Yuan Rui is a somewhat wooden child.

The other children in the county called him a fool.

He didn't realize that the name of fool was a very insulting word, but he was very happy when someone could say a few words to him.

Yuan Rui lost his father and mother very early and lived in his uncle's house. My uncle has a daughter who goes to a private school. He studied carpentry from his uncle.

The daughter of my uncle's family is called Xi'er.

In the Great Zhou Dynasty, it was a precedent for women to enter private schools and to participate in the imperial examination to become officials.

Therefore, in private schools, although women also need to wear their hair in a bun and dress themselves up in men's clothes, they can also enter private schools to study in a dignified manner.

The uncle has been a carpenter all his life, and he hopes that his daughter can get ahead and have a better future.

As for the carpenter's craft, it is natural for him to inherit it.

Yuan Rui had free time on weekdays, so he came to the window of the private school.

He's not trying to steal school, he's waiting for someone, and Xi'er is his cousin and his only friend.

"Look, that fool is here again!" The people in the private school were laughing, and some people even threw stones at him.

Yuan Rui is easy to bully, so he has become one of the few children's fun.

"I'm not allowed to see you again in the future, otherwise I'll see you once and beat you once!" The child warned him solemnly.

Since then, Yuan Rui had to stand far away under the willow tree in front of the private school, waiting for Xi'er to get out of school, and then go home together.

However, after two days, Yuan Rui never went again.

He found new friends.

It was a gray cat, and its feet were crushed by a stone, which didn't seem to be so heavy, but the kitten couldn't stop screaming, and couldn't break free no matter what.

Yuan Rui hurriedly ran over and took the stone away. The stone was a little different from what he had seen, with dense words engraved on it, and faint flashes of golden light.

Yuan Rui glanced at it a few times, then threw the stone aside.

"Hurry up." After Yuan Rui finished speaking, he walked in the direction of home.

The kitten followed and refused to leave.

Yuan Rui had no choice but to squat down, and he suddenly found that the kitten's eyes had been staring at the piece of meat in his hand.

"No, this is what my uncle ordered me to buy." Yuan Rui said.

Unfortunately, the kitten seemed to be very weak, its hair was very messy, and its eyes were low, as if it would die without food.

Yuan Rui then gave the meat in his hand to the kitten, and the cat grabbed the meat and devoured it.

After Yuan Rui went back, he told his uncle the truth and was beaten.

"You white-eyed wolf, let you buy meat but you gave it to the cat!" Uncle was very heavy, and Yuan Rui didn't sit down for a day.

He leaned against the willow tree, and the cat wandered around him, refusing to leave.

"Cat, cat. I was beaten for you. Yuan Rui sighed.

The cat's fur became supple, and when it was first seen, it was still gray, but now it has turned snow-white.

"So this is your cat." It's Xi'er's voice.

The girl has a natural love for this kind of furry thing, so Xi'er soon secretly takes out a little cake from the kitchen and feeds it to the cat.

Cats don't refuse to come, swallow them all.

Yuan Rui was very happy that he had another friend.

Every day, waiting for Xi'er to get out of school, Yuan Rui will whisper to the cat.

This cat seems to be able to understand human speech, no matter what Yuan Rui says, it is quietly listening.

The cat regarded him as a friend, and often brought in a few small river fish that were jumping around.

Small river fish is suitable for stewed soups, and there is not much meat when grilled. Yuan Rui didn't have a pot, so most of the small river fish went into the cat's stomach.

The cat is his friend, and many of Yuan Rui's words, including his thoughts about his father and mother, and trivial matters on weekdays, will be told to the cat.

It didn't take long for the city to be happy, and suddenly it became much more depressed. That day, the kitten suddenly hid under his bed, shivering all over.

Yuan Rui opened the door, and the locusts in the sky were so frightened that he quickly closed the door again.

Yuan Rui lived in a thatched hut in the courtyard, except for the door and no windows, he could only hear the sound of locusts buzzing outside, but he couldn't get in.

After a while, his uncle came and told him not to go out today.

The locusts dispersed within a few days, but suddenly there were many fewer people in the county. Even Mr. Private School disappeared, so the whole private school was idle.

Yuan Rui learned carpentry work with his uncle as usual, but he felt that his uncle's expression was particularly gloomy.

The way his uncle looked at him scared him.

So he found an excuse and fled from here, he wanted to find the cat and talk to it.

Passing by a familiar street corner, he suddenly heard a terrible scream.

"Take a knife and cut its belly!"

"Don't, it's fun to kill slowly!"

Yuan Rui hurriedly ran into the corner, his eyes were suddenly split, and he saw that the cat was being dragged by several children's hands and feet, and his mouth let out a terrible scream.

The cat's body was covered in blood.

The children, with the knives in their hands, fell, stabbed holes in the cat's stomach and let the blood come out.

Their immature faces are full of blood and hideous!

"Ahh

Yuan Rui was finally furious.

He grabbed a rock and slammed it at the child. He tried his best, and the child fell straight into a pool of blood.

"Whoever dares to touch my cat, I will slaughter him!"

Perhaps it was Yuan Rui's ferocity that shocked everyone.

The children screamed and scattered.

Yuan Rui hurriedly hugged the cat lying on the ground, the cat was out of breath and his eyes were dim. Yuan Rui kept shouting, but the cat never responded to him.

The child who was smashed to the ground by him got up, and he screamed and pointed at Yuan Rui, making him pay.

It was dark.

The cat lay peacefully in Yuan Rui's arms, his eyes wide open.

Yuan Rui has very few friends, and another one died today.

He dug a pit in the earth, learned to bury it, and put the cat in the pit. But when it was time to bury the soil, he was reluctant to pick up the cat again.

Yuan Rui wept, he felt that everything around him was dim.

He put the cat on the tree and found a leaf to cover it, for he was afraid that the people would find the cat again.

Yuan Rui came home very late, he leaned against the door, and suddenly his eyes widened.

In my uncle's house, there were a lot of people and the sound of quarrels.

A group of people armed with sticks grabbed Xi'er and dragged her out.

"Your daughter is favored by the locust god, and that is her creation! If you dare to stop it, don't blame me for being ruthless! Fang Zheng pointed to his uncle's nose and shouted.

Of course my uncle refused, and wanted to snatch Xi'er back.

A man beside Fang Zheng was impatient, and he directly pulled out his knife and stabbed his uncle into the blood. The aunt screamed and rushed over, and the man stabbed again, also falling in blood.

"The locust god blesses, so that natural disasters do not come near here. If we anger the locust gods, we will all suffer! The man screamed.

Others responded loudly.

Xi'er was so grief-stricken that she was suddenly knocked unconscious, and her crying stopped abruptly.

The group of people came out of my uncle's house.

Yuan Rui hurriedly hid in the corner, and waited until the group had left for a long time before quietly coming out of the darkness.

Yuan Rui looked at the back of the group of people who were far away, gritted his teeth, and followed.