Author: hoenimochi (Page 68 of 95)

       As he carried Li Zhenran away from the zoo, Li Zhenruo felt a little helpless.

       The phone in his pocket rang. It was Li Zhenran’s phone, which he always carried with him.

       When he answered the call, Li Zhenruo found out that the call was from Li Zhenzi. The other party was a little puzzled and asked, “Why are you answering the call? Where is my second brother?”

       Li Zhenruo said, “He’s taking a nap. I’ll relay it to him.”

       A passing car honked its horn.

       Li Zhen was silent for a moment and asked, “He took a nap on the street?”

       Li Zhenruo lied without changing his face, “I came out to buy something for him and took out his phone. What do you have to say? I’m not going to kill him.”

       Li Zhenzi finally said, “Nothing. You guys are not coming back these days?”

       Li Zhenruo hesitated a bit this time, “I won’t be back for a while. Please tell it to Uncle Li for me.”

       “Okay,” Li Zhenzi replied, then hung up the phone.

       After hanging up the phone, Li Zhenruo also felt that it would be impossible to hide from the people of the Li family sooner or later. What if they really thought he had murdered Li Zhenran for money?

       He glanced down at Li Zhenran with some distress and found that Li Zhenran was staring straight ahead as if in a daze.

       They said goodbye to Song Jun at the zoo entrance and arranged to meet at the amusement park at twelve o’clock in the evening.

       When Song Jun left, Li Zhenruo carried Li Zhenran and sat down on the side of the road, sighed and asked him, “Where are you going?”

       Li Zhenran refused to speak and just sat quietly on his lap.

       The cold wind of the first month was blowing head-on, and Li Zhenruo couldn’t help shrinking his neck. Soon he saw that Li Zhenran also shrank his neck and silently lay down on his lap, with his two paws under his stomach.

       A little girl was standing by the road not far from them, looking around. The girl was alone and did not see her parents nearby.

       Li Zhenruo noticed that Li Zhenran looked in that direction first, so he also looked over and noticed the little girl.

       The little girl stood blankly for a while, and then suddenly, she was about to run towards the road without the zebra crossing.

       A bus was heading in this direction. When Li Zhenruo was about to stop the little girl, Li Zhenran suddenly rushed out of his arms, ran to the little girl at a high speed, and bit her pants.

       The little girl stopped and looked down at him, and the bus drove past them.

       Li Zhenruo’s heart was pounding, and she ran over to pick up the little girl and walked to the side of the road, saying, “It’s too dangerous, little miss. Where are your parents?”

       When the little girl was picked up by him, he reached out and grabbed Li Zhenran’s leg, so Li Zhenran was also lifted up by her and swayed and fell beside Li Zhenruo’s leg.

       Li Zhenruo walked next to the flowerbed and put the little girl down, only to notice Li Zhenran, who was dragged like a dead. He was startled and squatted down to smooth Li Zhenran’s hair while saying to the little girl, “Little miss, can you let him go first?”

       The little girl let go and said, “Cat.”

       Li Zhenruo combed Li Zhenran’s fur carefully and said with a sigh of relief, “Yes, cat. Where are your parents, little miss?”

       The little girl shook her head.

       Li Zhenran shook off the hair on his body, slowly stepped aside, sat down and licked his forelimbs, where he was caught and lifted just now.

       Li Zhenruo was still trying to talk to the little girl, but the little girl seemed to be frightened, and she started crying after she said a few more words.

       Li Zhenran looked toward them.

       Li Zhenruo waved to him.

       Li Zhenran turned his head indifferently and after a while, slowly and reluctantly walked towards him.

       Li Zhenruo picked him up and handed it to the little girl, “Here’s the kitty.”

       The little girl reached out and placed it on her lap, touching the top of Li Zhenran’s head.

       Li Zhenruo rummaged through her clothes pockets to see if he could find any information, but there was nothing in the little girl’s clothes pockets. He had no choice but to say, “Let’s wait here. If your parents don’t come back for you, we’ll have to send you to the nearby police station, okay?”

       The little girl didn’t speak. She lowered her head and focused on touching Li Zhenran’s head.

       She didn’t quite grasp the strength, and Li Zhenran had to close his eyes subconsciously when she pressed her palm down on him.

       After waiting for a while, sure enough, an old lady was called in. It was a grandmother who came to the zoo with her granddaughter. As a result, when she left the venue, there were too many people, and the little girl was lost. She searched everywhere and couldn’t find her.

       Li Zhenruo returned the little girl to the old lady, and the other party thanked him one after another with snot and tears.

       “You’re welcome, be careful next time,” Li Zhenruo said, waving to the little girl.

       The little girl pointed at Li Zhenran on the ground, “Cat!”

       Li Zhenran turned his head and didn’t look at her.

       Li Zhenruo smiled at her, “Bye-bye.”

       When the old lady left with the little girl in her arms, Li Zhenruo suddenly bent down and picked up Li Zhenran and threw him into the sky.

       Li Zhenran’s eyes widened instantly until he fell back into Li Zhenruo’s arms, stretched out his claws and grasped Li Zhenruo’s arm tightly. Li Zhenruo couldn’t throw him again if he wanted to.

       Li Zhenruo was in a good mood, hummed a song and carried Li Zhenran into the car.

       Li Zhenran’s whole cat was dizzy. He hadn’t been picked up and thrown away for many years. His heart was beating non-stop, and his paws were tightly clasping Li Zhenruo’s arm, and he never let go.

       Li Zhenruo didn’t notice it at first; he drove the car and stepped on the brake in front of the red light at the intersection. Li Zhenran suddenly stretched out his claws and grabbed his arm. When he saw that Li Zhenran was still expressionless and even ferocious, but he looked down at the grabbed arm and felt something different.

       Back home, Li Zhenran walked in front and just jumped on the sofa. Li Zhenruo jumped on him, held him down, and asked, “Are you shy or nervous just now?”

       Li Zhenran swept over with cold eyes.

       Of course, Li Zhenruo was not afraid of him and instantly turned into a cat to hold him down and start licking his ears.

       Li Zhenran struggled to lie on his back on the sofa, stretched out his paws to push and refused for a long time and failed, so he turned over and pressed Li Zhenruo under him and stepped on his big cake face with a paw.

       Li Zhenruo was not angry but happily bit Li Zhenran’s paw.

       Li Zhenran simply stepped on Li Zhenruo for a while.

       Li Zhenruo couldn’t take it anymore and struggled to turn over and tried to crawl forward, but Li Zhenran’s whole body was pressed up, and he lowered his head and bit his neck to prevent him from running.

       Li Zhenruo was stunned. This posture was not—he gave up the struggle, put his big face under his paws, and obediently lay down and raised his tail, “o(≧w≦)o meow——”

       Li Zhenran also realised that the posture was wrong. He let go of Li Zhenruo and took two steps back, and kicked him off the sofa mercilessly.

       …

       Before twelve o’clock in the evening, Li Zhenruo drove Li Zhenran to the amusement park.

       When he was kicked off the sofa by Li Zhenran, he hit his butt in the air and landed on the ground, and his butt was still sore.

       The amusement park was the same as last night. It was dark from the outside, but after entered, they found that all the amusement facilities were open, but there were not as many guests as last night. It was empty all the way in, and only the music of the rides sounded joyfully. However, the atmosphere seemed a little weird.

       Li Zhenruo rubbed his butt when he got out of the car. He was a little angry, so he opened the passenger door and didn’t reach out to carry Li Zhenran.

       Li Zhenran jumped out of the car by himself, looked up at him, and hesitated.

