Chapter 73: Ju Mang, the God of Spring

At Bai Yuehu's peculiar look, Lu Qingjiu quickly explained that it was not his and Yin Xun's strange fetish, but that the black umbrella that had chased him yesterday had followed him again.

Bai Yuehu nodded slightly at his words, stepped forward and grabbed the black umbrella with his hand, then tore it off Yin Xun's head with great force. Lu Qingjiu was standing next to him, and when he saw Yin Xun's head, he also saw something fall out of the umbrella and hit the ground with a loud crackle, and on closer inspection, he realised that it was the black pupil's eyeball he had seen that day, which rolled to the ground with a gurgle.

Yin Xun is relieved to finally see the light of day, but also terrified by the eyeballs that appear to be alive, their dilated pupils all staring at Bai Yuehu.

Bai Yuehu casually threw the black umbrella to the ground, and the moment it hit the ground, the eyeballs that rolled down all over the ground all gathered in the direction of the black umbrella and were once again wrapped up in it.

"Lu Qingjiu had never seen such a magical creature before and clearly remembered that there was no record of such a demon in the Shanhaijing.

Bai Yuehu didn't say anything, he bent down and picked up something from under his feet. Lu Qingjiu realized that what was in Bai Yuehu's hand was an eyeball when he straightened up. The eyeball was similar to the one Lu Qingjiu had seen before, a round one with a red nerve at the back, both the nerve and the eyeball were obviously still alive.

"It's an art." Bai Yuehu said, "The exact use is unknown."

"So all these eyeballs are human" Lu Qingjiu finds that many eyeballs really uncomfortable.

"No." Bai Yuehu said. Bai Yuehu said, "These eyeballs are all alive." He tossed the eyeball in his hand to the ground, as if to see how it would react when it hit the ground, but to his surprise, Su Xi, a fox cub who had been lying around watching, saw the eyeball and rushed forward. Before they knew it, Su Xi ate the eyeball into his mouth, chewed it up and swallowed it.

"Ahhhhhh, Su Xi, what have you eaten" Yin Xun screamed in horror.

"Lu Qingjiu stepped forward, picked up the fox cub and opened its mouth to get the eyeballs out, but it was too late for him. Qingjiu seems to be asking Lu what this action means.

Lu Qingjiu said in agony, "You really ate it, how can I explain to your father if something happens to it?" Last year he had a poodle cut, but this year he felt he couldn't meet his parents if he got food poisoning again.

Su Xi obviously didn't understand the pain Lu Qingjiu was feeling, and happily licked his mouth with his red tongue, his eyes actually falling on the black umbrella, looking as if he thought the eyeball tasted good and wanted another one.

The black umbrella, being stared at by Su Xi, actually took a slow step backwards. If Lu Qingjiu hadn't been staring at it, he would have thought he was delusional.

"Is it okay to eat this?" Lu Qingjiu asked Bai Yuehu anxiously.

Bai Yuehu 睇了狐狸崽子瞄瞄，想想了后，直接把伞起了，然后伸手进，硬生了从伞内拿出了再次一个眼球。

"What are you doing?" Lu Qingjiu had barely finished his sentence when he saw Bai Yuehu shoving the eyeball into his mouth and, with another crunch, he ate it cleanly.

Yin Xun and Lu Qingjiu were both shocked by Bai Yuehu's action. They stared at Bai Yuehu with round eyes for a long time without saying anything, until Bai Yuehu swallowed the eyeball and licked his lips before he could barely catch his breath. "

Bai Yuehu: "Delicious." He pondered for a moment and said something finely thought out, "Not human eyeballs."

Lu Qingjiu: ""What do you mean by not human eyeballs, Bai Yuehu, does this mean that he has tasted human eyeballs to be able to tell the difference in taste

"It's really good." Probably because Lu Qingjiu looked too alarmed, Bai Yuehu said thoughtfully, "The texture is crispy, nothing fishy, and there's plenty of juice inside."

