My fruit shop became popular in the world

"smell good!"

Everyone who stepped into the wonderful fruit shop today couldn't help expressing such emotion.

The air is filled with a sweet and rich aroma.

Compared with those fragrance fruits in the past, this ubiquitous aroma is particularly spectacular and eye-catching. It is easy to remind people of the strong sunshine in summer, and it continuously exudes a warm and eager atmosphere.

There are strange-looking fruits on the shelves. They are oblong, with rough khaki skins and covered with small bumps. It is no exaggeration to say that they can be described as "unattractive".

But there is a common sense in the fruit industry: the appearance does not determine everything about the fruit. Whether it looks good or not has no necessary relationship with whether it tastes good or not.

Especially for tropical fruits like jackfruit.

Like durian, jackfruit is also a strong-flavored fruit with a particularly overbearing fragrance. Even after washing with water after eating, the fragrance will last for a long time, so it is nicknamed "tooth fragrance".

Jackfruit is one of the largest fruits in the world. The heaviest of individual varieties can reach a hundred kilograms, and even the smallest jackfruit weighs about ten kilograms. It is a well-deserved giant in the fruit industry.

The weight of this batch of jackfruit sold by Wonderful Fruit Store is not as exaggerated as one hundred catties, but it is also forty to fifty catties, which is particularly visually impactful.

The price of such a big fruit is also astonishing. Considering that not many customers would be able to buy a whole jackfruit, Xuan Chu thoughtfully cut open the jackfruit, dug out the pulp inside, and sold it separately.

The jackfruit pulp is pale yellow in color with a smooth surface that looks very different from the rough skin.

The pulp tastes thick and full, sweet and dense, biting off like a bubble of honey.

But there is one thing, you need to be careful when eating jackfruit. Its juice is sticky and it is not easy to clean it on your hands.

Zhou Li ate too fast and accidentally got the juice on his hands.

With a sad face, he asked Xuan Chu for help: "The hand sanitizer can't be washed off, what should I do?"

Xuanchu taught him: "Try to wash it with salt water."

After finally getting rid of the sticky feeling in his hand, Zhou Li heaved a sigh of relief and explained his purpose:

Last time, the fruit shop uniform customized by Xuanchu has been completed, and he came here today to deliver the clothes, and check to see if there is anything that needs to be changed.

When the clerks changed their clothes one by one and came out, Zhou Li's eyes lit up.

For the convenience of movement, this uniform is uniformly designed as a top and bottom trousers. The trousers are wide, and they move with the wind when walking, adding a bit of immortality.

Different from the silk clothing that Zhou Li specially designed for Xuanchu before, these uniforms are made of pure cotton fabric. Although it is not as elegant as silk, it is sweat-absorbent and soft, wear-resistant and breathable, and more practical.

Zhang Chao and the others are ordinary people, their stature is far inferior to Xuan Chu's nine-headed body, but because of the high-waisted design, they look long-legged and thin-waisted, very energetic.

"It's so pretty." Even someone like Sun Lang and Zhang Chao, who don't pay much attention to dressing, would be reluctant to take off this uniform.

"Then wear it." Xuan Chu smiled, and he also felt that the effect was very good, "From now on, everyone will wear it like this when going to work."

The shop assistants were excited.

Come on, who doesn't like to dress up and look good?

"Thank you for your hard work." Xuan Chu thanked Zhou Li, "Bring some jackfruit back later?"

Even though he had just eaten a few pieces of jackfruit, Zhou Li felt the saliva in his mouth keep secreting after hearing what he said, so he swallowed and said, "Then I won't be polite to you either."

By the way, take it back and give it to the general to taste.

Thinking of his beloved dog, Zhou Li couldn't help but think of another cutie.

"By the way, why didn't you see brown sugar?"

He remembered that every time he came to the fruit shop in the past, he would see this black cat following Xuan Chu inseparably, but he couldn't see it today.

