The job of the cultural institute has always made Zuo Dengfeng proud, and his mother has always been his biggest concern, he lost his job and lost his mother, this double blow made Zuo Dengfeng painful and lost, plus he suffered a cold on the way back and forth, and Zuo Dengfeng fell ill after coming back, very sick, and did not get off the kang for several days.

During this period, Wu Xinyu has been taking care of him carefully, although Wu Xinyu often makes rice into porridge and bakes corn tortillas half-cooked, Zuo Dengfeng still feels her intimate care. A man is always very lost during his injury, and who took care of him during this time will make him deeply moved, so when Zuo Dengfeng got up from the kang three days later, his feelings for Wu Xinyu deepened again, which is a kind of mutual affection, peaceful and heavy.

After getting off the kang, Zuo Dengfeng found that Wu Xinyu was sitting on a futon boiling water under the stove, and a female pheasant was placed on the ground next to the stove.

"Up?" Wu Xinyu looked up and smiled.

Wu Xinyu's sweet smile made Zuo Dengfeng's heart flutter, and the bed rest in the past few days made Zuo Dengfeng recuperate, and he had the idea of getting close again. However, as soon as this idea emerged, it was suppressed by the pain of losing his mother in his heart, although his mother had passed away for a long time, but he only learned about it recently, and it stands to reason that he should keep Sanqi to fulfill his filial piety. Therefore, Zuo Dengfeng made up his mind that he would not touch Wu Xinyu within Sanqi, otherwise he would leave a nameless shadow in his heart.

"Where did it come from?" Zuo Dengfeng raised his foot and kicked the pheasant, and found that the pheasant was not completely stiff, which indicated that it had not been dead for long.

"Thirteen will come back, it will hunt." Wu Xinyu stretched out his hand and pointed to the thirteen in the cat nest.

Zuo Dengfeng turned his head to look at Thirteen, and found that Thirteen was lying quietly in the nest looking at Wu Xinyu, Thirteen felt Zuo Dengfeng's eyes, turned his head to look at him, and then moved his gaze to Wu Xinyu again.

Zuo Dengfeng stared at Thirteen suspiciously, Thirteen's size is very large, this size can completely hunt hares and even roe deer, but pheasants can fly, how did Thirteen catch it?

With full of doubts, Zuo Dengfeng took the pheasant, and after inspection, he found that the pheasant's neck had several deep wounds all the way to the lower abdomen, this discovery surprised Zuo Dengfeng, the pheasant's fatal wound in the lower abdomen showed that Thirteen did not capture it when the pheasant did not take off, but attacked from the bottom up after the pheasant took off, the female pheasant was lighter, and the flight speed and flight altitude were better than the male pheasant, and Thirteen could catch it with only two possibilities, one is that Thirteen reacted quickly, Caught the pheasant before it could fly high. Another possibility is that the pheasant was caught by Thirteen in the process of flying, which is not a big possibility, because the pheasant's flight altitude is about three to four meters, and Thirteen is not light, so it should not be that high.

This question made Zuo Dengfeng very puzzled, but then a new doubt came to his mind, that is, ordinary animals will eat on the spot after catching their prey, how could Thirteen bring the prey back?

"Thirteen, did you catch this?" Zuo Dengfeng took the pheasant and opened his mouth at Thirteen.

Thirteen Wenyan looked up at Zuo Dengfeng, and then looked away. Thirteen is very different from ordinary cats, it is very quiet, rarely meows, it never begs for food, it does not want to exercise, it is silent and quiet.

"It can't speak, how do you ask it to answer?" Wu Xinyu scooped out the hot water and took the pheasant from Zuo Dengfeng's hand.

"What the hell is this guy all about?" Zuo Dengfeng stared at Thirteen suspiciously, and Thirteen did not look at him, but quietly stared at the pheasant in Wu Xinyu's hand.

"Look at you, what can a cat come from?" Wu Xinyu shook her head and smiled.

Zuo Dengfeng didn't say anything anymore when he heard this, rolled up his sleeves and took over Wu Xinyu's work. After stripping the pheasant feathers in the hot water, Zuo Dengfeng found that the bones under the pheasant's abdomen had been broken, and the location of the fracture happened to be on the inside of those wounds. Originally, it was necessary to use a knife to disembowel a pheasant, but at this moment, you can open the chest cavity directly with your hands.

"You clean up, I'll look at Thirteen's paws." Zuo Dengfeng handed the pheasant that had not been processed to Wu Xinyu, and then walked to the cat's nest and raised Thirteen's front paws, Thirteen saw this and tried to retract his front paws slightly, Zuo Dengfeng forcibly grabbed it and did not let it retract, Thirteen looked up at Zuo Dengfeng and stopped trying to break free, allowing Zuo Dengfeng to carefully examine its claws.

Thirteen's paws also have claw sheaths, which are characteristic of felines, but Thirteen's paw sheaths and paws tucked into the claw sheath are red, which is very different from the grayish-white color of ordinary domestic cats. Zuo Dengfeng pinched out the claws in the thirteen paw sheath with his thumb and forefinger, and found that its claws were bent less than those of domestic cats, but much longer. In addition, the color of the claws is very delicate, which indicates that these claws have only recently grown.

