Chapter 179

“He originally… just wouldn’t do this…”

Li Zhuiyuan knew who “he” referred to, and also knew why “he” wouldn’t do this.

In fact, the young man himself, at the beginning, didn’t want to take this money either.

Having already reached this stage, the young man’s understanding of cause and effect was already very profound. Even if it was just for self-protection, he shouldn’t casually take on this baseless cause and effect.

But who told Grandpa to tell him to take it?

“He is him, and I am I.”

Li Zhuiyuan never denied his appreciation for Wei Zhengdao. There was even a hint of admiration there, but he never thought he would become the second Wei Zhengdao.

He could borrow from Wei Zhengdao’s brushstrokes and appreciate the scenery on another path.

But in the end, he and Wei Zhengdao walked two completely different paths.

Admittedly, he wasn’t as free, unrestrained, and uninhibited as Wei Zhengdao, but Li Zhuiyuan didn’t feel that his path was necessarily worse than Wei Zhengdao’s.

He originally wouldn’t have done this, yet he did.

Doesn’t this just prove, at least within these two mutually exclusive “time periods,” that his condition recovered faster and more noticeably than Wei Zhengdao’s?

Beneath the peach tree, the wind continued to blow, carrying its will.

“Merit… you’re just going to use it like that…”

“My Grandpa taught me that money earned in hand should be spent when it should be spent, and used when it should be used.”

“Some things… once you start… you can’t stop…”

“I have plenty of merit, more than I can spend, fundamentally more than I can spend.”

When he said this, Li Zhuiyuan himself laughed.

As if catching some of the infection, the peach blossoms danced in the air, and the petals around the young man were particularly dense.

Promoting the formation of ghost fetuses, their forms, after being spurred by resentment, would inevitably seek revenge on those who wronged them. This debt, circling around, would still hang on the young man’s body.

But this little loss of merit, to the current Li Zhuiyuan, really wasn’t much at all.

Some things aren’t suitable for bargaining, because once they are weighed, their nature changes.

But truly, if you were serious, lifting them up and comparing their weight, you could still estimate a three, four, five, or six.

Not to mention the distant past, just the merit of resolving the curse under the General’s tomb and strangling the old hag’s blood sacrifice earlier, compared to the merit from resolving the two natural disasters, what was it to let those three ghosts form with empty hands?

The one under the peach tree naturally knew this point, so its meaning was: you can indeed afford to spend it, but not like this.

It said: “You’ve thought it through…”

Li Zhuiyuan stretched out a finger and flicked the money in his hand twice, making a crisp “pa! Pa!” sound.

“This little bit of money, losing it is losing it.”

Li Zhuiyuan closed his eyes, preparing to welcome the pain.

Every time he made a “stupid” choice, this symptom would appear. He was already used to it.

However,

He waited for a long time, but the pain didn’t appear.

Li Zhuiyuan opened his eyes.

He tightened the fingers holding the money, and they gradually turned white.

No pain meant that his inner heart approved of this choice.

But this wasn’t out of justice, righteousness, benevolence, or responsibility, but purely from a cold, rational perspective. This choice was very self-beneficial.

Along with the pain that would follow every “stupid” act, Li Zhuiyuan would also habitually find a self-consistent reason for himself.

Grandpa’s tricycle rode very slowly, allowing the young man enough time to sit on the tricycle and find a self-consistent reason for his behavior.

Many times, this self-consistency was forced, only to alleviate the pain.

At this moment, he had to take this set of reasons from his mind, air it out, and dry it in the sun:

He actually suspected early on, even was almost certain, that he had received special treatment from Tiandao, and it had an extremely significant relationship with the original Wei Zhengdao.

Too rational, no emotions, even indifferent to relatives by his side. This also meant there were absolutely no weaknesses.

Perhaps,

If he committed a little stupidity, occasionally did something controllable and feminine out of kindness, Tiandao might instead be happier to see it.

On the surface, deductions had to be made, but in places no one knew behind the scenes, who knew if a hand was lifted?

Tiandao didn’t like souls like Wei Zhengdao, but it didn’t dislike having people like Wei Zhengdao go forth and smooth things over.

Coming under the peach forest, finding that it opened the back door, and that it and Wei Zhengdao had extremely deep connections, then having it personally say “he originally wouldn’t do this.”

Wasn’t this deliberately setting up a clear distinction with Wei Zhengdao?

