Fantasy Farm

Chapter 98 - A Small Problem

Edited by Zaki

“Do you know Shaohao?” Lu Qingjiu asked.

“Shaohao…” Unexpectedly, the girl shook her head, indicating that she didn’t know. Lu Qingjiu wanted to ask again, but Wang Rumeng urged him, saying that he couldn’t stay here for long, and it would be troublesome if other humans came down and saw him. After saying that, he opened his car door and motioned for Lu Qingjiu to go in. Lu Qingjiu stood at the door without moving, turned his head to look at the mess of things that had fallen on the ground, “Can I pick up these things first?” He had spent a lot of money on them after all.

Wang Rumeng looked at all kinds of food scattered on the ground, thought for a moment, and nodded in agreement with Lu Qingjiu’s request. The girl who had changed into a down jacket got into the back seat of the car first and waited for the two men. It took about five minutes for Lu Qingjiu to pick up all the things that had fallen on the ground. Most of them were not damaged, but the bad luck was that the strawberries, which were very delicate, were damaged after rolling around on the ground, and the box also overflowed with pink juice.

Lu Qingjiu looked a little distressed as he put the strawberries on top of the bag, thinking that he would come back later and buy another box after sending these people off.

After getting into Wang Rumeng’s car, Lu Qingjiu and the girl sat in the back. The atmosphere between the two was very silent, and neither of them wanted to speak. On the contrary, Wang Rumeng asked Lu Qingjiu some questions one after another. It seemed that he regarded Lu Qingjiu as a non-human hidden among human beings, trying to get some words out of his mouth. Lu Qingjiu responded to the irrelevant matters, but regarding the key information, he chose to be perfunctory or silent. Fortunately, Wang Rumeng didn’t intend to ask until the end.

In the car, Lu Qingjiu took out his mobile phone, pretended to check the time, and sent Bai Yuehu a text message, briefly explaining his situation, and wrote the place where he was being taken.

Yinjian Building, to be honest, this name was really ugly. Hearing this name, Lu Qingjiu thought, how could there be such a Yinjian in the world?

Wang Rumeng was observing Lu Qingjiu all the way, he seemed to have developed a strong interest in Lu Qingjiu, his expression was full of assessment. Lu Qingjiu sat in the back and helped Wang Rumeng guide the way without changing his expression until they reached their destination. After the car stopped, Wang Rumeng asked Lu Qingjiu, “Aren’t you afraid?”

Lu Qingjiu asked back: “Afraid of what?”

Wang Rumeng said: “Of course, afraid that we’ll hurt you.”

Lu Qingjiu smiled and said: “I’m an ordinary person, isn’t it easy for you to hurt me? Why will you need to take me so far away?”

It was such a truth, Wang Rumeng laughed and said, “That’s right.”

The girl kept a sulky face and said nothing. She opened the car door and immediately got down without any semblance of politeness. Wang Rumeng seemed to be used to her temper, shrugged and said, “Please.”

Lu Qingjiu said: “You want me to go in?”

Wang Rumeng said: “Of course.”

Lu Qingjiu frowned slightly: “I’ve already helped you reach your destination, why do I have to go in?”

Wang Rumeng said: “We’re all here, don’t you want to go in and take a look?”

Lu Qingjiu: “….”

Wang Rumeng’s attitude was one that showed refusing was a waste. Obviously, if Lu Qingjiu didn’t move, the other party would forcibly move him. In the end, Lu Qingjiu had no choice but to get out of the car and enter the Yinjian building together with Wang Rumeng.

Yinjian Building, although the name was ugly, was still very grand, with more than 200 meters in height. It was a landmark building in this city. Because it was a government office area, the security facilities were very complete. The guard initially wanted to register the identity information of the three people, but after seeing the IDs Wang Rumeng took out, he let them in directly.

The elevator was also specially guarded, and the floor they were going to was pressed for them.

Wang Rumeng asked, “Do you know that you live with a dragon?”

Lu Qingjiu replied: “Of course I know.”

Wang Rumeng said: “Then you know what your dragon’s name is?”

Lu Qingjiu raised his eyebrows: “Why should I tell you?”

Wang Rumeng looked at the rising numbers in the elevator and sighed, “Dragons are very dangerous creatures that can easily get out of control.”

Lu Qingjiu remained silent.

Seeing his silent and rebellious appearance, Wang Rumeng hesitated to speak further, but the girl standing next to him said impatiently: “Okay, what’s the use of asking him so much, you’ll know when you get to the top.”

