The Spirit World

Chapter 491: A fake game, a real show.

Yu Zhi came back and he was crazy. This in itself was shocking and puzzling to us brothers who knew the inside story. You say he is crazy, but he can find his way home. Now he doesn't have to work at all. Yu Lao San is also unlucky. The only child in the family has gone crazy. He also regretted that he should not have tried to be clever by inviting Yu Tu to the Harvest Festival. After all, if he hadn't set up a plan to meet Yu Pang, his own kid would have had hope. Now that he ended up like this, all the villagers are sighing.

Do you think Yu Zhi went to Youming Gorge to look for the heart of the mountains?

Zhang Xiaohu said that he must have looked for her, but didn't find her. The more he thought about it, the more he felt that there was no chance of him marrying Yu Pang. He couldn't figure it out for a while and went crazy.

In fact, there have been infatuated men who cannot get the love they want since ancient times, and there are also quite a few crazy ones. I just think it's a pity.

Falling in love with a woman whom you can never marry, or even impress, is indeed a very... unacceptable thing.

This kind of thing is called emotional injury. I have not had emotional injury, so I cannot understand it. I cannot accept someone going crazy for no reason.

Zhang Xiaohu looked at me with disdain and said, "You are really stupid and slow-witted. It's a good thing you don't have anyone you like or someone you like. If they knew you were not a lovelorn man, I think every relationship would fail."

I'm not happy about it. To be honest, it doesn't matter whether Yu Zhi is a love-struck man or not and I'm not.

I told him this, but Zhang Xiaohu said to me even more helplessly: "Think about it! Stupid! In this world, whether you are rich or poor, tall or short, thin or fat, old or young, beautiful or ugly, who doesn't want to find someone who is truly good to you? To be honest, if you were a woman, wouldn't you also have a man like Yu Zhi who would treat you well?"

"Tsk... why did you mention me? I don't like men. Besides, if I were a woman, I would definitely reject Yu Zhi... didn't you hear what Yu Pang said... it was almost the first time she met Yu Zhi... If it was the first time I met someone who was so nice to me and wanted to marry me and think about the future with me... I would be afraid anyway..."

I sat at the table and drank water while Niu Er cleaned up the leftover food. After he finished cleaning up, he walked over to the table and listened to our conversation.

"If Li Xiaolang were a girl, I would have gotten married long ago. Xiaolang is so pretty, but a boy is a little poor, right?" Niu Er was about to touch my face, but I slammed his hand on the table.

"Go away, even if I'm a woman, I can't possibly like you two. You both keep saying you want to marry three or four concubines, but I won't do anything if I don't ask you to."

I also teased them. To be honest, after the meal, what we talked about the most was getting married. After all, I am not young anymore, and seeing others getting married all day makes me feel itchy too.

"Hey... Xiaolang, what you said makes sense. I have always suspected that Yu Zhi was mentally ill. How did he get to know Yu Pang and fall in love with her at first sight and insist on marrying her?" Zhang Xiaohu stroked his goatee. I thought he must know the answer, but I didn't pay much attention at the time and didn't react. I just answered as he said.

"I know his father is the village chief... Isn't it common for him to meet with Yutu?"

Okay, I knew there was a condom.

"So, you're saying that this matter was actually planned by Yu Laosan and Yu Tu together? And then they parted ways because of certain things? That's why this incident happened?" Zhang Xiaohu lowered his voice, which made me break out in a cold sweat.

"What?" My voice got louder: "How did you guess that? How can it be said that I said it? It was obviously you who said it..."

"Come, come, come..." Zhang Xiaohu waved his hand and asked the two of us to come closer and listen.

I haven't recovered yet. If I keep refusing at this time, I might end up being blamed for something bad.

Zhang Xiaohu is very bad.

"It's not a bad thing!"

This guy is quite shrewd, with shifty eyes. I didn't dare to really get close to listen, so I just tilted my head and listened slowly.

He pulled my head and Niu Er's head over and put them close to his mouth. With three heads together, I could still smell the sweat odor on Niu Er's body. I had it too, but not as much as he did.

"I think there's something fishy about this matter..."

"I think so too..." I tried to pull away and straighten my head, but he pulled me in again, preventing me from moving.

At this time, his grip was so strong that I couldn't resist it.

"I feel that the Yuzhi family and the Yutu family must have some shocking secrets, especially the Yutu family!" Zhang Xiaohu lowered his voice, fearing that there might be eavesdroppers on the other side of the wall.

"I think so too..." Niu Er said the same thing as I did. Wow, just by saying "I think so too", both of us brothers are smarter than Zhang Xiaohu.

I looked at Zhang Xiaohu and felt that there was light in his eyes. He wanted to do something big!

