Records of Demons in the Republic of China

一

Jiuyi was lying face up on the bed, with his arms under his head in a daze. The bed was a very strong big bed, because Jiuyi would sleep in and sleep endlessly, so the bedding on the bed was messy.The sunlight came in through the glass window, just warming a corner of the quilt.Stretching his two long legs down, he yawned lazily—this yawn was so impressive that Haoyue could hear his "Aw—————" from inside the room when he was outside the window. The sound of yawning.

Haoyue has been with Jiuyi day and night for a few months, and she has gotten to know him better. Now she is satisfied with hearing him yawn. Based on experience, Haoyue immediately wanted to find an excuse to escape from the house, but before he could take a step, Through a window, Jiu Yi had already spoken to him: "Puppy, you got up early enough! What are you doing out in the cold?"

Haoyue's face darkened, intending to ignore him, but after thinking about it, he turned around and opened the door to return to the room.Standing in front of Jiuyi with a cold body, he whispered angrily: "What did I say yesterday? If you talk nonsense to me again, I will——I will leave you alone!"

Jiuyi propped up his upper body with one elbow, stretched the other arm down to scratch his thigh.The weather is indeed cold now, but the foreign stove in the house is burning very hot, he is naked in bed from morning to night, his skin is worthless, there is a little bit of dew on the east and west, it is very convenient to scratch the itch.

"Are you angry again?" He casually raised his face, because he has been living in peace for a long time, so he has recently shown a little skinny and tender flesh, his face is also pale, his hair has grown, and he has big eyes Dark and moist.

However, Haoyue was not deceived by his new appearance. She turned her hands behind her back and bent down. Haoyue gritted her teeth and told him, "Don't I have a name? You keep barking like a puppy all day long, and it spreads to the neighbors." Even though they won't know my details, but if you shout out these three words, you don't care, and I still feel ashamed!"

Jiuyi smiled, lowered his voice and spoke to him affectionately: "Okay, I'll remember, I will only call you when no one is around, okay?"

"No! Also, since you are able to move about on your own, don't let me serve you in everything. It's fine to serve you, but you are still blindly messing around when you go out, crazy and unseemly! If you continue to be taught repeatedly, I will ——I really don't care about you!"

When Jiuyi heard this, he quickly grabbed his front collar: "I haven't recovered yet, don't scare me!"

"Hmph! Do you think I can't bear you?"

As soon as these words came out, Jiu Yi slowly let go of his hand.With a tired look on his face, he slowly lay down, turned back again, and sighed softly.

"Puppy." With his back turned to Haoyue, he spoke weakly, "I know that my health is always bad, and it's dragging you down. If you have a better place to go, just, just take another step!"

The next second, he received a thunderous slap on the back of the neck, and then Haoyue cursed furiously: "Shameless, I am not your widow, what do you mean by 'taking another step'? Let me ask you again, What did you say bad things about me to the people at the opposite door the day before yesterday? Why did everyone in his family look weird when they saw me today? "

Jiuyi raised his hand to cover the sore spot on the back of his neck, and replied in a low voice, "I didn't say anything..."

"Are you still being honest?"

"I really didn't say anything. Puppy, you gave me a headache, come up and rub my head!"

Haoyue has been deceived countless times by him in the past few months, and now she refuses to believe even a single fart from him.Flicking his sleeves and going out, he decided to leave Jiuyi in the cold for a day or two—it just so happened that Wu Xiuzhai went back to his sister's house to live temporarily, if he ignored Jiuyi, then Jiuyi would be a complete loner, and there was no possibility of causing trouble .

Haoyue spent most of the day in peace, and at dusk, he drank tea and ate porridge alone, turned on the light, and read a few pages of idle books in peace. , Jiuyi walked in wearing a padded jacket.

"Puppy?" He leaned tall and big on the door frame, looking at Haoyue, isn't it funny: "It's getting dark, why don't you go back to sleep?"

Haoyue didn't look at him, and said to the book with a calm face: "You can move freely now, and you don't need me to serve you at night, you can go to sleep by yourself!"

"I'm still waiting for you to make me a bed."

"Nonsense, you lie in bed from morning to night, and the bed is never empty, why do you still need me to go to bed?"

