Rules of the Strange: Starting with the Weird Peppa Pig

After all, he had no right to interfere with other people's freedom of residence, and the village did not belong to him alone.

Upon hearing this, the wealthy young men and women present stopped circling around Wuyin and immediately summoned their stewards to purchase land and build houses in the village.

……

Months later, with hundreds of millions of yuan invested, the village was completely transformed into a villa district for the wealthy.

The wealthy also invested heavily in building access roads to the outside world.

This huge investment has spurred economic development in all the surrounding cities, and the local economic momentum is even showing signs of surpassing that of the capital of the Dragon Kingdom.

Honglong and Wuyin still live in the original two small wooden houses, leading a simple and unpretentious life.

Honglong sat in a rocking chair in the courtyard, looking at the bustling scene before him, and sighed with a light laugh.

"Look at this place now, it's no different from the command center."

Wuyin sat in another rocking chair, fanning herself with a palm leaf fan, her eyes closed.

"When we first came to this village, our original purpose was not to live in seclusion."

Upon hearing this, Honglong recalled many past regrets and sorrows, sighed softly, and remained silent.

Fortunately, everyone who settled here was very considerate. Knowing that Wuyin didn't want to be disturbed, they wouldn't go near his residence on ordinary days.

……

The days passed by.

Several decades have passed since the end of the ghost stories.

For the past ten years or so, Wuyin has been having the same nightmare.

In his dream, he was still in the world of ghost stories, surrounded by people he knew best, but he just couldn't get past those ghost stories no matter how hard he tried.

I always wake up covered in sweat.

After waking up, Wuyin saw the bright sky outside the window. There was no huge screen or frightening atmosphere, and she breathed a slight sigh of relief.

But looking at the empty space beside me, an inexplicable sense of loss welled up in my heart.

……

Recently, Honglong has been sleeping longer and sleeping for shorter periods of time, but his favorite place to stay is the rocking chair in the yard.

On several occasions, he slept from the afternoon until late at night on the rocking chair in the yard.

Wuyin could only go to the yard again and again to check if he had fallen asleep in the rocking chair again. If it was cold, she would put a blanket over him, and if it was late, she would wake him up and let him go back to his room to sleep.

One autumn afternoon, the autumn wind swept sycamore leaves to the ground.

Wuyin went to the yard as usual to check if Honglong was asleep in the rocking chair again.

Sure enough, he was lying in a rocking chair, which swayed gently in the breeze.

Wuyin sighed helplessly, walked to Honglong's side, and gently patted the back of his aged hand.

But as his fingers touched the back of the red dragon's hand, his fingertips trembled slightly.

He stood frozen in place, silently watching the peacefully sleeping red dragon.

This time, he did not wake the other person to go back to their room.

In fact, Wuyin always knew that, although he never said it, he always felt extremely guilty towards his deceased wife and daughter.

This time, he was finally able to get a good night's sleep.

Goodnight, Red Dragon.

……

Wuyin chose a feng shui spot on the mountain and personally buried the red dragon.

The rocking chair under the sycamore tree still sways in the wind, but of the two rocking chairs, only one remains.

As time went by, wrinkles gradually appeared on Wuyin's face, and his eyesight deteriorated.

With one person gone, the only sound in his world was also gone.

No one disturbed or intruded; only the sound of the wind accompanied by the sound of sycamore leaves.

Wu Xin came to Xingfu Village many times, wanting to bring her brother back to the city to live, but the stubborn old man always insisted on his own idea.

He said he wanted to be buried here even after he died, because he was afraid that some little devil would come back and be sad if he couldn't find him.

Wu Xin knew that her brother hadn't gotten over that incident yet, so she could only sigh helplessly and leave.

……

A colorful little ball rolled into the yard from outside the wall, startling the napping Silent.

Wuyin shakily picked up her reading glasses and put them on. She saw a little boy clinging to the courtyard wall, trying to climb over to retrieve a ball.

"Little brat, there's a gate over there, why do you have to climb over the wall? Are you trying to show off how tough you are to this old man?"

Wuyin frowned angrily and shouted towards the wall.

This wall is so high, if this little brat falls and gets hurt, his parents will come over and argue with me.

I'm getting old, and I can't win arguments with others anymore.

