“Ah!”
When the little tiger saw there was something to eat, he no longer cared about Zi Lan and ran out of the house!
My aunt also came out of the kitchen. Seeing Xueli smiling, she stepped forward and tapped her head, saying, "What are you laughing at?"
"No, nothing."
Xue Li covered her forehead in panic. Seeing her aunt come out, she felt inexplicably flustered as if she had been caught doing something wrong. But she caught a glimpse from the corner of her eye that the big snow wolf had gotten up and walked out of the house. She smiled and acted like a good boy to her aunt, then happily ran back to help serve the dishes.
Zi Lan came out of the house soon, and when he saw that Xue Li was no longer at the place where she had just waved to him, his brows tightened.
Fortunately, he looked around and soon saw Xueli's nine white tails dragging happily behind her, about to enter the kitchen with her owner. When Zi Lan looked over, Xueli had already gone into the kitchen, and he just caught a glimpse of the tip of her tail left outside.
Zi Lan felt relieved and quickly quickened his pace to chase after him, pretending to be serving dishes as usual.
Everyone quickly gathered and sat at the table.
Aunt Shaoyin did not forget to give the two little tigers a bowl of food. The tiger siblings immediately surrounded them and began to eat them up happily.
Shao Yin also returned to the table and sat down.
They set up a small table in front of the house, spread a mat on the ground, and on the table were three hot side dishes and a bowl of rice for each person.
One of the three side dishes is sweet wine-brewed radish strips.
After Shao Yin sat down, she saw Xue Li only eating the other two dishes and staying away from the radish, so she naturally picked up a piece of radish with chopsticks and put it in her bowl.
Xue Li's expression suddenly turned bad. She drooped her ears and looked at her aunt aggrievedly.
Shao Yin looked at her with amusement: "What's wrong?"
Xueli: "I don't want to eat carrots!"
Shao Yin: "I know you don't like it, but being picky about food is not good for your health. You have to eat at least two bites."
At this point, Shao Yin paused again and said, "Besides, didn't you eat when I wasn't in the fairyland? I saw that you finished a whole box of radishes without me watching you. Why don't you want to eat now?"
Sydney: “…”
When her aunt asked this, Xue Li was suddenly stuck with a guilty conscience.
She didn't eat the radishes her aunt left for her. She basically fed them all to wolves and tigers. She was busy eating fruits during this period of time and didn't know how happy she was.
But she couldn't admit it in front of her aunt at this time. Xue Li didn't know what to say. She looked at the radish strips in the bowl with her chopsticks, not knowing what to do.
At this moment, Zi Lan noticed the radish in Xue Li's bowl and came over silently as usual.
Zi Lan noticed that this time it was Aunt Shao who picked up the radish for Xue Li, but he didn't understand what they were saying. He just thought that Xue Li hid it well in front of her parents and Fairy Shao Yin didn't know about it yet.
So he naturally leaned over, took the radish from Xueli's bowl, put it in his own bowl, and then ate it as usual.
Xueli: “…!”
Zi Lan was quite skilled at it. When he did this, Xue Li and Shao Yin were both stunned and looked at him blankly.
Xue Li was shocked and didn't even have time to stop Zi Lan. Zi Lan had already eaten the fermented radish.
Her mind was blank for a moment, and after a long time, she mustered up the courage to carefully look at her aunt's expression.
The aunt looked at Zilan in surprise as he took food from her bowl, and seemed to be stunned.
After a long time, Shao Yin raised her eyebrows, looked at her and said, "Hmm?"
Xue Li shrank her head back in panic and quickly focused on eating.
Shao Yin had long felt that Xue Li's box of radishes was not quite right, so she wasn't too surprised to see someone helping her eat them.
But what surprised her was that the big snow wolf ate the food in Xueli's bowl so habitually, and Xueli didn't seem to think there was anything wrong.
The two of them might be closer than she had originally thought.
Shao Yin's expression was uncertain, but at this moment, she saw Xue Li quietly raised her head from the bowl and kept putting food into the bowl of the Snow Wolf. Perhaps it was because the Snow Wolf helped her eat the radish, and she felt guilty.
After Xue Li finished picking vegetables for the big snow wolf, she secretly glanced at her aunt's face.
Seeing that although her aunt looked unhappy, she didn't seem angry with her, she finally felt relieved.
When the atmosphere at the table became better, Xueli pointed to a dish on the table and said, "This is called green beans."
Zi Lan nodded and repeated it with her: "Green beans."
"Um!"
Xue Li happily affirmed his repetition.
Zi Lan saw that Xue Li was looking at him expectantly after she finished speaking, with her tail wagging behind her. After thinking for a while, he told Xue Li how to pronounce "青豆" in human language.
"Amadou, Amadou."
After Xueli learned the pronunciation, she repeated it several times in a low voice, then looked up and asked Zilan for her opinion: "Green beans, green beans, green beans!"
"That's right."
Zi Lan nodded.
Xueli suddenly became happy and her nine tails wagged faster.
Shao Yin watched the two of them and muttered. Now when the three of them were talking, there was always one person who couldn't understand. Shao Yin was a little concerned about the relationship between the two of them, but for convenience and for Xue Li's future outings, she couldn't disturb them from learning to talk to each other. She could only suppress her doubts in her heart for the time being.
…
Mortal language is a relatively easy language for gods, so it is not difficult for Xue Li to learn it.
In a blink of an eye, half a month passed. After the two of them pointed out all the items in the fairyland to each other, Xue Li was able to have simple conversations in mortal language.
"Um, um, Big Snow Wolf, look at this!"
