History is often forgotten in the form of stories.

Sometimes too much time has passed, and no one who has witnessed it has brought his emotions, the pain and cruelty he witnessed, and even the wounds and scars he has shown, to alert and shock future generations.

As a result, the record of this incident is only words and images, and it will also be tampered with by some ill-intentioned people, re-arranging the real event beyond recognition.

When future generations come to see such a story, they can no longer feel the weight of history and the color soaked in blood, but just say: Oh, there is still such an incident.

As of 2023, there are still dozens of witnesses to a certain incident, and they are still reminding people that such a tragedy is their own experience, and it is by no means a story that some people do not exist without admitting it, let alone tampering with their life experience.

He is still alive, his life, his suffering, his personal experience, can you deny and tamper with?

In 583 AD, in the war against the Turkic invasion, the famous general Li Chong was martyred, and before his death, he entrusted a scholar who was said to be able to travel thousands of miles a day to help him send information to Yang Jian, and the scholar also handed over his son Li Min to Yang Jian to raise.

In 600 AD, Li Jingxun, the daughter of Li Min, was born and died in 608 AD, and her coffin was engraved with the words "death when the coffin is opened".

Ten years later, another branch of the Li family established the Tang Dynasty, and then the Sui Dynasty fell, and Li Shimin's attempt to seize the throne of the emperor fell short, and he was able to build the "Lingyan Pavilion" to seal the gods according to the orders of the heavenly court.

In 624 AD, Wu Meiniang, the second daughter of the warrior Tong of Yingguogong, was born.

In 649 A.D., Wu Meiniang entered the Ganye Temple as a nun, and one day because Li Zhi did not come to see her because of her no-show, she walked into the back mountain sullenly.

She saw a scholar with a cat.

The scholar fished beside the waterhole, motionless like a statue, only the wind and the cat were stirring his robe, thick long hair, eyebrows as handsome as a sword, and a shallow beard.

But the cat was not at peace for a moment, one moment catching butterflies, one moment walking on tiptoe, the next moment as if he had just found that he had a tail, going around in circles to bite his own tail, playing for a while about to stretch out his round paws to try the scholar's snort, as if to see if he was dead.

Its round claws felt the scholar's snort, and only then did it breathe a sigh of relief, and then twisted its neck a few times arrogantly.

Seeing that the scholar ignored it, he climbed onto his shoulder, and pressed the back of his head with two round claws together.

After a while, after all, he was tired of playing, so he jumped on his lap and lay down, flipped his belly, moved his position comfortably, and shrunk his round paws in front of his chest, and fell asleep comfortably.

Wu Meiniang stood next to her and watched for a while, and couldn't help but smile, seeing that the scholar was always staring at Yufu, this concentration was also very human, and her face was handsome and good-looking, so she said softly:

"The fishing scholar, this is the Royal Temple, if you just break in by mistake, leave quickly."

"We haven't caught a fish yet, and if we leave now, what are we going to eat at noon?" The cat's ears moved, its claws stretched out, it rolled over, and fell off the scholar's legs.

The scholar, who looked like a wood carved clay sculpture, reached out at this time, grabbed the cat, and then put it on the ground.

"It turned out to be a cat demon. This scholar is your cat slave? Looking at his appearance, has he been sucked out of his essence by you, and has he become a walking corpse who will only obey your orders? It was not the first time Wu Meiniang had seen a monster, but she was not in a hurry, the corners of her mouth were slightly upturned, revealing a smile with a demonic meaning.

"What does it mean to suck up the essence of meow?" The cat tilted its head and looked at Wu Meiniang in a daze, of course it was good to only listen to its orders, but it didn't want the scholar to become a corpse...... Corpse-like meat.

This sounded like something like a small dried fish, and the cat thought about how his scholar had turned into a small dried fish, and suddenly became a little unhappy.

"Kittens, don't talk to bad women." But the scholar turned his head at this time.

In his pupils as deep as the night sky, there are dots of stars across the sky, and in the middle of the galaxy, there is a whirlpool that can swallow time and space, Wu Meiniang looked into his eyes, only to feel a dizziness.

When Wu Meiniang came to her senses, she was already in Li Zhi's arms, and Li Zhi told her that she had been in a coma for three days and three nights.

