CH 15

Who is Duanmu Aotian?

Xie Fei reacted sluggishly. It was one of the male protagonists that Yu Li had played.

But Yu Li’s expression was even more ugly. He rushed to Xie Fei with a hostile attitude, and wrapped the autumn cold, dragging the person out of the back door.

There was a voice from far away, “What wild chicken is clucking[1]?”

[1] What wild chicken is clucking — meaning to make noise]

Yan Lai: “…”

Only him and Xiang Fei were left in the lobby. Yan Lai looked away uncomfortably, “Hello, how are you.”

Concubine Xiang smiled, got up and walked to him, and handed him a business card: “Hello, Mr. Yan, I’m the manager of the inn.”

Yan Lai resisted the urge to escape, and touched Xiang Fei’s fingertips sneakily when receiving the business card-it was warm.

He heaved a sigh of relief, thinking that maybe people have a strong family gene. Didn’t he also encounter something beyond belief?

Yan Lai plucked up the courage: “You and your grandmother really look alike.”

Xiang Fei:? ? ?

I have never seen my grandmother before.

On the other side, Xie Fei who has been dragged into the garden by Yu Li, asked anxiously: “Wait, Mr. Yan has already seen you, aren’t you worried?”

” Are you not afraid of revealing your position, in case the fans rush here…”

“I know what you’re doing,” said Yu Li, with a cold face, suspiciously.

Xie Fei thought that it is strange that you don’t care, but since Yu Li is not in a hurry, it doesn’t matter, the news can bring us heat. Isn’t it a good thing?

The two went all the way back to Yu Li’s room. When they entered the door, Xie Fei asked casually: “You just left in the morning, why did you come back at night?”

Yu Li sneered: “Why if I don’t come back, you can take advantage of anyone?”

Xie Fei was at a loss: “What advantage?”

Yu Li didn’t speak, but stared at his hand.

Xie Fei grasped Yu Li with a sense of understanding, and shook it gently : “Is this also taking advantage?”

Yu Li’s figure became stiff, and he slammed away like his hands were being scorched, and said uncomfortably, “You touched me. To get away with his demon power, go and wash it!”

“Demon?” Xie Fei was startled. “You mean, Mr. Yan is a demon clan?”

“So.”

“What demon?”

“Chicken demon.”

“…”

It’s really a good day today.

“Then does brother Afu know?”

“Low-level monsters, what do you expect them to know?”

While Xie Fei was thinking about these monsters he was dragged into the bathroom by Yu Li.

As the faucet was turned on, the tap water gushed out.

Yu Li grabbed Xie Fei’s right hand and put it under the water to rinse, and rubbed the back of the opponent’s hand with his thumb until the white skin turned red, when he controlled his strength.

After pressing a few drops of hand sanitizer, Yu Li once again covered Xie Fei’s hand, gently making bubbles in circles.

From the palm of the hand to the back of the hand, to the slender five fingers, inside and out, there is nothing wrong.

Xie Fei’s face was slightly hot, he took a peek at Yu Li, and saw the other person’s eyes lowered, as if he was doing research in a laboratory, and he felt strange in his heart.

But he didn’t say anything.

There was a strong lemon scent floating in the bathroom with the sound of trickling water.

When the voice stopped, Yu Li pulled a pink towel to help Xie Fei wipe his hands, raised his eyes and commanded: “Give me the other hand.”

Xie Fei only struggled for a second, and silently handed out his left hand.

Washing his hands, Yu Li found the tube of hand cream from the cabinet and threw it to Xie Fei.

Although Xie Fei didn’t have this habit, he wouldn’t refuse the other party’s kindness. He squeezed out some lotion and wiped it on his hand, and asked curiously, “Does the chicken demon have any special powers? Does he crow in the morning?”[1]

[1] crow in the morning: A chicken crows because he has an internal clock that helps him anticipate sunrise. ]

Yu Li sneered: “Why don’t you ask him if he can lay eggs?”

Xie Fei confessed: “He is a cock.”

“…”

Yu Li walked to the window and opened the window. “What do you see outside?”

Xie Fei walked over suspiciously , said uncertainly: “Flowers, grass, moon?”

“What he sees is different from you.” Yu Li held the window sill with both hands and closed his eyes slightly to feel the night breeze blowing on his face: “The chicken demon has the instinct of migrating birds, they can sense special magnetic fields, and their eyes can see things that ordinary people can’t see.”

“…ghosts?”

“No”

“It’s said to be magnetic fields. “Seeing that Xie Fei really couldn’t understand, Yu Li said impatiently, “For example, a couple reunited in the yard ten years ago. He may be able to see the scene left at that time. In simpler words, you can treat it as time repeat.”

Xie Fei nodded, seemingly understanding.

