little cotton

After half a year, the enchantment of Xiquan Mountain was opened again, and a car from a human city drove into this mountain forest that had never existed before for humans.

This is the agreed time, the fox clan came here to repair the enchantment for Xiquan Mountain.

In the past few hundred years, as the sacred tree gradually showed signs of withering, the aura of heaven and earth in the mountains was lost, and the barrier that had been protecting the demon spirits in the mountains for thousands of years was no longer stable. The mighty nine-tailed clan.

It's just that the barrier needs to be maintained for a long time. Even if the fox clan is kind-hearted and can help once or twice, why should they continue to help each other for such a long time in the future?

In order to establish a good relationship with the Fox Clan, the Mu Clan sent people to propose marriage to the Fox Clan three times.

At first the Fox Clan refused twice, but seeing that the Mu Clan was unwilling to give up, they also agreed to visit Xiquan Mountain.

Xiquan Mountain is the territory of the Mu Clan, and other Monster Clans just live here.

The largest family in the Mu clan is undoubtedly the Yu family, and every patriarch in the clan has been from the Yu family for thousands of years.

Human beings always say that "one person attains enlightenment and a chicken dog ascends to heaven", and the Yu family has a bit of the flavor of this saying, not to mention the young masters and ladies in the family who are more or less in the blood of the Yu family, it is the servants of the Yu family who left the big house, Can walk sideways in the mountains.

The night Zhong Chuyun came to Xiquan Mountain for the first time, not to mention the demon spirits of the Mu clan, even all the demon spirits in the mountain who could transform into half-human figures dressed themselves up carefully, hoping that they would be recognized by the most powerful monster in the legend. Nine-tailed fox took a fancy to it.

In the eyes of most goblins, if they can marry a big goblin, they will never be bullied again.

But no one thought that the leader of the fox tribe would finally pick the most inconspicuous young cotton flower in the mountains.

After all, everyone in the mountains knew that the little cotton was of the blood of the Yu family, but it was not even as good as a watchdog of the Yu family.

Because she was born illegitimately, a girl, just like her own mother, born weak, short-lived, and a cotton flower with no cultivation ability.

Everyone said that her birth was an accident. The eldest son of the Yu family never liked her mother. A safe place for the child almost destroyed the relationship between the family and the main wife.

"How cheap, cotton is such a weak plant, but you still want to climb high?"

"Mianmian can't live for a thousand years if she has spiritual wisdom, right? Just wait, maybe it won't be long before that little Mianmian will disappear, just like her mother."

The goblins of the Yu family think so, and so do the other goblins in the mountains.

But in the eyes of everyone, the little Mianmian who "maybe gone for a while" was taken away by the head of the Fox Clan.

On that day, the entire Mu clan was in a panic.

They have never treated that little Cotton kindly. The head of the Fox clan chose her. If she said something bad about the Mu clan in front of the head of the Fox clan, would the previous agreement still count?

They tried to persuade him to change his choice, but as soon as the euphemistic words came to their lips, they were coldly turned back.

In the half a year since the head of the Fox Clan took Little Mianmian away, the Mu Clan has been looking forward to this agreed day with trepidation, for fear that the big monster will never return.

Fortunately, she still came as promised.

And this time, the little cotton flower was also brought over.

The grandfather of Little Mianmian, the patriarch of the Mu clan who was unwilling to even wink at Little Mianhua, held a "family meeting" overnight to "correct" everyone's attitude towards Little Mianmian in advance.

"No matter what happened in the past, from now on, that girl will be a member of our Yu family, my granddaughter, and your uncle's daughter. Remember, no one can manipulate her like before and give her a bad look."

The old dryad, who couldn't walk smoothly, was holding a cane, stroking his beard, and pointing out to his descendants.

After the old man left, Yu Tang spit on the ground.

"Why is that little bastard?"

"I can't talk about this anymore tomorrow, the Mu clan will rely on the Fox clan in the future!"

"Damn, isn't it just a piece of cotton..."

The butler narrowed his eyes with gray eyelashes, and glanced at him helplessly.

