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joyous.She just kept staring at him dazedly, and sometimes her body was really itchy when he touched her, so she twisted slightly.

After a while, the man asked, "Will you come with me?"

The fox smiled so beautifully that the man was so amazed that he forgot to breathe.

The fox turned his head and said to the banyan tree in ventriloquist, "Come with me?"

Banyan Shu murmured and replied in ventriloquism: "I don't want to go..."

The fox snorted, "I wasted your 2000 years of virtue. If you don't go, I will go and play by myself. If you are envious, come to the world to find me." After finishing speaking, he was quite proud and very happy towards the man. With an arch in his arms, he walked away happily.

One banyan tree was left, a little lonely, still standing in place, just like before the fox came.

In 2000 years, the banyan tree has seen too many living things come and go.Those who stay for a short time are just passers-by in life after all.

But after being together for a long time, suddenly one of them wants to leave, most of the rest will feel a little lonely.

But a tree is a tree, likes stability, does not seek change, and is especially tolerant of loneliness.A place often lasts for thousands of years, not to mention that the fox only left for a few days, and then turned into a fox and ran back on a heavy rainy night.

The banyan tree was actually very curious, and immediately asked, "How is it? Is the world fun?"

The fox was lying in the warm tree hole, its fur was wet from the rain, but the crystals at the corners of its eyes were extraordinarily large.No matter what the banyan tree asked, he just covered his nose with his paws and howled like he was crying.

When the summer was almost over, the fox finally got out of the tree hole, covered his whole body with prickly heat, and still clamored to go to the world, but never mentioned the person who took him away.

When Banyan asked, he told Banyan solemnly that the man was not good, so he took him into the city, and when he got tired of playing with the fox, he sold the fox, got a sum of money, and ran away alone.The owner of Huanguan who bought the fox insisted on forcing the fox to pick up the customers.The fox doesn't like those guests, they smell bad and they look rubbish.So in a rage, he bit them all to death, and searched for the man, trying to ask for an explanation, but he happened to see him and someone else in bed.In a fit of rage, the fox ripped out his heart and lungs, and escaped back.

The banyan tree was terrified, and said timidly: "Killing is wrong. But hearing what you say, human beings are so scary. Fortunately, I didn't go."

But the fox said hopefully, "It's not necessarily true. If you don't go to the human world, how will you know the beautiful 'love' that the world calls. You don't want to know what 'love' really is? There are bad people in the world, and there must be good people. But I didn't It’s just a matter of meeting. Next time, I must find a good person to love.”

Just at this time, a group of troops came down from the banyan tree.The leader among them is a young talent.On the black horse, he is dressed in military uniform and looks heroic.The fox was immediately fascinated, with its tail raised high, looking at the marching team with burning eyes, and seeing the military adviser stroking the goatee, he called the leader beside him: the leader.

Every time the leader speaks, he also calls himself: My seat.

The fox listened to it from the tree and felt very majestic.Can't help murmuring:

"This is called a man!"

When they were far away, the fox jumped off the branch again and turned into a handsome soldier.In every gesture, she no longer has the charming and coquettish air of the past, waving a stick made of branches, imitating in style: "Qingqing, I am going to fight in the palace, would you like to accompany me?"

The banyan tree smiled in the sun, but still shook its canopy and did not agree.

So the fox left the house alone again.

After half a year, I came back again.He was covered in dust, his hair was disheveled, and the armor and military uniform on his body were all dilapidated, but he returned as a human.When he got to the tree hole, he regained his fox body with a 'Chi Liu', and got in. He didn't eat or drink for several days, he was so hungry that he was skinny, and then he ran out to catch some pheasants, filled his stomach, and recovered.

The banyan tree asked him, "Why did you come back?"

This time the fox only said indifferently, "Smart people have too much ambition. People who are good before will turn bad. Why don't you find someone stupid!"

Just as he was talking, a paper kite flew from the branch.

Under the tree, there was a drooling fool crying loudly at the tree.

"I want my kite! I want it! A kite!"

An old eunuch chased after him, and said with a strange yin and yang:

"Emperor...young master, this one will wait until you return to the palace... No, after returning to the mansion, this old slave will make another one for you."

The fox narrowed his eyes and raised the corners of his mouth slightly.After they left, they disappeared.

The banyan tree was used to it coming and going, and waited for another three years.Sure enough, the fox came back again.

This time, he turned into an elegant man, wearing a plume on his top and neat official uniform.In front of the tree hole, the glitz still faded away, and he turned into a fox body and got in.

