A long, long time ago, there was a great barren mountain here, the great barren mountain stretched for hundreds of miles, the peaks were covered, and thousands of ravines competed for glory, majestic and magnificent. There is a small village at the foot of the Great Wilderness Mountain, there are only a few dozen families in the village, who have hunted for a living for generations, and they do not know that they were in the beginning

Why did the ancestors choose to settle in such a barren mountain? It is surrounded by mountains on all sides, and only a small stream that flows from the mountains leads to the outside world, and the villagers sometimes take the game they catch to the markets outside the mountains to sell, and usually walk down this small river to reach the nearest town in a day, so these mountain people generally stay in the village, and in their eyes there is nothing but the mountain is still the mountain.

There was a young man in the village, he lived with his mother, and his father was there when she was very young, and he accidentally fell and died in the mountain stream while hunting again, so when the young man grew up, his mother was afraid that he would also die in the mountains, so she did not allow him to enter the mountains, so the young man dug a field by the brook, planted some grain, and he would also take some grain and exchange some game and fur with the neighbors, and although the life was a little hard, it was also at ease.

One day, the young man's mother was very sick, and the village goddess told the young man that only the Lingzhi from Huqi Mountain could save her mother's life. Huqi Mountain is a mountain range in the Great Wilderness Mountain, because there are many foxes and get the name, the hunters in the village will avoid Huqi Mountain far away when hunting, so it is said that there are fox fairies living in Huqi Mountain, and people who step into Huqi Mountain will be fascinated by fox fairies and never come back, so the villagers did not dare to go to Huqi Mountain. But the young man's mother was very ill, and he was a dutiful child, and could not bear to see her mother die like this, so one morning he secretly went into the mountains without telling his mother.

It was the first time he had grown so big and gone deep into the Great Wilderness Mountain, she had only been to some small hills near the village before, before entering the mountain, he had asked the people in the village about the location of Huqi Mountain, but the Great Wilderness Mountain was full of ravines, ten thousand trees were intertwined, and even the weeds were taller than people, and the young man quickly got lost when he entered the mountain for the first time, and the people who got lost in the Great Wilderness Mountain were either starved to death or eaten by wild beasts. The young man had no experience, and walked farther and farther in the mountains, and it was not long before it was dark.

The great barren mountains in the dark night are very terrible, many wild beasts will come out at night to look for food, the young man stumbled in the mountains alone, he felt that the towering ancient trees around him were like black ghosts with a big mouth to bite him, the more the young man looked at the more frightened he couldn't help but run, so the young man ran around in the mountains regardless of things, startled a group of birds resting on the trees, the aunt's strange scream, there seemed to be many blue eyes staring at him in the distance, the young man was very scared, he ran faster. In this way, it was not known how far the young man had run, and although he was exhausted, he was still running, and he was afraid that as soon as he stopped, those blue eyes would eat him. In this way, the young man ran and ran in the mountains

Suddenly, the young man's leg was caught by something, and the young man fell, and when he looked back, it was a dry arm that grabbed his ankle, and the young man was startled and fainted.

I don't know how long it took, the young man slowly woke up, it seemed that the arm was still grabbing his ankle, the young man broke out in a cold sweat, but fortunately, he didn't faint again, he slowly turned his head and saw clearly through the faint moonlight through the gap in the tree, it was just a withered branch stuck in his ankle, a false alarm. The young man took off the branch and looked around, and there seemed to be some light ahead, faintly flashing white light.

