me and my monster neighbor

The hourglass coffin made by Mr. Fu is unique, and the process of putting the ashes into the coffin is also very particular.

Putting on white gloves, Mr. Fu first put all the ashes of the head that were collected separately into an hourglass coffin, and then poured the ashes of the body into a sieve to filter. A finer powder is separated for further use.

Mr. Fu said: "Packing cremated ashes is a tedious and slow job. We must strictly control the amount of cremated ashes so that the sand leakage time of the cremated ashes hourglass after the completion of the work is kept at 8.333 minutes, and every second is accurate."

Director Luo asked curiously, "There are so many details about loading ashes?"

Mr. Fu turned his head and glanced at Director Luo. The porcelain-white philanthropist's smiling mask made people panic.He tilted his head, the rose earrings hanging on his earlobe swayed gently, the light of the ceiling lamp cast a shadow under his eyes, he raised his index finger and hissed softly on his mouth, and said with a magnetic voice: "Speaking of it, There is also such a rumor~ On the night of the full moon, when you swing the hourglass, the ashes will also tell the truth.”

"........."

The neighbors present gasped.

Upon hearing this, Mrs. Niu asked in a low voice, "Isn't this calling for souls? Can this really be done?"

Mr. Fu looked down at Aunt Niu, and said with a light smile, "I've only heard of this kind of rumor. It's not uncommon for the living to make up such lies to comfort themselves in order to commemorate the dead souls. After all, ordinary little monsters die and cannot Resurrection, there is always a time when yearning becomes sick, even if you can chat with the ashes of the dead, it is comforting."

The big monsters with powerful demon power and a very small number of little monsters with extremely strong desire to survive can turn into demon spirits after death. They only need to find a new body that can accommodate their demon power to be reborn, but the little monsters with low demon power To die is to lose one's soul.

Mr. Fu continued with a smile: "On the contrary, I also heard that there is a kind of sorcery that can bind the soul of the living and the dead in the container, and the needle can make the soul suffer after death and cannot be released forever. It's hearsay."

Mr. Fu looked at Mrs. Niu with meaningful eyes, like a poisonous snake that seduces people's hearts. Brother Niu pulled Mrs. Niu closer to him vigilantly.

Director Luo leaned on a crutch, sighed and said, "It would be great if the ashes could really speak, and we would know how Wu Gong died so tragically."

Mr. Fu shook his head apologetically. His voice was naturally lazy, which seemed that his apology was not very sincere.

Mr. Fu said: "Forgive me for being powerless, not to mention whether the rumors are true or false, and I don't have the powerful demonic power to summon souls. If I can recruit wandering souls but can't send them back, it will be even worse."

As he spoke, he conveniently scooped out the ashes of the centipede's body that had been screened out twice and filled them into the hourglass coffin. After the packaging was completed, he carefully turned the hourglass upside down to test the smoothness of the quicksand——

Perhaps the ashes were not ground finely enough, and the sofa of the hourglass made a few ear-piercing "rustling" sounds, as if the ashes were mixed with rough bones, scraping against the glass wall, and it sounded like noisy teeth grinding. , and a little out of breath.

The voice was really unpleasant, Xu Lai frowned, and when he looked at Mr. Fu, he happened to meet Mr. Fu's eyes.

Mr. Fu was also looking at him.

"..."

Xu Lala's right eyelid twitched suddenly.

The orange-red ceiling light in Mr. Fu’s house is too red, and the material of Mr. Fu’s smiling mask as a philanthropist is too white. The contrast between the two is very scary.

Xu Lala felt his throat tighten, and almost subconsciously took two steps back, almost stepping on the black and strong shoes standing behind him.

But Mr. Fu just sighed, and then straightened the ashes hourglass again. He said to his neighbors: "This happens when the cremated ashes are not burned sufficiently... It seems that the ashes need to be manually ground into powder."

As soon as this remark came out, Xiao Jiujiu, who provided free labor for nothing today, was about to throw a temper tantrum.

As soon as little Jiujiu said angrily "Jiujiu!", and flapped his wings to get up, the neighbors at the scene all panicked and hid behind Xu Lai.

Xu Lale: "..."

Holding Chu Chu, whose head was buried in his arms, Xu Lae pretended to be calm and tried to communicate with Xiao Jiujiu: "Little Jiujiu, let me take you to Chuchu's house to play together."

From the perspective of a cub's parent, Xu Lala invites another cub to "play together".

When the voice fell, Chu Chu, who had settled in Xu Lala's arms for a long time, struggled to raise his head when he heard his name. Xu Lala hurried out of the door with Chuchu in his arms. When he turned around, he saw little Jiujiu moving slowly. body, standing in the door frame and sneaking out half of a small head, with a particularly protruding dull hair on the top of the head.

