Chapter 7, Some Past Events
When Chu Zhanyan came back again, there was an extra black cat with four paws and snow-white in his arms.
"That's what you call a helper?"
Fang Jingya looked at the cat and felt a little confused.
Because it was lying quietly in the boy's arms at this time, with its belly facing the sky, its four paws curled up, unconsciously squirming a few times into the air from time to time, half-squinting, looking extremely comfortable and comfortable, looking like an old cat lying on the side of the well basking in the sun, ordinary, except for the black and shiny fur, and snowball-like clean paws......
This guy has been gone for half an hour, isn't he catching a cat?
And judging from the natural arm in front of him, and the natural degree of casualness of the palm that pulls the cat's head upwards and inwards, it is obviously not the first time.
"Well, it's very strong, it was picked up by my master, you can call it Meow. ”
Chu Zhanyan nodded, the warm body of the black cat in his arms seemed to stiffen, and his faint gaze was like amber under the light.
Fang Jingya also looked at him, her eyes full of inquiry and puzzlement.
The young man was stunned for a moment, and then he reacted and explained,
"Don't worry, the big guys won't have anything to do before the ban expires, it's not that I don't make a move, it's just that it's not time for me and Meow to make a move, the opponent is not weak, and I still need Yan Hao's bow, and I also need those two demons to do me a favor, don't get me wrong, it's not the kind of help that asks for something, it's the kind of help that transfers flowers and trees to borrow knives to kill people, and ......"
Chu Zhanyan couldn't go on, he felt that he seemed to have used the wrong word, so his brows looked more and more depressed, as if he was trying to save it with some kind of words, but unfortunately his mind was blank, and after opening his mouth slightly several times in a row, he finally had to give up this idea, lowered his head and shook his arm forward, and said helplessly,
"Meow is hungry, and he said he wants to eat spicy rice fish!"
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It is natural for cats to eat fish, and cats say that they want to eat fish, and people and animals are surprised.
Fang Jingya was not very surprised, of course she was human, but she saw too many things that surprised her tonight, and she was no longer surprised, not to mention, Meow was just a cat, even if it was a demon, it was much more beautiful than the two on the sky outside the house.
She was just a little surprised, surprised that the helper that Chu Zhanyan found was too unexpected, unexpected that this cat actually wanted to eat spicy rice and fish, and even more surprised that it actually knew coriander and chili.
All the accidents were no longer unexpected after thinking of Chu Zhanyan's true identity, Fang Jingya's mood was much better, the current crisis of the enemy was still there, but the initial panic actually disappeared magically, so she went to the room again and burned a portion of rice and fish.
After Fang Jingya left, the white claws jumped down from Chu Zhanyan's arms, their front legs were stretched out long on the bamboo floor, the center of gravity was backwards, and the tail was erected like a flagpole, shaking gently with the comfort that spread throughout the body.
Chu Zhanyan looked at it and remembered the black square cotton cloth that wiped the lotus pot after the rain.
"Where did you know about this kind of thing?"
He looked away, trying not to think of the rag, and asked casually.
Two years ago, he and White Claw were knocked down from the sky by the golden bell and fell into the Daluo Mountains, he was dying, and the White Claws were seriously injured, before being rescued by the Fang Clan, he left Meow in the Daluo Mountains, and did not take it into the village, I believe that tonight is also the first time it has set foot here.
As for why Meow was left in the mountains?
That's not abandoned, it's just that the young man's heart has changed after self-injury, and he knows that Ah Meow can't die, of course, he definitely can't die.
Since you can't die, nothing else matters.
"There were a few humans who went into the mountains to hunt, and I heard their conversation while they were cooking food by the river. ”
Meow jumped on the bed, lifted the mattress that was curled up on the still warm and said lazily,
"I smelled good, so I came out and scared them away and tasted it, it was very fragrant, but the humans were too timid, and they fell into the river and were washed away by the water. ”
Chu Zhanyan thought about it carefully, it seems that Uncle Yan came back wet more than a year ago, according to Yan Hao, his father's face was pale when he was frozen, his body trembled like chaff, and he couldn't hold a hammer for several days, it should be the end of winter, and the people in the village also said that his feet could slip on sunny days and daylight, I'm afraid it's not a daytime......
"Tell me about you, huh?"
Meow looked at him,
"The lifeline is damaged, the breath is turbulent, have you dispensed medicine?
