Chapter 33: The God of Lost Luck

The lift rises slowly, and soon reaches the floor they are going to. In the corridor above, patients and families come and go in a hurry.

Hospitals are never a pleasant place to be, a place that brings together both the most thirsty of human hopes and the despair of broken hopes.

Bai Yuehu's footsteps stopped at the door of ward 102. Lu Qingjiu looked through the glass window of the ward and saw a young girl lying in the ward, dressed in a white hospital gown, her hairless head showing a green scalp, looking in good spirits, her head bowed as she flipped through something in her hands.

"Going in?" Lu Qingjiu asks in a whisper.

Bai Yuehu nodded and knocked on the door of the ward.

"Who is it, come in." The girl looked up and spoke when she heard a knock at the door.

Bai Yuehu pushed in the door and the girl saw him and smiled, "Oh, Bai Yuehu, it's been a long time."

Bai Yuehu said, "It's been a long time."

The two seemed to know each other well, and the girl greeted Bai Yuehu warmly and told him to make himself comfortable before her eyes fell on Lu Qingjiu's face and she said, "Who is this?"

"This is my friend Lu Qingjiu." Bai Yuehu introduces.

The girl smiled and said, "Hello, my name is Hou Xuejia."

If she hadn't known Bai Yuehu, who seemed to have some connection with the Shui Feng, Lu Qingjiu would have thought she was just an ordinary human like himself.

"You do your own thing, I'll sit for a while and then leave." Bai Yuehu said to Hou Xuejia.

Hou Xuejia smiled, "Let me peel an apple for you both."

"I'll do it." Seeing her move, Lu Qingjiu took the apple and knife from her hand, as it was too much for two men to ask a sick girl to peel an apple.

Hou Xuejia didn't argue with Lu Qingjiu, and smilingly handed him the apple: "Sure."

When she held out her hand, she revealed her wrists hidden under her hospital gown. They were too slender compared to normal wrists, and the backs of her hands were bruised, so I could see that they were caused by the prolonged infusion of fluids, and I wondered how long the girl had actually been in hospital.

"How's it going?" Bai Yuehu asked, opening his mouth.

"It's fine." Hou Xuejia sits with her head cocked as she watches Lu Qingjiu carefully peel an apple, smiling, "My condition is stable, the doctor says there's nothing serious."

"Well." Bai Yuehu said, "That's good."

"Yeah." Hou Xuejia said, "Good luck." She giggled, "When the doctor informed me then, he said there was good news and bad news and asked me whether I would hear the good or the bad first."

Bai Yuehu and Lu Qingjiu just listened.

"I said I'm unlucky enough, since this time then I'll hear the bad first." She spoke with a lively look on her whole face, not at all like a patient who had been bedridden for a long time, "and then the doctor said I might not live long."

When Lu Qingjiu heard this, his hands moved: "What about the good news?" He felt that this was already the worst possible news and could not think of any good news.

"Then the doctors told me that they named a new virus after me." Hou Xuejia said and burst out laughing.

Lu Qingjiu :""

Bai Yuehu :""

Both men were shocked by the cold to death joke.

Hou Xuejia, seeing that the two of them could not laugh, rubbed his bare head: "Why, is it not funny?"

"Well, funny." Lu Qingjiu could only hilariously say.

"Okay." Hou Xuejia said, "It seems you guys have a higher laughing point"

Lu Qingjiu was tempted to sigh, but felt that Hou Xuejia had been so active that his sigh seemed out of place, but then Bai Yuehu's words stole Hou Xuejia's attention and he said, "Where is Shuifen, why isn't he here?"

"He's gone out on some business." Hou Xuejia said, "He might not be back until the evening."

Bai Yuehu nodded as he said, "You rest, we'll sit for a while and then leave."

Hou Xuejia obediently lay back down on the bed and said, "I won't see you off then, and I don't know when I'll see you next."

"There's always a chance." Bai Yuehu said, "Sake, let's go."

Lu Qingjiu nodded and left the ward with Bai Yuehu.

"Is she an ordinary person?" Lu Qingjiu always felt that there was something uncomplicated about this.

"Yes." Bai Yuehu replied.

"How long have you known each other," Lu Qingjiu said, "and it looks like you come here a lot."

"Not for long." Bai Yuehu said, "A dozen years or so, I come over occasionally to visit."

Lu Qingjiu: ""Ten years is a very long time for humans, but for the long-lived species like Bai Yuehu, it is only a moment in their lives.

"We're just going to go back," Lu Qingjiu asked.

"No." Bai Yuehu said, "I need to run some errands when the water salary comes over."

Lu Qingjiu said hello.

The two of them waited downstairs in the ward and it was about twenty minutes before Shuifen came over in a hurry, only for Lu Qingjiu to be rather surprised that all the wounds that should have been on his face were gone, not a trace of bruising could be seen and he was back to his best.

