I chuckled and said, "Actually, it's nothing big. I just want to visit a friend in your dog-forsaken village and chat with him about something."

"You're going to find someone who's really your friend?" Hei Ge squinted at me, strongly doubting my words.

"Well, I've always been good at making friends. Even if we're not friends now, we will be once we meet. Anyway, we'll be friends sooner or later. You don't expect me to tell you I'm going to see a stranger, do you?" I continued to argue nonsensically.

The black dogs immediately cleared a path for me when they heard I was going into the village, wagging their tails and bowing and scraping.

This infuriated Hei Ge, and he kicked out with his foot, knocking over several black dogs that were close to him.

But I had promised them a hundred *jin* (approximately 110 pounds) of raw meat. For these creatures who only remembered food and not beatings, a few kicks were nothing as long as there was raw meat. They continued to wag their tails and fawn over me, afraid I would change my mind if I was unhappy.

Hei Ge shouted for a long time, but the dogs wouldn't listen to him. Helpless, Hei Ge had to give up.

Actually, it wasn't that these black dogs didn't really listen to Hei Ge. These big dogs had been following Hei Ge for a long time, and they were very intelligent and understood Hei Ge very well. Although Hei Ge and I had been arguing at the entrance of the village, and they hadn't seen me much before, they could still tell from Hei Ge's behavior that I wasn't Hei Ge's enemy, just friends teasing each other.

If an enemy who would really threaten Dog Village and Hei Ge came, not to mention a hundred *jin* of raw meat, even if they were promised raw meat for the rest of their lives, they wouldn't let them into the village.

"Get lost, get lost, get lost. Go find your friend yourself. Don't even think about me telling you where they live."

I immediately smiled again and said with a rogueish look, "Of course, Hei Ge definitely won't tell me where that little ghost lives. Hei Ge will personally take me to see that little ghost."

"Bah! Me personally take you? Why should I? What's in it for me?"

"There are naturally benefits. That beautiful dream of yours, don't you want it to come true?"

"What beautiful dream?"

"What beautiful dream are you talking about? The one you just mentioned, the one about who you dreamed of?"

Hei Ge's eyes immediately lit up. "The Peach Blossom girl from Hong Yuan, ah. What, you know the Peach Blossom girl well? Can you help me get her out?"

"No, no, no, I'm not familiar with her. I can't help you get her out, but the matter I'm investigating this time may be related to the Peach Blossom girl, and may even be able to help the Peach Blossom girl."

"You help me, and I'll help the Peach Blossom girl. That means you're indirectly helping the Peach Blossom girl. I have no designs on the Peach Blossom girl, so when the matter is over and the Peach Blossom girl wants to thank me, I will naturally introduce you to her seriously and tell her that all the credit is yours. If it weren't for your sake, I definitely wouldn't care about her business. Let her thank you properly. What do you think?"

"Is the Peach Blossom girl in trouble?" Hei Ge immediately became nervous.

Hei Ge may not have even seen the Peach Blossom girl in person, and the Peach Blossom girl doesn't know that Hei Ge exists, but Hei Ge is so concerned about Peach Blossom, thinking that Peach Blossom is more important than anything else. Alas, what can I say?

"Don't you know what Hong Yuan is like? That place, if you say it's heaven, it's heaven, but if you say it's hell, it really is hell. The Peach Blossom girl is in such a mixed-up place every day. Do you think she won't have any trouble?"

Hei Ge gritted his teeth and said, "Okay, I'll take you to see whichever little ghost you want to see right now. But you must help her solve the Peach Blossom girl's problem, and all the credit must go to me. You can't have any designs on Peach Blossom."

"These past few days, I've been watching Peach Blossom's live broadcast, and I always feel like her complexion is a bit bad. Although her makeup is very beautiful, and she's using beauty filters, she still can't hide the strange look on her face. I was originally planning to find you in a few days and have you take a look at Peach Blossom, but you came today."

"So, that's it. I'm counting on you for Peach Blossom's matter."

"No problem."

I wasn't lying to Hei Ge. This matter really had something to do with the Peach Blossom girl. When I was using the human skin to divine and fighting with the creator of the human skin, images of Peach Blossom appeared in my mind several times. These images definitely didn't appear out of thin air, but because I was calculating the experience of the human skin, those images appeared.

However, I only wanted to catch the ghost who was fighting with me at the time, so I didn't pay much attention to the Peach Blossom girl.

Since Hei Ge is so infatuated with Peach Blossom, if I can help Peach Blossom, I will definitely help her.

I told Hei Ge about the little ghost I was looking for: big eyes, a round face, white skin, two braided pigtails, each with a white flower, and possibly often carrying a piece of human skin.

Hei Ge immediately understood who I was looking for and frowned, saying, "What are you looking for her for? This little ghost isn't very easy to communicate with. Although I'm her landlord, she doesn't give me much face."

I said, "It's good that she has a bad temper. That means I haven't found the wrong person. Just take me to see her. As for how to communicate with her, that's my business."

Hei Ge didn't dawdle any more. He gave the black dogs a few more instructions and led me into the village.

This village has been abandoned for many years, but the ruins of the village are still there, and the cemetery behind the village is still there. Although in the eyes of the living, this village is overgrown with weeds and dilapidated, in the eyes of ghosts, it is a rare place to live.

It is said that looking at the village with ghost eyes is different from looking at the village with human eyes. In the eyes of ghosts, this village is still the prosperous village of the past, with the poor people's low thatched houses and the landlords' high-walled courtyards. They can even see high-end redwood furniture from the dust and cobwebs.

I haven't been a ghost, so I don't know how they see the scene before it was abandoned, but all the ghosts say so, so it should be right.

It is said that living people who are bewitched by foxes in the middle of the night and follow the foxes up the mountain will also see abandoned houses as wealthy families, but I am a person with Daoist abilities, and ordinary foxes can't bewitch me, so I have never had the opportunity to visit that beautiful house.

Thinking about it, it's quite a pity.

I'm getting a little off topic. I followed Hei Ge into the village and walked along a small path full of weeds to a half-collapsed dilapidated house.

The dilapidated house was a mixed structure of bricks and adobe. The outermost layer of the wall was brick, and the inside was adobe. Looking at it now, it is dilapidated, but in the past, such a house could only be afforded by a well-off family. It was an above-average residence in this village.

Hei Ge patted me and said, "It's here. You talk to her yourself. I'll go out and wait for you."

"Okay."

I glanced at the half of the broken door that had fallen into the weeds and knocked a few times symbolically.