Chapter 32: The Unlucky Gods

Although Wu Xiao's dream of hearing a tree spirit speak had come true, he had somehow found himself with a tree companion, and Lu Qingjiu had mixed feelings.

Lu Qingjiu replied that there was no such thing and that he had asked Bai Yuehu in advance if the marriage could be broken off when he found out the truth, to which Bai Yuehu replied that the tree people had always been married for life, and that there was no divorce once a marriage was made.

So Lu Qingjiu told Wu Xiao the answer, and after hearing it, Wu Xiao said in despair: "We have to make do with what we have, what else can we do?

Lu Qingjiu wanted to laugh but didn't think it was appropriate, so he had to hold back and comforted Wu Xiao, saying that Lao Shu was actually a nice person and that he might fall in love with him after spending more time with him.

Lu Qingjiu didn't know what to say when his feud with Wu Xiao ended in this way, so he asked Zhu Miaomiao to hand Wu Xiao a large red envelope in private to express his deepest apologies.

Zhu Miaomiao asked him why he was handing out red envelopes, but he didn't dare to explain, so he muddled through.

Wu Xiao, who had received the red envelope, asked Lu Qingjiu what this meant and Lu Qingjiu said, "It's not your new wedding".

Wu Xiao hung up the phone with a snap, and this time Lu Qingjiu couldn't hold back a low laugh at the other end of the line.

In August, the weather was so hot that the chickens in the yard didn't want to move. After half a year, they had grown into half-grown chickens, but they looked a bit different from the others, both male and female, and their feathers were very colourful and beautiful.

Xiao Hei and Xiao Hua have not grown at all. They are as big as they were when they arrived and now they are as big as they are now.

Xiao Hua's eyes rolled up to the sky when she heard Yin Xun's words.

When Yin Xun saw it, he yelled, "Damn it, Lu Qingjiu, you should take care of your pig, it's giving me blank stares."

Lu Qingjiu said, "Can you take your head off her stomach before you say something bad about her?"

Yin Xun refused forcefully, "No."

Xiao Hua was so angry that he almost gave him a hoof.

Ever since Yin Xun found out that Xiao Hua's belly was a great cooler, he started to carry Xiao Hua all day long, sometimes even when he went out to pick vegetables.

Lu Qingjiu looked at his expression and thought that if he hadn't been unable to speak in front of Yin Xun, Xiao Hua would have opened his mouth and turned on Yin Xun.

Yin Xun should be thanked for being an ordinary person

Lu Qingjiu makes sour plum soup and freezes it in the fridge, so she has a cup of it every afternoon when she goes to bed. Yin Xun and Bai Yuehu are also fond of this sweet and sour drink. During the hottest part of the day, they would eat something cold in the house to beat the heat.

The little fox also likes iced food, but Lu Qingjiu is worried that he is too weak and will have diarrhoea if he eats too much, so he controls the amount each time.

This day the three of them were eating Lu Qingjiu's new cold prawns, a unique dessert from their side of the family, made from glutinous rice boiled down and dripped in water through a spoon to form a small prawn-shaped ball of rice, which is then filled with a thick red soup and sweet and sour hawthorn. Lu Qingjiu felt a little short of sugar and was about to go into the kitchen to add a spoonful of red soup when he heard a knock on the door from the courtyard.

"Which one?" Lu Qingjiu asked from a distance.

It was 3pm, the hottest time of the day, the sun was blindingly bright, the whole world seemed to be enveloped in a huge, hot steamer, and within a minute of going out, people were sweating profusely. If Lu Qingjiu had heard a knock at the door, he would have opened it without even asking, but today it was so hot that the three of them looked at each other, clearly not wanting to move.

"Bai Yuehu, Bai Yuehu" came a man's voice from outside the door, he called Bai Yuehu's name and knocked hard on the already unstable wooden door, "I'm dying of fucking heat, come and open the door for me "

Lu Qingjiu and Yin Xun both sighed with relief and turned their attention to Bai Yuehu, since he wasn't looking for them, they didn't have to leave the air-conditioned room in the heat to answer the door.

Who knew that Bai Yuehu lifted his eyelids, shamelessly changed his voice and replied to the person outside the door, " Bai Yuehu is not in."

Lu Qingjiu, who was next to him, almost spat out his mouth at the sound, while Yin Xun and Lu Qingjiu reacted similarly, both clearly shocked by Bai Yuehu's shamelessness.

"Fuck, Bai Yuehu is not here, then who are you?" The person outside the door was furious with Bai Yuehu's answer and started to bang on the door, "Open the door, I'm really going to die out here."

Bai Yuehu was about to say something when there was a sudden loud bang at the door, and Lu Qingjiu saw the fragile door slab fall to the ground with a thud. He hadn't expected the door to be knocked on so hard, so he threw himself into the yard and fell over.

