"It's important to have fun while living in this world." Shi Wuqi stretched out and said in a calm tone, "It's a hot spring. I just heard it from the monsters who come to the House of Weeping Corpses. It's said that all girls like it and it's good for the skin."
Dai Luan got excited again: "Really? I want to soak, I want to soak, I want to soak - eh, but will it affect Ah Qi?"
Shi Wuqi glanced at Miss Qi.
"No, no water allowed, don't let me soak it!"
"Yeah-"
"It's hard to boil hot water for bathing, and it's also very luxurious." Mu Wan was also a little moved. "It's ready here. When we are in the valley, we are all sisters who make appointments to go to the mountain spring. There are many people and we don't feel cold. In winter, we can only When we dug the well water, it was quite bitter, so we had to mix it with some hot water.”
A Luan scratched his head: "When I was a child, I thought everyone used hot water. Later, when I went out with Shan Hai to explore, I realized the suffering in the world."
Shanhai, who soaks in cold pools on the mountain all year round, said nothing.
In any case, the five people finally settled in this place, and it was getting dark. Although, Mu Wan was very confused about whether the stingy shopkeeper would let go of the possibility even if the potential possibility of being haunted was solved.
That's all, I don't think about it anymore, it's important to take a bath. No one can refuse an invitation to a hot tub when they’re tired—no one.
The previous shopkeeper also said that a special feature of their place is that they put eggs into the pool when taking a bath. By the time you finish taking a bath, the eggs are almost done. It is said to have a unique flavor and beautify the skin, but I don’t know if it is true or not. But out of curiosity, they were still eager to give it a try. Shanhai and Aluan were about to go to the kitchen to see what ingredients were available, and promised them to bring some eggs along the way.
The men's and women's pools are naturally separate and both are open-air. Mu Wan found two clean long bath towels from the cabinet in the room and took Miss Qi there first. The whole bathhouse was very big, and they were alone. Miss Qi didn't touch the water, which felt very comfortable indeed. Miss Qi helped with the bath towel and stood beside the stone platform. Mu Wan tried to stretch out her legs to touch the water. It was very hot, so she immediately retracted it.
No wonder eggs can be cooked hard.
She had never bathed in water of this temperature before. In comparison, this hot spring was indeed no different from boiling water. But she still mustered up the courage and carefully put her legs into the water, slowly getting used to the temperature. Then the whole person sank. When the water reached her neck, she felt that her whole skin was numb, and it didn't feel like it belonged to her.
She looked up at the sky. There were no stars in the dark night sky. The moon is very close to a complete circle, and its brilliance covers all the points of light. It was the Mid-Autumn Festival in the background, and she couldn't help but feel a little expectant. This feels very strange, because as she grows older, she has lost her unique longing for the Mid-Autumn Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Laba Festival and Spring Festival. She missed that feeling very much, that feeling of looking forward to watching the festival getting closer and closer. It felt itchy, and as time passed, each moment brought me closer to my goal than the last. During the holidays, delicious food and fun are secondary. Most of the time, dad will be back.
Oh, she remembered, it was after her father left that she lost that expectation.
She just grew up.
Mu Wan comforted herself that it didn't matter. She was much luckier than someone who had been without a father since birth. Although sometimes she often thinks about whether it is better not to have it from the beginning, or to experience short-term happiness and then be deprived of it - but the result of thinking is that no matter which one, she will envy the other hypothesis. . So, all this is meaningless.
Where is Miss Yuting? She may be more miserable because she was sent away by her parents.
She didn't know if it was the poor family that made them feel stressed about their daughter's existence. In this comparison, I am indeed lucky - if I have a brother, many people will not care whether the next child is a boy or a girl. She didn't know what her parents thought, but they all loved her, including her brother. Except...she often felt that her brother was too cowardly. Even when his father was slandered and framed, he never stood up and said a word for the sake of his official position.
Maybe he wanted to keep his official position and send money to his family...or maybe it was human nature to be greedy for life and fear death, and he couldn't blame the person involved for making such a choice. But Mu Wan was so angry that she never wrote a letter to her brother after her father died. I don't know what my brother is thinking. Whenever he sends letters home, he always says everything is fine and don't worry about him.
My elder brother was once as gentle as Master Zhang.
Mu Wan shook his head to himself, suddenly sank his face into the water, and then raised it up. The hot water made her face feel a little hot, but it also made her sober.
Why do I always think of Yuting and Master Zhang?
Anyway, who would forget the life-saving grace? It was obviously just a one-day overnight stay, but she still couldn't figure out why she would save herself. Maybe they were afraid that they, the gangsters, would reflexively destroy the attackers? She did think about it, if Master Zhang came any closer, they would notice it immediately and react excessively. In order to protect him, it is understandable that Miss Yuting did this.
