Kunlun Mountain, an unknown cave.

A fox with gray fur that was lying on the ground and sleeping suddenly hiccuped and woke up leisurely.

"Hey, why did I fall asleep?"

The bewildered fox sat up and scratched its head with its paws.

"Where is this, am I not at Kojiu's house?"

The fox muttered to himself in confusion, looking around sleepily.

It is a completely enclosed hemispherical space, surrounded by nothing but thick earth.

The fox became more and more strange, stood up and patted the dirt above his head.

"It's so hard, why doesn't it collapse?" said the fox and yawned: "Ah~, forget it, go out first." ”

The fox raised his hand.

"Boom !!"

The dirt above the head vanished in an instant, revealing a smooth, neat passageway. The fox leaped and rose from the ground like an arrow.

"So deep?" the fox, which had jumped up at least a few thousand meters, pouted towards the hole in the ground, and as soon as he lifted his hind legs, the hole was filled in an instant.

The fox hummed a song and walked happily in the forest. But gradually, its brow furrowed.

"Why are there so many trees all of a sudden?"

Feeling very strange, the fox jumped on a tall branch and looked up.

“？？？”

After a while, the fox silently jumped down from the branch with his head down, his face solemn. Soon, though, it bounced away again.

The small body jumped a few times and disappeared into the layers of dense forest.

At the foot of Kunlun Mountain, Xiaohu Village.

The small bridge flows, and there is a girl in a long cyan skirt walking on the side of the road, although the skirt is neat, but it is not difficult for careful people to see that there are a few inconspicuous patches on it, but if others see it, it is estimated that it is not on the skirt, but two fluffy white fox ears on the girl's head.

Behind her was a basket made of bamboo, in which was a gourd and some herbs that ordinary people couldn't name.

The girl's forehead was covered with fine sweat, and before she could wipe it off, she was blocked by several children.

"Youkai!"

"Bastard!"

......

They shouted all sorts of ugly words, and even took stones and threw them at the girl.

The girl lowered her head, trying to go around them and continue walking, but suddenly she fell to the ground with a cry of surprise, and the herbs were scattered all over the ground.

Looking back, one of the children had taken a slightly larger stone and hit the girl. Seeing the girl fall to the ground, the group cheered as if they had achieved some victory. Some of them also took the opportunity to continue throwing clods of dirt at the girl.

The smile on everyone's face was so wanton, and they didn't feel that there was anything wrong with what they were doing.

It wasn't until a gray-haired old man came with a cane and scolded that the children dispersed. The old man stood in front of the girl on crutches as if he wanted to say something, but he didn't. In the end, he just took a deep look at the girl who was squatting with her head in her arms, and left with a long sigh.

It wasn't until she confirmed that there was no one nearby that the girl dared to gently wipe away the tears that had been in her eyes for a long time, stood up and put the herbs into the bamboo basket, carried them on her back and continued walking.

There was a thatched hut not far from the village in the lower reaches of the river, and the girl walked to the door and put down the bamboo basket. I light a fire skillfully and cook medicine. After the medicine is completed, I add some sugarcane juice to it, and after tasting the taste that it is not so difficult to swallow, I gently push the door in.

The room was very simple, with only a bed and some pottery utensils, and the bedding had been sewn and patched several times.

There was a woman lying on the bed, her face pale and her lips bloodless, but the contours of her face alone showed that she must have been a beauty who had captivated the country and the city.

The girl walked to the head of the bed with a pottery bowl and called softly, "Mother, take the medicine." ”

The woman opened her eyes and smiled softly, but her expression changed when she saw the mud stains on the girl's clothes and the bruises on her hands.

"Xiao Ai, are they bullying you again?"

"No, mother, I accidentally fell on it. ”

The maiden lifted the woman up and put her against the pillow that had been erected, so that she could slowly feed her the medicine.

The woman knew it, but she didn't say anything, but just stroked the girl's hair in distress.

After taking the medicine, the girl helped the woman to lie down again, packed up the pottery bowl and closed the door and went out.

The water was murmuring outside, and the girl put her feet into the flowing stream, feeling the coolness of the flowing water.

However, the girl's lowered eyes gradually covered with a layer of mist.

......

"What's wrong with you?"

The girl, who didn't know what she was thinking, was startled by the sudden appearance of the voice, and turned her head to see a gray fox looking at her with its head tilted.

"Ahh

The girl jumped up in surprise, hurriedly took a few steps back, pointed at the fox and stammered:

"You, you...... Are you a fox?"

