My old enemy always likes to pull my furry ears

The city of Yong'an is more timid than other towns.

Xue Huan walked around the road looking for inns, but no one showed hospitality to attract guests. The boss politely introduced the guests to other places like a kind person. Finally, a store indicated that there were vacancies, but the price was low. It's amazingly expensive, and it's clear that I don't want them to stay.

People in Yong'an have a long-standing problem with monsters, and they would rather kill a thousand by mistake than let one go. What's more, the incident of the water snake monster just happened, a month of dark and windy nights, a few outsiders, new faces, what are the chances of being good people?The people of Yong'an did not dare to evaluate, nor did they dare to bear such consequences.

After wandering around, they were all closed.

When they came to the last house with hope, Jun An's patience was about to run out. The boss was friendly and sincerely invited them to live in another house.

Xue Huan didn't bother to waste any more words. Since everyone was just in case, forcing them would be embarrassing for others, and it wouldn't change anything.

When they were about to leave in frustration, they were suddenly stopped.

The one who stopped them was a customer who was sitting in the innermost corner. He had his back to the counter and kept his wine glass in his hand, but he could make a sound precisely when Xue Huan and others were about to step out of the inn.

"Boss, I will pay for their hotel stay, please stay."

The boss trotted down from the counter, approached the customer, and said with embarrassment, "Guest officer, it's not about the money. It's so late and there's no one on the street after the accident. The three of them are foreigners. just in case……"

The guest raised his head and took a sip of the wine, took out a silver ingot from his pocket and put it on the table, and said to the boss: "I promise nothing will happen, don't worry."

The boss hesitated: "This..."

Nan Xiaohui was good at observing, and immediately stood up to dispel the boss's concerns: "Boss, please rest assured, we will not cause trouble to the store."

The guest turned sideways slightly, his voice was full of alcohol: "If something happened, your store would have been out of business for a long time."

The guest's words helped the boss recall some unpleasant incidents this morning. If it hadn't been for the guest's actions, the store would have been turned into a pile of ruins due to the brute force of those hooligans.

Since it was the guarantee of the savior, the boss respected him, so he didn't worry too much. He walked up to Xue Huan and the others, and extended his hand to invite: "The three guests come upstairs with me."

The guests inside were still drinking, with their backs turned, and their posture remained motionless. Before Xue Huan went upstairs, he couldn't help but look back at him. He held the wine glass on the table and turned his head towards them.

He looked like an elderly man, with a white beard showing his age.

The elder paused for a while, then picked up the jug and poured the wine, and drank it down in one gulp.

Xue Huankong swallowed, and asked his two apprentices: "Is the wine really good?"

Nan Xiaohui shook his head: "I don't know."

Knowing that he doesn't drink, Jun An said casually, "Everyone who is old likes to drink."

After the boss arranged the room for them, Xue Huan went downstairs to find someone, only to find that the elder sitting there drinking had disappeared, and the table he had been staying at had already been cleaned up.

He was in a daze at the stairway, the boss was at the counter to settle the accounts, the waiter in the store shook the rag, yawned and went to close the door, and then fastened a thick wooden stick behind the door, and went back to sleep after making sure that it couldn’t be pushed open manually. .

Infected by his yawning, Xue Huan suddenly felt tired, and went back to sleep with his watery eyes propped up.

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The night was uneventful.The next day, Xue Huan sat in a rice porridge shop opposite a silk shop, watching the common people coming and going on the street.These people should be happy, and there are only two or three who are unhappy. They are probably worried about their lives. They experienced the water snake monster in the moat yesterday, and this is the second day. Logically, people go through a process of fear. There was a buffer period of a few days, but there was no anxiety and impatience on the faces of these people after the horror, and the normal ones could no longer be normal.

The fact that they were not afraid of the water snake monster afterwards showed that they often encountered such things and were used to it.

But last night, no inn was willing to take them in, so what to say, or that the buffer period for these people is only one night.

