Chapter 13: Cause and Effect

"The Buddha once said that if there is a cause, there will be an effect. Pen %Fun %Pavilion www.biquge.info"

Mu Ying, who was sitting on the snow, raised her head and smiled at the solemn man in front of her.

"So that's why you, a wicked man, are quoting scriptures from me here?"

The man in front of him was the one who spoke out at the right time, he staggered over with a cane, waved everyone away, and then transformed into a gentleman in front of Mu Ying's eyes.

"Just now, they called you the village chief?" Mu Ying also looked at him, and the gentle and elegant smiling face exuded a demonic aura in his eyes.

"Yes. Below, is the village chief of this fire desolate village. The man nodded, then added, "First." ”

"What are the intentions?" Mu Ying asked.

"No attempt." The man smiled and shook his head.

"I've heard that once a monster like Di Ying develops to a certain point where it is enough to attract attention, it will attract other demon clans to seek symbiosis." Mu Ying looked at him with both eyes, "Di Ying needs safety, and you need the vitality it provides to seek immortality, so you shelter it here, and develop a village of people like captive food for it to suck and plunder, am I right?" ”

"Only half right." The man shook his head.

"Whether I'm right about the first half or the second half, you can't continue to live here." Mu Ying said lightly.

"From the aura that emanates from you, I know that you are a demon master." The man sighed, "But may I tell me a story?" ”

"Give you time for a stick of incense." Mu Ying took out a straw stalk from the snow and bit it in her mouth, making a deferential look.

"Okay." The man nodded, his voice low, and a little sigh between his eyebrows, "This village was once overturned in a fire......

Mu Ying saw it clearly, and at the moment of sighing, this man's eyes seemed to be covered with a layer of dark gray.

"The lord of the mansion has an order, the cat demon is in this village, search for me!"

A team, holding hundreds of torches, like a crimson meteor, broke the silence of the village on a midsummer night.

"Let's call out all the villagers first." The man who was called the lord of the house had a handsome face, riding on a tall horse, and his white clothes were fluttering. With a two-foot crown on his forehead, on top of the crown, five jade-colored lines jumped up, two gold tassels fell in his ears and shook with his steps, and a folding fan in his hand was like gold and jade makeup, showing the transcendent identity of its owner.

Between the mustaches, all the men, women, and children of the village were pulled out of the house, and some of them didn't even wear shoes, curled up and stepped on the ground full of sand and stones, and saw the fierce and vicious looks of the people around them, and they didn't dare to make the slightest move.

"I ask you." Immediately, the man's phoenix eyes opened slightly, looked at the villagers in front of the horse, slowly spoke, and asked, "Have you seen a black cat, passing by here?" ”

When everyone heard this, they all looked at each other blankly, and then shook their heads.

"That black cat's eye has a cloth belt wrapped around it......" the man ignored the reaction of the crowd, and continued to himself, "have you seen a book on your back?" ”

The crowd shook their heads again.

"Really?" The man leaned over and asked softly.

"Hmm—" everyone replied in a sneer.

"That'...... Have you ever seen that book? The man asked, "It's blank inside, nothing is written..."

Everyone questioned each other for a while, and after a while, they shook their heads again.

"Good." The man on horseback nodded slowly, closed his phoenix eyes, as if he had lost his patience, and waved his big hand, "Set fire to the mountain!" ”

"The lord of the mansion has an order! Burn the mountain! With a piercing order, torches lit up within a hundred miles, and it turned out that before these people entered the village, the world had been enclosed.

At the sound of an order, the torches flew together and were thrown at the mountains, trees, and farmland. Suddenly, this land was like a sea of fire, a radius of hundreds of miles, the mountains, rivers, grass and trees were all scorched, and the billowing smoke swept into the sky, smoking down the flying birds, falling into the fire, and burning into ashes.

"Everyone, get out of the mountains and surround this place!" The man closed the folding fan, and a ruthless color appeared between his bewitching eyebrows, "This time, I want to see where you run." ”

The mountain fire stretched for hundreds of miles, burning for more than half a month, and this world seemed to never be dark, and it was bright for half a month.

In the end, what those people were looking for still didn't find. But this great river and mountain can never come back. People live in poverty and hold grudges. In this land of ashes all day long, it seems that countless ghosts are crying. People wanted to dig up the ashes and plant mulberry fields, but they found that a few shovels went down, and the land was full of pitch-black ashes, and there was no loess in sight.

Until one day, a pitch-black kitten with scars all over his body brought a twig, and on the branch, three crystal clear emerald green droplets hung on the branch. She stuck the branch in a dead tree that was only empty and empty, and two of the droplets of water swayed and fell to the ground covered with ashes, and in the blink of an eye, a touch of emerald green spread from the ashes, and then several fruit trees rose from the ground, and countless fruits bore fruit, helping people to escape from the sea of suffering.

The black cat warned people in a cold and hoarse voice that there were mountain ghosts living here, and that the mulberry and pear orchards belonged to him, and that no one was allowed to set foot here, and those who violated it would die.