"Its previous claws are polished, and these have only recently grown." Zuo Dengfeng lowered Thirteen's front paws.

"Thirteen's claws are so hard, how can they be polished?" Wu Xinyu took out the pheasant's water and put it in Thirteen's food plate, and Thirteen left the cat nest to eat when he saw this.

Zuo Dengfeng didn't answer immediately when he heard this, but sorted out some previous details and today's discoveries in his mind. When Thirteen was first discovered, it was covered in a thick layer of dust, suggesting that it had been in a confined environment for a long time. At that time, it did not have fluff to protect its body from the cold, which shows that the environment in which it lived was relatively warm. In addition, it was extremely thin when it was found, which means that it has not eaten for a long time. In addition, the collar around its neck is engraved with the four characters of thirteen yin and yang, yin and yang are generally linked to metaphysics, and have the meaning of life and death. The most important point is the thirteen itself, Zuo Dengfeng has never seen such an animal as it, which shows that the species of thirteen has become extinct in modern times, and after combining all the clues, Zuo Dengfeng came to a conclusion that made his hair stand on end.

"Thirteen crawled out of an ancient tomb." Zuo Dengfeng spoke at Wu Xinyu.

"Why do you say that?" Wu Xinyu was surprised when he heard this.

"It's been in the grave for a long time, so there's a lot of dirt on it. The temperature in the tomb is high, so there is no winter fluff on its body. It was weak when we found it, and it must have just come out of the grave. Its red claws are so sharp that they can even scratch hard pheasant bones, and the fact that such sharp and hard claws are polished shows that it has been digging hard objects for a long time, and if I am not mistaken, they must have been polished when it was digging a hole and leaving the tomb. Zuo Dengfeng explained

"Thirteen is so pitiful." Wu Xinyu girl's surname, after listening to Zuo Dengfeng's explanation, her first reaction was sympathy.

"I said I complained about it, and it left immediately, and when we got it back, I fed it the rabbit head and it didn't eat it, which means it's angry. We have always taken care of it, and it appreciates us, which is why it only goes out to hunt prey when I am sick. All of this shows that Thirteen is smart. Although Zuo Dengfeng was talking to Wu Xinyu, his eyes never left Thirteen, who was eating. And no matter where Thirteen came from, just by the fact that it brought back the pheasant, Zuo Dengfeng could judge that its surname was not bad, because it knew how to repay the favor.

"Look at you, you won't eat it, eat it." Wu Xinyu stroked Thirteen's head.

"Thirteen, I know you understand what I'm saying, and if I'm right, you'll nod at me." Zuo Dengfeng looked at the thirteen positive colors and spoke.

After Zuo Dengfeng finished speaking, Thirteen did not react, but lowered his head and ate slowly.

"You said so much, how can it understand it all." Wu Xinyu said.

"The collar around its neck is also at least three thousand years old, which means that Thirteen has lived for at least three thousand years, and it must be very smart to live for so long. When it first escaped from the ancient tomb, it may not understand our words, because the ancient language is very different from the present, so it will only go to listen when we spoke before, and the purpose of its listening is to be familiar with and understand our language. Now when we speak, it can't listen anymore, which means that it has learned. Zuo Dengfeng said analytically.

After Zuo Dengfeng said this, Thirteen stopped eating, turned around and looked up at Zuo Dengfeng, with a strong uneasiness in his eyes.

"Thirteen, do you understand what we're talking about? If you understand, you will nod. Wu Xinyu stroked Thirteen's head.

Thirteen did not resist Wu Xinyu's touch, and his gaze did not take his eyes off Zuo Dengfeng's face.

"We are good people, we will not harm you, we will not tell your secrets to anyone, you can stay with us if you want, and if you don't want to, you can wait until the weather is warm and you can leave here." Zuo Dengfeng opened his mouth to the thirteenth.

"Thirteen, if you understand us, you can nod." Wu Xinyu spoke.

After Zuo Dengfeng and Wu Xinyu finished speaking, Thirteen didn't move, his eyes showed hesitation and doubt, and after a long time, his eyes gradually changed to trust and softness, and then he really nodded at the two.

Although the two had already guessed that Thirteen could understand human speech, they were still surprised to see that it really nodded.

"Did you really escape from an ancient tomb?" Wu Xinyu was the first to react.

Thirteen Wenyan nodded again, this time without hesitation, which meant that it already had absolute trust in Zuo Dengfeng and Wu Xinyu, and this trust was not blind, but a decision made after several months of observation.

"Are you a cat?" Wu Xinyu stroked Thirteen's back curiously. In Wu Xinyu's eyes, Thirteen was a cat, and she didn't want it to be another animal.

Thirteen hesitated for a moment after hearing Wu Xinyu's words, then shook his head and said, "Meow." ”

"Is Thirteen a cat or not?" Wu Xinyu looked at Zuo Dengfeng suspiciously, and Thirteen shook his head to indicate that it was not a cat, but it was a cat's cry, which confused Wu Xinyu.

"I don't know, you just think it's a cat......"