       Li Zhenruo had already closed the car door and walked toward the amusement park.

       Li Zhenran sighed slowly and walked inside, following his feet. They didn’t get to the carousel until they saw Xia Hongshen sitting on the turntable with his back to the carousel and playing with his mobile phone.

       Li Zhenruo didn’t understand why Xia Hongshen liked the merry-go-round so much, so he stood outside and shouted, “Master!”

       Xia Hongshen looked up at him.

       “Ah—” Li Zhenruo suddenly heard someone shouting at this moment and turned around to see the giant panda running in their direction, apparently aiming at Li Zhenran.

       Even when he was angry with Li Zhenran, Li Zhenruo was reluctant to give him away to the giant panda. When Li Zhenran stepped forward to stop him, Li Zhenran had already jumped on his shoulder.

       The giant panda ran over, stopped before Li Zhenruo, and scratched his head shyly, “You guys are here.”

       Li Zhenruo looked at him and asked a curious question, “Why are you allowed to come out at night?”

       The panda said, “Oh, I’m off work.”

       Li Zhenruo complained silently in his heart: So you were just working at the zoo.

       The giant panda looked at Li Zhenran on Li Zhenruo’s shoulder and said, “I thought about it later. After I got the pill last night, I opened the box and touched it.”

       “You touched it?” Li Zhenruo’s head was a little confused. He felt it had something to do with giant pandas, but he didn’t know what it was.

       The panda said, “Yes, I have touched it. Have you touched it too?”

       Li Zhenruo took out the medicinal pill and fed it to Li Zhenran’s mouth. Of course, he had touched it. Could it be related to this?

       The giant panda pointed at Li Zhenran, “Look, he is a black and white Garfield.”

       Li Zhenran, who became the focus of attention, very calmly grasped Li Zhenruo’s shoulder with his claws.

       At this time, Xia Hongshen jumped off the turntable and said to them, “I invited Master Yunshen of Hongyin Temple. He has researched alchemy and drawing talisman. Just ask him tonight.”

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       Li Zhenran was very unhappy that Li Zhenruo carried him out the door, but unfortunately, he had no better and more convenient way, and finally let Li Zhenruo carry him into the car.

       While starting the car, Li Zhenruo put on a Bluetooth headset and called Song Jun, and the two made an appointment to meet at the zoo’s gate.

       There was an event at the zoo early morning on the first day of the New Year. In the morning, the residents nearby took their children to the zoo to participate in the events. It was over before noon, and the park was closed in the afternoon.

       It was already noon when Li Zhenruo and the others arrived, and they only saw two or three people coming out of the zoo, but almost no one went in. Sure enough, Li Zhenruo and Song Jun were stopped by the staff shortly after entering, saying that the event was over and the zoo was preparing to close and asked them to leave.

       Song Jun pulled the staff member and whispered a few words, and the staff member turned to look at Li Zhenruo, then turned and left.

       Li Zhenruo was a little puzzled, “Is your sphere of influence so big?” It seemed like any random person he met on the road could be a demon.

       Song Jun said, “It’s not that big, but it’s more than you can imagine. Let’s go.”

       He took Li Zhenruo to the giant panda house.

       Li Zhenran stayed quietly in Li Zhenruo’s arms with a serious expression.

       The giant panda pavilion in the zoo was renovated last year. The whole panda pavilion was clean, and the glass was polished and transparent.

       Li Zhenruo followed behind Song Jun, leaned against the glass and looked inside, and saw three giant pandas inside; one was lying on the rockery, the other was lying down and sleeping, and the other was sitting and nibbling on bamboo.

       Li Zhenruo found that he couldn’t tell which one was the giant panda last night.

       In the end, the giant panda sitting and nibbling on the bamboo was the first to notice them, and when he raised his head to look at them, he was suddenly stunned, his mouth opened, and the bamboo in his mouth fell.

       Li Zhenruo asked Song Jun, “Is it him?”

       Song Jun also pressed himself against the glass and nodded, “En,” before waving to the panda.

       Li Zhenran also straightened up slightly and looked inside.

       The giant pandas were still stunned, looking at them with open mouths.

       Li Zhenruo asked strangely, “What happened to him?”

       Song Jun obviously didn’t understand either, so he raised his hand and knocked on the glass.

       The giant panda who had been sleeping was awakened by his knock and lazily raised its head to look at them before falling back to sleep again.

       The other giant panda, who was dazed in place, finally moved. It took another bite of the bamboo, patted its chest with his paws, and slowly crawled in their direction.

       Song Jun seemed to have a good relationship with the giant panda. He pressed against the glass and said, “I brought that round-faced cat to see you.”

       Li Zhenruo gave Song Jun a dissatisfied look.

       The giant panda didn’t seem to hear it. He climbed to the front of the glass, stood up against the glass, patted his front paws on the glass, and stared intently in Li Zhenruo’s direction. However, he was not looking at Li Zhenruo but at Li Zhenran in his arms.

       Li Zhenran was inexplicable and tilted his head slightly.

       The giant panda wiped the glass with its paws, looked at Li Zhenran seriously for a while, and suddenly covered its chest with both paws and fell backwards.

       Song Jun and Li Zhenruo were both startled, and Li Zhenran’s eyes widened.

       After the giant panda lay down on the ground, it kept covering its chest and started rolling from side to side, making a “woo woo” sound from its mouth.

       Song Jun patted the glass nervously, “Giant panda?”

       The giant panda rolled for a while and finally stopped. He flexibly rolled over from the ground, lay down in front of the glass, pointed at Li Zhenran and said, “Give him to me.”

       Li Zhenruo hugged Li Zhenran, moved back more than ten steps in a row and looked at the giant panda warily.

       Song Jun was confused, “What’s with that?”

       The panda said, “It’s real this time. It’s love at first sight.”

       “Huh?” Song Jun looked surprised, then suddenly realised, turned his head to look at Li Zhenran in Li Zhenruo’s arms.

       Li Zhenran’s face seemed to darken even more. He breathed heavily and was suppressing his anger.

       Li Zhenruo hugged Li Zhenran tightly and said, “Don’t you come over. I won’t give it to you.”

       The giant panda patted the glass, and he seemed a little dazed, “Isn’t this cat the one from last night?”

       Song Jun pointed at Li Zhenruo, “Sober up. The one holding the cat was the cat last night. Didn’t you fall in love with him at first sight?”

       The giant panda scratched his head in distress, “I was originally, but this black and white one was made just like the lover of my dreams.”

       Li Zhenruo heard the words and said, “Don’t even think about it!”

       “Huh?” The giant panda grimaced.

       Song Jun said in a low voice, “I told you last night that Garfield is my master’s apprentice. The Garfield he holds is his lover, so you should give up.”

       When the giant panda heard Song Jun’s words, his disappointment was immediately written on his face, “Why is this…”

       Song Jun comforted him, “Your species is different. You should stop thinking about it, and just find a giant panda at ease.”

       Although he said that, the giant panda didn’t seem to give up altogether. He kept staring at Li Zhenran, and after a while, he asked Li Zhenruo strangely, “Why do you want to be with a cat exactly like you?”

       Li Zhenruo suddenly burst out, “You still ask me! He just ate the medicine pill you gave me last night and became like this. He is a person! Not a cat!”

       Song Jun put his index finger to his lips, “Shh—don’t attract the staff’s attention!”

       The giant panda opened its mouth in wonder, “Huh?”

       Later, Song Jun also said, “That black and white Garfield, whose name is Li Zhenran, was originally a person, but he ate the elixir you gave to Zhenruo last night, and he became like this.”

