Chapter 23: Candle Tears (1)
"Anyway, a thousand years ago, there was once a race called the Jade Shark Clan in the southeast coastal waters, which was a branch of the Deep Sea Shark Race. However, the shark people in the deep sea are fierce by nature and good at fighting, while the jade shark people ......"
Shengjing City is the capital of the royal family of the Western Chu Gu clan today, which is extremely brilliant, and there are countless carved beams and painted buildings.
In these years, Xichu has had neither internal nor external troubles, the wind and rain have been smooth every year, the people have lived well, and the treasury is quite abundant. Compared with the Jiang Guofu clan's royal family, which has to have a headache for the country's livelihood every year, the scene of the country's peace and security in Western Chu has saved the Gu clan a lot of effort.
It is precisely for this reason that the people in Shengjing City and their enjoyment of life, the West Chu Capital City once became a good place to visit. The city has a complete range of clothing, food, housing, transportation and entertainment, with a clothing shop in ten steps, a food shop in five steps, and a teahouse in each street.
The Chang'an Teahouse on Chang'an Street is one of the best in the entire Shengjing City, not only the name is very arrogant, but the food inside is even more delicacies in the world. There are countless theories about it, the most reliable legend is that the master of the palace dining room opened this shop after leaving the palace, and the most unreliable legend is that this shop was opened by a goblin, in order to break into the world to kill people and sell more goods, all kinds of strange legends are mixed together to make Chang'an teahouse more and more mysterious, often difficult to find.
"Stay fine, don't disturb me listening to the book." There was a soft scolding from a woman in the private room on the second floor of the teahouse, and the tone of the words didn't sound angry, mainly irritable.
"Flutter again, believe it or not I'm turning you from coal to cinder?"
The woman wore a pale green skirt, the skirt was embroidered with a few green branches, and the cuffs were auspicious cloud patterns made of gold threads. The head is wrapped in a very popular oblique cloud bun, there is no gorgeous hairpin ring embellishment, only a peach wood hairpin is inserted on the head at will, and the pearls on the hairpin swing back and forth with the woman's movements.
Looking at the cat in front of her, the woman is very angry, this cat doesn't look good, forget it, why is it still so noisy, I didn't pick it up if I knew it.
The cat felt that he was pinched by the back of his neck, and suddenly did not dare to move. He could only open a pair of innocent big eyes and scream weakly, trying to extinguish the burning anger in the eyes in front of him. It's a pity that this practice is useless to the naked eye, and the anger has the potential to burn the prairie fire.
The cat continued to struggle, and a mist appeared in its big watery bright yellow eyes: Sister, I don't want to turn into cinders.
Mu Yi sighed and said helplessly: "Then don't make trouble." He put the black cat on the table, touched its head symbolically, and continued to listen attentively.
The cat was picked up at the foot of the Tianshan Mountains when Mu Yi left the Tian Shan Mountain, when it was hiding under the leaves and shivering, Mu Yi heard its weak cry for help, and found a branch and picked up the leaves to find a lump of kittens.
The kitten probably fell behind when his family migrated, and has been curled up under this pile of leaves ever since. Mu Yi took the kitten in the woods until it was dark and did not wait for its parents, probably because they didn't find out that their son had lost one. In the end, he couldn't, so Mu Yi could only leave the Tianshan Mountains with the kitten.
When I first picked it up, the kitten happened to grow on the blind spot of the aesthetic area of the cocoon, and various colors were mixed together to form a pair of skins that looked like cinders. Mu Yi had seen a tortoiseshell cat in Cloud City before, and now this cat was more tortoiseshell than a tortoiseshell cat. Ben began to hold whether it was too dirty to cover the original coat color, Mu Yi bathed it three times a day in the morning, noon and evening. After washing it for a few months, I found that it was this color, and I almost washed it out of hydrophobia.
Two years have passed in the blink of an eye, and the kitten has gradually grown up, and the original tortoiseshell-colored fur has gradually disappeared, turning into a veritable black cat.
And after two years of being called cinders, it finally got its name and recently changed its name to coal, and although the new name is not easy to hear, it is still happy.
The storyteller on the stage was still dancing excitedly while chanting words in his mouth, and Mu Yi's thoughts didn't know where to go. After the Tianshan Mountains, she has been traveling in the world for two years. In the past two years, I have also visited many places, but there are no new discoveries. I thought that Shengjing was the capital of the Yue Kingdom thousands of years ago, and I came here to try my luck, maybe I could find something. As a result, I stayed for a few months, and I didn't find anything except the useless official history and wild history legends of Mr. Storyteller.
Mu Yi got up and patted the black cat's head and said, "Let's go, I heard this story yesterday." Then without waiting for the black cat to respond, he picked it up, and wiped the pastry residue on the beard at the corner of its mouth while being very disgusted: "I told you to eat less of these things, but I didn't listen, if you get fat again, go by yourself, I can't hold you." ”
The black cat froze for a moment, and then grabbed Mu Yi's collar and didn't let go: No, I'll lose weight right away.
A person and a cat walked out of the Chang'an teahouse, Mu Yi looked up at the sky, the sun was gradually going up, and the sun was becoming more and more dazzling.
Perhaps, I should go somewhere else.
Suddenly, the people in the streets began to be noisy, and they were all rushing to one place. It took a lot of effort for Mu Yi to see a few officers and soldiers in the center of the crowd posting notices on the wall, and after pasting them, he quickly left and moved on to the next place.
Mu Yi stood on the periphery of the crowd with the black cat in his arms, a little curious about what the notice said, why these people were so excited. Stretched out his hand to stop a woman who was rushing out from the center of the crowd and asked, "Auntie, what does this notice say?" ”
The corners of the woman's smiling mouth were almost to her ears, her face was full of folds, and after being pulled, she looked Mu Yi up and down, and finally said earnestly: "The new emperor will ascend the throne in the general election, regardless of origin, all women of appropriate age can participate." Girl, I see that you look very good, this is a good opportunity to change your fate, if you become a mother, it is a phoenix that flies on the branches. Don't say that the eldest lady won't tell you, before the fifteenth of this month, anyone who signs up at the government can participate in the general election. ”
After saying this, the woman hurried away without waiting for a response, and seeing her cheerful appearance, Mu Yi felt that there might be many daughters in her family.
"Fly on the branches and become a phoenix?" Mu Yi repeated the woman's words in a low voice, and suddenly felt goosebumps fall to the ground. If she really dared to fly on the branch and become a phoenix, it would be strange that she would not be beaten to death by the master.
The black cat in his arms raised his head and looked at Mu Yi, a little puzzled: Why was he killed?
"Because the phoenix doesn't belong to the underworld." Mu Yi took the coal and grabbed the paws of his clothes, walked through the crowded and lively crowd, and walked to the inn where he had settled not far away. While putting the black cat on his shoulder, he patted the cat hair on his arm, and sighed in his mouth: "He's going to be drafted, let's go and see it tonight, it's an old man, so I still have to care about it." ”