The little animals immediately rushed forward, some arranged fruits, some helped to pose.
Xueli brought the soy sauce from home and poured it on the little gray rabbit carefully.
The way of presentation was agreed upon beforehand by everyone, and the little grey rabbit soon got a feel for the food.
He lay on the plate and moved his ears very nervously.
Xueli hurriedly said, "Don't move! Just be patient for a moment. If you move, you'll be noticed."
The gray rabbit gritted its teeth, tilted its head stiffly to the side, and pretended that it was dead.
Xueli patted him soothingly with her paw and then took hold of the edge of the plate.
The small animals also took their positions, nervously ambushing in every corner of the windows and eaves of the wooden house.
Xue Li pulled the plate and dragged the little gray rabbit in little by little.
Zi Lan moved around in the yard for a while in the morning. Xue Li had just changed his medicine these two days, so he was not yet suitable for moving around too much. At this moment, he was lying alone in the "nest" that Xue Li had built for him to rest.
He originally thought that the little nine-tailed fox had gone out to find other intelligent animals to play with. He was feeling lonely when he suddenly heard a rubbing sound in the house. When he turned around, he happened to see the little nine-tailed fox dragging a plate of rabbits running towards him!
Zi Lan: “…?”
Xue Li carefully dragged the rabbit in front of Zi Lan and gently placed it aside.
The little gray rabbit felt that he had been brought by Xue Li to the front of the huge snow wolf. He couldn't help but tense his body, holding his breath and pretending to be unconscious.
Xueli said to Xuelang, "This is for you! I've cooked it. Do you want to try it?"
As she spoke, she pushed the plate forward with her head.
Zi Lan was stunned when she saw Xue Li bringing such a beautifully presented rabbit dish.
On the plate was a gray rabbit, motionless, and it was impossible to tell whether it was dead or not, but there was a circle of soy sauce poured on it, and a circle of fruits were placed around it according to color, so it was obvious that they were food for him.
Xue Li dragged the plate of rabbits in front of him with great care and cherishment, and was now jumping around him, her dark eyes shining, and she was calling to him expectantly.
Zi Lan has been practicing for many years, so of course he doesn't eat animals.
Rather than not eating animals, in fact, at his current level of cultivation, his dependence on food is already very weak. Although he eats in the Wolf Realm, this kind of meal is not so much to satisfy his appetite, but rather to consume the nectar and delicacies rich in immortal energy to assist in cultivation and consolidate his cultivation.
This is the case in the Nine Heavens. Once an immortal goes into seclusion, it is normal for him to go without food or shelter for several months or even years.
Zi Lan said tactfully: "No, I don't need to eat rabbit..."
Xue Li didn't understand Zi Lan's "Awooo" cry. Seeing that Zi Lan didn't react to the rabbit for a long time, she suspected that he didn't understand what the rabbit was for.
Xueli patiently said, "Look at this rabbit. I just caught it from the forest. It's very fresh, tender, and delicious! It's also very easy to eat. Let me teach you how to eat it!"
Having said that, Xue Li was about to eat the rabbit.
But Xueli had never eaten rabbit before, so she didn't know how to perform.
She circled the rabbit twice, and finally saw that its front paws were raised up, which seemed easier to eat, so she crouched down and demonstrated to the snow wolf how to eat it. "Ah-woo!", she bit the little gray rabbit's front paw.
Little Gray Rabbit: “…”
Of course Xue Li didn't really use any force, but for a rabbit, being bitten like this was already very scary, and he tried his best to control himself so as not to tremble.
“…!”
Zi Lan was also surprised to see Xue Li biting the rabbit, and hurriedly tried to pick Xue Li off the rabbit's feet.
They, the immortals, emphasize seeking the truth and doing good deeds, and have pure immortal aura. They can breathe wind and drink dew, and they have sympathy and love for all living things in the world. The spiritual herbs and fruits that they usually eat, even including radishes, that grow in the fairyland are either transformed by spiritual energy and do not give rise to intelligence, or picking the fruits will not affect the breath of the living things themselves, but this rabbit is obviously not one of them.
Eating flesh and blood would damage one's state of mind for achievement. Zi Lan was worried that Xue Li, a little nine-tailed fox living in the fairyland, didn't know these things and was afraid that she might have eaten the rabbit by mistake.
But when he was about to do so, Zi Lan paused.
He found that Xueli was holding the rabbit's foot in her mouth, but she was just holding it gently and didn't really bite it.
These animals that often played with Xue Li had actually appeared in front of Zi Lan, but either when he had just fallen from the sky, or when Xue Li was treating his injuries. After that, when he became more conscious, these little animals no longer dared to approach him and kept hiding from him.
Zi Lan was confused at first. Later, he met many rabbits among the animals playing with Xue Li. He couldn't tell whether this rabbit often played with Xue Li, but he could see that it was a male rabbit.
The creatures in the fairyland will not expose their private parts as easily as those in the mortal world, but they have other ways to distinguish them, and they can detect them by looking at their appearance or smelling their odor.
At this moment, seeing Xue Li holding a male rabbit's front paw so closely and carefully, Zi Lan suddenly felt a strange unhappiness in his heart.