It secretly observed Xu Lai secretly.

If it has an expression on its face, it must be written with fear and vigilance at this time.

Xu Lale:?

Chu Chu finally kicked his head out of Xu Lala's arms, straightened his upper body, and chirped to Xiao majesticly: "Chu!"

Coupled with its head-shaking posture, Xu Lala interpreted Chuchu's call as: "Little brother, follow up."

Before Xu Lala left, Director Luo chased him to the door, and gave Xu Lala the keys to Xiao Feijiu's room No. [-], the size of the two doors, and told Xu Lala to send Xiao Jiujiu home before sunset.

After Director Luo explained that he wanted to go back, it was Xu Lai who kept him.

Director Luo asked suspiciously, "Little comrade, what's the matter?"

Xu Lai hesitated for a moment.

Although Centipede Jing's death probably really had nothing to do with the neighbors, Centipede Jing's death alerted Xu Lai to another problem.

Xu Lai asked: "Director Luo, I remember that when I settled down, I heard you said that the pressure on Zhongnan Cave's demon population is because the above stipulates that it must be an odd-numbered household. In addition to the number of household registrations, is there also a requirement for the total number of demon populations?"

Director Luo nodded, taking it for granted: "That's natural."

This "that's natural" made Xu Lae's expression very unnatural.

Xu Lale:?

Before Chuchu was born, there were thirteen monster households in Zhongnan Cave, a total of fifteen monsters; after Chuchu was born, there were still thirteen monster households in Zhongnan Cave, but the number increased to sixteen monsters.

Xu Lala's heart tightened, and he subconsciously pulled Chuchu into his arms, gritted his teeth and asked, "...So, is the quota exceeded by one?"

Director Luo reacted when he saw Xu Lai's sudden tense posture of protecting the calf, and hurriedly said: "No, no, no, no..."

Director Luo glanced at Chu Chu, covered his mouth and mouthed to Xu Lai, and said, "Chu Chu is still the same..."

Xu Lai didn't understand what "that" was "which", and struggled to identify the mouth shape between Director Luo's big yellow teeth and thick everted lips, and finally deciphered six characters——

It, only, is, a, black, household.

Xu Lale: "..."

Director Luo learned of the tragic life experiences of the "mother and son" on the day Xu Lala gave birth. In order to help Xu Lala hide the news, he naturally did not report Chu Chu to the Yaokou Statistics Bureau.

So strictly speaking, Xu Lai and Chu Chu are not officially certified parent-child relationship.

I didn't know it at first, so I kicked my little head alertly.

Director Luo hurriedly smiled and said, "Oh, yes, I haven't registered at Chuchu yet, so I'll bring you the registration form another day."

When it was over, he mouthed to Xu Lai again: Lie, it, yes.

Xu Lale nodded in cooperation with Director Luo.

Director Luo's words were reasonable, and Xu Lai was finally relieved, calling Xiao Jiujiu to go back together, Xiao Jiujiu slowly moved out from behind the door frame, and reluctantly followed Xu Lai.

Xu Lala had to sigh with emotion that the cub must have keen foresight.

There must be a reason for Xiao Jiujiu to show resistance both physically and mentally, and Chu Chu to go home. As expected, Xiao Jiujiu was bullied and insulted as soon as he arrived in Room No.13.

Xu Lala was just packing up his things for a while, when he heard Chu Chu yell "chu!" twice in a row, the voice was eager and excited, as if he was calling Xu Lala to watch him collect the neighbors' personal accessories. Show off tone.

Xu Lale turned his head and saw——

Chu Chu stood on a chair facing the fireplace, with the end of the rope in his mouth.

Little Fat Jiu stood under Chuchu, its back was close to the chair legs, a pair of chubby wings spread backwards, it "actively" leaned back against the chair legs, and a bunch of curtains were messily wrapped around its body rope.

One end of the rope was stepped on by itself, and the other end was held in Chu Chu's mouth.

Xu Lale:?

Xu Lalazheng couldn't understand the (bonding) game between their cubs.

Seeing Chu Chu standing on a chair condescendingly, flicking his tail, the tip of his tail poked Xiao Jiujiu's head, and Xiao Jiujiu resignedly puffed up his cheeks and opened his mouth to breathe fire.

With a "Hula", the pillar of fire sprayed out by Xiao Fat Chirp did not ignite the fire, and just ignited the stove in the fireplace.

Chu Chu flicked his tail and poked Xiao Fat Chirp's head again, and the little Fat Chirp had to be ordered to turn off the fire, and the dull hair on its head was all wilted.

