Fox spirit's self-cultivation

The orchard is full of red apples, which symbolize taboo fruits in the Garden of Eden are bright red and ripe. Uriel raised his hand curiously to touch the plump fruit, smelling the sweet smell.

"How interesting, this place is not the Garden of Eden, but it is as beautiful and rich as the Garden of Eden."

"Master Uriel, it's time for us to go to the place where the wicked are ravaging to test them." Lemuel was not interested in these red fruits, he only saw the ants crawling under his feet.

Those ants dared to climb up on his feet, carrying a dead caterpillar on their backs. Lemuel, who had never seen such an ugly insect in heaven, frowned.

He stepped back to avoid the ants.

Compared with these little bugs, he prefers the fairy butterflies that sprinkle silver powder and glow.

At this moment, bursts of laughter came, and the girls with baskets were humming, and they were walking through the orchard. When they saw two young boys from a foreign land, their cheeks were as rosy as apples, with a kind of A presumptuous smile never seen in heaven.

"Look, she smiles happier than our partners. Shouldn't the world be full of suffering, shouldn't it need our rescue and guidance? Why can they still smile like this?"

Uriel was getting more and more confused.

Lemuel didn't understand either, he was just a newborn angel.But the world seen in front of my eyes is obviously completely different from the world that the angels of heaven said.

Which world is real?

A lame girl sang, picked two big red apples from a tree, and handed them to them.

The girl smiled, and there was an unknown little flower stuck on the burlap skirt. The flower exuded a very light smell, which was not at all comparable to the strange fragrance exuded by various flowers and plants in heaven.

"Let's eat, strangers! During the harvest season, everyone should celebrate the harvest, and strangers who came from afar, you should also celebrate together!"

Then, they were pulled to the campfire by a group of enthusiastic peasant girls.

It was another scene that Uriel and Lemuel had never seen in heaven—a group of people huddled together, everyone smiling, drinking bad, muddy beer, with sheep and horses running around , the smell of livestock mixed with the aroma of wheat and wine, it is indescribably weird.

Lemuel didn't like that kind of environment, he just wanted to finish the task quickly and leave, but Uriel was born with a curious heart, he looked at everything carefully with blue gem-like eyes, took out the parchment and described everything he saw.

"Lemuel, look, it's so interesting. There are not only sinners in the world, but also laughter and abundant fruits. I want to tell Lord Gabriel what I have seen. If I can, I want to come to the world to play, really. Happy."

Uriel's blond hair was dyed a jumping gold by the bonfire, and his white clothes were stained with dust, but Uriel didn't care. He looked around, watching people milking cows, watching drunks go crazy, and even livestock His tweets can arouse his curiosity.

Lemuel only felt that it was dirty, and his keen sense of smell smelled a strange mixture of various smells. Although no mosquitoes and flies dared to approach them, Lemuel's sight still caught those little bugs.

Nasty bugs, gadflies, flies, buzzing mosquitoes.

"Master Uriel, it's time for us to leave." He couldn't hide his irritability.

Uriel picked a small purple flower at random and pinned it on Lemuel's skirt.

"Don't keep a straight face, guardian of the underworld. There are not many souls in the underworld now, it's empty, and you haven't started the mission yet. Not all souls go to the underworld, and the sinners will take the initiative to go to hell. Look, what do you think? How many sinners are there? I don't think there's any, and they're all kind, and it's all very nice!"

Lemuel bowed his head.

The stalk of the flower, still dripping with juice, made a little stain on his white clothes.

Lemuel wanted to wipe off those stains. In order to prevent humans from discovering abnormalities, he could not use divine power and could only wipe them with his hands.

The result is that the stain gets bigger and bigger until it turns into an ugly black circle.

"Lord Uriel, look at your good deeds, my clothes are polluted by these ugly things." Remuel's face sank like water.

Uriel laughed without the slightest bit of restraint, not at all like a noble messenger from the heavens.

"It doesn't matter if it's polluted, the river will be polluted, the leaves will be dusty, and white clothes can be dyed into colorful fabrics. We're used to spotless, why don't we just look at places that can get dusty. Let's go and dance. , and dance with these enthusiastic people!"

Uriel pulled Lemuel up and blended into a pile of black heads.

On a harvest night, the night wind blows with the fragrance of wheat, the leaves are whirling, everyone becomes enthusiastic and crazy, baskets of apples are placed aside, buckets of milk are put on the table, men They were wrestling, and the women smiled at the two strangers, blew passionate kisses to them, and some threw bouquets of flowers.

Uriel also received a large bouquet of flowers thrown by the crippled girl, mixed with a handful of nuts, and an inattentive one smashed Uriel's eyes with stars.

"Master Uriel!" Lemuel said anxiously, "These brutal savages are really terrifying!"

