Chapter 41: Autumn Breeze

Listening to Bai Yuehu's words, Lu Qingjiu dreaded to think how the fox spirit of his family had survived in the past, and how he had to eat this subtle-tasting corpse to save his life when he was now able to live a life of hot food.

The more Lu Qingjiu thought about it, the more heartbroken he felt. He quickly reassured Bai Yuehu and said that he would cook him something delicious when he got back, such as spicy crab and steamed crab. Bai Yuehu felt better after hearing Lu Qingjiu's words and got up from the ground, saying, "Come on, let's go home.

So he took Lu Qingjiu's hand again and walked in the direction he had come from, Lu Qingjiu said as he walked, "You just ate her, will she be angry? The point was that she had actually let them in after knocking, which made him feel a bit sorry for the concubine.

Bai Yuehu said, "She is not the one who opened the door for us."

Lu Qingjiu said, "Who is that?"

Bai Yuehu said, "Naturally, it is the person who made the tomb." He explained briefly, and Lu Qingjiu now understood what the tomb of the concubine of Master Yu was all about.

Unlike her husband, Rainmaker, who is a spirit monster, Rainmaker is a celestial god, and if Rainmaker wields positive power, Rainmaker wields negative power. She is a master of curses, can communicate with poisonous snakes, and although she represents the power of the sun, her style of action is of a sinister nature.

After her death, the sky was sunny for a hundred days and the people had no harvest. When the Rainmaker saw this, he knew that it was the resentment of the Rainmaker's concubine. To alleviate her grievances, he built this tomb and placed her in it to suppress the grievances.

It was only later that Pang Ziqi and the others broke in and touched the tomb's mechanism, and were tainted by the resentment of the Yu Shi concubine, leaving their lives hanging in the balance.

Lu Qingjiu now understands that it is not Yu Shi's concubine who opens the door for them, but her husband, Yu Shi.

When they reached the entrance to the tomb they had entered, they heard the sound of rain coming from outside. Lu Qingjiu was prepared for this and pulled out his umbrella from his bag and held it above their heads.

After they had left the stone gate, they followed the slope of the earth to reach the level ground, Lu Qingjiu walking behind, and as he climbed up, he was startled by the person in front of him. At some point, a man dressed in green appeared beyond the cemetery, a mask covering the upper half of his face, revealing beautifully shaped lips, his eyes a beautiful pale green like the water of a lake, and he was looking at Lu Qingjiu and Bai Yuehu in silence.

The man's hand also holds an umbrella, the same umbrella Lu Qingjiu had seen held by the woman who followed Pang Ziqi. It seems that he is the man who buried the concubine of the Rain Master, the one Bai Yuehu spoke of.

"It's been a long time." The man spoke, his voice clear and pleasant.

"It's been a long time." Bai Yuehu says, "You're late." Late means your wife's body is gone.

Lu Qingjiu had expected Yu Shi to at least show anger at Bai Yuehu's words, but he blinked and actually smiled, "What did I say at first?"

Bai Yuehu said, "What?"

"When she died back then, I asked Ming if I could get you to come over and do me a favour and eat her corpse for good, and Ming swore that you would definitely refuse." Rainmaker said, "Because it just looked so bad to eat."

Bai Yuehu interrupted him coldly, "It's not very bad, it's particularly bad."

"Then you're still eating." The Rainmaker laughed, and as he did so, the rain in the sky became even heavier, falling with a crash onto the surface of the umbrella, smashing it with a clear, crisp

Lu Qingjiu stood by and listened, not expecting things to turn out this way. He thought that Master Yu had come to seek revenge as a family member, but who knew that he was smiling like a flower and was close to sending a banner to Bai Yuehu.

Seeing Bai Yuehu's unpleasant face, Yu Shi knew that the joke should stop, and he said, "Since you have come a long way to Tanggu, I naturally have to do my part as a host."

Bai Yuehu raises his eyebrows.

"This way, please." Rainmaker made a gesture of invitation.

Bai Yuehu then took Lu Qingjiu by the hand and walked into the rain.

When the Rainmaker saw the two men's movements, it was with an intriguing expression.

Lu Qingjiu was being led by Bai Yuehu, the rain was getting heavier where they were going, and it was even a little hard to see what was going on around them, but to Lu Qingjiu's surprise, the rain did not wet him, but when it was about to touch his clothes, it seemed to be stopped by something and slid in another direction.

The rain obscured Lu Qingjiu's view and he could only follow Bai Yuehu's pace until he crossed a certain line where the rain, which had been as heavy as a pouring rain, stopped for a moment.

Lu Qingjiu put down his umbrella and saw another world.

In the sky of this world, a huge river floats, its water as clear and blue as the eyes of the Rainmaker. The small fish swimming in the river are also clearly visible, these fish are colourful, swimming in the river as if forming a brilliant rainbow, and there are also water plants and rounded pebbles in the river, beautiful as if in a dream world.

