"Hey, what's your name?"

"Su...Su Xiaoxiao."

Inside the academy, in a quiet and elegant courtyard called Yilanxuan, there is a waiting pavilion surrounded by pink orchids near the door.

At this time, under the three steps of the pavilion, a petite and slender girl with fox eyes was squatting next to an orchid bush, hugging her legs and looking down at the ants moving on the ground.

Next to her, there was a small but domineering little girl in blue, wearing a page boy's hat, standing on the steps with her hands on her waist, looking down and sizing up the quiet and well-behaved fox-eyed girl.

At this time, after Su Xiaoxiao whispered her name, the girl in blue jumped onto the stone bench in the pavilion. She was short, but she stood tall, looking down from above, with her hands on her hips, and said:

"Xiao Xiao... Xiao Xiao? What a weak name. It sounds like a weak little fox demon."

"Well, then, what's your name?" Su Xiaoxiao raised her little head and said a little unconvinced.

"My name is Jingzi." Jingzi raised her head proudly, her pigtails almost reaching the sky. But before she reached the sky, the page boy's hat on her head, which was obviously too big for her, slipped down and almost covered her eyes.

She raised her hand nonchalantly to straighten the bookboy hat that always slipped down, and snorted softly, "How is it? Doesn't it sound good?"

Su Xiaoxiao nodded her head and said honestly and enviously, "It sounds nice."

She paused and whispered, "The baby that Zhao Lang and I will have in the future should also have a nice name, just like the one in the book, with a lot of allusions and details..."

Su Xiaoxiao's eyes were filled with longing. She tilted her head and couldn't help but reveal an innocent smile on her little face.

"Hmm?" Jingzi raised her eyebrows and took a closer look at the handsome little fox demon squatting on the ground, who looked a bit naive.

When she had just seen Su Xiaoxiao, she thought that such a beautiful little fox demon must be a cunning and evil vixen, just like the fox girls she had seen before. Well, the one in front of her was so beautiful that Jingzi could not take her eyes off. She must be even more charming.

So the girl in blue wanted to give the little fox demon a warning, but now it seems...

Are you a fool?

That guy hasn't been here for a long time. I heard he went down the mountain. Now he suddenly came to the door and brought a little silly fox with him? He left it and ran away? Where did he kidnap this little fox from? In this world, there are not many such silly little fox demons that can still jump around outside. It is a rare species... The girl in blue muttered secretly.

It was as if he was looking at something rare.

In the pavilion, Jingzi suddenly jumped off the stool and went down the stairs in two steps at a time.

She came to Su Xiaoxiao, bent down and nodded, "Well, you have some insight. I thought all of you foxes were illiterate. It seems that there are some normal little foxes who know how to admire the holy teachings and are not all mediocre."

"That's right!" The next second, the short Jingzi straightened her back, waved her little hand, and said proudly, "My name is not only very nice to hear, but also very particular and has a lot of allusions. You can spend seven days and seven nights looking up the big book about it. This was chosen for me by my master. Do you know how powerful he is?"

Su Xiaoxiao, who was listening to her lover's words and had been waiting for him quietly since she was brought here, was stunned at this moment. She looked up at this imposing orchid spirit and forgot to blink, staring at her with her fox eyes wide open.

At this time, the little fox demon saw the girl in blue proudly pointing in a certain direction with her chin.

She shifted her eyes and looked in the direction of a flower bed in the yard. There was an open-air desk surrounded by orchids. Beside the desk was a woman in Confucian clothes with her hair tied into a man's headdress. She seemed to be concentrating on writing something at the desk and didn't seem to stop for a moment to listen.

In fact, when Su Xiaoxiao was first brought here by Zhao Rong, she had already noticed this woman in Confucian clothes who made her feel a little timid and afraid.

She had just mustered up the courage to ask Zhao Lang, but Zhao Lang left her and went straight to the flower garden. He seemed to laugh for a while with the surprised woman in Confucian clothes, then turned back, gave her a few words of advice and left temporarily.

So after Su Xiaoxiao stole a lot of glances, she had to squat down with a little grievance, listened to Zhao Lang's instructions, and waited here obediently for him to come back after finishing his important business.

However, the little fox demon in red clothes became flustered when she thought of what Zhao Rong had said to her before he took her out of the north room of Dongli Cottage...

At this time, beside the waiting pavilion, Su Xiaoxiao followed Jingzi's instructions, gently stood up, and looked at the woman in Confucian clothes who was writing quietly. At this moment, the scenery somewhere was very majestic and magnificent, and extremely eye-catching.

I don't know what this fox-eyed girl was thinking about, her face suddenly turned pale.

She squatted down again and shrank into the orchid bush, hiding her figure and also using the orchid bush to block any possible sight of Zhu Yourong.

Su Xiaoxiao immediately backed off, drooping her little head and glancing at the small canteen below that was only big enough for Zhao Lang to barely eat. The little fox demon muttered:

"Oh, she's, she's amazing. So... so big."

After Su Xiaoxiao stood up, Jingzi glanced at the little fox demon who was faintly taller than her, then silently ran back to the pavilion, jumped onto the stone bench, and adjusted the book boy's hat...

At this moment, she also withdrew her gaze from where her husband was in the distance, then glanced somewhere in the same way and pursed her lips.

Hearing Su Xiaoxiao's words, Jingzi nodded in agreement.

“Yeah, that’s true.”

