Chapter 104: The Fox Fairy Who Lost His Worship
"Please, Lord Fox Fairy, please save my son! He has no family yet. Please, Lord Fox Fairy, have mercy on us. We, the Sun family, cannot let our roots die 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 helping the old couple: "Please, Master Fox Fairy, save the Zhang family boy. You watched him grow up. You held him in your arms when he was little. Can you bear to watch him die?"
"Yes, Master Fox Fairy, you have saved so many people. Everyone is very grateful to you and built this Fox Fairy Temple for you... The Sun family kid is not even an adult yet. Isn't it a matter of physical effort for you to save him?"
After repeated pleas, the fox fairy finally had no choice but to reveal itself.
She came into the temple through the bronze statue and sighed deeply: "It's not that I don't want to save him, it's just that I can't do anything..."
Earlier, the boy from the Sun family came to the fox fairy temple to pray for a 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 only backfire.
Originally, the Sun family kid 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 it. Without the help of the fox fairy, 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, nor did he 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, getting married and continuing the family line was a big deal for the whole family.
But gradually, the villagers found that the boy from the Sun family became 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 shouting in pain.
The Sun family took people to see a doctor, and it turned out that the boy from the Sun family had a terminal illness and there was no cure.
The fox fairy said, "He himself has brought this situation to this point. Those who have been in contact with him are not his true love. He insisted on forcing it, and ended up in this situation. I also want to help him, but I really can't."
The fox fairy has spent too much of her fairy power to help the boy from the Sun family fill in 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 just wave your hand?"
"So the fox fairy we have worshipped for so many years is like this. She won't help us when we are in trouble!"
"Forget it, forget it. The Fox Fairy will not help the Sun family save people. Let's go ask someone else. I heard that a fairy came to the next village and cured many people's diseases. Let's go and try our luck with the fairy..."
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 others witnessed everything from the sidelines. Only after the villagers had left did they dare to step 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 to ask for? I will do my best to help you realize your wish."
Bei Shitao looked at the fox fairy and felt a lump in her throat. She wanted to cry for no apparent reason.
She sniffed and said in a tearful voice, "No one believes you anymore. Why do you still want to help the villagers realize their wishes?"
The fox fairy was startled. She had not expected Bei Shitao to ask this question: "I was able to become a fairy because of the blessing of the villagers of Qianfang Village. If the villagers ask for help, how can I not help them?"
If the villagers had not trusted it and took 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 is not worshipped will 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 use up her remaining fairy power to help people 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 down those who trust me!"
The fox fairy reached out her hand to 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 have any wish?"
"Just tell me first, and I will definitely help you achieve what I can do."
Bei Shitao slowly placed her hand on the palm of Fox Fairy's hand: "Then I will pray to Master Fox Fairy, hoping that Master Fox Fairy will be healthy and free from disasters, and will always be the Master 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 should not die, and she deserved to be worshipped by everyone forever.
The fox fairy has helped so many people realize their wishes. The first time I heard someone made a wish for it, I couldn't help but feel warm at heart.
But Bei Shitao's wish was too difficult to achieve.
"Thank you, I will try my best not to disappoint you." This is a wish that is beyond the fox fairy's ability, but she is willing to try her best to live for Bei Shitao.
The fox looked at the interaction between Bei Shitao and the fox fairy and felt puzzled: "People in the world 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 be without 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 from 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: "We haven't seen each other for just a few months. How did you get yourself into this state?"
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