I heard you have nine tails

Li Lin didn't notice that the little fox's emotions were out of control, and after a few sentences, he turned the topic to apologizing: "When I was an orphan, I studied with Taifu Tan for many years, so I reacted a little more sensitively. In the final analysis, I was still rude."

I have mentioned it in a few words, but for a restrained and introverted person like Li Lin, if he can make him slip up for a while, you will know the weight of this Tan Taifu.

Tan Chang didn't make a sound, he was thinking about advanced and far-reaching propositions such as fox life and fate.Just when Li Lin thought the little fox was really angry and was thinking hard about how to coax him, Tan Chang suddenly turned around, stared at Li Lin with burning eyes, then quickly jumped to the edge of the inkstone, dipped in the ink, With a wave of its tail, two large characters fell down: "Name Taboo".

"Name?" Li Lin repeated, "Are you asking Mr. Gu Tan for his name?"

Tan Chang stared at him firmly.

Li Lin held back the questioning that blurted out, but the impoliteness of talking about the name of the former teacher still made him frown. "Talk about the word Taifu, Bing Yuan."

Tan Chang was lying on the table, his front paws were holding his head, his tail was waving unconsciously, and his ears were drooping slightly.

If you walk too much at night, monsters will also encounter ghosts.

Li Lin is not the only one who has studied under Taifu Tan.

Tan Chang was only a hundred years old at that time, and he could barely transform into a human form.He left Qingqiu early, forgetting about the catastrophe, and just after visiting a few villages and towns, he was knocked unconscious by a bolt of lightning.

It was Mr. Tan who picked him up.

The man said: "The old man taboos the word Bingyuan, you should remember it firmly."

It was the same person who leaned on his beard to think, and blurted out: "The world regards the nine-tailed fox as auspicious. When it is prosperous and prosperous, it will come out in peace. Since you worship under the old man, you should call it Tanchang."

"North wind? North wind?" Li Lin called out a few words tentatively. Tan Chang finally came back to his senses and looked at him with complicated eyes.Finally, the little fox got up shaking its fur, squatted on the paper, and wrote with its tail: "Tan Chang".

"Tan Chang?" Li Lin was stunned. "Tan Taifu had no heirs during his lifetime, and his brothers separated long ago. I really haven't heard of such a person."

Tan Chang flicked his tail impatiently at him, and jumped into the big water tank of the pen.He needs to take a shower to calm down.

"Tan Chang? You, your name is Tan Chang?" The dull master finally came to his senses.Tan Chang dived under the water and looked at the faintly bright water surface. After swimming several laps, he slowly came up.

Li Lin had been waiting for a long time, and as soon as he saw him showing his head, he grabbed him with a look of disgust and put him on the white blanket, wrapping him tightly. "I'm usually afraid of the cold the most, why are you going crazy today?"

When Tan Chang was swimming, Li Lin seemed to have settled down those messy emotions. When he looked at him, his eyes were focused, and his eyelashes drooped slightly, casting two small shadows on his eyelids.It seems to be countless.

Countless is time.Tan Chang was a little lost in thought, the memories of the past and the present were out of touch, and they were all buzzing in his ears.

"Gu Kan, the best thing you wrote is the name." After Li Lin returned to normal, he continued to look disgusted, "Yi Gu Kan, you might as well be called Beifeng, at least these two words are simple, Easy to write."

Who wrote it badly?Whose name is not as good as yours?Ben Fox's handwriting looks so good!Not to be outdone, Tan Chang barked back at him.

Seeing that Tan Chang lifted his spirits again, Li Lin was relieved to continue the work he had just interrupted. "Xiaoxiao from the Ministry of Internal Affairs, they can't do this with their courage, there must be someone behind the push." ​​He originally said it while checking the account book to ease the embarrassment.

However, Tan Chang did not respond.

Li Lin interrupted writing again. "Tan Chang, come here."

Because of that familiar call, the red-haired fox looked up at him, hesitating.Li Lin has always been a man of action, he stretched out his hand and skillfully brought the little fox back into his arms. "Gu just said a wrong sentence, and I don't know your name, are you so sad?"

Tan Chang was still torn in his heart, so he didn't bother to talk to him.

"There is something sad..." Li Lin covered his head with his big hand, gently stroking the white fluff on his ear. "Don't avoid it, you have to face it by yourself, you don't need others to mention it, you deliberately think about it, think it through, and you can face it when you are sad enough. If others want to hurt you with this matter, it is absolutely impossible. .”

Tan Chang twisted away Li Lin's hand and raised his head.

Li Lin looked at him calmly.Li Lin has a pair of phoenix eyes, and when he looks at people seriously, he is full of momentum.But with his gentle demeanor and words, it won't scare him at all.

Because of the candlelight, the flames in Li Lin's eyes danced slightly.

It suddenly occurred to Tan Chang that this person had also lost his teacher, his mother, and perhaps his father who had never been close to him.So is this how he faced it? One person thought, one person was sad, sad to the extreme, and only then did he accept the fact that the person who loved him had left?

Tan Chang slowly climbed up Li Lin's collar, lay on his shoulder, and rubbed his tail against his neck.

A shivering sensation spread from that small patch of skin throughout his body.Li Lin restrained himself, stretched out his hand and brushed his tail aside. "Don't mess around, I haven't settled with you for today's matter." Li Lin changed the subject, turned his neck and lowered his head and asked him: "How did you do it, control your three puppies?"

