Chapter 142: Fox worships the moon, recognized by heaven and earth
"Hold it in for a while!"
"Have you read the book I asked you to read?"
"Teacher, I saw it."
In the villa, Lin Ye looked at the boiling hot Chinese medicinal liquid and asked Tongtong beside him.
"What do you think?"
“Shi Hao had his Supreme Bone taken away from him. He relied on the medicinal bath given by Willow God to cleanse his body, and was finally able to take revenge.”
"Well, Shi Hao can only fight back if he can endure such pain. Can you persist?"
"Teacher, I can."
"Ruzi is teachable."
Lin Ye nodded, thinking it was worth it for him to let Tongtong read the unknown book about his later years.
He won't feel any pain from this medicinal bath because he is an adult with a strong body, but Tongtong's body is not yet fully formed, so he will definitely feel very painful if stimulated by the medicinal properties.
He could also not give Tongtong the medicinal bath now and take the same route as himself. If Tongtong did not have a pure yang constitution, he would do so. But Tongtong has a pure yang constitution, and doing so would be a waste of God's gift.
"Don't worry, the teacher is watching."
Seeing Tong Tong standing there without moving, Lin Ye thought that Tong Tong was a little scared, so he comforted him.
"Teacher, can you...can you turn around?"
Lin Ye: ...
"OK."
Lin Ye smiled. A little kid who was only in the second grade was already shy.
At that time, his favorite thing to do was to stand by the river with his friends and see who could pee five meters high against the wind. He didn't care about these things at all.
thump!
Not long after Lin Ye turned around, he heard a sound. When he turned around, Tongtong had already jumped into the wooden barrel. The scalding liquid made the little guy grimaced and his skin quickly turned red.
But the little guy gritted his teeth and said nothing.
"If it hurts, just scream it out. Don't hold it in."
"It doesn't hurt...it hurts."
The little guy gritted his teeth, very stubborn. Lin Ye smiled, said nothing more, and stood aside.
Five minutes later, the little guy's teeth were chattering, and the tendons and veins on his body were clearly visible. Lin Ye glanced at the little guy and said slowly: "It seems that you can really hold on. Not bad, teacher, I'll go out for a while."
Lin Ye walked out of the basement but did not go out. He stood outside the door for only a minute before he heard the little guy's childish cry from inside.
“It hurts so much.”
"What a stubborn and face-saving little boy." Lin Ye raised the corner of his mouth, walked leisurely to the tea room nearby, and made himself a cup of Kung Fu tea.
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Three days later, Lin Ye returned to the other world.
"Master, the wine I brought you is a recipe I created myself."
Taoist Priest Ding Xuan had just finished his lessons. When he saw Lin Ye coming with wine, he was very happy. But when he heard this, he immediately said seriously, "Although my sect doesn't abstain from alcohol, you should avoid it if you can. Drinking will only cause trouble."
Hearing the Taoist's words, Lin Ye curled his lips. He said this because he was afraid of being used as a guinea pig for the wine he brewed. If he didn't drink it... Who asked Daogu to go to the wine shop to buy wine every month, and in jars at a time?
"Since Master doesn't want to drink, forget it."
Lin Ye opened the jar of wine, took out a gourd from his waist, and poured the white wine into the gourd. The old Taoist stared at the wine foam.
"Although I am not good at drinking, since it is your sincere love, how can I refuse it?"
After saying that, the old Taoist took the wine jar without waiting for Lin Ye's response, put his nose forward and took a sip, "Good wine, this wine smells..."
With one sip, he drank half the jar.
"It's really a good wine. I've drunk so many good wines, but none of them is as strong and refreshing as this one."
Lin Ye was no exception to the old Taoist's reaction, but the old Taoist's words were just flattering himself.
He had already understood clearly that the old Taoist had only one hobby, which was to drink some wine.
However, with the popularity of Qingfeng Temple, the old Taoist priest naturally couldn't afford any good wine. He had to save a pot of wine and drink it for a month. Based on what he learned from Daogu, he was afraid that there would not be enough wine to drink. The old Taoist priest often put chopsticks into the gourd, took it out and licked a few mouthfuls to satisfy his craving.
