A vicious dog by the river
A group of ghosts, including men, women, young and old, surrounded Tian Baozhu and asked for a dog. The noisy scene alarmed Meng Po's employees, who came to check it out.
"How do you talk to Lord Bai Wuchang? And call her a little girl? You should address her as 'Lord'. And can't you just give away other people's things as you say?" The employees were indignant that Tian Baozhu was looked down upon.
"Little girl, are you the owner? How do you keep a dog? If it hurts someone, are you responsible?" Clearly, the employee's words didn't register. She's just a little girl, isn't she? What kind of honorific is that?
"This is a wild dog, not her dog." Hei Wuchang blocked the anger directed at Tian Baozhu.
"Young man, I see you two are walking together. Are you lying to favor her?"
"What little girl and boy? These two are first-level employees of our underworld. Lord Black and White Impermanence, please show some respect!" Several employees stood aside to separate the angry people.
Those conscious ghosts do not follow the employee hierarchy of the underworld like the employees of the underworld. They do not take the first-level employees seriously, let alone these two young men who seem to have no dignity on the surface.
"We want an explanation! That dog hurt us!" They lifted up their ankles, and each of them had a scratch on their foot from a sharp claw.
"Did you do something bad?" Tian Baozhu asked it while holding it and looking at herself.
"Woo woo ...
It no longer had the threatening look it had just now, and was whimpering and pretending to be pitiful.
"It has no owner. From now on, I am its owner. If it continues to hurt people, it will be my fault as its current owner."
"Why don't you think about it again?" Hei Wuchang didn't say anything harsh, but it was obvious that he did not agree with Tian Baozhu taking all the responsibility for the dog on herself.
"If a dog injures someone, someone needs to be held accountable. If I leave it alone, it will either continue to injure people or get beaten up. I don't want to see a lose-lose situation like that."
Tian Baozhu put the vicious dog on the ground.
"Little Dog." Tian Baozhu improvised a name. "Go and apologize to everyone. Apologize sincerely."
The puppy squatted at their feet, whimpered softly a few times, and turned in a full circle, its two front paws raised in the air as if to pray for the ghosts' forgiveness.
"Oh, the dog is too small, and it didn't mean to do it."
A few ghosts softened their hearts after being flattered. They petted it all over and said, "Okay, we've petted you. We forgive you."
Humph, this dog is just relying on the power of his master!
Some other ghosts weren't so easy to deal with. They were observant, noticing the vicious dog baring its teeth and enduring the touch, and knew it was playing it safe. They said, "You're letting us touch you a few times and you're going to let it go? It hurt us, it left us with defects. What if that affects our reincarnation?"
"What are you going to do?"
"Beat it up a few times, kick it a few more times, or it will do it again."
Tian Baozhu couldn't bear to inflict a harsher punishment on the puppy. She said, "Now I am its owner, so I will take the punishment for it."
Uh, fighting ghosts?
For these ghosts, it was simply a rebellion against the Heavenly Gang. They didn't dare to do that.
"Forget it."
They waved their hands and gave up, but they were still unhappy. They hadn't let out their anger yet and couldn't calm down.
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"You all don't dare, right? Then I'll do it for you." A muscular man with a slicked-back hair and tattoos on his arms joined the team.
"Hey, I don't think you've ever been hurt by a dog, right?"
"I'm saying I'm here to help you guys vent your anger. Whether you've been hurt or not, that's not the point, right?"
"Well, that's fine with you. We're not looking for revenge, we just want equal justice."
The man with slicked-back hair ignored them and spoke directly to Tian Baozhu:
"How about it? Lord Wuchang, can I beat you up for them?"
Tian Baozhu saw the other party's ill intentions, but if she wanted to keep the puppy, this was the best way.
She said, "Okay, then come on."
"Master Wuchang is straightforward, so I'll come--"
He really punched Tian Baozhu hard on the shoulder.
Hmm.
Tian Baozhu didn't feel any pain, but the shock made her take several steps back.
Fortunately, her body is now dead, otherwise when she was still alive, it is hard to say whether she could withstand his punch.
"Is this a cancellation?"
"Sir, I only punched one person. Aren't there two or three more people here? You have to take at least three more punches from me."
The man with the slicked-back hair raised his fist and smiled, and actually started bargaining with Tian Baozhu.
"Hey, don't go too far as a ghost." The ghost who demanded justice couldn't stand it anymore.
He didn't listen and was about to swing a new punch at Tian Baozhu, but Tian Baozhu stood there without dodging.