Mentioning the magic spell that he was proud of, Tan Chang finally became emotional, moved his head proudly, and squeaked.

"This is... the mana of the Nine-Tailed Fox?" Li Lin guessed right after a little thought. "Is this the same way you caught the fish last time?" Tan Chang gave another short and forceful squeak.

Unexpectedly, before he was happy for 3 minutes, he heard the other party ask: "So, you can also control people's behavior?"

Tan Chang felt that his limbs were stiff and his hair stood on end.

Li Lin's tone was very flat, as if he was talking about something very ordinary.But Tan Chang had seen him deal with the two court ladies lightly, and seen his majesty as a prince, so he could guess what he would think.Tan Chang didn't even dare to look at his expression at the moment, nervously stepping on his paws in turn.Why are you so stupid, easily leaking your details to a human being?

Tan Chang was sure that Li Lin was sincere in treating him well.Animals always have such a keen intuition, but he also knows that humans are fickle.

There was a light and heavy force on the shoulder, with a slight tingling pain.Li Lin's face remained unchanged, "Now you know you are afraid? You were still not convinced when Gu told you to put your tail away? Huh?"

That... that's not... The little fox silently buried his head under the gaze of those phoenix eyes and the slightly raised tone.

"Pretend to be dead, be honest in front of Gu." Li Lin seemed very impatient, but his eyes were full of smiles when he looked at the little fox. "You come down, and Gu's shoulder hurts from stepping on it."

Tan Chang stepped on his shoulders and quickly jumped to his knees with his arms, paying attention to retracting his paws to the soles of his feet.Li Lin poked his ear, and Tan Chang avoided it unaccustomedly, but still obediently lay on his stomach without resisting.

"Pfft." Li Lin laughed suddenly, Tan Chang raised his head inexplicably and moved his ears, feeling that the master's mood was really uncertain.

Li Lin said: "I see you are very clever on weekdays, why are you so stupid sometimes?"

How dare you call a nine-tailed fox stupid?Tan Chang almost exploded, but thinking about his life being in the hands of the other party, he endured it again.Li Lin touched the top of his head and said casually: "Gu said that I won't hurt you. This promise will always be valid. What are you afraid of?"

"Become a prototype, and let Gu take a look."

Tan Chang, who was stunned, took whatever he wanted, and in the blink of an eye, he changed back to his original form.

Tan Chang's prototype is not much different from the previous one, except that the fiery red tail has become much longer, and it has been divided into nine tails, each of which is fluffy and covered with red hair, only the tip is white fluff, which is soft and soft. fluffy.

Li Lin watched silently, hugged Tan Chang with one hand, and gently grabbed his tail with the other, and sighed contentedly.

That night, Tan Chang wrapped around Li Lin's neck and fell asleep.The two people who have not yet connected with each other choose to resist the common wound with warmth.

For several days, Tan Chang subconsciously avoided Li Lin.It's not because of anything else, it's purely... too many things are in front of me at once, and I can't accept and digest them well, so I can only pretend that they don't exist.

Li Lin didn't know what he was thinking, so he turned a blind eye to it, and deliberately increased the time he spent with the cabinet and officials from the six ministries every day.Overnight, they seem to have returned to the initial hostility towards each other.

Until the day when the fourth prince came to visit.

When Li Lin heard the eunuch's biography, he was critiquing the scriptures, raised his eyebrows, got up and pushed the scriptures aside, and went to the outside room to receive guests.He was a little surprised.Ever since he heard that the fourth younger brother Li Xiao was a disciple of Daoist Dongxu, and that Tan Chang somehow got lost from the Imperial Garden to the Zhenyuan Temple under Li Xiao's nose, Li Lin had a bit of a grudge against the fourth younger brother.

But this grudge is also unspeakable.On the surface, Li Lin received this half-brother very warmly.But when he saw the fourth brother, he was stunned.

The fourth prince's eye circles were red, obviously he had cried.He was wearing a plain and thin coat, and he knelt down when he saw Li Lin. "The younger brother came to plead guilty to the emperor's brother."

"What is this for? Get up quickly." Li Lin signaled Deshan to lead the people back, and helped him up himself.

With tears in his eyes, the fourth prince stubbornly refused to get up. "The younger brother should apologize for his mistakes, and the emperor doesn't need to help him. The last time the younger brother took Beifeng to the Imperial Garden, he lied that Beifeng was lost, but in fact he was taken away by Daoist Dongxu. The emperor must know it well. Brother Huang can pretend not to know, but younger brother can't continue to deceive conscience. Daoist Dongxu is the master of younger brother, no matter what the original intention is, it is the student's duty to cover up for the teacher, but it is disrespectful to deceive elder brother. I don't know, Beifeng will really be hurt by Master... I don't dare to ask Brother Huang to forgive me, I only want to be worthy of my conscience."

The boy's size is less than Li Lin's skirt.His eyes drooped as he knelt, but his shoulders were straight.Li Lin thought of the boy who was brought back to the palace six years ago. Although he was beaten a few years old, he still knelt stubbornly like this.

Empress Xu must have scolded him severely, right?

Li Lin sighed, stepped forward, and helped the fourth prince up.

"They're all brothers, so how can there be any overnight feud?" Li Lin said, looking at the soft lines on the young man's face, which was exactly the same as Queen Xu's.His eye circles were red and swollen, and he gritted his teeth and refused to shed tears.Li Lin sighed, "Go and apologize to Beifeng, Gu has already forgiven you."

The little fox who pretended not to exist was taken aback.