When Ji Que mentioned that the woman might be plotting against his money or even his house, he immediately became energetic.

"Are you talking about the water willow tree at the entrance of the alley?" Ji Que asked.

"Of course it's that tree. Some people call this alley Linshui Lane, but more people call it Shuiliu Lane because of that willow tree."

"Is that woman still there?"

"You'll know if you take a look."

So in the dark environment, one person and one cat hung on the wall of their courtyard, with a small part of their heads exposed and peeking out secretly.

Even though they were in their own home, this man and the cat acted like thieves.

"Looks like he's gone." Lin Xiangzhi quietly poked out a half-cat head and said.

Ji Que stretched out his head and looked over, and found that there was indeed no one under the water willow tree at the entrance of the alley.

He couldn't help but ask: "What does that woman look like? Why don't I have any impression of her at all?"

"She looks pretty good, not too old, and is wearing a blue shirt. It's hard to tell whether she's an unmarried girl or a young woman," Lin Xiangzhi recalled.

"Young woman? Then I have to find a chance to take a good look." Ji Que analyzed it while hanging on the wall.

Lin Xiangzhi once again showed a perverted expression.

The dusk is getting darker, and the whole alley is very dark. The big water willow tree stands there, like a bent old man.

This was the first time Ji Que had carefully observed the situation in the alley after dark, and couldn't help but say, "Why don't there seem to be many people living in this alley?"

Lin Xiangzhi squatted on the wall and said, "There aren't many people living here."

Ji Que said, "Why? This land is quite nice. Is it just because my house is a haunted house?"

Lin Xiangzhi said: "Don't you know that the water here often rises?"

Ji Que looked confused and said: "The water is rising, what do you mean?"

Lin Xiangzhi explained: "The floods are rising."

"Red water?"

"This ditch is said to be connected to the Qing Canal. The water in the Qing Canal rises in the summer. The location here is a bit low and is often flooded in the summer. Therefore, not many people live here."

After hearing the bad news, Ji Que almost cried.

Damn it, not only did he buy a haunted house, but he also bought a house that flooded frequently.

He couldn't help but think of the righteous words of his former landlord again - "The people in Tianren City lack everything except sincerity!".

You are not short of NMLGB!

Seeing Ji Que's appearance on the concubine exam, Lin Xiangzhi couldn't help but comfort her: "Actually, the water has not risen very deep. It has just reached the level of your thighs, and it only took half a month. It will pass with patience."

Ji Que wanted to cry but said without tears: "Don't the Yamen and the Dushui Prison care about this matter?"

Lin Xiangzhi blinked her beautiful cat eyes and said, "How can they care about such trivial matters? They can't drown people anyway."

For a moment, Ji Que was speechless.

This is very consistent with the style of imperial institutions in this world.

It can't drown anyone anyway.

At this moment, Ji Que was sure that he had bought a bargain at a low value.

He already felt that as time passed and his bad luck changed from Sangshui County to Tianren City.

In the past, the bad luck was relatively simple, but it caused him to be stolen, robbed, meet bad people, and hit by flying objects. But now, the bad luck is like an old sow wearing a bra, layer by layer.

He took care of the haunted house, but he didn't expect that there was a water house hidden behind it.

However, Ji Que quickly calmed down. As the saying goes, "Soldiers will block it, water will cover it." If he really can't handle it, just like Lin Xiangzhi said, just be patient and it will be over.

It's summer and it's cool when the water rises.

Who doesn’t know how to self-hypnotize?

But the young woman Lin Xiangzhi talked about still attracted his attention.

If he is really here to make money, he should be more careful.

After buying a house, he really didn't have much money, and now he had to raise a cat, which would cost even more.

At this time, Lin Xiangzhi, the cat, had already started washing the dishes.

This is a very courageous cat who never wants to live and eat for free, so almost everything a cat can do in the house, including grilling fish, washing clothes, washing dishes, and cleaning is all included.

Ji Que thought as he watched her busy there, "It would be great if she could transform. Well, it would be best if she could wear a maid outfit, black stockings, and cat ears."

In short, during this period of time, he felt that it was quite good to get along with such a cat-like girl, and it was a bit like going back to the days when he was hanging out with Tang Yi.

At least I won't be so lonely.

After Lin Xiangzhi finished all this, she returned to her room with a sore back and fell asleep.

I have to say that since taking over all the work in this house, she has been cured of the late night syndrome she had after turning into a cat.

In the past, when I was a cat, I would be sleepy during the day and full of energy at night. Now, as a cat, I would fall asleep on the pillow after finishing work.

The next day, Ji Que and Lin Xiangzhi paid special attention to the water willow tree and found that there was no woman standing there waiting.

Lin Xiangzhi hesitated and said, "Maybe I'm paranoid. Other girls didn't come here because of you."

In the end, Ji Que said very cautiously: "It's very likely that I've reached the end of my step, and then I'm going to do something wrong with my money and real estate."

Lin Xiangzhi said with a look of disdain: "I really don't know what I'm plotting against you? Is it for your ninety-three taels of silver, or is it for your haunted house that will flood this summer?"

Ji Que said with a look of astonishment: "I have hidden my money in sixteen places, do you know all this?"

Lin Xiangzhi said with a speechless face: "I am a cat, is it difficult to know this?"

With that said, she jumped off the wall arrogantly and went to clean the yard.

Ji Que discovered that the eldest lady of the aristocratic family has become more and more diligent recently, and I am afraid that a true good wife and mother can only be like this.

Involuntarily, he thought of another person.

A person who is too lazy to point out.

"I don't know how A Yi is doing these days." Ji Que thought.

In the evening of that day, Ji Que and Lin Xiangzhi finished their meal and went for a walk outside as usual, drinking half a bottle of vinegar.

Lin Xiangzhi's favorite part of the day was to go for a walk with Ji Que.

Because it can see with your own eyes all kinds of misfortune a person has.

She thought that she had been extremely unlucky in the past few years, but in terms of the frequency and pattern of unluckiness, she felt inferior to Ji Que.

Every time Ji Que went out, he would either step on poop or be hit by bird droppings. Oil pans and scalding tea would fly towards him. The funniest time was when he was hit by a sow in heat.

That day, Ji Que narrowly escaped the collision of a sow in heat. He just wanted to watch the sow in heat, but unexpectedly, there was a second sow in heat behind him.

If he hadn't been very skilled, he would have been knocked directly into the ditch.

One person and one cat returned to the entrance of Linshui Lane.

There is a continuous drizzle in the sky, and the Linshui Alley at dusk is deep and quiet. The old water willow tree stands there, like a towering old man with a hunchback, watching the alley.

One person and one cat couldn't help but look at the water willow twice to make sure that no one was there.

The woman who had been standing there almost every day in the past few days disappeared, which made Lin Xiangzhi feel a little weird.

As soon as she reminded Ji Que to pay attention to the woman, the woman disappeared, as if the other party had foreseen what they were going to do.

In the drizzle, the stone slabs in the alley were slippery and muddy. The walls of the two houses on the right were higher, blocking the light, making the place even darker.

At this moment, Lin Xiangzhi paused and said nervously: "There is someone."

Ji Que looked intently and found that there was indeed a person standing in the shadow in front of his door.

A woman, dressed very upright and well-behaved, stared at her without scruples.

Seeing this look, Ji Que couldn't help but feel a fuzzy feeling in his heart.

Next to her, Lin Xiangzhi jumped onto the courtyard wall and whispered, "That's her."
Chapter completed!