……

After walking the bumpy mountain road, Yu Ling finally got out of the car and let out a long breath.

This road ride made her dizzy.

As soon as she got out of the car, Zhong Chuyun circled around Yu Ling from the front of the car, stretched out her hand to support her, and sent her spiritual power to relieve the discomfort in her body.

"I'm fine!" Yu Ling looked up at Zhong Chuyun, shook her head with her eyebrows bent, and said with a smile, "I'm just a little hungry..."

She said, touching her flat belly.

She didn't eat much on the plane at noon, and she vomited it all up because of motion sickness. Her stomach was so empty that only the mineral water Kuang Dangdang drank was left. Find a convenient place to "empty" it completely.

Knowing that she was hungry all the way, Zhong Chuyun quickly asked Yu's family if there was anything to eat.

How many members of the Yu family have been served by Yu Ling for hundreds of years, when did they serve this girl?

The few young people who came to welcome him remained silent for a while. Seeing this, the old patriarch quickly stepped forward with a cane, touched Yu Ling's head, and said with a kind smile: "Yes, of course, Grandpa Just let someone do it for you."

As he said, he turned and glanced at one of his granddaughters: "Yu Ping, what are you doing blankly? Your sister is hungry."

The woman who was watched was stunned for half a second, and hurriedly came back to her senses, took a flower hairpin from her hair covered with white apple blossoms, made a seal with her hands, and clenched her teeth to conjure a big red fruit in her palm.

She ran forward a few steps and stuffed the apple into Yu Ling's hand: "Little sister, use this pad to pad your stomach first. My sister's own fruit, I won't give it to anyone else!"

Yu Ling can't forget this kind-looking "sister", she loved to bully her along with Yu Tang's ass back then.

Facing the forced false kindness at this moment, Yu Ling took the apple with some displeasure for a moment, and was just thinking about how to respond when Zhong Chutian leaned over to take a look.

"Just off the head? Did you wash your hair last night?"

"I..." Yu Ping opened her mouth, staring at Zhong Chutian in front of her eyes, her eyes were full of bewilderment and embarrassment, and she couldn't say a word for a long time.

Yu Tang couldn't hold back, frowned and retorted: "You pick fruit from the tree, do you still care if it rained last night?"

Yu Ping nodded quickly.

In half her life, she has never seen the goblin in the mountain despise the fruit on her body.

If Grandpa didn't take a look at her, she wouldn't want to give the cotton if she didn't want it, and it would hurt her to pick the fruit from her body!

"You're right!" Zhong Chutian responded as if suddenly enlightened, reached out and took the apple from Yu Ling's hand, weighed it in his hand for two seconds, and threw it back into Yu Tang's arms under Yu Tang's surprised eyes, and said with a smile , "The wild fruit on the tree should be washed before it rains or not, thank you brother."

"you!"

"Cough cough."

Yu Tang gritted his teeth and suppressed the swear words that came to his lips.

He tightly squeezed the apple in his hand, wanted to smash it but didn't dare, finally he could only grit his teeth and apologize, and said bitterly: "It's not hard, I'll go wash it right away."

On the side, Yu Ping bit her lower lip in grievance, and ran after Yu Tang's footsteps.

Yu Ling looked at Zhong Chutian with emotion, and gave that noisy fox a rare look of admiration.

Guided by Mr. Yu and the old housekeeper, the three of them were taken to the tidied up guest room.

Before the old man left with half of his family, he kept greeting Yu Ling, and everyone who didn't know thought how much he loved his little granddaughter.

It's just that Yu Ling's expression has been very flat, and there is no trace of warmth in his eyes.

As the old man talked, he felt that he couldn't keep up his face, so he smiled awkwardly and said, "I'm tired from this journey, look at this little eyes, grandpa won't disturb your rest, eat something soon Go to sleep" as the ending, and then led everyone away.

Zhong Chuyun closed the door, and Yu Ling sat at the table, letting out a long and heavy breath.

Zhong Chutian also sat down at the table, took out three teacups, poured a cup of tea each, and beeped softly: "What a noisy old man."

