For as long as I can remember, my voice couldn't make a sound, my brother smiled and said, only in this way can I be saved, I didn't understand at that time, I only knew that children who couldn't speak, especially those who had no parents, would only be bullied by children of the same age or older in the human world.

Last month, I inadvertently killed two traffickers.

I didn't feel sick from the first killing, and I didn't feel uncomfortable with the power in my body, I liked the power I had because I could manipulate the dead to my advantage at will, and I was suddenly able to speak.

"I found some rotten apples left today, so I'll swallow them. ”

There was a smell I didn't like in the pickle pit behind me, most of it was a sour stench, and I sat on the only piece of clean ground, which wasn't really clean, and my brother had just rolled over from the garbage and staggered in front of me.

I looked at him and said, "Brother, you are as thin as a bamboo pole, and you can't walk steadily." ”

I held out my hand, and he poured the apple seeds into my palm, and my stomach whimpered with hunger, like a ghost crying wolf, so even if it was just a few inconspicuous apple seeds, I put them in my mouth and chewed them carefully, hoping to chew out some bitterness.

"There are no buns today either. I said again.

Actually, I really want to eat steamed buns, and the half of the buns from three days ago, I think they are particularly delicious.

"The buns are gone, don't worry, there will be food tomorrow, this pickled pit is a place where the servants outside the village specially pour the food that is not used, and you can definitely find food to avoid being beaten." ”

I glanced at his knee, it was three days ago that he had been chased to the alley by a few strong men after stealing the bun from a family in the village, but fortunately the family thought he was unlucky and did not want to take back the bun, otherwise he would have to starve for another day.

He seemed to think of something, and a spirit turned to me and asked, "Bamboo pole, where did you learn the word, how can you understand this kind of thing, you went to the academy again today?"

I didn't like his tone, and I wasn't in the mood to taste the bitterness of the apple seeds, so I looked up at him and asked, "Why can't you go, the children in the village can go." ”

He looked very serious, "Have you ever been bullied?" "What he's afraid of is that I'll be found out by other kids and bullied, right......

"Ah~ You guessed it, so what, who let us have ghost fire in our eyes. "I lay lazily with my head on my arm, and I like to look at the sky with these glowing green eyes, pretending to be indifferent.

My brother examined me with suspicion, and he guessed something, and said, "You don't have any injuries on your body, did you use that ability again?" ”

I knew why I couldn't use it, this ability could solve a lot of problems at once.

I sat up suddenly, I just knew that I was annoyed now, "They said I was a youkai, I said I wasn't, I just looked special, but they were unreasonable, so they hit me with stones and kicked me, so I bit them to death with a corpse dog." ”

The corpse dog was summoned by me with my special ability, and this guy was very obedient, but unfortunately he died in less than two hours, so I was very depressed that I was loyal but not useful.

My brother's expression was shocked, and he suddenly pulled me up to take me away, and I said impatiently, "What are you doing?" ”

"You killed someone, you can't stay in this place, I have found a place to stay in the next village, let's go there." ”

I angrily shook off his hand, unwilling to follow him away, "Why can other people's children eat fragrant buns, why can they play together, why do they have beds to sleep and books to read, we have to constantly change places, we are chased and beaten every day, we can't eat enough, and sleep in the open!"

My brother turned to face me, his face was as dark as a cloudy day, and in the blink of an eye, I saw him throw his hand quickly, which I couldn't catch, and when his hand was withdrawn, one side of my cheek burned like a burning pain.

My heart twitched. I turned my crooked face and glared at him, but my brother didn't mean to apologize.

"Because we don't have parents! Because all the people of the same race are dead, listen, you and I are monsters, and in the human world, you can't live if you reveal your identity, so you must listen to your brother's arrangement!"

It turns out that I'm a youkai.

When I heard the news, I thought about it for a long time, so I let him take me by the hand all the way to the next village, and without saying a word, it was as quiet as if I was dumb again. The village next door was even more pickled, and I often had to grab food from the living dogs, and if it would be nice if the dog died, I could command them as I pleased.

Two months later, the weather became hot and dry, and the more this happened, the more unpleasant the smell of the pickled pit behind me became, and I had to catch a fever sickness.

Hehe, how can there be such a weak monster in the world.

"Saru, look, what is this!"

I squinted, drowsiness took over my brain, and my head sank like it was filled with water. My brother shook a box of jars in my ear, and there were several things in it.

I'm a little interested, but unfortunately I can't show it.

"This is a candy jar, for my brother to perform on the street, an old Taoist priest rewarded. ”

It's good, it's a good harvest today. I thought so, and a sweet piece was stuffed into my mouth, and my saliva secreted this sweetness, and my spirit was better.

"What are these......" I muttered.