       The giant panda stretched out his claws and scratched his butt, “Isn’t that an elixir to improve cultivation?”

       Song Jun shook his head, “It doesn’t seem that simple.”

       The giant panda was stunned, “I don’t know. I bought it at an auction, and I thought it was an elixir to improve one’s cultivation.”

       Song Jun looked at him suspiciously, “You really don’t know?”

       The panda was a little aggrieved, “Chunjun, you suspect me.”

       Song Jun asked him, “Then how do you explain why he turned into this colour?”

       The giant panda scratched his chin, “Yeah, that’s weird.”

       Li Zhenruo put Li Zhenran on the ground and said to him, “You are not allowed to go there!” Then he walked to the glass and asked the panda, “Why did you give me that elixir?”

       The giant panda calmly said, “I like you.”

       Li Zhenruo said, “You change your heart so fast. Your love is worthless.”

       The giant panda was hit hard and looked at Li Zhenruo with wide eyes.

       When he looked at the panda’s reaction, Li Zhenruo also felt that his words were too harsh, but no matter what, he had to dispel the panda’s idea of ​​Li Zhenran as soon as possible, so he said, “We are trying to find a way to change my second brother back to his original form. He was not a cat at all. He looks like a cat exactly like me, but the fur is black and white, so we wondered if it had something to do with you.”

       The giant panda said aggrievedly, “It has nothing to do with me.”

       Li Zhenruo said, “Then do you have a way to make him return to the original?”

       The giant panda looked in the direction of Li Zhenran.

       Li Zhenruo blocked his sight so that he could not see it.

       The panda said, “Let me see it.”

       Song Jun asked him at this time, “You don’t have a solution, do you?”

       The panda looked down at Song Jun and admitted, “I don’t even know what’s going on. Of course, I had no solution.”

       Although he knew it was likely that the giant panda had nothing to do with it, Li Zhenruo still couldn’t help but be a little disappointed.

       “Hey!” The giant panda stopped him, “I can’t go out now. Let’s go to the amusement park tonight. I’ll study what’s going on. After listening to you guys, I also think it has something to do with me.”

       Li Zhenruo looked at him suspiciously, “You won’t have any thoughts on my second brother, will you?”

       The giant panda lowered his head, “Um—” after thinking for a while, he raised his head and said to him, “I don’t like him anymore when he becomes a human.”

       Li Zhenruo warned him, “You are not allowed to change your mind even if he can’t become a human!”

       The giant panda pouted and poked his fingers on the glass. He didn’t answer Li Zhenruo for a long time and finally raised his head reluctantly and said, “Let’s talk about it at night.”

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       Xia Hongshen made a phone call and hung up after a couple of brief explanations.

       Song Jun approached and asked him, “Is it Master Yun Po?”

       Xia Hongshen replied “En” and turned his head to see that Li Zhenruo was still scratching the cat, and suddenly felt that his back seemed to be itching as well.

       “Master?” Li Zhenruo picked up the funny cat stick beside the bed and didn’t ask where it came from. He shook in front of Li Zhenran and asked Xia Hongshen, “When will your friend arrive?”

       Li Zhenran turned his head and closed his eyes.

       Xia Hongshen watched the funny cat stick dangling in front of his eyes and said casually, “It can be as soon as a day or two or a month or two later.”

       “Ah?” Li Zhenruo stopped, “Then what should we do?”

       Xia Hongshen said, “What can we do?”

       Li Zhenruo combed Li Zhenran’s hair with her fingers, “Does that friend of yours have a solution?”

       Xia Hongshen said, “If you give enough money, there is usually a way.”

       Li Zhenruo couldn’t help sighing, “If it’s just about money, that’s the best solution.”

       After speaking, he couldn’t help burying his face on Li Zhenran’s back again and then giggled twice.

       It was useless to delay time here in Xia Hongshen, but Li Zhenran definitely had no way to return to Li’s house like this. Li Zhenruo considered whether to take him out for a walk or go back to Li Zhenran’s apartment to live in the world of two cats.

       Before he made up his mind, Li Zhenruo heard the sound of the closing and locking of a car from downstairs. He carried Li Zhenran and walked to the window to have a look. He saw his boss’ Hummer parked on the roadside. Luo Fei and Feng Junyuan were walking toward the small building.

       Today was the first day of the New Year, and Li Zhenruo suddenly felt it was like Luo Fei was accompanying his wife back to her mother’s house.

       Suddenly, Li Zhenruo felt Li Zhenran pulling him in his arms.

       He lowered his head and saw that Li Zhenran was looking up at him, his eyes were dark and translucent, and after a while, he reluctantly made a “meow”. This was the first sound of Li Zhenran’s meow after he became a cat. Li Zhenruo understood it; Li Zhenran told him to go.

       “Let’s go?” Li Zhenruo was a little unsure, but he quickly realised that Li Zhenran probably didn’t want to be seen by Luo Fei.

       He then carried Li Zhenran and said to Xia Hongshen, “Master, I’ll go first. Let me know if there is any news.”

       Xia Hongshen didn’t mean to stop them and waved his hand to let him go. Li Zhenruo was thinking about sending a can of canned food to Xia Hongshen first. If he liked it and he hurried up, he would then bring him the rest of the canned food.

       Just as he walked out of Xia Hongshen’s room with Li Zhenran in his arms, he met Luo Fei and Feng Junyuan who were approaching.

       When Feng Junyuan saw that he was carrying a cat, he asked him curiously, “Where did the cat come from?”

       “Oh,” Li Zhenruo said with a smile, “My friend’s cat.”

       Feng Junyuan saw that he was going to leave, “Are you leaving?”

       Li Zhenruo replied, “I come to say New Year’s greetings to Master and leave after I’m done.”

       However, as soon as he finished saying that, Luo Fei suddenly said, “Wait.”

       Li Zhenran raised his head from Li Zhenruo’s arms and looked at Luo Fei vigilantly. Luo Fei looked at Li Zhenran repeatedly for a moment, and said to Li Zhenruo, “This cat looks very much like you.”

       Li Zhenruo replied casually, “All Garfield looks the same.”

       Luo Fei frowned slightly, but in the end, he didn’t say anything. He only said to Li Zhenruo, “Say hello to Zhenran for me and wish him a happy new year.”

       Li Zhenruo said, “Thank you, and I wish you a happy new year, boss.”

       When Li Zhenruo left with the cat in his arms, Feng Junyuan saw Luo Fei’s thoughtful look and asked, “What are you thinking about?”

       Luo Fei shook his head and said, “There’s something familiar about that cat’s scent.”

       Feng Junyuan’s face turned red suspiciously, and said, “It’s so cute, I want to touch it.”

       Luo Fei said with a smile, “If you want to touch it, then touch it.”

       Feng Junyuan shook his head, “When I was about to reach out, the cat was unhappy when I saw it.”

       Luo Fei said with a smile, “Its temper not bad for a small one.”

       Li Zhenruo came out of the small building with Li Zhenran in his arms and thought with a sigh of relief that fortunately, Luo Fei didn’t see him. Otherwise, Li Zhenran would definitely be angry.

       He opened the driver’s door, put Li Zhenran in the passenger seat, and asked with a sigh, “What now?”

       Li Zhenran stared coldly ahead.

       Li Zhenruo knew he was still unhappy, so he could only say, “It’s useless for you to be upset. I didn’t mean to. I thought that was really an elixir of immortality and wanted you to live longer…”

       Li Zhenran finally turned to look at him.

