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"Lady, where did this black cat come from?" In a simple farmhouse, a man who had just returned from work in the field shouted to a woman who was drying her clothes in the farmhouse.

The woman's hand was drying clothes, and she replied casually: "Where is there a black cat, isn't it that you are dazzled?" I guess you're hungry, so I'm going to get you something to eat. The woman neatly put the clothes in her hand on the bamboo pole, then turned around and walked towards the small kitchen at home. He had just taken two steps when he suddenly stopped. She looked at the man at the door and asked in a low voice, "Look again, are you sure it's a black cat?" ”

The man obediently looked at it again, rubbed his eyes with his hand several times, and then looked at it again, and then he said to the woman of the house, "What a black cat, very beautiful, and its eyes are as bright as the stars in the sky." Come and see. ”

When the woman heard this, she hurriedly ran over to see that it was really the black cat, the black cat that had grown up with the young master. She ran over and took the cat in her arms, tears streaming uncontrollably.

The black cat is Jiu'er, after she found a piece of land behind the broken temple and buried Liu Ping'an, she packed up her mood and returned to the town, wanting to investigate what happened to the Liu family and how it became like this. After several turnovers, she asked her to inquire about the whereabouts of a maid who used to be an errand in Liu Ping'an's yard. The previous servants of the Liu family were scattered, and the rest had been bought by the new Master Liu, and finally it was difficult to find out that this maid was married into this farmer's family. She had no choice but to change her old self and wait to be found by the girl ring and picked up home.

"Xianggong, I recognize this cat, it is the young master's favorite kitten, let's take it."

"But, lady, we can't eat enough ourselves, how can we afford to raise cats. I think it's better to send it away, follow us, I'm afraid I'll starve it to death." ”

"Xianggong, I'm ...... Alas, the prime minister is right. We still have to raise our son, and we really can't afford to raise him, so I'll give it this meal and send it away later. ”

"This, this is okay. Then you go and see what you have to eat, and get some here. The man was already a little impatient, waved his hand and never looked at the black cat again, put the farm tools in his hand and walked to the small room. The tall man filled the room to the brim, and as soon as he looked up and stretched out his hand, he almost touched the room. This house is really pitifully small.

The woman touched the black cat in her arms with pity, sighed softly, and said faintly: "It's not that I'm ruthless, I really can't afford to feed another cat." Now the income of a year is not as much as the income of a month in Master Liu's place, alas, poor master. Hmph, if it weren't for the hateful Liu Xi, the Liu family wouldn't have become like this, and I wouldn't have married this poor ghost and suffered a lifetime of sin. I've suffered you, I followed the young master before, when did I suffer like this. I don't know how the young master is doing now, alas! You're hungry, I can only take care of you for one meal, and then you can look for food somewhere else. ”

In this way, Jiu'er ate the dregs porridge that she had eaten for the first time in her life at the woman's house, and she wanted to vomit and disappear on the spot. But she couldn't. This time she came to the door herself, and this is already the best thing that this family can come up with. Do you still want to eat fish in a place like this? That's impossible.

After she barely pressed her tumbling throat and ate a few bites of chaff porridge, the woman's month-old son woke up, crying loudly, the woman hurriedly dropped her chopsticks, ran into the house to pick up her son and coaxed softly, no longer caring about the black cat that was left behind. The tall man stared straight at her, frowning at the broken bowl in front of her. It is estimated that she is scolding her mother-in-law in her heart at the moment, and she can use such a good thing to feed a cat. This is something that their master can only eat in two bites, where is the turn of such a beast to eat.

Jiu'er looked at the man in front of her who seemed to have a deep hatred for her, and rolled her eyes. Be so careful, be careful to kill you, you want to come to this kind of place as an aunt and grandmother. You are blessed to be able to see the true face of this aunt and grandmother, just a few mouthfuls of this thing, and you are reluctant to die or live, it is really stingy. I really don't know how that Yahuan can live this kind of life, in the past, in the Liu family, even the dog who watched the door ate a thousand times better than this. It's a pity to marry in such a place.

She didn't want to stay here for a moment. After a day of investigation, she can already determine that the real culprit who killed Mr. and Mrs. Liu, took away the property of the Liu family, and drove Liu Ping'an out of the Liu family was Liu Xi, the uncle of Mr. Liu. She sorted out what she heard, and the thing was probably that Liu Xi had long coveted the property of the Liu family, and when the two of them went out to save their relatives, they did something in the carriage, causing the carriage that Master Liu and Mrs. Liu were riding in to fall off the cliff, and the two of them couldn't even find the bones, which was very tragic. When Liu Ping'an led people out to look for it, Liu Xi colluded with the county magistrate, forged documents, and transferred all the property of the Liu family to his name, and Liu Ping'an was kicked out of the house in this way. It happened in the second month after Jiu'er left, when she was full of thoughts about finding the golden retriever, and she never thought that such a thing would happen to the Liu family.

