Records of Strange People and Strange Events in the Old Mansion

Chapter 131 Banquet

Seeing Day Lily licking her lips, Zhu Badger rushed to him and patted her bulging belly: "Sister Huicai, I told you it was just a family dinner, not a big banquet."

"Fairy, the family banquet is good, the family banquet is good, the family banquet cooked by Fatty Zhu is even more delicious, hehe." Daylily's mouth was dripping with hala water.

Zhu Badger turned around and called to One-Armed Luo and Stilt-legged Man: "Let's go there together, and greet the other neighbors by the way. I have something to say."

"Yeah." "Okay." One-armed Luo and Stilt-legged Man went to call people separately.

Back in the front yard, Zhu Badger saw a seal on Zhu Hu's door, and asked Ma Yasha, who was walking beside him: "You asked people from the county to put it on?"

"Well, both husband and wife were arrested, so we have to take precautions." Ma Yasha answered Zhu Badger with a smile.

Zhu Badger patted Mayasha on the back and said with a smile: "Very good, very thoughtful."

"Thank you, Fairy, for your praise. I am learning from my daughter. My daughter not only knows things well, but also thinks thoughtfully." Ma Yasha straightened his back proudly.

Zhu Badger pretended to be surprised, raised his head and asked Ma Yasha with wide eyes: "Learn from your daughter? Is your daughter really that powerful?"

"Okay, don't get cheap and act nice. I have something to ask you when you get back." Mayaksha turned around and went back to the main house.

Zhu Badger followed behind Ma Yasha and said, "What can you ask me? Don't you want to ask me how I guessed that those relatives of Zhu Hu's family are has-beens?"

"Not only that, but how do you know that Zhu Fanzi faked his death? And how do you know that the people pretending to be in Zhu Fanzi's room are not real officials? But those outdated relatives of Zhu Hu's family?" Ma Yasha stopped.

Zhu Badger pulled Maya Yasha and sat down on the stone mill in the yard and said, "Fat Zhu is already busy. Let's sit here and talk."

"First turn those question marks I just made into exclamation marks, otherwise I won't be in the mood to talk to you." Ma Yaksha said this, sitting down on the stone mill.

Zhu Badger said: "Hey, you have lost your temper? Have you learned how to threaten? Okay, I will turn all the question marks in your mind into exclamation marks."

Zhu Badger told Ma Yasha that the reason why she concluded that Zhu Fanzi had faked his death was because neither Zhu Hu nor Xianyan Po was present at the scene. If Zhu Shanzi is really dead, the two of them must be the most active, because they miss Zhu Shanzi's house crazy. And the two of them stayed at home uncharacteristically. Isn't this because there is no silver in this place?
Ma Yasha asked Zhu Badger in return: "What if Zhu Hu and Xianyanpo are worried that everyone will think they killed Zhu Shanzi? After all, Zhu Shanzi had a quarrel with the couple before leaving the old house."

"Who can't see that Zhu Shanzi had to leave the old house because the treasure he stole was gone? Also, Zhu Hu and Xianyan Po stayed at home for two reasons." Zhu Badger answered.

Mayaksha asked: "What two reasons?"

"First, I need someone to monitor me, and second, I'm worried that the cross-eyed woman will go to the scene and cause trouble." Zhu Badger answered.

Ma Yaksha nodded and asked, "Then how do you know that the relatives who came to Zhu Hu's family yesterday have passed away?"

"This is even simpler. Judging from the time, it is impossible that you did not meet those people who came to Zhu Hu's house on your way to the county yesterday. You did not return with them, which means that they are not the people you are looking for. In other words, they are even the county people. The people here are all passers-by," Zhu Badger replied.

Ma Yaksha nodded and shook his head and asked, "What if I get sidetracked with them? Isn't your guess wrong?"

Zhu Badger said: "Didn't I set up preconditions? According to time calculation, from the time you went out and the time they arrived at the old house, you had not left the village when you met them. This can be confusing. Lost your way?"

"What if they go to other places in the village first?" Mayaksha asked.

Zhu Badger replied: "My dogs and badgers will never eat your free food. They are very vigilant."

"That's right, if they had wandered around the village first, Gou'er and Badger would have called the police. But they came with several more people early this morning. You have been sleeping, how do you know they are the same group?" Mayaksha asked.

