Fantasy Farm Chapter 83.1

Published at 1st of May 2022 05:09:08 PM

The shadows were getting closer and closer to Lu Qingjiu, who was backing away slowly until his foot tripped over something in the grass and he stumbled and nearly fell.

Lu Qingjiu looks down and sees the object that trips him up, a stone shrine that at first glance looks like a small pavilion with a human statue in its centre. If you look closely, you will see that the statue looks somewhat like Yin Xun.

Lu Qingjiu's gaze fell on the shrine. He didn't know if it was an illusion, but he felt that the small figures carved in stone on top of the shrine, although very roughly carved, were alive and well, as if they were going to become real people and come down from the shrine in the next moment.

Lu Qingjiu heard the sound of light footsteps on the weeds from behind him and looked back to see Ao Run standing not far from him, his face calm, his eyes closed, but seemingly staring at Lu Qingjiu. The dark shadows that had driven Lu Qingjiu here had disappeared, and only the slightest

The wind blows through the weeds, causing a rustling sound.

"What do you want to tell me," Lu Qingjiu said, "or what do you want from me?" He was not afraid of Ao Run, perhaps because his blood was in his veins, and he did not feel fear at the sight of the punished and disfigured prisoner dragon, but only pity and doubt. There was only pity and doubt.

Ao Run opened his mouth, and Lu Qingjiu thought he was going to speak, but he only made hoarse syllables, and with a helpless look on his face, he walked over to Lu Qingjiu and gestured for him to pass him his hand, as he had done before.

Lu Qingjiu did as he was told.

When Lu Qingjiu saw the fallen tablets in Yin Xun's house, he remembered a small detail that he had forgotten before. When he met Xuan Yu, Yin Xun was unfortunately turned into a scarecrow, and it was Bai Yuehu who rushed to help him renew the incense. Bai Yuehu's longevity suggests that he may even have known Lu Qingjiu's grandmother, but he never mentioned that his mother's tablet was among them, or that Ao Run had avoided Bai Yuehu and written the word "Go" in his hand. The word "go".

Why did Ao Run let him go? What was he worried about, Shuifu Village or Bai Yuehu?

Lu Qingjiu doesn't want to suspect his family's lovely vixen, but he always feels Bai Yuehu is hiding too much from him.

Perhaps it was good for him not to know the truth, because he was just an ordinary, defenceless human being, but he had come back to Shuifu Village for the truth. He now knows that his parents did not die in the mudslide, but can find no more clues to the real reason for their deaths.

Ao Run wrote slowly in Lu Qingjiu's hand, "I don't want anything, I just want you to get out of here."

Lu Qingjiu: "Because Bai Yuehu "

Ao Run nodded after a moment's hesitation.

Lu Qingjiu's heart was cold as he licked his lips and said in a mute voice, "Did he do anything?"

Ao Run is silent.

Lu Qingjiu saw that he did not answer and had to guess for himself. His mind was spinning so fast that he came up with a guess that he found both reasonable and absurd: "Bai Yuehu, is she my grandma's new tenant?

The corners of his mouth twitched slightly before he finally lifted his index finger and, with a single stroke, wrote out a single word on Lu Qingjiu's hand: yes.

Lu Qingjiu closed his eyes, digesting the fact, and he said, "So he did meet my mother."

Ao Run continues to write, "Yes."

Lu Qingjiu said, "He also knows what happened back then."

Ao Run hesitates this time: "No, he only knows part of it, and part of it, he doesn't really know"

Lu Qingjiu said, "Which part?"

Ao Run wrote: "About your mother and father, the real cause of death."

At the mention of this crucial point, Lu Qingjiu's heart beat wildly, he felt for the first time that the truth was so close to him, he was desperate to know what story was hidden in this normally gentle but occasionally grim village, he said urgently: "My mother and father, how did they die? "

Ao Run wrote: "I ate your mother."

Lu Qingjiu is dumbfounded.

Ao Run said, "It's true."

Ao Run had admitted this before, but Lu Qingjiu still refused to believe it, he could not believe that his grandfather, who seemed so gentle, would do such a thing, and Bai Yuehu had said that a tainted dragon would only eat what it loved most, he said: "Were you forced to do this? "

Ao Run stopped writing and gently touched Lu Qingjiu's head with a sad and loving look, then, at Lu Qingjiu's disappointed look, he shook his head.

Lu Qingjiu 啞然失声This is not at all what he had in mind.

Ao Run wrote, "But though I ate her, she did not die, contaminated people, never die, their souls just continue to drift and continue to contaminate other things." He said, "So only their souls can be suppressed, do you see those tablets those tablets, they are the souls of humans who were once contaminated."

Lu Qingjiu: "Then you want to extinguish the incense and candles in order to release these spirits"

Ao Run smiled faintly, unable to see Lu Qingjiu, he could only feel the outline of his cheek with his fingers, feeling the only one of his remaining relatives in the world: "You know, after being contaminated, I realised they were wrong."

"Wrong." Lu Qingjiu froze.