This opportunity was accidental, but the stage and the actors were all found by Li Zhuiyuan himself.

Stepping back ten thousand steps, couldn’t he resolve the pressure surrounding the peach tree forest?

Could he not arrange an array at Old Wu’s home to help those three little ones isolate the influence and shock?

It was nothing more than the cause and effect involving a bit deeper, and the backlash a bit bigger, but that was just going from losing fifty dollars to losing one hundred dollars. To him, a ten thousand yuan household, what was the big difference?

There was no one around, so the play on the stage was just for Heaven to see.

His thoughts returned.

Li Zhuiyuan looked at the money in his hand again.

The matter was still the same, but the nature of the matter was different again.

Only he himself was clear that he made the choice first, then temporarily found the reason.

But who told his brain to turn too fast? He forcibly turned something that was originally a impulsive act of spending money and being stupid into a planned move under deep thought and old schemes.

This feeling was strange.

Immediately, an even stranger scene appeared.

A voice came from under the peach tree:

“You… compared to how he was originally… are much better…”

“Thank you for the compliment.”

Li Zhuiyuan felt he received it with shame. If Grandpa were riding a three-wheel motorcycle instead of a tricycle, he would be able to calmly receive it and conveniently act indifferent.

Now, he couldn’t do these actions; doing them would just be pure acting.

“Young age… navigating the world is not easy… no matter how much you earn… you should still save a bit…”

As soon as the words fell, a gust of wind wrapped the peach petals and covered the position of the three New Villages that Li Zhuiyuan had earlier opened with a peach wood branch.

Then, with speed visible to the naked eye, this piece of peach blossoms began to rot, turning into “spring mud,” completely covering the entire map the young man had drawn on the ground.

Even if he tried to uncover it, he couldn’t see the slightest trace.

Li Zhuiyuan guessed what it wanted to do.

The development of the matter was exactly pushing towards his “old schemes” direction, step by step.

If his brain didn’t turn so fast, if he wasn’t that smart, he should now be asking doubtfully:

“What are you doing?”

Very obviously, it was also waiting for him to ask, considering it a helping hand.

But the young man just stood there quietly, not speaking.

It was a little helpless.

There was fortunate, there was approval, there was also dimness, and more lost.

It opened its mouth and said:

“You are right… you are you, he is he… you are indeed not him… you… are not as smart as him…”

Li Zhuiyuan blinked.

“I have been suppressed for some time… I am tired… my back is itchy… I want to flip over… take a nap… inevitably some places… will not be taken care of…”

This sentence meant that the gap in that place was not requested by Li Zhuiyuan to be released, but that it itself wanted to be released.

Any matters that arise hereafter would have nothing to do with this young man.

This account was thus transferred from the young man’s body to its body.

The young man navigating the world was not easy.

But to it, which was originally in the final stages of self-suppression and waiting for extinction, lice didn’t fear biting.

Li Zhuiyuan sighed and said: “Thank you.”

Originally, it was an impulsive, casual matter that could even help reinforce a bit of the human skin on his face.

The result instead made him feel dirtier than Wei Zhengdao.

But this one sigh again caused it to misunderstand.

“No need to sigh for me… to me… adding this point… is extremely unobtrusive…”

Li Zhuiyuan pursed his lips.

“You are indeed not like him… instead more like the original me…”

Li Zhuiyuan took a deep breath.

Since he was already “dirty,” washing it white was useless, so it was better to be “dirty” more thoroughly.

Since the matter had already developed to this stage, it was better to seek an optimal solution.

The young man opened his mouth and said:

“May I ask, when do you plan to take a nap?”

“Why do you ask that…”

Li Zhuiyuan calculated in his mind:

Tan Wenbin could recover in two days.

Although Yin Meng was poisoned, the effect of vomiting was already showing. Increasing the dose of the antidote, Yin Meng could wake up tonight and get out of bed tomorrow. Moreover, her ability to use poison didn’t require a high demand on her physical state in the first place.

Lin Shuyou was sent to the health center early in the morning. Now his appendix must have been removed and he was lying in bed, waiting to pass gas.

Removing the appendix was just a simple operation, so simple it couldn’t be simpler. The wound was also sutured with thread. Giving him two more days to rest and recover, given his physical quality as a martial arts practitioner, was more than enough.

The three shadows on the beam of the woman’s room, if they didn’t form, wouldn’t take long to dissipate. He had personally observed them and calculated that they could still persist for four days.

For safety, he chose three days.

