Little Cotton

31 Parallel World (3)

    No one knows why the sacred tree is gradually withering, just like no one saw that the sacred tree seemed to come back to life that night.

On the day when the Fox Clan repaired the enchantment of Xiquan Mountain for the Mu Clan, the entire Xiquan Mountain was shrouded in two extremely powerful forces.

That is the power that countless demon spirits yearn for since the moment they opened their spiritual wisdom.

For a while, the goblins who had doubts about the strength of the fox clan didn't dare to say anything, and many little goblins even started to curry favor with that little Mianmian whom they had never looked at directly. "Yu Ling, you've been in the city for so long, what does the city look like? Is it

really as good as Sister Huatang said?"

Survive by yourself, as long as you work hard, you will be rewarded."

"Your clothes are so beautiful."

"Zhong Chuyun gave it to me."

"Do the fox clan live in the big palace in the city?" "

Well, there are many in the city. There are many tall buildings, but I have never seen any big palaces."

"That's amazing!"

The little monsters' eyes were full of longing.

Yu Ling could tell that the little demons really envied her.

Yu Ling couldn't bear to tell her that the outside world had changed a long time ago, and it was a thing of the past for the strong to be respected.

The patriarch of the fox clan, whom no one dared to offend in Xiquan Mountain, is just an ordinary social animal in a human city, living in an ordinary small house, clocking in and going to get off work every day, and earning an ordinary salary for a month. Living the ordinary days of ordinary people.

But maybe because of this, Zhong Chuyun won't look down on her because she is a weak cotton, right?

"Yu Ling, can you tell us what it looks like outside?"

Yu Ling was sitting on the roof of the guest room, holding her knees and looking at the sacred tree formed by spells from a distance, seeing two or two flattering smiles from time to time, deeply moved. I understood a sentence I had seen on TV.

——When you stand tall enough, you will naturally be surrounded by "warm-hearted and good people".

Because whether you are good or not, you have to pretend to be good in front of you.

But she doesn't care about these anymore.

She softly talked about some trivial things she encountered in human cities, or the bizarre events she saw on TV or the Internet.

The little demons gathered around her and listened with great interest. Yu Tang happened to pass by and glanced at her, his eyes were full of anger, but in the end he detoured despondently, without daring to say a word.

On that day, the crumbling barrier of Xiquan Mountain became stable again, and the monsters in the mountain were full of gratitude, and made an appointment with them on the next time to maintain the barrier.

Yu Ling left Xiquan Mountain again, this time she didn't flee in a panic, but straightened her back and said goodbye to this place with full confidence.

She told Mr. Yu that this was never her home, and her only relative had died a long time ago, so they don't need to put on an act in front of her, after all, if they didn't believe it, she wouldn't believe it either.

As for the transaction between the two clans, the Mu clan can rest assured.

In any case, she grew up in Xiquan Mountain, even if she didn't like them, she would not want Xiquan Mountain to lose its protection.

It is true to say so, but those clansmen who treated her badly in the past no longer dare to face her with the attitude they used to have.

When leaving Xiquan Mountain, Yu Ling took a branch of the sacred tree with her. After returning home, she planted it in a flower pot.

That branch was very close to her, and she took good care of it. It also grew slowly with a faint spiritual power that made people feel calm, and opened new branches again, giving birth to new greenery.

In less than a year, the small flower pot couldn't fit, so Zhong Chuyun bought a bigger flower pot.

Two years later, the big flower pot couldn't hold it anymore, so Zhong Chuyun bought a bigger flower pot.

The two squatted in the small toilet and moved it twice. Each time, the toilet was full of dirt, and it took a long time to clean it up.

As the flowerpot gets bigger, it is moved from the table to the balcony, and from the balcony back to the living room floor.

Zhong Chuyun couldn't help but sigh with emotion, if it takes a few more years, I'm afraid it will have to be planted downstairs.

"Is it possible to plant trees in the community?"

"I don't know, you can ask." "

Then when our temporary residence permit expires, what should we do with it?" "

There is still a way to take it away."