Zhu Badger smiled and replied: "This is even simpler. The soles of their shoes are all stained with charcoal ash, and their trousers are all stained with tribulus berries."

"Is it the bag of charcoal ash you hung under the eaves in front of Zhu Hu's house? And the tribulus piled in front of the threshold of his house?" Ma Yasha was a little unconvinced.

Zhu Badger asked: "Do you think that only your Yushu Linfeng can think of doing that? But didn't he go to the provincial capital to do important things?"

"Ah? Do you even know this? Did he tell you before he left?" Mayaksha's eyes widened.

Zhu Badger asked, "He should have asked you to tell me, but have you ever told me?"

"I was afraid that you would be worried, so I didn't tell you." Ma Yaksha explained.

Zhu Badger smiled and said, "I understand. Are there any question marks in your head that you need to clear up?"

"There are many, but I'll leave some question marks until the end. I'll take a look at them myself. Now you can help me answer the question marks about Zhu Fanzi. How do you know that he and that Liu Ruyusheng have a son? He Why do you still want to keep his life after handing over the nightmare map? When did you ask One-armed and Cross-legged to call Liu Ruyu in one breath? Fan problem.

Zhu Badger smiled and asked, "Are these four questions considered problems? If so, are you still Ma Yasha?"

"If you are strong, I will naturally become weak. Answer the question quickly." Ma Yasha urged Zhu Badger.

Zhu Badger answered: "The first question is very simple. When I caught that Liu Ruyu, she called Zhu Fanzi the father of the child. Later, I followed you to the town several times, and you met with that person every time. Liu Ruyu, bring her some mountain goods, and she will ask a little fat boy to come over and call you aunt."

"You actually followed me?" Mayaksha's eyes widened.

Zhu Badger smiled and asked, "Can't you protect the safety of my own mother?"

"Okay, okay, the two of us should have fallen over each other." Ma Yasha sighed.

Zhu Badger laughed playfully: "You call me Yaksha and I call you the Eight Immortals?"

"Young poor man, answer the question quickly." The joy on Ma Yaksha's face was beyond words.

Zhu Badger said: "Why should I keep Zhu Fanzi alive after he handed over the nightmare map? It's simpler and useful. I promised him a family reunion. I don't want a child who clearly has a father but can't see him openly." ”

"You are thinking of yourself, right? I'm sorry, kid." Ma Yasha's eyes turned red.

Zhu Badger held back his tears and choked up: "Comparing your feelings with your own, the child is not guilty."

"Well, the child is not guilty and should enjoy the joy of family reunion." Mayaksha wiped his tears.

Zhu Badger said: "I hope Zhu Shanzi can repent for the sake of such a young son and sincerely go to the shrine of Grandma Taizu to confess his sins."

"I hope you thought ahead of time to ask One-Armed and Cross-legged to go to town and call Liu Ruyu over. It's a well-intentioned and foresighted move." Ma Yasha once again looked at Zhu Badger with admiration.

Zhu Badger smiled faintly and said: "I just asked the one-armed Luo to call people, and didn't ask the cross-legged guy to go with him. If he went together, I'm afraid he wouldn't be able to return to the cross-legged posture even now. But let him wait and see, it's a bluff. There’s no problem with the momentum.”

"That's right, the grass on the wall can also be used as a tree." Ma Yasha saw the stilt-legged man walking towards the stone mill, stood up, patted his butt and walked into the house.

Zhu Badger didn't wait for the stiletto man to come closer and opened his mouth, and asked: "Are you all afraid of coming here? Do you think the banquet of the Eight Badger Immortals is not a good one?"

"Yes, yes, everyone is so scared that they won't eat at the banquet. If the fairy has anything to say, just tell me, and everyone promises to follow the fairy's instructions." The stiletto man wiped the sweat from his forehead.

Zhu Badger stood up, patted the rocker-legged man on the shoulder and asked him, "Then do you dare to eat this feast?"

"What can I not dare to do? The fairy regards me as a relative, and I regard the fairy as my own mother. This feast must be eaten." The man on the stilts straightened his body, looking as if he was ready to die.

Zhu Badger laughed: "Hahaha, it's rare for your son to be so filial. In this way, your rent in the old house will be free of charge. When the time comes, the town will come over to check the list of people going down. I will ask my mother-in-law, oh, your grandmother I’ll put you first.”

"Ah? Can we really go down the mountain? I am first, I am first." The stiltsman was very excited.

