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Gui Yao stood up in vain, holding onto the tea table. Her tearful eyes were full of innocence as she spoke, sobbingly, "Young General, young General, there's no need to humiliate me like this. I just accidentally bumped my wrist against a nearby bamboo tile while drinking porridge, so I came to rest in your room for a while."
"My little girl...is not a cat."
The wound seemed to be healing because of the nourishment from the medicine, and the tingling sensation spread all the way to my heart.
There was silence all around. Gui Yao felt that she had overacted. She was clearly attached to General Ren, but she subconsciously put the two people who entered the mansion together into the same camp.
I can't take back what I said.
She had no choice but to try to catch Ren Beixi's gaze.
The cat indoors and the dog outdoors were not noisy, but Guiyao's mind was unusually empty.
She heard the man sitting in front of her with a serious expression refill her cup with tea and said calmly, "The white porridge in the mansion has always been given to Miaomiao. Mo Mo is just trying it for fun."
How come Miaomiao also has a role?
No matter what, at this point, the show has been performed well enough.
Gui Yao raised her eyes and looked at Lan Fang: "Aunt Lan Fang, I'm hungry. Does your house have any food for me?"
Lan Fang sighed, "Forget it. The others continue catching cats. I'll take Madam Gui back to her residence first."
Gui Yao pursed her lips and said okay, and was about to take a step as she watched the group of servants carrying weapons and walking out together.
"Wait, don't bother Auntie." Xiao Hui stopped the two with a smile and said seriously, "Our general wants to apologize to Miss Gui and has prepared a delicious meal. Please let her stay, Auntie."
Lan Fang flicked her sleeves. Gui Yao, with her sharp ears, heard her whisper, "That's really against the rules."
But why are the rules in your general's mansion different from those outside? Are you just going to leave me here to apologize to General Ren? Gui Yao coughed a few times and slowly walked into the bamboo forest.
I'm tired and don't want to deal with it anymore.
Gui Yao thanked Ren Beixi earnestly, then hurried back to the room to pick up the cat. She used her fingers to check and found that the tortoiseshell cat's breathing had slowed down a lot. It was very obedient and quiet, and it was obvious that its vigilance had been reduced a lot compared to before.
She leaned closer and hummed softly, "What a good kitten."
When he turned around again, he and the cat bumped into a black aura.
"Gui Xiaoniang was not taught at home, so it's against etiquette to touch other people's things." Ren Beixi, dressed in black, imprisoned himself in a narrow corner of the room, with a cold look in his eyes.
Gui Yao calmed down and replied seriously, "I'm sorry, I won't do it again next time. Thank you, General. I couldn't bear to see such harm to small animals, so I saved the cat."
Ren Beixi took a breath.
He lowered his head, as if he could see the fuzz on her nose. Eyes? Her beautiful eyes were prone to tears, and they were always deceiving. He didn't like them.
What kind of kid is this from the Gui family? He remained calm in the face of the bloody animal wounds and even dared to cut his wrist with a knife for this cat.
Ren Beixi's eyes darkened, and he stretched out his hand to open a door behind her, revealing all kinds of knives.
With a few clangs, he handed the blood-stained dagger to her: "It's very sharp, be careful."
Gui Yao held the cat firmly, grasped the dagger, lowered her head and bit the bandage he had just tied, trimmed the excess fabric with one hand, and when she looked up again, she curled her eyes at him.
"I don't believe in cats killing people, but I do feel pity for the death of Miss Prefect."
So he was appointed general.
Do you want us to form a 2/5 team?
/ Congratulations to the host, the completion rate of the side quest "Cat Kills the Lady" has been increased to 10% /
Gui Yao blinked and looked up in confusion. The little general seemed to be still in deep thought. She looked down even more confusedly. It turned out that it was Mo Mo who followed her and put his black nose close to smell the tortoiseshell cat's tail hanging outside.
