Chapter 132

Not far from Linhe, there is a mountain. This mountain has a name, called Laotai Mountain, also called Laochong Mountain.

What is Laochong Mountain? This worm does not refer to the small worms crawling on the leaves, but the old big worm with hanging eyes and white forehead and stripes on its body!

Some literati like to use the title "Old Big Worm" when talking about generals who are good at fighting, to describe the other party as brave and fearless as a tiger.

Now, the place where Xu Qing is going to perform the ritual is a village not far from Laotai Mountain.

Old sayings say ask for directions when you go out, and ask for customs when you enter the village.

At this time, the sky is already dark. According to local words, it is not convenient to go out and travel at this time, because there are really tigers in Laotai Mountain!

Every night, when there are few people, the tiger's power overwhelms the human spirit. Tigers that dare not eat people during the day might dare to jump out and pick and choose at this time.

Xu Qing is not afraid of this. He is a silver-armored zombie, and his bones are harder than solid scales. If a tiger really comes, it depends on whether the other party can bite!

Here Xu Qing rode a five-flowered horse and didn't walk on the main road. He crossed mountains and water. Before long, he came to Guanmen Village.

Guanmen Village, the village is like its name. When Xu Qing got off his horse and walked to the front, the doors of every household in the village were tightly closed, and even the walls were two feet higher than ordinary villages.

Xu Qing came to a house with faint candlelight and knocked on the door ring.

There was a creak in the courtyard. Listening to the movement, it should be that the hall door of the upper house was opened.

The sound of footsteps sounded, and the voice of the old man came from the courtyard.

"Who is it?"

"Old man, I am a traveler passing by. I want to ask you something."

Xu Qing stood sideways at the door, with both sleeves together, and said in a gentle tone: "May I ask if the old man knows where Sun Erzhuang lives?"

"Sun Erzhuang?"

The old man in the courtyard muttered, and then stopped talking.

Outside the door, Xu Qing heard the movement of the hall door closing, and then there was a burst of urgent urging.

"Old woman, hurry! Hurry up and put out the lamp!"

"What kind of madness are you having again? My quilt hasn't been sewn yet, what lamp should I put out?"

"Hey, don't ask, hurry up and put out the lamp!"

After a burst of whispering, the courtyard that originally had candlelight fell into complete darkness.

Xu Qing didn't understand. The words were just spoken well, why did they turn their faces so quickly?

At this time, only the sound of crickets remained outside the courtyard. Xu Qing was thinking about things in his heart. When he asked the farmer just now, the other party showed no signs of avoidance, but when he asked about Sun Erzhuang, the farmer was like seeing government soldiers and bandits, fearing to avoid it.

Could it be that this seemingly honest big fat man is actually a rascal who runs rampant in the village and does all kinds of evil?

Xu Qing left the old farmer's house and turned to another courtyard with lights on.

It was still the familiar opening, but when he mentioned the name Sun Erzhuang, the lights in the courtyard followed and went out.

"I really don't believe in this evil!"

Xu Qing immediately rolled up his sleeves and snapped his fingers.

The lighting technique instantly lit up the lights of the house.

"Did you light this oil lamp?"

"I don't dare! Damn it, aren't you deliberately scaring me again?"

"It's really evil!"

The lights in the house were blown out by someone again, but the next moment the lights lit up again.

The farmer felt a thud in his heart, but the more this was the case, the more he dared not let the light be on.

So Xu Qing snapped his fingers outside the courtyard, and the farmer inside blew it up in a hurry.

"Ouch, I'm dizzy, it must be covered by that dirty thing. You inside, come and help!"

Using so much strength and blowing so diligently, let alone a farmer, even if someone else came, he would be dizzy.

"Don't blow, I'll take the scissors and pick the wick, let's see what else it can do!"

Outside the courtyard, Xu Qing snapped his fingers a few more times, but no candlelight lit up in this house again.

Okay, they really found a way to crack his lighting technique!

Xu Qing saw that no one paid attention to him when he asked properly, so he simply stopped covering it up.

You say I'm a dirty thing, then I really won't act anymore!

