Chapter 0021: The Battle of Exterminating the Fox
Gu Feng said as he walked around the back of the big fox statue, wanting to see how big and small the fox paw prints on the ground were. The torch that was thrown in just now was still burning, and the ancient wind turned around, but it was so chaotic that it couldn't be seen clearly. When leaving the main hall, in order to make the people who come to the incense the next day scared, and to let the two beggars who died have a home, regardless of whether it is a burial, water burial, cremation, or a crow burial on the top of the mountain, it can be regarded as a burial.
Gu Yu didn't think so, she said, such a burn would make the people who came to incense think that these two people were punished by the fox because they offended the fox fairy, not only could not warn them, but they respected the fox fairy even more, and did not dare to offend the group of foxes. On the contrary, placing the two skeletons in the center of the main hall like this, and taking away all the torches, without destroying the messy traces of the foxes, may make the people who come to the incense again shocked by the reality that the foxes also eat people, and play a warning role.
Gu Feng and Liu Qing were both persuaded by Gu Yu, of course, Yu Ni didn't think about these things. Leaving the main hall, Liu Qing said: "We can only choose one of the east and west halls to spend the night, and then follow the fox's trail to find their nest when the fourth watch is over." The materials we brought only said that when we go down to the back cliff to the valley, the reference is not detailed and specific, and we must find the exact location! ”
Gu Feng agreed with his senior brother's statement, this time to find is not only dangerous, but also the possibility of being attacked by the fox swarm. So they gathered together the remaining torches and raised a fire, and in every temple there were lamps to light and keep warm! The four of them took turns to sleep, Yuni and Gu Yu both wanted Gu Feng to sleep more, and the three of them were on duty for the night, Gu Feng didn't agree, and they didn't need to sleep. Gu Feng has never despised his subordinates as slaves, he has always regarded his subordinates as relatives, not to mention that Liu Qing, Yuni and Yuhu are his original relatives, so they must be treated as equals.
The four people took turns to be on duty at night, and at the end of the fourth watch, the genius was bright, and the fog in the mountains was heavy, and they could not distinguish the road. Gu Feng they held a torch in their left hand, a few torches on their backs, and a sword in their right hand to the back slope of Dafa Temple, the sky was already very bright, although the mountains and forests were still dark, but they could see things at a considerable distance. Originally, the monastery was located on a large dirt hill, facing a valley that was not too deep, and there was a small stream at the bottom of the valley, the water was shallow and clear, and the opposite side was a steep rock wall.
The ancient wind looked at the two peaks of one big and one small, one high and one low, and then looked back at the soil and mountain bag at the foot, with the water stream as the boundary, the two sides formed a sharp contrast, one soil and one stone, one steep and one slope.
Gu Feng They sat on the dirt slope and drank saliva, looking at the mountain opposite, Gu Yu said, "Master! I've heard of 'Big Fox Mountain, Little Fox Mountain', it is in this area, it is said that the two peaks of the mountains are like a mother hugging a child, do you look at the two peaks on the opposite side like a mother hugging a child? I look like! ”
Yuni spoke first: "Like! One arm around the halfway of Little Fox Mountain".
When you look at Gu Feng carefully, the more you look at it, the more you look like a mother holding a child. Could this really be Big Fox Mountain and Little Fox Mountain? Gu Feng has seen it in the county chronicles of Langhou County, saying that among the two mountains, there are countless foxes, what is the reason for this, since ancient times, no one has really investigated the reason.
"Maybe it's because the mountains and forests in this area have suitable conditions for foxes to grow and breed...... Listen! The call of the pheasant ......"
Liu Qing's sense of hearing is extremely sensitive, and Yuni, as a hunter, is a person who has practiced the "ear and eye skills", so she can only catch it, and after a little concentration, she heard the cries of two pheasants, which were in the bushes about eighty steps away from them. Gu Feng and Jade Fox couldn't hear it.
Yuni put down her sword and torches, picked up a few stones, and cooperated with Liu Qing to outflank them. When they got closer, they threw a stone to startle the pheasant, and when the two pheasants flew and jumped out of the bushes, the two stone darts galloped and hit the heads of the two chickens without bias or obliqueness, and the "fluttering and fluttering" came down.
