the world is a toy

Subtitle: "Who would have thought that this seven-year-old girl would turn into a 14-year-old girl seven years later?"

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An old house in the mountains, cherry blossoms and spring rain.

Looking into the distance, the drizzle is weaving in Yejingyuan, like smoke and mist, covering the mountains with a layer of rain, like fog but not fog, like lines and non-lines, both tangible and invisible; the mountains and cliffs in the distance , Woods, hazy, like being immersed in a mist.

Spring rain, this is a gift from heaven that can bring vitality to the earth.

Having passed through the severe winter, the dead woods and barren grasslands in Yejingyuan’s mountains absorb the nectar of life in this spring rain, accompanied by wisps of wind; raise your head, fine rain falls on the eaves, and the eaves fall The color of the drainage is like ten thousand silver threads, some of which form concave dimples of different shades on the ground, and some trickle together into running water.

It's a pity that it's wet, which I don't like.

It is already the season of cherry blossoms at this time. There is a row of not-so-sparse cherry trees in the downstream of Tianhe’s water fetching river beach. However, because of the rain today, Tianheyao thought about it and did not go out. Wear a plastic poncho, otherwise, even if you wrap your clothes tightly and hold the umbrella in the wind, the drizzle will still seep into your clothes, but unfortunately, the Tianhe Old House only has black umbrellas and bamboo hat cloaks, which are very difficult for Meng Meng. Light rain is useless at all, and if you go out, you will definitely be soaked.

Tian Heyao looked inside the old house, grandpa was holding brown rice tea and reading ancient scrolls, grandma was making breakfast in the kitchen, Jiu Huicheng and Feiju were still sleeping late, generally speaking, it was considered world peace.

Looking back, he lay down by the floor-to-ceiling windows and continued to be in a daze, looking at the ethereal rain scene outside the window, and listening to the rhythm of spring quietly. This kind of life is leisurely and relaxed, and there is nothing to worry about, nothing to worry about.

Such a slow pace of life was something he had never experienced in his previous life. He remembered that he was not used to this kind of leisure just after time travel and rebirth. It was in the early autumn of last year. He just came to Nojingyuan every day and panicked. It has been more than half a year now, and Tianheyao recently discovered that the slow-paced life is of great help to the tempering of the spirit and soul. He feels that his spiritual conception has become more relaxed and freehand, and his mind is more natural Take it easy.

Speaking of which, more than two months have passed.

It's already March now, time flies and the memory is clear, maybe this journey is nothing to children who have no sense of time, but Tian Heyao's soul is a real adult, every day and night is to him I have some impressions, and there is no mental pressure after accumulation, but every time he is free, he will habitually be in a daze.

"If this continues, I won't become a natural fool, will I?"

He sighed, but no one heard him here.A gust of wind blew, mixed with thin rain and mist, Tian Heyao stretched out his hand, the rainwater leaked from the fingertips was sparse, and slowly soaked the whole hand with a layer of water film.At this time, there was a small strange noise behind her. Looking back, the purple-eyed Lolita was approaching quietly. Seeing that Tian Heyao had discovered herself, she pouted slightly, and then accelerated to his side.

"Good morning, Miss Jiu Huicheng."

"Good morning, Xiaoyao—"

Xiaoyao is Jiuhuicheng's exclusive name for Tianheyao now. Since the day when she made an agreement to fight side by side with her, this half-grown loli's attitude towards Tianheyao has become a lot closer; Jiuhuicheng Knowing that she was inferior to Tian Heyao in terms of strength, she used her small brain and decided to use her body and age to gain the upper hand. For example, she would pretend to be a young lady on weekdays, and then secretly happy and proud.

Following Tian Heyao's example, Jiu Huicheng also leaned on the edge of the window: "Xiao Yao, what are you doing here alone?"

"Look at the rain scene, and wait for breakfast by the way," Tian Heyao stretched out his hand to help her tidy up her messy hair while talking, "I was going to wake you up right away, but seeing you and Feiju still sleeping Dezhenxiang, so I didn't bother... By the way, where is Feiju?"

"That cat demon is still sleeping, I really don't know why, she's been sleeping longer and longer recently." Jiu Huicheng tilted her head slightly following his movements, she was used to being taken care of by Tian Heyao like this.

After finishing gathering, Tianhe Yao clapped his hands and said, "Feiju is still a cat after all, she would sleep too much, and Grandma Lin Zi said the day before yesterday that Feiju is about to enter the growth stage, and it is normal to sleep more, don't you think Has her appetite increased recently?"

The age and maturity limit of monsters is different from that of humans. Generally speaking, they will be divided into several stages: juvenile, growth stage, mature stage, and full body. There are only two ways to go up, one is to age until death , and the other needs to transcend the "personality" to evolve.

