Chapter 3 Apprenticeship
"It's indeed a vixen."
I murmured in my heart.
The fox fairy is indeed as beautiful as the rumor, but her beauty is beautiful. But from the outside, she is only 28 years old, so I asked me to kneel down to such a "girl" and call her grandma. I wouldn't mention that it would be too awkward, even though I knew she was not a human being.
"Xiao Fei, why are you stunned? Do you still think I am your grandfather? Did you see that I am dead? You don't listen to your words now?"
Grandpa said angrily.
"No, grandpa, what are you talking about? I just saw Grandma Hu being so beautiful and accidentally stared at dazed, but I was accidentally..."
Helplessly, seeing that my grandfather was angry, I could only kneel down and obediently called Grandma Hu at the girl.
"Ha, you little brat."
The fox girl shook her head and chuckled. She looked like she was not fully mature in her developmental period, but she spoke in an old-fashioned manner.
"If you don't like to scream, don't force it, it sounds awkward."
"How can that work? Sister..."
"Listen to me first."
The girl waved her hand, interrupted her grandfather, and then said, "Xiao Fei, although you have never seen me, I know that you are born with a destiny of heaven and man. Your achievements in the past are absolutely limitless. It's a pity that you were born at the wrong time and are in the current Dharma-Ending Age, and there is almost no way to practice. However, I see that you have already successfully opened your life and have also refined your yin eyes. I think you have some opportunities and your luck is good."
"Your grandfather and I are friends. He helped me back then. In order to repay my kindness, I became the protector of your family. But I only had a lifetime of fate. Originally, I calculated that your grandfather should have returned to the mountain to practice in seclusion today. But in my past love, I was still a little reluctant to leave. I wanted to see your grandfather again and said goodbye."
Speaking of this, the girl turned to look at her grandfather and said, "Little Jiezi, I know what you think. You want me to stay and protect Jie's family, but the fate is over and you can't force it, but..."
The girl paused.
Grandpa heard that there was a turnaround in her words, and he was immediately overjoyed and said anxiously, "Sister, what else do you have? You said."
The girl nodded, "Although our fate is over, we can continue in another way. This is what I remembered when Xiao Fei is now."
"You mean it's related to Xiao Fei?"
Grandpa said.
"good."
The girl nodded gently, "I can accept Xiao Fei as my disciple and let him be my disciple. In this way, although I will no longer protect the family immortal for the Jie family, as long as Xiao Fei is still the Jie family, there is actually no difference."
"Add to Master?"
I was a little stunned.
After hearing this, my grandfather was extremely excited and hurriedly said, "That's great, Xiao Fei, why are you still stupid? Come and get a disciple."
"ah?"
When my grandfather yelled, I suddenly felt like I was driving the duck on the shelves. I looked at the fox girl and then looked at my grandfather. I was filled with mixed feelings and didn't know how to answer.
"Xiao Jiezi, you can only be willing to become a disciple. Don't force it. It depends on Xiao Fei's own intention."
The girl was very reasonable and waved her hand to her grandfather and said.
Seeing her say this, my grandfather had to keep silent, but his eyes were still urging me.
I shook my head, tried to calm myself down, and my brain began to think quickly.
Baojiaxian is a unique mythical existence in the Northeast. Most of them are beast cultivators who have become spirits. They accept incense and use their own abilities to protect others. This is a mutually helpful relationship.
There are generally five types: Hu, Huang, White, Willow, and Gray.
It corresponds to foxes, weasels, hedgehogs, snakes, and rats.
The disciples of the horse are similar to those of the Taoist priests in the film and television dramas. The difference is that the Taoist priests need to practice themselves and have enough ability to subdue demons and catch ghosts. The disciples of the horse are ordinary people. They worship the beast cultivator with the opportunity and use the ability of the beast cultivator to cure diseases and exorcise evil spirits. Whether it is powerful depends entirely on how many Taoist priests are behind them.
The so-called southern and northern horses are what they say.
Nanmao refers to Maoshan Taoist priests and northern horses. They are not people with the surname Ma in the north, but disciples who came out of horses.
These are two more famous folk practice systems in China.
It is not impossible for me to take this fox as my teacher now. She can see my fate at a glance. Even if I just started practicing, it proves that her Taoism is not low. Moreover, after becoming a disciple, she can continue to protect my Jie family, which is to fulfill my grandfather's last wish.
Thinking of this, I did not hesitate anymore, bowed to my mind, kowtowed three times respectfully, and shouted, "Advisor Xie Fei, pay homage to the master."
"Okay, OK."
The girl let out a string of silver bell-like laughter and said three good words in succession. She seemed very happy that I was willing to become a disciple.
"Xiao Fei, since you have become my teacher, I can't treat you badly."
As he said that, the girl's figure flashed and floated in front of me. When she pointed out her fingers, a fiery red light flashed and penetrated into my chest.
I only felt a coolness in my whole body, and a strange spiritual energy penetrated into my body, wandered around my body, and then lurked in my chest.