Zhong Chuyun walked to the table and said, "If you say it's noisy, it's really noisy."

Yu Ling couldn't hold back, and laughed out loud.

Zhong Chutian pursed his lips, and said dissatisfiedly: "There is no such a sister as you."

As he spoke, he poured the third cup of tea back into the teapot, and said with a hurt face, "You're out of tea."

Zhong Chuyun smiled indifferently, took the half cup of tea handed over by Yu Ling, and took a sip with lowered eyebrows.

Zhong Chutian "tsk tsk" raised his hands in surrender: "Okay, you two are of one mind, I admit defeat."

"Zhong Chutian, your room is next door, what are you doing sitting here?" Yu Ling asked with her head tilted.

"Why do you have no conscience, cotton? I just helped you!"

"Are you really helping me?"

"if not?"

"I thought you were just..."

"Just what?"

"Forehead……"

"Simple mouth?"

Yu Ling blinked her eyes and nodded, then shook her head somewhat embarrassedly.

She didn't know Zhong Chutian very well either, and most of their communications were online, and strange disputes would arise from time to time over trivial matters.

In her impression, Zhong Chutian was just a fox who couldn't utter a single good word.

So she thinks that Zhong Chuyun made Yu Tang and Yu Ping deflate just now, it is completely due to nature.

She didn't expect that Zhong Chutian really wanted to vent her anger for her.

"You, how do you know that I don't have a good relationship with them? I didn't tell you, was... did you say it?" Yu Ling said, a little curious, but looked at Zhong Chuyun without blame.

Zhong Chuyun shook her head, she didn't usually talk to Zhong Chutian about this.

"It's not that difficult to guess, is it? When you first arrived at my sister's house, you looked yellow and thin, and you looked like you were abused. Moreover, when you saw those guys, you had all your unhappiness written on your face. With whom? It seems that you can't tell. Anyway, you are..."

"What is it?"

"It's my sister-in-law...it's my sister's monster added to our household registration book. Anyone who bullies you is bullying my sister?" Zhong Chutian said, taking a deep breath, returning to the state of indifference, pursing his mouth and saying, "Anyway, it's impossible for you two to sleep now. What's wrong with me sitting down for a while, I just want to see if the apple will still be delivered."

After hearing this, Yu Ling lowered her eyelashes in embarrassment.

After a few seconds of silence, she raised her eyebrows and took a peek at Zhong Chuyun. Seeing that there was a slight smile on Zhong Chuyun's lips, she seemed to have completely acquiesced to Zhong Chutian's words, she pursed her lips in joy, her eyes filled with warmth.

For the past six months, she has always stuck to Zhong Chuyun's side.

Zhong Chuyun was very kind to her, she could detect it from many details, but she couldn't get any confirmation of her relationship.

Sometimes, she would think in her heart, what is she to Zhong Chuyun?

A hapless kid brought home at a moment of mercy?

A free servant who can do everything, keep the house in order and prepare dinner in advance every night?

Or... as she thought?

If it is not a special relationship, who would remember some days that are not important to others, and pick up one person from get off work day after day, and slowly change their life status for one person?

This is something that many human couples may not be able to do.

It's just that Zhong Chuyun didn't give her the answer she wanted, so while she couldn't help but think about it, she didn't dare to indulge herself in thinking about it.

But now she knows, no matter what, this time I really want to thank Zhong Chutian.

Therefore, instead of rushing Zhong Chutian back to the house, she casually chatted about the things that have passed.

Not long after, she waited for hot noodles.

Although the taste is not as good as a bowl of instant noodles, this is the best bowl of noodles she has ever eaten in Xiquan Mountain. There are vegetable leaves and pork chops. No one is willing to give her these things on weekdays.

The old housekeeper said that there would be a lot of delicious food in the evening, Zhong Chuyun agreed casually and closed the door tightly.

In the end, they couldn't wait for the disgusted apple.

Maybe this is the last stubbornness of the big boy from the Yu family.

"It's impossible for him to serve me."

