Chapter 6: Very inspiring now

After hanging up the phone, Lu Qingjiu laughed bitterly and thought to himself that it was a good thing he had never used the water from the well for cooking and washing, otherwise he would have been in serious psychological distress. I don't know when the police will come and whether there are any bodies in the well or not.

While thinking about it, Lu Qingjiu sliced the marinated beef into slices, each slice not too thin or too thick. He prepared the beef for the noodles and put the rest in the fridge for later. He then boiled the water and added the noodles to the pot, frying three more eggs while they were cooking.

After the noodles are cooked, the fresh vegetables from the field are blanched slightly in boiling water to preserve their fresh green colour without making them too soft. Lu Qingjiu then ladles out the noodles into a bowl of bone broth left over from the previous day, into which he ladles a spoonful of the marinade left over from the marinated beef, before topping the noodles with green vegetables and a golden fried egg.

"It's ready, someone help me serve it." Lu Qingjiu calls out from the kitchen.

When Bai Yuehu heard Lu Qingjiu's voice and entered the kitchen, he was not afraid of being hot and took all three bowls away, leaving Lu Qingjiu frozen in place for a while.

Yin Xun gave a cheer at the sight of the noodles and said, "I'm starving, the noodles smell so good."

Lu Qingjiu took off his apron and handed Yin Xun a plate of chillies: "No spice, add your own if you want."

Yin Xun nodded, scooped a large spoonful of chilli into his bowl and said, "Who were you talking to on the phone in the kitchen just now? I thought I heard you mentioning the well again."

"A call from the police." Lu Qingjiu explained, "They suspect there's another body in the well."

Yin Xun paused as he ate his noodles, apparently remembering the corpse he had fished out of the well that night, and said, "No way, there's another corpse. Are corpses so common these days, with such a small well, there could be two."

"I don't know." Lu Qingjiu shook his head.

Bai Yuehu is not affected at all, his eyes are on the noodles in front of him and he is quietly finishing the bowl of noodles.

Lu Qingjiu asked him if it was good, and he nodded heavily, and after finishing the soup, he said, "Yes."

Lu Qingjiu, the chef, was satisfied. The beef marinade was really good though, the meat was tasty and not too chewy, but had a sweet taste of meat, and the noodles were hung noodles with distinct roots, and served with crisp vegetables that were really appealing.

After dinner, Bai Yuehu went to wash the dishes, while Lu Qingjiu followed Yin Xun to the family plot to see how the vegetables he had planted were doing. He said, "No, you've only been back for half a month, why have your tomato plants grown so tall?"

Lu Qingjiu immediately thought of Bai Yuehu, but of course he couldn't have said that and just calmly dismissed it, "Maybe it's because I'm good-looking."

Yin Xun: "Then mine should grow even faster."

Lu Qingjiu: "You are so shameless."

Yin Xun: "Each other."

But with this interruption, Yin Xun didn't pay any further attention to the unusual condition of the vegetables, and Lu Qingjiu took a glance at his vegetable patch and saw that the previously bare mud had now sprouted a green patch of seedlings.

Although he was happy, Lu Qingjiu politely reminded Bai Yuehu not to let the vegetables grow too fast, or else he would not be able to explain the situation if he drew the attention of the others. Bai Yuehu nodded imperceptibly and went back to his melon.

On the third day, the telecom company sent someone to help Lu Qingjiu install the internet connection and the TV, and the family finally had wifi.

"I'm going to town tomorrow to buy a desktop computer in addition to the chicken." Lu Qingjiu asked Yin Xun, "Do you know where they sell them?"

"Buying a computer," says Yin Xun, "why do you suddenly want to buy a computer?"

Lu Qingjiu said, "I'm planning for the future, I can sell my home-grown produce online and so on, and if I can't, I can even start a live broadcast." Although he has enough savings to live here for a long time, he also has to plan for the future.

"All right." Yin Xun rubbed his head, "I'll ask around for you."

On the day of the fair, Lu Qingjiu and Yin Xun took Uncle Chen's car to the town early, and only when they arrived did Lu Qingjiu receive a phone call from the police, saying that they would go to his house today to recover the body. Lu Qingjiu said that he had gone out and that Bai Yuehu was the only one at home, so they could go straight there.

