little cotton

On the third night in the city, Yu Ling had no dreams and slept very peacefully.

After waking up from sleep, she opened her eyes, only to see that the dark curtains in the room were tightly closed, preventing a ray of light from leaking through the window.

Yu Ling opened her arms, sat on the floor and stretched, then got up from the ground, ran to the bedside, and opened the closed curtains.

The light from the window came in, she squinted her eyes, turned around and ran to the bathroom to wash up.

At the beginning of a new day, Zhong Chuyun is still not at home.

The difference from yesterday is that today Zhong Chuyun pressed a note with milk and bread on the coffee table in the living room.

——There are noodles in the cupboard under the induction cooker, and the unfinished dishes from last night are in the refrigerator. Cook them yourself.

"Okay!" Yu Ling responded readily to the note in her hand.

If you want to survive in the city, you need to go to work, which Yu Ling has seen in TV dramas.

Zhong Chuyun must have gone to work to make money every day.

The cousin who has been in the city is right, it is not easy for a goblin to survive in the city.

Because in the city, goblins cannot easily use spells. Even a nine-tailed fox with a high level of cultivation must act like an ordinary human being, leaving early and returning late every day, and working hard to make money.

In fact, this is not bad, relying on my own hands to make a living is much better than living in the old house in Xiquan Mountain looking at other people's faces.

After finishing the breakfast that Zhong Chuyun left on the coffee table in the living room, Yu Ling sat on the sofa and watched TV.

At noon, Yu Ling took out the leftovers from the refrigerator that she hadn't eaten last night, and cooked herself a bowl of delicious noodles.

She held the noodle bowl and drank the last sip of soup, then burped, touched her belly very contentedly, got up to pack the dishes, and sat on the sofa to watch TV.

Yu Ling especially likes watching TV.

She felt that she had seen a lot of things in human cities that were extremely new to her on TV.

She regards these as a kind of study.

If you want to integrate into this world, you must first understand the world.

Time passed by, and Yu Ling estimated that Zhong Chuyun would be back in about an hour, so she got up and ran to the kitchen, cooked a cup of rice in the rice cooker according to the method Zhong Chuyun said yesterday, and bounced back to the kitchen. Sit down in front of the sofa.

At around 06:30 in the evening, Zhong Chuyun opened the door of his house as usual.

The difference is that today the lights in the living room and kitchen are on.

The moment she pushed the door open, she smelled the aroma of food.

The girl in bear pajamas poked a small head out of the kitchen when she heard the sound, and smiled at her with eyebrows bent and eyes narrowed.

"Is my time accurate? The dish is still hot after frying!"

As Yu Ling said, she ran back to the kitchen and put the freshly fried vegetables on the plate.

After being dazed for a while, Zhong Chuyun leaned over and changed his shoes, and walked into the kitchen a little unaccustomed.

On the square electric stove table, there was one meat, one vegetable and one soup.

The rice was served, and before she got close, she saw Yu Ling walking up to her with two pairs of chopsticks, and with a pair of beautiful eyebrows bent, she handed one of the chopsticks to her.

Accustomed to living alone, she was somewhat at a loss when faced with others waiting so hard.

"You... actually don't need to do these things." Zhong Chuyun said, sitting beside Yu Ling.

"I can't eat and drink for free here with you!" Yu Ling shook her head and said seriously, "I will just leave any work to me in the future, cooking, washing clothes, cleaning, I can do anything! "

"These are actually..."

"When I was in Xiquan Mountain, I was doing a lot of work in Yu's family. These are considered light. Don't look at me as a small person. I have a lot of strength. I can do anything!" Yu Ling said, The dish took a big bite of the rice.

Zhong Chuyun looked at Yu Ling thoughtfully for a while, as if he wanted to say something, but in the end he didn't say anything, just lowered his eyebrows and ate his meal.

After eating, he sat in the kitchen and quietly accompanied Yu Ling to clean up the dishes for the day.

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Another two days passed in a blink of an eye.

Yu Ling looked forward to her first weekend in the city.

Waking up early in the morning, she opened the bedroom curtains as usual, and as soon as she entered the living room, she saw Zhong Chuyun sitting on the sofa watching TV silently, and the usual bread and milk on the coffee table.

Yu Ling: "Aren't you going to work today?"

Zhong Chuyun: "Today is the weekend."

Yu Ling: "It turns out that you don't have to go to work on weekends. Is everyone like this?"

Zhong Chuyun: "In most cases."

Zhong Chuyun said, picked up the remote control, and turned on the volume of the TV.

When Yu Ling saw her, her heart warmed slightly, and she whispered: "I fell asleep very heavily, and I can't wake up from thunder. You don't need to turn off the sound next time, I can't hear you."

Zhong Chuyun was silent for a moment, then nodded slightly.

Yu Ling narrowed her eyes and smiled, turned around and walked into the bathroom to wash up.

After breakfast, she went to the window and lay down on the window sill to look out.

She looked up into the distance, and only saw tall buildings unique to the city. No matter how far she looked, she couldn't see a green hill.

This was the first time she looked out of the window after coming here.

It turns out that the human city is so big, so big that you just look at it from a distance, and you will feel as if you will get lost in it if you are not careful.

However, the old housekeeper in the old house said that the sky outside had changed, it was like purgatory, and there was no life at all.

She felt that there was something angry here.

She lives on the fifth floor, and with her vision, she can see everything clearly when she looks down.

