little cotton

"Little Cotton, where did you come from?"

"Xiquan Mountain..."

"Xiquan Mountain? Where is that place... How can I send you back?"

"No, don't...don't go back..."

On a cool night, the wind blows by.

The extinguished bonfire reflects the dark and damp cave.

Little Cotton turned into a human figure, curled up at a corner of the stone wall, and hugged her trembling little body tightly with her thin arms.

The beating flames made her face red with teardrops, and her dirty little hands wiped away the teardrops that kept pouring out of her eyes.

"Don't cry, don't cry... If you don't want to go back, then don't go back." The fox demon squatted in front of her, her long ink-like hair tied behind her back, her eyes were full of comfort, " If you don't go home, where else do you go?"

Little Mianmian sobbed and shook her head, only raised her teary eyes, and looked timidly at the strange fox demon in front of her.

Seeing this, the fox demon couldn't help but bend her pretty eyebrows and smile at her.

"In that case, will you follow me from now on?"

As she spoke, she raised her hands and stroked her muddy cheeks.

Xiao Mian subconsciously wanted to avoid such physical contact, but the cool touch of her fingertips carried a gentleness that she had never seen in her life, and she dared not expect.

For a moment, the tears that blurred his vision were gently wiped away by those gentle hands.

"How? You will be with me from now on."

The fox demon carefully wiped off that pear-blossoming little face with rain, held it in the palm of his hand and looked at it for a few seconds, his eyes blurred a little.

"Anyway... I don't have anywhere to go," she said.

The words were still gentle, but the smile in his eyes was a bit more bitter.

The girl's eyes couldn't help but startled, and when she came back to her senses, the bitterness in the fox demon's eyes had disappeared without a trace.

"Hey, little cotton, do you have a name?"

"Yu Ling."

"Jade spirit?" Fox demon raised his eyebrows and asked, "Is it the jade of jade, the spirit of gods?"

"Green and lush, bells and bells." Little Mianmian said, his eyes staring at the flickering bonfire, "My mother said that our cotton's life is to make bells and spit. It is no longer ordinary cotton, but a smooth boll formation is always the best blessing for a cotton flower..."

"Your mother must love you very much." Said the fox demon, turned over and sat beside Yu Ling, with her back against the stone wall, turned her head sideways, and stared at the entrance of the cave in a daze.

"What about you? What's your name?"

"I... Lin Shuang, you can call me Lin Shuang."

"Is there any meaning?"

"No."

"Oh……"

"Little Cotton, why do you look so dumb?"

"No, no!"

Yu Ling frowned, letting the light of the fire shine on that swollen little face.

……

The increasingly glaring light awakened the closed eyes.

The midday sun was shining brightly into the house, but the late autumn wind was still slightly cool.

Strands of messy memories slowly poured into my heart, and after a short period of sluggishness, Little Mianmian shook her head vigorously, stretched her branches and leaves in the crowded narrow-mouthed vase, and let out a long sigh.

The spiritual power that bound her whole body last night had been withdrawn at this moment, she jumped out cautiously from the vase, gently floated down to the ground, turned back into a human form, poked her small head, and looked around the room.

Her bundle wrapped in rags was picked up by someone at some point, and she was lying quietly on the black armchair in front of the desk at the moment, with a set of clean clothes neatly folded beside her—from the color Look, it's not the one my cousin gave her yesterday.

Yu Ling hesitated for a moment, stepped forward and shook it off, and held it on her body to make gestures, the size was unexpectedly suitable.

Zhong Chuyun was much taller than her, so he obviously wouldn't wear clothes of this size.

— for me?

Yu Ling thought about it for a while, then whispered, "It should be for me."

She said, turned around and closed the curtains, and changed into new clothes.

It was extremely quiet outside the bedroom, Yu Ling hesitated for a moment, walked lightly to the door, and took a look with her head out.

Zhong Chuyun in the living room was sitting on the sofa watching TV.

Yes, if I guessed correctly, the big piece opposite the sofa should be the legendary TV set that people in the city use to relieve boredom.

And on the tea table in front of the sofa, there was an extra bowl of milk and a piece of bread compared to last night.

—Is this for me too?

Looking at the breakfast, Yu Ling swallowed, and walked forward obediently, staring at Zhong Chuyun quietly with those apricot-like eyebrows and eyes.

Zhong Chuyun raised his eyebrows and glanced at her, reached out to touch the remote control on the sofa, and turned up the volume of the TV that had been muted.

Yu Ling couldn't help watching TV, and then at the breakfast on the table, hesitating to speak for a moment.

Zhong Chuyun: "Brush your teeth before eating."

Yu Ling: "Oh!"

The obedient cotton turned around and slipped into the bathroom.

On the clean sink, on the left is a set of light blue toothbrush and a toothbrush cup, on the right is an unpacked pink toothbrush quietly lying in a pink toothbrush cup, beside the cup , and rolled up a brand new pink towel.

This kind of delicate and clean looking thing is something that Yu Ling has never owned since she was a child, even in another world.

All of a sudden, there seemed to be warmth in my heart.

After washing up, Yu Ling ran to sit beside Zhong Chuyun.

The sofa in the living room is very small, and the two of them would sit very close together. When Yu Ling walked over, seeing Zhong Chuyun move the seat for herself calmly, it was somewhat awkward for a moment.

But the bread and milk on the table were more attractive than anything else, because they were good things from outside the mountains that she had seen but never tasted before.

The taste of the bread and milk was particularly good, and after Yu Ling finished eating, it was written all over her face that she still couldn't get enough.

But she is cotton, not a rice bucket, and she can't let the fox beside her think that she only knows how to eat every day.

So she seriously watched the idol drama on TV.

Humans sitting in front of computers working, bridges built in the sky, densely packed vehicles on the road, and airplanes carrying people into the sky.

