Chapter 14: Animal World

Lu Qingjiu and Bai Yuehu soon picked the fully ripe tomatoes and cucumbers from the vegetable patch as the vegetables did not last long. The tomatoes were all round and plump, red and bulbous, and looked delicious. After picking the tomatoes, Lu Qingjiu planned to take Uncle Chen's car to town tomorrow to sell the vegetables and to take Zhu Miaomiao home.

Zhu Miaomiao's four-day holiday was over and it was time to go back to work in the city. Although she was reluctant to leave, she couldn't leave her job behind.

It was Lu Qingjiu's first time selling vegetables and he had little experience, so he brought Yin Xun along and left Bai Yuehu to look after the house.

Yin Xun has not been in good spirits for the past few days and seems to have been scared on the mountain. Lu Qingjiu was joking about inviting a goddess to do some magic for Yin Xun, but Yin Xun waved his hand and said that the goddess with hair was no longer the same.

Lu Qingjiu: "What does this have to do with her hair"

"With hair comes mortal thoughts, and the practice is definitely not as spiritual as it used to be." Yin Xun said.

Lu Qingjiu looked at Yin Xun with suspicion: "Really?"

"It's not true." Yin Xun said sadly, "To tell you the truth, I went to see her yesterday and her family said she had remarried and was no longer in the business."

Lu Qingjiu :""

"So it's all the fault of that well behind your house." Yin Xun was aggrieved.

Lu Qingjiu didn't know what to say, so he reached out and patted Yin Xun on the head, then shoved a cucumber into his mouth. Yin Xun was about to say something else, but the cucumber in his mouth tasted good, so he shut up and chewed it.

When they arrived in town, Lu Qingjiu took Zhu Miaomiao to the train station first.

Zhu Miaomiao was very reluctant to leave Lu Qingjiu, grabbing his hand and crying for a while before he reluctantly got on the train. Yin Xun pretended to be a plastic stool next to him until Zhu Miaomiao had gone, and only then did he ask in a whisper, "Qingjiu, is this girl interested in you?"

Lu Qingjiu gave him a look without speaking.

"If this didn't mean anything to you, why would he come all the way over here to see you?" Yin Xun said.

Lu Qingjiu said, "You see, I sometimes come all the way here to see you."

Yin Xun said shamelessly, "Oh, then you probably have a crush on me too."

Lu Qingjiu looked at Yin Xun with pity: "Don't think too much, I just see myself as an irresponsible father who occasionally comes back to see the children left behind in his own home."

Yin Xun :""

After dropping Zhu Miaomiao off, Lu Qingjiu took his family's left-behind children to the vegetable market.

The morning market had already passed and there were fewer people buying vegetables. The two of them found a stall on the roadside, laid out their vegetables on greaseproof paper and prepared to sell.

Yin Xun had just asked the stall next to him for the price of tomatoes and came back to ask Lu Qingjiu to sell them for three yuan a catty. Lu Qingjiu was a bit surprised to hear this: "Is it so expensive at three yuan a catty?

Yin Xun said, "I've tasted your tomatoes, they taste so good that they can be eaten as fruit. 3 yuan a catty is expensive but there are always people who buy them."

Lu Qingjiu said, "How much is a catty next door?"

Yin Xun: "One dollar and a half."

Lu Qingjiu: ""He always felt a bit hung up.

But Yin Xun was obviously more experienced than Lu Qingjiu, he opened a tomato and put it next to him, and in a short time an old lady came to ask for the price, smacking her lips when she heard that it was three dollars a catty and said, "This tomato is grown in gold, three dollars a catty."

"You try it first." Yin Xun hands over a piece.

The lady tasted a piece and seemed to think it tasted quite good, so she tried to bargain for a cheaper price for Yin Xun, but Yin Xun refused to let go at three yuan a catty, saying, "Auntie, it's not that I won't give you a cheaper price, but that's the price we pay when we come in, this is what the farmers grow and eat themselves, they only sell it when they grow more. The tomatoes are different from the others, and they are safe and healthy without any pesticides."

Lu Qingjiu was slightly surprised to see such an eloquent Yin Xun for the first time, but he didn't say anything, and stayed by the side as a backdrop until the lady was persuaded by Yin Xun to buy two catties. With this start, business gradually picked up.

Some people turned away at the sound of three yuan a catty, but most of those who tasted the tomatoes bought some, and soon the sacks of tomatoes they had brought were almost sold.

