Resting in a big room in the backyard lit two low stoves that burned silver frost and carbon, and the room also took the bluestone plastering seams to spell out a large dry pond half a person high, one zhang wide and narrow, and the pond was carefully padded with two percent of hay, three percent of fine sand, and fifty percent of dry loess mixed with the nest soil, and nine steel needle rats with a body the size of a palm and a tail of only two inches long only saw a vole that had just been thrown into the dry pool, and immediately pounced on it like a swarm. In three or two clicks, the vole that had not yet figured out the southeast and northwest was torn into a pile of scattered flesh.

Holding a purple clay pot that was obviously old, the cat standing next to the dry pond squinted at the nine steel needle rats that devoured the flesh and blood of voles, and muttered in a low voice very complacently: "Okay, my cubs, I have spent a lot of thought, effort, and burned a lot of silver to serve you." When I have to let you see the real chapter, you must not be cowardly! ”

Very funny, the short-eyed steward smiled and came to the side of the cat master, and handed a cigarette roll inserted in the jade cigarette holder to the cat master: "Master, with these few things you have trained, it is estimated that Sijiu City is also the number one in the outstanding." As long as it is an object that the master sees, these few things can be designated to be brought to the master. When the time comes, wrap 100,000 yuan around your waist and ride a crane down to Yangzhou, you will be able to live a fairy-like life every day in the second half of your life! ”

After pinching the jade cigarette holder that was more than a palm long, the cat took a puff of cigarette rolls, turned his head and puffed on the steward who came to his side: "Sensei is here to fool me with nice words!" That thing today, let it out? ”

Nodding his head busily, the steward reached out and took out a palm-sized notebook from his arms, and opened the account book with a little spit on his fingers: "Master, I can remember all the pens on this account, and I can't make a mistake in keeping the slightest bit!" In just one month's work, a total of twenty-eight things were released. Before they were released, they were all fed slow medicine to the things, and they could survive for two days if they died. It will definitely not mess with the regulations set by the master! ”

Shaking the small purple sand teapot in his hand noncommittally, the cat looked at a few steel needle rats in the dry pond that had eaten up the flesh and blood of the vole, but still stretched out their noses and sniffed around, casually put the jade cigarette holder towards the dry pool, reached out and grabbed a bamboo clip from the rat cage next to the dry pond and took out a fat vole, raised his hand again and threw it into the dry pond.

Seeing the fierce appearance of the nine steel needle rats that swarmed on the vole and bit it again, the cat snorted in a low voice: "Start with Ming'er, let me out." Let's just say I have nine things in my hands that have been trained to do the whole job. One player in the city of forty-nine counts one, regardless of the scene, only the one with the highest price wins! Before the twenty-eighth day of the lunar month, these nine things must be released! ”

The steward who stared at a pair of tiny mung bean eyes the size of chestnuts and had short eyebrows and thin eyes exclaimed in surprise: "Master, are you teasing me?" That's it, just these nine things. But you really spent a lot of time and a lot of money to train it out, and just took it out and gave it to others, and this transaction is really a big loss! ”

With squinting eyes, the cat looked at the steward with a surprised look on his face: "Do you think that the master can do a loss-making business?" ”

Blinking a pair of mung bean eyes, the steward pondered for a long time before shaking his head and saying to the cat master: "Master, there is an old saying in these four or nine cities - the money in the cellar is not money, and the water will flow for thousands of years!" Just these nine things you tuned. If you don't say anything, you can summon two years of effort, and the valuable things you can get are also indispensable. But if you just sell it like that, it's a one-shot deal, and even if you can earn a few back, it's really not much? Besides, just those people in Sijiu City who came to our house to wait in front of the house to pick up the broken reminders of the foreign Luo'er, and how many of them can you do after cleaning your waist! ”

Mei Zizi took a sip of warm tea from the small teapot of purple sand, and the cat slowly paced around the dry pool: "Just look at your little eyesight." In this life, you can be a broken reminder to listen to and drink! I'm not afraid to tell you clearly, the things that the master is really waiting for in his hand will be a must if they are left in Sijiu City! As far as the nine things in front of you are stacked, they are not enough for the thing that the master is waiting for! Ma Yu'er, do what the master tells you to do. When this thing is done, I can't treat you badly! ”

With a look of sudden realization, the short-eyed steward smiled and bowed at the cat master: "Dare to love the master and have another charter in his heart?" It's so troublesome that I'm still thinking about it here, don't worry. I'm going to find someone to release the words, and I can't keep the master's business! ”

Sneered and lit a jade cigarette holder on his chest, and the cat smiled at the steward with a somewhat mocking look: "In the past twenty days, there are a lot of bits and pieces on you?" What's the matter. The door bun and several times of secret door serving, is it quite moist? ”

flatteringly slapped the cat master, and the short-eyed steward replied with a smile: "Doesn't this have to be rewarded by the master's hand?" Without the things under the master's reward, I am just a broken reminder that catches seven in Sijiu City, who has ever looked at me with the right eyes? Don't worry, I know what to do."