       Li Zhenruo said, “I will try my best to find a way; you won’t be like this forever. Even if it is the elixir of Taishang Laojun, it is impossible to turn a person into a cat directly, right? It’s faster than reincarnation.”

       At this time, Li Zhenran finally reluctantly made a “meow”.

       Li Zhenruo asked him, “Let’s go home?”

       Li Zhenran nodded.

       There was no way for them to return to the Li family. The apartment in the city was being cleaned all the time, and there was no problem going there at any time.

       Back at home, Li Zhenruo put Li Zhenran on the ground and went over to open the window for ventilation.

       Li Zhenran turned on the TV with his paw and then jumped to the coffee table to press the remote control. Li Zhenruo opened the window and came back to see that he was having a hard time pressing it, so he walked over and bent down and picked up the remote control to help him press it.

       As a result, he looked down and saw Li Zhenran staring at him coldly, silently put the remote control back under his paws, and couldn’t help but whisper, “How come you’ve turned into a cat and gotten grumpy?”

       Li Zhenran pressed the remote control with his paw to change channels.

       Li Zhenruo sat on the sofa and reached out and poked Li Zhenran’s tail, but Li Zhenran immediately swung his tail to the other side.

       “Second brother…” Li Zhenruo called him.

       Li Zhenran pretended not to hear it.

       Li Zhenruo knew that Li Zhenran would not pay attention to him. The most important thing at this time was to have thick skin, so he turned into a cat and jumped on the coffee table, sitting right next to Li Zhenran who was watching TV. After a while, he stretched out his paws and pulled him.

       Li Zhenran moved away a bit.

       Li Zhenruo stretched out his tail slowly and hooked his tail in a circle.

       Li Zhenran pulled his tail out calmly.

       Unwilling to give up, Li Zhenruo stretched out his tail again, hooked the tip of his tail, and then moved his butt over to sit next to him.

       This time, Li Zhenran raised his paw and pressed his head to push him away.

       “Meow~” Li Zhenruo began to call her brother pitifully.

       However, Li Zhenran ignored him.

       He raised his claws and scratched his head, and Li Zhenruo felt he had to do something to attract Li Zhenran’s attention. He was a little confused about this and finally went to Li Zhenran and lay down and raised his tail.

       Li Zhenran looked at the hairy buttocks in front of him and the small hole in the middle and couldn’t help raising one leg and kicking it.

       Li Zhenruo was kicked forward by him and almost fell off the coffee table. When he turned his head and was about to get angry, he heard his mobile phone ringing, so he ignored Li Zhenran’s side and turned into a human form to answer the phone.

       The call was from Song Jun. When he saw the name, Li Zhenruo thought Xia Hongshen’s friend had arrived. However, when the call was answered, Song Jun asked if he wanted to go to the zoo.

       “Zoo?” Li Zhenruo was inexplicable. He sat on the ground next to the coffee table and stretched out his fingers to tease Li Zhenran.

       Li Zhenran turned his head coldly.

       Song Jun said, “The giant panda asked Luo Fei to send tickets, saying that the zoo has activities and inviting us to play.”

       Li Zhenruo asked him strangely, “Are you and the giant panda very close?”

       Song Jun replied, “Not bad, but he seems to want to meet you.”

       Li Zhenruo said, “See me? Why did he want to see me?”

       Song Jun said, “It seems he knows about the elixir, and he felt a little sorry. He said he want to see if he could be of any help.”

       Li Zhenruo reached out and grabbed Li Zhenran’s tail and wagged it. He pondered and asked, “The giant panda is very powerful, isn’t it?”

       Song Jun thought for a while, “How can I put it? He should have a good background, after all, he is a national treasure, but I don’t know to what extent. Of course, if he is rich, he should not be as rich as his senior brother. “

       Li Zhenruo hesitated for a moment and felt that he should go see the giant panda. The matter of why the giant panda gave him this thing and why Li Zhenran turned black and white, he should ask clearly.

       He asked Song Jun, “Are you going?”

       Song Jun said, “Senior Brother Xia doesn’t want to go, but if you need it, I can accompany you.”

       Li Zhenruo said quickly, “Come with me. I’m not familiar with giant pandas.”

       Song Jun agreed, “Okay.”

       He hung up the phone, and Li Zhenruo squatted in front of Li Zhenran, “Come on, let’s go see the giant panda.”

       Li Zhenran looked at him this time and made a soft “meow”.

       Li Zhenruo said, “I’ve got nothing to do with him…”

       Li Zhenran obviously didn’t believe it, and he asked Li Zhenruo: Does he like you?

       Li Zhenruo shook his head, “We’ve only met once.”

       Love at first sight?

       “He’s a giant panda, right? The species are different.”

       What does he mean by giving you something?

       Li Zhenruo reached out and grabbed his beard and pulled it, and Li Zhenran almost bit him.

       “I just didn’t understand what he meant by giving me something, so I wanted to find out. I’m bringing you with me; why are you jealous.”

       After speaking, Li Zhenruo stretched a hand to Li Zhenran, “Let’s go?”

       Li Zhenran looked at him for a moment, then slowly raised a paw and placed it on his palm.

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       Li Zhenruo was terrified because of his own thoughts, and the anger on Garfield’s face became more and more obvious.

       At this time, Li Zhenruo’s cell phone suddenly rang, he reached out to answer it and saw that it was a call from Song Jun.

       When the call was connected, Song Jun said to Li Zhenruo, “Happy New Year!”

       Li Zhenruo believed that Song Jun was definitely not calling early in the morning to pay respect for the New Year, but still said, “Happy New Year, what’s up so early?”

       Song Jun said, “Oh, I found the giant panda after you left last night and asked him why he gave you something. Guess what he said?”

       Li Zhenruo is actually not too in the mood to chat with Song Jun now, but she still asks, “What?”

       There was a smile in Song Jun’s tone, “He said he likes you.”

       “He likes me?” Li Zhenruo exclaimed in surprise.

       After he finished speaking, he felt the Garfield raise a paw on his waist, turned his head to see that the other party’s face had fallen down, and suddenly lowered his voice and said, “What does he like about me? We are of different species.”

       Song Jun seemed to be in a good mood, “He said that he had never seen a cat with such a round face, like a silver plate with a full moon, radiant.”

       Li Zhenruo raised his hand to cover his face, “I am thankful for his words…..”

       Song Jun’s voice over there holding in laughter was obvious, “So he said that he seemed to fall in love with you at first sight, but he wasn’t sure, after all, he still prefers pandas, and the things from last night were given to you as a gift, so you don’t have to be too concerned.”

       Li Zhenruo moved his mouth and found that he didn’t know what to say.

       Song Jun continued, “You really don’t need to worry too much, that little money is nothing to a giant panda, not to mention he has such a rich senior brother.”

       “Senior brother?” Li Zhenruo was distracted.

       Song Jun said, “You don’t know he is Luo Fei’s junior brother? Aren’t you working with Luo Fei?”

       Li Zhenruo was stunned, “I’ve never heard of this. Could it be that Luo Fei is also a giant panda?”

       Song Jun denied it, “He’s not. I haven’t seen Luo Fei’s real body, so I don’t know what he is.”

       “Anyway,” Li Zhenruo wanted to tell Song Jun about feeding his second brother the elixir last night, but Song Jun also said at the same time, “Anyway, I’m calling to tell you something.”

       So Li Zhenruo had to ask, “What’s the matter?”

       Song Jun’s tone was a little more serious, “Don’t take that elixir from last night just yet.”

