Chapter 46: Minor surprises

Lu Qingjiu had a long dream.

In his dream, he heard the loud sound of water, and through the tiny window Lu Qingjiu saw the great yellow river rushing past him. The river was so wide that, as far as Lu Qingjiu could see, it was a vast, endless stream of turbulent water.

It seemed that the whole world was flooded with water except for the house he was in. Lu Qingjiu felt an unexplainable panic, his heart thumping as he looked up and saw a huge eye in the blackness of the clouds. The pupils of those eyes were vertical like felines, and the eyes were a brilliant red like blood.

The eyes seemed to notice Lu Qingjiu's presence and looked in his direction. Lu Qingjiu covered his mouth and nose, trying to reduce the sound of his rapid breathing from fear, and cowered in the corner, not daring to move.

The only sound left in his ears was the wild rushing of the water, and just when Lu Qingjiu thought the thing had left, he heard the roar of a beast, a roar that shook the earth and the house where Lu Qingjiu was staying, and Lu Qingjiu slowly looked up and saw a huge beast in the sky, lunging towards him.

Then Lu Qingjiu awoke from his horrible dream, his body covered in sweat and his chest heaving violently, needing to breathe as much oxygen as possible to make his over-stressed heart feel better.

"When Lu Qingjiu came to his senses, he realised that what had just happened was a dream. He lifted his hand to his mobile phone and looked at the time, it was just after three in the morning, the darkest hour before dawn. He sat up and vaguely remembered that he had been at the village's autumn festival yesterday and had drunk too much alcohol before collapsing, and that he had seen Bai Yuehu Lu Qingjiu afterwards.

Lu Qingjiu touched his head, feeling a slight pain in his head from the hangover.

After he had finished his drink and calmed down, he went to the bathroom and took a shower to rinse off his body, which had become a little wet and sticky from sweat.

After a shower, Lu Qingjiu returned to his bedroom and looked out into the courtyard, where a bright moon hung in the sky in peaceful silence.

The white moonlight poured down, making the whole courtyard covered with a pure white veil. Lu Qingjiu didn't actually hate such a quiet night, bright enough and free from insects, which calmed his mind.

There was something familiar about the roar of the beast in the dream, and Lu Qingjiu quickly recalled the dream in which he had used a dream-catching net to capture it in front of his grandmother's grave.

In that dream, he heard the same beastly roar.

But what does this roar mean, what secrets are hidden in the wooden box left behind by his grandmother, and the death of his parents?

Lu Qingjiu withdrew his eyes and went back to bed. He loved this little village called Shuifu Village and hoped that here he would find the answers he was looking for.

The next day was still a bright and sunny morning.

Lu Qingjiu, who was hungover, had a lazy sleep and when he woke up, he saw Yin Xun and Bai Yuehu munching on corn in the courtyard. "

Lu Qingjiu thought of Bai Yuehu bringing him back last night and changing his clothes and cleaning himself, and was inexplicably a little embarrassed. He pretended to avoid Bai Yuehu's gaze inadvertently and said, "Well, I drank too much yesterday and got up a little late today, so you'll have this in the morning and I'll cook you something else. "

"No, no, no." Yin Xun waved her hand, "It's good to eat some corn once in a while.

Lu Qingjiu went over and took a bite of one of the corns, and it was delicious, sweet and sticky, and a little sticky in the mouth.

"Let's go and grind the beans after lunch." Lu Qingjiu said to Yin Xun as he ate, relieved when he noticed that Bai Yuehu was no longer looking at him, and said, "Make some bean curd and then make some curd."

Yin Xun said, "Yes, yes, yes."

The process is somewhat similar to that of stinky tofu, but the resulting cubes become sticky from fermentation and absorb the flavour of the ingredients, making it great for steamed buns or congee. Lu Qingjiu had seen his grandmother make it when he was a kid but had forgotten all about it, so he looked it up on the internet and planned to try it out this year.

He and Yin Xun went to the village with the beans and made bean curd, then brought them back to make bean curd.

As the weather is getting colder, the trees in the village are starting to lose their leaves and the forest looks beautiful in its golden glory.

Lu Qingjiu had a lot of things to prepare for the winter. After the tofu was ready, he had to smoke the meat he had bought into bacon so that it would keep better, and when the time came, it would be a good dish to stew the beans with.

Lu Qingjiu was so busy that he simply handed over the Tao Bao shop to Yin Xun to handle the delivery and after-sales.

