Chapter 300: Raising a cat is free
"Pickled Pepper Claws, want some?"
Sister Gui handed a human hand to Ye Xiaoman and Yue Mushan. After being rejected, she gnawed on her pickled pepper hand and took the two to the eldest young master's residence.
Ye Xiaoman had been assigned a life-threatening task, but she didn't give up. She asked Ghost Sister about the young master's information, "What kind of person is the young master... er, a ghost?"
Sister Gui had never seen the Young Master in person. She thought for a moment and said, "The Young Master is a monster. All the residents and servants sent by the housekeeper to serve him will die."
"Oh, by the way, I overheard the butler tell the stewards not to let the young master take off the cloth covering his face."
Ye Xiaoman asked, "Is there any mystery about the young master's true appearance?"
Sister Ghost said, "I don't know. It seems like something horrible will happen after the young master reveals his true identity."
Ye Xiaoman recalled the information she had heard from Yue Mushan, "Why does the owner of the manor never meet with the eldest young master?"
The ghost sister had no idea either: "Maybe she's disgusted with having given birth to a monster son."
Yue Mushan was born into a happy family and immediately had a question: "Where is the manor owner's wife?"
Sister Ghost scratched her head: "We don't have the wife of the manor owner."
Yue Mushan pressed on: "Without the manor owner's wife, where did the young master come from?"
"Perhaps she died right after giving birth to the young master," Ghost Sister had never considered this seemingly self-evident question. "Anyway, since the villa was founded, the only people in charge have been the owner and the eldest young master."
Ye Xiaoman stroked her chin and thought: "The eldest young master's life story seems both reasonable and strange."
The information was limited and she had no clue.
"Wait until you see the young master, and then observe carefully."
Sister Gui took them to the eldest young master's house.
I couldn’t see clearly last time because of the distance, but this time I got closer and found that the four white walls were covered with dark talismans.
Ye Xiaoman didn't know what the spell said, she just felt it was very ominous. The strokes of the talisman were moving and turning into the faces of roaring evil spirits. She didn't dare to look at them for long.
Layer upon layer of restrictions locked the yard tightly.
Ye Xiaoman said, "The owner seems very wary of the young master escaping."
The ghost sister comforted her: "Even if you die at the hands of the young master, as long as your soul is not eaten, you can continue to stay in the villa as a fierce ghost. Sister will take care of you."
Yue Mushan seemed to have some knowledge of battle formations. He walked to the wall and carefully studied the runes on the wall through the restrictions.
Ye Xiaoman asked him, "Any clues?"
Yue Mushan replied, "It's a prison formation for evil spirits."
Ye Xiaoman: "Interesting, one evil ghost imprisoned another evil ghost with a vicious magic circle. They are more like enemies than father and son."
Sister Ghost made a gesture to silence them. She took out her servant's badge and hung it around her waist. The restriction recognized the power of rules and opened a gap.
Sister Gui pushed open the gate and watched Ye Xiaoman and Yue Mushan walk in. Her mission was completed.
She didn't dare to enter the yard. She waved sympathetically to Ye Xiaoman and left as if escaping.
Yue Mushan and Ye Xiaoman walked inside.
When the ghost servants who were sweeping the floor saw them, it was as if they were seeing dying human sacrifices, and because so many people had died, their expressions were numb.
A ghost who looked like a manager came over. It was very afraid of Ye Xiaoman and stood far away under the corridor. "Come with me."
So he followed the steward.
Along the way, the pavilions and towers were considered luxurious among ordinary people's homes, but Ye Xiaoman had seen the world and felt that they were commonplace.
She looked at the little cat demon beside her.
I thought Yue Mushan would be scared, but his expression remained normal. He turned his eyes to meet hers, and said in a calm, youthful voice, "Sister, you're staring at me again."
Ye Xiaoman asked: "Aren't you afraid?"
"There's no point in being afraid," Yue Mushan asked, "Sister will protect me, right?"
"I, your elder sister, can hardly protect myself," Ye Xiaoman pretended to be embarrassed, "and my brother won't let me touch him anyway."
The boy was shy. When he heard Ye Xiaoman teasing him again, he ignored her and walked quickly with his long legs to her.
Ye Xiaoman smiled and walked along his shadow: "How did you end up in the ghost world?"
"My parents threw me here."
Ye Xiaoman thought of many tragic cases of abandoned cats and asked, "Did they abandon you?"
How could you bear to give up such a beautiful cat? Even if you marry it to someone else's house, you can get a lot of money just for its pretty face.
"They are nearing the end of their lives and can no longer provide me with a better shelter. They want to kick me out of the house and make me independent."
Ye Xiaoman sympathized with him and made a wishful calculation. The cat boy was not wearing any gold or jade, and his clothes were quite simple. After a closer look, he looked like a cat from an ordinary family, which was not expensive to raise.
Her appearance and figure are even better than those of the courtesan in the brothel. The money he pays for a night at the courtesan is equivalent to his cat food for a year. If he can lure her home, it means he can have fun every night without spending any money.
"If you have nowhere to go in the future, come find me. I'll never let you down if I have a bite to eat," Ye Xiaoman invited enthusiastically. "By the way, how much life do your parents have left?"
"About twelve hundred years."
“…Excuse me.”
Ye Xiaoman, not sure if she could live to 120, immediately shut up.
She talked to Yue Mushan about something practical, "How high is your cultivation level?"
Yue Mushan: "...Qi Refining Stage."
Ye Xiaoman didn't know if she was dazzled, but Yue Mushan's tail seemed to stiffen for a moment.
She understood immediately.
A monk's cultivation is like a boy's height. If he vaguely answers "I'm not very tall", then he should be calculated as 160cm. If he is evasive and says "around 170cm", then he should be calculated as below 165cm. A man who is really tall will confidently give his height to two decimal places, for example, "186.29".
When asked about her cultivation level now, she would proudly answer that she was at the eighth level of Qi Refining.
As for Yue Mushan, it is reasonable to suspect that he is below the fifth level of the Refining Stage.
Oh, by the way, he doesn’t have even one level of skill now.
If she went to his room in the middle of the night and used brute force to knock him out, he wouldn't be able to resist...
Stop, Ye Xiaoman, you are a good citizen who abides by the law. Why do you have such evil thoughts? Have you begun to be assimilated by the evil spirit?
Ye Xiaoman's expression changed slightly. She shook her head and asked in a secret voice: "Are you sure you can break the ghost-imprisoning formation at the door?"
Yue Mushan: [Yes.]
Fortunately it's not completely useless.
Yue Mushan: [Sister, have you figured out a way to escape?]
Ye Xiaoman: [No. After meeting the Young Master, we'll see what happens.]
The steward led them to the innermost courtyard and pushed open the door of the large room in the middle.
When he led them in, he repeatedly warned them: "Don't look at what you shouldn't look at, be careful about what you shouldn't say, and don't make the young master angry. The consequences will be something you can't bear."
A strong smell of blood rushed out from the open door.
Ye Xiaoman sealed her five senses, otherwise she would feel like vomiting because of the smell.
The steward's calves were shaking, and like the servants outside, he was extremely afraid of the eldest young master.
He walked through the door first, "Follow me."
Yue Mushan is very responsible. Even when his life was in danger, he stood in front of Ye Xiaoman and stepped over the threshold.
Ye Xiaoman followed Yue Mushan into the room.
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