The ghost dealer sitting next to Daddy joked to Daddy: "If you have a cat at home, you have to pay attention to whether it gets heavier when it comes back after going out at night, otherwise you don't know how many wandering ghosts it has brought to your home." （）”

When the white cat sniffed more than a hundred dogs, it finally had a hard time. The body is already twice as big as it was just now.

Helian Tian smiled and said to the white cat: "Mr. Bai, you are tired, rest." ”

The white cat let out a "meow" sound, which seemed to be approved.

Helian Tian walked up to the woman in black who was holding the black cat, and said respectfully to the black cat: "Mr. Night, you are on the field!" ”

The black cat didn't buy it, and drilled the cat's head into the chest of the woman in black.

Helian Tiandao: "I'm sorry to keep you waiting!" It wasn't my decision to let Mr. Bai play first, it was God's decision. You help, after you are busy tonight, I will buy sesame oil chicken for you to eat. ”

Only then did the black cat turn around and glance at Helian Tian.

Helian Tian happily said to the woman in black, "Mr. Ye agreed. ”

The woman in black weighed the black cat on the scale, and then the black cat jumped down and sniffed the dog, exactly the same steps as the white cat had just done.

Daddy's sense of hearing is sensitive, and although Helian Tian's voice is not loud when he begs the black cat, he is still heard by Daddy without omission.

When he heard Helian Tian mention "sesame oil chicken", his father immediately understood that this white and black cat was different from the moon worship cat demon in Lijiazhuang. The moon worship cat demon is a cat demon that absorbs the essence of moonlight, and this white and black cat is not a cat demon, but a cat ghost. The cat demon is a goblin cultivated from the cat itself, and the cat ghost is a kind of Gu cultivated with the help of human spells.

Cat ghosts were pets kept by ancient witchcrafters. Because there are ghosts attached to its body, it can be driven to harm people with spells, so it is called "cat ghost".

Cat Ghost, also known as Cat Gu, is a kind of animal Gu in witch Gu, and it is also one of the most vicious Gu techniques. This kind of Gu technique was prevalent in the Sui Dynasty, and Xu Ani, a girl in the family of Queen Dugu's half-brother Dugu Tuo, once used a cat Gu. Grandpa had read this horrific record in the history books.

That was what happened in the eighteenth year of the opening of the Sui Dynasty. Not long after the end of this year, Queen Dugu, the mother of the Sui Dynasty, suddenly felt a tingling pain all over her body, and soon fell ill in bed. Queen Dugu is very beautiful and talented, and she is deeply respected and loved by Emperor Wen of Sui and Yang Jian. Emperor Wen of Sui saw that the queen was ill, and hurriedly summoned the imperial doctor to treat the queen.

It just so happened that this imperial doctor was also a knowledgeable person, and when he saw the queen's condition, he said that it was not a natural disease, but a disease of cats and ghosts.

As soon as Emperor Wen of Sui heard the word cat ghost, he thought of a person. This person is Dugutuo. Dugu Tuo is the half-brother of Queen Dugu, and he is related to Emperor Wen of Sui, so Emperor Wen of Sui knows some unknown secrets of his family. It is said that Dugutuo's grandmother's family has raised cat ghosts for generations, and one of Dugutuo's uncles was killed by cat ghosts because of the inadvertent breeding of cat ghosts, which Emperor Wen of Sui Yang Jian had heard about very early, but at that time he thought it was absurd and talked about casually, so he didn't ask carefully.

This time, the imperial doctor said that Queen Dugu was infected with the disease of a cat ghost, and Emperor Wen of Sui immediately thought of him.

Emperor Wen of Sui Yang Jian himself was a suspicious person, once he became suspicious of Dugu Tuo, the more he thought about it. So, he ordered Zuo Servant Gao Ying, Nayan Su Wei, and Dali Cheng Yang Yuan to jointly investigate the case.

This investigation really found out some famous names. They caught the key figure in this case, Xu Ani, the servant girl of the Dugutuo family. The maid Xu Ani is said to be the specific manager of the Dugutuo family's cat ghosts, and after being arrested, she couldn't stand the torture and was soon recruited.

It turned out that this Xu Ani used to be the maidservant of Dugutuo's grandmother's house, and she began to raise cat ghosts when she was still at Dugutuo's grandmother's house, and later came to Dugutuo's house and continued to raise cat ghosts.

She has a habit of worshipping cat ghosts. Every night in the middle of the night, she secretly got up, prepared offerings and burned incense to worship the cat ghost∮ the rat, and the cat when she was a child, implying that the rat was sacrificed to the cat.

The more she worshipped, the more spiritually she became, and the cat ghost often moved other people's belongings to her. When Dugutuo was not yet an official, he lived at home and had a habit of drinking. His wife refused to give money to buy wine, and Dugutuo had to ask Xu Ani for wine. Xu Ani replied: "There is no money to buy wine. Dugutuo said: "Why don't you ask the cat ghost to go to Yue Gong's house to get money to buy wine?" Ani had to pray in secret.

In less than an hour, the money to buy wine was delivered, and Dugutuo was insatiable and kept asking Ani to get money from the cat ghost to buy wine.

After Dugu Tuo became an official because of his relatives, one day he said to Xu Ani in the garden: "You tell the cat ghost to go to Queen Dugu and transfer some of the queen's money to me." Xu Ani prayed to the cat ghost according to his words, and soon after, the queen often rewarded Dugutuo with money.

Emperor Wen of Sui was suspicious by nature, and although he didn't believe in Dugutuo, he didn't easily trust the officials who handled the case. He thought that it was difficult to determine Dugutuo's guilt based on Xu Ani's words, so he asked Xu Ani to summon the cat ghost to come out and investigate the truth.

