Dressed as the last nine-tailed fox

Chapter 346: Gambling Father and Seriously Ill Mother
I am an ordinary yellow-eyed monster in Fuxing City.

No, maybe I am not that ordinary, because I was born a man, and my status in Fuxing City is lower than that of women. After all, Fuxing City is a city that respects women.

Since I was born, I have understood a truth, or a rule: the women in Fuxing City are born to enjoy life, and all the dirty, tiring and hard work is left for men.

This rule is not fair, but all the yellow-eyed monsters follow it tacitly and loyally, because we love our kind and we also love the Fuxing City where we live.

It is this rule that has ensured the continuous prosperity of Fuxing City for thousands of years.

Maybe it's a racial characteristic, or maybe... it's a curse, all male monsters with yellow eyes are eunuchs.

Men have no reproductive ability. In order to ensure that the yellow-eyed monsters do not disappear or become extinct in the Three Realms, the responsibility of passing on the family line falls on the shoulders of women.

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Looking at the man named Xu Wenfei lying unconscious on the ground, I couldn't help but be distracted.

I knew clearly that knocking him out was just the beginning. The next step was to skin him. The skin couldn't be peeled off by just two random cuts. I had to peel off his skin continuously, evenly and completely without causing any wounds.

I have to say here that I am not trying to defend myself, but anyone who has to do this will have to be distracted for a while.

Legend has it that in the beginning, men were the ones waiting in Fuxing City, while women went out of the city to find someone to lend them sperm for bearing children. But suddenly one day, a gold mine was discovered underground in Fuxing City, and the ones who went out of the city became men.

Because of these gold mines, a steady stream of outsiders came to Fuxing City in search of wealth and glory. The males among these outsiders became tools for the yellow-eyed monster to reproduce.

After the female yellow-eyed monster becomes pregnant, the male yellow-eyed monster will kill these foreign men, put on their skins, disguise themselves as them, and go out of the city to continue their lives.

Of course, when I return home, I will definitely bring back the unique specialty of Fuxing City - gold.

It is precisely because of this gold that a steady stream of outsiders are attracted to Fuxing City. It is also because of the gold that male yellow-eyed monsters leave Fuxing City in waves, as if there is a hand pushing everything to form a closed loop.

It is worth mentioning that when leaving Fuxing City, each yellow-eyed monster will carry a conch in addition to gold. This conch can help the yellow-eyed monsters outside to pass messages to the city lord, and can also control the number of outsiders looking for Fuxing City.

After all, Fuxing City is an unknown existence, and the yellow-eyed monster in the city is even more shameful to be seen in the light.

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After I was born, I didn’t have my own name. Regarding names, my mother only said one word to me: wait.

When the time is right, my "name" will naturally appear.

Over the years, I have been waiting, waiting for my own name to appear, and now the moment I have been waiting for has come. At the urging of my companions, I peeled off Xu Wenfei's skin and successfully became Xu Wenfei. I finally have my own name, and from now on I am... Xu Wenfei.

With blood stains all over my body, a small conch hanging on my chest and a sack of gold on my back, I left Fuxing City in such a simple way.

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The journey from Fuxing City to Jinling City is not short. This period of time is just enough for me to digest Xu Wenfei's previous memories: his gambling father, his seriously ill mother, and his broken self. This sentence is exactly the portrayal of Xu Wenfei's short and lonely life.

In Xu Wenfei's memory, I saw the prosperity of Jinling City: in terms of wealth, Jinling City may not be as rich as Fuxing City, but it is not much behind in the whole world. There is a saying that goes: If a plaque falls in Jinling City, the person who is killed may be a wealthy man.

When Xu Wenfei was young, the entire Xu family was considered a prominent family in Jinling City. The wealth accumulated by successive patriarchs was such that it was no exaggeration to say that the Xu family owned a mountain of gold, and perhaps even a mountain of silver.

Under such circumstances, even if Xu Wenfei was a mediocre person, he could have lived a rich life, but he had a father who was a gambler.

