Chapter 80: The God of Good Fortune

When a dragon is tainted, its scales turn red and it develops second thoughts, no longer able to control its primal desires. Lu Qingjiu's grandfather was a tainted dragon. What is strange is that he did not devour Lu Qingjiu's grandmother, but Lu Qingjiu's parents, and from Lu Qingjiu's questioning, he admits to having done so.

Lu Qingjiu asked Bai Yuehu what the dragon was that he was fighting with.

Bai Yuehu sits in his rocking chair, slowly nibbling on a watery pear, and slowly explains to Lu Qingjiu: "After Pan Gu opened up the world, the dragons split into two factions, one led by Ying Long, who was close to the human world, and the other led by Candle Dragon, who hated to get along with humans and considered them to be selfish and cruel animals. " He took a bite of his pear and continued, "At that time the human world was so rich in spiritual energy and the power of faith that the spirits and monsters could travel through it without any boundaries."

Lu Qingjiu said, "But why not now?"

"Later, as the stars shifted, the spiritual energy and the power of faith in the human world became weaker and weaker, and without the elves and monsters to rely on for survival, the human world was gradually separated from the other worlds." Bai Yuehu said, "But because the human race had lost its spiritual energy and the power of faith, there were also fewer powerful people in the mortal world who could protect the human race, and the human race was so weak that it was no match for the other elves and monsters.

His voice was still lazy, but his words took the breath away from those listening: "Later, the Lu Wu clan under the Heavenly Emperor joined with Xi He, Zhu Rong and other gods to build a barrier for the Human World, and sent Ying Long to guard the entrance to the barrier. These barriers had to be guarded for many years before they could be completely integrated between heaven and earth, and as time passed, only one entrance to the human world remained, Shuifu Village. This is probably what Jiang Buhuan is referring to.

However, according to Bai Yuehu, these people cannot integrate into human society even if they do not want to, because after the barrier is erected, the spiritual energy of the human realm will become fainter and fainter. In addition, people in the mortal world do not believe in ghosts and gods at all nowadays, and the power of faith is nearly non-existent, so the supernormal abilities in them will become less and less until their bloodline disappears completely.

Lu Qingjiu listened with great interest as he said, "So the monster that was tangling with you, it

It's from the Candle Dragon clan."

Bai Yuehu nods.

"So what do they want to do?" Lu Qingjiu was a bit confused, "Is it to kill the guardian of the barrier? Then they should be aiming at me."

Bai Yuehu said, "Yes, it is true that their target is you, but with me by your side, they dare not make any rash moves."

Lu Qingjiu thinks of his parents and his grandmother, who refused to leave Shuifu Village, and who, as Bai Yuehu says, was a guardian.

Lu Qingjiu felt a little melancholy as he sat down next to Bai Yuehu and said, "So now there is only one Shuifu Village left in the world."

Bai Yuehu: "Something like that."

Lu Qingjiu: "So what do you have to do to contaminate the dragon?"

Bai Yuehu sighed, "The cause of the contamination is still a mystery, the only known method is to kill the guardians near the barrier, but this method does not always work there are many dead guardians, but the dragons around them are not contaminated either."

The dragon who survives can then welcome a second guardian of his own, just as the guardian who survives can welcome a second dragon.

Lu Qingjiu's grandmother watched as her lover was tainted and fled her side, leaving the human world behind. At that time, she was probably pregnant with the baby in her womb, looking forward to their reunion, not knowing that an even more horrific future awaited them when they reunited.

Bai Yuehu seemed a little tired from all the talking, and by the time Lu Qingjiu came back to his senses, he was already leaning back in his rocking chair and sleeping with his eyes closed.

Lu Qingjiu looked at his sleeping face before he suddenly remembered that Bai Yuehu seemed to have just been through a bad battle and although he didn't seem to be badly injured, it wasn't an easy task either. With this in mind, he lightened his steps and stood up to go back inside, rolling up his sleeves to make a nice meal to comfort the lovely vixen.

Spring is over and it is early summer.

The temperature is showing signs of getting hotter, the sun is getting fuller and the grass is getting bushier.

Lu Qingjiu found a nice afternoon and had Bai Yuehu kill the family's remaining white pig, and for the first time used the blood to make blood sausages. Unlike meat sausages, blood sausages are more delicate and tasty, especially with the addition of half-cooked glutinous rice, which is mixed with special spices.

It was around the middle of May when Lu Qingjiu's horns faded into his forehead. Bai Yuehu took Lu Qingjiu to the city hospital to see Tai Feng, the god of good fortune, whom he had not seen for a long time.

Tai Feng looks much better than he did a year ago, but he is not happy, squatting on the garden ground in front of the inpatient unit, tugging at innocent grass.

When he saw Bai Yuehu and Lu Qingjiu coming, he raised his head and said good afternoon.