After a while, there were more customers at the breakfast shop, and Jun An and Nan Xiaohui also came back on time from outside.

Xue Huan ordered two plates of fried dumplings and three bowls of porridge, and asked in the rising white steam, "How is it?"

"Surrounded by mountains and water, there is a forest in the valley to the west. There are two roads out of the city, water and land." Jun An finished speaking and took a sip of porridge.

Nan Xiaohui added: "The mountain is Weishan. Some of the terrain is relatively steep and the traffic is moderate. There is no particularly noteworthy place."

"What about the people from Yong'an?" Xue Huan asked.

"Yong'an makes a living by selling camellias. Most of the people are self-sufficient. There are about a hundred families who are well-off, twenty or so families who are particularly rich, and two families who are the richest."

"Which two households?"

"Chu Mansion and Yang Mansion." Jun An said.

"Chu Mansion?" Xue Huan passed these two words from his mouth, and Jun An knew what he was thinking, and told him some information about Chu Mansion that he had inquired about.

"The Chu family is the first group of people who took root in Yong'an. These people are smart and use the terrain to grow camellias and live off of it. The current head of the Chu family is named Chu Zechuan. There are two wives. The first lady died early, and the second wife They are still alive. We heard and saw Chu Tan and Chu Rong yesterday. One was born to the eldest lady, and the other was the child of the second lady. Besides Chu Rong, the second lady also had a son, but he died a few years ago and became a child of the second wife. Darling, I left a little boy named Chu Ruo in the mansion."

"It's very ordinary." Xue Huan commented after listening to it. They are all family growth stories, nothing special.

"I also think it's normal, but Yong'an Erjia Chu Mansion and Yang Mansion are famous in the sky and underground. Because Chu Mansion has two sons, Chu Dan and Chu Rong, who are practicing Taoism, they have used magic to help the town solve many problems. It's difficult, so they are admired by the people, and the Yang family has only one son, who has no ability and is very mediocre. Apart from being rich, his family has nothing to shine."

Nan Xiaohui: "But I heard that the Yang family had a daughter, but she drowned."

Jun An nodded sharply: "Yes, after hearing that the Yang family had died of their daughter, the old lady at home developed a high fever for no reason, and it lasted for a week. Finally, people from the Chu family were invited to come and see the old lady. The fever subsided."

The Chu and Yang families are not close friends in Yong'an, they are barely friends, because the family is big enough, there is no interest problem, but the money is enough, and the two families have more secret comparisons in other places, including fame.

And when it comes to fame, the Chu Mansion is [-] streets away from the Yang Mansion. The old man of the Yang Mansion hates his descendants for not being able to live up to expectations and loses to the Chu Mansion. There was no breakthrough, and one of the masters thought that there would be a catastrophe for the descendants of the Yang family, and within a year, the young lady of the Yang family fell into the river and drowned.

Thinking about the location of the Yang Mansion, the location of the house is not very good, Feng Shui is retrograde, and everything is a bit unlucky, like a curse.

"The ups and downs of yin and yang, the polar opposites, are real." Xue Huan commented again.

Jun An ate a few fried dumplings and said, "Actually, there seem to be many interesting rumors about the Chu Mansion. For example, at the beginning, everyone worshiped the eldest son of Chu Dan, and later the second son of Chu caught a day After being an evil ghost who possessed human beings and came out to eat people at night, he became famous, and everyone liked Chu Rong. Later, Chu Rong did do many great things. His spiritual attainments were higher than Chu Dan's. He became the god of Yong'an."

Xue Huan recalled the two sons of the Chu family he met last night, and the relationship between the two seemed not to be very good.

"How is their sibling relationship?"

"It's pretty good." Jun An said: "People around say that Chu Rong treats his elder brother surprisingly well, as if holding it in the palm of his hand."

Xue Huan frowned, feeling that the matter was not simple. When he saw the moat last night, the two brothers didn't feel like they had a good relationship.

