The fire and rain outside stopped at the same time.
It had been pouring for quite some time, and by the time it stopped, the sky had already turned completely dark.
Lin Mu glanced at the dog that was sleeping very sweetly on a pile of old blankets, then pulled open the door to check on the situation outside.
The clouds had disappeared, turned the washed out sky exceptionally clear, revealing the winding starry river in the middle of the night sky.
The Morning Dusk that had been burning for a long time had all returned to ashes. They landed within and outside the yard before starting to grow out again. Small clusters of little white flowers bloomed in the night, reflecting out a cold white fluorescence light.
Lin Mu switched the light on in the yard and walked to its periphery as he carefully probed around.
There were no signs of the ordinary flowers and plants being burnt, but in the areas where the Morning Dusk were densely planted together, there were a lot of black ashes fluttering and flying around as the wind blew.
These ashes probably belonged to the beings that Da Hei had mentioned — demons, ghosts, spirits, or monsters that had committed evil deeds.
The ashes left behind had seemed to be a little heavy, and Lin Mu was a little afraid to think about how many had been burnt. He didn’t understand why so many ghost or monsters had suddenly appeared.
In the past twenty years of his life, he had obviously lived a very peaceful and comfortable one, without encountering any ghosts or monsters.
Looking at the ashes that floated lightly in front of his eyes, Lin Mu subconsciously felt that they looked a little familiar. After a closer look, he realised that they looked like the bag of seeds that Da Hei had given to him.
Lin Mu: “……”
This basically meant that he had walked all the way home with a bag of ashes and buried it in his yard.
Lin Mu gave a light hiss, looked at the pile of ashes outside his house, thought about it, and felt that it shouldn’t be wasted.
As it was still early, Lin Mu simply went back into the house to get a small brush and a handheld dustpan then returned to the periphery of his yard. He folded his sleeves up and begun to sweep up the ashes.
Lin Mu had no intentions of keeping them. He swept a whole circle around his yard, then carried the dustpan full of ashes and circled around his yard again. The ashes planted to crooked edge right outside his yard, drawing something that could barely be called a sun.
After drawing the sun and watching the newly planted small and white flowers sprout, Lin Mu returned to his house satisfied, then carefully picked up the dog that was sleeping sweetly, “let’s go! I’ll bring you to the doctor!”
Yan Xuanjing suddenly woke up, turned his hand over and placed a paw on Lin Mu’s face. After realising that this half-monster did not show any malice, he quickly retracted his outstretched claws, stood on the pads of his foot and struggled to get up.
Lin Mu, who had no idea that he had almost been disfigured, panicked and leaned his head backwards after receiving a paw to the face. He placed down the struggling dog and exclaimed softly after looking at its front paw.
The swelling on the front right paw had gone down, and the frightening red and purple colour that came along with the swelling had also faded.
The dog front left paw also wasn’t as bloody as before, and had scabbed over after he had carefully cleaned it. So the dog’s situation seemed much better.
Seeing this, Lin Mu was slightly relieved.
It was good that the actions he took didn’t cause another injury.
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“But we still need to go to the hospital,” Lin Mu said.
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This was a half-grown Samoyed, with slightly pointed ears and round black eyes full of intelligence. Even if there were holes that Lin Mu had cut into the dog’s fur, it could not prevent the dog from looking good.
These type of good-looking dog breeds were generally quite delicate, unlike the type of wolfdog that Da Hei was, who were able to wrestle and fight and also guard the house.
Lin Mu had seen news regarding these docile type of pet dogs, where ‘a thief entered the house, and the owner’s pet dog brought a pair of slippers to greet them’. Basically, one should not expect dogs with these sort of nature to guard the house, and should just raise the dog as a child and maintain such a standard.
Lin Mu approached again to check on the dog’s exposed wounds and reiterated, “we have to go to the hospital.”
Yan Xuanjing did not know much about the Central Plains, but ‘hospital’, this word, he understood.
He raised a paw and pressed it on Lin Mu’s face again, indicating his refusal.
He was a magnificent nine-tailed fox. Such a great monster, there was no need for him to go to the hospital for such skin injuries.
While it was necessary for him to recuperate from invisible injuries that would take more than a couple of days to recover, going to a human hospital would be useless.
Lin Mu’s cheeks suddenly felt cold, he reached out and carefully grasped the dog’s paws, looked it in the eyes and blinked. He asked tentatively, “not going?”
Yan Xuanjing pulled away his paws from Lin Mu’s hand, and pressed it on his face again.
Lin Mu paused, and asked again, “going?”
The dog retracted it’s paws.
Lin Mu froze for a while, and felt that this was really strange.
He actually felt that this dog was communicating with him.
No, when he picked it up yesterday, the dog was already quite intelligent.
Lin Mu frowned and felt that his matter wasn’t that simple.
He looked at the dog for a long while and decided to follow the dog’s wishes first. They wouldn’t go to the hospital, and he would talk with Da Hei about the dog the next day.
“That’ll do.” Lin Mu stood up, looked at the time and saw that it was quite late, “today, let’s sleep first.”
Yan Xuanjing watched as Lin Mu shut the door, turned around and picked both the blanket and the fox up with a huff, and quickly went thumping up the stairs.
Lin Mu directly moved the dog to his room.
Lin Mu’s room wasn’t small, and there was more than enough room for a dog.
He looked at the dog that was checking out its surroundings after being brought up, thought for a bit and explained, “I’m a light sleeper, if anything happens at night or if there’s any movement, I’ll wake up.”
No matter what, the dog was still an injured party and more care would be required.
In any case, this dog hadn’t been burnt by the Morning Dusk, so Lin Mu felt that this problem wasn’t that big.
