Chapter 16: Uninvited

The man who spoke was a young man in his early twenties, about the same age as Lu Qingjiu.

"What did you say?" Lu Qingjiu stared, thinking he had heard wrong.

"I said I'll take it all." The young man casually picked up one of the tomatoes from the Lu Qingjiu van, wiped it casually on his shirt, then bit off most of it with a slurred mouthful, "Yes, that's the taste."

Lu Qingjiu said, "Are you sure you want it all? There are hundreds of pounds here." Lu Qingjiu's estimate of several hundred pounds was a casual one, and he didn't know how much there was.

"Hm." The young man nodded and ate all the tomatoes in three or two bites, then took a business card out of his pocket and handed it to Lu Qingjiu, "I run a restaurant in the city, my friend tasted your tomatoes the other day and said they tasted very good."

Lu Qingjiu wondered, "Your friend said the tomatoes were good, but I only sold them once," he said, glancing at the business card, on which were the words Chao Qianyu and the title at the bottom, General Manager of the restaurant.

"Well." Chao Qianyu said, "It was that time."

Lu Qingjiu said, "Can you finish all these goods? I still have a lot at home."

"There's a lot more at home." Chao Qianyu's expression became a little strange at that, and he said, "Where do you live at home?"

"Shuifu Village." Lu Qingjiu didn't hide his address, the town was so small and everyone was well informed, even if he didn't tell them, Chao Qianyu would have found out sooner or later.

"Can I come and have a look," says Chao Qianyu, "I can contract out all your tomatoes if it suits."

Lu Qingjiu said, "Sure." It is naturally much more convenient to contract out the family's food to a restaurant than to sell it in bulk.

"Then next time I'll find a free time to visit you." Chao Qianyu waved his hand and two men came out behind him and started to unload the goods from the van, "Let's weigh it."

The tomatoes were weighed and weighed in at over 400 catties. Chao Qianyu gave Lu Qingjiu the cash and Lu Qingjiu was happy to put over a thousand yuan in his pocket, thinking that they would have a big dinner tonight.

It was only when Lu Qingjiu was driving home in his car that he said, "Sake, it's not a good idea to let him come to the door like this."

Lu Qingjiu said, "What's wrong?"

Yin Xun looked a little strange as he said, "Well, have you ever heard of a legend?"

Lu Qingjiu says: "What legend?"

"It's the fact that the door to the house is actually a kind of boundary, and the dirty things from outside can't just come in." Yin Xun says, "Unless, of course, you've sent it an invitation."

Lu Qingjiu: "But."

Yin Xun said, "But what?"

Lu Qingjiu said, "But there seems to be something dirty in our backyard."

When Yin Xun heard these words, he looked as if he had been struck by lightning.

expression, his lips twitching slightly, "So you're not scared at all?"

Lu Qingjiu: "I'm definitely scared, but I don't have the money to buy another house."

Yin Xun :""

Lu Qingjiu, who was holding the steering wheel, sighed regretfully: "I seem to understand what the protagonist in the movie who refused to move out of the haunted house was doing. The lady in his backyard is of good quality, she doesn't come out much and occasionally helps people with their hair, so she's an environmentally friendly ghost.

Yin Xun wilted and plopped down next to me, saying, "I really admire you, O wine.

Lu Qingjiu thought to himself, "I'm quite impressed with myself too.

Having made a lot of money today, Lu Qingjiu decided to have a big meal and went to the nearby meat market with Yin Xun to buy a large pile of meat, saying they would cook it for the evening.

When they arrived home, Yin Xun volunteered to build the fire while Lu Qingjiu cured the meat. Bai Yuehu also came over and stood next to Lu Qingjiu watching him cut the meat into small pieces and said, "Is the car working well?"

"Well," Lu Qingjiu said, "the car works pretty well." The minivan was much more comfortable than any car he had ever driven, and had plenty of power, even when climbing the winding, steep mountain roads.

Bai Yuehu nodded, but after the question, he did not walk away, but looked Lu Qingjiu up and down for a while, and suddenly asked, "Did you meet any strange people today?"

Lu Qingjiu moved with a start and turned back, "What do you mean?"

Bai Yuehu said, "Literally."

"Strange people." Lu Qingjiu threaded the beef onto the sharpened wooden stick and went over it in his head, "No." He paused for a moment as he thought of something, "But there was a big customer who bought all our tomatoes, that's why we came back so quickly."

"Oh." Bai Yuehu responded and turned to walk away, and Lu Qingjiu couldn't figure out what he meant.

