The little fox does not want to hide the cub

Three days passed in a flash.

During these three days, Li Ruan helped Jiang Shen collect the bodies of the guards who died in Changming Mountain, and buried them in the forest where they died in battle.

The rest of the time, both of them played in the mountains.

It was a sunny day, and the mountain wind in early spring was still a bit chilly. The snow on Changming Mountain melted, and the trees sprouted buds.

"Where are you taking me..."

Before dawn, Jiang Shen was pulled out of the cave by Li Ruan, who mysteriously said that he wanted to take him to see something.

Changming Mountain is not too small, and there are continuous peaks, big and small. The two of them climbed the mountain for half an hour, but they didn't see anything.

"It's almost here." Li Ruan took Jiang Shen's hand, after walking for so long, he still walked briskly without feeling tired, "It's just ahead."

Jiang Shen, on the other hand, was sweating profusely on his back in this early spring morning.

He looked at the refreshed little fox in front of him, and secretly decided that after returning to the capital, he had to practice martial arts more diligently.

You can't always let the little fox think he's hypocritical.

Jiang Shen thought so, followed Li Ruan through the woods, and the other party finally stopped: "We're here."

The vision in front of him suddenly widened.

This is the highest point of the peaks of Changming Mountain.

There was still a small amount of snow left on the top of the mountain, and the time they came was just before sunrise, before the sun had risen, the sky was already faintly pale.

The continuous high mountains are shrouded in mist, and it is extremely quiet.

Jiang Shen laughed: "Wake up so early, just to watch the sunrise with me?"

"Isn't it beautiful here?" Li Ruan said, "This is the best place to see the Changming Mountain."

"nice."

There was still a little time before sunrise, Jiang Shen led him to sit down on a bluestone by the cliff.Beside the bluestone, there is a dead tree that has been cut off in the middle. The stump is very thick and covered with moss. It should be some years old.

Jiang Shen took a second look, then heard Li Ruan say, "It seems to be my fault."

Jiang Shen was taken aback.

"It's very close to the sky, and it's the place where I go through thunder disasters every time." Li Ruan touched the dead tree, "This tree should have been affected by thunder disasters, but I don't quite remember when it happened .”

He has survived too many tribulations, and his memory of the past is very chaotic, and he can't remember such trivial things at all.

Jiang Shen took his hand and put it in his palm: "It hurts, right?"

Li Ruan: "What?"

"Thunder Jie." Jiang Shen said softly, "This tree is so thick that it has been split like this. Wouldn't it hurt more if it fell on you?"

Li Ruan lowered her head and whispered after a while: "It hurts."

Every sky thunder contains the power of thunder, and it hurts like a fire when it hits the body. There is no place where there is no pain in the internal organs, muscles, bones, skin and flesh.

But if you want to survive the thunder calamity, you must soberly survive ninety-nine and 81 sky thunders.

So far, Li Ruan has lasted the most, 73 times, which is the last time.

"Don't talk about this, the sun will rise soon, look." Li Ruan pointed to the sky.

While the two were talking, some faint light appeared in the sky.The light became brighter and darker, and soon dyed a large area of ​​the sky red.

Li Ruan's eyes reflected the color of morning glow, clear and clear.Jiang Shen withdrew his gaze from his face and looked into the distance.

His little fox usually looks carefree, but living in this world, how can there be no worries.He's just good at putting those bad memories behind him, like now.

At the moment of sunrise, Li Ruan suddenly led Jiang Shen to stand up.

He raised his hand and waved it lightly. When the morning glow fell on Changming Mountain, it seemed that a gust of spring breeze woke up the earth.

Blowing so that the trees are verdant and the flowers are in full bloom.

Jiang Shen was stunned, and when he turned his head, the dead tree above Li Ruan's head also sprouted fresh twigs.

Light pink flowers bloom slowly on the branches, cluster after cluster.

There was a smile in Li Ruan's eyes, and a little bit of complacency.

"This is what I want to show you." Li Ruan said, "A parting gift, is it good?"

They met in the harshest winter, and parted in the early spring when all things recovered.

He sent Jiang Shen full of spring scenery.

Jiang Shen was unable to speak for a long time, his throat was dry, and it took a long time before he smiled softly: "It looks good."

"I love so much."

"This is the most beautiful scenery I have ever seen in my life."

He moved closer, held Li Ruan's face, tilted his head and kissed him lightly on the lips: "...You too."

Jiang Shen and Li Ruan stayed on the mountain from sunrise to almost sunset.

The sky was full of red clouds, Li Ruan leaned on Jiang Shen's shoulder, waited and waited, and finally couldn't help calling him: "Jiang Shen."

