Chapter Forty-Seven: The Sorrow of the Human Fox
The deity Zhuang You and Jin Mi walked halfway, and the originally sunny weather suddenly thundered. They didn't dare to delay on the road any longer, and quickened their pace and swept into the area actually controlled by the Shura Cottage. At this time, the sky began to rain tricklingly. Walking in the rain was also a pleasant one, and although thunder and lightning occasionally exploded above their heads, they slowed down.
"Brother Nobuko, there is the fox garden in front of you. There are brothers stationed in the stockade, so let's take shelter from the rain. Jin Mi raised his head and looked at the road ahead, then pointed to a plum blossom forest and said.
The fox garden is actually a fox mound, which is the grave where the fox is buried. This place is the place where the Konsai flowers come to worship every year after autumn. The fox buried in the fox mound is called "Talking Fox". It is rumored that its name is also related to Liu Jian, the young head of the Three Willows faction who died.
Many years ago, Liu Jianjian had a successful sword. He wanted to go out, but was stopped by his father, Liu Zong. When the son's young heart Xing proposed to compete with his father, if he won, he will be released from the mountain, if he loses, he will choose a place to retreat along the Suncheon River, and support himself. In order not to disobey the ancestral teachings, the father was forced to pick up the sword and defeat the son. Who would have thought that when his son's words counted, he would leave home with a blanket roll and choose to retreat and practice in this plum garden.
There is a small ravine not far from the plum garden, the scenery in the ditch is unchanged in the four seasons, there is a spring with sweet water like honey, and the four seasons continue to flow. This may be one of the reasons why Liu Jian chose this place for retreat. When he arrived, he found that foxes often came to drink and play. At first, Liu Jian thought it was a fox den, so he didn't want to move out. But after living for many years, I found that the foxes did not stay most of the time except for coming to drink. So, he settled down temporarily.
This stay is five years, Liu Jian gradually honed his heart, and he is more and more reluctant to return to live in Sankeliu. Liu Zong had no choice but to let it go, and occasionally sent someone to bring him some food. It was another five years later, and the snow fell like goose feathers between the sky and the earth, and the plum blossoms in full bloom in the plum garden contrasted with each other. Liu Jian couldn't help but enjoy the flowers and practice swords in the plum garden on a whim. A fox who came to drink with the foxes did not leave, but stood outside the circle formed by Liu Jian's sword qi and waited.
Seeing Liu Jian put away the sword, she conjured into a humanoid form, but her face was still the same furry fox face. Probably worried about scaring Liu Jian, she put on a flower hat to cover it, and then ran to Liu Jian and asked him, she was like a woman. Liu Jian was so annoyed that he swung his sword to drive it away, but he was worried about hurting it, so he put away his sword and walked to the thatched hut built halfway up the mountain. But the flower-hated fox followed like a shadow, and asked reluctantly.
Liu Jian was upset, and couldn't help but say: You are not like a woman, like a dog. When the flower-hated fox heard that the fox was disgraced, he left angrily.
That night, the flower-hat fox threw all the plum blossoms in the plum garden where Liu Jian often practiced swordsmanship to the ground to vent his anger. The next day, Liu Jian couldn't help but be angry when he saw the plum blossoms that had been ruined by the flower-hat fox. Annoyed, he was trying to find the fox's den and kill the flower-hated fox. The flower-hated fox ran up to him on its own. He used Yuan Li to raise his sword to kill, but he couldn't do it after all.
He thought that he was at fault first, so he apologized to the flower-hat fox, and praised it against his will, so as to prevent the plum blossom from being broken again. To his surprise, the flower-hat fox was immediately excited when he heard the words "You are beautiful, beautiful as a fairy", and in a blink of an eye, he transformed into a delicate beauty, calling herself "Talking Fox".
Later, Liu Jian learned from the fox that she was a fox who had survived the transformation tribulation, but because she was not praised by the human race, she did not change her appearance after all. In this regard, although Liu Jian was skeptical, he didn't bother to think about it, and only concentrated on practicing and controlling the sword. Thanks to Liu Jian's kindness, the fox takes meticulous care of his diet every time he comes to the plum garden. After a long time, the two fell in love with each other, so much so that they made a private lifelong agreement in a thatched hut halfway up the mountainside.
