[R18] Erha and he’s white cat master – “Erha and He’s White Cat Master” Chapter 64 [English]
byChapter 64 I tell my junior brother a story
Mo Ran looked around and saw the answer suddenly appeared, and he stumbled up the stone steps of the government office.
It was a child of three or four years old, holding a small bamboo windmill in his hand and jumping towards Mr. Chu.Wearing a simple little dress, with a jasper necklace, a fortune-telling name lock, and a red silk amulet hung on the front of his lap, he looked like a shrunken junior fellow apprentice.
“…” Mo Ran knew this time why the cavalry were whispering to each other.
He couldn’t help but murmur: “Junior brother, you and the master are both from Lin’an, and the master’s surname is Chu. Do you think the Chu family from more than two hundred years ago was your clan? You two are not distant relatives… I think this may be a big deal.”
Allen Chu didn’t say anything and stared at the two people.
He has never known his own life experience, and he can’t remember clearly what happened when he was young.
Could it be that this Mr. Chu is really one of my ancestors…
Just as I was thinking about it, the queue reached Mo Ran.
Mr. Chu raised his eyes and was about to burn the talisman for Mo Mo. However, when he saw an unfamiliar person, he couldn’t help but be slightly startled. Then he smiled gently: “A stranger, are you new to this place?”
He’s voice is mellow and elegant, which is different from Chu Wanning’s cold and cold voice.
“Ah…ah yes, yes.”
Suddenly there was a person who looked so much like the master, talking to him so kindly, Mo Ran couldn’t really tell what he felt, and he was at a loss for a while.
The prefecture master smiled slightly: “I am Chu Xun, may I ask your surname?”
“My, my surname is Mo, my name is Mo Ran.”
“Where did Mr. Mo come to Lin’an from?”
“Far, far away, in Shu, Shu.” Even though Mr. Chu Xun is gentle, Mo Ran still feels that he will be seen through by this person.
Chu Xun was slightly startled, then smiled modestly and said: “It’s really far away.” He paused, his eyes dropped a few inches, and he saw Chu Wanning standing next to him, with a trace of surprise on his elegant face.
“This is…”
“My name is Xia Si Ni.” Chu Wanning said.
Mo Ran brought him to him, touched his head, and said with a dry smile: “This is my brother.”
Doesn’t look like me, looks like you.
Perhaps the war was imminent and the situation was so urgent that Chu Xun had no time to think too much.Or maybe because he is just a character in a fantasy, it is difficult to react too violently to things that do not belong to this fantasy.In short, he frowned, looked at Chu Wanning for a while, and then handed the two drawn talisman papers to them with both hands.
“I am a guest from afar, not to mention that the people are in dire straits now. Please accept these two talismans. If there are no other arrangements, why not stay in the city for two more days.”
Mo Ran said: “I’ve heard it all. Are you going to take the city residents to Putuo? What is this talisman for?”
“This talisman is a soul-killing talisman.” Chu Xun explained, “Wearing it on the body can hide the breath of the living.”
Mo Ran immediately understood: “Ah, I know. If the breath of the living person is sealed, the ghost will not be able to detect whether the other party is dead or alive. In this way, even if we walk in front of the ghost, they will be confused and don’t know what to do.”
Chu Xun smiled and said, “That’s right.”
Seeing that he was busy, Mo Ran couldn’t ask any more questions, so he thanked Mr. Chu Xun and took his junior brother to the side.
The two of them were sitting by the wall. Mo Ran turned his head and saw that his junior brother was holding the talisman in trance, so he asked, “What are you thinking about?”
“I’m thinking, this is indeed a good idea.” Chu Wan’an thought quietly, “But I don’t know why they didn’t succeed in the end.”
“Isn’t it written in the book?”
Chu Wanning said: “The most detailed record of this disaster two hundred years ago is in “Lin’an Annotations”. But it is only a few lines.”
Mo Ran asked: “What does the book say?”
“Lin’an was besieged, and the situation in the city was unknown. When the rebels broke through the siege, they saw corpses leaning on the road, with ten rooms and nine empty. Hundreds of people in the prefecture and 740 households in the head of Guizhou were all dead.”
“…” Mo Ran said, “The cause of death was not written?”