Wang Rumeng nodded.

Lu Qingjiu still didn’t understand why they had to force him to come here, and what they meant by the meeting. Judging from Wang Rumeng’s attitude, the relationship between non-humans and humans didn’t seem to be as deadlocked as he imagined, and even the upper echelons of human beings should be aware of their existence.

With a ding, they reached the top floor. After Lu Qingjiu got out of the elevator, he was startled by the scene outside. He saw countless strange creatures shuttling through the spacious office, there were even a few Qinyuan who were discussing loudly.

“Here we are.” Wang Rumeng said, “Xiaomei, I’ll deal with his affairs first, you can play by yourself for a while.”

It turned out that the girl’s name was Xiaomei. After listening to Wang Rumeng’s words, she nodded expressionlessly, turned around and left, and Wang Rumeng took Lu Qingjiu to a room in a corner. Lu Qingjiu froze as soon as he entered the room. He didn’t expect to meet an acquaintance, Zhu Rong, here.

Zhu Rong, wearing a red robe, was working with his head down, and when he looked up, he saw Lu Qingjiu, with a look of astonishment in his eyes: “Why are you here?”

Before Lu Qingjiu could answer, Wang Rumeng said, “You guys know each other?”

“Of course I do.” Zhu Rong said, “Why did you bring him here?”

Wang Rumeng said: “Didn’t you say that a Zhulong was causing trouble? Xiaomei said he had the breath of a dragon on him. I was a little worried, so I brought him here.”

Zhu Rong shook his head, indicating that it was not what Wang Rumeng was worried about: “No, this matter has nothing to do with him.”

Wang Rumeng: “Is he the one in the legend?”

Zhu Rong hummed, then looked at Lu Qingjiu again: “Sorry, Qingjiu, he misunderstood.”

Lu Qingjiu asked: “What the hell is going on?”

Zhu Rong sighed, and simply explained the situation. It turned out that after the snow storm in Shuifu Village, five Zhulongs came from another world. Bai Yuehu had killed their combined bodies at that time, but one of the souls had escaped. This matter was quite big, so Zhu Rong notified the non-human beings in the entire jurisdiction, asking them to pay more attention to the surrounding situation, and report immediately if there was anything abnormal.

The higher ups in the human world were indeed aware of the existence of non-human beings, and had allowed them to integrate into human society without revealing their identities. It was just that most non-human beings were actually not seen by humans, saving a lot of trouble.

The spiritual energy in the human world was thin, and the power of non-humans was also very weak. It was rare for them to take the initiative to harm humans, so they got along harmoniously.

After hearing this, Lu Qingjiu understood that Wang Rumeng had thought that he was the breeder of the Zhulong, so he forced him here. However, he became curious. Zhulong was a very ferocious dragon branch in their description, could it be raised by humans?

“En.” Facing Lu Qingjiu’s doubts, Zhu Rong gave an answer, “There are such precedents.”

It turned out that such a situation had happened before. Decades ago, a Zhulong sneaked into the human world, and was picked up and raised by humans. The Zhulongs were ferocious in nature, but for some reason this dragon didn’t harm humans. But this situation didn’t last long. In an accident, the natural instinct of the Zhulong was triggered and devoured all the creatures present. Although it was quickly wiped out by the Yinglong dragon who came, it still caused a lot of trouble.

“Isn’t the Zhulong a polluted dragon? Such a dragon can also be bred?” Lu Qingjiu said incredulously.

Zhu Rong said, “It’s just an exception.”

Because of this accident, they also knew that the Zhulongs could secretly lurk in the human world, so after discovering that Zhulongs had sneaked in, they immediately notified all parties to let everyone be more vigilant to avoid unexpected accidents.

Lu Qingjiu was listening to Zhu Rong’s words, but then, the atmosphere outside became weird. Originally, the whole floor was noisy, but before he knew it, the inside and outside of the room suddenly became quiet, and even the slightest sound could be heard.

Wang Rumeng showed a nervous expression, as if being pushed by something, he squeezed abruptly to the corner of the wall. Although Zhu Rong didn’t move, his brows furrowed deeply. Just as Lu Qingjiu was about to ask a question, he saw someone walking from the corner of the corridor. The man had no expression on his face, but cold anger flashed in his black eyes. It was Bai Yuehu who was supposed to be weeding at home.