Lu Qingjiu: ""If you're not talking about eyeballs, I'll really try it.

Yin Xun's own eyes were dropping as he watched from the side, and he couldn't help but back away from Bai Yuehu.

Bai Yuehu said, "Taste it?" and pulled out another eyeball from the black umbrella.

The umbrella was still struggling, but after having its eyeballs pulled out again, it completely wilted, and even Lu Qingjiu could see the words "no more love" in it.

"No, no." Lu Qingjiu thanked Bai Yuehu for his kind offer.

Bai Yuehu looks over at Yin Xun, who hurriedly swings his hand like a windshield wiper.

"Okay." Bai Yuehu spoke with a hint of regret, "I'll eat it myself then."

The black umbrella seemed to understand their conversation and tried to wrap itself tightly against the cruel and ruthless Bai Yuehu. The next moment, Bai Yuehu fished an eyeball out of it and chewed on it with a crunch.

Lu Qingjiu and Yin Xun were both dumbfounded, their consciousness slightly blurred by the ferocity of the images.

With the strange umbrella out of the way, Lu Qingjiu silently turns to cook his dinner, Yin Xun shivering behind him in a manner similar to the black umbrella.

For dinner, Lu Qingjiu made a large pot of beef cakes, a cold dish of shredded pork, and a pot of eight-pot congee.

Lu Qingjiu brings the congee to the table and greets Bai Yuehu to eat.

Bai Yuehu nodded his head and then put the black umbrella aside. The black umbrella stayed quietly at Bai Yuehu's side, not moving at all, but the moment Bai Yuehu picked up his chopsticks, the black umbrella snapped open and then rolled towards the door like a wheel.

Black Umbrella tries to escape

Lu Qingjiu and Yin Xun both looked on in awe.

Bai Yuehu's reaction was so quick that before the black umbrella had rolled twice, he had already rushed to the umbrella and grabbed it with one hand, sneering, "Where are you going?"

Black Umbrella: ""

"Come when you want, leave when you want, think this is a hotel" Bai Yuehu said, cupping his black umbrella, "If you want to leave, at least leave your eyes behind first."

As soon as he said this, the black umbrella let out a yelping cry, although the sound was a bit harsh, but how to sound like a small child who had been bullied hard, causing Lu Qingjiu a bit embarrassed, a kind of illusion that he was bullying the weak.

However, Bai Yuehu was hard-hearted and unmoved, and even went to the kitchen to find a thick rope, tied up the black umbrella and threw it on the floor, saying, "We've had enough for today, let's continue tomorrow."

Black Umbrella: ""Oooooooooooooooo what kind of sins has he made? The most horrible thing is that the little vixen is also very interested in him, with its nose rubbing against the umbrella surface, looking like it might bite down at any moment.

Yin Xun looked at the black umbrella and whispered to Lu Qingjiu, "Why do I always feel that I see my future in the black umbrella?"

Lu Qingjiu said, "Don't think too much, if Bai Yuehu ate you, it would be gone in one bite, it would be very painful."

Yin Xun: ""Thank you for your comfort, my friend.

After dinner, Yin Xun went home and Lu Qingjiu went back to his bedroom, both of them tacitly refraining from mentioning the umbrella and pretending that nothing had happened.

For the next two days, the black umbrella became Bai Yuehu's exclusive snack, and Lu Qingjiu watched his fox spirit sitting in a rocking chair in the courtyard with a black umbrella next to him, then every now and then he would reach into the black umbrella and pull out an eyeball and put it in his mouth to crunch it, the picture was so brutal that it was unbearable to watch.

In the recent good weather, Lu Qingjiu and Yin Xun would normally have found a place in the courtyard to bask in the sun, but these days they really didn't dare, because whenever they were in the courtyard, they could hear that numbing crunching sound, and if they listened to it for a while longer, their consciousness would start to blur, so you can imagine how damaging it was.