Jiang Shen: "What?"

Li Ruan: "Should you go?"

Jiang Shen: "...it seems to be."

"It's not like." Li Ruan raised his head and pointed to the black eagle hovering above their heads, expressionless, "This stupid bird has been flying above our heads for almost an hour, and it is really noisy."

Jiang Shen: "..."

Li Ruan said: "Don't say it has nothing to do with you, if it doesn't matter, I'll hunt and eat it right away."

Of course it is related.

This black eagle was a gift given to Jiang Shen by a minister in the court many years ago, and he has been entrusted to one of his personal guards to keep it all these years.The guard did not follow him to the south when he was on a disaster relief mission, so he did not have any accidents during the Changming Mountain interception.

Later, Jiang Shen needed a fake body to go to Jiangnan instead of him, so he chose this person for the task.

The black eagle is here, which means they have arrived.

However, in the eyes of the great demon Li Ruan, this eagle who has been trained since he was a child and understands human nature is just a stupid bird.

With Li Ruan around, this stupid bird didn't even dare to approach them, only dared to keep spinning around their heads.

Jiang Shen was silent for a moment, resolutely did not answer, turned around and hugged the little fox into his arms: "I don't want to leave..."

He played his voice extremely softly, and imitated the little fox's usual movements, rubbing against his neck.

As if pranking.

"Go quickly." Li Ruan patted him on the head, and turned into the one who comforted him, "Don't you still have a lot to do?"

"... hug for a while."

Li Ruan: "A stick of incense."

Jiang Shen: "Well, just a stick of incense."

It was said to be a stick of incense, but in the end it was delayed for an unknown amount of time. The sun was setting and the moon was rising, and even the way down the mountain could not be seen clearly.

Li Ruan could only cast a spell to take Jiang Shen down the mountain.

In a forest at the foot of Changming Mountain, a convoy of dozens of people stopped here.

Someone held a torch and ran to a carriage: "My lord, Your Highness asked us to wait here, but we have been waiting for almost three hours, nothing will happen, right?"

On the shaft in front of the carriage, sat a young man in black with a stern face.

Holding a long sword in his arms, the young man leaned against the car door with his eyes closed, and did not open his eyes when he heard the words: "I have sent Black Eagle to look for it, but the Black Eagle has not returned, which proves that His Highness is safe. Maybe it was something important?" Hold back, just wait."

"But...but not far away is the boundary of Changming Mountain."

The man who raised the torch looked around, and lowered his voice: "I heard that Changming Mountain is very evil, and it never returns. Many people say that there are monsters living in it. And...and you saw it today, this It’s not that everything is withered along the way, but Changming Mountain is in full bloom, and if something abnormal happens, there must be a demon!”

The young man suddenly opened his eyes.

But he didn't answer, and another voice spoke instead: "You are so timid, is this what my Highness taught you?"

The voice came from the woods, everyone looked over, Jiang Shen walked out of the woods slowly.

Everyone knelt down together: "See Your Highness the Prince!"

Jiang Shen went straight to the young man in black.The young man jumped out of the car and landed on one knee: "My subordinate, Yu Xiu, welcome Your Highness back to Beijing."

After he got up, he could see that this person's body shape was almost the same as Jiang Shen's.

These days, he was pretending to be Jiang Shen in the south of the Yangtze River.

"Thank you for your hard work during this time." Jiang Shen patted him on the shoulder and said, "Get up."

After everyone stood up, Yu Xiu stepped back half a step to help Jiang Shen get into the carriage.

Jiang Shen didn't move in a hurry, he turned his head and asked the little guard holding the torch: "You just said that when you came, you saw a hundred flowers blooming in Changming Mountain?"

It was getting late at this moment, and I was in the woods again, so I couldn't see the scene of Changming Mountain.

The little guard nodded again and again: "Yes, walking along the official road, everywhere is bleak, only Changming Mountain seems to have entered the spring overnight, everyone has seen it."

Jiang Shen pondered for a moment: "Does it look good?"

Little guard: "Huh?"

Jiang Shen was very patient: "Ask you if the scenery is good."

The little guard seemed bewildered by his question, and was stunned: "It's so... beautiful, with green mountains and beautiful waters, it's not like the world."

Jiang Shen smiled in satisfaction, and jumped into the carriage.

The little guard didn't react for a long time, but he didn't dare to talk to Commander Yu, so he could only get close to another companion who was just close.

"Do you feel that Your Highness seems to be different from before?" He muttered, "Could it be that you are bewitched?"

The companion shook his head: "Not like."

