Chapter 3 Relationships
The next morning, Ji Er repeatedly instructed Qing Shi to feed the remaining cubs well, and then hurriedly drove the original Li Xiaorong, now Ji Rong, to find Huang Pinjie.
Since marrying Qing Shi, Ji Er has only returned to Jiming Mountain for essential matters.
Jiming Mountain was both a haven and a nightmare for her.
Although Huang Pinjie was a five-tailed fox, her injuries were severe, and the Fire Fox Clan abandoned her.
The euphemism for assigning Jiming Mountain to Huang Pinjie was that she was only half alive at the time, and the mountain was extremely barren. Sending Huang Pinjie there was tantamount to sending her to her death.
When they first met, Huang Pinjie couldn't even afford the medicine to heal her own wounds, and after taking in her, she allowed the foxes of the Fire Fox Clan to come and play.
The only specialty of Jiming Mountain is the colorful chicken, and although the foxes that come to play have become intelligent, their natural talents are limited.
Their path to immortality is cut off, and their bestiality outweighs their spirituality. They could easily kill the colorful chicken with a single bite, but instead they choose to carry out all sorts of elaborate tortures and killings.
The common scenario is that a group of foxes surround dozens of colorful chickens, forcing them to fight to the death, and the winning chicken is then shared among the winning foxes.
Alternatively, each fox can grab a colorful chicken, mark it, and force it to fly continuously until the chickens are exhausted and fall to the ground. The foxes will then find their own chicken, drag it up halfway up the mountain, and the one that is left hanging is the winner. The loser must give the agreed-upon treasure to the winner in order to share the blood feast.
Or perhaps, they weren't after food at all, but rather trying to trap the colorful chickens, preventing them from eating, and seeing whose chicken survived the longest...
Such examples are countless.
Ji Er had just gained intelligence at that time, so how could he have seen such a scene? He was so frightened that he often held Huang Pinjie and couldn't sleep at night.
However, Huang Pinjie was Ji Er's savior, her guide in cultivation, and like a mother who gave her a second life.
Without Huang Pinjie, there would be no Ji Er. Therefore, whenever there is something she is unsure about, Ji Er will still fly back to find Huang Pinjie.
Upon arriving at Huang Pinjie's cave entrance, Ji Er used his wings to brush away the little fox that was asking for a visiting card from her, and pounded on the door, shouting, "Sister Jie, Sister Jie, open the door quickly! Oh my god, Ji Er is so anxious!"
The door opened by itself, and Huang Pinjie, with its disheveled fur and five tails twitching, walked out of the quiet room.
"What is it?" Huang Pinjie lazily lay down on the straw mat, looking completely satisfied.
Ji Er remained silent, pointed with his beak at Ji Rong who was still on his back, and then stretched his neck to look straight into the quiet room. Huang Pinjie then said to the quiet room, "Xiao Bai, come out."
A moment later, a fair-skinned and beautiful young wolf with animal ears walked up behind Huang Pinjie with his head down. Huang Pinjie took out thirty spirit crystals from the wooden cabinet next to the straw mat and said, "I am very satisfied. I will call you again next time."
Young Wolf's ears twitched and turned red quickly. He replied in a whisper, "Mmm."
It caught the spirit crystal with its paw, covered its face with its curly fur, and ran away quickly.
Ji Er's eyes and neck were stretched out, and she watched wherever Shao Lang went until he disappeared from sight.
"Smack!" A spirit crystal hit Ji Er on the head. "Stop looking, what do you want?" Huang Pinjie asked, holding a handful of spirit crystals.
Ji Er was hit, and he stretched his neck to grab it. Upon closer inspection, he realized it was a spirit crystal. He immediately beamed with joy and said, "Sister Jie is rich again. Thank you for the reward, sister."
But her eyes were fixed on the glittering spirit crystals remaining in Huang Pinjie's claws.
Huang Pinjie didn't even look at Ji Er, but went straight around to her back and handed the spirit crystal in one claw to Ji Rong's face.
Seeing the bird mother's posture, Ji Rong knew it was something good. She was so excited that the fat on the ground trembled, and she spread her wings to catch it.
"Wow, you're quite smart. How old are you?" Huang Pinjie immediately became interested.
"It's been over a year since it hatched, and its name is Ji Rong."
Seeing that Huang Pinjie had taken an interest, Ji Er immediately stood up straight.
She answered respectfully, afraid that Huang Pinjie would grin maliciously and say she had answered wrong, and then suddenly draw a card from her.
Huang Pinjie played with the spirit crystals in her paws, tossed two to Ji Rong, and said, "They even gave them names. Besides being smart, what else do they have?"
“Sister Jie, she must have become intelligent.” Ji Er turned his head and stretched out in front of Huang Pinjie, looking directly at her, and said, “She could speak yesterday, sister, what should we do?”
"What can we do? What did you say... Say it again!" Huang Pinjie suddenly couldn't believe her ears and jumped back.
Aside from being clear-headed, Ji Er isn't very talented. He almost didn't even survive absorbing the elixir, yet he managed to give birth to such a child?!
"Yes, Sister Jie, you heard right, she's become intelligent; she can speak. You can see for yourself if you don't believe me." Ji Er chased after Huang Pinjie with his head and neck, and then said, pressing his head against Huang Pinjie's face.