Li Zhuiyuan opened his mouth and said: “My people still need three days to recover.”

It didn’t speak, quietly waiting for the young man to continue.

“Three days later, you can flip over and take a nap, isolating all the pressure. At that time, I will have sufficient manpower to cope with the chaos that will appear everywhere in Nantong after your pressure dissipates.”

This time, it didn’t not speak, but was silent.

Its earlier meaning was that it could find a reason to deliberately scatter the pressure aimed at the three New Villages, so that the ghosts there could form.

While the young man’s meaning was for it to completely withdraw all its majesty.

At that time, in the past year and a half, those evils that were unable to form due to its pressure might take the opportunity to form. Because this area was too clean, outside evils would also naturally enter to fill this void.

With the current strength of the young man and his team, it wasn’t difficult to cope with this wave in a timely manner.

After all, it was the first time they were born and entered, so there wouldn’t be truly great dangers.

They only needed to wait at ease for labor, strike at fixed points, and were completely capable of eliminating the evil before it harmed people.

During this period, only the gap in the three New Villages could be resolved a bit later, so that those three could form and get revenge.

In this way, the three resentful ghosts in the three New Villages would no longer be the young man’s “sin.” Even if the three resentful ghosts harmed people, as long as the young man finally cleaned up, not only would there be no sin, but there would also be merit.

Looking further, viewing the entire matter, the young man and his team eliminating so many evils in Nantong was protecting the border, securing the people, and sheltering their hometown.

He was like someone who didn’t fear being bitten because he had too many lice… but he was actually using him to brush merit?

But, this was the topic it personally started, and this method was also proposed by it.

In the peach forest, the wind howled, becoming cold.

The wind blew the young man’s clothes, scraping his face, hard and painful.

Li Zhuiyuan knew that it was angry.

Because he was pushing his luck.

The young man bent down and hugged the child inside the small fence, protecting him in his arms.

There was no need to let this child suffer from being involved with him and be blown by this cold wind and something bad happen. After all, Xiong Shan and his wife worked diligently at Grandpa’s home.

But after making this action, Li Zhuiyuan immediately detected that he was dirty again.

Wouldn’t it think he was using embracing the child to hold it hostage?

After all, this child was given a great name by it. For so long, the child was also placed in the peach tree forest every day. Although it didn’t personally nurse the child, the thick and fresh petal bed on the ground absolutely could not have appeared out of thin air. These nearby peach trees might not have shed so many peach blossoms.

The wind blew stronger, almost becoming a sweeping force in this forest.

Even Li Zhuiyuan himself was a little unsteady, and even though he had lowered his head, several fine cuts were blown onto his cheeks.

But at this time, he couldn’t put the child down even more.

Because if he put him down, it would only seem more like taking him hostage than holding him.

On the dam at Big Beard’s house, Xiao Yingying, who was making paper offerings, stood up doubtfully. The wind and sun were clear here, and a row of paper people were safe and sound.

But in that peach forest, there was the sound of wind rolling.

Was this, a fight?

Finally, the wind stopped.

Li Zhuiyuan bent down and re-scraped the scattered petals into a pile, preparing to put the child back on the petal crib.

“Hold him…”

Li Zhuiyuan heard it.

But the young man didn’t stop the action of putting the child back on the crib. After putting him down, he also conveniently tidied up the fence that had been blown crooked by the wind.

After finishing these things, Li Zhuiyuan straightened up and said to the depths of the peach forest:

“This time, I will carry Bembem to chop down demons and eliminate evil.”

Li Zhuiyuan understood what it meant by “hold him.” It was telling him to take the child along and let the child gain some merit.

It would eventually become extinct, and it couldn’t shelter the child for a lifetime.

The best and most practical thing it could give this child for a lifetime was merit beside his body.

As long as this child didn’t seek advancement later, he could retreat and become a wealthy man without loss, with a happy family and continuous offspring.

Li Zhuiyuan: “Many thanks.”

After saying thank you, Li Zhuiyuan turned and left.

From the depths of the peach forest came a faint, long sigh:

“You are right… you are you, he is he… even he… originally wouldn’t have done it to this extent…”

…

Li Zhuiyuan walked out of the peach forest.

If he had a choice, he would prefer to report to the police to solve it.

However, the two children who had flowed away earlier were given medicine by Luo Jinhua and the others. He had heard them say it personally, but there was no longer any possible evidence.

