Chapter 3: The Hall Master...
Then, Xiangling began to hide from Anping.
When picking vegetables, I used to like to discuss with Anping which dish is of good quality, Xiangling will never stand in a vegetable field with Anping, Anping will bury her head in the cauliflower and hide it even when she looks at her.
Looking at Xiangling like this, An Ping couldn't help laughing.
My sister is starting to grow up after all.
Anping let Xiangling keep a safe distance of more than ten meters from him, so that she could enjoy the sweet and sour feeling brought by this not too late adolescence, and after picking the vegetables, they returned to the school one after another.
Then Anping saw an old friend who came to visit at the door of the school.
"Hall Master Hu, long time no see!"
Anping greeted Hu Tao warmly, who didn't know what to do in the school.
"Huh?"
Hu Tao heard An Ping's voice and turned his head in surprise.
"After a long absence, Hall Master Hu is still the same as always... It's merediocre!"
An Ping's eyes swept over Hu Tao's desperate steel plate, and his tone was full of malice.
DUANG!
Hu Tao, who felt completely offended, didn't say a word, and directly took out a shovel and knocked it on Anping's head.
"I'm just kidding... Don't be so angry..."
Anping didn't expect Hu Tao to become so irritable now.
Nation! Nation!
Hu Tao looked at An Ping, who could still speak, blinked his eyes twice, and suddenly the shovel in his hand smashed twice on the top of An Ping's head.
"We're not familiar enough to do anything... I'm going to be angry if you do this again..."
Although this attack is not painful or itchy for An Ping, the feeling of being hit on the head with a shovel is not very good.
Seeing that Anping could still stand and talk well, Hu Tao seemed to feel that the shovel in his hand was useless, so he threw the shovel casually, and found a hemp rope with dense mantras written on it, and began to tie it around Anping.
While tying Hu Tao's mouth, he still chanted words:
"Dust to dust, earth to earth, life and death, yin and yang are different, where do you come from, where do you go back..."
"It's not... Master Hu Tang... You see clearly... I'm a big living man..."
An Ping was speechless and looked at Hu Tao who was holding the rope around him, and he didn't resist, he wanted to see what Hu Tao was going to do to him today.
"Master Hu... Anping... Anping, he's still alive!"
After Xiangling came up from behind, Anping, who had an expressionless face and a Zhang Fu on his head, had already been put into a sack by Hu Tao.
"Born at the time of life, died at the moment of death, obey your own heart, and do what is done to men. Xiangling, I know that Anping's departure makes you very uncomfortable, but once the boundary between life and death is broken, and the world of the living is encroached upon by the dead, the whole world will be in chaos at that time, and the consequences will be very serious!"
Hu Tao rarely spoke to Xiangling with a very serious expression.
"That's not the case! This Anping, he is really a living Anping!"
In order to prove that Anping is still alive, Xiangling took out a small mirror and put it under Anping's nose, and there was suddenly an extra layer of mist on the mirror.
"Look! How can a dead man breathe!"
Xiangling held the mirror and said loudly.
"That's true..."
Hu Tao looked at Anping carefully, and Anping also stared at him in silence.
"Sure enough, it should be knocked to death first and then dragged to be buried, Xiangling, don't worry, the hall master will go down with this shovel and keep him sick and painless!"
Hu Tao picked up the shovel he had just dropped again, aimed it at Anping's head and raised it high.
"Walnut! If you do that again, I'm going to be angry!"
Xiangling hurriedly stood in front of Anping to block Hu Tao.
Hearing the movement outside, Guoba opened the door and took a look, just in time to see Hu Tao holding a shovel aimed at the pot, walking with two small short legs and angry
ran in front of Xiangling and faced Hu Tao.
"Giggles! Giggle!"
"Ah, it's not that serious, I'm just joking with Xiangling."
Hu Tao didn't know if he really understood the voice of the pot, but the expression on his face that was still serious just now immediately turned into a hippie smile.
"Ahh Giggle!"
Guoba still waved his two little short hands angrily and reasoned with Hu Tao.
"Understood, understood, I won't scare Xiangling like this next time."
"Giggle!"
"Yes, yes, yes..."
Anping was a little surprised, and the two of them actually spoke and communicated with each other when the language was completely incomprehensible.
