Chapter 40: Trouble

Pang Ziqi's face didn't look too good knowing that he had a demon on his back, but the focus wasn't on him now, it was on the concubine. Lu Qingjiu didn't know what to do, he couldn't go to Shandong and dig up the grave of his concubine, and by the time he got there, Pang Ziqi would probably be cold.

The people from above mentioned by Pang Ziqi came quickly, arriving at the hospital around 6pm and bumping into Lu Qingjiu and Yin Xun who were about to leave.

The man was dressed as a Taoist priest, with a duster in his hand and a goatee, and he looked like a Taoist.

Only Pang Ziqi was clearly in a worse mood when he saw him and said, "Why you?"

"My dear friend, what do you mean by that?" The Daoist priest spoke in a civilized manner, "I have come a long way to visit you, why do you have such an attitude?"

"Damn it, Wan Yuquan, I'm dying, can't you talk properly" Pang Ziqi was instantly grumpy listening to the way his colleague was talking.

Lu Qingjiu, who was standing next to him, strongly suspected that if Pang Ziqi's leg had not been injured, he would have stood up and made a move on this Taoist priest.

"Then take your time, I'll leave now." Lu Qingjiu grabbed Yin Xun and turned around.

They had slipped away just in time, for almost as soon as they stepped out of the ward door, a violent argument broke out in the room, accompanied by the sound of things being thrown.

Lu Qingjiu and Yin Xun got into the minivan and slowly wandered back home.

When they arrived home, they described the situation at the hospital to Bai Yuehu, who was noncommittal, but said quietly, "The food in Tanggu is quite good."

Lu Qingjiu: "Did you say Shandong Specialties?"

Bai Yuehu winked, "Yeah right"

Lu Qingjiu: ""Well, they're certainly not talking about the same thing.

"I don't know if they can get rid of the corpse of Master Yu's concubine." Yin Xun showed great concern about the situation on Pang Ziqi's side, "If they can't get rid of it, then the Pang Ziqi people will probably be gone."

Lu Qingjiu didn't say anything, but reached out and touched his back, he didn't want to be followed by the woman, if he couldn't see it was fine, the problem was that he could see it all, and if he followed it so close, wouldn't he have to stare at the woman when he took a shower, especially awkward.

Bai Yuehu looked at the sky and said, "It might rain tomorrow, so I'll go there the day after tomorrow."

Lu Qingjiu didn't expect Bai Yuehu to be willing to help, but he was surprised and a little worried: "Didn't you say it was a lot of trouble?"

Bai Yuehu: "It is quite troublesome." He thought for a moment, "You can come with me."

Lu Qingjiu said: "Where to?"

Bai Yuehu: "In the tomb."

Before Lu Qingjiu could say anything, Yin Xun next to him slapped his thighs in excitement, saying that he thought Lu Qingjiu's life was a farming text, but he didn't expect that there was a mystery hidden in it.

Lu Qingjiu looked at Yin Xun for a moment and scientifically said, "Anyone who excavates ancient cultural sites or tombs of historical, artistic or scientific value shall be sentenced to a fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years but not more than ten years."

Yin Xun :""

Lu Qingjiu: "Friend, wake up, this is a society of law."

Yin Xun finally burst into tears, saying that he wouldn't listen to him, that it wasn't the same as the script he had written. Lu Qingjiu wanted to give him a few strokes on the head, but the unreasonable Yin Xun was becoming more and more like a bear.

After the fuss, they went to their own homes and mothers, and Lu Qingjiu went to bed and slept until dawn.

Although Bai Yuehu said yesterday that it was going to rain in Shandong today, it was a sunny day here. Lu Qingjiu soaked the seeds he bought a few days ago in salt water and gave them to Bai Yuehu to prepare the ground for planting.

The weather has started to cool down in early September, and the laurel trees planted in the courtyard are producing tiny buds, so from a distance, you can smell the elegant fragrance of the laurel.

Lu Qingjiu is planning to pick some osmanthus flowers when they are ripe to make osmanthus cakes. His grandmother's osmanthus cakes are particularly delicious, sticky and sweet, not too sweet and with the unique aroma of osmanthus flowers.

It was a coincidence that Zhu Miaomiao, whom I had not contacted for a long time, called Lu Qingjiu and said that the lake would be opened in a few days and she had got a batch of very good Yangcheng Lake hairy crabs and asked Lu Qingjiu if he wanted them.

Lu Qingjiu, who was weeding the yard, held the phone between his shoulders and said, "Sure, I'll give you an address and you can send it there."

Zhu Miaomiao said to send it to him some time, so that he can eat it early and not waste the crab by killing it.

