At the banquet, Gu Xiaoxiao and her good friend, the second daughter of the Liu family, quickly started playing with their pots, and gradually became immersed in the lively atmosphere...
It was already an hour into the night, and Gu Jiu was still lying in the yard instead of lying on the bed in the house as usual. This was really abnormal.
Gu Jiu, who often practiced Taoism on Earth until three or four in the morning, was very accustomed to the world's way of life of "sleeping outside at sunrise and sleeping indoors at sunset".
Normally, he would go into the house and lie down after dinner, but today he didn't because he was a little worried.
Gu Xiaoxiao went to Liu's house for a banquet. In this world, it was common for women to go out for social events and drink. Only decent men would think it was dangerous or indecent for them to go out at night.
In the past, Gu Jiu didn’t care at all when Gu Xiaoxiao and her sisters went out drinking, but this time it was different because Gu Xiaoxiao went to Liu’s house.
Not many people in the town knew that the Liu Mansion was haunted, and among the people in the Gu Mansion, only Gu Jiu had heard of the "rumor", so he was worried and waited here.
While waiting, Gu Jiu's eyelids were drooping, so he could only drink a lot of cold water to stay awake.
About an hour later, Gu Xiaoxiao came back drunk.
Although her face was red, she walked in a relaxed manner, which showed that she was not drunk.
Women in this world may be stronger than men because their bodies are tempered by the essence of heaven and earth. They can also drink more. Gu Xiaoxiao is the best drinker among them and can be said to be invincible in the Gu family.
After discovering that Gu Jiu was still in the yard, Gu Xiaoxiao couldn't help but exclaimed: "Brother, why haven't you gone to bed yet? Are you waiting for me?"
Gu Xiaoxiao, who was a little shy in front of Gu Jiu, became bolder because of the alcohol.
Her rosy cheeks made her look quite attractive.
Gu Jiu's thoughts were exposed at once, and he couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed, so he could only cough and said, "No, I was just admiring the moon."
Gu Xiaoxiao looked at the dark night sky and said, "What the hell is this moon? It was pitch black on my way back home. I almost fell down. What kind of moon are you looking at?"
Gu Jiu looked at the sky and saw that it was dark and there was not even a star. He was immediately embarrassed.
At this time, Gu Xiaoxiao had already leaned over, and Gu Jiu's eyes were facing the small hill that was so close to her at this moment, and he would die without a burial place.
"Brother, you are so nice to Xiaoxiao. Just let Xiaoxiao carry you back to the house." As she said that, Gu Xiaoxiao, who was half drunk and half sober, picked up Gu Jiu and walked into the house.
"Hey hey hey..." Gu Jiu wanted to resist and struggle, but finally gave up.
Yes, it is much easier to have someone carry you into the house than to walk by yourself.
The time he spent waiting for Gu Xiaoxiao really exceeded the limit of his biological clock, so he closed his eyes while being held.
Gu Xiaoxiao looked at Gu Jiu sleeping on the bed, and her cheeks turned even redder.
She looked around and found that there was no one around. She quickly kissed Gu Jiu on the cheek and then ran out like a little white rabbit.
Then she cried out "Ouch!" and when she was going out, she tripped over the threshold and fell flat on her face.
Perhaps because he was too tired, this was the first time that Gu Jiu did not automatically attack anyone who approached him in his sleep.
Chapter 13 Accident?
In the morning, Gu Jiu woke up and found that he had not taken off his clothes. Then he remembered what happened last night and sighed: "It's a good thing I didn't take them off."
After Gu Xiaoxiao returned safely last night, he was completely relieved. It seemed that the Liu family's troubles had really been resolved.
Before getting up, Gu Jiu circulated the "Jade Crane Power" for a full cycle as usual, and then the meridians in his body suddenly became cool and comfortable.
While washing his face and brushing his teeth, he circulated another big circle of Qi, and his groggy head began to wake up.
Practicing "Jade Crane Power" six times a day has become Gu Jiu's fixed habit.
Why six times, and not seven or eight? Firstly, because this was the limit of his energy. Any more would tire him, just like the weariness of anything yellow during the Sage Time. Secondly, his current body was limited in how much Jade Crane Energy it could absorb each day. It was only about six cycles at most. Any more would be futile.
The banquet at the Liu Mansion ended today. When the last group of guests who stayed overnight left, Liu Hongying couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.
Although the guests had left, after such a lively event, the entire Liu Mansion was still filled with a lively atmosphere, and the gloom in the mansion had long since disappeared.