       “Ah?” Li Zhenruo became nervous, straightened his back and knelt on the bed, “Is there a problem?”

       Song Jun said, “The auction ended last night, and Senior Brother Xia caught the person who brought the elixir to the auction. He admitted that this is not an elixir to improve cultivation at all.”

       Li Zhenruo hurriedly asked, “Then what is it? Will there be a problem with eating it?”

       Song Jun said to him, “I don’t know yet. It is said that the medicinal pill was indeed leaked from Taishang Laojun’s pill furnace, but the specific function is unknown for the time being. Senior brother said you had better bring it to let him find someone to look at.”

       “Ah—” Li Zhenruo exclaimed.

       Song Jun was taken aback, “What’s wrong?”

       Li Zhenruo turned her head and stared at Garfield lying beside the pillow, “It’s too late!”

       Song Jun couldn’t help but hurriedly ask, “Did you eat it? Did something happen?”

       Li Zhenruo swallowed hard, “I gave it to my second brother, and then—he seems to have turned into a cat…”

       The Garfield by the pillow looked at him coldly.

       Song Jun was silent for a moment, unable to hold back the “wow”, then took off his phone and seemed to say something to the person next to him.

       Li Zhenruo asked impatiently, “What should I do?”

       After a while, Song Jun answered him from the other side of the phone, “Are you serious?”

       Li Zhenruo said, “Of course I’m serious!”

       Song Jun said, “Then you’d better bring your second brother here, maybe Senior Brother Xia has a solution.”

       Li Zhenruo could only answer, “Okay, I’ll be right here.”

       He hung up the phone, and Li Zhenruo timidly looked at his second brother.

       Most of the Garfield’s face was black as if it was used to brush the bottom of a pot, and his expression was extremely difficult to see.

       Li Zhenruo cautiously and tentatively called out, “Li Zhenran?”

       Garfield frowned slightly.

       In the cold winter, the doors and windows were closed. It was impossible for a wild cat to get in from the outside, and his second brother wouldn’t get up and go out so quietly and still hadn’t come back. If he looked at the door of the room, wasn’t it still locked at this time?

       Although the Garfield’s expression couldn’t be as rich as that of a human being, his second brother’s expression was not rich at all, and that frowning expression was clearly an expression of trying his best to endure.

       Li Zhenruo rushed towards him at once, “Second brother?”

       Li Zhenran nimbly dodged and ran to the end of the bed.

       Li Zhenruo didn’t give up and rushed over again, this time pressing Li Zhenran on the bed, but when his head was approaching, Li Zhenran raised a paw against his forehead, preventing him from getting close.

       But how does a cat’s strength compare to that of a human being? Li Zhenruo buried his face in Li Zhenran’s belly and rubbed it back and forth.

       Ah, so soft and warm!

       In the middle of the rub, Li Zhenruo also turned back into a cat, pressing Li Zhenran under him with force, hugging his neck with his paws, and licking his chin back and forth.

       Li Zhenran pulled him away and just wanted to get out of bed when Li Zhenruo rushed over and hugged him again.

       Although it was a little mean, Li Zhenruo thought that Li Zhenran was so cute, help!

       Li Zhenran disappeared early in the morning on the first day of the New Year, and Li Zhenruo still didn’t know how to explain it to the Li family.

       He found a sports shoulder bag from the cabinet in Li Zhenran’s room, stuffed Li Zhenran in it, and opened the door to go out.

       When he went down from the third floor to the second floor, Li Zhenruo met Li Zhenzi who had just come out of the room.

       Li Zhenzi’s hair was still dishevelled. He was wearing slippers, had sleepy eyes, and said to him, “Morning, Happy New Year.”

       Li Zhenruo lifted the backpack strap, nodded and said, “Morning.”

       Li Zhenzi saw that he had even put on his coat, so he asked, “Are you going out so early on the first day of the New Year?”

       Li Zhenruo didn’t want to say more, just “Um.”

       Li Zhenzi followed him downstairs, always felt that he was a little weird, and asked, “Where’s my second brother?”

       Li Zhenruo said, “He has already gone out.”

       Li Zhen stood on the last stairway and stopped, “So early?”

       Li Zhenruo replied, “En, he was still waiting for me. If there is a delay outside, he might not be back in the next two days. Please tell Uncle Li for me.”

       Li Zhenzi looked at him strangely, “If it wasn’t so long ago, I would have suspected that you had killed my second brother and split up with him.”

       Li Zhenruo turned his head and gave him a blank look. Without saying anything, he walked to the entrance hall to change his shoes.

       On the first day of the New Year, the school was as deserted as the streets. The guard outside the school was almost reluctant to let Li Zhenruo in. Later, Li Zhenruo called Song Jun so the guard would open the door.

       After they got in the car, Li Zhenruo put Li Zhenran out of the sports bag.

       Li Zhenran had been very unhappy and was not even willing to exchange a few words with Li Zhenruo.

       Li Zhenruo wanted to tease him, and when he went out, he pulled a piece of grass and stretched it out in front of Li Zhenran’s eyes, but Li Zhenran pressed down the grass with a paw and looked at him blankly.

       Li Zhenruo felt that he could see Li Zhenran’s implicitly saying: Drive well!

       He parked the car under Xia Hongshen’s small building, Li Zhenruo wanted to get off the car with Li Zhenran in his arms, but Li Zhenran jumped off when he opened the car door.

       The Garfield’s entire face was originally slumped downwards, but now Li Zhenran’s face slumped even more, with a look of imposing manner that no strangers should approach.

       Li Zhenruo had no choice but to follow behind him.

       They went up to the second floor of the small building, and the door to the room on the right side of the stairs opened first. Long Xing came out wearing pyjamas and slippers and was surprised to see Li Zhenruo bringing a cat over.

       He trotted over and shouted, “Little Garfield, you brought a Garfield over here?”

       Li Zhenruo was powerless to correct him that his own name was not Garfield.

       Long Xing bent down, put his hands on his knees, looked down at Li Zhenran, and said in surprise, “You look just like you, but the fur colour is different, it’s not your brother, right?”

       Li Zhenruo whispered, “It’s my second brother.”

       “Your second brother?” Long Xing had heard of Li Zhenran, and his head was a little confused, “Isn’t your second brother…?”

       Li Zhenruo didn’t dare to say too much in front of Li Zhenran, and could only say, “It’s too complicated to explain it clearly for now. I’ll go to the master first and talk to you later.”

       “Okay,” Long Xing nodded obediently, “Go ahead.”

       As soon as they finished speaking, Song Jun had already opened the door of the room and greeted Li Zhenruo, “Come here, your master is already up.”

       When Li Zhenran heard this, he walked ahead in the direction of Song Jun’s room without looking back.

       Li Zhenruo hurriedly followed, and as soon as he entered the door, he saw Xia Hongshen sitting by the bed in a coat and playing games.

       Song Jun squatted in front of Li Zhenran and said “wow”. He seemed to want to touch Li Zhenran’s head, but he felt it was not good, so he just said, “Garfield, your second brother looks exactly like you.”

       When he heard Song Jun’s words, Li Zhenruo also squatted down and looked at Li Zhenran carefully. It seemed that except for the colour of his coat, everything else looked exactly the same as him. Even then the colour of his coat and also the yellow parts of his body fur were all replaced with black fur.

       Li Zhenran looked at them blankly, trying to suppress his emotions.

       Li Zhenruo knew that he was in trouble, and felt sorry in his heart. He reached out to touch the top of Li Zhenran’s head, but Li Zhenran avoided him. Li Zhenruo didn’t give up and continued to reach out and touch, this time Li Zhenran raised his paw and opened his hand.

