Hu Lanlan led Lei Yun for about ten minutes and arrived at the very center of the village. A circular square came into view, with a lot of weeds on the ground, but you could still vaguely see the grains that had once been drying in the sun, as well as stone rollers and other farm tools placed beside them.
“It’s here, it’s this square.”
Lei Yun stepped forward and looked around, finding nothing unusual.
“There’s nothing strange here.” Lei Yun turned and said to Hu Lanlan, “Let’s split up and take a look at other places in the village. If you find anything strange, just call me.”
Lei Yun took out a small, round, wooden ball from his pocket and handed it to Hu Lanlan: “The ball is set with a sound transmission talisman. If anything happens, just call me.”
Hu Lanlan smiled and nodded, saying, “You’re actually willing to take out these weird and wonderful treasures of yours.”
Without waiting for Lei Yun to speak, she turned and walked away, saying as she went, “If anything happens later, you have to come and find me quickly!”
Watching Hu Lanlan’s departing figure, Lei Yun shook his head and smiled, then turned and walked in the other direction.
Looking at the architecture of Liujia Village, it didn’t seem very prosperous. Most of the houses were old thatched cottages, with only a few brick and tile houses. Lei Yun didn’t let any of them go, carefully examining each one.
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Every household looked very tidy, with no sign of disorder. The quilts were neatly folded, and the food on the table was not messy either. Lei Yun felt a burst of doubt in his heart, wasn’t this village a little too tidy?
At this moment, the sound transmission ball in Hu Lanlan’s hand lit up. Lei Yun immediately picked it up and held it to his ear, saying, “Hu Lanlan, what’s wrong?”
You are at the haystack in the yard, carefully said: “I went to the village, no one here, I be careful, these people look not simple.”
Lei Yun heard the words, immediately rushed to.
Hu Lanlan nestled in front of the haystack, carefully aiming at the outside of the yard.
They didn’t notice this place when they first came, so they didn’t check it out. They didn’t expect that there would be people here, and judging from the situation in the yard, they should have been living here for a long time.
Hu Lanlan really wanted to get closer, but the annoying aura outside the yard made her give up this idea.
Hu Lanlan could be sure that there was a Taoist priest in this yard.
When Lei Yun arrived, Hu Lanlan was still nestled in front of the haystack. Seeing her like this, Lei Yun couldn’t help but ask, “When did you become so obedient?”
Based on Lei Yun’s understanding of Hu Lanlan, this fox spirit would never stay here so obediently. With her personality, she would have rushed in long ago.
So there must be something outside that she was afraid of.
Hu Lanlan’s face turned green, obviously knowing what Lei Yun was thinking, and unconsciously rolled her eyes at him, “There’s a stinky Taoist inside.”
Lei Yun was stunned and looked at her. Hu Lanlan tilted her head, somewhat uncertain, “But the aura on this Taoist priest is very special, unlike the ones we’ve encountered before, but I can be sure that he is a Taoist priest.”
Lei Yun smiled slightly, looked at the small courtyard, and said in a low voice, “Since you’re not sure what kind of person he is, then I’ll just go and take a look. As for you,” Lei Yun looked at Hu Lanlan and said with a wicked smile, “I’ll have to trouble you, transform into your original form and stay in my backpack, how about that?”
Hu Lanlan gritted her teeth and said angrily, “You want this beautiful woman to stay in your broken backpack.”
She snorted and turned her head away, “I’m not going in, I’ll just wait here.” After saying that, she plopped down on the haystack.
Lei Yun raised his eyebrows, looked at her proud and angry appearance, grinned and said flatteringly, “My good Lanlan, don’t be angry, in the whole world I’m the ugliest, I’ll go in first, it’s so dangerous inside, if I stay here there will be danger.”
Hu Lanlan ignored him and snorted.
Lei Yun scratched his head, and said with a cheeky smile, “Lanlan, please, please, please.”
Hu Lanlan rolled her eyes at him, seeing that his attitude was good, she pursed her lips and reluctantly said, “Just this once.”
Hearing this, Lei Yun was overjoyed, and hurriedly opened his broken backpack, carefully tidying it up a bit. Hu Lanlan suddenly transformed into a black fox, and a pile of clothes fell to the ground.
“You fold my clothes and put them in, that qipao is very expensive.”
Lin Feng nodded with a smile, put the clothes back in, and then carefully let Hu Lanlan jump in, then pulled the zipper and walked towards the small courtyard.
Although the broken backpack looked unremarkable, it was actually quite extraordinary. It was made of a kind of silk that Lei Yun had obtained five hundred years ago, with formations added inside. On the surface, it looked like a black broken backpack, but in reality, it was a storage space that could not only hold things, but also isolate odors.
