Chapter 75: Once separated, it is forever
"Ah? Are you leaving now that you've recovered from your injury?" The Marquis's tone changed from surprise to disappointment.
This is a very wonderful feeling. It turns out that from the time she was eight years old to now when she is in her forties, there has always been a hamster spirit guarding her side, silently accompanying and protecting her.
He will definitely appear when she is in danger.
I feel that the hamster spirit is more like her patron saint than a monster.
Both humans and animals have intuition. Although it was the first time that Mrs. Hou saw a hamster spirit, she did not think it was a scary monster at all. Instead, she felt a sense of familiarity.
But now that we finally meet, it is about to leave.
Mrs. Hou couldn't help but feel lost and reluctant.
The hamster spirit scratched his head and said, "Yes, once you get the opportunity, you must go back to the mountains to practice. You can't practice in places where there are many people like you.
I finally had the chance to cultivate into a human form, so I can't waste this opportunity.
Besides, I have been eating and drinking at your house for more than 30 years, I am already embarrassed..."
To put it nicely, it's free food and drink, to put it bluntly, it's stealing food and drink.
The Marquis's wife also knew that there was no reason for it to stay, after all, opportunities were rare.
Madam Hou said seriously: "Don't feel embarrassed, you are not eating and drinking for free, you have been with me for so long, in my heart, you have long been my guardian angel,
You should rest and recuperate in my home for the next period of time. I will send you off when you are fully recovered. ”
Life is a journey, and there will always be people who get off halfway.
I am lucky to be able to accompany you for a while.
This hamster spirit is considered young among the spirits. It is still a young spirit. Animals become spirits relatively late, so its mind is still as innocent as that of a child.
It heard that the marquis lady not only did not blame it for following her around and eating and drinking for free, but also thanked it and treated it as her guardian angel.
The mouse was instantly so happy that it brightened up.
It no longer curled up into a ball, but stood up on its two hind legs, saying happily: "Thank you, when I really become a human in the future, I will definitely come back to find you!"
"Well! It's a deal!"
The marquis's wife even stretched out her hand and touched the hamster's front paw.
Later, the hamster spirit served as the eldest master in the Zhenbei Marquis Mansion for three months.
If it needs any medicinal herbs when it is injured, we will buy them for it at a high price, and it can eat whatever it wants.
Not only does it have a good relationship with the Marquis's wife, it also gets along very well with the rest of the Zhenbei Marquis family.
The Marquis of Zhenbei even treated it as his second son. In the beginning, he was grateful but fearful of it, but later on, as soon as he opened his eyes every day, he would go outside to take it for a walk in a deserted place.
The hamster spirit was also given a very cute name, Mancang.
I hope this little hamster’s warehouse will be full every year. It has a very simple and lovely meaning.
But all good things must come to an end. Mancang’s injury had long since healed, and the whole mouse had eaten twice as much.
Finally, after the Chinese New Year, when the cold winter was over and spring was in full bloom, he prepared to leave the Zhenbei Marquis Mansion and head into the mountains to find his tribe to practice.
Madam Hou's eyes were red. She squatted down and touched Mancang's head and said, "Remember our agreement. When you cultivate into a human form, you must come back to find me!"
What she didn't know was that the time it took for the monsters to practice was measured in hundreds of years.
Mancang didn't know how long the human lifespan was. He had not lived with humans for a long time and had only been with Madam Hou for about thirty years.
It has not experienced the birth, aging, sickness and death of humans, so the marquis will be able to live as long as it does.
It firmly promised Madam Hou: "Yes! When I cultivate into a human form, I will come back to find you as soon as possible!"
Marquis Zhenbei handed it a pile of dry food that he had prepared in advance, and even stuffed a bunch of silver bills into it.
Mancang scratched his head. He could understand giving dry food, but why so many silver notes?
It's just a rat and it can't spend any money.
Zhu Hongtao gave it a corn cob made of pure gold: "Since you like to chew corn cobs the most, I will give you a pure gold one that will never go bad!"
If this rat doesn't leave, his position in the family will be in jeopardy. His son the rat is almost closer to him than he is.
Mancang happily accepted the gift of the golden corn cob and smiled so hard that he couldn't stop.
It carried all the luggage on its back, waved goodbye to the Zhenbeihou family one by one, then turned and went into the deep mountains beside the official road, and disappeared in the blink of an eye.
What Mancang didn’t know was that sixty years had passed since they last met.
It was determined to cultivate into a human form as soon as possible and then return to the Zhenbei Marquis Mansion, so it practiced very diligently.
In addition, it has extraordinary talents, and it was able to transform into a human form in just sixty years.
But when it finally cultivated into a human form and rushed back to the Zhenbei Marquis Mansion, it found that everything had changed.
The Marquis of Zhenbei and his wife, who loved it so much at the beginning, are long gone, and even Zhu Hongtao is already in his twilight years.
Only Zhu Hongtao recognized it.
This was the first time in Mancang’s long life as a rat that he was taught firsthand what birth, aging, sickness and death are like, and this was the only person closest to him.
It turned out that farewell outside the city was a farewell forever.
Zhu Hongtao's grandsons are now the same age as Zhu Hongtao was back then.
Later, Mancang was unwilling to leave and became the guardian deity of the Zhu family for generations to come.
It does not appear at normal times, but at critical moments, as long as the Zhu family prays, it will definitely appear.
Just like it guarded the Marquis's wife back then.
Of course, this is all in the past.
Now, even Wen Ling saw that the hamster spirit got along well with Mrs. Hou's family after meeting them.
When he heard that Madam Hou wanted the hamster to stay in their house until his injuries healed before leaving, he had no objection.
She only said, "If the spirits don't harm people, it's fine to get along with them. If you're worried, you can come to my shop tomorrow to get some fortifying talismans, so that weak people won't be hit by the spirits."
The Zhenbeihou family naturally expressed their gratitude repeatedly.
As soon as Wen Ling arrived, she solved all the problems swiftly and decisively, steadily, accurately and ruthlessly, without any procrastination. She has conquered everyone with her strength.
When Wen Ling and Gu Chenran left, the Zhenbei Marquis family all saw them off to the gate of the mansion.
Madam Hou also took Wen Ling's hand and said, "Let's go together to appreciate flowers and play cards when we have time. I think we are very compatible. We can get together more often in the future."
"No problem." Wen Ling agreed with a smile.
Plus one for the congenial Marquis’ wife!
After returning to the palace, Gu Chenran asked the kitchen to heat up the prepared dinner and serve it.
The two of them got together and had dinner at the same time as a midnight snack.
It wasn't that the Marquis's Mansion didn't keep any dinner for them, but Wen Ling saw that the Marquis's wife had just woken up and hadn't fully recovered yet, and he didn't want to think about her being too tired to prepare dinner and eat together, so he suggested going home first.
Today they caused a huge mess in the Zhenbei Marquis Mansion, and they will have to clean it up tonight.
While eating, Gu Chenran asked Wen Ling casually, "Oh, by the way, the contract you used on the nightmare monster today, can it only be used on ghosts? Or can it be used on humans as well?"
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