Crazy involution in male-oriented novels, my senior brother has set his sights on me

Lin Hao walked closer and saw that there were sugar cakes on the plate, with steam still rising from them, obviously freshly baked.

It seems that this is a person with a hard mouth but a soft heart.

Lin Hao said: "It seems that the people in this village are very caring towards Zhou Zijin."

"Who is it?" As soon as Lin Hao finished speaking, the child in the room stopped sobbing and shouted vigilantly.

Lin Hao looked at Lin Jinxing beside him in surprise and said, "He can really see us and hear us talking!"

Lin Jinxing's expression was very serious at this time. Under normal circumstances, in this environment where the soul is completely trapped in the cycle of memories, they cannot see outsiders.

But the child in front of him, even if he is not a soul but just an existence made up of resentment, belongs to this space and can actually see them!

The fact that this child could find them only proves that there is more resentment here than they imagined.

While Lin Jinxing was still thinking about how to respond, he heard a "crunch".

The door of Zhou Zijin's house had been opened a crack from the inside, and he looked at the two people outside the door vigilantly.

"Who are you? I noticed you two at the entrance of the village just now. What are you doing in my house?"

Lin Hao and Lin Jinxing looked at each other. As expected, the child had noticed them when they were at the entrance of the village.

Lin Jinxing shook his head slightly, indicating that he would wait and see.

Lin Hao understood what his senior brother meant and nodded in agreement.

Then Lin Hao gave Zhou Zijin a gentle smile. "Don't worry, we are not bad people."

Zhou Zijin moved closer cautiously and closed the door a little, leaving only a thin gap.

"That's what bad guys say, they're not bad guys!"

Lin Hao, Lin Jinxing: "..."

How are they supposed to explain this?

Before the two could explain, Zhou Zijin inside said, "Our place is very desolate, even the spiritual energy is pitifully scarce, you can't grab anything."

Lin Hao smiled helplessly, took out a silver ingot and placed it in the crack of the door, then stepped back a few steps and said, "We are really not bad people, we are just passing by here, and we want to find a family to stay for a while."

Zhou Zijin inside the door was silent for a moment.

Then, Lin Hao saw a white little hand reaching out from the crack in the door and taking the silver into the house.

As if confirming that it was real silver, Zhou Zijin opened the door generously.

He still held the silver ingot in his hand. He had never seen such a big piece of silver and didn't know how to hold it for a moment.

"You won't need such a large silver ingot if you stay at my house for a few days. Just one hundred coins... no, fifty coins will be enough."

Secretly, Zhou Zijin wanted to keep the money, but he always remembered what the uncles and aunts in the village said: he should not lose what belonged to him, but he should not take what he should not take.

After some psychological struggle, Zhou Zijin decided to return the silver ingot to Lin Hao.

Lin Hao was slightly stunned. He didn't expect that the first thing the child in front of him thought of when faced with the money was to return it to him.

"You can keep the money if you don't need it. Your uncle has a lot of money, so just think of it as robbing the rich to help the poor. You also said that your village is desolate." Lin Hao pointed at himself, then at Zhou Zijin, "Rob my wealth to help your poverty."

Meeting Lin Hao's smiling eyes, Zhou Zijin couldn't help but blush.

He stepped aside and said, "Then come in. I have another room here. I will clean it up for you two gentlemen in a while."

Without waiting for Lin Hao to call him, Zhou Zijin went out to get a broom.

When he came back, he was still holding the sugar cakes that Aunt Wang had left behind.

Zhou Zijin swallowed unconsciously when looking at the sugar cakes, but he finally handed the sugar cakes to Lin Hao and said, "This is the sugar cake made by Aunt Wang. There are exactly two sugar cakes. You two gentlemen can have some."

Lin Hao smiled and said, "No, we brought food." Then he pulled Lin Jinxing next to him and said, "He is picky and can't eat the food cooked by others. He can only eat the food cooked by me."

Lin Jinxing: “…”

Junior brother, have you ever cooked for me?

Zhou Zijin dismissed the idea and started eating the sugar biscuit, which did not contain much sugar.

But in this remote village, even if there is no sugar in it, it is just a white flour cake, which is something that can only be eaten during festivals.

Finally, Zhou Zijin picked up the biscuit crumbs that accidentally fell on his clothes and put them into his mouth.

Seeing Zhou Zijin finish the cake in his hand, Lin Hao asked: "How do you know that this sugar cake was made by Aunt Wang?"

Zhou Zijin puffed out his chest and said, "I can tell right away from the smell. It's not just the cakes made by Aunt Wang, I can also tell right away from the food made by other uncles and aunts."

Lin Hao smiled and praised: "Your nose is very sensitive, amazing!"

"Not really. I grew up eating at many different houses, so I'm familiar with every dish. Although my parents are dead, the uncles and aunts in the village all take good care of me."

Zhou Zijin looked a little disappointed when he mentioned his parents, but his eyes lit up again when he mentioned the villagers of Zhoujia Village.

Lin Hao then asked: "Since you have so many uncles and aunts who care about you, why did I hear you crying so sadly outside before?"

Zhou Zijin seemed to be thinking about his previous behavior, and his face gradually turned red.

"I failed the disciple recruitment meeting before."

Lin Hao smiled and consoled him: "That's normal. Few people can pass the disciple recruitment conference."

Zhou Zijin did not feel comforted, and his eyes were misty again.

"But...but the uncles and aunts in the village basically emptied their savings to raise money for my journey. Aunt Wang even sold the only pig in the family to raise enough money for the journey. But I was eliminated because I was frightened by a tiger when I first entered the mountains and dared not move.

I really didn’t think about not going up the mountain, I just wanted to find a way to go up the mountain without getting hurt. But they didn’t give me time to think about it.”

Zhou Zijin used his sleeve to wipe away the tears that were about to roll down his eyes, and continued: "I feel especially compared to the uncles and aunts in the village, especially Aunt Wang, who have sacrificed so much for me, but I haven't even passed the first level. Originally, I thought that when I became a cultivator, I must protect everyone in Zhoujia Village, but now..."

Lin Hao comforted Zhou Zijin for a while, and left only after seeing that the other party was in a better mood.

Zhou Zijin also went to prepare the room for the two of them to stay in that night.

Lin Hao and Lin Jin walked out of Zhou Zijin's house and came outside.

Lin Hao pondered and said, "It seems that the cause of the incident did not happen at the disciple recruitment conference."

Lin Jinxing looked at the resentment around him and said, "Let's wait a little longer. Although there is more resentment here than we thought, it seems to be relatively safe at the moment. These resentful souls don't seem to have the intention of taking their anger out on others."

Lin Hao also agreed with his senior brother's words.