Chapter 10 A robe

"What do the thirteen yin and yang mean?" Wu Xinyu asked.

"Thirteen is a number, and the coverage of yin and yang is large." Zuo Dengfeng frowned and shook his head.

"Could it be its name?" Wu Xinyu looked down at the big cat in her arms.

"Then who knows." Zuo Dengfeng replied with the quilt in his hand.

"Yin and yang, yin and yang." Wu Xinyu is the girl's surname after all, and she started shouting while holding the big cat.

"It's so ugly, people who don't know think you're shouting for money." Zuo Dengfeng couldn't help laughing, at this time, the ocean was called Yinyang.

"Thirteen, thirteen." Wu Xinyu immediately changed his name when he heard this.

"Thirteen is a number, how can it be a name?" Zuo Dengfeng laughed again.

"Then you give it a name." Wu Xinyu pursed her lips when she saw this.

"You rescued the cat, you can shout whatever you want." Zuo Dengfeng shook his head and smiled. Before he knew the true identity of this feline, Zuo Dengfeng could only call it a cat.

"Just shout thirteen." Wu Xin's words are final.

"Okay." Zuo Dengfeng shook his head helplessly.

Wu Xinyu hugged the cat, and Zuo Dengfeng quickly returned to the Taoist temple with the quilt and the things purchased from the bazaar. After coming back, Wu Xinyu took out the pheasant left over from the two of them and fed it to the big cat, but the dying big cat just looked up and sniffed it weakly, but did not take a bite. Seeing this, Wu Xinyu hurriedly ran to the main hall and brought the raw fish pickled by Zuo Dengfeng, and this time the big cat finally got up and ate it with a shudder.

"It must have been a long time since it had eaten." Wu Xinyu stared at the big cat that was eating slowly. Big cats chew very slowly, and it seems difficult to swallow.

"You ruined, I finally got those fish pickled." Zuo Dengfeng sighed helplessly.

"You're so unsympathetic." Wu Xinyu knew that Zuo Dengfeng was joking with her, not only was she not angry, but she also seemed very happy, and the reason for her happiness was that Zuo Dengfeng's words contained the word girl.

"I didn't see you sympathetic when I ate pheasants yesterday." Zuo Dengfeng picked up a branch and stabbed the big cat, and the big cat immediately stopped eating and looked up at Zuo Dengfeng and Wu Xinyu.

"Eat." Wu Xinyu touched the big cat's head, and the latter lowered his head and continued to eat.

"You're not afraid it will bite you?" Zuo Dengfeng frowned and spoke, most of the cats and dogs at this time are looking for food by themselves, because the food is not easy to come by, so there will be food protection behavior when eating, Zuo Dengfeng previously poked it with a branch in order to judge whether it has this kind of unpleasant food protection behavior.

"It's smart and understands us." Wu Xinyu looked serious.

"Thirteen, don't eat, turn your head." Zuo Dengfeng smiled when he heard this, and opened his mouth to the big cat. What he didn't expect was that the big cat that was eating really stopped eating and turned his head as he said.

"You see, I'm not wrong." Wu Xinyu smiled proudly.

"Get down and roll around." Zuo Dengfeng further verified. This time the big cat didn't listen to him.

"Let's boil water and bathe Thirteen." Wu Xinyu saw that the big cat did not obey Zuo Dengfeng's order, and hurriedly diverted the topic.

"It's so cold, taking a bath will freeze it." Zuo Dengfeng threw away the branch and reached out to stroke the fur of the big cat, and soon he discovered two phenomena that puzzled him, it is known that animals will grow fluff from under the skin in autumn to resist the cold of winter, this big cat only has coarse hair on its body and does not have the layer of fluff that is born for winter, which indicates that it may not have lived in this environment before. Another phenomenon that made Zuo Dengfeng feel strange was that there was a large amount of fine dust powder inside and outside the fur of this big cat, and cats were animals that liked cleanliness, how could they let themselves be contaminated with so much dust.

Although the big cat ate very slowly, but the size was very large, and soon ate the pickled fish, Wu Xinyu took out a few pickled fish from the main hall of the Taoist temple again, and ate four in succession, the big cat no longer eats, and lies down on the spot after drinking water.

