Mortal practice

Yuelan is a well-known beauty in Qiyang City. Since she became the proprietress of the inn a few years ago, the business of the inn has improved much better than before. The people who came to ask for marriage also stepped through the threshold, but they all returned disappointed.

The reason for rejecting these marriage proposals is that firstly, Yuelan intends to properly manage the inn passed down from her ancestors, and secondly, she has never met a man she likes.So the marriage was put on hold.

But recently there have been different rumors among the people in Qiyang City, saying that she has an unusual affection for a young man who moved into the vicinity of the gate of Qiyang City a year ago.

Speaking of that young man, the other person was really good-looking, but he seldom interacted with people around him, and his temper was also very weird. Gradually, no one took the initiative to associate with him.

Yuelan still brought some food and things to visit from time to time.

Su Jue had said bluntly that she didn't need her to help with these things, but after a short time with Su Jue before, the girl decided that this immortal was a good person with a kind heart, and the other party was not familiar with Qi Yangcheng, Living here will definitely need help, so he insists that he is taking care of Xiaobai for Ayu who has moved away, and implicitly expresses that the immortal may not know much about the life of the mortal world, and he may be able to help in this regard.

So Su Jue didn't say anything more, after all, the other party didn't have any malicious intentions, and it did save him the trouble of going out to buy vulgar things to a certain extent.

This day, Sun Yuelan brought fresh food and eggs, and came to visit again. Xiaobai, who was given the surname of Su by Su Jue earlier, was less and less welcoming to Yuelan, because she found that the other party's mouth It was said that he wanted to take care of himself, his eyes clearly never left his current titular master for a moment, and he only took care of him by throwing two eggs in front of him.

It's obvious that the drunkard's intention is not to drink!

But the food brought by the other party was really delicious, even more delicious than the restaurant food brought back by Su Jue on weekdays.So Su Bai was a little afraid that Su Jue would be attracted by the fragrance.

He secretly hated how he practiced so slowly. He couldn't cook for Su Jue if he couldn't transform into a human form, and he couldn't go out and buy the things Su Jue needed, even though the things Yue Lan brought Su Jue In fact, it was never used, and the fish and the like were all eaten by the greedy crane.

That crane was obviously staying here as Su Jue's mount, but it was always absent during this period of time, and I don't know where it went. Yuelan came back very diligently during the days when she came with fish, but Su Jue didn't say anything about it. What.

This time, Yue Lan explained to Su Jue that the emperor of Fanchen had issued a decree to increase taxes in various places recently. Su Jue, as a monk, could be exempted, but there are few monks in Qiyang City. Verify identidy.

Su Jue shook his head and said, "It's not necessary, I will pay the tax."

"Ah? But..." Yuelan has always been a little strange. The other party clearly doesn't need to worry about life like a mortal. He has magic and can conjure anything. In fact, the need for food and sleep is not as strong as a mortal. Why do you want to live in this small place and hide yourself like a real mortal?

She once told herself that the other party must have her own reasons, and these are not her business.But……

"Immortal Elder..." Yue Lan hesitated for a moment, but she mustered up the courage to ask, "Why did the Immortal Elder stay here?"

"You don't need to worry about this." Su Jue said.

Although Yue Lan was a little sad because of this answer, she was also used to Su Jue speaking so bluntly. After thinking about it, she said, "Isn't the Immortal Chief staying outside for such a long time, is it possible that Mrs. Zun didn't accompany her?"

After saying this, he raised his eyes to look at Su Jue with a somewhat apprehensive expression, actually looking forward to hearing the other party's answer in his heart.

The other party was silent for a long time, still looking at him expressionlessly, with a trace of inquiry and puzzlement in his eyes, as if he didn't understand why he asked this question.Yuelan finally realized that the other party hadn't understood her over the past few days.

Seeing the woman's face that was about to cry, an idea flashed across Su's mind. Just as he was about to say something, there was a strange noise from the kitchen and a pungent smell of smoke.

Su Jue's complexion changed slightly, and he came to the kitchen very quickly. He saw a basket and some wood burning on the ground beside the kitchen stove, spreading to the edge of the wooden window. He frowned and stretched out his hand, and was about to say a sentence What, halfway through reading, he paused when his eyes caught a figure behind the stove, then withdrew his hand and quickly turned around to get water outside the house. At this time, Yue Lan also helped carry water in to put out the fire. It was about to be extinguished, Yuelan took a few breaths of smoke and hurriedly opened the kitchen window.

"Immortal, what's going on..." Yue Lan stood behind Su Jue a little at a loss, looking at Su Jue's back worriedly.

Su Jue didn't answer, looked around but saw nothing, frowned slightly, and suddenly said, "Su Bai?"

After an unknown amount of time, Yue Lan was about to ask something when she suddenly saw a disgraced little fox coming out from behind the stove. If she didn't know that Su Jue was raising Xiao Bai now, she would have thought that the other person's name was Xiao Hui.

The fox looked at Su Jue timidly, and didn't dare to approach, as if he was very disturbed by the serious mistake he made, for fear that Su Jue would punish it.

Su Jue stepped forward, picked up Xuehu and looked him up from head to toe. After seeing that he was fine, his slightly frowning brows eased.

"Explanation?" Su Jue asked.

