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“Like a tiger, it climbs the trees,
Twisting round the trunk with grace and ease.
Like a young colt, free and untamed,
No harness needed, no reins to be claimed.
It hunts for mice, swift and sure,
But fish is a hunt it won’t endure.”
The night had slowly deepened. The cat lay flat on the bed, all four paws facing the sky, softly reciting poetry while gazing at the tiled roof.
As it recited, it turned over and glanced at the paper beside it. “But fish is a hunt it won’t endure!”
Song You sat cross-legged on the bed, feeling very calm inside.
Today marked the Daxue[1], and Heroine Wu had already returned, but the scholar ghost was still missing.
Fengzhou wasn’t actually far. A journey of over a thousand li would take Song You about a month for a round trip, which an ordinary person could complete in about a month as well.
However, according to Heroine Wu, Mount Ye was remote, with many mountains and difficult paths, and there were no waterways. Sometimes, there weren’t even places to stay, and the official post stations were quite desolate, which meant it would take more time. An ordinary traveler would need at least one and a half to two months to make the round trip.
Ghosts, unless they had special abilities, actually traveled no faster than humans; they too needed to walk slowly.
Additionally, ghosts had to avoid the times just after...
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