God's Gift

"What are you looking at?"

When Lu Keming was distracted, a childish voice brought him back to his senses.

Yu Youyou had already sat up and was staring at Lu Keming motionlessly.

Her originally fluffy white hair was wet by the water, sticking to her body in wisps, revealing her solid body underneath.

Lu Keming concealed the thoughts in his eyes and did not answer Yu Youyou's question. He squatted down, took the ladle beside him, and continued to help Yu Youyou take a bath.

After a long while, he suddenly asked, "How old are you now?"

Hearing this question, Yu Youyou's ears twitched, her eyes widened, and she looked at Lu Keming in shock.

After not getting an answer for a long time, Lu Keming raised his eyes and looked at Yu Youyou, "Hmm?"

Yu Youyou met Lu Keming's questioning gaze and her eyes began to wander. After a long while, she embarrassedly placed her front paw on Lu Keming's hand, spreading out her four toes, including the wolf toe next to it.

"Five weeks?" Lu Keming asked, looking at Yu Youyou's claws.

As soon as Lu Keming finished speaking, the air was quiet for a second. Yu Youyou raised her head and looked at Lu Keming, then realized that he was talking about her current body.

Yu Youyou thought for a while, then silently stretched out her other paw and handed it to Lu Keming. Except for the two middle fingers, the rest were curled up, forming a "yeah" gesture.

Lu Keming lowered his head and looked at Yu Youyou's claws, and fell silent.

After a long while, he asked, "Seven weeks?"

"Yes." Yu Youyou nodded, and a few drops of water fell from her fur and sprinkled on Lu Keming's hands.

Lu Keming nodded, looking at the water droplets on his hands, slightly dazed.

"What's wrong?" When Lu Keming was thinking, Yu Youyou suddenly spoke.

Lu Keming came back to his senses, lowered his eyes and looked at Yu Youyou. After two seconds, he said, "This world is moving backwards."

"I know." Yu Youyou was not surprised at all and answered naturally, "The clothes are a size smaller."

Lu Keming looked at Yu Youyou's nonchalant expression and felt a headache. "What if the traceback doesn't stop until it reaches before you were born?"

"That's nothing." Yu Youyou shook her tail without too many worries. "Even if we go back to the past, tomorrow will still come. Time will always go backwards, and what is supposed to happen will still happen."

"I will still be born." Yu Youyou patted Lu Keming's hand and said with a smile: "Don't worry, just wait for me when the time comes."

Lu Keming was patted by Yu Youyou's wet paws. He chuckled and asked, "How do you know that time will go to the time when you were born, instead of going back to before you were born?"

When Yu Youyou heard this question, she rolled her eyes, straightened her back and replied, "I guessed."

"We'll see when the time comes." After saying that, Yu Youyou quickly added.

Lu Keming sighed and had no choice but to give up.

He took out a towel, dried Yu Youyou's fur, and then carried her out.

Ye Li and the others were still standing under the eaves. When they saw Lu Keming carrying Yu Youyou out, they all had indescribable expressions. Ye Li pursed his lips before continuing:

"I didn't expect that besides the weird Thousand-Faced Buddha, time can also go back. I just don't know what can make time go back?"

Lu Keming glanced at Ye Li, then turned his gaze away with an indifferent expression.

Although he is back in the body of the Ten Thousand Faces Buddha, why would the Ten Thousand Faces Buddha need to turn back time?

It needs girls to be sacrificed by the villagers. Yesterday the sacrifice was going on in an orderly manner, but today everything is reversed. What good will this do for it?

unless……

What happens in the future will force the Ten Thousand-Faced Buddha to go back in time and trap Lijia Village in the cycle of time.

Lu Keming's gaze fell on Yu Youyou's white hair, and his fingers moved intermittently.

Here, Ye Li continued to analyze: "I think there must be a reason for going back in time, and there must be a reason for going back in time yesterday. Did you see any strange things yesterday?"

"Strange thing..." Fang Ziang thought about it carefully, and suddenly came close to Ye Li with a nervous look, and said stealthily: "I had a nightmare last night. I dreamed that a woman crawled out from under the bed and wanted to strangle me, but I ran away. Does this count?"

Shen Minghua looked at the two people leaning against each other, shook their hands, and said nothing.

Ye Li pushed Fang Ziang away and said, "Talk properly, why are you standing so close to me?"

Fang Ziang was pushed away by Ye Li, but he was not angry. He touched his head and smiled.

Shen Minghua stepped forward, separated Fang Ziang calmly, and said to Ye Li: "Yesterday morning, I saw the clan leader's daughter-in-law crying. She had a quarrel with the clan leader's son who had just returned. It seemed that there was something urgent."

"Is it because of the disappearance of the old patriarch?" Ye Li's first reaction was this matter. After all, the villagers had been searching for him vigorously for several days.

"I asked, it shouldn't be this." Shen Minghua shook his head, denying Ye Li's guess, and said:

"But the clan leader's daughter-in-law didn't want to say it. I wanted to ask again the next day, but it turned out like this."

Lu Keming did not participate in their discussion. He just stroked Yu Youyou in his arms and stood aside with a calm expression.

"Perhaps the events in retrospect are related to their quarrel." Ye Li frowned, "Although it is a matter of the future, we should still be able to find clues now. Let's go look for the clan leader's daughter-in-law."

After that, Shen Minghua nodded, and the few of them prepared to set off again. Lu Keming, who was holding Yu Youyou in his arms, suddenly said, "A Chou and Chen Qingqiu had a quarrel yesterday."

As soon as Yu Youyou said this, Lu Keming stopped caressing her and looked down at her.

"Oh, that's right!" Fang Ziang reacted immediately after hearing what Yu Youyou said, "Then Chen Qingqiu wanted to beat Ah Chou, and I went to help her, and she bit me."

After hearing what they said, Ye Li realized that this incident had happened. Although he couldn't determine the cause, he couldn't let go of any clues now, so he decided to investigate.

At this time, Lu Keming, who had not moved at all, raised his heels, and Ye Li glanced at him.

Noticing Ye Li's gaze, Lu Keming raised the corners of his mouth slightly, his smile not reaching his eyes. He looked at Ye Li coldly and asked, "Why, I can't go?"

Ye Li frowned, turned his head, and replied: "Of course, but too many people will be too conspicuous..."

"Youyou and I will go together." Before Ye Li could finish, Lu Keming had already assigned everything, "You go find Chen Qingqiu and the clan leader's daughter-in-law."

Ye Li looked at Yu Youyou, who was smiling in Lu Keming's arms, stroked his forehead, and agreed: "Okay."

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Several people went in different directions.

After the autumn rain, the ground was covered with mud. Even with the help of spiritual power under his feet, the corners of Lu Keming's clothes were inevitably stained with mud.

He glanced at the soiled corner of his clothes with a look of disgust, but when he looked at Yu Youyou who was unable to get out of bed due to the mud in his arms, his heart was filled with joy.

"Why did you think of looking for Achou?" Yu Youyou lay on Lu Keming's arm and looked up at him.

“Well…” Lu Keming’s fair face looked even more gloomy against the gray-blue sky, but because of his good mood at the moment, his voice was light and there was often a smile on the corners of his mouth.

"Don't you want to find her?"