A day of work for the fox
The little fox took a deep breath, and after a moment, it showed a calm face. It stood up and walked to a nearby place to serve the rice. It also took the fish, shrimp, crab and chicken pieces roasting on the fire off the bamboo skewers and put them on the plate. It said to Jiang Jingyuan, "Eat."
Jiang Jingyuan picked up a shrimp and tried it, and immediately praised: "Shengliang, Shengliang, this one has no taste, this one is delicious!"
The little fox paused, and a smile gradually bloomed on his calm and numb face. He said, "Then eat more." He then unpacked the fish and crab and handed them to her.
Jiang Jingyuan said "hmm".
Unsuspectingly, she took a bite of the fish and put it into her mouth. Her face instantly frowned, "It's so salty it tastes bitter." Then, as if thinking of something else, she chatted casually, "This meat, it's not easy for fish to survive here."
The little fox paused, then smiled and said, "Such a smart and active fish will be nutritious if you eat it," and watched her eat the crab again.
Jiang Jingyuan took a bite of the opened crab, then stiffened instantly. He loosened his mouth, took a sip, and said, "I know it's the same soup as the fish soup right away. It's made by a fox. It's salty on the outside and fishy on the inside."
The little fox could barely maintain the smile on his face. He trembled twice and pushed the plate of chicken nuggets. "Eat this. I used less seasoning on this."
Jiang Jingyuan ate one.
Before Jiang Jingyuan had even chewed the chicken twice, his eyes gradually became dull.
The little fox's heart skipped a beat, his smile vanished, and he stared at her.
"It smells." Jiang Jingyuan spat the meat into his handkerchief, rinsed his mouth, and after a pause, he said, "It smells like poultry."
Sheng Liang: “???!!!”
Sheng Liang was so angry that the whole fox was shaking like crazy, his expression was twisted and ferocious, and he gnashed his teeth and said:
"The vegetables don't taste like vegetables, the meat doesn't taste like meat, so what flavor are they supposed to have?!!"
Jiang Jingyuan remained silent as she took the rice and ate it. After a while, she slowly opened her mouth.
Sheng Liang shouted first with an expressionless face: "White rice has nothing to do with me!"
Jiang Jingyuan glanced at it, then looked down at the rice in his bowl and said, "This rice is a bit sticky."
Sheng Liang: “…”
Sheng Liang said angrily, "Everyday he spends so much time on his body, how can he focus on his own cultivation?!"
As he was speaking, "You should go down the mountain..." Sheng Liang said with tears in his eyes, "You should go down the mountain, Fox really can't serve you anymore."
Jiang Jingyuan decisively refused: "No." He then said: "I will come down the mountain when I become famous."
Sheng Liang's expression twisted, "I don't think you can achieve anything!"
Jiang Jingyuan stopped using the chopsticks and stared at it quietly, his eyes as dark as the abyss.
Sheng Liang was startled by her dark eyes and immediately regretted whether he had said something too harsh.
The next moment, Jiang Jingyuan picked up the rice with the chopsticks in her hand and put it to her mouth. She stared at it and said slowly, "I don't want to hear it, I don't want to hear it." Then she lowered her eyes and ate.
Sheng Liang: “…”
Sheng Liang also sat down to eat in silence.
As dusk fell, after finishing his meal, the little fox cleared away the dishes and couldn't help but say to Jiang Jingyuan:
"You should focus on your actual cultivation! Put those books aside for now. How long will it take you to finish reading so many? Practice first, then read the books!"
Jiang Jingyuan pondered for a moment.
In fact, she had had this thought in mind, but she always felt that she still had a lot of shortcomings. She couldn't concentrate for a long time after practicing for a few hours, and soon she couldn't help but read again. Only when she read could she calm down again.
The little fox looked at her and said, "Hurry up and cultivate. After you cultivate, you won't need to eat anymore. Don't worry about food every day."
Jiang Jingyuan came back to his senses and said "Oh", without making any promises, just said: "I'll try."