"Ah crap" the man was dropped a bit badly, lying on the ground half unresponsive with a groan of pain coming out of his mouth, "Ouch me fuck"

Lu Qingjiu rushed over to see this and asked, "Are you alright, brother?"

The man lifted his head and Lu Qingjiu saw his appearance and burst out laughing, only to see that the man's face was bruised and bruised, his originally handsome face was ruined by these wounds.

The man looked at Lu Qingjiu with a bitter face, and Lu Qingjiu was about to ask him if he was alright when he saw him spit half a tooth out of his mouth with a puke.

"Fuck." The man cursed, "Fuck me."

Lu Qingjiu thought to himself that this man was too unlucky. He hurriedly helped him up and the man seemed to have hurt his leg and limped into the house.

Bai Yuehu saw him with a disgusted look.

Bai Yuehu said, "How did you know I was here?"

"I asked around at Sue's." The man sat down and rubbed his leg, "You really"

Bai Yuehu took a sip of cold shrimp and didn't even give him a look.

The man's eyes fell on top of the cold shrimp and sucked in his saliva: "What is this, is it good"

Bai Yuehu said, "Delicious." Then he drank it all in one gulp.

Man: ""

Lu Qingjiu looked on with amusement, but he was not as frank as Bai Yuehu. He felt that the man's appearance was too miserable, so he turned around and went to the kitchen and made him a bowl of cold shrimps with some brown sugar, thinking that it would be better for him to replenish his blood.

The man almost cried when he saw the cold prawns in front of him, chanting that Lu Qingjiu was a good man and that he would be very lucky in the future, and then ate them with glee.

Bai Yuehu said, "Shuifen, what on earth are you doing here." The man's name turned out to be Shui Feng, which sounded slightly strange.

"I've come to ask for your help." The water salary said, "O my dear fox"

Bai Yuehu gave a cold glance and Shuifeng hurriedly changed his tone: "Mr. Bai."

"I said I can't save you." Bai Yuehu said lazily, "Didn't I tell you that before."

Shuifen: "I think I can still salvage it." After he said this, he used a spoon to scoop up a large spoonful of cold prawns, stuffed it into his mouth and was about to take it out, when Lu Qingjiu, who was sitting next to him, heard a crisp sound of broken porcelain, followed by a harsh scream, the man screamed and spat out a mouthful of blood.

"Crap" Yin Xun was shocked by the image next to him, his tone was full of horror, "Big brother you can't eat a spoon even if you're hungry, that's ceramics you can't eat"

The water salary was in tears of pain and his mouth was full of shattered ceramic crumbs. He stumbled into the front yard and then tried to turn on the tap to rinse his mouth, but who knew that as soon as the tap was turned on and his mouth was put on it, there was another scream of excruciating pain.

Lu Qingjiu froze for a moment and then realised what was going on, their taps and pipes were in the sun and the surface temperature was approaching 70 degrees, so I guess the water coming out of the hot taps was no where near as cool.

The man looked like he was going to pass out from the pain, but managed to carry on, barely rinsing the debris out of his mouth with water.

Lu Qingjiu and Yin Xun stood by the door looking on, both with miserable faces. The image looked so miserable that to describe the luck of the Shui Shui Shuen's family would be an understatement to describe them as drinking cold water and stuffing their teeth.

Lu Qingjiu thought he was going to say something, but instead he picked up the rest of the cold prawns and drained them in one gulp, giving Lu Qingjiu a nod of approval, "You're good at this, big brother."

Lu Qingjiu: "Are you okay, friend?"

The water salary said, "It's fine, it won't kill me."

Bai Yuehu said lazily, "Don't worry about him, he's used to it."

He quickly recovered, wiping his mouth after drinking the cold prawns and saying to Bai Yuehu, "Bai Yuehu, let's go out and talk about it."

Bai Yuehu looked at him without saying anything.

" Bai Yuehu ." Shuifen said, "Just help me."

Bai Yuehu looked at Shui Feng and did not say anything, but his expression had already given Shui Feng an answer. Shui Feng was about to persuade him again, but he heard Bai Yuehu ask coldly, "How long are you going to be like this?"

Water salary: ""

Bai Yuehu said, "You're not bothered, I am."

Shuifeng opened his mouth to speak, but then seemed to notice Lu Qingjiu and Yin Xun sitting next to him, and he said, "Let's talk somewhere else."

Bai Yuehu eventually agreed, and he and Shuifen left the room and went to find another spot in the courtyard under the grapevines and began to talk about private matters.

"What do you think the relationship between this man and Bai Yuehu is?" Yin Xun asked Lu Qingjiu in a low voice.

"I don't know." Lu Qingjiu said, "Maybe it's his friend." From the way they were talking, they seemed to be close friends who had known each other for years, but they didn't know what this man had come to the door for and Bai Yuehu had that kind of attitude. But from the tone of Shui Feng's voice, it seemed that he should not belong to the human category either.