"It will grow very long Big!"

"It should be."

"Will it be as big as the sacred tree?"

"It may take tens of thousands of years, and we won't see that day."

"Also..." Yu Ling said, fingering Fiddled with the branches and leaves of the sacred tree.

The branches and leaves of the sacred tree also stuck to her as if alive.

"Don't grow up so fast. If you grow too fast, it will be very troublesome when you turn around." Yu Ling said jokingly, got up and walked back to the sofa.

Sometimes she can't help but think, the broken branches of the sacred tree can grow so fast, one day she can become tall and big, how wonderful it would be to become a big cotton flower?

If she can become very big, she should be able to ride the wind and carry Zhong Chuyun to every place where there are few people, just like a natural cloud.

When she told Zhong Chuyun this idea, Zhong Chuyun smiled, did not say that she was naive, just turned over, in the dark bedroom, under the soft bed, with those bright eyes open, thought together with her A fairy tale that maybe only children will believe.

The fox meets a free little cotton.

Little Cotton likes to roll around in the world with the wind, sometimes attached to birds, sometimes attached to animals, just to let her weak self go to more places.

Although little cotton always gets herself dirty, she is extremely free and happy.

In order to be with Little Mianmian, the fox who always likes to stay in one place runs around with Little Mianmian.

They walked through mountains and plains, crossed rivers and lakes, and saw most of the world's scenery together.

Little Cotton grew up gradually, possessing strength stronger than that of a fox.

She imagined a huge cotton forest under her feet, and each cotton plant was as tall as a tree.

The sun casts dreamlike light and shadow through the cotton forest.

Blossoms of cotton, swaying back and forth by the wind, are so soft that they look like a sea of ​​clouds when viewed from a distance.

Every leaf is a small boat in the sea of ​​clouds.

Cotton gave the cotton forest to the fox, and she bounced around playing hide-and-seek with the fox.

They agreed that no one is allowed to use spiritual power, they can only look for it with their eyes.

The cotton forest is so big, the fox almost failed to find her little cotton.

But the little cotton was not well hidden.

She was afraid that the fox would be anxious if she couldn't find her, so she secretly revealed a corner of her clothes on purpose.

It doesn't need much, as long as there is a little hint, the fox can easily find Little Cotton.

They lay together in the softest spot in the cotton grove.

The sun was warm and scattered on them.

The fox asked Little Cotton, where do you want to go in the future?

Cotton thought for a while and said that he wanted to see the sea.

So, it pretended to be a cloud, and went to the beach with its fox.

Passing through many cities, villages and towns, people who are not shrouded in fatigue will happen to see them when they look up, take photos with their mobile phones, and share them with their friends-I saw a cloud today, like a nine-tailed fox sitting on cotton.

"What happened next?" Yu Ling asked.

"Later..."

Then they went to the beach, they chased the horizon, as if they wanted to find the legendary ends of the earth.

But there are no real ends of the earth in the world, they will go to the next place, maybe a small uninhabited island, or maybe another overseas country.

But none of this matters.

What matters is that they stay together.

"It sounds like wandering, so tired. It's better to stay at home, and it's most comfortable to travel once in a while when you have money."

Yu Ling said, slipped into Zhong Chuyun's arms, closed her eyes, and fell into a deep sleep.

Their breaths overlap each other, like the perfect ending in a fairy tale, endowing that night with the most beautiful dream.

***

Time passed year after year, and Yu Ling lived in the human city for five years.

In five years, she had three jobs and met some friends at work.

She still remembers that her first job was as a temporary dumpling worker in a dumpling shop near the middle school.

A monthly salary of 1,500.

The owner of that dumpling shop was surnamed Li, and Yu Ling always called her Sister Li.

Sister Li's dumpling stuffing is very fragrant, and the hot sauce is also made by herself. There is no such taste in other places. The store of the dumpling shop is opened near the middle school, and the business is good in the morning, lunch and dinner, as well as the students' self-study time in the evening.