“Yuehu” Lu Qingjiu remembered that he had sent a text message to Bai Yuehu just now, and Bai Yuehu must have rushed over immediately after seeing the message.

Bai Yuehu walked to Lu Qingjiu with a sullen expression, and looked at Zhu Rong coldly: “What do you want to do?”

Zhu Rong had a helpless look on his face, and hurriedly explained that it was a misunderstanding, saying that Wang Rumeng was not from this area, and that he didn’t know the situation of Lu Qingjiu and Bai Yuehu.

Bai Yuehu was noncommittal after listening to the explanation, and reached out to touch Lu Qingjiu, as if checking something. Lu Qingjiu was a little embarrassed to be touched by him, and said, “Yuehu, I’m fine.”

Bai Yuehu said: “Take me with you next time you go out.”

Lu Qingjiu nodded in agreement.

Liu Qingjiu turned to look at Wang Rumeng who had shrunk into the corner of the wall, looking like he was choked out of breath, because of Bai Yuehu’s aura, and even Zhu Rong’s forehead had a few drops of cold sweat. He had always wondered why everyone around him was so afraid of Bai Yueha including Yin Xun. Thinking about it now, it might be because Lu Qingjiu was a quarter dragon, so he never felt fear when facing Bai Yuehu.

“I’m fine.” Since it was a misunderstanding, there was no need to make a big deal. Lu Qingjiu hurriedly comforted his angry black dragon, “They thought I had something to do with the Zhulong.”

Zhulong and Yinglong had the same root, and there was almost no difference in their aura. The only difference was that Zhulong’s aura was more violent, while Yinglong’s was much calmer.

Bai Yuehu still didn’t speak, and continued to stare at Wang Rumeng with icy eyes. Lu Qingjiu even noticed that Bai Yuehu’s black eyes were narrowed like a cold-blooded animal, a cruel predator who found its prey. Lu Qingjiu even suspected that if he wasn’t still here, Bai Yuehu’s next move would be to break Wang Rumeng’s neck directly.

In front of Lu Qingjiu, Bai Yuehu had always been lazy and quiet, and his favorite thing to do was to lie on the deck chair in the yard at home. Although Lu Qingjiu had seen the ferocious scene of Bai Yuehu fighting with other dragons, that was after Bai Yuehu turned into his real form. He had never seen the human Bai Yuehu exuding such a terrifying aura.

After all, he was a top predator, even if he did not make a move, the killing intent emanating from his body was enough to make other creatures submit.

Seeing that he was not able to persuade Bai Yuehu, who was about to go mad, Lu Qingjiu had no choice but to lean over and kiss Bai Yuehu’s lips.

Being kissed suddenly, Bai Yuehu’s eyes showed surprise, and his pupils returned to normal size.

Bai Yuehu’s lips were a little hot, probably because he had just come in from the outside.

Lu Qingjiu’s waist was wrapped with both hands, and his whole body was pressed against Bai Yuehu’s chest.

Both Wang Rumeng and Zhu Rong were dumbfounded by this scene, their expressions were stunned, and their eyeballs were about to pop-off its sockets.

After the kiss was over, Lu Qingjiu was already out of breath, and a blush appeared on his face. When he looked at Zhu Rong again, he felt a little embarrassed, coughed dryly and looked away.

Bai Yuehu was still expressionless, and finally put away that terrifying aura and said: “There will be no next time.”

“Okay.” That’s all Zhu Rong could say.

Wang Rumeng’s life was half frightened away by Bai Yuehu at first, and then the remaining half was startled off by Bai Yuehu’s and Lu Qingjiu’s kiss. He opened his mouth wide and didn’t speak for a long time until Lu Qingjiu politely mentioned that he was leaving. Wang Rumeng mechanically waved his hand and said goodbye in a dry voice, still unable to get out of the daze.

“Hey, I didn’t see wrong just now, right?” Wang Rumeng said, “A dragon is in love with a human.”

Zhu Rong said calmly: “Is it rare for dragons to fall in love with people?”

Wang Rumeng: “I thought it was just a legend.”

Zhu Rong said: “Legends are always based on facts.”

Wang Rumeng: “……”

In all honesty, considering the thin spiritual energy in the human world, if we only talk about physical fitness, human beings were the lowest creatures on the food chain. But now there was a large population of human beings, and technology had advanced, with a sufficiently stable order having been established. Under such circumstances, non-human beings were not the opponents of human beings at all. But why the dragons, a creature that only lived in legends, would fall in love with humans. It was so down-to-earth that Wang Rumeng didn’t know what to think. He originally thought that Lu Qingjiu was just a servant of the dragon, but this kiss completely overturned his three views.