"That's not necessarily true." Zhong Chutian said, stretched his waist, and walked out of the room.

That night, the Yu family held an exaggerated dinner like half a year ago.

But this time, Zhong Chuyun didn't go at all, but stayed in the guest room with Yu Ling who didn't want to see those "relatives", and only one Zhong Chutian who was sent to "run errands" was present.

Zhong Chutian also didn't save any face for the Mu clan, so he asked for two wooden boxes for vegetables, packed some of the same, then stood up and looked around.

Seeing the old butler, he hurriedly stepped forward and asked, "Is there anything I need to order?"

"Who is that?"

"Which who?"

"Just... just that, who's here?" Zhong Chutian looked around, and finally waved at Yu Tang who was rolling his eyes at him, "Then who, come here."

Yu Tang walked forward with an absent-minded face. It was the first time he was called "then who" after being a "little prince" in the Yu family all his life, and he was so angry that he couldn't think of it.

"I asked you to wash the apples in the afternoon, but the apples weren't sent there. Can you do it, you have small arms and legs, and you can't do things well at all." Zhong Chutian said, and put the wooden delivery box into Yu Tang's hand, " Give you another chance to prove yourself, and send this meal to my sister."

"I?"

"Hurry up, don't get cold."

Anyone can see that this uncle from the fox clan has made it clear that he will have trouble with Yu Tang, and no one dares to come up to help for a while, for fear of accidentally offending this master and ruining the important affairs of the clan.

Yu Tang gasped, and just about to explode, the butler at the side tugged at his sleeve.

After a short silence, he just turned around to deliver the food when he heard a word of disgust from behind him.

"Who are you showing your stinky face to?"

What followed was a powerful spiritual force that made him unable to move.

Fuck? !

At that moment, everyone in the Mu clan had friendly smiles on their faces, and all of them froze.

Only one person had an exaggerated smile on his face.

……

Yu Ling did not expect that the person who brought her food that night was actually Yu Tang.

Yu Tang had a smile on his face.

It was a very weird smile, as if something grabbed the corners of his mouth and eyes, forcing that smile out.

Yu Ling could clearly feel the redness in the guy's eyes and the blue veins on his forehead, but he still had to smile at her, and his mouth seemed to be closed, and he didn't say a word from the beginning to the end.

After dinner, someone cleared away the plates on the table, and that nodding and bowing attitude with a flattering and ingratiating greeting was simply more professional than Yu Ling who worked part-time in a restaurant.

In the end, Yu Ling half-lyed on the bed, rubbing her stomach and yawning.

She said: "It would be great if there is an Internet on the mountain. I won't be bored, and you can do your own thing."

Zhong Chuyun smiled lightly and said, "It's not my business to make false claims with them. I just keep my promise and come here to repair the barrier."

"You are really not afraid that they will be unhappy."

"I want them to be unhappy, otherwise I wouldn't have brought Zhong Chutian here."

"You did it on purpose?" Yu Ling asked in surprise.

"Annoying, I'm not good at it." Zhong Chuyun raised the corner of his mouth.

The wind outside the window blew through the window paper, and there were bursts of humming.

The rooms are very quiet.

Yu Ling couldn't help but think of the night when she first met Zhong Chuyun half a year ago.

Under the tangled giant tree, Zhong Chuyun stretched out a hand to her.

It was the first time in this life that someone stretched out a hand to her, with kindness that she had never seen before and could not quite understand.

She thought that she did not deserve any kindness.

All the goblins around her told her that she was born lowly, that her sorrows and joys were worthless, that she was dust and an ant, and that she was destined to be trampled to live and to be trampled to death.

She thinks that the greatest freedom and happiness in her life is to transform into a demon body when no one finds out, and follow the unenlightened creatures in the mountains to leave the cage behind her.

Although, it doesn't go far every time.

Although, every time will be beaten and scolded.

Although...even if he is not discovered, he will roll himself into mud, turn into a very dirty cotton flower, and then wash it alone in the icy cold river.

But that was the best thing in life for her.