But the business is good, and the salary that Sister Li can give her is not too much.

No way, the location is good, and the rent of the store is expensive.

Although the money is not much, and she leaves very early every day and returns very late, Yu Ling always misses the days when she worked in the dumpling shop.

It was late autumn and winter, and the weather was getting colder and colder. Sister Li was kind-hearted, afraid that she would catch a cold, so she brought an old coat and a small quilt from home, so that she could wear a coat and a small quilt to rest in her free time Room for a nap.

There is a little sun with a broken thermostat knob in the store. The light of the little sun is bright red. When it is turned on, it burns the legs, and when it is turned off, it is cold again. Although it is not a good thing, no matter whether Yu Ling is making dumplings, serving dumplings, or standing in a daze at the cash register, Sister Li will carry it from another place to Yu Ling's side, for fear that the little girl will freeze to death.

But she didn't work there for long, because the students were on winter vacation and there was no business in the store, so Ms. Chen simply closed the store and went on a trip with her family.

Yu Ling didn't want to be idle, she wanted to take a part-time job and wait for the call notification from Sister Li when she came back, but she didn't want to find a job in a western restaurant with shorter working hours and much better pay than a dumpling shop, and she never went back.

Sister Li was not angry when she found out, and was very happy for her.

She likes Sister Li very much, and will buy a few bowls of dumplings when she is free.

Sister Li is also very kind to her. She will make a dumpling for her every year and holiday, call her and ask her to remember to go there after get off work and take the dumplings home to eat with her family.

Whenever this kind of reunion day comes, she will inevitably argue with Zhong Chutian over the issue of "whether dumplings stuffed with leeks and eggs are better boiled or steamed".

The most annoying thing is that she can't compete with that guy every time, and she doesn't understand why, that guy's obsession with such trivial things is like engraved into his DNA, and no one will listen to what he says.

Fortunately, Zhong Chuyun will always be by her side.

Speaking of Sister Li, she couldn't help but think of another colleague who might have been a friend.

The man's surname was Chen, whom she met from her second job.

It was a clothing store, and the morning and evening shifts went back and forth, which made her unable to have a good meal with Zhong Chuyun for a while.

The colleague who often shifts with her on weekdays is surnamed Chen, and he especially likes to take her by the side to whisper in his spare time.

However, she hadn't been doing that job for many days, and the clothing store closed because it couldn't make ends meet.

At that time, she didn't have a mobile phone yet. Sister Chen left her a mobile phone number. She sent a message after buying the mobile phone, but she never got a reply.

Zhong Chuyun said that this is the way between people. A friendship of more than ten years can be broken up after walking, not to mention a friendship of just a few dozen days?

Zhong Chutian also said: "You have to get used to it, you are a monster."

Yu Ling thought for a while, and felt that what they said was right.

All familiar people will age slowly, and when the time comes, she will go to another city with Zhong Chuyun.

Before that, all she had to do was cherish the present moment.

For example, now she has worked in a western restaurant for many years.

Don't look at the age on her ID card, but she is no longer an ordinary waiter.

Many people don't want to waste their lives in a restaurant, but for her, the days ahead are still long, so she doesn't have much idea of ​​changing jobs.

Because of this, everyone came and went all these years, and she became the old man in the store.

Whether it is the front desk cashier, the back kitchen and pastry shop, or serving tea and water to help take orders, she has done them all. She can fill in wherever there is a shortage of manpower, and the salary is naturally much higher than at the beginning.

In fact, the most important thing is that she really learned a lot in that store.

She wanted to save a sum of money, and when she went to the next city, she would use that money to open a western restaurant for herself.

At that time, she will be able to make more money.

After hearing this, Zhong Chuyun agreed with it very much, and was willing to hand over all of his few financial management and deposits.

"In this case, you will have a share in the restaurant, do you want to work with me?" "

Yes, but I'm not very good at it."

"I'll teach you!" Little Mianmian patted her chest, with words written all over her face - I will get a lot now.

When a person has a goal and a goal, he will be much more energetic in doing things.