Lu Qingjiu was dumbfounded until Bai Yuehu gave him a gentle tug on his hand and he snapped out of it.

This seems to be the world of the Rainmaker, the whole world is wrapped in water.

The ground was also water, still rippling gently with the breeze, only this water was separated by something, Lu Qingjiu could step on it and walk on it. He saw several huge black fish in the water, these fish were at least five metres long, and the way they spread their bodies and swam made people inexplicably feel a bit of fear.

"Please." At a stone platform and bench, the seated Rainmaker made an inviting gesture to the two men.

Lu Qingjiu and Bai Yuehu are seated opposite the Rainmaker.

With a touch of the Rainmaker's hand in front of him, several fine porcelain plates appeared on the stone table, filled with white fish, which looked very tasty. Apart from the fish, there was also something Lu Qingjiu didn't recognise, which looked a bit like jelly and was transparent in a watery way.

Lu Qingjiu looked at Bai Yuehu, who nodded to indicate that it was okay to eat, then reached for his chopsticks and took a piece of fish.

Lu Qingjiu was actually more interested in the jelly, but he tried a piece of fish first. The fish tasted amazing in his mouth, the meat was delicate and fatty, with a hint of sweetness, no fishy taste of fish at all, all fresh and delicious.

Lu Qingjiu said: "Delicious"

Rainmaker arched his eyebrows; "Eat more if you like, it's been a long time since Bai Yuehu went to Shuifu Village."

Lu Qingjiu says: "He used to come all the time."

Rainmaker said, "He went wherever there was food, finished his food and left, and fought a lot of people just because of that."

Bai Yuehu said, "If you hadn't been scared of the beating I gave you, you would have let me in."

Rainmaker spread his hands, "It's not letting you in"

Bai Yuehu: "It's not because of that awful wife of yours."

Rainmaker: ""

Lu Qingjiu wanted to laugh as he listened to the two of them talk, it seemed that Yu Shi and Bai Yuehu had a good relationship and had been friends before. When he saw how it looked, Lu Qingjiu thought it would taste similar to jelly, but he was a bit shocked when it was in his mouth, it actually tasted like meat, it was very sinewy and tasty, it tasted a bit like fish, but not as fishy.

"So delicious." Lu Qingjiu once again gave his praise.

"Delicious, isn't it." Rainmaker laughed, "It's called taiyaki, and humans can eat it to prolong their lives."

"It's a taiyoung but isn't it fatty?" Lu Qingjiu asked in surprise.

"That is the earth being

The taiyaki after contamination." The rainmaker said, "A taiyaki that has only just been born is transparent."

Lu Qingjiu nodded. He knew about taiyao, also known in folklore as flesh lingzhi, something that looked similar to meat and was said to be produced by a fungus, but in fact it was very different from a fungus, because after microscopic analysis it was found to contain proteins only found in animals, and when placed in a humid environment, it would continue to grow as if it were alive. Lu Qingjiu once read a story that Xu Fu crossed over to the east to look for taiyans for Qin Shi Huang.

Lu Qingjiu ate another piece and was impressed by the taste, but Bai Yuehu did not look too interested.

The rainmaker didn't mind, but advised Lu Qingjiu to eat more, saying that it was good for one's health.

Lu Qingjiu nodded his head to thank him, only as he ate, he thought it seemed a bit familiar, pausing for a moment to think, finally remembering where he had seen it before, his chopsticks paused and he looked at Bai Yuehu with an incredulous expression: " Bai Yuehu "

Bai Yuehu said, "Well."

Lu Qingjiu said, "I remember you complimenting Yin Xun on the quality of his meat."

Bai Yuehu blinked with innocence, "I didn't eat him."

Lu Qingjiu said, "I'm not saying you eat him, I'm saying Yin Xun doesn't have it all over him."

Bai Yuehu said, "That's it."

Lu Qingjiu shuddered and put down his chopsticks the next moment, saying that Yin Xun was obviously made of water and why Bai Yuehu would still be interested in him, but now he finally understood that it wasn't water at all, it was meat, and there was some truth in the statement that the meat was good.

"How did this flesh lingzhi come about?" Lu Qingjiu asked weakly, "Does it turn into a human being?" He always had the horrible illusion that he had eaten his scrappy friend.

"What," Yu Shi looked at Lu Qingjiu's reaction and didn't quite understand, "do you have a friend who is a meat lingzhi?"

"Right." Lu Qingjiu nodded.

"Oh, that's nothing to worry about." Rain Master said indifferently, "Flesh Lingzhi is just an ingredient, but because of the special material, you can use it to reconstruct your body, so if I'm not wrong, that friend of yours died once, right"

According to Yin Xun, his life was lost when he fell into the puddle, but it was the strange man who gave him a second life. It seems that the man reconstructed Yin Xun's body with the flesh lingzhi, which allowed Yin Xun to live.

