Chapter 23
"Dongzhu, it's time to eat!"

A loud shout woke up Liu Dongzhu, who was feeding Wang Ping'an in the room. Seeing that Wang Ping'an was also full, she buttoned up her clothes, carried Wang Ping'an out of the room, and saw Yuan Liang sitting in the main seat at a glance.

Liu Dongzhu said gratefully: "Little Taoist priest, thank you for coming to pray for our family's safety this time!"

"Madam Wang, your family is safe and connected to our Xuanqing Temple!"

Yuan Liang opened his mouth, wanting to beg Liu Dongzhu to let Wang Ping'an become his disciple and learn skills from him at Xuanqing Temple. However, he remembered his master's instructions before he left, and swallowed the words that were on his lips, and changed his mouth to say:

"This is what we should do. Madam Wang, you don't have to thank me!"

Before his master left, in addition to asking him to pray for Wang Ping'an, he also asked him to look after Wang Ping'an's safety and not to mention the matter of becoming his disciple under any circumstances.

Let everything take its course!

Liu Dongzhu said: "Little Taoist priest, when your master comes back, can you help me tell him to let my son Ping An become his disciple and learn from him?"

Yuan Liang's eyes lit up immediately. He had never expected that Liu Dongzhu would say it before he even mentioned it. He suppressed his surprise and said excitedly:

"No problem, of course no problem, Madam Wang, don't worry, I will tell my master about this when he comes back!"

This time, he helped his master solve the problem and asked Wang Ping'an to become his master's disciple. After returning, his master didn't know how to thank him.

Who made it so that this was what his master wanted to do the most at the moment, but had no way to do it!

He didn't care. As long as his master was grateful for the gift of kowtowed to him three times and six times and taught him one or two powerful spells, he would be satisfied.

While everyone was eating and chatting around the dining table, Wang Pingan, who had just woken up, did not rush to practice. Instead, he used his skill: Pet Eyes, and immediately saw the houses and bushes passing by.

You can vaguely see that the Black Cat Detective seems to be flying over the eaves and walls!
Subsequently.

Just as Wang Ping'an was about to use his skill: Animal Taming to drive the black cat to hunt mice and gain merit, he vaguely heard bursts of noise.

"Get out of here, you little bastard! This is not a road you can take!"

"Hey, these are weeds. What is this little bastard doing picking weeds?"

"Don't you know? She and her mother eat weeds at home every day!"

Wang Ping'an drove the Black Cat Detective closer and saw several boys about eight or nine years old surrounding a little girl about four or five years old on a road.

The little girl was pushed to the ground, and the bamboo basket in her hand fell to the ground, and the weeds, no, it should be said that the wild vegetables inside were scattered all over the ground.

The little girl looked expressionlessly at the boys around her who were grinning and cursing. She stood up silently, squatted on the ground, and prepared to pick up the wild vegetables that were scattered on the ground.

"Little bastard, I'll let you eat weeds!"

A boy suddenly stepped on the little girl's hand.

"Wild vegetables, my wild vegetables!"

The burning pain in her palms did not make the little girl cry, but when she saw the wild vegetables that were trampled to pieces by other little boys, she could no longer hold on and burst into tears.

These wild vegetables were picked by her from the mountains with great difficulty, and they provided her family with meals for three or four days.

Wild vegetable porridge is the only food in their family for three meals a day.

I never thought that the wild vegetables that I picked with great difficulty would be trampled to pieces by these bastards.

Xiao Cao glared at the boys and cried, "Give me back my wild vegetables!"

"Get out!" The boy who was stepping on Xiaocao's palm was not scared by Xiaocao's angry look. Instead, he had a smug look on his face. He sneered, suddenly raised his right leg, and was about to kick out.

"Pfft!"

A stream of blood splashed out, and the little boy only felt a black shadow flash before his eyes. Then his face hurt and he howled in pain. Only then did he realize that a black cat appeared beside him at some point.

It’s the Black Cat Detective!

"You beast, if you dare to hurt me, I will kill you!"

The little boy cursed angrily and changed his target. When he was about to attack the black cat head, he felt a flash in front of his eyes, and then bursts of burning pain came from his chest. He looked down and saw that his chest was obviously scratched by the claws. He wailed:

"Clothes, my clothes, stop standing there, kill this beast!"

When the other boys were about to pounce on the black cat, the boy who was attacked first warned them, "Throw stones at it!"

Hearing this, the other boys reacted immediately, picked up stones on the ground, and threw them at the Black Cat Detective.

Stones fell like rain, and black shadows flashed by one after another.

“Puff!”, “Puff!”, “Puff…”

There were sounds of clothes being torn. Several boys who had picked up stones from the ground and were throwing them at the Black Cat Detective fell to the ground, crying and wailing, "Clothes, my clothes!"

Before he could finish his words, the black cat came crawling over with its fangs bared, claws and teeth bared, like a tiger descending from the mountain, and scared the boys so much that they scattered like birds and beasts.

"Run!"

"I'll go back and tell my dad that there's a monster in our village. I want him to kill it and avenge me!"

"Yes, yes, yes... we must not let this beast go!"

With the help of Pet Eye, Wang Ping'an watched the boys leave in a panic. Instead of killing them, he turned his head to look at the little girl who had just been bullied.

His clothes were tattered, his hair was dry, his face was pale, and he looked so pitiful that it made people feel distressed just by looking at him.

He just couldn't understand why a few boys of eight or nine years old would bully a poor little girl.

"Ding! You helped a little girl get rid of bullying. Congratulations, you get Merit +10, and your Talent: Proficiency in Kindness +1!"

A mechanical and cold voice sounded in Wang Ping'an's mind, making his little face full of excitement that was difficult to conceal.

"Divine Cat, are you sent by God to save me?"

After a long time, Xiao Cao came back to his senses. He looked at the black cat in front of him with admiration on his face. Before he finished speaking, he said self-deprecatingly:
"No, why would God care about my life or death?"

As he spoke, Xiaocao looked at the trampled and torn wild vegetables with great heartache, picked up the bamboo basket that had fallen on the ground, and limped towards home.

Soon, a dilapidated thatched house appeared.

"Xiaocao, how many wild vegetables have you picked..."

As the door of the room was opened, a woman working in the room spoke subconsciously. Before she finished speaking, she saw the dust on Xiaocao's body. She stood up from the chair and ran over, saying, "Xiaocao, what's wrong with you? Have you been bullied by others again?"

Xiaocao cried bitterly, "Mom, why, why do people dislike Xiaocao? Other children want to bully Xiaocao. Xiaocao has never done anything bad. Why do they do this? Why?"

Tears fell from the woman's eyes. She hugged Xiaocao and said, "It's my fault that I've made you suffer!"

(End of this chapter)