Chapter 27

Chapter 27

Li Zhuiyuan hung up the phone and asked the boss, "How much does that cost?"

The boss swallowed hard with some difficulty. He still felt that this child was being mischievous and pretending, but just to be safe, he still pressed the speaker and then pressed the call back button.

The short callback tone made the boss's eyebrows twitch. After it connected, a police officer's voice came from inside:

"Hello, this is the Tongzhou Public Security Bureau..."

"Smack!"

The boss immediately hung up the phone. He looked at Li Zhuiyuan in disbelief. He hadn't expected that this child would actually call the police!

"Damn Kangzi, what are you doing!"

The boss frantically left the counter and ran next door. He wanted to ventilate the place and report the situation. He absolutely did not want to be caught red-handed when the police arrived.

Li Zhuiyuan glanced at the phone. He originally thought the boss called back to say, "It was just a child playing, don't take it seriously, it caused you trouble."

As a result, after the boss confirmed that he had called the police, he just hung up in fear and didn't think of that point at all.

However, Li Zhuiyuan still put the phone fee on the counter and took two candies from the jar on the counter as change.

After peeling off the wrapper of this time's candy, there was often another layer of sugary coating inside that could be sucked, but Li Zhuiyuan was still used to peeling it off.

After cleaning off the sugary coating, he had been eating the candy in his mouth for a while, but he still didn't see the small store boss come out of the video hall.

Li Zhuiyuan knew that something had probably happened to the boss in there.

He sighed silently and decided to walk a bit further away.

After the cars on the road passed, he crossed the road to the opposite side, but still felt the straight-line distance was too close, so he walked a long way west and stopped in front of a bicycle repair shop.

From here, he could remotely observe the situation at the video hall across the road, and at the same time, the police cars dispatched would pass by this side first.

He didn't wait long before Li Zhuiyuan saw a police motorcycle drive over, followed by a police car.

The two vehicles stopped in front of the video hall, and six uniformed police officers got out. Four went in through the main door, and two went around to the back.

The arrival of the police vehicles attracted the attention of many nearby people. Some people who were taking a stroll in the evening and the owners of the surrounding shops all gathered to watch the excitement.

Li Zhuiyuan didn't go forward, still standing in place, quietly waiting for the result.

In less than two minutes, a police officer ran out of the video hall in a panic, with an expression of disbelief on his face.

Li Zhuiyuan's heart skipped a beat: Could it be that even the police officers had a problem?

However, after seeing that the police officer was going to the police car to pick up the walkie-talkie and start talking, and then another police officer walked out of the video hall...

Li Zhuiyuan understood that this "miasma" had been broken.

In *Zhengdao Fumo Lu*, a special volume was dedicated to "miasma," referring to the special environment formed after deceased people lingered in a place.

That volume detailed many methods of investigation, analysis, and breaking the miasma.

However, it was obvious that in Wei Zhengdao's era, there were no telephones and no people's police.

Soon, police reinforcements arrived wave after wave. Among them was a plainclothes middle-aged police officer with a chin full of blue stubble. After getting out of the car, his gaze quickly swept over the surroundings.

Although it was inappropriate to use such words to describe a police officer, this one gave Li Zhuiyuan the feeling of an eagle or falcon gazing, because his gaze was too sharp.

What surprised Li Zhuiyuan even more was that the other person didn't go to the video hall, but instead parted the crowd in front of him, seeming to want to come towards this side.

But his action was blocked by his colleagues who shouted from behind, and he had to turn back.

At this time, the people from the video hall were brought out one after another.

Their bodies looked weak and limp, walking as if they would sprain their ankles and fall at any time, but their faces were flushed and they were shaking their heads vigorously.

The middle-aged police officer walked forward, grabbed a person's arm, and pushed upwards on the other person's forearm with his fingers, very much like a classic action of pushing the forearm in massage and *tuina*.

Immediately, he flung that arm away, grabbed the second and third person, and did the same action.

