The man looked at Cui Zhi, then smiled roughly, and said: "Haha, you are an old man, you have good eyesight, you really got it right by you, I am a sailor, because we were shipwrecked at sea, our ship capsized, so this will come to this village." ”

Cui Zhi nodded, looked around again, and said, "It's strange, where have all the people in this village gone?" ”

"Looks like you don't know what's going on here."

Cui Zhi was slightly stunned, looked at the man, and said, "What's the situation?" ”

"That's the case, every summer in the South China Sea, the evil Jiao in the sea will be weird, I heard that the evil Jiao is a water beast with the blood of the dragon family, one of the species when the dragon evolved, and this evil Jiao is okay in winter, will hibernate in the sea, but in the summer it will come out to make a mistake, you must know that the fishing village is to take advantage of the summer months to fish for a living, but the evil Jiao frequently comes out to make trouble, the fisherman who goes out to sea to fish, none of them come back, and we came this time, this is also passing by, and I don't know the situation, how do I know that I met the evil Jiao, The Evil Jiao knocked our ship overturned, and my brothers all died in the sea. ”

When the man said this, there was a trace of grief on his face, and the tiger's eyes flashed with tears, and then wiped the tears violently, and said: "I have been in this village for a week, and the villagers have gone to the mountains to avoid the evil Jiao, and many people have seen this evil Jiao, which is a hundred feet long and very huge, and the evil Jiao has a dragon head and seven nostrils, and the nostrils can call the wind and rain, which is very powerful, and it also makes the local villagers panic." ”

After hearing this, Cui Zhi seemed to be the same as he imagined, the evil Jiao was very difficult to deal with, so he said, "Then you take me up the mountain." ”

"Okay."

"By the way, what's your name?"

"My name is Long Dahai, I was born by the sea, I like the sea, that's why I have this name, how do I call you~"

"Haha, the name is just a title, you can just call me Daochang Cui."

Long Dahai nodded, looking at Cui Zhi wearing a Taoist uniform, and said, "Okay, Daoist Cui, seeing that you are dressed like this, you must have come for the evil Jiao, that is really good, so that you can finally avenge my dead brothers." ”

Long Dahai took Cui Zhi up the mountain, and the consequences of going up the mountain were the same as what Long Dahai said, the villagers under the mountain all came up the mountain in order to avoid the evil Jiao, and in order to live, the women were mainly in the textile industry, and the cloth spun out was taken out by the villagers to sell it uniformly, but the whole person was producing textile cloth, so it couldn't be sold for a few dollars, as for the men in the village, they could only fish, which was also their only survival skill, but the evil Jiao couldn't go to sea, which made everyone resentful.

Long Dahai has an outgoing personality, he has long been familiar with the fishing village, after taking Cui Zhi up the mountain, he will introduce it to everyone, the villagers surrounded Cui Zhi, and said expectantly: "Dao Chief, this evil Jiao is very powerful, many Taoist priests who came before were eaten by the evil Jiao, it's not that we don't trust you, but I'm afraid that you will lose a life." ”

The villagers here are simple and kind, and they are telling the truth, Cui Zhi also knows that the evil Jiao is not an ordinary small insect and shrimp, so he asked: "When did this evil Jiao start to make trouble?" ”

An elderly man in the village, with a face all around, holding his beard and slowly speaking: "I have been born and raised in the fishing village for more than 80 years, and there has never been an incident of evil Jiao, and it was also last summer that the evil Jiao came out to make waves, how many fishermen died in the sea, how many families have lost their center of gravity, especially this year, things are getting bigger and bigger, this evil Jiao is making waves in the water, and at night, the evil Jiao will climb ashore and eat children, you said that the villagers of our fishing village have grown up in the village for generations, Relying on the sea to eat the sea, now the evil Jiao is making trouble, so that we can't go to the sea to fish, and we can't even go back to our homes. ”

After the old man finished speaking, he had already burst into tears, and the tears fell into the deep wrinkles on his face, as if a thousand trenches had been formed, and the other villagers were also deeply touched, wiping their tears one after another.

At this time, someone in the village suddenly said: "It's strange to say, before the evil Jiao, the sea was frequently shipwrecked, and many people died, before a big oil tanker was silent in the sea, nearly a thousand people died in the sea, and most of the bodies were salvaged afterwards, but everyone said that their bodies were salvaged, but the soul was still in the sea, because there were too many dead and wounded, a thousand people resented, and the thousand years of resentment woke up the sleeping evil Jiao, and after the evil Jiao woke up, he ate a thousand resentments, so he made trouble in the sea. ”

When the other villagers heard this, they also rushed to shout: "I have also heard this statement." ”

"Yes, so many people died back then, there were thousands of people, that was a thousand lives, although the government came to salvage, but did not do any legal things afterwards, I see, this evil Jiao may be composed of the souls of those thousand people."

"But their deaths have nothing to do with us, so why should they be punished on us."

"yes, yes, that's not reasonable."

After Cui Zhi heard this, he almost knew the matter, but everyone only spread it by word of mouth, and it couldn't be true, but Cui Zhi said loudly in order to reassure the villagers: "Everyone, please rest assured, I will definitely solve the matter of the evil Jiao." ”

At this time, there were more voices in the crowd: "Daoist, can you handle it, the Taoist monks who came before also promised us in this way, but they still died in the sea, and they couldn't even find a corpse." ”

"I, Cui Zhi, do what I say, not only for you, but also for myself!"

After Cui Zhi finished speaking, he pointed to the black coffin behind him and said: "I might as well tell you that the big black coffin behind me is sleeping with my wife, in order to let her wake up as soon as possible, so I came to kill the evil Jiao, because it is said that there is a night pearl in the body of the evil Jiao, and only this night pearl can make my wife wake up as soon as possible." ”

When everyone heard Cui Zhi say this, they all expressed their emotion and said, "Daochang Cui, you are really an infatuated man." ”

"Don't worry, as long as you need our help, we will definitely help."

Cui Zhi smiled and looked at everyone, and said, "Don't say it, there is really something that needs your help." ”

"Daoist, please say, as long as we can help."

"Just now you said that the evil Jiao incident was the result of thousands of people's grievances, and the underworld records the life and death of the world, so I decided to personally **** a trip to find out about this matter, so here, I asked you for a cowhide lantern, as well as the roots of the old locust tree, and some folk colored paper."

When the villagers heard this, they were surprised: "Daoist Cui is really a master, and this underworld can go down casually." ”

Cui Zhi pursed his lips and smiled, "It's easy to say, it's easy to say." ”

"Okay, as long as Daoist Cui opens your mouth, these things you want are normal, and we must prepare these things before dark."