Lu Qingjiu nods his head in approval.

After hanging up the phone, Lu Qingjiu asked Yin Xun and Bai Yuehu if they liked crab, steamed or spicy.

"Yin Xun scratched his head, "I've never eaten crabs before." There is not much water in Shuifu Village, and the lake is far away, so there is hardly any fish to eat.

Bai Yuehu replied, "I've seen it, I've never eaten it, it doesn't look good."

Lu Qingjiu instantly felt an overwhelming sense of compassion for the two men, the crab was a good thing, steamed, needless to say, and if the steamed taste was too bland, it was also very good for making spicy crab, Lu Qingjiu bought dozens of them every year for himself, but this year there was a bit too much going on and he forgot about them.

Lu Qingjiu was thinking about how to eat the crab when Yin Xun, who was next to him, was a bit displeased and said, "Ah wine, you're going to the tomb tomorrow, don't you want to do something today?"

Lu Qingjiu: "What do you usually do before you go down to the tomb?"

Yin Xun: "What equipment to prepare, a Luoyang shovel or something"

Lu Qingjiu looked at Yin Xun suspiciously: "Where did you know that, you didn't read it in a novel, did you?"

Yin Xun smiled sardonically.

"I don't think we should prepare anything." Lu Qingjiu says, "I'm just a hobbyist anyway." The main thing to look for is Bai Yuehu.

Yin Xun had an angry look on his face, but he didn't dare to say it to Bai Yuehu's face. Bai Yuehu did not object to Lu Qingjiu's statement, which was basically a tacit acceptance that Lu Qingjiu was there to make a sauce.

Hu Shu called to say that he had had another accident last night and that air had somehow gotten into the IV tube.

The worst part is that although the authorities are aware of the situation and have sent someone there, it will take more than 10 days to deal with it, and with Pang Ziqi in a state where he could die at any time, he will not survive until then.

Lu Qingjiu thought about it, but didn't tell Hu Shu that Bai Yuehu was going too, after all, it was his private act, which was also illegal if you counted it, and Hu Shu was a policeman.

And so the day passed peacefully, and on the morning of the third day.

Bai Yuehu had made an appointment with Lu Qingjiu in advance and said they would leave after breakfast. Lu Qingjiu asked how they were going to get there and if he wanted to book a flight in advance. Bai Yuehu shook his head and told Lu Qingjiu not to worry about it, just follow him.

So after breakfast, Lu Qingjiu went out with Bai Yuehu to the expectant and envious eyes of Yin Xun.

"Go early and come back early." Yin Xun waved at them fondly from the courtyard, "Be safe."

"Hmm." Lu Qingjiu said, "Keep an eye on the rice cooking in the pot, don't make it mushy, we'll be back soon."

Yin Xun said, "Don't worry, I'll take care of the house, I'm not three years old anymore." After he said that, he felt that the atmosphere was strange, and after a while he finally realised that something was wrong, "Lu Qingjiu, why do you sound so much like my grandfather."

Lu Qingjiu: "Silly Yin Xun, I am not your grandfather."

Yin Xun :""

Lu Qingjiu: "I am your father."

Yin Xun grabbed a broom from the side of the yard and attempted to attack Lu Qingjiu, who saw the situation and fled.

Lu Qingjiu was still curious about how to get to Shandong. When he reached the top of the deserted mountain, Bai Yuehu suddenly held out his arm to Lu Qingjiu, gesturing for him to take his hand.

This is not the first time they have held hands, and Lu Qingjiu does not feel uncomfortable about it.

The temperature of Bai Yuehu's hand was a little colder than normal, slightly icy, and as Lu Qingjiu held his hand, he saw a black fog rise up around him, which wrapped around their bodies. The fog around them gradually cleared and they reached a place that was completely unfamiliar.

The place is a wilderness, overgrown with weeds and no people in sight.

"Where is the tomb?" Lu Qingjiu asked nervously.

Bai Yuehu points to their feet.

There was a solid patch of mud beneath them, and Lu Qingjiu looked at it, then turned his head and looked at Bai Yuehu blearily: "So how are we going to get there?"

Bai Yuehu thought for a moment, "Let's be polite."

Lu Qingjiu: "Mmm"

Bai Yuehu: "Knock on the door and go in."

Lu Qingjiu;""

Although he said it as if he was joking, Bai Yuehu was obviously serious, only to see him lift his foot and shake it against the ground. After a loud boom, a huge crater appeared in front of them, yet the most striking thing was the black stone door behind the crater.

Lu Qingjiu's eyes widened as he watched, but what surprised him was yet to come, as he saw Bai Yuehu step up to the stone door, raise his hand and knock.

