Chapter Ninety-Six: Demons and Monsters

The last half-young man said something even more bizarre: he said that while he was asleep, he suddenly heard a strange sound, like the cry of some kind of beast in heat. When I woke up, I opened my eyes and saw a black cloud floating overhead, blocking the entire moonlight.

From this black cloud, a monster with horns on its head walked down, looked around a few people, and then picked the best Zhang Laosi and carried it away. This half-sized young man was still afraid that others would not believe what he said, so he was so scared that he peed his pants, and he also said it.

Everyone knows about wetting their pants, because when the people in the village found them, this guy's crotch was already as cold as a piece of ice, and if everyone hadn't come in time, or a few hours later, this guy's string of birds might have frozen.

One said the same, four people said four things, but after everyone passed it on, you add some branches, I added some leaves, and as a result, this matter became the most bizarre thing within a hundred or ten miles nearby.

If the matter ends here, after a long time, everyone will forget about it. But what's even more bizarre is yet to come, about three or four years later. It is also an old autumn season, one day, when the autumn harvest people returned to the village one after another, suddenly, a sharp-eyed young daughter-in-law found that behind an old locust tree at the head of the village, there was a "person" hidden sneakily

The brave and a few older men immediately walked over and dragged this "person" out again and again. When everyone saw the "person" who was pulled out, in fact, he no longer had a human appearance, if he wasn't still walking on two feet, and the only strip of cloth on his body that covered his buttocks, he really couldn't see his human form: the original black hair had turned into a brown hard board, and its length was more than double that of the little daughter-in-law with the longest braid in the village, and the bare skin on his body could not be seen at all a trace of white, just like the mountain demon in the mountain, showing brown and black.

What's even more strange is that when this guy saw everyone, he was a little dodgy and a little scared at first, but after a while, he was so excited that he screamed like a beast in his mouth, and he also danced and pointed at the two or three young men around him, and he didn't know what he meant.

The young men who were pointed out were so bold that they were all famous in the village. It was a few of them who secretly entered the mountain three or four years ago, and when they entered, there were five people, and when they were found, only four remained.

"You two take a look, this guy, why do I look at the face of Zhang Laosi?" One of the young men said with his eyes wide open and a look of surprise on his face.

"What did you say? You say that this thing that is not a human or a ghost is like Zhang Laosi? Big brother, don't make me laugh. Zhang Lao has big shoulders and a round waist, and he can fit this guy in. However, don't say it, this face shape is really a bit similar. Hey, are you a human or a ghost? Why don't you speak? Can't speak? Are you the fourth Zhang of our village? Although this young man was also a little afraid, but he seemed to be a little more courageous than the others, he took two steps forward, and while using a branch in his hand to pull the hair of this fellow who had been glued together to both sides of his face, he lowered his waist slightly, and stared at him carefully.

As soon as this guy heard him ask if it was Zhang Laosi, he rushed forward, and then suddenly stretched out two arms, hugged the young man by the waist, and turned around twice in place.

His move really scared everyone half to death: the people around him, when they saw his move, some picked up a stone casually, and some picked up a wooden stick, ready to rush up together to rescue the young man who was picked up.

"Don't move, don't move, none of you move, he is Zhang Laosi, Zhang Laosi! Hurry, go to Zhang Laosi's house, call their family over, go quickly! The young man who was picked up was excited at the moment, and he couldn't care about the pungent smell emanating from the guy who was holding him, so he stretched out his hands violently, and hugged the big head of this guy who couldn't tell whether it was black or brown in his arms, crying and shouting.

It doesn't matter what he shouted, the villagers around the old locust tree were already boiling at this moment: some shouted loudly and ran to Zhang Sisi's house, some went home to find buckets, fetched water to help Zhang Silao wash off the fishy smell of his body, and some brought old clothes to cover his nakedness. Of course, more people looked incredible, gathered around, shouting and pointing, while looking back in the direction of Zhang Laosi's house.

Among this group of people, the most excited are the three or four young men who have entered the mountain with Zhang Laosi. Half of the guys back then have grown up at this moment, and almost all of them have married wives and had children.

In the past few years, several people have not been too comfortable: because Zhang Laosi said that he was gone for no reason, and in the end, the old and young of the whole village, together with the villagers in two or three nearby villages, searched for three days, and almost turned over the entire mountain, as a result, not even a strand of Zhang Laosi's hair was found.

