Fantasy Farm

In October, Shuifu Village experienced continuous light rain for several days.Different from the refreshing rain in summer, the temperature drops gradually after one autumn rain and one cool, and Lu Qingjiu also put on two clothes.Rainy weather always makes people feel lazy, Bai Yuehu's chair has been moved into the house, it's a pity that she can't sit in the rocking chair in the yard like before.

Because Yin Xun wanted to eat sausages, Lu Qingjiu went to the town to buy sausage casings and meat. He mashed the meat into a paste, adjusted the taste, and poured it into the sausage casings.When making sausages, you need to pay attention to many small details. For example, when filling the casings with meat, you have to pierce the casings with a needle to release the air inside, which is conducive to the evaporation of water in the sausages and makes them easier to dry. The finished sausages It needs to be air-dried for a few days, and then smoked and roasted with fruit wood.

In just one month, Lu Qingjiu's kitchen was full of bacon sauce and sausages, because there were too many things to fit, so he cleaned out a room to hang these For the meat, a layer of newspaper was specially laid on the floor to prevent the oil from dripping on the ground when the meat was dried.

Just when Lu Qingjiu was thinking about what to do 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 from next door.Thanks to the efforts of Xiao Hei and Xiao Hua, Li Xiaoyu's grades have improved a lot recently. Because of the improvement in grades, Li Xiaoyu ran to their house more diligently, coming over almost every day after school.But when Lu Qingjiu opened the door, he didn't see Li Xiaoyu, but saw Pang Ziqi who was almost killed because of Master Yu's concubine, standing at the door holding an umbrella.Behind him is a man in black with no expression on his face. The man is a head taller than the 1.8-meter Pang Ziqi. Although he looks handsome, his rock-like temperament makes him exude With the breath of strangers.

"Lu Qingjiu." Pang Ziqi said, "What are you doing?"

Lu Qingjiu said: "I'm cooking... have you recovered?"

"Okay." Pang Ziqi responded, but his eyes flicked into the room, he said, "won't you invite me in for a sit down?"

Lu Qingjiu made a gesture of invitation, at this moment Bai Yuehu went to the field, Yin Xun went to take a nap and didn't come back, he was left alone in the room.

Pang Ziqi and the tall man behind him entered the room. They were observing Lu Qingjiu, and Lu Qingjiu was also observing them. It seemed that this man should be Pang Ziqi's colleague and 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 beckoned them to sit down inside the house.

Pang Ziqi said: "No need, actually, I came here this time to thank you."

Lu Qingjiu said, "Thank you?"

Pang Ziqi said: "The thing that was attached to me before, you helped me get rid of it?"

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 don't plan to hand you over to the higher authorities, but just ask you."

Lu Qingjiu sat down opposite Pang Ziqi and didn't speak.

Pang Ziqi pointed to the man who had been silent by his side, and introduced, "This is my colleague, Meng Shuiyi."

Meng Shuiyi nodded to Lu Qingjiu as a greeting.

Lu Qingjiu looked at Pang Ziqi: "You came this time just 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 also feel that you are contaminated with the breath of a beast. 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 another reason is that the higher-ups asked me to ask... where did the body of Concubine Yu go?"

Lu Qingjiu was a little curious: "How do you know that I can't see it?"

Pang Ziqi said: "I don't know, didn't I come to ask you?"

Lu Qingjiu said: "If I say I don't know, do you believe me?"

Pang Ziqi sighed: "Of course I don't believe it."

Lu Qingjiu said: "Then what are you asking me for?"

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 is not bad, and Lu Qingjiu can see that his temper is actually quite violent, but now that Lu Qingjiu saved his life, it is impossible for him to get angry in front of Lu Qingjiu, and if it wasn't for the quick handling of it at that time Concubine Luo Yu, looking at the efficiency of Pang Ziqi's department, I'm afraid Pang Ziqi would have been cremated by now.

After knowing the reason for Pang Ziqi's visit, Lu Qingjiu felt that he and Pang Ziqi had nothing to say. It was impossible for him to tell Pang Ziqi about Bai Yuehu, so he refused with a stiff attitude: "Sorry, I have nothing to say."

Pang Ziqi sighed. He looked around the house for a week, and finally his eyes fell on the chickens sleeping in the chicken coop in the yard. He seemed to have noticed something strange, and there was a little more stunned taste in his eyes, and said: "You... know What's next to you?"