If she thought about it this way, her conscience would not be so painful.
But... Let’s talk more about the conspiracy theory. If she firmly believed that the “benefactor” could save them and sacrifice herself, wouldn’t she have been prepared for it...?
Mu Wan suddenly stretched out his hand from the water and suddenly frowned.
what's on your mind? It's really too much.
After spending time with these people, she has changed a lot. Shanhai taught her to be kind to others and treat people with kindness; Wuqi taught her to always be skeptical and not to overestimate human nature; the same happened to Aluan, even Aluan taught her to be more open-minded and live a more open-minded life.
Each of them is different, but each of them lives a wonderful life.
Feeling terrible about myself, in every sense of the word.
Shi Wuqi opened the door and a wave of heat rushed to his face. The pool is spacious enough, and a curl of hot mist fills the top of the pool. He was about to unbutton his clothes when he suddenly noticed a figure not far away. He didn't expect it because he didn't carefully check whether there was anyone nearby. He didn't get into the pool, but watched from the side.
Very strange.
That person had no breath of life.
Kappa?
Shi Wuqi immediately got rid of this absurd idea in his mind. Kappa only appear near cool streams and are not known to haunt hot springs. What's more, this figure seems to have long hair, and there is no shiny "plate" on his head, and the exposed skin is not the green color of a kappa. From the outline, you can basically tell whether it is a humanoid or an adult.
Could it really be haunted? Shi Wuqi began to care. But the mountains and seas are not there at the moment. If you jump into the water and touch that person, it would be a bit suicidal. He carefully observed it again. Although it was not a living thing, Shi Wuqi still felt that the scent of a woman was faintly revealed on this person.
Female ghost? In the men's bath?
"This girl... friend?"
Shi Wuqi tentatively shouted at the hot spring. Of course, the man ignored him.
A breeze blew over, and the heat became slightly thinner. Through the light white smoke, he carefully examined the back of the "woman". Her hair is long, dark, and wet. She was immersed in the water like that, motionless, and there was not even a ripple on the water.
Does this thing have a physical body? If it is just a phantom, it is probably a ghost; if it is a real body, it may be a ghost borrowing a human body, or it may be a monster causing trouble, it is hard to say. People always confuse ghosts and demons in general terms, but in detail, ghosts are transformed by humans, and demons also have the desire to become human beings - just like humans wish to become immortals through cultivation. However, humans have always dealt with so-called "alien" that they don't understand in a simple, rough and casual manner.
Anyway, he had to determine what it was. If Qi was here, it would be much easier to handle. Just crossing the water once would not have much impact on her. Dan Qi and Mu Wan were together. Thinking of this, he suddenly realized that they were the only ones in the store anyway, so it didn't matter if he took Qi into the men's bath.
Oh, mountains and seas matter, so forget it.
At this time, the figure suddenly moved. He immediately concentrated and watched him carefully. Its head is slightly lowered forward, and its hair is slightly parted and scattered on both sides. The part immersed in the water floats faintly like seaweed.
No, it should be leaning back. The outline of the facial features was clearly exposed in the dark and moist hair. Shi Wuqi felt a chill - he thought he was just observing, but he never thought that he would look at this ghost for a long time.
Suddenly, it burst out of the water, and the huge water wave formed a water column soaring into the sky, making Shi Wuqi take two steps back. The guy was very fast and rushed towards him in an instant, and he immediately got out of the way. The monster rushed out with long waves of water, leaving many water stains on the ground. He didn't see what it was at all, so he quickly chased it out to check. It turned a corner in the long indoor corridor, and Wu Qi happened to see a shadow appear at the corner, as if it had fled to the other side.
The ground was slippery, but he pursued it without hesitation.
At this time, Shanhai and Aluan each took a few eggs in their hands and chatted along the way. When they arrived near the bathhouse, they only heard a noisy sound, like anxious footsteps, but a little messy. In addition, the sound of rushing water came from nowhere. Before the two of them figured out what was going on, they saw someone being thrown out by the door on the right side of the end. Then an umbrella was thrust straight into his left waist, penetrating the fabric of his clothes and nailing him to the wooden floor.
"You take a bath with an umbrella?!"
"Who knows what trouble we might get into."
Mu Wan put a white bath towel under her armpits and came out. She grabbed the handle of the umbrella and pulled it out. When she said this, she emphasized the last two words and stared at him condescendingly, clearly indicating the person she was equating with.
"This dress is very expensive." Shi Wuqi opened the hole in the hem of the dress, "Can you afford to pay for it? Can't you stop being so sentimental? Who is looking at you? If it weren't for..."
At this time, both of them noticed something and turned their heads to look at the master and apprentice with dull eyes.
Shi Wuqi swallowed dryly.
"I can explain."
"You better be able to."