Zhang Laosi's family didn't blame these four and a half children too much, because after all, the children followed them into the mountain by themselves, and no one forced them, and Zhang Laosi was the fourth in the family, and there were three younger brothers and a younger sister below. Under the pressure of life, the adults in the family have no time to take care of sadness, but for these four young men who entered the mountain together, the pressure in their hearts is still very great: five people entered the mountain together, and when they came out, there were four left, and the other one didn't know whether he was dead or alive.

Therefore, as soon as these people saw that Zhang Laosi was still alive at the moment, the excitement was naturally incomparable to others, they worked together to wash Zhang Laosi from the inside out, and let their daughter-in-law go home to bring clothes, and when the people of the Zhang family came to the bottom of the old locust tree, Zhang Laosi had already revealed his human appearance.

The appearance of a person is there, but I don't know why, Zhang Laosi just can't speak human words, but uses his eyes and hands to express his feelings. Regardless of whether they can speak human words or not, whether people come back alive is a good thing after all. It's just that everyone, including the Zhang family, wants to know the situation of this, three or four years, where did Zhang Laosi go? And how did they survive?

When Mengzi heard Zhang Laosi's story, he was sure of it, without a trace of doubt. Because I was born in the mountains since I was a child, there are so many legends of this kind that you can't doubt it at all.

Zhang Laosi's sudden return, in the village, it was a big deal. Of course, the happiest are the four partners who went into the mountain with him back then. They have carried the black cauldron for so many years, and they can finally unload it.

About half a year later, this Zhang Laosi slowly became able to speak human language.

In fact, the people who want to know the inside story of Zhang Laosi's sudden disappearance are of course these four partners. One day, the five of them got together again, and at this time, Zhang Laosi, except for his body was still a little thin, he was no longer in any serious condition, and he looked much more energetic than before.

"Fourth, you tell our four brothers, why did you say that it was gone?" When the wine was a little drunk, one of the companions looked at Zhang Laosi and asked.

"Alas, it's been so long, I don't remember it very well, come, brothers, drink." Although Zhang Laosi has restored his ability to speak, compared with normal people, he feels that his mouth is still a little hairy. At this moment, he deliberately avoided this stubble and did not nag up.

"Fourth, our five brothers can be regarded as friends of life and death, if you have anything to say, tell your buddies, if I can help you, the four of us will definitely help you." Come on, let's go first. A young man took over and said. They thought that Zhang Laosi had any unspeakable difficulties.

Zhang Laosi still didn't say anything, picked up the wine bowl, and drained the liquor in the bowl in one gulp.

The character of the Kanto people, drinking wine in a big bowl and eating meat in large pieces, so, this bowl goes down, to say the least, there are two taels. Kanto shochu is also famous, take the yakitori sake that several people drink today, for example, the alcohol content is generally above 60 degrees, and the high alcohol content can reach 67 or 8 degrees.

Kanto people drink alcohol, which is a little different from the actual place, and has its own characteristics. For example, warm wine, in a general place, first take a small basin, fill half a small basin with hot water, and then put the pot containing wine in a small basin to warm up.

In the Kanto people, warm sake is to take a large bowl, pour a little sake into the large bowl, then light it, then put the small bowl containing the sake in the large bowl, and warm the wine in the bowl with the burning sake.

There is a science here, that is, if the alcohol content is not high, and there is too much water in it, you can't ignite it at all. The Kanto yakiniku knife is not only lit at one point, but also lit and burned to the end, and the large bowl is almost clean, without a little water. The reason is that the alcohol content is so high that it is almost alcoholic.

Five people have a few bowls of wine, and on average, one person is almost more than a pound of wine.

A pound of wine is down, and with such a high degree, the general amount is at the top. But after all, several people are young people, in good health, and drink a lot. Although I felt a little dizzy, it was not a big deal.

It is said that there is a lot of talk after drinking, and what they say is not false at all. This Zhang Laosi, at the beginning, just lowered his head and drank stuffy wine. No matter what others say, he rarely answers, and now it's different.

I saw that his head was also raised, his face and neck were flushed, and he talked more.

"Come, brothers, brothers, I'll go one, just five of us."

"Fourth, your life is really big, originally we all thought that you let the mountain demon cause disaster, but I didn't expect that your brother is back again, and our brother is really happy. Fourth, you don't know, if you really don't have it, our four brothers will have to carry this black pot for the rest of their lives, do you know? Speaking of emotion, several people's eyes turned red, and tears came down.

"I know my brother is worried about me, brother I know. It's just that a few of you don't know, in the past few years, my brother's life," Zhang Laosi said this, and couldn't stop crying.

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