Chapter 81 Searching for Relatives (Part 3)
As the lights come on, the smell of food wafts from every home.
At this moment, Lu Ren was also processing Li Li's legs in the kitchen.
A series of misunderstandings were finally solved after the mountain ghost's explanation. With the sound of Qilin cub's stomach growling, Lu Ren finally realized that he hadn't eaten dinner yet. Fortunately, there were many people and the ingredients were ready, so Lu Ren planned to show off his cooking skills.
In Lu Ren's living room, a teddy bear was sitting on the sofa, hugging a small black dot and crying.
"Wow , wow , my tentacle, what happened to you? Why is there only a little bit left?"
The unicorn cub was lying on the edge of the sofa, looking at the teddy bear with sparkling eyes.
He stared at the teddy bear for a long time before running to the kitchen door. He pointed at A Bing and said to Lu Ren, "Aren! It's a teddy bear. It's a moving and talking teddy bear!"
At this moment, A Bing has retracted his terrifying tentacles into his body. The whole bear looks cute and innocent, as if it came out of a child's dream. No wonder the unicorn cub is so excited.
Lu Ren didn't know whether to laugh or cry. He could only look up while cutting vegetables, smiled helplessly at the Qilin cub, and said, "Yes, it's a teddy bear, but you can't touch it without permission. It would be impolite."
Qilin cub nodded and agreed readily: "Okay." After that, he ran back to the sofa, lay down on the edge of the sofa, and continued to stare at A Bing with an unconscious smile on the corner of his mouth.
The old sofa in Lu Ren's house had broken down a long time ago. The sofa he is sitting on now is a fabric sofa that Lu Ren bought online. Although the workmanship is not fine and the comfort is average, the quality is good and it has not broken down for all these years. It can be used as is. On ordinary days, Lu Ren likes to sit on this sofa and watch football games on the old TV.
He was afraid that the mountain ghost would have nothing to do, so he turned on a TV series for her so that she could pass the time while waiting for dinner.
At this moment, Shan Gui was sitting on the other side of the sofa, holding a pack of tissues and watching TV intently. He was crying while watching, and his crying even reached Lu Ren who was cooking: "Wuuuu, Ren, how could this girl be so depressed? She jumped off the Zhuxiantai when she was sad, wuuuuu." Shan Gui said, blowing his nose fiercely.
As a first-time viewer of a TV series produced by humans, Shan Gui was really engaged.
Lu Ren didn't want his crying to be heard by the neighbors next door, so that they would think he had some special hobbies. He could only put aside the kitchen work for the time being, went to the living room, used the remote control to change the channel, and advised Shan Gui: "Change to another one, watch something happier."
Another movie was playing on another channel, and Lu Ren thought everything would be fine this time, so he happily went in to cook. But the mountain ghost couldn't watch for more than ten minutes, and stood sadly at the kitchen door again.
The mountain ghost still had tears in his eyes that he hadn't wiped away yet. He said to Lu Ren with a sad face, "Ah Ren, this girl also jumped off the Zhuxiantai."
Lu Ren: “…” I almost forgot, recently every deity on TV is performing the Zhuxiantai.
In order to divert the mountain ghost's attention, Lu Ren quickly served the prepared dishes to the table. Braised pork, braised chicken feet, winter melon and pork ribs soup, and a plate of green vegetables, one dish after another.
Lu Ren was not very fast at cooking. By the time he had served all the dishes, it was already nearly half past eight. Although he asked everyone to eat the first dish while it was still hot, no one started eating. Everyone sat at the table waiting for Lu Ren to take a seat.
When Lu Ren put the last dish of green vegetables on the table, he also sat down. Then he found that although Qilin cub was sitting upright, his saliva had already dripped down to his chest like a trickle.
Lu Ren couldn't help laughing, and quickly announced to everyone: "It's time to eat!"
As soon as these words were spoken, Qilin cub, who had been hungry for a long time, immediately picked up the chopsticks and picked up a piece of braised pork anxiously. He was about to put the braised pork back into his bowl, but suddenly paused as if he remembered something, then turned the direction of the chopsticks and put the braised pork into Lu Ren's bowl.
"Ah Ren, you eat the first piece."
Lu Ren felt very relieved. He smiled and touched the baby Qilin's head, saying, "Thank you."
The praised Kirin cub was very proud: "You're welcome!"
It was also the first time for Shan Gui to eat food cooked by Lu Ren . When he took the first piece of raccoon meat, he was really shocked by the tender texture and delicious sauce.
"Wow, Ren, you cook so deliciously now."
Lu Ren was praised and touched his head shyly: "I bought a lot of recipes and followed them for a while. If you like, I can make more for you."
The mountain ghost smiled and said thank you.
Ah Bing had no image at all. He unzipped the zipper on the back of the teddy bear, stretched out his tentacles from inside, and directly rolled up the meat and vegetables he wanted from the plate and rolled them back into the teddy bear to enjoy.
Lu Ren didn't know what the internal structure of this teddy bear was, but he thought that A Bing's appearance would make many children feel disillusioned. Fortunately, Qilin Cub was busy eating at the moment and didn't pay attention to A Bing's actions that made people lose sanity.
The Chaos Fragment has returned to Lu Ren's head. After all, it fell from A Bing's tentacles, and now that the tentacles have not been found, it has no place to return to for the time being.
