Illuminating All Living Beings
Guiyao turned around and said: Meow.
She picked up Susu from the basin and looked at it carefully. After a while, she wiped the water off its fur with a towel. Susu seemed to be as shocked as Ren Beixi. The voice in her mind asked her weakly who this was.
After all, she often comes to this room to sleep.
It's been ages since I last met anyone! Two of them! One of them even speaks rat language! Oh my god!
Guiyao wrapped Susu in a handkerchief and put it in her arms.
"You misunderstood, this is..." Very good, back to the original topic, how to explain the origins of chinchillas and chinchillas.
She frowned and hesitated for a long time before speaking.
"It comes from a distant mountain range. The cold makes its fur different from the mouse's roughness, and its face different from the mouse's dry and flat one."
Ren Beixi's eyes were dark.
"Okay, I can't make this up anymore. This is a mouse."
Guiyao glanced at Susu's shocked little eyes and touched its big ears with her fingertips to comfort it.
Then he winked at Ren Beixi.
Being cute is useful.
To be honest, this was the first time she saw such complicated emotions on Ren Beixi's face. Thinking about it carefully, if it was Ren Beixi holding a strange big rat and giving it a bath, she would silently stay away from Ren Beixi a hundred meters.
But Totoro is really cute.
Guiyao held Susu's little paw and waved it, as if to say hello to Ren Beixi.
Ren Beixi lowered his eyes. The creature in front of him had wet fur, a pointed mouth and rat cheeks. Unlike ordinary mice, it was not pitch black and had a pair of big pink ears.
"What's the difference between them and mice?"
He said.
Gui Yaoshui glared at him and carried Susu into the room. She tidied the brush, ink, and rice paper that had been placed on the table. She then placed Susu on the table and muttered, "I'm sorry I don't have such good conditions."
"Do you remember that I am a wild rat?"
Susu whimpered.
She narrowed her almond-shaped eyes and looked at the chinchilla whose fur was soaked, feeling a little helpless. Domestic chinchillas must not be washed with water. Not only is water not as effective in diluting oil as bath sand, it can also cause stress in small animals.
But Susu had brown hair when she first appeared, and the mouse in front of him was now clearly a white-haired chinchilla.
There is no time to think about it.
Anyway, I have just called the system to let the respected mind-reading notebook take effect to prevent the rat from getting sick.
"Have you ever showered before?"
"I fell into the water and nearly froze to death. I once secretly went to a flour stall and rolled around for a long time, and was almost beaten to death."
Gui Yao felt pity. Ancient people were not as accepting of various kinds of rats as modern people. She shook off her washed hands, leaned on the edge of the table, raised her eyes and saw the scroll hung back in its original place, her long eyelashes trembling slightly.
"Hey, General Ren." She kicked Ren Beixi, who was standing beside her, and her voice sounded a little sick in the night. "What are your plans for tomorrow?"
The man was tidying up the robe he had just put on. The corner of his handkerchief was exposed at his sleeve. It was Guiyao's that he had confiscated, and there was still a faint fragrance on it. He folded it up and put it away with a stern brow. His eyes were full of treasure, and he looked at her like jade, but now he was as if she were dust and could not be touched.
His voice was light.
"After daybreak, we followed the people on the street, but we couldn't find any trace of Lu Qingshan. However, Pinyue came back with news that Jiuchong's destination was the capital."
"Lu Qingshan may still be in Wuhua City."
Guiyao asked him if he wanted to sleep a little longer.
His eyes were silent, and after a long time he shook his head, asked her for two taels of silver, and said he was going for a walk outside. Before leaving, he copied the ghost mask that he had surrendered at some point in time, and his tall back was a little cold.
She did not try to keep him, but just lowered her eyes and touched the little thing that was still shrinking in her palm.
"Did he just glance at you?"
Susu shuddered again.
It's a bit meaningful.
This was Guiyao's idea. When she heard the sound of fire outside in the distance, she suddenly changed the subject: "Susu, you often come to this room. Do you know who has been here before? How did you find this room?"
Susu stared at her blankly, her big ears trembling, and she didn't know where to put her two little paws.
"Rats don't know. I'm bigger than other rats anyway, so other rats don't like to play with me. I'll scare them to death on the street, and when they recover, they'll come and beat me up and chase me away. But when I hide in this room, no one dares to come in."
