Chapter 35: Who are you

When Lu Qingjiu left Shuifu Village, he made a promise to Yin Xun that he would return to this place and meet him again. They would hunt for thorny wild fruits in spring, play by the stream in summer, build thick stacks of grain in autumn, and go to the town's favourite game hall to play the game machines they both longed for.

But when Lu Qingjiu left for the city, he did not return to Shuifu Village, and although he still remembered his childhood friend, the distance made it difficult to fulfil the promise they had made back then. Many years later, as they both grew up, Lu Qingjiu would occasionally return to Shuifu Village to visit his grandmother, but because they hadn't seen each other for so long, a gap inevitably developed between him and Yin Xun, and naturally the two of them didn't travel for an hour or two, as they had promised to do when they were young, clutching their most precious game coins, just to play for ten minutes. The game.

Lu Qingjiu forgot about it, and Yin Xun stopped talking about it, and their childhood memories were covered with a layer of sand turned into time, and became more and more blurred.

Later, Shuifu Village became a place of sadness for Lu Qingjiu. Lu Qingjiu's parents were killed in a landslide when they returned to visit their family, and his remains were never found.

"Sake, you're back." Yin Xun said to him.

"I'm back." Lu Qingjiu said.

Yin Xun asked again, "So are you still going?"

"To go, I want to put their graves in the place where they often lived." Lu Qingjiu thought so, saying, "I still have to finish university."

He said, "It's okay, don't worry, I'll help you as long as you're in Shuifu Village.

Yin Xun does what he says he will do.

When Lu Qingjiu's parents were suddenly both gone and he was in a very poor state of mind, Yin Xun took on the search and rescue work for him, wearing a mackintosh and providing information to the team, describing the conditions of the mountain and any possibility of survival.

Although the remains of Lu Qingjiu's parents could not be found, he did find the travel bag that Lu Qingjiu's parents had been carrying with them.

Lu Qingjiu used this travel bag to erect a grave for his parents.

Shortly after this incident, Lu Qingjiu's grandmother died and Lu Qingjiu left Shuifu Village and did not return for many years. In this village, he lost all his beloved family.

It was only many years later that Lu Qingjiu decided, for some reason, to return to live here, and his relationship with Yin Xun was once again tied together.

Lu Qingjiu, who had thought everything through, drove his minivan to town.

He searched the whole village, including the top of the hill, but found no sign of Yin Xun, so he had a new idea and went to the town where he and Yin Xun used to go to play.

It was only when we arrived at the location where the game hall used to be that we found that it had been transformed into something else, the game hall had been demolished and replaced by a clothing shop. It was only natural that the game hall was demolished and replaced by a clothing store. With the abundance of electronic products nowadays, it was only natural that the game hall would not be able to continue, and at that time, the game hall did not have a formal licence.

In their day, the game hall was a place for bad boys only, usually with a curtain hanging at the entrance. Standing outside the curtain, one could hear the crackling of buttons and the twisting of joysticks from inside, accompanied by childish yells and sighs. Lu Qingjiu was not as good at the game as Yin Xun, and he was beaten to death every time.

So Yin Xun would give him a few extra coins each time to let him play a little longer.

Lu Qingjiu reached into his jacket pocket and rubbed the rough surface of the coin, sighing heavily. He took out his mobile phone and dialed Yin Xun's number again, but found that it was unavailable on the other end, so Yin Xun must have turned it off.

Lu Qingjiu, who could not find Yin Xun, returned home in a depressed mood.

He thought about it while he was cooking in the kitchen, thinking that if he had told Yin Xun that he didn't care whether he was human or not, then Yin Xun wouldn't have run away, would he? The question was whether it would be fair to Yin Xun, who didn't want to tell him, if he had insisted that he had to know the answer.

Lu Qingjiu was so distracted by his thoughts that the knife he had been using to cut the vegetables chopped into his finger, and the bright red blood that spilled out of his finger instantly soaked the chopping board.

"Hiss." Lu Qingjiu withdrew his hand in pain, the cut he had made was a little too hard and almost cut off half of his nail, he turned around and left the house to find a band-aid to simply treat it.

Bai Yuehu, sitting in the courtyard, smelled the blood from afar and when he got up and came over he saw Lu Qingjiu frowning and trying to wrap his injured finger.

Bai Yuehu didn't say anything and went straight over and pressed Lu Qingjiu's hand, saying, "Don't rush to bandage it, clean the wound first."

Lu Qingjiu said indifferently, "It's nothing, it's just a small injury."

Bai Yuehu said, "Wait a minute, I'll go get you the ointment."

Lu Qingjiu nods his head.

