Records of Mysterious Things in the Southern Dynasties

Chapter 35 Brother, You Can't Be a Coward
Fortunately, there was a young boy in green who was not bewitched. He sneered softly, and everyone woke up with a start and stopped making such a fool of themselves.

Ren Yuan coughed and said angrily: "You evildoers, you actually dare to use the fox charm technique!"

As he said this, he was about to use the talisman on the banner to make it appear.

When the seven girls saw that their seduction attempt failed, they burst into tears and told how difficult their journey had been.

The sad voice and pitiful appearance make people feel sorry for hurting her.

The man from the Lan family had red eyes and turned to Ren Yuan and said, "Forget it, let's be merciful. Second Young Master, please go back."

Unfortunately, Ren Yuan was no longer fooled, because his senior sister had already pasted a "Pure Mind Talisman" on his back.

Now seeing the reactions of Lan Lizheng and the others, he knew that this was another mental attack from the other party, so he shouted angrily: "It's useless to pretend to be pitiful!"

As he said this, he waved the red flag in his hand and cast the revealing talisman on it. A golden light flashed in the woodshed, and everyone was dazzled. They vaguely saw seven foxes running away!
"Where are you running to?!" Ren Yuan made some hand gestures and waved the five-sided flags. The foxes fell to the ground with screams, as if they had hit a wall.

Just as Ren Yuan was about to step forward to arrest him, an old man shouted from the roof: "Don't hurt my granddaughter!"

When everyone heard the sound and looked up, they saw a three-meter-tall divine man in golden armor, holding a golden hammer and a giant axe, standing majestically on the roof.

The hammer and axe in the god's hands collided, and a thunderbolt as thick as a bucket came out, hitting the toilet behind Ren Yuan.

The toilet collapsed with a loud bang, and smoke and dust filled the yard.

"Damn it, I missed!" The godly man cursed and swung up the hammer and axe again, ready to use the same trick again. The Lan family was so frightened that they ran away in panic.

Ren Yuan stood there motionless, just looking at the divine man as if he was watching a monkey show.

"If you don't leave now, I'm going to chop you to pieces!" the golden-armored god threatened ferociously.

"Go ahead and chop me. I'll stand here and let you chop me." Ren Yuan sneered and pointed to the top of his head.

"If you ask me to chop you, I will chop you. Wouldn't that be very embarrassing?" The god's eyes rolled around for a while, and he said loudly, "Boy, you are lucky. I have already been ranked among the immortals and I don't want to commit murder easily. Considering that this is your first offense, please leave quickly and don't come again!"

"If you don't chop me, I will!" Ren Yuan pointed away the golden snake and drew a Yin Lei Fu to hit the opponent!
With a loud bang, a muffled thunder with a very small sound, almost silent, exploded under the feet of the god.

The thunder was not very powerful, and only shattered a few tiles. However, it frightened the god so much that he jumped and hopped, and his feet slipped, and he rolled down the house and fell heavily to the ground.

With a scream, the creature revealed its true form, turning out to be a short old fox fairy.

He was about to get up and run away, but Ren Yuan stepped on him and he was completely unable to move.

"Please spare my life!" The old fox fairy begged for mercy.

~~
It turns out that the ones lurking in the Lan family ancestral hall were not some ghosts, but a family of fox spirits.

It was a big family, with more than 20 people. The old fox fairy was called Master Hu San, and he was the head of the family. The seven little fox spirits were all Master Hu San's granddaughters.

As for the lightning strike that collapsed the house just now, it was just a trick done with the cooperation of his children and grandchildren.

The fox fairy hides during the day and comes out at night. He particularly likes feasting, singing operas, reciting poems and composing couplets. With such a large family, how could there not be noise at night?
But this fox fairy was just making trouble and didn't do anything particularly evil... although in the eyes of the Lan family, throwing their ancestral tablets into the toilet was an unforgivable crime.

But that wasn't Ren Yuan's ancestor, so it was hard for him to empathize with him.

Moreover, Ren Yuan didn't distinguish between humans and demons, and only considered right and wrong. So he didn't directly expel him violently, but gave Mr. Hu San a chance to defend himself.

Well, it’s definitely not because of the little vixen…

He asked Mr. Hu, "Why did you come to the village?" "Little Master Rong Bing, we fox spirits just like to live next to people." Mr. Hu quickly explained, "But after we moved here, we have never hurt anyone on our own initiative. We have even helped drive away several evil spirits in their village."

“You can’t live in someone else’s ancestral hall, either.” Ren Yuan said.

"Young Master has seen that there are more than 20 people in our family. The landlord's house is too small, or there are too many people in the family, so we can't live in it at all." Mr. Hu San said confidently: "The only thing is that this ancestral hall is large and no one lives in it. It would be a waste to leave it empty, so we moved in."

"But without the master's permission, it's not possible." Ren Yuan shook his head.

"I put twenty strings of cash on the altar for them as rent, and they accepted it all." Uncle Hu San said hurriedly.

"We didn't know this was rent, we thought it was given by our ancestors..." Lan Lizheng's voice became smaller and smaller.

"Your ancestors gave us paper money." Uncle Hu San was quite vicious.

"You!" The Lan family members were so angry that their noses were crooked.

"Alright, alright, stop arguing." Ren Yuan quickly stopped both parties and made a ruling: "Lao Lan, you keep half of the rent and give five strings of cash to that young man as mental compensation. Five strings of cash is considered their rent for this period of time. Return the remaining half to them."

"Oh." Lan Lizheng naturally didn't dare to object.

"Old Hu, you guys should pack up and move." Ren Yuan said to Mr. Hu Sanye, "No matter what, you can't force them to sell or buy. If they don't want to rent to you, you have to leave."

"Well, okay..." Seeing that Ren Yuan could have just chased them away, but still gave him enough face, Mr. Hu agreed to move. But he hoped to give them some time to find a new home.

"No problem, I'll give you five days." Ren Yuan raised his hand and said, "After five days, you must vacate the room!"

"Yes." Mr. Hu nodded dejectedly.

~~
After seeing Ren Yuan off, Uncle Hu returned to the ancestral hall and sighed, and the whole family was in a gloomy mood.

They knew it would be hard to find such a nice place to live again.

But no matter how reluctant I was, I had to pack up my belongings and prepare to move as the day approached.

Uncle Hu was lying on the bed with two large plasters on his waist. He was looking at the noisy family and was feeling annoyed when the little fox who was guarding the door reported, "Uncle Huang is here."

"What is he here for?" Mr. Hu frowned.

"Come and see my brother." Huang Laoer had already stretched his neck to come in, looked around with a sly look, and asked in surprise: "Hey, are you moving?"

"You already know the answer, yet you're still asking?" Mr. Hu said unhappily.

"We just moved in, why are you moving again? What's wrong? Are you unhappy living here?" Huang Lao Er shook his long neck and kept fanning the flames, "Hey, brother, what happened to your waist? Did you fall off the roof?!"

Fox fairies are known for their wisdom and cunning, so how could Mr. Hu San not hear such a clumsy attempt to stir up trouble?

He sneered and said, "Don't ask questions that you already know the answer to. If you came here to see me make fun of you, please go back now that you're done."

"Brother, please don't think badly of me. We are brothers and are as close as a family. I am here to cheer you up!" Huang Lao Er stopped mocking and said with a different expression:

"Brother, you can't be a coward!"

p.s. I might as well post the 8 o'clock update at once so that everyone can enjoy it.

(End of this chapter)