The night is thick.

In the second half of the night, it rained again.

Dark clouds obscured the moon, and there was no starlight in the night.

The entire city of Chang'an was plunged into darkness, and occasionally Jin Wuwei, who was patrolling the night, passed by with torches, but then fell into darkness again.

In the distance, on the palace city, there are dots of light, flickering and flickering.

It was the forbidden army that guarded the imperial city, patrolling the city.

The white sand in the hourglass flows silently. Located in the Wuhou shop next to the door, the shopkeeper glanced at the hourglass, picked up a small hammer, and walked out of the door. He raised his hammer and struck the bronze bell hanging under the eaves with a melodious sound.

Bell, bell, bell!

It's two or three o'clock in the day.

Master Mingkong suddenly opened his eyes and started from the meditation bed.

She wore long hair and a moon-white undershirt, outlining her curvaceous figure.

"Xiaoyu, Xiaoyu?"

Mingkong wiped the fine beads of sweat from his forehead, and suddenly found that the black cat sleeping at the end of her bed had gone nowhere. Since the black cat has recovered from its injury, it will run out to play around during the day, and return to the temple at night to sleep with Mingkong.

It was the same last night, how could it be gone?

The black cat is very well-behaved, as long as it comes back, it will accompany Mingkong and never leave.

What's going on today, where did you go?

Mingkong got out of the meditation bed and lit the oil lamp.

There was no sign of the black cat in the house, but the window opened a crack, and it was thought that it had slipped out of the window.

But at such a late hour, where did it slip away?

Are you hungry?

Thinking of this, Mingkong put on his clothes and opened the door.

Meow-

In the darkness of the night, there was a terrible cat meow.

Mingkong was shocked, she could hear it, it was the voice of the black cat.

With an oil lamp in her hand, she walked out of the meditation room and walked in the direction of the cat's meow, calling its name softly as she went.

"Xiaoyu, Xiaoyu?"

But there was no response.

Ming Kong became even more nervous, and walked out along the corridor, and on the steps at the exit of the corridor, there seemed to be something on the ground for her. Hurriedly squatted down and leaned over the oil lamp. At this look, her face suddenly changed greatly, revealing a look of panic.

"Xiaoyu, Xiaoyu!"

There was a small puddle of blood on the ground, and a handful of black cat hair.

Thinking of the scream of the black cat just now, a sense of foreboding came up leisurely.

She hurriedly walked down the steps and walked out of the courtyard along the wet stone path. The rain was getting heavier and heavier, and the oil lamp went out after flashing twice.

Outside the temple, it was dark.

Mingkong walked forward with a deep foot and a shallow foot, and suddenly her feet seemed to have tripped over something, and she fell to the ground with a stumble.

Is it a person?

Mingkong could only vaguely see that it was a man who had fallen to the ground.

She fell to her knees and groped her hands for it. It's soggy and a little sticky, not like rain, but like ...... Blood?

Her heart trembled, as if she had touched a hard object in her hand.

Almost instinctively, she grabbed it in her hand, but at this moment, a black shadow suddenly appeared behind her, followed by Mingkong felt that something had hit the back of the head, and as soon as her eyes were dark, she fell into the muddy water.

"Meow!"

The black cat's bark is very manic.

It sprang at it from a distance, and before it could get close to the open sky, a black shadow appeared out of thin air again.

At this moment, the black cat looks a little miserable.

The wet hair was stained with blood, and one hind leg was limping.

But it didn't seem to feel pain, and with a fierce face, it rose up at the black shadow, and with a meow in its mouth, two sharp blades popped out of the flesh pads of its two front paws, and it pounced on the black shadow fiercely. The blade slashed through the shadow, and with a snap, a wooden doll fell to the ground. It seemed to know that something was wrong, and forced it to turn around in the air.

It was too late, but it was too fast, and two firebirds flew out of the darkness and dispelled the darkness at once.

The water vapor that filled the air quickly gathered towards the black cat.

Immediately after, the black cat opened its mouth and spewed out a water ball, which slammed into a firebird's body.

The firebird, with a wail, splashed and disappeared. It's just that although it eliminated one firebird, there was another firebird, and it slammed into the black cat's body. In an instant, the black cat's waist and ribs were on fire.

It let out a terrible scream, and the ordinary fell to the ground.

The water vapor quickly gathered from all directions, and the flames on the body disappeared with it.

"Hey, you can actually mobilize Shui Yuanqi? I thought you were just an ordinary cat, but I didn't expect you to have such skills. ”

A nice voice came from the darkness.

The black cat roared into the darkness, baring its teeth.

"It's a pity, if you cultivate for another decade or two, I'm really not your opponent.

But now...... It seems like you've just acquired this ability, and you haven't really mastered it yet, so ...... Go to hell! ”

More than a dozen firebirds, flying out of the darkness, pounced on the black cat.

Seeing this, the black cat was also a little panicked.

It glanced at the unconscious clear sky lying in the muddy water, its clothes already stained red with blood, and then let out a terrible roar, turned and ran away. It had injuries on its body, but that didn't affect its speed in the slightest. As it galloped, a cloud of water vapor appeared behind it, and the firebird was disturbed by the water vapor, and the firelight gradually dimmed.

Black cat, disappearing into the mist.