The atmosphere froze as Lu Qingjiu held his breath and watched Bai Yuehu's movements.

After about two or three seconds, the tightly closed stone door actually made a heavy thud, as if it had been pushed open from the inside by someone, revealing a gap wide enough for one person to pass through.

The stale air from the tomb rushed out along the open stone door, causing Lu Qingjiu to cough uncontrollably.

Bai Yuehu said, "Let's go," and went straight into the stone door. Lu Qingjiu followed closely behind and also went in.

Behind the stone door is a long tunnel with a hard stone floor, time has not destroyed the tomb, on the contrary, everything inside is well preserved except for some dust, Lu Qingjiu can even see the colourful frescoes painted on the walls by the faint light, all of them are vivid and seem to depict the long sleep of ancient rituals. Bai Yuehu could see in the dark, but Lu Qingjiu could not. Luckily, Yin Xun's reminder had helped, and Lu Qingjiu pulled a small torch out of his rucksack and turned it on so he could see clearly.

Bai Yuehu, who should have been here for the first time, seemed to know the chamber well as he made his way forward, bypassing numerous forks in the road.

Lu Qingjiu has never eaten pork, but he has seen a pig run, so he followed Bai Yuehu closely, not daring to wander off, and asked in a whisper what the room next to it was for.

"Some are burial objects and some are organs." Bai Yuehu said, "Follow me, or you will easily get lost."

Lu Qingjiu oh, and followed more closely.

All the doors in the chamber seemed to have been opened and Bai Yuehu reached the heart of the tomb with little effort at all. Lu Qingjiu followed him and looked around, feeling as if he had arrived in a place not unlike the other rooms.

The room was unusually large and empty, with a rectangular sink in the middle and some strange-looking human statues in the corners. The most unusual thing was the messy footprints on the floor of the room, where someone had obviously come and trampled on the dust that had been piled up very evenly.

Lu Qingjiu immediately thought of Pang Ziqi's comment that they had also gone down into the chamber and seen the coffin, only to touch the body, which had sunk into the water and they had not been able to retrieve it.

The room in front of us, together with the strange footprints on the floor, fits Pang Ziqi's description perfectly. Clearly, this is where the body of Master Yu's concubine was located.

Bai Yuehu's steps also stop and he sets his gaze on the pool in the very centre of the room. He walked over to the pool and leaned down slightly as if to observe something in the water.

Lu Qingjiu also followed him and saw what was inside the pool. The tomb had been buried underground for so many years that even if there was water, it would have dried up, but there was a pool of clear water in the pool in front of him. Lu Qingjiu shone his torch and found that the water was deep and bottomless, and the waves of light twitched slightly, as if there was something alive in the water.

"This leads to groundwater," Lu Qingjiu asks.

Bai Yuehu shakes his head, "The pool is closed."

Lu Qingjiu: "But after all these years, the water hasn't dried up"

Bai Yuehu said, "As long as the body of the Rain Master's concubine is there, this water will not dry up."

Lu Qingjiu said, "Her body, then, should

It's in there, should we fish it out?"

Bai Yuehu frowned: "Try it, I'll go back into the water if it doesn't work." He obviously disliked the water a lot too.

Lu Qingjiu took the rope with the iron hooks out of his backpack again.

Lu Qingjiu took out the rope and threw the hook into the pool, which was closed and about two metres deep, just as Bai Yuehu had said.

The rope swayed in the water and soon Lu Qingjiu felt the rope tighten, as if it had hooked onto something heavy, and he began to try to pull it up with force, only to find that it did not move.

"I think I've hooked something." Lu Qingjiu frowned and said, "It's too heavy, I can't pull it up... it's not hooked on the wall."

Bai Yuehu reached out and grabbed the rope and began to pull with Lu Qingjiu. The difference between the two men became apparent at this point, as the rope, which Lu Qingjiu could not pull, became very easy to pull in Bai Yuehu's hands, and Bai Yuehu was able to pull the rope up easily without even exerting any force.

Lu Qingjiu saw that he could not do anything to help, so he simply let go of his hand and stood by and watched. As Bai Yuehu moved, a black object was hooked up by a rope and Lu Qingjiu looked into the water with his torch to make sure that what he saw was the body sunken in the deep end.

The corpse was wearing a green dress, and although her eyes were closed, Lu Qingjiu recognised that she was identical to the female ghost that had followed Pang Ziqi.

After all these years, the body is well preserved, its skin white and soft, not at all like a dead person, but rather like it was just asleep.