"Captain Tan, what happened?"

Tan Yunlong shook his head and said, "It doesn't look like they inhaled anything."

These words caused many police officers around to show expressions of astonishment.

Truth be told, at first it was just a relatively simple crackdown on prostitution and the dissemination of obscenity, but after the dispatched colleagues arrived at the scene and checked, they immediately made an excited report.

Then, the entire station boiled.

Who would have thought that in this township area, they could suddenly catch a den of people inhaling something in a crowd?

Tan Yunlong knew what his colleagues were thinking, and at the moment he could only say, "This is just my personal judgment. First, take them back to the station, and then ask the town health center to send medical staff over to examine them."

"Yes, Captain Tan."

In fact, Tan Yunlong himself wasn't too sure, because this group of people's performance was really too similar.

Soon, everyone in the video hall was brought outside.

Li Zhuiyuan saw Lei Zi and Pan Zi among them. The two of them were not afraid of the police, but were talking to themselves, high-fiving each other from time to time.

The two women working part-time in the video hall were also the same, and they even actively talked and laughed with the police officers beside them.

This kind of performance, even a blind person could see something was wrong.

In addition, Li Zhuiyuan noticed that Bao Ge, who was behind that woman, had disappeared.

But where Bao Ge went, Li Zhuiyuan didn't know, and couldn't find out either.

Next, they were put into the police cars one by one, and the video hall and the small store next door were sealed by the police.

Originally, the report call was made from the small store. This would be known after a check, but the small store boss himself was now twisting the most severely. After getting into the police car, he was still sticking to the window and making faces non-stop.

Perhaps because he was the last one in, he was in the highest spirits now.

Li Zhuiyuan looked around. He was a little puzzled. Why hadn't Runsheng Ge come back yet?

Just in front, there was a rickshaw tricycle parked there watching the excitement. Li Zhuiyuan walked over, got on the car, reported the location of the town health center, and asked for the price.

After the tricycle master reported the price, Li Zhuiyuan suddenly realized that because he had made a phone call earlier, he had naturally switched to Mandarin and hadn't switched back to the local dialect, so he asked the price again in Nantong dialect.

The tricycle master smiled awkwardly and reported a price that was five times the previous one.

When he arrived at the town health center and walked in, before Li Zhuiyuan could inquire about where Mei Jie and Runsheng were, he saw two police officers already walking in front.

He followed them and soon found a quiet ward. Runsheng was sitting quietly on the bench outside the ward.

The police officers pushed open the door and went in. Li Zhuiyuan then walked up to Runsheng, gently pushed him, and asked:

"Runsheng Ge, what are you sitting here doing?"

Runsheng raised his head: "Xiao Yuan ah..."

After talking, Li Zhuiyuan only knew what happened after being sent to the hospital.

First, Bao Ge's rescue failed and he was pronounced dead.

After hearing this news, Mei Jie immediately fainted.

After the old man with the tricycle arrived at the hospital, he just left directly.

Therefore, the health center staff required Runsheng to stay and pay, but Runsheng had no money in his pocket, so he could only sit here as a "hostage."

He thought that he could leave when Mei Jie woke up and explained clearly, it was just that Mei Jie had been unconscious for a bit long.

Li Zhuiyuan took the initiative to push open the door and find the police. In the ward, Mei Jie was lying on the bed, and there were two uniformed police officers and one plainclothes police officer around her.

This plainclothes officer was the one who arrived first. Li Zhuiyuan didn't know this beforehand. If he had known, he might have hesitated a bit before coming in, because the other person was the one who seemed to notice him at a glance in the crowd.

Li Zhuiyuan first found the two police officers, explained the situation, and indicated that his friend had just done a good deed and should not be involved in the subsequent troubles.

After the police clearly understood the whole story, they actively went to communicate with the health center staff. Soon, Runsheng was informed by the health center that he could leave.

"Great, finally I can go home and eat!"

Runsheng was starving and wished he could carry Li Zhuiyuan and fly home.