She suddenly thought of the short videos she had seen before.
The tortoiseshell cat was sitting by the window and was reluctant to leave. The owner held up a ragdoll cat to show it, which frightened it so much that it started to whimper and ran away with its tail between its legs. Guiyao really likes ragdoll cats because they are gentle and won't bite when given acupuncture.
But it is obviously impossible to touch it in this world.
Guiyao thought, maybe in the dog world, tortoise shells are also beautiful? Just when this thought came to her mind, Namomo started barking: "Hey, you little brat are hiding here, and you're holding the general's wife, you're a little pregnant."
This is the biggest black dog in the general's mansion.
It’s really extraordinary.
Guiyao lowered her eyes and squinted as she listened to their cross-species conversation. The tortoiseshell cat was a little scared of Momo, and was looking around for Miaomiao. But Momo pushed his owner away when he came over. I won't go into details about what they said, as he was really a chatterbox.
If Ren Beixiong were half as talkative as his dog, it would be much easier to communicate with him. Unlike now, Gui Yao can only figure out how to hurry back home after dinner. Wait, eat. She sniffed. The air was filled with neither gloom nor ambiguity, but hunger.
"Are you hungry?" Ren Beixi asked.
"I'm hungry!" Guiyao nodded.
So, the two of them sat back in the yard they had just been in, but the small benches became four. Gui Yao and Ren Beixi sat opposite each other, with Xiao Daimao sitting upright next to them, and Momo leaning his dog's mouth on the bench.
Guiyao chewed the lettuce slowly and carefully.
The kitchen of Zhulinju should be separate from the mansion, but I wonder how big the difference in taste is between the two.
To be honest, before she had the chance to eat the main course, she had already started cooking for her fiancé.
Hey, wouldn’t it be bad if this got out?
I don’t know whether it’s good or not, anyway, I’m full, and when I’m full, I feel sleepy. Gui Yao could only support herself with her hands and stare blankly at the person in front of her. After a few seconds of pausing, she turned her gaze to the cats and dogs.
"Is rice porridge really for cats?" Gui Yao suddenly asked.
Ren Beixi didn't answer, probably following the old saying of "don't talk while eating".
The wind blew the leaves, making them sway.
Guiyao took the chopsticks back and picked up some meat for Daimao to eat.
Swish, swish, swish.
For some reason, many beautiful poems and verses with the theme of peaceful times suddenly popped up in her mind.
never mind.
Gui Yao supported her waist and called the system in her mind.
/Hello host, Animal Mind Reading Notes is currently being updated to unlock new maps. The intelligent service will be restored in three days. During this period, tasks will be released as usual and points will be collected as usual. /
Another reply that is even more robotic than a robot.
This is the first time I've been away from the system for so long since I traveled through time and bound the mind-reading notebook. Well, counting on my fingers, it's only been less than half a day.
Gui Yao sighed softly and lowered her head to check the little hawksbill turtle's injuries. Its ears were fine, and its right leg was bleeding slightly. Its mental state was quite good. It seemed to know that it was temporarily safe, and it began to chatter curiously.
Why can cats understand what you say?
Cats like people, people like people like this, the one who just chased the cat, bad!!
Gui Yao leaned in to look into its eyes: "Little Heterochromia, do you know that you are always in trouble when you are in our place?"
She scratched its chin and then the uninjured ear. This kind of treatment was something no cat had ever received before... She also missed one. When she saw Miaomiao cat, she also wanted to pet it, but unfortunately she heard someone coming outside, so she had to act in the dark.
Modern lights are easy to turn off.
In ancient times, candles needed to be blown out at night.
When she was in Xiaohe Village, she lived with her uncle and aunt. Her bedroom was the west wing. She often left only one light on before going to bed. She continued this habit when she went to the general's mansion last night.
The rooms for guests in the general's mansion are also spacious and airy, with neat furnishings.
