refuse to be a teacher

"Master, do you know that there is a creature in this world that is cuter than you, what is it?"

"Look, it has four furry paws, and its tail is curled up."

"Also! Listen to what it calls, so pitiful, so helpless, oh, so distressed! So uncomfortable!"

"Master, you..."

"No!"

When Xue Lanyin tried to call her master affectionately for the fourth time, Yan Jue held a broom in his hand and stood in front of the door like a domineering king, and said firmly to the person and cat in front of him: "No! "

Xue Lan said with tears in her eyes, "Master..."

——It has been about half a year since the battle at Lingtai Mountain.The two masters and apprentices wandered back to their original residence in the bamboo forest of Lianshui. They were busy repairing the slightly damaged huts and corridors, and cleaned up the unscrupulous weeds in the yard. Finally, they lived in this room for nearly twenty years. In the old bamboo house for the rest of the year, the young couple lived an ordinary and boring life.

However, it is said to be ordinary, but it is not ordinary at all-after all, because Xue Lan...especially likes to jump up and down, he will feel uncomfortable all over if he doesn't make trouble for Yan bully every now and then.

For example, the weather was cold a few days ago, and Xue Lan wanted to go to the hot spring because of arguing, and when they came back, both of them caught wind and cold, lying on the bed with their legs crossed facing each other with fever.

Another example was last night, because Xue Lan ran to the kitchen and secretly drank a large jar of fruit wine. In the middle of the night, she was so drunk that she picked up Yan Jue, threw her into the bed and forcibly... tickled him.

But at this moment, it was raining heavily outside, Xue Lan didn't bring an umbrella when she came home, not to mention drenched in a mess, holding a... dingy and wet little hairball in her arms.

Yan Jue narrowed his eyes and stared at the thing for a long time, until he confirmed that the "cute creature" that Xue Lanyin said was a little wild cat with a muddy body, a runny nose and furry hair— ——Mistress Yan, who has always loved cleanliness and was extremely afraid of trouble, finally couldn't restrain herself and picked up a broom, and stopped her apprentice and cat from the door.

"I hate cats." Yan bullied, "It's so dirty, Xue Xiaomao... If you don't throw it away, don't even think about entering the house tonight!"

Xue Lan was standing beside the threshold pitifully, and the cat in her arms was also looking at Yan Jue pitifully, her big muddy eyes blinked, and every time she moved, it turned into a grain of mud. The lump fell on Xue Lanyin's hand.

Yan Jue was about to die of disgust, took a step back, and said directly to Xue Lanyin, "You... you should... let it go, let it go!"

"It doesn't have a home, master. If it is released, it might starve to death by the side of the road." Xue Lanyin said, "You have to be kind-hearted, don't you? What's more, bringing small animals into the house can bring us good luck. "

Yan cheated and said mockingly: "I can hardly support myself, where can I get the spare money to raise a cat?"

His attitude was so tough and contradictory, which actually made it difficult for Xue Lan to speak.The two stared at each other speechlessly for a moment, Xue Lan turned her head away, and sat back on the steps in front of the door alone, holding the dirty mud ball in her arms, and her back was infinitely lonely.

Yan Jue stood in the room with staring eyes for a while, looking at the apprentice's hair and clothes that were drenched in the rain, gritted his teeth, had no choice but to bite the bullet, and said impatiently: "... You go into the house and change your clothes, so as not to catch a cold."

As soon as Xue Lan saw Yan Jue let go of his mouth, she suddenly felt that something was going on, and as soon as her eyes lit up, she rushed into the house with the mud cat in her arms, wagging her tail at Yan Jue, and said, "Where's the cat? Where's the cat?"

"Toss yourself first!"

Yan Jue looked at him, then at the cat, and felt a headache.

——So, taking advantage of Xue Lan's absence from taking a bath, Yan Jian sneakily found a bamboo basket, without saying a word, stuffed the dirty and smelly mud cat into it, and then secretly planned to put it Put it outside the yard and throw it away.

However, when the basket was just placed at the gate of the courtyard, it was still raining heavily outside the sky.Yan Jue felt very sorry, so he ran back into the house again, put a paper umbrella for the cat, and placed it firmly next to the bamboo basket to prevent it from being drenched by the rain again.

After dealing with all this, Yan Jue thought that everything would be fine, so he breathed a sigh of relief, leisurely, and prepared to get up and go back to make a pot of hot tea.

As a result, when he left like this, the mud cat in the bamboo basket followed, and its four little paws stepped on the small puddle, splashing mud on the corners of Yan Jue's snow-white clothes.

Yan Jue turned around fiercely, raised his phoenix eyes, pointed at the cat's head, and ordered firmly, "Don't follow!"

Mud cat: "Meow~"

Yan Jue stared at the spot, stood there for a while, and didn't know which muscle was out of place, but unexpectedly found a towel, squatted down, and carefully wiped the cat's body.

So Xue Lan had just come out of the shower when she saw a horrifying scene beside the threshold—her master was bending over and squatting on the ground, holding a bag of fragrant and warm dried fish, feeding him with a serious face. cats play.

And what about the dirty mud cat with a runny nose?At this moment, it was as if he had transformed into a cat, his whole body, from ears to tail, exuded a clean and soft luster.

Xue Lan walked over and asked Yan Hua blankly: "Master, what are you doing?"

"It's too dirty... I gave it a bath." Yan Yao paused, and then a suspicious blush appeared in the base of his ears, "I heard it kept barking, so I wondered if it was hungry."