The young man boldly walked forward, in

A small lake appeared in front of him, there are a lot of such lakes in the Great Wilderness Mountain, it often rains here, and it is easy to form such lakes in the low-lying places on the top of some mountains, but this lake is very strange, and the white light just now came from here, and the white light flickered with the waves of water circles. The young man was strange, he had never seen a lake shining with white light when he was so big. The young man looked at the lake and soon found that the white light was coming from the middle of the lake. The young man hesitated, then rolled up his trousers and walked towards the center of the lake, which was shallow. Soon, the young man came to the middle of the lake, where the white light was strong and warm, shining warmly on his body, and it seemed that the fatigue of the night had disappeared. The white light is a very ordinary grass, the grass emits two thin leaves from the root, about a foot long, as thin as a long sword, if there is no white light, it is a very ordinary grass. The young man guessed that it might be a fairy grass, and that it might cure his mother's illness, so he gently pulled it out. The young man was surprised that the white light disappeared the moment he pulled out the grass, but before he could think about it, he remembered a fox's hiss not far away, followed by two, three ...... One after another fox cries sounded in the mountains, and soon huge foxes appeared beside the small lake, and they looked at the young man with blue eyes, and let out angry screams. The young man was so frightened that he grabbed the fairy grass and ran, and the foxes chased after him, and a hissing cry seemed to tear the young man to pieces. In this way, the young man ran again in the deep mountains, but this time it became more dangerous, the young man rolled the broken stones, stumbled on the grass and ran, and soon he ran to a cliff, the cliff mouth hung out, and the bottom was not visible, and behind him, a group of foxes were rushing over, the young man looked at the fairy grass in his hand, turned around and jumped into the deep cliff......

I don't know how long later, the young man felt home, he felt his mother caressing his forehead with her warm hand, he felt warm all over his body, and then he slowly opened his eyes, and in the blur he saw a person pressing his hand on his forehead, like his mother and it didn't seem to be, he tried to see clearly, but there was always a blur in front of him, and he fainted in a hurry.

After a long time, the young man gradually came to his senses, and it turned out that he was lying in a small wooden hut, which was very well furnished, a bed, a table, a stool, and a bow and a few deerskins hung on the wall. The young man tried to get out of bed, but his whole body was in pain, and he was already sweating profusely when he barely sat up, and at that moment, the door opened. A pretty girl stood in the doorway.

It turned out that the young man jumped off the cliff and fell into the lake below the cliff, and the girl came to the lake to fetch water and found him, so she carried him home, and the young man had been in a coma for three days, and now he finally woke up.

The young man was very grateful to the girl for saving him, he wanted to repay the girl with the fairy grass in his hand, but he thought of his mother at home and hesitated, his mother was in need of this fairy grass to live, the young man was a filial child and a person who knew how to repay his kindness, he told the girl that he would go home and cure his mother's illness and give her this fairy grass. Unexpectedly, the girl asked to marry the young man. It turned out that the girl was the daughter of Orion in the mountains, called Little Fox, and after the death of her parents, she lived alone, and he was willing to marry a young man and live with him. The young man was surprised at first, and then he was very happy, his mother had already urged him to find a daughter-in-law, but he did not expect to find such a beautiful daughter-in-law in this today, and his mother would be happy if she saw the little fox. So the young man happily left the mountain with the little fox girl.

Strange to say, when entering the mountain, the young man did not go far before he got lost, and when he went out of the mountain, he found his way back to the village very smoothly, and soon he returned to the village with the little fox girl. The people of the village were very surprised to see the young man come back, they all thought that the young man was dead, but they did not expect that he not only came back but also brought back a beautiful daughter-in-law, which is really remarkable. Just as the people were asking questions like the lad, the lad's neighbor jumped out of the crowd and told the lad that his mother was dying. It turned out that the young man's mother was angry and worried when she learned that he had gone to Huqi Mountain alone, and she fainted without coming up in one breath, and now she is dying. The young man hurriedly took the little fox home, and sure enough, his mother was dying, and the young man was very sad and in pain. At this time, the little fox took out the fairy grass that the young man picked in the mountains from his arms, put it on her mother's forehead and patted it lightly three times, and then a miracle happened, the young man's mother's face gradually became ruddy, and her breathing gradually became smooth, and she came back to life.

Then the village people held a grand wedding for the young man and the little fox girl, and the whole village sang and danced around the bonfire, carnivaling to the fullest, which was really more lively than the New Year.

