Once the sun rose from the east and lit up the sky, Lu Xun had already gotten out of bed.
Cat Southnorth usually loved to sleep in, however, today she woke up rather early. She was already lying on the rattan chair at the entrance.
Usually, she was awfully naughty. But today, she appeared to lack vitality. Even her cat ears drooped down slightly, she seemed ill.
However, she naturally couldn’t possibly be sick at her current cultivation, it seemed that she was just sulky.
Although Lu Xun didn’t know why she was like this, he didn’t plan on asking her.
Though it was said that he talked quite a lot of nonsense and obscenities—at the age when he was a student, he was the kind that ‘could chat anywhere no matter where the teacher moved his seat’—he truly wasn’t good at consoling people.
It was possible that he’d ruin a conversation by accidentally sprinkling salt on the other person’s wound.
Thus, Lu Xun just stood by her side, and asked with a smile, “Good morning Fourth Senior Sister, what do you want to eat for breakfast?”
If it were in the past, Cat Southnorth would definitely rattle off a bunch of foods she wanted to eat. However, she lacked spirit today and wanted to say that she wouldn’t be eating. But once the words were at her lips, they turned into, “Anything.”
Lu Xun nodded, he was about to get up and head towards the kitchen when Cat Southnorth suddenly called him.
At this moment, Lu Xun knew that he was going to be a confidant.
Cat Southnorth no longer laid on the large rattan chair, she sat up and shifted her small butt, leaving half the space for Lu Xun.
After Lu Xun sat down, he looked straight ahead with Cat Southnorth, gazing at the meadow, the woods, the birds… They were extremely like a father and daughter that were on an outing.
“Little Junior Brother, do you know why I showed up at Wei county at that time?” Cat Southnorth asked.
“I know, to exterminate the hundreds of ghosts,” Lu Xun replied.
He remembered the scene on that day, the parade of hundreds of ghosts amidst the pouring rain, and Cat Southnorth cutting all of them down with a single strike!
After the lolita heard this, she bent her knees, placed her feet on the rattan chair, and embraced her legs with both hands. She then pressed her face on to her knees.
“Then do you know why I went to kill them?”
Lu Xun shook his head and responded, “That I don’t know, please do tell Fourth Senior Sister.”
Cat Southnorth looked at the forest in the Rear Mountain, she said in a soft voice, “I’m originally a cat demon in the forest on the edge of Wei County, when I manifested, Sir picked me up and brought me back.
“We demons aren’t as lucky as you humans, our path of cultivation is more bumpy and difficult. Being able to meet Sir, a person who provided me guidance, I’m really fortunate for it.”
“However, I’m not a human in the end, I didn’t come from a small town or a small village. I came from that forest,” she said in a soft voice.
“But… it was destroyed—destroyed by a Mountain Ghost that evolved into a Ghost King.”
After hearing everything up to this point, Lu Xun roughly understood now.
The ghosts that Cat Southnorth killed on that day were merely the remaining separated entities of the Ghost King after it was killed. The reason why she left the mountain to kill ghosts was mainly that it destroyed her home.
Once the Mountain Ghosts wandered the forest, they would absorb the life out of things instinctively, no matter whether it was flowers, plants, trees, birds, or animals, everything with life was within its scope.
A powerful Mountain Ghost could certainly destroy an entire forest.
‘Since today is Mid-autumn, this lolita seems to be thinking about home.’ Lu Xun thought.
He didn’t know how to console her, however, he still felt that he should do something about it. So he said, “Fourth Senior Sister, follow me.”
And then, he forcibly dragged Cat Southnorth into the kitchen.
If she were an ordinary lolita, Lu Xun would have simply picked her up, he wouldn’t need to drag her so forcibly.
After entering the kitchen, he didn’t say anything to Cat Southnorth and just minded his own business with cooking.
He took out crystal sugar, eggs, and milk.
He actually wanted to use white granulated sugar, but unfortunately, there weren’t any in this world. In reality, the history of white granulated sugar wasn’t long in China.
Milk wasn’t rare for the Demon Sect, but it was definitely a little different from the milk we usually drink. Since raw milk was harmful to the human body, he specially heated it at a high temperature.
In their childhoods, many people probably also drank boiled raw milk. Its flavor was actually not that bad.
After he whisked the eggs evenly, he poured in a certain ratio of milk, and then added a suitable amount of sugar. He was preparing to make Cat Southnorth some milk pudding.
This simplified version of a milk pudding was difficult to make, it mainly depended on whether or not the milk to egg ratio was appropriate.
Of course, since there wasn’t a filter net and crystal sugar was used, the pudding wouldn’t look as smooth when it was made. It would be a little bumpy.
In terms of texture, it would be low-level, but the taste actually wouldn’t be bad at all.
After all, Cat Southnorth had never eaten a high-level one! She would be easy to fool!
Actually, in his previous life, whenever his sister, Lu Yu, was in a bad mood, Lu Xun would make this for her. They were poor then, so a simplified milk pudding would be enough to bring a sense of satisfaction and happiness to their lives.
“Fourth Senior Sister, help me ice it,” Lu Xun said with a smile.
While distracted, Cat Southnorth circulated magical powers. She cultivated a water element cultivation technique, and it truly could be used like a freezer.
Although the milk pudding’s appearance was quite average, Cat Southnorth had never seen such a dessert. It was a novelty for her.
“Try it.” Lu Xun handed the pudding to Cat Southnorth after it was done freezing, the pudding was even placed in a bowl to make it look fancy.
After Cat Southnorth took it over, she first used the spoon to eat a small mouthful. And then, she quickly ate a large mouthful.
She seemed to like it a lot as she ate it quite quickly.
It wasn’t until she was almost finished eating that she remembered Lu Xun didn’t have a single bite, she looked at the pudding that she thoroughly mashed up and then looked at Lu Xun. She didn’t know what to do all of a sudden.
Lu Xun bent down to her eye level and reassured her, “Don’t worry, it’s all for you.”
His voice carried a somewhat pampering tone, it shouldn’t be the tone that a little junior brother had with his senior sister.
If it were before, the proud and lively Cat Southnorth would have definitely been angry. But today, she didn’t seem to resist it, and instead, she lowered her head and took a fierce and large bite of the pudding!
There was a basis that eating sweet food could improve one’s mood, it helped secrete dopamine.
But for foodies, it went without saying that eating food that suited their tastes could make them more cheerful.
Cat Southnorth finished this large bowl of pudding completely in a short while.
Her mood also seemed to have improved a little.
“Thank you, Little Junior Brother.” Cat Southnorth looked up at Lu Xun.
Since he was looking down from this angle, Lu Xun could see her large eyes and her cat ears that fell slightly backward as she lifted her head.
He wanted to reach out with his hand to pat her head. However, once he reached out halfway, his hand stopped in midair.
It was because Cat Southnorth wasn’t a child in the truest sense after all, she was proud and cold. She definitely didn’t like to be patted on the head by her own junior brother. With this said, the hand Lu Xun extended was suspended in midair.
After Cat Southnorth was momentarily startled, her small hands suddenly climbed on to his palm. And then, it pulled his hand, she placed his palm on her cat ears on her own accord.
She guided Lu Xun’s large hand with her small hands like this and rubbed her own head.
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[0] Internet slang usually in the acronym form, awsl, short for ah, i’m dead, used when one finds something cute