Lu Qingjiu wanted to give Yin Xun some money, but Yin Xun refused, saying that he hadn't given Lu Qingjiu any money for the food and drink he had been eating at his house every day.

Lu Qingjiu thought it made sense, so on his way home he went to the butcher's shop next door and bought a slab of pork and a few pounds of beef and brought them all home.

Of course Lu Qingjiu didn't forget to hand a red packet to Uncle Chen who had brought them to town, in fact he was thinking of buying his own minivan, but at the moment there wasn't a lot of stuff that needed to be transported, so it was just an idea.

When he returned home with the meat, Lu Qingjiu saw Bai Yuehu sitting in the courtyard with his head raised, seemingly looking up at something in the sky, and when he heard him return, he said, "You're back."

Lu Qingjiu said, "I've come back and bought you a lot of meat."

Bai Yuehu said, "Do you want a ride?"

Lu Qingjiu froze at the words, "What do you mean by riding a cart?"

Bai Yuehu blinked and agreed with Lu Qingjiu, "Yes, the car."

Lu Qingjiu said, "I was just discussing with Yin Xun about buying a minivan, but I don't seem to go to town very often, is that necessary?"

Bai Yuehu said, "I," he said the word "I" and paused for a moment, as if looking for a more appropriate way to say it, "my friend, sent me a car, I don't like it, you can take it."

A car Lu Qingjiu only found Bai Yuehu's statement a little strange, but didn't care too much as he said, "What kind of car?"

Bai Yuehu said, "I don't know, what kind of car do you want, show me the pictures"

Lu Qingjiu frowned, walked over to Bai Yuehu and asked in a whisper, "That's really a car not something strange."

Bai Yuehu's dark eyes looked innocently at Lu Qingjiu: "No, I don't think so."

Lu Qingjiu: ""Why did you add the word bar.

Bai Yuehu said, "Do you want it?"

Lu Qingjiu, very alert, said, "Let me have a look first."

Bai Yuehu sighed faintly, "Good."

Lu Qingjiu used to love sweet and sour pork and beef with sharp peppers, so he used to make them at home, so it was a great success. The beef with chillies was also very tender, the chillies were freshly picked from the ground, very fresh and spicy.

It's a perfect match for the tender beef.

After dinner, Bai Yuehu went to wash the dishes and instead of going to bed, she went to the computer and surfed the internet for a while.

He rarely uses these electronic devices, neither does he watch TV nor has a mobile phone, so Lu Qingjiu is slightly curious as to what he is doing.

Yin Xun bets with Lu Qingjiu that Bai Yuehu must have been watching pornography.

Lu Qingjiu said, "What are you talking about?" Bai Yuehu was a fox, so if he wanted to watch porn, he would have to open the animal world.

Yin Xun said, "Or we can wait for him to leave and check his browsing history later."

Lu Qingjiu said, "It's not good, it's someone's privacy."

Yin Xun said, "Oh, just satisfy my curiosity, look at him all day long, he's so immortal, it's his first time touching a computer, aren't you curious about what an immortal does with a computer?"

To be honest, Lu Qingjiu was curious too, so at Yin Xun's urging, the two did the dirty work and opened their browsers to see what Bai Yuehu had just seen.

It was a big disappointment to see that it was full of browsing records of some car forums, neither porn nor animal world.

"Why is he looking at cars?" Yin Xun scratched his head in wonder, "Is he planning to buy a car?"

Lu Qingjiu lapsed into silence as he remembered the question Bai Yuehu had asked him during the day about the ride, no, the car, and in relation to the browsing history before him, he had a bad feeling.

"What's wrong with you Sake?" Yin Xun noticed Lu Qingjiu's unusual expression.

Lu Qingjiu shook his head to indicate that he was fine.

After Yin Xun went home, Lu Qingjiu turned off his computer and climbed into his bunk. He opened his mobile phone and saw Zhu Miaomiao showing off her beautiful hair in her circle of friends, and most of the messages at the bottom were asking where she had gotten her hair transplanted and how effective it was. Thinking of the well in his backyard, Lu Qingjiu smiled helplessly. He had never imagined that the female ghost, which was originally linked to a curse, would have such an effect.

As he watched, Lu Qingjiu fell asleep, thinking it was over, until one morning, a few days later, he was awakened from his bed by a harsh cry.

What the author has to say: Bai Yuehu is lost in thought as he watches the animal world.

Lu Qingjiu: Why is your bottom a bit cold?