This child who just died at the age of three, one was born incomplete, and the other was intentionally not properly cared for later. There was also no real evidence.

The woman drank pesticide herself due because of excessive sadness.

Even if Luo Jinhua and the others were investigated, they would deny it to their deaths. Even if Tan Yunlong personally handled this case, he would have no way.

Passing by the dam, Xiao Yingying walked down. She reached out and touched her own face.

Li Zhuiyuan understood, walked up the dam, and sat down on a bench.

Xiao Yingying walked over and began to help him treat the wounds.

The cracks blown by the wind weren’t deep and weren’t difficult to treat.

Xiao Yingying’s fingertips wiped some powder and gently touched the young man’s face.

After completely covering these cuts, a smile appeared on Xiao Yingying’s face.

At Big Beard’s funeral, when she first saw this child, she just felt that this child was really good-looking.

Now, so much time had passed, the child had grown a little taller and bigger, already showing the potential of a handsome young man.

“When you grow up, I’m afraid you’ll mesmerize many women.”

Liu Aunt had also said similar words to the young man.

Li Zhuiyuan wasn’t surprised by this; after all, his own father was chosen from Li Lan.

The young man opened his mouth and asked: “Want to have a dream?”

Xiao Yingying: “That night, it was already comfortable. I can still remember it now.”

Li Zhuiyuan: “Next time you want to have a dream, just say so.”

Xiao Yingying: “Okay, I’ll find you next time I want to.”

Li Zhuiyuan glanced at Xiao Yingying. He knew she was saying this deliberately.

Time changes many people, except the dead.

She just felt it was very interesting and meaningful to tease this young man in this way.

She was still that flirtatious.

Li Zhuiyuan stood up, left here, and went back home.

He first went into Yin Meng’s room to take a look and found that Yin Meng was unexpectedly already awake.

Lying on the bed, with open eyes, his eyes were vacant.

This was the body waking up, but the brain was still numb.

Runsheng walked in holding a small bowl.

“Xiao Yuan.”

Li Zhuiyuan looked over and found that the bowl contained rice soup.

Rice soup was also rice oil, the layer of sticky liquid that floated on top when cooking porridge.

Runsheng: “Liu Aunt told me to drink it.”

Li Zhuiyuan nodded.

That was for Yin Meng to drink; it should be effective for Yin Meng’s detoxification, but Liu Aunt didn’t say it directly.

However, when giving Runsheng something to eat, even if it was afternoon tea, you shouldn’t use a small bowl, but a basin.

Runsheng was also clear on this point.

“You feed her.”

“Okay.”

Runsheng sat down on the edge of the bed and took a spoon to feed Yin Meng the rice soup.

“Xiao Yuan, she’s awake.”

“I see.”

“Will her brain not be damaged by this?”

“It doesn’t matter; the damage problem isn’t big either.”

As soon as Li Zhuiyuan finished speaking, Yin Meng suddenly blinked twice continuously.

Was this receiving stimulation, or was it helping consciousness recover?

Li Zhuiyuan: “Runsheng bro.”

“Um.”

“Talk to her more, say some words that easily irritate and choke people.”

“This…”

“This will help accelerate her detoxification and recovery.”

“Okay!”

Li Zhuiyuan walked out of the west room.

Runsheng continued to feed Yin Meng the rice soup while saying:

“It doesn’t matter; Xiao Yuan just said it casually. You rest well and recover slowly. Don’t rush. Even if your brain is damaged by poison, it doesn’t matter. Anyway, the team doesn’t rely on your brain.”

…

Li Zhuiyuan walked to the coffin where Tan Wenbin was lying.

Seven star soul-returning lamps covered the coffin, and the candle flames were much softer than in the morning, indicating that Tan Wenbin’s recovery was proceeding effectively and steadily.

Li Zhuiyuan sat down on a small stool in front of the coffin. There was a fire basin in front, and a layer of cigarette ash had accumulated inside the fire basin.

Picking up a stack of hell money from the side, Li Zhuiyuan flicked his wrist, and the hell money scattered and burned spontaneously.

The moment it was thrown into the fire basin, the flames of the seven candles on the coffin cover suddenly surged up, becoming thick and high again.

Li Zhuiyuan picked up another stack of hell money, hesitated a bit, and only took half, throwing it into the fire basin.

The candle flames surged, like the blue flames produced by a fast stove used for cooking at a rural banquet.

After the hell money in the fire basin finished burning, Li Zhuiyuan clapped his hands.

