Bai Ye raised his front legs and took a step in the direction of Helian Tian. （）

He Liantian couldn't help but have a smile on his face, that smile was very thin and faint, as if a hair that fell on his face would disappear with a light blow.

His smile is a confident smile, cultivating a cat ghost for so many years, this instruction is like a switch pressed on the cat ghost, as long as he touches it, the cat ghost will not hesitate to execute. Of course, this switch effect will gradually fail as the level of the cat ghost increases, but it is more than enough to deal with this kind of entry-level kitten ghost. At least that's what Helian Tian thought at this time.

But when Hakuya took the second step, his movements stiffened.

Helian Tian's smile froze.

"White Night......" Mi called softly. Her expression was a little nervous, but the tone of calling Bai Ye was very gentle, as if she wanted to wake someone up from her dream, shouting too loudly for fear of scaring him, and shouting too quietly for fear of not waking up.

The voice evoked from Xiaomi's mouth turned into a thread that tied Bai Ye's feet.

Grandpa faintly felt that this was a confrontation between Heliantian and Xiaomi, Heliantian used a snap of his fingers to guide Bai Ye to pass, and Xiaomi called Bai Ye back with a voice, and the victory or loss of this confrontation was all decided by the little cat ghost. This is also the kitten's own struggle, one is the command of long-term habit, and the other is the call of gentle friendship.

This confrontation did not last long.

Bai Ye turned around in the second step and walked towards Xiaomi.

"Meow woo......" Bai Ye screamed, which was a response to Xiaomi's call.

Xiaomi's eyes were crooked with laughter, and she leaned down and stretched out a hand in front of Bai Ye. One of Bai Ye's cat's paws rested on Xiaomi's hand and climbed up Xiaomi's arm. Xiaomi picked it up and put that handsome face on Bai Ye's back and rubbed it intimately.

Helian Tian was dumbfounded.

Grandpa was also frozen there, not moving for a long time. He knew that Bai Ye liked Xiaomi more and more in the past few days, and Xiaomi also liked Bai Ye more and more, but he didn't expect that the relationship between them could surpass the long-standing master-servant relationship between him and Helian Tian in such a short period of time.

Helian Tian's expression was gloomy. Of course, he will be sad about this, just like his daughter who has been raising him for many years suddenly leaves him one day with someone else.

However, he already has grandmother-level cat ghosts like Mr. Bai and Mr. Ye, and the other kitten ghosts are like chicken ribs to him, reluctant to abandon and tasteless, so he is not particularly sad, and soon turns sadness into joy, and is happy for the close connection between Millet and White Night. He walked up to Xiaomi's side and said with a smile: "Xiaomi, Bai Ye is the most spiritual and intelligent of all the kittens and ghosts I raise, and now it has chosen you, you have to take good care of it." ”

Millet nodded vigorously, like a chicken pecking rice.

Helian Tian said again: "Xiaomi, your future is also limitless, our family has a history of raising cats and ghosts for nearly two thousand years, and it began when the Qin Dynasty built the Great Wall to resist the Xiongnu." In the past nearly 2,000 years, there are only two people in our family who can make the cat recognize the owner in a time comparable to yours. One is the grandmother of a person named Dugutuo, and the other is Xu Ani, who was implicated because of Dugutuo. ”

"Xu Ani? That's a nice name! Xiaomi said.

"Yes, for me, it's the best name in the world." Helian Tian's eyes rippled with rare tenderness.

"Where is Xu Ani now?" Xiaomi asked.

Helian Tian smiled: "She is far, far away. ”

Daddy smiled knowingly.

"You said her name is the best name in the world, you must like her, right? Then why don't you go to her? Xiaomi asked.

"Hahaha, I want to go to her too. But that far, far away place is not where you can get there if you want to go. ”

"Is there such a place?" Xiaomi asked seriously.

"Yes. This is a place you won't get there if you don't want to go; If you want to go, but that place doesn't accept you, you still can't get there; You can only reach when you really want to go, and it is willing to accept you. ”

Grandpa patted Xiaomi's shoulder and said with a smile: "Master Helian is teasing you, you can take Bai Ye out to play." I still have something to talk about with your master. ”

Millet went out with the white night in her arms.

He Liantian looked at Xiaomi's back and said to his father: "She reminds me of Xu Ani." You don't know, Mr. Bai's ancestor is the cat raised by Xu Ani. Bai Ye is related to Xu Ani's cat. ”

"Are you willing to do that?" Daddy asked.

"What's there to be reluctant to give? A good general is equipped with a sword, and a good horse is equipped with a good saddle. The two of them can have this rare tacit relationship, which lives up to the potential energy of the white night. It amazes me that I can reach this level of confession without a drop of blood! By the way, you said you have something to talk to me about, are you going to get up and go to Fushun? Helian Tian asked.

Daddy nodded.

"When are you leaving?"

"Tonight."

"In such a hurry? Did you tell her? Helian Tian asked.

"No, while she was paying attention to the white night, I left secretly. Otherwise, she would have insisted on following me. Daddy said.