The banquet tables were still placed in the yard and there was no time to clean them up because the servants in the mansion had been very busy in the past two days. Liu Hongying, who was in a good mood, naturally didn't care about these small details and directly gave the servants half a day off.
Combining kindness and severity, small favors at this time can easily win people's hearts.
The Liu family, having dealt with the disaster of the strange straw man, has returned to normal.
As for Shen Zhu, who had lost his eyes, Liu Hongying had already given him a large sum of money for his retirement and sent him back to his hometown.
But according to the nun, it is better not to go into the attic for the time being.
In the evening, the nun Lingyu said that everything was ready and came to say goodbye.
Liu Hongying tried her best to persuade her to stay, saying that she wanted to play the role of a good host. The nun said that the wine in her house was delicious, and finally agreed to stay for another day.
Now that the disaster was over, everyone in the Liu family relaxed a lot. Naturally, they revered the nun from Taohua Temple who could burn ghosts with fire with her bare hands as a god.
……
At night, there were no stars or moon, and the thick clouds were like balls of cotton wool, pressing the sky very low, as if they were about to fall at any time.
The Liu Mansion was completely silent, with only the chirping of insects to accompany people to sleep.
After so many days, the head of the family, Liu Hongying, finally had a good night's sleep, so even her husband rushed to the guest room to have a good sleep.
In such a tired state, she had lost the idea of torturing her little man.
In the middle of the night, a cold wind blew, Liu Hongying shivered and woke up from her dream.
She saw that the window of the house had been opened at some point. She remembered that it was clearly closed before going to bed last night.
"Xiao Xiang."
"Xiao Xiang."
After calling her personal maid several times without receiving any response, Liu Hongying remembered that she had given these servants a day off during the day.
So she got up and lit the oil lamp in the house, and was about to close the window, but she found an orange-red light in the distance.
That is the direction of the main hall of the mansion.
How could there be light there at this hour?
If there had been a banquet at the mansion last night, with many lanterns hanging outside the hall, it wouldn't have been surprising to see such lights. But the banquet was clearly over, so who had set fire to those lanterns that hadn't been taken down in time?
You really don’t treat my Liu family’s money as money, right?
Liu Hongying took a deep breath, put on a red cloak, took a dagger and a lantern and walked out of the house.
In the light of the lantern, her red cloak was somewhat transparent, and her beautiful figure was faintly visible under the light.
When Liu Hongying walked near the hall, she squinted her eyes and was so scared that her hands shook and the lantern almost fell to the ground.
I saw that the tables and chairs outside the main hall, which had not been cleared away yet, were now full of people, just like at the banquet last night.
But these people just sat there, motionless, like puppets, and looked particularly creepy under the light of the lanterns.
Hello, these relatives and friends who have passed away, why are they all back now?
No matter how brave Liu Hongying was, she was terrified at this moment. She forced herself to suppress the urge to scream and went to find the nun Lingyu.
But as soon as she turned around, she couldn't help but scream and fell to the ground.
At some point, the nun was standing behind her, without a word.
I saw that the nun Lingyu's face was as pale as paper, and her shoulders were strangely hunched. Under the swaying light of the lantern, she did not look like a human!
"Mr. Liu, are you looking for me?" At this time, the nun Lingyu suddenly spoke.
But what was strange was that the voice was actually that of a little girl.
It's exactly the same sound as the burnt straw man!
"Ah! Someone come, someone come!" Liu Hongying drew out his dagger and struggled to retreat, then suddenly bumped into something, and his pupils shrank into two dark dots.
Yes, it was grass, she touched grass, the hay for the scarecrow.
The next moment, a series of crisp popping sounds were heard in the air.
The skin on the nun's cheeks suddenly cracked, and then yellow grass debris grew out...
In just a few breaths, the rotten straw covered half of the nun's face, leaving no eyes!
……
Early in the morning, Gu Jiu woke up on time as usual and practiced the Jade Crane Power as regularly as a primary school student doing the eighteenth set of radio gymnastics every day.
While eating breakfast, he unexpectedly discovered that Gu Xiaoxiao was not there, and couldn't help but ask, "Where is Xiaoxiao?"
Gu Jiu's mother, Gu Xinyue, raised her eyebrows and said, "Don't worry about her. I don't know what happened recently. She said she wanted to lose weight."
"You have a good figure, why do you want to lose weight?" Gu Jiu muttered to himself.
After finishing his meal, Gu Jiu took a nap for an hour as usual, and then began a day of hard work - embroidering half a rose.