"So, Hall Master Hu, did you recognize me a long time ago and deliberately scare me again?"
After Hu Tao coaxed the pot, Anping also stood up from the sack, took off the rope on his body, removed the rune paper on his head, looked at Hu Tao and asked.
"Of course, how can the master of this hall be so powerful that he can't even tell the difference between the dead and the living? I didn't want to scare you, but who told you that every time you see the master of this hall, you will speak with yin and yang and full of malice?"
Hu Tao raised his head very confidently, looked at An Ping dissatisfied, and said.
Although she couldn't understand the pun in An Ping's words, her keen intuition could still detect An Ping's ill intentions when he greeted him.
"Ahem, I'm just saying hello to you... What's so malicious..."
Anping, who originally wanted to scare Hu Tao with a tooth for a tooth, felt a little embarrassed after hearing Hu Tao's explanation later.
He did always be full of malice towards Hu Tao's flat body.
Even if he is standing with Xiangling, Hu Tao's body can bring out Xiangling's femininity.
When An Ping's eyes swept around himself and Xiangling, Hu Tao once again felt full of malice.
She couldn't resist the urge to put a shovel on Anping's head again.
"Ahem. Master Hu has come from afar, so let's go sit down and talk first..."
Anping frowned when he saw Hu Tao, and hurriedly beckoned her in and sat down.
"By the way, Master Hu, don't you usually come here to teach the children?"
An Ping was really worried that Hu Tao would cultivate a sense of crisis for the children at the same time as the class, and promote her Afterlife Hall's preferential and big reward business.
"I'd like to, but there's no such time to spare... However, I do occasionally send some of the Afterlife Hall guests here to teach the children."
Hu Tao waved his hand, looking troubled.
"Didn't you see that you were idle every day?"
Anping was a little surprised, Hu Tao could say that there was no idle time.
She used to be so idle that she took a nap in the coffin, raised stone lions at night, and talked about life with the statues, but she only seemed to do a little more serious than the guest Qing Zhongli under her hand.
Otherwise, Anping would not have envied the work of the Afterlife Hall before.
"Alas, although the master of the hall wanted to cooperate with the Adventurers' Guild in the past, I didn't expect to be so tired after it was achieved... Adventurers are a dangerous job... It's good that a large part of the adventurers are missing... Otherwise, the master of this hall will really bow to the essence and die..."
Speaking of work, Hu Tao showed a haggard look, but she could hear that she was actually quite happy and full of energy.
"How did you convince Sister Lan to get the Adventurers' Guild and the Afterlife Hall to cooperate?"
An Ping was a little surprised, in the past, Sister Lan sent her away with a headache when she saw Hu Tao.
"It's not a direct collaboration... It's Ningguang's insurance business that has finally infiltrated the Adventurers' Guild... And I have a cooperation with Ningguang... So I guess we have indirectly reached a cooperation with the Adventurers' Guild..."
"I see..."
"And Ningguang isn't even satisfied with just winning the Liyue Adventurers' Guild, he wants to
The business of the other seven countries has also been won, so that I can learn the funeral customs of other countries, so that I can expand the business of the Death Hall to the seven countries as well..."
"You promised?"
"No, the Afterlife Hall has been passed down from generation to generation, and I don't want to die young before I have cultivated the seventy-eighth generation..."
Hu Tao shook his head.
"Oh oh oh..."
An Ping glanced at Hu Tao's chest, and felt that the next generation of deceased hall masters were most likely malnourished when they were young.
"Are you thinking about something that's very rude to me again?"
On a sunny day, Hu Tao shivered inexplicably, and she immediately suspected An Ping's head, straightened her waist and glared at him.
"No, no... Anyway, if you're so busy, is there anything important about coming to the village?"
An Ping immediately changed the topic.
"It's not important, it's just that I just sent off a customer in Wufupo, and I just stopped here to see if Zhongli is lazy here, I didn't expect you guys to come back..."
Anping didn't expect Zhongli to come to Qingce Village to teach the children.
But I think it's probably really like Hu Tao said, the Death Hall has become busy recently, and he came to fish.
"So, Hall Master Hu, you already knew that I didn't die?"
Anping remembered again that when Hu Tao saw him, he didn't have the excitement or suspicion of Xiangling Yura at all.