This time, I just stayed up all night with my eyes open.At dawn the next day, the fox was very sleepy, snoring loudly!

When eating at night, the fox lay on the tree trunk, devouring the food, and completely lost the feeling of loss.The banyan tree pointed to the official robe spread on the ground with a small branch and asked the fox:

"What kind of court clothes is this? It seems to be a very big official."

The fox kept chewing on the meat, and said indifferently, "The Taifu wore it."

Banyan Shu asked curiously, "That man is very kind to you. He will be your teacher. It seems that he respects you. Why did you come back?"

The fox sneered: "What's so good? There is nothing good in human beings! They are all liars! Love, that's all a lie made up by people. In fact, it doesn't exist at all!" The fox suddenly seemed to understand something, put aside the food, and used I rubbed my head against the trunk of the banyan tree, "Qingqing, you are right. I didn't listen to you, and deserved to be deceived. I will never go to the human world again. Let's cultivate together, live forever, and be together forever, okay?"

"Okay." Banyan Shu was very happy and immediately agreed.Actually moved my heart.The behavior of the fox several times before and after made the banyan tree very curious about its experience in the world, but every time the banyan tree asked, the fox refused to mention it, and only interrupted it impatiently:

"There is really nothing good in the world. Human beings have a short lifespan of a few decades, and he died before you saw his true colors. How nice it is for us to be together all the time. It's better to have a companion for each other than those heartless People are strong!"

The banyan tree stopped talking, and the curiosity in his heart didn't decrease, but increased a lot.

In the twinkling of an eye, when the spring is warm and the flowers are blooming again, Yangzhou City ushered in a new dynasty, and it is also glowing again.The prosperity of the past is now reappearing again.The people have a new emperor, and Yangzhou has a new owner.Life has gradually improved a lot.

The fact that the banyan tree made a wish come true has become a legend.Tying red ribbons to trees has also evolved into a formal custom.Most of the wishes I made were to bless the five grains and the four seasons to be safe, and so on, which didn't have much practical significance.

The fox and the banyan tree spent countless hours bored until one day...

A little boy doll came down from the tree.

She had a steamed bun face that was so white and tender that water could be squeezed out, peach eyes that were red and swollen from crying, and a dark red silver carp mouth that pouted so high.

"Hello, Uncle Shu. My name is Xu Jinyu. I have a little secret that I can't tell, and it's very uncomfortable. Let me tell you. Today, my mother asked me if I wanted to eat the maltose that the second dog next door ate. I Knowing that our family is poor and has no money, I endured saying that I don’t want to eat it. In fact, I really want to eat it... Every time the second dog next door eats that, he always licks it very loudly.”

Jinyu stepped on the root of the tree, lying on the trunk, and grabbed the edge of the tree hole with his fleshy little hands, said "Chichi Gugu" and frowned, "I tell you, you can't tell others! After finishing speaking, he jumped off the tree root, picked up some wild flowers, stuffed them in the tree hole, and ran away.

"Hee hee..." Banyan Shu laughed, "What a cute child. You still said that humans are boring."

The fox was putting its ears to the tree hole, eavesdropping inside with wide eyes, when it heard the ventriloquist of the banyan tree, it turned its head in an instant, swiped its tail, and snorted, "Cut! You're so stupid! How cute is it?"

Banyan was a little dissatisfied, "I like it! He's also pretty."

The fox 'Ji Liu' jumped up and scratched the tickle of the banyan tree with his claws in the hole, "You said I was the prettiest. How can you like him? Didn't you promise to be with me forever?"

"Well... I said it... but what conflict does this have with that?" Banyan Shu was taken aback by his violent reaction, and was confused for no reason.

But the fox yelled, "If you like me, you can't like him! If you think I'm good-looking, you can't think he's good-looking! That annoying ugly boy, I'll go out and kill him!"

As the fox said, he was about to get out of the tree hole.The banyan tree was terrified, and hastily tightened the hole of the tree to prevent it from getting out. It was hard to talk about it, and it dispelled the fox's anger.

The next day, Jinyu came again.

Weeping, still in the same posture, lying on the tree hole and whispering.When it was over, I stuffed a bunch of wild flowers in the tree hole before running away.

Afterwards, the fox had another big fight with the banyan tree, but the banyan tree was soft, so the fox didn't go out and kill Jinyu.

After so many days, Jinyu came every day, always at that hour.No matter what the fox said, the fox would snort it, but at that time, it would always sneak into the tree hole in advance, stick its ears up, and eavesdrop inside.