Of course, there are those in the family who welcome the black umbrella, like the fox cub who loves it and sits next to it without turning his eyes away.

However, given Lu Qingjiu's concerns about food safety, Bai Yuehu stopped feeding, even though the foxes looked so miserable.

After two days, Yin Xun couldn't hold on any longer, and he didn't dare to talk to Bai Yuehu, so he found Lu Qingjiu and expressed his inner vulnerability very politely: "I always feel that my eyes hurt when Bai Yuehu is chewing on them".

Lu Qingjiu was frying fish when he heard Yin Xun's words and the spatula in his hand stalled.

Yin Xun: "Are you also"

Lu Qingjiu let out a long sigh and nodded slowly, "Pretty much."

It would have been fine if I was eating something else, but it was a live eyeball, and just crunching it into my mouth was graphic.

"Then could you," Yin Xun put his hopes on Lu Qingjiu, "advise Bai Yuehu?"

Lu Qingjiu nodded, "Okay, I'll go and talk to him."

So after lunch, before Bai Yuehu could take a lunch break and have a snack, Lu Qingjiu rushed to voice his opinions, including his doubts about the taste of the eyeballs and his discomfort with the image of Bai Yuehu eating them.

Bai Yuehu was quiet for a moment after hearing this, and beckoned to Lu Qingjiu.

Lu Qingjiu saw this and thought he was going to say something to him, so he bent down and moved over, but Bai Yuehu reached out and pressed a hand to the back of his head, then he felt something cold being shoved against his lips, and before he had time to react, it had been shoved into his mouth.

"Well," Lu Qingjiu's eyes rounded instantly and he was about to say something when he felt a sweet taste coming from his mouth, so different from the fishy smell he had expected.

"Taste it first." Bai Yuehu's voice came from the side.

Since it was already in his mouth and did not taste like he thought it would, Lu Qingjiu suppressed his fear of what it would look like and carefully used his teeth to bite through the surface of the eyeball, and then felt a fresh smell of juice fill his mouth. The eye did not seem to be an animal's eye, but a plant that looked like an eye, which tasted crunchy on the outside and soft and juicy on the inside, a bit like a strawberry if you had to compare it to something else.

Lu Qingjiu chewed the eyeball and swallowed it: "This is not an animal's eye".

Bai Yuehu: "No."

"What's that?" Lu Qingjiu was a little confused.

"It could be a fruit." Bai Yuehu said, "It just looks like eyeballs to scare people." It actually tastes really good.

A sweet taste echoed in my mouth after the eyeballs were eaten, and I have to say, apart from the rather intimidating shape, the taste of the eyeballs was really nothing to write home about.

"Want another?" Bai Yuehu fished another one out of the umbrella and handed it to Lu Qingjiu after a quick glance, "It's orange."

Lu Qingjiu: "" He hesitated for a moment, but took it anyway, this time not waiting for Bai Yuehu to stuff it, but carefully stuffing it into his own mouth himself.

The orange one is not as sweet as the strawberry one, but it is a little more juicy and the pulp inside is still tinged with

The grains of orange were like eating a jellied version of an orange, but without additives and in a natural way. Lu Qingjiu was in the middle of eating it when he glanced towards his house and saw Yin Xun standing inside giving him a frightened look, obviously not understanding why Lu Qingjiu, who had come to persuade him, was chewing his eyeballs along with him, and chewing them with such relish.

Lu Qingjiu was made to laugh by Yin Xun's expression and after some thought, he asked Bai Yuehu to give him an eyeball, which he took in his hand and walked towards Yin Xun.

Yin Xun looked at Lu Qingjiu as he approached with the eyeball and turned to run, only to be caught by Lu Qingjiu.

"What are you running for." Lu Qingjiu said, "It's not like I'm going to eat you."

Not knowing what Lu Qingjiu was up to, Yin Xun cried out, "Stay away from me, I don't want to eat, I don't want to."

Lu Qingjiu: "How do you know it's not good if you haven't even tasted it? It's not an animal's eyeball, come on, try it."