Little guard: "Then what do you think it looks like?"

Companion: "Sichun."

Little guard: "?"

His Royal Highness returned to the team, and the team immediately rectified in place, ready to start again.

Sitting in the carriage, Jiang Shen heard eagles howling outside, and stretched out his hand to lift the curtain: "By the way, there is one more thing."

Yu Xiu: "Your Highness, please give me instructions."

"That stupid bird, starve it for two days." Jiang Shen glanced at the sky and lowered the car curtain, "It's too noisy, it will delay things."

Yu Xiu: "?"

Jiang Shen ignored him and returned to the carriage.

Take something out of your pocket.

It was a light pink jade pendant, tied with tassels, the jade was crystal clear, and it carved the appearance of a little fox.

Curled tail, round and chubby, looks like a small ball from a distance.

It was during the daytime, Jiang Shen coaxed Li Ruan to pick a peach blossom and squeezed it out for him.The tassels on the top are braided with two people's hair.

Jiang Shen pinched the jade pendant and looked at it again and again, his fingertips brushed across the little fox's face, with a smile in his eyes: "Wait for me to come back."

Then, carefully put it back in his arms.

The convoy moved forward slowly, and no one noticed that a figure quietly appeared in the dark woods.

Li Ruan watched the convoy go away and sighed softly.

"I really like you, although I don't know if it's the same as yours."

"But I still want to ascend."

"If you come back to me, it will affect my practice."

Feisheng has extremely high requirements on cultivation and state of mind. The deeper the entanglement with the mortal world and the more distracting thoughts in the mind, the less likely it is to succeed.

"It would be great if I met you sooner. If I met you sooner, maybe I could really be with you for the rest of my life. But now..."

"I can't fail to ascend again." Li Ruan pursed her lips, showing a little downcast expression, "I remember less and less. If I fail again, I may even forget about wanting to ascend."

"I do not like this."

He took out a glazed bead from his pocket.

Li Ruan stared at it for a while, closed his palms, and crushed the bead bit by bit.

In the distance, Jiang Shen leaned against the window and looked out of the car with a gentle smile on his lips.

But suddenly, he seemed to have lost his mind, lowered his head and pressed the center of his eyebrows.

When he looked up again, there was a bit of confusion in his eyes.

There was no smile on his face.

The night is dark.

When Li Ruan returned to the cave, he saw a fire burning inside.He froze for a moment, then immediately came to his senses and walked in.

Lin Jianxue was sitting by the fire and fiddled with the firewood, when she heard the movement, she raised her head: "Send him away?"

Li Ruan walked over and nodded: "Yes."

Then asked: "How do you know I'm going to see him off today?"

"You turned Changming Mountain into spring overnight. You still expect me not to know about such a big movement?" Lin Jianxue said, "Only during the half day this morning, there were seven or eight little demons who came to my place to ask you. What are you doing, are you planning to tear down the entire Changming Mountain?"

Li Ruan lowered her head: "I'm sorry...I want him to leave happily."

"The spell of reversing the sky consumes so much, just to coax a man..." Lin Jianxue snorted, "Excellent."

Li Ruan didn't answer.

He sat down beside Lin Jianxue, put his arms around his knees, and rested his head on it.

"Axue, it's so strange." Li Ruan said in a low voice, "I seem... a little sad."

Lin Jianxue paused.

"It's not surprising." He poked the fire, his tone was light, "Parting is always a bit sad. You have been with him for so long, even if you have a small pet, you should develop a relationship."

Li Ruan turned his head to look at him: "Then will I be fine in a few days?"

"I don't know." Lin Jianxue threw the firewood into the fire, and said in a low voice, "Everyone is different. Some people will forget it after two days after they are separated. But some people will never forget it in their lifetime. .”

"Forever..." Li Ruan murmured, "That will be remembered for a long time."

"That's right." Lin Jianxue sighed silently, the firelight reflected dancing light and shadow on his face, and the old wound at the end of his eye was dyed bright red, "I will remember it for a long, long time..."

"Then what should I do?" Li Ruan asked, "Will I remember it for so long?"

Lin Jianxue turned around.

He stared at Li Ruan and said seriously: "You should ask yourself this."

"Ruan Ruan, no one can make decisions for you in this kind of matter." Lin Jianxue said, "Do you want to ascend or Jiang Shen, it's up to you to choose."

Li Ruan: "I really don't know..."

He buried his head in his arms and curled himself into a little ball in distress.

Lin Jianxue closed her eyes.

"It was you who rescued me back to Changming Mountain 300 years ago, you don't remember it, do you?" Lin Jianxue said suddenly after a long time.