“There is no record. Lin’an City was besieged at that time, and very few people survived. Later, a few survivors were rescued by the Yu People, but the Yu People are often not involved in worldly affairs, and their thoughts are different from ordinary people. In their eyes, the truth is not important. Even if it is clear, they will not tell the world without reason.”
Chu night Ning paused and continued: “However, since they are leaving in two days. What happened at that time will be seen soon. We might as well walk around again, maybe we can find some clues.”
The two put away the soul-killing talisman and were about to leave.
Suddenly there was a sound of footsteps, and then Chu Wanning’s sleeves were pulled.
“Little brother.”
Chu Wanning turned around and saw that it was the young master who looked quite similar to himself. The young master was very young and said with a sweet voice: “Little brother, my father said that you have no place to live here. If you don’t dislike it, you can stay at our house tonight.”
“This…”
Chu Wanning and Mo Ran looked at each other.
Mo Ran asked: “Is it convenient? Your father is already so busy.”
“It doesn’t matter.” The little guy showed a warm and innocent smile, “There are already many people living in the house who have no place to stay, and we all live together. With daddy here, I am not afraid at night, and there are no ghosts.”
He’s speech is often incoherent, but his simplicity and enthusiasm are also heart-wrenching to listen to.
Mo Ran said: “Okay, then we will come to the house to disturb you at night. Thank you, little brother.”
“Hey, don’t thank me, don’t thank me.”
Seeing him jumping away, Mo Ran pulled Chu Wanning’s hand and said: “Hey, let me tell the truth.”
“I know what you’re going to say, just shut up.”
“Hahaha. Do you know again?” Mo Ran smiled and rubbed He’s hair. “When I get back to the mountain, I really have to go find Master and ask. One of you looks like the older one, and the other one looks like the younger one. I won’t believe it if you say you are not related by blood to Governor Chu.”
Chu Wanning: “…so what if we are related by blood.”
“Huh?”
Chu Wanning looked at the father and son under the tree indifferently, and then said without any hesitation: “Anyway, it was two hundred years ago. They are all dead.”
After saying that, he turned around and left.
Mo Ran stayed in the same place for a while, and then he caught up with he, muttering to himself as he walked: “Hey, you said you, a kid, at such a young age, why are you so violent? Then you will die if you die, and you are an ancestor if you die. If it were me, I would definitely go back and give himWe build a temple, build a nine-foot-tall golden body, and put incense and jewelry all over our body.I still hope that my ancestors will protect me… Oh, don’t go so fast.”
The two walked around the city and found that every household was collecting rice straw and tying up scarecrows.
After asking about it, I found out that this was what Master Chu Xun ordered the citizens to do.No matter how old or young the city residents are, everyone needs to have a corresponding scarecrow wrapped in paper and dripping with their own blood.Make a so-called “fake puppet”.
This principle is like the river god wanting to eat a human head, so someone made steamed buns, stuffed them with meat fillings and threw them into the river as an offering to the river god.
You must know that some ghosts and gods are not smart-minded due to basic reasons.A little bit of blinding can deceive them all. For example, the ghost emcee who Chu Wanning and others have come into contact with before is a mud-headed person who is very good at deceiving.
Looking at it this way, Chu Xun at least made two levels of preparations for the city residents. The first level was the soul-killing talisman so that they would not be discovered by ghosts during their escape.
The second level is straw puppets, because once the ghosts find out that all the people in the city have suddenly disappeared, they will be extremely furious. Leaving the puppets as a cover can temporarily stabilize them and delay the migration of the whole city.
But the more this happens, the more doubts there are in the hearts of Mo Ran and Chu Wanning.
Why did Mr. Chu Xun fall short even though he had made such detailed arrangements?
With such doubts, they returned to the prefect’s mansion.It was already dark by this time.Many people who live in remote areas are unwilling to go home, so they pack up their belongings and spend the night in the Shangqing boundary.
The prefect’s mansion is open at night, with only the white-clothed guards seen during the day patrolling around.
When Mo Ranhe passed by, there were no vacant rooms in the house, and people were crowded everywhere. At least three or four families in a wing were huddled, and there was no room to stand.
