Chapter 8: Midnight Terror
The fragrance of wood greeted the room, whether it was a table, a chair, or a few logs. The workmanship is very meticulous, whether it is carved or cornered, it is polished very smooth. I couldn't help but have a curious question in my heart, did he conjure it up, or did he do it?
"What are you thinking?" Qianfan's voice came to my ears, and I honestly said the doubts in my heart. He replied: "Of course I did it myself, how about it, the craftsmanship is okay!"
"You're so idle?" Listening to his answer, I had a trace of surprise in my heart, if I were me, I had the ability to change what I wanted, and I must use everything to change, so it was fun!
And what Qianfan said next made me see the other side of being an immortal, and it also hit my pain point. What he said was: "Life is too long, life is too boring, I have to find something to pass the time!"
In the eyes of mortals, immortals are carefree and at ease. They did not have to live in old age, sickness and death, did not have to try their best to earn money to live, and were not afraid of the people living in poverty after the war. But no one saw their loneliness.
They have no reincarnation, their lives are endless, and some of them don't even have half of their relatives around them. I have tasted this kind of loneliness, in this world, I have no relatives, even if I regard Qiao Wenqing and General Lu as relatives and friends, but they all went before me, and there is a difference of two hundred years between them.
In the past two hundred years, although the monks in the monastery will bring me three meals on time every day, they are all cultivators, the five roots are pure, they don't care about mundane things, and they chant sutras and chant Buddha every day.
Sometimes I finally met someone who took care of me, and he also recited Buddhist scriptures to me, and then I simply spontaneously stayed away from them. I lived in such darkness that I didn't know how long I lived.
Qian Fan took me upstairs and downstairs around, and finally asked me, "Do you sleep upstairs or downstairs?"
"Upstairs!" I replied without hesitation, because I had taken a fancy to the attic upstairs, both in terms of layout and decoration.
"Then I'll go get my stuff down." Chiso said. It was indeed where he lived, but when he asked me to sleep upstairs and downstairs, I chose the attic upstairs.
But I now have a more important thing to solve, touching my empty stomach, I asked Qianfan: "I'm so hungry, do you have anything to eat?" ”
Qian Fan stopped going upstairs: "I've been away from this for a long time, and there seems to be nothing to eat in the house." Why don't I go to the woods and pick some fruit for you to eat? ”
I nodded, "Okay, I'll go with you."
Out of the wooden house, Chihiro took me into the woods, and soon found a fruit forest. I had to marvel at this amazing place, there were all kinds of fruit trees in this fruit grove, and the branches and leaves of each fruit tree were full of ripe fruits, which looked very attractive.
"How is this done?" I asked Qianfan with a slurred word, and my mouth was stuffed with crisp and sweet apples.
"This is Immortal Mountain, and there is nothing that cannot be done." Qian Fan stuffed a handful of bananas into my arms, looked up at the sky, and continued: "You go back first, and when you are full, help me move my things to the room downstairs and tidy up." I'm going to run errands, don't run around. ”
I nodded, just about to leave, remembering that I didn't know the way, I turned around and grabbed Qianfan, who was about to go up to the clouds, and asked him, "How to go back?"
Chihiro held out his hand in front of me, and in my confusion, a crystal ball condensed in his large palm.
"Hold it, there's a little dot of light on it that can guide you back, you just have to think about where you're going," Chihiro said.
I took the crystal ball, and sure enough, there was a small dot of light on it, and then I thought about the wooden house I wanted to go back to, and the little dot of light deflected to the left.
Following the direction of the little light spot, I quickly returned to the wooden house alone.
Sitting at the table, I quickly settled the five bananas, and finally after the third full slot, I got up and went up to the attic, intending to clean up.
In fact, there are not many things that need to be packed, just a cloud quilt, a pillow full of clouds and a sheet also made of clouds. However, when I saw the bed, I felt a little sleepy.
After thinking about it, Qianfan didn't know where to go, and it wasn't certain how long it would take to come back, or I'd take a nap first. With such thoughts, the sleepiness became even greater, and he involuntarily moved to the side of the bed and lay down, and suddenly the whole person seemed to be lying in the clouds, soft and comfortable, and in a blink of an eye, he was already asleep......
In my sleep, someone patted my hand gently, I moved, opened my misty eyes, and there was a vague figure in front of me, and I couldn't reflect who this person was for a while.
"It's time to wake up after sleeping for so long, right? Hurry up, do you want dinner? The figure in front of him said.
"Mom, you're so noisy, I'm going to sleep again," I said in a daze.
"Mom?" The figure bent down, reached out to open my eyelids, and continued, "You figure out who I am!"
I slapped his hand away and rubbed his eyes, and there was a thousand people standing in front of me.
"I'm sorry, I fell asleep, I just woke up and thought I was still my old self. When did you come back? I said, looking out the window it was pitch black, and on the low table in the room was a glowing bead the size of a fist.
"It's been a long time since I've been back, and I didn't bother you when I saw you asleep." Chiso said.
"What's that?" I pointed to the glowing bead and found that I was covered with the cloud quilt, and I had turned back into a fox because my cultivation was too weak.
Qianfan said: "Night Pearl." When he was done, he asked me, "Do you want dinner?"
"Yes." I nodded.
"You go down first, I'll clean up and make you a new bed by the way." Chihiro said.
I climbed out of bed, down the stairs, and then to the dining room, which was called a dining hall. Along the way, I found that there were night pearls everywhere in the house, so many, and it was too tyrant. Strangely, how I didn't notice during the day.
I climbed up on the stool, and there was a large bowl on the table, and the rice was ready, and the dishes were served. I guess this is for me, but I didn't expect Qianfan to have such a caring time as an immortal. For a while, my heart was warm.
With my two front paws on the table, I began to lick the food from the bowl, the food tasted good, but I thought it would be better to eat it before I turned back into a fox, and this position was really indecent now.
By the time Chihiro arrived at the dining hall, I had already eaten most of the food in the bowl. He picked up a piece of lean meat and put it in my bowl and asked, "Is it delicious?"
I took a bite of the meat and chewed it in my mouth, nodded and said, "It's delicious, did you make it?"
Qian Fan put a chopstick vegetable into his mouth, chewed it twice, and said, "I made it."
I wondered again: "Look at this cooking skill, can't you practice it in a day or two, and the gods also have to eat?"
Qian Fan took a bite of rice and said, "Of course you can not eat it, but you can't change it when you get used to eating, and you can't help but get some food when you get to the meal."
After listening, I was speechless to the extreme, it seems that he is really too idle and boring.
After dinner, Chihiro made a pot of tea by himself, took me to another room, took two cups, poured them for me, poured another cup for himself, and then drank it.
I stuck out my tongue and licked it in the cup, bitter with sweetness. I think that in the future, my life will also be sweet, although in the past two hundred years, except for those three times when I almost lost my life, I have not suffered much. However, not being able to speak, and crawling on four legs for more than two hundred years, is enough for me to be depressed.
After drinking tea for a while, Qian Fan put down the teacup and said, "I'm going to rest, what about you?"
I yawned, "I want to sleep too."
Chiso got up, and I slipped out of my chair and climbed back to the attic, where the bed I was lying on was covered with a quilt and sheets. I crawled into the bed, rolled over for a while, and then got confused.
In the middle of the night, when I was sleeping hazy, I was woken up by a "pop". Raising his claws to remove the cloud quilt, a black cloud whirred, and the furry thing "whirred" on my face......