Fantasy Farm

Back home, Lu Qingjiu made a roast chicken for Bai Yuehu. The outside of the roast chicken was covered with a layer of honey. After roasting, the skin became extraordinarily golden and attractive. When eaten, the skin was crispy and the meat was tender. , After one bite, there is still thick gravy, and the unique meaty aroma of chicken lingers in the house, making people want to twitch their noses uncontrollably.

Bai Yuehu still ate the chicken without spitting out the bones as usual, he ate the whole chicken before returning to his rocking chair and sitting again.It just so happened that Li Xiaoyu came from the next door to ask Xiao Hua for advice on the practice questions, so Lu Qingjiu dug out the grapes that had been iced in before from the refrigerator, put them in a bowl and handed them to Li Xiaoyu.

After the grapes are iced, the pulp and juice inside are in the state of smoothie, sour and sweet, which is very refreshing.

Li Xiaoyu and Xiaohua both liked it very much. One person and one pig lay on the table and continued to do exercises that Lu Qingjiu couldn't understand.

After the Shuifeng incident, Bai Yuehu didn't speak much for several days, and completely returned to the lazy state when he first came. Except for eating and plowing, he was almost completely integrated with the rocking chair.

Lu Qingjiu was afraid that he would be in a bad mood, so he thought of ways to make delicious food for him to make Bai Yuehu happy.In summer, everyone likes to eat cold dishes, and the chili oil is used up very quickly. The stock at home has bottomed out. When Lu Qingjiu saw the sun go down, he planned to go to the field to pick some fresh chili peppers to make chili oil.

The chili peppers here are all made by themselves. After the peppers are dried, they are cut into powder, and then sesame seeds and various spices are added to the powder, and then scalded with boiling oil, and the spicy chili peppers are ready.The point of this kind of oily chili is not spicy but fragrant, and it is very flavorful when placed in cold dishes.

Lu Qingjiu went to the field with a basket on his back.

The weather was very hot, even though the sun had set, the heat from the ground still scorched his ankles. When Lu Qingjiu went to the ground, he saw the peppers grown by Bai Yuehu.

The peppers grown by his vixen are really different from the peppers of other people's houses. The peppers are all big and plump. Lu Qingjiu picked one and licked it in his mouth, and he felt a burning pain.After the pepper is ingested, what is given to the mouth is not a taste but a pain. This pain can stimulate the secretion of pleasant substances in the brain... To put it far, the hotter the pepper, the better the quality of course.

Lu Qingjiu picked about two or three catties of peppers, and it was already dark.The night in the mountains is different from that in the city, because there is no light pollution, as long as the weather is fairly clear, you can see the fascinating sky full of stars.There is no moon tonight, but the stars are very bright. Even if you look carefully, you can find a white Milky Way full of stars in the night sky.

The wind at night is different from that during the day, it brings a little coolness, and it blows on people's skin, which feels inexplicably pleasant.

Lu Qingjiu put the peppers he had picked in the field into the bamboo basket he was carrying, packed them up, and started walking home.

He took two steps forward, but he seemed to have kicked something under his feet. When Lu Qingjiu looked down, he saw a hundred-yuan bill lying beside his feet, which was particularly eye-catching in the black mud.

"Who lost the money?" Lu Qingjiu bent down and picked up the money. Everyone in the village is not rich, and 100 yuan is not a small amount. If it was lost by some aunt, I'm afraid it will be a month of distress.But having said that, since Taifeng gave him the cloth bag, his luck has improved with a visible trend. Picking up money on the side of the road has become a routine operation. The most exaggerated thing is that he bought a lottery ticket just for fun the day before yesterday. , That lottery actually won the third prize.

But in the end Lu Qingjiu didn't go to redeem the prize, he always felt that this kind of money earned by luck was not reliable.

Lu Qingjiu was thinking about going to find the owner of the coin tomorrow, but he stepped on something. It was hard and a little bit hard. Lu Qingjiu planed it with his hands, and dug out a coin with a very strange pattern from the ground. , This coin is the size of a thumb, and its surface has a dull yellow color. Lu Qingjiu took it into his hand and made sure that it was not the country's common currency, but rather like a game currency left over from somewhere.He originally wanted to take a closer look at the pattern drawn on the coin, but it was too dark and he didn't bring his mobile phone, so he had to give up.