There were dozens of different kinds of lamps, including oil lamps, candles, some whose names Guiyao couldn't remember, and some that made Guiyao stop and take a closer look. The lamps were shaped like tree stumps from top to bottom, and like blooming lotus flowers, extremely gorgeous.
Her hand that was touching her chin suddenly stopped.
The prefect in the hall just now mentioned in his statement that... during the night shift, a woman screamed, then all the candles went out, and a red-eyed cat appeared but no one was seen.
Obviously, there are two doubts.
First, the daughter of the prefect, the lamps in her house would not be less than those here.
The second reason is that she needs to investigate again at night, as she must take the cat back with her.
After thinking about this, Gui Yao decided to go all out and stood up to leave.
The tortoiseshell cat was placed on a chair by her and chatted with Mo Mo. The young lady smiled sweetly and charmingly, and saluted the person in front of her with a face as bright as a peach blossom. "Thank you for your hospitality, young general. I will be leaving now."
The bamboo stool was a bit short, so Gui Yao could only watch helplessly as someone built a tall building on flat ground. When they stood up straight, they were a full head taller than her. It wasn't Gui Xiaoniang's fault that she was weak. She herself was also 1.6 meters tall in her previous life.
She had deliberately tried to downplay her demeanor, but the team application she had just submitted was not accepted. Now she felt that Ren Beixi was wrong no matter how she looked at it. She had previously thought that this man was as handsome as a knight with a sword.
Gui Yao raised her thin chin slightly, and she unconsciously straightened her narrow shoulders, trying to show more confrontational momentum.
"You are not under my command, nor are you my elder. You don't have to call me Little General, Erlang. I don't like it either."
His right hand rested on the hilt of the sword, and his black hair flowed like a waterfall.
"I take my father's surname, Ren. When I came of age, I was stationed at the border and fought in battles. I never took a courtesy name. You can just call me by my first name, Ren Beixi."
The threat from the northern border took twenty years to quell since the previous dynasty. In the second year of Chengwen, only the Ren family of Xianyucheng dared to call themselves the general's mansion.
His father, Ren Dingshan, was a second-rank cavalry general. He was forty years old when he died in the Battle of Zhuolutai in the northern border. He was posthumously awarded the title of first-rank general. The whole country was in grief, and snow fell in June.
Gui Yao looked at him, her heart pounding.
The year Ren Dingshan died, she had just traveled through time. Snowflakes were slowly falling from the sky. Was anyone crying?
Da Huang at the entrance of the village often called out. At that time, she had not yet learned to read minds, but when she touched his head, she could feel the sadness in his voice.
Dahuang's owner is the village chief of Xiaohe Village. Dalang, the village chief's son, joined the army and went north several years ago. He only returned to the village once and has never been heard from since then.
Guiyao accepted the task. During that time, she squatted at the entrance of the village every day waiting for carrier pigeons to fly by, calling them down and asking them if they had any letters from far away.
"Gui Yao?" Someone called her name.
The little girl's eyes were a little hot, and she bit her lip, still thinking about how to make it round: "Ren Beixi, Ren Beixi, I know."
Guiyao's ears were completely red, and she couldn't tell whether it was because of the sand or because of shame. She took her sleeve to wipe her tears, but suddenly felt that it was not appropriate. She could only struggle to look upwards with hazy eyes, and her moist red lips unconsciously opened slightly.
"Ren Beixi, I need to take Xiao Daimao back to my residence. Can someone take me back? I don't know the way."
"……cannot."
A deep voice interrupted her, and Ren Beixi's eyes remained on her face.
Her eyes, and her sparkling tears.
"This cat is related to a murder case and cannot be given to outsiders."
You don't believe cats kill people, but you also feel pity for the death of the prefect's daughter? Miss Gui, from a family of doctors, is really as kind and soft-hearted as the rumors say.
Ren Beixi pursed his lips and turned to leave.
"Whatever."
"Please return the cat intact before dark."
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