Chapter 388 Really...anything is possible?
"Do you have a little fox with a red tail?" Ning Changge asked directly.
Fox Meimei shook her head and said truthfully: "Reply to the Immortal, no."
Ning Changge was unwilling to give up and continued to ask: "You have been practicing in the mountains, so have you ever seen it here?"
Fox Meimei still shook her head, then stretched out her claws and pointed at the little foxes lying on the stone platform, saying:
"My Lord, all the wild foxes nearby are here."
Ning Changge took a few glances at the little foxes. They were all little demons who had just started to practice Qi Refining. If they didn’t have the opportunity in the future, they could only build a foundation at most.
"All the clues point to Qingqiu Mountain. How could there be nothing? Miss Huang, where are you?! Hey——!"
Ning Changge sighed in his heart.
At this time, Zhu Liuying's voice of doubt sounded: "That's not right. Laicai said the chicken thief is here, but those guys over there don't look like they can steal chickens."
Fox Meimei was naturally confused: "Chicken thief?"
"Is such that,"
Zhu Liuying explained, "Before, we found that the roast chicken we offered was missing from the fox shrine halfway up the mountain, and there were footprints of small animals on the ground."
"So I came all the way here and finally came to you. I wonder if this matter has anything to do with you?"
When Granny Fox heard this, she shook her head like a rattle and said to Ning Changge in fear and trepidation, "My Lord, I really don't know about this!"
"I have always lived in this waterfall cave with these children and have never left. It is even more impossible for us to steal any offerings."
Ning Changge raised his eyebrows slightly, "Never left?"
"Really!" Seeing Ning Changge's suspicious expression, Hu Meimei was afraid that he would punish her, so she quickly explained:
"I actually know something about the rumors in the mountains, although I don't know whether it is true or not, but she is a powerful senior of our tribe, and we will never steal the offerings for the senior."
Ning Changge listened to Grandma Fox's anxious yet sincere tone and it didn't sound like she was lying.
He became even more confused. If it wasn't these little foxes who stole the food, then who could it be?
"But the footprints on the incense ash do look like those left by a fox."
Zhu Liuying was a little bit skeptical about the old fox in front of her. Books said that fox spirits loved to deceive men the most.
Hu Meimei was so anxious that she almost cried: "It's really not us! Although our cultivation is not high, we have at least embarked on the path of cultivation. The desire for food and drink is dispensable to us."
"If I feel hungry, I can just eat wild fruits and small animals from the mountains."
At this point, Hu Meimei bent down again and knelt down directly in front of Ning Changge: "Please believe us, Immortal!"
Seeing her like this, Ning Changge didn't ask any more questions. He narrowed his eyes slightly and looked at the little foxes carefully again, feeling very disappointed:
"There really is no little fox with a red tail..."
Since there is nothing, there is no point in staying here any longer.
Finally, after warning Hu Meimei not to do anything that would harm the world, Ning Changge took Zhu Liuying out of the Water Curtain Cave.
Then he took her and Laicai down the mountain.
On the way down the mountain, Zhu Liuying looked at Ning Changge, who looked a little lost, and comforted him:
"Brother Ning, it's okay. Maybe the chicken thief is another small animal in the mountains."
Ning Changge smiled bitterly: "I actually hope that the chicken thief is just a little fox."
Zhu Liuying was puzzled: "But didn't the old fox say it wasn't them? It could only be someone else."
Ning Changge sighed, but replied in her heart: "If the chicken thief was not a little fox, Miss Huang might have really died."
Zhu Liuying blinked and said, "Brother, why are you suddenly silent?"
Looking at the exit not far ahead, Ning Changge naturally changed the subject and said:
"It just suddenly occurred to me that your birthday is in a few days, Aying. What gift should I give you?"
"Hasn't Big Brother already delivered it?"
As he spoke, Zhu Liuying slightly rolled up her sleeves, revealing her jade-like wrists and a string of golden Buddhist beads.
"That's a gift from the eldest senior brother to the younger junior sister. The eldest brother hasn't given it to her yet."
Ning Changge reached out and put down his rolled-up sleeves, not forgetting to smooth out the creases, "Think carefully about what birthday gift you want Brother Ning to give you."
Seeing his considerate little gesture, Zhu Liuying felt warm in her heart, her eyebrows curved, and she said softly:
"You don't need any gifts. Big brother, your coming here is the best gift."
Ning Changge smiled and said, "I am both your senior brother and your eldest brother, so of course I will come. This is the best gift. There are still a few days left, Ah Ying, think about it carefully. As long as I can do it, I will satisfy you."
Ning Changge's words, like the devil's whisper, carried the power to bewitch people. They penetrated into Zhu Liuying's ears and instantly captured her heart.
Zhu Liuying lowered her eyes and did not reply to him immediately.