A certain ri, the disciples of the Liu Sect asked Liu Jian to return to the sect to celebrate his grandmother's birthday, and found that his pure yang qi was greatly discharged. On the premise that all kinds of inquiries were fruitless, Liu Zong had no choice but to secretly send people to monitor, and finally discovered that Liu Jian and Huahu had an adulterous bestiality. For the Three Willows forces, which have always been advertised as famous and upright, it is tantamount to breaking their plaque. Liu Zong was naturally furious, and led the three good hands of the three Liu Sanpin monks and above to surround the plum garden, trying to catch the fox and kill him with a stick.
Since then, Liu Jian has completely broken with his father and fought with the strong generals of the three willow forces. As the saying goes, it is difficult to defeat four fists with both hands, Liu Jian was finally defeated, and the fox was also seriously injured by Liu Zong. Huahu urged Liu Jian to go first, but he was sincere with Huahu, so he naturally wouldn't leave her alone. So, he did not hesitate to spontaneously combust Yuan Dan's sword to help the fox kill a bloody way to escape. Liu Zong lost his beloved son, and fell into a coma for a while, and if he was seriously injured, the fox was lucky enough to escape Xing's life.
After that, the fox hid in the Tianhe Valley controlled by the Shura army. It wasn't until one day that he met Kang Saihua that the fox found a place to recuperate. But the good times didn't last long, and as Jin Shura was killed by the Imperial Immortal Army, the Shura Army cottage was limited to internal strife. In order to solve Kang Saihua's dilemma, the fox passed on the charm of her fox clan. Although this is something that can't be put on the table, it helped Kang Saihua and Shura Cottage to relieve the crisis of fragmentation at that time.
Seeing that Kang Saihua stabilized the situation, the fox missed Liu Jian very much, so he quietly got off the Shura Army cottage and came to the plum garden to pay tribute to his deceased husband, but was arrested by Liu Zong, who got the news. The enemy of the fox was only Liu Zong, who came prepared, so he had to ask Kang Saihua for help. When Kang Saihua arrived with people, the fox had been beaten back to its original form by Liu Zong's Yuanli Sword Bundle, and the corpse was separated. Kang Saihua naturally wanted to ask Liu Zong for an explanation, and just when the dragon and tiger battle between the two sides was about to break out, both sides got the news that the Ghost Yan Army was ready to take advantage of the fisherman.
For the safety of their respective villages, Kang Saihua and Liu Zong had to take a step back, shake hands and make peace, and from then on, the well water did not interfere with the river water. Since then, this plum garden has been placed under the name of the Shura Army Cottage in accordance with Kang Saihua's request to Liu Zong. Kang Saihua felt that the fox was kind to her back then, and she made a grave for her in this plum garden. In the early years, Kang Saihua often came to visit, and later simply sent a small team of Shura troops to be stationed for a long time, which was equivalent to the tomb guard army of the Fox faction. Since there is a garrison, it is not the same thing to call it a fox mound, so Kang Saihua renamed this place Fox Garden.
When the deity Zhuang You heard this, in addition to the sympathy of the dialogue fox, he was more dissatisfied with the impersonal feelings of the Liu Sect of the Three Willow forces. But this kind of thought can only be thought about in his heart, and before he can speak, Jin Mi will give him a problem. She asked the deity Zhuang You, if the human-animal love between the fox and Liu Jian happened to him, what would he do?
Needless to say, Zhuang You understood the reason why Jin Mi ignored him along the way. He smiled, then turned and pointed to the place where he and the Ethereal Serpent had been talking privately, and told the secret they had said. She couldn't help but laugh out loud when she saw that they weren't what she thought they were. She didn't even hold back her smile when she heard something she didn't want to hear in her life.
"Mi'er, after my father and mother died, I no longer have any relatives. It's my blessing to meet you and my godmother, you are my relatives, no matter what happens in the future, I will treat you as my own sister. ”