Li Zhenran left, but Li Zhenruo was still in place, without any movement for a long time.
The boy walked up behind him and asked softly, "Are you okay?"
Li Zhenruo turned around in a daze and said, "Ah, I'm fine."
The two looked at each other for a while, both a little puzzled, and then the boy said, "I have to go to class."
Li Zhenruo nodded, "Oh."
The boy asked him, "Can you tell me your name?"
Li Zhenruo hesitated this time before saying, "Call me..."
The boy seemed to feel a little uncomfortable, but he didn't ask him, and said, "My name is Shen Luming, can I leave a phone number?"
Li Zhenruo just remembered that he didn't have a phone at all. He didn't know how to explain it to Shen Luming, because he felt very insincere when he said his English name just now, and now saying that he didn't have a phone sounded too much like an excuse.
But Shen Luming didn't seem to care. He took out a pen and note paper, wrote down his name and mobile phone number and handed it to Li Zhenruo, "Contact me when I'm free."
Li Zhenruo took it over and said, "Okay."
After finishing speaking, Shen Luming left in a hurry.
Li Zhenruo lowered his head to look at the words written on the note, and when he looked up, he found that he had come back in front of the two-story building where Xia Hongshen and the others lived. He couldn't help looking up towards the window, and found that Xia Hongshen was standing in front of the window looking at him, as if he had seen all that just now.
Leading Erhuang back to the small building, he had just stepped on the wooden stairs to the second floor when he saw Xia Hongshen pointing at him at the door of the room, "Come here."
Li Zhenruo hurried over, and after entering the room, he loosened Erhuang's rope to let him play by himself, and then said, "Teacher Xia?"
Xia Hongshen sat in front of the desk, shaking a signature pen in his hand, and asked him, "Do you know that student just now?"
Li Zhenruo shook his head, "I was a little strange and wanted to ask you. I have met that boy several times, and every time I felt my heart throbbing violently, as if something was attracting me."
Xia Hongshen looked at him for a while, "Do you want to know why?"
Li Zhenruo nodded.
Xia Hongshen didn't speak immediately, but touched his forehead with a pen, and then said slowly: "I think that student is the master of your body now."
"Huh?" Li Zhenruo's eyes widened.
Xia Hongshen leaned back on the swivel chair, seemingly lost in thought, "But it's strange, something seems wrong."
But Li Zhenruo couldn't help feeling embarrassed, what he was most concerned about was not what was wrong, but suddenly stepped forward and asked Xia Hongshen, "Will he take his body back?"
Xia Hongshen said: "You and him both have feelings, don't you?"
Li Zhenruo recalled the several times he met with Shen Luming, and the feelings were indeed stronger each time, and looking at Shen Luming's expression, it was obvious that he felt it.
That feeling of attraction, now that I think about it, may be the body's response to the soul. What Xia Hongshen said may be true, otherwise Li Zhenruo would not be able to explain the throbbing at all.
Li Zhenruo said nervously, "Is it possible?"
Xia Hongshen spread his hands and said bluntly, "I don't know."
At this time, Li Zhenruo suddenly felt that the note that Shen Luming handed to him just now in his hand became heartburning. He seemed to have never thought of such a possibility, and he had always considered it as an animal. Does the cat only have a short life of more than ten years, but he never thought that this cat's life was stolen by him, and it belonged to others. Now that the master has appeared, if he wants or has the ability to take his body back, then it may not be more than ten years, and even more than ten days will not be left for him.
He can't do this, he still has so many things to do, and even now he is still a fool without thinking, and he doesn't even know who killed him.
Li Zhenruo originally planned to stay here for a few more days to sharpen Xia Hongshen, but now he suddenly changed his mind, he didn't have time.
"Teacher Xia," Li Zhenruo said, "I plan to leave for a while, but I just have a request that I hope Teacher Xia can agree to."
Xia Hong raised his head deeply, motioning for him to say.
Li Zhenruo glanced at Erhuang, "During the days when I'm away, help me take care of Erhuang. It doesn't have to be troublesome, just feed him some dog food every meal. When I come back, I will find a way to supplement his living expenses." Yours."
Xia Hongshen didn't agree, but just asked, "Where are you going?"
Li Zhenruo said, "I'm going to find out the cause of my death."
