Searching for Treasures in the Clouds

Yu Ru first opened Ming Shisui's gift. As usual, it was a set of heavily crafted gold jewelry, including a gold laurel crown, a gold necklace, gold earrings, a gold bracelet, and a gold ring. Besides the gold, there were also some antique trinkets, likely found at antique stalls. Beneath the jewelry box lay another box, filled with bundles of hundred-yuan bills. Yu Ru roughly counted the money and estimated it to be about one million yuan in cash.

one million……

Yu Ru remembered that when Ming Shi went back to study, she transferred 100 million yuan to her. It seemed that she did not spend a penny and returned it all to her.

"Mom, is godmother so rich? I'll just give you a box of cash." Shan Ci leaned on Yu Ru's shoulder and said while looking at the box in her arms.

"She's not that rich. She can come up with a few hundred thousand, but she can't come up with millions. This should be my money. She didn't spend the money I gave her before."

"Oh! ((???? ?‖))? I see. But, Mom, your godmother must be quite powerful to have given you so much gold."

"Yeah, she's quite capable. But seeing how much gold she bought me, I guess I'll be living on dirt for the next few months."

Yu Ru pulled out her phone and transferred 100,000 yuan to Ming Shisui, then continued to check out the gifts from everyone else. The gifts from her friends were all quite expensive, showing how much thought had gone into them. After looking at the gifts from her family and friends, she went to check out the gifts from Yun Jixing. Xi Yizai's gifts were all large, but she didn't have time to go downstairs to see them. Jiang Zaizhou had a mix of large and small gifts, and he'd given the most out of everyone, probably as a thank you for her and Yun Jixing's help.

Among the gifts he had given, Yu Ru immediately noticed a black wooden box. It was a plain, plain box, black with brown, brown with black, with no patterns. She reached for the box, but the little foxes beside her bit her sleeve, preventing her from moving forward.

"Woof woof!" Gu Xian'an suddenly barked.

For a moment, the scene was noisy and made Yu Ru have a headache and his ears buzz.

"Stop yelling, you guys. I understand. I won't touch you, okay?" Yu Ru held down the heads of several small animals. Only after she said that did the animals gradually quiet down.

At this time, the fox father and fox mother who had been watching nearby also came over. They blocked the box, not looking directly at Yu Ru, but glancing in other directions. But it was obvious that they were also trying to stop Yu Ru from opening it.

"Mom, what's going on? Why are they all barking suddenly? Are you hungry? (?⊿?)?"

"I don't think so. I feel like they're trying to stop me from opening this box." Yu Ru stared at the box with a worried look on her face. "According to common sense, it's likely to contain something ominous. Let's ask a master to take a look first."

Since the box was engraved with Jiang Zaizhou's family crest, Yun Jixing would undoubtedly know it was a gift from Jiang Zaizhou. Sending an evil spirit on their engagement day, even if it was a frame-up, would be quite distasteful. Yu Ru didn't want to create any rift between them, so she decided to find someone to deal with the box herself.

After much deliberation, she decided to ask Shanren to look at the box. Shanren was usually free, and since no one asked him to perform an exorcism, he would just stay home, eat, drink, have fun, and take care of the children, so he quickly replied to her message.

Shanren: Sister-in-law, the things you sent to the old house look very interesting. Let me take a look.

Yu Ru: Okay, thank you for your help. I’ll ask someone to deliver it today.

Shanren: You’re welcome.

Yu Ru: Shanren, can you please not tell Yunjixing about this? This thing is a bit special, and I don't want him to know about it for the time being.

Shanren: No problem.

Because of this strange box, Yu Ru no longer had the heart to check the other gifts. She picked up the three little foxes and Shan Ci and returned to bed to lie down, then began to observe the three little foxes. The mother fox jumped onto the bed and lay down beside her, while the father fox jumped onto the bedside table and lay down to watch. Gu Xian'an would not go to the table or the bed, so he lay on the floor.

"Woof woof!" Several little foxes barked like dogs and twisted around in Yu Ru's arms.

"Mom, why are they barking like dogs? Hahaha. (?˙▽˙?)" Shanci also lay in Yu Ru's arms. The little foxes squeezed around him, making him feel very amused. But soon, he no longer felt that way. The little foxes were just too noisy. "Ahhh, Mom, my screen is going to be stepped on! My head is going to break!"

Yu Ru immediately reached out, scooped Shan Ci up, and placed him on her shoulder. "Foxes are canines, so they could be like dogs. But I think they're just imitating Gu Xian'an's bark, just for fun."

"Their learning ability is really good. Mom, can they catch ghosts? They immediately noticed something was wrong with that box."

"Probably not. They are ordinary foxes now. But I still have to thank them." Yu Ru lowered her head and kissed each of the three little foxes on the head, then said, "Thank you." Then, she hugged the fox mother lying beside her and kissed her again, "Thank you too, Fox Fairy."

The big fox laughed when she kissed it. This behavior made Yu Ru think that the fox was just an ordinary fox. She stared at the foxes and murmured, "Foxes, foxes, are you my fox fairies? You have helped me many times since you came to this family, but why can't you speak?"

"Shanci, you know what? Sometimes I worry that I haven't really brought the fox fairy home. I'm afraid they're still suffering in that mountain place without a stable home."

"Mom, how could that be? You've searched that mountain so many times, and you only found this den of foxes that matched the characteristics you remembered."

"I'm not sure either. I've been through a lot of supernatural things lately, and I feel like I can't really tell reality from fantasy anymore. I'm kind of in a daze."

"Hmm... (???□?)?*? Then let me ask these little fox babies." Shan Ci slid down Yu Ru's clothes and jumped into her arms. He grabbed her clothes with one hand and asked the fox babies, "Fox babies, let me ask you, are you the babies of the fox fairy? Are you babies who can cast spells?"

"Woof woof!" The little foxes didn't respond to it, but instead treated it as a toy and rushed over to fight for it. Shan Ci was almost knocked down and bitten by the three of them.

"Oh!" Shan Ci saw this and quickly grabbed Yu Ru's clothes and climbed up, "Mom, save me!"

Yu Ru smiled and put Shan Ci back on her shoulder. "Shan Ci, they can't talk. But I've noticed something else a bit unusual. Have you noticed that these fox cubs haven't grown at all in such a long time? This isn't normal growth. Also, foxes are difficult to tame. They urinate and defecate anywhere, bite people, and have a strong body odor. None of them have these characteristics. So, although I sometimes think they're just ordinary foxes, when I think about these things, I feel differently. Perhaps they're my fox fairies, and it's just not convenient for them to communicate with me right now."

"You're right, Mom. These little foxes have never grown up. They've always been this size."

"Yeah, so, they're still magical."