Bai Yuehu looked at him with cold eyes and a very bad attitude, and Shui Feng didn't mind, saying cheerfully, "Go there now"

"Well." Bai Yuehu said.

"What about him? He's waiting for us at the hospital," the water pensioner asked.

"Come along." Bai Yuehu said, "He knows I'm a fox." As he said this, he gave Shui Feng a look and added emphasis to the word fox.

Water salary: "OK." His look was slightly subtle.

Lu Qingjiu saw all of this, but pretended he didn't see it, and just looked at Bai Yuehu seriously. Bai Yuehu grabbed Lu Qingjiu's wrist in a natural way and said, "Follow me."

Lu Qingjiu then obediently followed him.

As the water salary made its way forward, going further and further out of the way, a dense layer of watery mist rose up around them, separating the mundane scenes around them.

Lu Qingjiu was not very frightened to be held by Bai Yuehu, but he soon realised that they had gone from the back garden of the hospital to a completely unfamiliar place. The sky was black, covered with thick dark clouds, in which lightning could occasionally be seen, and the ground was covered with strange rocks and a fierce wind. The water salary who was walking ahead was a bit embarrassed and turned his head and said, "Don't be afraid, this place wasn't like this before, it's just that the resources have been a bit tight these past two years"

Lu Qingjiu's eyes widened as he listened to the hidden meaning in Shuifeng's words: "This place can still be renovated."

"That's not true." Water salary to

Lu Qingjiu scowled, "Did Bai Yuehu take you to his house?"

Lu Qingjiu looked at Bai Yuehu and remembered the strange scene he saw when Bai Yuehu took him up the mountain that day, could that be Bai Yuehu's home and he had decorated it all by himself

Bai Yuehu said coldly, "Don't listen to his nonsense."

The water salary smiled twice.

The place is indeed uncomfortable, with an air of death all around, as there is a black fog all around and Lu Qingjiu cannot see very well in the distance.

Bai Yuehu, who was holding Lu Qingjiu, let go of his hand and told him to stand still. Then a thick black mist rose from Bai Yuehu's body, enveloping both him and Shuifen.

The black mist spreads and rises into the darkness of the air and begins to stir up the clouds.

The clouds gradually formed a swirling shape and Lu Qingjiu heard a violent thunderclap in the sky, followed by the hissing of a beast, as if something had flown into the air and tangled in the clouds, the dark overcast clouds obscuring the beast's tracks so that Lu Qingjiu could not see clearly what was going on inside. A pair of red, slightly familiar eyes.

Lu Qingjiu stood under the swirling clouds and felt so small that he guessed he was not even as big as one of the beast's paws, and if the beast came down from the sky, he might not even be able to call for help before he was killed.

While Lu Qingjiu was thinking, he heard another harsh scream, and judging from the sound of it, it was from Shuifen, who seemed to have been defeated and badly injured in his fight with the beast.

What are they doing? Are they simply fighting? Lu Qingjiu really finds this strange. But it's not a scene you'd normally see, and the prototype of Bai Yuehu is not very clear, but from the minutiae, it doesn't look like the legendary fox, does it?

Lu Qingjiu shows a suspicious expression and looks more closely.

After about twenty minutes or so, the sounds of the fight gradually calmed down and the clouds began to disperse, and out of the black mist in front of Lu Qingjiu appeared Bai Yuehu, standing, and Shuifen, lying dying beside him. Bai Yuehu's body was covered in blood and his eyes were cold and frightening. Just as Lu Qingjiu suspected that the two of them had turned against each other, Shui Feng, lying next to him, burst into laughter and said, "Thank you, old brother."

Bai Yuehu casually throws a cloth bag at the water salary.

Although he appeared to be dying, Shuifen held the sack in his hand with all his might, and he flashed a smile towards Bai Yuehu and said again, "Thank you."

Bai Yuehu said, "You're simply asking for it."

The water salary said, "Alas, that's it for me, don't rush off in the evening, I'll treat you to a meal."

Bai Yuehu said coldly, "Who wants to eat your food."

The water salary is straightforward, "Hey, don't say that, when a meal with me was hard to come by"

"Now what?" Bai Yuehu didn't give him face.

"Now." The water salary smiled sardonically, "Now I'm not eating and quitting."

Lu Qingjiu stood by and listened to the two men talk. He could see that Bai Yuehu was actually nice to Shuifen, and even though he said he was impatient, he didn't intend to leave, but stood next to Shuifen and watched him.

The water salary's mouth was full of blood, he coughed a few times and spat it out, barely getting up from the ground, "Let's go, it's almost done."

Bai Yuehu turns around, takes Lu Qingjiu's hand and walks out without looking back.

