Translator: Dj2203
Editor: Dj2203
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Not long after his master took him home, a big event happened in the little boy’s family. The head of the family was involved in the dynasty change frenzy at that time. Baobao didn’t know what it was exactly. He only knew that overnight, the little boy’s parents died, and the little boy was assisted and pushed to become the head of the family. But he was too young, so the power naturally fell into the hands of others. His uncles, together with the housekeeper, often bullied him.
However, if you talk about the cat, the cat seemed to really have suffered a man-made disaster.
The environment at that time was different from now. The feudal superstitions were outrageous. Especially since Baobao was a black and white cat. It was said that white color was a blessing and black color would bring misfortune. The black area of Baobao was thicker than the white area. The old people looked down on this kind of cat and said that it would bring a disaster rather than a blessing and was not very auspicious in any case. It was fine if it was prosperous time, but it was sure to attract evil in such troubled times. The superstitious housekeeper secretly even tried to poison Baobao to death. Thanks to Baobao’s good fortune and precocious intelligence, he disdained everyone else’s food except for the little boy who fed him himself, so he managed to avoid disaster.
The little boy was a young master from a wealthy family. Ignoring the scolding and stopping of the housekeeper, he took Baobao home and fed it delicious fish. They lived happily as one person and one cat for a short period of time. During this period, the housekeeper scolded Baobao every day, saying “cats bring disaster, dogs bring blessings”. Now that the situation was turbulent, there may be a real disaster one day, so he asked the young master to send the cat away. But the kind-hearted young master pitifully had no one to support him but Baobao, so he refused to let him leave even at the risk of death, and insisted on keeping him.
At that time, it was just a kitten. His mother cat had died shortly after weaning him, and all the brothers and sisters in his litter also died, leaving it hanging, hungry and thin. Back then, people had no extra food to give to it, but when it was about to starve to death, a little human boy appeared.
Baobao’s eyes ignited with blazing hope, as he talked about his past little by little in his extremely jerky accent.
“Tell me the details first. If you are looking for someone, I may be able to help.” Shen Yu was still very confident in his connections, and the people who could buy such a watch must be either rich or wealthy back then, but under the turbulent history, they may have already traveled far away from home, or changed one’s name due to the decline of Zhongdao, it was no wonder that for so many years, this cat had been unable to find members of such an upper-class family.
How could Shen Yu know him? Even if he did, his so-called little master would probably be a gray-haired old man now.
During those dark years, Baobao could even tell that there was poison in his little master’s food. In order to prevent his little master from being killed, Baobao began to steal food from the kitchen. One cat and one person had to carry on like this for a long time.
The uncles fought fiercely for property and power. Baobao still vaguely remembered that two lives were even lost, but later he didn’t know how but they came to an agreement. Finally, they reached an agreement not to attack the little master anymore and pretended to assist him. The little master’s life and status were thus preserved in name only.
The insidious housekeeper was very angry, because as long as the uncles kept trying to kill each other, he would have the opportunity to embezzle the family property. Unfortunately, not only did the young master not die, but the uncles decided to keep him alive in order to check and balance each other.
The housekeeper was one of the people who poisoned the food the most frequently. He had always been puzzled about how the young master avoided the food so many times. At first, he thought it was the nanny who tripped him up, but who knew it was actually the tabby cat? Something was happening!
After learning the truth, the housekeeper blamed his failure to usurp power on the tabby cat who protected his master. Later, on the grounds that “all the troubles in the family were caused by the cat picked up by the young master”, he tied up Baobao and prepared to beat him to death with sticks. The little master tried his best to protect it and was beaten several times. Baobao finally escaped. The little master shouted to it not to come back again. From this moment on, Baobao truly understood his master’s intentions and could only escape temporarily.
It had gained freedom, but it could imagine even with its toes that the life of its little master would never be comfortable in the future and may even still be full of dangers.
Baobao’s expression of this experience was very limited, and his knowledge about the power struggle was especially unclear. It was all pieced together by Shen Yu and Xu Maomao, and it seemed that Baobao and his little master were basically inseparable.
“I practiced hard and wanted to become stronger and protect my little master, but when I went back, the little master’s family was no longer there. Some people said that they had gone to a distant foreign country.” Baobao choked and said, “I don’t know where the foreign country is. I have been practicing and searching, but there has been no trace of him for so many years. Maybe the little master has passed away.”
Calculating the time, if the little master was still alive, he was estimated to be more than a hundred years old, and the possibility of survival was very small. Xu Maomao couldn’t bear to attack it and consoled him: “Maybe he went to a new place and was very happy.”
“It’s impossible, you don’t know how terrible his family was.”
Shen Yu: “Then since you know that he may have…may have been reincarnated, why do you still want to find him?” Even if you can find it, it will just be a rotten corpse, but Shen Yu couldn’t bear to say it.
Baobao shook his head: “My little master cannot be reincarnated. There is a fragment of his soul attached to this photo.”
People in the old days were very superstitious. At that time, no one dared to take photos casually, because there was a saying that the camera would capture the person’s soul on the photo paper, which would shorten the life span and make it difficult to reincarnate after death.
Of course, it had already been proved that this statement was superstitious. After all, who didn’t take pictures in modern times? Some selfie enthusiasts even took pictures of the Nine Palaces every day and were still healthy and happy.
When Xu Maomao tried to tell it that this statement was unscientific, Baobao seriously added: “Of course, photos under normal circumstances will not capture the soul, but if the person who took the photo has an obsession or there are other accidents, the soul can still be attached to the portrait.”
Baobao’s practice focused on the soul path. Although he currently had no strength, he could always sense more hidden and mysterious things than other cats. Precisely because he sensed a familiar aura attached to the pocket watch, Baobao had never stopped looking for its little master even after decades.
Its little master was so restless. Maybe there was some accident in the past, or there was a strong obsession with the human world, so there was still a trace of soul attached to the thing he used in life. It must find a way to find him, make his soul intact, and let him reincarnate with peace of mind.
Xu Maomao listened silently and had ten thousand impulses to help this poor Baobao. Last time, Mr. Jade Rabbit also wanted to find someone, but the one he was looking for was a reincarnated living person. This time, he actually wanted to find an invisible person. Untouchable… ghost?!
This question was beyond the scope of his abilities QAQ!
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