"I have an important matter to discuss with you. If you are willing to listen, I will continue. If you are not willing to listen, I will stop here."

Zhang Xiaohu looked at us, and Niu Er also became confused. I didn't have any ideas. I was quite conflicted about whether to listen to this important matter or not.

What's the matter? I'm also a brother. Just listen. It won't hurt you. If I encounter anything wrong, I will tell Xiaohu to stop talking. At worst, I will knock him out as he is dragging my brothers into this trouble.

Seeing that we were silent, Zhang Xiaohu lowered his voice and said, "If you don't say anything, it means you agree to listen, so I'll tell you, you all listen carefully... Yesterday, I was outside Guan Yuzhi's room and heard Yu Zhi and Yu Lao San quarreling."

"Ah? He's not crazy? You didn't hear it wrong... Was it a quarrel of nonsense?" I realized that what Zhang Xiaohu was going to say might really involve a big secret: "Is it acting?"

"Acting?" Niu Er looked at me, and then at Zhang Xiaohu who was looking at me.

Zhang Xiaohu stared at me intently, then slowly, without moving his gaze away, nodded.

It was already evening, but I could still hear a loud rooster crowing.

That weird atmosphere made me feel something was wrong at the time.

Why is he acting? Are we acting when we are watching from the side?
"That's not right..." Niu Er questioned.

"Yu Zhi should have gone crazy... Once I passed by him looking suspicious, and he was still poking cow dung..."

“Are you sure you want to poke the cow dung instead of looking at what’s in it?”

"We were just having dinner..." I waved my hands to signal them not to discuss these trivial matters anymore.

In the end, the three of us looked at each other and remained silent.

"Now that you mention it, I also noticed that there were some differences in Yu Zhi... His madness... didn't seem to be the same as the madness I had seen before... I thought madness was different, so I didn't care too much about it." I also tried my best to lower my voice. Well, I do think that going crazy for love is not that exaggerated. At least not so many people go crazy for love.

"We were discovered when we went to peek? Was it all an act?" Niu Er was also shocked when he realized what was going on.

"We were fooled by others. Did we testify to the impossible feelings that Yu Zhi had for these two people from the Yupang clan?" Zhang Xiaohu was filled with indignation. Yes, the three of us were indeed witnesses to the impossible feelings that Yu Zhi and the Yupang clan had... and we even testified to Yu Zhi's identity as a lovesick man.

I thought... When Yu Zhi's team was going to find the Heart of the Mountains, he specially asked us to see them off.

When it was my turn to say goodbye to him, I also said to Yu Zhi, my good brother, it is not worth being trapped by love. If you encounter difficulties, just come back earlier, otherwise it will not end up like this.

Yu Zhi told me that he would definitely find the heart of the mountains and he would definitely marry Yu Pang.

Ha, in the end he was carried back by the people in that team...

The problem is not here. The problem is why he is pretending to be crazy.

What does this have to do with finding the Heart of the Mountains? Or maybe the Yutu clan is up to something again.

The three of us knew very little, but Zhang Xiaohu got a glimpse of it and guessed that there was something fishy going on.

I think I still admire him a lot. I guess he felt that there was something wrong with this matter from the beginning, and then he went to stake out Yu Zhi and Yu Laosan.

I was wondering why he loves going to the toilet so much these past two days. The frequency is much more frequent than when he was lazy. I even suspected that there was something wrong with him.

"And then? What did they quarrel about?"

"Then what? How did they quarrel?" We all asked Zhang Xiaohu. Zhang Xiaohu sat up straight without hurrying, took a sip of wine, and said slowly: "In this world, when fathers and sons quarrel, it is either because of different understandings or because of disputes over family property. Which one do you think it could be?"

"How would I know..." I took a sip of tea. I was adopted in Yujia Village since I was a child. How would I know anything?

"They are arguing about dividing the spoils..."

"Divide the spoils!"

"Split the spoils?"

"Shh..."

This time we took the initiative to move our heads closer to Zhang Xiaohu and spoke in a very low voice.

Seeing Zhang Xiaohu so leisurely, I think he is really a cunning guy. But at this moment, he is not in a hurry anymore.

The word "divide the spoils" cannot be said casually. If I had known that Yu Laosan was still the village chief, I would have been scared to death when Zhang Xiaohu said the word "divide the spoils".

"You know about the Harvest Festival, right? Do you really know how much we, the people in our village, eat?" Zhang Xiaohu also lowered his body, and the smell of alcohol rushed to us. The alcohol was so strong that it made me feel sick.

"What does this have to do with the Harvest Festival?"

Niu Er and I are confused.