After returning home, Lu Qingjiu stuffed the coin into his pocket casually, but when he stuffed it in, his hands shook inexplicably, the coin fell to the ground, and rolled towards the nearby grass .

Lu Qingjiu reflexively wanted to chase the coin, so he also rushed into the grass, but he regretted it as soon as he entered the grass. He was wearing shorts, and the grass in the grass seemed to have sharp thorns, which made his calf burn. It hurts.

"Ah..." Bending down, Lu Qingjiu saw bright red blood flowing from his calf, he hissed, and wanted to turn back, but when he turned his gaze back to the way he came from just now When he was walking, he was shocked to find that the original road had disappeared—he came to a completely strange wasteland.

Lu Qingjiu froze in place, for a moment he didn't know how to react, he looked around, and saw that there were no roads to walk around, only endless wasteland.On the wasteland, there are only clumps of weeds, all of which have small thorns, and the height is about Lu Qingjiu's waist.

Lu Qingjiu could barely walk two steps, and felt that there were several bloody wounds on his calf.He had to stop for a while and looked around.

Soon, Lu Qingjiu found a rather special thing in this wasteland - a dead tree standing in the center of the wasteland.The dead tree didn't look too far away from Lu Qingjiu, it looked so out of place in the endless grass, there seemed to be crows and other birds sitting on the trunk and standing quietly on it.

Lu Qingjiu walked forward with difficulty. Looking at his blood-stained legs, he couldn't help laughing wryly, and laughed at himself: "That's probably what a mermaid with legs looks like..."

Fortunately, the closer to the tree, the sparser the surrounding weeds. When Lu Qingjiu got under the tree, there was only brown land left.

The crow on the tree trunk seemed to be frightened by Lu Qingjiu who was approaching, flapping its wings and flying towards the distance. Under the night, the singing of birds made the whole world seem quieter. Lu Qingjiu even had a feeling of being abandoned by the world.

But soon, his attention was attracted by something.

It was a stone tablet standing behind a dead tree. Because of the angle, Lu Qingjiu hadn't noticed it until he walked behind the dead tree and saw this extremely abrupt stone tablet.

But when Lu Qingjiu saw the appearance of the stone tablet clearly, he felt that it was not so much a stone tablet, but a tombstone.

One side is forgotten in this world, a lonely tombstone.

It was too dark for Lu Qingjiu to see the words on it clearly. He thought for a while, and after getting closer, he touched the tombstone with his hand, and then began to caress carefully.

The tombstone was rough and cold, and there were not many characters on it, there were about six of them. Lu Qingjiu counted them briefly for the first time, and only began to identify them in detail after the second time.

The first one is love, which is in traditional Chinese, and the second is zi, which is easy to recognize.

However, when Lu Qingjiu touched the third word, the expression on his face froze, and his hands began to tremble a little.One stroke, one stroke, one stroke, Lu Qingjiu touched it three or four times before he was sure that the word was indeed the one in his mind.

Lu Qingjiu's movements stopped for a moment, he was a little out of strength, he leaned on the tombstone and gasped for a few breaths, and then mustered up the courage to touch the fourth word.

The mountain lying down, the inch standing up, that is a search.

The goosebumps on Lu Qingjiu's body immediately exploded. He opened his mouth, but for a moment he didn't know what to say. After repeated confirmation, he finally figured out what the six characters on the tombstone were.

The tomb of the beloved son Yin Xun.

The tomb of Aiko...Yin Xun...

As if getting an electric shock, Lu Qingjiu's hand bounced off the tombstone, and he stared at the tombstone as if he was staring at an evil ghost.

Why is there Yin Xun's tombstone here?Is it a prank?But how could there be such a prank in the world.The smile of his friend appeared in front of Lu Qingjiu's eyes, he seemed to be able to see Yin Xun's bright smile and that playful canine tooth on his lips.

"Lu Qingjiu, Lu Qingjiu." The smiling Yin Xun waved at him, "Welcome back to Shuifu Village."

Lu Qingjiu sat on the ground with a wry smile.