Meow-

Meow-

The sky was bright.

A series of terrible cat meows woke up Liu Niangzi.

She frowned, looked unhappy, and came out of the house in her cloak.

As she walked, she scolded: "Where did the damn cat come from, the barking in the morning is endless, and the spring is not possible?" ”

She pushed open the door and saw a black cat lying on her stomach outside the door.

The black cat looked half-dead, lying on the ground, but still struggling to stand up and screaming at the door.

When the willow lady came out, it immediately stopped screaming.

At the same time, Di Renjie and Hong Liang were also awakened, and walked out of the room one by one sleepily.

"It's ......"

When Di Renjie saw the black cat, he was stunned for a moment, and felt a little familiar.

Liu Niangzi had already recognized the black cat, she hurriedly stepped forward, squatted down, and said loudly: "Ami, light the lamp." ”

As soon as the words came out, she remembered that Ami was not at home.

However, Di Renjie reacted quickly, he turned around and went back to the house, and soon came over with an oil lamp.

"Big lady, do you recognize it?"

"This is Master Mingkong's cat, I saw her hold it...... Yo Yo Yo, how did this little poor guy do it, he was injured. ”

Liu Niangzi said, carefully picking up the black cat.

The black cat didn't struggle, let Liu Niangzi hold it, and her little body trembled.

The injuries on its body were indeed not light, there were knife wounds, there were burns.

Liu Niangzi took a box out of the inner room and carefully treated its injuries.

"In the past, Ami was naughty and often came back with a single injury, so I was prepared here.

Later, when his father left, he became much more stable. Later, he became a bad person......"

Liu Niangzi was nagging while treating the black cat's injuries.

The black cat was lying on the table, letting Liu Niangzi treat it, and the mouth was still meowing, and the voice was weak, but it was very urgent.

"Big lady, does he want to speak?"

"Neurotic, it's a cat, not a person, what to say."

"No, you see it's always looking at you, screaming...... Moreover, since it was the cat of the Bright Sky Mage, how could it be so seriously injured? What happened on this big night? It doesn't go to the mage, so why does it come to us? ”

Liu Niangzi's hand trembled suddenly.

She raised her head suddenly, looked at Di Renjie and said, "You mean, it's here to ask for help?" ”

"I don't know!"

Di Renjie stood up and said, "The mage is kind-hearted, if he sees it so badly injured, he will never let it go." Here, it's just across the river from the mage. It came to us...... Big lady, I'm afraid that something has happened to the mage. ”

Mrs. Liu, gasped.

She looked at Di Renjie and didn't say a word.

Di Renjie reacted instantly, turned around and walked out.

"Where is Lang Jun going?"

"I'll go to the temple and have a look."

"It's early in the morning, the temple is not open, how can you get in?"

"Leave it alone, I have a way. You are here to help the eldest lady take care of the cat, and I will go back as soon as I go. ”

Di Renjie ran out like a gust of wind.

He went back to the house to change his clothes, and then hurried away.

Liu Niangzi sighed and gently stroked the black cat's head, "Don't be afraid, little pity, it'll be fine in a while." ”

As she spoke, she used tweezers to poke into the muscles of the black cat's hind legs.

A steel needle, about three centimeters long, was slowly pulled out.

The black cat meowed, and its voice was no longer severe. Its head rested on one of Liu Niangzi's hands, and it looked at Liu Niangzi with a pair of dark green eyes.

"That's it!"

Liu Niangzi pulled out the steel needle and threw it on the plate next to her.

She opened the box and took out a bottle of potion from it, "At the beginning, Ami's father was a bad person, and he would be injured from time to time. My craft was taught by his father. You look at the potion, it was prepared by his father before his death, and it is said that it can build muscle and invigorate blood.

Well, this ointment is used to treat burns.

Poor little one, don't move, just wipe it on. ”

Her mouth was nagging, but her hands were extraordinarily gentle.

Hong Liang watched from the side and couldn't help but praise: "Big lady, these medicines look really good." ”

"Of course...... Back then, Amitabha's father relied on these medicines, and he escaped death several times. ”

"Why don't you sell such a good medicine?"

"Sell?"

Liu Niangzi raised her head, looked at Hong Liang, and showed a sneer.

"Hong Liang, do you really not understand, or do you pretend not to understand?"

"What do you mean?"

"Are these things something that our small family can have?

I can make it, but once it sells well, will the big families in Chang'an City let me go? Even if I hand over the formula, they won't let us mother and son go for the sake of secrecy. Don't you understand this truth? ”

Loud, silent!

In this society, big fish eat small fish, small fish eat dried shrimp, dried shrimp......

Liu Niangzi, they are the little shrimp living in this society.

Some small things can be leveled down by relying on Su Dawei's identity as a bad person, but if things are big, Su Dawei is nothing at all. In this Chang'an City, there are more powerful people, and if they want a formula, the best way is to grab it, and then kill people. In this way, the recipe became his ancestral secret recipe.

"I was reckless!"

Hong Liang apologized.

At this time, Mrs. Liu also bandaged the black cat properly.

Outside, there was a rush of footsteps, followed by the door being slammed open.

Di Renjie came in panting, looked at Liu Niangzi and said, "Big lady, Master Mingkong killed someone last night and was arrested!" ”