The little fox nestled in the opponent's arms, feeling that the opponent was not angry, so he was relieved.

Yuelan stood behind but was a little confused, and Xiaobai couldn't speak, how could Su Jue explain it to him?

Little do they know that Su Bai's state is now able to convey his thoughts to Su Jue. Although he is still unable to speak, there is no communication problem.

Su Bai wanted to try to see if he could cook a dish with the fox body alone before he turned into a human. After all, he had watched many cooking examples before, and thought it was not difficult. The conversation between Su Jue and Yue Lan took a lot longer than before, and they were more eager to do what they could to help Su Jue. How could they know that they overestimated themselves, and when they missed their claws, the fireball released by the spell hit the wrong direction.

Of course, all it told Su Jue was that he wanted to try cooking but failed.

Su Jue was speechless. A long time ago, the other party knew that he had to transform into a human body to roast rabbits. Now that he can't even speak, he just wants to cook with his paws?

Su Bai told Su Jue again that he wanted to become a human.

"This kind of thing, don't be in a hurry." Su Jue said in a somewhat helpless tone for the first time.

Yuelan heard Su Jue's words, and realized that the immortal might have some secret technique to communicate with Xiaobai, but felt a little sad for a moment, why the other party spoke so coldly to her, but could be so patient with a fox?

Su Jue reached out and brushed the dust off Xuehu's body. It wasn't until the woman's voice of farewell came that he remembered that she was still there. He looked sideways at Yue Lan, nodded and said sincerely, "Thank you for your help just now."

After all, it was the first sentence the other party said to her with a little emotion, Yue Lan hurriedly said a few polite words happily.

Xuehu buried her head in Su Jue's chest and rubbed it lightly.

Feeling that the other party was a little unhappy, Su Jue was taken aback for a moment, remembering that the fox always looked sullen every time the woman came back, and guessed something in his heart.

After Yuelan left, he did not put down Xuehu to practice as usual, but raised his eyebrows and asked, "Don't you like her?"

Xuehu shook involuntarily, hesitated for a moment and did not answer.

Seeing that the meaning was obvious in Su Jue's eyes, he chuckled and asked again: "Why?"

Su Bai looked up at him, his big black eyes were very innocent, as if he wanted to say that I didn't hahaha how could I not like her?

However, the flickering moment failed to escape Su Jue's eyes.

Why did you become dishonest after changing your shell?

"I call you Su Bai, do you find it awkward?" Su Jue asked suddenly.

Su Bai quickly shook his head, not only was it not awkward, but also felt very familiar and liked it very much.

"Do you remember what food you once made?"

Have you ever made food yourself?Why don't you know?Just as Su Bai thought this way, his mind suddenly shook slightly, and something flashed by.

rabbit?

He tried to give his own answer through communication of ideas.

There was a hint of a smile in Su Jue's eyes.

Although Su Bai didn't understand the meaning of the other party's smile, he was inexplicably happy.

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Two or three years is nothing to Su Jue. He used to retreat, and ten years have passed since he came out, but he didn't feel the change at all.

But during this period of time, a lot of things happened in the world. Yuelan went to visit Su Jue again after the fire. After leaving the inn, she never went to the place where Su Jue lived. In three years, she also married into a good family.

But the people living near the city gate were quite surprised to find that the snow fox raised by the original residents rarely appeared, but there were more handsome young people.

When young people go to the street to buy vegetables or other things, they will greet the people around them with a friendly expression and often smile, which is hard to be hated.

Gradually, the identity of the young man and the relationship between the two people living in that house became topics that people talked about with great interest. There were various speculations, and some of them guessed that the young man might have been transformed from the original Xuehu.

However, guesses are just guesses after all, and no one can make the guesses come true.

It was rare that Su Jue didn't stay in the house all day, but came to the courtyard, raised his head and looked at the sky with a slight frown, as if he was thinking about something.

I pinched my fingers and counted the time from moving into Qiyang City to the present, four years.

Su Jue's eyes moved slightly, and a smile of unknown meaning appeared on the corner of his mouth for the first time, and he didn't know what he was smiling at.

The sound of the front door being closed could be heard faintly, and Su Jue turned back to the house, and the young man's excited voice came: "I stopped by after shopping for groceries, and bought this hatchet for only six copper coins. But it is sharp, after all, the original hatchet is not easy to use."

The young man showed Su Jue the hatchet as a treasure, and then put it in the backyard to replace the hatchet left by Orion, which was too old to be used.

In the past three years, Su Bai has had impressions of some things one after another, but they are only vague. And preferences have not changed.

Su Jue said to the young man: "I'm going to go out soon, and I'll be back after a while."

The young man's expression was startled, and the loss and anxiety flashed through his eyes. Soon he smiled and nodded again as if nothing had happened, and said, "Okay, I'll wait for you to come back."

There is a reason for the loss and uneasiness—in the past four years with Su Jue, the other party lived in seclusion and never traveled far for more than a day.

Although Su Bai's worries from a long time ago have dissipated a lot with the passage of time, they still exist, and now with Su Jue's sudden explanation, they surged up.

But since the other party said he would come back, he would definitely come back, and since the other party didn't say he would take him with him, then he wouldn't take him with him.He just waited.