But a voice came from behind at this time: "Little friend, wait a moment."

Tan Yunlong walked up to Li Zhuiyuan, bent down, and looked at the boy seriously.

"Little friend, did you call the police?"

The police officer there gave feedback that the reporter was a boy. After Tan Yunlong arrived at the scene, he immediately noticed Li Zhuiyuan's presence.

How to put it, when everyone is crowding forward wanting to watch the excitement, the person who is standing alone and quietly on the periphery and has the best viewing angle is more conspicuous. In addition, the boy's friend also sent the video hall boss and his wife to the hospital. All kinds of connections together, it's simply not a coincidence.

"Well, yes, police uncle, I called the police."

Li Zhuiyuan didn't deny it. In front of such a senior police officer, lying was really not worth it.

"Why did you call the police?"

"But, shouldn't I call the police?"

Tan Yunlong was choked for a moment, and finally could only smile and say, "You should, you did very well."

"Uncle, can we go home now?"

"Of course you can." As for the video hall matter, the specific test results were not out yet, but no matter what, the reporter should be protected. "Come, where is your home? Uncle will drive you home. It's not safe for children to walk at night."

"Thank you, Uncle."

Tan Yunlong let Li Zhuiyuan and Runsheng get in the car. Before driving, he first took down the siren on top of the car.

He didn't send Li Zhuiyuan directly home, but drove the car to the village road and stopped.

Li Zhuiyuan and Tan Yunlong said goodbye, then got off the car with Runsheng and walked towards Taiye's house. At the fork in the road just about to turn into the small path, they saw Li Weihan riding a 28-inch bicycle rushing over in a hurry, followed by four uncles, who were in a hurry to leave the village.

Li Weihan's face was serious, two of the four uncles were worried, and the other two had ashen faces and were still cursing.

"Grandpa, uncles."

"Xiao Yuan, hurry home. Grandpa and your uncles have something to go to the town."

Li Weihan didn't even care to look at his most beloved grandson carefully and greet him at this time. The messenger's words were really too shocking:

He said that Lei Zi and Pan Zi had inhaled something in town and were caught by the police!

This news was simply like a bolt from the blue!

They were rushing to the town police station at the moment. The two uncles who were muttering "beat this scoundrel to death" were Pan Zi and Lei Zi's fathers.

Runsheng asked curiously, "Xiao Yuan, what happened?"

"Let's go home first. I'm hungry, Runsheng Ge."

"Right, me too!"

Back home, Aunt Liu said somewhat reproachfully, "How could you forget the time when you went out to play? We've already eaten. Your Taiye also ate and went out for a walk."

However, Aunt Liu still quickly brought out the reserved food, it just didn't look so good.

In front of Li Zhuiyuan was just a bowl, with rice below and dishes above; in front of Runsheng was a basin.

Runsheng hurriedly lit the incense, first bit off several large mouthfuls continuously, chewing and showing intoxicated enjoyment, as if finally relieved.

His appearance was more like he had inhaled something compared to the group of suspects in front of the video hall.

Qin Li sat in front of Li Zhuiyuan, watching Li Zhuiyuan eat.

While he was eating, Taiye came back from his walk and sighed:

"Damn, how is it that everyone in the village is spreading rumors that Pan Zi and Lei Zi joined the opium gang, and their status isn't low either."

Li Zhuiyuan almost choked on his rice. While coughing, he felt a gentle small hand lightly patting his back.

Li Sanjiang sat down, lit a cigarette, and continued: "You really can't tell. These two kids look quite honest in the village. Truly, you can't judge a book by its cover."

"Taiye, it should be village people spreading nonsense. How is that possible?"

"This may not be certain. Your grandpa and your uncles are going to the police station now.

Xiao Yuan ah, Taiye has to warn you, other things are okay to say, but this thing, you absolutely cannot touch. Once you touch it, your life is basically over."

"I know, Taiye."

"Right, who did you go out to play with this afternoon? You played until so late to come back?"

