I quit my job after working part-time at the Demon Management Bureau

The candied haws that were bitten in the mouth became less and less flavorful, and the last one was like chewing wax.

He spit it out with a loud bang, frowning with a strange expression: "Why does this thing get worse and worse after eating? I thought I was biting a candle."

The last half-bitten candied haws was hanging on a bamboo stick, and Hu Liili held it in front of him to look at it. Hu Zili leaned closer and smelled it, and a very faint smell of incense lingered on the tip of his nose. , I'm afraid you won't notice it at all.

He said in a deep voice, "Don't eat."

Hu Liili nodded, still sticking out his tongue: "Even if you don't tell my cousin, I don't plan to eat it, it's too bad."

He looked uncomfortable, his face was wrinkled into a ball, and he said bitterly: "I don't know if this merchant has used bad hawthorn to make up for it."

"It's not that the merchants are just pretending, it's that what you eat is not candied haws at all." Hu Zili put on the mask on Hu Lilian's head and blocked his face behind the mask.

Hu Liili asked in confusion: "Then what am I eating?"

Hu Zili's tone was light and weak: "Go for the incense sticks."

"Oh, incense candles." Hu Liili replied shaking his head, then his body froze, he turned his head mechanically, and asked word by word, in surprise, "I, just, just, eat, yes, incense, candle? "

Hu Zili rubbed his head: "Don't worry, it's not poisonous, it won't die."

Hu Liai: "...!!!"

"It's not about whether the incense candles are poisonous or not at all!" Hu's excited eyes were full of tears, wronged and frightened, "It's why the candied haws I ate were incense candles, I just want to eat candied haws, cousin!"

"I know." Hu Zili couldn't help laughing when he saw the big boy who was about to cry, "After this loss, you must remember that you can't eat food given by strangers in the future."

"It's different!" Hu Liili said in great pain, "Who knew that this villager would use incense sticks to make candied haws! This is deceiving buyers! In our present life, we will be sued by the Consumers Association or even the police!"

Hu Zili took a bamboo stick and knocked him on the head: "The principal of Fox Kindergarten taught him not to eat food given by strangers when he was a child. Today I will give you a vivid lesson."

Hu was aggrieved but dared not speak: "..."

After all, he was the one who took the candied haws with his own hands, so it's no wonder that someone tricked him on his head.

Villagers wearing masks around them held all kinds of gadgets they bought in their hands, tasted delicious snacks, and passed by the two of them in all kinds of ways. No one regarded them wearing "strange" clothes in this world as outliers.

The lights in the darkness made the various peach blossoms painted on their masks glow faintly, and the laughter of the villagers could be heard in their ears. It belonged to the bonfire under the high platform. The dancing Xiao Qi had disappeared, but they were still there. Dancing happily around the bonfire without stopping or getting tired.

Hu Zili left the temple fair with Hu Liiliai, and returned to the original side door.

The kitten who had led them the way was sitting in front of the open shoji door, licking its fur. When it saw the two people wearing masks, it meowed and fell asleep lying on the tatami.

"Cousin, why don't you go back and play for a while?" Hu Liili forgot the pain after his scar healed, he didn't remember the lesson of eating joss sticks at all, and wanted to go back again, "I think the gadgets sold there are quite interesting. Sorry, we can take a look."

Hu Zili took off his mask and turned his head to look at them, although they were not very far away, but the voice sounded like the crowd of a temple fair thousands of meters away, where the lights were faint, and it seemed unreal in a dim place.

He turned his head, and the guess in his heart had been confirmed: "There is no need to go there again."

"how?"

Hu Zili sighed: "Those villagers are just undead. Undead love joss sticks, so naturally they eat joss sticks too."

After the words were finished, the sleeping kitten lazily raised its eyelids and glanced at Hu Zili, as if a little surprised by his discovery.

Compared to Hu Zili's calmness, Hu Liiliai was obviously not calm: "Undead? Those people are not alive?!"

"Yeah." Playing with the mask in his hand, Hu Zili smiled, "Just now when you lifted the mask, the peddler suddenly couldn't see you, it must be the mask that connects us."

"..." Hu Lili opened his mouth wide. Ever since he came to this place, he has been surprised and almost turned into a walking screaming chicken, "Then this temple fair..."

Hu Zili is still not very clear: "It may be some kind of temple fair in this book."

Hu Liili hurriedly took off the mask, touched the mask with lingering fear and muttered: "Is this temple fair going to be held until morning? They should also be afraid of the sun, even though there is a dome made of peach blossoms here, the sun can't come in."

When the word morning was mentioned, Hu Zili was startled suddenly. Looking at the still dark sky, there was only a faint light on the dome and the falling luminous peach petals. He said softly, "I'm afraid there is no morning here."

Hu Liai Liai didn't hear clearly: "Huh? Cousin, what did you say?"

"It's nothing." Hu Zili handed him the mask, "Put it back where you got it, I'll go and look around, you can rest for a while."