Instead, he gently and repeatedly stroked the cuffs that Ning Changge had just smoothed out, as if he was calming the surging emotions in his heart, or as if he was savoring a certain smell.
"Really...anything?"
The girl's voice was very soft, but it carried a barely perceptible tremor and excitement.
"Ok?"
Ning Changge was stunned. No, why does this sentence sound weird?
Something feels wrong.
It must be an illusion. Aying is not a junior sister, so it’s okay to agree to her. Besides, everything I just said can satisfy her, so I have to be an honest senior brother.
Thinking of this, Ning Changge nodded and said with a smile: "Of course anything is possible. But my brother's strength is here, you must not make any excessive demands."
Zhu Liuying bit her lower lip tightly, suppressing the heat in her heart, and said softly, "No, Ah Ying's request is very simple."
Ning Changge asked: "What does Ah Ying want?"
Under the fence, Zhu Liuying stared at Ning Changge with her beautiful eyes. Suddenly, she swallowed and her breathing became a little rapid:
"I...I haven't thought about it yet. I'll tell you when you come over that day, brother."
Ning Changge blinked, "On your birthday? I'm afraid I won't have enough time to prepare a gift. Why don't you just tell me now, Aying?"
"Brother, just come over. There will be plenty of time for you to prepare then."
After saying that, Zhu Liuying quickened his pace and walked down the mountain.
She didn't dare to stay here any longer. Zhu Liuying was really afraid that she would accidentally tell her wish, and then she would cry on her birthday.
"This girl is still playing dumb with me."
Looking at Zhu Liuying's back as if she was fleeing, Ning Changge smiled helplessly and sped up to catch up.
Soon, Ning Changge, his companion and the dog reached the exit.
Ning Changge stepped one foot in.
At this time.
A misty female voice like a dream came to my ears: "You left."
"Ok?"
Ning Changge frowned suddenly, paused, turned around, and looked at the Qingqiu Mountain shrouded in mist behind him.
Zhu Liuying looked at Ning Changge and suddenly stopped, a little puzzled: "Brother, what's wrong?"
Ning Changge turned to look at Zhu Liuying, his voice a little confused and uncertain: "Just now, I seemed to hear someone saying goodbye to us."
Zhu Liuying exclaimed, "But there are only you and me here, and Laicai, where did these outsiders come from?"
Ning Changge scratched his head and laughed, "Ahaha, maybe big brother is hallucinating. He stayed up all night last night and didn't sleep well. Let's go, let's go back."
Zhu Liuying came forward and took Ning Changge's arm, as if she was supporting her mother-in-law, and said with concern:
"Although you are a cultivator, you still can't not sleep. Let me help you walk."
"Thank you, Ying."
Ning Changge followed Zhu Liuying with a look of enjoyment on his face.
But before he finally left, he turned back and took another look at the fox head on the top of the mountain from afar, thinking:
"Could it be you who's talking?"
It can't be an illusion. If the "you are coming" I heard when I first went up the mountain was an illusion caused by the fog, then the "you are leaving" this time can't be the same.
Because I have already gone down the mountain and there is no fog here.
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Outside the waterfall, Hu Meimei sent Ning Changge away with a frightened look on her face. She was really afraid that this immortal would suddenly change his nature and say that he wanted to kill her to rid the people of this harm.
Wiping the sweat from her forehead, Fox Meimei crossed the waterfall and flew back to the Water Curtain Cave.
As soon as she returned here, Hu Meimei saw the children she adopted gathered together, jumping on the stone platform, and making puzzled sounds of "嘤嘤" from their mouths.
Fox Meimei walked over curiously, and saw a little snow-white fox lying among the group of children.
This little fox is small in size, with fur as pure white as snow without a trace of other colors. It is very beautiful, and has a pair of black and bright eyes.
"Hey, when did I adopt a white fox?"
Fox Meimei exclaimed in surprise, but compared to the confusion in her heart, her face showed a bit of uneasiness because she saw the chicken wing in the mouth of the little white fox.
"Oh my god, you're not the chicken thief!?"
The little white fox didn't seem to understand what Fox Meimei was saying and was still gnawing on the chicken wings.
Hu Meimei's eyes flickered slightly, and she thought, "The Immortal may not have come down the mountain yet, why don't we capture her and hand her over to the Immortal?"
Fox Meimei stretched out her paw and touched the little white fox. After a few seconds, she retracted her paw and sighed:
"Forget it, you and I are from the same tribe, just eat it. Besides..."
After a pause, Hu Meimei glanced at the little white fox in front of her and said with a look of pity:
"What a waste of this snow-white fur. I didn't expect it to be just an ordinary fox that can't even practice cultivation. It's such a pity, ah~"
As for whether this little white fox that suddenly appeared was the fox that the immortal was looking for, that of course was not the case.
The immortal was asking about the red tail, but the little guy in front of him was white.
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