"With Pan Zi Ge and Lei Zi Ge."

Li Sanjiang's face wrinkled a bit, then he unfolded it while nodding: "Then it should be village people spreading nonsense based on rumors."

After dinner, Li Sanjiang went upstairs to wash and sleep. Tomorrow he had to go to old Zhao's house for the ritual.

Runsheng went to the well to take a shower. He didn't wipe himself dry, just impatiently turned on the TV and sat down to watch.

His dripping wet appearance, coupled with the white light projected by the TV, was like a drowned body that had just come ashore.

Li Zhuiyuan then stood in a horse stance on the dam.

A Li stood beside him, accompanying him.

After practicing for enough time, Li Zhuiyuan stood straight, let out a long breath, a layer of fine sweat formed on his body, and at the same time, the fatigue accumulated during the day was also relieved a lot.

Liu Yumei always sat on the dam cracking melon seeds and enjoying the evening breeze. Seeing Li Zhuiyuan practicing well, she couldn't help but ridicule: "What's the use of practicing this? Look at your serious appearance."

"Just like radio calisthenics."

This answer made Liu Yumei's expression freeze. She unconsciously spit out the melon seed kernels and chewed on the melon seed shells.

Li Zhuiyuan seemed to have realized that he had said something wrong and added: "I feel much more comfortable after practicing this, and my spirit is much better. It's very magical."

"You're still young, your bones haven't grown yet, it's not suitable to practice hard kung fu now."

"Okay, Grandma Liu." Li Zhuiyuan's gaze turned towards A Li's waist belt, "Grandma, isn't this belt on A Li a bit unsuitable?"

A Li is originally prone to running wild when encountering strangers or stimulation. If you give her a soft sword on her body... that might involve chopping people.

"Grandma thinks it's quite suitable. Only this belt can match our A Li's clothes."

Just as Liu Yumei finished speaking, she saw A Li immediately untie the belt and throw it on the ground because Xiao Yuan said it was unsuitable.

At this, the corners of the old lady's mouth couldn't help but twitch slightly.

Li Zhuiyuan bent down and carefully picked up the belt. Although this thing was very thin and soft, it would be very dangerous if force was applied to it.

"Okay, it's getting late. A Li, you should go to sleep. We'll play together again tomorrow morning."

A Li obediently went back to her room.

Li Zhuiyuan apologized: "Grandma Liu, I'm sorry, I shouldn't have said that in front of A Li."

"Grandma is just a little embarrassed, not to the point of not distinguishing good from bad. I know you're also kind-hearted.

But there is one thing you're mistaken about. Your Taiye should have told you about A Li's matter. When A Li really has an attack, whether there is a weapon around or not is completely irrelevant."

"What?"

"You go back to your room. I heard A Ting say that you entrusted her to buy a lot of things today."

"I asked Aunt Liu to help me buy some study materials."

"Then you should do your homework properly. Old lady, I'm going to sleep first."

"Good night, Grandma Liu."

Li Zhuiyuan went upstairs, opened his bedroom, and saw a room full of various materials. The originally empty room suddenly became substantial and compact.

"Aunt Liu's efficiency is really high."

Li Zhuiyuan walked up to a cage. Inside was a small black puppy. There was a water bowl and a food bowl in the cage.

Earlier downstairs, Aunt Liu didn't mention a word. Obviously, she was only responsible for helping him buy things. As for how to explain it to Taiye later, that was his own business.

Including raising a small black dog.

Logically, a puppy of this age should be the most lively and noisy, but this puppy was lying on the side of the cage, snoring and sleeping.

Even if he walked up to it, it didn't even open its eyelids.

Confirmed, this dog is not suitable for guarding the door. If it were to guard the door, it would fall asleep earlier and deeper than the owner's family.

However, Li Zhuiyuan wanted it, not for this purpose, but because he needed its blood.