Li Ruan raised his head and blinked.

"I was seriously injured in the human world and almost died. You happened to pass by there and saved my life." Lin Jianxue said, "I asked you what you want in return, and you said that you want to use the aura of Changming Mountain to practice ascension , I hope I can protect this place for you so that no one will disturb you."

Li Ruan was stunned: "So... so, you have been guarding Changming Mountain all these years, is it because of me?"

"Otherwise?" Lin Jianxue laughed angrily at him, "It's not because of relatives, but I dragged you back from that cliff every time to heal your injuries. You have a red fox and I have a white fox, and we can still be clansmen." Can't kiss?"

"...Yeah, yeah."

Thinking about it carefully, Axue did help him a lot, but Li Ruan has always been short-sighted, and has never seriously thought about the reasons for this.

Lin Jianxue said again: "300 years ago, I asked you why you wanted to ascend."

Li Ruan opened his eyes wide: "Did I tell you?"

"No." Lin Jianxue said, "You just tell me that this is your long-cherished wish and the meaning that supports you to live."

"What a pity..." Li Ruan said.

If he had said it then, Ashe would be able to tell him now.

"It's a pity, and I wish I knew." Lin Jianxue said, "In this way, I won't be able to watch you go through the catastrophe again and again, and be beaten so badly by the thunders that you can't speak. You For that long-cherished wish, I made myself like this, but in the end, I couldn't even remember why I did it."

"Ruan Ruan, to this day, is that still the meaning that supports you to live?"

Li Ruan clasped her fingers on her knees.

Not anymore.

He didn't even remember that he had said this sentence, let alone other things.

"But do I have no chance to choose again?" Li Ruan curled himself up again, "It has already destroyed his memory."

This spell is irreversible. If that memory bead is destroyed, it is destroyed, and it is impossible to get it back.

"Don't underestimate mortals." Lin Jianxue smiled lightly, "If he really has you in his heart, there is no way to erase it. Even if you reincarnate thousands of times, it is impossible to erase it, let alone your little magic spell. .”

Li Ruan didn't speak.

There was a sudden bang in the cave, and he turned back into a fox.

"It's so annoying, I can't think of it!" The little fox hugged his tail and rolled around in the cave, and the cave was filled with his wailing for a while, "It would be nice if you didn't choose Jiang Shen at that time, why did it happen to be Jiang Shen? He fell down ahhh!"

Lin Jianxue silently looked at the little red fox who had grown up a lot, but was still round and fluffy, curled up like a big pompom, and sighed dumbfoundingly: "You have such a temper..."

Fortunately, he was still worried that Li Ruan would be sad, so he came here to comfort him.

It seems to be worrying too much.

It's obviously quite dynamic.

Lin Jianxue got up, patted the hem of her clothes: "I can only say this, you can think about the rest, I'm going back to sleep."

Li Ruan had already rolled to the other side of the cave, propped his head on the ground, and obediently wagged his tail at Lin Jianxue: "Okay, good night."

"...I will think about it carefully."

He needs a moment to think about it.

Thanks to Li Ruan's magic, everything in Changming Mountain was revived overnight, and spring was full of it.

In the early morning of this day, a bright red shadow passed through the woods, leaped nimbly, and fluttered onto the branches.

The little fox turned around on the tree and turned into a young man in red.The young man supported the trunk with one hand, stretched out the other hand, and plucked a newly ripened fruit from the branch.

He took a bite happily.

A dark gray bird flew from the sky and landed beside him.

Li Ruan finished eating the fruit in two bites, reached out and picked two more, and gave one to the other party.

"Any new news?" Li Ruan asked.

The little tit seemed to be very hungry, and was not in a hurry to answer him. It lowered its head and pecked at the flesh.

Li Ruan stretched out his hand to poke him: "Quickly tell me, what's going on in the capital?"

Chickadee glanced at him: "You just want to ask Jiang Shen about the capital city."

"Yes yes yes." Li Ruan asked, "How about Jiang Shen?"

"He is very good." Chickadee said, "everywhere in the capital is talking about him, saying that it took him less than a month to find out the real culprit who assassinated him outside the capital. It seems to be some prince, the emperor has already Ordered to put people under house arrest."

Li Ruan thought for a while: "Third Prince Jiang Yan?"

"Perhaps." Chickadee said again, "Even the senior officials who were with the third prince were found out, and if they were all arrested, they would be executed."

Li Ruan nodded: "That's pretty good."

He just erased the part about him in Jiang Shen's memory before, he was assassinated in Changming Mountain, including sending people to pretend to be him to go south, and arresting the governor of Huguang, all of which he remembered.

