Chapter 439: Master (4)
The matter was completely exposed, and Aunt Zhang went to report to the authorities. Then the people from the government office came and demolished the wall, dug out the bodies, and those who should confessed confessed, those who should be punished were punished, and those who should fainted fainted. Naturally, the problem in Aunt Zhang's family was solved.
The fox demon and the big monster that the Wang family was talking about had long since turned into a small bald fox, curled up comfortably in Xu Ailian's padded bamboo basket.
Where did this monster come from? The people in the government office just thought they had committed a crime and gone crazy.
The matter was resolved satisfactorily.
Xu Ailian didn't say a word from beginning to end.
"Well, isn't this a much simpler solution?" The fox fairy stretched out her foot and scratched her neck. "Next time someone picks on you, just ask me to do it! No, ask me to do it!"
After saying this, it wagged its tail proudly.
But the praise she wanted didn't come for a long time. When she looked back, Xu Ailian had her eyebrows lowered and a faint smile on her face.
"What! You're not going to say that we have to move again because of my transformation!" The fox fairy was wary of this smile.
No matter whether Xu Ailian said good or bad, expressed pity or preaching, she always had this expression.
"...I'm moving, but that doesn't matter." She still smiled, "Thank you so much for today."
After saying that, he raised the basket and touched the fox fairy's sparsely haired head and neck.
Thank you for freeing me from my constraints and for doing things for me that I am not used to doing.
It turns out that the feeling of letting go and fighting back with confidence is also very refreshing.
How long had it been since she had felt this way?
Ten years? Twenty years? It seemed like there had been no more since the song was taken away.
Xu Ailian suddenly came to her senses. Her master was gone, Qu Qu was gone, but they were still there. They lived in her soul, weighing on her, year after year...
"Old woman? Old woman!" The fox fairy's shout interrupted her reverie. "What are you daydreaming about? What are we having for lunch? You're not leaving without eating, are you?"
Xu Ailian smiled again: "What do you want to eat?"
"Deer! I want to eat deer!" The fox fairy cheered up.
"Where can I find deer for sale in this village?"
"Hey, I'm going to hunt one and bring it back for you to burn!"
"Can't you just hunt and eat it directly?"
"What's so delicious about raw food?"
Our fox fairy’s favorite is cooked meat with less oil and salt.
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The man and the fox waited until Aunt Wang's affairs were settled and Aunt Zhang's affairs were no longer a problem before they set off to say goodbye.
Even though Aunt Zhang tried to persuade them to stay by promising not to tell anyone about the little fox, they still declined.
What they enjoy more is the feeling of no one knowing, no one fearing, and no one flattering them.
In this way, the man and the fox began their life of living and traveling.
Find a secluded mountain village near the forest to live in. If someone offends Xu Ailian, the fox fairy will appear and teach them a lesson, and then set off to find the next place to live.
Life is comfortable and I have the opportunity to travel all over the country.
This was a path neither of them had ever envisioned.
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Good times are always short. From the beginning of this journey, Xu Ailian was already not young anymore.
Although the fox fairy has tried her best to recuperate her body and prolong her life, human lifespan is always limited and the cycle of life is unstoppable. She cannot stay with the fox fairy forever.
It’s only been a few years, the fox fairy always thought.
In his long life, this is only a period of time the size of a fingernail?
Is it over like this?
The fox fairy suddenly thought of his first wife, the mistress that Xiao Yu and Xu Chuchu met on Tianshan Mountain.
When he met his wife, she was young and beautiful.
They had a happy time, but the younger and more beautiful they were, the more they feared the coming of aging.
She didn't want to grow old and ugly in front of the fox fairy. She wanted to escape, resist, and even became seriously ill.
Finally, as a last resort, the fox fairy asked around and found out that there was a way to gain eternal life on Mount Tianshan, so he took his wife, who had no cultivation skills, to Mount Tianshan.
It was too cold and the snow was too heavy on the Tianshan Mountains, so she died on the road.
In the end, the fox fairy could only put her at the bottom of Tianchi Lake, refusing to believe that there were any gods there who sheltered the dead souls.
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Unlike his first wife, Xu Ailian was already quite old when he met her.
She doesn't have a pretty face, a bloated body, and doesn't look like anything young men would like.
But the fox fairy is no longer a naive young man, and his aesthetic taste has long surpassed that age range. He wants to find an old partner to live with.
But even if you don’t care about beauty, there will always be a stage that you can’t get over.
Xu Ailian was lying on the bed with her eyes half open and half closed, and a fox fairy in human form was sitting beside the bed.
Their palms pressed together not to express love, or rather, not just to express love, but also to continuously transmit spiritual power.
"No need." Xu Ailian struggled to open her eyes wider. "Really, no need. I can only stop here..."
"I know! I don't want anything else, I just want to make you feel better." The fox fairy's tone became choked as soon as she spoke.
He heard that people usually suffer before they die, and he didn't want to make his wife suffer.
Xu Ailian smiled and said, "I'm not feeling bad... I'm not sick, I'm just tired... very tired."
Her body was free of any illness under the care of the fox fairy, and now she was dying, but it was real, the end.
She used all her strength to pull her hand out of the fox fairy's hand.
"What kind of place do you think people go to after they die?" she murmured.
"When a person dies, their soul goes to the Green Dragon's territory, which you often call the Underworld." The fox fairy hurriedly told her something interesting to sober her up. "There's a green river there, and you can only cross it by boat... Then someone will judge your life, judging whether it was good or evil. The good are rewarded, and the evil are punished."
He paused here and said, "Don't worry, you will definitely be praised. I guess Green Dragon has never seen someone do so many good deeds in his life."
"As for me, I'm afraid it's terrible." He stuck out his tongue. "I hope the green dragon will show some mercy on me because I've helped them, or I can live a few thousand more years."
Having said this, he suddenly stopped talking.
Live for a few thousand more years? Spend hundreds or even thousands of years letting go of the person in front of me, spend hundreds or even thousands of years more adapting to the life of a fox, and then meet new people and spend a short time together... Is this a cycle of reincarnation?
Is it really necessary for him to continue living?
What in this world was there left for him to cherish? His tribe? His daughter and grandchildren?
They already have their own lives and don't need him anymore.
"I was wrong." He shook Xu Ailian's hand again, "If you leave, I will follow you. We will go to the Green Dragon's base together, so I can have company."
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