"Do you know how I eat when you're not around?!" Sheng Liang couldn't help but ask again. He put down the wooden basin containing the dishes and chopsticks, walked to the stream, and said to Jiang Jingyuan, "Let me give you an example."
Jiang Jingyuan looked at it.
In the dark dusk, the red fox numbly fished out a shrimp from the stream, pinched the shrimp's long whiskers, and ignoring the splashing of water droplets when the shrimp bounced, opened its mouth and spit out a ball of orange flame.
Under the scorching flames, the shrimp quickly curled up. The red fox threw the shrimp into its mouth, chewing and swallowing it expressionlessly. It turned its head and said, "That's it."
Sheng Liang paused, then added, "We don't eat because we're hungry. We eat whenever we want, and our bodies won't affect us."
Jiang Jingyuan nodded blankly, thinking that this was the way to cultivate immortality, without relying on the elixir of fasting. Jiang Jingyuan said, "I'll start trying it tomorrow."
Sheng Liang responded with a numb expression, saying, "I have to wash the dishes. You can go wherever you want."
"It's getting dark, I'll stay here with you." Jiang Jingyuan said immediately.
Sheng Liang glanced at her and sneered. If he had felt a little touched and shy when Jiang Jingyuan first came, now...? Haha.
After washing the dishes, the little fox looked intently at Jiang Jingyuan beside him.
Jiang Jingyuan immediately said calmly, "Shengliang, get some water and boil it. Let's take a bath."
Sheng Liang: “Heh.”
The fox knows it!
The little fox had a face full of resentment. The stream behind it suddenly rose into a ball in the night sky. It then walked back with the water and the wooden basin.
Jiang Jingyuan was amused, suppressing the corners of her mouth. She knew it! As long as she opened her mouth, no one... not the fox, no, uh, anyway, nothing could refuse her!
Jiang Jingyuan followed the little fox towards the house.
at night.
"Shengliang..."
Jiang Jingyuan cried out in pain.
She grabbed the little red fox by its hind legs and refused to let it go. Sheng Liang cried out in pain, "The fox has been serving you all day, why don't you let it go at night?"
As it spoke, it frantically tried to pull back its foot.
"No." Jiang Jingyuan held onto its hind legs and refused to let go, saying, "Stay here and rest..."
The fox is tired... The little fox fell down helplessly with a look of despair and numbness on his face.
Jiang Jingyuan immediately grabbed it and held it in his arms, feeling relieved and happy, "It's too dark in the mountains at night. Even the chirping of insects and birds is terrifying. We can only feel at ease if we stay together, right?"
Sheng Liang sneered and said, "When the night is late, I will blow a breath in your ear and you will be obedient."
In an instant, Sheng Liang's eyes blurred, a strong wind whistled, and a huge force suddenly threw it out.
With a loud "bang", Sheng Liang's entire fox body fell to the edge of the bed and almost fell to the ground.
Sheng Liang's fox-like face was confused for a moment, his eyes moist and trembling violently, looking at the person in front of him with disbelief and hurt, "You, you..."
"I was wondering why I heard breathing sounds in my ears at night!" Jiang Jingyuan said angrily, "It turned out to be you!"
Jiang Jingyuan's expression twisted. "I was so scared that I couldn't even breathe or move at night. I suffocated myself until dawn!" Jiang Jingyuan suddenly reached out and grabbed the fox, shaking it madly. "You wicked fox!"
Sheng Liang twisted and struggled madly, slapping Jiang Jingyuan's arm with his backhand, and yelled in anger and grievance:
"I'm just saying, I've never done that before!"
Jiang Jingyuan's anger remained undiminished. "There are only two of us in this area. If not you, who else could it be?"
"You must have misheard your own breathing!"
Sheng Liang yelled.
"Impossible!" Jiang Jingyuan said decisively, "I heard the breathing sound didn't stop. I held my breath, but there was still breathing sound!"
Jiang Jingyuan's eyes were filled with anger.
Sheng Liang's face was also filled with anger and grievance.
The man and the fox glared at each other for a while, and suddenly screamed together.
