Zhao Rong didn't walk too far, but returned to the street that Su Xiaoxiao had walked on before.

He walked and stopped, bought some things, and then returned to the remote bookstore at the end of the street.

When Zhao Rong looked from afar, there seemed to be a small figure waiting for him at the door of the bookstore. However, when Zhao Rong approached, she disappeared again. She must have entered the bookstore again.

Zhao Rong arrived at the door of the bookstore. She was standing at the counter checking out, holding two new books in her arms and a small red purse in the shape of a fox in her hand.

He stopped at the door and waited. She didn't look at him. She put down the small bookcase, put the books and the small purse in it, then put it on her back again and jumped twice as if testing the weight.

Seeing her carrying a small book box out of the house, Zhao Rong handed her the little fox-shaped candy man in his hand. He also stretched out his right hand from behind his back and handed her all the boxes of different sizes in his hand.

These were the mung bean cakes that Su Xiaoxiao had coveted when she was shopping before, the small jewelry that she had noticed, the hair ribbons whose colors caught her eye... and so on.

He bought them all for her without missing a single one.

"No." Su Xiaoxiao walked right past him with a stern face.

Zhao Rong turned his head to look at her back and smiled. It seemed that she was still angry, but not as angry as before. The look in her eyes when she looked at the sugar man just now was obviously greedy.

What a hypocritical little fox demon! He withdrew his hand with a normal expression, continued to hold the candy man and the box of gadgets, and followed.

This temporary bustling town was not big. Zhao Rong and Su Xiaoxiao walked to the end in no time. They tacitly did not turn back. After leaving the town, they walked forward all the way, as if they would keep walking as long as there was a road ahead. Sometimes walking is like this, aimlessly, just walking forward is enough, commonly known as wandering around out of boredom.

The little fox demon still didn't speak to him, but it could be said that she finally walked to his side. Zhao Rong could even raise his hand to hold her shoulder, but the little fox demon, who was still angry, would definitely not let her, so he didn't ask for trouble.

Besides, he was holding a little sugar man for her in his hand, and he knew she would eat it.

Afterwards, the two of them kept walking forward, neither of them spoke first. As they moved away from the populated town, this forest road that led to nowhere became darker and darker. Tonight, the dark clouds gradually increased, and the stars in the sky became sparse. Only the faint and hazy moonlight allowed him to see the cute face of the little fox demon with softened curves when he turned his head occasionally.

The forest was getting deeper and deeper, and the road was getting darker and darker. The two began to see some things emitting light blue light in the distance. This was very eye-catching in the dark wilderness. The little fox demon was no exception. He stretched his head to look around, turned slightly, and walked towards the place where the faint light was emitted.

Zhao Rong followed with a little fox-shaped sugar man in his hand.

When the scholar and the fox demon, one big and one small, walked into the dim light, they saw a small valley, or rather a sunken basin, covering an area of ​​about one hectare.

It is very strange to see such terrain in a deep forest, and what is even more strange is that there is only one tree planted in this small basin, and around this tree, there are patches of green plants planted in a regular pattern in other places.

These green plants are of the same species. They look like low-hanging lamps in the dark grass, emitting a faint blue light, making the light in the basin much brighter.

At the same time, there are tiny specks of photons floating out from these "light blue lamps".

Like stars and fireflies, they float nimbly in the valley, as if they were born with it.

This glowing green plant is now planted in a regular pattern, divided into evenly distributed fields, filling the entire basin.

Zhao Rong recognized the green plants below that seemed to be planted artificially.

It is called neon grass, which has the effect of stopping bleeding, removing blood stasis and repairing wounds. It is a common elixir in the mountain fairy market, and is also one of the ingredients for many best-selling elixirs for healing wounds.

As for the tree surrounded by the basin full of neon grass, Zhao Rong didn't recognize it. He just thought it looked like a peach tree, but it grew crooked and not pretty, with a few peach-like fruits hanging on it.

Zhao Rong stood with Su Xiaoxiao at the edge of the basin and they looked at it quietly for a while.

Different from Su Xiaoxiao who was focusing on the scene of fireflies reflected in her eyes, he turned his head and looked at the basin terrain in the deep forest and the movements on both sides.

"I thought there would be no fireflies in late autumn." The little fox demon said. This was probably the first time she spoke in a normal tone after the quarrel between the two.

"This should be a spiritual field planted by an immortal in the surrounding area. There are magic barriers arranged around it, and the climate inside is warmer than outside." He said.

He had seen this kind of spiritual field planted by immortals when he lived in the Lanxi Lin family in Zhongnan Mountain. Zhongnan Mountain was once a blessed land for Taoists, and it was a fertile land, very suitable for the growth of spiritual medicines and immortal herbs. Lin Wenruo's Lanxi Lin family was also a well-known dog-rich family, and they often took him around in the spiritual fields in their back garden. I don't know if it was Versailles, but they just didn't take him to the backyards of the eighteen concubines. Aren't they all "fields"? Even a gentleman like him was on guard... Anyway, Zhao Rong was quite familiar with the spiritual fields.