This sounds a bit cruel, but in fact it's not. Puppy black dog blood appears very frequently in *Zhengdao Fumo Lu* and is one of the necessities used to activate many tools.

But for this thing, only a little bit of essence is needed, that is, a little blood is smeared on, as a catalyst.

Just like Taiye used to splash black dog blood from a basin when salvaging corpses and performing rituals... it was actually wrong.

Li Zhuiyuan flipped through *Jianghu Zhiguailu* and *Zhengdao Fumo Lu* but didn't see any dead body being splashed to death by black dog blood.

And what Taiye splashed didn't seem to be dog blood either. He had added pigment beforehand and adjusted it. What kind of blood he used depended on whether the meat dishes at home the previous day were chicken or pork.

Normally, to ensure the vigor of the blood, it is most suitable to use black dog blood taken within one month. Exceeding this time, the effect will be greatly reduced.

Taking about a beer cap's worth each time is enough, then add other things and mash it into something similar to red seal paste. When it needs to be used, open the seal paste cover, press with a fingertip, and then smear it on the needed place.

This amount and frequency have negligible impact on the dog's health. At most, after taking blood each time, give it a big chicken leg to supplement it.

As for the method of raising a puppy, the book also has records. It is not complicated, just feed it medicine.

The book has a prescription. Even if an old Chinese doctor saw it, they would think it was just a tonic for humans, but if a dog ate it, in addition to supplementing the dog's body, it would bring a side effect for dogs, which is to greatly reduce that aspect's desire.

Putting a dog in a dark room isolated from the outside is easy to make the dog mentally deranged, and the dog blood with evil spirits is not effective.

And purely guarding the dog is too energy-consuming, and if it accidentally finds an opportunity to go out and mess around and get injured, you can't verify it, and then you will be holding useless black dog blood to face the dead body, and the one who suffers is yourself, the cost is too great.

As for spaying it once and for all, it is even less advisable. A spayed dog's blood has no essence and is completely useless.

Therefore, feeding this tonic to the dog is most appropriate. As long as it is fed according to the course, it will be a proper dog gentleman even during its heat period.

Wei Zhengdao was a kind-hearted person, and it is also mentioned in the book that after the dog reaches three or four years old, you can stop feeding it medicine, grant it freedom, and then reselect a new dog to continue taking blood.

As for the dog that ate medicine, its body is often stronger and healthier. The only drawback is that it cannot go the dog way during those years.

But after it is liberated, it can still have a vast sky and a wonderful future, just like the saying, "first bitter, then sweet."

Seeing that the small puppy still ignored him, Li Zhuiyuan didn't pay attention to it anymore, took his list, and began to "enter the warehouse" one by one.

Thanks to Liangliang Ge who gave him a sum of money before, otherwise, relying on his previous pocket money, buying so many things would really not be enough.

Moreover, this was just the first batch of raw materials, not counting the subsequent experiment loss and processing fees.

At this moment, Li Zhuiyuan finally felt the economic pressure.

He regretted a bit that he had declined the jade ring Liu Yumei gave him initially.

After inventorying and confirming no omissions, Li Zhuiyuan sat back at his desk and began to draw design drawings.

The drawings in the book were relatively sketchy, and mostly accompanied by text descriptions. He had to translate them to make it easier to find people to make them in reality.

This kind of handwritten book was really hard to chew.

He was busy until one o'clock in the morning. Li Zhuiyuan left his desk, took a bath, and went to bed.

The next day when he woke up, he looked to the side and saw A Li in a red dress sitting on the chair.

Li Zhuiyuan was a little worried. If he returned to Beijing, and couldn't see her after waking up later, would he be lost and not used to it?

The small puppy in the cage seemed very interested in A Li and kept scratching the cage with its small paws facing A Li.

But A Li is different from other girls. These cute small animals cannot arouse any interest in her. Otherwise, Liu Yumei would probably have already given her a small zoo.

While washing up, he heard someone talking on the dam downstairs. It was Li Weihan and Li Sanjiang.

