Half River Autumn Moon and River Spring [Rat and Cat]

The four of them traveled day and night and rushed back to the capital. Seeing that they were about to enter the boundary of the capital, Bai Yutang suddenly said that he would rest in a nearby restaurant for a while before leaving.Zhao Hu wiped the sweat off his forehead, looked at Zhan Zhao in a little puzzlement, he knew that Yu Tang was the one who was most anxious to go back to Kaifeng Mansion, why did he say he wanted to rest now?Zhan Zhao smiled slightly, looked at Gongsun Ce who was already panting pale, and said in a low voice, "Don't think this mouse is usually indifferent, but he's actually quite good-natured."

Zhao Hu blinked, looked at Bai Yutang, then at Gongsun, blinked again, and followed Zhan Zhao to the restaurant.

Bai Yutang was indeed worried about Jiang Ping's injury, and wished he could rush to his fourth brother immediately. However, he also considered Gongsun Ce. After all, Gongsun Ce is not a martial arts practitioner. Bai Yutang and Zhan Zhao might be able to fight for a few days and nights. Sleepless and restless people have to rush on their way, but Gongsun may not. Therefore, a timely rest is necessary, but Bai Yutang is always clean, so even if it is a small rest, he must find the best place.

On the second floor of the hotel, Bai Yutang ordered some random dishes and sat down looking out the window without saying a word.

Sitting opposite him, Zhan Zhao saw Bai Yutang's frowning expression, poured him a cup of tea, and said, "Yutang, Zhao Hu said that the fourth brother's injury is not serious, and Mr. Bao is not here, Master Bao must have done it for him." He invited a doctor, don't worry too much."

Bai Yutang turned his head and glanced at Zhan Zhao, seeing that Zhan Zhao was pouring tea for himself, he couldn't help but frowned.I don't know why, every time I see this cat, my mood will be more than half better.Picking up the teacup, just about to take a sip, suddenly heard the cry of a child from below the teahouse.

The four of them froze for a moment, when they heard a child crying downstairs: "Daddy, I want that doll, woo... Daddy buy it for me... woo..."

Zhao Hu leaned his head and looked down, and saw a five or six-year-old child on the first floor, wiping his tears while tugging at the hem of the adult next to him, crying profusely. That little hand grabbed countless things, and wiped them all over his face. The originally white and clean face soon turned into a dirty cat face.

"Be good, baby. Go back and ask your mother to sew a doll for you. Daddy doesn't bring so much money, so he can't buy such a good doll." Wipe the child's dirty crying face while holding the child's hand to take him away.

"I don't want...I want that doll...Woo...Daddy doesn't love the baby...Daddy is bad!" The child refused to give in at all, standing in the middle of the shop with his neck up, crying more and more vigorously.

"You child! Daddy has been running around with you and that person all day. If you don't go back, your mother should be worried. Come on, come home with me." The man pursed his lips, dragged the child and planned to go out Walk.

As a result, the child clung to the door of the hotel and refused to leave, and the cries became louder and louder. Everyone in the restaurant frowned slightly, and some people who thought it was noisy started to complain with dissatisfaction.

Seeing that the father and son were affecting his customers, the owner of the shop hurried forward and said: "Walk, come in and don't eat, and the children are noisy, go out quickly, don't delay my business." I don't know if it was too hard to pull the child's hand on the door, and the child cried even harder.

Zhan Zhao couldn't bear to watch, and was about to make a move, but heard a very indifferent voice. The voice was obviously not loud, but it was clearly heard by everyone in the restaurant.

"This is for you, good boy, don't cry."

People in the restaurant turned their heads one after another, only to see a man, dressed in a night-like black robe, with long uncombed hair almost dragging to the ground, with a slender figure but not thin, and the most impressive Strangely, on that person's left shoulder sat an exquisite doll, also dressed in black, with terrifyingly long hair.With his back to everyone, he bent down and handed another beautiful doll in his hand to the crying child.

The child sniffed a few times, took the doll handed over by the man in black, and really stopped crying.

"This... my lord, this doll is very expensive, right? We... really don't have the money to buy it... I have followed you for a day, in fact, it is to let the child look at the doll to satisfy his greed..." The child's father was a little embarrassed to see The man in black wanted to return the doll in the child's hand, but the child hugged him tightly and looked at him stubbornly.

"It's okay, I'll give it to your child." The man in black touched the child's head, his voice was as light as wintersweet on a snowy night, the child's father was stunned, and the man in black turned around gracefully .

He just simply turned around, but more than half of the people in the restaurant forgot to pick up food and drink.

Because, everyone saw his positive side.

This person looks too bewitching, too beautiful, or in other words, too delicate... If Bai Yutang's appearance is said to be evil, then this person is a demon, and there is something extremely unkind a feeling of……

Whether it's the skin, facial features, or the figure under the black clothes, they all seem to have been carefully designed and are impeccable.

And the puppet sitting on his shoulder is actually [-]% similar to him. If you don't look carefully, you may think it is a smaller child sitting on it, which makes him look even weirder.