Until that night, she was led back to the very clean guest room by the hand with cool fingertips.

Until that night, Zhong Chuyun said that he would take her away and give her a home.

Zhong Chuyun said that there is no such thing as unworthy or unworthy in this world, and she also said that she would take her to a place where all people or fairies can survive with their own hands.

It was only when she got there that she realized that she was indeed qualified to live in a different way.

"What are you thinking?"

"I was thinking, if I hadn't met you that night and you hadn't taken me away..."

"There is no such if."

"Just thinking about it." Yu Ling said, gently leaning on Zhong Chuyun's left shoulder.

She thought, if there was such an if, what would happen to the rest of her life?

Maybe she would kneel under the sacred tree all night, and when she stood up, her legs seemed to no longer belong to her.

Zhong Chuyun might leave disappointed, or take away one of her older sisters.

And she, in the days when she had so many things at home, disappeared for a whole night, and she would definitely be caught by Yu Tang the moment she went back, and severely beaten and scolded.

No one cared whether she was sad, no one cared that it would be a night for her, no one cared that her slightly curled legs required a lot of strength even to stand on the ground.

And after that, she will live exactly the same life as before, until she dies silently like her mother overnight, without any attention.

Perhaps, at most, Yu Tang, who regarded bullying her as a hobby, would casually say in a slightly disappointed tone: "That little bastard is dead? It's really boring."

"Zhong Chuyun."

"Ok?"

"Accompany me to the Divine Tree to have a look."

"it is good."

The clear night wind blows the huge ancient trees.

It has been standing there, with countless roots pierced into the dust and mud of Xiquan Mountain, only the branches and leaves and those hanging spiritual sticks will move with the wind.

"Those spirit sticks are the wishes made by the demon spirits in the mountains." Yu Ling said, "All the people in the clan say that there are gods in the sacred tree, and as long as the wishes are devout enough, they will definitely be heard."

Zhong Chuyun looked at the sacred tree for a long time, then asked in a low voice, "Have you ever made a wish?"

"I promised." Yu Ling nodded, looked at Zhong Chuyun with narrowed eyes and smiled, "My wish has come true!"

"What wish?"

"May there be someone in this world who cares about my likes and sorrows..." she said, lowering her brows and eyes, biting her lower lip, stretched out her hand cautiously, hooked Zhong Chuyun's little finger lightly, "then, I I just met you."

The moonlight was dim, and Zhong Chuyun looked at the girl beside him.

The girl's hair grew a lot, and the low ponytails were blown by the wind.

Under the sacred tree, a faint spiritual light circulated like smoke and mist, making her face blush slightly.

She bent her little finger, as if as long as she clenched Zhong Chuyun's hand tightly, she could have enough courage.

"Zhong Chuyun, you said you liked me."

"Ah."

"I like you too, like fate, from the first moment I saw you, and every day after that, I like you more than the day before."

"I know."

"It's not that ordinary liking, it's..."

"I know."

"You, you know?" Yu Ling raised her head in surprise.

In the next second, she bumped into those gentle pupils.

"I can see it." Zhong Chuyun raised his hand, brushed Yu Ling's hair that was blown by the wind back behind his ears, and said seriously, "Your trust in me, you follow me, you look at me The eyes are all telling me that you like me."

"You all know..."

"I know it all."

"That……"

"I am very happy."

As Zhong Chuyun said, he embraced the girl in his arms.

The girl raised her eyes, raised her toes slightly, and boldly kissed her for the first time.

The sacred tree that has been around for thousands of years seems to have opened its eyes to the world.

The light like fireflies, accompanied by the moonlight, lingers on them, and the fallen dead leaves dance lightly like butterflies, everything is like a fairyland in a dream.

They hang out with each other here.

The wind of that night, carrying a hint of coolness like half a year ago, passed over them who were thinly clad.

It's just that, for a while, I ran towards the cold winter, and for a while, I ran towards the warm summer.

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The author has something to say:

Little Cotton in this world doesn't know that what happened in this world was originally Zhong Chuyun's wish in another world.