As he walked out, Lu Qingjiu remembered something and reached into his trouser pocket to make sure that the bag in Shui Feng's hand was the same one he had given him at home, only the bag in Shui Feng's hand was much larger.

The three men left the area by following the way they came in.

Shui Feng, who had almost recovered from his fight with Bai Yuehu, had become bruised and swollen again, and looked even worse than before. Lu Qingjiu asked him if he was all right, but Shui Feng waved his hand with a big smile and said, "It's fine, I have thick skin, I'll be fine in a couple of days."

He coughed dryly and said, "But you guys give this to Xuejia for me, I'm afraid she'll be worried if she sees me like this."

He said and handed over the bag.

Bai Yuehu, on the other hand, was very ungracious in his refusal: "You can give it to yourself if you want."

The company's main business is to help people in the end, Bai Yuehu, so you can help me this time."

Lu Qingjiu wanted to follow him, but Shuifen pulled him by the arm.

"Sake, Sake," Shuifen came up to Lu Qingjiu with a shy face, "He won't help me, so help me."

Lu Qingjiu: "That's not good."

I really don't want to go in front of her, she's going to be sad to see me like this, she's very weak right now, if she sees me like this she's going to be worried, and I don't know how to explain it"

Lu Qingjiu hesitated, but Shuifeng looked as if he would not let Lu Qingjiu go until he agreed, Lu Qingjiu looked at Bai Yuehu who had already gone far away and had no intention of coming back to help himself, he could only nod gently and said, "Okay."

It was then that the water salary broke into a smile.

Lu Qingjiu took the bag from Shuifen's hand and trotted after Bai Yuehu, who said, "Bai Yuehu, Shuifen has asked for my help."

Bai Yuehu said, "You go ahead, I don't want to see them both."

Lu Qingjiu said, "Okay, then you can wait for me outside the hospital."

Bai Yuehu said, and went in the direction of the hospital exit. Lu Qingjiu looked down at the cloth bag in his hand and gently squeezed it with his hand. The bag was made of silk, embroidered with a delicate tiger design, and the contents were very soft, somehow resembling the hair of some animal

Lu Qingjiu guessed that it might contain the same thing as the one Shui Feng had given him yesterday. He took the bag with Shuifen to the inpatient unit and gave the cloth bag in his hand to Hou Xuejia, just as Shuifen had instructed him to do.

Hou Xuejia saw the bag and seemed to be surprised by it, taking it and putting it in her jacket pocket, smiling sweetly as she squeezed it and said, "It's the water salary that told you to give it to me, right? Where is he? Why doesn't he come by himself every time?"

"He had to go away for a while." Lu Qingjiu lied.

"He's gone" Hou Xuejia frowned, "Did he get into another fight? I've told him to stop fighting, why doesn't he listen?"

Although it sounded like a rebuke, Hou Xuejia's brow was more distressed, clearly concerned not with the fact that Shuifen had clashed with the others, but with the injuries he had sustained as a result.

Lu Qingjiu says: "Have you known each other for a long time?"

"That's for sure." It is said that one of the three things that cannot be concealed in the world is love, and this is perfectly embodied by Hou Xuejia, who, despite her haggard appearance, has a gentle light in her eyes every time she mentions her water salary, saying, "Yes, we have known each other for a long time. The manhole cover actually broke and I fell in. I thought I was going to die in the sewer, but then someone saved me."

Lu Qingjiu said, "It's a water salary."

"Hmm." Hou Xuejia arched the corners of his eyes, "That's him."

Lu Qingjiu had already vaguely guessed the truth of the matter, he pursed his lips and said, "Then do you know who he is?"

"Who is it? Isn't he Shuifen?" Hou Xuejia cupped her chin, her tone full of happiness, "I've had bad luck since I was a child until I met Shuifen, who, unlike me, has been incredibly lucky, hahaha, I was beginning to think that we could live like this for the rest of our lives " The bright light in her eyes dimmed as she spoke of a lifetime, and her smile was slightly far-fetched as she said, "It's just that I seem to have really bad luck."

A million to one a strange disease has befallen her instead. A few years ago, the doctor said she had an incurable disease and would not live for more than a month at the longest. Shuifen almost broke down when he found out the news and disappeared straight away for several days, and just when Hou Xuejia thought he would not appear again, he brought a cloth bag.

"I went to the gods and begged for this pouch." Shuifeng cupped her hand, his voice was shaking as he said, "You won't die with this bag surely you won't die."

As Hou Xuejia listened to Shui Feng's words, she thought that he was desperate to find such comfort, but she did not say what she wanted to say, after all, it might be better to let Shui Feng believe in this at this time. So Hou Xuejia accepted Shuifen's gift with a smile, telling him that he would get better, that he would be fine.

A month later, a miracle happened when doctors found the medicine to control Hou Xuejia's condition and although it could not cure her completely, it could barely keep her alive.

