we are just monsters

Chapter 148 Cats

Mu Qing, the interpretation refers to the sky.

Little Mu Qing is Xiaotian.

Zhou Xiaotian likes this name very much. Master used to be considered a half-educated person—only referring to the era of Master. Relatively speaking, he was considered a scholar. He could read and read many miscellaneous books. Later, compulsory education was universally popularized, and Zhou Muqing suddenly became illiterate again.

Because I didn't learn it at school, but learned it from my master and master. I didn't receive systematic education.

In the blink of an eye, 20 years have passed.

Zhou Xiaotian still likes that time, the master and apprentice closed the door to live their own lives, around the coal stove during the Chinese New Year, the kettle squeaked with steam, Zhou Muqing made a dumpling, the weather was cold outside, the two of them didn’t go out of the house, lost. Even if it's over in a daze.

Now life is better and more convenient, but I always feel that something is missing.

After returning home and turning on the TV to make the room a little noisy, Zhou Xiaotian put the packed dumplings in the refrigerator and sat quietly for a while, feeling dazed for a moment.

The New Year's greetings of various stars are playing on the TV, and they are congratulating each other, beaming with joy. The sky outside is getting dark, and the sound of firecrackers in the distance can be vaguely heard.

At seven o'clock in the evening, the sound of scratching the door sounded outside. Zhou Xiaotian was sitting in front of the TV with a bowl in his hands. When he lowered his head, he was surprised to see the black cat.

Zhou Xiaotian was very surprised. Seeing the black cat sneaking into the house lightly, she leaned over to look at the corridor outside, then turned around and closed the door, "How did you come here?"

It is both interesting and magical, and it will scratch the door!
The black cat ignored her, but jumped onto the sofa and tilted its head slightly, looking at a certain place. Its thoughts were the same as Zhou Xiaotian's: why are you here?
Xia Xiaoman looked at it expressionlessly.

the other side.

The vampire couple and Gu Cheng are preparing for the New Year's Eve dinner.

Chen Hua cleaned the crabs by the pool with a toothbrush, and was pinched by the crabs from time to time.

"Cut it, anyway, it will be steamed in a while, and it will all be evened out." The vampire muttered in a low voice while brushing the crab's shell with a toothbrush.

This job was originally assigned to that idiot in Heishan, but Heishan's hands and feet brushed off two of his legs, and wanted to cover up his mistake in a sneaky way, secretly stuffed two crab legs into his mouth to destroy the corpse, and was discovered by Zhao Hong After scolding, he rushed out of the kitchen.

Heishan looked around in Gu Cheng's living room, while the old ghost was not paying attention, he secretly opened the book on the table to see what the old ghost was learning.

Turning a page at random, the beginning is a sentence: "Shuangmen Jialu, the one who gets it is Fengge Luantai."For example, when Gui gives birth to a person, the salary is in the son, and Hai Chou calls it Jialu..." Heishan shook his hand, and the book fell to the ground. He didn't even know some words in this short sentence.

"Where's Lilith?" Gu Cheng's voice sounded from behind.

"Go find someone."

Heishan forced himself to be calm, picked up the book, wiped it, and put it back carefully.The old ghost is so terrifying, he usually reads such profound things... Hei Shan doesn't even know several words in this short sentence.

Looking back at Gu Cheng, there was inexplicable awe in his eyes.

Gu Cheng looked out the window and said strangely, "I saw her just now when I was preparing to cook."

Chen Hua knew Lilith very well, and said: "She just wants to send people a red envelope on the Internet, and say that Chinese New Year is good before going out. She is a cat, so she can only sneak around like this, and experience the feeling of being a human being."

Gu Cheng wondered: "She still gives out red envelopes?"

Chen Hua glanced at Heishan, "I won a little bit in Doudizhu, I will transfer it to her, and she will give out red envelopes."

"If you make progress, you will be able to fight landlords."

Gu Cheng casually sighed, "The witch fights the landlord..." How do you fight? Hold it in your mouth?" He couldn't imagine how Lilith could unfold seventeen cards with two cat paws like a human.