Lu Qingjiu was relieved when he realized this.

After the two of them had finished what was in front of them, Bai Yuehu got up and said goodbye. Yu Shi also had no intention of staying and watched the two leave.

Bai Yuehu leads Lu Qingjiu out of the Rainmaker's world through a curtain of rain and back into reality, then takes Lu Qingjiu back to the old mansion.

" Yin Xun, we're back." Lu Qingjiu called from the courtyard door. They had been out all day and wondered if Yin Xun had watched the meat in the pot properly.

Yin Xun rushed out of the house at the sound of voices, "You're back."

Lu Qingjiu says: "Is the fire off?"

"It's off." Yin Xun said, "I even tasted some of the meat, it was delicious."

Lu Qingjiu laughed, "We'll have stew tonight."

After all, Lu Qingjiu wanted to treat his vixen to a treat after all the mud Bai Yuehu had chewed up.

Zhu Miaomiao sent Lu Qingjiu a next day delivery, and the next day Lu Qingjiu went to the town to collect it. Inside the delivery were tied up hairy crabs, both male and female, and you could tell just by looking at their size that they must be very fat.

Yin Xun, who had never eaten crab before, stood by and watched, saying, "Is this crab really good?

"Of course it's delicious." Lu Qingjiu smiled, "Let's have crab for lunch, I'll steam half of it and make the rest spicy crab."

"Good good." Yin Xun was overjoyed.

Bai Yuehu is not very interested in the crab and does not react to it.

Dead crabs are inedible, so Lu Qingjiu steamed them in a pot after receiving them and cut all the rest in half to make spicy crabs.

While Lu Qingjiu was making the crab, he also called Zhu Miaomiao to thank her for the gift.

Zhu Miaomiao giggled over the phone and said that she would go and get Lu Qingjiu another two catties if she wanted to eat it, and Lu Qingjiu said yes with a smile.

After the crab has turned golden brown in the pan, Lu Qingjiu chooses a special sauce for the crab. The sauce is made with onions and ginger, a small amount of hot oil, and the vinegar used to eat the crab, which makes the sauce particularly tasty and a perfect match for the crab.

Not to mention the spicy crab, the aroma of which was so strong even before the lid was lifted that Yin Xun kept poking her head around.

When Lu Qingjiu went to town to pick up the delivery, he also went to the shop to buy some yellow wine made by the locals, as crab is cold and too much of it is bad for the stomach.

Lu Qingjiu asked Yin Xun to bring the table out into the courtyard to enjoy the moon while eating crab.

Yin Xun, already impatient, dutifully set up the table and the three of them took their seats at the table.

Lu Qingjiu purses his fingers and shows Yin Xun how to peel the crab. The yellow crab can be eaten directly in the sauce, while the crab meat can be peeled off with tongs, placed in the empty shell and then smothered in one gulp when more has accumulated.

Eating the delicious crab meat and drinking the warmed yellow wine, with the light scent of osmanthus flowers on the breeze, Lu Qingjiu is once again grateful for the choice he has made.

Luckily, he returned to the village called Shuifu Village.

Bai Yuehu stared at the crab without making a move, his brow furrowed slightly, as if he was considering whether to eat it with the bones or not. Lu Qingjiu, who was still concerned about his mouthful of mud, simply helped Bai Yuehu to handle the crab, putting the crab meat with dipping sauce and bringing it directly to Bai Yuehu's mouth.

"Eat up." Lu Qingjiu said with a smile.

Bai Yuehu took it and swallowed it in one bite, his frown instantly relaxed as he opened his mouth slightly and said, "Delicious."

"Isn't it delicious," Lu Qingjiu said, "You eat the spicy crab first, and I'll keep peeling it for you."

Bai Yuehu nods.

Bai Yuehu grabbed one and started gnawing on it, somewhat unskillfully. He seemed to have noticed that the bones would affect the taste of the crab, and although it was okay to eat it, he dutifully spat out the bones.

Yin Xun soon got the hang of eating the crab and ate it quickly, but he didn't have the same appetite as Bai Yuehu, so he was almost full after six or seven, but he clearly hadn't had enough and looked at Lu Qingjiu with bated breath, saying, "I want more."

"Eat up, there's still so much here." But Lu Qingjiu cooked all the crabs.

"But I can't eat any more." Yin Xun said. Yin Xun said, "This crab is obviously not much meat, but why is it so bloated."

Lu Qingjiu laughed, "I'll ask my friend to send me some more in a couple of days if I like them, don't be silly, you're not Bai Yuehu."