The crow that had left originally came back. It yelled and stopped on the tombstone in front of it. It tilted its head and looked at Lu Qingjiu.In the night when you can't see your fingers, there are stars in those black eyes.

Lu Qingjiu recovered from the shock the tombstone gave him. He wanted to approach the tombstone again, but he vaguely heard someone calling his name.

"Lu Qingjiu, Lu Qingjiu." The call was very faint. At first Lu Qingjiu even thought it was his own illusion, but soon, the voice of the call became louder. Lu Qingjiu followed the call and finally found the voice. The source of the sound——this sound actually came from that black crow.

The crow was a little far away from Lu Qingjiu, and it was hovering in the sky at this time, with a human voice coming out of its mouth: "Lu Qingjiu, Lu Qingjiu—"

Lu Qingjiu tentatively walked towards the direction of the crow, and found that the weeds under his feet began to fade towards both sides.

Like Moses divided the sea.

This is probably the right path. Although I don't know who is guiding him, it is clear that the person who is guiding him is not malicious

The crow was still calling his name, and Lu Qingjiu followed the call all the way forward. He didn't know how long he had walked, until he heard the crisp sound of a coin falling to the ground, which made him tremble all over, and suddenly realized I returned to my original world.

There is no grass, no dead trees, and no tombstones. Instead, it is the familiar land and the faint starlight above.The silver coin was spinning around at Lu Qingjiu's feet. Lu Qingjiu bent down and picked it up. This time, he put the coin safely into the pocket of his coat, and did not roll into the side pocket like before. Among the grass.

Lu Qingjiu, who found the coin, walked towards home. To be honest, if the wound on his calf was not still there, he might feel that he was having an absurd dream.

Lu Qingjiu walked into the yard, and Bai Yuehu, who had closed his eyes for a nap, suddenly opened them and looked in his direction: "Are you injured?"

Lu Qingjiu said: "Well, I was accidentally scratched by a grass thorn when I went down to the ground."

Bai Yuehu's gaze fell on Lu Qingjiu's calf, and he said, "A thorn in the ground?"

Lu Qingjiu nodded.

Bai Yuehu said: "Come here, I'll give you medicine."

Lu Qingjiu originally wanted to refuse, but seeing Bai Yuehu's firm attitude, he had no choice but to agree.He randomly found a chair and sat down, Bai Yuehu squatted beside him, first washed off the solidified blood stains on his feet with clean water, and then put on the special ointment that Bai Yuehu gave Lu Qingjiu before.These wounds are actually just skin trauma, not too serious. After applying the ointment, it feels cool and refreshing, and the feeling will recover soon.

"I... I picked up a coin." Lu Qingjiu lowered his head, looked at Bai Yuehu who was treating his wound with a serious face, and took out the coin from his jacket pocket, "You Do you see anything special?"

Bai Yuehu took a look and shook his head: "It's nothing special."

"No curse or anything?" Lu Qingjiu was a little strange.

"No." Bai Yuehu said, "There is no power on it, it's just an object in the world."

Lu Qingjiu said oh, he washed the coin with clear water and saw the pattern on it clearly, but what made him feel strange was that he seemed to have seen such a coin somewhere, but he couldn't remember it for a while. .

"I was pulled to a strange place by this coin." Lu Qingjiu said with some hesitation in his tone, "I saw a wasteland and a tombstone..."

Bai Yuehu heard the word "tombstone", raised his head and took a look at Lu Qingjiu.

Just when Lu Qingjiu thought he would say something, he said: "If there is anything you want to know, you should ask him face to face."

Lu Qingjiu was stunned when he heard the words: "He?! Do you know what I saw?"

Bai Yuehu nodded.

Lu Qingjiu said: "Then what is the situation? Is Yin Xun a human?"

Bai Yuehu shook his head: "It's better for him to answer this question by himself."

Lu Qingjiu pursed his lips.In fact, after he came back here, he vaguely felt that something was wrong with Yin Xun, but Yin Xun didn't have any intention of harming him, so he didn't go into it.But even though he noticed Yin Xun's strangeness, Lu Qingjiu never thought that this friend he had played with since childhood was not even human anymore.