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 that he will eat you."

Lu Qingjiu said: "If he wanted to eat it, he would have eaten it long ago, why wait until now, besides, if he wanted to eat me, would you be able to save me?"

This is quite reasonable, Pang Ziqi smiled in his eyes: "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 has the obligation to remind him, but now it seems that Lu Qingjiu is very clear about what he is doing, and he has 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, and Bai Yuehu, who was wearing a raincoat and a bamboo hat after planting the fields, pushed the door in from the outside. 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, smiled and looked at Bai Yuehu: "Yuehu, you're back."

Bai Yuehu didn't speak, and casually put the rain-stained basket on the table, glanced at Pang Ziqi and Meng Shuiyi, and nodded.

"There are freshly steamed corn cakes in the pot." Lu Qingjiu said, "I've been keeping the fire on for fear of getting cold, you go and eat."

Bai Yuehu hummed, turned around and walked towards the kitchen, but before leaving, he cast a neutral look at Meng Shuiyi, which made Meng Shuiyi even more nervous.

Pang Ziqi was the one with the least keen inspiration among them, and 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 heaved a sigh of relief. He turned to look at Pang Ziqi: "Let's go."

Pang Ziqi was stunned: "Ah? Why are you leaving all of a sudden?"

Meng Shuiyi 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, raised his chin: "Let's go."

Pang Ziqi wanted to say something else, but seeing Meng Shuiyi's serious expression, he didn't seem to be joking, so he could only say goodbye to Lu Qingjiu, and the two left holding their umbrellas.

"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 in doubt. It was the first time he saw Meng Shuiyi look so flustered.

"Ask again, I'm afraid you're going to get into people's stomachs." Meng Shuiyi said coldly, "Don't come here in the future, this Lu Qingjiu is not something we can provoke."

"Huh? What do you mean?" Pang Ziqi didn't understand, "Isn't Lu Qingjiu human?"

"Yes." Meng Shuiyi said, "But have you ever seen a human raising a beast?"

Pang Ziqi finally tasted it: "You mean...that man named Bai Yuehu is a beast? Is there such a beautiful beast?"

Meng Shuiyi: "What do you think fierce beasts look like?"

Pang Ziqi said: "At least it's about the same as you. It looks too hard to chew."

Meng Shuiyi: "..."

Pang Ziqi: "Haha, I'm just kidding."

Meng Shuiyi glared at Pang Ziqi, but he didn't bother with him any more. After getting into the car, the two left Shuifu Village. It seemed that they would not come back in a short time.

Besides, Lu Qingjiu sent Pang Ziqi and Meng Shuiyi away here, and 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 the paint that he had accidentally stained, but he smelled 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, and made sure that there was no blood stain anywhere except the corner of his clothes.

"It's weird." Lu Qingjiu pulled the corner of his clothes and frowned, "Where did it come from..."

"You don't need to look for it." Bai Yuehu came out of the kitchen slowly after eating the corn cake. He still had a piece in his hand and was chewing slowly, "That Meng Shuiyi is not human."

"Not human?" Lu Qingjiu said, "What is that?"

"It's the Mengtu clan." Bai Yuehu replied.

Lu Qingjiu, who has been familiar with the Shan Hai Jing, understood what was going on when he heard the word Meng Tu. Meng Tu is also a kind of god in the Shan Hai Jing. It is said that people in ancient times must go to Meng Tu to tell their stories. However, the person who is lying will have blood stains on his clothes. This is Meng Tu's method of judging the case, and it also avoids the situation where people are wronged.

There is no doubt that the blood on the corner of Lu Qingjiu's clothes is the 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, so he relieved and said: "Yes. Clean it up?"

Bai Yuehu saw the blood on the corner of Lu Qingjiu's clothes: "I can't wash it clean."

"Ah, it can't be washed clean?" 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 anymore.

When Bai Yuehu heard Lu Qingjiu's words, he said it was all right and didn't speak again.

Lu Qingjiu thought he was comforting himself, and didn't take this sentence to heart. He took off his clothes and tried to wash them. Sure enough, as Bai Yuehu said, the blood on the clothes didn't move at all, although it didn't look like much. , but the clothes are also ruined.

Although it was a pity for the clothes, Lu Qingjiu didn't worry about it for too long. It was really impossible to cut the clothes short and still wear them for the little fox. It was going to be winter soon, so it would be good to prepare a few more clothes for the little fox.