       The third time, Li Zhenruo turned into a cat and rushed up, pressing Li Zhenran to the ground and rubbing it, Li Zhenran was slapped by him indifferently, and when Li Zhenruo licked his lips at the end, he couldn’t help sticking out his tongue back. After licking it, Li Zhenruo suddenly looked at him with light.

       Song Jun hurriedly picked up his mobile phone from the bed, took more than ten photos of them, and planned to post them on Weibo.

       “Okay,” Xia Hongshen tapped on the bed with his cell phone at this time, “Show him to me.”

       Li Zhenruo turned back into a human form, grabbed Li Zhenran quickly, picked him up by the neck, and handed him to Xia Hongshen.

       Xia Hongshen didn’t reach out to pick it up, but just put the phone aside, looked at Li Zhenran carefully, and pondered, “It’s exactly the same.”

       Li Zhenruo put Li Zhenran on the ground, sat beside the bed and asked Xia Hongshen, “Master, what’s going on?”

       Xia Hongshen looked at him, “Why did you give it to him to eat?”

       Li Zhenruo was a little embarrassed to say it, but Xia Hongshen didn’t have to guess to know his little thought.

       Li Zhenran felt a little itchy on his back, but he didn’t want to really lift one leg to scratch the itch like a cat, so he jumped on Li Zhenruo’s leg and rubbed his stomach.

       This was the first time that Li Zhenran has been so close to him since he turned into a cat. Li Zhenruo was immediately flattered and scratched Li Zhenran’s chin, but he turned his head to avoid him and then saw his back rubbing against him, and quickly reached out to help him scratch the itch.

       While scratching, Li Zhenruo asked Xia Hongshen, “Master, what kind of medicine is this? Why is he like this?”

       Xia Hongshen touched his chin, “I don’t know either. There are so many things in Taishang Laojun’s pill furnace, and sometimes even he can’t tell them apart, do you think others can?”

       Li Zhenruo was a little anxious, “Then what should I do? It’s okay because it’s New Year’s holiday these few days. After the New Year, how can my second brother go back to work?”

       Xia Hongshen said casually, “Can’t you communicate with him? Can you be his secretary and listen to his orders?”

       Li Zhenruo said, “Master, don’t joke.”

       At this time, Song Jun took Xia Hongshen’s cat biscuit and came to tease Li Zhenran, but Li Zhenran didn’t even look at it.

       Song Jun lamented, “What a determined cat.”

       Then Xia Hongshen grabbed his hand and fed it into his mouth to eat.

       When he saw this, Li Zhenruo said, “I have canned tuna imported from Norway over there. Master, do you want it?”

       Xia Hongshen folded his hands on his chest, pondered for a long time, and said, “I’ll make a call and ask an old friend to come over, he may be able to know.”

       Li Zhenruo said loudly, “Thank you, Master!”

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       Before they knew it, it was already the Lunar New Year.

       Li Jianglin was discharged from the hospital before New Year’s Eve. Although his body had not fully recovered, he did not want to stay in the hospital for New Year’s Eve.

       Li Zhenruo stayed at Li’s house for the New Year’s Eve dinner.

       Every year he had a New Year’s Eve dinner at Li’s house, but this year was the first time as a guest. Li Zhenruo felt that the atmosphere was a bit strange.

       There were only two of Li Jianglin’s four sons left. Wen Chun also packed up and moved away from Li’s house, so now the house seemed a little desolated. In addition, Wang Ma was taken back by his children for the Chinese New Year, and the whole family was even more deserted.

       After dinner, Li Jianglin didn’t go back to his study or bedroom and sat in the living room watching TV.

       He didn’t leave, and neither Li Zhenran nor Li Zhenzi went back to the room but sat down on the sofa to accompany him. On the other hand, Zhu Kai went out to walk the dog as usual after eating and sat down beside Li Jianglin obediently after walking the dog.

       Li Zhenruo was sitting on the sofa and stared at the TV screen absent-mindedly wondering whether to sleep here tonight or pretend to leave later and sneak back in as a cat.

       Although Li Jianglin did not object to him and Li Zhenran, his attitude was far from that of an amiable father-in-law. He was always polite and distant.

       It must not be Li Jianglin’s intention to invite him to Li’s house for New Year’s Eve dinner, but rather it was that he had no objection when Li Zhenran. If he kissed and followed Li Zhenran back to the room in front of Li Jianglin, he wondered if it would make Li Jianglin’s illness even worse.

       When he was thinking about it absent-mindedly, Li Zhenruo’s cell phone suddenly rang.

       Li Zhenran glanced at him.

       Li Zhenruo took out his mobile phone and saw that Xia Hongshen was calling, so he picked it up and went to the dining room to answer the call.

       As soon as the phone was connected, Li Zhenruo said to Xia Hongshen, “Happy New Year, Master!”

       In the end, Xia Hongshen just said, “Can you come out now?”

       “Now?” Li Zhenruo was stunned. Although it was only after eight o’clock in the evening, it was already dark outside. He glanced at Li Zhenran again and asked in a low voice, “What’s the rush?”

       Xia Hongshen said, “Come to the city amusement park, the demon market will be opened tonight, and I will show you.”

       “Demon market?” Li Zhenruo felt like he heard something incredible.

       Xia Hong felt that Li Zhenruo was too long-winded, “Coming?”

       Li Zhenruo glanced at Li Zhenran, “But…”

       Xia Hongshen said, “Whatever,” and wanted to hang up the phone.

       “I’ll come!” Li Zhenruo hurriedly called out to him, “But I want to come back early to spend the New Year with my second brother.” He said the last sentence in a low voice.

       Xia Hongshen replied, “You can come back whenever you want.”

       As he hung up the phone, Li Zhenruo walked over and said, “I’m going out.”

       Everyone in the room turned to look at him.

       However, Li Jianglin just glanced at him and turned back to continue watching TV, while Li Zhenzi smiled meaningfully.

       Li Zhenran stood up and asked him, “Where are you going? Shall I drive you?”

       Li Zhenruo had already put on his coat and said, “My Master told me to go out, I should be back soon. You can watch TV with Uncle Li for a while.”

       Li Zhenran didn’t say anything, but caught up when Li Zhenruo had come out of the building and walked into the yard. Li Zhenran an arm around his waist from behind, pressed his chest against his back, and whispered in his ear, “Where to?”

       Li Zhenruo felt the heat lapping at him and his ears were tingling. He said, “Master asked me to go out.”

       “It’s New Year’s Eve Day,” Li Zhenran said as he reached out and gave his waist a squeeze.

       Li Zhenruo shrank his waist and said, “Then I have to spend the New Year with you later. I will be back soon. Just wait for me.”

       After he finished speaking, he reached out and grabbed Li Zhenran’s arm. He found that he was not wearing a coat, and quickly said, “It’s too cold outside, you go back first.”

       Li Zhenran held his hand tightly and said, “It’s eight o’clock now, and you must be back before twelve o’clock.”

       Li Zhenruo turned around and put his arms around his shoulder, kissing his lips, “Wait for me.”

       The streets on New Year’s Eve were very deserted, with hardly a car to be seen coming and going. On the way, Li Zhenruo received another call from Song Jun, telling him that because of New Year’s Eve, the demon market was opened ahead of schedule today, and it was now possible to get in.

       Li Zhenruo was very curious and asked Song Jun, “Why do you want to go to the demon market on new year’s eve?”