Yin Xun tried to struggle, but Lu Qingjiu held him by the shoulders, and then a round object was shoved to his lips, he was so frightened that he almost cried out, but his struggle was useless in front of Lu Qingjiu, the object was still shoved into his mouth. He tasted the eyeball.

"Hey," Yin Xun said, "why is it grape-flavoured."

Lu Qingjiu said, "Is it good?"

Yin Xun stopped struggling for a moment and chewed twice: "It's like jelly."

Lu Qingjiu: "Yeah, and strawberry."

Yin Xun: "It smells good."

The black umbrella seemed to sense their eyes and started to tremble again, but there was a Bai Yuehu sitting next to it, so it couldn't get away. Coming to Shuifu Village is probably the worst decision it has ever made in its life.

Lu Qingjiu and Yin Xun finally understand why the black umbrella has become Bai Yuehu's favourite snack these days, it's too good to eat.

After tasting the black umbrellas, Lu Qingjiu and Yin Xun finally overcame their fears and began to sit in the courtyard with Bai Yuehu to eat the eyeballs. Of course, they usually ate with the door closed in case any of their neighbours passed by and were irritated by the gruesome sight.

After just two or three more days of eating like that, someone finally came to the door.

It was raining a little that morning and Lu Qingjiu had cut a large bunch of leeks in the garden to make a leek box to eat. Lu Qingjiu went to open the door and saw a beautiful girl standing in front of his house, dressed in a fancy dress with a beautiful headdress in her black hair, but in a style that was not in keeping with modern times.

"Hello, how can I help you?" Lu Qingjiu asked.

The girl looked at the leeks Lu Qingjiu was holding and said, "I lost an umbrella."

Lu Qingjiu: ""It's over, the owner has come to the door.

The girl said, "Did you see it?"

Lu Qingjiu said, "Well, I did see it."

The girl said, "Can you give it back to me," and she gave a pitiful expression that looked quite endearing.

Lu Qingjiu was still a little bit vain when she looked at him. After all, they had been holding on to someone's umbrella for almost a week, and it was natural that the owner of the umbrella suddenly came to their door. After some thought, he invited the girl into the house and told her to wait for Bai Yuehu to return.

Bai Yuehu has just gone down to the ground with his umbrella, which he normally never uses, but with the black umbrella he has started to use it actively, after all, it's nice to have a snack while doing so.

Lu Qingjiu was too embarrassed to leave his guest alone in the living room, so he simply took out his chopping board and clicked on the leeks and meat in the living room.

The girl wondered, "What are you doing?"

"Making leek boxes." Lu Qingjiu replied.

"A leek box," said the girl, "what's that?"

"A very tasty food." Lu Qingjiu said, "You've never eaten it? Then I'll make it later and give you a taste." He felt that this girl should not be human either.

The girl nodded and continued to wait quietly.

As soon as he entered the house, the girl, who had been sitting, stood up and said, "My umbrella."

When Bai Yuehu saw the girl, he didn't say anything, but he just felt another eyeball out of the black umbrella in front of the girl and ate it on the spot.

Lu Qingjiu, standing next to her, clearly saw the girl's expression twist for a moment as Bai Yuehu ate her eyeballs.

"What are you doing?" the girl snarled.

Bai Yuehu simply ignored her, instead raising his chin and giving a provocative expression.

Girl: " Bai Yuehu, you son of a bitch"

"It's okay." Bai Yuehu said, "What are you doing here, this umbrella is yours."

The girl said, "It's not mine it's yours."

Bai Yuehu said, "Everything that comes into my house is mine, and if it weren't for the fact that you're not as good as pork, I'd eat you too."

Girl: ""

From their conversation, it was clear that they were old acquaintances, they just didn't seem to be on good terms, the kind that could come to blows at any moment.