Jiuyi shook the big man, and walked all the way to Haoyue.Kneeling down and raising his hand to support Haoyue's knee, he raised his head and said with a smile, "It's an excuse, I just missed you."

With a cold face, Haoyue still didn't look at him: "You and I get along day and night, what can we think about?"

This time Jiuyi didn't speak, and touched Haoyue's knee with his hot palm, he tilted his head, and leaned his face on the other's thigh.Haoyue was stunned for a moment, then looked down at him, and saw that he closed his eyes motionlessly, originally he had an unfriendly appearance, but because of his peaceful expression at the moment, he actually showed a somewhat obedient appearance.

"What are you doing?" Once he behaved, Haoyue had no choice but to ask, "You want to pester me again?"

Jiuyi didn't say a word, just quietly laying his head on Haoyue's thigh, his body temperature was high, his hands were hot, his head and face were also warm, the heat penetrated through the thin layer of trousers, baking Haoyue's skin for a long time.After a while like this, Jiuyi suddenly raised his head and smiled at Haoyue: "I'm really sleepy, go back to sleep!"

Haoyue looked at him, feeling a little confused, before he could sort out this mess of thoughts, he found that he couldn't help himself, and got up with Jiuyi.

An hour later, Haoyue found out that she was cheated by Jiuyi again.

Jiuyi is not sleepy at all, and "good" is a complete illusion.He provoked and teased Haoyue non-stop with a smile on his face. As a person with long arms and long legs, Haoyue was completely trapped on the bed by him, unable to escape.In desperation, Haoyue became ruthless, and simply abandoned her purpose of being a human being. After discovering the prototype, she jumped out of the neckline, wanting to jump to the ground to escape, but Jiuyi's skill was extraordinary, and she leaped with all her teeth and claws. The dog-like Haoyue jumped down from mid-air.

"Ahahahahaha!" Picking up the little white dog with both hands, Jiuyi first looked up to the sky and laughed, and then plunged into the little white dog's arms, his face pressed against the dog's belly, and he was honest and ruthless. After rubbing for a while, Haoyue was so angry that she scratched him with her front paw: "Presumptuous, let go!"

Jiuyi's ears hurt from being scratched by him, he raised his head and bared his teeth at Haoyue, he made a fierce expression: "It's against you, dare to scratch me! No matter how dishonest your claws are, I'll bite you like a dog eunuch !"

After saying this, Jiuyi opened his mouth wide to show his white teeth, aimed at the round belly of the little white dog and gnawed down, Haoyue was flustered by his disturbance, at this moment he stretched out his four paws in fright, and tucked his tail "Woo—" there was a wail.

At midnight, Jiuyi and Haoyue were all exhausted.

Jiuyi turned sideways to the bed, leaning on the big pillow and fell into a deep sleep. His face was still buried in the little white dog's belly, and the little white dog lay on his side on the big pillow, and fell asleep holding Jiuyi's head.The night was silent, the little white dog occasionally kicked its hind legs in the dream, Jiuyi didn't wake up, but subconsciously raised his hand, he grabbed the other's little hind paw.

After a night, the sky brightened.

Jiuyi continued to bask in the sun and sleep late, until noon, when he was beaten again by the cold Haoyue.

Haoyue finally found out what nonsense he had said to the opposite door a few days ago-although Jiuyi is sick and crooked now, he still has the strength to force his sick body to go out, chewing his tongue in all directions, saying that he is his raised son of a bitch !

Although Haoyue pretended to be noble and not bothered by the gossip and gossip of ordinary people, the more he thought about it when he returned to the room, the more angry he became. When he got to a certain level, he rushed into the bedroom and beat Jiuyi painfully, and waited for Jiuyi to react. When begging for mercy, he bit the opponent's bare and strong shoulder viciously again.In the end, Jiuyi was pushed on the bed, and he said angrily: "From now on, you will live your life, and I will live mine, and I will break with you!"

After saying this, Haoyue went into the study room and didn't eat or drink or speak for a whole day.

At night, when his anger had almost dissipated, the door of the study room opened, and he turned his head to look, and saw Jiuyi leaning against the door frame and smiling at him, her eyes sparkling, and she looked very obedient again.

two

Marshal Bai sat in the spacious warming room, smoking a cigar leisurely with his legs crossed.The cold wind was howling outside the glass window, but because of the heating equipment installed in the hall, Marshal Bai could wear unlined clothes—even if he wore unlined clothes, he would still sweat after exercising too much.