"?"
The fist didn't hit her because Hei Wuchang blocked the incoming fist with one finger.
"Hei Wuchang, what are you doing? How can you resist him with your fragile body?" Tian Baozhu shouted, calling him by his name in a hurry.
"What? Lord Black Impermanence is fragile? I don't think so. How about Lord Black Impermanence, can you take this punch from Lord White Impermanence and try?"
The burly man with slicked-back hair was completely bloodthirsty. The thought of beating the ghost messenger had made him incredibly excited. As soon as he threw a fist, the other fist swung up immediately.
"I want to see how fragile Lord Hei Wuchang is?!"
In a flash, a sharp arc of light flashed across the sky. Gulu gurgle, the two fists that had been clenched just now suddenly fell to the ground.
“Ah, ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!” the sturdy man screamed like a pig being slaughtered.
The ghost did not feel any pain when he died, but the sight of his two fists being cut off by the sickle in front of his eyes gave him a strong shock, and his psychological defenses were broken at once.
"If you offend the ghost messenger again, your chance to be reincarnated will be revoked."
"Sir Ghost Messenger, I was wrong, I was wrong!" He rolled and crawled, afraid that Hei Wuchang would attack again, and wanted to escape from here in a panic.
"Don't run, you still have two hands left here that you forgot to take."
The burly man with slicked back hair didn't dare to run, for fear that something would happen to him and he would be in great trouble.
Tian Baozhu picked up both hands and took back his wrist. "Okay, your hand is still intact." Tian Baozhu smiled and whispered in his ear, "Don't provoke Hei Wuchang in the future. Do you understand?"
She stood up, turned to face the ghosts and said:
"If the puppy behaves badly in the future, you can come to me and I will be fully responsible."
Hei Wuchang pacified the ghosts and silenced them all.
They dared not underestimate the two ghost officials anymore, nor did they dare to cause trouble without reason anymore.
They were very scared now, worried that Hei Wuchang would become cruel and blame them as well. They just wanted to get away from the two ghost officials as soon as possible and stay away from them.
"Since Master Bai Wuchang has promised this, we believe you can take good care of this dog, so we won't disturb you two from your work..."
The ghosts left quickly.
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"Huh..." Tian Baozhu let out a sigh.
Her calmness just now was an act. If she continued to make trouble, she didn't know how it would end. Fortunately, the shock of the Soul-Catching Scythe was scary enough.
She looked at the vicious dog. There was confusion in its eyes, as if it was wondering why it could take a punch for me. There was also admiration in its eyes, because when it looked at Tian Baozhu, its tail couldn't stop wagging.
Tian Baozhu squatted down and touched it.
Hei Wuchang asked Tian Baozhu, "Are you really going to be its master?"
"Yeah." Tian Baozhu nodded, "The three of us are very similar."
"Female, male, dog, how are they alike?" Hei Wuchang pointed at each of them and asked.
The same person.
Because of Hei Wuchang's status as a first-level employee, other employees in the underworld dare not approach him, and his former work partner is too arbitrary.
The puppy was also a lonely dog by the river, and no one approached him easily.
And she herself...had lived a solitary life for a long time without being approached by others.
But it's okay, it's all in the past.
Tian Baozhu stroked the dog and said:
"Since I've adopted it as my own dog, I have an obligation to teach it right from wrong. Little dog, hurting others is wrong, do you understand? If you know your mistakes, you must correct them and never do them again."
The vicious dog didn't make a sound, but quietly retracted its claws and tail.
"I adopted you, so I have to give you a name."
"Still want to give it a name? Just call it Hebianyizhiyi."
Hei Wuchang didn't care, letting the vicious dog bark at him. Tian Baozhu not only restrained it, but also immediately flicked its nose with her fingertips: "No, you can't bark at people. This is the behavior of a bad dog."
"Woo woo." Being accused by Tian Baozhu, the vicious dog seemed to have suffered a great injustice.
"I'll call you puppy." Tian Baozhu said.
"Your name isn't very good either."
"Let's respect it. The name 'Xiaoquan' at least reflects its identity."
“Woof woof woof!”
Please respect me a little! My name has to have the word "evil" in it!
Unfortunately, they did not speak the same language, and the vicious dog’s request was not accepted.
The two of us called each other's names, and in the end, its name was "A Little Dog by the River".
But in the end it found that they still called each other by their own names.
"One by the river."
"Puppy."
"Ah, the puppy is wagging his tail."
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