Even with the relationship between Tan Wenbin and himself and his current strength, this was only enough for him to burn up to this point. Burning more paper offerings would cause problems.

Standing up, he went to the basement, opened the rusty door, reached out and grabbed the rope behind the door, and gently pulled it down.

“Bar da!”

Still dark.

He pulled several more times continuously, but there was still no change.

The light bulb had been changed before, but he hadn’t been to the basement for too long, and it hadn’t been used for a long time, causing the “new” light bulb to also break.

He was too lazy to go back and find a flashlight.

Li Zhuiyuan stood in the doorway and snapped his fingers.

“Pa!”

Walking out of his body from the underworld, he separated from his body. His right palm stirred open, and a ball of karma fire rose.

Lifting it upwards, the karma fire turned into a fireball, suspended above, providing light.

Li Zhuiyuan walked into it, searching for the book he needed.

Grandpa’s basement was rich in books. When he had flipped through them before, he was too focused on practicality.

Those books that lectured on consolidating the foundation, cultivating vitality, and health, he felt his age wasn’t right, so he didn’t look at them.

Now, his age was still not right, but some of his companions couldn’t wait.

Even with the ability to look at something twice and never forget, he would still meet the problem of regretting having less knowledge when a book was needed.

Li Zhuiyuan decided to find some health books to read.

In this way, he could not only help them regulate their bodies daily but also provide some developmental guidance on a macro level.

Actually, in terms of value alone, these health books were not inferior to others, even implicitly exceeding them.

Value is something that depends on the audience.

Ordinary people are busy working for meager wages, making “pay attention to rest” and “take care of your health” a kind of blessing.

While those who are very rich and noble naturally know how to cherish their bodies even more, even live longer, and obtain that illusory eternal life.

They were willing to spend an extremely high price to get the “treasure of health” in Grandpa’s basement.

After Li Zhuiyuan finished selecting, he snapped his fingers again.

“Pa!”

The young man standing in the basement doorway opened his eyes, then walked into the darkness in front of his body, opened several boxes continuously, and quickly took out the books he had selected earlier from inside.

Then, holding books taller than himself, he walked out of the basement and up the stairs.

Li Sanjiang was just lying on the balcony rattan chair smoking a stuffy cigarette at this time, and the radio wasn’t turned on.

Grandpa was in a very bad mood, not only because he had been busy but hadn’t received the wages he should have.

People, when they see dirty and disgusting things, will always feel physiologically uncomfortable.

“Xiao Yuan Hou, Grandpa will help you carry them.”

“Okay, Grandpa.”

Even though Li Zhuiyuan could carry them, he still accepted Grandpa’s help.

After putting the books on the desk in the room, Grandpa walked out and sat back on the rattan chair.

A Li was not in the room. The east room door was closed. She should be bathing.

Li Zhuiyuan selected a “Heaven One Cultivate Foundation Secret.” This was a book taught by Tiandao on how to rest the body, in order to accommodate nature, and eventually ascend.

The first half was very useful. As for the second half, it could be ignored.

Li Zhuiyuan didn’t believe in ascending and becoming immortal, let alone eternal life.

He had already lost his childhood; he didn’t want to still lose his old age.

Holding the book, he walked to Grandpa’s side and sat down.

Grandpa was in a bad mood and needed someone to chat with him.

Grandpa and grandson sat together, and the conversation started very naturally.

Grandpa’s various old sayings and sighs followed:

“Where there is a stepmother, there is a stepfather.”

“Now there are more single children. When looking for a partner, try not to find someone with siblings at home.”

“Family members are family members, but family members are also people. Don’t think too highly of family members.”

“Money earned by yourself must be held in your own hands. The money you give out, no matter to whom, is difficult to get back.”

“Big men should have the appearance of big men. You can muddle along, but not be cowardly.”

Li Zhuiyuan read the book while listening, and echoed at the right time.

Old sayings were extremely easy to refute, often with one rebuttal, after all, everything had special cases.

But from another perspective, any sentence that can summarize a truth is unavoidable of being extreme and absolute.

However, after experiencing life, one can often appreciate the truth in old sayings. It may not be right, but it can still cover the lower limit of an ordinary person’s life.

As for that group of extraordinary people, they can be more composed in the secular world. Listening or not listening actually doesn’t matter anymore. But in this world, in the end, the majority are still ordinary people who think of themselves as special.

