to blame

Nan Jiang closed the car door, glanced at Ming Xia lightly, "What do you want to say?"

Ming Xia scratched his head and endured it for a long time, thinking about how to organize his words, but when he really faced Nanjiang, he suddenly felt a kind of despondency in his heart that the negotiation might be useless, like a broken pot.

Nan Jiang looked at him with raised eyebrows.

Ming Xia's shoulders drooped, "...just want to ask, can I adopt Qingqiu?"

Nan Jiang was slightly startled, and laughed dumbly, "Adopt? Do you think my place is a shelter for stray animals?"

Ming Xia groaned in his heart.Look, the premonition is still very effective.

Nan Jiang patted on the steering wheel, "Like Qingqiu? Think it's cute? You know it's not really a starling."

"I know." Ming Xia rubbed his face, "Forget it, pretend I didn't say it."

Qingqiu is a prisoner.Ming Xia said to herself, being bullied around... is normal, isn't it?Not to mention a little monster, even the elites in the society, wouldn't they be looked down upon after having been in prison?

But... those people are not Qingqiu, not the Qingqiu who rushed forward to block the first wave of attacks for him when the danger came.

"It protected me," Ming Xia didn't understand the nature of the sixth group's work, and he wasn't sure if his pleading would be effective, but he still wanted to say these words, "When that guy named Shuizhu charged up, it was Qing Qiu rushed over and knocked him into the air. Otherwise, I would definitely not be able to escape from the pet shop. Such behavior... can the sentence be reduced?"

The ten-year sentence may be just a snap of the fingers for a monster, but it is too long for an ordinary human like Ming Xia.

"I will submit an application to it according to the procedure." Nan Jiang's answer was quite satisfactory, but Ming Xia felt relieved all of a sudden.

"Thank you."

"There's nothing to be thankful for." Nan Jiang laughed dumbly, and he glanced at the person in the passenger seat.

From the first time we met, Ming Xia gave Nanjiang the impression of... a warm and bright young man just like his name, with a cheerful personality, a carefree appearance, and a kind and soft heart.

Just like all the expectations Nan Jiang had for this age.

When Ming Xia was in a better mood, he started talking more, "I've always wanted to ask you a question. On the day I met the big snake, Qingqiu said that I'm not a monster, but I have something to do with a monster. What does that mean?"

Nan Jiang said without moving his eyebrows, "Probably someone in your ancestors married the Yaozu."

Ming Xia began to recall the relatives of both parents, and after much deliberation, he didn't think anyone was like a monster.There are few relatives on the mother's side, and they don't have much contact with each other. There are a few very cautious ones on the Ming family's side... Could it be some kind of monster?

"There is good news," Nan Jiang interrupted his wild thoughts, "The old town will be reopened next week."

Ming Xia was taken aback, "The escaped monster hasn't been caught yet?"

"It won't escape back to the old city." Nanjiang looked determined, with a cold look on his brows, "It wants to escape from this demon sealing formation, and the outer circle of the formation has greater hope."

Ming Xia didn't understand any formations, even if Nan Jiang explained, he couldn't understand, so he just skipped the process and asked the result, "Then are there any other monsters that escaped?"

Nan Jiang was silent.

Ming Xia guessed that this question might not be suitable for him to know, so he honestly changed the subject, "The old town reopened, how should we explain to the public what happened before?"

"There is nothing to explain." Nanjiang's expression was a little complicated, "You will know when the time comes."

The new topic came to an end.

Ming Xia felt an indescribable embarrassment in his heart, "May I ask what topics you can talk about smoothly?"

Nan Jiang laughed, "Why don't you talk about Lao Tu?"

Ming Xia's spirit suddenly sank down.Tu Qing didn't come to see him when he was hospitalized for such a serious matter, so it can be seen that he was still isolated.What's there to talk about?

"I'll be back in two or three days."

Ming Xia sat up straight, "Really?"

Nan Jiang nodded affirmatively, waiting to see the surprised expression on Ming Xia's face.Then……

Ming Xia slapped himself on the knee, "This grandson! He ran away without saying a word, leaving behind a bunch of little ancestors waiting to be fed, not talking about eating and drinking, and showing him the shop in frightening fear." ! Wait until I come back to see if I don’t beat him to death!”

Nanjiang, "..."

"Old Tu, you may not be able to hammer it." Nan Jiang reminded him, "He can run fast."

Ming Xia's retort suddenly faltered, and the words "run fast" hit his brain like lightning, making him think of an incredible possibility, "My rabbit...he...he..."

Nan Jiang looked at him silently while waiting for the red light.The two people who were not familiar with each other unexpectedly had a strange understanding at this moment.

"Ouch, I'm going..." Ming Xia wailed, and lay down on her knees covering her face, "I even hugged him to the bed, this is my sister's man..."

Nanjiang laughed.

The red light turned green, and the half-worn jeep flew through the empty intersection.

When the car was parked in front of the pet shop, Ming Xia realized that lying down for a few days was not bad, at least he didn't have to face the ruins.