Xuan Chu's smile became a bit more bitter, and he sighed, "I don't know why, he's not in a good spirit today."

In the morning when he went to see Brown Tang, the little guy just lay on the ground limply, unwilling to get up no matter how much he screamed.

Zhou Li's eyes widened: "Brown Tang is sick? Have you been to the hospital?"

Xuan Chu said: "I have already contacted the 'doctor', and I will take him to see a doctor after closing today."

"Let me tell you, you can't delay seeing a doctor. Many diseases are delayed." Zhou Li said seriously.

Xuan Chu was about to say something, but saw Yonago rushing towards him with a anxious expression on his face: "The boss is not good, something is wrong with Brown Tang!"

Before Zhou Li could react, Xuan Chu rushed out immediately.

I saw the black cat lying on the ground, rolling wildly, screaming in pain from its throat.

Xuan Chu was shocked, and rushed forward to hug Brown Tang.

At this time, he smelled a familiar fragrance, and he was stunned for a while, and found half a piece of jackfruit pulp stained with ash lying on the ground.

"Could it be something wrong with eating jackfruit?" Zhou Li, who followed closely behind, witnessed this scene and said in shock.

Xuan Chu was taken aback.

Regardless of whether the accident was caused by jackfruit, the most urgent task is to restore brown sugar to normal.

"I have a car, let's go to the hospital in my car." Zhou Li volunteered to suggest, "I know a pet doctor with good medical skills—"

"No need!" Xuan Chu immediately interrupted him.

Seeing the surprise in Zhou Li's eyes, Xuan Chu reluctantly twitched the corners of his mouth, and explained: "Brown Tang has a doctor he knows well, and it's not far away. I'll just take him there."

After saying that, regardless of what other people thought, he rushed out with brown sugar in his arms.

A few people left looking at each other.

***

It was impossible for Xuanchu to agree to let Zhou Li take him to the hospital, because the "doctor" he was looking for was not from this world.

On the way to the Heavenly Court, he contacted Wu Lan, and when he arrived at the Nantian Gate, he saw this fairy official from the Alien Beast Department sitting on a crane cart driven by two cranes and waving at him: "Xuan Friends for the first time, here!"

The crane trolley drove all the way, and arrived at the Wanshou Palace, the headquarters of the Department of Strange Beasts in the Heavenly Court, where there are the most advanced and complete medical equipment in the Three Realms.

Under Wu Lan's command, the brown sugar was put into a container that looked like a pill furnace. It is said that this is the most advanced inspection equipment at present.

While waiting for the inspection results, Xuan Chu briefly told Wu Lan what had happened, and the half-eaten jackfruit.

"It shouldn't be because of the jackfruit." After checking the remaining half of the jackfruit, Wu Lan brought good news, "This fruit is not harmful, and I only ate half of the brown sugar."

Xuan Chu let out a low "huh", but his brows were still tightly furrowed.

If he could bring brown sugar to see a doctor earlier, maybe the little guy wouldn't be like this now.

Guilt overwhelmed him, and the drowning-like suffocation made it almost difficult for him to breathe.

The inspection process takes an hour.

Afterwards, every time Xuan Chu recalled this incident, he felt that this was the longest hour in his life.

Finally, the instrument buzzed, and the flashing green light went out.

"How is it?" Xuan Chu stared at Wu Lan closely, the sound of his heartbeat beating his eardrums.

Wu Lanzai carefully turned the inspection report from beginning to end, and said in a deep voice, "Brown Tang's sudden 'onset' should be related to the loosening of the seal in his body."

Xuan Chu's pupils shrank, and his face was full of astonishment: "The seal is loose?"

"Do you still remember that I gave you a medicine before, which was specially refined according to Brown Sugar's physique, in order to break the seal in his body as soon as possible."

Of course Xuan Chu remembered this.Because of brown sugar, he fell asleep for half a month after taking the medicine, and was almost stolen by a pet dealer.

