Now the jujube tree knows how to hide its true colors. Many of the jujubes on the tree are hidden under the lush leaves. Even if you look carefully, you can only see a small part of them. The actual number is indeed not much. Yin Qing always climbs up the tree to count them.
Five dates fell at a time, which was not a small number compared to the total number of dates. Moreover, two of them had a faint fiery color on their surfaces, which meant they were the original fire dates.
However, after saying this angrily, Yin Qing's mood was immediately replaced by joy, and he looked again at the red fox that was rubbing its nose and head with its paws.
"Little fox, why didn't you come to see me all these years? I missed you so much!"
As Yin Qing spoke, he hurriedly helped the red fox pick up the jujubes that were still rolling on the ground. It would be a great pity if they were taken away by a passing mouse or wild cat.
The red fox looked at the big tree above its head in confusion and bewilderment, then huddled aside and looked at Yin Qing carefully. He vaguely saw the appearance of the boy from that year, and then he relaxed a lot.
"Come here, come here. You used to love lying on the stone table!"
Yin Qing waved at the red fox and placed five dates on the table. The red fox hesitated for a moment, then walked closer and jumped lightly onto the stone table.
The five dates on the table were all about the same size. Each one was as big as a small apple, bright red and very tempting. Yin Qing stared at the dates and swallowed his saliva several times.
The little fox also came closer and sniffed the dates carefully, especially the two more peculiar ones. Although there was no smell on the surface, it always had the urge to take a bite.
“Rustle… rustle… rustle…”
The branches and leaves of the jujube tree are swaying gently. It's not just the wind that moves the leaves, but the leaves that cause the wind.
"Woo woo..."
The red fox stretched out its claws and pressed one of the dates of special color, moving it to roll towards Yin Qing's position.
As a result, Yin Qing grabbed the dates and put them back to their original place.
"No, no, I can't eat this! Gulu...you have to eat it. You haven't been back for many years. One pill a year is not enough!"
Even though he was still swallowing his saliva, Yin Qing had been brought up in a strict family and had been deeply influenced by Yin Zhaoxian and Ji Yuan. Although he was young, he was very principled about some things.
"Eat it quickly. This fruit won't taste good if it's been stored for too long. Eat it quickly. Will the fox refuse to eat the fruit?"
Yin Qing tried his best not to look at Zaozi and tried to persuade Chihu.
“Rustle… rustle… rustle…”
The jujube tree above my head trembled again, as if it was laughing.
With a "bang", Yin Qing was hit on the head. He stretched out his hand swiftly and caught a big date falling from above his head.
Yin Qinggen suddenly became more excited. He didn't even bother to rub his head. He rubbed the dates on his body vigorously.
"Hehehehe... I can eat this one! I'll eat it for you to see! Crunch, hiss... delicious!"
As he said this, he grabbed the date and took a bite.
The crisp sound of chewing fruit flesh accompanied by a strange fruity fragrance came from Yin Qing's mouth. The red fox's nose twitched a few times and it couldn't help it anymore. It held one of the dates and started to chew it "crunch crunch".
For a moment, the courtyard of Ju'an Pavilion was filled with the fragrance of fruit, but the fragrance could not go beyond the courtyard wall, and most of the fragrance was absorbed by the jujube branches.
The fox ate the dates very uncleanly, as crumbs would fall onto the stone table from time to time. Fortunately, the red fox knew that what he had in his hands was precious, so he would lick up the fallen crumbs.
The five dates didn’t last long and were eaten up in a moment.
After taking the last bite of the fruit, the little fox let out a "burp~~~~" sound from deep in his throat. He burped a burp full of fruity aroma, then lay on the stone table and fell asleep.
The inside of the fox's body is now warm, and the circulating spiritual energy is much more exaggerated compared to the efficiency it absorbed through the ups and downs of the sun and the moon in the mountains over the past few years.
Yin Qing only ate one and was in good spirits. However, seeing the red fox like this, he just sat quietly in front of the stone table, occasionally touching the fox's fur carefully.
"Little fox, your hair is so clean, thick and smooth. Don't let those hunters see it."
These words made the red fox tremble subconsciously and become much more sober. It supported itself on the stone table with its hind legs and tail, and sat up.
“Woo woo woo…”
The fox pointed at the house in Ju'an Pavilion with its paw. Yin Qing looked in the direction indicated by the fox's paw and roughly knew what it was thinking.
"Mr. Ji is not at home. He has been away for many years and has not come back..."
"Woo..."
The red fox's voice clearly carried a sense of loss. Over the years, it had gradually grown from a newly awakened spirit fox to a person who was on the right track in cultivation. It wanted to look for Mr. Ji again before refining the horizontal bone. It began to hesitate last year, and this year it finally mustered up the courage to "sneak into" Ning'an County, but came up empty-handed.