Yin Xun dutifully agreed, but as he had not used the computer much and was not familiar with the keyboard, he sat in front of it and replied with two fingers tapping slowly on the keyboard.

"Am I going too slow?" he asked, turning to Lu Qingjiu, who was sitting not far from him with his head down, curing meat.

"Slow is slow." Lu Qingjiu said indifferently, "Buy it if you like, but pour me some more soy sauce."

"Okay." Yin Xun bumbled over.

The meat is divided into sauced meat and bacon, but both need to be cured for a period of time first. This autumn the weather is cool and the meat does not spoil easily, and with good ventilation the meat can be smoked after about a month. The best wood for smoking meat is fruit wood, which gives the meat a fragrant flavour. Shuifu Village smokers do it every year, but only the better off do it, as a few dozen pounds of meat is a lot of money for an ordinary family.

After helping Lu Qingjiu pour the soy sauce, Yin Xun ran back to his keyboard and suddenly frowned as he tapped away, "Wine, someone says our hair lotion doesn't work well and wants to return it."

Lu Qingjiu moved with a start: "What?"

Yin Xun said, "It says it didn't work and they want to return it." He stepped back a little to allow Lu Qingjiu to see the screen.

"Oh, let's refund it then." Lu Qingjiu said indifferently, he couldn't be sure if every bottle of hair growth water would work anyway, and since someone said it didn't work, a refund wouldn't matter.

Yin Xun nodded at his words and gave the man the option of a refund.

Lu Qingjiu and Yin Xun thought the matter was over, but within two days, three or four people suddenly appeared in the shop and asked for a refund. Lu Qingjiu didn't care at first, but when he looked at the addresses of these people, he found that they all seemed to be from the same programming company and were all working as programmers.

Lu Qingjiu was a little confused because he remembered that the first time he bought this address, he said that it was very effective, so did the hair growth lotion vary from person to person?

Lu Qingjiu asked about the details and the people who bought it all replied in the same way, saying that they had put it on their heads but it didn't work at all, and because Lu Qingjiu had promised a refund, they came over specifically for after-sales.

Lu Qingjiu looked at the name the man had purchased and suddenly remembered something. He searched for it on social media using the name and to his surprise, he actually found it.

It's just that on top of the social media app, the man is doing something completely different from what he says.

The owner of the photo was delighted to say that he had never used a hair regrowth lotion that worked so well, but that it was a bit expensive, but otherwise there were no drawbacks.

Lu Qingjiu looked at the photo and laughed coldly. But he didn't say anything, instead he still gave the man a refund, but asked them, the group who wanted the refund, to send back all the glass bottles and boxes, and those people blatantly obliged.

In the evening, Lu Qingjiu told Bai Yuehu and Yin Xun about it as gossip, but he wasn't too angry, he just thought it was a bit ironic.

"This is too much." Yin Xun got angry, "It's so effective, but you have to say it doesn't work, it's not like you're ruining our shop's reputation and you're asking for a refund.

Lu Qingjiu was calm: "It can't be helped, after all, we can't see him, and if he says it's not working, can we say he's lying?"

Yin Xun said, "No, I'm so angry." He has lived alone in Shuifu Village for a long time and has had little contact with people, so naturally he has had little exposure to the ugly side of human nature.

"Don't be angry, don't be angry." Lu Qingjiu said, "I wouldn't have talked to you if I had known you would react like this." Bai Yuehu's attitude was similar to his, he didn't look or say anything, he didn't seem to care much.

"What if they all follow suit in the future," Yin Xun says, "will we still have to open our shop?"

Lu Qingjiu said, "No, there are bad people and good people in the world, there are always people who think the results are good and will give us publicity.

Yin Xun huffed and puffed and shoved a mouthful of rice into his own mouth.

After eating, Lu Qingjiu went out for a walk and thought that if he had time tomorrow he would go to the town and buy two rabbits and pickle them together to make preserved rabbit meat. Rabbit meat is quite popular here, as it is tender and has few bones, so it tastes better in stir-fries than chicken. Of course, there are some people who don't like rabbit meat. Lu Qingjiu heard his female colleague say that rabbits are so cute, so he couldn't eat rabbits, and Zhu Miaomiao, who was eating rabbit meat with great pleasure, said back in a very rude way: "Why do you want to eat chicken when chicken is also cute? The table almost spat out all the food in their mouths.

When Lu Qingjiu returned home from the village, he saw that Yin Xun was still angry, the fool was obviously still upset about what Lu Qingjiu had said in the evening. He put them into the pot and stirred two golden brown sugar balls out.

