"I owe her an apology for more than a thousand years of delay. ............," Helian Tian said.

"Just to apologize?" Daddy asked.

Helian Tian did not answer.

"Since Xu Ani knows the art of cat ghosts, why hasn't she been reincarnated in your family?"

"Although our family has always had cats and ghosts for masters and servants, only those within the family are eligible to be reincarnated through soul grafting. Xu Ani is not from our family, so no cat ghost sucked her last breath before she died. Helian Tian explained.

"But the man more than 1,300 years ago was surnamed Dugu, and your surname was Helian. Are you a member of the Dugu family or the Helian family? Since you are a reincarnation within the family, why did your surname change? ”

Helian Tiandao: "Dugu and Helian are both from the Xiongnu Tiefu Department, they are of the same origin, and they are recognized as the source of the Xianbei bloodline of the Sui and Tang royal families. This is recorded in the history books. In order to maintain the purity of noble blood, some nobles or noble families refused to marry with ordinary people, and when I was studying abroad, I found that it was especially abroad. And our family feels that blood is also an external thing, and the surname is naturally not so important, only the soul can maintain the purity of our family, and it is worth inheriting. At this point, he couldn't help but show a haughty expression.

Although Grandpa is well-read, Helian and Dugu's surnames are very obscure, and Grandpa has not paid attention to the relationship between them before.

Later, my grandfather went to check the ancient books and found that the surnames Helian and Dugu had a deep relationship. Grandpa saw a passage in "Tongzhi Clan's Brief Defeat of the Beifu Surname": "Helian clan, after Liu Qubei." Go to humility, the ancestor of the Dugu clan. Emperor Bo is known as Xia, Du Shuofang, since he went to Hehe Liantian, because he thought it was a clan. Another book recorded: "During the Western Han Dynasty, because the Southern Xiongnu Shan Yu had married the daughter of the Han family, his descendants were surnamed Liu from their mothers. By the time of the Western Jin Dynasty, Liu Hu was changed to the Iron Buddha Clan. During the Eastern Jin Dynasty, his great-grandson Bo Jianguo, surnamed Daxia Wang, changed the Tiefo clan to Helian clan. ”

Since the Helian clan is the descendant of Liu Qubei, the right virtuous king of the Xiongnu, and Liu Qubei is the ancestor of the lonely clan, it shows the close relationship between the two families. Among the descendants of the Liu family, the famous Helian Bobo was the emperor of Hu Xia during the Sixteen Kingdoms period.

"I see. But how do you know if Ze Sheng helped you find Xu Ani's reincarnation? Daddy asked.

"He's not like that, is he?"

Grandpa wanted to tell Ze Sheng about looking for millet at the beginning, but one was worried that Helian Tian still believed in Ze Sheng, and the other didn't want Helian Tian's hopes to be disappointed, so he said: "Then did he tell you about the progress of finding Xu Ani?" ”

"Nope. I think he will tell me when he finds Xu Ani. Helian Tian said. This sentence shows that he still believes in Zesheng's commitment very much.

"But I heard that his legs are crippled, so it shouldn't be very convenient to go out at night, right?"

"It's really not very convenient, so it's hard for him to help me find her." There was no doubt in his tone, but it was full of gratitude.

Grandpa thought that it was not time to break the trust between them, so he gave up this plan first.

At this moment, a little black cat crawled out of a corner and meowed.

Helian Tian asked his father, "Since you know the Xuanhuang technique, why don't you join me in this business of buying and selling souls?" If you want, I recommend you to Zesheng, and you can also get reuse. ”

"Don't." Daddy waved his hand hurriedly.

"Why? You can help Wei Jiaquan trade, why can't you do this with me? ”

Grandpa said: "To tell you the truth, Ze Sheng once approached me and hoped that I would join him in the great cause of restoration. I refused. ”

"Why refuse?"

"Since the day I left the Four Books and Five Classics, I have cut off the idea of taking the official road. I do not enslave others, nor do I enslave others. That kind of life is not for me. ”

"Brother is an idle cloud wild crane." Helian Tian praised.

Grandpa arched his hand and said: "What idle clouds and wild cranes, lazy people are just lazy." Therefore, I also ask Brother Helian not to mention me in front of Ze Sheng, lest he come to bother me again. ”

"Since you are not here, I will naturally not be reluctant, and I will not talk about you in front of Ze Sheng."

Grandpa wanted this sentence, and hurriedly thanked: "Then thank you Brother Helian for your understanding!" And let us not mention our meeting before him, lest we cause trouble in vain. ”

"Don't worry, I won't say a word about you and me. Come on, come on, drink tea and drink tea. Helian Tian said.

