What if you were targeted by a cool and aloof beauty?

Unlike my grandparents' hands, which are wrinkled and feel hard to the touch.

When Jiuge heard Xiaogou Dan's self-introduction, the corner of her mouth twitched, as if she couldn't understand it at all.

An Chen followed behind, yawning, not particularly interested in the matter.

There seems to be no problem with this place right now; we just need to find a suitable time to lure them out of their illusions and then perform a ritual to help them pass on to the afterlife.

"By the way, sister, isn't your husband mentally challenged? What if he gets lost if you don't hold his hand?" Little Dog Egg reminded her, patting his head with the hand he had let go of.

Jiuge's mouth opened slightly.

They actually said it was her husband?

"Hmph, there's nothing I can do now that you've said so." Jiuge stretched out her other hand, gesturing for An Chen to quickly take it.

She was actually very nervous, but this time she managed to control herself and didn't show it on her face.

Holding Jiuge's hand, An Chen suddenly felt a little embarrassed.

When he heard others mistakenly believe that he and Jiuge were a couple, Jiuge didn't react at all. Not only did she not refute it, she didn't even blush.

"My home isn't far, it'll only take about ten minutes to get there." Little Dog Egg scratched his head sheepishly and pointed to the end of the road.

Soon, as they walked, An Chen and Jiu Ge realized something was wrong.

This path seems to have no end.

As they walked, black smoke began to rise from the dog's hair.

Releasing An Chen's hand, Jiu Ge's right hand emitted a white light.

Only after the white light was directed into the puppy's body did the puppy's testicles return to normal.

As Jiuge was performing this operation, An Chen watched intently, his expression somewhat amused.

"Hoo." Jiuge took a light breath.

Perhaps because of the Ghost Festival, Little Dog Egg almost turned into an evil spirit.

An Chen remained quite calm. With Jiu Ge around, he had nothing to worry about when something seemed amiss.

"Why did you take a picture of me, sister?" Little Egg turned around, his already moist eyes filled with a hint of confusion.

What he really wanted to say was, why did you hit me?

But if you think about it carefully, if Xiaogou Dan hadn't done something wrong, he probably wouldn't have been beaten.

Jiuge's strength was extraordinary; a light tap made him feel the pain of his grandparents whipping his bottom with a broom when he was younger.

There are mosquitoes...

Jiuge's voice was somewhat weak.

She was really bad at lying and didn't realize that she was incredibly strong.

"Oh, thank you, sister. But I hope you can be a little gentler when swatting mosquitoes in the future." Little Dog Egg's expression changed, and finally he smiled.

"Oh, oh." Jiuge felt a little embarrassed about lying to a child.

"I still feel like something's not quite right," An Chen said softly from behind.

Jiuge nodded, but didn't say anything.

She also noticed something was wrong with the road, but she couldn't be completely sure until she continued walking for a while.

After all, they weren't familiar with this place.

After walking for half a day, the three of them still hadn't left the area.

The little girl with pigtails in the distance was still skipping and jumping, the thick smoke from the stove never stopped, and the old man leading the cow and the little shepherd boy sitting on the cow were also within sight.

Even the woman who was washing clothes took the clothes that should have been washed back to the riverbank.

The same few pieces of clothing were washed.

"Little Dog Egg, how much longer until we get to your house?" Jiu Ge felt something was off when she said the name Little Dog Egg.

"Ten minutes, it's very close to my house," Little Egg said, pointing to the end of the road.

He seemed completely unaware that he had said something similar.

Time seemed to be looping. After about ten or so attempts, when they finally found themselves back at the starting point, An Chen and Jiu Ge sat down on the spot.

Since it's just an illusion, my clothes shouldn't get dirty when I get out.

Little Dog Egg also sat down. He couldn't quite understand why the pretty older sister and the mentally challenged older brother were so tired after only walking for two minutes that they had already sat down.

"You guys are so weak." Little Dog Egg shook his basket, looking quite satisfied with the vegetables inside.

"What do we do next?" Jiu Ge whispered in An Chen's ear.

There are only three possibilities now.

The first possibility is that this illusion is only this big, and the puppy egg and other spirits can only move within this area and cannot go out.