Guiyao wrung out the soaked handkerchief and placed it on its back, continuing the conversation: "Well...it's because rats are special, but in fact, special humans will also be bullied in human territory."
Susu came up and sniffed for a long time. Suddenly, she said, "Shu met a special person! No one else wanted to play with him and didn't dare to look up at him. Once, he saw me and I thought he would catch me, but he just sat back at the table and threw me a corn."
Gui Yao raised her eyebrows, this was considered as getting three clues.
First, this house already existed before the incognito visit.
Second, this emperor is quite interesting.
Gui Yao waved to the sky, and a man in black jumped down and knelt on one knee: "Madam, what can I do for you?"
"Can you get me an apple?"
"yes!"
When the man in black stood up, he caught a glimpse of the big rat on the table. He was shocked and left at a much faster pace.
Then Guiyao got a red apple in half a minute.
She pulled out her dagger, washed it and started cutting. As she cut, she chatted with Susu about the past events of this house, such as how that special person had lived there for more than half a month, and how after that special person left, the big house next door had a new owner.
"It's the fox now! Fox Lu!" Susu held the apple slices tightly in her two little hands, chewing them with her little mouth while saying in her heart, without any delay.
Hearing the familiar misunderstanding of the little animal, she whispered, "It's the prefect, not the fox."
Guiyao held up her face and thought about the cat again.
After feeding this third clue, somehow, the situation brought about by these news was different from what she had expected. She originally thought that the emperor was here to investigate Lu Fuyin's activities, but why did Lu Fuyin take office after his secret visit?
She remembered that when Ren Beixi first entered the city, he said that the previous prefect of Wuhua City was not Lu Qingshan.
Was it the emperor who pushed him to the throne?
But this is really absurd. They use the danger of the emperor to lure people into the trap, use intelligence as a currency exchange, use ghost stories at night to make people afraid to go out and find that the street is a ghost street, and use the reason of compensating for food to make people line up in long queues during the day.
Isn't this just a result?
Rebellion.
Pause, Gui Yao looked up and saw that the moon was gradually approaching the mountains in the west. She stood up, cut another half piece of apple, held it in front of Susu, but withdrew her hand when Susu stretched out his claws.
Susu's sesame-sized eyes trembled noticeably. "What are you doing?" Susu lay on the table, rubbing her butt against Guiyao's hand, acting like a scoundrel.
Guiyao pushed its fur and said, "Don't bite, don't bite. Susu, look at that. Have you seen this painting?"
The scroll stood not far from the bed. Because there were no more candles lit in the room, the faint warmth was entwined in the painting, with slender white feet and a gurgling stream.
There is also the beauty's black hair that cannot be tied up in her hair, and the tiny hole on the stone.
Susu was surprised and said, "I have seen it before!"
"That man was always painting. One day, a rat was almost caught. It rolled in from the mud hole behind the well and saw that the man had hung the painting in the sky."
It jumped onto Guiyao's held-up hand and got the apple slice as it wished.
"Rat remembers it very clearly because there were other people with him at the time. After noticing my movements, he tried to stab me with a sword. I almost died."
Susu pointed her free finger toward the sky.
Guiyao moved closer and followed its direction of sight. She saw that the place it was pointing was on the eaves of a building not far away, and there, hanging there was an empty birdcage.
Leniency to those who confess, severity to those who resist.
Gui Yao finally gave Susu a piece of apple slice, and then went out to find Ren Beixi while chewing the apple. At the gate of Wuhua Mansion, she stared at the ghost mask that someone had prepared early, then hummed a song, took it away and put it on.
She originally just wanted to play with the little gadgets in front of the stall outside the door and wait for Ren Beixi to come back, but somehow she was suddenly tripped by someone.
In an instant, she immediately supported herself on the stall with her hands.
The boss exclaimed.
The girl under the moon was fumbling to straighten her hastily tied hairband when she suddenly heard a few faint bird calls, accompanied by the sound of fire spitting, coming from nowhere.
Before she could figure out where they came from, the people on the street clearly began to disperse. Gui Yao was stuck in the crowd and couldn't get out. Her eyebrows were wet as she thought about how to slip away.
The crowds of people are like birds and beasts, running but leaving traces.
Helpless.
