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Chapter 995: God of Land
Gu Hao told Song Jiang that time is stopped in the underworld. The ghosts eat incense and offerings from the human world, so they naturally don't need to excrete. Living people in the underworld will not feel hungry if they don't eat, but once they eat, they will feel like going to the toilet, so they must completely empty their stomachs during the day.

Song Jiang felt somewhat regretful when he heard this. If he had known that the fish-flavored shredded pork rice he had before coming here might be the last meal of his life, he should have treated himself to a big meal. At least some barbecue or big plate chicken would have made his life worthwhile.

Because they had a whole day to spend, Song Jiang felt that the two of them couldn't just stay in the room all the time, so he asked Gu Hao if he could walk around the inn.
Gu Hao shook his head helplessly and said, "For ghosts, our daytime is their nighttime. This is the time when they rest and sleep. Do you think it's appropriate for two living people like us to wander around the inn during this time?"

Song Jiang felt that it was indeed inappropriate, so he gave up the idea and went back to bed to make up for his sleep. But even so, he really didn't want to sleep in the afternoon, so he got up again and looked at Gu Hao in the next bed and said, "How do you know Li Wan?"

Gu Hao sighed, sat up from the bed with a helpless look on his face and said, "What happened back then... was quite complicated. At that time, I hadn't found a suitable body yet, and was being chased by the underworld with no way to escape. Finally, I mistakenly entered the Huangquan Inn. At that time, Li Wan had taken over the inn for nearly sixty years. The first time she saw me, she guessed what was going on with me. Normally, she shouldn't have taken me in, but she asked me a question. It was because of this question that I was able to hide in the Huangquan Inn and escape that disaster."

Talking about how thrilling that time was, Gu Hao still feels a lingering fear when he thinks about it now. At that time, he had been caught by the underworld officials and was about to be taken back to the underworld for trial. If he had really been taken back to the underworld at that time... then everything would have been completely over, and naturally there would have been no things that happened later.

At that time, Gu Hao took advantage of the fact that a ghost escorting him was not paying attention, broke free from the soul-locking chain and ran away. In a panic, he saw the brightly lit Huangquan Inn, and with nowhere to go, he ran in. It was the first time that Li Wan saw a ghost who could escape from the hands of the ghost. After a few seconds of being stunned, she blurted out, "Have you seen a man named Bai Lang?"

The waiter and attendant beside her, the short skeleton, knew at a glance that her master was ill again. It turned out that Li Wan had a beloved man who had never been found. He was truly missing, so whenever she met a different ghost, she would ask the same question, which was "Have you ever seen a man named Bai Lang?"

Normally, the other party would directly say that they had never seen him, but Gu Hao knew that he had to stay in this place at that time, so he did not directly answer Li Wan's question, but asked her a question in return, "In this vast world, with so many people, there is no way to find him with just a name. Do you know his date of birth?"

At the beginning, it was a Taoist priest who used the man's birth date and time to calculate that he was neither dead nor alive, and asked Li Wan to wait here, so she had a natural trust in Gu Hao, who wanted to find someone through the birth date and time right from the start, so she quickly reported the man's birth date and time. As a result, after calculating, Gu Hao came to the conclusion that Bai Lang was dead.

At first Li Wan was unwilling to accept this result, but she calculated the time and knew that even if the man had survived, he would be almost dead of old age by now, so it was reasonable for Gu Hao to calculate that the other party was dead. But the problem was that although it was now confirmed that the man was dead, Li Wan had not seen the man's name on the list of ghosts in the underworld... In other words, Bai Lang's soul had never reported to the underworld.

Gu Hao later helped Li Wan analyze that the only possibility in this situation was that the man's soul was trapped somewhere and couldn't get out, so he didn't come to the underworld to report. Li Wan was anxious when she heard this. She couldn't leave Huangquan Inn now, so naturally she couldn't save her lover from trouble... Gu Hao said to her very sincerely, "Even if you can get out, where can you find him? This is not that easy, and it depends on the chance of the two of you... Now that I know his birth date, I will definitely help you keep an eye on him in the future. Once I find him, I will find a way to let you know where he is."

Li Wan's eyes lit up immediately when she heard this. When people are extremely desperate, they are willing to believe anything they can believe, so she took Gu Hao in at the inn for a while, and then managed to get Kanye, who often came to the inn to collect scraps, to take him away, which helped Gu Hao escape the pursuit of the Yincha...

After hearing this, Song Jiang said, "No wonder you know that Kanye. Since he was there back then...how old is he now?!"

Gu Hao laughed when he heard this, "Kanye is not a human... He is the land of Huangquan Town."

"Ah, the land of the God of Land?" Song Jiang asked in surprise.

Gu Hao nodded and said, "Yes... This place is too close to the underworld. Small gods like the land god will also be affected. In addition, modern people have gradually forgotten the existence of the true gods and have long stopped worshipping small gods like the land god and the kitchen god. Without incense offerings, they have to support themselves. At that time, Kanye opened a grocery store in the town and collected some strange and junk from the inn. His life was pretty comfortable."

Song Jiang couldn't help but sigh after hearing this, "I didn't expect that the land god actually worked as a rag collector... It really is true that there is no distinction between high and low occupations! Fortunately, he has opened a convenience store now."

Unexpectedly, Gu Hao laughed and said, "You don't understand... The junk that Kanye collected is not scrap copper, iron, or torn paper. It is generally the things that the deceased brought with him when he was buried and that he loved very much during his lifetime. Among them are also antique calligraphy and paintings, gold and silver jewelry. But for the underworld, real gold and silver objects cannot be circulated as currency for them, and antique calligraphy and paintings are even worse, so those underworld officials will sell the things to Li Wan at extremely low prices."

When Song Jiang heard this, he asked curiously, "How cheap is extremely cheap?"

"It's possible that a sack of burnt paper can be exchanged for a genuine Tang Bohu painting..." Gu Hao said after thinking for a while.