That year, when the three goblins had a New Year's Eve dinner together, Yu Ling talked about her salary increase, and proudly said: "The new little sisters who arrived last month all called me sissy." What!"

"Sister? What sister?"

"Sister Yu!"

"Sister Yu? She's so small, she's about the same as a loli."

"...Zhong Chutian, so many dishes can't fill your mouth!"

Yu Ling Rolling his eyes, he angrily tapped the bowl with his chopsticks to express his dissatisfaction.

How could she be a loli?

She is an adult, more than five hundred years old, and can earn money to support herself, so she is not a little girl.

"Isn't that true?"

"I'm much older than before!"

The annoyed little Mian Mian stood up, closed the kitchen curtains, took a deep breath, and choked it.

A flash of inspiration flashed, and the girl standing by the window disappeared, replaced by a cotton flower the size of two fists.

In order to prove that he has grown up, Little Cotton really worked hard.

But the fox in front of her has never learned the human language.

"What do you do when you grow so big? Do you stuff it into a pillow?"

Although...

he really made sense.

Yu Ling suddenly sat back at the table as if discouraged, frowned and gritted her teeth, with displeasure written all over her face.

That night, Zhong Chutian washed the dishes and cleaned the kitchen.

It was Zhong Chuyun who punished him for asking.

***

In the seventh year after coming to the human city, Yu Ling went to the beach for the first time.

Although she was the one who kept shouting that she wanted to travel to the beach, she was the one who couldn't make time to come every time.

There are too few holidays for catering, and it is hard to have a few days off, and it is not in the days when Zhong Chuyun can rest.

This time passed year by year, and after so many years, the moment when she stepped on the fine sand and blew the sea breeze, Yu Ling realized that seven years had passed since the day when she said she wanted to see the sea.

For this trip, she bought swimsuits and swimming rings in advance.

It's just that when she really got to the beach, she was too scared to go into the sea at all.

Little Mianmian, who grew up in the mountains, has never seen the endless sea. Although she knew it was impossible, she still subconsciously worried that she would be washed away by the sea.

"Come on, I'll teach you."

"Don't..."

"I'm here, I'll protect you, there's nothing to be afraid of." "

Don't..."

"You really don't want to play in the water?"

"Don't..."

Xiao The little Mianmian was wearing a swimsuit with a small skirt that she had chosen, crouched under the umbrella with her clean knees in her arms, shaking her head at Zhong Chuyun.

In the end, Zhong Chuyun could only pick up a few shells, and sat back beside Yu Ling in a few steps, and piled up sand with Yu Ling.

Five hundred years old is the age when goblins have just come of age.

Although little Cotton has experienced too much unfair treatment since he was a child, and his temper is much calmer than other goblins of the same age, sometimes he really looks like a child who hasn't grown up.

But Zhong Chuyun will let her go.

She likes Yu Ling's young appearance the most, her clean and pure eyes are the proof that she protects her well.

This look is very good, she doesn't want her to grow too big.

After all, she is a little cotton, so she can still protect her from the wind and rain, but if she is really a big tree, no matter how long she stretches her tail, she will not be able to reach her crown.

Later, they ate a lot of seafood.

Yu Ling felt that she had never eaten so much seafood in one sitting in her life, and every meal was very satisfying.

She thought, fortunately Zhong Chutian was not there, otherwise that guy would laugh at her for not being in the water, and laugh at her for being cowardly and being able to eat.

But no matter what, she saw the sea she wanted to see.

The water is very blue, as vast as the sky.

Not only did she think of the fairy tale that Zhong Chuyun made up in her ear a few years ago.

If, if she could really drift away with the wind and clouds, how long would it take her to cross the sea in front of her?

No one could tell her the answer to this question, and she just thought about it.

After all, she is just a little cotton flower, she doesn't need to go to the ends of the earth, she just needs a shelter.

She has her fox and everything is enough.

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The author has something to say:

The story of the big fox and little cotton officially ends here. No matter which world they are in, they all live an ordinary and warm life together.

(End of the book)