The second possibility is that, due to their past experiences, the people here cannot deviate from their original route in their words and deeds. If they are destined to spend an afternoon weeding here, they cannot leave for other places until the original weeding time is over.

The third possibility is that, given that the Ghost Festival itself already caused instability in the illusionary realm, the spirits entering and leaving affected the originally planned routes.

In conclusion, Feng Kai, Yu Bei, and Gong Jun must have been scattered in different parts of Gouziwan, and they were unable to get out because of them.

Without answering Jiuge, An Chen smiled and asked, "What time were you planning to go back today?"

His conjecture was the same as Jiu Ge's; all that remained was to put it into practice.

The puppy didn't move, continuing to shake the basket as if it hadn't heard anything.

“My husband is asking you something.” Jiuge poked the puppy egg.

"?"

An Chen was truly shocked this time.

I never imagined that Jiuge had evolved to this extent.

"So even an intellectually disabled brother can communicate normally."

Little Dog Egg put down the basket and clapped his hands.

"..."

An Chen's surprise vanished instantly.

"What time?" His smile vanished, and he asked calmly.

"I usually go back just as the sun sets," Little Egg said cheerfully.

His grandparents taught him to treat others kindly and not to take advantage of others' shortcomings.

Aside from occasionally mentioning things that others voluntarily admit to, pretend you didn't notice anything else.

Although the beautiful older sister and the mentally challenged older brother were incredibly weak, Little Dog Egg never complained.

"Then let's go back and help you clear some more weeds, and then go back when it's time, so as not to disturb your grandparents," Jiuge suggested, getting up.

"Okay, okay! Thank you, pretty sister and mentally challenged brother!" Little Dog Egg jumped up excitedly.

"And also, the vegetables in my basket can be pressed down," he said, pointing to the basket behind him.

"Mmm!" Jiuge nodded in satisfaction.

Chapter 76 Strange Phenomena

An Chen was speechless.

Miss Jiuge definitely doesn't know how to weed.

There are generally three methods for weeding farmland.

1. Chemical weeding involves spraying appropriate herbicides into the field to kill weeds. However, it's crucial to control the dosage when using this method; excessive force can damage crops.

2. Biological weeding method: Based on the principle of plant antagonism, survival of the fittest, plant the natural enemies of weeds to reduce the number of weeds.

3. Physical weeding method, the most traditional and oldest method, involves using farm tools to remove weeds. This is the wild method currently used by the people of Gouziwan.

Jiuge pulled weeds in the field with his bare hands, at an incredibly fast speed and with extremely high efficiency.

Thinking about the possibility of living an ordinary life with An Chen after marriage, she made the corresponding preparations.

While Xiaogou Dan and An Chen were still weeding methodically, Jiu Ge had already pulled up a huge amount of things.

Little Dog Egg looked at Jiu Ge, and was pleasantly surprised at first glance, but burst into tears at the second.

"Waaaaah, the tender shoots that haven't even grown up yet are gone..." Little Egg sat down in the field with a thud, his pants covered in mud, his eyes brimming with tears.

"You... what's wrong with you?" Jiuge stopped what she was doing, her expression somewhat frightened.

Everything seemed fine just now.

She had no concept of which crops in the field were weeds and which were edible crops, so she was completely unaware of the seriousness of the situation.

"You rest, I'll take care of it." An Chen straightened up and tossed the weeds aside.

There's not much grain left in this field. If Jiuge continues to pick indiscriminately, there really won't be anything left to eat.

"But......"

Jiuge was a little embarrassed.

An Chen was even reluctant to let her do this kind of work from the mission.

"It's alright, you should rest first. You'll definitely be exhausted from performing rituals for so many spirits." An Chen chuckled and looked at Little Dog Egg with some sympathy.

Material resources were scarce in those days, and food was even more precious during wartime.

"Mmm." Jiuge nodded obediently, placed the leaves of various sizes in her hand next to the basket, and then sat down on the pile of straw next to her.

The puppy breathed a sigh of relief when it saw that the remaining seedlings had been saved.

He wiped away his tears with his arm and started weeding again.

It is a fact that Jingcheng was once invaded during a war, a fact that is well known to all Chinese people.

But to everyone's surprise, there was such an illusion, containing so many pitiful spirits who were unaware that they had already died.

Jiuge opened her phone and started searching for Gouzi Bay.