At the Tianchi Waterfall of Taibai Mountain, a white fox is quietly lying on the stone by the waterhole, its eyes closed, as if it is sleeping, its pure white fur completely blends with the surrounding snowscape.

At this time, the sun finally set, the darkness had fallen, the white fox's nose suddenly shook a few times, and then he said in that old tone: "Little fox, you are here again?" ”

There was a rattling in the darkness, and after a while, a small shadow slowly came out of the darkness, and the faint light reflected from the ice and snow illuminated its appearance, which was a red fox. "Old Fox, can you see me when it's so dark?"

The white fox opened his eyes at this time and said, "Why do you need to see, you can know by sniffing." ”

"Oh."

"Little fox, why do you look so weak?"

"The wound on my hind leg when I ran for my life today was ruptured and bleeding a lot, so I was a little weak."

"Why do you need to run for your life?"

"I met a tiger while foraging for food, and I also encountered a few ghosts, and I felt scared, so I kept running for my life!"

"You shouldn't have met the Mountain King, right?" The white fox said in slight surprise.

"What is Shanjun?"

"The king of the mountain is a tiger, and the king of the mountain is also! Those ghosts are the ghosts under his hands, most of them are the people he bit to death, and after his death, he controls them, helping him to detect and confuse his prey, there is a saying called 'do it for the tiger', do you understand? ”

Red Fox was surprised: "I see, then he must be a profound tiger demon!" ”

The white fox said: "It's a tiger demon, but it's not!" This Mountain Monarch is the widow of the previous Mountain Monarch, he Aya died in the Heavenly Tribulation 600 years ago, so he is only 600 years old now, and the Heavenly Tribulation has not yet passed. However, after all, he is the king of the mountain, and the fox king does not dare to offend, so he has made an agreement with him, as long as he does not set foot within a radius of twenty miles from the fox valley, the two sides will not disturb each other! Suddenly, he looked at the red fox and said, "By the way, how did you meet him, didn't you run twenty miles away to forage for food?" ”

"Well, I don't know that! And as long as I find food within twenty miles, I will be targeted by other spirit foxes, so I can only go farther away. ”

"Then the injuries on your body are caused by other spirit foxes?"

The red fox nodded silently, and suddenly it looked up at the white fox, and said with a hint of sincerity in its eyes: "Old fox, I have something to ask you!" ”

The white fox couldn't help but squint his eyes, and before the red fox could clarify the matter, he said categorically: "Do you want me to stand up for you?" This can't be done, foxes have fox rules, this is also the way of natural selection! ”

"You're mistaken, Old Fox! I don't want you to stand up for me, I just want you to teach me to cultivate, I want to cultivate the Tao, only when I am strong, other foxes will not dare to bully me! ”

After hearing this, the white fox looked at the red fox with a little surprise, and said: "I didn't expect that you, a little fox, had such ambitions when he first opened his mind, it seems that he is really stupid, I think you are wrong!" However, it then shook its head: "But it doesn't work either!" I am not related to you, so why should I teach you? ”

"Old Fox, I am willing to worship you as a teacher!"

"Haha, joke, do you worship me as a teacher or do I get your light?"

The red fox was speechless for a while, but his eyes were quite unwilling, and finally he made up his mind and said: "Old fox, I really won't tell you, I'm already cornered!" It is becoming more and more difficult for me to fill my stomach now, and the last time the fox king held a food mobilization meeting, he also asked us to hand over the filial piety of at least two hares before the end of the month, and if this continues, I will definitely either starve to death or be forced to die! So as long as you are willing to help me, I am willing to do anything for you! ”

"Do anything?" The white fox groaned slightly, and then smiled: "You can't even protect yourself, what else can you do for me?" I have a thousand years of Taoism, and even the catastrophe has already passed, what do I need you to do for me? ”

"Old Fox, I've been here several times, and every time I see you looking out of the mountains, beyond the mountains must be the world, right? Now that you have survived the tribulation, you must have traveled there, do you still have nostalgia for the people or things there? But you said that you were drawn as a prison here, and you can't do without Tianchi Waterfall, don't you have any wishes that you need me to help you complete? ”

The white fox suddenly laughed weirdly: "Not only is your little fox not stupid, but you are also very good!" I said why did you come here several times without saying a word, just to look at me, I thought you admired my face, it turned out that you just wanted to see through my heart! ”

The red fox didn't expect the white fox to have the same humor as later generations, but it didn't dare to really think that the white fox was easy to talk to, so it could only say cautiously: "Old fox, I didn't mean to study your mind, I just wanted to see what could help you!" ”

"It's really worthy of my race, and even speaking is so cunning!" The white fox suddenly smiled, and said with a straight face: "Little fox, although I don't want to accept you as an apprentice, it's not impossible to teach you the method of cultivation, but you really have to help me do something!" ”

The red fox hurriedly said, "Fox Lao, please speak!" ”

The white fox looked at the dark distance from afar, and his expression became a little indifferent: "You said that I am nostalgic for people in the world, you are not wrong, but it was too long ago, and according to reincarnation, she no longer knows who she is, so she has nothing to love!" As for the things that are nostalgic for the world, there is something I want very much, and I miss it very much! ”

"What is it?"

"Wine, and it has to be daughter red!"

After hearing this, the red fox was overjoyed and felt that this was not a difficult thing, so he said, "Yes!" Old Fox, as long as you teach me how to become an adult first, I can go down the mountain and buy you a daughter red! ”

However, the white fox smiled: "Teach you to become an adult first?" It's not going to be a moment, I can't wait that long! And it's like a mortal going to a private school, you have to hand it in first, you can't learn it first and then hand it in, right? ”

The red fox was a little puzzled: "But now I have the body of a fox, how can I buy you wine?" ”

"Hehe, who told you to buy wine, isn't it just to steal wine from mortals, isn't it the nature of us foxes to steal chickens and dogs?"

The red fox said bitterly: "But how can there be a family selling his daughter red near this mountain?" Besides, I have long claws, and I can't even lift the jar of wine, so how can I steal wine? ”

The white fox smiled: "Since I asked you to steal wine, there is naturally a way for you not to worry about the claws!" I remember that at the foot of the mountain more than ten miles to the east, there was a family selling wine, selling daughter red, but more than 40 years have passed, and I don't know if the children and grandchildren of the original store still inherit the ancestral business, which is a little difficult to do! ”

The red fox finally cried and said with a sad face: "This is a carved boat begging for a sword!" ”

The white fox disagreed: "If you don't try how to know, besides, it also depends on your creation, if you really can't find it, then it can only be said that the will of heaven is like this, proving that you have no chance to cultivate!" ”