I used rebirth to bury his captivating gaze.

Chapter 26 Yellow Hen

Yang Yuhan ran quickly to her house, opened the door, and looked back at the gate. Several beams of flashlight light were shining into the courtyard, their beams expanding infinitely.

She dashed into the room and whispered, "Auntie, something's wrong! The flashlight's at the front door! Hide quickly!"

When she entered the east room, she saw several people still standing there in a daze. Liu Shulan also stopped making cornmeal porridge in the small kitchen and stood on the wooden threshold of the east room, stunned by Yu Han's shout.

"Hey! What are you all standing there for? Don't you know the pursuers are already at the gate? Why aren't you hiding?"

Normally quite clever and skilled at carpentry, Yang Zhannan stood there, at a loss. Looking at this large group of people, where could they hide?

Suddenly, Yang Zhannan's eyes fell on two empty large yellow wooden boxes on the ground. He thought it best to hide the child inside them.

Just then, a loud woman's voice came from outside the gate: "Brother Yang Zhannan, I know your whole family is home, the lights are still on. Open the door quickly, I am the women's director of our commune's family planning office."

Then came a loud knocking on the door...

The people outside the gate anxiously watched the movement in the south wing room. Suddenly, all the incandescent lights in the east and west rooms of the south wing room went out, plunging the room into darkness.

Then, the woman shouted, "Comrade Yang Zhannan, turning off the lights won't help. I saw a group of people run into your yard. You won't be able to escape responsibility for anything that happens."

Seeing no movement from the south wing, the woman grew anxious and considered jumping over the wall.

"Director, should I jump over?" The tall assistant next to the female director said, while continuously shining a white metal flashlight into the courtyard.

"Director, I'll jump in. He's too tall to jump in easily, but I'm short and it'll be easier for Lingqiu to jump in."

"No, the Yang family made a mistake, and we cannot break the law."

As soon as the hostess finished speaking, the door opened, and a tall man named Yang Zhannan, wearing a thick black cotton-padded coat, walked out. He took a keychain and went to open the front door.

After a short while, suddenly, the two incandescent light bulbs in the east and west rooms of the south wing lit up again!

As soon as the gate opened, two men and a woman walked in, each carrying a white tin flashlight. Upon entering the yard, the three of them first shone their flashlights around for a few seconds. Seeing that the yard was large and lit, they each turned off their flashlights!

Then the woman stood still, as if she had become young again. She stared blankly at the courtyard, which seemed both familiar and strange!

The woman was taken aback when she saw the man who opened the door; what was once a green pine tree had turned into an old elm tree!

The man's once radiant, dreamy eyes have also lost their luster!

The man and the woman stood alone in their respective corners...

Just then, "clucking," an old yellow hen jumped out of a chicken coop in front of the window of the east wing and ran around everywhere. It had just laid an egg and kept squawking, trying to curry favor with its owner. Then it ran around the yard, and then the yellow hen stopped squawking and walked towards the back of the south wing.

"You think you're so great just because you laid an egg? What's with all the squawking? The owner can't hear you anyway. You're making so much noise that it's impossible to find anyone."

"Big guy, look at the eaves of Old Wang's house next door in the west courtyard. There's a big rooster with red skin and green feathers standing there. It doesn't crow; it's just staring at us blankly. The hen is more diligent; it's much better than that rooster that doesn't crow."

“You little dwarf, you don’t understand. This is called the rooster not crowing, but the hen making a racket.”

Yang Zhannan didn't notice the woman's expression. He saw that the old lady kept two yellow hens in front of her house, one fat and one thin, laying eggs. The thinner hen usually laid more eggs, jumping down from the nest with two "clucks" and that was it.

The fat hens usually lay few eggs, and then they jump off their nests and make endless "clucking" sounds to show off!

The two hens lay eggs to nourish the elderly couple. They always lay eggs when the weather is warm. Why is this fat hen suddenly laying eggs in winter?

He thought for a moment and went to the window of the east wing to see if the yellow hen was just making things up. He went to the fat hen's nest, reached in, and found a warm egg. He took it out, thinking he could give it to his mother when she woke up. Then he smiled and walked up to the three of them, saying...

“You’re right, shorty. These days, women have risen to the status of holding up half the sky. How can they not complain?” He finished speaking and glanced at the women’s director beside him, whose face had suddenly turned pale.

The women's director merely glanced at him, ignoring him, before continuing to scan the blurry courtyard with her round eyes!

Yang Yuhan, the resident of the south wing, saw this scene clearly and was quite surprised. Laying hens almost never lay eggs in the cold winter. Then she smiled, and a thought struck her. She felt the urge to urinate, so she hurriedly went out and went straight to the toilet to relieve herself.

A moment later, she came back from the toilet behind the south wing. Yu Han glanced at the old-fashioned, country bumpkin women's director out of the corner of her eye, then took the warm egg from Yang Zhannan's hand and went into the house with her face upturned.

The short guy was still annoyed by Yang Zhannan and the tall guy's earlier comment that he was short. He muttered to himself, "Height is given by your parents, and you two grew up to be big, clumsy brutes. I'm short, but all the knowledge and experience is in my short head. Your heads, you two tall guys, are full of dog shit. As the saying goes, don't hit someone in the face, don't insult someone by revealing their weaknesses. Just wait and see how I deal with you."

He needs to vent his anger, otherwise he'll get sick from holding it in. If he fights with the building manager, he'll get scolded by the manager for neglecting his duties.

He suddenly had an idea: he could vent his anger on his tall accomplice, since they had been in contact for a long time and were accomplices. As for the homeowner, he would only have this one encounter in his lifetime.