In the past, when Lei Yun came out to help the underworld, he would let the underworld hide in the backpack to avoid trouble.
As for bringing Hu Lanlan, it was naturally not because he was worried about her safety, but because of her abilities.
What abilities did a fox have? Naturally, it was its sensitivity to smells and its ability to charm.
The small courtyard didn’t look big, with a front and back yard. The front was simply fenced off with some wooden stakes, followed by three tile-roofed houses. There were also houses in the backyard.
“Is anyone there?” Lei Yun stood in front of the yard and shouted.
After a while, the door of the house was creaked open, and a thin old man walked out.
The old man was wearing a wrinkled gray short-sleeved shirt, white trousers, and a pair of army-green liberation shoes stained with mud on his feet.
“Who are you?” The old man’s voice was dry and hoarse, and his narrow eyes stared at Lei Yun.
Lei Yun grinned and looked at the old man and said, “Uncle, I came here to find someone, but somehow, there’s no one in this village. Seeing that your house has signs of life, I just came to the door.” After saying that, he smiled embarrassedly.
The old man didn’t say anything, looked him up and down, and said, “There’s no one in this village, only I live here.”
Lei Yun looked up at the sky, the sun was quickly setting, and the east was already dyed with warm yellow sunset.
“Um, uncle, you see, it’s getting late, how about I stay at your place for one night? I can’t go back now.”
The old man frowned and said slowly, “Come in.”
Following the old man into the house, Lei Yun’s lips slightly curled up, this old man was indeed strange, the aura on his body was neither human nor ghost.
The furnishings in the house were simple, and there were two cups of tea with remaining warmth on the table.
Lei Yun glanced at it and said casually, “Uncle, you live here alone?”
The old man slightly turned his head and swept a glance at Lei Yun, and said, “Yeah.” After saying that, he looked at the tea on the table and said nothing.
At this moment, the curtain leading to the backyard was lifted, and a thick hand came into view.
“It’s me.”
“It’s you.”
Lei Yun and the person who came in said in unison.
The old man looked at the two of them and said, “You know each other?”
Lei Yun took the lead and said, “I and this brother were on the same train, even the same carriage.” After saying that, he looked at Scarface with a smile and said, “Brother, what a coincidence.”
Scarface didn’t refute anything, nodded at the old man, and said, “Where’s the beauty who was with you?”
As soon as he finished speaking, Lei Yun suddenly lowered his head and looked disappointed.
Scarface looked at him curiously, wanting to know what had happened.
“We had a fight after getting on the train at the station, and she left, saying she didn’t want to be with a poor ghost like you.” Lei Yun’s tone was sad, and there was a faint sense of loss on his face.
Seeing this, Scarface comforted him repeatedly, pulled him to sit down, poured him a cup of water, and said, “It’s okay, brother, you can find another woman if you lose one. In this world, three-legged frogs are hard to find, but there are women with two legs everywhere.”
Although he said so, he thought in his heart that this man was finally waking up. What was so good about that dark-faced woman, she was also a stingy poor loser, not as good as himself. After thinking about it, Scarface regretted why he didn’t follow the two of them in the first place, maybe he could have won the beauty.
Hu Lanlan, who heard every word in the backpack, wrinkled her fox face and kicked the wall of the bag twice angrily.
Feeling the movement in the backpack, Lei Yun smiled sheepishly, looking at Scarface with a shy and disappointed look.
The old man’s words broke the atmosphere.
“Qiangzi, take this kid to the room on the east side of the backyard to stay.”
Hearing this, Scarface quickly said yes, and then pulled Lei Yun towards the back.
There were five houses in the backyard, three in the middle and two on the east side. Scarface took Lei Yun into one of them and said, “You can stay here.”
Soon, only Lei Yun was left in the room. Lei Yun closed the door and hurriedly opened the zipper of the backpack, and a fox head popped out.
Lei Yun raised his eyebrows and looked at Hu Lanlan, and asked, “Weren’t you kicking me just now, why don’t you come out?”
Hu Lanlan’s pair of fox eyes looked at him fiercely and said, “What’s the point of coming out, to be caught? Lei Yun, I’m telling you, this old man is weird, very weird.”
Lei Yun touched his hair and sighed with a grin, “Lanlan, you still like this tone of mine.”
Hu Lanlan choked, snorted, and shrank into the backpack and said, “You be careful, this place is too strange.”
Lei Yun’s originally smiling eyes suddenly became solemn. He slowly walked to the side and sat down on the bench, and said, “What’s so strange, we’ll see tonight, won’t we?”