Liu Ping'an couldn't speak, after being kicked out, he had no ability to take care of himself at all, plus he usually had no worries about food and clothing, and he was loved by his parents and didn't know the dangers of the world at all, so he was finally forced to settle down in a broken temple outside the town. He threw away all his dignity, and remembered that Jiu'er said that he would come back in half a year, which supported him to live. In order to survive, he begged in front of people, caught some small animals in the mountains to eat, and spent day after day in the ruined temple. It's just that he didn't expect Jiu'er to return on time, he couldn't believe that she would break her promise, afraid that she wouldn't find him when she came back, so he went to linger in front of Liu's house every once in a while, and was beaten several times by the current Master Liu. It was precisely because of the last time I went to Liu's house that I let the current Master Liu touch him squarely, and instructed someone to beat him to a serious injury, and there was no money for medical treatment, so he died of illness in the broken temple.

After Jiu'er knew the ins and outs of this matter, she couldn't wait to eat that old man Liu alive. It's just that she can't do this, she can't make mistakes again, if the people of the Heavenly Palace know about it, she will never recover in the future. She is not afraid of death, she is only afraid that she will never see him again.

When she left the maid's house, she put a silver ingot in front of the door. She knew they would find out and put it away. The silver ingots will help them live a good life for a while. She couldn't bear to let her former acquaintances live so miserably. She knew that with Liu Ping'an's character, his former servant would become like this, and he must feel uncomfortable in his heart. It was the last thing she did for him. Tomorrow she will give everything here to the end, and then chase it to the underworld and reincarnate with him.

Master Liu Xi has been full of spring breeze these days, and since he hooked up with the county magistrate, he can be said to be living like a fish in water in this town. This hard-won family property has to be enjoyed no matter how you say it. No, as soon as it gets dark every day, he has already made an appointment with the county magistrate, and the two of them are going to the most famous green building in the town, Wanfang Building, to find the most beautiful girl there to drink a few pots.

Unexpectedly, when his sedan chair walked to a small alley, a gust of wind suddenly blew around, flying sand and stones, blowing down the people who carried the sedan chair, and also blew the top of the sedan chair where Mr. Liu Xi was sitting, leaving Mr. Liu sitting in the sedan chair without a roof shivering. Then something even stranger happened, it was a good day, but suddenly it rained heavily, and the raindrops smashed heavily on Mr. Liu's body, and the water did not disperse, and it was more and more full in the sedan chair, drowning Mr. Liu in the sedan chair to his neck. When the sedan chair driver who was scraped to the ground saw such a strange thing, he cried and got up from the ground and ran, not even caring about his shoes falling off. The old man Liu, who was still full of spring breeze, was already so frightened that his face was like ashes, and when he was about to be flooded by the water, he fainted directly from fright. The moment he fainted, the water receded in an instant, leaving no trace of rain.

After Master Liu was rescued the next morning, he kept having a high fever and shouted vaguely: "Monster!" Monster! "People also became in a trance, and within a few days they couldn't wake up at all. After the death of Master Liu, the property of the Liu family was divided among his married daughters and sons-in-law, and since then, the century-old Liu family in Qin'an Town has no descendants, and it has been forgotten by the world.

No matter what happened later, Jiu'er had already gone to the underworld after scaring Master Liu, just like last time, waiting for Liu Ping'an who came to reincarnate by the Nai He Bridge. Once born and twice cooked, she didn't alarm anyone this time, and after Liu Ping'an drank Meng Po soup and threw it into the raw stone, she also threw it in. This time she lost her life again, and under Meng Po's meaningful gaze, she only had time to nod and say hello, so she hurriedly followed.

"There are still seven lives left, so let's do it for ourselves!" Meng Po looked at Jiu'er's disappearing side and said in her unique voice. Her voice is still so hard to hear, maybe it is only Jiu'er who will make her speak here. Sure enough, after she finished saying that, without saying a word, she picked up a bowl of soup again and handed it over indifferently. The soul standing on the opposite side took it and drank it all, and after drinking, the stone of life was reopened, and there was another life in the world.