Pulling open the collar, you can see a small fiery red fox pattern on the heart of your chest, like a tattoo, appearing vividly and curling up there quietly.
"Xiao Fei, this is my natal spiritual energy. If you encounter something that cannot be solved in the future, you can recite my name silently in your heart and mobilize the spiritual energy at the same time, and I can come to help you. Remember, my name is, ***."
The girl said solemnly.
"I remember, Master."
I nodded respectfully.
The girl nodded slightly and then said, "From the strength of that spiritual energy, you can also sense my safety. If one day I encounter danger in the future, I hope you can help me."
"Master, you will be in danger, too?"
I looked at her in confusion.
"Under the way of heaven, all things are bound, how can I escape from cause and effect?"
*** showed a trace of sad expression, and then quickly returned to calm. He smiled and said, "Okay, with your current ability, it's too early to know these things, so work hard to practice. There is also Xiao Jiezi..."
He turned to look at my grandfather again and said, "You are at ease now. You are so old, why are you still as stubborn as you were when you were a child."
"hey-hey……"
Grandpa scratched his head and smiled silly.
I could see a little shyness in his face.
"Okay, this matter is over, I'll go back first. Xiao Jiezi, your life is over, so it's better to go to the underworld to report as soon as possible. This world is already dangerous, but for ghosts, it's even more dangerous. If it's not necessary, it's better not to stay in the world and reincarnate as soon as possible. Maybe we will meet again one day in the future."
"Xiao Fei, I'm leaving. Remember to call me if you have something to do. Don't forget that you are also a practitioner with background."
*** waved his hand casually and nodded at us. As soon as he turned, he disappeared in an instant, and he was obviously leaving.
I let out a sigh of relief. At this time, I didn't know what a huge force the light words in my mouth represented.
Turning his head to look at his grandfather, he still seemed a little sad.
I sighed, hesitated for a while, and said, "Grandpa, do you want to... go see grandma and the others again, I have a way to let them see you again."
Grandpa looked moved, but after thinking for a while, he finally shook his head and said, "Forget it, since there is already yin and yang, why bother them again? Sister Hu is right. I should have entered the cycle of reincarnation early."
"Xiao Fei, do you want to hear the story of Sister Hu and me?"
Grandpa suddenly said.
I was immediately curious and nodded quickly.
I saw my grandfather pondering for a moment, revealing a look of remembrance, and said slowly, "That's very early. I should be 12 years old. My hometown is drought and famine, and the whole village has no harvest. Your great grandfather happened to be sick again. Because he couldn't eat enough, he was weak and had no money to see a doctor, so he didn't survive it in the end."
"At that time, everyone was rumored that they came to the Northeast, where the land was fertile and food was everywhere, so a large number of people left home and rushed to this place. Almost 90% of the people in the village left."
"In order to survive, your too-mistress took me and joined the team. We plundered the whole family's surplus grain, and there were only a few steamed buns. I don't know how many days I had eaten that little thing? Anyway, I always felt very hungry, but I just followed your too-mistress in a daze, keep walking, and walking..."
"I don't know how many days this happened. Suddenly, one time, I woke up in the morning and found that your tooth milk was still asleep. No matter how I shook her, I didn't wake up. Everyone else in the team set off one after another and then left. In the end, only your tooth milk and I were left. I didn't know what to do. At that time, I probably realized that your tooth milk was dead and I should have buried her."
"But I'm too hungry, so hungry that I don't have the strength and tools, so I can't dig a deep pit at all. I can only hold your tooth milk and wait there for a day. Finally, I had no choice but to pack my luggage, find a few broken straw mats, cover your tooth milk, and then set off on the road alone."
"I don't know how long I have walked, but I haven't followed the team, and I am the only one left. I gradually got lost. In order to survive, I entered the woods and looked for leaves, grass roots, wild fruits. No matter what, I stuffed them all into my mouth. It's a big life. I wasn't poisoned to death. But in this way, I couldn't tell my position even more."
"Just walking around like this, one day, I found a little fox. At that time, I couldn't tell what animal it was. I just saw that it was full of red and cute, and it seemed to be injured in its hind legs, and it was lying pitifully."
"I don't know what's going on. I was so hungry that I didn't kill it, but picked it up and left it by my side. We spent a long time together. After its legs were well, they would always look for wild fruits for me to eat, and took me out of the mountains and finally come here."
"When you talk about this, you should understand that the fox is Sister Hu."
Grandpa turned to look at me.
Seeing me nodding, he continued, "Later, I took root here and lived in many troubles. Sister Hu helped me solve them one by one. I won't tell you if it's too detailed. As long as you remember, Sister Hu had kindness to us, it would be enough. Without her, I would never survive, let alone you."
"Although Sister Hu always said that she owes me this and she wants to repay her kindness, I really don't know when I helped her. Didn't I kill her while she was injured? Is it because I was kind?"
Chapter completed!