Then, suppressing his anger, he walked up to Big Guy with a smile and said, "Big Guy, look at the red-crested, green-feathered rooster on Old Wang's roof next door. It's dead. Only a dead rooster stays still and doesn't crow. It's really creepy!"

Then he made a rooster-like gesture, first covering his eyes with his two big hands, and then started jumping around in front of him!

"Cock-a-doodle-doo! I'm a red-crested, green-feathered rooster belonging to Old Wang, who lives next door in the west courtyard of the Yang family compound. Somehow, my greedy owner, Old Wang, slaughtered me for meat. And then, not content with my beautiful red and green feathers, he painstakingly sculpted me into what I am now, turning me into a rooster with the same iron body. Waaaaah, I hate Old Wang..."

Then the short man continued his performance and talked to himself, "My master, Old Wang, after I died, he turned me into a miser. He made me stand on his rooftop to be his bodyguard in both winter and summer. It's all because of his affair with Widow Li from the west end of the village."

The short man rolled his eyes and continued his spiel, "If a spy doesn't have the cunning of a fox, he can't be a good guard for his family. If his womanizing scandals are discovered by the higher-ups, he'll definitely be punished, and might even end up in jail."

The short man stared wide-eyed at the big man's boastful words, secretly laughing to himself, "So Old Wang went to great lengths to create me, shaping my nose into a hooked one, while keeping my head and body the original rooster shape and feathers. He was so ruthless that he cut off my two legs and replaced them with four fox legs. Indeed, the iron rooster he created has become even more impressive."

"One night, Old Wang and Widow Li were drawing a tractor with the same pencil in their house when suddenly two people with red armbands knocked on the door. They were so frightened that they dropped the tractor, which plunged into a ravine. Guess what happened next?"

"What can you do? It's not like a real tractor fell off. So what if those two kept drawing tractors afterward? Shorty, tell me quickly."

"You still call me shorty? Looks like I have to teach you a lesson you don't know how tough I am. I don't believe that those two young guys with red armbands were scared away by Old Wang's iron rooster, let alone you, big guy." Shorty muttered to himself.

Then he continued, "What's the point of drawing anything? The pencil fell and broke. Let's not even talk about the drawing, look at Old Wang's iron rooster—it has a chicken's body, fox's legs, and a hooked nose! Ugh, it's the embodiment of three animals! It's terrifying!"

"Ah!" The big guy slipped and fell, landing in the exact shape of a giant tortoise!

Then, the shorter man squatted down next to the taller man and whispered into his ear, "Look at our Director Wang. At first, we were frantically looking for someone outside the gate, even trying to jump in. But now that we're inside, she's not in a hurry to go in and look for someone anymore? Guess what happened?"

"What's going on?" The big guy sat up quickly, staring wide-eyed at the short guy in front of him.

"Shh, keep your voice down. I have one condition: you can't call me 'little dwarf' anymore. Also, you can't tell the director what I'm telling you."

"No."

"you swear."

"Whoever says that is a dog."

"And another thing, you're not allowed to call me 'shorty.' You swear it."

"Emma, ​​are you going to tell me or not? If you don't, I'm getting up and going inside to look for you."

"Oh my, it's like the emperor isn't worried, but the eunuchs are. I'll tell you later."

"Alright, Wu Dalang, stop pretending and stop scaring your accomplice Ximen Qing. You two are just talking nonsense. Come over here and help him up. You two go inside and search the house."

Wu Da quickly gathered up the items and pulled Xi Qing up.

Xi Qing raised his foot and kicked Wu Da hard in the butt! Wu Da chuckled at him!

Then the two of them dropped their fake smiles and started to act like bullies!

Just as the two henchmen reached the door of the south wing, Wu Da called out to Xi Qing, who was walking ahead of him, and whispered, "Let me tell you, the director probably saw the rooster that doesn't crow on the roof of Old Wang's house next door when he came in. It must have captivated his soul, otherwise why would he be in such a hurry to find someone!"

"Hey shorty, don't talk bad about the director. Believe me or not, I'll betray you."

"Fine, big guy, you're something else. Then do you dare to even glance at that miser?"

"Don't even mention looking once, I'd look a hundred times, what can you do to me if I do look?"

"You're rushing me. What if you finish reading this and your soul gets stolen by that penny-pincher?"

"Give me a break. You think I'd be lured away by the soul of a miser of the same gender? It's more like a miser luring away a woman."

"Big guy, you're right too."

"Emma, ​​shorty. You mean the director only just remembered to let us come inside to find someone? He must have been completely bewitched by Old Wang's stinginess."

The two looked over at the same time, "Oh my god, that's terrifying! Why does this miser have a hook on his nose? No wonder he can hook women!"

The shorter man kicked him hard.

Why did you kick me?

"You called me shorty."

Startled, the two henchmen quickly entered the brightly lit south wing room, nearly bumping into Yang Yuhan and calling for Yang Zhannan to come inside.

Yang Yuhan looked up sharply and saw the iron rooster on Old Wang's roof. In an instant, the iron rooster transformed into a chicken-fox in front of her.

She immediately realized that it was this person who had come out to stir up trouble, and that with her current skills, she did not have the ability to subdue her.

To outsiders, the iron rooster still appears as a static red jar with green feathers, a decoration that Old Wang next door has used for many years to ward off evil spirits and protect the house.

As for the iron rooster with a red can and green feathers that fits the body of the three animals—chicken, eagle, and fox—that the big guy mentioned, only Yang Yuhan, who has been reborn, can see it.

The big guy was just making up a little story!

Yu Han stood at the door for a while, deciding to ignore her father's gaze. Her father's nose wasn't hooked; if it could hook anyone, well, that was just like "Jiang Ziya fishing—those who are willing will take the bait!"

She turned around and strode angrily into the east room!