One-armed Luo came over and asked Zhu Badger: "Fairy, when you asked me to go to town to call that woman, didn't you say that I was number one?" "Oh, is that right? By the way, aren't you two brothers and sisters? Then we will tie for number one. First, we will still be neighbors in the town, so we can take care of each other, and your sister Yuliu will not have to run around here and there," said Zhu Badger, walking into the house.

Stilt-legged Man and One-Armed Luo shouted at Zhu Badger's back: "Fairy, are we really tied for first place? Will Yuliu really come again?"

Zhu Badger replied in the room: "When has this fairy failed to keep his word? Can Willow Tree Spirit let go of you, the treasure of this old house?"

"Okay, you're good at making puns." Ma Yasha gave Zhu Badger a thumbs up.

Zhu Badger curled his lips: "I don't have as many twists and turns as you. I'll go in and read a book. Remember to rank the one-armed and cross-legged ones first."

"Don't worry, we're tied for first place. Hey, aren't you going to eat?" Ma Yasha asked when Zhu Badger walked into the study.

Zhu Badger turned back to Mayaksha and said, "Fairies don't eat the fireworks of the world."

"Oh, yes." Mayasha stuck out his tongue.

Zhu Badger closed the door of the study room and breathed a sigh of relief. He thought to himself, this book banquet is much more delicious than the wine and meat banquet.

Climb up the ladder on the left side of the ninth bookcase, reach the top, reach out and take out a copy of "Collection of Poems of Han Shanzi" and hold it in your hands. The red badger is waiting to go to heaven.

"The mountains and rivers are beautiful in every layer, and the mist locks the emerald green. The gauze and towel are wet with mist, and the dew is stained on the coir raincoat clothes. My feet are walking on tiptoes, holding ancient vine branches in my hands. Looking beyond the world, what is the dream."

In the sound of chanting, Zhu Badger floated to Yaochi Wonderland.

Two fairies welcomed Zhu Badger and led her to the Peach Garden.

In the flat peach garden, the peach trees in the garden are lush and leafy. The peach branches are covered with ripe flat peaches, all of which are bright red and exude a fragrant aroma that makes people salivate.

After the fairies had picked baskets of peaches, Zhu Badger followed them back to Yaochi Wonderland to attend the Queen Mother's peach banquet.

At the peach banquet, the Queen Mother sat in the center, wearing a luxurious brocade robe, a phoenix crown on her head, holding a jade staff in her hand, and smiling brightly. There were various gods and goddesses sitting around, some holding peach branches, some holding flat peaches, smiling broadly. The gods toasted each other and the atmosphere was warm.

The Queen Mother personally served a plate of peaches to Zhu Badger, and picked out the largest and reddest peach and handed it to Zhu Badger.

Zhu Badger took the peach but did not eat it. He just looked at the gods stupidly.

Nao Xi is in prison, why is it still a banquet? Isn’t it said that everyone has become a god? Why are you still eating and drinking the same?
The Queen Mother asked Zhu Badger: "Nine Immortals, what's on your mind?"

"Can't you see through all the thoughts of mortals? Why are you still asking me?" Zhu Badger replied angrily.

The Queen Mother smiled and said: "I can see through all the thoughts of mortals, but now you are a fairy, the Nine Immortals in the sky, my ninth daughter."

"It doesn't mean that you won't have worries after becoming an immortal. Since there are no worries, why bother? Isn't what you are asking a bit contradictory?" Zhu Badger did not give the Queen Mother any face.

The Queen Mother no longer paid attention to Zhu Badger, and she kept her airs and accepted the toasts offered to her by gods and goddesses from all walks of life.

When Zhu Badger was about to eat the peach, a fairy flew to her side, snatched the peach from her hand, and swallowed it in one gulp.

"You..." Zhu Badger wanted to get angry, but when she looked up and saw that it was her Eight Immortals, she turned around and ignored her.

Miss Eight Immortals flew to the other side of Zhu Badger and asked Zhu Badger playfully: "Why don't you scold me?"

Zhu Badger looked forward, pretending not to hear the question from the Eight Immortals.

"Scold me, scold me like you scolded the willow tree spirit, scold me like you scolded the sunflower monster." Miss Eight Immortals flew to Zhu Badger's eyes.

Zhu Badger still pretended not to hear.

