"Did the gentleman really save me? It must be the gentleman who saved me!"
Having come to this conclusion, Hu Yun ignored his mental fatigue and ran wildly in the mountains, jumping over mountain streams and hillsides. He soon crossed many mountaintops and came to an outer stone peak closest to Ning'an County. It was here that Ji Yuan sent the injured little red fox back to Niukui Mountain.
Hu Yun looked from afar and could see the outline of Ning'an County. Although the sun was setting, this was the time when his "enemies" in Ning'an County were most active. However, Hu Yun jumped down from the stone slope at his feet and headed straight for Ning'an County without hesitation.
The distance from the foot of the mountain to Ning'an County was nothing to Hu Yun now. Even with a bit of caution, it only took him quarter of an hour to reach the outskirts of Ning'an County.
Ning'an County is a county with a long cultural history and is extremely stable. It has been a long time since the county has had the rule of closing the city gates at night. At most, there would be two policemen guarding the gate. Relying on his own ability, Hu Yun slipped into the city without any surprise.
The red fox ran through the streets and alleys, trying to choose roads that did not have a strong smell of dog. More often, it chose to jump on some roofs. After all, according to his experience, most dogs would not go up to the roofs. It's just that he hasn't been to Ning'an County for a long time. He didn't know if the habits of his old opponents had changed, and whether there were new opponents. These were all things Hu Yun needed to worry about.
Finally, they arrived at Tianniufang safely and stood in front of the door of Ju'an Pavilion with an attitude that looked more like a cat than a fox. However, before Hu Yun knocked on the door, he found that the door of Ju'an Pavilion was half open. Looking inside, he saw Ji Yuan drinking tea there, and an unfamiliar woman in green sitting on the side reading a book.
At this moment, countless exclamation marks rose in Hu Yun's heart.
'! ! ! '
'Mr. Ji has a woman? No no no, impossible!'
Hu Yun stood at the door and thought about it for a while. Ji Yuan inside had already sensed it, and when he saw that the fox didn't come in, he called out from inside.
"Is that Hu Yun? What have you been doing outside? Come in."
"yes… "
Hu Yun responded and pushed the door open a little further. After entering the yard, he turned around and closed the door gently, then rushed to the stone table in the yard.
"Sir, you saved me just now, right?"
Ji Yuan did not keep the secret. He finished the honey tea in his hand, nodded at Hu Yun, and pointed to the stone bench opposite.
"Please sit down. Mother Zao has plenty of honey tea."
"Mother Zao?"
Hearing this, Hu Yun subconsciously looked at the woman in green on the side. The latter was also looking at him with a smile, and this smile made Hu Yun feel somewhat warm.
"Little Hu Yun, I am the jujube tree!"
Zao Niang took out the teacup and poured tea for Hu Yun, while giving him a kind smile and looking at him as if he were a child.
"Oh oh oh! You are the jujube tree! You have finally become a spirit!"
Hu Yun looked up at the jujube tree in the yard, then at Zao Niang, his eyes moving back and forth between the two. He now understood that there was a huge difference between the cultivation of plants and animals, and he also had a clear distinction between the concepts of original form and spirit, so he was not surprised to see Zao Niang and the jujube tree appear in his sight together.
"Would you like more honey?"
When Zao Niang asked this, Hu Yun was not polite at all.
"Actually, I don't like tea. How about giving me all honey?"
"Can."
Without saying a word, Zao Niang picked up the other small pot on the tea tray, and without adding tea, poured a full cup of honey into Hu Yun's cup, which made Ji Yuan take a second look.
"Hahahaha, Zao Niang is still the best!"
Hu Yun shouted with joy, but when he saw Ji Yuan looking at him, he immediately added another sentence.
"Sir, that's fine too!"
Ji Yuan smiled and shook his head, looking at the fox licking honey from the teacup. He knew that the fox was no longer what it used to be in terms of social skills and spiritual cultivation, but he always felt that the fox had not grown up.
Hu Yun ate the honey by licking it. As soon as the honey entered his mouth, a stream of clear water with refreshing fragrance spread into his limbs and bones, and his previous mental fatigue was greatly relieved.
Seeing that Hu Yun was in much better spirits, Ji Yuan asked a few questions he wanted to know.
"So when did the nine-tailed fox first appear?"
Hearing Ji Yuan's question, Hu Yun raised his head, licked the honey off his lips, recalled for a moment, and answered.
"It should be when I had just cultivated the second tail, which was about two or three years ago. At first, she only appeared in my mental illusion when I was doing introspection. I also thought she was my illusion. Later, I found out that it was not the case. I also felt that this woman was very dangerous. I tried to set up some small restrictions, but they soon became ineffective."
"By the way, sir, what have you done to her? Will she come out again?"
Ji Yuan added some tea and honey to his drink, thinking.
"It is unlikely that she will appear in your mind as a demon in the form of your inner demon following your practice. But her true identity is Tu Xin, the nine-tailed fox from Jade Fox Cave Heaven. It is only a minor loss of her divine consciousness. If you go out in the future, you must be a little more careful."
"Ah? It really is a nine-tailed fox... This is terrible..."