Li Sanjiang was most dissatisfied with Wu Youhou, this eldest son. He didn’t have much opinion of Luo Jinhua and Wu Changshun, because he had seen many people like them.

The more cowardly and stupid you are, the more opportunities you give people like them to ride on your head, drink your blood, and eat your flesh.

After scolding and sighing, Li Sanjiang’s anger also dissipated.

After all, it was other people’s business. As an outsider, he wasn’t worth investing too much in.

After letting Xiao Yuan Hou help him turn on the radio, Li Sanjiang just patted his own knee along with the sound of the storytelling inside the radio and followed along, chanting a segment.

A Li finished her bath and came out, standing in the doorway of the east room, looking up at the young man.

Li Zhuiyuan put down the book, waved his hand at her, and went downstairs.

The young man pushed the tricycle out and put the small stool on it.

After A Li sat on the tricycle, the young man rode the tricycle down the dam.

He wanted to go to the health center to visit Lin Shuyou.

Uncle Qin stood in the field propping up a hoe, looking at the village road ahead, where a young man and a girl were riding past welcoming the sunset.

He was indeed not as good as him. Compared to his own tension and unease when he was navigating the world, this person was truly at ease.

He even had a feeling that compared to navigating the world, he cared more about the feeling of life.

There was a street stall at the entrance of the health center. Li Zhuiyuan found a relatively clean stall and bought some fried skewers and fried tofu, adding sweet and spicy sauce.

After locking the tricycle, the young man and the girl sat on the tricycle and ate together.

There was no other way; bringing this smell into the hospital ward was not suitable, so they could only finish it outside.

After eating, Li Zhuiyuan picked up a tissue from the stall, first helped A Li wipe her mouth and hands, then folded it again and wiped himself.

A Li watched the young man throw the tissue into the trash can, slightly pouted her mouth, then followed the young man into the hospital together.

Lin Shuyou’s surgery was done early, and he was just lying in bed now.

He had just passed gas and was holding the apple that Xiong Shan had cut for him, gnawing on it bite by bite.

To someone who often seriously injured himself, cutting an appendix was no different from cutting a finger with a sharpened pencil.

“Xiao Yuan bro!”

Lin Shuyou was very happy that Xiao Yuan bro had come to visit him.

Moreover, he had specifically brought A Li along.

Xiong Shan stood up and said very seriously: “The doctor said the surgery was very successful.”

“Um, you worked hard.”

“Should, should.”

Li Zhuiyuan reached out and lifted the quilt. Lin Shuyou understood and untied the elastic band on his waist.

The young man lifted the gauze wrap inside, and the wound was sutured very well.

“Xiao Yuan bro, I’m fine.”

“Rest well these two days. After you leave the hospital tomorrow evening, there will be something to do.”

“Understood!”

Li Zhuiyuan stood at the head of the bed, picked up an orange from the bedside cabinet, peeled it, and put it down.

After confirming the progress of Ah You’s wound and going through the process again, Li Zhuiyuan took A Li’s hand and left.

“That, Ah You, eat the orange.” Xiong Shan reached out to help him take the orange.

“Don’t touch it!” Lin Shuyou called out, then asked, “How do you preserve a peeled orange?”

After leaving the hospital, Li Zhuiyuan rode the tricycle and took A Li to stroll through a stationery store and a small accessories store.

After buying some useless things, the two left.

On the way back, they met a small stall by the roadside. The stall sold that kind of zodiac stone and surname jade.

They were all worthless crafts, and there was also a sign on the side that said “Fixed price throughout the store, no bargaining.”

Li Zhuiyuan stopped and, together with A Li, chose their respective surnames. They also selected the “Li” and “Qin” jade.

By this time, the sky was dark and it was not convenient to delay any longer. Li Zhuiyuan focused on riding home.

A Li, who was sitting in the back, played with the two pieces of jade in her hand.

Any accessory on her body was much more valuable than these. Even buying down the factory that made them was more than enough, but she still played with them dearly.

She untied the jade from her waist and hung the “Li” word jade on it.

Then, she tied the “Qin” word jade to the waist of the young man riding the tricycle.

Li Zhuiyuan turned his head and glanced at her, seeing the girl tying it very seriously and invested.

The sun had set, and the sky was completely dark, but on the young man’s tricycle, there was a piece of sunset.

…

Three days passed quickly.

During this period, Li Zhuiyuan recovered to his past living habits here. Every day he sat on the second-floor balcony reading a book, and A Li accompanied him by his side.