After getting married, the young man and Xiaohu still live with their mother, and Xiaohu is very sensible and filial. Maybe she stayed in the mountains for too long, Xiaohu didn't know how to do any work, she didn't know how to cook, she couldn't weave and sew, she couldn't even clean the house, but Xiaohu was very smart, and her mother-in-law taught her for a while, and she was even better than her mother-in-law. The young man and her mother loved Little Fox very much, and they thought it was a good daughter-in-law from God. However, Xiaohu never eats with the young man and her mother-in-law, he always waits for them to finish eating, no matter how they persuade him, Xiaohu still won't eat with them, at first they are a little unaccustomed, and then they can't resist Xiaohu and gradually get used to it.

In the blink of an eye, the little fox has been married to this village for two months, and a strange thing happened in the village in these two months, that is, every night, there will be one less chicken in the village, and people didn't care at first, after all, here, foxes, weasels, and weasel are much special, and it is normal to have fewer chickens, but I didn't expect things to get more and more serious, the fewer the chickens, the more the chickens, no matter how firmly people lock the chicken nest, it is useless the next morning, there will always be one less chicken in the family, and what is even stranger is that the chicken has never heard the sound of the chicken at night, it is not a sneaky thingFor a while, the people in the village talked a lot, and the people were panicked.

On this day, the little fox was tidying up the house, when she bent down to sweep the floor, a bead fell out of her arms, just landed at her mother-in-law's feet, so her mother-in-law picked it up, this is a crystal clear pearl, there is a green grass in the bead, two slender leaves like arrows. Her mother-in-law then wanted to keep the bead for the little fox, the little fox was reluctant at first, but at the insistence of her mother-in-law still handed the bead to her mother-in-law, her mother-in-law was very happy, so she locked the bead in a small box, he always thought that the young man was too careless, so the valuable things were still kept by her. There are other jewelry in the box, and she wants to pass them on to Xiaohu in the future.

A few days later, the young man found that the little fox's face was a little pale, and he walked a little unsteadily, he asked the little fox several times what was wrong, and the little fox always found some reason to prevaricate in the past, although the young man felt a little strange to go, he couldn't say the reason. In the evening of that day, Xiaohu went to wash his clothes and heard several sisters-in-law say that Uncle Li's fox catcher hit the foot of the chicken thief last night. They also joked that if anyone hurt their foot, they would be stealing chickens. Little Fox's face turned whiter when she heard this, and she picked up the laundry tub and walked home step by step, as if she had to endure great pain at every step, but no one noticed this.

In the evening, Xiaohu did not eat with the young man and his mother-in-law as usual, and after eating, everyone rested. In the middle of the night, the young man's mother heard a slight rooster crow, she thought that it was not the chicken thief who came to her house, so she gently got out of bed and came to the young man's room to ask her son to catch the chicken thief together, the strange thing is that his son was the only one in the room, the little fox was not here, but at this time it was important to catch the chicken thief, so the young man picked up a sickle and his mother quietly walked to the chicken coop. The moonlight is fine tonight, and the moonlight is pouring down like mercury. From afar they saw something beside the chicken coop, and when they got closer, it was a person, and the young man and his mother were startled, could it be that this chicken thief was a human being? They quietly walked in some more, and the young man felt a little uneasy, and he felt that the figure in front of him looked so much like a little fox. His mother also seemed to feel that something was wrong, and they had a vague sense that something was going to happen. The young man's hand with the sickle trembled a little, and he subconsciously wanted to turn back, but unfortunately when he turned around, he stepped on a dead branch, and the dead branch "snapped" and shattered, the sound seemed so harsh in the empty night, and they froze in an instant. The figure in front of him slowly turned around, and for a moment, time seemed to freeze, and it was actually a fox's face, and there was some chicken blood at the corner of his mouth.

Who turned Yuyan into a fox face tonight, have you ever seen the cold moonlight?

The young man's mother hurriedly pulled the young man to a waste of wood, and after a long time, there was no movement, and they quietly returned to the room. Now they understand that the little fox is a fox. The young man's mother told the young man to act as if nothing had happened, and she hurried out to call someone, and before she left, she thought of the little fox's beads, and took them with her.

