The cicadas have chirped in the scorching summer, and autumn has already begun, and the grass on the hillside is swaying with the last trace of summer warmth. A five-year-old girl wearing wooden clogs struggled to push aside the weeds that were much taller than herself, and walked to a hill based on her memory.
The hill is also buried in the grass, and there is also a clay statue hidden in it. The image was neither a Buddha nor a Tao, nor an immortal nor a god, but a little fox with two tails. The girl discovered this clay statue on the day of the summer solstice. Her grandmother had told her that anyone cast into a statue, whether made of gold, silver, jade, or clay and grass, is a good god and needs to be worshiped. It's better to be treated rudely than to be treated rudely.
The girl then knelt down to the fox and hurried back home. She brought three dishes, swept the statue, poured some dew on it, and placed grains and salt cubes made of grass mud on the plates. This is the first statue she has encountered, and it is probably the only one she has discovered within a radius of dozens of miles.
The girl comes once every three days, and sits there for a long time, chatting about homely things and seeing each other today. Almost all her relatives died of famine, and the only one left was her seriously ill grandmother. The land is covered with fertile black soil, but there is no way to cultivate it. In this world where spiritual practice is common, it is difficult for a mortal to live.
"Fox Master, grandma can no longer speak and can't eat. I want to find some tender wild vegetables for her to eat. Do you know where I can dig them?"
"Fox Great Fairy, grandma said something. She said she was very hungry, and I was also very hungry... I will sit here for a while, I don't want to go back..."
"Fox Master, I am the only one left. I can sit with you for a long time today..."
Maybe it was to deal with the funeral affairs of her relatives, so the girl didn't come for half a month. She pushed aside the weeds and came to the hill. The fox statue was already entangled in weeds. After cleaning up, the girl put grains and salt cubes on the plate again, this time for real.
The girl sat down and said: "Fox Fairy, eat quickly, I will take it away later, I will sell myself..." The girl sold herself to a businessman. The businessman also had good intentions and was not a robber. Willing to help this lonely child, the girl said she wanted to pay homage to the clay statue. When the businessman asked, he learned that it was a fox statue, and quickly said that it was not a fairy, but an evil spirit. However, the girl still came secretly, but the businessman was not in a hurry. , just waiting where he was, thinking that he would wait for a long time. If he couldn't wait, it would be the fate of this child.
Gugu... Gu... The girl's stomach growled again. She was used to it, and I'm afraid the clay statue was also used to hearing it.
"Fox Great Immortal, I'm leaving. Thank you for protecting me during these times, ah Mi..." She bowed to the statue again and again, saying the honorifics that her relatives had taught her. Then, she carefully put away the grains and salt cubes in the bowl, then found nearby tender grass that had not been exposed to the cold, mixed it with mud and "made" some dough cakes, and put them in the bowl.
Just as she was about to leave, a gray rabbit suddenly appeared in the grass. This rabbit was very fat, but not like a hare. It was not afraid of people at all. It stood in front of the girl, then rubbed her ankles and made a sound in its belly. The girl squatted down and touched the rabbit's head. The rabbit was very intelligent. He turned over, pointed at his belly with his right paw, and opened his mouth wide. There was nothing a hare could do.
When the girl was not paying attention, the fat rabbit jumped up and took the grain pancake in his hand into his mouth. The girl was very anxious and wanted to grab it, but the rabbit suddenly looked pitiful and his stomach kept growling.
The girl's stomach also growled. She tilted her head and said with a sweet smile: "You go ahead and eat it. I don't care. I'm used to it. I'm still worried about having nothing left after eating."
The rabbit seemed to understand, swallowed it in one gulp, and then ran into the grass. The girl said goodbye in the direction where the rabbit disappeared. After a while, she squatted down and cried softly.
After a long time, the sound of footsteps came from behind, and the girl suddenly felt a sense of coolness. When she turned around, she saw a man holding a long fan, with a rabbit mask hanging on the side of his face, and dressed in white. Wasn't he the one who had been guarding the meteorite soldiers? The two-tailed fox directly under the pavilion? It turned its true body into a clay statue and waited quietly for the appearance of Mu Ziyun and Fang Tianmu.
The two-tailed fox spread its left hand, and the girl smelled a scent, and her eyes flashed. It was a small cake or a meat cake. The girl swallowed, but did not make any request. She stood up and walked away cautiously.
After walking seven or eight steps, she turned back and found that the man was still following her. The girl was a little timid. She took out the last salt block and put it on the ground. She said, "I have nothing else. I have always been on the run. Please do it." , spare me." Her father was beaten to death by bandits on the famine road.
