The Fox Spirit Next Door Repays a Debt

A Fox Spirit repaying kindness by adding fragrance to sleeves, washing clothes, and cooking is a romantic and elegant tale. But what if the Fox Spirit repays kindness by taking things from her own home and giving them to someone else?

Yes, that's right! There's a fox next door repaying kindness, but what's with you stealing my rice and flour to 'repay kindness'?

Inside a dilapidated thatched hut, a thin, sallow-faced young man in coarse linen clothes was pressed against the wall, peeking through a barely noticeable crack at the house next door.

The young woman next door, dressed in white, was as beautiful as Xi Shi reborn, capable of making fish sink and geese fall. At this moment, she held an empty bowl and muttered something. The next moment, a bowl of coarse rice appeared out of thin air in the empty bowl.

The young woman looked at the coarse rice in the empty bowl, a look of joy on her face. She quickly poured the coarse rice into a basin nearby, then continued to mutter.

On the other side of the wall, the young man who had been peeking through the crack suddenly stood up and quickly went to his own rice jar. His eyes were fixed on the bottom of his rice jar, which was almost empty. At this moment, there was only a shallow layer of rice left at the bottom. Then, before the hungry young man's eyes, the last remaining grains of coarse rice completely disappeared, one by one.

Not a single grain was left! It was cleaner than if a dog had licked it!

Then Zhang Chen quickly rushed back to the crack in the wall. Through the barely noticeable hole, he saw that the young woman's empty bowl was indeed filled with a full bowl of coarse rice again!

"Damn it! This is really going to starve me to death, not leaving me any way to survive!" Zhang Chen stood in front of the wall and saw this scene, so angry that he gritted his teeth but didn't dare to curse out loud, afraid of being heard by the young woman next door.

Before Zhang Chen could finish cursing, he suddenly felt a tug at his side. Before he could react, the cured meat hanging on the wall also disappeared without a trace.

Not long after, the aroma of rice came from next door. The young woman finished making the fragrant 'rice and cured meat claypot rice', then transformed into a white-furred fox and obediently jumped into the cage next to her.

Zhang Chen pressed his eyes against the wall, his eyes fixed on the fox next door, his eyes filled with anger. He didn't even feel too strange about a woman turning into a fox, because Zhang Chen had been watching this scene for three months.

Three months! Do you know how I've lived these past three months?

"Damn Wang Wu, if he had just made this fox into a coat back then, none of this would be happening today!"

Zhang Chen cursed in his heart. To talk about the source of all this, it had to start five years ago.

Five years ago, on a rainy night, the hunter Wang Wu next door went hunting in the mountains and caught a white-furred fox with a trap. Wang Wu originally wanted to use the fox to make a fur collar, but the poor scholar next door, who ate coarse bran and wild vegetables every meal, for some unknown reason that night, even sold the two mu of barren land in his home just to buy that fox.

Since the fox started repaying kindness next door, it was the beginning of Zhang Chen's miserable life. He became the chosen laborer, working hard and enduring hunger to support the person and the beast next door. Until three months ago, his previous self was almost starved to death. Just before stepping into the gates of hell with one foot, he broke the mystery of the womb and remembered his life on Earth.

After awakening his past life's memories, with Zhang Chen's 21st-century consciousness as the dominant one, he didn't think too much at first, but continued to hunt in the mountains.

However, in the three months since breaking the mystery of the womb, Zhang Chen finally noticed something was wrong. The coarse rice in his jar was decreasing too quickly, and the cured meat often disappeared without a trace.

At first, he also thought it was a thief, but after staking out for several days, no thief came, but the rice and meat in his home disappeared without a trace. Thinking of the poor scholar next door, who didn't work every day but had coarse rice and meat every meal, and even had spare money to study, Zhang Chen became suspicious, thinking it was the scholar who had stolen it. So he quietly ground a hole in the wall, and then it became unstoppable, and then came today's scene!

Smelling the aroma of rice from next door, Zhang Chen quickly used sand to block the crack, afraid of being discovered by the fox spirit.

"This damned fox spirit, even if she doesn't kill me, I'll be starved to death sooner or later. And if this continues, won't I be working for the neighbor all day?"

After a long while, Zhang Chen rubbed his rumbling stomach, a look of grief and indignation in his eyes. How difficult was it to earn money in this era?

He himself saved money and food, but it all went to support the poor scholar next door.

Counting the time his previous self was oppressed, it had been a full five years!

Do you know how he got through these five years?

But how to get rid of the fox spirit, his mind was in a mess at this time and he had no plan. That was a fox spirit who mastered demonic arts. It was a blessing that she didn't harm him, how could he have the ability to kill a monster?

Just as he was about to turn around in frustration, he suddenly paused, turned his head to look at where the cured meat had disappeared earlier, and saw a pigeon-egg-sized, fiery red bead, like a luminous pearl, emitting a warm red light, looking particularly eye-catching.

The most important thing was that there was a '+40' floating on the bead, and the bead's appearance looked very much like the experience points dropped by a big BOSS in a game.

At this moment, Zhang Chen's eyes suddenly blurred, and a panel popped up:

[Name: Zhang Chen]
[Skills: None]
[Points: 0]
[Detected strange drop points, do you want to collect?]