Xia Hong said with deep emotion: "You are really persistent."
Li Zhenruo lowered his head and said softly, "I'm not reconciled."
Xia Hongshen turned back, "Sometimes being persistent is a good thing, but being too persistent is sometimes a bad thing."
Li Zhenruo also felt something, but kept silent.
Xia Hong sighed deeply, and said to him, "Kneel down."
"Huh?" Li Zhenruo was slightly taken aback this time, looking at Xia Hongshen because he didn't understand.
Xia Hongshen just crossed his arms in front of his chest and sat on the swivel chair in a casual posture. After saying those two words, there was no further text. If Li Zhen didn't move, he didn't respond either.
Li Zhenruo stirred the paste in his head for a while, then suddenly lit up an incandescent light bulb and it became transparent. He immediately knelt down, and Qiqi Ai called out: "Master, Master?"
Xia Hongshen said: "I have lived in the world for tens of thousands of years, from being alone to being accompanied by Chunjun and the others, but I have never accepted an apprentice. Maybe it is a different feeling to have an inheritance. Who is that, what is your name? coming?"
Li Zhenruo was speechless for a while, and finally reminded him honestly: "Li Zhenruo."
"Really weak?" Xia Hongshen said, "This name is really not very good, but it's optional, and I'm not your father, do you really want to worship me?"
Li Zhenruo straightened his back and nodded solemnly, "Yes, Master."
Xia Hongshen said: "Okay, I will accept you as an apprentice today."
Li Zhenruo was overjoyed for a moment, couldn't hold back the smile on his face, and looked at Xia Hongshen.
Erhuang saw him kneeling on the ground, not knowing why, came over and rubbed his head against him.
Li Zhenruo quickly stretched out his hand to push Erhuang's big head away, hesitated a little, put his hands on the ground and kowtowed firmly to Xia Hong, saying, "Disciple pays homage to Master."
Xia Hongshen nodded and said: "You said that you want to possess power to become a stronger monster. Let me tell you that monsters are originally beasts, absorbing the aura of heaven and earth, and the roots of life are wise. You have the chance to cultivate the body of a monster. Now you only need to absorb the spiritual energy and continue refining, and you will naturally gain strength."
Li Zhenruo listened in a daze, as if watching an ancient costume movie.
Xia Hongshen went on to say: "Everything in the world has spirits, try to push the spiritual power in your body to break through the skin barrier, and feel the spiritual energy in the air."
When Li Zhenruo heard the words, he closed his eyes and tried to mobilize his spiritual power for the first time instead of transforming himself. According to Xia Hongshen, he mobilized his spiritual power to attach to his skin, and suddenly felt as if he had opened his body to the outside world. channel. The aura contained in the heaven and earth mentioned by Xia Hongshen is no longer an illusory existence at this moment, but can be clearly felt.
Xia Hongshen said: "The more spiritual energy in the air, the more spiritual energy you can absorb. This is why there are many monsters in places with abundant spiritual energy. However, the spiritual energy in the city is thin, and the spiritual energy you can absorb is limited."
Li Zhenruo quietly felt the slight aura in the air slowly entering his body.
Xia Hongshen raised his leg, and tapped several big points on Li Zhenruo's chest one after another, and finally stopped on his lower abdomen, saying: "Spiritual energy enters the body, circulates as it is breathed out, and is used for oneself. It is stored in the dantian, where the demon pill is also located. "
Li Zhenruo tried hard to feel the spiritual power of Dantian.
Xia Hongshen said: "Cultivation is boring. Day after day, year after year, year after year is endless. How far you can reach depends on your own creation."
Li Zhenruo solemnly replied: "Thank you, Master."
Xia Hongshen got up suddenly, and patted his forehead with one hand. Li Zhenruo only saw a black mark being placed in his body, and Xia Hongshen said: "My apprentice, I will stamp you."
Li Zhenruo thought to himself that he was not pork.
However, he still said politely: "Thank you, master. When the apprentice earns money in the future, I will treat the master to eat the best cat food."
Xia Hongshen looked at him when he heard the words, "What kind of cat food are you eating now?"
Li Zhen looked up at the sky, recalling the outer packaging of the cat food he ate, but couldn't remember what brand it was. He hesitated and said, "It should be imported cat food. I can't remember the brand, but I can recognize it when I see it."