Xu Qing retreated a few steps and jumped into the courtyard. Through the window, he could vaguely hear the voices inside.

"Finally there is no movement. This Guan Huapo just died, and the debt collector came."

"Isn't it! That god-woman is god-like all day long. I don't know how many people she offended. When she was alive, others were afraid of her. After she died, those dirty things must have revenge for revenge and grievances for grievances..."

Xu Qing's footsteps intending to push the door and enter paused.

It turned out that it was not because Sun Erzhuang himself was bad, but because of his mother.

After learning the reason why the villagers excluded and isolated Sun Erzhuang, Xu Qing reached out and knocked on the window quite politely.

"Who?!"

"Me, asking for directions. You don't have to be afraid. I'm a good monster. As long as you tell me where Sun Erzhuang's house is, I won't eat you..."

A moment later, after getting the news he wanted, Xu Qing smiled and said: "Thank you both for telling me directly, we will meet again if we are destined."

"Big, big immortal?"

The outside of the house returned to silence, and the farmer couldn't help but try to test.

"I'm here, do you have anything else?"

Xu Qing, who was planning to leave, stopped.

"..."

The house was silent for a moment, and the farmer's trembling voice sounded again.

"That, we have a small family and a small business, and we can't afford the toss of the immortal. Can the immortal not come in the future?"

Xu Qing raised his eyebrows.

"Let's see."

To say that the words "let's see" in this world are the least human words!

Borrow two strings of money, let's see.

When do you plan to pay back the money? Let's see.

Is it done or not? Let's see.

"..." The couple in the house almost choked to death in one breath.

If it weren't for the fear of not being able to beat the dirty things outside, the couple might have started to do it at this time!

Leaving the courtyard, Xu Qing walked two miles south of Guanmen Village until a lonely house appeared in front of him, and he stopped.

He knocked on the door, but no one answered.

The Qi-gazing technique opened, and it was dead silent.

Xu Qing looked suspicious. That big fat man wouldn't have arrived home yet at this time, right?

He took out the corpse-seeking compass, and the pointer on it spun around, finally pointing to a direction.

In the middle of the night, Xu Qing looked at the compass and was puzzled. How could even Guan Huapo's corpse not be at home?

Xu Qing stepped to look for the direction indicated by the compass. At this time, the wind and clouds changed in the sky, the bright moon hid in the thick dark clouds, and there was a whimpering mountain wind blowing from Laotai Mountain, blowing the doors and windows of every household in Guanmen Village with a bang.

Clouds follow dragons, wind follows tigers.

The movement of the changing wind and clouds at this moment really looks like a fierce tiger coming out of the mountain and an evil dragon diving down!

It was also at this moment when the wind and rain were about to come, twenty miles away from Guanmen Village, Fatty Sun was driving his donkey cart, preparing to collect his mother's remains in the righteous village.

The righteous village is said to be a righteous village, but it is actually a dilapidated small temple.

Looking closely, there are faint mottled characters on the temple gate, which seem to be something like a Jun temple.

The character in front of Jun is no longer clear because of the long time, wind and rain.

This temple has been around for some years, but the incense is not good, so it was used as a righteous village for stopping corpses.

Fatty Sun's mother, Guan Huapo, was killed by a tiger outside. That place is quite close to this temple, and it is precisely because of this that Fatty Sun stopped his mother's corpse in the temple, while he drove the donkey cart to the city to buy a coffin.

Tying up the donkey, Fatty Sun came to the temple.

There is a dry well in the small courtyard of the dilapidated temple, and a crooked-necked tree. There is a rope that makes him feel familiar on the tree, and there is a circle under the rope.

Fatty Sun took a look and thought that he didn't see anyone hanging himself when he came last time, so why would there be such a rope on this crooked-necked tree?

Although he was suspicious in his heart, he didn't take it to heart.

After all, the rope was empty, and there was no corpse hanging, so it was at most a bit scary, and it didn't reach the point of making people afraid.

Besides, his mother's corpse was still parked in the temple, so how could he be afraid.