The way he was dying, Bai Yuehu was so angry that he tried to kick him, but he dodged.

"What's the point of dying," Bai Yuehu said, "if you don't want my help this year."

Tai Feng shakes his head.

"What's wrong?" Bai Yuehu frowned at him.

"There's no need for any more." Tai Feng scratched his head, "She's out of it."

Bai Yuehu is silent.

Lu Qingjiu thought of the girl in the inpatient unit who was smiling brightly. But Tai Feng didn't look too sad, but there was just a touch of loss on his face. This is probably the difference between humans and gods. Gods live forever, and the brief decades of humans are but a moment in their eyes.

"Tch." Bai Yuehu gave a somewhat unpleasant tsk, "Since the man is gone, what did you call me for."

Tai Feng dropped the grass in his hand, stood up and stretched, "It's not a lucky break, I'd like to treat you to a meal."

Bai Yuehu said, "What to eat"

Tai Feng said, "I only have money for dumplings now, but not when we walk to the hospital entrance."

Lu Qingjiu didn't understand what Tai Feng meant by this at first. When they were halfway to the hospital, Tai Feng found a few hundred dollars plus a lottery ticket on the ground. After picking it up, he didn't even look at the numbers on it and put it into his pocket, saying that he had won the lottery and would treat Lu Qingjiu and Bai Yuehu to a big meal with the prize money.

Lu Qingjiu knew that Tai Feng was the god of good fortune, but this was a bit of an exaggeration, so he couldn't help but ask, "How did you know that the lottery was won?"

Tai Feng said dismissively, "A lottery ticket that doesn't win doesn't deserve to be in my presence."

Lu Qingjiu: ""This is too dominant. Looking at Bai Yuehu, a poor man who could not even afford a two-dollar lottery ticket, Lu Qingjiu's heart rose to the surface.

They went to the lottery near the hospital, where Tai Feng pulled out the lottery ticket he had found and was able to get $3,000 for it, as Lu Qingjiu looked on in awe.

Having changed his bonus, Tai Feng took a taxi and took Lu Qingjiu and Bai Yuehu to a famous high-end buffet restaurant in the city. When they entered the restaurant, Tai Feng was about to pay when the manager of the restaurant suddenly appeared and said that Tai Feng was the 19,999th customer of the restaurant, so the three of them got a free bill and a yearly card, which said that they could bring one person to dinner every week, but of course they had to be present.

Bai Yuehu is used to Tai Feng's luck, but Lu Qingjiu is in a trance. If it weren't for the fact that the restaurant was booked a while ago, he would have wondered if Tai Feng had already made arrangements with the restaurant in advance and was deliberately putting on a show for him.

With the crowd looking on enviously, the three were seated and the waiter brought them a menu to choose from.

Knowing Bai Yuehu's huge appetite, Tai Feng waved his hand and said three of the same on the menu, before ending his order to the stunned look of the waiter.

"That's too much luck for you." Lu Qingjiu took a sip of red wine to moisten his mouth and calm down a bit.

"It's not bad." Tai Feng said, "I've been unlucky for so long that I'm a bit uncomfortable with myself."

Lu Qingjiu hesitated: "That girl", he said in a cautious tone, intending to change the subject immediately if Tai Feng showed any discomfort. Who knew that Tai Feng didn't mind talking about it, but smiled instead, although there was no warmth in the smile, it wasn't too sad either, it just looked a bit sad: "I met her when I was a child, but she was a little girl then, quite cute."

The dishes ordered came up quickly and plates of all sizes were spread over the entire long table.

Bai Yuehu was uninterested in Tai Feng's story and kept his head down while Tai Feng ate and talked to Lu Qingjiu, "When I met her, she was lost and I made a pact with her when I helped her find her way."

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

Tai Feng said, "She and I agreed that if we were to believe in God, we would believe in Tai Feng, the god of good fortune."

Lu Qingjiu is slightly stunned.

Tai Feng took a piece of cod and swallowed it slowly: "You know, people nowadays don't believe in this anymore." Gods and ghosts are not to be relied on. Of course, there is nothing wrong with this kind of thinking, because for ordinary people, gods are just illusory things, and it is better to make more efforts on one's own than to put all one's hopes on illusory things. But as a god who needs the power of faith, this kind of thing is too fatal, especially for a god like Tai Feng who does not have many followers in the first place.

A god who is not remembered is not needed, and the moment the name Tai Feng is forgotten is the moment he disappears.

"She's a very good girl." Tai Feng said, "She kept our promise." His eyes curved up as he said this, and you could tell the smile was very happy, "Became a devotee of Tai Feng, setting up candle holders and putting up tributes for me." He propped his chin up with a look of insatiable satisfaction, "I haven't tasted a scented candle in ages just a pity"

It was just a pity that the good times did not last and the girl fell ill.