During the few days when he was not at home, the front of the pet store, which had been almost demolished, was repaired again. The walls were thickened by at least one foot, and the two large double-opening glass doors also shrank, becoming a thick solid wood door. , the door panel is only inlaid with a piece of glass that is one foot wide and two feet long.

The windows were also made smaller, the broken glass was replaced with new ones, and the rolling shutters were replaced with stainless steel anti-theft doors and windows—it’s hard to say whether it can block the monster’s attack, anyway, if a tiger or an elephant comes, it will definitely not be able to get in.

Except for the "painted in the pet shop" signboard that has not yet been completed, the inside and outside of the pet shop has been completely new.If you don't look at the hope square which is extraordinarily empty and flat because there are no sculptures outside, Ming Xia will feel that it's just a pet shop that has been redecorated.

The foster animals had no serious trauma other than being overly frightened (which has been happening all the time lately).The baby hamster's cage was squeezed flat, but the little guy jumped out along the deformed cage door, hid in the gap of the cat climbing frame, and was very lucky to save his life.

A few wild cats were also there, and Ming Xia was not at home for a few days, and I don't know who raised them, but they all got fat.

The wooden desk at the front desk had been replaced by a dark marble-topped one, and the filing cabinets had been replaced with new ones, but they were all empty.There is not much loss in the interior, only a sliding door has been replaced.The cat and dog cages were still placed in their original positions, and they were all cleaned up again. They looked clean, as if nothing had happened.

Ming Xia walked back and forth in the store a few times, and in the corner under the cat climbing frame, he found a cow, a rabbit, and a beauty sleeping together.Ming Xia dashed forward, grabbed the rabbit ears and dragged it out from below.

With a cry, the beauty rushed to the top of the cat climbing frame, and stared at Ming Xia covetously.A pair of cat eyes were fierce, not at all the gentleness and intimacy that night when he was ordered in danger.

Ming Xia shook the rabbit ears in his hand, the rabbit kicked its legs and looked at him innocently.

Ming Xia scolded: "Bastard!"

rabbit,"……"

"Okay, you," Ming Xia shook the rabbit ears in his hand unceremoniously, "You are still pretending to be in your original form, Lao Tu, I really underestimated you, your acting skills are very online. Why do you say you just Didn't pass the film school?"

Rabbit narrowed his eyes and turned his head to one side.

Ming Xia roared, "Look at me!"

The rabbit stopped struggling, and hung limply in mid-air, looking pitiful.

The beauty also howled, eager to pounce on Ming Xia, but when she looked up and saw Nan Jiang approaching, she hesitated for a moment, retracted her four claws, and only whined twice at Ming Xia unwillingly.

Ming Xia asked again, "Does Ming Ming know your details?"

The rabbit played dead.

Nan Jiang almost laughed out loud, "If it's just a relationship, it doesn't matter if you know it or not. If you want to register for marriage, the woman has the right to know and the right to waive it voluntarily. He can't hide it if he wants to."

Ming Xia felt a little relieved.This right to give up is probably the meaning of breaking up. After all, not everyone can accept living with a monster. Once you choose to give up...

Ming Xia guessed that once the human side chose to give up, Nanjiang and the others would use some method to make him (her) forget the inside story about the monster.Just like the day they checked the documents, he forgot Nanjiang's documents.

There seems to be nothing wrong with this.

Ming Xia turned to look at Nanjiang, "Does it mean that when I leave the old city, I will forget everything that happened here? Luo Luo? Qiao He? Shui 虺?"

Nan Jiang met his gaze without avoiding it.There was originally a standard answer to this question without thinking too much, but the moment he opened his mouth, for some reason, there was a trace of hesitation in his heart.

"Is that so?" Ming Xia asked.

Nan Jiang was silent for a moment, then said slowly, "I'm still thinking about it."

Ming Xia breathed a sigh of relief.

Nan Jiang was surprised by the answer he blurted out.But he quickly realized that this answer was appropriate.Ming Xia has a close relationship with Tu Qing and Qing Qiu, he is a descendant of Jiu Xiao, and he has the protective formation left by Jiu Xiao...

These are valid reasons, right?

Looking at him, Nan Jiang suddenly felt uncertain.

Mingxia soon understood why Nanjiang said that what happened in the old town didn't need to be explained.

Two days later, when Ming Xia was walking out of the dessert shop with a cup of hot milk tea, she saw the three young girls who were hiding in the pet shop the day Luo Luo stormed the old town.But they didn't seem to recognize him anymore.

Ming Xia heard the youngest crying girl say to her companion, "Hey, this little brother holding milk tea looks so good."

Then the other two girls also started to look at him furtively.But their faces were completely looking at strangers. Although there were friendly smiles in their eyes, the distance was clearly written.

He heard one of the girls say: "We were so unlucky. We ran into a one-day trip and encountered an outbreak of Snake virus. We were quarantined for half a month and couldn't do anything. It's really unlucky."

The girl next to her pushed her with a smile, "Actually, we are all lucky, none of us were infected."

Several girls chatted and laughed again.

Ming Xia said silently in his heart, indeed, you are all lucky to be able to get out of such a dangerous situation unscathed.Most importantly, there is no horrible memory of being attacked by monsters in my memory.

It's really... so lucky.