The little boy on the wall, realizing he had been discovered, scratched his head with a grin, then quickly jumped down from the wall and sneaked in through the gate.

Chapter 269, Extra Chapter 5 (My Name is Li Bufan)

He tiptoed, trying to minimize his presence, and quickly found his little ball in the yard. After getting the ball, he ran outside as fast as he could.

"Why are you running? Grandpa isn't a monster, he's not going to eat you."

Wuyin was getting tired of her extremely quiet life, so it was nice to suddenly have a mischievous little kid barge in.

The little boy turned around stiffly.

He knew this old man wasn't a monster, but everyone in the village said that this old man had defeated more than a dozen monsters when he was young, and was extremely powerful.

He originally admired this heroic grandfather very much, but his parents, and even the whole village, were saying that the heroic grandfather who lived in this house had a bad temper, and if anyone dared to go and disturb him, the grandfather would eat him up like a monster.

So even though all the children in the village greatly admired this heroic grandfather, none of them dared to approach him, fearing that they might anger him and be eaten.

The little boy swallowed hard. He dared not approach the hero grandfather, but he also dared not continue running away, for he was afraid of angering the hero grandfather and being eaten.

Seeing the child standing there in a daze, Wuyin waved to him.

"Little brat, come here and let grandpa take a look."

The little boy seemed surprised that this eccentric hero grandfather would call him over, and he became even more frightened.

However, he dared not disobey the hero grandfather's words, so after encouraging himself for a full minute, he finally slowly moved towards the hero grandfather.

Wu Yin gently rubbed his somewhat dim old eyes and looked at the little boy who had come closer. When his eyes met those beautiful eyes, his heart skipped a beat.

Memories that had been sealed away for most of his life suddenly surged out and flooded his mind, etched onto his small face.

"It looks like him..."

It murmured silently.

The little boy didn't hear what the hero grandpa was saying, but he didn't dare to ask. He just stood there with his head down.

The silent voice trembled slightly.

"Little one, what's your name?"

"My name is Li Bufan."

"Li Bufan? That's a good name. Which elder in your family gave it to you?"

Upon hearing this, Li Bufan instantly perked up and was no longer afraid.

He proudly puffed out his little belly.

"I gave myself that name."

My parents said that when I was little, they would put their phones in front of me and I would write on them. They would recognize the characters and give me that name.

"I was really amazing. Back then, I could only write the two characters '不凡' (bùfán, meaning extraordinary). I wrote those two characters on my phone screen, and that became my name."

After hearing Li Bufan's words and seeing his funny little face, Wuyin couldn't help but burst into laughter.

"Good name, good child, you will definitely be extraordinary in the future."

Li Bufan blushed as his hero grandfather praised him, and scratched his head somewhat embarrassedly.

He couldn't help but think that Grandpa Hero didn't seem as scary as his parents had described; he was actually quite a nice person.

And there's more! You can also brag to your friends that you've met the hero grandpa, and everyone will definitely be envious of him.

Wuyin patted Li Bufan's head, leaned on her cane, and slowly walked into the house. She took out some snacks and stuffed them into Li Bufan's pocket.

His smile was very kind.

"Grandpa doesn't have much good food to offer you, but please don't find Grandpa's snacks offensive."

Li Bufan's eyes sparkled as he looked at the pocket full of snacks.

Although his family is well-off, his parents have always controlled the amount of snacks he eats. Now he can finally eat as many as he wants at once and even share with his friends, as long as they recognize him as their older brother.

Thinking of this, Li Bufan couldn't help but chuckle to himself, and then quickly took action.

"Grandpa Hero, I'll be going now. My little friends are waiting for me outside."

Wu Yin squinted her eyes, smiled, and nodded.

"Okay, go ahead, call him Grandpa Yin from now on."

A clear, crisp reply came from afar.

"Okay, Grandpa Yin!"

Li Bufan walked out of the silent courtyard, feeling refreshed. He had a bunch of snacks tucked into the hem of his clothes and swaggered in front of his friends outside the courtyard.

The group of friends were filled with worry, discussing whether Li Bufan had been eaten by the hero grandpa. When they saw him walk out with a rosy complexion, they all showed surprised expressions.

One of the little girls walked forward with eyes full of admiration.

"Wow, Li Bufan, you're so bold! You actually dared to steal snacks from Grandpa Hero's house!"