Xia Hongshen asked him: "Where can I buy it? I have only eaten cat food sold in supermarkets."
Li Zhenruo himself didn't know where he bought it, so he thought about it and said, "Maybe it's an imported food supermarket."
"Oh—" Xia Hongshen looked thoughtful, "Is it delicious?"
Li Zhenruo said, "Actually, it's okay."
Xia Hongshen nodded, "Remember to honor Master."
Li Zhenruo responded, "Apprentice knows."
Standing up, Li Zhenruo said: "Master, that Erhuang..."
Xia Hongshen said: "Keep it, let Longxing take care of it."
Li Zhenruo quickly thanked her, and then said: "Master, can you lend me some money, and I will definitely return it to you in the future."
Unexpectedly, Xia Hongshen said: "Your master and I don't have any money. Let's ask Xiaofeng to borrow it. He is the richest in the family."
Li Zhenruo thought that Feng Junyuan, a surgeon, had such a miserable life, and it could be seen how prodigal you people are, so he still responded, "Okay, thank you, master."
In the end, Li Zhenruo borrowed 500 yuan from Feng Junyuan. Recalling how Feng Junyuan rummaged through his pockets to find the 500 yuan, Li Zhenruo felt the hardships of life for them.
After getting the money from Feng Junyuan, Li Zhenruo hurried to the coach station. Aunt Wu's hometown is in a relatively remote county in the province, and it takes about 4 hours to take a bus. He considered whether to get on the bus in the form of a cat, and felt that this kind of long-distance bus might be more difficult to get on. Clothes are available.
At this time, the necessity of practicing with Xia Hongshen became fully apparent.
Not long after the bus left, a child sitting in the front row got motion sickness and vomited in the car. The windows of the air-conditioned car couldn't be opened, and the smell spread all of a sudden, making Li Zhenruo cover his nose in pain. And the middle-aged man sitting next to him was already asleep, snoring loudly with his head up, and turning his head to his side from time to time, seeing that he was about to lean on his shoulder, he woke up suddenly and sat back.
Not to mention the previous life, if the life of a cat is regarded as this life, Li Zhenruo's two lives combined may feel as painful as it is today to have no money.
He calmed down, closed his eyes and let himself start to practice.
As the bus left the city and entered the suburbs, he found that the aura around him was becoming more and more abundant, which made his slow practice speed slightly faster.
When he got off the car at the destination, not only did Li Zhenruo not feel the fatigue of the journey, but he felt energetic, as if he woke up after a comfortable sleep, and his whole body became lighter.
This situation made him feel that the day when he could change into a suit of clothes when transforming is just around the corner.
Aunt Wu's address was overheard by Li Zhenruo before Aunt Wu left Li's house. At that time, Aunt Wu was chatting with her fellow villagers. Li Zhenruo heard Aunt Wu say which county and town she lived in, and that her family was from a rural area.
However, he only remembered the name of Aunt Wu's village. When he arrived at the county seat, Li Zhenruo asked someone along the way, and then changed to a bus. The driver left him on the side of the road and told him that he had arrived at his destination.
Li Zhenruo was a little dazed. After getting off the car, he found that there were endless farmlands on both sides of the road, and a few two-story buildings could be seen in the distance, but there were no pedestrians around.
In his imagination, he went to the entrance of the village and asked someone casually. It seemed that his thinking was too simple!
He could only walk along a relatively wide and flat path in the field. After walking for more than 20 minutes, Li Zhenruo finally saw a tea shop by the roadside. Many people were sitting in the tea shop drinking tea and playing mahjong.
Li Zhenruo walked up to an old man who was sitting at the mahjong table watching people play cards, and asked softly, "Hi, old man, can I ask you about someone?"
As soon as he finished speaking, all the people at the table who were concentrating on playing cards looked at him.
Li Zhenruo coughed uncomfortably, and asked again: "Is there a big sister named Wu Jiamei in this village?"
A table of people looked at him, but no one answered for a while.
Li Zhenruo couldn't help but began to wonder if he said something wrong or violated some taboo.
Almost when he was considering whether to leave, a person pointed forward, "Go straight ahead, turn right ahead and walk another 200 meters, there is a house with a pear tree in front of the yard."
Li Zhenruo said: "Thank you..." When he turned to leave, he heard someone say "Be careful."
