Chapter 39: The Valley of Soup

When he returned home with the spices and seeds, Lu Qingjiu mentioned it to Yin Xun as a joke, and Yin Xun was a bit uncomfortable, saying that your description was too scary, it was only a few days later, and the woman had her chin on Pang Ziqi's shoulder, if it was just a few days later she would become one with Pang Ziqi

Lu Qingjiu said, "I don't know about that." He put the beef and the other ingredients into the marinade, turned on the heat and then simmered it carefully. The chicken and duck organs are good for marinades, especially the gizzards, which are crispy and tasty, and Lu Qingjiu now continued, "But it looks quite uncomfortable."

Yin Xun was less interested in Pang Ziqi's affairs than in the beef in the pot, and after a short chat, they soon stopped talking about it and turned their attention to the evening meal.

Lu Qingjiu asks Yin Xun to pick some fresh spring onions from the field and slice them up when the marinated beef is ready, then sprinkle them with Lu Qingjiu's special chilli dipping sauce to make it taste even better.

After dinner, in the evening Lu Qingjiu brought the brined beef out into the courtyard and poured a few glasses of wine he had made earlier. The home-made wine is not too strong, but it tastes very good and is perfect for a drink.

The marinated beef is also very tasty, the meat is firm and chewy, and the more you chew it, the more spicy the beef becomes with a dip of the special chilli noodles, but the chilli noodles are not only spicy, they are also filled with fried and charred crushed peanuts and sesame seeds.

After Bai Yuehu had finished the last piece of beef, it was almost eleven o'clock at night. Yin Xun yawned and said he wanted to go home and sleep.

The next morning Lu Qingjiu woke up refreshed and turned on the TV for Xiao Hua Xiao Hei and the foxes before cooking. Since the previous accident, Lu Qingjiu has got into the habit of watching the local news, especially the local morning news at around 7am every morning.

Most of them are about trivial matters, such as Auntie Li Family stealing the eggs of Auntie Cheng's family, or the residents on the upper floors who like to throw rubbish downstairs and have conflicts with them, or Ms Liu who spent a lot of money on plastic surgery and ended up with a disfigured face and wants to seek an explanation from the beauty salon. while making breakfast.

The rice is bought from our next-door neighbour, fried and powdered, then kneaded with potato starch, then flattened and cut into strips. The only downside is that the thickness may not be as uniform, but as long as it tastes good, it doesn't matter.

After cooking several large bowls of rice noodles, Lu Qingjiu ladled a spoonful of the beef stew he had left behind in each bowl and sprinkled it with green onions to make a delicious bowl of beef rice noodles.

He brought the bowl out of the kitchen just in time to see a local news item being broadcast on the television about a serious car accident on the city's bridge early this morning, which did not affect passers-by, but the driver was seriously injured and had been taken to hospital for emergency treatment.

Yin Xun came over to help Lu Qingjiu catch the bowl in his hand, and when he saw the news, he said, "Hey, that's a police car in the accident."

"A police car" Lu Qingjiu froze and immediately remembered something, "Could it be"

He and Yin Xun looked at each other and both saw the same suspicion in the other's eyes.

"I'll call and ask." Lu Qingjiu immediately took out his mobile phone and dialled Hu Shu's number.

When the call was answered, Hu Shu said, "Sake, what's up?"

Lu Qingjiu said, "Hu Shu, is it the police car from your police station that has been in trouble?"

Hu Shu said, "Yes," he seemed to remember something, "Qingjiu, do you know something" he remembered that Lu Qingjiu had mentioned something strange following Pang Ziqi when he was talking to him. He remembered that Lu Qingjiu had mentioned that something strange was following Pang Ziqi when he was talking to him, but at the time he didn't take it seriously, and after talking to Pang Ziqi, Pang Ziqi didn't care either.

Lu Qingjiu hesitated for a moment, but told Hu Shu the story in detail. Although Pang Ziqi was a bad person, he was a policeman and hadn't done anything bad: "Yes, I saw a woman in green following him that day."

Hu Shu said, dumbfounded, "Women."

"Well, a woman with an umbrella." Lu Qingjiu said, "I asked my friend and he said the woman was something very bad, but I'm not sure exactly what it was."

Hu Shu lapsed into silence, seemingly thinking about something.

Lu Qingjiu said, "Well, do you remember anything?"

Hu Shu said, "Well actually I can't say, he originally worked on a special well, I don't know how he actually got into trouble, but I heard that before he came here seems to have been to some ancient tomb, I also just heard ah, I don't know if it's true or not."

Lu Qingjiu just listened, he didn't really know much about these things and was only talking to Hu Shu out of the goodness of his heart.