Chu Chu looked full of air.

Jiujiu looked hopeless, and even wanted to play dead.

Xu Lale: "..."

A "fully automatic" smart gas stove was born.

I saw Chuchu’s ultimate goal of forcibly taking the younger brother home halfway on the spot, combined with the fact that Chuchu went straight to Xiaojiu as soon as he arrived outside the gate of Shibao today, and when Xu Lai and his team arrived, they were confronting each other with a snake and a bird Xu Lai had every reason to suspect that Chu Chu rushed straight into Room [-] because he smelled the fire attribute of the neighbor in Room [-] and ran to Xiao Jiujiu and said: Come to my house and use it as a gas stove for me.

Xu Lale: "..."

What a breathless scene it was.

It's no wonder that little Jiujiu spewed fire and attacked Chuchu when he took a step forward. After all, this four-legged snake wanted to abduct it and turn it into a fire boy.

Little Jiujiu is the complete victim.

And the real little overlord of Zhongnan Cave, Benba Chuchu, held his head high at this time, raised his head and chest, and waited triumphantly for Xu Lai to praise him.

Seeing how considerate it is to Xu Le Lae, seeing that Le Lae has to burn firewood to cook three meals a day, so he directly arranges the automatic gas stove clearly.

At the beginning, the more I thought about it, the more flattered I felt, and I thought to give it credit, at least it deserves Xu Lela's "boji" kiss on its forehead...

But it was Xu Lai who came from elementary school and patted it on the head.

Chu Chu:?

Seeing Xu Lai snatch the rope from its mouth and untie the rope from Xiao Feijiu's body on the spot, Chu Chu refused to obey with an "ooohoo" and kicked up his upper body to grab the rope back in disbelief.

Xu Lala hugged Xiao Feijiu to the chair, and sat on an equal footing with Chu Chu. Little Jiujiu was very afraid of Chuchu, and consciously shrank to the edge of the chair.

Xu Lala squatted in front of the chair, education Chuchu said: "Little Jiujiu is also our neighbor, it is not your captive, nor is it a slave you can call at will."

Xu Lai feels that Chuchu has too many problems. Although he is still young, it can be seen that he ignores other neighbors' demon rights. He doesn't know how to respect and doesn't bother to respect. When Xiao Feijiu was caught and returned to work as a laborer, he threatened with violence.

Also, because Xu Lai heard the hen crowing and left it for half a step, it was about to kill the hen to vent its anger.

And Xu Lala was only lucky enough to be "favored" by Chuchu, so that he could be treated differently by it.

The consciousness of survival that Chuchu showed is completely in line with the social mechanism of survival of the fittest in the world of monsters. Because of this, Xu Lai is even more worried about it.

Xu Lala asked Chuchu: "The neighbors are spoiling you because they are kind, and because you are still young, and little Jiujiu can't resist you, it just happens that your attributes are restrained by you, but if you meet in the future, you won't be spoiled and you won't What are you going to do with the big monster you restrained? Then you will be the one who will be exploited and bullied."

Xu Lala tried to explain to it the principle of "don't do to others what you don't want done to you", which is a teaching material for elementary school students.

But Chuchu was rolling around on the chair, and his tail was flying back and forth. Little Jiujiu shivered and tried to shrink back to the edge of the chair until there was no way to retreat. He almost fell to the ground by accident. Fortunately, his little paws were tight Clinging to the edge of the chair and hanging upside down on the side of the chair like a bat, it looked funny, but it survived, and it also breathed a sigh of relief.

Xu Lai rescued Xiao Jiujiu to another small bench, and when he turned his head, Chu Chu was still rolling on the chair relentlessly.

Xu Lala said, "Get up and sit down, and listen to me."

Chuchu was reluctant in every possible way, and the bone ridges on his back crackled and exploded, but even though his whole body resisted, he turned over obediently and lay down obediently, leaving only his tail slapping on the chair to show his strength. dissatisfied.

Chu Chu couldn't understand Xu Lai's thinking logic, why can't he grab something he likes from others?Why can't I enslave a gas stove that can breathe fire?

This is all won by its strength, why can't it work?

Xu Lala was silent for a while, thinking that Chuchu might be really too young to understand the truth, so he could only forcefully issue an order: "If you still listen to me, I won't let you be seen stealing things from neighbors again. , and you are not allowed to bully the neighbors, as long as you are obedient, I will not leave you, otherwise... I may not be with you in the future."

It was the first time Xu Lala said such heavy words, and he was very guilty. After all, such words were considered taboo for pets.