Bai Yuehu and Shuifen had a long talk in the courtyard until the sun was about to set, when the two seemed to have barely reached an understanding.

Bai Yuehu's face was slightly unpleasant as he returned to the house, clearly not having had a pleasant exchange with Shui Feng. The smile in Shui Feng's eyes was gone, and instead there was a complexity that Lu Qingjiu could not understand. However, this complication only flashed for a moment, and the next moment it was covered up by the usual smile.

"Oh, what are you having for dinner tonight." Shuifen said, "Bai Yuehu, just let me have dinner."

Bai Yuehu didn't say anything, just got up and headed out, at which Shui Feng laughed out loud, revealing that half of his teeth were still missing from his mouth.

Lu Qingjiu called out, "Bai Yuehu, where are you going?"

Bai Yuehu pointed to the door, "I'll go and fix the door."

The water salary's smile froze on his face.

"Oh, okay." Lu Qingjiu said, "It's okay, I'll get some more food for the night."

Bai Yuehu nods and walks to the door.

The water salary whispered, "Sorry, big brother, I broke the gate of your house." He reached into his arms and fumbled around for a moment before feeling out a small bag, "I don't have much money either, so I'll give you this as compensation."

Lu Qingjiu said, "No, it's not necessary, my door should have been replaced."

"Take it." The water salary laughed, "It's not a valuable item."

Lu Qingjiu tried to resist, but seeing his firm attitude, he took it and thought he would ask Bai Yuehu what the situation was tonight.

For dinner Lu Qingjiu cooked more, he made steamed pork ribs with glutinous rice, stir-fried shredded pork with fish and spices, and steamed a large bowl of eggs. Their chickens had started to lay eggs one after another, but the eggs were much larger than normal, with a high probability of double-yolked eggs, and the steamed

The aroma is particularly pleasant afterwards, and the water Lu Qingjiu adds to it makes it very smooth and tender in the mouth.

The meal was made and several people took to the table.

In the afternoon, Bai Yuehu repaired the door of the house. He got a black wooden door from somewhere and set it in the place where the original wooden door was. Lu Qingjiu wanted to laugh at the wooden door, which was so grand, with a dragon pattern carved on it, that it didn't fit in with the simple style of the courtyard. But there was nothing wrong with it, it was just a little bit out of place.

Shuifen was very serious about his meal, he didn't take his eyes off the whole time, but his bad luck didn't stop there, eating a glutinous rice steamed pork ribs, he ate three or four stones out of the glutinous rice hard.

Lu Qingjiu was dumbfounded: "Where did so many stones come from in the rice?"

Yin Xun said, "Yes, I didn't get a single one."

I'm used to it. You guys don't know, the time I ate an apple, I took a bite and saw half a worm wriggling around inside."

Lu Qingjiu: "" He silently put down the chopsticks in his hand.

Yin Xun and Lu Qingjiu made the same move.

Lu Qingjiu watched him limp away, but just as he left the courtyard, he seemed to have accidentally stepped on something again and fell on his face. He had it coming."

Lu Qingjiu: "Well," he could hear that Bai Yuehu was serious.

After Yin Xun returns, Lu Qingjiu sits next to Bai Yuehu with a fan and melon seeds, chattering with his fox spirit while stoned.

Although Bai Yuehu usually seems to be quite unpleasant to talk to, Lu Qingjiu is actually quite pleasant to talk to, and whenever he asks him a question, he answers it patiently.

"The water salary gave me a bag this afternoon." Lu Qingjiu shook his fan with one hand, while with the other he fished out of his own pocket the bag that Shui Feng had given him this afternoon.

Bai Yuehu took one look at the bag and knew what it contained. He was silent for a moment and said, "Keep it."

"What is it?" Lu Qingjiu was too busy to look at it in the afternoon, so he opened the bag gently and saw that it contained a strand of hair. The hair was yellow and black, thick and stiff, obviously not human hair, but a bit like the hair of a wild animal.

"Hair," Lu Qingjiu said in surprise as he pulled out a bag of hairs, "is this of any use?"

"Take it with you." Bai Yuehu says, "A bit of good."

Lu Qingjiu thought for a moment, "Is it the hair on his body?"

Bai Yuehu nods.

"He is a tiger spirit," said Lu Qingjiu, who, after careful study, decided that the colour of the hair most closely resembled that of a tiger, and launched into a rich imagination, "or a leopard."

"No, he is God." Bai Yuehu said.

"God" Lu Qingjiu said in amazement, "is there a god as unlucky as him?" From the moment he saw Shuifeng Qi, he saw that he was in a constant state of bad luck.

Bai Yuehu sighed and said, "It was kind of an accident."

