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Laifeng Town at night is much quieter than during the day.The townspeople don't have the habit of walking and lighting lamps, so they can't see any glaring fires outside the windows.

Yin Chun stood in the small kitchen in the backyard where the smoke was rising, numbly stirring a pot of white porridge in his hand.

The Biyu Mansion where the family was married was a very substantial and wealthy mansion long ago.It was only handed down to Cheng Daofeng's generation, and it gradually became poor and dilapidated, turning into a house surrounded by fences and rubble.

Cheng Daofeng dragged two apprentices by himself, and took a cute little daughter with him. The life of the four of them was extremely difficult. In addition, the mansion supported a group of hard-working servants for a long time, and the monthly silver taels were not counted. few.

Therefore, Mr. Cheng advocates frugality. After three meals are full, he must not add supper to the kitchen.

However, at this moment, Yin Chu was busy waving the spatula, constantly stirring a ball of paste in the pot that could be called "white porridge".

This person doesn't really know how to cook, maybe because his brain is too straightforward, the things he makes... are like a pot of dog food.

But the way he cooks is very respectable, he always looks a little patient, and what's more, he still has a kind of tenderness that can't be erased.

The man's facial features are extremely sharp, his eyebrows and eyes are cold and menacing, like a cold knife with a thorn in it.The good thing is that he is unusually tall, and when standing next to anyone, people will be the first to feel his steady and peaceful aura like a mountain, so as to ignore the coolness that radiates from his bones.

Xie Hengyan lay on the stove and stared at it for a long time.Until Yin Chun took the initiative to speak and asked him: "...Where did you come from? It is impossible to let outsiders go up the mountain directly in Fengfeng Town."

Xie Hengyan said without thinking, "I don't know."

Yin Chun raised the spatula coldly: "I don't know, then don't eat it."

"Okay, I'll say it." Xie Hengyan immediately changed his words, and responded casually, "...they came from the other side of the mountain."

"Which side?"

"……there."

Yin Pou shook his hand, half of the salt in the pot was poured into the pot.In order not to let Xie Hengyan find out, he pretended to be calm, while continuing to stir the porridge, he raised his voice and said: "Be clear, don't be sloppy."

"It's... over there." Xie Hengyan was in a hurry, and almost turned over and jumped onto the stove, "How do you tell me to make it clear?"

Yin Chun glanced at him lightly, and probably understood—this person has no concept of geographical location.

"Did you come over the mountain?" He asked.

Xie Hengyan said truthfully: "Yes... I came from the other side of the mountain with the ancestral hall."

Yin Chun still had some disbelief: "How can you climb such a high mountain with your feet?"

Xie Hengyan asked back: "Could it be possible to climb with hands?"

"The other side of the mountain is the sea."

"There is an island in the sea—you don't know that, do you?" Xie Hengyan said proudly, "Otherwise, would I still be able to live underwater?"

...Of course I know.Yin Chun thought that the nearest small island to Fuze Mountain should be Tongjing Island, which is said to be cut off from water and food.

The residents on that island are getting poorer one by one, and the overall number is also getting smaller every year. It may not be long before people move to live elsewhere.

But looking at Xie Hengyan's famished and hungry look, he really seems to have taken refuge from Tongjing Island.

Yin Chun bent slightly, handed the porridge to him with some sympathy, and said, "...Eat it."

The taste of the porridge was very bad. Yin Zhu tasted a spoonful of it himself, and it was too salty. It would be better not to add salt in the first place.But Xie Hengyan took the porridge bowl with both hands, didn't care about the hotness at all, lowered his head in a hurry and started to eat it all, just like him eating steamed buns.

While he was eating, Yin Chu continued to cross-examine: "Where's your family?"

"No." Xie Hengyan thought for a while, then added, "...dead."

Yin Chun wanted to ask something else, but the guy in front of him was fast with his hands and feet, and he finished a pot of porridge very quickly, then stretched again, and walked to Yin Chu's room habitually: "—I'm so sleepy, I'm going to sleep .”

Does he really regard this place as his own home?

Yin Chu couldn't wait any longer, he went up and grabbed his sleeve: "Stop."

"What's the matter, brother?" Xie Hengyan turned around in doubt, "It's so late, people have to rest, right?"

Yin Chun said coldly, "Go back to your own home and rest."

Xie Hengyan yawned lazily: "This is my home."

"If you stay here, if my master finds out...it's not just a piece of talisman that drives people away." Yin Chun said, "Don't cause trouble for others!"

Xie Hengyan took it for granted, "But I'm not a demon... You tell your master that I'm a living god in the shrine, and he will be accommodating."

"dream!"

Without further ado, Yin Chun took a thick wooden stick more than three inches long beside the stove, and said straight to him, "Are you going? If not, I'll chase him away."

"Don't, don't, don't hold a stick."

In the kitchen, a slight spark lingered, the man's dark almond eyes opened wide, and he retreated to the door in panic, while he hurriedly waved his hands to persuade him: "Brother, peace is the most important thing in everything, peace is the most important thing!" ..."