Ao Run wrote: "The dragon is not tainted when the guardian dies."

Lu Qingjiu was dumbfounded, he remembered Bai Yuehu had said something earlier about the high probability of the dragons being contaminated after the death of the Guardian, but why did Ao Run's words say with such certainty that the death of the Guardian had nothing to do with the dragons being contaminated.

"It's a wonderful misunderstanding." Ao Run writes, "Everyone thinks that when the Guardian dies, the dragon is tainted, but it's not at all."

Lu Qingjiu listened dully.

Ao Run writes: "In fact, all tainted dragons have another characteristic."

Lu Qingjiu asked, stunned, "What? What do you mean?"

Ao Run was about to speak when he suddenly felt something, he turned his head slightly sideways as his hair began to turn red, then he pressed his lips to Lu Qingjiu's ear and uttered a whisper that only they could hear, " Bai Yuehu likes you, doesn't he, what about you."

Lu Qingjiu :""

Ao Run said, "What do you think, my lovely grandson Lu Qingjiu."

Lu Qingjiu looked at Ao Run again, his hair had turned completely red, compared to the black-haired man, he had no temperament at all, he looked evil and wild, he could speak, but the words that came out made Lu Qingjiu's body chill.

"Do you have any special thoughts about him." Ao Run says, "Would you like to have him? Would you be jealous?" his words sound like a curse, "I'm beginning to look forward to it."

Having said this, he jerked up and jumped away from the place, and the next moment there was a sharp stab at where he was.

"Stay away from him," said Bai Yuehu, who had appeared on the path at some point, seemingly because of the power he had used, and had grown back his long black hair, which was now lifting in the wind like a black feather. He looked at Lu Qingjiu with some concern in his gaze, and he beckoned to Lu Qingjiu, saying, "Qingjiu, come here."

Lu Qingjiu actually heard a note of weakness in Bai Yuehu's tone. Bai Yuehu was actually worried, worried that Lu Qingjiu would not go there.

"Don't go, you'll get him killed." Ao Run's voice was hoarse as he spoke to Lu Qingjiu.

Lu Qingjiu looked at Ao Run for a moment and without hesitation raised his steps towards Bai Yuehu.

Ao Run gritted her teeth and stared at Lu Qingjiu's back: " Lu Qingjiu you will regret this"

Lu Qingjiu didn't look back. He had always been a man who knew exactly what he wanted, otherwise he wouldn't have quit his job and returned to a remote mountain village because of an ambiguous trigram, everyone has their own path to follow and Lu Qingjiu didn't mind that there were other people with him on that path.

Bai Yuehu was visibly relieved to see Lu Qingjiu back by his side. He wanted to say something to Lu Qingjiu, but the words came to him, but he didn't know how to say them.

Ao Run's expression was cold and tainted, and he was clearly hostile to Bai Yuehu, but it seemed that because Lu Qingjiu was present, he eventually said nothing and just turned away.

Lu Qingjiu looks at Ao Run's back and asks Bai Yuehu, "Aren't you going to chase?"

Bai Yuehu shakes his head, "It's not my job."

Lu Qingjiu: "But"

Bai Yuehu interrupted Lu Qingjiu: "If Yin Xun hadn't called me, you would have been taken away by him, why didn't you tell me you were coming here?"

Lu Qingjiu said, "Because I think the person who put out the candle didn't want to kill me."

Bai Yuehu: "And how do you know?"

Lu Qingjiu laughed, "Yin Xun and I are both war scum, if we want to do it, we need to wait until I leave.

Bai Yuehu frowned: "It's just your guess, what if it's wrong."

Lu Qingjiu winked, "Wrong guess, but you're here too."

Bai Yuehu :""

Lu Qingjiu said, "Well, don't be angry, I'm just a bit anxious." When he saw that Bai Yuehu wanted to say something else, he said, "Let's talk about it while we go home."

Bai Yuehu nods.

It was late at night, but not horribly so. Lu Qingjiu reached out and grabbed one, watching it crawl around in his hand, the back half of its body emitting a fragmentary glow.

Bai Yuehu followed Lu Qingjiu and, seeing his movements, said, "There's nothing you want to ask me."

Lu Qingjiu turned his head to look at him, then raised his hand and put the firefly on the bridge of Bai Yuehu's firm nose, Bai Yuehu was stunned by Lu Qingjiu, his eyes couldn't help but look at the firefly, "What for?"

Lu Qingjiu said, "You are not allowed to put it down, this is your punishment."

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Bai Yuehu :""

Lu Qingjiu turned around: "You've known me for a long time, haven't you?"

Bai Yuehu mumbled vaguely, "I've seen you as a child."

Lu Qingjiu thought for a moment and asked an unrelated question: "Why do you think I like foxes?" Lu Qingjiu couldn't understand Bai Yuehu's insistence on covering his vest, but at Ao Run's prompting, an incredible thought occurred to him. He had probably met Bai Yuehu as a child and had hurt him so much that Bai Yuehu refused to take off his fox vest.