When Bai Yuehu returned with the ointment, he saw Lu Qingjiu staring at the door with his hand by his side, the wound still bleeding out. There are blood vessels and nerves in the hand, and the cut was so deep that it might even cause disability if not treated properly.

"What were you thinking about when you were using the knife." Bai Yuehu asked as he helped Lu Qingjiu clean his wound. Bai Yuehu asks as he helps Lu Qingjiu clean the wound, "Does it hurt?"

"It doesn't hurt," Lu Qingjiu said. Lu Qingjiu said, "I'm just wondering where Yin Xun is staying if he doesn't come home for a few days, if he's still human, if he needs to eat, if he's hungry."

Bai Yuehu glanced up at Lu Qingjiu for a moment.

Lu Qingjiu sighed: "Alas, I should never have let him go."

Bai Yuehu said, "Don't make dinner."

Lu Qingjiu looked at his finger. After Bai Yuehu had bandaged it, the wound was no longer visible and the bleeding had stopped.

Bai Yuehu wanted to say something else but saw that Lu Qingjiu had stubbornly entered the kitchen again. He stood in the doorway for a moment with a grim look on his face and turned to go out, this time not reclining back into the rocking chair but pushing the door open directly out into the courtyard.

Lu Qingjiu did manage to finish cooking dinner, but when he did, he found that Bai Yuehu was nowhere to be seen, so he waited for a while and decided to eat first.

But Lu Qingjiu didn't really have much of an appetite, not only because of the heat but also because he had something on his mind. After a couple of bites, Lu Qingjiu put down his chopsticks and slowly walked out into the courtyard to sit in Bai Yuehu's exclusive rocking chair.

Shake, shake, shake, shake, shake, shake, shake, shake, shake, shake, shake, shake, shake. He lived in Shuifu Village until he was nine years old and knew every flower, tree and plant in the village, but as he moved away, these memories began to fade.

The heat was so intense that Lu Qingjiu could not eat, and with something on his mind, he left the courtyard and walked along the village paths.

Over the decades, Shuifu Village has changed very little, with the same old low, ramshackle houses, crops planted wherever they can be found along the roadside and sometimes a few playful farm dogs on the side of the road.

Before he knew it, Lu Qingjiu reached the end of the village, where there was a heavy mill with some grain resting on it.

Lu Qingjiu's footsteps stop next to the mill.

He remembered this mill very well, Yin Xun had brought him here when he first returned to the village. When they were young, Lu Qingjiu and Yin Xun both liked to climb on the mill and play with it, but if his grandmother caught them, they would be taken down and spanked.

Grandma said that the mill was for cooking and you couldn't climb on it.

But children are rebellious and the more grandma forbids them, the more Lu Qingjiu tries to climb up, and as he and Yin Xun are both small bean sprouts, it takes a lot of effort to climb up.

Lu Qingjiu curled his eyes, as if he saw two little children trying to climb up to the mill, first Yin Xun squatted down and let Lu Qingjiu step on his shoulders, then Lu Qingjiu pulled Yin Xun up with all his might. The two little monkeys managed to climb up to the mill, sometimes being caught by adults passing by and taken down to their parents to be criticised.

Lu Qingjiu smiled at the thought. He reached out and touched the hole in the grindstone, but felt that the size of the hole was somewhat familiar.

Lu Qingjiu suddenly thought of something, he took out the game coin from his own jacket pocket, and then gently placed the coin at the hole of the grinder.

With a bar, the game coin fitted perfectly into the size of the hole and fell into the mill. The next moment, Lu Qingjiu heard a rumble of thunder and he looked up at the sky to find that the originally sunny sky was covered by thick, overcast clouds.

It was not raining, but the wind was so strong that Lu Qingjiu's eyes were confused by the wind and he had to cover his eyes with his hands, blinking hard to wash the sand out of them with his tears.

But when Lu Qingjiu opened his eyes again, a smiling face appeared in front of him, a face with curved eyes and a cute little tiger's tooth next to its grinning lips.

" Yin Xun" Lu Qingjiu called out his name and he lunged straight at the man in front of him, grabbing Yin Xun by the sleeve, "Where the hell have you been, I've been looking for you for ages"

Yin Xun said, "Ah I just had a bit of business out." He scratched his head and made an embarrassed expression.

"What is it?" Lu Qingjiu didn't believe him at all, he grabbed Yin Xun's wrist and pulled him towards the house, "I know you're not a human being anymore, and you don't have to worry about me minding this, I'm telling you, Bai Yuehu is not a human being either, I'm the only normal person in our family. I'm the only normal person in our family."

Yin Xun's expression changed at his words.

