[Xu Run] Love Parting

16.

It has been more than a month since I returned to Mengzhai, but Runyu was still a little dazed occasionally, and mistakenly called Lier Li for Carp.

That day Xufeng told him with tears that if he wanted to be Li'er's mother, he would also like to be Li'er's father and take care of him for the rest of his life.

Afterwards, the three of them returned to the Dream Compensation Studio.One is because it is close to the capital, and the other is because the aura is abundant in the mountains, which is convenient for the raccoons to practice.

But sitting in the room at this time, looking at the figure of Li Er playing under the peach blossom tree, Runyu suddenly didn't know whether it was right or wrong.

Xu Feng came over and saw that he was frowning, so he couldn't help asking: "What's wrong?"

Runyu pondered for a while, then said, "I think I'm too unfair to Li'er."

Xu Feng sat next to him with warm eyes: "Why do you think so?"

Runyu looked out of the window with a faint melancholy on his face: "Because he is so much like Li'er, I always involuntarily regard him as Li'er's substitute. He is still a child, which is too unfair to him."

Xu Feng sighed, and cupped his face: "You, you just think too much. Let me ask you, do you treat Li'er as your own child?"

"Yes."

"Then will you ask him to do something, or to say, to do the same thing as Li'er?"

Runyu thought for a while: "No, I won't."

"That's right, Li'er is your child, and Li'er is also your child. He will grow up slowly and become his own appearance. You don't need to feel guilty about this at all, because you have never given him anything. burden."

"Is that right?"

"Well, how much you loved him in the first place, you will still love him like that in the future. However, you can't be too loose with him. He is immature, and you and I need to strictly control him."

"Okay." A slight smile rose from the corner of Runyu's lips, but Xu Feng didn't notice that the smile didn't reach his eyes.

What Xu Feng said was from the bottom of his heart, and he really believed it, until one day Li Er came to ask him how to turn his fur into white.

Li'er is a black fox. He is still young, and his foundation in the art of illusion is still shallow, and his clothes change to the color of fur.

Xu Feng knelt down and pinched his little face, and asked him, "Why do you want to be white?"

Li'er pouted, twisted the corners of her clothes with her two small hands, and stammered: "Because... because mother likes it, every time I wear white clothes, mother will smile very happily."

Xu Feng's heart skipped a beat, and he remained silent for a long while.

Li'er said again: "Daddy, can you tell me about brother Li'er?"

Xu Feng looked at him for a long time, then rubbed the top of his head: "Okay."

Since that day, Runyu has found that Li'er is a bit weird. He no longer shows his real body to catch butterflies, and he no longer wears fur-like clothes. He even learned to roll in the small mud puddle beside the stream.

If it is said that Runyu didn't take these things to heart at first, but when he found that Li'er had messed up his half-length hair with scissors, he could no longer just sit idly by.

Runyu snatched the scissors from Lier's hand, and slapped them heavily on the table.

Li'er was startled, shrunk his neck, and immediately lowered his little furry head.

Runyu originally wanted to pretend to be angry to scare him, but seeing him like this, he immediately lost his temper.

He hugged Li'er on his lap and asked softly, "Why did you do this?"

Li'er lowered her head and said, "I want to wear a bun on top of my head."

"You can also tie your hair now."

"But," Li'er raised her face and looked at Runyu timidly, "but then, it's all tied up, and beside...there are no broken hairs hanging down."

Li'er frantically gesticulated for a long time before Runyu understood.

Short hair that reaches the ears and a bun on the top of the head, that's what Li'er looks like.

Runyu stroked Li'er's dog-like temples, and suddenly felt sad. He asked, "Why do you deliberately pretend to be Brother Li'er?"

Li'er raised his eyes, wet: "Because of this, mother will be happy." He thought for a while and added: "If mother is happy, she won't let Li'er go."

Runyu's eyes turned red instantly.

It turns out that Li'er has been afraid all the time, because she once tried to abandon him.

It was only then that Runyu realized what kind of expectation Lier was holding behind the "mother" in her voice.

Runyu carried Li'er to the bed and sat down, then called Xu Feng over, and the two of them sat on Li'er's side, encircling him in the middle.

"Li'er, listen carefully, mother will only say the next thing once, but she will make the numbers for the rest of her life, and father will testify."

Xu Feng hurriedly said: "Yes, I will testify."

"En!" Li'er nodded heavily.

"Li'er, you are not anyone's substitute, you are yourself, you are my mother's little fox, my mother likes the little fox to be happy being herself, and doesn't like to see the little fox pretending to be a little carp. Son, do you understand?"

Li'er blinked her big eyes, ignorant, but nodded obediently.

"Li'er, mother swears to you that no matter what you look like or what you did wrong, you are still mother's child, and father and mother will never want you in their entire lives."

Li'er understood this sentence, he grinned, and suddenly got into Runyu's arms and cried loudly, crying, mother, mother.

This was the first time Li'er cried when he came to Compensation for Dreams. Runyu didn't know how long Li'er had endured alone, how long he had been afraid, but he knew that he would not let Li'er continue to be afraid.

Xu Feng watched them crying with snot and tears, smiled with red eyes, got up quietly and went out to get a handkerchief, and wiped away the tears on their faces one by one.

Runyu helped Li'er trim his hair again, and then helped him comb a playful braid behind his head.

When Runyu showed the mirror to Li'er, Li'er was very satisfied, and his face was full of teeth.

After Li'er fell asleep at night, Runyu asked Xu Feng, "You told Li'er about Li'er, right?"

Xu Feng did not avoid his gaze: "Yes."

"You want me to know that Li'er and Li'er are different."

"They are different from the beginning, even if Li'er is really the reincarnation of Li'er, they can't be exactly the same. Yu'er, you actually know this yourself, but you are avoiding it."