After Xu Wenfei's grandfather passed away, the position of head of the family was passed to Xu Wenfei's father. Xu Wenfei's father was self-willed and self-righteous. He fell into the trap of his rivals and became addicted to gambling. Soon he lost all the Xu family's property and even owed a lot of foreign debts.

Seeing that he had squandered all the family fortune, Xu Wenfei's father got drunk and jumped into the river, ending his own miserable life in a simple and brutal way.

Xu Wenfei's father jumped into the water and freed himself, but left a mess for Xu Wenfei.

The only thing to be thankful for was that Xu's mother's dowry included a small house near the city gate, which was worthless and escaped the clutches of Xu's father.

After being driven out of his big house, Xu Wenfei moved to this small house with only two rooms with his seriously ill mother.

It's just that the son has to pay for his father's debts. The debt owed by Xu's father was eventually counted on Xu Wenfei. Every day, people came to Xu Wenfei to ask for repayment. Seeing that Xu's mother's medicine was running out and he still had a large debt on his shoulders, Xu Wenfei came to the river unknowingly. He jumped into the river with his father, just to end it all once and for all. No one else would live.

At this time, someone told Xu Wenfei that there was a Fuxing City in the world, where lucky stars lived. As long as he found Fuxing City, all difficulties would be solved.

The existence of Fuxing City rekindled Xu Wenfei's desire to live.

That's right, the one who told Xu Wenfei about the existence of Fuxing City was the yellow-eyed monster lurking in Jinling City. Xu Wenfei's good looks made him the target of the yellow-eyed monster. And because Xu Wenfei's father was a gambler, it became extremely easy for Xu Wenfei to go to Fuxing City.

In this way, Xu Wenfei went to Fuxing City and later returned to Jinling. The skin was still the same, but the core had changed.

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When I was almost reaching Jinling City, I was robbed.

I really couldn't understand why someone would rob a bloody man with a tattered backpack in the middle of the night? From beginning to end, there was nothing worth robbing, only to be avoided. When leaving Fuxing City, the city lord warned us that when traveling outside, life is the most important thing. Only by saving your life and skin can you avoid exposing your true identity.

Fortunately, I didn't carry much gold with me. After all, the road we had to walk was not short. When we got to the destination, our companions would naturally give us money.

Thinking of the city lord's words, I gave them all the gold I had without hesitation. However, even after I gave them all, I still got beaten for some reason. In order not to expose myself, I took the beating and finally collapsed not far from Jinling City.

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"Looking back now, I'm quite glad that I encountered this robbery. If it weren't for this robbery, I wouldn't have met Awang." Xu Wenfei said sweetly.

Hearing this, Yi Changle and the other two on the opposite side curled their lips, and Kaitian's eyes were speechless. He really didn't understand why someone could talk about being robbed as if he had gotten a great bargain. He felt even happier than winning the jackpot. "You're not angry about being beaten?"

"Of course I was angry!" Xu Wenfei emphasized, "Even if they let me meet Awang indirectly, it doesn't change the fact that they beat me up and almost killed me. The first thing I did after arriving in Jinling City and getting the money was to hire someone to kill them."

Xu Wenfei spread his hands, "After all, money can sometimes get some justice for oneself, and I am really rich, they shouldn't mess with me."

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When I opened my eyes again, I thought I had arrived at the eighteenth level of hell. The thatched roof above my head looked like a roof, but I had no idea what it was shielding. And I was covered with... a thing that I didn't know whether to call a quilt or something else.

Everything was so desolate and desolate, the eighteen levels of hell were no more than this, I thought: Am I still dead? I wonder if my corpse has brought any trouble to Fuxing City.

But I moved my body slightly, "hiss." The pain from my body told me that I was still alive. It turned out that the monster with yellow eyes could not go to hell.

I pulled the corners of my mouth helplessly. If I have to live in such a shabby place, I might as well die.

"You're awake."

I looked towards the source of the sound, and saw in the corner a dirty person who was hard to tell whether he was a man or a woman. He had a messy hairstyle and strands of hair on his forehead stuck to his scalp, as if he hadn't washed it for a long time. No, it was someone who had never washed it.