"Little fox, are you very powerful now? Just like the jujube tree."
Yin Qing started chatting with the red fox with great interest. He knew very well that this was no ordinary wild fox.
The red fox naturally understood what Yin Qing said, but now it looked at the jujube tree in the yard. Spiritual energy was slowly gathering in the huge shade of the tree. No matter how it looked at it, it felt that it was completely not in the same league as the jujube tree. After all, the jujube tree had always been by the side of the great gentleman.
"Woo..." This sound seemed even more lost.
The red fox lay on the stone table with its body pressed against the surface. Its big furry fiery red tail was swinging back and forth behind it. Its eyes were fixed on the empty space in front of the stone table, but the great swordsman dancing with his sword was not there.
As the tail swung, the red fox gradually fell asleep.
In his dream, the fox had a feeling that his thoughts were infinitely stretched, and his thoughts went back to the past. He still felt the touch of the stone table on his body, but he seemed to vaguely see the small pavilion where he lived in the past.
Thousands of miles away, on the top of the Red Summit Peak of Yunshan Mountain in Bingzhou, Ji Yuan, who was lying on his side with his eyes closed, suddenly felt something. He opened his eyes a little, and an illusory chess piece appeared above the sword finger of his right hand. A red fox with fluffy and soft hair could be vaguely seen sleeping soundly on the stone table.
“Hehehe…”
After laughing a few times, Ji Yuan closed his eyes again, and the chess piece disappeared from his hand.
Within the artistic conception of mountains and rivers, Ji Yuan, whose body was as majestic as the ground facing the sky, held the chess piece belonging to the Red Fox in his hand. It seemed that when the chess piece was at some extremely special juncture, he could feel some connection and changes.
The tail end of the "imperial decree" continued to echo in the mountains and rivers, whistling with the sound of the wind, sometimes strong and sometimes weak.
Ji Yuan seemed to have the charter in his mouth, gathering all the mystery but making no sound, as if he was waiting for this moment in his heart.
When a familiar feeling arose, Ji Yuan said in his heart, "The destiny has arrived," and whispered softly to the chess piece.
"Hu Yun!"
In the Ju'an Pavilion, Yin Qing, who was reading a book in front of a stone table, didn't know that the red fox in front of him was reliving everything that happened in the past in his dream.
Ji Yuan vaguely saw a glimpse of this dream, but it was not imposed by Ji Yuan. He did not have that ability. It was just that the Red Fox returned to the old place and had some thoughts and dreams.
In the dream, Yin Qing was still a short child. After recuperating in the small pavilion for a while, the red fox longed to return to the free mountains, so Mr. Ji took Yin Qing and the fox to the foot of Niukui Mountain.
In the dream, a red fox was jumping in front of them from time to time, and jogging with the two of them from time to time. They wanted to see Ji Yuan's face clearly several times, but it was always gray.
When they entered the mountain, the red fox squatted on the rocks and watched the two people leaving. Even in his dream, the red fox tried desperately to follow them, but his body in the dream felt like it was poured with molten iron and he couldn't move at all.
In the small pavilion outside the dream, Yin Qing looked at the red fox and found that the little fox's body was constantly shaking, as if it was struggling with something or having a nightmare.
The spiritual energy in the fox's body was circulating rapidly at this time, and its body temperature was constantly rising. A faint demonic aura began to spread on its body surface.
“Boom…”
There was a not-so-loud thunder overhead.
Yin Qing, who had been under the shade of a tree, walked a few steps away to a suitable position to look at the sky. He didn't know when dark clouds had appeared in the sky.
"Isn't it going to rain?"
The red fox struggled in its dream and wanted to roar, but it could do nothing. Its body was lying on the stone table, and its claws on all four limbs were digging into the stone surface.
But at this moment, the person in the dream suddenly stopped.
The face of the great gentleman in the memory suddenly became clear. He turned around and looked at the red fox on the rocks with a smile.
"Since we have known each other for a while, I will give you another gift..."
The Great Master glanced at the clouds in the sky before continuing to speak to the red fox.
"Now that you have embarked on the path of cultivation, you are no longer an ignorant beast. You can lack anything, but you cannot lack a name. If you don't mind, you will be called Hu Yun from now on!"
The two words "Hu Yun" kept echoing in the dream, as if the sky had changed.
Outside the dream, Yin Qingcai was looking at the dark clouds in the sky, and found that after a while, the clouds seemed to dissipate again, and the sun had even peeked out. He breathed a sigh of relief and no longer had to collect the clothes.
"Ahem... cough cough cough..."
A strange coughing sound came from the stone table, drawing Yin Qing's attention back.