Every father must call his own child "Dad" a few times before hearing his child call him "Dad".
Qin Ran knew this. He leaned over and picked up Zhuifeng, holding the cat's two front paws in front of him, with a perverted smile on his face, and said, "Call again..."
Zhuifeng looked at Qin Ran with his big black eyes, not knowing what the cat disease was with this two-legged beast. He tilted his head and said, “Meow?”
“Oh yeah, meow…” Qin Ran’s expression became even weirder.
Zhuifeng asked again: "Meow meow?"
"Meow..."
"Meow?"
A man and a cat, meowing all the time, came to a chair beside the mud pit.
Clay figurine Li Shiyin jumped out from the bottom of the pit and saw the master meowing with Zhuifeng. She was puzzled. She scratched her head and asked with a smile: "Master, are you out?"
Qin Ran pretended to be calm, held the cat and sat on the chair, and replied: "Master has been looking through some books these days, looking for clues about elixirs that can prolong life and elixirs that can feed spirit beasts."
Li Shiyin's eyes lit up when she heard this. She hurried over and asked anxiously, "Did you find it?"
“No…” Qin Ran shook his head.
"Oh!" Li Shiyin sighed.
Qin Ran said: "If Daojian Sect had elixirs that could increase the lifespan of ordinary people, it would at least be the number one sect in Northern Chu. But now in Northern Chu, the most famous sect among the people is still Zhishen Valley..."
At this point, he suddenly realized something and asked Li Shiyin, "People in Northern Chu would go to Zhishen Valley to seek immortality and medicine. Why did you come to Daojianmen instead if you wanted to learn alchemy?"
Li Shiyin felt a little embarrassed when asked this question. She lowered her head and said hesitantly, "My brother is stationed outside the Hengduan Mountains to prevent monsters from disturbing the people. I used the excuse of coming to play with him to sneak into the Hengduan Mountains and then joined the Daojian Sect.
"What I thought at the time was that Daojian Sect and Zhishengu are both immortal sects, so there shouldn't be much difference between them. Besides, the guest officials in my house are all disciples from Daojian Sect, and they are all very powerful. I didn't think too much about it."
Well, you are worthy of it. After hearing what Li Shiyin said, Qin Ran didn't feel any waves in his heart. He just thought that this was her normal behavior.
"So, you ran away secretly?" He asked again, "without telling your family?"
“Hmm…” Li Shiyin responded, secretly went to see Qin Ran, and said weakly, “Master, you… you won’t send me back
Bar?!"
"Do I have that much free time?" Qin Ran asked back unhappily.
According to Li Shiyin's observation, she nodded affirmatively: "Yes!"
Zhuifeng was a small, fluffy creature, so cute, and he started to meow again. Qin Ran originally didn’t want to teach Zhuifeng to talk because of the socially embarrassing incident of him calling him “Mom”, but… Zhuifeng actually meowed at him! !
So he continued to study how to teach Zhuifeng to speak.
On Earth, the languages of various civilizations have their own unique features, but there is one thing in common, that is, mothers are all called "mama" or "ma". This is not accidental, but because the pronunciation of the word "ma" is the simplest sound that humans can make. When the air goes out and the mouth opens and closes, the sound that is made is the sound of "ma".
A newborn baby cannot speak, but one day he opens and closes his mouth and makes the sound of "Mom". Then the mother who takes care of him every day will think that this is the child calling her...
Similarly, Zhuifeng is a cat, and the sound it makes when it opens and closes its mouth is "meow", which is also very reasonable. Although the tiger is the king of beasts, and roars in the forest, it opens its mouth and has a big smoky voice, making all the beasts tremble, but when it was young, it still had to "meow".
Zhuifeng is a cat, but he is not an ordinary cat. His mother is a seventh-level demon beast, the demon king, so he was born different... Although we haven't seen anything special about him yet, at least we can see that this little guy is very smart.
Let’s not talk about how old this little guy is. Let’s just say that after being picked up by Li Shiyin, he adapted to the environment in the first place and completely forgot about his mother. The second thing he did was to know who was the boss of this place and how he could survive.
He may not know what "meow meow" and "mom" mean, but he knows that Qin Ran wants him to say this word...
Qin Ran sat on the chair, Zhuifeng lying in his arms, the wind blew over him, and Zhuifeng's fine fur fluttered along with it. He came back to his senses, looked down at Zhuifeng, and reached out to smooth Zhuifeng's fur that was messed up by the wind.
He looked at Zhuifeng and began to think again:
The boundary between humans and animals is relatively clear, but the boundary between humans and monsters does not seem to be so clear.
If the monsters can talk, are they humans? If the monsters have civilization, are they humans? If the monsters are stronger than humans, are they humans? If the monsters turn into humans, are they humans
He didn't know, and this seemed to have become a philosophical question.
“Perhaps music is the difference between humans and monsters,” he thought.
He remembered that someone in his previous life said that everyone, whether royal nobles or villagers, would listen to music, whether it was highbrow or lowbrow, but animals like pigs, chickens, and sheep could not listen to music. Confucius also believed that rites and music were the foundation of human civilization. He once heard Shao music and did not taste meat for three months.
So humans can listen to music but animals cannot...
Kieran came to this conclusion.
He was anxious to prove that he was a human being, so he went to the back mountain to cut a bamboo and made a flute according to his memory.
That night, Qin Ran moved a stool in front of the house, sat down, took out the flute, licked the membrane hole, took a deep breath, and blew gently, producing an unpleasant "sobbing" sound.
Then the sound of sobbing began to surround Danfeng...
At first, Zhuifeng sat in his arms attentively. After a while, Zhuifeng jumped down, squatted beside and licked his fur. After a while, Zhuifeng ran into the house and lay on the sofa. After a while, Zhuifeng crawled under the sofa cushion.
Li Shiyin also heard the master making the "vomiting and laughing" sounds outside. She ran out and saw Qin Ran playing the flute. She smiled and asked, "Master, can you play the flute?"
"Hmm?" Qin Ran stopped his harsh voice and frowned, "Why? Bei Chu also has a flute?"
"Yes!" Li Shiyin nodded and replied, "There is a musician named Gao Yuanshan in Danyang City. He is very famous because he plays the flute very beautifully. My brother doesn't get along with him. He always causes trouble every time he performs."
Qin Ran listened and silently put down the bamboo flute in his hand. His mind inexplicably thought of the scene where Li Shiyin's brother saw him playing the flute and then rushed over to beat him up.
"My brother always said that it was because Gao Yuanshan looked too feminine, and he was worried that he would bring bad influence to Northern Chu..." Li Shiyin continued, "But I think my brother is jealous that others are more handsome than him."
Qin Ran went to see Li Shiyin. After a day of hard work digging the lake, the girl changed into a beautiful dress and looked pretty and energetic. Especially when she talked about Gao Yuanshan, her eyes lit up.
"Is he handsome?" he asked casually.
"Yeah, very handsome, with eyes and eyebrows as pretty as a painting and skin as white as cream. If he were to wear girls' clothes, he would definitely be prettier than the most beautiful brothel boss." Li Shiyin said.
"That's really handsome." Qin Ran said, secretly rejecting him in his heart, thinking that he was indeed a sissy.
"It's a pity that he ran away when I went to grab the bride." Li Shiyin said regretfully, "Otherwise he would be mine..."
"Hmm?" Qin Ran looked at Li Shiyin. Something is wrong with you.