days, his grandfather called him back, and after a reprimand asked him how he had provoked Bai Yuehu, he thought about it and realized that he seemed to have offended Lu Qingjiu.
After that, it became what it is now. His grandfather took him here to make amends with trembling fear, for fear that he would really offend Bai Yuehu.
Meng Shuiyi looked at Lu Qingjiu, and Lu Qingjiu looked at his chicken, but neither of them spoke.
Just when the atmosphere froze, Yin Xun, who came to eat dinner, yawned and walked in from the outside. When he saw Meng Shuiyi, he paused for a moment: "Ji'er, who is this?"
"This is Meng Shui's legacy." Lu Qingjiu said, "Pang Ziqi's colleague is also a policeman."
"Oh." Yin Xun replied uninterestedly. He said, "Is there anything to eat? I'm so hungry."
Lu Qingjiu said, "Don't go in yet, Bai Yuehu is talking to people about things, just bear with it for a while, Zhu Miaomiao sent crabs over again, and they will steam them for you to eat later." Eat female crabs in September and male crabs in October , These things are most particular about the season. After that time, the crab paste will not be so plump.
"Okay." Yin Xun rubbed his nose and found a place to sit down.
Meng Shuiyi was not a talkative person, so he stood on the side smoking a cigarette quietly and listened to the chat between the two.
Lu Qingjiu glanced at Meng Shuiyi, and seeing that he had no intention of speaking, he began to chat with Yin Xun at will.
Lu Qingjiu said, "Do you like crabs?"
Yin Xun smiled and said, "I like it. Crabs are delicious. I haven't eaten them before you came here."
Lu Qingjiu said, "How was your time in Shuifu Village by yourself before I came?"
Yin Xun asked blankly, "How about what? I think it's pretty good." He laughed as usual, "Oh, don't worry about me, I'm an adult, okay? I have my own way. , I'll always have fun when you're not around, and I'm quite happy."
Lu Qingjiu looked at Yin Xun and did not speak. He saw that after Yin Xun said these words, a bright red blood stain was smeared on the corner of his clothes.
Yin Xun didn't notice it, and was still smiling happily.
Lu Qingjiu lowered his voice: "What if I go back to the city one day?"
Yin Xun scratched his head: "As long as you are happy, you can go anywhere."
Lu Qingjiu said, "What about you?"
Yin Xun said, "Me? I'll just stay in Shuifu Village. I like it here."
The bloodstains on the corners of his clothes were expanding, and with Yin Xun's smile, it looked particularly ironic.
Lu Qingjiu looked at his friend and sighed, "I'm not going anywhere, I have two mouths at home, besides... I really treat you as my son." After saying this, his clothes were still clean. , no blood stains.
Yin Xun said angrily, "You fucking take advantage of me!!"
Yin Xun didn't know what was going on, but Meng Shuiyi understood the meaning of the blood on the corner of Yin Xun's clothes. He glanced at Lu Qingjiu and found that this person was not as harmless as he appeared to be. Lu Qingjiu was more than he thought. interesting.
The two talked for a while, and Meng Shuiyi's grandfather and Bai Yuehu were almost talking. The old man came out soon, said goodbye to Lu Qingjiu and left with Meng Shuiyi.
"Well, I'm sorry." Lu Qingjiu called Meng Shuiyi, "Can you leave a contact information?"
Meng Shuiyi was stunned for a moment, then nodded and left his phone number to Lu Qingjiu. Although he didn't know what Lu Qingjiu was going to do, it was obviously not a bad thing to have a good relationship with him.
After the two left, Lu Qingjiu went into the room, picked up the shirt, and handed it to Yin Xun to change it on.
Yin Xun was puzzled: "Why are you changing clothes?"
Lu Qingjiu said, "If you want to change it, you can change it. Where do you get so many words."
Yin Xun had no choice but to take off his clothes. He took it off and Lu Qingjiu took it and rolled it into a ball, covering the corner that was stained with blood.