When I was a child, Lu Qingjiu's grandmother would occasionally buy it for him when he went to town. It was cheap and tasty, soft on a stick, and when you bite into it, it pulls out shreds of sugar.

Lu Qingjiu went to the courtyard with two lumps of stirred sugar and gave Bai Yuehu and Yin Xun a mouthful each.

Yin Xun giggled at the taste of sugar, but then said angrily, "Lu Qingjiu, what do you mean by that, you treat me like a child?"

Lu Qingjiu says: "Is the sugar good?"

Yin Xun said, "Delicious."

Lu Qingjiu said: "Are you happy after eating the candy?"

Yin Xun smacking his lips, his mouth full of the sweet aroma of maltose

The taste, this sweetness was not cloying, but rather with a refreshing aroma, and the sweet taste of the sugar melted in his mouth, which did abate much of the anger in his heart, so he nodded honestly, "Happy."

"Go to bed when you're happy." Lu Qingjiu patted his fluffy head, "It's late, don't forget to brush your teeth."

Yin Xun had a candy in his mouth, which slowed him down.

Lu Qingjiu looked at his back and heard Bai Yuehu, who had not reacted behind him, say, "So easy to fool."

Lu Qingjiu turned his head to look at him and laughed: "Aren't you quite foolish too?"

Bai Yuehu didn't say anything, slowly licking the syrup that hung on his lips, his bright red tongue rolling lightly over his pale lips, inexplicably taking on a touch of eroticism, only the words he uttered weren't as gentle, Bai Yuehu said, "You really don't care."

Lu Qingjiu, with a wink, smiled, "What do you care?"

Bai Yuehu's expression smiled as he did not answer Lu Qingjiu's question, but stood up and waved his hand at Lu Qingjiu, turning around and going back to bed. As he watched Bai Yuehu's back, Lu Qingjiu went to the utility room to get some things and then went to the backyard.

This just seemed to go away.

The next day, Lu Qingjiu was afraid that Yin Xun would be angry again, so he didn't ask him to deal with the shop, but opened the software himself. The next day, Lu Qingjiu was afraid that Yin Xun would be angry again, so he didn't ask him to take care of the shop.

It turned out that within an hour after they sent the glass bottle and package delivery, the hair on their heads started to fall out in large quantities, and their originally thick black hair instantly returned to its previous Mediterranean state. They panicked and started messaging Lu Qingjiu to ask what was going on with their hair and how it had fallen out after growing out.

Lu Qingjiu responded with an innocent face: "What grows out and falls off?" I thought you said it was ineffective.

They were so embarrassed to say that it didn't work yesterday that Lu Qingjiu gave them a refund, but today they are saying that their hair has fallen out.

Lu Qingjiu said, "Sorry, I don't quite understand what you're talking about, didn't you say that the hair growth water didn't work?

Although they didn't know how Lu Qingjiu had done it, they couldn't accept the idea of seeing their thick, black hair return to its original state. I'm really sorry, I've been bewitched, your hair growth lotion is actually very effective, we just think that five thousand dollars is a bit expensive"

Lu Qingjiu said, "Oh, so you're saying that you're all trying to cheat the refund"

"Yes." The man admitted, "I'm really, really sorry, I'll call you back with the money and will you give me another bottle of hair lotion"

Lu Qingjiu, however, ruthlessly refused the man's request. Although he was good-tempered, he was not the kind of person who would smile at being bullied into his home, and when faced with the customer's remorse and request for another purchase, he simply said, "Sorry, you have been given a refund, so if you want to buy it please wait until next month."

The customer said, "But it's getting harder and harder to get your shop's hair growth lotion and we had a hard time grabbing it last time."

Lu Qingjiu said, "Then I can only wish you good luck." He said he wished the man good luck and blacklisted all these people by hand, and since the money was refunded anyway, he pretended he had never done the business.

After getting rid of these, Lu Qingjiu simply put up a notice on his shop, saying that the shop supports invalid refunds, but after the refund, the shop is not responsible for after-sales service, and if the refund is made, then after the refund the hair falls out again, please do not come back to the shop owner, and once found to be a malicious refund, the shop owner will directly pull the black.

After putting up the announcement, Lu Qingjiu told Yin Xun, who was kneading the dough for Lu Qingjiu in the kitchen, about it.

Yin Xun was delighted to learn that he was happy to open his mouth to reveal his cute tiger teeth: "Really? How did you manage to make all their hair fall out?"

Lu Qingjiu said, "Of course I can't do it."

Yin Xun said, "Then who can do it?"

