Xiao Wu said that the fox clan who is qualified to become a nine-tailed fox can only transform once in their lives, unless they grow nine tails, is this true or false? I asked.

Xiaobai said: "The secret of the fox clan has never been known to outsiders, these are just the speculations of the Taoist family, if the demon spirit wants to be a real person, it is necessary to give up the thousand-year-old immortal body, and people have the same lifespan, this is the limit of heaven, after I turned into a human form, the Tao has stagnated since then, this time there is this calamity, and returning to the body of the fox clan is not necessarily all bad, but it is a pity that you and I are a husband and wife, and the fate is over." ”

Xiaobai said, tears flashed in his eyes, I looked at my wife who had become a white fox in front of me, and I didn't know what to say for a while.

"Joys and sorrows, life and death are scattered, isn't there a saying in human beings, parting is for a better reunion? Xianggong, we'll see you again in the future. Xiaobai said. When we first met in the broken temple, you were able to block the thunder tribulation for me, which shows that you are indeed different, so I chose you as the heir that my master asked me to find. ”

"Master? Descendants? Xiaobai, I don't understand what you're talking about. I asked.

Xiaobai said: "My master Qin Liangyu is a female general at the end of the Ming Dynasty, when she was a generation of women, she took me in when she retired in her later years, she was enshrined as the city god of Zhongzhou after her death, and her soul was immortalized, and she did good deeds every day to accumulate virtue, and saw that the merit was about to be completed, but suddenly one day she was anxious to leave for some reason, and before leaving, the master instructed me to protect Zhongzhou and find the heirs of the city god, and I have not been able to do so for many years. At that time, the Daomen was in turmoil, the forbidden Dao order slaughtered all souls, I was suppressed here for decades, and I don't know if the master's golden body is now damaged, I put the relics left by the master in the iron box and put them in the cupboard in our room, when you practice the first wisp of Dao Qi, you can open the iron box, get the relics, and then you can go to Chungju to find out. Asking Lu Daan to donate in your name before is also related to this matter, and you will know later. ”

Although I didn't quite understand what Xiaobai said, I still nodded.

After that, Xiaobai talked to me a lot, until the evening, Xiaobai's pupils suddenly flashed a strange light, and then in my eyes, she turned into Xiaobai's beautiful human shape, her eyebrows were slightly frowned, her face was flawless, and there were two shallow dimples on her cheeks when she smiled.

I knew that Xiaobai had used the spell of charm on me, and she hugged me and said, "Remember the way I look." ”

After Xiaobai finished speaking, he turned around and jumped down from the mountain, landing lightly, like an immortal in the dust.

The snow was very heavy that day, and Xiaobai's delicate figure walked into the distance in the snow of the mountain forest, and it was not until a long distance that she regained the shape of a white fox, and she looked back at me.

A flash of surprise, tears flowed down his face.

I looked in the direction in which Xiaobai had disappeared, and I didn't go home until after dark.

At that time, my mother was still waiting for me in the living room, and Xiao Wu was also waiting, I didn't know what to say, I glanced at them, and went back to my room.

I found the iron box that Xiao Bai said in the cupboard in the room, this is a seemingly ordinary black iron box, there is no lock on the iron box, but I can't open it anyway, Xiao Bai said that I can open the iron box when I practice the first wisp of Dao Qi, which makes me a little anxious.

Because the old bachelor has been cultivating all his life, he has already stepped into the coffin with one foot, and he has not seen the slightest Taoist qi practiced.

There was a lot of commotion at my grandfather's funeral before, first I was questioned and besieged by everyone, then my father, who had been dead for many years, appeared, and then Xiaobai showed his fox tail again, which frightened everyone.

Fortunately, the people in Zhangjiagou are not surprised by this kind of hellish thing, and no one died this time.

The most reassuring thing is that Ma Daoist sat in the mountains, at that time many people saw the fox tail exposed behind Xiaobai, for a time rumors spread, spread widely, and then Xiao Wu told the villagers that my wife was the fox fairy Niangniang of the fox fairy temple behind the village, guarding Zhangjiagou for many years, and now the merit has left.

Xiao Wu has been serving since Daoist Ma came to the mountains, and his words are naturally the words of Daoist Ma.

After Xiaobai left Zhangjiagou, my mood has been very lost, I wake up involuntarily look to the side, or when eating, look at the corner of the table where Xiaobai usually sits, I remember that a few days before we got married, Xiaobai and his mother just learned to knit sweaters.