Take the cat demon as an example. The traditional ancient cat only had a lifespan of nine years. After the nine-year period, if the cat accumulates demon power, it will not die, but will usher in the first transformation. To put it simply, it is to release the stagnant demonic power, break through the age limit and grow a tail to continue life; in this way, one will grow every nine years, and there will always be nine tails. When the cat has nine tails, it will turn into a cat after another nine years. In human form, at this time, the cat really has nine lives, and it is also called the nine-life cat demon in the Celestial Dynasty.

Feiju's race should be just an ordinary cat demon, right?Tian Heyao doesn't know the specific race. Anyway, Feiju's race is the same as Dongying's native monster [Maoyou], and both originate from the blood of Jiuming cat demon. In other words, some of Dongying's monsters all originated from the Celestial Dynasty. It is recorded in ancient books such as "Jing Jing" and "Hundred Ghosts at Night".

Thinking of this, Tian Heyao suddenly noticed a very serious question: "Wait, after this calculation, Feiju is almost nine years old?"

According to the normal progress, Feiju should still be in the form of a cat demon at this moment, and will turn into a human form after this period of infancy—that is, the kind of pure human form that can hide cat ears and tail freely; now Feiju can take the form of a cat girl His activities in pseudo-human form were all stimulated by Tian Heyao's life-saving rescue half a year ago, and he should return to the right track after the infancy period is over.

But in any case, after passing the infancy, it means that Feiju has reached the age of nine, in other words, her actual age is older than Tian Heyao and Jiu Huicheng.Knowing the truth, Tian Heyao and Jiu Huicheng looked at each other in dismay, the cat girl's confused and immature behavior would always make them subconsciously ignore Feiju's real age.

Jiu Huicheng lowered his head slightly: "No, I didn't expect that I would lose in terms of age..."

"Don't be like this, I don't know if I should comfort you or ask your mother when you say this," Tian Heyao rolled his eyes, "It's reasonable, Feiju usually has no thoughts about this at all, you have to argue with her You don't need to argue about this, do you?"

However, Jiu Huicheng fell silent suddenly, and there was a little sadness in his purple eyes.It was only then that Tian Heyao realized that he had said the wrong thing, he should never have said it, he shouldn't have mentioned Aunt Jingongsi now.

Because from the first day of the new year to the current March, Aunt Jinguji has never been back. Although she will regularly communicate through magic, she has not shown up for a long time. In other words, Jiu Huicheng is staying at Tianhe's house. It has been more than two months, and she has not been accompanied by her mother during these long two months.

The originally peaceful world of the two suddenly fell silent, and she and him fell into silence. For a while, there was only the sound of rain,

Not long after, the purple-eyed Lolita turned her head away from looking at the rainy scene outside the window, and said with a hint of hesitation in her tone, "Xiaoyao...I miss my lord mother."

"Ok, I know."

"I miss my mother."

"Um......"

Tian Heyao also turned his head, his eyes met hers, time seemed to have fallen into a stagnation, on this side, Jiu Huicheng, who was only wearing a white dress, stood there timidly with bare feet, his slender figure looked helpless And pitiful.

Tian Heyao didn't make a sound, he just looked at her in a daze, for some reason, at this moment, a figure in his memory seemed to overlap with the purple-eyed loli in front of him.

The purple-eyed loli on this side hesitated for a while, she suddenly opened her hands, and approached the boy, Tian Heyao sighed in her heart, and then gently hugged her into her arms.

Then......

Everything that happened here by the window was seen by the cat-eared girl by the door. She watched the two embrace each other quietly, and the fur on her tail stood silently.

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PS: "Actually, the subtitle of each chapter of mine is essence (jing) marrow (water)? What do you think?"

Act.51 A short story after the rain

Act.51 A short story after the rain

Subtitle: "Lolita young girls in pairs, a branch of pear blossom crushing a crabapple?"

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After breakfast, everything went back to normal. What happened in the morning seemed to be just a small episode, and it didn't cause much disturbance in this peaceful daily life.

On this side, Tian Heyao returned to the window and was in a daze silently. The rain outside gradually subsided, and now he could no longer see the smoky rain curtain before. Occasionally, a gust of wind blew by, and the water droplets hanging on the branches and eaves were blown away. They fell one by one, and fell to the ground with a "click", breaking into several petals.

"Ayao, what are you doing here?"

Suddenly there was a kind voice from behind. The grandma who had just finished her housework came to her grandson with an amiable expression on her face.

"Grandma~~" Tian Heyao quickly jumped down from the window sill, pretending to be very obedient and obedient, but the old man smiled and patted his head.