But for Bai Yuehu, five or six crabs were not enough meat to fill his teeth, but he didn't ask Lu Qingjiu to keep peeling them for him, instead he told Lu Qingjiu to eat them himself. Bai Yuehu didn't want to do it before because he was lazy, but when he did, the crabs were so clean that he could even crush the meat inside the pincers and break it out.

Lu Qingjiu didn't forget to give some to his little fox and Xiao Hei pig, who ate the crab without having to peel the shell, his sharp teeth crunching the shell and swallowing the meat with the bones, just like the lazy Bai Yuehu.

Autumn is the time to enjoy the moon, the weather is not too cold and not too hot, and the half-round moon hangs in the sky. In a few days it will be the Mid-Autumn Festival and it is time to eat mooncakes.

The mooncakes could be bought in town, but Lu Qingjiu decided to make his own. He had never made mooncakes himself, and he planned to make some mooncakes with lotus seed paste and egg yolk, and some with fresh meat.

Life here was much more interesting than he had ever lived before, and Lu Qingjiu drank warm yellow wine and a flush rose to his cheeks as he became slightly tipsy.

After Yin Xun had eaten his fill, he went home, leaving him and Bai Yuehu alone in the courtyard.

Bai Yuehu slowly peeled the crab meat with his head down, his long fingers deftly and deftly peeling the white meat into the crab shell.

After peeling the crab, he looked at Lu Qingjiu, who was sitting next to him, smiling lightly, and lifted his hand to feed the crab meat to Lu Qingjiu's mouth.

Lu Qingjiu froze for a moment: "No," he was full.

Bai Yuehu did not move, but raised his arm slightly, gesturing for Lu Qingjiu to eat.

Lu Qingjiu lost his smile, but he still accepted Bai Yuehu's kindness, only when he took the crab, he suddenly thought of something and turned his head to look at Bai Yuehu. Lu Qingjiu knew that wild animals were the most alert when it came to eating, and with Bai Yuehu's protective nature, he was unlikely to share anything that went into his bowl with anyone else.

Lu Qingjiu smiled as he took a bite of the crab meat, probably because it was hand-peeled by Bai Yuehu and tasted extraordinarily good.

Bai Yuehu said, "What are you laughing at?"

Lu Qingjiu said, "I laugh at the fact that I never thought I would make it to the top as a breeder."

Bai Yuehu raises an eyebrow: "Making it through"

Lu Qingjiu smiles but does not say anything.

Bai Yuehu, however, does not understand what Lu Qingjiu's smile means and does not see any deviation in his behaviour, nor does he see anything wrong with sharing his food with Lu Qingjiu.

"Let's go to bed." After eating the last crab, Lu Qingjiu was also a little sleepy, and by now the night was late and the wind was a little cooler.

"Okay, you go first." Bai Yuehu said, "I'll clear the table."

Lu Qingjiu nodded, got up and stretched, then went into the house to wash up and go to bed, and as he lay in bed, he saw Bai Yuehu through the window, with his head down, cleaning up the dishes in the courtyard. But in his mind he could not help thinking of what Pang Ziqi had said to him. "A beast is a beast, and although it pretends to be human, it will reveal its ferocity once it is stimulated." He knew who he was and what he was doing, and even had more self-control than many humans, in a way.

Lu Qingjiu yawned at the thought, and a strong feeling of sleep came over him, and he closed his eyes, but in a few moments he fell into a sweet sleep.

The next morning the sky was high and clear.

After Lu Qingjiu had finished cooking breakfast, he planned to visit Pang Ziqi in the city centre hospital.

Yin Xun cried like a bear and wanted to go with Lu Qingjiu, who had no choice but to agree.

So the two of them got into the minivan and headed for the city. A few hours later, they arrived at the hospital in the city centre and walked outside the ward. Before they could enter, they heard Pang Ziqi ranting angrily again: "I'm fucking dying, can you stop harassing me? Please be a human being."

Lu Qingjiu: "He seems to be in good spirits."

Yin Xun nodded: "In better spirits than a few days ago."

Lu Qingjiu said, "I don't think the Yu Shi concubine is following him, then." With these words, he pushed the door open, but his expression froze for a few seconds as he got a good look at Pang Ziqi in the ward.

Pang Ziqi is sitting on a hospital bed, arguing with someone who is alive and kicking. The concubine who was lying on top of him has disappeared, but there is a small thumb-sized person sitting on his shoulder with an unhappy face.

At this sight, Lu Qingjiu and Yin Xun looked at each other and saw the same stunned look in each other's eyes.

The author has something to say: Bai Yuehu: Share half of your food.

Lu Qingjiu ate it with a smile on his face.

Bai Yuehu: You can share half of it with me.

Lu Qingjiu: What to eat?

Bai Yuehu: Give me half of you.

Lu Qingjiu: etc. etc.