Yin Xun sighed and said that Lu Qingjiu was unlucky to have such bad luck when he came home.

Lu Qingjiu spreads his hands and makes a helpless face.

When they arrived at the chicken shop, Lu Qingjiu saw a field of little yellow chickens in a circle, chattering away. Yin Xun asked, "Boss, how do you sell the chickens?"

"It's five dollars a piece for both males and females." The owner said, "How many do you want?"

Lu Qingjiu said, "Let's have ten of them." He thought for a moment, "Nine females and one male." There didn't need to be too many males, just enough to breed the hens.

"OK, take your pick." The owner said.

Lu Qingjiu nodded and reached out to grab the chickens, but as soon as he reached in, all the chickens scattered as if they were frightened, leaving Lu Qingjiu's hand hanging awkwardly in mid-air.

"What's wrong with your hand, big brother?" the boss was happy to see it, "You have a hand."

Yin Xun was laughing and Lu Qingjiu was punching him in the shoulder.

"What's wrong with them? They're running so fast." Lu Qingjiu said awkwardly.

"Yin Xun rolled up his sleeves and reached towards the chicken pen, but when he reached in, the chickens all ducked away, as if his hand was not a hand but the mouth of some fierce beast.

"Hahahahahahaha." This time it was Lu Qingjiu's turn to unleash a merciless mockery on Yin Xun.

Yin Xun: "Damn, what the hell have we two touched that chickens are so scared of"

At these words, Lu Qingjiu's smile immediately froze on his face as he instantly remembered that he seemed to have a chicken-loving fox living in his house, and perhaps it was the fox's scent that had caused the chickens to react in this way

Lu Qingjiu was thinking this when he heard Yin Xun shout, "You little chickens, how dare you hide, see if I don't catch you all".

Some of them just hide, but some of them seem to be annoyed by Yin Xun and start pecking at his fingers with their tiny yellow beaks.

These brave chicks were all picked up by Yin Xun and put into the chicken coop he had just bought.

After catching ten chickens for half a day, Yin Xun was already exhausted and said he had never seen such a difficult chicken in his life.

Lu Qingjiu said, "Wait here for me then, I'll go and buy the computer first."

"Come along." Yin Xun stood up with the chicken in his hand, "I'm not that soft either."

Lu Qingjiu said, "Then give me the chicken to carry."

Yin Xun handed Lu Qingjiu the chicken coop. I don't know if it's a coincidence or not, but all of Yin Xun's chickens are not pure yellow, but pure yellow with a little black fluff, which is quite cute.

After choosing a computer in town, it was almost time to go back to the village.

On the way back Lu Qingjiu received a phone call from the police, saying that another body had been found in the well of his house. The bodies of the man and the woman were both strange: the woman's body was already white but floating in the water, while the man's body was still well preserved but had sunk to the bottom of the well and was said to be covered in black hair.

The body had only been recovered because Lu Qingjiu had provided the information, so the police wanted to question him carefully when he returned. If this had been done on a normal day, Lu Qingjiu would have been cleared of any suspicion, but both the well and the body inside were so evil and frightening that the police didn't follow the normal course of action.

Lu Qingjiu is carrying his chattering chickens, but the dream he had that afternoon comes to his mind, could that dream be the first scene of the murder?

When Yin Xun saw Lu Qingjiu's heavy face, he asked him what was going on.

Lu Qingjiu told Yin Xun about the dream she had and the phone call she received from the police, and after hearing this Yin Xun was dumbfounded: "No way... so she's not just avenging herself and reporting to the police in the process."

Lu Qingjiu: ""When you think about it, it's quite inspiring, a very hard working female ghost.

Yin Xun: "Much better than us."

Lu Qingjiu showed an expression of shame, I am afraid there are not many people who can take revenge on themselves after being killed by others.

Lu Qingjiu returned to the old house in awe of the ghostly lady, and when the policeman saw him getting out of the van with a cage of chickens, he said, "You're really big-hearted, with two dead people in the house.

Not afraid?"

"I'm afraid." Lu Qingjiu said honestly, "I'm just buying some chickens to liven up the yard."

Policeman: "You still expect the chicken to watch your back?"

Lu Qingjiu: "It's important to have dreams, just in case they come true." He joked, and after putting the chicken in his hand into the nest, he turned to ask the policeman what was going on with the man's body in the well.