But he didn't think much about it for a moment, just thinking that this was a reaction to his concern that Xue Li had eaten something wrong.
Zi Lan frowned, lowered his head immediately, and abruptly separated Xue Li and the little gray rabbit.
"Ouch?"
Xue Li, who was suddenly plucked from the little gray rabbit's claws, looked confused.
The little gray rabbit felt that the huge snow wolf was so close to him that it was almost touching his stomach. He was so scared that his heart stopped beating for a moment.
The big snow wolf looked at Xueli and said seriously, "Although I am injured, I only need to eat some spiritual vegetables and fruits as usual. You don't have to go out of your way to find meat for me. If you hurt a living being for this, it will be detrimental to your cultivation."
He asked: "Is the rabbit still alive? If it can be saved, we can feed it some herbs and keep it at home first. We can release it into the wild after its injuries have healed."
However, to Xue Li, these words just sounded like a long-winded series of "Awoo—Awoo—Awoo," which made her even more confused.
At the same time, the small animals hiding in various places in the cabin began to talk about it.
"The wolf didn't eat the little gray rabbit! He also separated Xueli from the little gray rabbit!"
"Great! Does this mean he won't eat us?"
"But what did he say afterwards?"
The little animals were all very surprised at this time.
If the fact that the big snow wolf did not eat the little gray rabbit was enough to put everyone at ease, the fact that he pretended to eat the snow pear that he picked from the little gray rabbit was a complete surprise!
This shows that not only does he not eat it himself, he also prevents others from eating it.
Now everyone completely believed that the snow wolf would not harm them. After he had recovered from his injuries here in Xue Li, they could let him live in the forest.
The white deer, who was standing by the window and peeking through the crack, knocked on the window quietly with its hoof and reminded her, "Xue Li, it's almost done. We all think it's ready."
Xue Li also came to her senses at this time.
She asked the Snow Wolf tentatively, "You really don't want to eat? Are you sure? Then I'll take the plate away, okay?"
Big Snow Wolf: "Awoo—Awoo—"
Xueli: "Awooo, awooo, awooo."
The two people happily reached a consensus.
So Xueli pretended to be disappointed and lowered her ears, then picked up a corner of the plate again, intending to evacuate the little rabbit safely.
But Zi Lan frowned even more.
He thought that Xue Li should have understood that he didn't want to eat rabbits, but had not yet realized that he wanted to see if the rabbit was still alive and whether he could raise it, so he took a step forward and wanted to communicate with Xue Li again.
However, Zi Lan's move completely destroyed the little gray rabbit's psychological defenses.
The little gray rabbit was already very tense. He swung around the snow wolf's claws and was bitten by the fox. His heart was in his throat. He finally waited until Xue Li said that the dishes were cleared away. Just as he relaxed, he felt the snow wolf coming one step closer.
The little gray rabbit immediately thought that the snow wolf might have changed his mind. His mental preparation collapsed and he could no longer hold on. He opened his eyes and ran away!
Snow Wolf originally wanted to talk to Xue Li again and take a look to see if the rabbit was still breathing.
Unexpectedly, the lunch on the plate suddenly opened its eyes and jumped up!
Before Zi Lan could come to her senses, the lunch disappeared like a gust of wind at the door.
No one had expected this sudden change. Zi Lan and Xue Li, who was dragging a plate, were both startled. They stared blankly at the wooden door that was knocked open by the rabbit. The house was silent.
Zi Lan was stunned for a moment.
But then he hurriedly looked at Xue Li.
The little nine-tailed fox seemed to have never expected that a little rabbit would run over, and was also frightened by the gray rabbit suddenly waking up and rushing out. Then she continued to hold the plate in her mouth, with a confused look on her face.
The soy sauce spilled all over the ground along the path the little gray rabbit ran away.
After a long time, the little nine-tailed fox slowly, slowly let go of the plate with only fruit left, and let it lie flat on the ground. She still had her ears drooping since she refused to eat the rabbit, and her paws were tucked in, looking very lonely.
Zi Lan was stunned.
In fact, from observing her over this period of time, it is obvious that Xue Li does not eat meat. She specially brought a rabbit today, most likely just for him.
They were not very familiar with each other yet, as he came from outside and they did not speak the same language.
Zi Lan thought about it for a while, and then thought that Xue Li might not be sure whether a wolf like him from outside would eat meat, and was afraid that his injury would be difficult to heal if he did not get enough nutrition. So after struggling for a long time, he finally ran to the forest and tried his best to catch a rabbit for him to eat.
Judging from the rabbit that the little nine-tailed fox served today, she was probably not very good at handling living things, but the presentation of the dish was very delicate, and it was obvious that she had put a lot of thought into it.
She might have run to the forest early in the morning, simply caught a rabbit, worked hard to prepare it, and then happily served it to him to eat.
But he didn't expect that he didn't eat the rabbit at all, and in the end he accidentally let the rabbit run away, so all his efforts for the whole morning were in vain.
No wonder Xue Li looked so sad.
Zi Lan slowly approached her and looked at her worriedly.