That leaf was produced in the demon country Qingqiu, with delicate and beautiful patterns. In the human world, this kind of creation from Qingqiu can be used to find creatures from Qingqiu.
When Wei Yuan and the goddess found each other, the fox spirit also looked at them in surprise.
Then he looked at the green leaves in their hands nervously:
"Where is Lao Zhai? How come the leaves are in your hands?"
It was the first time that Wei Yuan saw this kind of spirit.
This was a rare male fox spirit in the rumors, and he looked very old.
Among the monsters, there are not many who can transform into human form when they are not very advanced. Huang Gu Nu has been practicing Taoism for more than a hundred years, and she can only send dreams and ask for help in dreams. Among the types that can transform, the most famous are fox demons and raccoon spirits.
This fox spirit transformed into a short old man with silver-white hair and wrinkles on his face. He was wearing a light-colored British suit and looked gentle and elegant, but he was a little anxious at the moment, which made his silver hair shake.
Practicing to become a spirit can greatly extend the lifespan of a creature, but this is not without limit.
The lifespan of a fox is only ten years.
Even if the lifespan is extended tenfold, it is only a hundred years.
And the nine-tailed fox with a thousand years of practice will be a great monster recorded in the Classic of Mountains and Seas.
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Wei Yuan told the old man how he got the book and the leaves.
The vixen showed a look of regret on her face, sighed, sat on a chair next to the park, was silent for a long time, and said:
"Really? Old Zhai has passed away..."
"I finally found the medicine, it seems there is no point."
The goddess looked at the medicine in the old vixen's hand and said: "This is a longevity elixir, do you want to give it to him?"
"You must have been injured when you were picking the medicine."
The vixen said naturally: "Because we are friends."
The girl was a little surprised, thought about it, and said: "The leader of Qingqiu is a nine-tailed fox. Although it is regarded as a good omen, it will eat evil people. You are her subordinates. Will you also make friends with people like the wild fox demons in the outside world?"
"I have never eaten anyone."
The old vixen muttered, and then for some reason, shook her body a little uneasily.
"Okay, I wanted to eat him once."
"Just once."
"I just had a thought. All evil is judged by deeds, not by heart, so it doesn't count as evil."
Wei Yuan became interested, put Qingqiu Ye aside, and said:
"You want to eat him, how did you become friends?"
"Also, do all spirits hide in the human world like you?"
The fox spirit said: "Things become spirits after a long time. Even if they don't have spiritual power, they don't only see the power of the law. We used to live in the deep mountains and old forests, but now there are fewer and fewer deep mountains and old forests. The kind of thing you people built There are more and more steel forests, so naturally there will be monsters who are homeless and will sneak in. "
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"As for the matter between me and Lao Zhai."
It saw that Wei Yuan and the girl who frightened it seemed to be interested, and shook its head:
"If you want to hear it, I can talk about it."
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The leader of the Qingqiu clan, the nine-tailed fox, is a famous monster in Shenzhou!
Before it was discredited, it was a good omen in the eyes of mortals.
But the nine-tailed fox eats people.
Whether it was because this was her instinct when she was still a beast rather than a monster, it was seen and recorded by someone at the beginning, or it was said that there were evil people who were punished and devoured, these were not woven lies, but stories recorded in the Classic of Mountains and Seas.
Hu Ming is the most ordinary Qingqiu fox.
He also wanted to get closer to the nine-tailed fox, so he decided to do something that could prove that he was a fox demon.
Instead of practicing the spell of enchantment, he tried to do the ancient hunting and cannibalism.
This was not because he felt embarrassed to learn the spell of enchantment and transformation among a bunch of little female foxes, nor was it because he was stupid and could never learn to be enchanting, but simply to follow the ancient customs.
He quickly locked on a target.
It was a little boy from a very poor family. The adults died in a short war, leaving him alone.
But he had a hobby that poor people of that era should not have, reading.
During the first hunt, because there were adults around, it did not act rashly.
During the second hunt, it had already touched the back of the little boy, but vaguely heard him mumbling something, and suddenly raised his voice and said, "Where are the evil spirits going?" Hu Ming was so scared that his hair exploded and his eyes widened.
Could this little guy be the kind of person who was born with magic power?
But later I found out that the boy was just reading a book, a story called a storybook.
The fox's unusual behavior also scared the boy. The man and the fox stared at each other for a long time. The boy laughed, broke a dry and hard bun, and handed half of it to the fox, but the fox didn't even look at it, and ran away with its tail swaying.
Boring.
Stupid.
This was the initial thought.
The fox decided to give the boy a slap from behind. A fox of this size would take a long time to eat, but the story was so good that he decided to listen to the story slowly and finish listening to these books before taking action. He looked at the books. The lifespan of Qingqiu foxes is not short, and these books can only be read for a year at most.
But after reading one book, there are more books.
Sometimes when he wants to recall these stories and texts, he will find a way to copy them.
During this period, foxes often appear, and he is no longer surprised.
However, in the village, boys were not peaceful with each other, especially those from families without parents. In addition, they were not sociable, so little boys were often bullied by older boys. Whenever this happened, the fox would yawn and feel bored, and then secretly use magic to tease the boys when they ran away.
For example, let them sit in the manure pit without stepping on air.
For example, let them fall on the ground.
At this time, he would feel that he was a hero in the storybook.
If other spirits asked him, how could a fox demon from Qingqiu be friends with a human boy? Hu Ming would raise his head slightly and proudly tell them that the guy was not his friend, but just food, and he would reproduce the ancient tradition of the nine-tailed fox eating people.
Those wild little spirits would look at him with respect and admiration.