“Okay.” Zhu Rong stretched out his hand and closed Wang Rumeng’s mouth, he said, “Don’t get entangled in this matter, it is just like what you saw.  By the way, is Xiaomei here?”

“En.” Wang Rumeng nodded.

“It’s up to her to find Ao Run.” Zhu Rong said, “It’s all Shaohao’s fault, tsk, I had to transfer a Phoenix from another place.”

Wang Rumeng asked: “What’s wrong with Shaohao’s phoenix?”

With an expression of utter suffering, Zhu Rong explained how the birds in Shaohao’s house all had bad habits. Let’s forget that they liked to play mahjong, but they also liked to gamble, and the bet was on their own feathers. It stood to reason that Phoenix should be very powerful as the king of birds, but unfortunately that the Phoenix of Shaohao’s family was a mallet and addicted to gambling, so he lost all the feathers on his body. And totally turned from a phoenix to a plucked chicken.

One could say that it was still okay to lose feathers, but the Phoenix was a very proud creature, and couldn’t accept the appearance of being hairless, so it went to Nirvana. The Phoenix had two types of Nirvana – big Nirvana and small Nirvana. The small Nirvana was quite simple, which didn’t affect anything, but the big Nirvana would take several years. Of course, after Nirvana, the Phoenix would once again have a whole body of beautiful feathers. In other words, he would have the capital to gamble again.

Wang Rumeng was stunned when he heard that; he had been just stimulated by Bai Yuehu right after he came here, and then after hearing such unacceptable revelations, he tried to endure but couldn’t hold back, and uttered a sentence from his mouth: “Your circle is really messed up. ”

Zhu Rong: “…..” He really didn’t want to talk.

As Bai Yuehu was leaving the Yinjian building, Lu Qingjiu saw with his own eyes that the lively non-humans in the room were as quiet as chickens. It wasn’t until they entered the elevator and went down a few floors that an eruption of noise occurred on the top floor. When they got downstairs, Lu Qingjiu carried his things and said he still had to go to the supermarket and take the minivan home, so he and Bai Yuehu took a taxi over to the parking lot.

Bai Yuehu helped Lu Qingjiu carry half of the shopping bags, and after sitting in the rental, casually looked through the contents, and found the box of broken strawberries.

When Lu Qingjiu saw this scene, he felt a bad premonition in his heart. As expected, Bai Yuehu’s next move was to carefully take the box of strawberries out of the bag. The strawberries were placed in a cardboard box one by one, covered with a layer of plastic wrap. Because strawberries were very easy to wear and tear during transportation, the price was really not cheap. Just a dozen or so strawberries in a box cost more than one hundred yuan.

Bai Yuehu gently touched the damaged strawberries with his fingers, and said, “They caused it..”

Lu Qingjiu hurriedly replied: “No, I was not careful.”

“Really…” Bai Yuehu’s tone was suspicious. Lu Qingjiu was always a careful person, and he rarely made such low-level mistakes.

“Really.” Lu Qingjiu could only lie. If he told the truth, he could imagine the reaction of his fox. He would probably explode on the spot and fly out of the taxi to avenge his poor little strawberries.

Bai Yuehu stopped talking, turned over the box, and saw the price tag on the bottom of the box, his eyes revealed a look of pain. This expression made Lu Qingjiu’s heart soften, and he comforted the other party saying, “It’s okay, let’s buy another box when we get to the supermarket. This box will be used to eat directly.”

Bai Yuehu nodded slowly and hummed softly.

Seeing that Bai Yuehu didn’t pursue the matter, Lu Qingjiu felt relieved.

When they arrived at the parking lot, Lu Qingjiu asked Bai Yuehu to watch over the car, went up to buy a box of strawberries and then came down. Bai Yuehu obediently agreed, but  when Lu Qingjiu came down with the box of strawberries, he didn’t see Bai Yuehu. He was a bit confused and took out his cell phone to call Bai Yuehu, but the call was hung up.

Lu Qingjiu thought something had happened, and felt a little anxious. Just when he was thinking about whether to go back to the Yinjian building to ask Zhu Rong what to do, Bai Yuehu appeared again. He opened the car door naturally, sat in the passenger’s seat, and said let’s go.