"Give me back my umbrella." The girl knew there was no benefit in dwelling with Bai Yuehu on this matter, so she simply skipped the topic of herself and the pork and went straight to the point, "You've been eating for four or five days now and you're not afraid of getting a bad tummy"

Bai Yuehu simply ignored her and once again touched an eyeball out, crunching and eating it.

The girl was instantly furious, but Bai Yuehu simply ignored her.

Seeing Bai Yuehu's softness, the girl could only swallow her anger and said through clenched teeth, "Tell me, what will it take for you to put

Give me back my umbrella."

Bai Yuehu: "Wait for me to finish eating."

"Fuck you," the girl was forced to swear, and then swallowed it back under Bai Yuehu's cold stare.

Bai Yuehu said, "Since you dared to send the umbrella here, don't think about taking it back."

The girl said, "It ran out on its own."

Bai Yuehu said, "This is the first time I know that the umbrella of the God of Spring can still run out by itself."

When Lu Qingjiu heard this, he was shocked. He did not expect the girl in front of him to be the mythical God of Spring. The gods of the four seasons were said to be Ju Mang, the god of spring, Zhu Rong, the god of summer, Ru Shou, the god of autumn and Xuan Hei, the god of winter. But in mythology these gods are all male figures, and this girl in front of him doesn't look like a man. Lu Qingjiu was wondering about this when he heard Ju Mang crying, her pearly face very endearing.

Yet the vixen in his house had no compassion at all and said mercilessly, "Cry again and I'll kick you out."

Ju Mang rests his voice momentarily.

Bai Yuehu said, "You can take the umbrella if you want."

Ju Mang looked suspicious at his words, obviously suspecting that Bai Yuehu was up to something.

"But you have to leave the seeds behind." Bai Yuehu said.

"What seeds?" Ju Mang asked.

"Of course it's the seeds of the eyeball." Bai Yuehu said, "God has an umbrella to plant all things, and whatever seeds are there will sprout and bear fruit on the umbrella, and this eyeball is also a plant, right"

Ju Mang grunted, "I can give you the seeds, but it's up to you whether you can grow them or not."

Bai Yuehu said, "Well."

Ju Mang said, "I'll give you seeds and you'll give me back my umbrella."

Bai Yuehu nods.

Ju Mang said, "It's a deal." She stood up and left the courtyard, seemingly to find seeds for Bai Yuehu.

Lu Qingjiu saw Ju Mang leave before he whispered, "She is the legendary God of Spring but isn't the God of Spring a man?"

Bai Yuehu looked at Lu Qingjiu and said, "Who said he was a woman?"

Lu Qingjiu :""

Bai Yuehu: "He's the man."

Lu Qingjiu :""

Bai Yuehu: "Not like a man"

Ju Mang, with that fancy dress and that dainty grunt, doesn't look, in any way, like a forget-it-all, and he really is a cute boy.

Bai Yuehu reassured Lu Qingjiu that it was spring and that the god of spring was wearing a ritual costume, and that he would be able to tell Ju Mang's gender when he wore short sleeves in summer.

Lu Qingjiu said, "What about his umbrella?"

Bai Yuehu says: "Any seed, living or dead, can be grown on his umbrella, but only plants can be grown."

Lu Qingjiu: "So you already knew", no wonder you were so happy to eat.

Bai Yuehu.

"Then how did his umbrella get to Shuifu Village?" Lu Qingjiu looked at the black umbrella, "I lost it by accident."

Bai Yuehu, however, sneered, "How can you lose the umbrella of the God of Spring?"

None of these gods are provincial.

The author has something to say: Lu Qingjiu: I would jump from here today, but I won't eat a bite of your eyeball!

Bai Yuehu Reaching for the tuck.

Lu Qingjiu: What a fragrance

Yin Xun can go to the city, he will grow up and expand his range, he went shopping with Lu Qingjiu in the city before. As for his own body, he won't get diarrhea if he eats it by himself, but if he mixes it with other food and eats it by himself, it will react, and others will get diarrhea if they eat less.