Lu Qingjiu has always been big-hearted, so he quickly forgot about it, but within 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 attitudes were very respectful, and the old man called Mr. Bai several times.

Bai Yuehu glanced at the old man, then continued to eat chestnuts with his head down, without any intention of opening his mouth.

"Mr. Bai, I'm really sorry. This kid is young and not very sensible." The old man said respectfully, "I brought him here specially to apologize to you."

Meng Shuiyi said from the side: "Mr. Bai, I'm really sorry." He looked at Lu Qingjiu again, and said, "Mr. Lu, I'm sorry about the previous incident. I specially brought you new clothes. I hope you I can accept it." As he spoke, 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 are exactly the same as Lu Qingjiu's blood-stained shirts, obviously bought on purpose.

Lu Qingjiu hadn't expected such a scene at all, he was stunned for a moment and was about to decline, but saw the old man cast a pleading look at him... He was begging 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 this, the expressions of Meng Shuiyi and the old man relaxed slightly.

"Shui Yi, you go out for a while, I have something to talk to Mr. Bai alone." The old man said.

Meng Shuiyi nodded, turned and left the house, Lu Qingjiu also excused that he was going to feed the chickens, and went out with Meng Shuiyi, leaving the house to Bai Yuehu and the old man.

Standing in the yard, Meng Shuiyi watched Lu Qingjiu feed the chickens rice, and said, "Mind if I smoke a cigarette?"

Lu Qingjiu said: "Please go ahead."

Meng Shuiyi lit a cigarette and took a puff: "Mr. Lu, I offended you a lot before." When Pang Ziqi told him, he thought that Lu Qingjiu was just an ordinary human being entangled by a fierce beast, so he didn't think much about it. But when he arrived at Lu Qingjiu's residence and saw Bai Yuehu, he realized how wrong he was.

Lu Qingjiu is indeed an ordinary human being, but the one who entangles him is by no means a ferocious beast. Those are people that Meng Shuiyi can't afford to provoke—no, to be precise, they are the Meng Tu clan, whom even the Meng Tu family can't afford to provoke.

Sure enough, within a few days, his grandfather called him back, and after a reprimand, he asked him why he had offended Bai Yuehu. After much deliberation, he realized that he seemed to have offended Lu Qingjiu.

After that, it became what it is now. His grandfather brought him here to make amends in fear, fearing that he would really piss off Bai Yuehu.

Meng Shuiyi looked at Lu Qingjiu, and Lu Qingjiu looked at his own chicken, neither of them spoke.

When the atmosphere froze, Yin Xun, who came for dinner, yawned and came in from the outside. When he saw Meng Shuiyi, he froze for a moment: "Jiuer, who is this?"

"This is Meng Shuiyi." Lu Qingjiu said, "Pang Ziqi's colleague is also a policeman."

"Oh." Yin Xun replied not very interested, and he said, "Is there anything to eat? I'm so hungry."

Lu Qingjiu said: "Don't go in yet, Bai Yuehu is talking about things with people, bear with it for a while, Zhu Miaomiao sent crabs over, steamed them for you to eat later." Eat female crabs in September, eat 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 by and smoked quietly, listening to the chat between the two.

Lu Qingjiu glanced at Meng Shuiyi, seeing that he had no intention of speaking, so he began to casually chat with Yin Xun.

Lu Qingjiu said, "Do you like crabs?"

Yin Xun said with a smile: "I like it. The crab is delicious. I haven't eaten it before you came."

Lu Qingjiu said: "How did you live alone in Shuifu Village before I came here?"

Yin Xun asked in a daze, "What's the matter? I think it's pretty good." He laughed as usual, "Oh, don't worry about me, I'm an adult too, okay, each person has his own way of life , when you are not around, I always have fun by myself, and I am very happy."

Lu Qingjiu looked at Yin Xun and said nothing. He saw that after Yin Xun said this, a bright red blood stain was smeared on the corner of Yin Xun's clothes.

Yin Xun didn't notice it, and was still smiling cheerfully.

Lu Qingjiu lowered his voice: "Then what if one day I return to the city?"

Yin Xun scratched his head: "As long as you are happy, you can go anywhere."

Lu Qingjiu said: "Then what about you?"

Yin Xun said: "Me? I will continue to stay in Shuifu Village. I like it here."

