Almost instinctively, Tempo slapped upwards and slammed the monster's nose, and the monster loosened its claws and fell to the ground, clutching its nose and crying like a baby.

Tianbao stepped back, tripped over a stone on the ground, and fell to the ground. It just fell to the side of the gourd.

Yaoqing shouted in the gourd: "Tianbao, you want to tear off the tail in the middle of it!"

The monster heard a sound in the gourd, suddenly jumped up and pounced on the gourd. Tianbao didn't know where he got the courage, he pounced forward, pounced on the monster and grabbed the tail in the middle of it, and it actually fell off with a pull.

The monster cried and ran away in a panic.

Tianbao's heart jumped wildly, and he picked up the gourd: "What is it? What are you, how can you speak human words?"

Yaoqing said: "I am a fox immortal, I have been practicing Taoism for three hundred years, and I was sealed into a gourd by that evil monk a few days ago. The monster just now was a fox ghost, it was a fox when it was alive, it was caught and skinned, and it died of pain. After death, the soul has nowhere to go, so he wanders in this Qingqiu Mountain, possesses the shallow fox, turns into the appearance of Tu Shan, and will eat people's eyes when they meet people, and then catch them back to the cave and skin them. ”

Tempo thought back to the monster's green eyes, and couldn't help but shudder.

Yaoqing said as she spoke, her voice lowered.

Tianbao looked into the gourd from the small hole, and saw Yaoqing sitting in the gourd panting: "What's wrong with you?"

"The meridians of my whole body have been sealed, and it takes a lot of energy to say so many words just now. The pain is unspeakable. ”

"What then? This gourd, as if it has no stopper, somehow locked you in. ”

Yaoqing's voice trembled a little: "This gourd is as cold as an ice cellar, so cold." ”

Tianbao thought about it, put the gourd paste meat into his arms, and after a while, he took it out and looked at it, and asked, "Are you okay?"

Yaoqing was exhausted, and her voice became smaller and smaller: "It's better, thank you, son." ”

Seeing that she was dying, Tianbao trotted up, thinking that this body was hotter, and this fox would get better soon. After running for a while, he asked, "Is this Qingqiu Mountain your home, and why are you locked up in a gourd?"

Yaoqing replied slowly: "I was imprisoned in this gourd by the evil monk in the hut. This place is the territory of the Fox King in the past, and Qingqiu Palace is here. ”

Tianbao remembered his father, and his heart ached: "My father was also killed by that evil monk." ”

Yaoqing said: "Son, please mourn." ”

Tianbao ran for a while, wiped away the tears from the corners of his eyes, and asked, "Is the Fox King the Nine-Tailed Fox?"

"Daji is a nine-tailed fox is just a legend in the world, she is a human being. ”

Tianbao ran out of breath: "How can there be such a vicious woman? You vixens are so powerful that you can wipe out a country. Which country have you destroyed?"

Yaoqing whispered: "Heaven wants to be destroyed, the Son of Heaven wants to be destroyed, and Shang will be destroyed, otherwise, even if Daji is a nine-tailed fox, she will not be able to destroy the country of the true dragon Son of Heaven." ”

Tianbao paused, thought for a moment, and said, "It seems to make sense." I've never heard anyone say any of this, I don't read much, and I don't know many words. "Thinking that she is so vulgar and ignorant, how could Miss Bai take a fancy to herself? I was stunned.

Yaoqing replied: "Looking at the biography of King Zhou, looking at the mountains and seas, looking up at the end of the universe, how can I not be happy." If Childe is willing, I will teach you to read after I have escaped this catastrophe. ”

Tianbao was stunned for a moment and stopped: "I don't understand what the legend of King Zhou is, what the mountains and seas are mapped." Both of us were rescued by Madame Bai's family, and I just listened to Madame Bai's instructions to send you over. If I have the opportunity to see you again in the future, I will definitely ask you for advice. But I've heard that fox spirits cultivate to confuse men, and if I take you with me, will I die?"

"Of course not. That's all falsehood. Tianbao, can you take me to Qingqiu Palace first? I heard that it is in the back mountain, and you can reach it by crossing this hill. If you're afraid, put me in the forest and leave. I'll come to you when I'm free. ”

"I, I don't dare go. ”

Yaoqing was silent.