Bai Yuehu obviously knew Yin Xun's identity a long time ago, but he didn't intend to tell Lu Qingjiu just like that, but let Lu Qingjiu ask Yin Xun himself.

Lu Qingjiu touched the coin in his pocket, thinking that if this is the case, then he should ask Yin Xun tomorrow.

Because he was thinking about something in his heart, Lu Qingjiu didn't sleep well that night, and got up from bed to make breakfast before five o'clock the next day.He thought that since he was going to have a showdown with Yin Xun today, he should have a bigger breakfast.

So Lu Qingjiu specially stewed a pot of chicken soup, wanting to make a few bowls of delicious chicken soup and shredded chicken noodles.

But what Lu Qingjiu didn't expect was that the sun was already above his head, and Yin Xun was still missing.

Sitting in the room waiting impatiently, Lu Qingjiu took out his mobile phone and called Yin Xun, but there was no one answering the phone.

"Yuehu, eat first, I'll go to Yin Xun's house to look for him." Lu Qingjiu said to Bai Yuehu.

Bai Yuehu nodded and picked up the chopsticks.

After Lu Qingjiu went out, he went straight to Yin Xun's house. When he arrived at Yin Xun's house, he knocked on the door for a long time but no one answered.Lu Qingjiu thought for a while, and simply went to find Yin Xun's neighbor, that Aunt Liu who often stuffed Yin Xun with things.

"Aunt Liu, have you seen Yin Xun?" Lu Qingjiu asked.

Aunt Liu was drying the quilt, when she heard Lu Qingjiu's question, she said, "I didn't see it, he didn't seem to come back last night."

Lu Qingjiu said: "What time does he usually come back?"

Aunt Liu said: "It's past ten o'clock. The door of his house is not good. Every time I go home, I can hear him closing the door. What's the matter, Lu Wazi? Something happened to the youngest member of the Yin family?"

Lu Qingjiu said: "No, I just have something to do with him, Aunt Liu, if you see him, tell him to come to me, and say that I don't blame him."

Aunt Liu was a little puzzled when she heard the words, but she didn't ask any further questions, and nodded in agreement.

Lu Qingjiu couldn't find Yin Xun, so he had to go home.

Bai Yuehu seemed to have expected that he would make an empty trip, and did not show much surprise that Yin Xun disappeared.

"Did something happen to him?" Lu Qingjiu didn't answer the phone, his family wasn't there, so he couldn't catch anyone, so he could only go home, and angrily squatted at the door of the house eating melon seeds and complaining to Bai Yuehu, "He ran so fast What are you doing, isn't it me who should run away...he is afraid that I will catch him and eat him?"

Bai Yuehu said, "Maybe I'm a little scared."

"Ah?" Lu Qingjiu turned his head, "What did you say?"

"I said." Bai Yuehu repeated softly, "He may be really afraid that he will be eaten if you catch him."

Lu Qingjiu: "...by whom?"

Bai Yuehu pointed to herself.

Lu Qingjiu was stunned: "You eat? Is he worried that I cooked him and delivered it to your table?"

Bai Yuehu didn't speak, but his expression had already given Lu Qingjiu the answer.

That's right, the former Yin Xun was Lu Qingjiu's friend, and now that his non-human identity is exposed, Lu Qingjiu who was deceived must be very angry, and Bai Yuehu, as Lu Qingjiu's backstage, will definitely help Lu Qingjiu get rid of this Bad breath - the logic is perfect, there is nothing wrong with it.

However, Lu Qingjiu, who had followed the logic, was already so angry that he wanted to hit someone.

"Am I the kind of person who would kill my friends and eat meat?" Lu Qingjiu said angrily, "He doesn't understand me at all!"

"Yes." Bai Yuehu said, "Obviously I am."

Lu Qingjiu: "..."

Probably because Lu Qingjiu's expression was too ferocious, Bai Yuehu said another sentence, his tone was a little cautious: "Yin Xun's meat quality should be good..."

"No! Not approved! Don't even think about it!" Lu Qingjiu ruthlessly refused.

Bai Yuehu sighed, his face full of regret, it seemed that he didn't feel disgusted at all about eating Yin Xun, as long as Lu Qingjiu gave an order, he would be able to open his big mouth contentedly, and swallow the whole belt and bone up.