At this time, the servant opened the heavy curtain of the hall from the outside, and four strong soldiers brought in a large iron cage like a sedan chair. Inside the cage lay a thin, half-dead donkey. The donkey was motionless, so it was certain It is still alive because its mouth and nose are covered with a layer of frost, which is the condensation of hot breath when it meets cold air.Its mouth and nose are covered with frost, and its long eyelashes are also covered with frost. The slack belly rises and falls with breathing, and several patches of hair have been missing from the belly.

The soldiers put the iron cage in a corner of the warming room, and then retreated together.Marshal Bai got up and walked to the cage, and said triumphantly, "Qingqi, it's freezing outside, I let you in to keep warm, isn't it kind and righteous?"

The donkey half-closed its eyes and could not make a sound.

Marshal Bai ordered someone to bring a sofa chair, and sat down comfortably in front of the cage.He leaned over and took a puff of cigar smoke into the donkey's big nostrils, and he laughed again: "It's really strange, you are not afraid of the wind and snow, when I just thought of you, I was really worried that you would have frozen to death at night!"

The donkey remained motionless.

Marshal Bai looked at it with great interest, and said: "Qingqi, speaking of it, you were very handsome when you were a human being, but now you are a donkey and I chopped off your tail, but you are still quite cute Well! Haha! Come on, look up, let me take a good look at you."

The donkey let out a feeble snort, and flicked its hind legs weakly, but it didn't have the strength to get up.

Marshal Bai picked up a cane, reached into the cage and plucked the donkey's ears: "What? You want to kick me again to relieve your hatred? It's okay, Qingqi, you know that I miss the old love the most, and I will definitely not care about it like you. If you can live until the beginning of spring next year, I will buy another jackass to keep you company, hahaha, isn’t it exciting?”

As Marshal Bai spoke, he poked the donkey's belly with the tip of his cane, and the donkey opened its nostrils and closed its eyes, and a big tear came out from the corner of its eyes.

three

Wu Xiuzhai realized that he was cheated by his sister.

His elder sister, Ms. Wu, was always cold-blooded and cold-hearted, but this time she showed kindness and invited him to live in her home.Although Wu Xiuzhai was in love with Haoyue, he had a lot of dislike for Jiuyi. Since his sister was willing to take him home for a few days, he happily bid farewell to Haoyue and agreed to come back in a few days.

As a result, after staying at my sister's house for two days, uninvited guests came to the door—his elder brother-in-law and second brother-in-law from Wen County's hometown.

Wu Xiuzhai's wife was born so rich, and the two brothers from his wife's natal family were not vegetarians, and they were all of muscular stature. Among them, the eldest brother-in-law was named Ziwen, whose figure was only a little more delicate than a bear; the second brother-in-law was named Ziru, who The most beautiful man in the family, his imposing manner is about the same as that of a tiger standing upright.Ziwen and Ziru came to the door together, but they were very polite. After seeing Miss Wu, they first lined up and kissed her hand, and then handed the special products of Wen County to the old lady of Wu's house.Standing aside, Wu Xiuzhai was surprised to see that his sister was very oblivious to the two brothers-in-law, obviously colluding secretly.Stepping forward to stand on the steps in front of the main house, he occupied the high ground and asked his brothers-in-law condescendingly: "What are you doing here?"

Treating this brother-in-law, the brothers-in-law are still very kind.Ziwen said: "Xiu Zhai, even if you young couples have conflicts, just meet and explain to each other, that's all. How can there be any reason to be separated for a long time? My sister is the same age as Huazhi, you let her It is not a long-term solution to stay in the hometown and guard the empty house alone!"

As soon as this remark came out, Miss Wu immediately chimed in and said, "That's the truth. You have a house and land at home. It's no better than fooling around with those dubious Taoist monks in this Beijing city? You don't want a good family daughter-in-law." , you want to rely on me, what is the reason for this?"

