108 Occasional Orbs
There was an uproar, and more than a dozen big men poured in outside, they were like wolves in a hurry, their eyes were red when they saw the food, and they were bitten violently, only hating that their mouths and necks were too thin.
After a while, the food on the table was eaten upside down, everyone turned around, looked at Chang'e with hungry eyes and did not speak, Chang'e turned around and lifted the cowhide next to her, pointed to the sheepskin bag on the ground and said: "This is full of beef jerky, you eat first, and when it is dawn, I will borrow a few cows and sheep, and you can eat fresh."
The group of rude men cheered, drew their knives and slashed open the parchment pouches, and clutched the beef jerky for a while. When they were thirsty after eating, Chang'e had already brought clean water and a few bags of barley wine, waiting for them quietly.
At this time, everyone was grateful, and they didn't know what to say, and they all bent down to salute Xi'e. The old man was originally good at talking, but at this time he was also choked up.
The little boy was very lively, snuggling up to his aunt and shouting, sister, sister.
The busyness diluted the sadness in Auntie's heart,
The next day, he bought some cattle, sheep and beef jerky from the herdsmen, and prepared meals and dry food for the men to travel.
During the chat, he learned from the boy that his name was Xiong Zhanting, and the old man was his father Xiong Yankun, who was originally the money and writing master of Ji Fang, the head of Miao Jiang.
Although Xiong Yankun is a weak scholar, he is bold and squandered money by nature, and likes to drink, so he has made a large number of high-rollers, and he owes a lot of deficits when he comes and goes. He has been in charge of Ji Fang's treasure cave for many years, and he has long been greedy for the treasures inside, helpless, Ji Fang is fierce and suspicious by nature, and the old wizards in the clan are also very weird and difficult to provoke, so he has never had a chance to start.
Finally, an unexpected incident made him see the path to treasure grabbing
At the foot of Leiji Mountain in the territory of Miao Jiang, there is a well-known hunter named Fan Ying, who has been hunting with his father since he was a child, and has practiced the archery technique of piercing the poplar in a hundred steps, plus he is quite brave, therefore, he can often hunt some strange birds and beasts to sell them at a good price, so although he is not rich, he is also a solid family. Fan Ying's daughter is getting older, she is only as good as a flower and jade, and Fan Ying is happy in her eyes.
On this day, he discussed with his wife, his daughter is older, and there are more people who come to propose marriage, we only have this baby girl under our knees, and we can't wronged her anyway, so I want to go around Qugou Mountain in the distance to see if I can fight some monsters, and after selling the money, I can make my daughter's dowry richer.
The wife didn't want him to take any more risks, but when she thought of her daughter's dowry, she agreed, but she repeatedly asked him to be careful, after all, age is not forgiving.
Fan Ying held a steel fork with a sharp arrow, and walked around Qugou Mountain for three days, except for the usual prey such as roe deer and hares, there were no strange monsters on the mountain. Occasionally he met a few lynxes, and he didn't bother to do it.
Disappointed, he leaned against a cave and slewd asleep. Just as he seemed to be asleep, a cold wind suddenly blew, and the chill was biting to the lungs. He woke up suddenly, and his heart was excited, because he knew that there must be cold-blooded animals such as large snake pythons hiding nearby.
He drew his bow and arrows, and looked left and right vigilantly, only to see that in the grass in the distance, tumbling and rolling, as if something was fighting.
Fan Ying lay on the ground and crawled forward, and when he got closer, he saw that it was a big python the size of a bucket, and he was fighting desperately with a scorpion the size of a door panel.
Fan Ying has been hunting all his life, but this is the first time he has seen such a big poison, Rao is as bold as a fight, and he can't help but be frightened. Lying on the ground, the atmosphere did not dare to come out.
I don't know how long it took, the surroundings slowly fell silent, Fan Ying quietly looked up, only to see that the big python had its belly facing the sky, and it had already been poisoned by the barb on the tail of the poisonous scorpion, and the big poisonous scorpion was no better, exhausted, his leg was broken, and he was lying next to the python and trembling slightly.
Fan Ying stood up and just wanted to escape, and suddenly remembered that his father had said that if the python grows bigger, it will give birth to a yuan bead in its stomach, if anyone can get this python bead, as long as it is shown when the wind is strong, no matter how strong the wind is, it will stop immediately, so it is also called Dingfeng bead.
If the scorpion grows big enough, after years of precipitation, the stomach will also grow Yuan Pearl, once this poisonous scorpion bead is in hand, the dust within a radius of three feet will be urged to be clean, so it is also called a dust bead.
Fan Ying thought to himself, the treasure is currently at his fingertips, and if he gives up, God will not spare him. So he boldly waved his steel fork and pounced on the poisonous scorpion.
The poisonous scorpion was also startled when he saw someone coming, and quickly twitched his tail, wanting to attack Fan Ying with a poisonous needle, but the injury was too serious, and his tail only shook a little, and then it fell weakly on the belly of the python.
Fan Ying was still a little timid, but now he was completely relieved, he waved the steel fork, first smashed the tail of the poisonous scorpion, and then cut off two large claws, seeing that the poisonous scorpion was dying, then cut open the abdomen of the scorpion, and took out a finger-sized, goose-yellow pearl from the place near the left.