Wu Xinyu saw the big cat lying down, so he laid a grass nest from the side of the pot stove, Zuo Dengfeng did not stop it, and went to the pond to fish with a fishing rod, pickled fish is the next meal of the two in winter, can not be fed to the cat, and the pickled fish contains a lot of salt, and it is not good for the cat to eat too much.

As soon as the weather is cold, the fish will not bite the hook very much, and when Zuo Dengfeng returns to the Taoist Temple with a few fish he caught, his head is already west, Wu Xinyu is sitting on the kang sewing clothes, although she can't cook, but she has already boiled hot water, at this moment Zuo Dengfeng has the feeling of going home, and secretly made up his mind, and will take Wu Xinyu home in a few days, so that his mother and two sisters can meet.

With two quilts, the two of them have one quilt for each person at night, which eliminates tension and embarrassment. The wind picked up in the middle of the night, and the temperature plummeted, but fortunately I asked the chief for a quilt during the day, otherwise I would have suffered at night.

When I woke up in the morning, I found that it was snowing outside, and there was half a foot of snow on the ground, and winter had finally arrived.

Opening the door, Thirteen walked out in a hurry, then drowned and then shuddered back and curled up in the grass nest. Since the snow was still falling, Zuo Dengfeng simply cleaned the way to the two toilets and returned to the house.

Heavy snow fell intermittently for three days, and the snow reached more than two feet thick, which was really a rare heavy snowfall.

The heavy snow closed the door, the two could only hide in the Taoist temple in the cat winter, before this two had prepared the firewood and rice for the winter, it was not difficult to live, Zuo Dengfeng would often carry a shotgun and waddle out, hunt some hares and pheasants back, he did not do this simply for himself and Wu Xinyu, thirteen do not eat cooked food, this Xi surname makes Zuo Dengfeng frequently go out to hunt, and suffer a lot.

Soon it was the beginning of the month, and the fat sea did not come, and Zuo Dengfeng did not think much about it, because the heavy snow had blocked the path into the mountain, and the fat sea could not enter.

During this time, Zuo Dengfeng has been looking at the books he brought, and in the end he can recite it backwards, ordinary Taoist temples should have scriptures and Taoist collections, but unfortunately there is not even a book in the Qingshui Temple, Zuo Dengfeng tried to tease Thirteen to play in his spare time, as time goes by, Thirteen is no longer skinny, but unfortunately Thirteen is very lazy, and does not like to play with people like other cats, most of the time he lies in the nest and closes his eyes to recuperate, only when Zuo Dengfeng and Wu Xinyu talk will he go into the south house and listen.

Boredom, Zuo Dengfeng asked Wu Xinyu what was going on with the Dao she had learned, and Wu Xinyu's answer made him laugh and cry, the Dao she learned was dictated by her missing master, and she had only studied it for three days, and now the mantra and practice methods have been forgotten, and only in the days when she has a monthly vacation, the qi and blood will automatically speed up.

After waiting for another month, Fat Dahai still didn't come, which made Zuo Dengfeng anxious, there had been no news from his family for a long time, and he didn't know if his mother's cough was better.

"Let's go out of the mountain tomorrow." Wu Xinyu saw that Zuo Dengfeng had been restless recently, and knew that he was worried about his family.

"You have to walk more than ten miles out of the mountain, eighty miles back to the county seat, sixty miles to my house, more than one hundred and fifty miles to change to a normal day, the snow is so heavy, how can we go back?" Zuo Dengfeng shook his head and sighed, it had been snowing intermittently during this time.

"Stay one night from the county seat and leave the next day." Wu Xinyu came up with an idea.

Zuo Dengfeng nodded in agreement when he heard this, he was too homesick.

"Here, try." Wu Xinyu bit off the thread and handed the dress she had been sewing to Zuo Dengfeng.

"I asked you to sew clothes for yourself, how did you do it for me?" Zuo Dengfeng took the clothes and shook them, and found that it was a robe, the size was sewn according to his body shape, before that, Zuo Dengfeng did not pay attention to what kind of clothes Wu Xinyu was sewing, the most important thing was that Wu Xinyu had been avoiding letting him see it.

"I'll just wear yours, and I'll give you this." Wu Xinyu replied with a smile.