The bloodstain on the corner of the clothes was expanding, and Yin Xun's smile looked extra 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 Clean, no blood stains.

Yin Xun said angrily: "You fucking took advantage of me again!!"

Yin Xun didn't know what happened, 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. Lu Qingjiu was more serious than he imagined. interesting.

The two chatted for a while, Meng Shuiyi's grandfather and Bai Yuehu had almost talked, the old man came out quickly, bid farewell to Lu Qingjiu and left with Meng Shuiyi.

"That, I'm sorry." Lu Qingjiu stopped Meng Shuiyi, "Can you leave a contact information?"

Meng Shuiyi was taken aback 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 for him to change.

Yin Xun was puzzled: "Why change clothes?"

Lu Qingjiu said: "If you are told to change it, you can change it. Where did so many words come from?"

Yin Xun had no choice but to take off his clothes, and when he took them off, Lu Qingjiu took them and crumpled them into a ball, covering the corner that was stained with blood.

Seeing Lu Qingjiu's movements, 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 about the same as Lu Qingjiu's, and the shirt fit him just right. He looked left and right, and said, "Why do 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 loudly, he didn't intend to wear the shirt again, but gave Yin Xun the shirt, and asked him to take it back and wash it before wearing it.Although Yin Xun was puzzled, he still accepted the gift under Lu Qingjiu's insistence, and took back all the clothes Meng Shui left behind.

"I'll take this clothes for the little fox." Lu Qingjiu took away Yin Xun's changed clothes, but Yin Xun didn't care, just wondering why Lu Qingjiu bought so many shirts, and they were all the same ...

Bai Yuehu watched the interaction between the two quietly, and didn't speak until Yin Xun left after dinner, and he said, "You don't want to keep one for yourself?"

"Not staying anymore." Lu Qingjiu said, "I don't seem to like it that much either."

"What did he lie about?" Bai Yuehu noticed that Lu Qingjiu seemed to be in a low mood, and knew that it must have something to do with Yin Xun's lies.

"He said he was very happy staying in Shuifu Village before." 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 with him for this period of time, he also saw that Bai Yuehu's status in the non-human world was very different. Normally, he could have lived a more carefree life, so why was he confined to this remote mountain village?

Bai Yuehu said lightly: "Meng Shuiyi is not here." The implication was that even if he was lying, Lu Qingjiu would not be able to tell.

Lu Qingjiu laughed dumbfounded: "Is there any need for you to lie?"

Bai Yuehu said: "Why not?"

Lu Qingjiu said: "I thought you didn't bother to lie."

Bai Yuehu said: "I have lived for so many years, and I have met people who never lie, but their lives are not as good as imagined."

Lu Qingjiu sighed and stopped talking. The fact is that sometimes, white lies can actually make people happier than the cruel truth. He said, "So you don't actually like this place either?"

Bai Yuehu laughed when he heard the words, and the corners of his mouth curled up in a bewitching arc: "No, I like this place."

Lu Qingjiu frowned and looked at him.

"Look, I'm telling the truth, but you don't believe me." Bai Yuehu said, "But I'm serious. At least for now, I like this place."

Lu Qingjiu gave up and continued to entangle with Bai Yuehu on this matter, he spread his hands: "Okay, it seems that this question is meaningless, then let's talk about something meaningful."

Bai Yuehu raised his eyebrows, motioning for Lu Qingjiu to say.

Lu Qingjiu said: "For example, what do you want to eat for lunch tomorrow? It's starting to get cold. I want to stock up some more mutton, but the refrigerator at home is not enough... Why don't you go buy a freezer tomorrow..." Sui Sui Nian's words, Immediately filled with mortal fireworks.

Bai Yuehu said: "There's no need to stock up on mutton. When it's coldest and the meat is the fattest, I'll just grab a few and bring them back."

Lu Qingjiu: "...So what we ate before was also scallion deafness, right?" Scallion deafness is a kind of animal in Shan Hai Jing. 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 with his familiarity with the Classic of Mountains and Seas, he could already communicate seamlessly with Bai Yuehu, so he didn't need to educate him again.

Bai Yuehu blinked: "Is it delicious?"

Lu Qingjiu ruthlessly lost his conscience: "It's really fragrant."

Bai Yuehu smiled brightly.

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 I not be cruel?

Lu Qingjiu: Put more star anise to remove the fishy smell

Bai Yuehu: ...