"No, they are not arrogant at all. This is the most sincere gift. It is not given because we are messengers from heaven. There is no fear or belief. It is just a simple gift. It is a gift for me, Uriel."

At that time, Uriel was not yet a teenager. Although he was a newborn angel with a very lively mind, he was a handsome young man at that time because of his abundant divine power, and he looked a little taller than Lemuel.

Uriel, one of the archangels, the guardian of all the stars, he can come to the place where the stars shine, Uriel has unparalleled authority, and also has the passion to light up everything.

He is even willing to play and play with those wild and untamed human children who are like wild horses, laughing presumptuously and savagely.

But when the flood came, it washed everything away.

Torrential rains turned plains into deserts and valleys into swamps.

Those people who played with Uriel were all taken away by the flood and buried, even Uriel and Lemuel didn't see their souls.

Because they have no faith, or in other words, they only believe in the land under their feet, so heaven refuses them to approach, and angels cannot establish contact with them.

Sad human souls left their bodies and wandered about, so the empty heavens and hells were filled with human souls.

As long as the beliefs are not pious, they are all sinful. Those who don't know what is heaven and what is the Garden of Eden, and who warmly entertain foreigners from afar, all fall into hell.

After the Deluge, it was Uriel who began to doubt his duty for the first time.

He looked at Noah's Ark swaying in the flood, his smile gradually disappeared.

The stars no longer shine, and the enthusiasm that can ignite everything in Uriel's eyes is slowly dying.

His face was pale, he looked up at the dim stars in the sky, and murmured: "Lemuel, tell me, what is our duty? I only saw destruction, and after creation I didn't feel its beauty, but only saw beauty The blemishes in the world, because the blemishes will be destroyed, is this the meaning of the creation of the world?

"All the starry lands are barren except where our strength cannot reach. I have heard cries and seen dead bodies. The apple orchard with laughter has also disappeared."

He lowered his head, his sapphire blue eyes were filled with melancholy.

Lemuel couldn't understand the sadness of the upper angel, but he still remembered the apple handed to him by the crippled girl. Because there was a spot on the apple, he thought it was unclean and did not conform to his own aesthetics, so he put the apple away.

Looking at the sad Uriel, Lemuel raised his hand, and the speckled apple appeared in his hand: "Do you want to eat it?"

Uriel looked at the apple that he didn't eat because he was disgusted, stared at the spot, and looked confused: "Lemuel, isn't an apple with spots a good apple? The girl said that an apple with spots is a good apple." It's sweeter when it's scorched by the sun."

Lemuel also looked at the apple in his hand.

Sweet, round, and shiny, so similar to that girl's freckled face.

Seeing that Uriel didn't want to eat the apple, he silently disappeared the apple, looked down at Noah's Ark in the flood, and shook his head.

"I don't know if the spots are sweet or not, and I don't want to try apples that don't look good. However, we all know that the apples in the Garden of Eden are the best, because they are the taste of temptation. It doesn't matter if the apple orchard in the world disappears. After many years, There will be new orchards, and new apples will grow on the trees, bigger, redder, prettier."

"However, they are not the ones who grow apples. They don't put flowers on their skirts, they don't force us to dance regardless, and they don't express their love to strangers passionately and hit us with nuts. You see -"

Uriel pointed to the people on Noah's Ark, "They are not foreigners. They are Noah's wife, children and fellow clansmen. They are from the same place, and they are the only ones who survived."

"After many years, some of them will become strangers. Lord Uriel, don't think about it, it's time for us to accept a new mission."

Lemuel looked down at the swaying ark for a while, then looked away.

No matter how the flood rages, the land will come back to life. That’s right, even if the people who grow apples change, the orchards will still appear. They will still sing and dance on a certain harvest night, and they will enthusiastically hold someone passing by. strangers, invite them to the ball.

It's just that the foreigner who was caught will no longer be Uriel and Lemuel.

Because Uriel has not been to the human world for many years, he no longer pays attention to the human world.

Until a mirror made by the rumored evil god and the tempting golden apple were thrown into the world at the same time, they came again with the task of finding the mirror and the golden apple.

It is now.

Lemuel adjusted his glasses: "Lord Uriel, you see, the mortal world has regained its vitality again. Human beings are such tenacious creatures. No matter what punishment they encounter, they can revive again. The souls of the underworld and hell have already recovered. It's full, and they're still thriving."

Time can take everything away and bring everything back.

Didn’t the things that were taken away by the Great Flood come back one by one now?

However, there are also things that cannot be returned.

Lemuel raised his hand, and an apple appeared in his hand. Seeing the black spot on the apple, Lemuel frowned, but finally didn't speak.

Even though Uriel said that this apple was very sweet, but when he saw the spots, he thought of worms, and when he thought of worms—Lemuel didn't want to eat this apple.

So let's continue to use divine power to preserve it as it is.