“But with his abilities, he can only see up to hundred years ago, and…” Yu Li said with a gleeful smile: “Unless he is in a place full of spiritual energy, his body will be uncomfortable, if no one has been there to help him channel his blood, and he might even be at risk of blindness.”

“Will you help him then?”

Yu Li glanced coldly.

Xie Fei was fearless: “Aren’t you the same kind?”

Yu Li’s face changed when he heard it, “Why, you think I’m a chicken demon?”

“How can I.” Xie Fei put his hand on the window sill and coaxed the other party and said, “Although I don’t know your original form, but it must be very powerful.” 

Yu Li snorted and answered his last question after a while: “It depends on the mood.”

After a moment of silence between the two, Xie Fei asked another thing: ” Mr. Yu, are there any ghosts in the world?”

Yu Li smiled at the corners of his mouth: “Of course there is, one is behind you?”

Xie Fei’s scalp became numb, and he subconsciously looked backwards, of course he didn’t see anything.

He turned his head and looked at Yu Li’s inquiring gaze. The other party asked with a smile but not a smile: “Are you afraid of ghosts?”

Xie Fei was not afraid before, because he didn’t believe it, “If they really exist, normal people would be a little scared, right? But it’s okay, I can’t see it anyway.”

“The human world and the underworld do not intersect, but some people are born with yin and yang eyes, they can see ghosts.” Yu Li looked like he was watching a good show, “Do you want to see ? I can open your eyes for you.”

“I don’t want to, thank you.”

Yu Li narrowed his eyes , “You are really scared.”

Xie Fei was too lazy to retort, shaking his calf leisurely: “So, you can see the underworld?”

Yu Li said with pride, “As long as I want to, I can see it.”

“How can ghosts be distinguished from past scenes? Mr. Yan must have thought he saw a ghost.” Xie Fei suddenly thought that Yan Lai seemed to be afraid of Concubine Xiang, perhaps not just because the picture on the wall it might be because the other party has seen Concubine Xiang a long time ago and was mistaken for a ghost by him.

“I am warning you to stay away from him.” Yu Li looked unhappy: “I don’t like the smell of strange monsters on you.”

“Then what is the smell on me now, Brother Afu’s? Sister Xiang’s?” Xie Fei recalling the scene in the bathroom just now, said: “It should be your smell, right?”

Yu Li’s expression changed, and his neck and ears were stained with light red.

He opened his mouth, but in the end he couldn’t say a word, He just pulled Xie Fei out of the door and closed the door heavily.

At noon the next day, Xie Fei finished the check-out procedures for the two female guests, and saw Yan Lai carrying a backpack. He immediately thought, would the rooster also sleep in?

Where did Yan Lai know what he was thinking, and said awkwardly “Hi”, “About last night…I will keep it secret.”

Xie Fei instantly understood the other party’s hint and smiled brilliantly: “Thank you.”

Yan Lai hesitated for a moment, not restraining his curiosity, “Does he really live here?”

“Occasionally.” Xie Fei had no intention of continuing this dangerous topic, and turned his back on the subject: “Mr. Yan is going out?”

“Yes, I’m going to Shaoyang Town, and I will be back in the afternoon. . ”

” Then I wish you a smooth trip. “Xie Fei pointed to the corner of the lobby umbrella stand, “Weather forecast said there may be showers, Yan Xiansheng can bring an umbrella with you today? “

Yan-lai thought it was too much trouble, but it wasn’t easy to refuse Xie Fei.

His embarrassment was seen by Xie Fei, so he thoughtfully changed his words: “But it is not convenient to bring an umbrella. If it rains, you can buy an umbrella in the town.”

Yan Lai felt relieved and Xie Fei asked if he should take him to the village gate, he waved his hand embarrassedly: “It’s too much trouble, I can go by myself, it’s not far away.”

Xie Fei smiled, “Well then, see you this afternoon.”

Yan Lai walked out briskly. In fact, he stayed up late last night and didn’t go to bed until 4 o’clock in the morning, but after getting up today, he didn’t feel the fatigue he expected, but he was refreshed.

He had a sneaking suspicion that it might have something to do with the inn, but…how he didn’t know.

Maybe he can stay longer here?

Yan Lai walked to the station at the entrance of the village and got on a bus to Shaoyang Town. He listened to music along the way and arrived at his destination in no time.

As a native of Nanshan City, Yan Lai came to Shaoyang Town for the first time. He looked at the bustling crowds and the commercial streets, and suddenly became somewhat uninterested.

Yan Lai went to find a restaurant, and after filling his stomach, he wandered aimlessly around the town.

There are many old buildings in the town, withstanding hundreds of years of wind and rain, they could still stand strong.

He took a few sets of photos from different angles, updated Weibo simultaneously, and unknowingly, he had arrived at the riverside of the inner city.

Thousands of years ago, this was an ancient canal, but with the changes of the times, the ancient canal has also become a scenic spot.