"The medicine worked. Since then, the seal in Brown Sugar's body has loosened faster. You should know that."

Xuan Chu nodded.

"And now, the turning point has come." Wu Lan's expression became serious, "To put it simply, the seal has been broken, and the impact force when the seal was broken was too strong for Brown Sugar to bear for a while, so the Pain."

"What will be the consequences?" This is what Xuanchu is most concerned about, "Will the brown sugar be dangerous?"

"It shouldn't be life-threatening. We have been using drugs to control the seal in his body, but..." Wu Lan hesitated for a moment, and said awkwardly, "As for what will happen, it is hard to say at the moment. After all, we are also the first in this situation." See you next time, besides, the target is Qilin."

The Heavenly Court's Alien Beast Department has a wealth of experience in dealing with rare races, but none of these experiences can be used at this moment.

It's been so long that the Qilin family has disappeared, so long that even the survivors who experienced the first disaster of the dragon and the phoenix are very few, and there are no examples for reference.

Wu Lan confessed to Xuan Chu: "Based on the information we have, it is not enough to understand the mystery."

"We don't even know why there is a seal in Brown Sugar's body." He smiled wryly.

The current Heavenly Court was only established after the second Great War of Infinite Calamity and Witches. At that time, a lot of waste was waiting to be rebuilt, and many ancient books had already been destroyed in the flames of war.

Xuan Chu frowned, a thought suddenly flashed through his mind.

Maybe, there will be ancient books in Qingqiu's Library Pavilion that record ancient events.

You know, the original Nine-Tailed Fox King was Shi Qilin's subordinate back then.

After the Dragon and Phoenix Tribulation, all the races involved in the flames of war suffered heavy losses, none survived.

The Nine-Tailed Fox Clan was also nearly wiped out. After learning from the pain, the Fox King decided to lead the surviving clan to migrate to Qingqiu and live a life of seclusion from then on.

Later, Honghuang experienced countless wars, large and small, and Qingqiu was never involved in the flames of war because of its remote location and isolation from the world.

In other words, the Qingqiu Nine-Tailed Fox Clan is one of the few races whose historical inheritance has never been cut off.

As the Second Highness of the Nine-Tailed Fox Clan, Xuanchu naturally knew that Qingqiu had a huge book library, which contained the most and most complete collection of ancient books in the whole prehistoric period, and even the sage Yuanshi Tianzun once came to borrow them.

Thinking that there might be records about Qilin in Zangshu Pavilion, he became excited again after being somewhat negative.

Wu Lan was very supportive when she learned that he was going back to Qingqiu to check the information, and promised to take good care of Brown Tang during this period so that he could leave with peace of mind.

Back in Qingqiu, Xuan Chu didn't have time to play with the fox cubs who came to play with him, so he plunged into the library.

But the result disappointed him.

There are indeed many classics in Zangshu Pavilion, and there are also records about unicorns, but most of them only explain how the unicorns ruled the beasts in ancient times and how majestic they are, there is no passage mentioning the seal.

Xuanchu was so overwhelmed by the sea of ​​words, he was about to take a break when he suddenly saw an ancient book, the title of which was "The Rebellion in Qingqiu".

He froze for a moment, and pulled out the book that was covered with a thick layer of dust from the bookshelf.

This book records the incident of the fierce beast Qiongqi's invasion of Qingqiu several years ago.

His face changed slightly.

What happened back then was always a thorn in his heart.

He was still young at that time, and the current Fox King was his elder brother.When Qiongqi invaded, he accidentally fell into Qiongqi's hands and almost died.If Hongjun hadn't arrived in time and rescued him, he wouldn't be where he is now.

However, he was injured and fell into the root cause of the disease, which caused him to be in poor health since he was a child. Later, he was sent to Putuo Mountain to recuperate under the disciple of Ci Hangdao.

