snatch the fox

A hundred years later

Yuzu Zhangfu

"Sir, you are here."

The master of the Zhang family pushed open the door and entered the room kindly, and smiled at him.

Shen Linyan put down the scroll in his hand, looked at the child who was sitting at the opposite table and writing, and kept calling "Dad" to Master Zhang.

With a slight movement in his heart, he handed the copybook that the child had just handed in to Master Zhang, and said in a warm voice: "Young master has a high level of comprehension. If you practice hard, you will be able to achieve something in the future. Don't worry, master."

Master Zhang's mansion stroked his beard in satisfaction, and beckoned to the boy following behind to take the little guy out.

"Master, is there anything else?"

"Quuzi is naughty. There is no private school within a radius of ten miles willing to take him in. Mr. Meng is the only one who refuses to give up. Zhang is very grateful for accepting Quanzi as a teacher. In this way... there will be a feast in the mansion in a short while. If you don't mind, sir, can you come and visit me?" ?”

feast?

Shen Linyan pondered for a while, as if hesitating.

"gentlemen?"

"Forget it, let's take a look."

The master of the Zhang family was overjoyed when he heard the words, he immediately invited people to stay for him to rest for a while, he was very considerate.

After closing the door, Shen Linyan closed his eyes and checked with his spiritual sense to make sure that there was no one around, then picked up the pen and paper on the table, and wrote down the reason for returning late on the paper.

A pinch of his fingertips lit the flames, and Foxfire licked up the paper in an instant, spreading the news.

"Knock knock knock."

"My lord, the banquet is about to start, the master ordered the younger one to lead the way for you."

He patted the creases on the hem of his clothes, got up and opened the door: "Thank you."

The banquet was nothing special, and he vaguely felt that in a very long time ago, he would have disdained any grander scene than this, not to mention that now it was clearly a banquet for the daughter of the Zhang family to choose relatives.

For poetry, lyrics, painting, playing the piano, drinking, counting all kinds of ancient and modern...

I really have no interest at all.

Shen Linyan was bored and confused, so he couldn't help but drank a few more glasses, his drunken eyes narrowed slightly, but it attracted the eyes of all the ladies who accompanied the daughter of Zhang Fu across the way.

He has always been reticent, and the master of the Zhang family didn't make things difficult for him. The drinking order for drinking water was not his turn once, and the singer who played the drums probably got the order.

I don't know if his eyes were drunk or not, but after many years, he saw that deep blue figure again, it was long overdue, as if he was apologizing to the master of the Zhang family.

The guy who made him hate so much that even if he slaughtered everything in the world, he couldn't let go of him.

Too drunk?

He shook his swollen head, propped himself up, and planned to go out to breathe the wind to sober up, but unexpectedly, his hand was empty, and his head was so dizzy that he was about to fall to the ground.

"Sir?"

The voice sounded like that of Zhang Fu's daughter. He tried it, but he couldn't stand firmly on his own, so he could only support the daughter's hand, pressing his sore forehead, and let the other party support him. Lead the way, do not know where to go.

He couldn't help chuckling.

Someone once asserted that his fate is not immortal, but he re-entered reincarnation because of his previous life. If he continues to be obsessed with obsession, walks on a crooked path to join forces with evil spirits, rub shoulders with gods and Buddhas, and does not say anything, if he causes chaos in all walks of life, Fear is to pull the bones and loose the soul's life.

Therefore, he put away all his temperament when he urinated, and ran counter to the fox clan beside him, and followed the group of widows who practiced immortality and Taoism.

now……

In the past, he had never been so rash. Even if he was from the fox family, his fox nature would have been suppressed very well if it hadn't been an accident, but everything has changed.

Since that person did that to him, what right does he have to talk about innocence?

"Well!"

Suddenly, he bumped into a solid barrier as soon as he turned a corner, with a familiar smell and a sense of oppression that was so deep in his bones that he couldn't get rid of it.

Subconscious chills down the spine!

The daughter of the Zhang family seemed to be taken aback for a moment: "Young Master Xie, why are you here?"

Thanks……

He frowned, waved away the daughter of the Zhang family, staggered back and forth without saying a word, with a stubborn ruthlessness.

Unexpectedly, the soles of his feet were weak and he couldn't control his feet, and he was about to stumble after walking a few steps. Fortunately, someone pulled him to stabilize his figure in time, so he didn't fall to the ground.

The figure was cast on the ground with the bright moon behind it, mottled and swaying like duckweed, it seemed like him he had lost his whereabouts, he didn't know where to go, he unconsciously pulled a smile from the corner of his mouth, with a little foolishness, he lost his usual alienation.

