"Please, Master Fox Fairy, please save my son! He has no family yet. Please, Master Fox Fairy, have mercy on us. The roots of our Sun family cannot be cut off here!" In front of the bronze statue of the Fox Fairy, an old couple knelt and cried to it.
Many villagers knelt behind them, all speaking in support of the old couple: "Please, Master Fox Fairy, save the Zhang family's boy. You've watched him grow up. You held him in your arms when he was little. Can you really bear to watch him die?"
"Yes, Master Fox Fairy, you've saved so many people. Everyone is very grateful to you and built this Fox Fairy Temple for you... The Sun family kid hasn't even reached adulthood yet. Saving him wouldn't just be a matter of physical effort, right?"
Amidst the pleading, the fox fairy finally had no choice but to reveal herself.
She walked past the bronze statue into the temple and sighed deeply, "It's not that I didn't want to save him, it's just that I was powerless..."
Earlier, the boy from the Sun family came to the fox fairy temple to pray for marriage, and the fox fairy told him that he would have to wait for a few years before meeting the true source, and forced intervention would probably backfire.
Originally, the young man from the Sun family had no legitimate destiny, and this marriage was only arranged for him by the fox fairy with great difficulty.
But the boy from the Sun family didn’t think how much the fox fairy had paid for him to have a happy marriage. He just felt that the fox fairy was unwilling to give him a marriage recently because she looked down on him and thought he was not worthy.
The boy from the Sun family felt humiliated. He pushed down all the tributes and left angrily.
Before leaving, he only left a few words in anger: "Humph, if you can't even help me find a marriage, what's the point of the villagers worshipping you! You are just a useless fox. I don't believe that without the help of the fox spirit, I won't be able to find a wife."
From then on, the young man from the Sun family spent all his time indulging in flowers and girls. He didn't study for exams or go to the fields to farm. He just thought about getting a wife all the time.
The Sun family also spoiled him. As the only boy in the family, finding a wife and continuing the family line was a serious matter for the whole family.
But gradually, the villagers found that the boy from the Sun family became thinner and thinner, and his face became darker, like the ghost rumored in the village.
After a few days, the boy from the Sun family was bedridden. He was rarely awake throughout the day and was always complaining of pain.
The Sun family took people to see a doctor, and found out that the boy from the Sun family had a terminal illness and there was no cure.
The fox fairy said, "He has brought this situation upon himself. Those he associates with are not his true destiny. He insisted on forcing things, and ended up in this situation. I want to help him, but I am truly unable to do so."
The fox fairy has used up too much of her fairy power to help the young man from the Sun family fill the missing marriage line and find a suitable marriage partner for him. She is now no different from a mortal. If the offerings are stopped, she will turn from a fox fairy back into an ordinary fox in a few days.
If the boy from the Sun family can be saved, the fox fairy will definitely do it.
But the villagers of Qianfang Village did not think it was difficult to save the boy from the Sun family, and believed that the fox fairy did not want to save people.
"Master Fox Fairy, we have worshipped you for so many years, can't we ask you to help save someone?"
"Why wouldn't you want to save someone when you can do it with just a wave of your hand?"
"So the fox spirit we've worshipped for so many years is like this. It won't even help us when we're in trouble!"
"Forget it, forget it. The Fox Fairy won't help the Sun family save people. Let's go ask someone else. I heard that an immortal came to the next village and cured many people's illnesses. Let's go and try our luck with the immortal..."
No matter how the fox fairy explained, the villagers of Qianfang Village no longer believed what the fox fairy said.
The villagers shook their heads, got up from the ground, and left the Fox Fairy Temple in groups of two or three.
Looking at the villagers gradually going away, the fox fairy sighed and said nothing.
Shen Yijin and the others witnessed everything from the side. Only after the villagers had left did they dare to go forward and talk to the fox fairy.
The fox fairy looked at the two people and one fox walking towards her, with a faint smile on her face: "What do you want? I will do my best to help you realize your wish."
Bei Shitao looked at the fox fairy, her nose felt sore, and she inexplicably wanted to cry.
She sniffed, her voice tinged with tears, "No one believes you anymore, so why are you still helping the villagers fulfill their wishes?"
The fox fairy was stunned. She hadn't expected Bei Shitao to ask this question. "I was able to become a fairy thanks to the villagers of Qianfang Village. If they ask for help, how could I not help them?"
If the villagers had not trusted it and taken the initiative to build a fox temple for it, it would now be just an ordinary fox and might die at the hands of its natural enemies one day.
This magical power comes from the villagers of Qianfang Village, so it should be used on them.
"But, you clearly helped the boy from the Sun family, but none of them believed you..." The fox fairy who was not worshipped would sooner or later turn back into an ordinary fox.
Bei Shitao didn't understand why the fox fairy would still listen to other people's wishes and spend her remaining little power to help them realize their wishes when the villagers of Qianfang Village had already given up on her.
The fox fairy smiled: "But there are still people who believe in me, right? I can't let those who trust me down!"
The fox fairy extended her hand towards Bei Shitao: "Come, tell me your wish, and I will try my best to help you realize it."
Bei Shitao subconsciously hid her hands behind her back and asked tentatively, "Can I wish for anything?"
"Just tell me first, and I will definitely help you achieve what I can."
Bei Shitao slowly placed her hand on the fox fairy's palm: "Then I will pray to the fox fairy, hoping that the fox fairy will be healthy and free from disasters, and that you will always be the fox fairy that everyone cares about day and night."
The fox fairy was stunned: "Don't you make a wish for yourself?"
Bei Shitao shook her head: "This is my wish."
She didn't know why, but after seeing the fox fairy, all she could think about was that such a good fox fairy shouldn't die, and she deserved to be worshipped by everyone forever.
The fox fairy had helped so many people realize their wishes. The first time he heard someone make a wish for it, he couldn't help but feel warm in his heart.
But Bei Shitao's wish was too difficult to realize.
"Thank you, I will try my best to live up to your expectations." This is a wish beyond the fox fairy's ability, but she is willing to work hard to survive for Bei Shitao.
The fox watched Bei Shitao's interaction with the fox fairy and felt a little puzzled: "People are ignorant, isn't this normal? Why is she crying?"
Chen Yijin didn't answer. She picked up three incense sticks, inserted them into the incense burner, and rearranged the fruit plate.
If you want to keep the fox fairy, you can't let her lack offerings.
Chen Yijin is using this method to help Bei Shitao realize her wish.
Chen Yijin and his companions were visitors from a thousand years later, and they had no other place to stay except the Fox Fairy Temple.
So they lived in the Fox Fairy Temple.
No one has come to the Fox Fairy Temple for three whole months since the villagers of Qianfang Village left.
Despite the incense offerings from Chen Yijin and others, the fox fairy's condition was getting weaker day by day.
Soon, it started snowing on the mountain.
When the heavy snow completely buried the road leading to the Fox Fairy Temple, a man came walking on the snow.
The long-haired man looked at the fox fairy in astonishment: "It's only been a few months since we last met, how did you get yourself into this state?"
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