After hanging up the phone, Lu Qingjiu and Yin Xun continued to shout at each other.

"Is that Pang Ziqi going to die?" Yin Xun asked as he drained the last mouthful of soup.

"I don't know." Lu Qingjiu said helplessly, "You're the mountain god, so I should be the one asking you such questions."

Yin Xun shook his head, "I don't know, I don't know, it's very fierce and I don't want to get involved, after all, I'm made of water."

Lu Qingjiu: ""He remembered Yin Xun's palm, which had been gnawed off earlier and had now been restored to its original state, and realized that Yin Xun was really made of water

After dinner, Bai Yuehu went back to the field, while Lu Qingjiu and Yin Xun tried to clean up the yard.

The chicks have grown up so much that the whole yard is their domain, and they are hostile to any intruders except those they know well. Luckily Lu Qingjiu stopped them just in time, otherwise the dog would probably have been beaten to death by his family's fighting chickens.

Lu Qingjiu had finished cleaning up and was about to go into the kitchen to cook when Yin Xun pulled him by the arm, a little panic in his eyes, and he called out, "Wine."

Lu Qingjiu turned back blankly: "Hm."

Yin Xun said, "What's that on your back?"

Lu Qingjiu was puzzled: "On my back" he reached out and felt on his back but found nothing, "What do you mean?"

Yin Xun hurriedly pulled Lu Qingjiu to a place in the toilet where there was a mirror and showed him his backside.

Lu Qingjiu was instantly shocked to see a black shadow on his back, which appeared to be the shape of a woman with an umbrella, although it was blurred, when he saw it, Lu Qingjiu did immediately remember the thing that had its chin on Pang Ziqi's shoulder and the look of resentment in its eyes

"Crap." Lu Qingjiu couldn't help but curse an expletive.

"Why is this thing on your back?" Yin Xun was also stunned as he tried to reach out and touch the black shade, but it went right through it, "Wine, what did you do?"

Lu Qingjiu: "I just took one more look at her in the crowd."

Yin Xun sang out, "She never forgot your face."

Lu Qingjiu :""

Lu Qingjiu and Pang Ziqi have only met twice, and he doesn't know why he is the target of the thing... Did the thing find out that he is the breadwinner of the family and without him the two children will have to live in poverty again without even a dumpling?

No, Lu Qingjiu, as a father, would never allow this to happen!

"Wine, what are you thinking about?" Yin Xun asked, puzzled by Lu Qingjiu's unpredictable expression.

"I think," Lu Qingjiu snapped back, "we'd better go to the hospital and see Pang Ziqi."

Yin Xun: "Why?"

Lu Qingjiu rubbed his back: "I have a feeling that if he's gone, I'll be next," he said, not expecting it to be contagious.

Yin Xun :""

It's not impossible to go to the hospital to see Pang Ziqi, but before going Lu Qingjiu consulted his family's vixen.

After all, Bai Yuehu clearly knows more than this less-than-trustworthy mountain god friend.

When Bai Yuehu returned with a bucket of water in his boots and hat, he saw two people sitting in the yard looking at him with bewilderment.

Lu Qingjiu stood up and turned to reveal his back: " Bai Yuehu, I seem to have something extra on my back"

Bai Yuehu looked at Lu Qingjiu's back and also saw the black shadows.

"What the hell is this thing?" Lu Qingjiu said, referring to Pang Ziqi's car accident, "It's contagious."

Bai Yuehu walked up to Lu Qingjiu's side, slightly lowering his head and sniffing through his nose, "A bit of a problem."

Lu Qingjiu became nervous at hearing this, he had seen Bai Yuehu's strength, even he said it was troublesome, then this must be something extraordinary, he said, "Is there any way to get rid of it?"

Bai Yuehu said, "Yes, there is."

Lu Qingjiu says: "How to get it"

Bai Yuehu said, "The last possessed person touched something he shouldn't have, I think, so let him get rid of that thing and he should be fine."

Speaking of things he shouldn't touch, Lu Qingjiu immediately recalls Hu Shu telling him about Pang Ziqi's visit to the tomb, and wonders if this woman's presence has anything to do with it.

"What if we don't find it?" Lu Qingjiu still hasn't forgotten to find a way back for himself.

"I can't find it," Bai Yuehu said, "if you can't find it, I'll take care of it, I won't let you die." As he said this, he sighed softly, and Lu Qingjiu's heart tightened as he watched, knowing that there might be some real trouble in this matter

But it was an unforgivable disaster for him, just one more look at the thing and he was haunted by it.

"Then I'll go to the hospital tomorrow and see him." Lu Qingjiu made the decision, "Let's see if he knows what it is."