As time passed, the banyan tree made fun of it, "You still talk about me, aren't you also half a cat?"

The fox quickly turned around in the tree hole a few times, looking like a dog who couldn't find a place to poop, and suddenly came out again, ran to the branch and lay down, with its tail hanging, lazy and indifferent, "It's boring anyway. A grandma Baby, it's just such a trivial matter anyway, who would find it rare?"

"I think you are quite rare."

"Besides, I'll go out and kill him!"

"..."

The fox narrowed his eyes, "Are you jealous? No wonder you are so sour." He leaned against the tree trunk and rubbed his back, "Of course I like you the most. A human being with a cheap life will not have a place in my heart."

Soon after, there was a flood in Yangzhou City.The muddy river has been submerged to half of the banyan tree.

The fox left the banyan tree and took refuge in the city.

The banyan tree stands quietly outside Yangzhou City, and after this catastrophe, it has some internal injuries.

The fox was very anxious, but because the tree demon and the fox clan were not of the same clan, he couldn't help much, so he could only jump back and forth on the branches.

"Are you seriously injured? It was just a flood. How could you be so sad? You have 2000 years of Taoism anyway. How can you be so useless?"

The banyan tree said, "The flood is so strange. When I was submerged, I felt something strange in the water, like fairy energy. You know, us fairies are most afraid of fairy energy. Did some rivers be sent to the heavenly court?" Immortals like gods come to collect us?"

The fox was shocked, hugging the tree trunk with its paws and said, "No, Qingqing. If you want to take it, you should take me first. I killed more than one. Why should you take you first?"

The banyan tree was a little weak, "The child, did you find it? Why haven't you come here for so long. Did you drown?"

The fox was furious, "Do you still have the heart to care about others? That poor child is not worth your trouble. I have been with you for so many years, why don't you see that you care about me?"

"Why don't I care about you? But every time I ask you, what do you say?"

"Cut!" Fox snorted with a 'chichi', "When I went to the city to take refuge, if I didn't see him one day, I should have killed him! So you don't miss him all the time!"

When the banyan tree heard it, it laughed rustlingly, "I'm afraid you won't be able to bear it."

The fox was furious, "Who doesn't want to! If you feel uncomfortable, I'll kill him now, pull out his soul, and use his shell to cover you through this calamity, okay? Anyway, if you like him, you should be one, and It's all right, but you have a wish." After saying that, she raised her lips and smiled wickedly.

The banyan tree was terrified, and stammered, "No...no need. That child is too small, and he pretends to be my 2000-year-old soul, and I'm afraid it will drain my energy. By then, I will enter his body, and I will be dissatisfied." It won't come out after ten years, I'm afraid it will be wiped out if it is used up for a long time."

The fox pondered for a moment, "Then I'll go find an adult."

The banyan tree was startled, and immediately said, "I don't want ugly ones."

The fox said, "Then I'll find a pretty one."

"Fox, I'm fine. In 2000 years, I didn't experience any catastrophe. This time, I'll be fine." Banyan Tree persuaded him patiently, but in fact, he just hoped that the fox would stop killing at will.

How did the fox understand it? After thinking for a while, he murmured to himself, "I don't want anything. I think you only want that annoying ugly doll? Hmph, I'll just wait until he grows up. Chickens need to be fattened up before killing them." of."

Looking at Jinyu later, the meaning in his eyes also changed a lot.Just like the hungry wolf looking at the delicious lamb.

After the flood, there was another plague in Yangzhou City.The gates of the city are under martial law, only entering, not exiting.So Jinyu didn't come under the banyan tree for many days.

The green leaves of the banyan tree are a little wilted by the scorching sun.

The fox lay lazily on a branch, wagging its tail to drive away mosquitoes.Occasionally yawn a few times, and every time there is a sound, the ears must move and look down.

With hope comes disappointment.

Jinyu never came again.

The internal injury of the banyan tree, which had been soaked in water, healed intermittently and then badly, but never completely healed, but he kept thinking about Jinyu, and kept urging the fox to enter the city.

"You go and see if he died of illness?"

"Take care of yourself!"

"It's all about you, you don't allow me to go to the human world. If I can't escape this time, if I die, I will definitely regret it!"

Seeing that he was sick, the fox didn't feel like arguing, so he coaxed him softly, "When you recover, we will go to the world. We can play as long as you want to stay."

