I will still be a god in this life

Chapter 29 The Story of the Cat and the Scholar

History is often forgotten in the form of stories.

Sometimes too much time has passed, and no one who has witnessed it can bring his emotions, the pain and cruelty he witnessed, or even show his wounds and scars to alert and shock subsequent generations.

So the record of this incident is just words and images, and it will also be tampered with by some people with ulterior motives, rearranging the real events beyond recognition.

When future generations see such a story, they will no longer feel the weight of history and the color soaked in blood. They just say: Oh, it turns out that such a thing happened.

As of 2023, there are still dozens of witnesses to a certain incident. They are still reminding people that such a tragedy is their personal experience. It is by no means a story that some people do not admit to exist, let alone allow someone to Some people tamper with their life experiences.

He is still alive. His life, his suffering, and his personal experience are things that you can deny or tamper with?
In 583 AD, during the war against the Turkic invasion, the famous general Li Chong died for his country. Before his death, he asked a scholar who was said to be able to travel thousands of miles to help him send information to Yang Jian. The scholar also sent his son Li Min to Yang Jian. , and was given to Yang Jian to raise.

In 600 AD, Li Min's daughter Li Jingxun was born and died in 608 AD. Her coffin was engraved with the words "Open the coffin and you will die."

Ten years later, another branch of the Li family established the Tang Dynasty, and then the Sui Dynasty fell. Li Shimin failed in his attempt to seize the throne of human emperor, and was able to build the "Lingyan Pavilion" to enshrine himself as a god after obeying the orders of the heaven.

In 624 AD, Wu Meiniang, the second daughter of Ying Guogong's warrior Xun, was born.

In 649 AD, Wu Meiniang entered Ganye Temple as a nun. One day, because Li Zhi failed to make an appointment and did not come to see her, she walked into the back mountain gloomily.

She saw a scholar with a cat.

The scholar was fishing next to the pond, as motionless as a sculpture. Only the wind and the cat were stirring his robes. His long, thick hair, handsome eyebrows like swords, and light beard made him look resolute and handsome.

But the cat couldn't rest for a moment. Now it was catching butterflies, now it was walking around on tiptoes, and now it seemed as if it had just discovered that it had a tail. It was going around in circles to bite its own tail, and after a while it was about to play. He stretched out his round paws to test the scholar's breath, as if to see if he was dead.

It felt the scholar's breath with its round paws, and then it seemed to breathe a sigh of relief, and then it arrogantly twisted its neck and jumped around a few times.

Seeing that the scholar had always ignored it, he climbed onto his shoulders and pressed the back of his head with two round paws together.

After a while, when I finally got tired of playing, I jumped on his lap and lay down, turned my belly over, moved comfortably, curled my round paws on my chest, and fell asleep comfortably.

Wu Meiniang stood aside and watched for a long time, and couldn't help but smile. Seeing that the scholar was always staring at the fish float, his concentration was very human, and his face was elegant and good-looking, so she said softly:

"That fishing scholar, this is a royal monastery. If you just walked in by mistake, please leave quickly."

"We haven't caught any fish yet. If we leave now, what will we have for lunch?" The cat's ears moved, it extended its claws, turned over, and fell off the scholar's lap.

The scholar who looked like a wood carving and clay sculpture reached out his hand, caught the cat, and then put it on the ground.

"It turns out to be a cat demon. This scholar is your cat slave? Looking at his appearance, has he been sucked out of his essence by you and turned into a walking corpse that only listens to your orders?" This is not the first time Wu Meiniang has seen a monster. He was not in a hurry, and the corners of his mouth were slightly raised, revealing a smile with an evil meaning.

"What does it mean to suck out the essence? Meow?" The cat tilted its head and looked at Wu Meiniang in confusion. It was good to only obey its orders, but it didn't want the scholar to turn into a corpse... corpse-like flesh. .

This sounds like something similar to dried fish. Cat thought about how his scholar turned into dried fish, and suddenly became a little unhappy.

"Kitty, don't talk to bad women." The scholar turned his head at this moment.

In his pupils, which were as deep as the night sky, there were dots of stars across the sky, and in the center of the stars, there was a vortex that could swallow up time and space. Wu Meiniang looked into his eyes and felt dizzy.

