After such a long distance, Lu Ke really heard the conversation between me and Yu Ping.

"Let's go, Professor, you can't hide. "I walked in the direction of Luco.

"Do you really want to go over?" Yu Ping looked a little scared.

"Professor, why don't you go back to the main hall, or go home early while Zong An doesn't know it, maybe he will forget it in a few days. I whispered.

"It's okay or not, Ye Ke, you'd better convince Lu Ke, please!" As soon as he finished speaking, he disappeared.

"It's too fast," I thought to myself, and walked up to the girl named Lu Ke, "Hello, my name is Ye Ke, I'm sorry to disturb you just now." ”

"Hey, it turns out that you are the ghostwriter Zong An has been looking for, I have never seen Zong An so patient with anyone. She smiled beautifully, but unlike Tsubaki's cute and innocent, the deer was more mature and her voice was a little deeper than that of ordinary girls.

"I would also like to thank Zong An for inviting me to come, I have indeed learned a lot. ”

"Yes? I heard you say you don't want to help him. She said lightly, but I felt the air of threat.

"Thank you, I'm still not going to help him," I said, "I don't like yokai much, but I don't hate them either, and I can't hurt them." ”

"What an honest man," she said, looking regretfully at the broken cup on the floor, "Alas, it's a pity that this cup is broken, and only the flask remains, otherwise I would have invited you to drink." ”

"Why is Miss Deer sitting here drinking alone?" I tried to turn the conversation to her.

"You want to change the subject, don't you?" she smiled, and there was a little bit of charm, "Don't play tricks in front of me, it's easy to see." ”

It turns out that Yu Ping's eyesight does not simply mean good eyesight...

"Don't be nervous, I'll just say it casually," she reached out and touched my head like a pet, "They all said that I was like a different person after drinking, so they didn't drink with me, and they didn't allow me to drink, so I had to sneak out and drink by myself." At this point, she pursed her lips, "Actually, they just think that I will easily say their thoughts after drinking, a bunch of cowards." Oh, your hair is so soft, like a dog's hair. ”

I really don't shy away from it... With such a fiancée, it is not easy for Zong An...

"That, Miss Lu," I tried to persuade her not to tell Zong'an what had just happened, although I didn't think there was much hope.

"Just call me Coco. She interrupted me, "Don't worry, even if you don't say it, I won't tell Zong An what you and Yu Ping just said." ”

"You... Well, I don't know how to say it, but thank you. "I felt relieved.

"Zong An is actually a very kind person," she took her hand off my head, picked up the flask and took a sip of wine, "He is just too sharp to be very mean, he actually wants to protect everyone more than anyone else, otherwise he wouldn't have bothered to find you." ”

"I've always wondered, why did Zong An invite me?" Anyway, she could see through it, so it was better to just say it directly.

She took another sip of wine, it seemed that the amount of alcohol was not ordinarily good, "It's not easy, I want you to help him, help him sign a contract with the big monster." But," Lu Ke drank from the jug in one gulp, "I don't want you to help him subdue the Great Youkai." ”

Another answer that surprised me, "Deer... Well, Coco, I kind of don't understand what you think. ”

"Because of the existence of the monster contract, Zong An has never been able to look directly into his heart, if you help him sign contracts with more monsters, he will become more and more obsessed. Seeing that I still wanted to ask, Lu Ke pointed his index finger at my mouth, "Xiao Ke, don't ask again, it won't do you any good to know too much." ”

...... Xiao Ke ...... What a strange name.

"By the way, I've always been curious, how did Zong An find you? ”

"I met by accident at the place where I work part-time. I answered truthfully.

"Where do you work part-time?" Lu Ke held his chin with one hand and smiled evilly, "Where do you work part-time? The place where Zong An can enter is definitely not an ordinary place." ”

"A grocery store. ”

"Then write letters to the youkai over there?" she asked.

"Well, except for writing letters, as long as I can help, I will do it. ”

"What's that shop called, I'll go around when I'm free. ”

"It's not fun, you're going to get bored. "I really don't want more demon slayers to show up in the store.

"Where is it? If you don't tell me, I'll tell Zong An about Yu Ping. She didn't mean to give up.

“... Well, not far from the train station, it's called Tianbei groceries. ”

Lu Ke suddenly sat up straight, "What did you say that store was called?"

"Tian... Tian Bei groceries?" Her reaction was a little unexpected to me.

"Is the boss's name Tian Bei? in his seventies, a single fat old man?"

"How do you know!" No, she could even see that, did she? I didn't think about it just now.

"It turns out that this old man is still in City A, and he is really deeply hidden. After a long while, Lu Ke spoke, "Tian Bei and our Lu family are old acquaintances, and they are my mother's drinking friends, and I often saw him coming to my mother for a drink when I was a child." ”

"How could the old man know your mother..."

"The smell is similar, the deer family has been demon killers for generations, because the way of eliminating demons is very special, in order to prevent their own skills from being learned by others, they don't have much to do with other people, plus women don't pass on men, so the leader of the Lu family has always been a woman. Lu Ke picked up the flask and found that the wine was gone, "Hey, why is it gone so quickly!"

"You've just finished drinking..."

"Ah, it's nice to have no wine!" she muttered. I'm like my mother, especially love to drink, my mother was also young at that time, but after becoming the leader, she couldn't drink like this, she secretly looked for wine to drink every day, one day she just came back from the demon, just met Tian Bei who was drinking in the tavern, and she was greedy, but the identity made her not go in and drink casually, so she kept standing outside the tavern door and watched, Tian Bei found out, he actually used a small wine pot to give to her, and the two people who came and went were familiar, and after I was born, Tian Bei often came to my house as a guest, that is, he always used chopsticks to dip wine for me to taste, I developed the habit of drinking。 ”

"I didn't expect the old man to have such a history. I chuckled inwardly.

"Since that day Tian Bei left, I haven't seen him again, at first he exchanged letters with his mother, and then I heard that he went to many places, and then even the letter was gone, he disappeared like this, I didn't expect to hide in City A all the time. ”

"Why did he leave all of a sudden?" the old man had always been mysterious, and I was thrilled to hear his story.

"Because from that day on, he never saw the yokai again. ”