The Skin of a Century Egg

The stall owner gave Liu Chang'an a box lined with shredded paper for the duck eggs, then drilled holes in the four corners and threaded rope through them so he could carry it. He cracked some of the duck eggs Liu Chang'an had picked into a vegetable bowl. The yolks had broken up a little, but they would still be fine for stir-fried duck eggs with chilies. Liu Chang'an paid, carried off the duck eggs, then bought some quicklime and soda ash from a grocery stall in the market before heading back.

Li Hongfang still followed behind him without saying a word.

Sensing the silence behind him, Liu Chang'an looked back at Li Hongfang midway there.

Li Hongfang pointed to her tightly pursed lips, indicating that she had been following Liu Chang'an's order to "shut up." Since he had told her not to speak, she obediently had not said a single word.

"Go on, then. What information did you make up?" Liu Chang'an nodded. She really was obedient. If only Zhu Juntang were as obedient as Li Hongfang, he would definitely make Zhu Juntang study eighteen hours a day.

Liu Chang'an suspected that if he really made Zhu Juntang study eighteen hours every day, she would rather kill herself, become dead Mie Mie, and be turned into all sorts of mutton products than accept it.

"I made up... no, I discovered some information." Li Hongfang hurriedly moved closer to match Liu Chang'an's pace. "Last night, when I went back to get the box to pack up the water monkey's bones, I saw a woman in white standing beside that pile of bones."

"Mm, so both the male and female leads appeared in the action video you filmed." He wondered whether that woman had been a water monkey too... If they