It is obviously not the case that the Taoist priest has no ability to earn enough money for wine. He is just too cautious and afraid of death, and does not want to get involved in anything. The money from incense offerings at Qingfeng Temple is not much left after giving some incense oil to the Taoist ancestor and several other large halls.
"Tell me, what do you want to talk to me about today?" The old Taoist asked directly after he had calmed down from drinking.
"Master, what you said is not right. As a disciple, shouldn't I give you a jar of wine as a gift?"
"Really? Then I will go back to my room and savor it..."
"Wait, Master..."
The old Taoist looked at Lin Ye with an expression that was exactly what I expected. Lin Ye chuckled and said, "Nothing much. I just have a question that I want to ask Master. I hope Master can answer it."
"What doubts?"
"Master, do you think there are demons in this world that can possess human bodies and be recognized by heaven and earth?"
"A demon takes on a human form, and is recognized by heaven and earth?"
The old Taoist stared at Lin Ye for a while, which made Lin Ye feel a little puzzled. Was there any doubt about his question?
"Your business is so big now, and it's starting to involve demons?"
puff!
Lin Ye almost vomited blood. How deep was the old Taoist's misunderstanding of him? He really thought he was making a deal with ghosts.
"Apprentice just asked this."
Lin Ye couldn't explain the situation he encountered in reality, and the old Taoist didn't delve into it. After a moment's silence, he said, "Humans, ghosts, and demons have different paths. Under normal circumstances, it is not allowed by heaven and earth. Whether it is a ghost or a demon possessing a human, it will cause harm to the human body."
"What if it's a dead person?"
"That's even more unacceptable. Death is the greatest thing. It is against the harmony of nature to take someone's body." The old Taoist suddenly frowned and said, "Don't do such a business that is against the harmony of nature."
Lin Ye's mouth twitched: "Master, do you think I look like that kind of person?"
The old Taoist didn't answer. After all, he was still holding the wine that Lin Ye had given him. He just chose to express his attitude with silence.
"Master, that's not a normal situation." Lin Ye ignored the old Taoist's misunderstanding of him, and the innocent are innocent.
"Under abnormal circumstances..." The old Taoist thought for a moment and said, "If there is a cause and effect of gratitude, it is possible."
"What is the cause and effect of gratitude?" Lin Ye asked.
"I will tell you a story about your third uncle's experience."
The old Taoist had a nostalgic look on his face, and said, "That day, your Third Uncle was at the Taoist temple, and saw a man running in in a panic. Your Third Uncle went up to ask the reason and learned that the villager had seen a monster harming people, so he came for help."
"Your Third Uncle has always hated evil. When he heard that a monster was harming people, he immediately followed the villager to the villa. On the way, he found out that the villager was guarding the fields and crops from being harmed by wild boars at night when he saw a white figure standing on a small mound of earth not far away."
"The villager looked closely and found that it was a snow-white fox. The fox imitated a human and bowed three times to the moon. It muttered something, but the villagers couldn't hear it because it was far away. Then the villager saw the fox open its mouth to absorb the essence of the moonlight. After a while, it suddenly rolled on the ground for a few times, and when it stood up, it looked like a teenager."
The fox transformed into a young boy, which scared the villager. However, since the villager dared to come out in the middle of the night to guard the crops, he must be very brave. He wanted to see what the fox transformed into a boy was going to do, so he secretly followed the boy.
I saw the young man coming down from a small mound, holding a cloth bag in his hand, and quickly heading towards the village on the left, which was the village next to the villagers' village. The villagers followed the young man into the village. As soon as they entered the village, they heard the barking of dogs, but as the young man uttered a special cry, the barking sound disappeared.
The villagers who witnessed this were shocked. This fox monster was so powerful that the dogs were afraid to bark just by its voice. It must be coming into the village to harm people. As he expected, the boy finally stopped in front of a thatched cottage in a remote part of the village.
