Ancestors, I told you to seduce the villains, not to turn evil.

Leprechaun?

Fei Huainan considered this possibility and stared at Xu Manman, scrutinizing her carefully.

If she were a fairy, would Xu Manman be the least attractive among them?

After all, fairies in stories are all beautiful and charming. Xu Manman's real appearance is somewhat cute, but she is far from being beautiful and charming.

However, he thought it was fine too; being cute was good.

Xu Manman felt that Fei Huainan's gaze was somewhat unsettling, and she couldn't help but hug herself tightly.

"I can explain this."

Fei Huainan stared at Xu Manman with a leisurely air: "Okay, go ahead."

Xu Manman recounted the events of those nights when she made a contract with the jade pendant.

“I told you this before, but you didn’t believe me.”

She muttered something.

After discussing the jade pendant, he also recounted the complicated history between the Fei family patriarch and the sorcerer.

Fei Huainan watched quietly, his expression clearly saying, "Keep making things up, I'm watching you make things up."

Xu Manman really wanted to pull out all those time-travel novels from later generations and let Fei Huainan take a good look at them, to see if his imagination could be any wilder.

Fei Huainan has already concluded that Xu Manman is a mountain spirit or monster.

I'm just curious what kind of monster Xu Manman is—a tree spirit? A flower spirit? Or some other animal?

Finally, Xu Manman had no choice but to take out the booklet in her space that recorded the feud between the Fei family and the wizards, and let Fei Huainan read it himself.

Fei Huainan glanced through the list and found that all the names matched. This little demon seemed to know quite a bit about his family.

After hesitating for a moment, Fei Huainan asked, "How old are you this year? You're not some monster from my ancestors' time, are you?"

Xu Manman lay down, feeling utterly exhausted.

She didn't want to talk to Fei Huainan anymore.

A smile flashed in Fei Huainan's eyes, but a cold glint appeared in his eyes as he glanced at the booklet in his hand.

The Fei family's affairs with the wizards were recorded in the Fei family's miscellaneous records, but a large part of them were lost due to improper preservation.

However, the descendants of the Fei family knew about this matter, and the jade pendant was very important to them.

Anyone who loses the jade pendant will be expelled from the Fei family genealogy.

Even when his grandfather gambled away his entire fortune, he wouldn't dare to covet the jade pendant.

Fei Huainan had already believed what Xu Manman said; he was just teasing her on purpose.

According to miscellaneous records, once a jade pendant recognizes its owner, it becomes one with the owner until the owner dies, at which point the jade pendant will also disappear.

The jade pendant's abilities are too miraculous; once revealed and released, Xu Manman will be in danger.

Fei Huainan instructed her: "Don't let a third person know that you know magic, otherwise someone will capture you and put you in a laboratory for research."

Xu Manman shuddered at the thought of being dragged into the lab for research.

She immediately nodded obediently, promising to be very careful.

Besides, she never intended to expose the space; she just couldn't get past her conscience.

However, from now on, she will absolutely not tell a third person.

However, Xu Manman did not refute Fei Huainan's assertion that it was magic.

He can decide what he wants to decide; it doesn't matter.

Seeing Xu Manman's obedient appearance, Fei Huainan felt a little itchy to pinch her cheek, but then thought better of it.

For dinner, I had sweet potatoes. The mashed potatoes were mixed with meat sauce and wild vegetables, and they were also super delicious.

Fei Huainan sent some cattle to the cowshed as usual. Professor Wang and Grandma Wang now go out to herd cattle every day, so the work is not so tiring. In addition, they are eating well, and their complexions are rosy.

When Grandma Wang saw Fei Huainan approaching, a look of worry immediately appeared on her face: "I heard that the militia went to your house? Are you alright?"

Fei Huainan shook his head: "It's nothing, it's just that Li Wu caused some trouble, but it's been resolved."

Grandma Wang was a little worried: "We really need to be careful with the Li family. These past few days, that girl from the Li family has been bringing food to the cowshed every day. I don't know what she means by that."

"Don't come these next few days. Your master and I have plenty of food here. If the Li family sees us, it'll be troublesome."

Upon hearing this, Fei Huainan nodded.

He needs to find out what Li Menglai's purpose is.

What could Li Meng possibly be after? She just had another prophetic dream yesterday, though this time the dream wasn't very clear.

Moreover, after waking up, she forgot most of it.

I only remember that among those people in the cowshed, there were two very impressive old men who were professors who did research.

Next summer, he will be picked up in a car by the county magistrate and the mayor.

The couple is very powerful. If she can help them now, she will reap many benefits in the future.

However, the dream was unclear, and Li Meng did not see the backs of the two old people.

She could only cook more food and send a portion to everyone.

Fei Huainan went back and told Xu Manman about the cowshed incident.

Xu Manman guessed, "Li Meng must know about the future through some means."

"I heard about the jade pendant from Li Meng."

Upon hearing this, Fei Huainan immediately became alert, as he had already taken out that jade pendant twice.

He was seen by Xu Manman once by accident, but he was certain that no one saw him the other time.

It's strange that Li Meng knew this.

He initially thought it was Xu Manman who said it, but he didn't expect that Xu Manman only found out after being reminded by Li Meng.

"Something's off with the Li family. Be careful if you encounter them in the future."

The two chatted about the Li family for a while before going to sleep.

I quickly finished eating and went back to my room.

The next day, Fei Huainan and Xu Manman took an oxcart to the county.

Zhou Lei sent them a message through a coded message, which meant that the meat issue was resolved.

Fei Huainan planned to make a trip to meet Zhou Lei to deliver the meat, and also to visit the Armed Forces Department.

His armed forces minister was Kong Jianming's man, and he needed Kong Jianming's help to investigate espionage.

Xu Manman and Zhou Lei went to the post office to pick up a package: a letter and a parcel.

Previously, the mail was delivered to our homes by the postman, but a while ago the postman accidentally broke his leg while delivering mail and had to stay home to recover, so we had to pick up the mail ourselves.

The package was quite heavy, and Zhou Lei immediately stepped forward to lift it up.

When Xu Manman returned, she saw fish for sale and was quite surprised: "There are actually fish for sale here."

Zhou Lei explained, "There are villages along the river here. The production team has contracted out the ponds and knows how to raise fish."

"At the end of the year, it will be distributed to everyone. If someone gets a large share, they will sell some of it."

Xu Manman nodded, "It's almost the same as Xinghua Village."

Xu Manman happened to be having lunch at Grandma Bao's house, and she bought a fish to take home.

The other person skillfully tied the fish up with straw rope and handed it to Xu Manman.

When I passed by the bookstore, there was a long queue at the door.

Xu Manman glanced around curiously. When did the usually quiet bookstore become so lively?

At this time, many schools were closed, and everyone felt that studying was useless and that they didn't know how to read books at all.

Zhou Lei did know about this.

"It's Mr. Illegible's comic book. I thought Mr. Illegible was already very good at writing scripts, but his comic books are even better."

"The bookstores in the county town are all sold out; many people couldn't get their hands on any!"