Yuan Yuanyuan had a fever for the whole day, and she lay in the tavern all day.
When she had nothing to do, she would lie on the bed and daydream, and then ask Liu An to bring her food.
No one came to disturb her that day, and Yuanyuan just ate, slept, went to the toilet, and then slept again in an endless cycle... It was not until the morning of the fourth day of the New Year that she finally felt her fever subsided and she climbed out of bed.
Then, she was pulled aside by Liu Anqiang and had a very profound conversation.
"Boss, tell me the truth, what happened to you the night before last?" Liu An asked Yuan Yuanyuan with a very serious expression.
Yuan Yuanyuan sat on the bed, drinking porridge and shaking her head, "…I don't know."
"Then let me put it in a simpler way..." Liu An said, "Boss, have you offended anyone? Is our store in any danger?"
“… I’ve offended a lot of people.” Yuan Yuanyuan said.
"Why did the head of the Li family come to see you?"
"Well... I heard it vaguely, but I think, probably, probably... I seduced his daughter?" Yuan Yuanyuan said with a conflicted expression.
Liu An was silent for a while, and finally spoke again, "Boss... have you... hooked up with any girls recently?"
"Hey! You know what, I've been thinking about this issue for a whole day and came to a very reliable conclusion." Yuan Yuanyuan's expression suddenly became excited.
When she was excitedly preparing to share her views with Liu An, she saw Liu An silently covering his face.
Yuan Yuanyuan's energy suddenly dropped. She looked at Liu An, lying dejectedly on the bed.
…
In fact, Yuan Yuanyuan really wanted to have a good talk with Liu An about this matter.
She thought about it for three days, and after eliminating all possibilities, she finally came up with the only candidate who could be the daughter of the Li family's patriarch -
It was the girl who came to their shop that day and glared at her several times.
Sherlock Holmes once said that if you eliminate the impossible, the only thing left is the possibility. In the past month, Yuan Yuanyuan screened the female creatures who had set foot in this small shop. Apart from herself, Tang Shi, and Qiu Ling, there was only that girl.
Add to that the information that Yuan Yuanyuan already knew—that this girl was the eldest daughter of a certain family, and now everything became clear.
The only thing that made Yuan Yuanyuan a little confused was the girl’s attitude.
She said... the person she liked was the owner of this store? But when she came that day, the person who had been chasing her was clearly Liu An.
Yuan Yuanyuan turned around and looked at Liu An again. She couldn't possibly have misjudged the girl's completely different attitudes towards Liu An and herself. So she thought there were two possibilities for this matter.
The first possibility is that the girl lied.
The second possibility is that her father was worrying too much and mistakenly thought that his daughter liked Yuan, so Yuan Yuanyuan took the bullet for Liu An.
Yuan Yuanyuan turned around and looked at Liu An, he still knew nothing.
He still had that look of covering his face with his hands, looking extremely distressed, as if he was so unfortunate to have followed such an unreliable boss.
Yuan Yuanyuan watched him, and suddenly stretched out her two hands, pinched both sides of his face, and pulled them hard to the sides.
Tsk tsk…
I blocked a bullet for you, but you still despise me...
…
The fifth day of the Lunar New Year is the beginning of the Hundred Demons Festival. Yuan Yuanyuan put on her clothes and went downstairs with weak legs.
When she was lying in bed yesterday, she felt that if another person came, she would be finished. However, until today when her fever subsided, no one else came.
Then tomorrow is the Hundred Demons Festival... where should she go? Yuan Yuanyuan held her forehead with a headache, or just say she won't go.
She said she would not go, would that upset the city lord? Probably not... Yesterday she seemed to have vaguely heard the last two people who came over say the word "city lord", they were the city lord's men.
The city lord should know everything that happened here last night, so it shouldn't be awkward for Yuan to throw a tantrum now.
In fact, after everyone left last night, Yuan Yuanyuan collapsed in her chair and couldn't stand up. She felt cold all over, as if she was suddenly blown by a cold wind.
She felt as if her whole body was shaking. When a fight breaks out, even those who are very powerful may not be at peace in their hearts. At least Yuan Yuanyuan felt that she might have been very angry.
There were many words that she would not normally say, but she said them completely out of sheer energy.
She went to the backyard, took out the huge Li family box, and then took out the things inside one by one.
"Boss, what are you going to do?" Liu An looked at a big gold bar stuffed into his hand with a confused look on his face, and then looked at Yuan Yuanyuan who kept taking out more gold bars.
"Here's your year-end bonus. Work hard next year." Yuan Yuanyuan patted his shoulder. "You've practiced illusions well. Next time you see a stranger coming, continue to use illusions and hide away."
She put the remaining gold bars into a plastic bag, then used the Tiangang Jue and went straight home.
Damn it, she wants to spend all the money and leave no money for that scumbag.
"He cheated his own brother-in-law and has no sense of reflection at all." Yuan Yuanyuan threw a gold nugget into the drawer.
"He even cheated on his own wife, what a scumbag." She picked out a very beautiful jade pendant and threw it in.
"You still dare to say that I'm insidious and treacherous, I'm really..." Yuan Yuanyuan finally grabbed the bag and poured out everything, "How can you be insidious and treacherous. You are directly putting the blame on me. If Yiqi was really here, he would be so angry that he would have a heart attack."
"Shameless, villain."
