fox fur is not warm

Chapter 3

The next day, an unexpected visitor came to Taotie's cave.

The sky was clear and the sun was shining brightly.The glutton who had just eaten and drank was lying on the entrance of the cave basking in the warm sunlight, no matter how the little fox jumped up and down beside it, he would not be moved, only when it was noisy and excessively trying to kick its nose on its face, it would shake its body and move It shakes off.

The meat quality of stored grain can only become flexible after sufficient exercise.Thinking so, Taotie stretched out his paw and pushed the little fox away from him.

The little fox didn't care, it just thought the big guy was playing with it.It was pushed so that it rolled on the ground, then turned over and stood up again, flung its teeth and claws at Taotie's claws again.

And so on.

"Brother Tao, stay safe, ah——"

A voice suddenly sounded from the entrance of the cave.

The tone of the words was suave and suave, and the air was high and high, but before the long ending was finished, the tone suddenly changed and was cut off after the muffled sound of the heavy object falling to the ground.

This movement caused two beasts, one big and one small in the cave, to look up one after another.

After a while, the smoke and dust dissipated, and the object appeared.

The one who came was a little beast not much bigger than a little fox, with hanging eyes and white forehead, hedgehog fur and tiger claws, and two wings on its back.Maybe it was because it fell hard just now, and it struggled a few times before it tremblingly propped up its limbs and stood firm, but the wings on one side were properly retracted, while the other side was raised high to the sky, raising its distinct legs. long feathers.

"I'm really not used to this body..." the tiger cub murmured.After all, it shook its head, and then felt a little more awake, but it was still unaware of its weird posture.

Catching the gazes of the other two beasts, the tiger cub immediately puffed up his chest and stomped forward.It took a deep breath, as if what happened just now had never happened, and said again without any grievances, "Brother Tao, don't come here without any problems—"

Taotie is quite familiar with it - articulate, its blood is sharp; its back spreads its wings, its muscles are strong and tough; its fur is black and blue, its meat is delicious...

This appearance, if not Qiongqi, who else could it be?

It's just a little smaller.

Taotie and Qiongqi can be said to be strangers to each other.Taotie had accidentally visited the Great Wilderness thousands of years ago during its wanderings. At that time, it was so hungry that it wanted to eat a living creature. However, Qiongqi, who was also one of the four evil spirits, was willing to be slaughtered. Fight like this.

In the end, no winner was decided, because Taotie sneaked away to eat a group of passing merchants and travelers, and had no intention of fighting again.

Afterwards, Taotie always regretted not being able to taste Qiongqi meat.

"What are you doing here?" Seeing that he was an acquaintance, Tao Tie asked the little fox who was a little further away towards his side, without much interest.

Qiongqi stood a few feet away from it, kept his eyes on the same level, and jokingly said, "Come to take your food."

Taotie's expression froze.

Seeing its sudden change of expression, Qiongqi knew that it had stepped on the gluttonous reverse scale, and immediately felt complacent.

It took a step forward Shi Shiran, and looked around in the cave.Inadvertently, it caught a glimpse of itself with its wings upturned from the smooth outer wall of a certain treasure, and its body froze, and then quietly gathered its wings neatly, but there was no trace on its face.

Qiongqi clicked his tongue and said regretfully, "This place was given to you to live in, what a waste. Eh—?" This is to let it see the conspicuous white hair hidden in Taotie's bosom again.

"Are you really going to Qingqiu to steal a nine-tailed one?" Qiongqi's astonishment was beyond words, and then he said disgustedly, "This is not good, and you didn't even take a turn to see me."

Taotie took its words as a deaf ear, heard the words, and covered the little fox tightly, with a vigilant expression, "Nonsense. The Qingqiu is in the east, and the Great Desolation is in the west. Where did you come from? Besides, there are not even bones in your place." I can’t find it, and the sun is still poisonous, why should the old gluttons go to suffer.”

The little fox was covered tightly by the Taotie, and it was really hot and stuffy, so he poked his head out from under the beast's claws, his eyes rolled around.

"You can't say that. My Yingyu in Mount Zhu is also a must. It has few spines, fresh meat, big size, and yellow shells. Tsk tsk..."

Taotie swallowed a mouthful of saliva, his guard still undiminished, "That's Mount Ying. You were exiled to the wilderness ten thousand years ago, and you're still dreaming."

Qiongqi was choked up.Unwilling to admit defeat, it changed the subject again, regained its expression, and said inscrutablely, "Actually, I came today because I have something important to tell brother Tao."

"...Speak quickly if you have something to say."

Qiongqi held his breath for a few breaths, consciously put on airs, and then said leisurely, "There is an old tree on the top of the mountain near the Mount Bi, with yellow flowers and red fruits, and it is not hungry. Thinking that brother Tao often has no food, I invite you to come together—"

Taotie knew that Qiongqi was not easy to get along with, so he snorted lightly, and said disdainfully, "Are you so easy to deceive when you are an old glutton? It took months of heartache to lure me to eat apples; Birds, make the old glutton dry mouth smoke; there are so many lavender, bone bone, Wutiao, Sha Tang..."

Qiongqi coughed dryly, interrupted its words, and said seriously, "This time it's true."

Taotie swiped his long tail, remained silent and didn't speak, and showed his disbelief, but the little fox nestled in its arms got excited, and imitated Qiongqi's accent and said loudly, "Really—"

"Look, it already believes it." Qiongqi persuasively persuaded, "If I'm trying to fool you, why should I come all the way here, and I won't get any benefit... If you are grateful, you want to give me a pair of nine tails , I will not refuse."