Hu Yun felt that something was wrong, but he still licked the honey twice, and kept muttering to himself as he looked at Ji Yuan.
"Sir, she is a nine-tailed fox, and I am just a little fox demon. How can I guard against her? Why don't you strangle me to death? Unless I follow you all the time..."
"You don't have to worry too much about this. What she sees in your mind is only the present you, in your current fox form, without even a complete breath. In the future, you will definitely be reborn when you transform, and your human form will be completely new. Even a nine-tailed fox is not omnipotent and cannot point to your location from a distance. You see her as if you are dreaming, and she sees you the same way. Just try not to run into each other face to face at close range."
Hu Yun held the cup of honey and thought thoughtfully for a while.
"I've always had good luck, so I shouldn't be that unlucky, right?"
"Of course not."
Zao Niang smiled at the side, which made Hu Yun feel a lot more at ease.
"That's right. I know you so well, but we've only met a few times over the years. Uh, sir, I'm not saying you won't come to see me. You're busy, I know."
"Eat your honey. Zao Niang is here from now on. You can come and see her more often when you have time."
Hu Yun glanced at Zao Niang, then at the honey in the cup, and smiled brightly.
Ji Yuan put down the teacup in his hand, took out the four treasures of the study, including pen, ink, paper and inkstone, from his sleeve, then took out a small piece of gold-patterned paper, and began to grind the gold-scented ink. After slightly tilting it, he held the pen and wrote a row of words on the gold-patterned paper. He picked up the gold-patterned paper, blew on it, and handed it to Hu Yun.
"Here you are. I originally thought you wouldn't be so unlucky, but you kept repeating that you wouldn't be so unlucky. I think you will definitely meet that female vixen in the future. If you are likely to meet her, as long as you don't lose this paper, just keep repeating it in your heart."
"What is this? For me? A spell written by the sir?"
Hu Yun seemed extremely excited. Mr. Ji had hardly given him any physical gifts over the years. Of course, he knew that he had learned a lot from him, but this piece of gold paper, which looked very impressive, should be considered a very impressive gift, right? He stared at the words on the paper and read them out subconsciously.
"I'm not that little red fox... Uh, sir, will this work?"
"Hahahahahahahaha… It will definitely work. Don't worry, sir, how could he ever deceive you?"
"That's right..."
Although Hu Yun trusted Ji Yuan very much, Mr. Ji's teasing expression at this moment was too unsettling, no, too disturbing, and he couldn't help but mutter.
"It would be better to write 'You can't see me' or 'You can't recognize me'..."
"Hey? That's a good point. How about I revise it for you?"
Ji Yuan asked with a smile, and Hu Yun immediately stuffed the gold-patterned paper into the big fluffy tail.
"No, no, this is good enough, very good!"
Hu Yun held the cup and ate honey for a while, then suddenly asked carefully.
"Mr. Ji, do you have any news about Lu Shanjun?"
Ji Yuan was really impressed with Hu Yun today, as he was able to hold out for so long under the inner demon created by the nine-tailed fox's divine thoughts without any chaos. So he felt particularly relieved about him and told him the truth.
"Yes, but Lu Shanjun is not called Lu Shanjun now. He uses the alias Lu Wu. And there is a silly cow who is his friend. His real name is Niu Batian and his alias is Niu Mo. He is doing something very important."
The names of monsters are often very simple. Based on this name, Hu Yun thought the second one should be a bull monster.
"What's the important matter? Can I help?"
Ji Yuan smiled at Hu Yun without saying anything, and the latter immediately understood what he meant. However, Hu Yun was not discouraged. At least he now understood that his talent might not be as good as Lu Shanjun's, but it was definitely not bad. If he practiced hard, there would always be a chance.
"Well, sir, are you going to write anything else?"
Hu Yun saw that Mr. Ji tried to write several times but couldn't write anything, so he became curious, while Ji Yuan felt a little embarrassed.
"Uh, I want to record "The Phoenix Seeks the Phoenix", but I really don't know where to start..."
"Oh... the song of the phoenix..."
Hearing Ji Yuan say this, Hu Yun immediately recalled the song "Feng Ming" that he had heard on the island before. It was indeed the best song he had ever heard. Although he felt that it could not be considered a song if it did not even have a single lyric, but if Mr. Ji said it was, then it was.
"Sir, what instrument would be most suitable?"
"It's the sound of the flute, of course. It's the sound most similar to the sound of a phoenix. If it can be made into a flute piece, it will be the best sound ever!"
"Oh, then you can write the flute score!"
Ji Yuan smiled awkwardly.
"Sir, I don't know how to use Jianzi notation, Gongche notation, Lülü notation, or even five-line notation..."
Ji Yuan had read quite a few books, and of course he had also read some so-called music scores. Sometimes when he read some music scores, he could even faintly hear the melody and singing in them. This was also the reason why he occasionally read music scores. If he was lucky, he could mistake it for listening to a song. He did this many times in the archives room of the Dazhen Sitianjian.
But listening to songs and writing songs are two completely different things. When I started writing, I found that I couldn’t write a single word.