Chapter 1765 — To the Cave Again, Part One: "Sister Yunyun and Sister Yaoyao are first wives side by side; I'm the little wife — no second wife, no third wife!" said Shen Yushu.
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"Cough, cough..." Lin Dongfang had only been joking, but he hadn't expected to find someone here even more outrageous than himself; he was so startled that he broke into coughing.
"Old man, Xiaoshu's always like this — she loves to joke around. Don't listen to her nonsense. Let me introduce you." Wei Zhao said with a smile: "This is Tang Zhi — I've told you about her. These two are Gu Mengyao and Shen Yushu; they're good friends of Yunyun's, and they're also the employers for that job you found me."
Still, Wei Zhao had to admit that Shen Yushu's one remark had melted away everyone's awkwardness and drawn them a good deal closer.
"Haha, I was only trying to make a joke, and I never thought you'd outdo me!" Lin Dongfang looked at Shen Yushu and laughed: "Welcome, all of you, to my home!"
"Haha, it's fine!" Shen Yushu said. "Brother Arrow really does have a little wife, but she didn't come — she's cultivating in the Ice Palace."
Lin Dongfang knew she meant Feng Xiaoxiao, and wasn't surprised. He nodded and said: "Xiaoyi, why didn't you say you were coming back? I could have prepared some food. You turn up out of nowhere — I've made no preparations at all."
"Heh, it's fine. Send Ergoudan up the mountain to hunt some game, and tonight we'll eat game!" Wei Zhao said. "Right — I'll go call Ergoudan. Yunyun, Yaoyao, Xiaoshu, settle yourselves in here for now."
"Mm, all right, go on." Tang Zhi and the others naturally had luggage to unpack, so she nodded.
Wei Zhao had said long ago that he would bring Tang Zhi and the others home, so Lin Dongfang had already prepared a new room for the three of them. Now that Wei Zhao had gone, he said to the three: "Let me show you the room. If there's anything you need, just tell me — make yourselves at home, no need to stand on ceremony!"
"All right, Grandpa Lin. We've bought most of what we need — there's nothing more we want," Tang Zhi said quickly.
"That's fine too. Get yourselves settled first; I'll tidy up the stove, and tonight we eat game!" Lin Dongfang led the three into the house beside them, then went off on his own to see to the stove. With Wei Zhao away from home, Old Man Wei mostly just made do when he ate, so the stove had grown filthy, and he had to clean it up.
Wei Zhao made his way to Ergoudan's house as if he had done it a thousand times. Yu Yuanyuan was busy drying crops — dried chilies and corn and the like — and started in surprise when she saw him: "Wei Zhao?"
"Where's Ergoudan? I'm back — came to see him," Wei Zhao said with a smile.
"When did you get back? Why didn't you say you were coming? Zhou Qiming keeps saying how much he misses you and wants to go visit, but there's so much farm work lately that neither of us has had the time." Yu Yuanyuan spoke with delighted surprise: "Zhou Qiming's gone up the mountain to hunt; he won't be back till evening."
"Then I'll go find him." Wei Zhao had often gone up the mountain with Ergoudan in the past and knew where the man tended to roam, so Yu Yuanyuan needed to say no more.
"That works. Go find him, then. Oh — have dinner at our place tonight? We could have some game?" Yu Yuanyuan invited.
"Tang Zhi, Yaoyao, and Xiaoshu are all back — they're over at my place. Why don't the two of you come over tonight instead?" Wei Zhao said.
"That works too," Yu Yuanyuan said with a nod.
Wei Zhao left Ergoudan's house and headed toward West Star Mountain. The mountain's terrain was treacherous and crawling with wild beasts; ordinary hunters dared not push deep into it, hunting only along the outer fringes at its foot. Ergoudan, however, cared for none of that — he walked straight into the mountain's belly to hunt.
For to this day no beast had ever escaped from beneath one of Ergoudan's fists; he truly killed with a single blow, never giving the animal a chance to strike back.
"Grandpa Wang, out hunting?" At the foot of West Star Mountain, Wei Zhao spotted the hunter Grandpa Wang and greeted him.