It knew that Qiongqi had been coveting its food!

Taotie's heart skipped a beat, he couldn't bear it any longer, and immediately stood up.The force of the beast's palm hitting the ground was so great that the entire cave trembled, and rocks fell from the mountain outside the cave.

It bared its sharp fangs, its face was furious, its narrow pupils were narrowed into a line, its voice was low and majestic, "How dare you?!"

Qiongqi was taken aback by the sudden movement, but immediately refused to budge, not taking the Taotie, which was ten times its size, in the slightest.It spread its wings, leaped up in mid-air, stabilized itself, and shouted loudly, "I'm afraid you won't succeed! If you want to fight, fight!"

The atmosphere is tense.

But the little fox here finally got rid of the shackles, and fluffed up the fur all over his body in a calm and unhurried manner, then he walked around Taotie's thick forelegs and got out from the shadow.

It looked up at the tiger cub with wings like a pheasant, and then at the long hair on the big guy's chest that was messed up by itself, and seemed to understand something vaguely.

So, it also assumed the posture of a hungry tiger pouncing on its food, leaped forward in a low arc, bent down, and roared sharply.

"Uh-wow!"

……

……

The yelp with the sound of milk came unexpectedly.

Qiongqi's wings tilted, and he almost fell down from the air. Fortunately, those short wings fluttered dozens of times in a row, which stopped the falling trend, and did not repeat the tragedy of the previous appearance.

Taotie sneered at Qiongqi's embarrassment.

It let go of the fierce aura around it, and satirized Qiongqi, "With your small body, it's not enough for an old glutton to fit between your teeth." As it said, it secretly gestured the distance between the little fox and the two of them, and felt that the little fox It seemed that he was getting closer to Qiongqi, and immediately took two steps towards the little fox dissatisfied, until he covered it completely under his body again, and then he was satisfied.

Qiongqi was not convinced, but also had an arrogant expression, "When I come out of the wilderness and return to my original size, how can you be arrogant."

The little fox didn't know why, and just watched the tiger cub fall back to the ground, vaguely remembering how majestic he was when he trampled the pheasant, and suddenly became excited.It was about to jump forward in a bent-over posture, but it was frozen before it jumped out, and then flew into the air again.

Taotie saw that he had to rely on Qiongqi's place for food storage, so he was a little displeased with such a "favouritism" attitude, so he brought the little fox back impatiently.

"You are mine, stay here." Taotie said coldly.

"Aw—" The little fox, who failed to touch the pheasant after several attempts, suddenly withered, lying on the spot sullenly.It felt that the big man was too annoying, and he didn't want to snatch its food, but he didn't even allow it to touch it.

Qiongqi put on airs for a while but didn't win applause, so he had to stand up resentfully.It coughed heavily, and seeing that it didn't attract Taotie's attention, it asked loudly, "Are you going or not?!"

Taotie thought about it for a while, his mind was about eating, why not give it a try, and said firmly, "Go."

Qiongqi asked again, "Then did you come to the Great Wilderness?"

"Come."

Qiongqi's calculations were crackling in his heart, but he pretended to be calm on his face, "This is decent, Brother Tao, who has never eaten it before. Then I will wait for you in the wilderness."

Taotie knew that he had other plans, but he didn't want to think about it at this time.After such a tossing, it felt the hunger rushing up again, and said, "Go away, don't disturb the appetite of the glutton here."

Qiongqi achieved consummation, he accepted it as soon as it was good, and it was rare that he didn't choke back.

It ran out of the cave with a few steps, then flapped its wings and leaped into the air, its body suddenly turned into black smoke and dispersed in the air, leaving only a tail of down feathers dangling down from the air.

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The little fox watched Qiongqi disappear, the surprise in his expression was exactly the same as when he saw the jackal being shot away.After a while, it saw that Taotie didn't pay attention to Qiongqi's disappearance, so it stepped on its big paw, and kindly reminded, "The pheasant flew——"

Taotie recovered from his fantasies about food.As if it had discovered something novel, it stared at the little fox without blinking, and said in surprise, "You..."

The little fox raised his head proudly, waiting for praise.

"...Are you gaining weight?"

……

The raised head suddenly drooped down in despair.

Taotie, who was immersed in the great joy that the stored grain became more plump, did not notice this change at all. He picked up the back of the little fox's neck, weighed it, and found that it was indeed the case.

"Let's go! Lao Tao will take you to eat delicious food!"

The author has something to say:

"It is also 420 miles to the northwest, called Mi Mountain, on which there are many dan trees, with leaves and red stems, yellow flowers and red fruits, its taste is like sweetmeat, and you will not be hungry if you eat it.

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Another 260 miles to the west, it is called Mount Zhu.There is a beast on it, its shape is like a cow, and its hair is like a hedgehog. Its name is Qiongqi, and its sound is like a dog. It is a cannibal.The Mongolian water flows out, and the Nanliu flows into the ocean water, among which there are many yellow shells; Yingyu, with a fish body and bird wings, sounds like a mandarin duck, and when you see it, it will be filled with great water. "

——"Shan Hai Jing·Xi Shan Jing"

"Qingqi looks like a tiger with wings. It cannibalize people from the head. What it eats is sent. It is in the north of the dog. One day it comes from the feet."

—— "Shan Hai Jing Hai Nei Bei Jing"

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