At nightfall, a light rain began to fall over Yanhe Town, and the temperature began to plummet due to the cold dew, and as soon as the people in the town exhaled, a white mist could be clearly seen.

But even on such a cold day, there were still bursts of laughter and laughter in the Yuhe Restaurant in the center of Yanhe Town, it turned out that the town's leading figures, including the mayor, were gathering here and holding a feast, and what they celebrated was naturally the capture of a harmful fox demon.

As the current shopkeeper of Yuhe Restaurant, Yang Shouxin has been complacent recently, originally this Yuhe Restaurant was his eldest brother Yang Shoucheng started from scratch, and he is a ruffian hooligan in the town, except for eating, drinking, prostituting and gambling every day, Yang Shoucheng was willing to help him at first, but he repeatedly persuaded him and spent money excessively, so Yang Shoucheng gradually did not like to take care of him.

Yang Shouxin sits and eats empty mountains every day, and he has a grudge against Yang Shoucheng, so he coveted Yuhe Restaurant very early. But Yang Shoucheng is still young, his body is fine, and he also has a son, named Yang Yin, although he is nine years old, but because his aunt died early, so he is sensible relatively early, and after three or four years, Yang Shoucheng is estimated to teach him how to take care of the family business, and at that time, this jade and restaurant really has nothing to do with Yang Shouxin.

Yang Shouxin was anxious every time he thought of this, but he didn't have the courage to do the business of making money and killing people, so he was only in a hurry, and he was about to give up this idea.

But how can you expect to make a fool - gratifying! When he heard that Yang Shoucheng was dead, and he was sucked dry by a monster and died, Yang Shouxin's first reaction was: "Bah, evil has evil retribution, you still say that I shouldn't eat, drink, prostitute and gamble all day long, it turns out that you yourself are not a good thing!" ”

Then he blossomed happily again: "You have so much silver, and you are usually stingy with me, but you can't play with any kind of woman yourself, so you just ran to play with goblins, and you lost your own life, haha, I really laughed at my brother!" However, after Yang Shouxin saw the goblin's appearance today, he suddenly felt that this joke didn't seem to be so funny.

Of course, these are not mentioned first, let's say that although Yang Shouxin is a ruffian, but he still has a brain, after he was ecstatic for a while, the next thing to do was to go directly to the mayor's house, he privately promised the mayor a return of a family fortune, and asked the mayor to support him, and the mayor of the town used Yang Yin to be young enough to take care of the family business, and said that he would return it to him after he was fourteen years old.

Five years is so long, who is all this wealth at that time, that's really not certain! Yang Shouxin couldn't help but feel proud of his clever means every time he recalled this, at this time he stood up with his wine glass, and said to his benefactor, Liu Shishi, the mayor of Yanhe Town: "Mayor of the town, thank you for inviting Gao Ren to avenge my eldest brother, so that my eldest brother can finally look at it, come, I salute you!" ”

Mayor Liu said earnestly: "Erlang, you used to not like to listen to your eldest brother's words, but now that you are in charge of your own family, you should be able to appreciate your eldest brother's good intentions, right?" ”

Yang Shouxin was surprised, and said in his heart, what do you mean by telling me this? Since he couldn't guess it, he pretended to wipe his tears and said: "Yes, yes, I was young and ignorant, and I didn't know how to understand my eldest brother's difficulties, but now that my eldest brother is dead, I regret it!" ”

"That's good, you have to treat your nephew well in the future, but you can't let him lose his parents and his home!"

Yang Shouxin finally understood, and he laughed secretly in his heart: "Heh, it turns out that you can't get over your conscience, I'm afraid that I will treat Yang Yin's kid badly!" Hmph, you have collected all the money, what is the use of the cat crying mouse fake mercy, now this family is my master, how did my eldest brother treat me at the beginning, how can I repay Yang Yin's kid, and after a year, I will find a reason to kick him out of the house! But at this time, he still couldn't get over his face, and he said with a smile: "That's certain, definite!" Come, mayor, I'll do it first! After that, a cup was at the bottom, and Mayor Liu also sat down with peace of mind.

Then, Yang Shouxin raised his glass and came to the green-robed Taoist, this Taoist name Xuan Chongzi, Yang Shouxin was very impressed by his magical powers, he said with a flattering face: "Dao Chief, I also toast you, thank you for subduing demons and eliminating demons for our Yanhe Town, and also avenge my eldest brother!" ”

Xuan Chongzi was sitting precariously with an indifferent expression, he raised a cup of tea and said: "Cultivators, you can't drink alcohol, and the poor Tao replaces it with tea." With that, he drank it all.

Yang Shouxin was surprised: "Isn't quitting alcohol only for monks, and Taoist priests also have this precept?" ”

This question was abrupt, but Xuan Chongzi was very well cultivated, and he was not angry, but said solemnly: "The Taoist sect is also divided into categories, and the precepts are different, and I practice the five precepts of Laojun, abstaining from killing, stealing, prostitution, lying, and drinking, so there is this taboo." (Author's note: Although the abstinence from meat is not among the five precepts, there is a law in the Tang Dynasty that clearly stipulates that monks and Taoist priests are not allowed to eat meat, which is the most basic precept.) ）

Yang Shouxin suddenly realized, and suddenly his head flashed, and he said: "Dao Chief, you subdued that fox demon today, but you didn't kill her directly, is it also because of quitting killing?" ”

Xuan Chongzi's expression was stunned, and then he was silent, which was clearly a tacit acquiescence. But in this way, the people of Yanhe Town in the banquet couldn't sit still, and they were shocked and said: "Dao Chief, if you can't kill her, won't the demon continue to do evil?" ”

Xuan Chongzi was a little strange in his heart that Yang Shouxin was troublesome, but he held the precept of lying and could not deceive people at will, so he smiled slightly bitterly: "After all, the fox demon is a living being, and it is also within the killing ring, and the poor way really can't directly cut it off." But you don't have to panic, all demons are afraid of the Dao, and the poor Dao only needs to recite the Tao Te Ching for three days, and he can be sent to superbirth, and it will never leave a trace of hidden danger to Yanhe Town! ”

Everyone sat down again, and they all said, "It's okay, it's okay, it's three days, as long as there is a Taoist chief, we will have no worries!" ”

Xuan Chongzi nodded and smiled.