But there will definitely be some memory confusion.

For example, Jiang Shen would not remember how he escaped from the assassination, nor would he remember how the secret letter that was supposed to be burned came back.

Therefore, Li Ruan was still worried for a while, wondering if these would affect Jiang Shen's revenge.

Now it seems that a little memory loss and confusion did not affect him.

"He's really amazing..." Li Ruan sighed in a low voice, and picked a few more fruits to share with the tits.

After Jiang Shen left, the one who was most affected should be the little tit.

It was raised by a pawnshop for a whole winter, and it also took in a group of younger brothers. Now there is no need to deliver letters, and there is no source of food. There are dozens of birds in the family to raise, and they are running around looking for food every day.

Li Ruan simply asked him to take his younger brother to the capital to help him inquire about the news, and he came to help find food.

The little tit took two more mouthfuls of the flesh, and said: "By the way, I also heard someone say that the emperor is very satisfied with Jiang Shen, and may pass the throne to him in advance to abdicate to recuperate from his illness."

"That's good." Li Ruan raised his eyes and looked in one direction, but he couldn't see anything under the shade of the trees, "He will be a good emperor."

The little tit took a look at him.

It flapped its wings and flew up, landed on a higher branch, and looked at Li Ruan at eye level: "Li Ruan, do you miss him very much?"

Li Ruan blinked, and his legs were swinging under his body.

did not speak.

"You really miss him!" Chickade said firmly, "Why don't you go to him, you can go to the world."

"I..." Li Ruan looked away, "I still have to practice, I'm busy."

"Are you really cultivating well?" Chickade wondered, "You never ate food in your cultivation before, what is that called... bigu, but you don't have any at all now."

Li Ruan: "It has nothing to do with this..."

Li Ruan did not lie, he wanted to practice seriously.

But I don't know why, his cultivation progress has always been very slow recently, and he can't practice the bigu technique well, and he is hungry faster than before when he was beaten back to his original shape.

If I don't eat one meal a day, I will be so hungry that I can't do anything.

But Chia Que didn't believe it, he firmly believed that Li Ruan was suffering from lovesickness and had no intention of practicing.The little bird chirped and quarreled beside him for a long time, which gave Li Ruan a headache, and quickly picked some fruits for him to bring back to the nest.

Then, using the excuse of wanting to cultivate, he drove the little bird away.

The whole forest became clear, Li Ruan breathed a sigh of relief, jumped off the branches, and planned to find a place to meditate.

Whether to choose Feisheng or Jiang Shen, after a month passed, Li Ruan still couldn't figure out the answer.

He really wanted to see Jiang Shen very much, he really wanted to see him very much.

In the hundreds of years that Li Ruan has kept memories, he seems to have never had such a strong desire to see someone in particular.Several times, he suddenly woke up in the middle of the night from the bed of hay that Jiang Shen had slept on, and wanted to ignore everything and fly directly to the capital.

With his mana, he didn't even need a cup of tea to see him.

But he was very unwilling.

He has crossed the tribulation so many times, and finally managed to withstand more than 70 thunders in the last thunder tribulation. After several decades of practice, he should be able to completely resist it.

Seeing that he was about to succeed, if he gave up now, wouldn't the previous crimes be in vain?

What's more, in order to make up his mind, he even erased Jiang Shen's memory.

Regret it now, it seems like I was a fool before.

In short, Li Ruan couldn't think of an answer yet.

Li Ruan found a relatively secluded place in the woods and sat cross-legged.

I don't know if it's because his mind has been in a mess recently, but his progress in practice has been very slow, and he hasn't even made any progress for several days.Compared with Jiang Shen's rapid progress in practice, it can be said that there is a world of difference.

Li Ruan didn't want to think about it any longer, put aside distracting thoughts, and held his breath to settle down.

But he didn't expect that today's practice is even more strange than before.

The condensed true energy flows down from the top of the head, as if turning into a warm current, slowly flowing through the big and small Zhou Tian, ​​all the way down.

But when they passed by somewhere, they disappeared without a sound.

Li Ruan opened his eyes: "?"

He lowered his head, looked at the place where his true energy disappeared, and tried to run it again.

This time he condensed more zhenqi than before, the zhenqi sank little by little, but disappeared without warning when it was about to reach the lower abdomen.

But this time Li Ruan could feel that it didn't disappear, but was sucked away by something.

Li Ruan rubbed her stomach, she couldn't feel anything inside the thin layer of flesh, only when she pressed hard, she could feel a little swelling.

Did you eat too much fruit just now?

Li Ruan thought in bewilderment.