Li Zhuiyuan quietly listened for a while upstairs.

The people the police arrested yesterday were taken back to the police station. After checking, it was found that no one had inhaled anything, but among the four thugs who had left earlier, the one in the suit who was leading the group was connected to this matter.

That guy was originally lying at home. When the police came to his door and asked him to go to the police station to assist with the investigation, he was so scared that he confessed everything. He was just a small fry, who had just found an upstream connection and planned to distribute this to make quick money. This time, the police went directly from the vine to the melon.

As for what happened to the people in the video hall, the police gave the reason that the gas valve in the small stove in the corner of the video hall was not closed properly, and everyone was poisoned by gas, which caused many people to have hallucinations.

Li Sanjiang was surprised: "Is this the reaction to gas poisoning?"

Li Weihan replied: "The police said so. Brother Pan and Brother Lei were on IV drips. After returning home, they are back to normal."

Li Sanjiang said with lingering fear: "Goodness, people in the city take such a big risk using gas. Our earth stove is still good."

Li Zhuiyuan went downstairs and greeted Li Weihan. Li Weihan stroked Li Zhuiyuan's head and conveniently used Pan Zi and Lei Zi as examples to scold him.

Although he didn't go to inhale anything, he ran to the video hall to watch that kind of video and was still caught by the police in a crackdown, which was also embarrassing enough.

Pan Zi and Lei Zi were on IV drips and returned home. In order to help them improve their sleep quality, they were severely encouraged once by two uncles with rattan.

However, Li Zhuiyuan also heard that Brother Pan and Brother Lei were very loyal. Even though they had an accident and were beaten, they didn't say anything about themselves also going to the video hall.

After Li Weihan left, Li Sanjiang called Runsheng and together they pushed the paper offerings to old Zhao's house where the funeral was being held today.

Li Sanjiang asked Li Zhuiyuan to go with him to eat the feast, but Li Zhuiyuan refused, using the reason that he "needs to study peacefully at home."

The rest of the day, Li Zhuiyuan was in his room doing handicrafts, mainly some basic preparation work for materials.

Li Zhuiyuan also let the small puppy out to run around, but after it tried to approach A Li and was scared by the sudden cold air from A Li's body, it was too lazy to explore anymore and actually went back to its cage and slept.

Moreover, from last night until now, except for a few "um um" sounds in the morning to remind him that there was no water in the bowl, it didn't bark anymore.

Li Zhuiyuan even suspected that even if he didn't feed it that medicine, it probably wouldn't go out to mess around when it grew a bit because it was too lazy to move.

Originally, Li Zhuiyuan just tried to let A Li help with some simple work, but after discovering that A Li was very quick to pick things up and did them very delicately, he took A Li as his formal partner.

To a certain extent, Li Zhuiyuan even had to admit that A Li's handcraft ability was better than his own.

The two people spent the whole day in this atmosphere. The sense of interaction was stronger than reading together, it just got A Li dirty.

Before dinner, Li Zhuiyuan took a towel to help A Li wipe her hands and face. The dirt on her clothes was not easy to handle.

Just as Liu Yumei picked up her chopsticks to eat, she saw the boy covered in dirt leading his equally dirty granddaughter downstairs. She was so shocked that she almost broke her chopsticks.

Her granddaughter was very clean and needed to keep her body clean at all times, but after being with this boy, she didn't even care about these things.

Although she knew rationally that all this was developing rapidly in a good direction, emotionally, as her grandmother, she still couldn't accept it.

Wasn't the scene in front of her just like her richly raised daughter, who was suddenly willing to go out to work and suffer hardship with a poor boy?

And, she was no longer just saying it.

Liu Yumei quickly calmed her emotions. While eating, she also observed that her granddaughter no longer just bowed her head to eat. She would eat a few mouthfuls, then look up at the boy in front of her, and then show a slightly subtle body sway.

This caused Liu Yumei's emotions, which had just calmed down with great difficulty, to fluctuate again... Damn, this working was actually useful.