Lu Qingjiu was staring at the corpse, the woman was not particularly beautiful, but she had an indescribable magic that made people want to stare at her and look at her again. "

Lu Qingjiu, in a daze: "Ah"

Bai Yuehu says: "She's so good looking"

Lu Qingjiu then realised that he was in a bit of a state, and he withdrew his gaze to look at Bai Yuehu: "What?"

Bai Yuehu was patient enough to repeat the words, "I said, she's better looking than me."

Lu Qingjiu laughed as he said, "Of course I don't look as good as you." Afraid that Bai Yuehu would not believe him if he said that, he added, "You are the best looking vixen in the world."

Bai Yuehu nodded in satisfaction.

The body was fished out of the pool with a rope by Bai Yuehu, who showed no mercy and threw the body to the edge of the pool like a piece of rubbish. The body looked soft but was in fact hard and landed with a thud on the ground with a sound of gold and stone.

According to Bai Yuehu, if he destroyed the body, Pang Ziqi would survive and he wouldn't have to worry about being followed by her, but how to destroy it gave Lu Qingjiu a headache. "Try it with a knife."

Lu Qingjiu: ""You're not so sure about that, are you? But it didn't matter if he tried, Lu Qingjiu took a deep breath and pulled out another dagger from his bag.

"Just cut it down," Lu Qingjiu asked.

Bai Yuehu nods.

Although the woman in front of him was a corpse, she looked so much like a living person that Lu Qingjiu had a mental block when it came to making his move, but the living were more important than the dead, and thinking of the half-dead Pang Ziqi lying in the hospital, Lu Qingjiu gripped the handle of his knife firmly.

"I'm sorry." After apologising to the corpse, Lu Qingjiu slashed at it, but to his surprise, the moment the dagger made contact with the corpse, Lu Qingjiu felt as if he had hit something extremely hard, and his arm shook and the dagger flew away.

"Ahh," Lu Qingjiu cried out as his hand went numb from the shock.

"It won't cut," Bai Yuehu asks.

"Hmm." Lu Qingjiu sank his face, "It's too hard to cut."

"Trouble." Bai Yuehu spat out three words.

When he heard Bai Yuehu say that he was in trouble, Lu Qingjiu became nervous and said, "Why are we in trouble, Bai Yuehu?

Bai Yuehu's eyes were slightly sombre: "Not so much in trouble."

"What about the body." Lu Qingjiu rubbed his numb arm and said with a frown, "Is Pang Ziqi just going to have to wait to die?"

Bai Yuehu sighs longingly, "I'll do it."

He was about to ask what was going on when he saw a black mist rise from beneath Bai Yuehu, which soon enveloped the room and covered the already dim light. Lu Qingjiu didn't know what was going on, but he knew Bai Yuehu wouldn't harm him, so he simply stepped aside.

Soon after the black mist rose, Lu Qingjiu heard a woman's shrill cry from near the pool, a cry of spite and hatred that made one's skin crawl.

"Crunching crunching crunching." The sound of meat being chewed eventually replaced the woman's howl, which gradually faded and finally stopped completely, filling the entire house with the sound of beasts gnawing on meat.

Lu Qingjiu It is not difficult to guess what happened Bai Yuehu transformed into a prototype and ate the badly handled corpse.

Through the thick black fog, Lu Qingjiu shadows a pair of huge red eyes, which also notice his gaze and cast a glance towards him.

Lu Qingjiu forced a stiff smile as their eyes met, "Is it good?"

The sound of chewing stops and Bai Yuehu's voice comes out, "It's awful to eat."

Lu Qingjiu said, "You won't have any after-effects if you eat it like this, will you?" It was so hard and had been there for years, so its shelf life must have expired.

Bai Yuehu didn't say a word, and nibbled again. When he had finished, the black mist gradually dispersed, and Lu Qingjiu saw him sitting by the sink with an unhappy look on his face.

Lu Qingjiu walked over and called out in a low voice, " Bai Yuehu ".

Bai Yuehu said, "Yes."

Lu Qingjiu said, "You've finished eating."

Bai Yuehu: "Hmm."

Lu Qingjiu said, "What's the flavour?"

Bai Yuehu thought for a moment and said, "Have you ever eaten mud?"

Lu Qingjiu: "No."

Bai Yuehu said, "Then imagine the taste of a piece of mud that has been sitting there for over a thousand years."

Lu Qingjiu: ""He thought he'd better not imagine it, the taste of that Yu Shi concubine was clearly beyond his imagination, otherwise Bai Yuehu wouldn't have looked aggrieved after eating it, like he'd actually been forced to gnaw on a mouthful of mud.

Author's Note: Bai Yuehu: Vomit

Lu Qingjiu 怜惜：What a miserable life you had before I came