Gongsun looked at the man in black, then at the doll that the child was holding in his arms, and suddenly said: "The doll he gave to the child is very finely crafted, it is definitely a rare treasure. , he just gave it away so easily?"

Zhao Hu scratched his head in confusion, and asked, "No matter how detailed it is, it's just a doll, so what's the fuss about giving it away?"

Gongsun curled his lips, with a look of hating iron but not steel: "You don't understand, really good dolls are hard to come by, every stitch and thread on those dolls, from hair to clothing materials It is very particular. I heard that some dolls are made from real people. Many wealthy businessmen will collect these things. It is said that the more real people they are made, the more spiritual they are. Some of them can even be compared with real people. The master communicates and helps him do things..."

Zhao Hu clicked his tongue: "So powerful?"

Gongsun nodded, and continued: "During the Tang Dynasty, a rich merchant hired a puppeteer to make a puppet exactly like himself. The puppet's hair and clothes were all obtained from the rich merchant. I heard that after finishing the work, the puppet can move by itself, and he can do whatever he is asked to do. The rich businessman was very happy and taught the puppet how to do business and arithmetic operations, so he managed his own business during the day and , the puppet will help him settle the bills and settle the money, without any delay in time, and the business of the wealthy businessman is also booming."

Zhan Zhao rubbed his chin: "Oh? Is there such a bizarre thing?"

"Only later, a terrible thing happened..."

Zhao Hu leaned closer: "What terrible thing happened?"

"The puppet gradually had its own thoughts. He was unwilling to be subordinated to others, so he wanted to replace the rich businessman and become a real person! So, he began to eat him bit by bit..."

"What?!" Zhao Hu yelled in shock.

Gongsun glanced at him, and said quietly: "That puppet eats a part of his master every day... By the time people find that rich businessman, he has been eaten to the very last. The most terrifying thing is that he The exposed heart is still beating, bloody..."

Zhao Hu only felt sick for a while.

"Later, the puppet and the puppeteer were burned to death by people, but in the end, the rich businessman did not survive."

Zhao Hu's face turned pale: "Sir, where did you hear the story, is it just a rumor?"

Gongsun shrugged, seeing Zhao Hu's expression, he immediately felt in a good mood.

Zhan Zhao shook his head helplessly, Bai Yutang looked out the window expressionlessly, and sighed at the same time after a while.

Just as Zhao Hu was about to ask for further confirmation, he saw the man in black slowly walking upstairs, towards the innermost box.

After staring at the man in black for a while, Zhao Hu finally couldn't control his curiosity, and asked aloud, "Excuse me, are you a puppeteer?"

It was just a random question at first, but the man in black really stopped in his tracks. Zhao Hu was taken aback for a moment, and saw the man in black turn around slowly, with a strange smile on his lips, and slightly tilted his head. , said in a calm voice, "I am indeed a puppeteer."

Zhao Hu glanced at the strange puppet on his shoulder, and when he thought of the story Gongsun told, he suddenly felt creepy, but he still had the courage to ask: "That...excuse me, what about the puppet on your shoulder? Sell?"

The man in black leaned against the door of the four people's box, smiling even more strangely: "This doll is not for sale."

Seeing such a smile, Zhao Hu was completely taken aback.

The moment Gongsun raised his head, he happened to meet the puppet on the shoulder of the man in black. I don't know if it was an illusion. For a moment, Gongsun felt that the puppet on his shoulder seemed to have the same weird smile as his master... and shook his head , Sipping a sip of tea, Gongsun thought to himself that he must be too tired from traveling for the past few days, hallucinations, hallucinations...

Zhan Zhao looked up at the man in black standing at the door, then at Zhao Hu who was stunned, stretched his foot under the table, kicked him, Zhao Hu immediately woke up, coughed and looked at the man in black and said, "Oh ? Why not sell it?"

The man in black smiled and shook his head: "He is not suitable for you."

Zhao Hu looked depressed, "Why isn't it suitable for me?"

The man in black hooked the doll's hair with his fingers, and said with a smile, "The doll I make must be beautiful."

Zhao Hu looked at Gongsun, thinking that whether this is pretty has anything to do with whether it suits me...

In the end, I heard the man in black say with a smile: "And you are too ugly."

The corner of Zhao Hu's mouth twitched, saying that Zhao Hu was indeed inferior to Zhan Zhao and Gongsun Ce's outstanding appearance, and he dared not compare with Bai Yutang's beauty, which was so beautiful that it invaded people's eyes, but Zhao Hu was still a strong man. A manly man, very masculine, even if not handsome, he is still domineering, okay, ugly?No one has ever said that about living so old... This... really seriously hurt our Zhao Hu's self-esteem!

Before Zhao Hu finished digesting what the man in black had said, he heard the man in black say again: "If it was him, I'd be very willing to make an identical puppet for him."

The atmosphere in the box suddenly cooled down.

A few people followed the gaze of the man in black...

The clothes are whiter than the snow, and the snowy jade city is poured, and the hall will be buried in the world.

Bai Yutang.