This is the strange thing about people. If a stranger dies, no matter what kind of person he was before he was alive, it will make people feel unlucky and afraid.

But if a close relative or loved one is gone, let alone fear, even if they lie on the same bed and stay in a room for a whole night, there will be no fear.

Fatty Sun thought of his mother's kindness to him before she was alive, and he was not afraid at all in his heart. All that was left was the sadness of being lonely and alone.

He only had his mother as a relative, and now that his mother was gone, he would be the only one left in the future.

"Mom, I'm back. Son let you wait for a long time, don't be afraid."

Sun Erzhuang came to the incense hall. He first said such a sentence to the inside, and then blew the fire folder, lit the candle he was holding, and placed it in front of the altar of the god.

When the temple had light, Sun Erzhuang walked to the straw mat wrapping his mother's corpse by the firelight.

He kowtowed three times, said a comforting word to take his mother home, and then Sun Erzhuang carried Guan Huapo's corpse out of the incense hall.

At this time, the wind in the dilapidated small courtyard was getting stronger and stronger, and the rope hanging on the crooked-necked tree was swinging back and forth.

Sun Erzhuang was somewhat afraid in his heart, but thinking of his mother on his back, he felt stable again.

Walking out of the temple gate steadily, Sun Erzhuang came to the place where the donkey was tied.

It was a tree. Sun Erzhuang came to the tree where the donkey was tied, but his brows frowned.

I saw that there was no donkey shadow on the tree in front of him, let alone the donkey shadow, even the rope tying the donkey was gone.

Sun Erzhuang circled the tree for half a circle, thinking about whether this donkey untied the rope by itself and ran away, so he shouted for his donkey there.

"You heartless thing, run if you want, at least leave the coffin I bought for my mother. My mother is still waiting to be buried, you say why are you so ignorant..."

After shouting for a while, seeing that it had no effect, Fatty Sun began to complain.

Here he was complaining, when suddenly there was a fishy wind behind him, and the wind was mixed with a fishy smell, as if some flood beast was approaching his body.

Fatty Sun's fat meat trembled, and he turned around tremblingly.

I saw that it was empty behind him, and there was nothing he imagined.

Fatty Sun breathed a sigh of relief, but at this moment, a sound suddenly sounded beside him!

"Hey, fat man! What are you doing here in the middle of the night?"

Sun Erzhuang's legs went soft, and he almost knelt on the ground.

He carried his mother and turned around, and saw a tall and mighty man appearing beside him at some point.

The man was wearing a short shirt, and the two pieces of meat on his chest were like iron plates just cast, and his whole body exuded a fierce atmosphere.

Seeing Sun Erzhuang standing still and not speaking, the strong man reminded: "This place is not far from Laotai Mountain, it is not safe at night. A few days ago, an old lady was killed by a monster. I advise you to leave early, don't stay here..."

"Oh oh!" Sun Erzhuang came back to his senses when he heard this, and quickly responded twice.

"Thank you for the reminder, but I have something important to deal with here..." Sun Erzhuang was wide and fat, and usually felt tired after standing for a while. Now carrying a heavy corpse, he had been standing for so long and was already tired.

He carefully put down his mother's corpse and bowed to the big man in front of him: "Brother, you must have just passed by the temple. I don't know if you have seen my donkey?"

"Donkey?" The big man smacked his lips, as if savoring: "Donkey meat is delicious, how long have I not eaten it..."

Sun Erzhuang's eyelids jumped, and he quickly said: "I'm asking about my donkey pulling the cart. Have you seen it? There is also a coffin on the cart."

"Oh! You mean the donkey pulling the cart!" The big man clapped his hands, pretending to be enlightened.

"Brother, have you seen it?"

"Never seen it!"

Sun Erzhuang's breath stagnated, thinking that since you haven't seen it, why are you shouting nonsense?

The big man seemed unable to see Sun Erzhuang's angry face. He looked up at the sky and reminded: "Go quickly, there are monsters in this mountain. Your donkey might have been eaten by it. If you leave late, I'm afraid you will also be eaten by that monster!"