Lu Qingjiu was afraid that Yin Xun wouldn't believe him and explained, "Bai Yuehu is a fox spirit, I've seen his tail, it's white and big, it feels especially good."

Yin Xun's face twisted for a moment: "What did you say?"

"What happened when I said he was a vixen?" Lu Qingjiu asked.

"Nothing." Yin Xun said, "I'm just asking around."

Lu Qingjiu said, "Where the hell have you been? Forget it, I won't ask you, if you want to tell me, forget it, you haven't eaten in the past two days, you're hungry, I've made dinner, come with me and have some." He was talking like a man who had finally found

The nagging mother of a runaway child.

Yin Xun didn't say much on the way until he reached the courtyard gate and then he whispered, "Do you really not care?"

"What do you care about?" Lu Qingjiu asks.

"Care that I'm not human." Yin Xun says.

"What does it matter, it's not like you're hurting me." Lu Qingjiu said quite frankly, "Oh yes, I forgot to tell you about the minivan at home."

"What is that?" Yin Xun was shocked.

"It's slugs." Lu Qingjiu told Yin Xun the harsh truth, "I remember that you seem to be a bit allergic to slugs."

Yin Xun's whole face twisted at the word slug and he said, "Slug slug is that the slug I know?"

Lu Qingjiu: "Yeah, that's the one."

Yin Xun: "Fuck, that thing still works as a car, I'll be damned if I'm going to have an itchy arse" he thought of the slugs and shivered before saying in a sobbing voice, "I'll never ride in your van again."

Lu Qingjiu was furious at Yin Xun's dislike of the family's cute little van: "Are you crazy? If you don't take the van, you'll walk to town, you've been dead for so many years.

Yin Xun: ""He actually couldn't argue with that.

Lu Qingjiu was afraid that Yin Xun would be hungry and asked him to eat first.

Yin Xun had indeed been hungry for days; the food he made was simply inedible, and when he ate it, it gave him diarrhoea. But it's a good thing he doesn't have to eat either, otherwise I'm afraid I don't know how he would have survived all these years.

Lu Qingjiu watched Yin Xun eat with a fatherly gaze that creeped Yin Xun out, and he weakly called out, "Sake!"

Lu Qingjiu said, "Silly child, eat more, you have suffered all these years."

Yin Xun :""

"Here, this chicken leg." Lu Qingjiu said, "What are you looking at, eat it."

Yin Xun swallowed hard and already regretted the fact that he had disappeared for a few days. But before he could hide for a couple of days, Bai Yuehu found him with a stern face and told him to go home or he would be killed on the spot and eat the meat.

For Bai Yuehu, Yin Xun didn't dare to challenge his patience at all and hurried back.

The chicken leg was usually the exclusive food of Bai Yuehu, but now it was in his bowl, and Yin Xun thought, "Is this what happens when you don't die?

However, as soon as his chopsticks picked up the chicken leg, he felt a cold gaze cast upon him. Yin Xun could not bear it and his hand shook, and the leg fell back into the bowl.

"Bai Yuehu, you're back." Lu Qingjiu smiled and looked at his roommate who had appeared at the door, "Come on, I've found Yin Xun."

Bai Yuehu didn't say anything and went to sit opposite Yin Xun, his eyes fell on the big chicken leg in Yin Xun's bowl.

The chicken thighs were brined, oily and fatty, looking very appetizing, very appetizing Bai Yuehu barely managed to control his strength before he didn't crush the chopsticks in his hand, he looked at Lu Qingjiu who was smiling happily, and at Yin Xun who had a frightened look in his eyes, and squeezed two words out of his mouth, "Eat it. "

Yin Xun: ""Is this a fucking chicken leg or is this the last meal of his life?

"Eat." Lu Qingjiu urges gently from the side.

So, under the different gazes of the two men, Yin Xun could only take a bite of the chicken leg with tears in his eyes, and with this bite, Bai Yuehu practically made a hole in his body, and Yin Xun felt that what he was eating was not a chicken leg, but his own leg.

"Bai Yuehu, here's another one, you eat it too." At this point, Lu Qingjiu's interruption distracted Bai Yuehu and he said, "Eat up, you must both be hungry."

Bai Yuehu then withdrew his gaze from Yin Xun and went to eat his chicken leg.

It was the most fearful meal Yin Xun had eaten since Lu Qingjiu's return, and afterwards even his clothes were wet.

"I'm not really a regular dead person either." Yin Xun put down his chopsticks and then explained to Lu Qingjiu, "I'm not registered at the hell side."

"So what kind of dead man are you?" Lu Qingjiu said.