"Mom, I'm back." The boy knocked on the door.
"It's my grandson who's back."
An old and hoarse voice came from the house. After a while, the oil lamp in the house was lit. An old woman opened the door and welcomed the boy into the house very warmly.
The villagers following behind were very anxious when they saw this scene. The monster pretended to be a young man, and the old man had poor eyesight and mistook the monster for someone else and let it into the house. He would definitely be harmed by the monster.
But thinking that even dogs dared not bark after the monster's roar, he did not dare to rush over. Thinking that there was a wizard in Qingfeng Temple who could catch the monster, he hurried to Qingfeng Temple to ask for help.
"Your Third Uncle was impatient and was afraid of disturbing the monster, which might harm people in a hurry. So when he arrived in front of the thatched cottage, he flew into the house on his sword first."
"Is it the Yutian Sword?"
The old Taoist shook his head and said, "Of course not. The Heavenly Sword is about destiny. With the old woman in the house, how could your Third Uncle dare to use it? Your Third Uncle used another flying sword technique. The flying sword flew into the house and shot the fox in the throat, killing it in one blow."
"Then, your Third Uncle and the villagers broke into the house, but what greeted them was the old woman's crazy cane attack . Your Third Uncle was afraid of hurting the old woman and did not dare to fight back. He was just wondering, the fox had been killed by him and had revealed its true form, why was the old woman still so unreasonable?"
Lin Ye's eyes narrowed, and he had some vague guesses.
"How much strength can a fifty-year-old woman have? Your Third Uncle naturally doesn't care, but the villager is dissatisfied . Your grandson is fake, he is a monster. We are kind enough to save you and kill the monster. Why do you, an old man, not know right from wrong and want to beat us?"
"After hearing this, the old woman stopped beating and threw her walking stick on the ground. She turned around and hugged the white fox in her arms, saying with a face full of sorrow, 'How could I not know that this was not my grandson? My grandson slipped and fell off a cliff and died half a year ago when he went into the mountains. Many years ago, my grandson told me that when he was a child, he followed the villagers into the mountains to hunt. There was a white fox caught by a hunter, and it was my grandson who saved the white fox from the hunter. Later, my grandson saw the white fox in his dream. The white fox told my grandson that it was undergoing a tribulation at that time and had no magic power, so it was captured by the hunter. When it successfully undergoes the tribulation, it will definitely come back to repay you.'"
"My grandson didn't take it seriously and told me about the dream. Half a year ago, just after the seventh day after my grandson's death, the white fox appeared in my home and told me that it had successfully survived the catastrophe and now had magical powers that could revive my grandson, but it could only come back on the full moon day of each month."
"Later, when the baby was one month old, my grandson really came back. But how could I not recognize him? Although he looked the same, his behavior and habits were different from mine. I understood that the white fox saw that I missed him so much that I cried all day, so it changed into my grandson's appearance to relieve my pain of missing him."
"I didn't expose him and still treated him as my grandson. Every time he came over on his first month of life, he would prepare my favorite sweet-scented osmanthus cake for me. After I fell asleep, he would clean my room and wash my clothes. Tell me, is he a bad monster?"
The old Taoist paused here, his expression somewhat complicated, "Your Third Uncle has slain countless demons and monsters in his life, but this incident alone has become a hurdle in his heart. When your master learned about it, he was furious and wanted to expel your Third Uncle from the sect. Later, it took the efforts of your master and several of your other uncles to persuade him to stop. But your master also asked your Third Uncle to take care of the old woman until she died."
"However, who would have thought that on the third day after the white fox's death, the old woman also died. Your Third Uncle was too embarrassed to face the Master, and he never returned to Qingfeng Temple again."
Lin Ye was silent, not knowing what to say.
"The fox worshipped the moon, received a breath of the moon's essence, transformed into a human body to repay the favor, and gained the approval of heaven and earth."
After the old Taoist said this, he turned around and went back to his room with the jar of wine, looking a little lonely.
