"Hello, Gu Yu."
I turned around inexplicably, "What's wrong?"
Bai's expression suddenly became a little serious, and he raised his chin to me, gesturing to Moxue not far away.
"Be careful."
"What?" I was confused and wanted to continue to ask, but Bai stopped talking, and his flexible limbs disappeared in an instant.
"Gu Yu! Come on, come on!" Moxue yelled loudly, "Come and see, what kind of flower is this?"
I had a terrible headache, but I could only walk over, "What?"
The girl named Moxue seemed to be so full of energy that she couldn't run out of energy, and it was almost ten o'clock in the evening before she barely calmed down. But this is not over yet, this little girl actually asked me to tell her a bedtime story.
"You... how old are you, you still want to tell stories!" I couldn't laugh or cry.
"No, I can't fall asleep if I don't listen to a story before going to bed." Moxue looked at me aggrievedly, her big eyes flickering.
I was afraid that if I was not careful, the little girl would start crying again, and quickly agreed.
"Okay, okay, I really can't do anything about you." I said helplessly, "You are already this old, what do you look like?"
Not to mention leaving with the strange man I just met, I have been borrowing with her all the time, and now I am still alone in the room with a widow and let me tell her stories. If I were Mo Xue's mother, I would probably be pissed off by my daughter. Ke Moxue looked completely indifferent, and looked at me expectantly.
"That's right, you haven't told me what's going on with that Jinhua cat monster!"
"Are you curious?"
"Of course I'm curious!"
So I thought about the language and told Mo Xue about the old couple from beginning to end. Of course, I didn't tell about Grandpa Shi Yitong's diary, after all, it's his family's private affair.
But when I finished speaking, there seemed to be a trace of sadness in Moxue's eyes. But before I could see clearly, she returned to normal again.
"So, is it because the cat demon cursed the old couple's son that you are looking for that monster?"
"Well... that's how it is." I nodded, "After all, the old couple looked very troubled. Wen Jiubai—the owner of this old house refused to accept the commission, so I had to do my best to help them."
"That's right." Mo Xue stared at me with her chin resting on her cheeks, and said suddenly, "You are such a good person."
I couldn't laugh or cry, "I won't be happy at all if you send me a card at this time."
Moxue blinked her eyes, "What do you mean by issuing a card?"
I felt a little powerless, "Uh, it's not interesting. Well, the story is over, can you sleep too?" To be honest, because Shi Yitong ran over early this morning and woke me up, I have been yawning all day , and now I am even more sleepy.
"Wait a little longer." Mo Xue stretched out her hand and grabbed the corner of my clothes.
I sighed, I can't be anxious for her, I can only bear it.
I waited patiently, and saw her pursed her lips and asked, "Do you think all monsters in the world are bad?"
Why is this problem again? But I still thought about it carefully and answered seriously.
"... To be honest, I don't know either."
"have no idea?"
"Well, because monsters and humans are different species, there are big differences in terms of ideas and concepts." I thought, "Things that humans think are wrong may not matter to monsters. Monsters What I care about may not be worth mentioning to humans. I think humans and monsters... can't understand each other to some extent. No, even humans and humans are difficult to understand each other, so I From a human point of view, there is no position to judge the good or bad of youkai."
Moxue stared straight at me, her eyes sparkled under the light, and she said something halfway.
"Brother Gu Yu, you are so kind."
I patted her on the forehead and stood up, and turned off the light in the room with a "snap", "Sleep!"
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I am the only child in my family, and I have never had any brothers or sisters since I was a child. But during the two days I was clinging to Moxue, I felt like taking care of my sister.
Although the girl Moxue has a carefree personality, sometimes she is very noisy, and her origins are even a bit unknown, but she always chatters around me and Shi Yitong, which makes the originally boring investigation work more interesting.
In the past few days, Shi Yitong and I have searched through his grandfather's relics, and found several places where Jinhua cats may appear, as well as places where they appear in folklore, but we found nothing. Although Moxue enthusiastically helped us investigate, and sometimes offered some weird suggestions, but to be honest, few of them were useful.
"Hey, you said, since Jinhua cat is a cat." Moxue suddenly raised her head, showing her small canine teeth, "Then does she like to eat fish? How about this, let's buy a lot of fish and make a Jinhua cat trap How about it! Tilapia, carp, crucian carp, grass carp... "
I patted her, "You think everyone is a foodie like you."
Moxue covered her head with a look of grievance, "Why did you hit me! They also want to help, what's wrong with it!"
In the end, Shi Yitong and I still adopted Moxue's method, but the fish we bought were not eaten by Jinhua cat, but were all fed into Moxue's stomach.
Strange to say, Moxue likes to eat fish very much. No matter what mood she's in, a little grilled fish can make her smile again. Shi Yitong and I set up a simple grill by the river, lit a fire in the cold air, and those grilled fish were skewered on the branches and grilled deliciously. It's just that we couldn't finish the fish meal, and we were chased away by an environmental worker around us. Moxue still had one in her mouth and one in each hand, and she ran like a stealing kitten.
When I was with Moxue, time always flowed fast. So in the blink of an eye, we have wasted a whole week in fruitless investigations. The direct result was that that night, the old couple found out about my school by some means, and they waited at the school gate before school was over in the evening, blocking me.
"Young man, how is your investigation of the Jinhua demon cat going?" Before I could speak, the hunchbacked old gentleman spoke impatiently.
"That's right, it's been a week, how is the matter we asked you to do?"
Thinking of the lack of results this week, I was so embarrassed that I lowered my head and didn't dare to look directly into the eyes of the two couples.