"This thing is called sugar, the favorite sweets of the children in the village, you get better quickly, and feed you one every day for my brother." ”

His expression looked like he was pretending to be happy, but in fact, his slightly furrowed eyebrows betrayed how much he worried about me. I nodded, and sleepiness pushed my eyelids down, but I couldn't help it, so I closed my eyes again and fell asleep.

A few days have passed, all I have the impression is the sweetness in my mouth, I can't remember anything else, but fortunately, as a demon, I recovered quickly, and I was cured in less than five days.

The scorching summer is coming to an end, and the cicadas seem to be making their last struggle, still so noisy. I touched my brother's jar, which was empty, but my mouth was so hungry that the taste of sugar for five days in a row helped the worms in my stomach to grow, and I wanted to eat sugar again.

So I picked up some stones the same size as a sugar cube from where I could see them, put them in a jar, shook them, poured them out, and put them in my mouth.

Nothing else happened except the rustling smell, and I came to the conclusion that stones could not be turned into sugar, and I thought so, but I still refused to spit out the stones in my mouth.

I looked at the sky, hungry ghosts crying wolves, often at this time the body will consciously want to drive away hunger with sleepiness, so I subconsciously fell asleep with a stone in my mouth.

"Saru!

My brother's voice came, and his hand pushed me hard, and I woke up in a daze, and the sunset on the horizon was like a fairy's clothes, very beautiful.

I was just about to say something, but when I opened my mouth, I noticed that there was a smell of rust in my mouth, and I raised my hand to touch it, and it turned out that my mouth was bleeding.

My brother glared at me in disbelief, and he took out a tooth and hung it in front of me, only to realize that I was missing a front tooth in my mouth.

"Why did you have a stone in your mouth and knocked out your front teeth, do you know how anxious you are when you find out that your mouth is bleeding for your brother!"

I stared at the jar rolling aside, which contained some stones. My brother noticed my gaze, took the mouth of the jar and looked into it, poured out the stones inside, and was surprised for a while, and his eyes gradually became moist, like a haze after rain.

He put his arms around me, his voice was choked, like a needle in his throat, and he said, "I'm sorry." ”

I don't know why he was crying, I just reached out and patted him on the back, hoping he would feel better, but it didn't work at all.

It was the first and last time I heard my brother's cry, and it lasted for a long time, until the sunset changed color and the moon hung high.

My heart became sour with his cry, my eyes became sore, and it rained in my eyelashes, and I accompanied my brother to rain in my eyes.

At that time, why did we cry, and it took me ten years to understand why we were, because we lived too humblely. In reality, we are too ignorant, and what is ignorant is the uncertainty of the future.

I was only eight years old at the time, and ten years later, I became an adult cat demon, and my brother explained everything to me. I learned my mother's name, I learned the identity of my Black Witch Cat Demon Clan, and I learned about the blood feud that made us where we are now.

My brother and my master opened an incense shop in the capital, specializing in customizing incense burners for wealthy families.

I used the light skills I learned with my brother from the master, the Taoist priest who gave the sugar pot before, to run to the theater to play, I was supposed to send the incense burner to the richest man in the capital, but I preferred to watch the drama in the theater paint their faces and sing songs, and I also learned a trick from Xiao Xiangzi in it not to smile.

If some officials like you to laugh, you have to laugh, so that you can easily get a piece of silver, I like Xiao Xiangzi's style, there are a lot of people.

"Your brother didn't let you deliver the goods today?" Xiao Xiangzi was removing the makeup on his face, and the left side of his face and half of his face in the mirror were completely in contrast.

"There are every day, how can I get it today, this time I want to send the richest man's Nanyan Snake incense burner, but I have a good effort, and I can send it later. ”

Xiao Xiangzi finished removing his makeup, and walked over to me and raised my hand to look at it carefully, "Why are your nails blunt, I like your natural black long armor very much, if it's not perfect, I feel that I have mental shortcomings, you wait, I'll find tools to help you get rid of it." ”

As he spoke, he plunged into the costume room, and after a while, he brought a plate of miscellaneous things and sat down on a chair beside me, and rubbed my nails.

"Your nails can shine in the sun, I look more precious than the gold and silver jewelry used by the palace concubines, I have to help you take care of it, you must not use your nails to pick some pickled things in the future, I have to die of distress." ”

When he first met me, my fingernails were full of pickled filth from my childhood, and I never thought to clean them up.

Xiao Xiangzi speaks girly, I also seem to be used to it, he is my only friend in the capital, I usually don't talk to him too much, just let him help me with my nails, I don't say anything, it's good for him to nag on the side.

"Okay, you go to deliver the goods now, don't reach your brother's ears, or you'll be scolded again. ”

After half a pillar of incense, Xiao Xiangzi put away these tools that he called manicures, and the nails of these two hands were repeatedly examined by him, and there was no problem with them, and the nails were particularly smooth by him.

"Then I'm leaving. I smiled at him, and went to the curtain with my back to him and conjured a burner of incense to the north gate of the theater.