In the blink of an eye, three more days have passed since the incident of Hundred Ghosts Night Parade.
During these three days, Lin Ji patrolled the county every night.
Fortunately, no ghosts dare to harm people in the city.
Guo Yi, on the other hand, took advantage of these few days to make a trip to the Qingcheng Sect, preparing to pick up his wife.
Lin Ji took the time to leave the county town again and walked ten miles towards Liangcheng. After killing some idle ghosts on the roadside, he felt a little relieved.
At noon, Qingyang County was shrouded in heavy rain.
The rain started falling the day before yesterday, and it hasn't slowed down at all until today.
On the streets of Qingyang County, which used to be lively in the past, few people wandered out these two days.
Lin Ji walked out of the house and set up an awning in the corner of the small courtyard. Listening to the sound of heavy raindrops falling on the awning, he let out a long sigh of relief.
He set up a table under the awning and carried the freshly boiled water out of the kitchen.
After making tea and pouring herself a cup, Lin Ji lay comfortably on the recliner and stretched out.
After a while, Lu Cong arrived.
His hands were full of lunch ingredients.
"Boss, good quality pork belly and pork knuckles." Lu Cong narrowed his eyes with a smile, put the ingredients into the kitchen, and urged, "It's getting late, why don't you get busy?"
"Why are you in a hurry? Wait for me to sit down for a while." Lin Ji yawned and rolled his eyes at Lu Cong.
"Aren't we hungry?" Lu Cong chuckled.
"Where's the soy sauce beef I asked you to buy from Ruyilou?" Lin Ji asked casually.
Lu Cong slapped his forehead and stood up quickly.
"I forgot."
Just when Lu Cong was going out, he happened to bump into Guo Yi.
"What are you doing in such a hurry?" Guo Yi asked casually, accompanied by a pretty girl who looked to be in her early thirties and had a pretty face.
"Brother Guo, sister-in-law." Lu Cong greeted, "I'm just going to Ruyi Building to buy some soy sauce beef."
After Lu Cong left, Guo Yi led his wife into the small courtyard.
"Boss."
"Lin Captou."
"Lao Guo, sister-in-law, please sit down wherever you like. The tea has just been brewed." Lin Ji stood up and greeted her, saying, "I've almost started cooking."
"Want to help?" Mrs. Guo asked quickly.
"No need, I can handle this on my own." Lin Ji shied away with a smile.
There is no reason to ask customers to help.
After walking into the kitchen, Lin Ji seemed to remember something, and shouted to the yard next door: "Get up, come over for dinner later!"
"It's so abominable to disturb your dreams so early in the morning!" Zhong Xiaoyan's irritated voice sounded.
Lin Ji could imagine her sleepy eyes and an impatient look on her face as she sat up from the bed.
"So your family calls noon morning." Lin Ji said sarcastically.
Then he heard the soft-spoken persuasion from the maid Ling'er in the yard next door, and it took some convincing to get Zhong Xiaoyan to put down the porcelain in her hands without throwing it on the ground.
Zhong Xiaoyan moved next door to Lin Ji's house the day before yesterday, to the yard that the Song family had previously purchased.
This girl doesn't know what's wrong with her. She insists on staying in Qingyang County as a demon hunter. The county magistrate seems to be quite polite to Zhong Xiaoyan, which shows that this girl's identity is not simple.
Judging from the fact that he is even younger than Lin Ji and is already a third-level monk, it is strange that he can be so simple!
Later, Song Er heard that the new demon hunter didn't have a place to stay, so he took the initiative to give the empty house away.
In the kitchen, Lin Ji quickly decomposed the ingredients.
Cut half of the pork belly into medium-sized pieces, and mash the rest directly into minced meat.
Add onion, ginger, water, eggs and other ingredients, mix well and set aside.
Heat the pan and add oil.
After a while, the aroma of meat from the kitchen spread to the yard.
Soon, Lu Cong also came back buying soy sauce beef.
