Bi Fang's words made me speechless for a while.

Indeed, almost every yokai I have seen has a touching or legendary story, and even the weakest-looking yokai have a fascinating past, but Bi Fang, who is so powerful that I can't feel the aura of youkai, tells me that not all youkai have a deep past.

At two o'clock in the afternoon, after the last wave of lunch guests left, the bustling barbecue restaurant finally settled down.

"You've seen a lot of monsters, why are you still the same as ordinary people. Bi Fang touched the tip of his index finger with his thumb, and a small flame burst out of its fingertip, and it lit a cigarette and spit it out as skillfully as a human.

"Because most of the youkai who come to me have a story. I replied.

"Who doesn't have a story yet," said Bi Fang, "but whether the story is worth telling to others is another matter." ”

"How?"

"For some guys, it is worth talking about gaining great power, but there are also guys, whether it is the reincarnation of heaven and earth or the transformation of life and death, it doesn't care," Bi Fang took a peanut from a small iron basin and stuffed it into his mouth, "These things are too big, so big that they don't have much energy to recall and tell, but some small things that can't be smaller, are rare adventures for these guys, and anyone they see has to nag a few words." ”

"You're the latter?"

"Well, that's understandable," Bi Fang said, "you think I'm a powerful monster, don't you? If you say it by conventional standards, I used to be quite powerful, the attendant of the gods, the god of fire, not angry and arrogant, and people are frightened, compared to me, now I am just a barbecue restaurant owner, and I have nothing to be proud of." By the way, do you drink beer?"

Before I could answer, a full glass of beer was already in front of me.

"People aspire to be great guys, and they always say that they must have different experiences and all kinds of adventures to live in vain," Bi Fang poured himself a glass of wine, "but you can only feel it when you get to that position, wow, you are really tired, so tired that you have no time to take care of the beauty around you, as if you have put a motor on yourself, and you go forward suddenly, and you don't dare to stop for a moment, and finally one day, I can't stand the work next to the gods, and Ma Yuer resigned and came here." ”

"And now?" I asked, "do you feel relaxed?"

"Okay," Bi Fang said, "I pretend to be a human being, or a human who runs a barbecue restaurant, which used to be a pleasant thing to think about, without those annoying jobs to imprison me, I open the store at what time I want to open every day, anyway, I don't need to make money, barbecue and drink, how beautiful the days are, but slowly I found out that I really underestimate human beings." ”

It took a big sip of wine, and I took a sip of it, and it tasted amazing, unlike anything I had drunk before.

"At the beginning everything was fine, I slept until I woke up naturally, walked around, basked in the sun, listened to gossip, and lived every day like an old human man," Bi Fang said, "but as there were more and more guests, I found that life was not as simple as I imagined, and the guests had expectations for you, and you had to respond to their expectations, as if there was an extra responsibility, heavy, but quite reassuring." This feeling became more and more obvious after I learned how to raise a dog. ”

"You've ever had a dog?"

"Of course, I've been in City A for many years, and I haven't done anything," Bi Fang took out a photo from his pocket, which showed an ordinary dog napping at the door of the barbecue restaurant, "This is my dog, named Kebab, is a very sensible old boy, it was six years old when I took it over, so it died in a few years." ”

Bi Fang said, touching the photo.

"When it was still there, the customers in the store liked it very much, and it was always skewering and skewering, and this kid was also clever, he could always get meat to eat, and he was happy around me every day, but as he got older, he couldn't even eat meat, and the skewers made me understand what you humans call family. "At that time, I felt for the first time what a great responsibility it is to be trusted and relied on by another life. ”

"When did the kebabs leave?" I asked.