Runyu caressed Li'er's smiling face when she was sleeping soundly: "Yes, I always look for the shadow of the past in Li'er, but when Li'er really does that deliberately, I'm not happy."

"Because you feel sorry for him, because you really treat Lier as your child, not just a substitute. But it's useless for me to say these things, you will believe it only if you feel it yourself."

Xu Feng embraced Runyu, and said nose to nose with him: "So Yu'er, stop blaming yourself, for Li'er, you are the best mother in the world."

"Yeah." There was finally a smile in Runyu's eyes, he raised his face, and kissed Xufeng's warm lips...

Runyu found that when he really let go of his worries and observed Li'er carefully, Li'er was actually different from Li'er in many ways.

Li'er likes black clothes, because even if it is dirty, it can't be seen;

But Lier actually likes to be clean, not to mention that he doesn’t know how to roll in the mud, even before entering the house, he must stretch out his tongue to lick off the mud on his little paws, although this has been firmly stopped by Runyu;

Li'er likes to bask in the sun, especially when he transforms into his original form and lays on his lap to bask in the sun, revealing his pink and tender belly;

Li'er likes to eat meat, not vegetarian, especially loves to eat chicken, and it looks like it is in its original shape, with two little furry paws holding a chicken leg, the little pink nose is full of oil, and even the beard becomes shiny ;

……

If there is any similarity, it is that they both love to laugh and eat green balls.

On that day, there was Li'er's birthday festival again, Runyu and Xu Feng got up early as usual to make green balls, and after paying homage to Li'er, they returned to the kitchen, only to find that the remaining few green balls had been eaten up by Li'er. Li'er's face was still covered with bean paste.

Runyu and Xufeng looked at each other and smiled, then made another pot, and the three of them shared and ate it together.

From that day on, Runyu asked Li'er to go with them to offer three sticks of incense to Li'er every day. Li'er also understood that there was an older brother he had never met lying in the small wooden sign, and Runyu even saw it. , Li'er muttered alone in front of Li'er's spiritual tablet, not knowing what to whisper.

The more Runyu liked Li'er, the more he couldn't bear to reprimand him. For this reason, Xu Feng repeatedly pointed at him, shook his head and sighed.

With such a mother to protect her, Li'er became more and more naughty, forcing Xu Feng to put on airs of a strict father.

So later on in the courtyard of the Mengzhai, there was a common scene like this: Xu Feng was panting after a little black fur fox with a feather duster in her hand. Seeing that she was about to catch up with her, the little fox jumped up and was watching and drinking tea with a smile on her face. In Runyu's arms, only the big bushy tail was exposed, and he shook Xufeng triumphantly, until Xufeng was half dead with anger.

Ten years later, Li'er's practice had a preliminary foundation, and Xu Feng and Runyu took Li'er on the journey of the Six Realms again.

But no matter where you are, some things never change.

For example, when Runyu played chess with Xufeng, there was always a little fox like a black rice dumpling on his lap;

For example, when Runyu taught Lier how to read and write, there was always the sound of Xufeng's harp beside her;

For another example, when Xu Feng took Li'er out hunting and returned home, there was always delicious food on the table. Although the taste was not good, Xu Feng and Li'er could always eat with relish.

A family of three is together, and the days are as happy as running water, and it will be a hundred years before Runyu is resurrected.

In the 100th year, Xufeng and Runyu decided to take Lier back to Mengzhai and spend this year quietly.

Because, Ximengzhai is their real home.

This Qixi Festival, because Runyu was dragged around by Xufeng all afternoon, she couldn't help but feel a little tired in the evening, so just after nightfall, the two of them took Lier to the creek behind the house, and made a good meal during the day. When the lotus lantern was released, Li'er also made one for herself. It was so ugly that she wrote something but tried her best to protect it. Neither Runyu nor Xufeng saw it.

After sitting in the courtyard and enjoying the moonlight for a while, Xu Feng asked Runyu to wash up, and carried Li'er to the small bed in the cubicle, and put him to sleep.

Just as the two fell asleep on the couch, a gourd suddenly flew into the window and landed on their bedside.

Xu Feng ignited a cluster of spiritual fire with her fingertips, stroked the top of Jinque's head, and Jinque immediately said: "Your Highness, something important has happened in the heavenly world. I am waiting for you at Mengmengzhai, please come quickly."

It was Kuang Lu's voice.The two looked at each other, not knowing what was going on.

The next moment, the courtyard door was pushed open. I didn't expect Kuang Lu to come so quickly.

Xufeng and Runyu hurriedly put on their robes and went out to greet them.

When Kuang Lu saw Runyu, she knelt down without saying a word: "Your Highness, I know you don't want to go back to the heaven, but Kuang Lu really has no other choice."

Runyu hurriedly said, "What's the matter?"

"The demon king Mo Fei led the demon army to attack the heavens, and they are about to break through the Nantian Gate."

Xu Feng was taken aback: "I'm aware of Mo Fei's seriousness, even if he shows up in full force, he won't be able to push the Heaven Realm to such an extent! What's going on?"

"It's true that the demon king sneaked into the heavens at some point and stole the power of Qiongqi. On the battlefield, he showed his might. None of the immortals in the heavens was his opponent, and the heavenly soldiers and generals also suffered heavy losses because of him. , was defeated by the demon army."

Kuang Lu choked up, while Runyu clenched her lips, filled with remorse.

Taiwei didn't completely wipe out Qiongqi until his death, he knew this well, but he had been on the throne for more than half a year, he was devoting himself to political affairs during the day, and was in a trance about Xufeng at night, he had forgotten even Tuyao for a long time, let alone a Ancient beast?

But he didn't expect such a disaster to happen now!