"I've been there for her." Tai Feng said, "I thought I could stay with her until I was old, but instead I find I don't seem to be so lucky anymore." He claps his palms together in a gesture of empty hands, "My good use is over."

It was pure luck that kept the girl alive until now. Perhaps with his protection, there was only one in a million bad luck that the girl would die, but one in a million, it wasn't as if it wouldn't happen, and this moment was the best example of that.

He is only a god of good fortune, not a king of hell who controls life and death.

The girl left, taking with her a poke of tail hair, and he no longer had to ask his best friend for help, and he was back to being all alone again.

They are just passing visitors in each other's lives.

Lu Qingjiu's heart felt a little hard to hear, but a thousand words only turned into two words: "My condolences."

Tai Feng said, "Well, what else is there to do but to mourn."

Lu Qingjiu said, "She must really like you."

Tai Feng laughed, "I like her too... Hey Bai Yuehu, do you think humans really have reincarnations?"

Bai Yuehu lifted his eyes: "What if I have, what if I don't."

Tai Feng smiles nervously, "Can I get back to the old ones if there are any to make them think about their past lives"

Bai Yuehu: "Even if there is, it's still a case of drinking Mengpo soup and forgetting your previous relationship, you're still you, but she's not her anymore." He pauses for a moment and takes a sip of the chicken soup with abalone, "What if they believe in Christ in their next life?"

Tai Feng's expression twisted slightly at his words.

Lu Qingjiu smiles softly.

Afterwards, Tai Feng digresses and does not continue to talk about the girl's past. Lu Qingjiu could see that he was still a bit upset, even though he was acting so liberal. But because he knew that the reluctance was superfluous, he pushed it down, as if by not mentioning it, it didn't exist.

Although he was not interested in the story, the buffet was very much to Bai Yuehu's liking, and he was already on his third round of menu orders as the waiter looked on in disbelief.

Tai Feng said with a smile that if he hadn't left the hospital today, he wouldn't have brought Bai Yuehu to the buffet because it would have been too unethical and hurt his character to do it.

Bai Yuehu glared at Tai Feng: "You can't even keep your mouth shut with food."

Tai Feng is not afraid of Bai Yuehu at all and smiles as he chats with Lu Qingjiu, who has already had enough: "Hey, do you know how I met Bai Yuehu?"

Lu Qingjiu: "I don't know, why, you didn't know each other before," he thought Bai Yuehu and Tai Feng knew each other from other worlds.

"Of course, he's a noble and cool fey." Tai Feng said, "I'm a little god of good fortune, and I don't know him from anywhere."

Lu Qingjiu: "So how did you meet?"

Although Bai Yuehu had been giving Tai Feng looks, Tai Feng was clearly emboldened, knowing that Bai Yuehu wouldn't do anything to him when Lu Qingjiu was around, and raised an eyebrow and sold Bai Yuehu out in one breath: "When he first came to Shuifu Village, he had no human I bought an ice cream one day to eat on the road, and suddenly I felt a cold breath of shit, I swear that was the closest I ever thought I was to death in my life."

With a click, Bai Yuehu snapped a small stainless steel spoon with a hard bite.

Tai Feng's face remained unchanged as he continued to talk to Lu Qingjiu about Bai Yuehu's dark history: "And then, I had already recognised Bai Yuehu's identity at that time. "As expected of Bai Yuehu's best friend, he didn't forget to help Bai Yuehu paste his vest.

Lu Qingjiu, however, had already imagined the scene and couldn't help but laugh: "Who knew it was the ice cream you were holding that he was staring at?"

Tai Feng slapped his thigh: "Right."

Lu Qingjiu laughs loudly.

Tai Feng was so excited to talk about it, he had a lot of Bai Yuehu's dark history, but what could he do with it, he had no place to talk about it, so he finally had someone to talk to. It took me at least a minute to realise he was asking about ice cream, so I faltered and said yes, then asked him if he wanted to eat it and saw Bai Yuehu nodding."

He laughed and laughed with tears in his eyes, "Then I led him to a nearby ice cream shop and watched him eat all the ice cream in the shop before he fondly went back."

Lu Qingjiu looked at Bai Yuehu sitting next to him with a grim expression, but he couldn't help but kiss such a cute guy.

"Then we became friends." Tai Feng said. Tai Feng said, "I'm lucky, I'm not short of money, so I can treat him to a meal now and then, but I haven't done so for a long time since my little friend got sick, so I'm making up for it today."

Bai Yuehu stared at Tai Feng's refreshed look and squeezed out a sentence between his teeth, "You don't want to live anymore."

Tai Feng scratched his head and pretended not to hear Bai Yuehu's threat.