Ever since he embroidered the Cloud Sword logo for Gu Xiaoxiao, everyone in the family became fascinated by his craftsmanship.
Not to mention my mother, Gu Xinyue, who wanted him to embroider four pieces of clothing with different flowers; and his kind father also wanted him to embroider a few bamboos, the housekeeper Liu Fang wanted to embroider weeping willows, my third brother Gu Lei wanted to embroider stones, and my fourth brother Gu Xing wanted to embroider pimples, bah, stars.
Gu Jiu's work schedule was suddenly scheduled for a month later, but he insisted on only embroidering half of the work every day, and no one could do anything about it.
At this time, Gu Jiu glanced at Gu Xing and said, "Fourth brother, have you seen Xiaoxiao today?"
Gu Xing shook his head and said, "No, she often ignores me, and I haven't paid attention to her for a long time."
Before Gu Xiaoxiao embroidered the cloud sword logo, Gu Jiu's treatment was similar to Gu Xing's, or even worse.
It's not ignoring, but despising.
But since he embroidered the Cloud Sword logo, the relationship between him and his sister has become very good. Recently, Gu Xiaoxiao would greet him every morning when she woke up.
Gu Xiaoxiao didn't show up today, and Gu Jiu was a little uncomfortable, so he said, "Fourth brother, why don't you go see if Xiaoxiao is there? I have something to ask her."
Gu Xing was speechless and said, "Why did you ask me to go with her? I have too much work to do today."
Gu Jiu touched his nose and said, "If you help me this time, I'll let you queue up for your star."
Gu Xing said excitedly: "Really? That's almost right!"
Having said that, he got up and went to look for Gu Xiaoxiao.
But after coming back, Gu Xing shook his head and said, "I've searched everywhere in the house, but Xiaoxiao doesn't seem to be here. I guess she went out to play again. It's so good to be a girl. You can go out and play without worrying about being taken advantage of. Boys like us are always scared when we go out."
Gu Jiu looked at the other person's face full of "stars" and couldn't help but reveal an expression of "Are you serious?"
"With your looks, are you still worried about being taken advantage of?" - This is what Gu Jiu is thinking, and he is naturally not stupid enough to say it out loud.
However, Gu Xiaoxiao was not at home, which still made Gu Jiu a little worried.
In this world, there is no problem for girls to go out and play and socialize, and Gu Xinyue also gave Gu Xiaoxiao enough authority, as long as she can return home on time at night.
The playful Gu Xiaoxiao naturally often goes out and is addicted to practicing martial arts with her sisters. She doesn't play with men, so she can be considered a rich second-generation with positive energy.
But for some reason, she doesn't go out much recently.
Apart from practicing martial arts, he would just stare blankly, and sometimes there would even be a hint of sadness in his eyes.
Her family thought that she had been infected with laziness by Gu Jiu and wanted her to be more "lively".
But Gu Xiaoxiao didn't want to, and no matter what anyone said, it was useless.
The head of the family, Gu Xinyue, was quite relieved at first when she heard that Gu Xiaoxiao had disappeared during the day, thinking that her daughter had finally returned to normal.
Only Gu Jiu was a little worried at home.
He was worried that Gu Xiaoxiao's seemingly normal absence from home might be an accident.
Chapter 14: Visiting Liu's Mansion in the Rain
Gu Jiu was a little worried about Gu Xiaoxiao's matter, and always felt that something was wrong.
Recently, Gu Xiaoxiao had been hanging around in front of him every morning. He was a little uncomfortable when she suddenly stopped hanging around one day.
Seeing that Gu Xiaoxiao had not returned home for lunch, Gu Jiu went straight out the door.
He originally wanted to report the case, but the government office here was just like on Earth, and would not accept cases of disappearances of less than a day and a night.
Gu Jiu was speechless about his parents' generosity towards Gu Xiaoxiao, but he couldn't blame them because the two of them had always adopted a policy of giving their daughter enough money and then doting on her.
As long as a girl doesn't cause trouble or tease boys, what's wrong with her being a playboy?
His mother, Gu Xinyue, often said that the reason why Gu Ningshuang was so ambitious was because she spoiled him.
Gu Jiu felt a little depressed as he walked along the road. He thought to himself, "Why do I always have to make moves after my relationship with Gu Xiaoxiao improved?"
In the past, Gu Jiu was indifferent to everyone except his father, and felt a bit detached from the world, so he could sleep soundly all day long without any worries.
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