Fox Spirit (3)

Athena knew that Tiger Girl wouldn't mind any jokes, but it would be different if Ye Lang was involved. Also, she would become wary if anyone threatened her relationship with Ye Lang.

However, what she couldn't understand was that the relationship Tiger Girl wanted was very simple: she just needed to serve her young master, nothing more.

"You're such a Fox Spirit, Tiger Girl. Let's ignore her and go for a walk!" Ye Lang pulled Tiger Girl away, no longer paying attention to Athena.

"Hmph, daring to call me Fox Spirit, but what does 'Fox Spirit' mean, young master..." Athena decided to fight Ye Lang to the bitter end today, she wanted to figure out what "Fox Spirit" meant.

Ye Lang had called her Fox Spirit more than once. Although she didn't know what the word meant, it was clearly not a compliment; it was an insult.

Ye Lang had stated definitively that this was an insult, directed at shameless women.

Ye Lang still didn't explain the specific meaning of "Fox Spirit." It wasn't that Ye Lang didn't want to tell Athena; in fact, he himself was a little confused. The meaning of "Fox Spirit" could be completely different at different times.

Fox Spirit originally appeared as auspicious and positive figures. In Ancient Era, a group of clans used the fox as a totem. According to legend, Yu the Great also started to marry and have children because of a nine-tailed white fox, which led to him becoming the founding king of the Xia Dynasty.

The fox held the most revered status during the pre-Qin and Han dynasties, and was even ranked alongside the dragon, qilin, and phoenix as one of the four auspicious creatures!

In Han Dynasty stone carvings and brick paintings, Nine-tailed Fox are often depicted alongside white rabbits, toads, and bluebirds beside the Queen Mother of the West, symbolizing auspiciousness. Some have also summarized that foxes possess three virtues: soft fur, conforming to the doctrine of the mean; a body that is smaller in the front and larger in the back, conforming to the order of hierarchy; and when they die, their heads face their dens, showing that they do not forget their roots.

Foxes lived a very comfortable life during the more than two thousand years from the Xia to the Han dynasties!

After the Han Dynasty, the status of Fox Spirit as auspicious symbols plummeted. All the previous positive connotations about foxes disappeared, replaced by derogatory terms like "suspicious," "seductive," and "fox-like," which quickly became synonymous with bad behavior. Over time, Fox Spirit became a euphemism for morally questionable individuals, a notorious derogatory term that remains unrepentant to this day.

Poor Fox Spirit, I wonder when she'll be exonerated; it seems unlikely.

There was once someone who wrote about Fox Spirit so perfectly, yet it still didn't change the fact that this situation exists. And that person seems to be Pu Songling...

Ye Lang wasn't quite sure about these things. He was certain that if Athena asked him again, he would tell her the stories from Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio, and then she would understand what the Fox Spirit meant.

Afterwards, Ye Lang did indeed do so, and Athena took a liking to the title of "Fox Spirit." She even made Ye Lang her "Fox Spirit," which made Ye Lang feel a little awkward at the time.

How can you call a perfectly nice young woman Fox Spirit?

Of course, Ye Lang still called out in the end, because he was only a little embarrassed, while he felt that Athena was making things much more difficult for him.

Anyway, nobody in this world knows what "Fox Spirit" means, so it's not a big problem!

Athena, you Fox Spirit Athena, Fox Spirit ...

Ye Lang was unaware that he had exonerated the Fox Spirit in this world. In later generations, the Fox Spirit was a compliment for a girl, an embodiment of virtues such as beauty, wisdom, and kindness.

A noun can have completely different meanings depending on the era, so it's perfectly normal for it to have different meanings in another world!

"Tiger Girl, are there any auction houses around here?" Ye Lang was about to splurge again. He had the means to do so now. After that time he robbed people while practicing medicine—no, after taking money from them—his wealth was terrifying.

Come to think of it, all those materials he used to squander money on seem to have been used up. Is this considered wasting money or making money?

No one can explain it clearly anymore!

Ye Lang now only wants to splurge once again, filling his Space Ring to the brim so it's no longer empty!

"No..." Tiger Girl shook her head. This is Tiger Tribe, how could there be an auction house? Only Human Race have those.

In tribes, most people prefer to barter for what they need, and there are no fixed prices among them. So how could an auction house exist in such a place?

Obviously, that's impossible!!

"I'm so bored, let's go to the market..." Ye Lang said, preparing to go to the market.

The market is a good place; people often trade useless things for other things, and these useless things are often very useful to Ye Lang.

Therefore, Ye Lang has basically been spending his time in the market during this period!

"Uncle, uncle, I want this, this, this! What? I don't have anything to exchange, use gold coins instead..."

Ye Lang's voice echoed through the market. He seemed to have discovered quite a few good things, though he had nothing to exchange for them. Fortunately, gold coins could still be used here.

Gold is a hard currency; it can be used as money in any era and in any place!

In fact, in addition to bartering, the market also allows goods to be exchanged for gold, and naturally, gold can also be exchanged for goods.

In the market, there is a place where the tribe officially buys things. They buy up the things that people don't need, and then they transport these things to the Human Race to sell. The money they make is invested in construction, and they don't take a single penny away.

This is the pure place of the Orcs; they have no selfish motives. This can be seen from Tiger Girl's home. As a tribal chief, her residence is almost no different from that of an ordinary person.

"Wow, this, this... I want this!" Ye Lang stared at something with shining eyes, as if he had discovered a treasure.

Tiger Girl and Athena followed Ye Lang's gaze and found a stall with some animal hides on it, some of which were high-grade furs.

However, based on Tiger Girl's understanding of Ye Lang, she knew that Ye Lang was not interested in fur. She thought that Ye Lang must be excited because the animal hide could be made into some kind of material.

"Boss, how much is this?" Ye Lang asked, pointing to one of the animal hides.

"What can I trade you for?" the stall owner asked.

"I only have gold coins!" Ye Lang replied directly.

"Gold coins? Then give me a gold coin." The man selling animal hides seemed to know nothing about gold coins either, and just asked for one at random. He had heard that these animal hides were probably worth that much.

High-quality fur coats can cost more than one gold coin, or even several or a dozen!