"This hall master is the seventy-seventh generation hall master of the Afterlife Hall who is responsible for maintaining the order of yin and yang... Of course, I already knew that..."
Hu Tao's eyes blinked quickly at this moment, and An Ping looked at her suspiciously.
"But didn't Hall Master Hu tell us that Anping had no regrets at that time, and that he had completely gone to the other side of the world?"
The honest Xiangling exposed Hu Tao's lies.
"Ahem! The head of the parish was just speculating at the time... It's just speculation... Another possibility I can't tell you... I'm afraid you'll be even more disappointed in the end..."
Hu Tao is actually a little strange, but she burned Anping's corpse with her own hands... However, thinking that Anping's funeral was handled by his own guest secretary throughout the whole process, Hu Tao was relieved.
"But now that you're really alive, then you must remember to shovel that grave after that, it's always a bit unlucky for people to keep a grave alive, and it's also disrespectful to death, not to mention that the value of the burial goods in your grave is quite high, don't be dug up by the Treasure Hoarders first..."
Hu Tao reminded.
Only then did Anping remember that he really seemed to have a grave... But...
"Thanks for the reminder, I'll shovel it later."
But in fact, Anping planned to keep that tomb.
It won't be long before it will be used.
After chatting with Hu Tao for a short time, and after confirming that Zhongli was not here, Hu Tao took his leave.
Soon it was time for school to end, and Yula and Xiangling sent the children back to the village.
Yanfei simply said goodbye to Grandma Ruoxin and left.
She doesn't stay in this school like Yula and Xiangling, but when she comes to talk to Yula occasionally, she will give lessons to the children here.
Anping helped Grandma Ruoxin back home first.
"Anping."
As soon as she got home, her grandmother's tone suddenly became solemn.
"What's wrong, grandma?"
I don't know why my grandmother suddenly became so serious, and An Ping became nervous.
"I shouldn't have said these things to you... But my grandmother used to be just as young, and she waited all her life in Qingcezhuang, from a girl to the gray-haired appearance she is now..."
Grandma Ruoxin sat on the chair, took An Ping's hand, and began to speak earnestly.
「...」
An Ping was silent.
He knew what his grandmother was trying to tell him.
"Grandma's half
Over the years, I've seen too many girls who fall in love with you... Originally, my grandson was so good, I should be happy to be a grandmother... But as a woman, grandma can't bear to see those excellent girls like grandma, trapped in love for a lifetime... Anping, your age is not too young, it's time to pick a girl to start a family, grandma's biggest wish in this life is to watch you get married, and then take advantage of grandma's body and bones, grandma also wants to help you take care of the child, do you think it's okay?"
"Don't worry, grandma, I'll think about it."
Anping heard the meaning of his grandmother's words, and picked a girl to marry, and then the other girls died and did not delay others.
But the actual situation is probably not as simple as grandma thinks...
"Those girls are very good, no matter who Anping chooses, grandma can rest assured..."
Grandma Ruoxin thought of those well-behaved and sensible girls, and the smile on her face stretched a little.
Anping is not only a little curious, in the past half a year, which girls have come to visit Grandma Ruoxin...
Grandma Ruoxin talked to An Ping about this for a while, and then went to sleep first.
Anping naturally went back to the room and lay on the bed.
Suddenly, the sound of waves came from outside the window.
What the heck? Where does the sound of the waves come from?
An Ping immediately got up from the bed and went out to check.
Unexpectedly, from the source of the sound, I saw Yula sitting on the edge of the cliff blowing a bone whistle.
It was from this bone whistle that the sound of the waves came.
"I knew you would come out when you heard that."
Seeing Anping coming, Yula put down the bone whistle in her mouth and looked at him with a smile.
"This kind of whistle is rare even in Liyue, but I didn't expect you to have one..."
Anping carefully looked at the bone whistle lying on Yula's chest and saw the origin of the bone whistle.
"After all, I'm a descendant of sinners, so it's only natural that I can only come to Liyue to find a teacher."
But Yula's smile was completely devoid of the haze of being a descendant of the Lawrence family.
"By the way, how did you come to Qingce Village?"
Anping sat down next to Yula and asked curiously.
"Are you knowingly asking to see me embarrassed? I've written it down."