The voice from the top of the head was low and deep, and the breath swept past the ear, and turned to the daughter of Zhang Fu and said:

"Where is his house?"

The daughter of the Zhang family stared at the two of them dumbfounded, bit her lip and pointed in a direction before she said reluctantly: "Young Master Xie and Mr. Shen... old acquaintances?"

The person who supported him paused for a moment, and finally gave a soft "um" and carried him away.

He came to his senses and wanted to struggle, but he was drunk and the man was so strong that he couldn't move his shoulder joints like pincers.

After giving up resistance, he only felt that he was too absurd tonight, and the things that had been dusty for many years seemed to break through everything and pop into his mind again.

The well-known enchantment and formulas spread from the man's fingertips and lips, and the room instantly became a closed space.

It's like an invisible cage that was once dark.

He knew that there was something wrong with the wine that the Zhang family had prepared for him, and he also knew the intention of the daughter of the Zhang family to take the opportunity to help him go down to rest today, but he never expected that someone else would intervene and ruin the "good thing" of the Zhang family.

He thought that he would spend the rest of his life in such a muddle, marry a wife, have a full house of children and grandchildren, and ignore worldly affairs...

"Bang!"

He woke up with a start, but his head was still dazed and heavy.

"why?"

The man questioned in a hoarse voice, and got very close, full of complicated emotions.

He blinked, but his blurred vision failed to see the other person's expression clearly, so he could only smile drunkenly, "Why do you say?"

"..."

After a long silence, just before his patience ran out, the other party suddenly murmured:

"Why are you leaving?"

He thought for a while, then let out a light snort, and lazily said: "In this world, only the strong can talk about conquest, otherwise," he tightened the hair tip of the other party who was playing with it in his palm, "you can only be conquered by me, you... ... dare?"

The other party sneered, and his tone was unconsciously mean:

"What you said is true or false, when have you fulfilled it with me? It makes no difference whether I say it or not."

In the end, there was a wordless loneliness.

"Cash in? True or false..." He murmured and repeated, not knowing where to look.

"Forget it, when dealing with people like you, only actions can make you honest. Respect, are you right?"

Ignoring the struggle, the thousand gauze curtains were persistently lowered, covering up all the absurd and illusory things in his eyes.

……

The night was as cold as water, he subconsciously flipped over the couch to find some tea to drink, when he regained his composure, he was so startled that he almost couldn't even hold the cup steadily.

He shook his hands and barely drank the tea, and his thoughts finally became clear.

Looking back at the man whose eyes were still closed, he couldn't help replaying everything that had happened in his mind. With a pale face, he backed up a few steps and slammed into the door, the pain in his heart nearly making him breathless.

Should he thank this man?

If it wasn't for his kidnapping back then, he wouldn't have expected Pei Yunzheng to rescue him, even if Pei Yunzheng only wanted to return his favor, at least he had realized a dream that he could never dream of.

If it wasn't for his connivance back then, Pei Yunzheng would not have been able to enter the inkstone hall to save him, and he would not have seen the facts clearly later, cutting off his last thoughts and expectations for Pei Yunzheng.

But the painful memories that followed, and the days when he was always woken up by nightmares, can it be easily said that it has nothing to do with him?

He is not stupid, such a man who is good at scheming in the city and can't tell the difference between mood and anger, is too dangerous, how can he get close!

"Xie Linyuan, you can't blame me!"

The hairpin on his bun was very sharp, and it took only a few seconds to pull it out, but when the hairpin was only half an inch away from the man's heart, he felt his throat was sweet, and soon his chest felt tight, and he coughed when he opened his mouth A puddle of black blood stained the man's shoulder.

With both hands firmly supporting him who was coughing continuously, he met the man's eyes, how could there be any confusion when he first woke up?

pretending to sleep...

His deep pupils reflected his pale lips from coughing, he was stunned for a moment, then pushed away, and laughed wildly:

"What do you think you can keep by doing this? You're wrong... In this world, even if someone tells me that Pei Yunzheng will change his mind one day, I won't believe you again. Xie, let's settle it."

After finishing speaking, he clenched his fist and smashed the faint blue enchantment on the door, turned and left expressionlessly.

Inside the house, the man quietly looked at the door that kept moving back and forth in the cold wind, ignoring the mess covered by flying papers all over the floor.

He tightly held an empty small porcelain vase in his palm, and repeatedly polished his robe.

As he stood up, the pale blood was gloomy, staining everything red.