But Yang Shouxin said again: "After all, the Taoist is a human and needs to rest, will the fox demon take advantage of the Taoist to slip away without noticing, and then wait for the Taoist to leave Yanhe Town, and then she will come back to seek revenge on us?" ”

When everyone heard this, they stood up calmly.

Xuan Chongzi couldn't help but glared at Yang Shouxin, and said in his heart that you have a lot of things, and you will not be finished? He said in a slightly stiff tone, "You don't have to worry about it! You have also seen it today, I put a talisman on the back of the fox demon, its name is the demon charm, it can seal the demon power of the fox demon, so that the fox demon not only can not perform any magic skills, but also greatly weakened, at this time she is not even as good as a five-year-old child, so if you want to escape, it is simply wishful thinking! ”

When everyone heard this, they sat up again, and they all stretched out their thumbs and praised: "The Taoist is really superb, I admire and admire!" ”

Yang Shouxin saw that Xuan Chongzi's eyes were a little unkind, so he didn't dare to ask anything more, but echoed the crowd's praise for Xuan Chongzi, but at this time, a bold idea suddenly popped out of his mind, and he couldn't help but stick out his tongue and lick the corners of his mouth.

The backyard of Yuhe Restaurant was originally a place to raise poultry, but at this time, there was not a single chicken or duck, only a cage made of several wooden stakes nailed into the soil, and the top of the cage was also firmly nailed with several wooden boards.

Inside the cage, a young woman was forced to squat on the muddy floor, a pair of embroidered shoes under her feet had been stained by muddy water, and the continuous raindrops in the sky fell on her head and back through the gaps in the wooden planks, soaking her long hair and red dress, but a piece of rune paper on her back was made of unknown materials, and it was not stained by the rain at all, and it emitted a faint light in the dim night.

The woman looked a little pitiful, her wet dress outlined her wonderful and plump curves, but there was no one around to appreciate and pity her, she was just squatting alone, holding her hands and rubbing them constantly, her whole body was trembling, and the temperature close to zero froze her lips into a bewitching purple.

Zhou Hong still doesn't understand why the people of Yanhe Town want to blame Yang Shoucheng's death on their heads, what she did to Yang Shoucheng is nothing more than to turn into a tiger to scare and scare him because she is not angry with him, but the people of Yanhe Town keep saying that they have sucked his essence dry, and when she thinks of this, she feels extremely disgusted and humiliated!

But so what? At this moment, no one wants to care about her thoughts as a monster, even if all she wants now is a bite to eat.

Suddenly, there was a slight sound of footsteps not far away, Zhou Hongxian hurriedly hid in the depths of the cage, in fact, compared to hoping that someone could give her a bite to eat, she was more afraid of the people who came to look at her like a strange look, this kind of look she had enough of today!

A short figure holding an umbrella was revealed in the rain, and when he got closer, Zhou Hongxian saw that the person who came was actually a child, to be exact, a boy.

The boy was very young, and it could be seen from the sky that had not yet completely darkened that he had a pair of lovely horns on his head, a round face, and baby fat, and the whole person was carved in powder.

"Sister, are you afraid of me?" The boy said softly.

Zhou Hong saw that he was a child, so he was naturally no longer afraid, so he asked softly: "Little friend, what are you doing here?" ”

However, the boy did not answer her, but said, "Sister, are you hungry?" ”

"Could it be that this kid saw me pitiful and came to bring me food? Children are really much simpler than adults! Zhou Hongxian thought so in her heart, so she said, "Little friend, do you have anything to eat?" Can you give me a little, even if it's a steamed bun! ”

The boy's tone suddenly changed and said: "I didn't bring steamed buns, I'm afraid my sister won't eat it, because my sister is a monster, she only drinks human blood and eats human flesh!" ”

Zhou Hongxian was horrified after hearing this, thinking to himself, how could even a child be brainwashed? She hurriedly said: "Little friend, you are young, don't listen to those adults talking nonsense!" ”

The boy's tears suddenly flowed, he threw off his umbrella, stared at Zhou Hongxian in front of the cage, and said viciously: "You monster, you killed my Aya, you killed my Aya!" His immature face was pitiful, sad, and hideous, but it was also filled with infinite hatred for Zhou Hongxian.

Zhou Hongxian looked at his eyes silently, and after a while, she sat down on the ground, and didn't care whether the dirt would stain her dress and buttocks, she only said dejectedly: "I know who you are!" You are what they said, Yang Shoucheng's son Yang Yin, even a child like you hates me like this, I really have nothing to say! ”

"Then you're going to die!" Yang Yin roared in his mouth, and his left hand, which had been hidden behind his back, suddenly stretched out, holding a few sharpened pebbles inside, and then he smashed on Zhou Hongxian's face, Zhou Hongxian's face suddenly opened a few openings, and blood mixed with rain kept flowing down his cheeks.

Yang Yin probably felt that he couldn't kill Zhou Hongxian with his own ability, and when he saw Zhou Hongxian being retaliated against, he couldn't help grinning, and then left without looking back. And Zhou Hongxian sat there in a daze, fed up with grievances, but she couldn't cry if she wanted to, and finally she couldn't help but bow her head and let out a helpless sigh.