A Happy Event in a Farming Family: Marrying a Hunter

Yun Gui was terrified. This place was quite a distance from the other side of the back mountain; even if it were haunted, it wouldn't be here. "Are you coming out or not?"

The woods remained quiet.

"Tch, maybe it's just an unlucky bird." Yun Gui wiped his sweat, but then heard rustling sounds coming from the bushes not far away, as if a huge creature was hiding inside.

"Is it a human or a ghost?"

"Sasha..."

"Swipe..."

All sorts of strange noises came from Yun Gui, making him feel completely unwell.

It was as if a pair of eyes were staring at him.

Oh no, this forest is haunted too! With a thud, he fell flat on his face. As he crawled, he looked behind him and saw a dark and green thing coming towards him.

"Damn..."

Yun Gui screamed in fright and scrambled to his feet, running as if he had lost his soul. The more he ran, the more he felt that something unclean was following him. He got up and fell down again. He got up again, tripped over something, and fell down again.

If he looked closely, he would see that he had actually tripped over a tree branch.

But Yunnan and Guizhou, gripped by fear, didn't see it that way. They felt as if something had entangled them, and they couldn't escape even if they wanted to.

"Which deity happened to pass by? I, from Yunnan and Guizhou, was blind and offended you. Please don't hold a grudge against me. You are so kind and compassionate. I have no past grievances or recent feuds with you. Please have mercy and let me go back."

Yun Luo, who was hiding under a tree branch, almost gave himself away by laughing. A grown man was so scared that he didn't even know whether he was worshipping a god or a ghost.

Yun Gui kowtowed three times, muttering something under his breath, and headed down the mountain.

Upon closer inspection, it was discovered that his pants were soaked; he had apparently wet himself in fright.

That felt good! Let him throw Xiao Jie!

Yunlu wiped the mud off her face, dusted herself off, and prepared to go back.

"Chirp chirp, someone's coming!"

A blade of grass nearby spoke, and Yunlu looked over instinctively, but didn't see anyone.

"Someone's coming! Someone's coming!"

"Where is anyone?" Yun Luo felt something was off, as if someone was watching her, but she couldn't hear a sound from anywhere.

She turned around, and a shadow dangled down from the tree behind her, its hands covering its eyes, pulling them open to reveal its white pupils. Yun Luo was startled and almost fell.

"Mom..."

But in just a moment, the person disappeared again. "Who's playing a prank?"

“Little girl, over here, over here…”

Following the sound, Yunluo saw an old Taoist priest squatting on the tree above her head. He had a white beard, was unkempt, and looked quite old, but his body was strong.

"Who are you?"

The old Taoist priest looked at her and smiled, then got up to go down, but he seemed to be having too much fun and lost his footing, about to fall.

Without thinking, Yunlu instinctively reached out to catch him, only to see the old Taoist priest flip over lightly like a leaf, landing steadily on the ground, grinning at her.

He was an old Taoist priest with some skill.

"Little girl, we're destined to meet!"

Yun Luo thought to herself, "We just met in the forest, what kind of fate is this? But if I could learn his skills, that would be amazing."

"Little girl, do you know that I'm here because of your identity?"

Identity?

fox?

Yunlu immediately became alert. How did he know?

The old Taoist priest still smiled and said, "This little girl has a complicated background, but if she goes astray, she could face utter destruction."

This person's arrival was suspicious; he seemed to possess some skill. She dared not trust him, lest he come to harm her.

"Master, you've mistaken me for someone else. I don't know anything about what you're saying. I have things to attend to at home, so I'll take my leave!"

The old Taoist priest wasn't in a hurry. He simply stroked his white beard and watched her retreating figure. "Little girl, the person closest to you has a pure yang body, which can help you refine the demon bloodline. However, you can also harm him."

The person closest to you?

Yunlu felt uneasy. Could it be referring to Brother Qin?

The old Taoist priest's words puzzled her, and she was filled with inner turmoil. She took a few steps out, then turned back.

The old Taoist priest's smile widened. "Are you willing to listen to me now?"

"How do you know?" Yunlu didn't dare to take the risk. The old Taoist's words matched her dream perfectly, and she was worried that she might harm Brother Qin.

“Our ancestors have been doing this for generations, so of course I know.”

"What do you mean by the pure yang body you just mentioned, that harmed him?"

The old Taoist priest smiled and stared at her for a long time before nodding, "Before you have fully refined your demon bloodline, you can only be close to people with pure yang bodies."

"Who is that person, and how do they refine the blood of the demon race? What will happen if they can't refine it?" Yun Luo asked several questions.

"If you can't refine it, it'll naturally turn into a fox spirit. But refining it is easy: get closer to that person. He has a pure yang body that's rare to find in a hundred years, which will be quite beneficial to you."

Yun Luo shuddered. The old Taoist priest was really a liar, never getting to the point. She got impatient and demanded, "Then tell me who has the pure Yang body?"

"Don't rush, let me explain in detail." The old Taoist stroked his beard and said with a smile, "Once the red mark on your body disappears, it means you've refined the demon blood..."

"Squeak..."

There seemed to be strange bird calls in the sky. She looked up and heard the old Taoist priest's anxious voice beside her, "He can't hold on any longer, girl. Remember, the person with a pure Yang body is right beside you, it's..."

"Who is it?" Yun Luo was so angry that she wanted to grab the old Taoist priest and give him a good beating.

I've said so much nonsense, but I haven't said the key point.

She walked back lost in thought, while Xiao Jie and Xiao Ran had been waiting for her for quite some time.

"Sis, your face looks a little pale. Are you alright?"

"It's alright!" Yun Luo took out some herbs from her bosom, crushed them, carefully applied them to his wound, and wrapped it with a handkerchief. "I'll carry you!"

"How could you possibly carry that?"

As soon as she finished speaking, Yun Shaojie was pulled onto Yun Luo's back.

Strangely, Yun Luo didn't feel it was heavy at all. Could it be because of her constitution?

"sister……"

“I can carry it, Xiao Ran, let’s go back.”

The three returned to the reclaimed land. Zhou Rong spotted Xiao Jie being carried back by Yun Luo and exclaimed, "Oh dear!" Qin Zheng followed her gaze and acted even faster, quickly going to Yun Luo's side and helping Yun Shaojie down.

"Xiao Luo, are you alright?"

Yun Luo shook her head, her face neither flushed nor out of breath, "I'm fine!"

"How did you get injured like this?"

Yunlu recounted the whole story, omitting the part about her pretending to be a ghost to scare Yun Gui, and the old Taoist priest's affair. Zhou Rong sighed as she listened, "How old is your third uncle? How can he still make such jokes with a child? He has no sense of propriety at all."

"That's enough for today, let's go back first." Qin Zheng noticed Yun Luo's pale face. "I'll carry my little brother back, give me the plow, I'll get it."

Yun Luo picked it up with one hand and laughed, "It's not heavy, I can carry it."

"Xiao Luo, it's difficult for your brother and me to lift this plowshare." Zhou Rong was somewhat surprised that Xiao Luo could lift it so easily with one hand.

Yunlu felt a little embarrassed. Her strength seemed to have really increased. "I used to be lazy and didn't do much work, but I've built up my strength these past few days."

After she finished speaking, she glanced at Qin Zheng guiltily. Their eyes met, and although there was doubt in his eyes, he did not ask.