Yuan Yuanyuan stood alone in the middle of the room, looking at the pile of things on the ground, her chest heaving for a long time. Suddenly, there was an extremely intense burst of firecrackers outside.
"What are you doing now?"
Yuan Yuanyuan muttered something, walked out of the bedroom, went to the balcony and opened the window. Suddenly, she saw a person hanging upside down from the window.
"Fuck!"
"What's wrong, Yuanyuan? Why are you hiding in the house by yourself? Why don't you come out and play?"
Yuan Yuanyuan shouted, and only felt relieved when she saw that the person in front of her was Sister Xue, whom she hadn't seen for a long time.
"Yuanyuan, are you going to the Night Parade of One Hundred Demons this year?" Standing at the door was Sister Xue, whom I hadn't seen for a long time.
"Whose Night Parade of One Hundred Demons? The boss's?" Yuan Yuanyuan asked.
"Yes, I didn't invite you last year because you just came." Sister Xue rolled over and came in. "If you want to go, put on nice clothes and gather downstairs at 7 o'clock tomorrow night. When you see our boss's car coming, hurry up and follow him."
"Uh... let me take a look." Yuan Yuanyuan said: "Actually, I'm still used to staying at home during the Chinese New Year."
"I know, little half-demon." Sister Xue said, "But you still have to learn to adapt to life here as a monster as soon as possible."
Yuan Yuanyuan felt that what Sister Xue said was right, and that she said it out of kindness. She smiled at Sister Xue shyly.
After Sister Xue left, she sat alone in the bedroom, continuing to be in a daze.
Adapting to life as a monster...
She felt that she had now adapted quite well to the life of a monster.
How can I describe the life of a monster... It is definitely more exciting than human life, and it does have some very dreamy elements.
Some lives are just like those in myths and storybooks. However, when this kind of life really happens to you, although it is just as dreamy, it is not that fun.
This is what Yuan Yuanyuan felt after living here for a few months.
Yuan Yuanyuan was lying on the bed, opening her cell phone amid the booming sound of firecrackers outside the house.
She had a fever for a day, so she hadn't turned on her phone all day.
After she turned on her phone, she started to check her social media accounts as usual. No one contacted her on WeChat, and no one called her. Only on Penguin, everyone was still in the same group as usual.
Tang Shi sent her a text message that read, "Boss, what's wrong with you? It looks so dark, like there's a layer of fog."
Yuan Yuanyuan looked at the time. It was the early morning of the day before yesterday. She didn't see it then. She replied, "It's okay, don't worry." Then she didn't care anymore.
There were a lot of fake groups over there, and Yuan Yuanyuan directly clicked on the group where Feimao and the others were.
Quanquan: I’ve been feverish for a whole day and just got over it. Fat Cat, please send me a red envelope to comfort me.
Group leader: You have been burning for a whole day? How come you have to burn it today? Can you still go to the Hundred Demons Festival tomorrow
Quanquan: I think... I can.
Black and Red: How did you get a fever? Were you scared
Yuan Yuanyuan read the black and red reply and smiled sarcastically.
Quanquan: Haha, who can scare me? Can you please speak with some conscience? I’ve never been afraid of anyone.
Group leader: We have all heard about your incident in city C. Did you send people to Wei Yuan the night before yesterday? Weren’t you scared because of this
Circle: Hmm? What
Black and red: I heard that Yuan ignored you guys from beginning to end, and was smoking by the window alone... Hahahahahahaha, this guy is so funny.
…
Circle: ...What
Group leader: Actually, I shouldn't say that. What I heard was this: I heard that Yuan was smoking all the time and was wearing makeup. At first, people wanted to surround him, but when they saw him wearing makeup, they all backed off and stayed outside all night without daring to go in.
Quanquan:…what
Yuan Yuanyuan spent a long time reading the chat history.
She could see that they were discussing what happened the night before, but she worked out a formula in her mind.
—Fat Cat and Black and Red belong to two completely different cities in China. Fat Cat lives in the southernmost part of China, while Black and Red lives in the Central Plains.
Yuan Yuanyuan lives in the northeast of China. How did they know everything within one day when communication between monsters is so difficult
However... in just one day, they talked about what happened that night in City C as if they had seen it with their own eyes.
Fat Cat talked about every detail of that night. In fact, Yuan Yuanyuan herself had already forgotten some of the details, but she remembered them through Fat Cat's memories.
For example, he said that there was no monster on the street that night because City C had blocked the area in advance and did not allow any monster to enter.
Yuan Yuanyuan recalled that day... there was indeed no one on the street.
Group leader: I heard that no one dared to go in, so they just watched the person inside the window putting on makeup. When he was combing his hair, the people outside were so scared that they collectively took a step back.
Black and Red: Wow... When will I be able to reach that level
Group leader: Hey, I've heard of an even cooler one. Yuan must have known that there were people outside, so he deliberately opened the window and looked outside. As a result, the people outside were collectively scared and took a step back. Hahahahahahahaha.
Black and red: What a coward... In the end, Yuan went back after scaring people away, and didn't even bother to pay attention to the people outside. Those people outside were so embarrassed, hahaha.
Fat Cat and Black and Red were talking about these things very excitedly. These things, one by one, sounded so interesting in their mouths.
If she hadn't listened to them... Yuan Yuanyuan wouldn't have known that these things were so interesting.
It's as interesting as a series of carefully written legends.
—Just like the legends Yuan Yuanyuan had heard before.