"Can we really eat so much during the Harvest Festival?" Zhang Xiaohu looked at us and narrowed his eyes.

"What do you mean?" I suddenly realized. I was thinking, and suddenly I figured it out. I stared at Zhang Xiaohu in disbelief. Zhang Xiaohu said nothing. Niu Er didn't understand. He wanted to ask, but my mouth was covered.

"Is that true?" I asked Zhang Xiaohu, and Zhang Xiaohu nodded.

I sat down with my buttocks, and collapsed to the ground.

"These two things are actually one and the same. I can understand parents doing this for their children's better life." Zhang Xiaohu ate a peanut. I seemed to only hear the popping sound in his mouth. The peanuts crushed in his mouth, dully waking me up.

"Is this true?"

"I estimate that it won't be long before a serious young man will have the opportunity to go to the township... This person is not you, Li Xiaolang! Nor is it me, Zhang Xiaohu, and certainly not the fat boy Niu Erniu. It can only be someone's son."

Zhang Xiaohu looked indifferent.

"Let's reveal..." Niu Er was about to say something, but I covered his mouth again.

Zhang Xiaohu knocked on the table with his chopsticks, looked at me with a very serious look and said: "I have a way..."

"Speak..." Seeing that Niu Er had behaved himself, I let him go and wiped my hands on his clothes in disgust.

"Let's go find the real heart of the mountains..."

As soon as Zhang Xiaohu said this, I stopped what I was doing. I had my head down, and when I slowly raised it up, I could only see Zhang Xiaohu eating peanuts with a dull look on his face.

He was neither excited nor confused, he just said this very calmly.

"What? Didn't you say it's impossible to find it? Netherworld Gorge! Us? Impossible..." I slowly took my hand away from Niu Er. Seeing this posture, I could only think that Zhang Xiaohu was serious about this matter.

"We really can't find it..." Zhang Xiaohu said slowly.

I picked up a peanut out of confusion, and Niu Er picked up a peanut in the same way.

The whole thing is more surprising than my daily farming.

I scratched my head and felt itchy. I don’t know if it was my scalp that was numbing. Anyway, I was not feeling very comfortable. I felt uncomfortable all over.

"Are you sure that you heard a normal Yu Zhi? And not that... ah-ah-ah-ah Yu Zhi?" I confirmed again: "Zhang Xiaohu, you are not kidding us... Anyway, I think this matter is a little strange, but it is not to the extent of this kind of connection. Are you sure?"

"I'm sure. We grew up together, wore the same pair of pants, and kept all the delicious food and drinks in our hearts. How could I forget you?"

That's true. The three of us have been together through thick and thin. If I really want to cheat you, I will tell you openly and won't hide it from the other party. After all, after so many years, even a dog will wag its tail.

"Then just tell me straight, is this a good thing or a bad thing?" I didn't hide anything. Before Zhang Xiaohu said his proposal, I asked him whether he thought this was a good thing or a bad thing. If it was a bad thing, then I would not agree to it. If it was a good thing, then we would discuss it.

"It's a mixed bag. If it works, we'll be rich and prosperous. If it doesn't, we'll still be poor. But everything has risks. If you do it, you have to accept the risks."

"How big is the risk?" Niu Er also became interested.

Zhang Xiaohu said it was a mixed bag, which basically meant that he would find a way to do it.

As long as you accomplish this, you won’t have to worry about wealth and glory for even several lifetimes, let alone this one.

What Yu Pang family, what beautiful lady, as long as they think about it in their hearts and see money in their eyes, they may really throw themselves into your arms.

I hesitated, I also want to be rich...

I didn't hear what Zhang Xiaohu said. I just felt that after hearing so many stories about rich young men living a life of debauchery, I really felt that it was quite impressive that they could fool around without considering the face or feelings of their future wives.

In the end, they were not ashamed to say "I love you forever" at the wedding. That's really amazing.

But I... don't seem to envy them.

I do want wealth and glory.

If it does not harm others, I think Zhang Xiaohu's proposal is feasible.

The heart of the mountains, if we can find it.

Or, the fake Heart of the Mountains can be presented to the Yutu clan.

Have you seen the Heart of the Mountains?

I have not seen.

I don't think Yu Tu has seen it either.

That's it.

Zhang Xiaohu said almost the same thing, but he said something that really struck me.

"We don't really want to fake it. We really want to find the heart of the mountains."

Zhang Xiaohu was cunning and didn't tell us what to do. However, Niu Er and I, who were instigated by him, did start to fantasize about a bright future.

It's just like hunting for treasure... the treasure is there, whoever finds it secretly owns it, but if you look for it openly, it may not be yours.

(End of this chapter)