Yin Chun raised his hand abruptly, and there was a burst of candlelight flickering in front of him, causing him to close his eyes forcefully.But it was only for a moment, when he cast his gaze in the direction just now, the bewildered man in front of him was gone.

In a pitch-black kitchen, there was only an empty pot that was still steaming, and a few firewood crackling and burning under the stove.

Yin Chun held the wooden stick and stood there for a while, until he confirmed that the person would not come back to harass him again, Fang heaved a long sigh of relief, put down the wooden stick, fetched water to clean the kitchen utensils, and turned to Exhausted, he returned to his room to rest.

——Mr. Cheng is now old and has an irritable temper. He is suspicious by nature, and he is most taboo about unreasonable things.In addition, the inside and outside of the town are not peaceful at present, and there are endless incidents of vicious and wounded people. The attitude of most townspeople towards foreigners is often more defensive than enthusiastic.

What's more, Xie Hengyan doesn't know whether he is a living person or a wild ghost. He comes and goes without a trace, and is hard to find. If he is really allowed to live in the mansion for a long time, it will definitely bring trouble to the master's family.

Yin Zhen let out a long sigh, turned sideways and buried his face in the quilt.This night I tossed and turned and couldn't fall asleep. For some reason, I always felt that there was someone vaguely hidden in the quilt, but I reached out and opened it, but nothing was seen.

When he got up early the next day in a daze, Kang Wen caught a glimpse of the black and blue circles under his eyes, and covered his mouth and sneered, "What's the matter with you, brother? Did you really let a ghost get on you?"

Yin Chun glanced at him indifferently, and said, "Be careful to let the master hear it, and punish you to kneel down to copy scriptures."

Kang asked Zhixiang to shut up, and finally stopped mentioning the ghost encounter.But he has no other problems with this person. He usually likes to talk badly, and he will say whatever he catches. Now his face changed, and he suddenly approached him mysteriously, pulling Yin Chu by the corner of his clothes and saying: "Hey, I said brother ah……"

"……what?"

Kang Wen narrowed his eyes and smiled like a fox: "Be honest, did you... have you been to the kitchen last night?"

Yin Chun replied coldly: "No."

"What is there to hide between us brothers and sisters?" Kang asked, patting his chest, and said boldly, "To tell you the truth, I secretly hid a jar of pickles in my room, and every night when I was hungry, I would sneak into the kitchen. Cook a bowl of noodles to make do to fill your stomach."

Yin Chun looked sideways slightly, looked at him like an idiot, and said, "...you can tell Master about this."

"I'm telling you this because I obviously want to ask..." Kang asked, sticking close to his ear, and whispered, "The firewood in the kitchen was touched last night, is it because you stole some good food and didn't want to eat it?" Take it out and share it?"

Yin Chun raised his hand and pushed him aside: "You think too much, no."

Kang Wen was skeptical, walked around Yin Chuan twice, suddenly clapped his hands together, and suddenly realized: "Oh... I know!"

Yin Chun's spine stiffened.

"You said you didn't eat it yourself, then..." Kang Wen asked suspiciously, "Could it be that you raised some cats and puppies in your room, and fed them?"

Yin Chun breathed a sigh of relief, and said indifferently: "You say yes, so be it."

"Oh." Kang Wen rolled his eyes and asked curiously, "What did you raise?"

Yin Chun gave him a gouged look: "You want to ask this too?"

Kang Wen accepted it as soon as he saw it, and immediately spread his hands and said: "Okay, I won't ask... Be careful yourself, Master will bump into this matter, and you will have to drown you with saliva."

"Yeah. I know."

"The same goes for Junior Sister. Recently, she is studying female celebrities in the town, so she has no time to come out and make trouble."

Yin Chun nodded, looking calm on the surface, but actually there was already a huge wave in his heart.

Cheng Daofeng's youngest daughter, who was raised by his own hand, is now twenty, almost four years younger than Yin Chun.Don't look at the old man's indifferent appearance, in fact, he loves his daughter very much, and he is willing to give her basically what she wants - maybe it is because of this that she has developed a savage and pampered temperament.

Yin Chun didn't expect this point, but after Kang Wen mentioned it, he felt that it was a very correct choice to drive Xie Hengyan out of the house last night.

However, at noon that day, Yin Chun went to the town to buy a batch of sundries for the renovation of the shrine. When he passed by a delicious steamed stuffed bun shop, he still couldn't hold back and stopped abruptly.

Although Yin Chun's temperament is cold and insensitive, he is not necessarily ruthless.

He thought, he would have to go up the mountain sooner or later anyway, if the "monster" was still wandering around the shrine to harass passers-by, he might as well give him some food, which would be considered a kind deed.

In that case, Yin Chun didn't hesitate any longer, immediately bought a bamboo basket full of meat bags, wrapped it in a cloth in his hand, and walked up the mountain road steadily.