Taoist Master and the Cat - Chapter 228

Su Miaomiao lay on the main couch in the form of a cat, flicked her tail listlessly, squinted her eyes and said to him, “It must be on purpose. I saw Xu Shou buy a lot of dry food when we passed by the market, and we can’t even go to restaurants as the Taoist thinks we eat too much.”

Gu Jialing looked at Xie Jingyuan resentfully and said, “If you don’t want to pay the bill, you can tell me, I have money now.”

Su Miaomiao said angrily, “Then why do you still want the Taoist master to pay? If you had taken it out earlier, we wouldn’t be sleeping out at night.”

The carriage went for another quarter of an hour, and finally stopped at a side of the road. Below the official road was a rocky beach. A wide river was flowing slowly, and the setting sun was reflected on the water.

Xie Jingyuan looked at the surroundings, and said to Xu Shou, “Go find something to eat.”

Xu Shou changed back to his original shape, and rushed into the forest where the edge could not be seen at a glance like a gust of wind.

“I’ll go too!” Gu Jialing had been looking for a chance to test his current strength, but before Xie Jingyuan agreed, he had turned into a bird and chased after Xu Shou.

Su Miaomiao was obviously not interested in hunting, so she walked to the river and looked at the water seriously.

The sunset was beautiful, and she stood facing the wind in a white dress with a fluttering skirt, much like a person in painting.

The next moment, the person in the painting looked toward a certain spot in the water, and a big fish was caught by an invisible force, and landed precisely beside Xie Jingyuan.

“Taoist Master, can you grill fish?” Su Miaomiao asked expectantly.

“Yes.”

After getting a positive response, she happily grabbed three more.

Xie Jingyuan went to look for dry firewood, and then picked up some large stones to build a stove.

When setting up the stove, he was taken aback when he head a sudden sound of splashing behind him. He  turned around, and saw Su Miaomiao was already sitting in the water, with half of her shoulders exposed, as white as jade.

Xie Jingyuan immediately avoided looking at her, but when he turned his head back, the image was still lingering in his mind, and his breathing became chaotic.

He understood that reaction as anger.

She was a banshee, how could she bathe in front of him?!

Even if he kept the etiquette and didn’t watch, Xu Shou and Gu Jialing would come back at any time, didn’t she care at all?

“What are you doing?” Xie Jingyuan asked coldly.

Su Miaomiao glanced at him and said with a smile, “Taking a bath, the water is just warm, do you want to take a bath too? When it gets dark, the water will be cold.”

When she was in cat form, Su Miaomiao didn’t like to get wet, but when she turned into human, taking a bath was quite comfortable.

Xie Jingyuan said, “Men and women are different, even if you are a demon, you shouldn’t take off your clothes in front of a man. Go ashore quickly.”

Su Miaomiao had just entered the water. She was not willing to go up, so she looked at Xie Jingyuan’s back, and snorted, “Then I’ll bathe in another place.”

Xie Jingyuan still wanted to stop her, but he heard a strange sound. He hesitated and looked toward the river, but only had time to catch a glimpse of a white light fleeing upstream.

The person left, but Xie Jingyuan couldn’t feel relieved.

There was no evil spirit around there, but if there were people passing by, wouldn’t she be seen by all of them bathing in the river like that?

Moreover there were Xu Shou and Gu Jialing who may return at any time.

Before the white light disappeared from sight, Xie Jingyuan made a move, chanted a mantra, and stretched out his hand toward Su Miaomiao.

Su Miaomiao was still swimming happily in the water, when suddenly a strong force came from behind 

The world was spinning, and when she realized it, she had already fallen into Xie Jingyuan’s hands, in her cat form.

With the back of her neck pinched by him, Su Miaomiao obediently remained motionless. But she looked at Xie Jingyuan innocently, and said, “Why did the Taoist master do that?”

Her fur was still wet and dripping water constantly.

Xie Jingyuan had seen some wild cats, they would become ugly after being wet by rain. But although her hair was wet and stuck to her body, she didn’t look bad, and even the cat face added a bit of strange beauty.

Xie Jingyuan turned his eyes away. The reason couldn’t be explained, so he directly set the rules for her, “From now on, you are not allowed to reveal your body outdoors, unless it is in your original shape.”

“Okay.”

“You’re also forbidden from having physical contact with men at will, including Gu Jialing and Xu Shou.”

“Is doing so in the original form okay?”

Xie Jingyuan thought about the scene of her patting Gu Jialing, and said, “Try to avoid it.”

“Okay.”

Xie Jingyuan thought of those two for then, and seeing that she was willing to cooperate, he bent down and put her on the ground.

As soon as Su Miaomiao touched the ground with her four paws, she shook her wet hair.

Water droplets splashed everywhere, even on the Taoist master’s face.

Xie Jingyuan turned around silently, wiped his face, and continued to set up the stove.

Su Miaomiao shook her hair half dry, squatted on the big rocks where the sun was still shining, and squinted her eyes comfortably.

Xu Shou and Gu Jialing were back, one was running on the ground and the other was flying in the sky.

When Su Miaomiao heard the movement, she glanced at Gu Jialing, then at Xu Shou, and suddenly said to Xie Jingyuan, “Why don’t you ask what Xu Shou and Gu Jiangling did?”

Xu Shou put the prey he brought to Xie Jingyuan’s side. When he heard Su Miaomiao’s complaint, the big dog showed a hint of confusion on his face.

Xie Jingyuan didn’t understand what Su Miaomiao meant either.

She stretched out her paw, pointed at the big wolf dog’s abdomen and said, “It’s not appropriate for him to reveal his body, right?”

Xu Shou: “…”

Xie Jingyuan: “…”

Xu Shou immediately turned into a human form. His black clothes seemed to be tighter than before. His slightly dark face got reddened to the base of his neck. He wanted to explain something, but he didn’t know how to say it.

Who cared when they were in demon’s form?

But at that moment, Su Miaomiao deliberately pointed it out, thinking that something was wrong.