However, it seems that it is difficult to find the tentacles. After all, the tentacles should still be imprisoned. By the way, A Bing seems to be the prisoner who held him hostage twice before.
"Is it okay to let a criminal into the house so brazenly?" Lu Ren thought belatedly.
However, looking at the mountain ghost who seemed to have established a deep revolutionary friendship with A Bing, the unicorn cub who was completely captured by the teddy bear, and the chaos fragments on the top of his head that were constantly sending out "like the original body" signals, it was really difficult for Lu Ren to build up a sense of tension.
"Forget it, I'll talk about it after I go to the Foreign Household Registration Investigation Bureau tomorrow." Lu Ren decided to give up thinking.
When the beds were being allocated, Qilinzi came to Lu Ren and said in a serious tone, "Ah Ren, can I be in charge of watching over this bad Xuxu tonight?"
Of course, the unicorn cub recognized that this was the tentacle that kidnapped Ah Ren in Fengxu Village, and the bad tentacle should refer to Ah Bing. However, although the unicorn cub kept calling him the bad tentacle, his eyes seemed full of expectation when he looked at the teddy bear.
Lu Ren pretended not to notice Qilin's actual intention and said cooperatively, "Okay, thank you for your hard work this time."
The Qilin cub said it was not hard at all, and even imitated what he saw on TV, saluting Lu Ren: "I promise to complete the task."
When Lu Ren finished washing the dishes and went to Kirin's room to turn off the lights, he found Kirin sleeping soundly with his teddy bear. The teddy bear looked impatient and kicked Kirin's hand with its soft feet , muttering, "Don't get so close, kid."
Then the teddy bear was hugged tighter by the unicorn cub.
That night, Shan Gui stayed in Lu Ren's room, while Lu Ren slept on the sofa. The uncomfortable sofa made Lu Ren's sleep quality greatly reduced, and he got up very early the next day. Coincidentally, in order to prevent any changes in today's plan, Lu Ren decided to leave early to go to the Immigrant Household Investigation Bureau.
So, Lu Ren, who had a sore back, drove his severely overloaded electric scooter to the Immigrant Household Registration Bureau. In front of Lu Ren stood the little Qilin holding a teddy bear, and behind him sat the mountain ghost dressed in modern clothes.
Shan Gui was wearing Lu Ren's clothes today. It was a very neutral outfit with a baseball cap. With her long white hair, she looked like a rebellious girl.
As expected, Lu Ren arrived at the Foreign Household Investigation Bureau 40 minutes early. While waiting for the Bureau to open, he edited the message and sent it to Si Yuan: [Xu Hai came to me before to ask for the tentacle that was seized by the Bureau. I have brought him to the Bureau. Can this be handled? ]
After about three minutes, Si Yuan replied: [It should be possible, but the procedures are rather complicated. ]
Seeing Si Yuan's reply, Lu Ren said to the teddy bear in Qilin Cub's hand: "That's great , Si Yuan is willing to help. I think we can get your tentacles back soon."
Then he lowered his head and edited a thank you message: [Thank you. By the way, yesterday Dean Bai Ze gave me some raccoon meat, which I made into braised pork. I brought some here today. Are you interested? ]
In fact, this was just Lu Ren's polite words. According to Shan Gui, although raccoon meat is not common now, it is not rare either. Lu Ren thought Si Yuan would not be interested. Unexpectedly, Si Yuan replied in seconds: [I will be there soon. ]
In the Immigrant Household Investigation Bureau, Director Si Yuan had a bad habit of being late for work, which led to everyone being very lazy every morning. This was mainly reflected in the fact that the employees of the Investigation Bureau would never change back to human form before 10 o'clock.
However, what was unexpected was that Si Yuan arrived early today. At that time, Wen Ma was walking through the hall with a coffee cup in his hand, dressed as a centaur. I heard that he was obsessed with Western fantasy novels recently, so he was devoted to pretending to be a centaur. Unfortunately, Wen Ma was caught by Si Yuan today.
The Investigation Bureau stipulates that revealing one’s true identity in public is not allowed.
So Si Yuan issued a notice under Wen Ma's horrified gaze: "Deduct one week's salary."
Wen Ma cried and begged for mercy: "Chief! Please show mercy, Chief!"
It is said that on this morning, the hall was filled with the sounds of ghosts howling.
Amid the wailing sounds that sounded like hell on earth, Si Yuan accepted the braised raccoon meat with peace of mind, and then shifted his gaze to the teddy bear in the Qilin cub's hand.
Si Yuan's gaze stayed on the teddy bear. After pondering for a while, a plan gradually formed in Si Yuan's mind.
He asked Lu Ren, "Ah Ren, you know that the Investigation Bureau has spent a lot of money recently to compensate for the broken vajra."
Lu Ren nodded.
Si Yuan continued, "You are also partly responsible for this, so the Investigation Bureau would like to ask you for a favor."
Lu Ren was stunned for a moment: "But didn't you say before that I didn't need to pay compensation?"
Si Yuan shook his head: "I don't need you to compensate me, I just hope you can help me get compensation."
"Repayment?"
Si Yuan's tone was very calm: "Yes. As a person who was kidnapped by Xu Hai twice, and a victim who was harassed by Xu Hai again after his life returned to normal, I am seeking compensation from the Jiuyou Realm Bureau."
This time Lu Ren finally understood: You want me to help blackmail someone?