Lu Qingjiu said: "Then do you know where Yin Xun is now?"

"I don't know." Bai Yuehu is not so interested in inedible food. If Yin Xun really doesn't show up again, he is actually quite happy. After all, there is an extra mouth missing at home, so he is very interested in finding Yin Xun. Yin Xun didn't care about this matter at all.

"But the coin you picked up yesterday should have other uses." Bai Yuehu said, "You can think about it carefully, where have you seen this coin before?"

Lu Qingjiu frowned, he returned to the room holding the coin, put it on the table and observed it carefully.

No matter how you look at it, this is an ordinary coin. Although it is not a circulating coin issued in China, there is nothing special about it.There was a bull in the front, and a crown in the back. After Lu Qingjiu looked at it for a while, he felt a little familiar feeling in his heart.

He has seen this coin, where, when and what scene... What does this coin mean to Yin Xun.

Lu Qingjiu couldn't think of an answer.

It was already noon now, and it was time to cook again. Lu Qingjiu had something on his mind, so he made something casually and ate something with Bai Yuehu.

Bai Yuehu stared at the dishes on the table and fell into thought. Usually there are four dishes and one soup, but today Yin Xun is not here, so they just ate a bowl of fried rice with some pickles.Although the fried rice tastes good, Bai Yuehu has already started to have other ideas...

The food Lu Qingjiu ate did not taste good.He was still thinking about Yin Xun. Yin Xun must be real, otherwise the people in the village would not know him.But obviously some kind of strange change has appeared on his body, to the point that he may no longer belong to the human category, but is moving closer to the non-human.

"Brother Lu." Li Xiaoyu next door had already had his summer vacation, and after lunch he came over to play with Xiao Hua as usual, and called Lu Qingjiu from a distance at the door.

"Come in." Lu Qingjiu came back to his senses and said, "Have you eaten yet?"

"Eat." Li Xiaoyu smiled and looked very happy, "I'll come over and tell Xiaohua that I won't study this afternoon."

"Where are you going to play?" Lu Qingjiu asked.

"Yeah." Li Xiaoyu said, "Xiaolong and I are going to play in the town in Uncle Chen's car."

Xiaolong is Li Xiaoyu's playmate. There are three or four children of Li Xiaoyu's age in the village. They occasionally meet up as companions and go to the town to play. They don't have much money, but they can still have fun. Play game consoles, eat cool popsicles, and visit the only supermarket in the town...

Lu Qingjiu's gaze passed through Li Xiaoyu, as if he saw Yin Xun and himself in the past. He and Yin Xun came here together in the same way back then. The two met each other as companions, talked about many dreams, and made many promises.

Lu Qingjiu put down his chopsticks, lowered his head, and saw the faintly visible coin in his jacket pocket. The next moment, accompanied by Li Xiaoyu's doubtful "Brother Lu?", Lu Qingjiu finally remembered what the coin was. what is it.

This is indeed not an ordinary coin, but a game currency. It is one of the game coins that he and Yin Xun saved hard and bought.They didn't have much money when they were young, and with the pocket money they saved up a month, they could play games two or three times at most, which was already the best thing for Lu Qingjiu when he was young.

And when Lu Qingjiu was about to leave Shuifu Village, the young Yin Xun cried and wanted to hand over the coins he saved so hard to Lu Qingjiu, but at that time Lu Qingjiu had already boarded the train to leave , can only sit in the carriage, through the thick glass, watching the childhood play running along with the moving train, and finally gradually disappearing at the end of the line of sight,

Since then, the two have been separated from each other, and when they meet again, it has been many years.

Yin Xun is no longer the thin young man in Lu Qingjiu's memory, but the smile on his face is still the same, and the canine teeth on his lips are also as playful and cute as before.

"I..." Lu Qingjiu squeezed the coin, his voice was slightly hoarse, and he said, "I remembered."

Come to think of it, what does this coin represent.

The author has something to say: Bai Yuehu: Look at what I found, a wild Yin Xun, with the head removed, has five times the protein of chicken.

Yin Xun: Jiu Er help me ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah

Lu Qingjiu: Bai Yuehu, calm down! ! !