CH 104

Because of Zhu Miaomiao's dislike, the minivan sounded the horn twice in protest. Lu Qingjiu saw this and said, "We are so cute, we don't care about Zhu Miaomiao, we will give you some delicious jelly candies when we get home.

Zhu Miaomiao was so uncomfortable up there that when she got to the bottom of Wu Xiao's building, she almost rolled and crawled out of the van. She was very brave, but she was afraid of these soft reptiles, and the thought of a giant slug underneath her made her feel sick.

Wu Xiao was calm and asked Lu Qingjiu if the car consumed fuel. Lu Qingjiu said that not only did it not consume fuel, but it could also drive itself and even turn into a sports car, making it a must-have for home travel. After all, a good car is every man's dream, and he doesn't care what it becomes.

Zhu Miaomiao stood far away from the van, not even daring to look at it again.

Lu Qingjiu and Wu Xiao got out of the car and walked to the lift inside the garage. Wu Xiao lives in a very nice place, a large flat of more than two hundred square feet, and he is said to be the only person in the house except for his cleaning lady.

When the lift reached the twelfth floor, there was a soft ding, and the group stepped out, Wu Xiao took out the key and opened the door carefully.

It was the first time Lu Qingjiu had been to Wu Xiao's house, and the first thing he noticed when the lights came on was the pile of knick-knacks on the sofa. It was obvious that the real situation was more serious than Wu Xiao had said, and that the things he had brought back from the market were not just the ones he had mentioned.

At Lu Qingjiu's questioning glance, Wu Xiao was a bit embarrassed and coughed dryly before explaining, "I just couldn't resist because there were so many weird and wonderful things."

Zhu Miaomiao let out an odd cry, "How much did you buy?" She walked over to the sofa and casually picked up a rag doll-like toy and gently squeezed it, "What's this"

Wu Xiao said, "A music box."

Zhu Miaomiao: "Music Box"

Wu Xiao nodded and took the doll from Zhu Miaomiao, then twisted the clockwork behind the doll and placed it on the floor. The next moment, the lovely rag doll was dancing on the floor, its body as soft and agile as a human's, its mouth singing a beautiful song, not like a doll made of cloth, but like a ballerina made to look smaller.

It should have been a very cute toy, but the thought of where Wu Xiao had brought it back from made Zhu Miaomiao feel a little creepy and she shuddered, "It's not made out of people, is it?"

Wu Xiao: "I don't think so, I went through the inside and it was indeed cotton."

Zhu Miaomiao is still a bit scared.

Lu Qingjiu sat down on the sofa and as soon as he sat down, he felt as if he had fallen into a soft cloud, all his physical fatigue was relieved and a little lazy sleepiness even surfaced.

"Qingjiu" Zhu Miaomiao saw Lu Qingjiu's puzzled expression, "What's wrong with you?"

Only after Zhu Miaomiao called out to him did Lu Qingjiu realize: "It's so comfortable to sit without this cushion."

Wu Xiao said, "Yes, yes, the cushion works perfectly, it solved my herniated disc problem and I'm thinking of buying another cervical cushion next time"

Lu Qingjiu: "This can also cure a herniated disc"

Wu Xiao: "That's true." Nowadays, office workers sit in front of computers every day, and the lumbar and cervical vertebrae are the hardest hit by diseases.

"Or you can have this," Wu Xiao says generously, "it's really comfortable to sit on."

Lu Qingjiu hurriedly excused himself, saying that he had no use for it at all, and that since returning to the countryside, his lumbar and cervical problems had been well relieved, and he was currently experiencing no discomfort. While Lu Qingjiu and Wu Xiao were talking, Bai Yuehu walked over to the table and picked up the eye-catching red apple. The apple looked very attractive from the outside, the size of a fist, with not a single blemish visible on the red skin, and close to the tip of his nose, he could smell the rich fragrance of the apple.

Lu Qingjiu was watching, and before he could say anything, he saw Bai Yuehu take a bite. The next moment, two neat rows of teeth marks were left on the apple, and a little juice spilled out of the yellow flesh, which showed that the apple was well hydrated.

Zhu Miaomiao gulped at the sight and asked in a small voice, "Is it sweet?"

Bai Yuehu glanced at her without saying a word and passed the apple in her hand to Lu Qingjiu's mouth. Lu Qingjiu took a bite and was amazed. The apple tasted good, sour and sweet with a strong aroma, the flesh was crunchy and full of juice, and the whole mouth was filled with the sweet taste of the apple after eating it.

"It's so delicious." Lu Qingjiu said.

Zhu Miaomiao gulped even harder, but she wasn't brave enough to take on Bai Yuehu, so she could only watch.