"The relationship between the two of us will never be cleared in this life!"

……

Shen Linyan woke up.

It wasn't until he opened his eyes that he realized that this was the cave he had lived in for a long time in the mountains.

A young man walked in with a medicine bowl in his hands, and saw him sitting there, he snorted angrily, "Will you wake up? Drink the medicine!"

He took the medicine bowl and drank it without even looking at it. In the end, he was choked by the bitter medicine juice and coughed for a while, returning the bowl and leaning there wearily, frowning.

"I just said that you shouldn't stay outside for too long. After staying in the territory of the Yu Clan for so many years, I have never seen a Fox Clan that is as bold as you, and ran to the city in a grand manner. What kind of Mr. Xixi... Tsk~ Aren't you afraid that your identity will be found out, and you will be arrested and tossed?"

The young man casually threw the bowl on the table, moved to the bamboo stool by himself, raised his legs and bit a piece of grass to support the stool legs and shook them.

"It's also fortunate that I know some medical skills. I was sent back in the middle of the night, and you just lay there comfortably and slept soundly~"

"Send me back?" His half-closed eyes suddenly narrowed, "Who!"

The boy swung his legs back, leaned forward to support his knees, and asked with great interest:

"Don't you have any impression? That person said he was an old acquaintance of yours. I haven't seen you for many years. Here~"

The boy gestured to himself.

"I'm dressed in a blue shirt, and I look pretty good. I'm just like the gang of shrimp soldiers and crab generals from the Realm of Chaos, but I'm envious of how careful you are. Come on, who is he? "

Shen Linyan shook his hand, and accidentally knocked over a vase on a nearby desk.

"What's the matter with you?" The young man frowned, "You've been acting strange since you woke up, and besides, I've never seen you sleep so unconscious before, what's the matter?"

"That person... is he leaving?"

The young man hummed proudly: "Why, are you afraid that I won't know what to do and drive people away? Don't worry, we live next door, we have the most rooms here~"

After the young man in this room finished speaking, the door over there opened in response, and the familiar blue shirt was still eye-catching.

The young man got up and patted the visitor's shoulder, and said with exaggerated earnestness: "My surname is Gu, Gu Xiuyun. He has a low face, and he keeps everything in his heart and refuses to say anything. Don't blame me for not reminding him. With his temperament, it's better to go along with it." Get along with each other, otherwise, you will suffer~"

Shen Linyan only glanced at the young man lightly, and the young man trembled and fled immediately.

"You know him well?"

Xie Linyuan seemed to be inconvenient to move, so he chose a bamboo chair to sit on, and asked softly.

He closed his eyes wearily, pressed the center of his brows, and said nothing more: "Old friend."

"Old man?" Xie Linyuan snorted, "It's not easy for you to come back from the underworld. If you get close to this kind of mountain monster, aren't you afraid that you will lose your shape!"

Hearing this, he couldn't help being angry.

"Yes! In your eyes, except for your Yu clan, they are all inferior existences. Since you are afraid of dirtying your immortal body practice, why should you condescend to stay in such a filthy place? I advise you to leave as soon as possible .”

Xie Linyuan took out a small porcelain bottle from his sleeve and put it on the table.

He glanced at it, his eyes sank randomly, "What do you mean?"

Xie Linyuan suddenly smiled.

He seldom smiles on weekdays, with a sullen face all day long, and there are times when someone who is good at things sighs that he has a handsome face but is heartless.

But now Xie Linyuan's smile made him feel a little sad and unbearable, it seemed that there was something deep and long-lasting behind that smile, something he couldn't see through no matter what.

With the calmness, firmness, and consistent self-confidence that he is very familiar with, he is like an old friend who has known him for a long time.

But those eyes that made people unable to take his eyes off forced him to withdraw his weird thoughts, once again focused his attention on the delicate bottle, and said seriously:

"It was found in Ghost Lord's house. It is said that you have been begging for a long time. I used it."

Shen Linyan raised his eyebrows, and unconsciously shifted his gaze slightly, "Do you think I'm so easy to deceive, Xie Linyuan."

"Whether it's true or not, we'll know in the future...I just came here to tell you that we can't clear up the mess between the two of us!"

He didn't move, quietly waiting for the man to get up and pull the door bolt...

"Well!"

When Xie Linyuan fell down, he didn't think much about it. When he came to his senses, he had already helped someone to settle on the couch. While taking a towel and dipping it in water to wipe off the sweat from Xie Linyuan's forehead, he tried hard to recall Gui Jun's previous instructions.