The tip of Chuchu's flailing tail stopped in the air, and then hung to the ground as if wilted. It curled its tail slumped, cautiously raised its small head, and gave a weak "chu..." to Xu Lala.

Chuchu obviously understood and was frightened.

After shaking the whip, Xu Lala wanted to give a candy, but seeing Chuchu's cautious and obedient appearance, he quickly bent down and kissed Chuchu's little head, hugged it into his arms and said, "Be good, okay? "

Chuchu arched in Xu Lala's arms, raised his head and gave another "chu" softly, responding: "Okay."

Huddled on a small stool and was "forced" to watch the big brother being taught by the owner, Xiao Jiujiu felt trembling all over. It shivered and tried to stuff its little head under its own wings. Unfortunately, it was so fat that it didn't have a neck, so no matter how stuffed it was, it would be exposed Own.

Chuchu lay on Xu Lala's shoulder, and turned to glance at Xiao Feijiu on the bench.

Little Fat Chirp: "..."

OKKK, I'm like a dead bird.

……

Xu Lai was just lucky to be Chuchu's weakness just now, but now he is lucky to be Chuchu's only weakness. He is not only Chuchu's bottom line, but also Chuchu's only moral bottom line.

Seeing Xiao Feijiu huddled up on the bench alone, Xu Lala slid down its back, and he obviously felt that Little Fat Jiu was trembling more violently.

Xu Lale: "..."

Xu Lai praised it: "Little Jiujiu, Chuchu also thought that you could breathe fire very well, that's why he wanted to abduct you home. You will be good friends from now on, and Chuchu will never bully you again."

Chuchu lay on Xu Lala's chest, straightened his head and secretly rubbed Xu Lala's neck, looking at the world, including the little Jiujiu who was below him.

Little tweet: QAQ

Scares the birds.

Little Jiujiu chose to continue burying his head and stuffing his head under his wings.

Xu Lai did not forget to praise Chu Chu: "Although you can't breathe fire, you are not only immune to fire, but also blow out a small black bubble. You are also amazing..."

It's good that Xu Lala didn't mention it, but when he mentioned this scandalous thing, Chuchu went down again.

The little four-legged snake feels that it is omnipotent. It can't breathe fire and hiccups in public, which is a disgrace to it.

"..."

Xu Lala asked Chu Chu to lie on his shoulders, got up and took a small glass jar to fill some well water, went into the bathroom and mixed things like shower gel and shampoo into the water, he shook, and took Chu Chu Walking outside the house, he removed a piece of iron wire from the fence of the chicken coop, broke it into a circle, dipped it in the bubble water, and blew bubbles at Chu Chu.

The transparent bubbles are shimmering in color in the sun. Xu Lai is not sure if he can see the bubbles at first, but he may be able to capture the movement of the bubbles in his dynamic vision.

As expected, Chuchu reacted. It stared blankly at the bubble blown out by Xu Lala for a long time, then suddenly held its breath and gave a vigorous "puff" for a long time, and finally shook its head left and right when sneezing, "Ah sneeze" A black snot bubble came out.

After the snot bubble was separated from the body, it also wobbled and flew into the sky following the transparent bubbles all over the sky.

Chu Chu's gaze followed a pile of dangling unknown objects in front of him.

Little Jiujiu also stood on the threshold with flapping wings, watching the air bubbles flying all over the sky, and his big brother and his owner surrounded by the bubbles.

Xu Lala hugged Chuchu, stroked its back, and said, "You can blow out bubbles because you are like me. This is a skill we all have together."

The small bubbles he blew in the beginning were harmless, indeed they were the same as the soap bubbles he blew.

Xu Lala just wanted to comfort it, and also hoped that Chuchu would be happier to hear that it had the same skill as him.

After all, he can feel that Chuchu really likes him, and he will "love the house and the black" for him.

And the naive Chuchu first heard that it was "the same as Lala", and it turned from cloudy to sunny, with its cheeks puffed up, and even its tail was exerting strength. It tried hard to blow out more and more small bubbles.

Xu Lala rubbed against Chuchu's head, and then habitually scratched its lower jaw. Chuchu was so comfortable that he turned his head and let out a gurgling sound from his throat.

but.

Xu Lala's fingers froze for a moment, and he froze immediately. He lowered his head and supported the original head, exposing its neck——

Under the black gold shiny neat scales, there is a reverse-growing reverse scale suddenly, which is crescent-shaped. The color looks dark, but when it reflects light, it appears white jade color, which is in sharp contrast to the pitch-black scales at the beginning. Compared.

Xu Lale: "..."

Mrs. Niu said: There are dragon horns on the head, reverse scales under the throat, pearls on the forehead, and fins on the tip of the tail. They are called "dragons".