And it's a bit distasteful, especially Chu Rong's attitude.

"Master, do you think there is something wrong?" Nan Xiaohui asked.

Xue Huan pondered for a moment, then said, "Aren't there too many monsters in Yong'an?"

Ordinary towns are populated by ordinary people, living and working in peace and contentment, there is nothing special about it, where the evil spirits it attracts jump out one after another.Yong'an is not a place full of aura, what is so special about it?

"That's not very clear."

Xue Huan was thoughtful, he leaned forward, and wanted to put his elbows on the table to change his posture, but just as he moved his hand, a hand stretched out from nowhere to hold his arm, and he flinched back, he was startled Jumping, a "huge monster" suddenly appeared in front of him, and quickly hung its entire body on him from bottom to top, forming a bear hugging tree posture.

A gust of hot wind blew from the back of the neck, a little impatient.

A few people ran past on the street, holding sticks, the leader stopped and looked around, and then ordered his subordinates to scatter to look for them, swearing at dogs.

After those people left, "Bear" let go of his breathing, and the hands holding the people's necks also loosened their strength.

Xue Huan turned from being frightened to calm, but there was still a trace of resentment stuck in his chest that could not be expressed.Nan Xiaohui and Jun An looked like they were watching a show, and they were silent in a tacit understanding.

"Xiong" turned his head slowly, looked at the middle of the road, and said with lingering fear, "Are you gone? You should go." He breathed a sigh of relief, looked at Xue Huan, and was a little happy: "Thank you."

Unapologetic, reckless.

"You," Xue Huan gritted his teeth, "Where did you come from?"

Yan Zhou blinked his big shining eyes: "I hid from people and came up from under the table."

Just imagine how it would feel if you were sitting with no waves in the water, and suddenly someone jumped up from under the cockroach?

Xue Huan didn't care about other people's reactions, he wanted to slap Fei Yanzhou's head now.

Yanzhou didn't realize that he was sitting on Xue Huan's lap, and turned his head towards Nan Xiaohui in a very difficult way to greet Jun'an.

"Hello, we meet again."

Jun An scratched his forehead, "Hello."

"Lichuan, you are so special." Nan Xiaohui looked at their inappropriate posture, and said "praise" in a different way.

Xue Huan finally got angry, patted Yan Zhou's hand away from him, and dragged him off without mercy, saying: "Can you walk the normal way? How many people have been deceived outside, and they were chased and beaten!"

Yan Zhou thumped his painful shoulder, "I'm not lying." He said, "It's just a little misunderstanding."

A small misunderstanding deserves to be chased all over the street with a stick, this kid is really awesome.

"That's fine, I'll call those people back in a while, and you can explain clearly in person, and you don't have to hide." Xue Huan said.

Yan Zhou immediately shook his head: "No, I can't be under the same roof as them."

Xue Huan stared at him quietly.

Two seconds later, Yan Zhou lowered his eyes with guilt: "I just made a little mistake."

Seeing that he admitted, Xue Huan knocked on the table and slapped the bench and scolded: "You have to stick to your old profession, so you should learn more. Back then, you were a beggar and followed me. After a few days in Nanyu, you ran away dishonestly. If you get into trouble and can't solve it, let me tell you, I have a task and I don't have time to spend with you, don't show off if you don't have the ability, and hurt yourself and others."

Yan Zhou: "I have the ability."

"Smartness and ability are not the same thing, can you tell?"

Hearing his tone, Yan Zhou felt that he seemed really annoyed, and said, "I know I'm not capable, unlike you, so I just said that I can't really stay in Nanyu, I don't have enough qualifications, and I can't cultivate Do you think I did it on purpose?" He immediately sat up straight and explained, "I swear, I saw you all by accident, and I didn't know you were coming to Yong'an. There are many people in Yong'an. People yearn for self-cultivation, so they are easy to deceive, and people are stupid and have a lot of money."