Taoist Master and the Cat - Chapter 239

“What are you thinking about?” Xie Jingyuan set up a sound-proof barrier and asked.

Su Miaomiao would not hide her thoughts, she asked, “That cat was obviously prettier than me, why didn’t you take her in?”

Xie Jingyuan pursed his lips slightly, and then said, “I took you in not because you are beautiful, but because you have not yet gone astray. That demon is full of turbidity and has killed countless people. How can I keep her alive?”

Su Miaomiao nodded, rested her chin on his lap, then she looked up again after a while, and asked, “If she was as harmless as me, would you take her in?”

“No.”

“Why? She looks so good-looking.”

“I don’t think so.”

When Su Miaomiao thought he didn’t know how to judge the cat’s appearance, she analyzed it for him one by one, “If you don’t understand her cat form, look at her human figure, her lips are redder than mine, and her breasts are bigger than mine…”

Xie Jingyuan closed his eyes and interrupted her, “See no evil, I never pay attention to these things.”

Su Miaomiao flicked her tail and wanted to say something more, but Xie Jingyuan suddenly said, “Don’t worry, I won’t take in another cat other than you.”

Besides her, he would not take in any banshees.

Su Miaomiao couldn’t hear what was in his heart, but what he said was enough to make her happy.

The happy Su Miaomiao couldn’t help but raise her front paws to touch his chest, then raised her head to lick his chin.

Xie Jingyuan pushed her down with one hand, and moved his eyes to the carriage.

Fortunately, Gu Jialing was not as curious as Su Miaomiao, so he got into the carriage and fell asleep.

“Don’t do this again in the future,” Xie Jingyuan demanded seriously.

Su Miaomiao blinked and said, “Don’t you like it?”

Cats liked to lick each other’s fur.

Xie Jingyuan turned his eyes away and replied, “Yes.”

Su Miaomiao began to think, was she licking in the wrong way, or did her tongue accidentally touch the Taoist master? It shouldn’t be, she was obviously very careful to lick with the tip of her tongue.

At that time, Su Miaomiao thought of the men and women in the brothel.

Those men seemed to like to let women kiss them.

Su Miaomiao turned into a human form, and before Xie Jingyuan could react, she hugged his head and clumsily kissed his neck.

Xie Jingyuan: “…”

“How about this, do you like it?” After kissing, Su Miaomiao asked seriously.

Xie Jingyuan looked at her ignorant face, paused, and shot.

Su Miaomiao, who turned into a cat again, suddenly became a lot shorter.

“Go to sleep,” Xie Jingyuan rubbed her cat’s head absently, not allowing her to mess around anymore.

Su Miaomiao hummed and went to sleep obediently.

After a while, Xu Shou came back, and saw the Taoist master sitting on the ground from a distance, looking intently in his direction.

Was the Taoist master worried about him, so he didn’t practice?

“Taoist Master, it has been buried, and I promise it will not be discovered by the common people,” Xu Shou reported in a low voice.

Xie Jingyuan nodded.

Su Miaomiao lazily opened her eyes, and proudly showed off to Xu Shou, “The Taoist master said that he will not take in other cats.”

Xu Shou fully understood the Taoist master’s decision.

It costs so much to raise a cat, so how could Qingxu Temple afford another cat?

In late May, Xie Jingyuan took the three demons out for a month, and finally returned to Qingxu Temple.

The courtyard walls of Qingxu Temple that were damaged during the battle had been repaired, and of course, only a few copper plates were left of the dozen taels of silver in the temple.

“How much did you sell them for?” Senior Sun looked at Xie Jingyuan expectantly.

The Taoist masters of Qingxu Temple were not greedy for money, but they also had expenses like food and clothes, and they didn’t have any savings.

When Senior Sun saw the amount, his face flushed with excitement, and his body shook.

Although he was quite old, he usually lived away from people and rarely cared about the price of high-quality furs, he thought that the fur of a nine-tailed fox could be sold for a few thousand taels at most.

Xie Jingyuan took out another bag of silver and explained, “Actually, it sold for sixty thousands taels, and I divided some with Xu Shou and the others. After all, they made great contributions in protecting the temple that day.”

Senior Sun held a huge sum of thirty thousand taels in his hand, which was enough to spend for several generations. He didn’t care about the rest that were distributed, so he couldn’t help but laugh, while nodding repeatedly, “It should be. Although the three of them are demons, they are dedicated to doing good. It is not an exaggeration to say that they are the guardian spirits of the temple.”

Some temples in the world wanted to kill all the demons, while others were willing to let the kind demons go.

Qingxu Temple had been adhering to a benevolent heart since the patriarch’s time. It had been passed down for hundreds of years, and the Taoist masters in the temple still maintained different treatment for different demons. 

After learning about the situation during the month, there was nothing he needed to worry about, so Xie Jingyuan went back to his room.

The three demons had all returned to their original form. Xu Shou liked to observe the pilgrims coming and going to distinguish between good and evil. Gu Jialing flew to the old tree in front of the main hall and showed his feathers to the pilgrims who missed his beauty.

Su Miaomiao was not happy, so she slipped into Xie Jingyuan’s room.

Xie Jingyuan sat at the desk which was covered with pens, ink, paper and inkstones.

She jumped onto the table and asked, “What are you drawing?”

Xie Jingyuan glanced at her and said, “Babu bed.”

The Taoist master’s hands were beautiful, and his drawing skills were also good, but Su Miaomiao was not an elegant cat in her bones, she fell asleep after watching for a long time, raised her paw, and curled up in a ball on his lap.

One drew, the other slept, and gradually only the regular purring of a cat remained in the room.

In the evening, all the pilgrims went down the mountain, and Xie Jingyuan finished painting.