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Chapter 44: Talking to the Monster, Only Horseshoes Can Deceive
The story is a very simple one.

But the protagonists in the story seem to have unusual reactions.

After hearing what the fox demon asked, Chen Xu still didn't answer. Instead, he asked him, "Didn't the fox hair that Daoist Hu left behind be taken away by the Lin family's youngest daughter when she got married?"

The fox demon said, “She never had the chance to get married. Because she let me go that year, her father punished her by confining her to the ancestral hall for ten days. But she caught a cold and fell ill.

The cold came on with great force and turned into an epidemic in just a few days.

She was isolated by her family in a remote courtyard. I saw her from a distance and went to see her quietly at night.

My cultivation was too shallow at that time and I couldn't save her, so she took out the fox hair on her hand and made a wish to me.

Her first wish was that I should not harm her family, and her second wish was that I should take care of the person who had the remaining fox hair in the future.

She passed on the wishes she could have to the next generation, but she had already used up two of the three wishes.

Even if the wish can be passed down, the Lin family will only have one fox hair left."

When the fox demon said this, the smile on her face seemed a little melancholy, but also a little happy.

Chen Xu said, "So, Lin Yuan used this last fox hair to make a wish, asking you to hide in Lin Qi's coffin tomorrow and question me?"

The fox demon said, "Yes, although I am a demon, I have always kept my promises since I gained intelligence. I must do what I promised.

But... I only promised to hide in the coffin and question you tomorrow, but I never promised to save him when he was in danger.

"What does it matter to me whether he lives or dies? Fellow Daoist, is this the truth?"

The fox demon asked Chen Xu, but without waiting for Chen Xu to answer, a relaxed smile appeared on his face.

He emphasized: "He wanted to die."

After hearing this, Chen Xu completely understood the fox demon's logic.

Is there something wrong with Fox Demon's logic?

It sounds like something is wrong at first, but when you think about it carefully, it actually makes a lot of sense.

It made so much sense that even Chen Xu was dazed for a moment.

Ever since he started his spiritual practice, he has encountered ghosts and monsters. Not to mention the ghosts, he has encountered two types of monsters, one is a rat monster and the other is a fox monster. However, these monsters are all knowledgeable and polite. In a sense, they are more righteous and moral than many people who talk about sages' books.

Although, the fox demon's morality is slightly biased.

But the fox demon also had his own reasons. He added, "Fellow Daoist, I actually don't like the Lin family. Do you think this is easy to understand?"

Chen Xu said, "You don't like the Lin family, and from your perspective, that makes sense. You can't be grateful to a family that originally intended to harm you just because they captured you and then released you."

These words startled the fox demon.

The hibiscus flower beside his temples trembled, and the fox demon quickly reached out to straighten it, with a look of surprise on her face saying, "Hey, you are indeed the one the Lin family's son wants to harm, what you said actually makes sense.

I had thought about it for a long time but still couldn't figure out the relationship between me and the Lin family. I just knew that I was very unhappy.

Although I promised the young lady of the Lin family to fulfill my promise, I always feel uncomfortable when I fulfill it.

I am not a human being, and there are always some things that I cannot understand as well as you smart people.

Fortunately, my fellow Daoist helped me analyze it clearly... Hey, this is what you humans say, is it a sudden enlightenment?"

The fox demon can actually use idioms.

At this point, although Chen Xu was still somewhat wary of the fox demon, his attitude during the conversation had become much more relaxed.

Chen Xu said, "It's just that you are blinded by a single leaf, so it's difficult for you to understand clearly at the moment."

"You speak so sweetly." The fox demon said happily, and then asked, "But I still have one question."

"Please speak, Fellow Daoist Hu. I may not be able to answer, but I will do my best to help."

The fox demon said quietly, "Back then, the young lady of the Lin family clearly caught a cold because of her father's punishment, and then it turned into an epidemic. Her death can be said to be inseparable from her family's abandonment. But when I went to see her before she died, why was she still thinking about her family?

She ended up lying alone in that cold house, with no one from her family coming to see her.

Even her brothers and sisters who always claimed to love her deeply, and even her mother, did not come to see her off for the last time.

Did you know that when she died, she was buried in a thin coffin by her servants?

She couldn't enter the Lin family's ancestral tomb. If I hadn't saved up some money and asked a Taoist priest to go to her grave to pray for her soul, I'm afraid she might have turned into a corpse after her death.

But even so, she still thought of her family before she died...

She also put the fox fur I gave her in a book, wrote a will, and told future generations that they could ask me for a favor in return for the fox fur.

Daoist friend, why do you think this is happening?"

The fox demon asked Chen Xu this question, and Chen Xu was stunned for a moment.

Seeing that he didn't answer, the fox demon didn't get angry and continued, "I have often wondered over the years, if her father and brother were among those who harmed her, then was I also one of them?
Am I also the one who hurt her?"

After asking this question, the fox demon looked straight at Chen Xu.

It was not until this moment that Chen Xu truly felt that perhaps the fox demon came here in the middle of the night and insisted on seeing him just to ask him this question.

On the long street, the hustle and bustle of the world still seems very hazy, as if it has been swept into another strange world.

But in the world before him, there was only one person and one demon.

Monsters have many confusions about the human world, but humans may not really see the human world clearly.

Chen Xu pondered for a moment and said, "Cause and effect in the world are inherently continuous, one link after another, like countless chains.

"Friend Hu, have you ever heard of a country being destroyed by a horseshoe?"

The fox demon asked curiously, "What kind of country would perish because of horseshoes?"

“Of course not for ordinary horseshoes, but if there is an emergency at the border and there is confidential information that needs to be delivered to the capital quickly.

A postman was riding a horse at a fast speed with this confidential report. Halfway through the journey, the horseshoe fell off. The postman found a post station to stop and repair the horseshoe.

The craftsman who repaired the horseshoe had poor skills and made some mistakes.

So at some point in the second half of the race, the horse, which had been re-shoveled, suddenly stumbled.

The already tired postman was thrown off his horse and died.

That confidential report never had the chance to be sent to the capital again... As a result, half a year later, the enemy army marched straight in and the country was destroyed.

Fellow Daoist Hu, if people draw the conclusion from this and say that this country was destroyed because of horseshoes,

Daoist Hu, do you think this is the correct answer to this question?

The fox demon frowned upon hearing this and couldn't help but ask, "How can you say he died from a horseshoe?

If a country collapses simply because a confidential letter is mistakenly received, then we can only say that the country itself is already corrupt beyond recognition, right?

How could such a powerful dynasty be so vulnerable?

If we really want to talk about the reasons for the country's demise, isn't it because the army is weak, the emperor is stupid, and the officials are incompetent?
But he blamed a horseshoe. There was really nothing to blame, only the horseshoe was to blame!

I am a fox, not a human, and I understand this principle."

Suddenly, there was a burst of applause.

The fox demon looked up and saw the scholar across from him clapping his hands and laughing, saying, "That's right. That family is so vicious, so how can you blame the fox?"

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