"My one is too big, I'll buy you a good one when I go to the county seat." Zuo Dengfeng looked at this robe, the robe is oblique, the style is exactly the same as the Taoist robe, lined with cotton, in order to avoid the bloat caused by cotton, Wu Xinyu will be flattened with needles and threads every few inches, this cumbersome work makes the whole robe very elegant, and it also consumed her nearly two months.

"Don't buy me new clothes, I'll just wear this." Wu Xinyu shook his head and spoke.

"Why?" Zuo Dengfeng looked at the robe with extremely fine stitches, and found that the silk thread of the sewn robe was made of black, white and red silk threads, not a single color, which made this robe elegant and solemn at the same time.

"Don't just don't." Wu Xinyu shook her head resolutely, and instead urged Zuo Dengfeng to put on the robe quickly and let her take a look.

Zuo Dengfeng complied with her wishes and changed into the robe, which fits very well and is very warm, but the style is a little strange, this robe is shorter than the ordinary robe, and it is oblique, it is a standard Taoist robe, presumably Wu Xinyu will only sew this style.

"It's good-looking, it's good-looking." Wu Xinyu looked at her work excitedly.

"Yes, that's good." Zuo Dengfeng echoed casually, although this robe is a little special, it is full of Wu Xinyu's hard work and her affection for herself.

"Keep it for the New Year." Zuo Dengfeng wanted to take off the robe as he spoke.

"Don't take it off, put it on." Seeing this, Wu Xinyu hurriedly stretched out his hand to stop it.

"It's going to get dirty." Zuo Dengfeng turned his head to look at Wu Xinyu, during this time, Wu Xinyu had received a sufficient and good diet, gained weight, his complexion was much better, his skin was becoming whiter, and his appearance was more delicate.

"I'll wash you when it's dirty." Wu Xinyu spoke softly.

Zuo Dengfeng saw that she insisted, so he didn't say anything anymore, and then went out hunting with a soil gun, Wu Xinyu packed up his things at home, and prepared to go out of the mountain with Zuo Dengfeng to meet his family tomorrow.

Set off in the afternoon, Zuo Dengfeng did not hit the hare until the evening, and after returning to the Taoist temple, the two cleaned up the hare, and the rabbit meat was kept and brought to the mother, and the water was still given to the thirteen.

Thirteen's meal was getting bigger and bigger, and the water of a hare could no longer feed it, and when he had finished eating, he looked up at the washed and flayed hare on the stove.

"Look at what you want, if you want to eat it, catch it yourself." Zuo Dengfeng buckled the hare in a basin. After this period of cultivation, Thirteen is no longer so thin, and fluff has grown under the hair to keep out the cold, but it is very lazy, and rarely goes out of the room except for drowning.

Hearing this, Thirteen withdrew his coveted gaze and walked towards the door without saying a word. Thirteen has a characteristic, give as much as you want, eat as much as you want, and don't pester people to beg if you don't have enough to eat.

Seeing this, Zuo Dengfeng thought it was going to defecate, so he didn't care, who knew that after waiting for a while, he found that it didn't come back, so he began to be anxious, and hurriedly went out to look for Wu Xinyu, and walked out of the Taoist temple and found that there was a cat's footprint in the snow to the west, Zuo Dengfeng ran fast for a while, and soon found the thirteen who were moving hard in the snow. The snow in the mountains was thick, and with every step Thirteen moved, the snow would collapse into its belly.

"You want to run away from home just a few words?" Zuo Dengfeng ran forward and pulled his neck to pick up Thirteen, because there was not much to eat, Thirteen's weight did not gain much, not yet twenty catties, according to Zuo Dengfeng's estimate, if it returned to a normal state, the weight should be at least more than fifty catties.

"Say no more about it, it seems to understand us." Then Wu Xinyu, who followed up, picked up Thirteen from Zuo Dengfeng's hand.

"Hmm." Zuo Dengfeng nodded in agreement, turned around and began to walk back. This animal is in trouble, there is nowhere to go in the ice and snow now, raise it for a while, and then let it go when spring comes, the thirteen are too big to be kept at home.

Back at the Taoist temple, Zuo Dengfeng cut off the rabbit's head and threw it to Thirteen, Thirteen looked at Zuo Dengfeng, turned around and walked into the grass nest, and did not eat the rabbit's head......