Lu Qingjiu said, "Okay, okay, just kidding, Bai Yuehu, I'll make you ice cream when we get back tonight, let's make a super-sized one."

Bai Yuehu grunted.

Tai Feng saw their interaction and sighed heartily, "After all these years, you've finally met someone who dares to jerk off to you."

Bai Yuehu ignored Tai Feng and raised his chin proudly, an expression that might have been a little more convincing if he hadn't had countless empty plates in front of him.

After a buffet that left the waiters and restaurant manager in a cold sweat, the three said goodbye to each other and dispersed.

Lu Qingjiu and Bai Yuehu went back to Shuifu Village, while Tai Feng took a taxi to another place on his own.

Lu Qingjiu was walking behind him when he heard where Tai Feng was going, which seemed to be a cemetery, where people who had gone inside the city were usually buried.

Tai Feng probably went to see the girl's grave, so it seems he wasn't as heartless as he made out.

But honestly, Lu Qingjiu cannot say whether it is good or bad for the gods to be merciless, for it is said that heaven and earth are unkind and all things are ruminants, but if the gods are merciful in every way and love every passing life, how can they be universal?

Lu Qingjiu couldn't understand it, so he didn't bother to think about it, as not every question in this world had an answer. He turned his face sideways and looked towards Bai Yuehu, his fox spirit had had enough and was now sitting in the passenger seat dozing, his long eyelashes hanging slightly, casting a subtle shadow under his eyelids, making him look less like the icy king of all scales and more like a fragile Xiao Hua'er with dew drops still attached to its leaves. One cannot help but reach out and gently stroke his soft eyelashes, delicate skin and pursed lips in a straight line.

Lu Qingjiu was lost in thought for a long time because the minivan could drive itself, and when he came back to his senses, he realised he was smiling at the side of Bai Yuehu's face.

Long, so long that even he sensed something was wrong.

Lu Qingjiu coughed dryly, trying to cough away some of the fermenting emotions.

Bai Yuehu heard his cough but woke up, his dark eyes sunken as he looked at Lu Qingjiu and said, "What's wrong?"

Lu Qingjiu said, "Well, no."

Bai Yuehu: "So how do you cough?"

Lu Qingjiu was a little uncomfortable by Bai Yuehu's eyes, they usually stared at each other more times than he could count, but for some reason this time Lu Qingjiu felt Bai Yuehu's gaze burned a little: "My throat is just a little uncomfortable."

Bai Yuehu said, "Really."

Lu Qingjiu: "Hmm."

Bai Yuehu did not say anything, but suddenly reached out and pressed Lu Qingjiu's forehead: "Your face is also very red." He remembered that Lu Qingjiu had been sick once in the winter, and that when he had been sick Lu Qingjiu had been as red as a roasted shrimp. Humans were fragile, not unlike the rough dragons, whose lives could be taken by a single illness. Bai Yuehu remembered that before coming to this world, those who had taught him had repeatedly instructed that if he found a human sick, he must get them prompt treatment.

"I'm just a little hot." Lu Qingjiu felt that this was no good, his whole body almost exploded at Bai Yuehu's hand, but he still had to play it cool. "Let's not talk about that, what kind of ice cream do you want tonight, orange is fine, but we don't have much honey at home, we need to ask Yin Xun to get some more from the backyard, well, just use the honey made by the bees that Jiao Bu brought with him, and save some of Qin Yuan's honey for Zhu Miaomiao's pimples," he chattered. He was talking about trivial matters, but he didn't notice Bai Yuehu's expression softening as he talked about them.

"Why don't you say anything?" Lu Qingjiu asked Bai Yuehu.

Bai Yuehu said, "It's all right, go on." He said in a warm voice, "I just want to hear you talk."

Lu Qingjiu smiled: "You really don't mind my nagging"

Bai Yuehu: "I don't mind." After saying this, he added seriously, fearing that Lu Qingjiu might misunderstand, "I like to listen to whatever you say."

Lu Qingjiu said, "Well, okay." He then continued, "So what kind of ice cream do you want?"

Bai Yuehu: "Just spiced oranges."

Lu Qingjiu was about to nod when Bai Yuehu continued, "It tastes a bit like you."

Lu Qingjiu: "and me"

Bai Yuehu: "A little sweet, but not that sweet."

Lu Qingjiu tilted his head, "But my name is wine."

Bai Yuehu: "Your name is wine and you are wine"

Lu Qingjiu laughed at this, "Your name is fox, aren't you also a fox?"

Bai Yuehu :""

Lu Qingjiu: "Am I right?"

Bai Yuehu held his tongue for half a day and came up with one word: "Right."

Lu Qingjiu couldn't hold back his laughter, he was always blocked from speaking by Bai Yuehu, this time it was finally his turn to take revenge, and it was with Bai Yuehu's waistcoat that had only one button left.