She was about to turn around and step into the alley, but her wrist was suddenly pulled into his arms, and then the man's restrained breathing fell silently on her slender neck.
Gui Yao shrank her shoulders because of the heat, changed her wrist with her hand, and took Ren Beixi's hand and rushed to Wuhua City.
The two of them went in opposite directions from the ghost face next to them.
It feels a bit like my ears are burning.
"Are you done talking?" The man lowered his eyes and saw her eyelashes trembling when he heard her words, with a hint of smile in his throat.
Gui Yao suddenly understood why he left suddenly.
But there are more important things right now.
When they reached the outside of Wuhua Mansion, she stopped and looked up to let him see the eaves of the house in the distance.
The bird cage swayed in the wind, and the black-clad men around it spread out like ink, secretly following the ghost-faced group who had just left as usual. Gui Yao listened to the prompt of increasing completion in her mind, with a hint of stubbornness in her eyes.
Open plots, secret plots, people and time, ups and downs.
If this time travel brings about cause and effect, there will definitely be living people who bleed because of the collection of mind-reading notes.
She didn't want it to be a companion around her.
Whether it is humans or animals, these stories are no longer side quests unique to her, but about all living beings.
The scroll was held in her hand again. While the weather was still warm and the candles in the street lamps had not yet burned out, Ren Beixi grabbed her waist and jumped onto the roof. The birdcage was not located high, but was blocked by a window and could not be seen from other angles.
Ren Beixi whispered to her that the bird calls on the street just now were learned by a ventriloquist. He stood in front of the street and stared at him for a long time.
Guiyao said "Oh".
"Can you make a sound next time when you hug me?" She stood on tiptoe and got closer to his face.
The man bent down.
In the end, it was just his breath against her lips.
Gui Yao tried hard not to hit anyone on the roof, so she was kissed so hard that she couldn't stand, and her waist was held tightly. The horizon line of the distant mountains began to turn pale, and the tears in the corners of her eyes were gently kissed away.
Not gentle enough either.
She glared at him with red eyes.
Ren Beixi lowered his eyes and stared at Gui Yao's wrist, which was tightly grasping the corner of her clothes. His Adam's apple rolled as he argued in a deep voice, "If you make a sound, you won't let me hold you anymore."
Gui Yao secretly put her not-so-long arms in Ren Beixi's arms.
"That's not the case."
"To you."
She whispered.
Susu on the table curled up quietly on two or three handkerchiefs, shook off her hair, and then looked quietly at the two people supporting each other up there.
It hadn't spoken so much for a long time. It remembered that when it was a child, it was picked up by a baby and brought home. The child's mother looked at it for a long time and said that it looked different from other mice and seemed to be quite good-looking.
Then it has a home.
Many places in Wuhua City are very beautiful. There are flower banquets in spring, flowing water in summer, leaf viewing in autumn and snow watching in winter. It is natural that it knows all about it because it has escaped to many places!
Except for the bottom of the cliff where it lived with the mother and daughter.
The doll always held it and talked to it, and it also talked to her. Many times it saw her smile, and sometimes it saw her cry, saying that they lived at the bottom of the cliff not because of poverty, but because of the war in the capital.
What is war? Susu knows, but also seems not to know. It seems this is not something a mouse should understand.
But it is different from other mice.
Although it has a home, it still cannot appear in front of others casually. Once, when the baby was bullied, it jumped out to protect her, but was pinched by the ears with a playful smile.
Only then did it realize that bad guys cannot be scared away.
The mother came out with a hoe and drove away the bad guys. The mother held the baby and the baby held it. It was just dawn and nothing good or bad had happened yet.
Susu likes Guiyao very much.
Who did she remind her of? A baby, or her mother? I don't know. Susu was just a mouse, and she didn't have any offspring, as Guiyao had suggested.
The painting was hung where it was said, and it saw the magical scene again.
The candlelight flickered slightly, and a layer of shadows with a picture was actually cast on the white wall. The door of the reception room in front of the secret passage was now closed and hung upside down on the wall.
When Gui Yao landed, she ran to the table in two or three steps, and thanked Susu with a smile in her eyes. She didn't care that Ren Beixi was looking at her with his eyes downcast. She turned around, patted his shoulder, and said seriously.
"My husband."
"After we get to the capital, I'll tell you a secret."
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