Tianbao thought about it and said cautiously: "That fox ghost, it shouldn't eat gourds, but he eats people." ”

Yaoqing sighed: "Okay." Tianbao, then you find a sunny place, put me down, and you can go back to Jiangnan. ”

"Do you know how to get back to the woods? I need to go and get the bones of my father and his countrymen home. That female corpse, you say, will she get up again?"

Yaoqing was silent for a while, and then told Tianbao that the monk had burned all the bodies of his father and fellow villagers: "You can't find it." It's too evil in the forest, so don't go back. ”

Tianbao silently shed tears.

Yaoqing said: "Tianbao, you are a good child, and the fate of people and parents is also destined. Whether the body is buried in the hometown or not is not so important. ”

Tianbao did not speak, and fiercely struggled with his thoughts. Yaoqing said again: "Tianbao, when you leave, pick a small bluestone and take it away, the bluestone is the best jade." If you go back to Jiangnan and sell it, it can be worth a lot of money. If you want to go back to the Bai family, just drop me down and walk back the way you came. ”

Tianbao was moved. He asked, "Then King Qingqiu, I found her, will she eat me?"

"Naturally not. This mound is only a dozen zhang high, and it can be turned over soon, the fox fairy will not come out before dark, the fox ghost has run away, you can turn over this mound, put me into the forest and leave, it will not be unsafe. ”

Tianbao gritted his teeth and climbed up the hill. In addition to the soil in the sunny part of the mound, it is a big bluestone, but when I turn the shade, it seems to be in another world, and there is a black and oppressive tree in front of me, I don't know why, the sky is also dark immediately, Tianbao thought to himself, this is the demonic spirit. Take out the gourd: "Can I put you down here?"

Yaoqing said: "Thank you, son." ”

Tianbao thought for a moment and took off his coat: "Wrap you up?"

Yaoqing shook her head: "No need." Son, you go, whether I will be saved or die here today, let it be up to God's will. ”

Tianbao asked, "If you were left here and no one rescued you, how long would you live?"

"I don't know. ”

Tianbao turned his head and walked away, and when he got down the hill, the more faintly uneasy he felt in his heart, and the farther he went, the stronger the feeling of uneasiness. As soon as I stomped my feet, my heart was just gone, my life was originally picked up. Turn around and go back.

When he walked back to the place where Yaoqing was put down, Tianbao was dumbfounded: there was no one around, but the gourd was gone!

Tianbao looked at the black and oppressive woods not far away, and struggled for a long time, thinking of Ah Yan's beautiful appearance, and said in his heart, I can't die here, I have to go back and personally thank Ah Yan for saving her life and then come back to find this fox spirit. I also thought that this fox spirit was trapped in the gourd, because it had this catastrophe in its fate, and it itself said that whether it was saved or died here today is up to God's will.

Turning around and taking two steps, I thought that the fox had reminded me to run quickly, but he had really saved himself, and he also taught himself to pick jade to make a fortune. I thought again, Tianbao, are you stupid? It's a fox demon, what kind of morality do you talk about with monsters? He shook his head again: Compared with the evil monk in the hut, this fox demon is much kinder. Tempo gritted his teeth and made up his mind, searching for the depths of the woods.

There was no sunlight in the depths of the woods, and the cooler and cooler ones grew.

Not long after leaving, there was a faint singing voice in the forest, and the singing turned a thousand times, graceful and moving.

Tianbao heard the human voice, and half of his fear was gone, and he searched all the way towards the song. The closer I got, the more I listened.

"The cold cicada is poignant, and the late ...... to the long pavilion" is halfway sung, and the voice is as clear as a golden thread thrown upward, and the sound is curbing the clouds: "Holding hands and looking at each other's teary eyes, I was speechless and choked. "This is Liu Yong's "Yulin Bell". There are many people who can sing in the market, but this woman sings beautifully and poignantly, presumably the sound of heaven is like this.

Tianbao was shocked in his heart, this song is exactly what his mother loved to sing in the old days, this person's voice is more beautiful than his mother's, I don't know who it is, did he learn this song from his mother?