Grandpa took a sip of tea, remembered something, and asked Helian Tiandao: "Brother Helian, I don't know if you have heard of a zombie like Weak Lang before?" ”

Helian Tian nodded and said, "I've heard that it's a kind of zombie in Tibet, and touching people's tops will make people become its kind." Why are you suddenly asking this? ”

Grandpa said: "I heard Wei Jiaquan say that a weak man touching the top will make a person become a weak man, but it has no effect on Horcruxes. For example, cats and dogs among animals, pregnant women among people. Are you a Chinese expert and don't know if this statement is true or false? ”

Helian Tian nodded and said, "You are asking the right person, there is such a statement." Zombies are walking dead with broken souls, and the difference between zombies and weak men is that zombies can't turn others into zombies, while weak lang can. And the weak man turns people into weak men by touching the top, which is to damage the soul of a person with a sound soul, so that his soul is mutilated, so that he is like a weak zombie. Horcruxes have the effect of absorbing souls, and they can resist touching the top. It's as simple as a person with little strength trying to steal something from you, and being held back by someone with a lot of strength. It is for this reason that the weak Lang considers the Horcruxes to be their kind, and to be 'stronger' than them. ”

"So, can your cat ghost deal with the weak? Like a man with a lot of strength against a man with little strength? "There was a glimmer of hope in my father's heart. If the cat ghost can deal with the weak man, the threshold of the family can not be so high.

Helian Tian put down the teacup, thought for a while, and said, "Although I have raised cat ghosts for so many years, I have never used cat ghosts to deal with weak men. You've stopped me. How did you come up with this? Are you going to deal with the weak? ”

Grandpa sighed and told his experience of meeting the weak king in Tibet, and now he is still entangled by the weak king.

After hearing this, Helian Tian said generously: "As long as you are in need, my cat ghost will send you at any time." ”

Soon, he added, "But the cat ghost won't listen to you, and I have to be there." ”

Grandpa said: "But I don't know when or where it will appear, I'm afraid it won't be too late to call you." ”

Helian Tian pondered for a moment, and suddenly thought: "Otherwise, I'm just going to wronged you." If you come to my door, you will be considered your own person, and I can teach you how to raise a cat ghost. He pointed to the kittens walking around the hall and said, "I can choose one of the kitten ghosts and give it to you, so that you can cultivate it." In that case, you will have your own cat ghost, and you can use it to deal with the weak king. ”

Grandpa said: "I don't care about status. But my father used to say 'men don't have cats, women don't have dogs,' so my family never had cats. Even if I have a need, I can't forget my father's teachings, so I can't learn from you to raise a cat ghost. ”

Grandpa's words are true. My grandfather never had a cat either.

When I was a child, I asked my grandfather why there was a saying that "men don't have cats, and women don't have dogs". My grandfather wouldn't tell me.

After I graduated from college, I asked again by chance, and my grandfather told me why.

My grandfather said that in the late Han Dynasty, there was a custom of sleeping naked in Sichuan, and there was a man surnamed Li who was particularly fond of cats, and he had to accompany the cat to sleep at night. One night, the man, surnamed Li, had a spring dream. Due to the influence of spring dreams, his dust roots fell together and fell together, and so on. When the cat sleeping next to him saw it, he thought it was a mouse, so he pounced on it, scratched and bit like a mouse, and actually bit it off and devoured it. The man woke up from the excruciating pain, but it was too late.

After this happened, the old man often told his children and grandchildren: "Cats are men's troubles, and they should not be raised." "It is recorded in the history books that during that period, there were especially many eunuchs in Sichuan who paid tribute to the imperial palace, and a large part of the reason was because of cats.

This is the origin of "men don't have cats". And the saying that "women don't keep dogs" comes from another incident at the same time.

Also in the late Han Dynasty, there was a newlywed couple in that place in Taishan, and after they got married for more than a month, the man had to go to another place because of an errand. The man was afraid that his wife would be lonely and bored after he left, so he bought a male dog back, one could relieve his wife's boredom as a companion, and the other could prevent thieves from taking care of the house.

The man was gone for three years.

Three years later, he returned from out of town. As soon as he entered, the dog barked at him, as if he was not welcome back. When his wife saw him, she also spoke coldly, and she didn't have a good face. This made him feel very uncomfortable, but when he thought that he had not come back for three years, the dog must not recognize him and treat him as a stranger, and his wife had not seen him for too long, so it was inevitable that he would look a little rusty. Thinking about it this way, he felt that it was reasonable.

In the evening, he impatiently pressed on his wife, to do the loving things that he had longed for day and night for three years. He ripped off his wife's clothes, but saw that her skin was scarred. Surprised and bewildered, he asked why. The wife refused to say it at first, and under his repeated questioning, she had to tell the truth. She said: "Dogs are understanding, and they sleep together every night......

It turned out that those scars were left on her by dogs.

When the man heard this, he almost died of anger.

The next day, the man killed the dog with a knife, and the dog's blood was scattered everywhere in the yard.

When his wife saw that the dog had been killed, she held the bloody dog and cried. The man couldn't help but be dumbfounded when he saw her like this. It was useless for him to persuade her himself, and it was useless for his neighbors to persuade her.

A few days later, his wife was still thinking of the dog's old love, and actually climbed Mount Tai and jumped off the cliff to be martyred.