"The guy who chased me all afternoon," Feng Qishi repeated, jumping off the stone table, "who knows where he ran off to, maybe he fell into a latrine."
Piao asked, "Did you do it?"
In the few days he had been here, Piao's brain truly wasn't working as well as before.
Regarding this, Feng Qishi was too lazy to say anything more.
"Think about it yourself," Feng Qishi said, reaching out to pat Piao's shoulder and heading towards the kitchen.
Piao lowered his eyes, thought, then looked up at Chen, who had stopped in front of him, "You're done with your work."
Chen said, "Finished. You're quite foolish." She pointed at Piao and followed Feng Qishi.
Piao pouted, glanced towards the direction of the latrine, and said, "I didn't see that guy in the latrine just now?" As he spoke, he sighed.
The latrine.
As Feng Qishi had said, the vine spirit crawled out of the privy.
The situation was this: after the vine spirit had finished talking with those monsters, he decided to use his newly learned demon arts to return directly to his starting point, the latrine.
Unexpectedly, he exerted too much force and transformed himself directly into the dung pit.
He must have felt like crying without tears, only wanting to vomit.
"Ah, how disgusting," the vine spirit pushed open the door and walked out.
At the same time, Gu Xiao happened to pass by. He looked at the vine spirit, who had returned to human form, with surprise and asked, "What happened to you?"
"Can't you smell it?" the vine spirit retorted.
Gu Xiao said, "I am a demon soul, of course, I can't smell it. You..." He saw the vine spirit's wet clothes and the dripping hem of his attire, and took a step back, "You didn't fall into a dung pit, did you?"
"....."
Following this, Gu Xiao moved to glance inside, then thought about the depth of the dung pit. He was puzzled, "Strange, how did you fall in?"
"....."
"I know, you stepped on a false bottom. But why are your clothes like this? By rights, shouldn't only your shoes be dirty?" Gu Xiao analyzed seriously, then looked down at the vine spirit's shoes.
The vine spirit smiled, "Say that again, and I'll make your soul as dirty as my clothes."
Upon hearing this, Gu Xiao looked up at the vine spirit's fiercely glaring eyes. Startled, he said with a trembling voice, "Don't be angry, I won't talk anymore." With that, he turned and ran.
The vine spirit snorted softly. He looked down at his clothes again, sighed, "Forget it, I'd better not go find Feng Qishi. Tsk, I need to find a place to wash myself." He looked left and right, then disappeared.
At the same time, Gu Xiao quickened his pace and ran into the kitchen.
The moment Gu Xiao entered the kitchen, Chen covered her nose, "What's that smell on you?"
"On me..." Gu Xiao sniffed his arm, "There's no smell?"
"You're impossible. Get out quickly," Chen said, shielding her bowl, "I'm eating."
"What happened to you?" Piao also looked at Gu Xiao with disgust and asked.
Gu Xiao took a few steps back and said, "I just passed the latrine..."
"Your soul body even absorbs smells," Feng Qishi said, watching Gu Xiao with his arms crossed.
Gu Xiao thought for a moment and said, "That must be that person."
Feng Qishi asked, "That person, which person?"
"It's..." Gu Xiao couldn't recall the guy's name. He thought for a moment and said, "It's that man who has been bothering you. He fell into a dung pit."
"Ew?" Chen pursed her lips.
Piao was stunned, turned his head to look at Feng Qishi, and laughed, "You were right."
Feng Qishi looked at Piao in disbelief, then back at Gu Xiao and asked, "He really fell into a dung pit?"
"Mm."
"But the opening of that dung pit isn't very wide. How did such a big man fall in?"
Gu Xiao shook his head, "I don't know. Anyway, he was covered in... that stuff, it was especially disgusting."
"You're disgusting too," Chen said, turning her back.
Feng Qishi had already been suspicious of Xu Lan. Now, after hearing Gu Xiao, and thinking about the depth of the dung pit, he said, "No, if he fell into a dung pit, he could only have stepped in with one foot..."
Mid-sentence, Chen said, "Wait."
Hearing this, Feng Qishi looked at Chen.
Chen held her bowl, "Wait until I'm out, then you can talk." With that, she stepped forward, deliberately bypassed Gu Xiao, and walked out.
Subsequently, Feng Qishi continued, "No, if he fell into a dung pit, he could only have stepped in with one foot. Even if he fell... his whole body... it's impossible!"
Gu Xiao said earnestly, "I thought so too."
Piao said without disgust, "Then, according to this, that Xu Lan who's been pestering you has a problem."
"...." Feng Qishi nodded slightly, recalling the two sentences Xiang Nang had said to him before the meal.
Xiang Nang: "He just ran out in a hurry."
Xiang Nang: "I don't know. I went to the latrine earlier, saw him acting suspiciously, and then he disappeared."
Thinking of Xiang Nang's words, Feng Qishi muttered, "In a hurry, latrine... So, did he run from the latrine? Coming back also via the latrine? He... is indeed acting strangely."
Piao asked, "What are you muttering about?"
Hearing this, Feng Qishi looked up at Piao and said, "How is the supervision going?"
"Supervision?" Piao repeated, then sighed, "How can I supervise? Shen Xian has been in his room all day."
"....." Feng Qishi thought for a moment and said, "I'll go take a look."
"Where are you going?"
Hearing this, Feng Qishi glanced at Xiang Nang, who had walked into the kitchen, and said, "I'm going to find Shen Xian."
"You're not allowed to go."
"Why?"
Xiang Nang glanced at Piao and Gu Xiao, then stepped forward to stand in front of Feng Qishi, "Those two are getting along well. What are you going there for?"
"Getting along well?"
"Mm, they were chatting and laughing. Mu Anxiao said she wanted to talk with Shen Xian all night."
Feng Qishi had thought Mu Anxiao would be unable to stand Shen Xian, but unexpectedly, she was enjoying it. Nevertheless, he still wanted to get some information from Shen Xian.
"Whether Mu the fool is getting along with him or not has nothing to do with me. I'm going to find him now," he said.
"He said you're not to go."
"He knows I'm going?" Feng Qishi pointed at himself.
"I don't know, but he said you're not to go."
Feng Qishi: "...." He gave a cold laugh.
Piao said, "Forget it, don't go." He glanced at Xiang Nang.
Immediately after, Feng Qishi glared at Xiang Nang and turned to walk to the table, picking up a tray.
Xiang Nang asked, "What are you doing?"
Feng Qishi, holding the tray, walked up to Xiang Nang, "A Xia hasn't eaten yet. I'll go..."
"Does A Xia need to eat?"
"....." Feng Qishi became awkward.
Piao glanced at Xiang Nang, walked to Feng Qishi's side, took the tray from his hand, and said, "Alright, don't go. There's no point going there anyway."
Feng Qishi said unhappily, "If I don't go, I don't go." With that, he bent down and sat on a small stool.
Xiang Nang breathed a sigh of relief.
Others might not see it, but Piao could tell that Feng Qishi had something on his mind, and that matter was definitely related to Shen Xian and that unknown Xu Lan!