Chapter 129: Changing Grass (13)
The reason why the fox demon killed people was because he had to kill.
In other words, the owner of Qiao Zhuang still has a secret about what he did back then.
When Xing Ruyi pushed open the door and walked into the house with the fox, he saw the owner of Qiao Zhuang standing in the middle of the house, with a white silk wrapped around his neck. You don't have to get closer, you know that he died, and he was strangled by that white silk life.
"It seems that he was not in pain when he died."
Although the owner of Qiao Zhuang had his eyes open, he did not have the painful appearance of being suffocated to death on his face, but had a smile on the corner of his mouth, as if he was immersed in a sweet dream. Xing Ruyi wanted to know what he thought of at the moment when he was on the verge of death.
"Illusion!" The fox twisted his eyebrows: "Master Qiao was strangled to death in an illusion. ”
"Isn't this method of revenge a little too merciful?" Xing Ruyi frowned: "My wife died tragically, and I was wronged again, so I finally escaped death, and I didn't hesitate to kill many lives in vain for revenge, but I let go of my enemy so easily." Isn't that a bit unreasonable? ”
"It's us."
"What?"
"It was we who ruined his plan for revenge." The fox said, teleporting, and when he came back, he had one more thing in his hand.
It was a white fox with miscellaneous hair, and the corners of its mouth were still oozing blood. When Xing Ruyi approached to look at it, it also happened to look up at Xing Ruyi. Looking at each other, the fox's eyes suddenly turned purple.
"It's just a fox demon who has only been cultivating for three hundred years, and he actually dares to cast illusions in front of me and confuse my lady."
The fox used his hand hard and jammed the neck of the shaggy fox. The furry fox struggled for a moment, and the purple in his eyes faded, but the light in his eyes was still hostile.
The fox let go, and the furry fox fell to the ground, and in an instant it transformed into a man's appearance. Compared with the fox, the appearance of this fox demon can be described as extremely ordinary, to paraphrase an adjective, it is the kind that can't be found in the pile of people.
After transfiguring into a human, he appeared even weaker. After struggling for a long time, he got up from the ground, wiped away the blood left in his mouth with his hand, and then stared at the fox and said: "You and I are both foxes, why should you be enemies with me." ”
"You're wrong!" Xing Ruyi grabbed the fox's arm: "From beginning to end, we have never thought of being your enemy. We stayed at Qiao's house, and we only responded to a friend's invitation to help the young lady of Qiao's family treat her illness by the way. Oh, I'm a doctor, a doctor. As for your grievances with the Qiao family, we had no intention of interfering. In my opinion, it is a matter of course to kill people to pay for their lives and to repay debts. ”
"It's a good thing to say, I don't mean to interfere, why ......" The fox demon coughed lightly.
"I see." Xing Ruyi looked at the fox demon's pale face.
"What do you understand?"
"The four people who disappeared in Qiaojiazhuang were all bewitched to the mountain by you with illusions, and the so-called manifestation of the mountain god lord was also the result of your spell."
The fox demon snorted lightly, and glanced at Xing Ruyi with some disdain: "I thought you understood something." Yes, I brought those four people to the mountain. In this world, there are no manifest mountain gods. Even if there were, it wouldn't be in such a place. ”
"Why those four people?"
"Why?" The fox demon chuckled, "Because they have what I want." ”
"Greed, hatred, infatuation, lust."
"It's not a loss to the woman chosen by our fox clan, you are a little different. That's right, it's greed, hatred, stupidity, lust, I need these evil thoughts. They are the best materials, and they only need to move their mouths to give away their evil thoughts. How would I stand here without them? ”
"Sure enough, you killed someone out of necessity. What did he do to you back then, so that although you escaped from prison, you had no way to avenge your wife. ”
"Does it matter what he did?" The fox demon looked at Xing Ruyi: "My lady is dead, he is also dead, and everything is over." ”
As he spoke, the fox demon spat out a mouthful of blood, and staggered to the ground.
Seeing this, the fox hurriedly stepped forward, and after checking his situation, he gave him a wisp of his true yuan.
"It doesn't have to be in vain, I should have died a long time ago. If it weren't for the revenge of my mother, I wouldn't have had any intention of making it this far. Although I am a demon, I also promised my lady that I would never harm others with my witchcraft in this life. I broke my promise, but I never regretted it. Now, it's time for me to pay it back. ”
With that, the man turned back into a fox, and was still a dying fox.
Xing Ruyi found the face-changing grass, but found that the face-changing grass was just a scam from beginning to end.
The so-called reface-changing grass is just a clump of nameless weeds that grows behind the mountain temple, and it has no effect of changing the appearance at all. The reason why it is magical is because the fox fairy has spent half of his three hundred years of cultivation on this grass, and the reason why he did this is completely for his mother.