Lu Qingjiu said, "Of course it's the one that makes them grow their hair."

Yin Xun: "The lady ghost in the backyard"

Lu Qingjiu nods his head.

Last night after Yin Xun and Bai Yuehu left, he took the incense and candles to feed the lady ghost as usual, but now the circle of light above the well was getting bigger and bigger, and the light emanating from it could be described as holy.

Lu Qingjiu didn't say much during the candle lighting, but last night he told the lady what had happened in the shop in detail, Lu Qingjiu didn't know if it would work, so he tried it out.

But apparently the lady ghost whose obsession had been desecrated was so angry that she made the men pay a terrible price the next day.

Lu Qingjiu can only say to those guys that they deserved it.

However, after this incident, Lu Qingjiu's shop "Xiaomura" has become famous on the internet and people say that the hair growth lotion from this shop is really good, but at the same time, some people think that the effect is a bit too good, the first day you put it on, the next day the hair comes out, it is simply a medical miracle ah.

Of course, some people took the water to professional institutions for testing, but the results of the tests were that the water was just ordinary well water, with no other ingredients at all, although it was not harmful to the human body, but the question arises, how in the end is this hair growth

The netizens were divided, but still couldn't find a reasonable explanation, and Lu Qingjiu was contacted by someone who wanted to pay a lot of money for his recipe for hair growth water.

Lu Qingjiu refused all of them, and finally simply changed his phone number to one that no one knew, and did not give it to anyone except Zhu Miaomiao and a few colleagues he used to play with.

After taking care of the Tao Bao shop, Lu Qingjiu and Yin Xun went to the mountains to cut some fruit wood. The wood they cut was all orange tree branches, which were perfect for smoking meat.

Lu Qingjiu sets up a stone at the door, puts the meat on it and smokes it. You can't have an open fire when smoking, and you have to add some orange peel and peanut shells to it, which makes the meat smell better.

Bai Yuehu had never seen this done before and stood by a little curious: "Is it good?"

"It's quite tasty." Lu Qingjiu said, "The fried bacon and the steamed bacon are both delicious, as well as the soup that comes out of the stew."

At Bai Yuehu's words, his eyes took on a look of anticipation.

"But I seem to have forgotten to make the sausages." Lu Qingjiu smoked the bacon and suddenly remembered, "I don't know if it's too late."

"I think it's too late." Yin Xun said, "The first snow has not yet fallen."

"It's too late if it falls." Lu Qingjiu looked at the weather, and although it was still autumn, they could feel the chill, so Lu Qingjiu had prepared extra straw and a heater for Xiao Hei and Xiao Hua. Lu Qingjiu had no choice but to find two old pieces of clothing and alter them to make some small garments for the little fox to keep warm.

"Then we'll go and buy sausages and meat tomorrow." Yin Xun loved sausages, especially the sweet kind, and hearing Lu Qingjiu's intention to make them, he urged, "It's definitely not too late."

When Lu Qingjiu saw how eager he was to eat, he nodded his head in agreement.

While the meat was being smoked, Lu Qingjiu threw a few sweet potatoes into the fire, sweet potatoes with red hearts, which Bai Yuehu grew by hand.

The roasted sweet potatoes were also very tasty, and after peeling off the skin to reveal the still-hot core inside, Yin Xun said it was hot while stuffing it into his mouth, which eventually turned black.

Bai Yuehu is still eating this stuff with such grace that he's only got a little black carbon dust on the corner of his mouth.

Lu Qingjiu looked at the two of them eating sweet potatoes and couldn't help but curl the corners of his eyes. He had a feeling that he had gone back to his childhood, a wonderful feeling, as if he had turned back the clock and could see an old man standing at the door, smiling benevolently at him when he turned around.

"Lu Qingjiu, what are you laughing at?" Yin Xun asked him.

"I... I'm not laughing at anything." Lu Qingjiu said, "What's wrong?"

"You're not laughing at anything." Yin Xun looked at Lu Qingjiu suspiciously, "Then why are you looking at me like I'm your son?"

Lu Qingjiu said innocently, "Yes?"

Yin Xun: "Yes"

Lu Qingjiu stretched his hands out, "Well, then, I will reluctantly accept you as my son."

Yin Xun said angrily, "I treat you like a friend and you want to be my father."

Lu Qingjiu couldn't help but laugh out loud.

The author has something to say: Lu Qingjiu: Ugh, I'm so sorry.

Bai Yuehu: The days of embarrassment are still ahead.

Lu Qingjiu: Hey