The two-tailed fox shook his head. There was no hint of indifference or animality in his eyes. Instead, there was a persuasive warmth. Even the Twin Demons couldn't believe that the two-tailed fox would behave like this. The two-tailed fox turned sideways and pointed at the clay statue buried in the haystack with his long fan. However, the girl found that the clay statue was missing, and the two-tailed fox took out three dishes from his side.
The girl clapped her hands and said in surprise: "Are you the Great Fox?"
The two-tailed fox smiled and nodded. The girl excitedly walked around the two-tailed fox seven or eight times, chatting a lot. The two-tailed fox opened his mouth and said, "Do you have any wishes?" Do you want wild vegetables? Or meat?"
"I..." the girl stopped abruptly. In the past, she might have begged the immortal to save her grandma, but now, she did not make any wish. Instead, she shook her head and said, "I don't have anything to hope for." Now, I have never eaten candy. I have had it before, but I don’t eat it. It melts..."
"So you want a candy bar?"
"No, if I eat sugar, I will know the taste of sweetness, and then I will feel all the bitterness. I am fine now."
The two-tailed fox was stunned, and its eyes became a little unbelievable. It had listened to the girl's statement for nearly three months, and indeed it had never heard of the girl's wish. The only time it had was to find tender wild vegetables. Grandma eats it. There was inexplicable pain in its heart, and he didn't know that he was experiencing an emotion that he had never experienced before in millions of years since it had appeared several times. No one could have expected that its appearance this time would be interfered by by the black elf, and its body would be reborn due to the soul of the black elf. It would possess the memory of a living being and develop feelings at the same time.
The two-tailed fox touched the girl's head tenderly, and the girl became much more well-behaved. Only relatives had done this to her. The two-tailed fox said: "I will take you to Jiuquan so that your soul can be reborn as soon as possible. In the next life, you will not suffer anymore."
"I'm not bitter," the girl said seriously, "I'm used to many things. I promised grandma that I would live like this for a long, long time."
The two-tailed fox's hand had already gathered energy, but when it heard the girl's words, it hesitated and said: "Okay, don't worry, I will take you to taste the sweetness first, so that you can choose a sweet raw material in the future." ." It spread out its hand, which was a sugar stone.
The girl soon smelled the fragrance. Although her mouth was watering, she still looked away decisively. She knew that she could not eat it. Once she ate, she would never be able to live anymore. But in the moment of hesitation, the sugar stone was stuffed into her mouth by the two-tailed fox. The girl was stunned and didn't move for a long time.
The two-tailed fox stood nearby, waiting silently. There was no response for a long time. He looked over and found the girl with tears streaming down her face. She fainted while standing. The sweet taste she had never understood was so powerful.
Stars filled the night, and the girl woke up. Her stomach began to growl like crazy. It seemed that after a sleep, her ability to withstand hunger disappeared. But then she smelled the fragrance and turned around to see that the two-tailed fox had lit a fire. , a frog is roasting, and there is a clay pot next to it, which contains a pot of wild vegetable soup.
The two-tailed fox pointed at the jar and said softly: "Eat it, the meat will be ready soon." It did not turn around, but soon heard the sound of gobbling. It was pleased to blow up the flames, and the frog meat became more delicious. Fragrant.
The next day, the girl grabbed the clay statue and screamed for a long time, and finally called the two-tailed fox out.
"Fox Master, I may die soon, but thank you for your hospitality."
"Didn't I say I would take you to Jiuquan?"
"Where is Jiuquan?"
"It's the road before reincarnation, what you humans call the end of death."
"Is it as painful as grandma?"
The two-tailed fox smiled slightly, lowered his head and replied, "I can take you there directly without experiencing any pain. Come on, let's go right away."
The girl hesitated, clasped her hands together, and begged: "Fox Great Immortal, I want to make a wish to you."
"Oh? Tell me."
"I want to live for another three months. There are so many things I want to do and so many things I want to eat. I don't need your help. I just want to work hard. It doesn't matter even if it's hard. It will be over in three months. ."
"Where do you want to go? What do you want to eat?"
"I want to eat soybeans! And the legendary tofu!"
The two-tailed fox frowned and searched in his memory for a long time, but could not find any record of tofu. After all, this was only human food, and black elves did not eat it at all.
The two-tailed fox didn't know where to look for soybeans and tofu, but he still replied: "Look for them, I will stay with you for three months."
"Wow! Will you accompany me?"
"Um."
Just like that, the two-tailed fox that had been chasing Mu Ziyun and Fang Tianmu here actually left, accompanied by a five-year-old girl from the human race. The girl was born in a year of famine, and her relatives gave her a blessed name, "Youshi". As for the surname, they didn't even care.
"Why are you here, Great Fox?"
"Waiting for two humans to show up."
"do what?"
"Kill them."
"Are they suffering too?"
"The world is full of images of suffering, and one thought of reincarnation is a hundred blessings."
