The cub he picked up didn't come with an instruction manual

Chapter 20

As a public institution residence, the Quality Supervision Bureau compound was once prosperous 20 years ago. With the passage of time, the house has aged and the unit has been relocated. Many people have moved out, and most of the people left behind are the elderly and children.

The location of the compound is very good. It is a little out of place in the bustling downtown.

Xu Huo took Jiu Ling through the narrow passage in the compound, and Jiu Ling looked around curiously.

The courtyard is full of dilapidated rooms with low stairs, most of the walls are peeling off, and the distance between the rooms is also very narrow, forming a narrow passage. There are many clotheslines hanging from the heights, where clothes of various colors are dried, like ugly bunting. Occasionally, sewage flows across, exuding a foul smell, making the compound even more dirty and narrow.

"Ouch-Xu Huo is back." A piercing voice sounded, and a fat aunt walked up to her.

"Hello, Aunt Wang!" Xu Huo replied politely. He recognized this aunt who had a bad mouth. Every time she came back, this aunt never gave him a good face. But today she smiled enthusiastically, as if she saw a relative she hadn't seen for a long time. , "I heard that you went to Tianfeng, it's amazing."

Xu Huo smiled embarrassedly and nodded.

"It's really promising." Aunt Wang still refused to give way, looking at him as if she saw a cherished panda, "I said when you were young, you will definitely be promising when you grow up."

"Aunt Wang, a few days ago, you said that Xu Huo was hopeless, why did you forget it when you turned around?"

A voice came from behind, Xu Huo turned his head, and a tall and thin boy appeared in his eyes, with a disdainful smile on the corner of his mouth.

It's really a narrow road for enemies!

The young man is Duan Zhuo who is obsessed with Xuelin and therefore regards Xu Huo as an enemy. Unfortunately, he also belongs to this compound.

Aunt Wang looked awkward, and immediately explained: "Duan Zhuo, you must have misremembered, how could I say that, Xu Huo is the star of our compound."

"Star?" Duan Zhuo looked mockingly, and his smile was even more disdainful, "Isn't it just going to Tianfeng? It seems like someone didn't go up, what is the air? It's shameless to say that you are a star."

Xu Huo had nothing to do with the aunt, but he was not afraid of Duan Zhuo. Hearing his harsh words, he immediately retorted: "Yes, I am arrogant. You have to watch me if you are not used to it."

"What did you say?" Duan Zhuo's eyes suddenly widened.

"What? Want to fight?" Xu Huo raised his chin without any fear.

Gui Ling, who was next to Xu Huo's leg, curled his mouth and smiled to watch the excitement, but his little hands were behind his back and began to seal.

"Oh, don't fight?" The aunt hurriedly moved out of the way, "Xu Huo, you go home quickly, Duan Zhuo is causing trouble again, and I will sue your father later."

Hearing what the aunt said, Duan Zhuo snorted coldly, and gave Xu Huo a hard look: "You wait—" After finishing speaking, he turned and left.

"boom--"

Duan Zhuojie had a solid fall and fell into a muddy puddle. When he fell, he accidentally knocked over a clothesline by the wall. Clothes flew all over the sky, directly burying him.

"Oh, why do you have such bad eyes—" Aunt Wang chattered endlessly.

Duan Zhuo struggled to get up, took off a sock on top of his head in embarrassment, and threw it into the puddle hard, causing all the aunts upstairs who heard the noise to scold.

When Duan Zhuo was scolded, his chest heaved and heaved in anger, his eyes were filled with anger, and he scolded Xu Huo: "Are you trying to trick me?"

Xu Huo almost laughed out loud at first, but when he saw him finding fault for no reason, he rolled his eyes, "What's wrong——"

"Brother, let's go." Jiu Lingtong said nothing, and pulled Xu Huo hard, wanting to leave, because of the force, Xiaopang's body and the ground became at an acute angle.

Before he had time to say anything, Xu Huo was pulled away with his strength.

Watching Xu Huo leave, Duan Zhuo was stubbornly angry. He thought for a while, took out his cell phone, and sent a text message to Yang Hao: Xu Huo is in the Quality Supervision Bureau compound.

Xu Huo patiently taught Gui Ling as he walked: "When you see your father, you have to call him Father after me." He explained: "I have called him that since I was a child, and also, it will be very difficult for you to hear my father speak southern dialect. "

Speaking of this, Xu Huo thought of what happened when he was a child.

Xu Huo's adoptive father, Hu Bawan, was from the south, and it was very difficult for him to speak Mandarin. As a result, Xu Huo had always suspected that the reason why his inexplicable surname was Xu was most likely caused by Hu Bawan's ineffective communication when he registered.