Helian Tian smiled: "It should be that you are afraid that you are reluctant to leave her after a few days of delay, right?" ”

Grandpa smiled faintly and said, "You have to help me take care of her." She is my Xu Ani. ”

Helian Tian said: "Don't worry. ”

After having dinner at the dog meat restaurant, Xiaomi urged: "Ma Xiucai, let's go back early, it will be dark later." ”

Grandpa said, "We will live here from now on." ”

"But our stuff is still in the hotel."

Grandpa said, "It's okay, I'll go to the hotel with your master to get it." You don't have to worry. ”

Xiaomi hugged Bai Ye and nodded.

That night, Dad didn't go back to the dog meat restaurant. He and Helian Tian arrived at the hotel first and handed over most of the luggage to Helian Tian to take back. He himself rolls up a package with a handful of things to be used during the journey, and steps into the night. Bamboo slippers followed.

Grandpa first arrived in Beijing, and when he was in Beijing, he inquired about the woman his brother had dated, but he didn't get any information, and then he came to Shenyang, and finally to Fushun.

My grandfather later recalled that at that time, I didn't know whether Beijing was called Beijing or Beiping, and during that time, the Nationalist Government once renamed Beijing Beiping, which was later captured by the Japanese puppet army and changed back to Beijing. So he no longer remembered the name of Beijing at that time.

After leaving Baoding, my grandfather experienced unprecedented loneliness and loneliness. Every time he checked back into the hotel, he often suddenly went to find Xiaomi, thinking that she had run away to play. After looking for a while, he remembered that Millet had stayed in the dog meat restaurant, and then he was stunned for a while.

When walking on the crowded streets, my grandfather often saw the back of millet in the crowd. After he squeezed through the crowd and walked to the front, he found that Xiaomi's back had disappeared. At this time, he clearly knew that Xiaomi would not come here.

When he woke up in the middle of the night, he always had to look out the window. Xiaomi likes to sleep near the window. When he didn't see her, he panicked, as if he suddenly remembered that something important was missing, and then he tossed and turned, unable to sleep. He wondered if Millet would wake up at this moment, whether he would feel the same way. But he doesn't want Xiaomi to feel that way. Because this feeling is like an ant eating your heart, and it's really not a good taste.

Daddy couldn't understand why he felt the way he did. Not to mention that there has never been such a feeling on the way from Thrush Village to Zichuan to Baoding, even if it was a person in Tibet and in Sichuan and Jiming provinces.

When he picked up the yellow paper he was carrying, Dad remembered the appearance of the millet paper-cutting man and the subtle sound made when the scissors cut the paper. At this time, my father went to check the cracks in the windows and doors, and checked them carefully, and always felt that there should be a few pieces of paper hidden there. But every time I didn't find the paper man.

Every time he checked the cracks in the windows and doors, he thought again, Xiaomi's paper man running into Heliantian's dog meat restaurant was enough to make the well-informed Heliantian very surprised, how could he leave Baoding and follow him all the way to Beijing and Shenyang? So I controlled myself not to go in vain to check the cracks in the windows and doors.

Grandpa later learned that on the night he left, Xiaomi didn't sleep all night. She panicked when she saw Heliantian carrying her luggage back to the dog meat restaurant, and looked behind Heliantian with her head, thinking that her father was hiding behind Heliantian to tease her.

Xiaomi asked Heliantian: "What about Ma Xiucai?" ”

Helian Tian said: "He has to do something, and it will take a while to come back." ”

Xiaomi's face suddenly turned pale. It was so white that Helian Tian was terrified.

Helian Tian hurriedly said: "Don't worry, I will take good care of you, he told me that I must take good care of you." It's like your home, you don't have to be inhibited. ”

Millet bit her lip and stopped talking. She also stopped touching Bai Ye's hand, shivering, as if standing in the cold wind.

"He's worried about the danger of you going with you. He didn't mean to sneak away. He's worried about you. Helian Tian continued.

But Xiaomi didn't look like she was listening at all, her eyes were still looking into the distance, expecting Helian Tian to tell a lie, and expecting her grandfather to appear from a distance.

"Kid, he's really gone."

Tears welled up in Xiaomi's eyes. Tears flowed down her chin and dripped down Bai Ye's body.

Bai Ye's mood also fell, lying motionless in Xiaomi's arms, without making any sound.

Helian was afraid that the night dew would make Xiaomi catch a cold, so he dragged the millet into the house.

That night, Helian got up and looked at it several times, and saw that Xiaomi's room was always lit.

When my grandfather told me that Xiaomi didn't sleep all night, I especially understood her feelings. When I was a child, I had to live at my grandfather's house for a long time every year, and I often ate at my grandfather's house with my parents at noon or evening, and when I returned to the house after playing with my friends, I would not see my parents. They have to go to work and make money, and they don't have so much time to take me. They never said goodbye to me, fearing that I would follow them, so they sneaked out the back door while I was having fun.

When I found out that they were gone, I felt that the sky was much darker than before, and my heart was empty and panicked.

The idea of sneaking away was from Mom. At this point, I think she inherited her grandfather's habits.

Helian Tian was worried that Xiaomi would sneak away at night and chase his father, who didn't know where. He gets up every half hour to look at millet. The next morning, when Helian Tian went to see her again, he found that she had fallen asleep on the bed, but her brows were still twisted, the corners of her mouth were downward, and she looked like she was about to cry. The floor next to the bed was sprinkled with countless scattered paper figures.