That afternoon, after Xue Li and Shao Yin finished their practice, they happened to find that one of the herbs they planted in the yard had bloomed. She did not pick the herb and make it into pills, but instead pulled the Snow Wolf's sleeve and pulled him over to see it together.
Xueli gestured with her hands and feet as she spoke: "This, this is... the flower of the herb I applied to you before. This herb rarely blooms! The flower is very effective and beautiful! When it grows well, I'll pick it and use it as medicine for you..."
Xue Li spoke excitedly and looked very happy, but she was not very fluent in Mandarin, so her words were discontinuous and not very clear.
Since she started learning the new language, Xue Li likes to try to speak it no matter what she does. Zi Lan learned the fairy language, and was not as fast as Xue Li in learning the mortal language. However, he was talented, and had the foundation of several fairy languages he had learned before. Although he could not say whatever he wanted to say like Xue Li, he could still say some short sentences, but the content of his expression was limited.
Xueli tugged at his fur coat and asked, "What do you think?"
Zi Lan said quickly: "Yes, very beautiful. Thank you."
Xue Li immediately said happily: "You're welcome!"
After she finished speaking, she took him to see other herbs she had grown, and tried to teach him how to pronounce these herbs and how to distinguish them.
Zi Lan really likes the way Xue Li pulls him and tries to babble. Listening to Xue Li talking from Zi Lan's perspective, she feels a bit like a child who has just learned to talk, wagging her hands and tail and unable to speak clearly, which is very cute.
But Zi Lan changed his mind and realized that the way he saw Xue Li was probably the same way from Xue Li's perspective. He was not learning as fast as Xue Li and might even look more clumsy.
Zi Lan suddenly became nervous.
He was not very good at this kind of communication method of teaching each other languages, and thinking of this, he became even more reluctant to speak.
"Big Snow Wolf?"
Xue Li was very puzzled as to why the Snow Wolf suddenly spoke less and did not even repeat the words she said. She could not help but pull his sleeve and asked, "Did you not understand? Read after me, this herb is, red-ginseng-"
Zi Lan: “…”
Xueli said seriously: "Chi-Shan-"
Zi Lan watched Xue Li repeat it three times. If she continued like this, Xue Li might think he couldn't learn it, so she had no choice but to repeat it with her: "... Red Ginseng."
"You learned it!"
Xueli finally became cheerful, and at the same time, she did not forget to pull him to other herbs, and introduced them to him while showing them: "These herbs are all effective for your body. My aunt asked me to take care of you, so I specially planted some more. I will fry them for you to nourish your body after a while..."
After Xueli said that she could communicate in simple mortal language, Zilan began to try to tell her about himself and the fairy world.
Xue Li will leave the fairyland sooner or later. In Zi Lan's opinion, although Aunt Shao Yin did not say it explicitly, her words and actions all revealed this meaning.
Zi Lan also wanted to take Xue Li to the Ninth Heaven after his injuries were fully healed.
Of course, he didn't want to take her for himself or anything, but as Zi Lan's injuries gradually healed, he became more and more aware that Xue Li was the only nine-tailed fox in the world.
He had been in the small fairyland for so long that he had gradually gotten used to Xueli's nine tails, and his feelings for her had even transcended the framework of race. To him, Xueli was just Xueli. But if he returned to the Nine Heavens in the future, other people would obviously not be like this. Xueli's appearance would definitely cause a sensation, and other immortals would be shocked by her nine tails.
The appearance of the nine-tailed fox is no small matter for the fairy world. Xueli is very special. It is reasonable for her to know the Nine Heavens. She will be cared for, protected and treated with courtesy in the Nine Heavens. However... Zi Lan is not completely selfless.
He wanted Xue Li to see Wolfland, meet his family, see the environment he lived in, and then stay.
His family is very friendly and Wolfland is a very good place. Xueli will definitely like it.
Thinking of this, Zi Lan's heart began to pound.
His injuries have almost healed, and he can send a letter to the Ninth Heaven soon. Returning to the Ninth Heaven seems to be just around the corner.
Before that, it would be better to let Xue Li know more about the common sense of the fairy world.
So Zi Lan spoke and wrote, telling Xue Li everything he thought Xue Li should know.
This was the first time Xue Li heard this. Aunt Shao was a mortal, so naturally she could only tell her about worldly matters.
Xueli took the brocade book that Zilan gave her. She had a hard time listening and reading the difficult content. After a long time, she repeated in a daze: "The fairyland is divided into two levels, the upper fairyland is above the sky, and there are nine levels in total?"
Zi Lan nodded.
These contents are more important. The brocade he showed Xue Li was found on his body. Not only was a simple introduction written in mortal language, but it was also written in immortal language and a schematic diagram of the Nine Heavens was drawn on it.
Zi Lan pointed to the picture on the brocade and said, "We are both star-controlling beasts. One star-controlling beast controls one constellation. We are located in the nine heavens, seven constellations in the east, west, south and north, a total of twenty-eight constellations, which is the twenty-eight star-controlling beast fairyland."
The author has something to say: Zi Lan noticed the radish in Xue Li's bowl, and naturally leaned over as usual, picked up the radish from Xue Li's bowl, and then ate it.
Foxball: …
aunt:…
Fox Ball: Auntie, I can explain...
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Wolf and Fox Learn Language
Wolf Ball: Fox Ball is learning to talk. She is cute. I want to lick her. I want to take her home and marry her in the future. (Writing a love letter silently)
Fox Ball: I am so happy to study! Did Wolf Ball learn today? Eh? Why is Wolf Ball not studying and not talking