With Li Hua and Xiao Yingying doing the work, Liu Aunt didn’t have many things to do except make meals and incense.

The old lady liked to sit on the dam and watch while drinking tea. She just liked to lean in the kitchen doorway, knocking melon seeds while watching.

That’s right, even if she had knocked out blood last time, she still couldn’t help but want to continue watching.

These bloody melon seeds seemed even tastier.

These days, except for practicing basic skills every night, which couldn’t be missed, Li Zhuiyuan would always practice a set of slow boxing in the early morning. This was something he learned from the health book.

He practiced this not for fighting, but to activate his qi and blood. After each practice, his body would slightly sweat, and he would have a feeling of more abundant energy.

The only impact was that he had to wash a bath and change clothes in the morning.

Tan Wenbin woke up, and the first thing he did was shout that he was hungry.

That meal, Runsheng didn’t even have the nerve to eat, giving his basin to Tan Wenbin.

Tan Wenbin wasn’t polite either, stuffing himself full until his belly was round, then lying on the dam, sunbathing for an afternoon.

In the evening, Liu Aunt made more food, and Tan Wenbin ate another big meal.

It even surprised Li Sanjiang, who asked:

“Zhuangzhuang, haven’t you eaten enough at your maternal and paternal grandparents’ homes these past few days?”

Yin Meng regained consciousness and could move freely.

The first thing she did after waking up was to check if her Gu insect was still alive.

It didn’t move, as if it were dead.

Yin Meng used a simple poison to touch it, and it had no reaction.

For a normal person, they should dig a pit and bury their pet.

But Yin Meng didn’t. She changed to a stronger poison. As soon as the poison was mixed, it hadn’t even approached, and the Gu insect came alive, quickly running three circles on the spot to express its extreme health.

Yin Meng couldn’t help but suspect that she had made the wrong choice.

She originally wanted to find a Gu insect that wouldn’t die from poison. This thing indeed didn’t die at that time, but the reason it didn’t die might not be because of its superior poison resistance compared to other Gu insects, but because it was good at playing dead.

Lin Shuyou stayed in the hospital for three days and came back.

His problem was the smallest. Others were in the realm of metaphysics, while he was in the realm of science.

…

The next morning, Liu Yumei sat in the doorway of the east room drinking tea as usual.

The young man was practicing slow boxing on the second-floor balcony.

She had seen it earlier. This was a set of health and qi-cultivating boxing methods.

This child, at such a young age, already knew how to stay healthy.

Liu Grandma was very satisfied with this.

However, early this morning, Li Hua came up to the second floor with a smiling face, holding her baby son.

Li Zhuiyuan was practicing boxing, and Bembem was placed on the rattan chair.

A Li sat on the rattan chair on the side, watching the young man practice boxing, and didn’t even glance at the child next to her.

Liu Grandma couldn’t help but sigh inwardly:

These two didn’t seem to like small children.

Runsheng was polishing a shovel in the workshop.

This provoked Li Sanjiang to curse: “Early in the morning, Runsheng Hou, what are you doing? Are you still letting people sleep!”

Yin Meng was in her room, putting her poison jars one by one into a bag.

Jars without labels were put in first. After all, there weren’t many with labels, and they didn’t take up much space.

Tan Wenbin sat in a corner of the dam, holding a children’s fairy tale book in his hand, reading stories.

After swallowing the mural resentment last time, the two resentful infants increased significantly, and the whispering voices on his shoulders also became “yi ya yi ya.”

Perhaps, after two or three more waves, the two resentful infants could reach the standard for reincarnation.

Other people’s prenatal education was done after their belly was big.

Tan Wenbin was doing this before the two children reincarnated. He thought this way, after reincarnating in the next life, they would bring a little inertia and feeling, and their academic performance would be better when they went to school.

After finishing this fairy tale book, Tan Wenbin planned to teach them addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.

Liu Yumei saw all of this.

What ordinary people would consider something that would come to pass was often slickness on the market level.

But this kind of thing, how could it fool truly discerning people, and it couldn’t fool ghosts at all.

Truly good at socializing was exchanging emotions with emotions.

Compared to Brother Far’s emotional desert, Tan Wenbin here had an abundance of emotions.

Lin Shuyou then stood on the dam, learning from Xiao Yuan Bro upstairs, and practiced health boxing together.

Although noisy, it was also a peaceful early morning.