The merchant's name is Feng'er, and the reason why she is called this name is because since she was born, she has a birthmark shaped like a maple leaf on the left side of her face. Her father and mother loved her and were worried that she would be laughed at when she grew up, so she moved to the mountains with her family.
Feng'er's home is very close to the dilapidated mountain temple.
When she was a child, she often went to the mountain temple to play, and by the way, she helped the mountain god to tidy up the temple, and would also sacrifice the wild fruits she picked as a tribute to the mountain god. But how could the mountain god patronize such a dilapidated small temple, and the tributes brought by Feng'er were all eaten by the fox demon who cultivated in the temple.
One year, two years, five years, ten years, gradually, the fox demon fell in love with this kind and lovely girl. Occasionally, he would also transform into a human, hiding behind the mountain god and secretly watching her.
The fox demon knows that he is a demon, and it is impossible to be with a mortal if he is a demon. The fox demon felt that as long as he could secretly look at Feng'er every day and listen to Feng'er say those stupid things in the temple, it would be good.
However, God always likes to joke on kind people.
When Feng'er was fifteen years old, for some reason, a gang of bandits came in the mountains. Those bandits inadvertently broke into Feng'er's house, they killed Feng'er's father, burned down Feng'er's thatched house, and chased Feng'er, who fled for his life, to the mountain temple, trying to bully Feng'er in front of the mountain god.
That was the first time the fox demon used his magic skills, and he scared away the bandits and saved Feng'er.
He inquired that Feng'er also had an uncle in his hometown, and the two families also moved around during the New Year's holidays. After Feng'er's health was a little better, he escorted Feng'er down the mountain to her uncle's house, originally thinking that Feng'er would settle down at her uncle's house and live a carefree life as before.
But later, he found out that Feng'er's uncle didn't love Feng'er as much as Feng'er's father. He saw that Feng'er's uncle always cursed her, saying that she was ugly and a natural mourner, and that Feng'er's father and mother were killed by Feng'er. Feng'er's aunt is even more powerful, she not only beats and scolds Feng'er, makes her hungry to do all the work in the family, but also plans to sell Feng'er to a blind old man in the village as a lady.
The fox demon watched it for half a year, but finally couldn't stand it anymore. He used demon magic again, transformed into the appearance of an ordinary man, and took the silver conjured from the stone to ask Feng'er's uncle and aunt for marriage.
Almost without him saying anything, Feng'er's uncle and aunt hurriedly agreed to his proposal, worried that he would regret it, so they handled their family affairs on the same day, and even Feng'er was pushed into a new house by her aunt.
The fox demon did not hide his identity, he told Feng'er that he was not a human, but a fox demon who practiced in the mountains. The reason why he came to the door to ask for marriage was not because he wanted to harm Feng'er, but he couldn't bear to watch Feng'er being bullied by her uncle and aunt. He also promised Feng'er that if she found someone who was really good to her in the future, he would leave quietly and would never hurt them.
Feng'er was originally a kind girl, and seeing that the fox demon was so real, she naturally believed him.
After getting married, Feng'er followed him away from his uncle and aunt's house as a fox demon lady. The fox demon has no home, Feng'er has no home, and the mountain temple is not a place where people can live, and the two of them originally lived on the silver that the fox demon transformed. Of course, the fox demon didn't tell Feng'er that his silver was all made of stone.
After a long time, Feng'er felt that it was not a problem to be so old and only get in and out, so she learned from those merchants who sold goods, went to buy some things, and the two of them also began to walk the streets and alleys to do small business.
The days were very hard, but the fox demon and Feng'er didn't feel that they were one fox and one person, but they had true feelings for each other in these hard days.
Regarding the birthmark on her face, Feng'er didn't mind much. can walk through the streets and alleys, it is inevitable that you will be watched by others, and the fox demon will look at it in her eyes and hurt in her heart. After thinking about it for a while, he made up a lie that there was a magical herb in the mountains, called the Changing Herb, which could help people change their appearance.
The fox demon initially only brought back a transfiguration grass, and then used that grass to help Feng'er remove the birthmark on her face. Feng'er didn't know that the reason why this face-changing grass was able to change its appearance was because the fox demon had crossed his cultivation on those grasses. All she knew was that her birthmark was gone. Feng'er was very happy, but her happiness was not because she removed the ugly birthmark on her face, but because she thought that when she went out to sell goods in the future, those who bought her goods would no longer laugh at her husband for marrying an ugly lady because of her face.
When selling goods, I occasionally meet girls who are ridiculed because of their appearance, just like Feng'er. She is simple-minded and very kind, always thinking that she can be good, and others can also be good, so she begged the fox demon to bring back some more face-changing grass. The fox demon loves Feng'er, lest she blame herself in her heart after knowing the truth, so she will accept it.
After coming and going, the fox demon actually scattered most of his cultivation on those flowers and plants, until they came to Qiaojiazhuang, and those later things happened.