When Wu Meiniang woke up, she was already in Li Zhi's arms, and Li Zhi told her that she had been in a coma for three days and three nights.

Just three days and three nights?Wu Meiniang did not tell Li Zhi that she experienced a period of life when she was in a coma. During that period of life, she replaced the Li family and became the emperor.

Or maybe give it a try?
Wu Meiniang asked Li Zhi to help her find a scholar with a cat... This matter spread, and for some reason it became that Wu Meiniang was afraid of cats.Later, Queen Wang and Concubine Xiao Shu, who were persecuted by Wu Meiniang, believed it even more and swore a poisonous oath: "May Wu be a mouse and I be a cat, strangled by his throat forever!"

Ever since, thousands of years later, no one knows what happened to Wu Zetian when she met the scholar and the cat. People only said that Wu Zetian was afraid of cats. Later generations also made a bad movie called "The Legend of the Demon Cat", which is even more unclear. .

Both the cat and the scholar are forgotten, story-wise.

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After telling his brother's story, Yao Jing'an felt extremely uncomfortable for some reason.

It seems that that silly cat demon really existed. Its confusion and panic when it discovered that the scholar had no breath, its desolation and exhaustion when guarding him, and its final despair and determination to die, seemed to have traveled through thousands of years. , can still be felt.

It's obviously just a story, but my brother tells it in a tone that seems to record history and has experienced it personally, giving people real experience and strong emotional infection.

It is precisely because of this that it makes people who know that the story is just a story feel even more absurd... How can he tell it so truthfully?
Yao Jing'an was in no mood to force her brother to learn anymore. The stupid cat who claimed to enslave others forever and therefore forced others to learn the method of immortality always appeared in her mind.

My brother is really annoying. He doesn't want Yao Jing'an to force him to study and tell such sad stories.

Her mother Yao Qiyi called and asked her where she had gone after the summer camp. There were guests at home and asked her to go back early for dinner.

Next, Yao Jing'an was not in the mood to force Zhou Fuxi to study, so he had to let him go first.

She left her big schoolbag behind and asked Zhou Fu to study hard.He claimed that next time he came over and found that he was still so tired, he would definitely be more handsome.

When Yao Jing'an went downstairs, he found that the girl who had just appeared at home had not gone far.

Probably because there was no need to show off or show off, she had already put on her coat from Lushan Middle School, and was taking the little girl who was learning Pinyin from her brother. They stood in the corner of the wall and looked up.

After taking a look, it turned out that there was a peach hanging under the dense leaves. They didn't know how they found it, and they were thinking about the peach.

The end of August in southern Hunan is as hot as a furnace, and the little shade of trees is not enough to bring coolness. The faint chirping of cicadas can be heard, and two squirrels squatting on the chicken coop not far away seemed to be fainted from the sun.

The girl's slender and white arms were raised, and they seemed to be burned by the sun. However, she was not afraid of the sun like ordinary girls. She was walking around in the scorching sun, as if she was looking for someone to pick peaches. tool.

In the end, she didn't find any tools, but the little girl was very creative. Yao Jing'an didn't pay attention to her efforts, so she didn't know where to find a plastic bag to put on her head... Can this block the sun?Or will you be so bored that you can’t stand the heat stroke?
Finally, the girl stood back under the peach and eagerly grabbed the edge of the wall, probably preparing to climb the wall to pick it. In the end, she pulled a wall brick off, turned around in a hurry to protect the little girl, and the brick hit her. On her shoulders, rolled down her back.

For some reason, she remained silent.

Yao Jing'an originally thought that this girl was a goblin, but now she has slightly changed her mind, but she is indeed developing during puberty. Selenium, iodine and B vitamins did not enter the brain, but were absorbed by the extra parts of the chest, which didn't look very smart.

Just now my brother also said that creatures like goblins do exist in the world, and goblins are not very smart, so goblins were relatively common until the Tang Dynasty. The closer we get to modern times, the harder it is to see them. Since they have not become protected animals, they naturally become Extinct.

That cat demon... clearly knew that her brother was just talking nonsense, but Yao Jing'an believed it in her heart, or hoped that it really existed.

Yao Jing'an sighed softly, waited for the online taxi that came to pick her up, and then prepared to go to her parents' house.

Unknowingly, the story of the cat and the scholar became history again, narrated in the voice of those who experienced it.

(End of this chapter)