       Song Jun said, “You human beings celebrate the New Year, Senior Brother Xia also wants everyone to have a good time together. Otherwise how lonely would it be if a demon lived in solitary?”

       Li Zhenruo felt that his words were surprisingly reasonable.

       They drove to the parking lot of the city’s amusement park, and Li Zhenruo found that there was more than one car parked, one of which was a familiar Hummer. When he looked at the license plate carefully, he found that it was his boss Luo Fei’s car.

       In the so-called demon market, probably all the demons in the city would come, right?

       As he thought of this, Li Zhenruo was a little nervous for no reason and wondered if he would see something strange.

       It was dark in the amusement park, but there was a small passageway where the ticket was checked, and there were people checking tickets at the entrance.

       Li Zhenruo realized that he had no tickets, and hesitated for a while about whether to call Xia Hongshen, but when he looked closely, he realized that the person checking the tickets turned out to be Feng Junyuan.

       The handsome Doctor xiao Feng took off his white coat and stood at the ticket gate with an expressionless face in his down jacket. After he saw Li Zhenruo, he raised his hand and waved to him.

       Li Zhenruo walked over, “Xiao Feng?”

       Feng Junyuan said, “Come in quickly.”

       Li Zhenruo still felt it was strange, “Are you checking tickets here?”

       Feng Junyuan nodded.

       Li Zhenruo asked him, “Why you?”

       Feng Junyuan said, “Because my Master is the owner of the demon market.”

       Li Zhenruo was stunned for a moment before he reacted, “You mean my Master?”

       Feng Junyuan nodded and said to him, “Come in, Master is waiting for you.”

       Li Zhenruo walked through the ticket gate and suddenly found that the amusement park, which looked dark outside, became brightly lit and crowded.

       There were colourful lanterns hanging on the trees everywhere, children with balloons running back and forth, the Ferris wheel in the distance was turning gently, and cheerful songs reverberated throughout the amusement park. But even though it was the Chinese New Year, there was a Christmas song playing, and he didn’t know what it meant.

       A child fell while running past Li Zhenruo. Li Zhenruo was about to squat down to help him but saw that the original little boy had turned into a large lizard and quickly crawled forward.

       Li Zhenruo was taken aback. He stood there watching the people coming and going in the amusement park, and suddenly realized that these people were not human, but were all demons.

       Then what is he?

       Li Zhenruo thought about it for a long time and felt that he could only be considered a half-demon at most. Although he was a half-demon, he was at least related to a demon, so he calmly walked inside.

       At the fork in the road ahead, a giant panda was selling balloons.

       Li Zhenruo looked him up and down, thinking about whether it was a real giant panda, someone wearing a giant panda doll suit, or some other demon that had taken on the appearance of a giant panda.

       The giant panda just handed the balloon to a child, and then looked in Li Zhenruo’s direction.

       Li Zhenruo put the car key in his hand into his coat pocket and walked towards it, asking, “Hello, are you a real giant panda?”

       The giant panda looked at him in a daze, suddenly approached him to smell it, and then said, “What is your real form?”

       Li Zhenruo thought that he had already arrived in this environment. He was not afraid that others would see him as a cat. Instead, he should be afraid that others would think he was a human being, so he simply showed the giant panda his cat form.

       But it was only a matter of moments. Li Zhenruo, who had recovered his human form, picked up the coat that fell on the ground to put it on and smiled at the panda.

       The giant panda looked at him without saying a word.

       Li Zhenruo was a little puzzled and wanted to go around it. He continue to walk inside, but unexpectedly the giant panda suddenly reached out and handed him a balloon, “For you,” the giant panda said.

       Li Zhenruo took the balloon thread from its paws and said, “Thank you.”

       Then, without further delay, they walked to the centre of the amusement park.

       The surroundings were getting more and more lively, the amusement facilities were all open, and there were colourful lights and happy music everywhere.

       Li Zhenruo saw Song Jun standing in front of the merry-go-round and beckoned to him from a distance, so he quickened his pace and walked over, “Song Jun!”

       Song Jun looked in the direction behind him.

       Li Zhenruo asked strangely, “What?”

       Song Jun said, “The giant panda is watching you.”

       Li Zhenruo also looked back and saw the giant panda holding a handful of balloons in his hand, and he was still looking at him. Because of the poor lighting, Li Zhenruo couldn’t see the expression on its face, so he turned around and said to Song Jun, “Where’s Master?”

       Song Jun pointed to the merry-go-round behind him.

       Li Zhenruo turned his head to look and saw that the merry-go-round was empty and there was no one else, only a black leopard was lying in the middle, his head resting on a wooden horse, expressionlessly following the giant carousel.

       To say it was a black leopard was not quite right. When Li Zhenruo looked closely, he found that Xia Hongshen’s form was somewhat different from the leopard. It looked more terrifying and fierce.

       When Xia Hongshen saw Li Zhenruo, he yawned deeply, turned into a human form and sat lazily on the wooden horse, and hooked his fingers at him.

       Li Zhenruo jumped on the rotating wooden horse turntable, walked to Xia Hongshen’s side, and bowed slightly, “Master, what’s the matter with you calling me here?”

       Xia Hongshen said, “The demon market will be opened tonight, let’s see if you can find anything to improve your cultivation.”

       Li Zhenruo was turned dizzy by the merry-go-round, and he said, “Master, can we talk in another place?”

       Xia Hongshen said, “No good.”

       In the end, Xia Hongshen still didn’t go down, Li Zhenruo simply sat down cross-legged beside him, closed his eyes and leaned his head on the wooden horse in front of him, and asked, “What is the thing that enhances my cultivation?”

       Xia Hongshen thought for a while, “I don’t know, you can watch it at the auction tonight.”

       Li Zhenruo asked again, “What will happen to me if I improve my cultivation? Become an immortal?”

       Xia Hongshen said, “As if. Do you think it’s easy to become an immortal?”

       Li Zhenruo was silent for a while, “Immortality?”

       Xia Hongshen said to him, “It is still possible to live for hundreds of years.”

       Li Zhenruo heard the words and said in a sullen voice, “Then I don’t want to, I just want to live for a few more decades and die with my second brother.”

       Xia Hongshen looked down at him. He had raised his foot, but in the end, he couldn’t bear to step on him, and finally said only one word, “Get lost.”

       He accepted a super unpromising apprentice, but Xia Hongshen didn’t think there was anything wrong. Li Zhenruo was not like him, he had Song Jun and the others by his side for a long time. If only one person had an endless lifespan, sometimes it might be a tragedy.

       Li Zhenruo didn’t really go away. Although he was thinking about Li Zhenran’s desire to go back to spend the New Year with him, he still wanted to stay and watch the so-called auction.

       Song Jun rubbed up to Li Zhenruo’s side and said to him, “Don’t worry about it, senior brother is actually doing for your own good.”

       Li Zhenruo said, “I understand, but I’m just embarrassed for causing Master to accept an apprentice who can’t learn anything from him.”

       Song Jun said, “He was just saying that. He can’t afford anything on the auction tonight.”

       Li Zhenruo couldn’t help turning his head to look at Song Jun, “Master is already so poor?”

       Song Jun smiled, “Actually, he is not poor. He has a few priceless treasures around him, but unfortunately, he is reluctant to sell them all his life.”

       As soon as he said that, the lights of the carousel dimmed, and all the projection lights shone on the small stage next to it. A host took the microphone to the stage, announcing that the auction was about to start, and the entire amusement park crowded over there, including those that Li Zhenruo thought of as children.