"Do you know? Why do I want to trouble you?" Miss Eight Immortals glared at Zhu Badger with a pair of fox eyes.

Zhu Badger simply closed his eyes.

"I tell you, I hate that you were ridiculed as the Eight Immortals by others in the mortal world." Miss Eight Immortals gritted her teeth.

When Zhu Badger heard his Eight Immortals say this, he thought it was funny at first. I wonder if you are bored? That's why those vulgar people couldn't stand my behavior, so they scolded me like that. What does it have to do with you? On second thought, Miss Eight Immortals hates herself not for being bored, but for being unscrupulous. She has no scruples in heaven, so she gets angry even when someone scolds her on the ground, especially when she, the sister of Nine Immortals, is scolded by others. If she, a young lady from the Eight Immortals, was asked to take the blame, how could she not feel itchy with hatred?
Thinking of this, Zhu Badger burst into laughter.

At this time, Miss Eight Immortals became even more angry. She picked up a plate of peaches and smashed it on Zhu Badger's head.

Zhu Badger closed her eyes. Although she couldn't see the operations of Miss Eight Immortals, she could feel something coming towards her based on the sound of the wind.

Seeing that the plate of flat peaches was about to hit Zhu Badger, Zhu Badger sat there motionless. All the gods and gods, including the Queen Mother, looked at Zhu Badger with breathless concentration.

Seeing that Zhu Badger refused to dodge and allowed a large plate of peaches to hit her, Miss Eight Immortals panicked. She understood that if the large plate of peaches really hit Zhu Badger, the consequences would be disastrous.

"Hahaha, heaven is nothing more than this. I will go down there. Miss Eight Immortals, Queen Mother, and all the gods who attended the peach banquet today, you owe me a favor from the Nine Immortals, and you must repay it when it is due." Zhu Badger disappeared into the fairyland of Yaochi.

"Hey, why are you laughing? Do you still want to eat this meal?" Ma Yasha's loud voice came from outside the study.

Zhu Badger responded: "Have they all dispersed?"

"It's already gone. It's been several hours." Ma Yaksha wanted to push the study door in. Once he pushed it, it was locked and he retreated to the hall.

Zhu Badger opened the door and went out of the study, asking Ma Yasha: "Have they all agreed to go down the mountain?"

"After you do this, who would dare to live in the old house again?" Ma Yaksha turned and went to the kitchen.

Zhu Badger followed the kitchen, picked up a piece of braised pork with his hands and sucked it into his mouth with a squeaking sound. While eating, he muttered: "Huh, don't you think life in the mountains is hard and want to live in the city?" Life."

"Use chopsticks, are you still a fairy like this?" Ma Yasha served the rice to Zhu Badger and handed it to him with chopsticks.

Zhu Badger took the chopsticks and a large bowl of rice and started to wolf down it. After eating most of the bowl of rice, he raised his head and asked Ma Yasha: "Did it say when will they be officially allowed to come down the mountain?"

"How easy is it to go down the mountain? What's more, they don't have any assets of their own." Seeing that Zhu Badger was eating so deliciously, Ma Yasha went over and served a small bowl of rice.

Zhu Badger ate a piece of dried bamboo shoots and said: "Of course there is no property at all. The old house only belongs to me. How can they not have any savings at all?"

"How much money can you save by working outside? However, as mentioned above, immigration down the mountain is a big deal, and we will make overall arrangements for everyone's future." Mayaksha talked to Zhu Badger while eating.

Zhu Badger asked: "Will you make overall arrangements for the future? What do you mean?"

"In addition to building a good immigrant community in the town, we will also provide supporting work in various aspects such as education, employment, and elderly care according to the age of the people coming down from the mountain, so that people like us from high mountains will have no worries after moving down from the mountain." Ma Yaksha explained.

Zhu Badger put down his job, his eyes were shining, and he said excitedly: "The above has really considered it very carefully. I support it with both hands."

"Do you also want to go down the mountain?" Mayaksha put away the dishes.

Zhu Badger stood up and curled his lips and said, "Aren't you asking questions knowingly? If I want to go down the mountain, do I need to go through all the trouble to do this?"

"A lot of effort? It's just a small test, right? Is there any bigger operation later?" Ma Yasha asked Zhu Badger while washing the dishes.

Zhu Badger went over to hug Ma Yasha and said coquettishly: "The one who knows me is my own mother."