The two little girls had the same opinion and stayed silent for a while.

But they didn’t know why, but both of them felt inexplicably closer, was it some kind of... mutual sympathy?

Su Xiaoxiao looked up at the blue sky. It was almost noon.

She suddenly took out an embroidered sachet from her bosom, held it carefully, and looked at it with her head lowered.

Beside the orchid bushes, the little fox demon in red clothes pursed her pink lips quietly, and no one knew what she was thinking.

Jingzi picked up the watering can again and watered the "sisters" a little boredly. She turned her head and glanced at Su Xiaoxiao who was quietly doing this, and asked curiously:

"Where did you buy this sachet?"

"I knitted it~" Su Xiaoxiao's tone became more lively and she regained some confidence.

But a girl in blue nodded and said, "Oh, no wonder it looks so ugly. If it was bought from a clothing store in the city, I will have to avoid it when I go shopping next time..."

"..."Su Xiaoxiao.

The little fox demon in red clothes didn't want to play with the girl in blue clothes anymore.

She was squatting, her body swaying from side to side, and she turned her back to Jingzi with small steps.

The girl in blue blinked, but she became interested in this strange and silly fox demon. She asked this and that, making small talk.

Su Xiaoxiao held the sachet, tilted her head and stared at the orchid in a daze, ignoring her.

Jingzi jumped down again, circled around Su Xiaoxiao for a while, and suddenly said, "Hey, how did you fall in love with that guy?"

Su Xiaoxiao, with her back turned, trembled her shoulders, lowered her head, and said nothing.

I can't see his expression either.

Jingzi didn't care, she turned her hands behind her back a few times, and sighed in a conscientious manner: "But it's true, you are so stupid, you were fooled by him, and you were caught easily, right?"

At this point, the girl in blue looked regretful, shook her head again, and sighed:

"Su Xiaoxiao, you are very weak~"

Su Xiaoxiao, the bullied girl who had been burying her head in her pocket, suddenly stood up and turned around. Her already swollen eyelids became moist and red again.

The little fox demon sniffed and said seriously, "It wasn't Zhao Lang who flirted with me. It was... it was... I was the first one to take the initiative... to hold his hand."

Jingzi took a step back and immediately glanced at the fox-eyed girl who was a head taller than her. The girl in blue turned around and ran back to the stone bench with her short legs, habitually adjusting the large book girl's hat that could make her "taller".

At this time, Su Xiaoxiao said stubbornly: "You are not allowed to say that about him, and this matter... is not his fault. I am very weak, but about your husband... I, I will explain it to her!"

Her eyes were red, but her big fox eyes did not blink, as if she was trying hard to hold back the tears and not let them burst out.

The little fox demon told herself not to cry and to maintain the last bit of strength...

Jingzi was looking down at Su Xiaoxiao with a stern face. Seeing this, she opened her eyes slightly and subconsciously put down her hand that was on her slender waist.

These words...were spoken quite loudly, as if they were not meant for her.

The girl in blue quietly turned her head, looking over the shoulder of the little fox demon in front of her, and glanced at her teacher in the distance. She seemed to be still writing quietly, and did not hear or... care about the noise here?

Jingzi thought about it and frowned:

"Hey, little fox demon, um... did you misunderstand something? My husband and Zhao Ziyu don't have that kind of relationship, what are you imagining?"

She looked serious and deliberately raised her voice to make her tone sound strong:

"One of them is a teacher in the academy, and the other is a student. They are teacher and student. How can this work? Well, it's absolutely impossible!"

"Teacher and student?" Su Xiaoxiao, who was tense, was stunned. She looked suspiciously at the girl in blue clothes who was sitting on the stone bench with her hands on her hips. The latter was nodding with certainty.

Jingzi had a stern face and said in a hard tone, "Yes, there is no way, there is no chance! And my husband is so powerful, how could he fall in love with him? Well, only you, a stupid little fox demon, probably think that guy is a treasure. Hey, why don't you find a way to meet me and give you some advice."

Su Xiaoxiao: “…”

The girl in blue sighed, then raised her head, lifted her braids and said:

"That guy Zhao Ziyu, don't be fooled by his calm and powerful appearance on weekdays. Oh, my goodness, you don't know that he will become a coward in an instant when he meets me... Those tricks that harm girls were broken by me in one go~"

She paused, glanced at Su Xiaoxiao who was biting her lip and frowning, and gave the latter a 'you know' look.

Jingzi nodded with satisfaction, preparing to continue bragging to her new little fox demon friend, to add some extra bragging rights and scare her.

But at this time, the little fox demon tilted his head and said suspiciously: "Why do I remember... Zhao Lang said before that you were very afraid of him... and said that you are actually quite cute, but a little vindictive."

The girl in blue glared. But... cute? She loves to hold grudges!

She jumped up three feet high, and continued to put her hands on her hips, looking very tough, and forced to explain: "Don't disbelieve me! He doesn't dare to speak loudly to me. This is because... because when we first met, I..."

At this moment, the half-closed courtyard door not far away was suddenly pushed open. Along with the slight sound of the door opening, a slender male figure had gently walked to the side of the two people in the waiting pavilion.

A big hand came from behind and held down the little head of the blue-clothed girl who was stuck in her words.

The page boy's hat deflated.

"Well, tell me, what did you do to me?"

Zhao Rong smiled and stroked the dog's head.

“……”Quiet posture.