Taoist Master and the Cat - Chapter 184

Xu Shou returned the fox demon’s core to her. Since then, the fox demon had never appeared again. It was not until the scholar died of illness in middle age that the fox demon came to offer a stick of incense.

“Hey, what are you thinking?”

A dangling hand appeared in front of his eyes, and Xu Shou returned to reality.

He looked at the Taoist master with complicated eyes.

So the Taoist master liked Su Miaomiao, but was it just like the fox demon’s attachment to the scholar? When one was in love, they just wanted to stay with the person forever.

“I understand, I respect the Taoist master’s choice,” Xu Shou said calmly.

If Su Miaomiao was really the Taoist master’s destined partner, and she could make the Taoist master happy, of course Xu Shou would support the marriage.

If Su Miaomiao was not, then sooner or later the Taoist master would be separated from her, even if he would be injured, it would be his life lesson to get over it.

In short, with him there, he would never let the Taoist master face the situation where Su Miaomiao could sell him for money.

Xu Shou accepted it, so Gu Jialing also did not object, and asked excitedly, “When are you going to confess your love to Su Miaomiao? Do you want me to design a romantic scene for you?”

Xie Jingyuan: “…No, I plan to proceed step by step so as not to scare her.”

Gu Jialing: “What’s so scary about that? You love her, so you should be happy.”

Xu Shou nodded.

Xie Jingyuan: “Just like you, she has always regarded herself as a demon, and it is not so easy to change her mind.”

Gu Jialing rubbed his chin, “Yeah, she still wants to treat the Taoist master as a cat slave. If the Taoist master dares to confess, maybe Su Miaomiao will think you have committed a crime.”

Xu Shou glared at him.

Xie Jingyuan: “Okay, let’s all go to bed early, this is a matter between me and Su Miaomiao, you can just hide it for me, I don’t need help.”

After finishing speaking, Xie Jingyuan went back to his room first.

Gu Jialing looked at Xu Shou who was still sitting on the sofa, and suddenly thought of something, then gloatingly asked, “Didn’t you always regard the Taoist master as your master? Then in the future, if Su Miaomiao really married the Taoist master, wouldn’t she become your master as well?”

In an instant, Xu Shou looked at him with eyes colder than ice.

Gu Jialing trembled with fright, jumped and ran away.

Xu Shou clenched his fists.

He regarded the Taoist master as his master, and would only maintain due respect for the Taoist master’s partner, no matter who they were.

If Su Miaomiao dared to act like a mistress in front of him, he would…

Xu Shou was stuck.

If Su Miaomiao was still a cat, he would bite her cat’s head as a threat, but she was a girl, so he couldn’t think of any suitable threat method.

It would be better if he deliberately soiled her white skirt and white shoes.

In the end, it was difficult to wash it fast.

Gu Jialing wanted to sleep late, and hung a “Do Not Disturb” sign on the doorknob.

Xie Jingyuan got up early to cook, and Xu Shou helped.

At 6:30, Su Miaomiao came over for dinner on time. She slept well the previous night, her face was flushed, her skin was fair and soft, and her big eyes were dark and bright.

At least Gu Jialing said one thing correctly, Su Miaomiao was very beautiful, more like the legendary fox beauty than the “Su Daji” he had seen in a TV series.

Of course, if Su Miaomiao heard what he was thinking, she would definitely quarrel with him again. She was a majestic cat, why did they compare her beauty with a fox? The fox’s nose was so sharp, how could it be cuter than a cat’s nose?

Xie Jingyuan came out of the kitchen with Su Miaomiao’s seafood porridge, and smiled when he saw the scene.

Although Xu Shou was not as cheerful as Gu Jialing, and his animal form had the cruelest appearance, in fact he had the best temper.

During their time in Qingxu Temple, Gu Jialing twittered every day. Xu Shou just lowered his own ears silently, Su Miaomiao jumped up and down in front of him and made various provocations, but Xu Shou was also indulgent most of the time. There was only one time he bit Su Miaomiao. After being reminded by the Taoist master, Xu Shou never frightened Su Miaomiao in that way again.

After all, he lived a hundred years longer, so perhaps in Xu Shou’s eyes, Su Miaomiao and Gu Jialing were just two children with their own flaws.

Xu Shou had a prejudice against Su Miaomiao the previous night, not because he really thought she was bad, but because the concept of “humans and demons” was too deep-rooted, and because Xu Shou thought too well of his “master”.

But based on Xie Jingyuan’s understanding of Xu Shou, even if he couldn’t accept it for a while, he would not make any inappropriate actions toward Su Miaomiao.

Just like Xu Shou couldn’t understand why he helped Su Miaomiao with all the trivial things at first, but he got used to it.

Xie Jingyuan put down the bowl and sat next to Su Miaomiao.

“Taoist Master, I dreamed of you last night,” Su Miaomiao scooped up a few spoonfuls of porridge, and when she remembered something, she suddenly tilted her head and said to Xie Jingyuan.

Xie Jingyuan’s heart tightened, fearing that she would say something inappropriate for children’s ears.

Before he could hint, Su Miaomiao had already started talking with a smile, “I dreamed that you turned into a tree, and I lived on the tree. When it rained, you used the branches to protect me from the rain, and you would also become warm after snowing, especially spiritually.”

Xu Shou lowered his head and listened. When Su Miaomiao was halfway through her speech, Xu Shou secretly looked at the Taoist master, and saw that he was looking at her in the eyes, very much like the fox and the scholar back then, but the affection in his eyes was more restrained.

The fox’s smiling voice sounded again in his mind and his eating became slower.

He was more advanced than Gu Jialing and Su Miaomiao in the concept of Qingxu (pure emptiness). At that time, the Taoist master would never laugh or get angry, and was as cold as ice.

But when they reunited in their current life, the coldness in the Taoist master’s eyes had softened a lot, especially when he looked at Su Miaomiao.

He always thought that the Taoist master treated Su Miaomiao like a cat or his younger sister. Perhaps, he had already been tempted by Su Miaomiao.