Chapter 17 Section 17

"Are you a fox fairy?" "yes." About the fox fairy, my grandfather once mentioned it to me.It is said that during the Anti-Japanese War, less than two hundred miles away from Huamei Village, there was a big family that declined.Their family has a lot of real estate, many of which are big houses with patios like Uncle Duan's of the Hong family.However, the family members of this declining family are thin, only a husband and wife and a teenage daughter.No one has gone up to the upstairs of their house for decades, and the stairs have been demolished long ago.Upstairs lived the fox fairy, who lived there for many years.The fox fairy sometimes comes downstairs for a walk.No one knows how it came down without going through the stairs.Many people saw it dragging its tail back and forth on the ground.Grandpa also saw it once.It was wearing a blue cloth long coat and white-soled platform shoes.But no one has ever seen its front face, only its side and back, and no one has ever seen it face to face.

An old man living nearby said that he probably hasn't fully cultivated into a human form yet.It takes five hundred years for a fox fairy to cultivate into a human being, so he will be very envious when he sees us.You get a human body as soon as you are born, and he needs to cultivate for five hundred years to get a human body.This fox fairy probably hasn't reached five hundred years yet, so he still can't be as comfortable as us ordinary people, he's still a bit close. Since the fox fairy they invited claims to be 1,800 years old, it must not be the one who lives two hundred miles away and has not yet cultivated into a human form.What's more, it said it came from Changchun.

The girl who recited the mantra finally brought the question back to the scope they had agreed upon before, and she asked, "Since you have nearly two thousand years of practice, then we ask you to do us a favor. Can you?" "tell me the story." "A boy named Hong Li'ang in our village was entangled by a snake spirit and lost his mind. Mr. Hu San, can you help him?" the girl asked sincerely. Unexpectedly, the girl who was possessed suddenly stared and opened her mouth as if frightened, and soon her eyes turned white, foaming at the mouth.Sha la la, the bamboo sieve and tea tray completely lost their balance, the rice was spilled, and the chopsticks fell to the ground.The girl fell straight to the ground, with a "boom" sound as if a piece of wood hit the ground, her limbs convulsed.

"Quick! Save people!" shouted another girl holding the bamboo sieve. The girl who recited the mantra was not reconciled: "Isn't she possessed? Could it be that the possessed fox fairy is also afraid of the snake spirit? What a useless fox fairy!" The people next to her rushed forward to pinch her, rubbed her chest, and called her real name. Convulsively, she barely opened her mouth to speak. The girl who recited the mantra immediately told everyone to be quiet and watch what she had to say. She continued intermittently: "I used to live in Hu Xianling, not far from here, with a man named Hu Miaoxian. He was my apprentice, and his family provided my seat. I used to be in the northeast, and it was the snake The spirit chased me here. I'm sorry, but I can't help him." After finishing speaking, she closed her eyes as if she was asleep.

Seeing that the fox fairy had left, the people nearby hurriedly moved her to the bed and filled her with soup and medicine.She was seriously ill and could not get out of bed until one and a half months later. Old man Hong heard the news less than two days after the "Please Seventh Sister" happened. He rushed to Huxianling again, but found that Hu Miaoxian fell ill in bed, and his condition was very pessimistic. He leaned on the edge of the bed to get up reluctantly, and said with a wry smile: "I knew you would come to me in a few days."