"Last year," it put away the photo, "a youkai of my level has no concept of life, and I don't understand anything about life or death. It wasn't until the kebabs left that I began to observe these things, and I always heard from the customers who came to my store to eat the skewers, who had a child born in their family, and who had an elderly person who had recently been hospitalized again. ”

"Yes, we are not as strong as you, we are not as long as you, and the days we live in the world can be counted," I said, "and we have to find a way to work and earn money, or we will starve to death, and all kinds of endless things and ties that haunt you, and the word "do what you want" is almost impossible for human beings. ”

"But do you know how much I envy you?" said Bi Fang, "why are youkai always attracted to humans, because the difference between youkai and humans is that humans have a life, and most youkai are just alive. ”

"Do you want to be human?" I asked it.

"Haha, of course I want to, but I don't dare. It said, "Human life is so exciting, they can happen all kinds of things that I can't imagine in just a few decades, from life and death, to eating and sleeping, and what kind of school, work, love and marriage, etc., and human beings are so smart, smart enough to flexibly deal with all kinds of different occasions and relationships, which I can't do, so I just look at it and am very satisfied." ”

"It's not just youkai, humans like you too, right?"

"That's natural, haha, are you very discerning," Bi Fang touched his head, "They not only like my barbecue, but also like to chat and drink with me, I just learned from them that your life is so colorful, it turns out that birthday is a thing that needs to be celebrated, and the boss will fire employees if he is unhappy, by the way, you will also drive your own travel, there are many people who will spend time exercising, mobile phones are also a good thing, you can see the outside world at home..."

Bi Fang's eyebrows fluttered to describe these ordinary things in the eyes of human beings.

"So, I really envy you, and I'm glad that I quit my job and came here to become a barbecue restaurant owner, I have no interest in power for a long time, I want to be an ordinary monster disguised as a human, cooking, chatting, drinking, watching humans and monsters every day, although it is not as easy as I imagined, but it is extremely free. ”

"If you disguise yourself as a human, you can do anything, why did you choose to open a barbecue restaurant?" I asked, "Is it because you're good at using fire?"

"Not exactly, I didn't know what to do when I first came to human society, one night I was eating barbecue at a stall, and I saw a few big men eating meat and drinking wine and talking and laughing, one by one eating sweaty, not caring about the image, but they looked so happy," Bi Fang said, "I guess I saw that I was observing them, and they even invited me to join in, and at that time I knew that there was a word called skewers." ”

"Haha, it's always funny when that word comes out of your mouth. ”

"I was very satisfied with their chats that night, in fact, the barbecue that day was not very delicious, and the taste of the wine was weird, but I don't know why I was in a very happy mood, these guys still often come to my shop," Bi Fang said, "I suddenly figured it out that day, some people think that drinking coffee is life, some people think that fitness is life, I think it's life, everyone is life together, so I opened a barbecue restaurant, I didn't expect business to be good." ”

Speaking of this, Bi Fang drank the beer in his cup in one gulp, stood up and twisted his waist.

"Let's talk about it today, I have nothing to do in the store every day, I love to talk when I see people, don't you mind," it said, "I have to prepare the ingredients for the evening, don't forget to bring your kitten with you on the day of the Mid-Autumn Festival, and we'll talk later." ”

Before leaving, Bi Fang also gave me a bottle of beer, saying that it was a gift for Tsubaki.

"What! you actually got the first table to give away!" Sure enough, Tsubaki was angry when she knew that I had gone to Bifang barbecue without permission, but fortunately there was wine to soothe her foodie's heart.

"Do you envy humans?" I asked after Tsubaki had a satisfied burp.

"Why envy humans?" she said, wagging her tail, "weak, short-lived, what is there to envy." ”

"Bi Fang seems to want to be a human. I said.

"That's because it's tired of the life of youkai for a long time," Tsubaki said, "Once a youkai has a human heart, it will start to be dissatisfied, Bi Fang used to be a guy who stood at the apex of youkai, for it, of course, human life will be much warmer and more interesting, but for most of the youkai who don't know what the apex is like, of course, the scenery from the top is more attractive." ”

Thinking about what Tsubaki said, it's right.,Everyone likes to pursue a life they haven't had.,Maybe there's a lazy monster around you who doesn't want to be on duty.,Just hide around you and talk and laugh.。

(End of chapter)