After dinner, Li Zhuiyuan didn't plan to continue rushing work in the evening, and was also worried about tiring A Li. In the evening, he would just draw new drawings by himself.

After sending A Li back to the east room, he went upstairs, first squatted in a horse stance on the balcony, and after finishing, went back to his room to start drawing.

Late at night, Li Zhuiyuan walked out of his room wanting to wash his face and found that Taiye's bedroom was empty. After hearing the sound of the TV coming from downstairs, he walked downstairs and saw Runsheng eating incense while watching TV alone.

"Runsheng Ge, where is Taiye?"

"Still drinking at the feast."

Runsheng was not suitable to sit at the table, so Li Sanjiang packed a separate meal for him and let him sit in the corner eating with incense. After eating, he greeted them and went back to watch TV early.

"Oh, I see."

"Xiao Yuan, are you coming to watch TV?"

"No, Runsheng Ge, you watch by yourself. I'm going up."

Back in the second-floor bedroom, Li Zhuiyuan drew a few more drawings, feeling that he had reached his limit for the day. Looking at the time, it was already past midnight. He could wash up and sleep.

Taking the basin and getting ready to go to the shower room, he specially looked at Taiye's bedroom and found that Taiye still hadn't come back.

Looking downstairs, Runsheng was tuning channels while fiddling with the antenna.

"Runsheng Ge, Taiye still hasn't come back. He's not drunk at someone's house, is he?"

Li Zhuiyuan knew that Taiye liked drinking. When attending rituals and feasts, he had to drink well.

"I don't know."

"Runsheng Ge, go with me to see. If Taiye is drunk, we'll just carry him back."

"Okay."

Li Zhuiyuan took the flashlight, assembled the battery. Old Zhao's house was not far from here, but the road at night was not easy to walk.

Walking on the country road, he was almost at old Zhao's house when he saw that although the shed was still set up there, the lights were basically out. Obviously, the feast had long since dispersed.

However, as soon as he walked to the dam, he saw a lamp still on under the big shed. There were three people under the lamp, still drinking. One of them was Li Sanjiang.

Li Zhuiyuan couldn't help but sigh in his heart. It seemed that Taiye had met drinking buddies tonight and was actually drinking and chatting with people until now, regardless of the host family packing up the feast.

At this time, Runsheng couldn't wait to go forward. From a distance, he first raised his hand to wave and shouted: "Da Ye, everyone has packed up the feast, let's go home too!"

Li Sanjiang heard Runsheng's shout, and looked over with drunk eyes, waving back: "It's okay, I told the host I was afraid his family's kid wouldn't be able to find his way home in the evening, so I'll stay for the ritual a little longer. The host was very happy and added cold dishes and reserved more wine for us."

Immediately, Li Sanjiang began to introduce his two drinking partners: "See, that's my great-grandson. My great-grandson is handsome and smart, very likable. Don't look wrong, it's not that silly big guy, that's Shancannon's."

Li Zhuiyuan walked to the edge of the table, wanting to apologize to Taiye's two drinking partners, and then take the obviously drunk Taiye home to rest.

When he walked over earlier, he thought it was because the light was dim, and the upper bodies, especially the faces, of the two drinking partners were hidden in the dark.

But now they were right beside him, and he still couldn't see their faces clearly, only feeling that Taiye's two drinking partners seemed relatively young. Could they be friends of different ages?

Li Zhuiyuan picked up the flashlight in his hand, pretended to swing it unintentionally, and swept it over their faces.

Instantly,

Li Zhuiyuan's heart trembled.

Because one of the people sitting at the table drinking was Bao Ge!

The other person was somewhat familiar but he couldn't recall where he had seen him. He only felt that he was excessively young, just a little older than Runsheng.

However, the answer came out soon, because after the flashlight beam swept over the two faces, it stopped at the center of the spirit hall, on the black and white photo.

The funeral held here today was for him.

And he was now at the table,

Eating his own feast.

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