Because Xue Lan scratched her head, she also squatted down next to Yan Jue, and said tentatively, "Then...do you still throw cats?"

Yan Jue focused his eyes on the kitten in his hand for a moment: "For the time being...don't throw it away, it's raining heavily outside, let's take it out and release it when the weather clears."

"Alright." Xue Lanyin nodded, "It's been raining these days, such a small cat, freezing and hungry outside, will inevitably lose his life..."

In the evening, the master and the apprentice sat at the table to eat.During this period, Yan Jue didn't move his chopsticks all the time, looking at him in a daze, his eyes wandered, his face was dull, and he probably had no appetite.

Xue Lan was afraid that Yan Jue still didn't like the mud cat, so after hesitating for a while, she took the initiative to grab a chicken leg with chopsticks and said, "I'm sorry, Master..."

Yan Jue was startled, and looked up at him: "What's wrong?"

"In a while, I'll ask the neighbor next door if anyone wants a cat at home." Xue Lanyin said in a low voice, "If you really hate it, we won't keep it overnight."

"Oh..." Yan Jue lowered his eyelashes, and said casually, "No, it's too late...you don't have to be busy."

Xue Lan put down the chopsticks lightly, and asked him extra cautiously: "Master, am I being too unreasonable?"

Yan Ju moved his lips, as if he really wanted to say something.However, before he could speak, he suddenly stood up again, and without any explanation, he walked into the kitchen beside him.

Because Xue Lan was startled by him, she quickly followed up with her hands and feet, and raised her voice to ask: "Master, what's wrong with you?"

Yan Jue said without looking back, "The cat is meowing."

Xue Lan was confused: "Why didn't I hear it?"

Yan deceived: "You are deaf."

The two rushed to the kitchen one after the other, and saw something simmering on the stove, and a steaming smell of meat rushed up and down into Xue Lanyin's dog's nose.He came to his senses immediately, and said happily, "Master, you...you actually cook?"

Yan Jue nodded, as if a little embarrassed: "Yes, I burned a chicken."

When Xue Lan heard this, she suddenly felt a little scared: "Then what... can you tell the difference between salt and sugar?"

"No salt."

Yan Jue took the chopsticks and gently fished out the whole roasted chicken, carefully put it into a porcelain bowl, and put it in a stable position.Xue Lan stretched her neck and glanced inward, and it was really a glistening mass of old meat without any condiments, just looking at it was horrible.

"..."

Xue Lan choked up and said, "How can I eat without salt?"

"Hey cat."

As soon as Yan Jue turned around, he walked out with the porcelain bowl in his hand, leaving Xue Lanyin alone in the kitchen, staring at the master's receding back in a daze.

——The little mud cat that was picked up was not as dirty and ugly as before since Yan Jue cleaned it up with his own hands.

A pair of round eyes, black and bright, like a girl's tenderness and water.The lustrous and docile fur, now covered with dense gray-brown markings, makes the whole cat even more playful and cute, with a bit of spirituality.

Yan Jue placed it in the small bamboo basket that was prepared to throw it away. It was just the right size for a cat and a basket, and covered with a few old and unused thick clothes, it was a soft and comfortable nest.

At this moment, he was squatting by the wall close to the cat, holding a porcelain bowl full of chicken in his arms, while tearing it up, he handed it to the kitten's mouth very patiently and cautiously, watching it eat the food bit by bit over.

And at the same time, Xue Lan was holding a small bowl full of food and holding chopsticks in her hands, and she said to Yan with lovelessness: "Master, can you have dinner first..."

Yan bullied him, obsessed with feeding the cat and couldn't extricate himself, as if just watching that dingy little thing chewing and swallowing was such a joy that he could go to heaven.

Because Xue Lan had no choice but to squat down, she picked up the bowl and chopsticks and handed them to Yan Bull's mouth: "...Master, open your mouth, I'll feed you."

Ever since, Yan Bao fed the cat, and Xue Lan fed the master. It was a good meal, and he ate it for more than half an hour.Xue Lanyin once felt that she was like an old mother who worked hard to urge her child to eat. He would feed her a mouthful, and the master would eat another mouthful. Sometimes she became impatient and simply turned her head away from eating, and instead stared at the wild cat in the nest and smiled softly.

Xue Lan used it for a long time, and finally got over it.

He asked Yan Jue: "Heyu, do you... like this cat very much?"

"I don't like it." Yan Jue stroked the back of the cat with his hands, and responded solemnly, "...I hate cats the most."

"Then... I like cats, okay?" Xue Lan sighed helplessly, stretched out her hand and pulled Master into her arms, stroked his hair like a cat, and said softly, "It's up to me to make the decision. The cat will stay here to accompany you to relieve boredom, okay?"

Yan Jue didn't nod or shake his head. In short, judging from this reaction, he must be happy in his heart and refused to show it.

Because Xue Lan hadn't seen Yan Ju showing such a completely relieved expression for a long time, since the two of them left Guli Town, he has been brooding over the fact that he died once.

It seemed that the previously inextricable heart knot was covered with a thick layer of giant locks, forcing him to stay in the shadow of nightmare day and night, unable to get real relief for a long time.

"If it can make you happy, it would be the best." Xue Lan bowed her head and kissed the corners of Yan Jue's slightly hooked lips, as if she was satisfied with what he saw now. A litter of kittens, meowing around you every day..."

Yan Jue's gaze drooped slightly, and after a while, he narrowed his eyes and said to Xue Lanyin, "It's public."

Xue Lanyin: "..."