He turned around and saw those people lowered their heads and started to concentrate on playing cards again, so why be careful? Why be careful? Li Zhenruo was completely at a loss, inexplicable.
After turning in the direction the person told him just now, Li Zhenruo suddenly realized a problem after walking a while, that is, he didn't know Li Shu. He stood blankly on the side of the road for a while, but fortunately he met a middle-aged woman passing by, and he asked her quickly, and this time he got the exact address.
The gate of the courtyard was not sealed. Li Zhenruo stood outside the courtyard and looked at the dilapidated two-story building inside. He hesitated and shouted: "Aunt Wu!"
He thought that there was no need to beat around the bush at this time. Aunt Wu was frightened before, and she must not be able to bear the second fright, so he might as well trick and coax her to tell the truth. Even if she refused to say it, Li Zhenruo naturally had a way to test it out.
However, he yelled a few times, but there was no movement inside, and then he knocked on the door again, but no one came to open the door for him.
Li Zhenruo thought that there might be no one at home at this time, so he hesitated whether to sit down in the yard and wait for a while, but he was afraid that there would be no result after waiting, so he turned and walked in the direction he came just now.
He walked up to the tea shop, asked the card players again, and said, "Is there anyone at Wu Jiamei's house?"
The old man who was watching people playing cards looked up at him and said, "Yes, her son is always at home."
Li Zhenruo asked: "Then why no one answered when I knocked on the door now."
The old man turned his head back to the card table, "Then come at another time."
After that, no one paid any attention to him. Li Zhenruo felt a little embarrassed standing aside, and looked in that direction from a distance. Unfortunately, Aunt Wu's two-story building could not be seen from here.
He hesitated a little, seeing that it was getting late, and he might not even be able to find a place to stay in the village if he stayed in the village. He had no other choice but to go back to the county town and find a small hotel to stay overnight, and then talk about it tomorrow morning.
A small hotel in the county town costs 80 yuan for a night. The sheets are sticky and I don't know if they have been washed.
There were no toiletries in the bathroom, and Li Zhenruo felt that his hair was covered with dust after sitting in the car all day, so he wanted to wash it. He wandered around the barbershop downstairs of the hotel, wanting to ask the price, but when he went in, he saw a row of women sitting there, all of them raised their heads to look at him, but there was nothing on the table in front of the mirror. Barber tools.
Li Zhenruo hadn't seen this kind of posture before, but he felt that he shouldn't go in, so he quickly backed out.
Just don't care about anything, just eat some dinner casually, go back to the hotel room and lie down on the bed to watch TV, thinking that people's lives are not as easy as a cat's life, if he can have another life, he might as well be a real cat, Eat, sleep and act like a baby every day.
He curled up his body and tried to expel all the memories that broke into his head. The best way not to be sad is not to think about it.
He fell asleep in a daze, and after an unknown amount of time, Li Zhenruo was awakened by the sound of knocking on the door. He raised his head in a daze, and found that the TV in the room had not been turned off. It was already past 12 o'clock in the morning.
Who will it be at this time
She didn't take off her clothes while sleeping, so she got up directly from the bed and opened the door a crack. Li Zhenruo saw a woman standing outside the door, so she opened the door a little and asked, "Excuse me. What's up?"
The woman spoke with a local accent and asked him, "Do you need any service?"
Li Zhenruo hadn't woken up yet, and asked in a daze, "What service?"
The woman smiled and reached out to touch Li Zhenruo's face.
Li Zhenruo suddenly had goose bumps all over his body from head to toe, and he came to his senses, saying, "No need." Then he closed the door.
He felt weird, of course he couldn't find a prostitute in this kind of place, but in fact, that woman is not ugly, it should be fine if her face was touched, but the body's reaction was very honest, and that touch had a hint The contact made him very unhappy.
Li Zhenruo leaned behind the door, thinking that these strange reactions explained a problem, that is, the owner of this body is a gay cat, otherwise there is another possibility, that is, he has been completely bent by Li Zhenran.
Alas... Li Zhenruo sighed and squatted on the ground helplessly.
He went back to bed and lay down, but this time, less than half an hour later, someone knocked on the door again.
Li Zhenruo became furious, walked over to open the door, and said displeasedly, "What's the matter?"