Yin Xun said, "I'll join you."

Lu Qingjiu said, "Forget it, you don't want to join us, in case you get infected too, won't it be more trouble."

Bai Yuehu sat next to them, no nervous look on his face, he said, "Go on, if you can't handle it, come back, I'll help you out."

Lu Qingjiu nodded, his heart rising with gratitude for his own fox spirit. Although Bai Yuehu said it was troublesome, he didn't back down, so he was really a good fox with a beautiful heart.

Lu Qingjiu didn't know when Pang Ziqi was going to have an accident, so he rushed to the city hospital the next day.

Yin Xun insisted on coming with Lu Qingjiu, who wanted to refuse him, but he said he was at least a mountain god and if something did happen to him

Lu Qingjiu said, "If something does go wrong".

Yin Xun said, "The least I can do is call Bai Yuehu for you."

Lu Qingjiu: ""Thank you so much my scrappy friend.

Lu Qingjiu thought it would be a good idea to buy Bai Yuehu a mobile phone after this was over, so that he wouldn't be unable to contact anyone if something really happened, because after all, he didn't know how to send a voice over a thousand miles. He used to think that Bai Yuehu didn't use a mobile phone because he didn't care about such mundane things, but now that he thinks about it, he probably doesn't use a mobile phone simply because he can't afford it.

With their target in mind, the two men took the van to the city hospital, contacted Hu Shu who was guarding the hospital and met Pang Ziqi in the ward, who had just woken up from a coma.

To be honest, Lu Qingjiu was prepared before he arrived, but when he saw Pang Ziqi, his heart trembled. Pang Ziqi was lying on the bed, the woman on top of him, the umbrella over their heads, and the horrible face turned to stare at Lu Qingjiu and Yin Xun, who had come to visit, with gloomy eyes.

Lu Qingjiu and Yin Xun can only be ignored, but Pang Ziqi is now awake and conscious, and although he is lying in bed, he can speak.

"What did you see" Pang Ziqi spoke with difficulty, "you you spoke to Hu Shu, what did you see"

Lu Qingjiu said, "I saw a woman who kept following you."

"What kind of woman?" Pang Ziqi continues to ask.

"Wearing a green dress, carrying an umbrella, and with red and green snakes hanging from her ears." In front of people, Lu Qingjiu was too embarrassed to say too much, "She had no pupils in her eyes, but apart from that, she was still quite pretty to look at."

Crowd: "" Lu Qingjiu, you have a strong desire to live.

Lu Qingjiu gave the woman a look and added, "I didn't mean to say anything bad about you."

Woman: ""

Pang Ziqi's face turned very ugly as he listened to Lu Qingjiu's description and he said, "I see, thank you."

Lu Qingjiu said, "That, I heard from my friend that if you don't get rid of this thing, you will soon be killed by her, and you will really die if you don't hurry."

Pang Ziqi said in a muffled voice, "I'm afraid I can't go fast enough on this one."

Lu Qingjiu was shocked: "How so?"

Pang Ziqi said, "Do you know the Rainmaker concubines?"

"Lu Qingjiu said, "Isn't that a monster from the Shanhai sutra?" He suddenly remembered the description of the concubine in the Shanhai sutra: she was black and had a snake in each hand, with a green snake in her left ear and a red snake in her right ear, and the woman lying on top of Pang There is indeed a resemblance to the woman lying on Pang Ziqi's body.

The name Rainmaker Concubine is said to be because she was a concubine of Rainmaker Ping-Yu, only unlike Rainmaker, she was in charge, instead, of the power of the sun.

"Yes." Pang Ziqi says, "Three months ago, a cemetery was discovered in Shandong."

Lu Qingjiu said, "Shandong, have you found Tanggu?"

Pang Ziqi smiles bitterly: "Maybe."

Tanggu is the legendary place where the sun rises and where the ancient Xi He people are said to have worshipped the sun god, the god of the sun, who is said to have given birth to the ten suns.

As the story got more and more involved, Lu Qingjiu simply found a stool and sat down next to Pang Ziqi: "Tell me what's going on."

"As soon as that cemetery opened, something happened." Pang Ziqi said, "Three or four people died, and after that it started raining heavily for a week, and when the top found out that something was wrong, they sent us over there."

Lu Qingjiu did not reply, listening carefully.

"At first the top thought it was just a relatively old tomb, but after examining it, we found that the tomb was the wrong age and that strange things were happening." Pang Ziqi said, "After we investigated, we found some wall paintings, some burial objects, and a huge coffin in the tomb."

Lu Qingjiu said, "You're not going to open the coffin, are you?" He had a bad feeling about this.

Pang Ziqi says: "I didn't want to drive, but my boss said, "I'm here."