Bai Yuehu was silent and Lu Qingjiu looked back to see his sulky face, but the firefly on his nose, too frightened to move, made his anger less frightening and more endearing.

"You caught Cho as a child." Bai Yuehu said, "I turned into a little dragon for you to catch."

Lu Qingjiu was pretending to be serious, but when he heard Bai Yuehu's aggrieved tone, he couldn't help but smile.

Bai Yuehu said, "There was a little fox caught with me, but you had to catch the fox spirit, and you cried when I touched you."

Lu Qingjiu: "This kid doesn't know any better," he said, actually feeling a bit vain.

Bai Yuehu continued, "Then when you were three years old, I sneaked away to see you and wanted to give you a Muppet made of dragons."

Lu Qingjiu :""

Bai Yuehu looks like a jilted girl telling how her husband is a scum: "You just throw it away."

Lu Qingjiu whispered, "Maybe it's because, I don't like Muppets."

Bai Yuehu said coldly, "You sleep with a fox doll in your arms every night."

Lu Qingjiu coughed awkwardly.

Bai Yuehu: "Held for years"

Lu Qingjiu pretends not to hear.

It was a very cute and fluffy toy that Lu Qingjiu had loved for a long time as a child. But somehow he lost it and Lu Qingjiu even cried about it.

"I asked your grandma why you don't like me." Bai Yuehu said of her aggravation, "Your grandma said you probably don't like bare reptiles and prefer fluffy."

Lu Qingjiu's defence: "Actually, I'm not that superficial"

Bai Yuehu mercilessly exposes Lu Qingjiu: "Is my tail easy to touch?"

Lu Qingjiu :""

Bai Yuehu said, "I don't care, I am a vixen anyway, and I will eat anyone who says I am not a vixen."

Lu Qingjiu was immediately cowed, and the man who had started out with a straight face was now as cowardly as a kingfisher in hot water, wanting to shrink into his turtle shell so that he would not be questioned by Bai Yuehu.

Lu Qingjiu said, "Okay, okay." He stopped again, took the firefly off Bai Yuehu's nose and put it on his own, "I'm sorry, I apologise."

Bai Yuehu: "Hm."

"But you shouldn't have kept so many things from me, should you?" Lu Qingjiu said, "Did my grandmother die of illness?"

Bai Yuehu said slowly, "Hmm."

Lu Qingjiu said, "And my mother my mother." He remembered his mother's suppressed tablet and became a little confused, "My mother was contaminated"

Bai Yuehu said, "Yes."

Lu Qingjiu: "But she left Shuifu Village, why is it still contaminated?"

Bai Yuehu sighs, "It was an accident." In his slow voice, Lu Qingjiu understood in general terms what had happened back then.

One year, there was an accident in Shuifu Village when a gap was broken at the border between the two worlds by the Candle Dragon, and the breath of the otherworldly world flowed out of it. Lu Qingjiu's parents returned to Shuifu Village, and his mother was unfortunately contaminated and left Shuifu Village without a trace. Although we don't know what happened at the time, Bai Yuehu guesses that Fang Yu was contaminated by the otherworldly breath because of his half-dragon blood, and that after being contaminated, he met Ao Run. Lu Qingjiu knows all about what happened afterwards, as Ao Run confesses to eating Fang Yu and her husband, and is subjected to a cruel punishment unique to the dragon race.

Lu Qingjiu Dao listened to Bai Yuehu's account and thought for a moment: "So, you lied to me before when you told me that my mother was not eaten by my grandfather"

Bai Yuehu shook his head, "No, I'm just analysing from the nature of the dragons, it's against common sense, and it's true that no one saw him eat your mother at the time, all the testimony is his family's word."

Lu Qingjiu said, "But why would he tell such a lie?" He could not imagine how his grandmother must have felt when she found out that her daughter had been eaten by her husband.

Lu Qingjiu continued, "And he admitted it to my face, admitted that he ate my mother." He looked up at Bai Yuehu with a touch of vulnerability in his expression, "He said it himself."

Without speaking, Bai Yuehu reached out and grabbed Lu Qingjiu's hand. The warmth of his palm reached through his skin and calmed Lu Qingjiu's heart.

Bai Yuehu: "He must have had his own struggles."

Lu Qingjiu stopped talking and just nodded gently.

"But even if he had a hard time, it's not good to lead you to the mountain in the middle of the night." After talking about her parents, Bai Yuehu got angry, "What if something happened to you?"

Lu Qingjiu said, "Isn't it all right? By the way, how is Yin Xun's joss stick?"

"It's okay." Bai Yuehu said, "That joss stick doesn't go out that easily."

The firefly on the tip of Lu Qingjiu's nose leaves Bai Yuehu, and finally gets over it, waving its wings and flying elsewhere, without Lu Qingjiu reaching out

Interception.

"I'm sleepy, go back to bed, we'll talk about the rest tomorrow." Lu Qingjiu muttered, "Besides, I forgot to pick the loquats today, I have to make loquat paste."

Bai Yuehu said, "Tomorrow I will go and pick it for you."

Chapter end