There seemed to be a hint of sneer and contempt in his clear voice.
"Why do you say again?"
Chu Zhanyan was puzzled.
Meow still looked at him, thinking that you, the forgetful elm head, can't forget the things in the Taoist temple, oh yes, and that girl named Lin Meng.
"I heard that she went to Shushan, and now her status is very high, and it seems that she has the credit of you back then. ”
Ah Meow said, without explaining who "she" was, but Chu Zhanyan knew that it was not Lin Meng.
He suddenly remembered that when he was six and a half years old, he stole down the Tianshan Mountains to buy maltose in a mortal town and picked up a little girl.
At that time, the master was still a respected master, not an abandoner, the Tianshan Mountains were verdant and vigorous, the most serious famine in the world in a hundred years, the Tang Emperor opened the treasury to release grain for disaster relief, but unfortunately the famine spread too widely, the relief grain was a drop in the bucket, countless Li people died of hunger, the hungry people in the southern region of the Tang Kingdom were like ghosts, and the hungry people ate everything they could eat like locusts.
Bugs, grass roots, tree bark, and even people.
At that time, there was even a deformed cooking method among the hungry people in the southern regions, saying that the baby's meat was the most tender, and it was best to cook it in water, and the hungry people had a severe stomach shrinkage due to long-term hunger, and eating such meat would not cause a sudden stomach drain due to the stimulation of oil and water, and at that time of disaster, it was a luxury to live, and once it suffered from a small illness such as diarrhea, it meant that the sickle of death was ready to chop down at any time.
At that time, Chu Zhanyan didn't know what was happening under the mountain, people didn't go up the mountain, and he rarely went down the mountain.
Perhaps there is always a surprise when a man decides to do something he hasn't done for a long time, he doesn't buy the malt candy he wants to eat, but he sees the desolate town of Stonebridge, where demonic people gather together, set up pots to boil water, and are about to eat a baby.
He was very young, he had never seen such a scene, he was stunned and stiffened on the spot, and a withered man looked back at him, revealing teeth like gravel particles, and thick blood streaks clinging to the deep sunken eye sockets, which reminded him of the scorpions in the demon tower on the mountain.
Chu Zhanyan recognized him, the man was a seller in the town, and he vaguely remembered that he was selling it next to the teahouse opposite the maltose stall, he was very thin, and he was very confident in shouting, but now he looked like a ghost.
The man looked back and said something, and then, the men ...... No, the monsters swooped down on their throats hoarsely.
The movements are wobbly, slow and comical, like a group of bamboo poles dancing with pieces of cloth dangling.
A shriveled woman, wielding a rusty and mutilated blade, seemed eager to taste him, a white, tender, and cleanly dressed alien, ran as fast as she could, slashing at his head.
He was still in a sluggish state, but several years of one-day practice on the mountain saved him, and when the blade was approaching, he subconsciously dodged it, but unfortunately it was a little slower, his eyebrows were hot and painful, and his skin was cut open by the blade.
The pain from the wound woke Chu Zhanyan, he couldn't help but be afraid, and then uncontrollable anger, he pulled out the sword that never left his body, he cut down the woman, and rushed over with a scream, like a young wolf with its head burrowed into a flock.
That was the first time he had saved someone.
The baby girl's breath was very weak, but when she saw him, she still struggled to squeeze out some cries, which was amazing, and I don't know why she didn't cry when facing those monsters.
He felt that the baby girl was very powerful, and he also saw that she was about to die, and he was sad for no reason, and suddenly remembered the secret of the "living pill" on his body, and his excitement filled his chest again.
On the pot of hot water that was supposed to boil the baby girl, he melted half a pill into it, and when the water turned into a light cyan, he did not hesitate to cut his fingertips, dripped a few drops of blood into it, and made a pot of nondescript soup to feed the baby girl to drink little by little, the medicinal power in the elixir dispersed the source of domineering in the blood of his fingertips, so that the baby girl would not be unable to withstand the power.
In this way, he saved the life of the baby girl, and it was rare for the youngest female disciple in history at the end of the Tianshan Mountain, but unfortunately, only half a year after that, that major event happened, he and his master and senior brother were expelled from the Tianshan Mountain, and now so many years have passed, he himself almost forgot about the baby girl, but he didn't think that Meow actually remembered......