Lu Qingjiu was keenly aware that Bai Yuehu did not seem to want to say much about the water pensioner, but then again, it seemed to be the first time he had heard Bai Yuehu use such a sighing tone, rather like the sadness of a rabbit dying and a fox.

Since Bai Yuehu said it would be useful, Lu Qingjiu hung the pouch with his own keychain and carried it with him. At night, when he went to bed, he went back to the Shanhaijing and searched it carefully for a god that matched Bai Yuehu's words. Only when he searched and searched, he found a fact that dismayed him. In the Shanhaijing, there was indeed a god who was more in line with Shui Feng's behaviour, but he was the exact opposite of Shui Feng and should have been an uncompromisingly lucky man.

The name of the god is Tai Feng, the god of good fortune.

According to legend, Tai Feng is a human being with a tiger's tail, who is the master of good fortune in the world and whoever is close to him will be favoured by fate and will be able to do whatever he wants. Tai Feng is a gentle man who lives on the mountain of peace, and is more of a people person than the previous Shepard.

It was just that the god of good fortune, Tai Feng, was so different from the god of cold water, Lu Qingjiu, who was the brother of the god of good fortune, Tai Feng, that he squeezed the hair in his pocket and thought that the world of non-humans was really complicated.

The next day, Lu Qingjiu woke up to see Bai Yuehu sitting in the courtyard.

"It's so early" Lu Qingjiu looked at the time, it was only a little after five o'clock, usually Bai Yuehu didn't get up until after six o'clock.

"Well, there's a trip out." Bai Yuehu said.

"When will you be back?" Lu Qingjiu asked.

"Maybe at night." Bai Yuehu said, "What time is it?"

"It's half past five." Lu Qingjiu said, "Do you want to have breakfast."

Bai Yuehu said, "It's too late." He thought for a moment, "I'm going to the hospital in the city, do you want to come with me"

When Lu Qingjiu heard it was a hospital, he immediately got nervous and asked, "Hospital? Are you unwell?"

"No, it's to meet someone." Bai Yuehu again extended an invitation to Lu Qingjiu, "Come along."

Lu Qingjiu thought about it, "That's fine." Bai Yuehu would rarely invite him out, but since he had asked him to go out this time, there must be some reason. So he grabbed some biscuits and rode off with Bai Yuehu in the minivan towards the city.

Lu Qingjiu also found a moment to send a message to Yin Xun, asking him to fix his own lunch for the day.

It would take them about two hours to drive to town by mountain road, because it was mountainous and full of cliffs, so they could only drive slowly if they wanted to be safe, and it would take them another hour to get from town to the city, which meant that it would be about eight o'clock when they arrived in the city.

Lu Qingjiu drove on, watching Bai Yuehu sitting next to him eating a biscuit, Bai Yuehu seemed to be in a bad mood, although his expression did not change much, Lu Qingjiu could see his mood from the corner of his eyes.

"What's wrong," Lu Qingjiu asked, "is someone you know sick?"

"Hmm." Bai Yuehu responded.

Lu Qingjiu laughed, "It's not a water salary, is it?"

Bai Yuehu said, "He's sick in the head."

Lu Qingjiu laughed out loud as he said, "Are all these gods so down-to-earth, I feel like he's just an ordinary guy."

Bai Yuehu thought for a moment, "Now he is no different from an ordinary person, no, there is still a difference, he is a little more unlucky than an ordinary person."

Lu Qingjiu thought of the miserable state of yesterday's water salary and hooked the corners of his mouth somewhat unkindly.

The minivan made its way and soon left Shuifu Village and drove on to the road leading to the city. As soon as the time passed seven o'clock, the world began to wake up from its dream state and the roads were full of cars and pedestrians, making it another ordinary day for ordinary people.

The hospital woke up earlier than the rest of the world, and before six o'clock the halls were packed with patients of all kinds.

Lu Qingjiu parked his car in the underground garage and walked with Bai Yuehu in the direction of the inpatient unit.

"Here's the man." Bai Yuehu handed Lu Qingjiu a note.

Lu Qingjiu looked and saw it was Ward 102 on the 15th floor of Building A. He said, "It's over there."

Bai Yuehu nods.

Lu Qingjiu was walking towards building A, but he turned his head to look at Bai Yuehu. He didn't know if it was just an illusion, but he had the feeling that Bai Yuehu didn't know his way around after entering the hospital and kept following him. But if that was the case, it would probably explain why Bai Yuehu had invited himself over, Lu Qingjiu thought, and then he thought he was thinking too much.

In between thoughts, they had reached the floor of the inpatient wing of building A. Lu Qingjiu pressed the lift, waited for Bai Yuehu to enter with him and then pressed the number 15.

The author has something to say: Lu Qingjiu: I found that the water salary is actually quite useful

Bai Yuehu.

Lu Qingjiu: Bet against him when betting on football

Bai Yuehu: You are very thoughtful.