After he finished speaking, the little fox demon fell silent, probably because she just remembered that she should be angry with him.

"Do you want to catch a firefly? Well, maybe not a firefly, but it should be similar." Zhao Rong said. He thought this silly girl should really want to, remembering that when they were in Lanxi Lin's, they lived in the same courtyard, and she had caught a lot of these things and covered them in her palms to scare him when he came back in the middle of the night. In the room full of floating "stars", the little fox demon akimbo boasted that she was the number one firefly killer in Qiantang Mountain, and there was no firefly that she couldn't catch.

"I'm a grown-up," she said.

"No, it has nothing to do with size. The little fox demon likes to catch fireflies, just like a cat eats fish. Is there anything more natural than this?" He said with a serious look on his face.

"This, this is someone else's spiritual field. It's not very good." She seemed to be quite satisfied with Zhao Rong's statement and nodded in agreement, but her tone was still hesitant.

Zhao Rong originally thought that she would ignore him and turn away, but she still paid attention to him. It seemed that she really wanted to go down and catch fireflies.

"It's okay. I'm familiar with Dali. You can go without worry. Just be careful not to step on other people's elixirs. Go ahead. We're not stealing fruits or picking herbs. We're just catching a few fireflies. I still have some face." As he said this, he took a few steps forward, glanced at some magic circles arranged on the edge of the basin below, raised his right hand, and gently patted the gray pipe at his waist.

The mouth of the bag opened automatically, and gray mist slowly flowed out of the bag like flowing clouds, flowing into the basin below.

In an instant, the entire magic barrier suddenly appeared, emitting blue light, but the moment it came into contact with the gray smoke, the light dimmed.

The gray smoke flowed like water, covering a circular area with a diameter of about ten meters on the huge barrier. Then, without even a breath of time, a hole appeared in the blue barrier covered by the gray fog, like a corroded gap.

A descending mountain road leading into the basin is right within this gap.

Su Xiaoxiao stood beside Zhao Rong, biting her lip and watching.

"Go ahead and catch some fireflies. I'll watch them for you." After finishing these things casually, he turned around and said, "By the way, wait a minute... take this candy man. If you don't eat it now, it will become too hard to chew. I don't know if you like the pattern of this little animal, but it's my favorite... Oh, and these little gadgets. I think you like them too, so I bought them all for you."

He handed over the little fox candy figure in his hand, as well as the boxes of snacks and jewelry.

"Help me hold these." She took the little fox candy figurine hesitantly, but did not take the small boxes. She added, "Well, please help me hold these."

Hearing the little fox demon still saying "please", Zhao Rong felt a little helpless, but still nodded and continued to help her carry it.

She seemed to glance at his expression and said, "You...won't you come down and catch fireflies together? I can teach you."

Zhao Rong was slightly stunned.

Maybe he isn’t that angry with me anymore… he thought to himself.

"Forget about it tonight. I'm a little tired from running. You go ahead. I'll just watch over you here." Facing the invitation from the top firefly catching expert of the Fox Tribe of Qiantang Mountain, he shook his head slightly. "Do you want me to carry the small bookcase for you? I mean, you'll be running around later, and it might get in the way if you carry it."

"No need." She jumped twice, looking confident that this was an easy task for this fox.

"Okay." He smiled and nodded. "Go ahead, I'll wait for you there. Remember not to step on other people's elixirs."

Zhao Rong pointed to a high slope not far away, which overlooked the entire basin, and he walked over.

The little fox demon ran down with the small bookcase on her back, passed through the gap in the barrier created by the gray smoke, and entered the spiritual field in the basin. She first walked around the basin, eating the fox-shaped candy in her hand while looking at the fireflies floating gently in the spiritual field.

Zhao Rong, who was watching from the high slope, couldn't help laughing. Below, she walked a full circle around the spiritual field, ate the little candy man, and even licked the wooden stick clean. Without throwing it around, she put it in the small book box. Then, she carried the small book box on her back and ran towards the place where the "blue fireflies" gathered the most in the spiritual field, and caught the fireflies.

At first, Zhao Rong was a little worried that Su Xiaoxiao would not be caught. Well, he had doubted her reputation as "the best firefly catching expert among the fox tribe of Qiantang Mountain". As everyone knows, those who claim to be the best experts usually get beaten the hardest and die first.

Besides, she was so stupid that it was hard for him to believe that besides eating, sleeping and sewing, she had such amazing skills.