"Collect!"

Zhang Chen said without thinking.

As Zhang Chen's words fell, the fiery red bead on the ground disappeared, and the golden finger panel flickered:

[Name: Zhang Chen]
[Skills: None]
[Points: 40]

"Golden finger? This is my golden finger!" Zhang Chen looked at his golden finger, his eyes filled with ecstasy. He had awakened his golden finger, was he still afraid of not being able to subdue a mere fox spirit?

Zhang Chen suppressed his excitement and began to study the golden finger. In a short while, he had thoroughly studied the golden finger.

This golden finger was very simple. As long as there were strange things passing by, 'points and skills' would be dropped. He only needed to collect the dropped points, and he could directly add points to the skills, and then the skills could be upgraded infinitely.

However, Zhang Chen's gaze fell on the empty 'None' skill at this time, and he couldn't help but feel resentful: "With points but no skills, this golden finger is useless!"

As for how to obtain these skills, he had a few ideas in his mind. Since that fox spirit could drop experience points, it might not be impossible for her to drop skills. At present, the only way he could come into contact with strange things was through the fox spirit, which meant that his hope of activating skills was very likely to be placed on the fox spirit.

Countless thoughts flickered in Zhang Chen's mind. He couldn't think of a way to fight against the fox spirit, and in the end, he could only resort to the Ah Q spirit and comfort himself: "I've survived for five years, a few more days won't make a difference. I'll find a way to activate my skills, and then I'll settle the score with this fox spirit. Moreover, this fox spirit can also provide me with experience points, so it's not too much of a loss."

He had no way to deal with the fox spirit now. It was a blessing that the fox didn't come to eat him, what else could he hope for? He could only accept his bad luck and endure!

It was just a matter of supporting the other party for a little longer. As long as he didn't starve to death, he would endure for now. Now that he had a golden finger, he would have his day sooner or later.

Rubbing his constantly rumbling stomach, his gaze subconsciously looked towards the rabbit he had hunted yesterday. Sure enough, the rabbit he had hunted yesterday had been 'zero-yuan purchased' again. Looking at the empty shelf, Zhang Chen was angry but dared not speak. Then he quickly picked up the rope and shovel and walked towards the mountains. The neighbor was full, but he was still hungry!

He went ten li into the mountain forest. Unfortunately, Zhang Chen carefully checked the traps. Today he caught a wild chicken and a roe deer, which was a good harvest.

Zhang Chen roasted the wild chicken directly to eat. After looking at the roe deer, he pondered for a moment and decided to take it back.

He decided that before he developed his skills, it was better not to offend that Fox Spirit. He wanted to be useful to the Fox Spirit! Otherwise, the Fox Spirit wouldn't be eating prey, but him!

By the time Zhang Chen finished eating, the sky had already darkened. As he reached the village entrance, Zhang Chen's steps paused. From a distance, he saw a man dressed in coarse linen clothes, with skin as delicate as jade and a face more handsome than Pan An or Song Yu. He was walking towards him in the setting sun, holding a snow-white fox in his arms.

The man's physique was tall and full, like jade, making him look exceptionally handsome, like a male lead from a TV show.

However, when Zhang Chen saw the man's delicate, snow-white skin, his eyes turned red. It was all cultivated from his family's rice, flour, cured meat, chickens, and ducks. How could he not be angry?

That was Zhang Chen's nemesis: the poor scholar Zhang Chen from next door.

Both were from poor families. That Zhang Chen was even just a bookworm who didn't know the five grains, but now he was living a more comfortable life than himself. Wouldn't you be angry?

He was practically the protagonist template from a novel!

But thinking that the fox could transform into human form, it was very likely a great demon from the legends of his previous life. Thinking of the scenes in his previous life where various fox demons drained essence, disemboweled, and dug out hearts, Zhang Chen couldn't help but shiver. He no longer envied Zhang Chen's good fortune.

"Could this Fox Spirit be treating Zhang Chen as food, raising him to be plump and then 'crunching' him 'one bite at a time without a sound'?" Zhang Chen thought to himself, secretly poking fun.

"Oh, isn't this Zhang Chen? Why are you so sallow and thin? You haven't starved to death yet?" Zhang Chen stood in front of Zhang Chen, looking at him with a teasing gaze.

Zhang Chen snorted coldly at the words, wary of the fox demon's power and unsure whether to retort, when he saw Zhang Chen had already walked past him, a hint of disdain in his eyes, and cursed, "Mudfoot!"

The little fox in the other's arms also looked at Zhang Chen with eyes full of amusement. Those lively eyes were filled with human-like intelligence.

Watching the two figures walk away, Zhang Chen spat fiercely on the ground: "Just you wait! Sooner or later, I'll make a big fox fur coat..."

Just as Zhang Chen was muttering to himself, his eyes suddenly blurred, and he saw a ball of red light fall from the Fox Spirit's body. The red light was particularly conspicuous in the dim setting sun.

Neither Zhang Chen nor the Fox Spirit seemed to notice the red light.

"What's that?" Zhang Chen was stunned, and then couldn't help but be overjoyed: "Another drop?"

I recommend the author's old book: "Strange World, I Can Bestow Divinity". The link is below.