Chapter 45: Leaving the King
The black cat wanted to play a good trick on this fool who came to the door on a whim.
He hugged the scholar's leg and cried so hard that his snot and saliva were stained on the scholar's pants.
"Uncle, you can do well, and reward a few more small dollars, the leprosy on the small head is too painful. ”
"Jingle bell, jingle bell, jingle bell......" The sound of the broken silver falling into the bowl was extremely crisp, and rarely, the scholar did not kick him away,
Instead, he patted him lightly on the shoulder and said, "Although these coins are not much, it is enough to go to the hospital to see a doctor and get medicine, so brother Tai can do it himself." ”
The voice is gentle and clean, the black cat almost doesn't believe his ears, is there really such a stupid person in this world?
"Thank you, uncle, thank you, uncle," he kowtowed to the scholar, and said pitifully: "Pity me for my inconvenient legs and feet, and please ask the uncle to send me to the hospital?"
"Don't cry, there's a medical hall in front of you, I'll send you there" The scholar lifted him up from the ground, half leaned on himself, and helped him step by step towards the medical hall.
After passing by a steamed bun shop, "I haven't touched the water and rice for three days, and I am very hungry in my stomach, and I ...... woo", he was about to die of laughter in his heart, but his face was crying very pitifully.
The scholar sighed and said, "Poor," and took the last bit of copper money left to buy him three steamed buns, which were filled with green onions and meat, and he still remembers the taste to this day.
After the scholar helped him to the infirmary to buy medicine for him and left, he lay on the ground and rolled around laughing, laughing until his stomach hurt, and he couldn't stop at all.
But after laughing he felt a deep curiosity, and he made a decision that he was going to follow this fool,
See why he's so stupid.
So he turned back into a black cat and followed him, through the streets, through the villages, to his home.
His home is really ordinary, at first glance it is a poor house, and several side rooms are also low and dilapidated, but the inside is quite tidy.
"Li'er, how is it today, have you bought rice?" asked an old woman.
"Mother, some calligraphy and paintings were sold today, but when I met a person, I was hungry and sick, which was really pitiful, so Jun Li gave him all the money he sold. "Oh, it turns out that this fool's name is Jun Li.
"Amitabha" The old woman clasped her hands together and said: "My son is compassionate, helping others is helping himself, my mother is very pleased." ”
Oh, it turns out that stupidity is inherited, and it is not surprising that there is such a stupid girl and such a stupid son.
"Where did the black cat come from, it's so beautiful" Jun Li picked up the black cat, the soft palm brushed over it, it closed its eyes with enjoyment, and made a "purring" sound, since it became a demon, no one has ever hugged it like this, stroked it, it trembled comfortably.
"Mother, will we keep this cat?"
The old woman nodded, "It's not bad to have multiple cats to accompany you." ”
The black cat didn't believe its ears, this stupid boy actually wanted to raise it, looking at the black-faced steamed buns on the table and the porridge that was so rare that even a human figure could see it, it was deflated, and even he couldn't even feed himself, and he still had a cat.
But thinking of that warm embrace, the black cat thought: "If you come, you will be safe", and it is better to follow this fool than to be bored.
Since then, Jun Li has gone to the stream every afternoon to fish, and the small fish he caught are used to feed the cats, and in the evening he reads and writes and paints, and the next morning he sells them in the market.
The cat has been a cat for a long time, and he misses the benefits of being a man, so every day after Jun leaves home, the black cat turns into a person in the market and watches him from afar, and goes back before he goes home, anyway, a cat does not have to stay at home every day.
One day, he turned himself into a personable scholar, and he went to his stall to buy calligraphy and paintings, and he could also paint on the spot, and King's Landing made a painting for him, and he looked like he was a jade in the painting, and even the jade pendant on his waist was painted in detail, and King's Landing wanted to inscribe on it: "Brother Tai Ya No.?"
"Yu Lang", he likes to eat fish, he can't call himself "Yu Lang", so he gave himself a name that he thought was elegant - "Yu Lang", since then, he often went to Jun Li to buy some calligraphy and paintings, deliberately gave him some money, and over time also talked with him about some poems and songs, these are not difficult for him, after all, every night listening to Jun Li's poems and poems can afford to listen to the cocoon,
The two showed some sympathy for each other.
"Brother Yu, tomorrow you will leave the capital to catch the exam, farewell today, and discuss with Brother Yu next year. ”
What? This fool has to leave for so long, and Yu Lang is obviously a little reluctant in his heart.
For more than a year, he has long been accustomed to this kind of life, reciting poems with him during the day, and writing and painting with him at night.
Enjoy his warm embrace again, he is gone, all this will no longer exist, Yu Lang actually has a little melancholy in his heart.
He untied the jade pendant on his waist and said: "Yu Lang has nothing else, only this jade pendant, given to Jun Li's brother, I wish you a safe and smooth trip, the title of the gold list!"
"Thank you, Brother Yu, Jun Li has something to ask for, Jun has been away for a long time, and the old mother at home has no one to take care of, Jun Li has the courage to beg Brother Yu to take care of him. ”
Yu Lang said: "You can leave my brother and go at ease, Yu Lang will do his best." ”
Jun Li gave him a deep look, and there were tears flashing in his eyes: "Jun Li has long regarded Brother Yu as a confidant, Brother Yu is very gracious, and Jun Li will repay it!"