Yin Xun says: "It's a long story, when Pan Gu opened the heavens and the earth"

Lu Qingjiu :""

Bai Yuehu said coldly, "Speak in human terms."

Yin Xun immediately caught the point: "I'm sorry, I was drowned when I was ten years old."

Lu Qingjiu :""

Bai Yuehu :""

"Forget it, you don't have to force yourself if you don't want to talk about it." By now Lu Qingjiu's love for his ill-fated childhood companion had grown as great as a mountain in his heart, "I know you are suffering in your heart, I understand everything, let me reintroduce you, this is Bai Yuehu, a fox spirit and not a human, that is Xiao Hua and Xiao Hei, said to be divine beasts called Dang Kang. This is Su Xi, also a fox spirit"

Yin Xun :""

Lu Qingjiu said, "So you relax, you are actually quite ordinary here as a dead person, it doesn't matter."

Yes, it is clear that the one who stands out in this room is actually the owner, Lu Qingjiu

When Yin Xun thought of this, he burst into tears and embraced Lu Qingjiu, who touched Yin Xun's head and said in a trembling voice, "Xun'er, you have suffered, I'm sorry, I'll treat you well in the future."

Bai Yuehu was so disgusted by these two people that he even put down his chopsticks.

Yin Xun, who was being held in Lu Qingjiu's arms and cared for like a son, suddenly became emboldened and said, "I want to ask, is Mr. Bai really a fox?"

Lu Qingjiu let go of his hand and looked at Bai Yuehu: "Or what?"

Bai Yuehu looked coldly at Yin Xun and said, "Yes, or else what?"

As his words fell, nine large beautiful white tails appeared behind him, leaving Yin Xun dumbfounded.

Lu Qingjiu shamelessly went behind Bai Yuehu and touched her tail twice: "Look, I told you, Bai Yuehu is a fox spirit, and this tail feels so good to the touch." After he finished speaking, he saw Bai Yuehu's eyes softened a little, so he followed suit and curved the corners of his eyes.

Yin Xun stood by and watched, his eyes rounded and his fingers twitched as the tail emerged from behind Bai Yuehu, although he was not as bold as Lu Qingjiu who dared to reach out and jerk Bai Yuehu's tail, although whether it was Bai Yuehu's or not was debatable.

Lu Qingjiu is having a good time jerking off, Bai Yuehu is squinting his eyes, and the scene is harmonious for a while, except for Yin Xun who takes a step towards the door without moving.

After touching his tail to clarify the identity of his vixen, Lu Qingjiu then turned his attention back to Yin Xun, he said in a warm voice, "You haven't had a good rest in the past few days, have you? It's getting late, so go home early and remember to come over for breakfast tomorrow."

Yin Xun pursed his lips, he was clearly hesitating, and finally seemed to gather the courage to speak, "Do you want to hear about me?"

Lu Qingjiu nodded, naturally he wanted to, but if Yin Xun wouldn't talk about it, he wouldn't force it. Everyone has a past they don't want to remember, and he doesn't need to dig into someone else's healed wounds just to satisfy his own curiosity.

"If I do, you don't mind me." Yin Xun's voice was low, sounding a little downcast, "OK"

Lu Qingjiu said, "I won't mind you." He paused for a moment, afraid that Yin Xun would think too much, so he gave an example, "Look at my minivan, I know it's a slug, and I like it too."

Yin Xun shivered at the word slug: "Can we not mention it?" He was really scared of these molluscs, and his fear of them had not diminished even after his death.

Lu Qingjiu spreads his hands and makes an innocent expression.

"You guys talk." Bai Yuehu said indifferently, "I'd better go out too." He got up and left, leaving the room to Lu Qingjiu and Yin Xun.

"Let's go to the courtyard." Lu Qingjiu said, "I'm almost done with the wine I've made, so you can have some if you want."

"No." Yin Xun smiled at that, Lu Qingjiu was as gentle as he remembered, soothing his nervousness, and in the end he did not regret having been friends with Lu Qingjiu, whether he accepted the dead man or not.

Yin Xun was silent for a moment and then slowly opened his mouth, saying, "Do you remember that I said earlier that Shuifu Village had drowned a child in the mountains?"

"Remember." Lu Qingjiu was impressed by Yin Xun's account of the incident, as the same thing had happened to them after that trip up the mountain with Zhu Miaomiao.

"That child is no one else." Yin Xun spoke slowly and shockingly, "That child, that child is me."

Lu Qingjiu's expression froze on his face as he said, "But aren't you still in front of me" and everyone in the village knows you exist.

Yin Xun's expression rose strangely as he whispered, "Yes, the only reason I can still communicate with humans and live in the mundane world is because of some changes that have occurred since this incident."