Not long after, the door of the young man's room opened, and the young man put the quilt on his head and pretended to sleep, but how could he sleep with his trembling body. The little fox walked gently to the bed, and by this time he had already turned into a human form, and she sat quietly on the edge of the bed and told a story. A long time ago, there was a little fox here, has been very beautiful little fire fox, it lives freely on Huqi Mountain, one day it heard two hunters talking about life in the world at the foot of the mountain, it was very envious, so it had the idea of cultivating into an adult, Huqi Mountain was originally the place where the aura of heaven and earth is, the little fire fox devoted himself to practice, and finally cultivated into a human form, but it can only turn into a human form for three hours, and after three hours it returned to its original appearance. One day it happened to meet a comatose young man by the lake, the young man was holding a three-life grass, with the three-life grass, the little fire fox could change freely, so the little fire fox married the young man, but later fell in love with him, she really wanted to live with the young man for a lifetime, she wanted to be an ordinary wife, she tried to adapt to human life, take care of her husband, and serve her mother-in-law. But she was a fox after all, and she wanted to eat raw meat, so whenever she ate, she would avoid it, and go out at night to find some chickens to eat, and catching chickens was a very simple thing for her. But one day, her elixir beads were taken away by the young man's mother, without the elixir beads, the little fire fox's mana was gone, she couldn't catch chickens as easily as before, and she was caught by a fox and injured her foot when catching chickens, and the little fire fox couldn't go out, but she was so hungry that night, so that night, she caught her own chickens, but unfortunately, the young man and her mother saw her fox face, and they knew that she meant the fox." The little fox softly told a story that seemed unrelated, but the young man knew that the little fire fox in the story was the little fox himself. The young man now understands that the little fox is a fox, but she is a kind fox, a fox who loves him. The young man sat up from the bed, he looked at the delicate face of the little fox, and gently held her in his arms.

I thought that this was the end of the story, but it was too late, and the young man's mother had already told the whole village about the appearance of a fox in the house, so the whole village went out together, and they surrounded the young man's room with torches, sickles, and hoes. The little fox without the elixir bead was just an ordinary girl, and soon the villagers caught the little fox. The goddess of the village also used an unknown potion to make the little fox show his fox face, what a delicate fox face. The villagers have seen thousands of foxes, but how have they ever seen such a peerless fox face. They tied the little fox to a high platform, and there was a pile of firewood underneath, and they wanted to burn the little fox, no matter how the young man explained and pleaded, the villagers still had to burn the little fox, and in their hearts all the fox monsters would harm people, and only by burning her could the safety of the villagers be guaranteed, and the young man asked for the little fox's beads like her mother, but his mother would not give it to him, and everyone thought that the young man had been charmed by the fox, and he was crazy. The young man begged hard, broke away from the crowd at once, climbed up the high platform, and tightly protected the little fox with his body, the villagers had no choice, they decided to burn the young man to death together.

The fire was blazing, and the flames were burning towards them, and for many years, there was a moment when at the end of your life there was a man who hugged you tightly and used his broad chest to resist the flames, even if you were only a fox. For many years, you have been able to turn into a human form, you have begged to live in the world, and now you have turned into a human form, and you have come to the world, but the merciless fire of the world is about to devour you, have you ever regretted it? Have you forgotten that you once lived freely in the mountains? Have you forgotten that you once held the moon among the stars? Have you ever been worth practicing for a thousand years, and once burned? Why is the happiness of a thousand years of anticipation so short? Is this an irresistible name? Xiaohu looked at the man in front of her who was shielding her from the fire, and smiled, what kind of peerless face was that, Xiaohu smiled softly, and a crystal teardrop slipped down from the corner of his smiling eyes, slid across her face, slid down the corner of her mouth, and quietly disappeared, this was the first time she shed tears in a thousand years, and the tears were salty.

Is this the end of the fire?

No, a shocking fox roar suddenly sounded, and the sky and earth suddenly changed color......