Waving his hand to let the steward exit the house, the cat listened attentively to the steward's footsteps and walked away, then put down the small purple sand teapot and jade cigarette holder in his hand, straightened his arm and shook his sleeves slightly, raised his head to the roof and whispered: "My baby, come out for a walk?!" ”

With the soft shouting of the cat, a golden honey dog (Note 1) jumped down from the beam of the house and landed lightly on the cat's gently shaking arm. Maybe it was because I saw the nine fierce and abnormal steel needle rats in the dry pool, the golden honey dog was covered in fine hair, and a big tail curled up violently, and quickly put on a hunting posture!

Shaking his head slightly, the cat screamed loudly and drank the honey dog that was about to pounce: "My baby, these little cubs are still useful, you can't be greedy!" If you're really hungry, you'll have enough to eat here! Come and walk your legs and activities with these little cubs! ”

Shaking his hand and putting the golden honey dog into the dry pool, the cat looked at the honey dog three or two times and pressed a steel needle rat, but he snorted violently and threw the steel needle mouse far away, and couldn't help laughing: "My baby, I told you that these little cubs can't touch it, you still don't listen!" After suffering so much, it's time to have a longer memory, right? ”

Talking on the lips. The cat's hands are not idle. Feeling out a porcelain vase the size of a walnut from his arms, the cat reached out with a bamboo clip to clip out the voles in the mouse cage one by one, and poured a little of the viscous juice contained in the small porcelain bottle, exuding a faint floral fragrance, on those voles, but threw the voles with the sticky juice on their feet casually.

Suddenly freed, those voles with sticky juice on their bodies naturally scurried around and fled. By the time the cat threw the last vole in the rat cage to the ground, the other voles had already scurried to all corners of the house, screaming and screaming everywhere looking for a place to escape or hide.

He put the small porcelain vase back into his arms. The cat pat lightly on the edge of the dry pond, and whispered in his mouth: "Baby, eat!" ”

As if he could understand the cat's shouting, the honey dog that was still chasing those steel needle rats suddenly jumped over, and easily escaped from the half-human high dry pool.

Under the bright light, the honey dog with golden fur was like a yellow lightning. Quickly shuttle back and forth through the house. With the constant screaming of voles all over the house, it was just a bowl of tea, and the honey dog with golden fur had already bitten all the voles scattered around the house, and then put all the vole carcasses at the cat's feet.

Looking at the honey dog at his feet with round eyes and slightly wagging his tail waiting for his dispatch with satisfaction, the cat reached out and pointed to the vole carcasses piled up at his feet, and laughed in a low voice: "This job is still beautiful today, let's eat it!" Wait for the twenty-eighth day of the lunar month. I'm counting on you."

Before the words fell, the honey dog who was standing at the cat's feet suddenly pricked up his ears, raised his head and squeaked at the roof, and the golden hair on his body was once again open!

With a flicker of his eyes, the cat suddenly touched the two small handfuls pinned to his waist with both hands, and his eyes looked straight towards the roof. But before the cat could see what was wrong with the roof, with a rat scream, a house mouse the size of a walnut fell straight down from the roof. It just happened to fall on the shoulder of the cat master!

The little house mouse that fell from the roof was startled, and the cat subconsciously jumped two steps to the side, raised his foot and stepped on the little house mouse that fell off the roof. But the rat elf, even if it falls from a three- or four-story building, most of them can be safe and sound, and before the cat's feet fall, the little house mouse has already turned around and rushed towards the corner of the house.

As soon as he stepped into the air, the cat suddenly stumbled. I hung my head and pestle into the dry pond in the middle of the house. Forcibly enduring the pain in his feet and neck, the cat pursed his lips and whistled fiercely, and then pointed at the little house mouse that had escaped: "Baby, bring me back!" ”

Where the voice fell. The honey dog, who had already put on a hunting posture, suddenly pounced out, and bit the little house mouse in his mouth and rushed back to the cat, and then gently threw the little house mouse that had been bitten off the bone to the cat's feet.

As if to vent his anger, the cat took out the small porcelain bottle from his arms, and poured the viscous juice in the bottle on the little house mouse that was struggling with his legs and feet: "Baby, swallow it for me!" (To be continued.) )

PS: Note 1: (Honey dog, scientific name is Yellow-throated Marten.) Miscellaneous food, especially like to eat honey, hence the name honey dog. Alert, ferocious, and even able to hunt small wild boars, and good at climbing, ordinary traps are almost ineffective against yellow-throated martens. ）