This village is surrounded by mountains in the form of a basin, and the village chief's house is in the middle of the whole village, quite a large courtyard, and a woman who pushes the door in to greet her, and sees the two strangers obviously stunned for a moment.

"Mother, this is a general from the capital!"

Xiao Shu said that he didn't believe that Wang Heng was a general, but he still showed off to his mother that it was a great thing to see a young general.

The woman hurriedly bent down, and Wang Heng said, "Sister-in-law doesn't need to be polite, we just spend the night here." Hearing this, Xiaofeng hurriedly helped the woman up, and said with a smile: "We suddenly appeared, I'm afraid that my sister-in-law didn't prepare extra meals, if there is anything to do, just call me, I used to help in the back kitchen." ”

Xiaoshu's mother saw that Xiaofeng was clever in her words and clever when she looked at her, so she was not polite and took her to the back kitchen to do things.

"What the hell is going on with this fox demon? I see that the village chief, you are also a well-informed person, how can you still believe in such strange things about God? ”

Sitting down in the hall, Xiaoshu went to pour tea, Wang Heng asked.

"Alas, general, you don't know, I didn't believe in this fox demon eating people in the past, but who would have thought that there really were fox demons, and there were really people who were eaten."

The village chief sighed and began to speak.

Originally, this village was called Yuanjia Village, and most of the people in the village were surnamed Yuan, which was formed by the migration of the Yuan clan after the fall of the Northern Wei Dynasty, and the village chief was called Yuan Saburo.

"I used to do business outside, but I only returned to the village with my family the year before last, because the villagers thought I had more knowledge because I had traveled outside, so they elected me to be the village head. At first, there were rumors in the village that fox demons ate people. I heard all the nonsense that I thought was an ignorant woman to scare children, but I didn't think that last year, the fox demon really came. ”

"That's what happened at this time last year, it's about to start autumn, it rained for a day, the night before, the big yellow dog in my backyard barked non-stop, I thought it was a weasel to steal the chicken, get up to see that the chicken cage is not moving, but two big geese. Stretching his neck and flapping his wings. Quacked and screamed.

I walked around the yard and found nothing, so I went back to my room. As a result, I got up the next morning and opened the door. But I saw something black not far from my house. I stepped forward. I almost fainted. ”

The village chief's words brought Wang Heng to that morning last year.

Motozaburo thought it was someone's house that had fallen firewood in the morning. When he stepped forward, he was confronted by a pair of wide-eyed eyes, his face was bloody and fleshy, and his lips, nose and ears were gone. The stomach was hollowed out, one leg was missing, one leg was left, the calf was dripping with blood, and the pants were torn out of shape.

Yuan Saburo recognized this person as Yuan Qi who lived under the mountain, he endured the tumbling in his stomach, and carefully checked the surroundings, the mud that had just rained was still very wet, and there were a few lines of plum blossom-like footprints on the soil.

At this time, Xiaoshu ran out of the yard, and when he saw the corpse, he was frightened and shouted, "It's a fox demon, it must be a fox demon eating people!" ”

"What do you say, where are the youkai?"

Motozaburo forced himself to compose, and Xiaoshu pointed to the corpse and shouted, "Wasn't that bitten?" And tooth marks! ”

Indeed, it was obvious that Yuan Qi had several deep tooth marks on his face, as if something had gnawed off his lips, nose, and ears.

Motozaburo was cold everywhere.

"Village chief, village chief, no, something happened to the Yuan Qi family, and the child is gone!"

A villager came running out of breath. When he got closer and saw Yuan Qi's corpse, he stopped in fright: "This, what's going on?" ”

The village chief pointed to Yuan Qi's hands and said, "It looks like it crawled over a little bit, but unfortunately there was a heavy rain last night, and many traces were washed away." ”

But what are these footprints? Is it a fox or a dog? The villager shouted as he pointed to the footprints near Yuan Qi's corpse.

"I don't know." Motozaburo sighed: "What did you say?" Yuan Qi's son is gone? ”

The village chief knew that Yuan Qi's son was only three years old, a very cute child, how could he not see it?

"What about his daughter-in-law?"

"The daughter-in-law and the children are gone. There was a lot of blood in the hall, and I don't know whose it was! ”

It turned out that this villager and Yuan Qi were brothers-in-law, and yesterday I heard that my mother-in-law who lived in the next village was sick, and his daughter-in-law and Yuan Qi's daughter-in-law made an appointment to go back to their parents' house together today to visit.