Although she couldn't understand many things, she was shocked.

Is this the outside world?

Although these human beings don't know magic, but in front of their convenient lives, the demon power of ordinary little demons may not be worth mentioning at all.

Yu Ling was fascinated by watching, when suddenly she heard a cell phone ringing, and looked up, Zhong Chuyun had already walked to the window with her cell phone.

"Well, last night."

"...It's not urgent, and there is no need to let the tribe know."

"You don't need to worry about the Mu clan."

"Come here? I don't have time to entertain you."

"Are you at the door?"

"you……"

Zhong Chuyun couldn't help but let out a long sigh, pinched the center of his eyebrows with the index finger and thumb of his right hand for a while, and after a few seconds of silence, hung up the phone and walked out the door.

Yu Ling subconsciously stood up and followed behind her.

The moment the door of the living room opened, a tall man with black hair, white T-shirt and blue denim, wearing a thin black knitted cardigan, squeezed in from the door.

Subconsciously, Yu Ling shrank back behind Zhong Chuyun, poking out only half of her head, her eyes curiously sized up the person who came suddenly.

"Hi, sister!" The person's voice was very bright, and he walked into the room as soon as he entered the door, obviously not treating himself as an outsider at all, "I didn't come empty-handed this time, look, I brought you grapefruit , clearing heat and reducing fire, suitable for irritable people, sister, you must eat more."

"..." Zhong Chuyun couldn't help but took a deep breath.

Yu Ling lowered her eyebrows and glanced, and she clearly felt that Zhong Chuyun's clenched hand was trembling slightly.

"Hey sister, why are you watching this show? It's been ridiculed on the Internet recently, especially for the demented, don't watch it... By the way, did you watch the movie I promoted you last time? If you haven't watched it I……"

"Zhong Chutian!"

A cold salutation, accompanied by a loud slamming door.

The man in the room instantly closed his mouth that had been chattering since he entered the room.

Yu Ling shrank her neck instantly, looked at Zhong Chuyun, then at Zhong Chutian, and finally took two steps back silently, leaning against the wall and shrunk into the bathroom.

After a long silence, Zhong Chuyun raised his eyes to glance at Zhong Chutian, and said coldly, "Change your shoes."

After half an hour.

Yu Ling sat back on the soft sofa again, the fox beside her was still the same fox, and the drama on TV was also the same drama.

The only difference is that there is an extra person mopping the floor in the living room.

"I said sister, can't you buy a sweeping robot?"

"No."

"You should buy one for your sister-in-law."

"Shut up and wipe your floor."

"Okay, you eat more grapefruit, and my sister-in-law also eats more."

"..."

Zhong Chuyun was silent for a while, but finally broke off a grapefruit and handed it to Yu Ling who was embarrassed.

Yu Ling took it with trembling hands, but her face was as stiff as a stone sculpture.

Half an hour ago, the guy squatting and wiping the floor came here.

His name is Zhong Chutian, he is Zhong Chuyun's younger brother, and he does not live together on weekdays.

The siblings have three points of similar appearance, except that their hair color and personality are completely opposite.

One white one black, one cold one hot, very magical.

However, if only a male fox came here, Yu Ling wouldn't feel so disturbed by it, but this male fox turned his attention to her immediately after changing his slippers.

"Sister, is this the person you brought back from the Mu clan?"

"Ah."

"A cotton flower?"

"Ah."

"Sister, you are too good at picking. There are so many types of plants. It's fine if you pick a cotton, and it's so small..."

"Stop yelling."

"I'm blocking the gun for you this time. As long as you have a conscience, you can't bring back such a small girl, right? Is this appropriate? This is not appropriate..."

"She's an adult."

"..."

The inexplicable conversation between the two foxes made Yu Ling feel a little strange.

She hesitated to speak for a long time, and finally found a chance to interject.

"What the hell are you talking about? I... I was brought here, what exactly is it to cooperate with you?"

"You don't know?" Zhong Chutian asked in a surprised tone.

"I... don't know..." Yu Ling responded with an extremely bewildered tone.

She didn't know, at least at that moment she really didn't know.

However, a cotton flower is destined not to be kept in the dark for a lifetime.

In the next second, she heard a truth that made her legs go weak instantly.

Zhong Chutian: "You don't know about the marriage between the two races?"

Yu Ling: "Marriage?! I... I, me?!"

Zhong Chutian: "You!"

Yu Ling: "I...with, with whom?"

The moment the voice fell, Yu Ling realized what an outrageous question she had asked.

The answer to the question was already there just now, so what is there to ask?

However, this world itself is outrageous, so outrageous that there are not many people left in the entire Mu clan, and what kind of marriage is going on with the Fox clan, which seems to have fewer people than the Mu clan.

So, in this outrageous world, her outrageous question also got an answer that was far more outrageous than the real answer to the question.

"With whom?" Zhong Chutian said, looked back at Zhong Chuyun, and said with a pout, "Whoever brought you back will be with... right, sister?"

Zhong Chuyun: "..."

Zhong Chutian: "Sister? Second sister? If you don't say anything, you will acquiesce."

At that moment, Zhong Chuyun did not speak.

So in the next second, Yu Ling became the "sister-in-law" in Zhong Chutian's mouth with a confused face.

what……

Whether it's a sister or a brother, a fox who can cultivate nine tails is an immortal. God knows how many rounds older than her, is it enough to make her call grandpa and grandma.

She is just a little cotton flower, born weak and humble, she can't afford to climb high, and she doesn't want to climb high.

This ghost marriage, whoever loves to marry, she must find a way to escape quickly.

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The author has something to say:

Zhong Chuyun: Help my younger brother choose a wife×Find a wife for myself√

Yu Ling: Farewell.