After returning, the young hunter immediately did as the old goddess said.

When leaving, the old witch specifically told the young hunter how to find the fox cub. According to the old witch's speculation, the cub should live in a recessed place on the cliff and live on carrion. Although It is still a fox cub, but it already possesses a special ability to hunt prey. It can make a very special sound. What is incredible is that some birds will become obsessed after hearing this sound. Like a demon, it flew towards the cub's nest.

Once a bird flies into a fox's den, the fox's cub will bite the bird to death immediately, but it will not eat the bird immediately, but waits for the bird to rot before eating it.

Based on the clues provided by the old goddess, the young hunter found the cub of this kind of fox in a hollow on the cliff without much effort.

Then, the young hunter got some ivy juice. Most people would find it very difficult to find this ivy, but for the young hunter, it was easy. When everything was ready, he was completely Following the old goddess's prescription, we continued.

Although Xiaocui felt that her husband's behavior was strange and she was worried about her husband's safety, seeing how determined her husband was, she could not stop him anymore.

Within half a month, after cooking the fox cub, he could no longer eat anything else except drink the juice from the vine, and he could not poop. This made him very painful, and sometimes he would hold his stomach uncomfortably. , squatting on the ground night after night, moaning in pain, Xiaocui shed tears of distress seeing her husband in such pain, and the young hunter's body became weaker and weaker.

By the last few days, the young hunter was so weak that he could not even stand up.

Because he drank a lot of vine juice, his skin turned a faint green color, and his whole body exuded the fragrance of the vine. During this period, Old Man Jiang came to their house every day and looked at the young man. The hunter suffered so much, and he was very worried.

Finally, after staying up for fourteen days, the young hunter lying on the bed was so weak that he no longer had the strength to speak, and his belly was swollen like a pregnant woman who was four or five months pregnant.

Old Man Jiang specially brought a catty of sesame oil from home, and with the help of Xiao Cui, he used the sesame oil to drink the packet of medicine given by the old goddess and let the young hunter drink it.

This medicine really worked. Just after taking it for a while, the young hunter's face turned slightly red. Old Man Jiang supported him and came to the hut to squat down. Soon, the young hunter pulled it off smoothly.

The poop produced by the young hunter was fishy and smelly, and there was a big pile.

When Old Man Jiang was burying the shit that the young hunter had pooped, he was very shocked. Among the shit, Old Man Jiang saw something that looked like a little fox, and it looked very much like a newborn baby that had not yet grown hair. The fox cubs made Old Man Jiang's body get goosebumps and his scalp went numb. He didn't dare to take a closer look and hurriedly filled the excrement into the deep pit he had dug and buried it.

Of course, he did not dare to tell the young hunter and Xiaocui about this. It was not until several years later that he told the child this unusual detail.

After starting a normal diet, the young hunter quickly recovered. Then, good news came one after another: Xiaocui was pregnant.

This made Xiao Cui so excited that she even laughed every day in her dreams. However, only the young hunter and Old Man Jiang were still very uneasy, because the old goddess once said that she could not guarantee whether the child born would be normal. Since the old goddess That being said, the child born will most likely have abnormalities.

At that time, Old Man Jiang specifically asked the old goddess: "You said that the child may be born abnormally, so what is the abnormality?"

The old goddess rolled her eyes, purred, and said something that made the two men break into cold sweats: "The worst-case scenario is to give birth to a little fox, or a half-human, half-fox freak."

After looking at the depressed looks of the two of them, and then at the money on the table, the old goddess added comfortingly: "But it could be a normal child, and there's a 50-50 chance of this happening."

After hearing this, the young hunter gritted his teeth and said, "As long as there is a glimmer of hope, I will give it a try, let alone half of it."

Even though he said this, only he knew the nervousness in his heart.

Time passed very quickly, and in the blink of an eye, Xiaocui was about to give birth. In order to fear that if she gave birth to a freak, the news would spread quickly, the young hunter decided to let Old Man Jiang's wife deliver the baby.

But no one expected that with the birth of this child, the young hunter's family would experience the biggest turn of fate.