In the end, the two people had to choose a corridor to rest.There was definitely no bedding. Mo Ran asked the guard for some straw, spread it softly on the ground, and carried Chu Wanning up.
“I feel sorry for you to sleep here today.”
Chu Wanning said: “Very good.”
“Really?” Mo Ran laughed, “I think so too.”
He fell next to Chu Wanning, stretched out, then put his arms behind his head, looking at the clear roof of the veranda.
“Junior brother, you see those birds are really good at creating dreams. Although this dream is based on the memory of the survivors, it is rare to be so detailed that even the wood grain on the vault is so clear.”
Chu Wanning said: “The Yumin are half-immortals after all. Although their magic power is not at its peak, there are always some abilities that mortals cannot reach.”
“Yes.” Mo Ran blinked, turned over, and looked at Allen Chu with his head propped up, “I can’t sleep.”
“…” Allen Chu glanced at he, “Then I’ll tell you a story to coax you.”
he was originally just a sarcastic joke, but Mo Ran turned out to be extremely thick-skinned and said with a smile: “Okay, okay. Junior brother, let’s tell a story about the Seven Fairies and Dong Yong.”
Chu Wanning did not expect that he would take it seriously. He was stunned for a moment, and then turned his face away angrily: “You have a beautiful thought. It is not embarrassing for such an old person.”
Mo Ran smiled and said: “Then you see, in fact, people will always think about things they can’t get. This has nothing to do with age. When I was a child, no one told me stories to coax me, so I always thought, thought, if there was someone who could coax me. Later, this person never appeared, and I grew up, so I didn’t think about it anymore. But I still think about it in my heart.”
Allen Chu: “…”
“No one told you stories when you were a kid, right?”
“Yeah.”
“Haha, so you actually don’t know how to tell the story of Dong Yong and the Seven Fairies, right?”
Chu Wanning: “……… Such extravagant words, what’s there to say?”
“No, I just won’t, don’t say it’s an extravagant thing. When you grow up like this, you will definitely be like my master. You will become a very boring person, and no one will want to talk to you.”
Chu Wanning said angrily: “If you don’t pay attention, don’t pay attention. Go to sleep.”
After that, he lay down and closed his eyes.
The ink burned with laughter and rolled, rolling around, rolling to Chu Wanning’s side. He looked at the little junior brother with his eyes closed. The eyelashes were black and long, very cute, so he reached out and pinched his face.
“Are you really asleep?”
“Asleep.”
“Haha.” Mo Ran smiled, “Then you fall asleep and I will tell you a story.”
“Can you tell stories?”
“Yeah, just like you can talk in your sleep.”
Allen Chu shut up.
Mo Ran was lying next to him, with the two of them pillowing on straw, head to head very close to each other.Mo Ran laughed for a while, and when he saw that his junior brother was ignoring him, he gradually stopped laughing so exaggeratedly, but his eyes were still curved, looking at the roof of the corridor, and the rough smell of rice could be heard on the tip of his nose from time to time, and his voice was calm and peaceful.
“The story I told you was made up by myself. No one told me a story before. I was very envious, but I had no choice but to tell myself a story every day while lying in bed. The one I told you is my favorite. I named it ‘Cow Eating Grass’.”
The author has something to say:
Small Theater【Bedtime Story】
Feed the Fish and tell a bedtime story like this: A long time ago, there was a child…
Chu Wanning’s story begins like this: Tao is Tao, but it is very Tao. What story do you want to tell?No, preaching.
Xue Meng: Don’t listen, don’t listen, you bastard thinks… Bah!I listen!I just listen.
Xue Meng’s bedtime story begins like this: Let me tell you, I am a top student and have won the first place countless times since I was a child. Today I will tell you how I won the first place in the 14th Cultivation World Youth Swordsmanship Championship~
Shi Mo starts his story like this: …well…I’m not very good at telling stories, so don’t mind if I don’t tell them well.
Ye Wangxi started telling a story like this: Do you want to hear a story?Okay, while I’m going to get a book to read, you lie down first and cover yourself with the quilt so you don’t catch a cold.
Mei Hanxue starts telling stories like this: Telling stories?Okay, senior brother will tell the story of two male tigers, one male and one female. Which version do you want to listen to?
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