"Then why don't you put her down!" Huang Pinjie looked at the baby bird on the futon, pacing back and forth, and scratching her hind leg from time to time.
Alas, this is the downside of beasts becoming spirits; no matter how well they pretend normally, they reveal their true nature when they get nervous.
"Sister Jie, your legs, your legs, you've given yourself away!" Ji Er quickly reminded Huang Pinjie when she saw her scratching her legs again.
Startled, Huang Pinjie looked around frantically, then belatedly realized she was in her own cave.
She scolded Ji Er in an annoyed tone, "You egg thing, what haven't you seen of me? You scared me to death." After saying that, she sat back down on the straw mat.
After taking a sip of water and calming herself down, Huang Pinjie said to Ji Er, "Isn't this a good thing? We're all getting old and have always hoped to have a smart child; now that you've got one, what could be worse?"
Ji Er nodded hurriedly upon hearing this, then looked worried and drooped his bird-like eyes, saying, "But, Sister Jie, I have neither the means nor the connections to send her to find a master, and besides, I don't know how to teach."
Huang Pinjie looked at Ji Er's wrinkled old face and couldn't help but sigh.
Self-cultivation in the wilderness is difficult, and self-cultivation after enlightenment is even more difficult.
Ji Er was not particularly talented; she was far inferior to him. If she were exceptionally talented, she wouldn't have given birth to so many children on Jiming Mountain.
If he hadn't swallowed that elixir and hadn't happened to run into me, Ji Er would have been reduced to ashes long ago.
At the time, Huang Pinjie didn't have any good pills on hand, so she fed Ji Er a crooked pill that had only three parts medicinal properties and seven parts fire poison.
Therefore, after Ji Er survived and regained his intelligence, the price he paid was that the poison clung to his heart meridian, making it difficult for him to advance in his cultivation.
With Huang Pinjie's financial support, Ji Er worked hard to refine her transverse bone and cultivated to the Illusion Realm. After that, she became obsessed with laying eggs. She wanted to produce a good offspring, but when she actually had such a child, she was very confused.
"Then what do you want to do?" Huang Pinjie didn't have any good ideas either, as she lost her ability to have children a very early age.
The fox cubs on this mountain are even less capable; not one of them surpasses Ji Er. These foxes behave like wild beasts, devoid of any intelligence.
Huang Pinjie usually doesn't want to pay attention to them. She's happy to teach Ji Er, and she wouldn't want to teach someone even worse than Ji Er.
"I don't know." Ji Er's mind was buzzing, and he was back to the starting point of the problem.
Huang Pinjie scratched her yellow hair in frustration for a moment, then comforted Ji Er, "Ji Er, this is always a good thing for us, right? I need to think about it carefully, and I'll tell you when I have an idea."
And since it's a good thing, you should laugh, and laugh loudly!
"Don't look so sad. To be honest, when you came in, I thought you'd beaten your Qing Shi to death."
Ji Er thought about it and realized that this was indeed a good thing, so he flapped his wings, raised his head and opened his beak as requested, and laughed "hahaha".
After laughing, Ji Er stopped thinking about it and started to whine, "Sister Jie, do you have a male puppy?"
Huang Pinjie looked at her coolly, then pulled out a smooth strip of paper with her hand and said, "Are you asking for it?"
Ji Er, however, was no longer afraid of being hit. She stared intently at the spirit crystal beside Huang Pinjie, flapped her wings, and shamelessly came to Huang Pinjie. She even rubbed her head against Huang Pinjie's front paws repeatedly, saying, "Sister, you've made it big! Now you can even raise a little male dog."
Huang Pinjie slapped Ji Er with a stick in annoyance, then threw all the spirit crystals next to her to Ji Er, saying, "Take this, consider it a gift for your kid."
"Sister is so generous!" Ji Er's eyes lit up as she picked up the grains one by one with her beak and placed them under her wing. She then skillfully found a spirit burlap sack in Huang Pinjie's cave, put the grains in it, hung it around her neck, and then stretched out her wing to hand it to Huang Pinjie, saying, "Sister, give me some more. There are still five left at home."
Huang Pinjie knocked Ji Er's wings off with one blow. She wanted to say a few sarcastic words to Ji Er, but then she remembered that Ji Er had seen everything during her years of hardship.
When she was truly broke and frequented the beastmen's brothels, Ji Er would hide in a tree to keep watch for her.
She has plenty of spirit crystals and jade marrow, and Huang Pinjie doesn't need to nurture cubs, so why not let Ji Er put them all back?
So Huang Pinjie beckoned to Ji Er, took the spirit sack and went into the inner room. She filled the sack with jade marrow and put two hundred spirit crystals into the bag around Ji Er's neck, saying, "Consider this a gift for little Ji Rong. Are you satisfied now?"
Looking at the bag full of chalcedony and spirit crystals, Ji Er was moved to tears and immediately slapped Huang Pinjie three times.
Ji Er's decisive kowtow made Ji Rong, who was standing to the side, stare in disbelief. On a whim, she also rushed over and kowtowed three times to Huang Pinjie.
Seeing Ji Rong's comical appearance, Huang Pinjie burst out laughing, unable to catch her breath, and said, "She's really clever."
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