Start from Liaozhai to brush the gods and demons alone

Chapter 9
Zhang Yuner's small courtyard was shrouded in hazy moonlight, quiet and silent.

Xu Ran glanced around, the yard was very clean, there were no girls planting favorite flowers and plants, there was a large row of weapon racks against the wall, and various stone piers for training strength.

After sniffing carefully, the air was filled with faint smell of blood. If he hadn't been a yamen servant for catching robbers and had received some special training, ordinary people might not be able to detect it.

The light in the main room was on, it seemed that Zhang Yun'er was still asleep.

Xu Ran knocked lightly on the door.

Zhang Yun'er's voice came from inside, "The door is not locked."

After coughing lightly, Xu Ran pushed open the door, and immediately smelled the strong aroma of alcohol and meat.

He concealed the door behind his back, and saw Zhang Yun'er sitting alone at the table, with a large piece of soy pork elbow in her left hand, and a white porcelain cup in her right hand, eating and drinking, crying while drinking, her eyes were already swollen.

Seeing that Xu Ran came in, Zhang Yun'er sniffled, "You came just in time, drink with me."

Xu Ran sighed and sat down next to her. There was only a sauced pork knuckle and a jar of shochu on the table, and he said, "It's not good for your health to eat only this in the middle of the night."

"Woooooooo..."

Zhang Yun'er put her arm on her face, lay on the table and began to cry, choked up and said: "My brother is gone, let me have a drink with you, and you're still grinding, I'm so sad..."

"Don't cry, don't cry, I'll drink with you." Xu Ran filled the empty glass with wine and clinked glasses with her, "If you cry again, I'll go back to sleep."

Zhang Yun'er sat up straight, took a sip of the wine, put down the cup and the piece of meat, and picked up the boning knife from the table, with all strokes, she pulled out the bone from the sauced elbow like a butcher cutting a cow.

Then, with a horizontal and vertical cut with a knife, most of the pork knuckle was cut into four large pieces. She used a knife and fork to put a piece in Xu Ran's hand.

"Brother Ranran, it's so late, why do you think of me?"

"Go out tomorrow, don't worry about you."

Xu Ran tried to taste it. The elbow meat was soft, glutinous and fragrant, very delicious. More importantly, through the stimulation of taste, he instantly retrieved some memories related to Zhang Yuner, and he felt a lot closer to him.

Xu Ran took a few mouthfuls, and the more he ate, the more he felt the familiar taste, and the more he felt that he was in front of a kind person.

He took a sip of his wine and said, "Tomorrow I'm going out to invite an expert who subdues demons and demons. I'm worried about something, so I'll come here and ask you."

Zhang Yun'er nodded, "Do you want to ask the guy at the Zhacai shop?"

"That's right, how did you scare him like that yesterday?" Afraid of scaring her, Xu Ran didn't reveal Cao San's real identity, "I don't believe it, but with a pig-killing knife, you can kill a man." The big man was too scared to speak."

"That man is as timid as a mouse." Mentioning him, Zhang Yun'er became furious, "I was just scaring him with a knife. I killed pigs, cattle, and sheep. When have I ever killed a person?
Look, he was scared. When I came to deliver the paper man last night, I took a look at him from a distance, but he ran faster than a rabbit. How could a man be so cowardly? "

That pig-killing knife is absolutely impossible to scare a level 8 monster like that, Xu Ran pondered for a while, and asked: "Think about it, besides those knives yesterday, what special things do you have on you, Yun'er, please?" Believe me, this is important."

"It's gone," Zhang Yun'er thought about it carefully, but still didn't have any clue, she just got up and went to the back room to take out a wicker basket containing clothes, "Look for yourself, I haven't had time to wash the clothes I wore yesterday."

Xu Ran took the willow basket and rummaged through it with hands that didn't stick to grease.

Scarlet tights and outer pants.

Red undershirt and trousers.

Pink hoodies...

This number is really big...

Xu Ran's expression became extremely strange, and he felt that it was not appropriate to look through it, so he covered the willow basket with her coat and pushed it aside.

It seems that there is really nothing that can make a level 8 monster tremble with fear.

Zhang Yun'er saw his expression, and asked in confusion, "Brother Ranran, what's wrong with you?"

"No, nothing." Xu Ran quickly changed the subject, and took off the two broken bracelets from his wrist, "This bracelet is for you to wear, it has the function of protecting the Lord from evil spirits, without its protection, I'm afraid I, like Brother Meng, won't be able to come down the mountain."

As soon as the words came out, Zhang Yuner burst into tears again, so Xu Ran quickly coaxed her.

Zhang Yun'er sniffled and said, "Let me cry again, you coax me..."

"Okay, can I wear it for Yun'er?"

Xu Ran quickly unfastened the buckle of the bracelet and tied it to her wrist.

Turns out the rope wasn't long enough.

Xu Ran was wearing a bracelet with plenty of spares, but Zhang Yun'er's wrist was missing nearly a quarter of it.