Sun Erzhuang frowned: "Monster? What monster? I have lived near here for nearly twenty years, where have I seen any monsters."

The big man glanced at Sun Erzhuang and said lightly: "You don't know because you haven't seen it. And those who have seen it have already become the monster's food, so naturally they won't be known by outsiders."

"You said that, I have to ask what monster it is?"

The big man seemed to be somewhat afraid: "I said it, you must not be afraid!"

"You say it first, I'll listen."

"Then I can say it? Are you really not afraid?"

"What's there to be afraid of? You and I are two big men, and our yang energy is more prosperous than a stove. Let alone no monsters, even if there are two or three little monsters, it's uncertain who is afraid of whom!" Sun Erzhuang's mother was a god-woman, and this fat man obviously knew some ways.

The big man laughed when he heard this, and said with a smile: "Don't you worry about me?"

"..."

Hearing this, the two layers of meat under Sun Erzhuang's neck trembled.

"Brother, don't tease me. Don't look at me being fat, but my courage is not big at all. Can we talk properly?"

The big man put away his smile and said gloomily:

"The monster I'm talking about is not me, but a monster that has only recently come to Laotai Mountain. Its name is only one word, called—Biao!"

"Biao?" Sun Erzhuang was full of confusion.

What is Biao? Old sayings say that when a tiger gives birth to three children, there must be a Biao!

There is also a saying that the word Biao has three slashes, those three slashes are wings, and a tiger with wings is a Biao.

Regardless of which saying, in short, this Biao is actually derived from a tiger, but this Biao is different from an ordinary tiger.

The explanation of the word Biao says that when a tiger gives birth to multiple cubs, the third cub born is called "Biao".

Ordinary mother tigers only give birth to one or two at a time, and when they give birth to three, they can't feed them.

What should I do at this time? The mother tiger will take the initiative to abandon the smallest one and let it grow freely.

As the saying goes, life and death have destiny, and wealth is in heaven.

Biao has no motherly love since childhood, so the resentment in his heart is also very deep. As long as it can survive, then with the accumulation of time, under the blessing of resentment, it will become more and more cruel.

In addition, this Biao also looks a bit different from ordinary tigers.

Because Biao is mostly abandoned by its mother, even if it is not abandoned, when feeding, the mother tiger will leave it to the end and eat some leftovers.

So Biao generally doesn't look very mighty, and it will look much thinner than ordinary tigers.

In addition, there are no stripes unique to tigers on Biao's body, only solid-colored fur.

Looking from a distance, it looks like a big cat.

Although this is the case, this weak Biao is quite cruel, and even its own kind will be brutally killed.

If Biao can grow up alive, then the first thing it misses is to turn back and find the mother tiger that gave birth to it, and it must bite its birth mother to death alive.

The second thing is to find its eldest brother and second brother. These two elder brothers must also die in its hands.

The big man saw that Sun Erzhuang didn't know what was going on, so he told him how cruel Biao was and how powerful it was.

Sun Erzhuang laughed when he heard this.

"According to you, Biao hates its mother and its two brothers. I am not its brother. Even if there is a monster here, it shouldn't come to harm me."

"What am I afraid of it for?"

The big man sneered coldly when he heard this. He was about to speak, but suddenly turned to look at the woods behind him.

In the dark woods where the leaves were rustling, something seemed to be touching over.

The big man's eyelids jumped, and he turned back and said: "Fatty, you stay in the temple. Don't come out no matter what movement you hear outside later. Remember!"

"It's not a village in front or a shop in the back. It's easy to say that I return to the temple, but where are you going?" Speaking of this, Sun Erzhuang suddenly came back to his senses: "Speaking of which, it's late at night, what are you doing alone in this wild temple?"

The big man blinked when he heard this, and said meaningfully: "You are so stupid, no wonder she wants to keep you by her side to raise... Forget it, I'll come back to find you later!"

After speaking, the big man's figure lowered, and a strange wind rose. Sun Erzhuang was blown by the wind and lost his eyes. When he came back to his senses and opened his eyes,

There was no shadow of the big man in front of him!

(End of chapter)