One night, Xu Ani brought a bowl of fragrant porridge and put it outside the palace gate, and after she recited a spell, she tapped the edge of the bowl with a spoon, and muttered in her mouth: "Catwoman comes out, don't live in the palace; Catwoman came out and didn't live in the palace. ”

Soon, Xu Ani's eyes were dull, his eyes were straight, his face was blue, and his whole person seemed to be pulled by something and moved outward. The people present who saw this scene couldn't help but exclaim: "The cat ghost is possessed, the cat ghost is possessed." ”

So, the case was decided.

Because Dugu Tuo was the younger brother of the queen, he was exempted from the crime of killing his head, and was demoted to a commoner, and soon died of depression.

After this incident, Emperor Wen of Sui Emperor Yang Jian was very angry and ordered the hunting and killing of all cat ghosts in Kyoto and the punishment of all those who raised cat ghosts. But the cat ghost came and went without a trace, and there was no trace. The officials came to eradicate the roots, and even killed all the domestic cats in Kyoto, and arrested those who had cats in the house.

In May of the same year, Emperor Wen of Sui issued an edict: "Wild Dao families such as cat ghosts, bewitchment, and charm will be exiled to the frontier." In the end, not a single cat could be seen or heard in Kyoto, and thousands of families were killed and exiled.

Since then, cats and ghosts have basically disappeared from history. Only a very small number of cat ghosts may be scattered among the people, but they have never made a big incident again.

Later, there was a stipulation in the "Tang Dynasty Discussion": "Those who create cat ghosts and teach cat ghosts are hanged; Family members or those who know but do not report it will all travel 3,000 miles. "Some people say that this is because the Tang Dynasty after the Sui Dynasty had a trend of raising cat Gu again, but it is not.

Datang promulgated this regulation entirely because of Wu Zetian's psychological reasons.

When Wu Zetian killed Concubine Xiao Shu, Concubine Xiao Shufei cursed and said: "May I be a cat in the next life, Ah Wu will be a mouse, and the world will eat his throat." Since then, Wu Zetian has often dreamed of a cat eating his throat and waking him up.

Since then, Wu Zetian has been afraid of cats like tigers, and he has never approached cats for life. She was too afraid of cats, so she issued a rule like that so that others would not have cats.

Grandpa read these two major historical events from the official history "Book of Sui" and "Zizhi Tongjian", not the ancient Zhiwei books. The extent of this is evident.

In addition, there are also folk sayings about cat ghosts. It is said that the cat ghost is larger than the average cat, and it hides in the shadows of large trees during the day and only comes out to forage for food at night. Cat ghosts like the taste of sesame oil chicken, and often follow the taste of sesame oil chicken to find people with babies. When it finds a baby, it clasps the baby's throat with its two front paws until the baby dies. Especially on the third, seventh, thirteenth and full moon of the first month, cats and ghosts are most likely to appear.

Helian Tian chose to trade on the night of the full moon of the fifteenth, and when he persuaded the black cat just now, he tempted it with "sesame oil chicken", and all kinds of signs indicated that the white and black cat was the cat ghost.

From the Dugutuo incident, it can be known that cat owners are accustomed to worshiping cats when they are children, implying that rats are sacrificed to cats. Grandpa came to this dog meat restaurant from Wei Jiaquan's hotel, and the time was close to Zishi, perhaps this was the reason for Zhu Yuzi's fear. It was born in fear that it would become a victim of the black and white cats.

Moreover, the ghost dealer said that Helian Tian was a descendant of the Xiongnu, and the Dugu surname of Dugutuo in the history books also originated from the Xiongnu people, from the Xianbei Tu departments of the Northern Wei Dynasty, and belonged to the Sinicization of the tribal name. "Dugu" is a different Chinese translation of "Tu Ge". Thinking about it this way, Daddy had to guess that Heliantian's cat had some kind of connection with the cat ghost of Dugutuo more than a thousand years ago.

This also explains why his cat can hold a hundred or so spirits. Because they're not ordinary cats.

With just a few words in Helian Tian's words and his surname, Grandpa almost made his background clear. Later, when Helian Tian talked to his father, he was surprised when he heard his father guess his background before he had even dealt with him for the first time, and he was also surprised, and sighed that his father's knowledge and judgment were accurate.

But Daddy didn't figure out all the doubts. He still has two doubts. First, this Helian Tian's own strength is not weak, why is he so respectful to Mr. Bai and Mr. Ye, and grovel to people in surprise? Second, Helian Tian himself has strength, and his two cat ghosts are also so powerful, why should he succumb to Ze Sheng and be willing to be Ze Sheng's minions?

Grandpa has seen Ze Sheng's strength, and he can be sure that Ze Sheng's strength is far inferior to Helian Tian, and even inferior to any of the cat ghosts.

For money? The cat ghost is originally a thing to transfer money, and with a cat ghost, you will not worry about money.

For the right? With this kind of strength, Helian Tian can completely leave Ze Sheng aside and seize power by himself.

While Daddy was thinking, there were fewer and fewer people in the dog meat restaurant. One by one, the ghost dealers who received the money left. There are more and more dogs lying next to the platform.

Daddy asked the ghost dealer next to him, "Don't they want these dogs?" ”

The ghost dealer said: "If a dog makes a horcrux, the dog's own soul will be crowded out by the human soul. Over time, the dog's soul is damaged, and even if the person's soul leaves, it is difficult for it to recover. So why don't you leave them here and make a plate of meat dishes tomorrow∵ it's time for us to go up and weigh them. ”

Helian Tian glanced at his father.