Lin Ji picked up the soy beef and cut it into a large plate, mixed it with balsamic vinegar and chili oil, and handed it to Lu Cong.
"Let's take it out and start eating. I'm almost done with this dish. I'll bring out two more jars of wine from my cellar."
"okay."
Not long after, Zhong Xiaoyan also arrived with Linger.
The demon hunters from Qingyang County were all here, hiding under the awning in the yard, chatting.
"Lu Cong, come in and serve the food!" Lin Ji's voice came from the kitchen.
Lu Cong trotted into the kitchen excitedly.
After a while, the two of them walked out together carrying the dishes.
"Braised pork, Sixi meatballs, simmered elbow, and a few other home-cooked dishes."
While talking, when Lu Cong was about to use chopsticks when he sat down, Lin Ji slapped him on the back of the head.
"I can't see how many dishes of vegetarian dishes there are in the kitchen. Bring them out!"
"Oh." Lu Cong put down his chopsticks aggrievedly.
Soon, everyone started to move.
Lin Ji sat down at the dining table and watched the guests using their chopsticks with satisfaction.
No one spoke, only the clink of chopsticks and bowls.
"How is it?" Lin Ji picked up a piece of braised pork and threw it into his mouth, and asked casually.
Lu Cong ignored Lin Ji and almost fell into the bowl.
Guo Yi smiled and gave a thumbs up, and Mrs. Guo nodded repeatedly.
Zhong Xiaoyan was quite surprised.
"I didn't expect you to be so good at your craftsmanship. It would be a pity for you to be a head catcher. Why don't you come and be my cook? I will pay you one hundred taels a month!"
"Who will catch the head if I become the cook?"
"Me." Zhong Xiaoyan said matter-of-factly.
Lin Ji rolled his eyes and was too lazy to pay attention to this weak tomboy.
After drinking and eating, several people started chatting.
"This rain is really strange. I haven't seen such heavy rain in Qingyang County in previous years." Lin Ji looked at the pouring rain outside and was quite surprised.
"It's a bit strange." Lu Cong echoed from the side, "I grew up in the county and have never seen it before."
"And it rained so heavily for three days in a row. If we weren't still dozens of miles away from Lianghe, I'm afraid the county would have been flooded."
At this moment, Guo Yi suddenly thought of something.
"Speaking of this rain, I seem to have heard some rumors in the past two days."
"What rumors?" Lin Ji asked.
"Some people in the county are talking about it, saying that the river god of Lianghe River is angry, and they have to sacrifice to the river god to stop the rain." Guo Yi felt a little embarrassed when he said this.
Lin Ji even laughed dumbly.
Lu Cong asked in confusion: "Boss, why are you laughing?"
"Yes, why are you laughing?" Zhong Xiaoyan also asked from the side.
"The so-called river gods are just some monsters, and people just pass them on. Lao Guo, you also believe this."
"I just mentioned it casually." Guo Yi smiled and waved his hand.
Lin Ji looked at Lu Cong again and raised his brows: "I want you to read more books at ordinary times, but not to see more of the ghosts and monsters in Supervisor Tiansi! For such a big man, it is not shameful to make a fuss about everything.
"
Lu Cong was used to being scolded by Lin Ji, so he just smiled.
But Lin Ji's eyes swept over Zhong Xiaoyan intentionally or unintentionally.
How can I bear this?
"What are you looking at me for?" Zhong Xiaoyan was angry. She always felt that there was something wrong with what she just said.
"I saw it accidentally, I'm sorry." Lin Ji apologized without sincerity.
But at this moment, the door of the small courtyard was pushed open.
Song Er quickly walked into the yard with an old man.
"Boss, this is a refugee who escaped from Lianghe County. Just listen to what he has to say." Song Er pushed the old man forward.
The old man knelt down on the ground consciously.
"Sir, this rain is caused by the anger of the river god, so you have to take care of it!"