"Are you alone here? Where are Feiju and Jiuhuicheng?"

Tian Heyao nodded and shook his head again: "I came over in a daze after breakfast, I'm the only one here, aren't the two of them behind?"

Grandma replied, and after thinking for a while, she slowly said: "I don't know, those two little guys disappeared while washing the dishes. I searched around the back room but couldn't find them, and neither did you, Ayao. to them?"

Tian Heyao shook his head, thinking to himself, logically speaking, the breakfast at home is porridge and pickles, and there is no grease, so it only takes a few minutes for grandma to wash the dishes. In such a short time, the two Where will the bear boy go?

While thinking wildly, Tian Heyao glanced out of the window inadvertently, through the black and green forest shadows, he faintly saw the figure of the girl and Lolita.

"...Huh? Isn't that Jiuhuicheng and Feiju? Did they go to the woods?" Stretching out his hand, he reminded grandma to look out the window, "Look, grandma, is that the two of them?"

In fact, those are Feiju and Jiuhuicheng. Tianheyao's eyesight is very good. Before the two girls disappeared into the woods, he could see them clearly. The woods, the direction of the forest path leads to the river beach.

Grandma followed his guidance and squinted her eyes into the distance, then shook her head regretfully and said, "It's too far away, Grandma can't see clearly..."

"It's okay, I saw it just now," Tian Heyao shook his grandma's hand to comfort her, "It's just the two of them, don't worry too much~~"

"Okay, grandma, listen to Ayao." Grandma Lin Zi pinched her grandson's little face with a smile, paused for a while, and then teased again, "However, Ayao is not curious about the two of them carrying you behind their backs." What did you do? Usually the three of you are tired of being together?"

Please, the two of them cling to me every day...

Hearing this, Tian Heyao complained dissatisfiedly in his heart. Of course, these words must not be said to grandma, so he could only laugh and laugh: "Ahaha, maybe the two girls have some private things to talk about? If grandma you If you are worried, at worst, I will follow up and have a look later..."

But grandma didn't know what was on her mind at this moment, she looked a little more serious: "By the way, Ayao, you've been with Feiju and Jiuhuicheng for so long, what do you think of them?"

"...Grandma, what do you mean?" Tian Heyao was a little puzzled.

"Grandma means to say, in A Yao's mind, what kind of existence are Feiju and Jiuhuicheng to you?"

Tian Heyao said without hesitation: "Should they be all family members? I feel like Feiju is like my sister, and Jiuhuicheng is probably the young lady?"

In fact, Tian Heyao regards those two brats as little sisters, so it is natural to lie in front of grandma now.And judging from their daily performance, the three-person group is usually Feiju who is acting cute and coquettish, she is the most ignorant little sister; Jiu Huicheng made an opinion, and in the three-person group, she is faintly the leader. , and Tian Heyao is the least outstanding, he lives under the light of the two girls, he looks like the most ordinary second child.

"Family? Ayao has always treated them like this..."

Grandma pondered for a moment, then squatted down: "Ayao, there is something Grandma must tell you."

"What's the matter? Tell me, grandma."

"Well... Ayao's attitude towards Feiju, it's not impossible to treat her as a family member. You children can let things like this happen naturally, but how to treat the young lady of the Jinguji family... ...."

Speaking of this, grandma hesitated for a while inexplicably, and then sighed.

"Jiu Huicheng's words, you have to remember, A Yao, Jiu Huicheng is an extremely important existence to you, and when you all grow up, she will walk hand in hand with you on the road of life."

Tian Heyao was stunned when he heard the words: "What?"

"Hehehe, Ayao still doesn't understand now, right?" Seeing the sluggish look on her grandson's face, Grandma Lin Zi patted his head again with a smile, "It doesn't matter, Ayao will know in the future, Now that you are still young, things in the future are still early, take your time."

Speaking of this, the pampering on the old man's face almost turned into substance, and Tian Heyao couldn't ask any more questions about it, so he could only nod in doubt, expressing that he had remembered it.Not long after, grandma got up and was about to leave, Tian Heyao also patted his head, until the old man walked away, he muttered softly with a strange expression.

"Could it be that grandpa and grandma did something for me?"

Tian Heyao yelled in his heart, the more he thought about it, the more he felt that this was the truth, but just now grandma still didn't explain the matter clearly, and the baby kiss was just the most likely guess, as a five-year-old brat, he It is also impossible to take the initiative to ask.

However, if it's really a baby kiss or something, then it's a little bit too much, right?