“Where did you go just now?” Lu Qingjiu asked.

“I went out to use the bathroom.” Bai Yuehu answered without looking away.

“Really…” Lu Qingjiu looked at Bai Yuehu, stretched out his hand and touched his cheek, “Where did you go to the bathroom, why is there blood on your face after going to the bathroom?”

Bai Yuehu was silent for a moment, and said: “The person next to me accidentally fell down and hit the mirror, splashing a little.”

Lu Qingjiu: “….” He would be an idiot to believe this nonsense.

Bai Yuehu said: “Really.”

Lu Qingjiu said: “You show your ears.”

Bai Yuehu: “……” He originally wanted to refuse, but seeing Lu Qingjiu’s expression, he finally obediently exposed his ears. Those ears that were originally upright were now drooped down, like a puppy being scolded by its owner. Lu Qingjiu didn’t know whether to be angry or amused, and said: “You really didn’t lie to me?”

Bai Yuehu: “No.”

When he said no, the tips of his ears trembled involuntarily, which didn’t match his expressionless face.

Lu Qingjiu leaned over, opened his mouth and bit the tip of the ear. Bai Yuehu hummed, and wanted to dodge reflexively, but held back forcefully.

Lu Qingjiu opened his mouth loosely, licked it again, and said vaguely: “You killed Wang Rumeng?”

Bai Yuehu said: “No.” He was probably afraid that Lu Qingjiu would not believe him, so he added, “I just beat him up, but he didn’t die.”

Lu Qingjiu lost his smile: “It’s not serious, right?”

“It’s not serious.” Bai Yuehu said, “He even scared you.” If Lu Qingjiu wasn’t scared, how could the strawberry in his hand fall to the ground? Fortunately, he came in time, otherwise his little dragon would have been bullied by people he couldn’t fight against. How dare people touch his little dragon? So Bai Yuehu couldn’t bear it at all, and rushed over to take revenge on the spot.

Lu Qingjiu sighed, and coaxed his sulking fake vixen: “Okay, I’m really fine, I’m not angry anymore.” He tore open the package, took out a strawberry, and stuffed it into Bai Yuehu’s mouth.

Bai Yuehu’s mouth was stuffed with food, and he began to chew slowly. The strawberries were delicious, sweet and sour, and the flesh was soft and juicy. No wonder the price was so high. Before Lu Qingjiu came, Bai Yuehu had never even seen such a fruit, let alone eat it. His expression softened, and he rubbed Lu Qingjiu’s hand with his cheek.

Lu Qingjiu was completely softened by Bai Yuehu’s actions, he ate one himself, and his eyes narrowed in satisfaction. He had eaten strawberries too many times, but he had never found them so delicious like this time. Perhaps it was because of the people who accompanied him to eat, so that this fruit was more indescribably delicious.

“Let’s go, let’s go home.” Seeing that it was getting late, Lu Qingjiu said, “Yin Xun is still at home waiting for us to make candied haws.”

Hearing that someone wanted to compete with him for food again, Bai Yuehu frowned and said, “Use this box to make it.” He said, pointing to the broken box in his hand.

Lu Qingjiu smiled: “Don’t be so stingy, if you want to eat, let’s buy until you have enough.” He stuffed the box of fresh ones in his hand onto Bai Yuehu’s lap, and let him open it to eat. After eating the delicious fruit, he was still reluctant, so he ate two by himself, stuffed two to Lu Qingjiu, then carefully sealed the fresh-keeping bag again, and put it in the bag.

Lu Qingjiu looked at his squirrel hoarding food, and asked with a smile: “How do you know that I didn’t accidentally break the strawberry?”

Bai Yuehu pointed to the seat under him.

Lu Qingjiu was confused for a while, before realizing that Bai Yuehu was referring to the pickup truck, and said, “So it was you who sold me off,” he had forgotten that the truck could talk to Bai Yuehu.

The pickup truck beeped twice, and Lu Qingjiu couldn’t understand what it said, but its four wheels ran faster, probably because it was afraid that Lu Qingjiu would get angry with him.

Lu Qingjiu felt that he had to remind Yin Xun to never speak ill of Bai Yuehu in the pickup truck in the future.

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The author has something to say:

Bai Yuehu: Heh, no one in this world should try to bully Lu Qingjiu.

Lu Qingjiu smiled.

Bai Yuehu: Except Bai Yuehu.

Lu Qingjiu: ……