"No, I want to follow you." Hu Liili yawned in response to the occasion, but he still expressed his energy, "Chi Mu is gone, and I have to take good care of you, cousin. If you don't see me again, then I will be there It's better to be locked up here for the rest of my life than to be beaten by my mother when I go out!"

Hu Zili has been watched by Hu Zili since he was a child. Although he is an adult, in Hu Zili's eyes, he is just a little fox who likes to run after the moon in Qingqiu.

He rolled his eyes tenderly, patted him on the shoulder, and comforted him: "Don't worry, since you've come in, you won't disappear again, not to mention that Song Qingzhou in this book has already asked me for a wish, and there is absolutely no reason to stumbling me .”

"But I'm still quite worried..." Hu Liai was still a little worried.

Hu Zili sighed in his heart, wondering if he had lived a peaceful and stable life, which made Hu Liali feel that he didn't even have the ability to protect himself, and would need the protection of a cousin who wanted to collapse just after eating joss sticks.

Thinking of this, he lowered his voice and pretended to threaten: "Sleep well, I will walk around, and if I come back later to see that you are still asleep, I will ignore you."

A click.

Hu Liili felt a thunderbolt struck his head, and he actually received a threat from his cousin.

He wrinkled his nose and had to give in: "Okay, then I'll rest for a while, cousin, please be careful."

He flicked his fingers on Hu Lili's forehead. When Hu Zili walked out of the room, he didn't forget to look at the kitten sleeping on the ground. He squatted down, stroked its fur, and closed his hands amidst the purring.

It's not that he wants to make Hu Liliao sleep on purpose, but that in this world he can be sure that there is no daytime, and the reason for letting Hu Liliao to sleep is to not be too tired, and one of them must always stay awake.

He walked through the deep corridor and came to the darker depths. There was a faint voice coming from the closed shoji doors on both sides.

Hu Zili just thought for a moment, then gently opened the door on the left, and saw that Xiao Qi, who was dancing on the high platform before, was sitting in front of the vanity mirror, holding a comb in one hand and a long strand of hair hanging on her chest hair, tilted his head slightly, combed and said softly: "Song Qingzhou, did you see me dancing just now?"

There was a faint smile on the corner of her lips, as if she was looking at the people behind her, but she didn't seem to be looking: "The villagers look very happy and have been dancing below. I think this kind of temple fair can be held several times in the future to save Taohua Village. So monotonous, no entertainment at all."

The man not far behind her was standing in front of the case, holding a wolf hair in his hand, and the fiery red robe was dragged all over the floor. There was no movement on his handsome face. Even when he spoke, his voice was cold, but in Correct Xiao Qi's title: "Call me Master."

"You are a phoenix, and I am a human being. We are of different species, so we cannot be a master and apprentice." Xiaoqi combed her hair, and the joy in her heart was extinguished by the word "Master". She tightened the comb, and the light in her eyes completely faded. She murmured, "I don't want to be your apprentice either."

She was sitting upright, with her head down, scraping the racks of the comb with her nails over and over again. In a quiet room, she looked particularly harsh and unpleasant.

Song Qingzhou put down the brush: "Liang Yuqi."

"I prefer you to call me Xiaoqi." She seemed to muster up her courage, put the comb on the stage with a snap, and ran to the desk with her skirt in her hand. Just as she was about to say something, her eyes were attracted by the paintings on the desk. , before seeing clearly, the picture scroll has been turned over by Song Qingzhou, and nothing can be seen.

He looked at the vanity mirror, turned his eyes to Xiaoqi's face, and said coldly: "Move your vanity mirror out of my study."

"That won't work." Primary school student Song Qingzhou said with a cold face, "You still have to help me check whether the hair I combed looks good. When I go to dance for the villagers, I must be beautiful. A woman is a person who pleases me. I want I hear your praise."

Song Qingzhou said: "It's all the same."

Xiao Qi propped his hands on the shore, tiptoed close to Song Qingzhou to look into his eyes, and asked in puzzlement, "Everything is the same?"

The two were so close that they could see the pores on each other's faces clearly, and their breathing was entangled, and the air became thinner.

Song Qingzhou looked at her calmly, and her mischievous chuckle and faint blush on her face were reflected in her fiery red pupils.

"It's all the same ugly." It was Song Qingzhou's merciless comment that broke the silence. He nodded Xiaoqi's forehead, told her to back away, and said softly, "You should go back to your room and sleep."

Xiaoqi covered her head in a daze, didn't come back to her senses, and went out with an oh, and when she reached the gate of the curtain, she suddenly turned around again, with a bright smile on her face: "Song Qingzhou, it's really true that you can pick me up!" good."

Just twelve words touched Song Qingzhou's calm heart.

His calm eyes looked at Xiaoqi with a little surprise, but in the next moment, all the people and things in the room disappeared like mist, leaving only the darkness in the room.

Hu Zili woke up like a dream and was about to enter the room when he silently heard a silver bell-like laughter from the end of the corridor.

The voice seemed to guide him forward, making people full of curiosity. Hu Zili moved in his heart, and he had already walked out. He saw a huge peach blossom tree emitting a faint light in the dark night, and it was in full bloom that made people frightened. Trembling beauty.