"Isn't it delicious?" Wu Xiao was in a wonderful mood when her purchase was praised by Lu Qingjiu, "You finish the apple with just a core left, and it grows back in a night"

"It's still possible," Lu Qingjiu said, "so wouldn't you buy a few more to eat for the rest of your life?"

Wu Xiao said, "Alas, that's all I got, and the second time I went, the kid selling the apples was gone."

Lu Qingjiu listened with great interest as Wu Xiao introduced a number of miraculous objects, and when it was almost midnight, Wu Xiao yawned and showed his sleepiness, Lu Qingjiu suddenly realised that their purpose was wrong. The meeting was a product promotion.

"Okay, okay, let's not talk about that." Lu Qingjiu sat on the incredibly soft cushion, enjoying the feeling of his lumbar spine being massaged, " Bai Yuehu, help Wu Xiao see what's going on with the noise in his ears."

Wu Xiao had already generously given Bai Yuehu his apple, and Bai Yuehu was now nibbling on it with gusto, when he heard Lu Qingjiu's words, he looked up at Wu Xiao.

Wu Xiao was immediately a little nervous at the sight of Bai Yuehu.

"What are your sleeping habits?" Bai Yuehu asks.

Wu Xiao said, "Get used to what?"

Bai Yuehu said, "It's just something you'd definitely take with you to bed, no matter where or when." He paused for a moment to say, "I don't suppose you have this sound when you take a nap at the office"

When Bai Yuehu reminded her of this, Wu Xiao seemed to remember something: "Yes, I didn't have that sound when I was taking a nap."

"So what do you usually take to bed with you?" Zhu Miaomiao asked.

Wu Xiao thought for a moment, "I'm a pretty poor sleeper, if I had to say something I would take with me it would be an eye mask and earplugs."

Bai Yuehu said, "Let me see."

Wu Xiao nodded and went into the bedroom to get his eye patch and earplugs.

"But I bought this online, not at a bazaar." Wu Xiao was a little apprehensive, "What's the problem?"

Bai Yuehu

After picking up the eye-mask and looking at it, he casually put it down and then picked up the earplugs, which were the most ordinary noise-proof earplugs in a small plastic box that looked no different from the usual ones.

It was only Bai Yuehu's furrowed brow that seemed to indicate that there seemed to be something different about the earplugs, and he opened the small plastic case and took them out of it.

The tiny earplugs were cupped in Bai Yuehu's hand as he turned to Wu Xiao and said, "Go and get a bowl of water."

Wu Xiao said yes, rushed to the kitchen and picked up a bowl of water with a bowl and put it in front of Bai Yuehu. Bai Yuehu squeezed the earplug and gently put it into the water.

Wu Xiao immediately became nervous: "Is there something in my earplugs?"

Bai Yuehu.

After the earplugs were put into the water, they didn't sink because of their light weight, but floated on the surface of the water. After about two or three minutes, some strange changes began to appear on the earplugs, with small black spots gradually appearing on the originally light green surface.

Bai Yuehu said, "It's a bug."

The worms, smaller than sesame seeds and looking somewhat like tiny fleas on closer inspection, were forced by the water to crawl out from the inside of the earplugs and cling thinly to the outside of the earplugs.

Wu Xiao looked creeped out, and the thought of having put such earplugs in his own ears made him reach out and cover his ears with a trembling voice: "It's these things that are crumbling inside my ears"

Bai Yuehu said, "Sort of."

Wu Xiao became dizzy: "Then wouldn't I probably have these things in my ears too?"

Bai Yuehu said, "No, they can't survive on a human body." His eyes went to the bedroom, "There should be another source for these little bugs, did you bring something back from outside and put it in the bedroom."

Wu Xiao said, "That's quite a lot of stuff to bring back."

Bai Yuehu walks into the bedroom and looks around the bedroom before quickly spotting the pillow on Wu Xiao's bed, which is tattooed with an emerald bamboo design.

Wu Xiao followed Bai Yuehu's line of sight and hastily explained that he had bought this pillow from the market and that he had been sleeping poorly for some time, but after using this pillow, he had gotten better immediately. There were no strange noises at the time, so Wu Xiao was quite relieved. Besides, he changed his room and still had the sound, so he didn't suspect the pillow.

Bai Yuehu picked up the pillow and tore the outer fabric to reveal the cotton inside, then stuck his hand inside the cotton and pulled out a large pile.

After the cotton fell to the ground, the other three quickly noticed that there seemed to be something else hidden inside the cotton, Lu Qingjiu bent down and found a small milky white pellet inside the cotton, he picked it up with his hand: "What is this?"