When my mother saw that I was often in a daze, she put away all Xiaobai's things, and I bought her clothes, jewelry, and those dolls.

I looked at the snow outside and remembered that when I used to go to school, I used to work part-time outside and come back late, and sometimes I couldn't catch the bus and was reluctant to take a taxi, so I walked back to school. What I remember most clearly was the snow at night, and the night of the snowy day, there was not a single pedestrian on the road, and the idea at that time was very simple, that is, to live, and try to live. I was afraid that the tears I accidentally shed would cause my own collapse in life, and now Xiaobai, who occupies all my heart, suddenly left, always makes me feel that life seems to be back to square one.

During the month I was in a coma, several major events happened in Zhangjiagou, one is that the rich people in the town funded Ma Daoist to rebuild the Taoist temple and set up the golden body of the ancestor, and the other is that Ma Daoist let all the bodies that have been drowned and not found in the big reservoir over the years come up by themselves in front of everyone, which naturally includes my father, who overtook his father's soul on the spot and let him enter the reincarnation early. The third is that Ma Daoist announced that he would accept the registered disciple Zhang Shigeng as an official disciple, and another closed disciple would be accepted a month later, as long as anyone can pass the test, men, women and children can do it.

It is said that when the old bachelor heard that he could become an official disciple of Daoist Ma, he cried with joy, and while crying, he gave Daoist Ma three kneels and nine bows.

A month later, I just woke up a few days ago, that day at the foot of the South Mountain, thousands of empty alleys, crowded everywhere, the villagers of the town's ten miles and eight villages heard that Ma Daoist was going to accept apprentices, they all sent their children to the bottom of the mountain, and even themselves were gearing up, wanting to learn the skills of Ma Daoist.

Because if you can learn the skills of Ma Daoist, it will be easier to make a living in today's society.

The selection of apprentices in the Taoist sect is extremely strict, although Xiaobai had asked me to worship Ma Taoist as a teacher before, but Ma Taoist Gong participated in the creation, I am afraid that he is very famous in the entire Taoist sect, it is impossible to accept apprentices hastily, even if I want to worship him as a teacher, I also have to pass the test.

The first level of this test is very simple, it is to run a lap around the inner side of the mountain.

Our Zhangjiagou village covers an area is not small, surrounded by mountains on three sides, running around the mountain, at least fourteen or fifteen miles, although this test is very simple, but many people have been brushed down, especially the old, weak, sick and disabled, it is impossible to complete this test, so a group of people have stopped after running a few hundred meters.

However, the legs and feet of the people in our mountains are good, and the children go to school and all take the mountain roads, and the legs and feet of some young adults are even better, and the distance from our village to the town is this distance, so after a trip, more than half of the people persevered. Of course, I don't have to do it.

After everyone returned to the foot of Nanshan breathlessly, Ma Daoist looked at the old bachelor, who was instructed and said: "The second test of my master's apprenticeship is to read and write, so those who don't know how to read, especially those who don't know the ancient seal, don't waste time." ”

Hearing the old bachelor say this, many people who don't know what words are regretted leaving, and the rest of the people lined up to come to the old bachelor in turn, there are a few ancient books on the table in front of the old bachelor, he opened the ancient book, pointed at will, and all those who don't know words have all been brushed down.

This is not difficult for me at all, because when I was in school, I majored in civil engineering, and the elective was ancient writing, and besides, there were very few college students in our town, and I was still one of them, and it was nothing to know a little ancient literature, but this level was brushed down to nine out of ten people.

Some villagers objected, saying that their children were still young and could not recognize all Chinese characters, let alone ancient characters.

When the old bachelor heard this, he took out two full sacks from behind him, and when he opened the sacks, the sacks were all the Rubik's cubes we usually play.

The old bachelor said: "If you want to enter the Taoist sect to learn skills, it is not as simple as you think, qualifications, talents, understanding and character, are extremely important, so the family teacher will test you one by one, let you run first, is to see how the physical fitness is, this is the most basic qualification for a person to learn the Tao, there is no good body, practice a few days of physical abolition, followed by learning, my teacher is very old, there is not much energy to teach children to read and write, so this screening was added, But if someone can restore the Rubik's Cube that is scrambled in front of them as quickly as possible, the second test can be ignored, especially if they have never played the Rubik's Cube before. ”