Another hearty breakfast. After eating chicken, the sky is already bright, and there should be pilgrims in the temple. So they no longer go near the temple, but only look for fox tracks on the back hillside.
Hard work pays off! On the slopes of the dirt hill, they found many fox holes, and then followed the paw prints, and they all crossed the stream and converged into a large stone cave opposite. The entrance to the cave is large, about two meters from the ground below, which in turn is about two meters from the water surface of the creek. How deep and big is the inside of the cave, and whether there is any other exit, there is no way to know, it is impossible to observe from the outside, it is impossible to go in to investigate, not to mention the danger, how can the fox be caught in a net after scaring away?
Gu Feng took a closer look at the direction of the small holes on the slope of the dirt mountain, all of them came from the backyard of the "Fox Immortal Dafa Temple".
"Master, can this fox make a hole at such a distance?"
"What is this! The fox is a master of burrowing, no worse than a vole! Let's hurry back and let Master Liu and Zhang Zhutou bring people to burn the fox's nest and blow up the 'Fox Immortal Dafa Temple'! Liu Qing said as he buried the remains of the pheasant he had eaten, and hid the torches in the bushes.
As soon as he returned to the county office, Gu Feng ordered a notice to be posted, and the fox fairy said that it was purely false and demagogic. The life case in the "Fox Immortal Dafa Temple" is the same as the "White Bone Case of the Zen Temple of Houshan Temple", the murderer is the fox group worshiped by good men and women, and the county government will destroy the fox according to the law and seal the temple according to the law! In addition, those who go into the mountains to raise foxes will not be treated as believing in gods, but as fierce foxes that kill people, and they will all be arrested and imprisoned.
Afterwards, a team of sixty men was dispatched, bringing gunpowder, lamp oil, tinder, and various weapons to hunt foxes. Gu Feng personally accompanied everyone on foot, entered the mountain in the middle of the night, posted a notice at the mountain pass, pulled the red line, and sent ten catchers to guard here.
After the fourth watch, I arrived outside the door of the "Fox Immortal Dafa Temple". Gu Feng didn't let people in, and he couldn't alarm the foxes inside, otherwise, he didn't dare to guarantee that they would all return to their old lair, the huge stone cave.
Pull the party of sixty men into an ambush near the small stream where you can see the mouth of the stone cave. Then send a small number of people to prepare torches, dry firewood, hay, etc. After dawn, I saw a group of foxes running into the cave, some with round bellies, some with something in their mouths, and the stream was endless.
"That's tens of thousands!" Master Liu couldn't help but be dumbfounded, and couldn't help but sigh. After the last fox walked towards the cave, another period of time passed, and then Gu Feng signaled Zhang Zhutou to lead people to pile up dry firewood and hay around the entrance of the stone cave, and then pour lamp oil. In this way, there were three piles of dry firewood, and the distance between the two was ten meters, and then, sixty officials and servants gathered around the outermost place, and the open fire was fighting.
First threw small packets of black powder into the stone cave, and then a large number of torches were thrown into it, and after a roar of burning, the foxes who were lucky enough not to be dead or injured rushed out. Only one-tenth of them can escape, and after three fires, there are indeed very few foxes who can break out of the encirclement, and even these very few cannot let them be lucky to meet the steel forks and iron rods of the officials. It can be said that none of the foxes in this big hole were spared, and all of them were removed!
After destroying the fox, Zhang Putou led people into the cave and came back to tell that the space in the cave was indeed huge, and it extended far to the belly of Dahu Mountain, and there was no other exit.
Considering that it is not easy to seal this hole, it is a hole with a small slope, and there is a large space inside, and the hole itself is large. Gu Feng had no choice but to give up after thinking about it, and turned around and ordered someone to blow up the "Fox Immortal Dafa Temple" with gunpowder, and pile up firewood to burn it. Originally, it was a building mainly made of wood, but after a fire, basically all that was left was a large stone pier and a large stone.
This battle was fought beautifully! It is not only beneficial to the people of Langhou County, but also harmless to the people of nearby states and counties.
After returning to the county government, Gufeng raised funds to build a large temple in the relatively concentrated area of Langhou County to meet the religious requirements of the people.
On this day, Gu Feng was discussing major events in the county with Li Dianshi, Master Liu came to report, someone reported the case, there were two corpses in a dry well in Shangtang Town, a man and a woman.