In the morning, he took his daughter-in-law to Yuan Qi's house, knocked on the door without a sound, and then pushed the door open and walked in, the courtyard was quiet, and when he entered the hall, he saw a large pool of blood on the ground, which frightened them to shout in a hurry, but several rooms were empty, and Yuan Qi's wife and children were gone. The villager was scared, and he didn't care about the muddy ground, so he ran to report the news in a panic, but he didn't expect to see Yuan Qi's body here.

"What's going on?" The village chief followed the villagers to Yuan Qi's house, only to see that there was no trace of a fight in Yuan Qi's house, only blood was scattered on the ground of the hall, and Yuan Qi's daughter-in-law and children were gone.

At this time, the villagers pointed to the corner of the wall and shouted, "Oh my God, what is that?" ”

The village chief looked over his hand, and saw a blood-red cat's paw-like mark on the ground in the corner.

The village chief stepped forward, picked it lightly, scraped some powder in his hand, and then sniffed it: "It's blood!" ”

The villager was so frightened that he took a few steps back: "This, it can't be a fox demon, this mark is already obvious." ”

"But why did the fox demon take the woman and the child?"

The village chief frowned and asked himself over and over again.

This suspected fox demon hurt people quickly spread in the village, and the village chief was annoyed and depressed. I can only order someone to report to the official first, but unfortunately the official government only investigated the scene and did not give any conclusions, because the evidence is too little, it can only prove that someone was killed locally, the wife and children are missing, there are no clues at the scene of the murder, and a heavy rain at night destroyed all the traces.

Two months later, someone came to report the case, saying that his brother's family had been wiped out.

The protagonist of this destroyed door is called Yuan Yaozu, the family is poor and suffers from white eyes, it took more than 30 years to marry a daughter-in-law, and later gave birth to three daughters, until he was in his forties, his wife was pregnant again, Yuan Yaozu was very happy, and felt that this time Lao Beng Hanzhu would definitely be a son, so he set a midwife early, and looked forward to the birth of this long-awaited son.

On the day of his wife's birth, it was another heavy rainy day with lightning and thunder, and there was Wen Po in the delivery room at that time, and Wen Po's two female disciples were invited from the next village. Outside is the son of Yuan Yaozu and the midwife, as well as Yuan Yaozu's sister-in-law.

The midwife's son was a 17-year-old boy, and the scholar was worried that his mother would be old and the road would slip on a rainy day, so he took the initiative to wait outside.

No one knows what happened that night, and the next day, Yuan Yaozu's eldest brother thought that his brother's child was probably born, so he didn't see his daughter-in-law come to report the news, so he came to visit him in a hurry. When I entered the yard, I found that there was no sound at all, this big brother felt strange, could it be that his heart was a difficult birth, one corpse and two lives, so no one dared to speak?

He pushed the door in, and smelled a smell of blood, only to see that there was a mess outside, Yuan Yaozu and the scholar and his wife were all dead, Yuan Yaozu's stomach was also hollowed out, and there were traces of being scratched by wild beasts on his face, the scholar lost a leg, and when he died, he must have been in great pain, opening his mouth wide and his facial muscles were twisted.

The eldest brother was frightened, and he couldn't take care of the defense of men and women, so he hurriedly went to the back room to look, and found that Wen Po and the two disciples were also dead, and the most terrible thing was that the mother's stomach was also hollowed out, and the flesh and blood on her body were blurred with traces of scratching and biting.

"I don't know if the child was born and eaten or not." Speaking of this, the village chief sighed, "So many people have died in two months, and there are traces of scratching and biting at the scene, and for a while the fox demon scared everyone here to endanger themselves, and everyone was extra vigilant when they encountered strangers, for fear that the man-eating fox demon had secretly changed." ”

After listening to what happened, Wang Heng said: "Village chief, you forgot three people, where are the three daughters of Yuan Yaozu?" ”

"The eldest daughter was already sent to be a child daughter-in-law, and the second daughter said that she was sold at the beginning of this year, and there is still a younger daughter, who is eight years old this year."

"Yes, Yuan Hong'er is eight years old, one year older than me." Xiaoshu came in with a teapot and interjected.

"Yuan Hong'er is still at home, but she disappeared after the accident, and everyone speculated that she was also captured by the fox demon." (To be continued......)