Afraid that she would cry again when she saw it, Xu Ran hurriedly got up and went to the back room to find a red rope to help her stretch it.

Seeing Xu Ran's clumsy buckle, Zhang Yun'er smiled through tears, and said, "Just make it longer."

Xu Ran was puzzled, "It's too long and I can't wear it."

"Wearing it on the wrist will affect the work of killing pigs and sheep, so why not wear it around the neck with a longer rope."

Xu Ran took a long red string and put it on her neck. Zhang Yun'er looked down at the crystal clear jade bead, pursed her lips, and leaned her head on Xu Ran's shoulder.

She closed her eyes and murmured, "Of course, I'm so helpless, let me sleep on my shoulder for a while..."

Xu Ran caressed her hair, comfortingly said: "You drank too much wine, go to sleep for a while."

After a while, the elbow meat in Zhang Yun'er's hand fell to the ground, her breathing became more and more even, and she gradually fell asleep.

Xu Ran gently put down the wine glass, hugged her shoulders with one hand and legs with the other, trying to hug her to the bed, but failed to pick her up after trying three times.

Xu Ran intentionally kept his strength at level 1, but he didn't expect it to have such an effect. Zhang Yun'er was woken up by this action.

She blushed and went back to the bedroom by herself.

……

At the entrance of Xixi Village, in a quiet courtyard.

Gu Qingqing seemed to have sensed something, and suddenly raised his head to look somewhere in Xidong Village on the other side.

Seeing her condition, Mama Feng wondered, "What's the matter?"

Gu Qingqing withdrew his gaze, and said lightly: "The protective jade beads left his body, I don't know if something happened..."

"I see you are nervous," Feng Ma said with a smile: "His kindness to us, it is reasonable to say that it is not an exaggeration to promise him with his body. Look, it's worth relying on, and it's a decent person..."

"No," Gu Qingqing shook his head and said, "Based on our cultivation base, even though we are cultivating the immortal way, we have never caused anyone to be contaminated with evil spirits, but the evil spirits have not faded after all.

If they become husband and wife, although it won't make him die suddenly, it will eventually make him weaker and weaker, making it difficult to die well.

In that case, are we repaying him or murdering him? "

"However, after being a husband and wife for five or seven years and giving him three sons and two daughters, we will leave and continue to practice. After we have given him the information, wouldn't it be the best of both worlds?
You must know that the sons born from the combination of a human and a demon are all talented, which is already a dream benefit for the Xu family. "

Feng Ma still insisted on her own ideas.

"This is not perfect enough," Gu Qingqing sighed, "You and I are born from the same root, but your cultivation base has always fallen, it is because your mind is not good enough, so you can do it yourself."

Feng's mother's face changed when she heard the words, "You can't be..."

"will not."

Gu Qingqing replied very simply, and said: "Taking good care of him is also a kind of repayment, the friendship between a man and a woman does not necessarily have to be a husband and wife, and now is not the time to think about it.

That day is getting closer, Taohualing will be destined to become a place of right and wrong.

And Wanxi Town is the closest to Taohua Ridge, so it may become a battleground for all forces. Those harmful things may take the opportunity to harm civilians wantonly. He is an official post, and he will have to contact evil spirits in crooked ways, so we must not be careless during this time , you must cheer up. "

Mama Feng nodded solemnly, and carefully asked: "About that matter, what do you mean..."

"We have stayed here for more than four years. Isn't another purpose to find out the truth about that incident?" Gu Qingqing smiled, "Fortunately, the heavens paid off, and that incident should be true."

Feng's mother also showed a joyful expression on her face, her old face seemed to be a few years younger.

Seeing that she stopped talking, Gu Qingqing said to himself: "Why did the good body protection rosary leave the body? I'm still worried, so let's go and have a look."

Her body quickly faded away, and soon disappeared in place.

……

The backyard of the Zhang Family Courtyard.

Gu Qing's faint phantom stood in the void with his hands behind his back, and in the room below, a fat girl was holding a pork knuckle in her hand, leaning on Xu Ran's shoulder, and gradually fell asleep.

Gu Qingqing blinked her eyes, and moved closer with her floating figure.

Who is this fat girl?

She had the breath of a protective rosary about her.

And the aroma of rich pork knuckle in sauce, and the choking smell of alcohol.

But these auras couldn't cover up the strong murderous aura on her body, how could a mortal have such a thick murderous aura?
This is not a good thing, even if this person is not evil, he has to be careful to conceive his crimes, Xu Ran will be implicated by her...

Gu Qingqing was in deep thought when suddenly his eyes widened with an exaggerated expression of disbelief.

She saw that Xu Ran tried three times in a row, but he still failed to pick up the girl...

……

Gu Qingqing put his hand on his forehead and floated away.

Naturally, she could see that Xu Ran had a special relationship with that girl, so she decided to protect her secretly.

(End of this chapter)