A town citizen wearing a straw hat was sitting on a awning boat and asked him if he wanted to take a boat. Just as Yan Lai wanted to ask the price, the boatman disappeared instantly as if erased by an eraser.

It was clear that the sun was still shining a second ago, but the sun was already setting this second.

In the setting sun, the green river water was stained red with blood, and there were corpses floating on the surface of the river-men and women, old and young, and there was almost no gap between the stacks.

Yan Lai has seen too many unbelievable things in the past month. They have different characters and different plots, but they have never been as bloody as they are today. He froze on the spot, only feeling that bone claws were burrowing out of the ground, and his ankles were firmly gripped by cold, hard bone fingers, trying to drag him into the abyss.

With cold sweat dripping on his forehead, Yan Lai could not restrain his shaking. His right eye was so painful as a needle, but his eyes were uncontrollably focused on a female corpse. The female corpse was facing upwards, and there was a face that Yan Lai had seen before—it was that female student, the female student from the Republic of China who appeared in his room last night.

“Omit–“

Yan Lai began to retching, although he couldn’t vomit anything, but his stomach twitched violently all the time.

At this time, he heard a naive voice: “Uncle, are you sick?”

Yan Lai was startled, the misty right eye gradually became clear, the voices around him were clear, and the sunlight was still there.

Returning to reality, Yan Lai noticed that there was a seven or eight-year-old girl in front of him, wearing a goose yellow dress with a bow tie on her head, and his embarrassment reflected in her clear eyes.

He tried his best not to laugh too ugly, “Thank you, I’m fine.”

The little girl looked at him for a while, took a candy from her pocket and stuffed it to him, turned and ran.

Yan Lai stared blankly at the sugar in his palm, then raised his eyes to the direction where the little girl was, where there were many people of her age who surrounded a stone monument.

The stele[2] is less than one meter high, with no words on it, and bunches of chrysanthemums are placed in front of the stele.

[2] Stele –  ]

A young woman stood beside the children and explained with a small speaker: “In 1937, the Japanese invaders made a major invasion. They occupied Nanshan City and expanded to the surrounding areas based on Nanshan City. However, they encountered fierce counterattacks from the soldiers and civilians of Shaoyang Town. After ten days and ten nights, the victims were countless. Later, in order to commemorate the heroes who died in the battle, the surviving townspeople erected a wordless tombstone on the banks of the inland, hoping that one day, the heroes can return to their hometowns. “

Yan Lai didn’t hear about this history for the first time, but it was unprecedentedly heavy. He thought of his dead grandmother.

When Nanshan City was invaded, my great-grandfather charged against the Japanese in order to protect his wife and daughter. Since then, there has been no news. The grandmother insisted on reading the newspaper every day until she died, hoping to find news about her father.

“Boom——”

Yan Lai recalled those memories at the sound of thunder.

He heard a child asking: “Ms. Li, did we win in the end?”

“Of course, that’s why you can stand here today and listen to teacher telling stories.” The young woman smiled and said, “It’s raining, we should go find a shelter from the rain, everyone hand in hand, follow the teacher, don’t run around.”

After the rain stopped for half an hour, Yan Lai didn’t have the mood to continue wandering.

He silently walked to the wordless stele. The flowers in front of the stele had withered and scattered in the wind and rain, but no one looked after it.

Yan Lai bowed deeply and went to the nearby flower shop to buy a dozen bunches of white chrysanthemums and placed them in front of the tombstone one by one before turning around and walking towards the entrance of the town.

As the bus on the return journey got closer to Xining Village, the sky got darker, and it seems that the dark clouds in Shaoyang Town have followed.

After getting off the bus, it started to drizzle. Yan Lai rushed back to the inn under the rain. As soon as he entered the front yard, he ran into Xie Fei who was walking outside.

The boy held a red paper umbrella and smiled suddenly: “Mr. Yan, why are you still in the rain?”

Yan Lai stood still, letting the rain hit him.

In his eyes, there was no yard or inn, but a bamboo forest.

In the Green bamboo forest, a black-clothed man in a wide-embroidered robe and Xie Fei overlapped. The other party also held a red paper umbrella and walked from a distance, the long sleeves were swaying by the wind, and the embroidered gold lines on the sleeves were looming.

The man seemed to be shrouded in a layer of cloud and mist, separating the world from heaven and earth. Most of his face was hidden by the paper umbrella, only showing the radiant chin and a exquisite and smooth jaw line.

Yan Lai’s throat was hoarse, and his heart was beating like a drum. He couldn’t wait to see the man’s appearance clearly.

The next moment, the umbrella edge lifted slightly.

The author has something to say:

It is said that a chicken can only use one eye at a time, so Yanlai, as a chicken demon, only has one eye that can reflect the magnetic field.

You don’t need to post the picture of the chicken~ There is actually a little angel guessing the camera in front. Do you want to kill me by laughter?