"Hide the dealt cards and spread them out behind the quilt, and throw out one when the cards are dealt."

"You guys are really good."

The four monsters were the only ones left at the New Year's Eve dinner, Lilith wasn't there, Xia Xiaoman wasn't there... Gu Cheng suddenly realized that Zhou Xiaotian's place was quite lively.

Picking up the phone from the sofa, he saw the message sent by Zhou Xiaotian, saying that the cat had gone to her place, and asked him if he gave the cat away or threw it away, and how he found her there.

Gu Cheng replied, took the string into the kitchen, tied Chen Hua's cleaned crabs up again, and stacked them in the pot one by one.

Hei Shan stayed by the door to watch Gu Cheng steam the crabs for a while, then went back to the living room, stared at the other books on the corner of the table, hesitated for a moment, but didn't have the courage to open them.

Zhao Hong took the time to ask Gu Cheng: "Where's Qing'er? Do you want to put incense sticks on her and give her something..."

Chen Hua pricked up his ears to listen, he always felt that the room was cold and gloomy.

Gu Cheng: "I went to her apprentice."

"Her apprentice?" Zhao Hong was taken aback.

"Um……"

Gu Cheng responded, Zhao Hong was still waiting for the next sentence, but he didn't say anything.

Zhao Hong couldn't help asking: "What apprentice? Where did she get her apprentice?"

Gu Cheng paused, facing Zhao Hong's question, he didn't want to speak for a while, and didn't know how to say it.

In fact, she did not die young, but lived to her old age.

She was also in Baicheng last year, and the distance was only half a city. If they walked around Baicheng more, maybe they could see Qing'er still alive in the shops in that old street?
She probably didn't want others to see her old age. It would be better if everyone was old, but they still haven't changed much.

Seeing that Gu Cheng didn't say much, Zhao Hong stopped asking, "Heishan, come here and clean this up."

Montenegro has not been exposed to the Internet for too long, and it is a typical rookie netizen syndrome, just laughing and laughing at the phone when there is nothing to do, more like a big fool.

After the New Year's Eve dinner, Zhao Hong ate melon seeds and watched the Spring Festival Gala, while Chen Hua and Hei Shan were still packing up the leftovers, Chen Hua was clearing away the wine, and Hei Shan was clearing away the meat.

While bragging about his past with Montenegro, he was almost spotted by human beings, how cleverly he disguised himself.

A bunch of fireworks bloomed outside the window, and then went out quickly.

After finishing the meat on the table, Heishan went back to study impatiently. Chen Hua and his wife helped clean up the table and went back to sleep in a slightly fuzzy mood.

Gu Cheng was sitting alone in the living room watching the Spring Festival Gala, and occasionally a New Year greeting message came from his phone.

Xia Xiaoman quietly appeared in the room, took a tribute from the small table and stuffed it into his mouth.

"Why aren't you over there?" Gu Cheng asked.

Xia Xiaoman said sullenly: "Lilith is there."

The witch kept looking at her, giving Xia Xiaoman the illusion that she was redundant.

When she left, Zhou Xiaotian curled up on the sofa, like a cat, and Lilith nestled in Zhou Xiaotian's arms, one person and one cat, the picture was surprisingly harmonious.

Zhou Xiaotian was wearing a large cotton pajamas, with loose hair, watching the Spring Festival Gala quietly, lonely, calm, and alone.

She is only 28 years old, but she looks like she was in her 40s.

"Actually, that cat... would be nice to accompany Xiaotian?" Xia Xiaoman hesitated for a while.

"She's old, and she can't actually do much." Gu Cheng said.

"I see her having fun rubbing against Xiaotian."

"It's just rubbing."

"And... already?" Xia Xiaoman repeated the last two words, squinting at him.

Gu Cheng paused for a while, then changed the topic and said, "To ordinary people, as long as she doesn't reveal her identity, she is just a cat, just ordinary."

"Just like you."

"Well, same as me."

"You exposed."

"You're not ordinary, and you're not human."

(End of this chapter)