Lu Qingjiu's grilling skills were mediocre, but Yin Xun was quite good at grilling.

The meat must be half-fat and half-lean. When the fatty meat is roasted on the fire, it emits a nourishing sound and the fat comes out of the meat, dripping onto the fire with a puffing sound.

Lu Qingjiu was baking with his head down when he felt a tug on his trouser leg and looked down to see two Xiao Hei pigs sitting next to him, looking at him with bated breath.

"Shit," Lu Qingjiu was shocked, "what are you two doing out here?"

Xiao Hua grunted and then made a jumping gesture to indicate that he had run out on his own.

Yin Xun shouted strangely from the side, "Wow, Lu Qingjiu, your pigs are revolting, they even jump out of the pigsty."

Xiao Hua heard this and rushed over and lifted her short legs and delivered a kick to Yin Xun.

Lu Qingjiu, who already knew that the two pigs in his house were from an unusual background, said, "What are you doing out here? We're roasting pork, you can't eat it, can you?"

Xiao Hua grunts in anger.

Lu Qingjiu didn't understand either, so he simply took two corn cobs and handed them to the two little piglets, who were then happy to rub their heads against Lu Qingjiu's feet and ate them happily.

Bai Yuehu went into the house to get the spices, and when he came out, he saw two pigs actually gnawing on his corn cobs.

"Yin Xun, who was drinking a glass of water, choked on the sight of this scene.

Xiao Hua put down the corncob in her mouth, biting her sister's leg, and stepped back a little, as if intending to go back to the pigsty.

Lu Qingjiu cried and laughed, and said to Bai Yuehu, "Okay, don't scare them."

Bai Yuehu looked at Lu Qingjiu and frowned seriously, "They eat my food."

Lu Qingjiu: "It's alright, we've bought a lot of meat today, there's enough to go around, the meat is all yours, give them two corn cobs that they don't like." He handed Bai Yuehu a plate of freshly roasted meat.

Bai Yuehu was satisfied and left the two little piglets to nibble on the meat.

Yin Xun also bought a lot of chicken claws, which are very soft and sticky after roasting, and brushed with a special seasoning.

Lu Qingjiu even opened a few bottles of beer when he was happy and the three of them had a great time.

After eating, they didn't clean up because it was too late, so they went to their respective rooms to sleep, thinking they would clean up the next day.

Lu Qingjiu is also a bit drunk, lying in bed with a dizzy mind but unusually awake, unable to sleep, as the sky outside is darkened and the whole sky is covered with night.

I don't know how long it took, but Lu Qingjiu suddenly heard a strange rattling sound that came from the courtyard, like something dragging on the ground.

Lu Qingjiu shook his head off, unsure if this was a hallucination because he was so drunk, and slowly crawled out of bed to see a strange white figure appear in his yard. It looked like a huge animal standing on the ground, the animal was draped in white feathers and had a bird-like face, with a long blood-red beak sticking out of the part of its mouth, only no bird would be so big, standing about two metres tall and even blocking out the moonlight.

Lu Qingjiu rubbed his eyes heavily.

The creature seemed to notice Lu Qingjiu's gaze and slowly opened its mouth with a strange smile, then waved its wings and swooped straight towards Lu Qingjiu's direction. Lu Qingjiu was startled by the creature, but saw a black mist rise up in the sky, instantly enveloping the bird man.

"Ah" Lu Qingjiu heard a harsh scream, the sound of bones breaking and meat being chewed rang in his ears, he could faintly see in the black mist the eyes of a huge beast that belonged to a beast, these eyes made Lu Qingjiu's whole body freeze, it was hard for him to describe what he felt at that moment, it was as if human survival instincts were telling him that if he moved, he would die here.

After a few minutes, the eyes disappeared into the black mist, which faded away and peace returned to the small courtyard once again.

Only a white, bloodstained feather was on the ground in the courtyard, and Lu Qingjiu blinked, only to find that the feather was gone too.

He lay back in bed, wondering if he was drunk, or dreaming, or if the grotesque thing he had just seen was real, and a two-metre-tall bird had actually entered his house and been swallowed by something in one gulp.

But the beast in the black mist doesn't look like a fox.

The author has something to say: Shocked that the fantasy farm actually drove the car in the 15th chapter readers have said how exciting.

Minivan: sit up and move yourself.

Lu Qingjiu.

Bai Yuehu: I think you're trying to turn it into a midnight snack.