Just three days and three nights? Wu Meiniang did not tell Li Zhi that she experienced a period of life when she was in a coma, and in that life, she replaced the Li family and became the emperor.

Or can you give it a try?

Wu Meiniang asked Li Zhi to help her find a scholar with a cat...... This matter has been passed on, and for some reason it has become Wu Meiniang's fear of cats.

Later, Empress Wang and Concubine Xiao Shu, who were persecuted by Wu Meiniang, were even more convinced, and cursed with a poisonous oath: "May Ah Wu be a mouse, and I will be a cat, and I will strangle his throat alive!" ”

So, thousands of years later, no one knows what happened to Wu Zetian when he met a scholar and a cat, people only say that Wu Zetian is afraid of cats, and later generations also made a bad movie called "The Legend of the Demon Cat", which is even more unknown.

Cats and scholars are forgotten in the way of stories.

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After my brother's story was told, Yao Jing'an was extremely uncomfortable for some reason.

It seems that the stupid cat demon really existed, and its dazed and panicked when it found that the scholar had no breath, the sadness and exhaustion when guarding it, and the final despair and martyrdom of death, as if it had passed through thousands of years, it could still be felt.

It's obviously just a story, but my brother tells it in a tone that seems to record history, and he has personally experienced it, giving people a real experience and a strong emotional infection.

It is precisely because of this that people who know that the story is just a story have a more absurd feeling...... How could he tell it so truthfully?

Yao Jing'an was in no mood to force her brother to study anymore, and she always thought of the stupid cat who claimed to enslave others forever, so she forced others to learn the method of immortality.

My brother is really annoying, and he doesn't want Yao Jingan to force him to study, so he tells such a sad story.

Her mother, Yao Qiyi, called and asked her where she had gone after the summer camp, and that there were guests at home, so she asked her to go back to dinner early.

Next, Yao Jingan was not in the mood to force Zhou Fuxi to study, so he had to let him go first.

She left the big schoolbag and let Zhou Fu like to study. claimed that the next time I came over, I found that he was still so tired, and he would definitely look good.

When Yao Jing'an went downstairs, she found that the girl who had just appeared at home had not gone far.

Probably because there was no need to show off or show anything, she had already put on the coat of Lushan Middle School, and was taking the little girl who was learning pinyin with her brother, one big and one small, standing in the corner of the wall and looking up.

After a glance, it turned out that there was a peach hanging under the dense leaves, and I don't know how they found out about it, and they were fighting the idea of the peach.

At the end of August in Shonan, the heat is like a furnace, and a little shade is not enough to cool down, and you can faintly hear the faint chirping of cicadas, and there are two squirrels squatting on the chicken coop not far away, which seem to have been sunburned.

The girl's slender white arms were raised, as if they would be scorched by the sun, but she was not afraid of the sun like ordinary girls, and walked around under the scorching sun, as if looking for some tool for picking peaches.

In the end, she didn't find any tools, but the little girl was very thoughtful, and Yao Jing'an didn't pay attention to her kung fu, so she didn't know where to find a plastic bag to put on her head...... Does this block out the sun's rays? Or will you be stuffy and can't stand heat stroke?

At last the girl stood back under the peaches, and with great eagerness she grabbed the edge of the wall, presumably to climb the wall to pick it, but she pulled off one of the wall tiles, and turned to protect the little girl, and the brick fell on her shoulder, and rolled down her back.

For some reason, she didn't say a word.

Yao Jing'an originally thought that this girl was a little goblin, but now she has changed slightly, but she is really in the development of puberty, eicosatetraenoic acid, docosahexaenoic acid, protein, taurine, fatty acids, iron, zinc, selenium, iodine and B vitamins have not entered the brain, but have been absorbed by the excess part of the chest, which does not look very smart.

Just now, my brother also said that there is indeed a creature like goblins in the world, and goblins are not very smart, so goblins were still relatively common until the Tang Dynasty, and the closer they are to modern times, the more difficult it is to see, and they have not become protected animals, so they are naturally extinct.

The cat demon ...... knew that his brother was just talking nonsense, but Yao Jing believed it a little in his peace of mind, or a little bit hoped that it was real.

Yao Jing'an sighed softly, waited for the online taxi that came to pick her up, and then prepared to go to her parents' house.

Unconsciously, the story of the cat and the scholar has become history again, narrated in the voice of those who witnessed it.