Such days passed for a long time. The turning point of the story is that when Hu Ming came down the mountain to the village one day, he saw a Taoist priest took out a yellow talisman and handed it to the boy, telling him: "You have evil spirits on you. You are entangled by a fox spirit. Evil spirits will harm people and eat human spirits. You stick this yellow talisman on its body and I can subdue it."
Hu Ming was disdainful. He didn't think that guy would doubt him.
The boy was silent for a long time and took the talisman.
So the fox thought about it for several days and didn't go to him.
But in the end, he went. After listening to the last story, he decided to eat him if the boy took out the talisman. Sure enough, after the story was finished, the boy lit a lamp and looked at the fox, saying: "Are you a fox spirit?"
Hu Ming raised his chin and said coldly: "Yes."
"You are my..."
The word "prey" has not been finished yet.
The boy smiled, took out a book and said, "Great."
He said, "You can talk, so we can read together. I have a lot of things I want to discuss with others."
Hu Ming was a little dazed, and then the boy was excited and chattered for a long time, and then he slapped his forehead as if he remembered something, and said, "By the way, a Taoist priest came to the village, and he may have discovered you. You have to stay away from him these days."
"I cheated his talisman away, and he can't do anything to you."
The boy was very proud.
The fox stared at him with wide eyes, but couldn't help laughing.
After reading so many books, didn't he know that Taoist priests could draw talismans?
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The old fox spirit reached out and took a fallen leaf.
He stopped talking, paused, and said, "We were inseparable. More than ten years had passed. We read and argued together. Then he came to the city, found a wife, got married and had children, and I returned to Qingqiu. We agreed to meet every three years."
"The last time I saw him, I saw that his life was coming to an end, so I didn't go back to Qingqiu, but went to find this kind of medicine, hoping to prolong his life, but it was too late. Although I knew this day would come, I was always reluctant to think about it."
"It turns out that his book will finally be finished one day."
The goddess looked at Hu Ming, who looked like an old gentleman, and said, "The lifespan of Qingqiu foxes is not just a hundred years."
"You just lied."
The fox spirit smiled cunningly, "Yes, not just a hundred years, it can be two hundred years, three hundred years, But so what? "
"My family doesn't understand. Human lifespan is too short for us. He can only live to more than sixty years old, while I can live to several sixty years old. But he is still my most important friend. The length of lifespan is not the key to friendship."
"We are like the dust of the world, walking between heaven and earth. No one knows who will leave first. What we desire is only equal communication in the soul. So even if I will have one sixty years old, two, or even ten sixty years old, he will only have one sixty years. "
"But the sixty years of his existence are still the brightest and most important, enough to illuminate the long lifespan of the Qingqiu Fox Clan. "
"After all, he has accompanied me through his life. "
The old-looking fox spirit stood up and bowed to Wei Yuan and the goddess very elegantly.
Looking at the elixir that can prolong life on the seat, he smashed it with a gentleman's stick.
The moment the elixir touched the air, it blossomed like countless white flowers, then floated into the air, slowly turned into feathers of light and disappeared. The fleeting beauty was a treasure that was still extremely valuable in this world of spiritual revival, and it disappeared.
"I found this for my friend. Now that my friend is gone, it has no value."
"Thank you for telling me that he has left."
The old vixen put on her hat and said, "He is not in this city, and there is no need for me to come again."
"I will go to Qingqiu, and I will leave the Qingqiu leaf to you. You can use it to find the direction of Qingqiu."
"If you come, I will entertain you."
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Wei Yuan and the goddess walked back to the museum.
The goddess suddenly said, "Mobile phones are really not a good thing."
Wei Yuan was a little surprised and asked, "Why?"
The girl frowned and thought, "Before Hu Ming's friend died, he gave his grandson all the books and Hu Ming's keepsakes, but he easily gave up this opportunity because he could read books on his mobile phone. If he asked Hu Ming for the elixir of longevity, Hu Ming would not refuse."
"And monsters like bookworms can only survive in books that have been read carefully."
"Now that the text is recorded in the mobile phone, there will be fewer and fewer bookworms and pulses..."
Wei Yuan thought about it and said, "That may not be the case. There are still many people who like to read, and in this era, the number of people who can read is far greater than in ancient times. Moreover, the real purpose of mobile phones is to allow people who want to see but cannot see each other to contact each other and shorten the distance."
The girl shook her head, "The distance is not shortened."
She paused slightly, looked at Wei Yuan next to her with bright eyes, and emphasized:
"In our era, even if the distance is far, we want to When I see a friend, I will go to see him. So it is a great pleasure to have friends coming from afar. I am really happy. I am happy that my friends miss me, come to find me, and arrive safely. I am happy that I can see them again. "
"Just like Hu Ming, he travels back and forth between Qingqiu and the human world every three years. He spends most of his time on the road. If I miss you, I will cross mountains and seas to see you. This is more valuable than a text message on the phone."
Wei Yuan looked at the girl's bright eyes, thinking about the question from thousands of years ago, and smiled:
"There is always The shorter distance is like writing letters and sending messages. "
"It shortens the distance between people who have to see each other, such as 996."
The girl's brows relaxed. She was very curious about this era and said:
"Wine?"
Wei Yuan smiled and said, "It is a not-so-good specialty of this era."
"Of course, if you want to see someone, you still have to go see them in person."
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Hu Ming took a taxi to the airport in Quan City, intending to take a plane to leave Quan City and go to the mountains and forests.
Then return to Qingqiu.
Use your mobile phone to check flights.
A new flight message flashed by, but Hu Ming didn't care.
A plane from the former Indian New World landed at the Quan City Airport.