When Wu Xiuzhai heard it, he immediately understood everything. He put his hand on his hip and stretched out his white and thin index finger with the other hand. From his sister to his brother-in-law, he poked them one by one: "Okay! You have colluded to force me to Go home, don't you?" Then he withdrew his hand, put his hands on his hips and pulled upwards: "No way! What are you doing home? Are you angry with that fat girl?"

Ziwen explained: "My sister isn't bothered either..."

"Bah! She doesn't even allow me to beg for a concubine. What else is she thinking? I am a talented person from such a family, is there no concubine? It has been the principle since ancient times for a man to have three wives and four concubines. Why does your sister, a hag, insist on asking for it?" Against me?"

Ziru said: "Then you see, our brothers didn't bother with our concubine either..."

"Yeah! You two are still compared to me! I Wen Neng was admitted to middle school, and Wu Neng became brigade commander. Am I the same person as you?"

Ziwen sighed: "But brother-in-law, my sister said that if you don't get you back this time, she will hang herself."

"Hey! Really?"

Ziwen and Ziru looked at each other, sighed helplessly, and finally said to Wu Xiuzhai, "Xiuzhai, I'm sorry."

After the words fell, Ziwen took a step forward, bent down and carried Wu Xiuzhai on his shoulders, Ziwen kissed Miss Wu again to say goodbye, and Miss Wu asked with a smile: "Let's go after dinner?"

The two brothers shook their heads together: "No, no, I have to catch the train."

After saying this, the two of them walked out of the courtyard together. Wu Xiuzhai was so anxious that he scratched and yelled, but the matter had come to an end and he couldn't help it.

In the early morning of the next day, Wu Xiuzhai was escorted back to his hometown in Wen County by his two brothers-in-law.After entering the door, he was slapped on the head by the fat lady.

four

The four-legged snake sat on a small wooden boat, staring at the dark water in a daze.He has been in human form for the past few days, because last month, his black dog partner accidentally caught a little goblin, and after he ate the little goblin, his mana was obviously enhanced, allowing him to live longer Remain in human form.

He looked at the water without saying a word, and his black dog partner, whom he called "Da Hei", was sitting on the bow and paddling the oars.Dahei is very strong, and shaking a small boat is nothing to him. Looking carefully at the face of the four-legged snake, he asked, "Are you unhappy again?"

The four-legged snake said: "Shut up your mouth, don't worry about it!"

Dahei was silent, but after a moment of silence, he spoke again: "Ah Si, look there are fish in the water!"

The four-legged snake got impatient: "If there are fish, there will be fish. You want to tell me?"

Dahei didn't care: "Do you want to eat it? Shall I catch a big carp for you to eat?"

The four-legged snake turned its head and completely ignored him.

The boat swung forward leisurely, and after an unknown amount of time, the four-legged snake looked at its trembling reflection on the water, and suddenly raised its hand to cover its face: "Dahei, why am I so ugly?"

Dahei thought for a while, and then replied: "Probably because you are a four-legged snake?"

The four-legged snake looked at him sadly: "Are all four-legged snakes ugly?"

Dahei shook his head: "I don't know, I don't know other four-legged snakes. Besides, you are not ugly, how white you are!"

Hearing this, the four-legged snake immediately glared at Mung Dou's eyes: "Fuck you! You don't care if I'm white or not! Let me tell you, I was born as Ah Si of Jiu Yi, and when I die... I am also Ah Si of Jiu Yi. Don't get close to me, I don't like you at all! Hmph, there are no good things in dogs, they are all stinky and shameless! White dogs are the most annoying, and black ones are not much better!"

The black dog frowned: "I haven't offended you, why do you always scold me?"

"It's good to scold you. Believe it or not, Master Snake will beat you up right now? You rascal black dog, you said you would go to Beijing with me, but you wandered all the way. Spring is here, and you haven't entered the capital yet. You still want to eat fish with a dog face, eat, eat, eat, give me a snake punch!"

After saying this, the four-legged snake jumped in front of the black dog, put the four fingers of his right hand together, and poked the black dog's chest several times.The black dog shook back, and just said magnanimously: "Don't make trouble, don't make trouble, the boat is going to capsize!"

Half an hour later, the boat landed safely.The four-legged snake boarded the boat first, followed by the black dog, carrying a large and lively carp in one hand.

——The end of the episode

The Prequel to "Records of Demons in the Republic of China/Monks and Demons"

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