"Alas, if it weren't for that catastrophe, if it weren't for that jade pendant," the black cat muttered to himself: "You won't be ...... if you leave him"
"Heavenly Tribulation?!" made Hu Qing's heart startled, the demon must suffer a heavenly tribulation every 500 years, the last heavenly tribulation was successfully passed thanks to the kind fairy brother who protected her in his arms, when is the next heavenly tribulation without warning at all, this kind of unresolved matter is the most disturbing mood.
"Yes, many things in the world are such coincidences, and on the night I said goodbye to you, a once-in-500-year catastrophe befell me" The black cat's eyes were filled with deep fear.
Its eyes narrowed, and even its eyeballs shrank a few points, "Over the years, I haven't experienced calamities, but this tribulation is more ferocious than any time, I was struck by thunder, seven of the nine tails were burned, and only three souls and three souls of the seven souls and six spirits remained, not to mention the transformation into a human, and even being a cat was extremely miserable, and I had to raise it for half a year to run and jump freely." ”
The black cat pointed at himself self-deprecatingly: "It has become the decay you see now, the mana is gone, and it is a miracle to be able to speak." ”
"Actually, it doesn't seem to be useful if you don't speak," Murong Feng quipped: "Who is a cat talking to?"
"yes, no one will ever listen to a tree," the black cat replied.
Ah Ye didn't seem to know what kind of dumb riddle these two were playing, he was still more interested in the story told by the black cat, and couldn't help asking, "What about later?"
"Later, I was supposed to escort Junli to Kyoto safely, but when I recovered, I asked for news of him."
When the black cat said this, his whole body trembled, and tears poured out of his dark eyes, "Jun leaves him...... He...... It's already ......" the black cat wrinkled its nose and rubbed its eyes with its paws,
"I've been harmed by Monk Zhihai, right?" Ling Huqing asked softly, sometimes it is a virtue to help others say the most cruel things.
The black cat glanced at her gratefully and said: "That Zhihai monk was originally a bandit, specializing in robbing passers-by, and later came to the Panruo Temple and became a monk, all blame me, if I didn't give him that jade pendant, Zhihai would not have seen the intention of wealth and murdered him" The black cat took a long breath after speaking.
Ah Ye asked suspiciously, "How do you know that Zhihai is the murderer?"
"Because just half a year ago, Jun Li and I met again, of course, it was his soul. ”
The black cat recalled: "That night, his soul returned to his bedroom, it is said that the soul can only float ten zhang a day, and Kyoto is thousands of miles away from here, I don't know how he came back here, I can only listen quietly to him talk about the appearance of the person who harmed him, watching him float around the house, lying on his mother's body and crying, listening to him say: 'Mother, in four months, I will be reborn in Chenjia Village again, I will definitely come to see you again' After saying that, he disappeared, and I have never seen him again."
Murong Feng asked, "Why don't you go directly to the Prajna Temple to take Zhihai's life?"
"Because, my mana is low now, and there are many gods and Buddhas in the temple, how can I be allowed to do evil there."
"So after Zhihai left the Hibiscus restaurant that day, you caused him to be killed here?"
The black cat nodded, his eyes lonely, "Although I let Na Zhihai pay for the blood debt, but I broke my promise to Jun Li after all,
failed to take care of his mother for him, but what could a cat that had lost its mana do?
Even though I sent her some rice, noodles, vegetables and vegetables every day, I could only watch her become ill because of missing you, and she couldn't afford to get sick. ”
Ah Ye cried: "It's so touching, people and demons can also have such a confidant!"
Murong Feng's eyes were also a little red, maybe he remembered someone, but this person could never appear again, and it had been a full thousand years since the last time he cried for this.
Ling Huqing looked at these two big men so sad, and couldn't help but question whether she was too cold-blooded, why she didn't feel it at all.
"I've been waiting for him here, and I'm going to be with him all the time when he's born," the black cat's eyes flashed with hope, "and I'll be able to see him soon."
"Immediately, you mean that Jun Li will be born in Ah Xiu's family?" made Hu Qing a little surprised.
"Yin Shi is the time when Jun Li was born," the black cat affirmed, "and the woman who is about to give birth in the entire Chenjia Village is only Ah Xiu,
But how do you know that?"
"Dead cat, don't worry about how we found out, I'll tell you now, Jun Li is in danger, big danger" Murong Feng said anxiously.
The black cat said firmly: "No matter what, I will never let Jun Li suffer any danger again." ”
"At this point, we are very consistent" Ling Huqing pondered for a moment, and then said, "Yulang, have you noticed anything abnormal recently?"
"No" The black cat shook his head and said, "I have to go to Ah Xiu's house almost every day to check on it, and there is nothing wrong with it." ”
The black cat's ears suddenly stood up in alarm, and it threw its head on the ground and said, "Someone is here at the entrance of the village again!"
"Hurry, it's too late!"
Ling Huqing and Murong Feng blurted out almost at the same time, and it was about to be the end of the day, the black cat jumped up, turned his head and said anxiously: "You guys hurry up and keep up!"