Bai Yuehu said calmly, "Worm eggs."

The expressions of the three men changed, and Lu Qingjiu hurriedly threw the insect eggs in his hand to the ground.

"It's okay, the eggs won't hatch under normal circumstances." Bai Yuehu said.

Wu Xiao was already so frightened that his consciousness was blurred, and he dared not imagine how many worms had hatched from inside his pillow while he slept, crawling down his ear canal and making strange noises in his ears every night.

Zhu Miaomiao, a girl who was afraid of bugs, had a face no better than Wu Xiao's, and her voice was distorted: "So, under what conditions will these bugs hatch?"

Bai Yuehu calmly grabbed one of the eggs and, after a closer look, remarked, "They seem to feed on the dream world."

This is similar to a dream net, but the dream net captures nightmares, these worms do not distinguish between beautiful dreams and nightmares, they all eat them up and sleep much better without them, only that as they devour more and more dreams, the worms begin to hatch. But because worms cannot live in the human ear canal, Old Tree was unable to detect the abnormalities in Wu Xiao's body, resulting in Wu Xiao carrying on with the noise pollution for over a month.

Lu Qingjiu was the calmest one compared to Wu Xiao and Zhu Miaomiao, who seemed to be on the verge of collapse, and was in the mood to ask Bai Yuehu what the bugs were trying to do by crawling into Wu Xiao's ear and why they kept making noises.

Bai Yuehu thought for a moment and looked at Wu Xiao: "Do you want to know?"

Wu Xiao shuddered and said, "Go ahead." The situation was bad enough at this point, and he didn't believe there was anything he couldn't take.

Bai Yuehu said, "They mated inside your ear canal."

Wu Xiao :""

Bai Yuehu's tone was calm, but what he said almost made Wu Xiao faint: "Sound is a way for males to attract females, and although the temperature of the ear canal is not suitable for their long-term survival, it is a good place to lay and incubate eggs. "

"Brother, big brother, please don't say it." For the first time, Wu Xiao found himself so terrified of bugs that his entire scalp tingled and goosebumps rose directly on his arms at the thought of the scene Bai Yuehu described, "I really can't."

Zhu Miaomiao has plugged his ears.

"How do I clean this stuff out?" Wu Xiao is going crazy, "I feel like I have an itch in my head right now."

I've heard of cockroaches accidentally crawling into people's ear canals before, and I thought it was a joke at the time, but now that it's finally happened to me, Wu Xiao can't wait to rush to the toilet and wash his head in a basin.

Bai Yuehu said, "It's okay, they shouldn't have succeeded in spawning yet and your ears are still clean."

Wu Xiao said, "Brother, but you didn't look at my ears."

Bai Yuehu gave him a look, "Not really looking forward to it."

Wu Xiao :""

Lu Qingjiu coughed dryly beside him to suppress the smile on his lips.

Bai Yuehu then briefly told Wu Xiao how to get rid of the bugs, which was actually quite simple, just burn them in a fire. Wu Xiao dared not hide anything and told him everything about the pillow he had bought.

The pillow was bought at a market and was not cheap. The woman who sold him the pillow was a beautiful woman who could see right away that he was not sleeping well and highly recommended it to him. Wu Xiao bought the pillow at home, half-heartedly, but to his surprise it worked very well, but he never saw the woman again. This was normal for a crowded marketplace and Wu Xiao didn't think much of it, so he put it behind him.

"What does the woman look like?" Bai Yuehu asks.

"It's pretty." Wu Xiao said, "But there's not much to distinguish her, if you must say she carries a very beautiful lyre on her back."

Bai Yuehu looked slightly grave as he said, "When does the fair start?"

Wu Xiao said, "It's the 25th of every month, which is probably next Tuesday."

Bai Yuehu said, "When the time comes, you can take us there."

Wu Xiao didn't expect Bai Yuehu to be interested in the bazaar, so he didn't dare to ask any more questions and nodded his head in agreement, and enthusiastically gave Bai Yuehu the apple, asking Bai Yuehu to help him see what else was not working in the house that he could throw out.

Bai Yuehu said, "These things cannot be bought and sold with humans, and it is best if you do not go to the market again, as accidents can easily occur."

Wu Xiao dutifully said yes.

Lu Qingjiu said, "So Wu Xiao is sure there's nothing left in her ear canal, is there?"

Bai Yuehu shook his head to indicate that there was no such thing, but before Wu Xiao's heart could drop, he said that it didn't matter if there was a little bit of it, as none of the worms could survive in his body after hatching anyway, and if he heard the sound again, he could just change the bedding and there would be no problem.