There are people coming and going downstairs, some are very leisurely, some are in a hurry.

An old man passing by, holding a big dog in his hand, was standing on the side of the road chatting with an acquaintance.

The girl with red eyes pressed the phone to her ear, frowning tightly, trying to suppress her emotions and argue with others.

The human cubs laughed and shouted, shouting the names of their partners, and ran away in the distance.

Everyone is living in their own way, and everyone has their own joys and sorrows, which are not connected with others.

Yu Ling wants to blend into this world.

She read the rules and regulations in "Fairy Rules" many times, and she felt that she could become a law-abiding urban elf.

She is willing to abide by those rules, big and small, and live in peace with the humans in the city.

She is willing to change her identity every 20 years and her residence every 30 years, as stipulated in the first page of the "Fairy Rules", not to have too many deep friendships with humans, not to combine with humans, and to hide her true identity forever.

Now her mind is full of Zhong Chuyun's promise to take her to apply for an ID card and residence permit on weekends.

But she has been awake for so long, but Zhong Chuyun has never mentioned it, maybe she forgot?

Should she give a gentle reminder?

Thinking of this, Yu Ling couldn't help turning her head to look at Zhong Chuyun who was sitting on the sofa.

The expectant eyes are always very hot, so the next second, Zhong Chuyun raised his eyes to look at her as if he had sensed something.

The thin and small girl stood in front of the window, her talking eyes were full of anticipation.

Zhong Chuyun knew what this girl was thinking at a glance.

She stood up and said lightly, "Change your clothes and get ready to go."

Yu Ling instantly jumped up with joy.

That day, she followed Zhong Chuyun and walked out of the door for the first time. Although she resisted, she had to get in the car that once hurt her again.

That day, she followed Zhong Chuyun to the Goblin Administration Bureau in the human city, and saw the goblin for the first time outside Xiquan Mountain.

That day, she filled out a lot of information in a daze, signed agreements one after another, took a silly-looking photo with a blank face, and then successfully obtained an ID card that was indistinguishable from a human being. And a 30-year residence permit for the city.

According to the date of birth on the ID card, in the eyes of humans, she just turned [-] this year.

On the way home, Yu Ling had in her mouth a boxed plum that she bought from a small supermarket, which was said to relieve motion sickness.

Holding the ID card she just got, she looked at Zhong Chuyun who was driving beside her, and raised her doubts with a puzzled expression.

Yu Ling: "Why am I so small?"

Zhong Chuyun: "It's just an adult for human beings."

Yu Ling: "But I'm five hundred years old."

Zhong Chuyun: "You just came of age."

Yu Ling: "Then how old are you?"

Zhong Chuyun: "27."

Yu Ling: "Then how old are you really?"

Zhong Chuyun: "... more than 300, I can't remember exactly."

After hearing this, Yu Ling felt a lot more balanced in her heart.

She thought it would be outrageous for her to be recorded as 300 years old when she was 27 years old, but she didn't expect that there were more than [-] years old recorded as [-] years old.

But this bad fox can really live...

More than 300 years old, this is older than her grandfather, it's completely invisible!

Thinking of this, Yu Ling couldn't help but become blurred when she looked at Zhong Chuyun.

If I remember correctly, Lin Shuang seems to be less than [-] years old, which is still far behind Zhong Chuyun.

It seems that they are not really a fox.

Zhong Chuyun: "What are you thinking?"

Yu Ling came back to her senses, frowned and sighed: "Am I writing my thoughts on my face again?"

Zhong Chuyun: "I'm curious, why are you always absent-minded when you look at me?"

Yu Ling: "..."

Zhong Chuyun: "Tell me about your friend?"

Yu Ling: "No."

Yu Ling turned her head to the window.

She didn't want to talk about Lin Shuang with this bad fox who brought her to the city to marry a fox.

She didn't say anything, but let Zhong Chuyun be curious.

Yu Ling blew the wind outside the window angrily.

While blowing, she found that Zhong Chuyun didn't seem to be curious about her affairs at all, and couldn't help but feel a little bit of frustration in her heart.

"I said no, so you're really not curious?" She turned around and asked.

"Yes." Zhong Chuyun responded lightly.

Yu Ling opened her mouth, and stopped talking for a long time. Finally, she puffed her cheeks and forcibly found a step for herself.

"I could tell you about some villain, would you like to hear?"

Yu Ling looked at Zhong Chuyun seriously.

She held her breath and murmured to herself—you think, you'd better think.

After a few seconds of silence, Zhong Chuyun suddenly hooked his lips, and replied softly: "Yes."

Yu Ling finally let out the breath she was holding back.

Little Cotton, who was eighteen this year, bloomed happily in just one click.

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The author has something to say:

Little Cotton: Don't hold any grudges today.

I encountered a problem that I was very familiar with when I was in "Knot Soul", so I will explain it a little bit.

Has the fox lived so long without any antiques on him?The fox has been around for so long, but is he still a low-paid worker?

The value of antiques lies in the precipitation of history, and in terms of world view, it has only been a hundred years since humans built cities on a large scale and signed a peace treaty with goblins. Foxes never thought that they would live with humans one day in this life. There is no awareness of keeping antiques. When things are worn out, they are thrown away. What can still be used must be new, and new things are worthless.

As for why I am still poor after so many years, one reason is that I have to keep changing my identity and location, so it is difficult to stabilize my job.