First, the birth went smoothly, the fetal position was very correct, and when he was born, he turned out to be a normal child. The family was overjoyed, even Old Man Jiang and his wife were happy. But as the days passed slowly, and as the child grew up, the young hunter The couple discovered something "abnormal" about their child. In addition to having a black pupil in the child's eyes like ordinary people, there was also a red pupil under the white of the eye.

And this red pupil changes with the waxing and waning of the moon - on days when the moon is rounder, the red pupils in the child's eyes are more obvious; on days when the moon is waning, the red pupils in the eyes are more obvious. weak.

In addition, the child seems to be very reluctant to play with other children, and particularly likes to communicate with various animals. When the child can't speak, he often gnashes at chickens, ducks, geese, cats, dogs, sheep, etc. What are you talking about.

The strange thing is that those animals also like to communicate with him and often surround him.

Although these things make the young hunter and Xiaocui feel strange, there are no obvious abnormalities in other aspects. Although it is a bit regretful, the couple also feel that this is a thousand times better than having no son. Thinking about this, the couple That's enough.

The young hunter still goes hunting in the mountains every day, while Xiaocui takes care of the children at home. The family of three is enjoying themselves happily.

This child is very smart. Before he was five or six years old, except for Mr. Jiang and his wife, he had almost no contact with outsiders. Even if outsiders occasionally came to his home, the child would squint his eyes to prevent others from seeing something wrong in his eyes. What's unusual is that no one taught him this, but he learned it by himself.

When he was eight years old, one day, the young hunter and Xiao Cui were surprised to find that even on the days when the moon was full, they did not see the red pupils in their son's eyes. What was going on?

After their repeated questioning, the child told the truth.

It turns out that children can actually understand the languages ​​​​of many animals. He can easily perceive what animals are thinking and saying.

A few months ago, in the middle of the night, some foxes came to steal their chickens. The child was sleeping in the house at the time. When he was asleep, he smelled a special smell, which he was very familiar with. , I know it’s the scent of a fox.

When his father caught a fox in the past, he would first put it in a cage. For some reason, the child felt friendly when he saw the fox. When his father was not at home and his mother visited him or went to the stream to wash clothes, he would be alone at home. He communicated with the foxes in the cage. The foxes were surprised to find that this man could actually communicate with them. They were all surprised at first.

Then they became very respectful to the children. Foxes often called the children "kings", and the children would release them from the cage to keep them alive. After going back and forth, the foxes in this area all knew that there was such a child, and they were like ordinary foxes. Humans are very different. They can understand their language. Moreover, this child has a smell similar to theirs. Foxes are originally in awe of humans. They feel that among all the beasts in the world, only humans are the smartest and strongest. big.

Therefore, the foxes in this area regard the children as their leaders, and foxes often secretly look for the children. Through these interactions that ordinary people cannot imagine, the children of course become extremely familiar with the foxes.

After smelling the scent of foxes, he quietly got up, tiptoed, walked behind a stone in the yard and hid. Soon, he saw several foxes jumping down from the wall.

When the fox at the front was about to walk towards the chicken coop, one of the foxes suddenly called softly.

Hearing the cry of the fox, the child understood the meaning of the fox. The fox probably meant: Don't go there yet. Why did I suddenly smell the king's scent? Is he here too?

To ordinary people, all foxes look similar, but to children, foxes, like people, have their own unique voices and looks.

Children are most familiar with this "talking" fox. Because this fox has a tuft of white hair under its neck, the children call it Xiaobai.

The child was afraid of scaring these foxes, so he did not dare to stand up from behind the stone immediately. Instead, he barked in the voice of a fox behind the stone and showed his identity to Xiaobai. Xiaobai heard that he was indeed "the king". Then he happily let the child come out.

When the child stood up from behind the stone, he saw four foxes looking up at him in the bright moonlight, appearing respectful. However, the child soon discovered that there was something unusual. The other three foxes looked up at him in the moonlight. Under the illumination, all the eyes shone with a faint red light, but the eyes of the fox named Xiaobai did not have any such red light at all.
Chapter completed!