Lu Qingjiu: ""Brother, you think you're going on a trip, God damn it, you're here.

Pang Ziqi could have guessed what happened next without Lu Qingjiu saying anything. Pang Ziqi opened the coffin and saw the well-preserved corpse inside, but as soon as the coffin was opened, the mechanism was activated and the corpse was submerged in water and the whole chamber was changed dramatically, but they escaped just in time. After leaving the cemetery, Pang Ziqi thought it was all over, but it was only the beginning.

Pang Ziqi's face was grim as he spoke, while Yin Xun and Lu Qingjiu listened in rapt attention.

"Wow, do you guys go down to the tomb a lot." Yin Xun said, "It's exciting."

Pang Ziqi :""

Lu Qingjiu said, "Are your injuries from being cursed considered work-related injuries and how much of your medical expenses can be reimbursed?"

Pang Ziqi :""

Hu Shu said helplessly, "Are you guys off-topic?"

Lu Qingjiu coughed dryly, realising that he was getting off track, and brought the conversation back, "So have you touched anything strange? You need to find that thing first if you want to live."

Pang Ziqi said, "I've touched a lot of strange things, but if I had to say the strangest," he sighed, "it would be the corpse of the Rainmaker concubine."

Lu Qingjiu said, "You touched it."

Pang Ziqi nodded: "After the coffin went into the water we tried to get the body out, but found that it was so heavy that we couldn't get it out."

Lu Qingjiu said, "So now the body is gone too."

Pang Ziqi said helplessly, "Even if it's still there, it's impossible for me to destroy it. If I destroy such precious research material, I'm afraid the people doing the research will tear me alive."

Lu Qingjiu found this to be true.

"Then we'll just have to wait for death," Yin Xun interjected from the sidelines.

"Phew, it should be more than that." Pang Ziqi said, "I've sent a message to my department, they'll send someone over soon, I just have to hold on for a few more days".

Lu Qingjiu noticed that when the window broke, the woman on top of Pang Ziqi had reached out and wrapped her arms around Pang Ziqi's neck as if she wanted to merge with his body.

"It's raining." Hu Shu shivered at the wind pouring in from the window.

The temperature was originally thirty-six or seventeen, but the atmosphere in the ward was frighteningly cold. The rain outside the window had started to fall at some point, accompanied by the wind pouring into the house.

The nurse who heard the noise came in to check on the situation and frowned when she found the glass broken and asked them what had happened.

The nurse was not convinced but did not look into it because Hu Shu was a police officer and turned around and arranged another room for Pang Ziqi.

Pang Ziqi laughed bitterly, "I don't know if I can make it until someone comes from above."

Lu Qingjiu said, "This is a serious matter for you, you're not the only one who touched the corpse."

Pang Ziqi nods: "But they are all better than me, so it's me who has problems first."

Lu Qingjiu said, "So did you know that this thing of yours is contagious?"

Pang Ziqi: "Contagion"

Lu Qingjiu turned around and made Pang Ziqi look behind him: "Can you see?"

Pang Ziqi frowned and stared for a moment, shaking his head, "I can't see it, what are you talking about"

Lu Qingjiu's helpless sigh

He was angry and told Pang Ziqi about the dark shadow behind him even after he had locked eyes with the woman.

"It's contagious" Pang Ziqi tensed up, "Does that mean it's your turn when I die?"

"That's probably what it means." Lu Qingjiu said, "And it's possible that by the time I die, it'll have switched to someone else, so if this doesn't get sorted out, it's not going to end, you understand"

Pang Ziqi's face was instantly grave. If he had died on his own, he would have deserved it, after all, he had touched something he shouldn't have, but if his death was not the end but just the beginning, then this was not so simple.

Lu Qingjiu and the others were completely innocent, and if something happened to them because of him, Pang Ziqi could not accept it at all. He took a deep breath and seemed to come to a decision, looking at Lu Qingjiu with something more in his eyes.

Lu Qingjiu said, "I hope so, by the way," he hesitated for a moment and whispered, "Do you want to know where the woman is now?"

Pang Ziqi: "She's still with me"

Lu Qingjiu nodded sympathetically, "She's lying on top of you, you can kiss her if you turn your face, do you want to say hello to her"

Pang Ziqi's expression instantly twisted when he heard this, and he held his tongue for half a day before he managed to get one word out of his teeth, "Fuck."

What the author has to say: Bai Yuehu: Make sure you get rid of this one.

Lu Qingjiu: My fox spirit is so nice ooh ooh ooh

Bai Yuehu: Otherwise, she would have been watching Lu Qingjiu in the shower.

Lu Qingjiu.