People heeded the admonition and relied on the fruits to rebuild the land, but never dared to set foot on it. For in the mountains there is no howling of wolves, nor of birds, and the waters of the rivers that are connected to them are clear, but they are infertile to fish.

A hundred years later, this land of ashes has long since returned to its original state, and even surpasses it. People are vegetarians, do not know how to breed, and have not tasted meat. After a hundred years of evolution, the forest has firmly sealed the entire village, and this boundary has become a paradise.

"Until a snow bunting demon that has inhabited this place for nearly a hundred years turned into a traveler, and then slowly, became the village chief here." The man spoke for a long time, his throat rolling a little dry, "How." In this story, about three sticks of incense are told, but it is still beautiful? ”

Mu Ying shrugged her shoulders and said noncommittally: "In other words, if I accept this drop of Ying, will this mountain and river still change to the appearance of a hundred years ago?" ”

"Yes." The man nodded.

"Then if I don't accept this drop of Ying......" Mu Ying wanted to say and stopped.

"Yes." The man seemed to see through his thoughts, and nodded again.

"Huh......" Mu Ying lay on her back in the snow, muttering in her mouth, "Yechuan, Yechuan... The hidden dangers you have buried...... All things have a life, how can the demon clan change it..."

"What did you say?" The man didn't hear what was in Mu Ying's mouth, and asked again.

"I said... If I take you away, refine it as a demon pill, and then enjoy this forest of green dew by myself, is it good. Mu Ying glanced at the man and said.

"I... Don't......" The snow bunting demon suddenly panicked, and sneered: "I didn't say this because I didn't see the kindness of the honorable driver, you... It won't be this kind of person... Right? ”

Mu Ying kept looking at the sky and didn't answer.

"Or... Respect the drive and let the little demon goblin. The snow bunting demon was about to cry, "The little demon left this realm and never set foot again, and he won't mention it to anyone else, okay?" ”

"You're gone, who's going to balance this drop?" Mu Ying glanced at him.

"What does that mean......

"You're good to take care of this place, I'll come back to check it in a few years, and if this village is wrong, I'll take you for it." Mu Ying looked at him and said lightly.

"That's for sure, give me a thousand years and a hundred years, and I won't leave here." The Bunting nodded heavily.

"Gone." Mu Ying got up from the snow, patted the snow on her clothes, and walked down the mountain alone, leaving only the snow bunting demon standing on the mountainside, and only after a while did she remember to bow her head deeply to Mu Ying's back that was already as thin as an ant.

In the village, Mu Ying found Mu Tan who was playing with the child in the mud, and saw her squatting on the ground with the appearance of a child, and her face was covered with mud, and she was amused in her heart, and patted her shoulder behind her back. Mu Tan, who had ever wanted to be thrown by Mu Ying in the wilderness, was full of grievances, but now he was taken aback, and he cried out with a wow, pear blossom with rain was not aggrieved, and Mu Ying was coaxed in front of the public, and his face was full of embarrassment.

"Daxian, can the monster be surrendered?" The news about Mu Ying in the village had already spread, so someone took the time to ask quietly.

"Ugh." Mu Ying's face froze, and she scratched her head in disdain.

"What's wrong, Daisen?" When everyone saw Mu Ying's complexion, they all stopped what they were doing, and all their eyes looked at Mu Ying.

"The youkai... Can't submit yet. Mu Ying touched her nose and said calmly.

"Why?" Someone in the village raised his eyebrows, and said: "The boss of our family has also kowtowed to you, and I have worshipped, and the stonemason has even selected the stele for you, why don't you say that if you don't descend, you won't descend." ”

Mu Ying opened her mouth, wanting to say something, but finally sighed.

"Daxian, how can you see death and not save it, a few babies in our village were eaten by that monster, you are not benevolent and righteous like this." Someone said to Mu Ying: "If you want rice and noodles, just say directly, our village has miles, apples, pears, we also have this." You can say what you want, and it's not that you won't be paid. ”

Mu Ying shook her head and sighed in her heart. ignored them, but stretched out his hand, patted Mu Tan beside him, and said softly, "Let's go." ”

"Oh." Mu Tan looked at the people around him, his dirty little hands tightly grasped the corners of Mu Ying's clothes, and followed him towards the entrance of the village.

"That's right." Mu Ying suddenly turned around and asked everyone, "What's wrong with Brother Lubai?" ”

"Drank a few bowls of batter and it got better. The branch on his chest, thinking that it had lost its nutrients, also fell off. When it came to Lu Bai, the faces of the people around him were a little softened, no matter what, Lu Bai was rescued by this person.

"Let's go." Mu Ying touched Mu Tan's head and walked forward without looking back.

"Why don't you subdue that youkai? I heard from the people in the village that it killed a lot of people......" Mu Tan's dark eyes looked at Mu Ying.

"I'll tell you when I'm out of the village......"