Wu Xiao almost cried as he listened, he didn't want his ear canal to become a hatchery.

Lu Qingjiu wanted to take Zhu Miaomiao home, but Zhu Miaomiao insisted on taking a taxi.

"No, I can't ride in the slug car anymore, I'll die." Zhu Miaomiao cries, pointing to the goose bumps on her arms.

The minivan was next to her, and at her words the horn blared twice with little spirit, and the two round headlights dimmed.

Zhu Miaomiao said, "What's wrong with it?"

Lu Qingjiu said, "It is sad by you."

Zhu Miaomiao :""

"Think about it, how many times, it was the one who got you from the train station to your home and transported so many things for you, it worked so hard and never cried out a bitterness or a tiredness." Lu Qingjiu painfully vindicates his family's cute little lorry, "Even if you dislike it so much, it still wants to take you home safely." The sentimental Zhu Miaomiao's eyes sparkled with tears at Lu Qingjiu's words, and she felt like a heartless scumbag.

Lu Qingjiu patted the minivan's headlights and continued, "If it had eyes, it would be shedding tears of sadness by now, but that's okay, I think it will understand that you don't like molluscs, come on, let me call a taxi for you."

"No need." Zhu Miaomiao finally couldn't stand the unbearably sad atmosphere and hugged the minivan's rear view mirror and cried, "I'm sorry minivan, I shouldn't have disliked you, even if you are a slug, but you're still a good slug why am I so shallow, to dislike you for such a small problem"

Bai Yuehu looked at Lu Qingjiu with a faint smile on his face, but he hadn't noticed before that Lu Qingjiu was a bit of a natural black.

"Do you want another taxi?" Lu Qingjiu asks.

"No more." Zhu Miaomiao wiped away her tears and climbed onto the passenger side of the minivan of her own accord, "I don't mind the minivan anymore."

Lu Qingjiu said, "Okay, let's go home."

Toot toot toot, the minivan sounded its happy horn again and the trio made their way forward to take Zhu Miaomiao home. When Zhu Miaomiao arrived home, he also took the minivan's favourite jelly candies from home and engaged in a food throwing activity, greatly increasing the bond between the one person and the van as Lu Qingjiu watched on with the kind expression of an old father who sees his children quarrelling.

After dropping off Zhu Miaomiao, Lu Qingjiu and Bai Yuehu were about to go back to the hotel.

"Why must Zhu Miaomiao like the minivan" Bai Yuehu asked from the passenger side.

"Because," Lu Qingjiu gripped the steering wheel, "because it saves a lot of money on taxi fares."

Bai Yuehu :""

Lu Qingjiu said, "From Wu Xiao's house to Zhu Miaomiao's house, it will cost at least twenty dollars. He began to calculate the bill in earnest, "And if she is afraid of the minivan, she will have to take a taxi to our house in the future, that will be expensive, it will cost several hundred yuan" he said and twisted his head to look at Bai Yuehu, "You can buy dozens of bunches of ice-cold gourds."

Bai Yuehu rested his voice momentarily, no longer dwelling on the matter, and even felt that Lu Qingjiu had made the right decision.

The minivan blares twice, echoing Lu Qingjiu's words.

"We're going to the fair next Tuesday, so we'll have to give Yin Xun a call." Lu Qingjiu said, "Tell him we have to postpone it for two days."

Bai Yuehu gave an audible yes.

He cried out in sadness when he learned that Lu Qingjiu's return was delayed, saying that he had almost eaten all the pills and that if Lu Qingjiu didn't return, he would have to eat instant noodles. Lu Qingjiu quickly reassured him that there were still a lot of frozen dumplings and buns in the fridge, so he told Yin Xun to hold on for a couple of days and that they still had some unfinished business on their side and would bring Yin Xun some gifts as compensation when they returned.

Yin Xun was sad but had to agree, and Lu Qingjiu said, "Let's do some shopping on Tuesday when we go to the market, I think it's interesting."

Bai Yuehu nods his head in agreement.

Lu Qingjiu took Bai Yuehu to all the famous restaurants around the city for a few days, and gave him a taste of all the good and not so good ones, so that he would not be too easily abducted by others.

On Tuesday, Lu Qingjiu got up early and drove the van with Bai Yuehu to pick up Wu Xiao and Zhu Miaomiao.

Originally, I didn't plan to bring Zhu Miaomiao with me, but Zhu Miaomiao wanted to see the world, so I had no choice but to bring her along.

A few people got into the car and, with Wu Xiao's guidance, soon drove away from the city and reached the desolate outskirts. If Wu Xiao wasn't very familiar with the route, I'm afraid no one would have thought that such a remote place would actually have a crowded bazaar.