As for the absurdity of Hu Bawan's Cantonese?

When he was a child, Hu Bawan once taught him an ancient Chinese saying: "Chirp to rot, fish to brainwash."

Xu Huo never figured it out until after studying, he learned a sentence: "Hold the hand of the son, and grow old with the son." He finally knew what the adoptive father taught.

Thinking for a while, the communication between Hu Bawan and Jiu Ling would most likely be a conversation between a chicken and a duck, Xu Huo secretly laughed.

Hu Bawan lives in the innermost building in the community, which is still the dirtiest first floor. The outside of the house looks very dilapidated, and there are many strange things piled up at the door.

Gui Ling remembered that Hu Bawan liked to pick up trash, and guessed that they were all picked up.

The first floor is a small courtyard, and Gui Ling followed Xu Huo into the courtyard.

Surprisingly, the courtyard is not big, and it is not as dirty as imagined. Instead, it is surprisingly clean, meticulously furnished, and well-organized.

But entering here, it makes people feel uncomfortable, because the courtyard is lifeless, not to mention the smoke, there is not even a trace of life.

The owner here is really a person who likes to pick up trash?

Sitting on a low stool in the middle of the yard was a middle-aged man with a dry body and a sallow complexion. He was peeling garlic with a knife in his hand.

"Father, we're back." Xu Huo supported Jiu Ling in front of him, "Jui Ling, quickly call father."

Jiu Ling looked at Hu Bawan timidly, and said childishly and obediently: "Father—"

Hu Bawan didn't agree, he raised his eyes and looked over sharply, with a serious expression like a strict teacher.

Suddenly, Gui Ling shrank back behind Xu Huo in fear, and only dared to poke out one eye to peek, but his eyes met a pair of piercing eyes, which were particularly severe.

Terrified, Gui Ling hugged Xu Huo's thigh and buried his face.

"Which one is there?" Hu Bawan's voice was low and cold, but his tone was strange.

Gui Ling trembled in fear, Xu Huo patted him comfortingly, and explained: "He is the child I mentioned on the phone, and I will bring it back for you to see."

"Li raises him?" Hu Bawan's voice was obviously suspicious: "Gang Xiao, how old is Li?"

"I have promised him, please agree." Xu Huo sincerely asked.

Gui Ling raised his small face from Xu Huo's body and peeked over.

Hu Bawan didn't peel the garlic anymore, put down the knife, and asked with a dark face, "Have you passed the stage?"

"Look, it's normal."

What Hu Bawan meant was to ask Xu Huo if he had seen Jiu Ling with the demon mirror, but Xu Huo's answer was to help Jiu Ling hide it.

Hu Bawan nodded his chin towards the room, "Awa, please slap me."

Slap him?

Gui Ling was taken aback for a moment.

Xu Huo bowed his head and explained with a smile: "Father wants me to go in and get him some clothes." After speaking, he lightly patted Gui Ling's little hand and tore him apart.

Gui Ling burst into tears immediately, and grabbed Xu Huo's clothes and refused to let go. He guessed that Hu Bawan wanted to drive Xu Huo away and talk to himself alone.

"It's a bit of a hole, slap me with a piece—" Hu Bawan urged with a heavier tone.

"Okay, I'll go in and get it." Xu Huo comforted Gui Ling with a smile, and walked into the room.

Without the blame spirit to rely on, his expression became even more terrified. Seeing Hu Bawan frowning and searching his eyes, he was so scared that he backed away again and again, shrinking in the corner, and the chubby hand directly covered his face.

"Oil monster?" Hu Bawan suddenly called out.

"Woooo?" Gui Ling was frightened and cried, tears profusely, as if he couldn't understand.

In fact, he knew that Hu Bawan was deceiving him, and if he was a little monster, he might be fooled directly.

Hu Bawan's face softened a little, and he asked loudly, "Which Nidi are you from?"

"I, I'm from the school." Gui Ling answered whimperingly, half-covering his face, showing his teary eyes, and obediently answered the question, but this answer obviously didn't answer the question, and answering it was equivalent to no answer.

Hu Bawan raised his eyebrows, but didn't say anything, and continued, "Don't be too gnawing with him." It meant to ask Gui Ling not to get too close to Xu Huo.

"Huh?" Gui Ling really didn't understand.

"Don't go too far."

"Ah?" Gui Ling was stunned, his watery eyes widened.

"We don't have a piano, don't gnaw at us—" Hu Bawan rubbed his index finger and thumb, and gestured for money. This sentence means that they have no money, so don't pollute them.