However, the facts that followed proved that the title of the Qiantangshan fox clan's best firefly catching expert was not an empty boast.

In the spiritual field, a little fox demon in red clothes, carrying a small bookcase on his back, jumped around, pounced left and right, and grabbed like a fish in water...

"I didn't expect that she's such a master." Zhao Rong said to himself with a smile. This was also the first time he saw her catching fireflies, and the first time he had the patience to accompany her like this.

"Tsk." Gui curled his lips.

Zhao Rong didn't care and quietly watched the fiery red figure running around below.

After "killing all around" in the spiritual field and catching a whole circle, the little fox demon covered its hands together, as if hiding a secret treasure, and ran back to Zhao Rong.

"Guess how many?" she asked him with wide eyes.

"One hundred." He thought about it carefully and said seriously.

"No, my hands aren't that big, but these fireflies are definitely smaller than any I've ever seen. I caught a lot of them, as big as..." She shook her head and was about to reveal the answer, "...yes...eh, I still remember it just now, um, it's all your fault for interrupting me."

As she spoke, she loosened her two little hands, and a blue "galaxy" blossomed from her palms, surrounding Zhao Rong, floating lightly like the flowing Milky Way.

"So many, so pretty." He was slightly startled when he spoke, then took another look, "Well, they really don't look like fireflies. They might be small creatures that grow with spiritual medicine."

"How about we go down and catch it together? I'll teach you." said the little fox demon, eyes sparkling.

"No, I'll just watch over you. Go down and play. I'll watch over you here." He took out some cakes from the town from the box and handed them to her. "Are you hungry after running? Eat some more."

She took the pastry and looked down at it.

"I'm not mad at you anymore."

"I know, hurry up and go down, I feel like someone is coming to chase us away, go down and catch more."

At this moment, the little fox demon suddenly stood on tiptoe and kissed Zhao Rong.

It's the lips.

He was stunned and felt something sticky on his lips. He took a sip and found it was the candy she had eaten before.

Zhao Rong also tasted it.

How sweet, he thought.

After the little fox demon gave her a quick kiss, she put her hands behind her back as if nothing had happened, looked up at the sky, and said, "It looks like it's going to rain... It's already started, and it's drizzling."

"I know."

What she did next almost made him lose control of his expression, and his smile was as bright as a bright flower... The little fox demon in red clothes reached into Zhao Rong's sleeve, took out a small sachet, and put it back on his waist.

"You don't want it anymore?" he asked.

"I'll let you wear it for a while. Return it to me when we get back to Duyou City."

"Okay. Go down quickly. The barrier below should be able to block the rain. You continue to catch..." He nodded.

But the little fox demon still stood in front of him and refused to leave.

Above the two of them, the cold autumn night rain was gradually getting heavier.

"Zhao Rong, are you a gentleman? Once you say something, even four horses can't take it back. Are you really not leaving? After sending me away, will you go back to find Sister Lingfei?" she asked.

"It's hard to catch up with the past," he corrected.

"I know, it's hard to catch up with someone once you've done something wrong... so you're really not leaving?"

"Yes." Zhao Rong nodded, not lying. He urged: "Go down quickly, those fireflies are coming out again."

Su Xiaoxiao looked at him and stuffed the cake in her hand into his mouth, "Eat it!"

Then she sucked two fingers, carried her small book box on her back, and skipped down again. She returned to the spiritual field. She walked around the field again, saw a place suitable for catching fireflies, and ran over happily.

On the way, she looked back at Zhao Rong who was watching on the high slope and waved to him.

He waved back at her.

Then,

It started to rain heavily.

The rain was very heavy, so heavy that Zhao Rong suddenly understood the meaning of the phrase "downpour". He felt that the person who created this idiom was really right. The autumn rain above his head was really heavy, as if the water in a basin was pouring directly on his head. He was soaked all over, just like he had just been fished out of a pool. The shelter in front of him was obviously within reach, but he just didn't want to lift his feet. He stood on the high slope and continued to watch the little fox demon running around chasing fireflies below. He was soaked all over, but it didn't matter.

In the rain, Zhao Rong stood for a long time and then squatted down. He was still not satisfied, so he sat on the ground with his legs spread out. He wiped his face hard. Zhao Rong suddenly felt very happy, really very happy. He was so happy that he wanted to raise his head and open his mouth to shout. He didn't know why. He could only say that it was because of the little fox demon catching fireflies below. It was so cute. It was wearing a red dress and carrying a small book box. Its little ponytail also jumped along with it. Wow, a little fox demon catching fireflies and carrying a small book box on his back. Hahahahahahahaha…

"Return." He smiled brightly and wiped his face fiercely.

"What?" It thought someone was crazy.

"I really fucking wish Qingjun and Qian'er were here right now."

The sword spirit was stunned.

It seems...really crazy?

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