In the winter of the following year, it snowed heavily again.Half of the banyan tree's waist was buried in the thick snow, and the internal injuries became more and more serious.

It was so easy to wait until one day, the snow stopped.The warm sun shone white on the ground, reflecting light brightly.

The moment the fox got out of the tree hole, he saw a small, familiar figure walking towards the banyan tree with one foot deep and the other shallow.

With just one glance, the fox was sure that he was Jinyu.So he got into the tree hole again, and used ventriloquism to wake up the hibernating banyan tree spirit, and said sourly:

"Hey, wake up, your old friend is here to see you."

Jinyu touched the tree trunk, swept off a thin layer of snow, and faced the tree hole, her eyes were red.

"Daddy is gone. The second dog next door said I was a wild child. Mother is going to remarry. Grandpa said that there are two little boys my age in my stepfather's house. I hope they don't hate me..."

The fox was lying warm in the cave, and glanced at him, "Crybaby. You always cry when you come here, it's not pleasant at all! Who would like you except Qingqing? Ugh..."

Banyan Shu said dissatisfiedly, "Troubleshooting!" Then he was a little happy, "Speaking of which, the longer the child grows, the more beautiful he is."

"Nonsense! I look much more beautiful than him!" The fox began to scratch the bark with his claws in the hole again.

When spring was about to begin, the banyan tree was already seriously ill.The dead branches should have sprouted buds at this time in the past.Not this year.

Both the fox and the banyan tree understood that the flood in the summer and the heavy snow in the following year consumed too much vitality of the dryad.

It was the first time that the fox was so panic-stricken.In the past, when I was in the world, no matter what catastrophe or pain I encountered, when I came back, the banyan tree would always stand quietly in place, waiting for him to return home.The scarred heart of the fox can always feel like a spring breeze the moment he sees the dryad, and the wound begins to heal.

This time, the fox was flustered for no reason.This has never happened before.Even if he becomes a weak willow Fufeng actor, being played and humiliated in public; A paper kite was sold to the treacherous officials who had long disliked him... The fox has never been so scared as he is now.

Fear of losing it.A friend who quietly waits for him?Or a lover who can accompany you forever?

love?

The fox suddenly opened its black, bright and round eyeballs, as if it had discovered an inconceivable and wonderful emotion.

So this is love...

The banyan tree spirit is kind, stable, and simple, satisfying all foxes' fantasies about his lover.

But at the same time as discovering this self-righteous feeling, the lover who could have stayed together for a long time will soon disappear.Of course the fox would not let such a tragic thing happen to him, let alone let it happen under his nose.He once again proposed to find someone to extract the soul and put the dryad in a shell.

Tree spirits are kind, unlike foxes who eat meat for a living, they don't like to kill themselves, so they flatly refused.

For this reason, the fox quarreled with the dryad more than once.Every time the banyan tree became short of breath, it stopped ventriloquizing with the fox.No matter how the fox called him, he would not answer.Sometimes a fox gets annoyed, and will deliberately break off a twig to see if it is dead.

At this moment, Jinyu came again, accompanied by a child about his age, holding a bunch of paper cranes, saying that he wanted to pray for his critically ill brother.

The fox squatted on the tree trunk, rolled and narrowed the thief's eyeballs, and followed them back home secretly.Jumping on the window sill, he saw a frail but gentle young master sitting on the pillow of the bed, smiling and admiring the plum blossoms outside the window.Although there is a dead look between the eyebrows and eyes, the smile is very detached and refined, as if he has seen life and death very broadly.

The fox was attracted almost the moment he saw him, and couldn't move his eyes for a long time.

It turns out that the fox and the banyan tree have been together for many years, but they have never seen the banyan tree transformed into a human.

Right now, the young man's temperament and appearance fit the fox's vision of the banyan tree spirit very well. Under the pleasant surprise, it was inevitable that he became selfish again.

Liu Qing opened his eyes, looked at the plum blossoms and didn't know what he was thinking, and fell asleep after a long time.Then the fox ran out of Liu's mansion and returned to the banyan tree, cheerfully and tirelessly persuading the tree spirit.

"Don't you often say, 'Saving a life is better than building a seven-level pagoda'? You go use his shell. The ugly kid who came here to complain every day was his foster brother, and he seemed to love him very much. You If you become his brother, he might treat you well. I'll go to Liu's house to find out the situation first. The child won't live long. You should think about it. If you don't hurry up and miss this village, you won't have this shop. .This is God giving you a chance to save your life, so you should fight for it once.”