The strained relationship between him and his elder brother Xuan Yi is also due to this.

He can understand Xuan Yi's desire to protect his people, but it is difficult to forgive what he did to him.

——At that time he was caught by Qiongqi, Xuan Yi was obviously not far away, but he was afraid of exposing the hiding place of the Nine-Tailed Fox, so he just watched him being tortured by Qiongqi.

He cried and begged his brother to save him, but Xuan Yi didn't show up.

From then on, he understood that Xuan Yi was the Fox King first, and then his elder brother.The brotherhood he thought was indestructible was actually not that strong.

Because of poor health, Xuan Chu almost grew up soaked in medicine jars since he was a child.

He hated the stench and bitter smell of medicine so much, he couldn't wait to leave Qingqiu's unchanging life, and he did.

Unexpectedly, many years later, he chose to return because of Qingqiu's crisis.

In fact, when he grows up, he can more or less understand Xuan Yi's choice back then.

If it were him, he might not be able to do better.

But at this time, he has been completely alienated from his elder brother, and he doesn't know how to get along with Xuan Yi, and it is the same with Xuan Yi, otherwise the two brothers would not have quarreled when they met.

Xuan Chu forced a wry smile from his throat, and was about to close the book when he caught a glimpse of a line of text out of the corner of his eye and froze.

There are different opinions about the reason why Qiongqi invaded Qingqiu back then. The most widely circulated theory is that Qiongqi fell in love with the beautiful mountains and rivers of Qingqiu, and planned to use this place as his cave, so he attacked the nine-tailed fox. Want to drive them out.

No one has ever doubted this statement. In the ancient times, there were countless disputes over territory. Qingqiu is full of aura, and it is a treasured place of geomantic omen, and not only Qiongqi coveted it.

But the theory in this book is novel. The author puts forward a conjecture: the reason why the beast Qiongqi attacked Qingqiu might not be for the sake of occupying the territory, but for the sake of the Nine-Tailed Fox itself.

According to the book, Qiongqi, an evil beast, mainly relies on sucking the souls of monsters and ghosts to increase its power.

That's why he focused on the Nine-Tailed Fox, because they were isolated from the outside world, and even if something happened, it would be difficult for them to ask for help.

What's more, the Nine-Tailed Fox is an ancient race with a pure lineage of the monster race and profound skills. If one can take the Nine-Tailed Fox, it will greatly increase Qiongqi's skills.

Xuan Chu frowned slightly.

This book is obviously not an orthodox reading material, otherwise it would not have been stuffed in a corner and ignored for many years.

He shouldn't have cared about such an unfounded book.

But he suddenly thought of one thing.

Back then he was caught by Qiongqi, who didn't know what he did to him, causing him to fall into a coma for no reason without any physical injuries.

After he woke up, his health was not as good as before, he felt tired at every turn, and he couldn't practice normally like other nine-tailed foxes.

It wasn't until he became a disciple of Ci Hang Taoist that his master healed him and found that his soul had been damaged, and it was because of his incomplete soul that he was weak and sick.

Later, the master spent a lot of effort to replenish his soul, and then he returned to normal.

Could it be that his soul was really sucked by Qiongqi?

Xuan Chu didn't have time to think about it, when his spiritual consciousness sounded.

He glanced at the caller ID with a serious look on his face.

It was Wulan calling.

He hurriedly picked it up, and before he could speak, he heard Wu Lan say anxiously: "Fellow Taoist Xuanchu, come back quickly, Brown Tang woke up, but he, he..."

"How is he?" Xuan Chu wanted to panic him to death.

Wu Lan swallowed heavily, and couldn't help but glance at the black-haired, black-clothed man with a perverse and impatient face behind him, and said in a complex tone, "Brown Tang... He has transformed."

The author has something to say:

Congratulations to the unicorn cub, who finally appeared in human form!

I wish the little cuties a merry Christmas, and I will send you a red envelope~