[The seventy-first year of the Great Qiankang Yuan, the third day of the fourth month, the time of the first month, the inner courtyard of Chang'an County]

Xu Ke held the iron cage handed over to him by Zhou Beiju in his hand, looking at Zhou Tong's sobbing appearance, although he had the intention to release the cat, he still couldn't bear it.

Xu Ke returned the iron cage holding the kitten to Zhou Tong.

Xu Ke touched Zhou Tong's head, smiled and said to him:

"***, don't cry, this kitten, since you like it, keep it!"

"But, big brother, aren't you here to catch the cat demon?"

"***, this is just an ordinary kitten!"

"Big brother, that kitten has glowing eyes, half of its fur is red, and it climbs up the wall of my house in the middle of the night, and its eyes are staring at my daddy......! It's a 'cat demon'!"

Zhou Tong argued to himself, but his voice was already very small, and he could hear that in front of Xu Ke, he had lost his previous confidence.

Zhou Beiju couldn't help but say: "Tong'er, be obedient! Master Xu has said it, this is just an ordinary kitten! It climbed up the wall of our house in the middle of the night, not staring at Daddy, but staring at the big mouse in our house......"

Xu Ke still waved his hand towards Zhou Ju, signaling him not to speak.

"***, the cat demon is not such a little cat......" Xu Ke saw that Zhou Tong was so cute, and his heart was full of childlike fun, so he couldn't help but scare:

"She's cunning and murderous, her face is so big! Her eyes are blood-red! Her cat's claws are sharper than the tip of a knife! If her cat's claws slash your leg like this, your thigh won't be there!"

Xu Ke said as he stretched his fingers with both hands, and swiped lightly towards the root of Zhou Tong's thighs, as if he was a fierce demon with teeth and claws at the moment, which made Zhou Tong's face change slightly.

Although Zhou Tong was frightened by Xu Ke, he aroused greater interest in his heart, and he immediately asked:

"Big brother, have you ever seen a cat demon?"

"Of course I've seen it!"

"Have you ever fought her?"

"Hmm!" Xu Ke nodded.

"That'...... Big brother, you didn't catch her?"

"The cat demon is very powerful! She is very light, and if she jumps up, she is so high!" Xu Ke made a gesture, probably telling Zhou Tong that the cat demon can jump higher than the roof as long as he jumps slightly. "Although the big brother and the cat demon fought, the big brother's light skills were not as powerful as the cat demon, so she still escaped!"

"Huh, the cat demon has escaped!"

"That's right! Right now, the cat demon is hiding in some hidden corner! Big brother has heard that the cat demon is extremely cruel, not only will she bewitch those adult men, and use her soul seduction technique to charm them to death, but she also loves to eat children! The more beautiful the child, the more she loves to eat! Her mouth is so big that she can swallow a whole child in one bite......

After all, Zhou Tong was only an eleven-year-old child, and he was described by Xu Ke so vividly, and he couldn't help but feel a fear of the cat demon. He looked at the little flower cat in the iron cage again, and said to himself, it's a pity that it's not a cat demon! Otherwise, I would have been eaten by her a long time ago!

"Big brother, is the cat demon really so scary?"

Xu Ke nodded again.

"Big brother, you must catch the cat demon!" Regarding Xu Ke's words, Zhou Tong obviously believed it in his heart.

"Okay, then you have to be good, listen to your father these days, but don't run around! Just stay in the house and read ......a book if you have nothing to do."

Xu Ke lowered his body and touched Zhou Tong's head again, somehow, he had an unusually close feeling to the child in front of him today.

"Hmm!" Zhou Tong nodded vigorously, and said:

"When I grow up, I will be like my big brother, subduing demons and eliminating monsters, and becoming a big official!"

In Zhou Tong's heart, he saw that Xu Ke looked so young, and with the respect of his father, a county magistrate, he still had to be so humble to Xu Ke, and he heard that Xu Ke was a "deputy envoy for investigating cases" who specialized in catching demons. He naively thought that it must be Xu Ke who knew some skills to subdue demons and eliminate demons, and he became such a big official.

"Okay! ambitious!" Xu Ke gave a thumbs up.

"However, look at the kitten in your hand, it's about to faint from hunger!" Xu Ke reminded Zhou Tongdao again.

"Well, the big brother is right! I'll let it go in a moment! The kitten must be very unhappy when it is locked in a cage, just like me, if my father is locked in the house, he can't come out for three days and three nights, and I won't eat!"

"Hehehe, good boy!"

Xu Ke pulled Zhou Tong's little arm for a while, and patted his immature shoulder for a while, and suddenly remembered his childhood in his heart.

I remember that when I was with my parents when I was ** years old, although the family was poor, I also had a short happy time.

When I was a child, I also had naughty times, I remember one time, a big flower cat at Aunt Zhang's house next door gave birth to a litter of kittens, and out of curiosity, he stole one and kept it in his own home.

However, the kitten left the mother cat suddenly, although he went down to the river to catch fish and feed the soup himself, and in the end, the kitten died.

He was sad for a long time......

Xu Ke glanced at the iron cage, and saw the little flower cat in the cage, with its limbs drooping, lying there softly, this appearance was very similar to the kitten cub who died early. Xu Ke was suddenly aroused with a trace of sorrow in his heart, and he hurriedly told Zhou Tongdao:

"***, at this time, don't be in a hurry to release the kitten!"

"Why?"

"Look, the kitten is so hungry that it can't run, how can it catch a mouse?

"That'...... So what should I do?"

"You can ask your father to buy you a bigger wire cage to make the kitten a little more comfortable, and then go get some fresh fish and shrimp, and when they are cooked, feed them along with the fish soup and shrimp soup...... After the kitten eats the fish soup, it has strength!"

"Well, I listen to my big brother!" Zhou Tong nodded vigorously.

The kitten in the iron cage made another "meow", as if he was also scolding vigorously: "I want you to talk too much! I want you to be nosy! Aunt Ben is finally about to go out, and you even asked him not to let me go! What a small fish and shrimp, what a fish soup and shrimp soup, phew! Aunt Ben should not eat these things!"

Xu Ke stood up, and then bowed his hand slightly to his shoulders:

"Zhou Zhixian, then Xu will leave!"

"Lord Xu, go slowly!"

The shoulders of the giant shook to the ground, and said respectfully.

Seeing that Xu Ke had strode proudly, she hurriedly exerted her strength to eat, jumped up suddenly, stretched out her front paws hard, grabbed and kicked at the iron cage, her eyes were almost left with tears, and she screamed desperately "meowing" in her mouth:

"Come back, come back, my little brother, please, come back to me!"