Chapter 101: Dinner

Indeed, since the original plan was to treat a guest, I had prepared a lot of dishes.
Xiao Qing and I couldn’t even finish the chicken and beef.
Well, there was nothing to be done about it; I’d just let the Golden Bee Gu have the ostrich meat.

When the food was on the table, it was indeed a very sumptuous meal.
There was white-cut chicken, stir-fried beef, steamed fish, and so on.
I was the one who cut the white-cut chicken.
After discovering my increased strength, I could now easily chop the chicken, bones and all, into small pieces with a kitchen knife.
My strength was much greater than Xiao Qing’s.

There was also a soup on the table, a chicken blood soup.
I had originally planned to feed the chicken blood to the Golden Bee Gu, but since it insisted on eating meat, I had no choice.
So, Xiao Qing cooked the chicken blood into a soup.

As was her habit, Xiao Qing first ladled a bowl of chicken blood soup for me.
I didn’t know if it was because the chicken blood hadn’t completely coagulated before it was put in the pot, but the soup had turned red, as if blood had dissolved into it.

But the aroma made one’s stomach rumble; it was completely irresistible.
I quickly picked it up and started drinking.
Xiao Qing frowned and reminded me, “Brother Xiao, the soup is still very hot!”

I didn’t even care, I just focused on drinking the soup.
The taste of fresh blood filled my mouth; it was so satisfying.
I chewed and swallowed the chicken blood curds in a few bites.
It felt like a delicacy from heaven.

Just as I was reveling in the taste of blood, the bowl was empty.
I felt a physiological craving, just like a person needs water to live.
I directly went to get the ladle and scooped the chicken blood from the pot.

“Brother Xiao! What’s wrong with you!?” Xiao Qing exclaimed in surprise, watching me scoop up the chicken blood and put it directly into my mouth, gobbling it down as if I wished I could just reach into the boiling soup and grab it with my hands.

After I had eaten all the chicken blood in the pot, I suddenly came to my senses and woke up.
I was so scared that I dropped the ladle.
“I, what’s wrong with me?!”

“Don’t panic! Brother Xiao, many ghost-hybrids are bloodthirsty.”
“Some even like to eat raw meat and drink fresh blood.”
“You haven’t become strange, just think of it as a change in taste,” Xiao Qing said, trying to calm me down.

“Is, is that so?” I breathed a sigh of relief.
I had been scared by my own behavior just now.
If it was just a need to drink blood, then it was fine.
I could just go buy pig blood or cow blood.

“Yes, it’s completely fine.”
“Unfortunately, this little bit of chicken blood is too little.”
“It might not be enough to satisfy your needs,” Ou Zhiqin said.

“It’s fine, I’m fine now.”
“Let’s have dinner,” I didn’t want to think about what had just happened and quickly changed the subject.

After that, I enjoyed dinner with Xiao Qing.
At the dinner table, we talked about raising souls in the incense holder, the Pixiu vanquishing object, and so on.
It had been a long time since I had eaten and chatted so relaxedly with Xiao Qing.
I soon forgot about the bloodthirsty impulse from earlier.

We definitely couldn’t finish so much dinner, especially since two girls’ appetites were indeed not large.
We only ate about a third of it.
Xiao Qing helped pack up the leftovers and put them in the refrigerator.
We wouldn’t have to worry about food for the next day.

When we returned to the kitchen, we saw that the jin of ostrich meat had been completely eaten by the Golden Bee Gu, not even a drop of blood was left.
And its size hadn’t changed at all.
It was so unscientific.

“The Gu insects of the Miao frontier are already very magical, not to mention this is a rare fourth-grade Gu insect.”
“A slightly larger appetite should be quite normal, right?” Ou Zhiqin said with a smile.

“Forget it, I’ll buy more meat for it next time,” I said helplessly.
I felt that the Golden Bee Gu had become a little stronger after eating the meat.
Perhaps if I fed it more meat, it would have a chance to evolve.

After that, I walked Xiao Qing to the entrance of the residential complex.
Although she said it wasn’t necessary, I still insisted, using the excuse that I wanted to take a walk after dinner.

The streetlights of Willow Cypress Garden illuminated the small paths of the complex at night.
I didn’t see a single ghost in this complex.
It was so peaceful, even cleaner than the streets.
Living here gave me a great sense of security.

At night, children played and chased each other in the complex, some people were jogging after dinner, and others were singing.
Besides the singing being a bit noisy, the evening activities of the others were full of life and joy.

On my way back after walking Xiao Qing out of the complex, I smelled a burst of floral fragrance.
The Golden Bee Gu flew out on its own again, following the fragrance.

“Why is it starting to be disobedient so soon?” I said in frustration.
This was the second time today that the Golden Bee Gu had acted on its own.
I had no choice but to follow it.

Following the Golden Bee Gu, I arrived at a garden in the complex.
A dense patch of red roses was planted here.
Under the moonlight, the sea of flowers was beautiful and enchanting, and the fragrance was even more refreshing.

The Golden Bee Gu flew into the rose bushes and landed on a flower bud.
I smiled and said, “I almost forgot that you’re essentially a bee.”
“It’s normal to like the fragrance of flowers.”
“Or are you tired of meat and want to eat something light to satisfy your cravings?”

Even I really liked the fragrance of these roses.
I simply sat down on a nearby bench and quietly admired the flowers.
I even saw a young couple come to the sea of roses for a date.
It was so romantic.

Finally, I don’t know if the Golden Bee Gu had had enough pollen, but it flew back.
I recalled the Golden Bee Gu and returned to Building Four.

This was the first time I had strolled around the complex at night since moving into Willow Cypress Garden.
At night, the faint golden spiritual light was even more obvious.
It seemed that even the places without streetlights could be illuminated by this spiritual light.

Previously, my perception of the spiritual light hadn’t been so obvious.
But not long ago, a vanquishing object and a ghost-raising incense holder were moved into my home.
The yin energy on them conflicted with the spiritual light, making me able to see the existence of the spiritual light more clearly.

And at night, the spiritual light was even more dazzling.
It was emanating from Building Four, illuminating the entire complex like a lighthouse at night, dispelling all the surrounding ominous aura.

When I took the elevator back to the twelfth floor, the higher I went, the thicker the spiritual light felt, reaching its peak on the tenth floor.

Wasn’t the tenth floor where the old lady lived?
And she was a Buddhist.
Could this spiritual light that illuminated the surroundings be coming from her home?

I wasn’t sure yet, and it wasn’t a good time to visit her abruptly.
I could only go home first.

The first thing I did when I got home was to take out the soul-pacifying incense that Mo Qingyan had given me, light it, and insert it into the small tripod in front of the incense holder.
Soon, green smoke rose, but it was all absorbed by the incense holder.

The denseness of this smoke was much greater than that of the incense the carpenter had given me.
The things Senior Sister Mo gave were indeed of good quality.
Then I placed a few bags of tea I had bought earlier on the offering plate, hoping that these two old folks wouldn’t bother me again in the future.

Looking at the paper figures that housed Xia Yubing’s parents, I suddenly remembered some of the things they had given me—those stacks of paper money, the life-buying money they had given me before.
I had locked them all in a cabinet.

I took out the life-buying money and remembered what Mo Qingyan had said.
I took out ten hell notes and put them in my schoolbag.