"Eat you?" Unfortunately, Gui Ling still didn't understand.

Why do you want to chew?

"No piano—"

Gui Ling couldn't understand, and his brows and eyes were wrinkled in distress.

"I'm really black chicken shit, okay, okay, I'm tired." Hu Bawan meant that he was pissed off, okay, let them do whatever they want.

"Hey—" Gui Ling's face was filled with tears of grievance, but he still couldn't understand.

"It's so expensive—" Hu Bawan sighed, he wanted to say how tired he was.

"What's so expensive?" Gui Ling put down his hands, and asked sobbingly without understanding.

Hu Bawan stood up straight away, "Awa, I have no clear relationship with him, wait for him to bury me." It meant to ask Xu Huo to wait for him to enter the house.

"Buried? Buried?" Jiu Ling was taken aback, "Where are you going to bury it?"

"It's not buried." Xu Huo held back a smile, took out a piece of clothing, and handed it to Hu Bawan.

Hu Bawan didn't pick up his clothes, and stomped his feet angrily, "Awa, hurry up until his mother pulls it, send it back to pull it."

Gui Ling understood the sentence, "No, brother, don't send me away."

"Father, I promised to take care of him." Xu Huo begged, "I'm sorry, I will do what I said."

"Oh, I'm so tired." Hu Bawan entered the room angrily.

"Brother—" Gui Ling burst into tears of grievance.

"Gui Ling won't cry, just wait a moment." Xu Huo followed in.

Seeing that everyone had gone in, Gui Ling sobbed aggrievedly, crouched in the corner, curled up into a pitiful ball.

I thought to myself, fortunately he temporarily imposed a restriction on Xuhuo Mountain to cover up the spiritual root, so that Hu Bawan didn't see the clue, because this adoptive father is by no means an ordinary person, he is full of spiritual energy, far higher than Hu Ziyuan Long, with authentic exercises and abundant true energy, from this point of view, the owner of the elixir must be a person not to be trifled with.

Gui Ling wiped away his tears and looked around. The layout of this courtyard is simple, but in fact it hides a secret, it is a formation.

Because of amnesia, Gui Ling didn't know what this formation was, but he could clearly feel that this formation not only did not gather spirit energy, but even had the effect of dispersing spirits.

This formation can lose the spirit of the sky, consume the soul of the people, kill the spirit of life, and eliminate the roots of trees. Therefore, in this courtyard, insects and ants do not grow, and weeds do not grow. If you live for a long time, the spirit will even slowly dry up, that is to say, Tianlingdibao will also delay ripening.

However, shouldn't the keeper of the medicine ripen the elixir for the owner of the elixir to take?What is the purpose of delaying maturity after doing this battle?

Gui Ling suddenly walked to the door of the house and looked inside.

There is a two-bedroom inside, and the living room is entered from the yard. There are two rooms on one side of the living room, and the kitchen and toilet on the other side.

Xu Huo and Hu Bawan were talking in the kitchen at the moment, and Gui Ling pricked up his ears to eavesdrop.

"Most willing...have you had a dream?" It was Hu Bawan's voice, and there was a trace of tension in his voice.

"It's been a long time since I had that dream, father, don't worry, I won't be woken up by the dream..." It was Xu Huo's hearty voice.

"The origin of the boy is unknown, don't keep it by your side, it's best to return it to his mother."

"Father, he has no parents, very poor..."

Did my brother have nightmares when he was a child?Could it be that the original owner of the elixir looked scary?

Hearing that the adoptive father still wanted his brother to throw him away, Gui Ling pouted unhappily, and looked at the two rooms on the other side.

Who is the original owner of the medicine essence?Who is the medicine guard?Will there be a secret?

Gui Ling's curiosity grew stronger as he got older, and he couldn't hold back at all.

So, seeing that the two in the kitchen were still talking, the little guy shrank his neck, turned into a small meat ball, and with a "swoosh", he slipped into a room.

This room is not big, but it looks very clean, so clean that it is a bit harsh, except for a bed, a cabinet, a table, and no furnishings.

Gui Ling looked at the closet, he walked forward, opened the closet curiously, there were several clothes neatly hung in the closet, but Gui Ling was not interested in these, he cast his eyes on the innermost board of the closet, according to his Intuition, how strange this board looks.

He couldn't help reaching out his little hand and touching it.

"What are you doing here?"

A figure appeared at the door of the room, it was Hu Bawan, his eyes were puzzled, but there was coldness in his eyes.

The author says:

Ahhh, my favorite little thing is about to appear;

Thank you very much for your support, I will continue to work hard!