Qi Hufei sat on the top of the west mountain and asked the fox beside him, "Do you remember where Xuanyuan's tomb is?" ”

The fox looked at the clouds in the distance, shook his head, and said, "I don't remember." ”

"That's where you were born, and you really don't have any memory at all?"

"I was taken away by my adoptive mother when I was born, and that memory is very vague, and many of them were imagined by my adoptive mother after I told me, and I am not sure if it is true or not."

"Where's your adoptive mother?"

"She has been adrift all her life, has no fixed place, and is a miserable person." The fox sighed faintly,

"And where did she raise you in the first place?"

"It's been too long, too long, I can't remember. At that time, I couldn't change my shape, and my adoptive mother went to work as a cook for a large family, and she said that I was a small milk dog, and the owner of the house agreed to let me in, thinking that it was just a number of guard dogs. I also think I'm cute, and the children in the manor like to play with me. Later, when I grew up, they found out that I was not a dog but a fox, and they wanted to kill me, and even my adoptive mother was implicated, saying that she was bringing fox spirits to harm them.

My adoptive mother begged desperately to protect me, and finally saved my life. I remember that it was snowing heavily on the day we were kicked out, and because we were in a hurry, my adoptive mother had nothing with her, and she was cold and hungry, and she almost froze to death. Fortunately, a kind man led us to a ruined temple and gave us half a piece of bread, so that we were able to escape.

The adoptive mother suffered from the wind and cold, so she could only live in the ruined temple. Every day I went to the mountains and forests to catch hares and pheasants, but my adoptive mother insisted that she would not eat live animals, but would only feed her hunger with snow water.

Fortunately, God willing, she survived. Three days later, the snow stopped, and her high fever subsided. We left the ruined temple and begged all the way, and later found another family to work as domestic servants. But she did not dare to take me in any longer, so I hid in the woods outside the manor, and every night she brought me something to eat.

In order to avoid the dogs on the estate, I often hid in Tibet, and once I met an Orion, hid far away, and got lost. My adoptive mother looked for me for several days, but lost her job because of it.

We changed places again, but for various reasons, most of the time it was because of me, and none of the jobs could last. So we went all the way south, and when someone needed a maid or a cook, she went to work, and when she was kicked out, she begged along the road. Slowly, her eyes became blind. ”

The fox stopped, straightened up, and looked far to the south.

Qi Hufei asked, "Why are your eyes blind?" ”

"Crying blind." The fox said.

"Crying blind?" Qi Hufei was a little puzzled, "I heard from you that your adoptive mother is not a person who can't endure hardships, and she is kind-hearted, why does she cry and cry blind?" ”

The fox said, "She misses his son because she misses him." ”

"What happened to her son?"

I heard her say that her son was the champion appointed by the emperor that year, and he also married the prime minister's daughter, and came back to pick her up and prepare to go to Jiangzhou to take up her post, but when she was halfway there, she suddenly felt unwell, so she found a place to live, and in order not to delay his son's appointment, let them go first. But this time, there has been no news since then, so she has been looking for her son and daughter-in-law. ”

Qi Hufei felt that this story was so familiar, and remembered some clues, but he was not sure.

"How could a good one go missing?"

The fox said, "At that time, I was just beginning to speak, and I just listened to her chatter, and I didn't know the exact situation. ”

"Since her son is the champion and the son-in-law of the prime minister's family, why didn't she go to sue the official, but she helped people all the way?"

She went to the government, but the people in the government didn't believe her, they just thought she was a crazy woman, and she was biting powerful relatives indiscriminately. So we traveled all the way south to Jiangzhou, where her son was going to take office. But when I got there and asked, there was no such person at all, so I went to the government to inquire and was bombed out again.

Then she stubbornly went to the capital and shouted grievances at the gate of the Prime Minister's Mansion. But no one believed her words, saying that the young lady of the prime minister's family and her husband were alive and well, and there was a letter sent back a year ago. She couldn't see the prime minister, and in despair, she could only go back to her hometown Haizhou, hoping that if her son was still alive, he would one day go back to his hometown to find her. That's why we're going all the way south, because Haizhou is in the south. ”

Qi Hufei's mind was spinning rapidly.

Jiangzhou, Haizhou, Zhuangyuanlang, the prime minister's son-in-law, an old woman who was blind from crying......

Isn't this the first difficulty of the ninety-nine eighty-one difficulties experienced by Tang monk Xitian in the Journey to the West recorded in the Journey to the West that he read in his previous life?

He still remembers the catalog of that time: Chen Guangrui went to work in a disaster, and Jiang Liusheng took revenge.

Qi Hufei couldn't help but glance at the little fox beside him.

Is it just a coincidence that the fox has nine difficulties, the Buddha has nine hundred and eighty-one difficulties, and their first difficulty is highly overlapping in space and time?

"And then?" Qi Jufei asked.

"Later, I followed her to her home in Haizhou. Because she couldn't see, she relied on me to lead the way, and I became her guide dog. Every day when the sun went down, she asked me to take her to the entrance of the village and asked me if I had seen her son come back.

The two of us depend on each other, but fortunately, the people in that small village are very kind and often help us.

Later, I was able to transform into a human form and became her goddaughter. I took care of her all the time, and she always said how nice it would be if her son was at home!

She said that she wanted me to be her daughter-in-law, and she didn't want the prime minister's daughter or son to be an official. She only hopes that her son and daughter-in-law can be by her side and live a peaceful life. However, he did not wait for his son to return. ”

"Didn't wait?" Qi Hufei felt that the direction of the story was different from his memory, "How many years have you been with him?" ”

The fox said, "It's been about eighteen years since she adopted me. ”

"Eighteen Years ......"

Qi Hufei remembered that Chen's mother Zhang recorded in Journey to the West had indeed suffered for eighteen years, but eighteen years later, the young Xuanzang found her and licked her eyelids with the tip of his tongue, allowing her to see again.

Then was the prime minister Yin Kaishan led the army to destroy the bandits, Chen Guangrui was resurrected, and the happy ending of the family reunion.

But listening to the little fox talk about it, it seems completely different.

"Are you sure she didn't see her son, or grandson, until she died?"

"Nope." The fox shook his head and said, "I gave it to him, because I didn't have the money to buy a coffin, and the villagers helped cut down a big tree and made it temporarily."

After my adoptive mother died, I went to the mountains. At that time, my foundation was very shallow, and my cultivation was very low, so it was easy for people to see it. If it weren't for the simplicity and kindness of the people in the village, my identity might have been exposed a long time ago.

In the years that followed, I often went back to her grave to pay respects. It wasn't until a few decades later that the entire village was in ruins due to war and plague.

It just so happened that at that time I met the divine man who instructed me in my cultivation, and it was she who told me that I was born in Xuanyuan Tomb and was a nine-tailed golden fox, and she also told me that the fox had nine tribulations, and I had only experienced one tribulation, and the future calamities would be a long, long time later.

At that time, the Master of Xuan Costume had already retrieved the true scriptures, and she told me to follow the path of the mage's westward journey until I crossed a seven-colored bridge and could stop, and the person who resolved my calamity would appear there.

I went all the way west to Pansiling, and it happened to rain heavily, and after the rain, I saw a rainbow across the entire canyon, and it didn't disperse for a long time.

I've never seen such a bright and brilliant rainbow.

I guess it's the seven-colored bridge!

So, I stayed in Xishan.

I've been waiting, waiting, waiting, and waiting, for more than a thousand years. ”