"Light up, light up!"
"Light the fire! Light the lamp!!"
“Ahhhh—”
There was the sound of hurried footsteps and objects falling over, and orange-red firelight suddenly lit up in the house.
After doing all this, the man and the fox jumped onto the bed together, hugged each other and shivered.
Jiang Jingyuan trembled: "What kind of breathing sound is that?"
"Ahhh!" The little fox opened his mouth and howled.
Jiang Jingyuan buried his cheek in its fur and howled along with it. After howling for a while, Jiang Jingyuan suddenly stopped crying, his pupils trembling, and said, "What can breathe?!"
The little fox's howling suddenly stopped and its mouth gradually closed.
The man and the fox glanced at each other, then slowly loosened their hands and quickly separated.
"How can you, a fox, be afraid of these things?" Jiang Jingyuan looked at it and said.
Sheng Liang also glared at her and said, "Why are you afraid of these things alone?"
"It's only natural for people to be afraid of these things." Jiang Jingyuan said, "What is there for a fox like you to be afraid of? They are all monsters."
Sheng Liang's face flushed with anger, and he argued, "You're such a prejudiced person! And I'm a divine beast! A divine beast!"
So it's a divine beast, not a spirit beast... Jiang Jingyuan was surprised for a moment, then a serious look appeared on his face. He asked, "So, what else do you have on this mountain?"
The little fox frowned and pondered for a long time, then slowly murmured, "Impossible, I've never seen it before..."
"Is there something spirit among those chickens, ducks, cattle and sheep you raise?!" Jiang Jingyuan suddenly thought of it and asked.
Sheng Liang glanced at her and said, "It's not that easy!"
"Forget it," Jiang Jingyuan decided. "You stay here too. If there's any movement, just attack directly."
Sheng Liang nodded.
There was only a dim light left in the room, and a man and a fox slowly fell down.
Jiang Jingyuan closed his eyes, and suddenly heard Sheng Liang in his arms say softly, "Why didn't you attack or ask when you heard the breathing sound earlier?"
Jiang Jingyuan's body froze, he closed his eyes and pretended to be asleep without saying a word.
Sheng Liang raised his paw and nudged her, saying, "You're not trying to trick me, are you?"
Jiang Jingyuan closed his eyes and said nothing.
Sheng Liang frowned in dissatisfaction, "Hey?"
"Hello!"
"Are you lying to me?"
Jiang Jingyuan suddenly grabbed its mouthpiece, closed his eyes, and said, "I wasn't kidding." Then he let go, patted the back of its head, and said, "Be quiet."
Sheng Liang, who was caught off guard by having his mouth pinched, instantly widened his eyes: "!!!"
You are such an impolite person... The little fox Sheng Liang stared, but dared not say anything.
The next morning.
"Get up, get up, get up—get up, get up—"
The ethereal and tender voice became full of energy again, howling madly and urging at the top of its lungs.
Jiang Jingyuan turned over and reached out to pull the quilt to cover his head.
The little red fox immediately let out a "Hey!" and scratched her quilt with his claws. He said in surprise, "This is the first time I've seen someone cover their head with a quilt like you. Do you know that this has a very bad connotation?"
No matter what, whatever’s comfortable… Jiang Jingyuan frowned and howled in pain: “Half an hour!”
The little fox sneered, "I get up early and work late every day to serve you, and I'm not like you. How can you not get up early to practice?"
The fox jumped around on the quilt, kicking Jiang Jingyuan from time to time, "Get up, get up, get up——"
The quilt was pulled down with a swish, and Jiang Jingyuan reached out and slapped it, sending it flying off the bed. "If you have nothing to do, go cook!"
The little fox fell to the ground unexpectedly: "???"
Sheng Liang's expression twisted as he shouted angrily, "I called you half an hour ago and you said you were going to cook, and now the meal is ready!!"
Sheng Liang suddenly pounced forward, pulled back the quilt, and slapped the person inside hard!
"The food is getting cold, get up and eat!"
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