Liu Yumei finished her teacup, and just as she was about to taste it, the tea water in the cup suddenly shook.

She lifted her head.

The sky above was still this piece of sky, the clouds were still those clouds, but the invisible cover that originally covered it had been lifted.

Liu Yumei looked towards the direction of Big Beard’s house.

Why did he suddenly hold back his temper for no reason?

This land has been so clean because of you for so long. Now that you suddenly let go, wouldn’t the dirty things just want to take the opportunity to make a comeback?

However, Liu Yumei quickly associated it with the “sparse population” a few days ago, and then looked at the scene this morning where everyone was present and full of vitality.

It was very obvious that Xiao Yuan had known this would happen early on. In all likelihood, this matter was personally promoted by Xiao Yuan.

This child was indeed impressive.

Last time it was Fengdu Great Emperor, this time it was the one under the peach forest.

Although it was said that the latter definitely couldn’t compare to the former, that was definitely not an easy character to deal with.

Even if it was dying and only had one tail left in the world, it didn’t cause trouble and create chaos just because its temper was good, not because it lacked the ability.

Liu Yumei suddenly realized that her Qin and Liu families weren’t also being “manipulated” by this child as part of the plan?

It was a good thing she started recruiting people early and had her granddaughter helping out. Otherwise, this kind of child was fundamentally not easy to manage.

In the end, it was still the Qin and Liu families riding his east wind.

Li Zhuiyuan finished his boxing and clapped his hands downwards.

Below, the big guys changed their clothes and packed their equipment at the fastest speed, put on their backpacks, and went up to the second floor.

Li Sanjiang, who was holding a cigarette and preparing to cough in the morning, was startled by this neat scene and asked:

“What are you doing?”

Li Zhuiyuan smiled: “Grandpa, we are playing a game, chopping down demons and eliminating evil.”

“Puchi…”

Li Sanjiang was amused and laughed.

He saw everyone surrounding Xiao Yuan Hou, and Xiao Yuan Hou placed the child from Xiong Shan’s home in front, and then placed a toy-like compass on the child’s swaddle.

Such an absurd scene, coupled with the serious expressions on the faces of Runsheng Hou, Zhuangzhuang, and the others.

No way, no way, he couldn’t help it, he really couldn’t help it.

Li Sanjiang quickly covered his mouth and hurriedly went downstairs.

The children were playing so seriously, he was afraid that his laughter would break the children’s interest in the game.

Going downstairs to the dam, Li Sanjiang saw Liu Yumei standing there, looking very seriously towards upstairs.

He couldn’t help but smile: “Good kids have watched too many movies. Let them play.”

Liu Yumei looked at this old fellow with a wry smile, sat back down, and picked up her teacup again.

…

Second-floor balcony.

Li Zhuiyuan’s compass was placed on Bembem’s belly.

Bembem seemed to feel itchy and also found it very interesting that so many people surrounded him, so he laughed non-stop, “ge ge ge.”

The one under the peach forest took a nap on time.

Dirty things, were making a comeback.

Li Zhuiyuan’s eyes looked at the compass, continuously drawing circles and marking on the five-part map.

After drawing a map, he handed it to one person. Each person was responsible for one major direction.

Runsheng, Tan Wenbin, Yin Meng, and Lin Shuyou corresponded to the four directions respectively. Each person held a well-drawn circular map in their hand.

Naturally generated ghosts were sparse. After all, this required just the right timing. Instead, those outside evils were impatient to enter and seize ecological positions one by one.

In the past, every single evil could make him feel like facing a formidable enemy, but now, things of this level no longer even required him to personally intervene.

Compared to the truly ferocious beings pushed out by the river water, they were fundamentally not worth mentioning.

“Understand the position clearly, see the situation clearly. Both want to pursue speed and also cleanliness without leaving roots.”

The four stood up and said in unison:

“Understood!”

Li Zhuiyuan put away the compass and hugged the child.

At this moment, he thought of the nickname he had given himself once… Nantong Salvage Corpse Li.

The one under the peach forest couldn’t suppress it forever. It would eventually dissipate one day.

Like the Fengdu Great Emperor sitting in Fengdu, temples everywhere suppressed one side.

People’s names preceded their reputation. Evil often didn’t dare approach dojos with famous deterrents nearby.

Li Zhuiyuan’s gaze fell on the distant field,

And he opened his mouth and said:

“It’s time to let them know whose territory Nantong is, exactly.”