To be reasonable, although I look like a five-year-old brat, my mental age is already at the level of an uncle. I always feel a little uneasy about being engaged to this seven-year-old loli.Thinking of this, Tian Heyao scratched his hair. For a while, he could only lament the impermanence of the world, and inexplicably wanted to laugh out loud, but it's useless to think wildly here. Just in time, let's go and see what those two brats are doing now. Alright.

After making up his mind, he patted his face, took out two umbrellas from the cabinet in the entrance, and chased them out through the sparse spring rain.

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At the same time, in the cherry blossom forest on the lower reaches of the river beach, a young girl with cat ears and a purple-eyed loli walked back and forth. The two girls did not hide the truth from everyone in the Tianhe family. They were indeed going out this time to discuss some private matters. However, it is different from what Tian Heyao guessed, what they are going to talk about next is not a sweet private matter between girls.

Not long after, they came to the open space near the river, and Fei Ju, who was walking in front, stopped, but she didn't turn her head.

Jiu Huicheng, who was following behind, also stopped: "Then, quietly call me out after breakfast... What are you going to do, you cat demon?"

"There are some things, Meow wants to talk to you." Feiju still didn't turn around, she just supported an ancient tree to respond.

On this side, Jiu Huicheng faintly sensed a dangerous aura from Feiju, she narrowed her eyes slightly and said, "What's the matter? Tell me."

"Meow, I want to know, what are you planning to do with this method to get close to the young master?" At this moment, Fei Ju's voice was slightly lowered, which was quite different from the usual lively and soft.

"What silly things are you talking about? Cat demon, I don't understand what you're talking about." Jiu Huicheng said disapprovingly.

"...Meow, I saw you took the initiative to hug the young master this morning. In fact, think about it carefully. Since March, you have been making these intimate gestures to the young master intentionally or unintentionally. You, What is the purpose?"

"I admire Tian Heyao very much. Isn't it common for us, who are also ghost slayers, to get close?" At this point, Jiu Huicheng paused for a while, "What qualifications do you, a monster, have to say?"

"...For meow and the young master, you are only an outsider who inserted into our lives later, the little girl from the Jinguji family!" Suppressing her true inner thoughts, Feiju's ears trembled, carefully Looking at it, her body was also trembling faintly, "As an outsider, what are your plans for the young master?!"

"Outsiders? Hehe—" Jiu Huicheng sneered, "You don't know, do you? Cat demon? My mother and lord have already asked Grandpa Tianhe for marriage, and Grandpa Tianhe also agreed, in other words, My current identity is Tian Heyao's fiancée!"

"?!" Feiju turned around, her small face was full of surprise and anger.

"Besides, I think your existence is the problem... I know that the Tianhe family has the custom of subduing monsters and cultivating them as guardians. It is because of the Tianhe family's mercy that you can survive and fight against ghosts." Become a guardian in the family, but in the end, you are a monster!"

Quietly expounding the facts, Jiu Huicheng's words also carried a trace of malice.

"I hate you, cat demon. I used to be, I am now, and I will definitely be like this in the future. Every time I see you occupying Tian Heyao and my fiancé, I am very angry. The mere monster actually wants to get close to humans , don't you think your request is too much..."

Feiju on the other side didn't respond, she just lowered her head, her gloomy gaze leaked from between the ends of her hair.

Jiu Huicheng didn't care, she continued: "Oh, a monster is a monster, even if you can transform into a human form, you are still an 'evil' in essence... To tell you the truth, I like Tian Heyao very much, I like his strength and his aura of a strong man. When I officially become his wife in the future, the Jinguji family and the Tianhe family will truly merge into one and become a new family. Destroy all the evil monsters, and finally stand at the top of the Twelve Demon Slayers!"

Speaking of this, the purple-eyed loli suddenly hesitated, but she quickly put the hesitation behind her, and her gaze finally turned into firmness.

"And you, the cat demon, you are just [the guardian monster of the Tianhe family] from the beginning to the end, so in your daily life, you give me a little distance from him!"

Feiju was in a trance when she heard the words, and the little hand holding the ancient tree turned into a cat's claw, leaving deep marks on the trunk. The next moment, she suddenly raised her head, and gave Jiu Huicheng a vicious smile : "What if I refuse?"

Jiu Huicheng also laughed: "What do you think I should do? Cat demon?"

She confronted her like this, and the dangerous atmosphere gradually permeated.

"In that case, try to destroy me, the last one in the Demon Slayer—"

"...I think you are desperate, cat demon!"

The voice fell, and immediately after, the torrent of magic and the shaggy hair of demon power intertwined together!

Act.52 Third party

Act.52 Third party

Subtitle: "East Malaysia ○[-]? Shelley Bi ○? Sorry, I don't play white sumo."

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