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"I grew up in Fuxing City. I think you have also been to Fuxing City. Even the bricks under your feet are gold bricks, so I never thought that someone could live in such a bad environment. I even suspected that she was not human. When I saw her walking towards me, although I was terrified, I still plucked up the courage to ask: 'Who are you? Why am I here?'" Xu Wenfei paused, and then asked Yi Changle and the other two: "Guess who this person with a messy hair, who can't be identified as a man or a woman?"

"Awang." Kaitian said speechlessly: "Who else but Awang can you look so happy?"

"Yes, it is Awang." Xu Wenfei nodded with satisfaction. He has always been willing to share Awang's kindness with others. Awang is so good, he hopes everyone can like her.

"Awang saved me after I was knocked unconscious, and carried me back to her thatched cottage with her skinny body. Even though I was covered in blood and smelled fishy, ​​she still gave me her only quilt, and she herself squatted in a corner wrapped in a few tattered clothes for the whole night." Xu Wenfei emphasized: "Awang had no idea who I was at the time. Even if she knew, I was just a poor young man with huge debts. There was really nothing she could do to me. But Awang still saved me. Among so many people coming and going, only Awang chose to save me."

"I have never seen anyone as kind as Awang." Xu Wenfei emphasized again.

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"My name is Awang." Perhaps sensing my vigilance and uneasiness, Awang did not move forward, but stopped where he was and smiled gently at me. "You fainted not far from the city gate, covered in blood. I saved you. Are you feeling better?"

From Awang's voice, I figured out that she was a woman. Her face was dark, even with some traces of dirt, but her teeth were very white, and her smile was like a spring breeze. I didn't quite understand how dirt and whiteness could coexist on the same person.

Logically speaking, Awang saved me, and the blood on my body stained her only quilt. I should give her something to thank her, but I had nothing. I could only thank her verbally and then left Awang's house.

When Awang sent me away, her attitude towards me did not change at all. Later, I realized that even if the person lying covered in blood at the gate of Jinling City was not me, but anyone else, Awang would save him, and she never asked for anything in return.

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"Since we have to pretend to be humans and live among the crowd, there will naturally be people who can teach us about the human race in Fuxing City." At this point, Xu Wenfei couldn't help but recall the scene in his mind: a group of little boys sitting in a private school built of gold, their young faces full of curiosity, and their eyes all looking at the middle-aged man in front of them.

The middle-aged man said solemnly, "Before you officially begin to understand the human race, you must remember that all humans will be swayed by interests. If they are not moved, it only means that the price you offer is not enough. All humans are insidious and cunning, without exception. When you go to the human race in the future, you must be on guard against everyone. Remember, everyone!"

"Before I met Awang, I always thought that humans were all sinister and cunning, and would stab you in the back at any time." Xu Wenfei said frankly, "But later, I found that there are good people among humans."

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With wounds all over my body, I returned to the small house that was part of Xu's mother's dowry based on my memory.

After all, I owed so much money, and my illness required precious medicinal herbs to prolong my life, so I naturally thought that the first thing Xu's mother would ask me when she saw me would be whether I had found the legendary Fuxing City and got the gold.

But I didn't expect that when Xu's mother saw me covered in blood, she was so anxious that she almost fainted, and she dragged me to see a doctor. After I made an excuse and explained that it was not my blood, Xu's mother calmed down, hugged me with joy and cried, sobbing and saying sorry to me, saying that she had married the wrong man and implicated me, and said that she was in poor health and dragged me down.

Before I could respond, she stuffed a lot of banknotes into my hands and told me to leave Jinling as soon as possible.

All of this was beyond my expectation. I didn't have time to think carefully. I didn't know whether to accept the banknote in my hand or not. I could only ask her, "What about you?"

"Don't worry." Mother Xu coughed twice as she spoke. "My body is really useless, but I can still hold off the creditors for a while. You can take advantage of this time to run away. The farther the better."

Mother Xu reached out and touched my face. "You are still young and shouldn't be trapped by these trivial matters."