"Fox?"

The fox made a puzzled expression: "What is a fox?"

"Oh, you go quickly, don't be seen by the others. ”

The girl's face was anxious, and she kept urging the fox to leave.

However, the fox was unmoved, and continued to tilt his head and ask:

"Why? What others?"

"Leave it alone, go away, they're really going to arrest you......"

The girl's persuasion was fruitless, and she was so anxious that she was about to cry. The fox refused to listen, and insisted that she have a reason. At last the girl could not bear it any longer, so she took the fox to the door of the house, and made it jump into the bamboo basket, and put some thatch into it to cover it, and then squatted down and talked to it.

The fox grabbed the edge of the bamboo basket with his two front paws, shook off the thatch on his body, and looked at the girl curiously.

"Why is this happening?"

"Because you're a fox, as soon as the people in the village find a fox, they'll catch it and kill it. ”

"Why kill the fox?"

The girl was silent for a long time, and finally spoke: "Where are you from?

"What is a human, what is a demon, why the war?"

The fox pointed to the mountain, and the girl looked surprised.

"Ah, you won't just cultivate into a demon, right? Then it shouldn't be, didn't your father teach you?"

"What is cultivation, and what is Daddy?"

"Why don't you know anything...... "The girl had a headache, but soon she spoke tentatively, "You...... Don't you have a father?"

"What's Daddy?"

"It is to give birth to you and raise you. ”

"I don't know who gave birth to me, and I don't need to be raised. ”

The girl nodded: "Then I'm better than you, I have a mother, but I haven't seen my father...... They said my dad was a fox. ”

“......”

"What about you, have you been in the mountains all this time?"

"No, just slept on it. ”

"Do you have any friends?"

"Friends?"

"It's just to be able to play with you. ”

"That's a lot, Sister Wa, Uncle Turtle, Xiao Jiu, and the old men who live in the mountains...... Have you seen them?"

The girl shook her head: "No, I have never had friends, and no one wants to play with me." ”

"Why?"

"Because my dad is a fox......"

"What is a fox?"

"Hmm...... You're supposed to be a fox. ”

"What about you, are you a fox?"

"It's not. ”

"And what are you?"

"I don't know ......"

The two questioned each other for a long time, and of course the fox had far more questions than the maiden, and the maiden told him almost everything she knew in her life.

At last it was getting late, and the girl slapped her head and remembered that she was going to cook, so she hurried away, leaving only the fox in the bamboo basket looking at the sky in a daze.

"Sister Wa, they don't know where they went, why do they say that they are legends 40,000 years ago...... If that's the case, how long have I been asleep? 40,000 years?"

"A year, four seasons, a twelfth month, three hundred and sixty days, a day has twelve hours, twenty-eight thousand breaths, I eat one fruit in three breaths, I can eat more than nine thousand in a day, how many can I eat in a year, how many can I eat in 40,000 years?"

Thinking about it, the fox couldn't help but burst into tears.

"Xiao Jiu, what kind of thing did you let me drink!"

Dinner was a simple porridge soup with a few leaves floating on it. The maiden went into the house and fed the woman before she came out to eat the rest, and at the same time did not forget to serve one to the fox.

The fox swallowed it in one gulp, smashed it in its mouth, and then took out a big mountain fruit out of nowhere and held it and gnawed it.

Nibbling and gnawing, the fox felt a little strange, and when he looked up, the girl was staring at the fruit in its paws in a daze.

"Do you want it?" asked the fox.

The girl came back to her senses in an instant, and said with a slightly red face, "No...... No, I'm full. ”

The fox pursed his lips and swallowed the rest of the fruit, and then shook himself at the girl's astonished gaze, and all sorts of strangely shaped fruits rolled down from his body and formed a small mountain.

"This ...... Where did you get all this fruit?"

The girl looked at the hundreds of unnamed fruits in front of her and asked in disbelief.

"Put it in my hair. The fox casually took a long strip of fruit in his hand, and said as he munched on it, as if he didn't care.

"Maori?" The girl was puzzled, what Maoli could hide so many fruits.

"Before, there were a few old men who said that I ...... Well, the fur material is good, and I have opened up a small world on each of my hairs, so I moved some fruit trees into it. ”

"......" This is beyond the scope of the girl's cognition, she can't figure out what kind of hair can grow fruit trees, as for what small world, it is not within the scope of what she wants to know.