Fan Ying wiped off the blood stains on his clothes, put away the pearl, and then waved the steel fork to cut the belly of the python, the python skin is really tough, it took a lot of effort, Fan Ying barely succeeded, he took out the yuan bead from under the throat of the python, threw down the steel fork, and ran away.
He ran until he was down the hill before he dared to take it out to watch, and at this time the storm was circling on the official road below the mountain, and as soon as he took out the orb, the wind stopped abruptly. Fan Ying pinched his thigh fiercely, and muttered to himself: "Is this a dream? Well, if you use these two jewels to make a dowry for your daughter, the rich and wealthy people within a radius of a hundred miles will be envious to death."
Back home, Fan Ying put the jewel into a beautiful box, pressed under the pillow, this is relieved, at first the couple also asked each other to keep secrets, after a long time, Fan Ying couldn't help it, after a drunken time, he showed off his feats and treasures to those old guys.
Where do you believe these unspoken words?
Fan Ying was anxious, and he shouted: "Since you don't believe it, go back with me to see the orb, and let the brilliance of the orb blind your dog's eyes."
Everyone drank a little high, so they shouted and went home with Fan Ying.
Before entering the door, Fan Ying shouted: "Old woman, take out the two orbs under the pillow and let these turtles open their eyes."
Fan's wife knew that it was wrong, but he was a ravine woman and didn't have more knowledge, so she took out the orb for everyone to watch.
At this time, there is no wind in the mountain, and the power of the wind beads cannot be flaunted, but the Zhuang family is full of dust, put the dust beads on the table, and with a snort, the dirty old table surface suddenly becomes white and flawless, and the radius of three feet is spotless, and a thick dust circle is piled up around.
Now everyone was dumbfounded, who had lived for half a lifetime, who had ever seen such a strange treasure?
After sobering up, Fan Ying was slightly uneasy, but the matter had come to this, and the feeling of being praised was too refreshing. There wasn't much vigilance either.
This matter soon reached the ears of the old man Ji Fang, and he didn't believe it at first, but then he heard more about it, so he became curious, so he led the iron-blooded guards to Fan Ying's house to see what was going on.
At that time, the mountain wind was whistling, and it was still raining lightly, and when Fan Ying took out the orb, the wind and rain stopped immediately.
Ji Fang was also stunned, his mouth was wide open, and he couldn't close it for a long time, and finally proposed to Fan Ying to buy these two rare treasures with a lot of money.
Fan Ying was willing to sell it, so he told the old man that this was the dowry he had prepared for his daughter Fan Yingying, and he would not sell it for any amount.
Ji Fang looked at Fan Yingying's delicate and delicate face, and said with a wicked smile: "Then let Yingying marry the old man, and use these two orbs as a dowry, which will also save me a lot of silver."
Fan Ying looked at Ji Fang in astonishment, he didn't expect that the respected old man on the Wei Zhen side would have such a rogue face in private.
He angrily told Ji Fang that his daughter was going to marry a good family and would never be sent to a jackal's den.
Ji Fang was furious, and ordered the iron-blooded guards to snatch the orb,
Fan Ying has been strong all his life, and he put those guards in his eyes, and he waved a steel fork to take one as ten. It didn't fall into the wind.
Ji Fang saw that the mountain people were gradually gathering, fearing that something else would happen after a long time, so he strode forward, took advantage of Fan Ying being forced into a corner, stretched out a big hand like a fan, grabbed Fan Ying and shouted, tearing him in half.
Fan's wife screamed, pounced, hugged Ji Fang's thigh and bit it, Ji Fang slapped his hand, Fan's wife's head was already shattered.
Suffering from this tragedy, Fan Yingying's eyes were black and she fainted.
When the nearby mountain people heard that there was a disaster in the Fan family, they rushed over with knives and forks, and when they saw that the murderer was the old man Ji Fang, they looked at each other and did not dare to make a sound.
Ji Fang is usually dignified, but now that he shows his true face at first glance, he regrets it, lest everyone despise him in their hearts. So he hurriedly took out three hundred taels of silver tickets from his sleeve, threw them on Fan Ying and said: "The money has already been given to you, and you regret not selling, and you don't want to return the money, don't say that I am the head of the house, even an ordinary banker, you can't blackmail like this." Now that he has ended up like this, he has provoked it."
After speaking, he picked up the orb and walked away with the iron-blooded guard.
After Ji Fang left, everyone dared to rescue Fan Yingying.
Fan Yingying woke up and cried, and told everyone the whole story of the Ji Fang's murder and treasure grabbing.
The mountain people are also sour in their hearts, but Ji Fang is the leader here, with thousands of iron-blooded guards under him, and he himself is also powerful and powerful, and no one dares to challenge his authority within a hundred miles. So although he knew that Fan Ying was wronged, no one stood up for him.
With the help of the mountain people, Fan Yingying buried her parents at the foot of the hillside.
In order to appease everyone's emotions,
He also sent for the burial of a hundred taels of silver.
Yingying didn't shirk, she directly took the silver in her hand, and the mountain people looked at her with contempt, shaking their heads and sighing one by one: "Why did this girl become like this?"
After the funeral, Fan Yingying disappeared suddenly, and when he left, he told his good female companion that he was going to a distant place to find a hero to be a husband, and this husband must have the ability to avenge his parents.