This is the luckiest thing that has happened to Hou Xuejia since she became ill.

As Lu Qingjiu listened to the story of the two men, his eyes fell on the cloth bag, the contents of which he also guessed.

There is no doubt that Shuifen is Tai Feng, the god of good fortune, the only one with unbeatable luck, the only one with a beautiful tiger-like tail, only now the hair on that tail seems to have been plucked and put into a bag, and Tai Feng gives all his good fortune to his beloved, and he changes from Tai Feng, the god of good fortune, to Shuifen, the god of bad luck.

"Then you have a good rest, I'll leave now." Lu Qingjiu stood up to bid farewell to Hou Xuejia.

Hou Xuejia smiled, "Yes, you are welcome to come down and play again."

"Hmm." Lu Qingjiu said, "Will do."

Lu Qingjiu turned around and left the ward, gently closing the door behind him. Through the glass he saw Hou Xuejia, who seemed to have become a little tired from talking too much, leaning back against the bed and drifting off to sleep.

When Shuifeng saw Lu Qingjiu coming out, he hurried over and said, "How is she?"

"I'm a bit tired, I'm going to bed." Lu Qingjiu said, "And you are still waiting here."

"No, I'll come and see her tomorrow when she's asleep." The water salary rubbed his nose, "Otherwise I'd be bruised and battered and there'd always be a nurse to ask if I needed help."

Lu Qingjiu: ""It's also true that Shuifeng looks like a patient who also needs to be admitted to hospital with this look of having just been beaten up.

"Come on, I'll treat you to dinner" said Shuifen, "There's a great dumpling place near the hospital."

Lu Qingjiu said, "You have money."

The water salary laughed out loud, "Of course I have money, who the hell do you think I am" Before he could finish his sentence, he stepped on the stairs and rolled several floors with a grunt until he rolled to the wall and barely stopped.

Lu Qingjiu hurriedly looked down, only to find that the tile beneath Shuifen's feet had actually been broken by a piece of him His luck was indeed unimaginably bad.

But Shuifen had already gotten used to falling flat on his face and rose strongly from the ground, reaching up to wipe the blood from under his nose and said, "It's okay, walk walk walk."

Lu Qingjiu looked at Shuifen's face and thought to himself, "You really don't look like you're okay, big brother.

But before Lu Qingjiu could say what he wanted, the pensioner moved on happily.

On the walk from the ward to the hospital entrance, Shuifen fell three times, was showered with bird droppings once, and most exaggeratedly, a street lamp fell directly onto his head, which really dazzled Lu Qingjiu.

This water salary is fortunately a god, if an ordinary person were to encounter such a thing, he would be half crippled if not dead.

"Are you sure you don't want to go to the hospital?" Lu Qingjiu couldn't bear to look at it anymore.

"No." Water salary's whole face was swollen and there was a big bloody gash on his forehead, he pulled out the hat he had prepared long ago and put it on his head, "It's all minor injuries, nothing major."

Lu Qingjiu: "" he sighed, wanting to say something, but looking at the bright smile on Shui Feng's face, he felt that his words were superfluous. A thousand pieces of gold can't buy my willingness, Shui Feng is willing to do so, so why should anyone else say more.

Bai Yuehu saw the two men approaching outside the hospital and with a frown he turned to Shuifen, "What are you doing here?"

"I've come to treat you to dinner." The water salary said.

"No need." Bai Yuehu said, "You go back."

"But," the water salary tried to insist.

"I said no, Lu Qingjiu and I will leave right away." Bai Yuehu repeated, with a firm attitude, "This is the last time I will help you, don't come back to me."

The water salary opened its mouth to say something else.

"Tai Feng, think carefully." Bai Yuehu said, "What you are doing is not only destroying your body, but also your god's luck, the god of good fortune, Tai Feng, who is worshipped. You know very well what will happen if you go on like this."

Shuifen stopped talking, he just smiled and waved his hand at Bai Yuehu, "See you next time."

Bai Yuehu ignores him, pulls Lu Qingjiu with him and walks away.

When they got into the minivan, Lu Qingjiu said, "What would you like to eat tonight?"

Bai Yuehu did not say anything.

Lu Qingjiu said, "Why don't you say anything? Are you unhappy?"

Bai Yuehu said, "Is it worth that for one person?"

Lu Qingjiu thought for a moment: "What do you think?"

Bai Yuehu said, "I don't think it's worth it."

Lu Qingjiu said, "Maybe that's because you haven't met that person."

Bai Yuehu said, "Then I hope I never have to meet one."

Lu Qingjiu said, "Come on, don't be angry, I'll make you something delicious tonight, we won't eat the dumplings in front of the hospital."

Only when Bai Yuehu heard this did he hook the corners of his lips faintly.