       Li Zhenruo couldn’t help but turn his head to look around. He saw Xi Anling standing with a gentle young man in the crowd, snatching cotton candy from the man’s hand; Long Xing was with a tall young man and he didn’t know what they were talking about, and he was hugged up by the young man; Feng Junyuan stood beside Luo Fei, grabbed a c0cktail from somewhere and wanted to drink it, but Luo Fei snatched it away.

       The very lively New Year’s Eve was much more lively than that of the Li family sitting in the living room and watching TV. For this reason, Li Zhenruo was more and more eager to go back to accompany Li Zhenran.

       Xia Hongshen shifted his position and lay on the top of the merry-go-round with his black tail swinging carelessly behind him.

       The host saw that almost everyone gathered, knocked on the auction hammer, and announced the official start of the auction.

       Li Zhenruo felt that tonight was an eye-opener. There were all kinds of messes in the entire auction. Of course, most of them were valuable to these monsters, but he didn’t know the significance of those things.

       Until the host took a wooden box and showed it to everyone, and said, “This is the elixir that fell out of Taishang Laojun’s¹Taishang Laojun believed to be the true incarnation of the spiritual philosopher Laozi, he was already identified as a personification of the Tao as early as the beginning of the Later Han dynasty. single furnace. Eating one can increase your cultivation for five hundred years.”

       “Do you want it?” Xia Hongshen suddenly appeared behind Li Zhenruo and asked him in a low voice.

       Li Zhenruo was startled, but he didn’t rush to say whether he wanted it or not, but instead asked Xia Hongshen, “Can you afford it?”

       Xia Hongshen said confidently, “I can afford a black box²something unknown on the inside and can only be speculated.”

       As he said that, he heard someone beside him bidding loudly.

       Li Zhenruo heard the voice and looked over, and saw that the bidder turned out to be a giant panda. For a while, all the people who could talk began to whisper, and Li Zhenruo heard an old man next to him say, “Giant panda, how many are there richer than him? If he wants this thing, the others must have no hope.”

       Another person said, “We can’t just give it to him without raising the price, right?”

       The old man said, “Are you stupid? You can’t win the auction, and you even raise the price to offend the giant panda. What are you trying to do?”

       The man pondered for a moment and stopped talking.

       Song Jun asked curiously, “Why does the panda want this?”

       No one answered him. The giant panda stood in the distance, holding a bamboo in his hand, nibbling on it and looking at the auction table on tiptoe.

       Li Zhenruo was also curious, “Are giant pandas rich and powerful?”

       His voice was not too loud, but people around him all looked at him, and someone gave him a roll of eyes, “Giant panda, national treasure, don’t you know?”

       Li Zhenruo suddenly felt a little stupid.

       It was already past eleven o’clock in the evening when the auction ended. Li Zhenruo said that he did not want to increase his cultivation. Xia Hongshen disliked him for not being ambitious but didn’t make it difficult for him.

       Li Zhenruo looked at the time and planned to say goodbye to Xia Hongshen, but when he was about to leave, the giant panda stood in front of him and blocked his way.

       “?” Li Zhenruo was baffled.

       The giant panda suddenly reached out, stuffed a wooden box into Li Zhenruo’s hand, and said, “It’s for you!” Then his heavy body ran away like a gust of wind.

       Li Zhenruo stared at the wooden box that was stuffed into his hand, and after a while, he responded and said, “Is this the elixir just now?”

       Song Jun leaned closer to smell, “It should be.”

       Li Zhenruo raised his head to look for the giant panda but found that he could not find the panda. He said blankly, “He said it was given to me?”

       “Well,” Song Jun nodded.

       Li Zhenruo said, “Then what should I do?”

       Song Jun said, “It’s yours if he gave it to you, you can do whatever you want. This is a matter of no regrets.”

       Li Zhenruo still didn’t know what was going on, “Why did he give me this?”

       Song Jun thought for a while and said to Li Zhenruo, “It’s getting late, you go back first, and I’ll ask him for you.”

       When he heard this, Li Zhenruo took another look at the time. He had to go back quickly, otherwise, Li Zhenran would probably be angry if he didn’t get home at twelve o’clock, so he could only say, “Well, if you have any news, give me a call.”

       He was only able to put things away first.

       When he drove back to Li’s house, the lights in the living room were already dimmed. It must be because Li Jianglin couldn’t stay up too late. After returning to the room, everyone went to rest.

       When Li Zhenran heard the sound of the car, he went downstairs to pick him up and opened the door of the living room. Li Zhenruo rushed into Li Zhenran’s arms with air-conditioned air, and said vaguely in the kiss, “Happy New Year.”

       When they returned to the room, Li Zhenran pressed Li Zhenruo behind the door, sucked his earlobe and asked, “Where did you go? Can you tell me now?”

       Li Zhenruo gasped slightly and replied, “I was called by Master to the amusement park.”

       Li Zhenran raised his head, “There are still people in the amusement park at this time?”

       Li Zhenruo raised one leg and hooked his waist, “Keep going, please.”

       Li Zhenran moved slightly away from him, and reached out to touch his chest, “What is this?”

       What he took out from the inner pocket of Li Zhenruo’s shirt was the box given to Li Zhenruo by the panda. He inexplicably lifted the lid to see it.

       Li Zhenruo didn’t stop him, just stared at the so-called elixir in the box thoughtfully.

       He didn’t want a few hundred years of cultivation to increase his life expectancy by a few hundred years, but if this thing could increase Li Zhenran’s lifespan, it would be another matter.

       If he could add a few hundred years of cultivation to Li Zhenran’s body, even if he could not live forever, he would certainly be able to prolong his life. At that time, he might have had the mind to cultivate, just to spend more time with Li Zhenran.

       However, this thing should not belong to him, but to a giant panda. Although the other party said that it was given to him, Li Zhenruo still did not understand what happened.

       What if the giant panda comes back at the end?

       Li Zhenran saw that Li Zhenruo was starting to fret and asked, “What?”

       If the giant panda came to ask for it, he could say that he had accidentally eaten it, and he would return all the money that the giant panda spent at the auction.

       Li Zhenran raised the box, “Something your master gave you?”

       Li Zhenruo shook his head, “The panda gave it to me.”

       “Giant panda?” Li Zhenran looked at him strangely.

       Li Zhenruo felt that he should not continue to be indecisive. He reached out and picked up the medicine pill in the box and said to Li Zhenran, “Open your mouth.”

       Li Zhenran asked suspiciously, “Ah?” Li Zhenruo threw the medicinal pill into him.

       This time, he swallowed too quickly and almost choked on his organs. Li Zhenran covered his mouth and coughed a few times. He frowned while pouring water and asked, “What is that?”

       Li Zhenruo was still standing there, suddenly unable to contain his excitement. The corner of his mouth lifted into a smile, “Good thing,” he said.

       The next morning, Li Zhenruo woke up in the warm bed, and before he opened his eyes, he subconsciously reached out to touch Li Zhenran who was beside him, trying to shrink into his arms.

       But the hand felt empty and nothing was touched.

       He thought that Li Zhenran had gotten up. Li Zhenruo opened his eyes blankly and saw a pair of dark eyes looking at him at a very close distance.

       He was startled and stepped back suddenly, only to realize that it was a black and white Garfield lying on the pillow.

       “Where did the cat come from?” Li Zhenruo sat up in shock, looking back and couldn’t find Li Zhenran’s shadow.

       He turned his head to look at the cat again. When he saw that the cat was serious and a little angry, he suddenly had a strange thought. He asked, “Who are you…?”

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