Seeing Lu Qingjiu's actions, Bai Yuehu pursed his lips slightly. He and Lu Qingjiu looked at each other for a moment, and both understood the meaning in each other's eyes.
Yin Xun's figure was similar to Lu Qingjiu's, and the shirt fit just right. He looked left and right, and said, "Why did you buy so many identical clothes?"
Lu Qingjiu said, "What do you know, this is a parent-child outfit."
Yin Xun: "...Fuck."
Lu Qingjiu laughed. He didn't plan to wear the clothes again, but gave Yin Xun all the shirts and asked him to take them back and wash them before wearing them. Although Yin Xun was inexplicable, he still accepted this gift at Lu Qingjiu's insistence and took back all the clothes that Meng Shui left behind.
"I'll take these clothes for the little fox to wear." Lu Qingjiu took the clothes that Yin Xun changed into, but Yin Xun didn't care. He just wondered why Lu Qingjiu bought so many shirts, and they were all the same. …
Bai Yuehu quietly watched the interaction between the two of them, and didn't say anything until Yin Xun left after dinner at night, and he said, "Aren't you going to keep one for yourself?"
"No more." Lu Qingjiu said, "I don't seem to like it that much either."
"What lie did he tell?" Bai Yuehu noticed that Lu Qingjiu didn't seem to be in a high mood, and knew that it must have something to do with the lie Yin Xun told.
"He said that he used to be very happy in Shuifu Village," Lu Qingjiu said.
Bai Yuehu was silent.
"What about you, are you happy staying here?" Lu Qingjiu looked at this beautiful and mysterious tenant. After getting along for a while, he also saw that Bai Yuehu's status in the non-human world was very different. In general, he could have lived more freely, why should he be confined to this remote small mountain village
Bai Yuehu said lightly, "Meng Shuiyi is not here." The implication is that even if he lied, Lu Qingjiu would not be able to tell the difference.
Lu Qingjiu laughed dumbly: "Do you need to lie?"
Bai Yuehu said: "Why not?"
Lu Qingjiu said, "I thought you were disdainful of lying."
Bai Yuehu said: "I have lived for so many years, and I have seen people who never lie, but their lives are not as good as they imagined."
Lu Qingjiu sighed and stopped talking. This is the truth. Sometimes, a white lie can actually make people happier than a cruel truth. He said, "So you don't actually like it here?"
Bai Yuehu laughed when he heard this, and the corner of his mouth evoked a confusing arc: "No, I like it here."
Lu Qingjiu frowned and looked at him.
"Look, I tell the truth, but you don't believe me." Bai Yuehu said, "But I'm serious, at least for now, I like it here."
Lu Qingjiu gave up continuing to struggle with Bai Yuehu, and he spread his hands: "Okay, it seems that this question is meaningless, so let's talk about something meaningful."
Bai Yuehu raised his eyebrows and motioned to Lu Qingjiu.
Lu Qingjiu said, "For example, what do you want to eat at noon tomorrow? It's getting colder today. I want to stock up on mutton, but the fridge at home is not enough... Why don't you just buy a freezer tomorrow..." Suishinian's words filled immediately The fireworks of the mortal world.
Bai Yuehu said: "There is no need to stock up on mutton. When the coldest time is when the meat is at its most plump, I will just catch a few and come back."
Lu Qingjiu: "...So we also ate scallion deaf before, right?" Scallion deaf is an animal in the Classic of Mountains and Seas. It looks similar to a sheep, but its fur is red, and it is said that eating it can also cure deafness. —Lu Qingjiu lamented that by virtue of his familiarity with Shanhaijing, he could already communicate seamlessly with Bai Yuehu, without him having to repeat science.
Bai Yuehu blinked: "Is it delicious?"
Lu Qingjiu ruthlessly lost his conscience: "It's really fragrant."
Bai Yuehu smiled charmingly.
The author has something to say: Lu Qingjiu: This animal is so precious, isn’t it too cruel for us to do this
Bai Yuehu: Then how can you not be cruel
Lu Qingjiu: Put more star anise to get rid of the fishy smell
White Moon Fox:…
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