He put the dog in place, took a bath, blew his hair dry and laid on the bed, before saying good night to the dog next to him.
After saying that, he froze a long while and looked at the pile of fluff lying on the blanket a long time, then suddenly laughed and turned off the light when the dog looked up.
Lin Mu felt that it was quite easy for him to be happy.
He was very happy to have somebody to say good night to before he slept.
After his mother left, there was nobody who would say goodnight to him every time before he went to bed. In the university dorms, his roommate rubbed his own arms and said for two grown men to say goodnight to each other felt a little gay, so Lin Mu kept quiet.
As a result, he had been alone for a long time. Looking at a dog with pretty features and saying goodnight also made him physically and mentally happy.
Lin Mu laid on the bed, looked at the white dog that was still extremely white and obvious in the dark room, before happily closing his eyes as he fell asleep to the sound of insects and frogs.
Shortly after Lin Mu fell asleep, Yan Xuanjing, who was resting with closed eyes on the blanket raised his head abruptly, his dark eyes glowing green in the darkness.
Lin Mu’s bed was against the window, and at the same time, a plump little hand reached up onto the windowsill. There were red bits swaying in the dark night, and soon another little hand also reached up.
Next, a small head popped up onto the windowsill. It was a cute child with a little red fruit on his head, baby fat on his face, lovely and pale, with a beautiful flower branch in his mouth.
He was struggling to see what was going on in the room as he leaned over the windowsill.
With a raise of his head, the child met eyes with the nine-tailed fox in the house.
Yan Xuanjing silently and majestically looked at the little child that climbed onto the window, and let loose his excellently restrained aura.
The little child suddenly became scared and his unsteady pair of short hands didn’t manage to properly grip onto the windowsill. He fell from the second floor to the rain shelter that Lin Mu had set up and landed on the ground, making a slightly muffled sound.
Yan Xuanjing recognised this scent , it was the scent of a Ginseng Baby.
There were Morning Dusk here, and it was a perfectly normal thing for well-informed little monsters to come running for asylum.
After all, these weak little monsters basically had no ability to commit any evil, and they were regarded by the fiercer monsters as a nourishing meal, so there was no harm in running to a protection circle made out of Morning Dusk.
Yan Xuanjing slowly took back his gaze from the windowsill and glanced at Lin Mu. This half-monster claimed he was a light sleeper, but while the Ginseng Baby climbed up and then fell down, his breathing didn’t even change, and he was still sleeping ever-so-sweetly.
Yan Xuanjing: “……”
Ha, half-monster.
He retracted his gaze and laid back down again.
Early next morning, Lin Mu woke up and washed up, stewed a pot of bone broth and steamed some buns and rice. He took the bone broth and rice up to the dog and carefully examined the dog’s exposed wounds.
The swelling on its front right leg was completely undetectable, and the scab on its left paw had long dried up and didn’t seem as miserable as before.
This speed and degree of recovery was surprisingly good.
“Seems like there was really no need to go to the hospital.” Lin Mu muttered and took back the hand he used to check on the wound, he hesitated, then said, “I have something to do today so I’ll be going out. I left a small door open for you, so if you want to leave, go out from the nearest door on the left on the first floor.”
After Lin Mu finished, he looked at the dog and puckered his lips and then added, “but I still hope you can stay.”
Yan Xuanjing’s two front paws were overlapped and his posture was dignified as he looked at Lin Mu who went to pack up his things after speaking. His ears shook slightly.
Lin Mu passed by his mother’s studio and looked at the books on the table he hadn’t had the chance to read after taking them out, paused, then closed the door and turned to go downstairs.
The weather was good today. Lin Mu opened the door, pushed the small electric scooter and left the house.
He was still planning to go to the office today. Although it wasn’t his official starting day, Lin Mu felt that it was necessary to gain some favourable feelings.
For example, helping to repair things such as the door and windows, and for things that couldn’t be repaired such as the wall, plant some plants to cover up the defects.
At least it wouldn’t look as tattered.
After Lin Mu left, Yan Xuanjing slowly finished eating the bowl of bone broth and rice, stood up and swung his left paw. After flicking off the dried blood on his left paw, he went down the stairs and walked out of the door that Lin Mu said.
As he passed by the main entrance of the yard, he turned his head and saw the flower branch that had been inserted into the front wooden door, as well as the white and tender flowers on the flower branch.
This was the Ginseng Baby’s certification of loyalty, and the nine-tailed fox who knew the rules that monsters chose to abide by was clear about it.
Unfortunately, Lin Mu left in a hurry and did not notice anything extra on his door.
Yan Xuanjing casually glanced at it, pretended he saw nothing and turned to leave.
He also had something on.
— About the passage between the Central Plains and the Great Wilderness.
The Central Plains also had a monster responsible for guarding the passage, and Yan Xuanjing got the address from his father before coming over.
A City Central Plains, Qingyao Road No.404, Qingyao Subdistrict Office.
This was the address for the monsters responsible for guarding the passage in the Central Plains.
A person and a fox walked away without turning back, and the wind swept through the empty courtyard, brushing across a string of red ginseng seeds hidden under the vines of the fence, taking with it a grieving whimper.
The author has this to say:
Ginseng Baby: Buckle up and don’t slip down.
For reference, this is what a full ginseng with berries looks like: 
This is adorable
Oh no, ginseng baby!!!
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Nooo! Justice for my adorable Ginseng Baby! Shield him from the wind! 😭😭
Thanks for the chapter!
I love this
So cuuute ✨🥰✨
Thank you for posting!
Lin Mu’s house is becoming a sanctuary for good monsters ..