In the middle of the night, the fox left the banyan tree that still refused to pay attention to it, and ran towards Liu's mansion.

A few days later, Jinyu stumbled and came back again, crying and shouting to make a wish to the banyan tree.

"Please! Let him wake up! I am willing to use my 20 years of life to exchange him for another 20 years!"

The fox sat on the top of the tree crown, squinted at the banyan tree, and said nothing.

The banyan tree was finally moved, and sighed, "Beaver, this time I will obey you."

The fox was overjoyed. He jumped off the branch and turned into Liu Li. Stepping on the root of the tree, he said to the crying Liu Jinyu with red eyes:

"That's what you said. You can't regret it."

The two goblins came to Liu's mansion as they wished, one became the younger brother of the Liu family, and the other entered the body of the elder brother.Liu Qing's remnant soul was therefore confined in his body, and did not drift away from his body because of his exhaustion, so he lingered on and continued his life.

Of course, the young and old of the Liu family didn't know the truth, and they were very happy and unhappy.

Liu Jinyu was the only one who suffered.

Because Liu Li didn't like him anyway, he beat him whenever he got the chance, and gradually became addicted.

"You are so ugly! I am better looking! Do you know how ugly you are?"

"..."

"The more you talk, the more proud you are. Why are you crying? You know how to cry! Are you a girl or a boy?"

"Male...boy doll..." Jinyu clenched her lower lip, sobbed twice, not daring to speak.

Liu Li smiled badly, "Are you really a boy? I've never seen a boy cry so much. You're a woman disguised as a man, right? Take off your pants! Let me see if you have a penis."

"Wow..."

After Liu Li finished speaking, he was about to pull Jinyu's crotch.While hiding, Jinyu blocked it with her hands, and kept yelling:

"I'm a male doll! Don't look at it! It's true! I have a penis!" She couldn't beat Liu Li, so she ran into Liu Qing's room crying again, threw herself on the bed, hugged Liu Qing and refused to let go .

Liu Qing just arrived in the world, and he still doesn't understand the usefulness of 'expression', his face is cold and a bit paralyzed.His gaze was very gentle.This was a great encouragement to Jinyu, who was loveless and sensitive since she was a child, so she became more and more attached to him.

Liu Li couldn't get used to it even more, as long as he was bored, he must first find Jinyu to 'pass the time'.Every time, it would be over until Jinyu cried or passed out.Every time he looked at him "deadly upturned", his face was full of tears, and his brows were frowning, Liu Li's mood would become wonderfully good.Sometimes when he saw his mouth slightly open after fainting, Liu Li would put his finger in and watch him suck unconsciously, smiling as if he had found some treasure.

"Greedy cat! Didn't you have to eat milk when you were a child? Pouty mouth, my fingers are so delicious?" He took it back and licked it himself, but it didn't smell at all, and put it back to Jinyu's lips.Jinyu immediately licked it with her small tongue like sugar, which made Liu Li laugh uncontrollably.When Jinyu rubbed his eyes and woke up, he changed his cold face again, and kept calling Jinyu "a dragging oil bottle" who was in the way.

Liu Qing couldn't bear it, and comforted Jinyu, saying that Liu Li was afraid of being robbed of his elder brother, so he felt unhappy.

At this time, Jinyu would always smile happily, put his arms around Liu Qing's neck, pursed his red lips, and kissed Liu Qing's expressionless cheek. , rolled his eyes again, and sarcastically said:

"Show bag! It's still a couple!" Turning away his high-spirited head, he was angry and ignored him. He insisted that Liu Qing stretch out his arms to hug him, so he squirmed a little closer, and before he entered Liu Qing's arms, he drove Jin away with his hands. Yu, just feel comfortable.

Liu Jinyu was lying on the ground, her tears were almost running dry.His eye sockets were swollen and painful, and he blinked dryly.

Everything in the past is just a flower in the mirror, the moon in the water, the past is just a passing cloud.

Liu Li was yelling loudly at himself and accusing him of something, even if it got into his ears, he couldn't get past his brain.

"let me out……"

"You are dreaming!"

"Let me out!!!" Liu Jinyu yelled with all his strength, got up from the ground, rushed to Liu Qing's bed, looked back at Liu Li who was looking fiercely outside the room, and said viciously:

"If you don't let me go, I'll kill him!" After saying that, his hands clamped on Liu Qing's neck in his sleep, and gradually tightened, his emotions almost collapsed in his bloodshot red eye sockets.