I don't know how long it took for Wei Zeng to fall asleep, there was a few smiles between the corners of his mouth and eyebrows, and suddenly he heard the sound of rustling, Wei Zeng woke up vigilantly, and the few smiles on his face disappeared, leaving a little stunned. Wei Zeng listened carefully, wondering what kind of person or creature had awakened his sweet dream. Listening to the smile, it turned out to be a weasel looking for food at night. Weasels are also called weasels or yellow skins, and are known as Wong Tai Sin among the folk because of their cunning and cleverness. In the Yanbei Plain, there are often foolish people who believe in Wong Tai Sin and fox fairy, and when Wei Zeng was young, a wild hill was inexplicably called a weasel apparition, so that people from nearby villages went to worship and burn incense, and Wei Zeng scoffed at this. I still remember that Mr. Teaching called it a foolish force and criticized it in class, and did not let students do such foolish things.

"Okay, you weasel, dare to disturb my dreams, see that I don't capture you alive in exchange for my daily rations." Wei Zeng said hatefully, but there was a little excitement between his eyebrows, because the weasel tail can be used in medicine, and the fur can also be sold for money, and its value is the highest among many small beasts. But weasels are cunning by nature and are usually difficult to catch, and can only be easily spotted in winter when the snow covers the sky and their traces are nowhere to hide. Now that I was sleeping, I encountered a weasel passing by, how could I let it slip away, and if I caught it, the rations for those days would have been settled.

Wei Zeng touched the pile of stones in his arms, picked up the fork-shaped wooden stick beside him, and quietly touched the place where the sound came from. Beyond the weeds, a three-foot-long weasel could be seen digging into the ground with its claws, and something in its mouth. Weasels are not like pigs, they rush into food when they encounter it, and they don't care about anything else. As it feeds, its head probes to the left and right from time to time, and its small eyeballs also move back and forth. Wei Zeng was too far away for fear that the stone would not be able to hit it, so he cautiously groped forward, staring at the weasel with one hand of the stone ready to throw, and the other hand of the wooden fork ready to follow up with the capture.

As he approached the weeds, Wei Zeng held his breath and was about to make a move, when the weasel spotted the sneak attacker, turned around and jumped but did not run away, grinning at Wei Zeng, and letting out a pore horror scream, as if warning the sneak attacker. Wei Zeng was startled, the stone was thrown violently, the weasel jumped to the right to avoid the incoming stone, and rushed to the grass on the right, Wei Zeng threw another stone to block the weasel way, the weasel jumped and attacked Wei Hate. If the timid person is frightened by this, it is really possible to be injured by the weasel when he is stunned, and let him escape from the road. Wei Zeng has been capturing small beasts for survival since he was a child, and he has long known the cunning of this weasel, and he often hunts in the dark and wild, and his courage has already been practiced. Seeing the weasel attacking, the wooden fork went straight up to subdue it to the ground, and the weasel saw that the wooden fork was stabbed and knew the danger, gave up hurting people, dodged the attack, and then fled. How could Wei Zeng let him leave like this, another stone hit his body, and a terrible cry came out, but the weasel just took a beating, and continued to flee in pain. Wei increased his fork to follow, waiting for an opportunity to capture him alive, and the stones in his hand were sent out one after another, either blocking his way or hitting his legs. If he caught up with a hundred meters, the weasel had several stones in his body, and his speed had already slowed down. The weasel suddenly turned around again and pounced on Wei Zeng for the last dying struggle. Wei Zeng struck him with a stick and knocked it aside, and the weasel took a few twitches and then remained motionless.

"Dead?" Wei Zeng said: "It won't be playing dead." ”

Wei Zeng was well aware of the cunning of weasels, and often heard in the village that weasels who pretended to be dead bit villagers and then escaped. Wei Zeng stabbed the weasel a few times with a wooden stick, but did not move. Then he held it against it with a fork, and took out a piece of hemp rope to tie it up. Sure enough, the weasel didn't die, and when Wei Zeng tied it with hemp rope, he released a stinky fart to hurt people and escape. But when Wei Zeng approached it, he had already held his breath, and the wooden fork against the body of the weasel finally ran out of skills and was captured.

Wei Zeng smiled and looked at the weasel whose legs and feet were tied, and the weasel struggled a few times and saw that it was useless, so he stopped doing useless work. Wei Zeng was in a happy mood, and he was about to return to the firewood stack with the weasel, and when it was dawn, he would take it to the nearest market and sell it. At this time, the sky was only a crescent moon, the night sky was cloudless, and the stars were exceptionally bright. At this moment, I suddenly saw two dark shadows walking on the road in the distance. Wei Zeng was vigilant, who would walk on the road in the middle of the night, and would not come to capture the little beast like himself. Wei Zeng lurked on the side of the road and didn't dare to make a sound, watching the two black shadows approach, it turned out to be two sneaky middle-aged people. It doesn't look like a vicious thief, just two small thieves, just listen to the two of them.

"Big brother, are we really going to rob that widow? The widow is alone with the child and blames the pitiful, isn't it too inauthentic to do this? ”

"I said where did you come from so much nonsense, there are many poor people in the world, can you take care of it? Tell you that the widow's man died in an accident while working for a large family, and the large family lost a lot of money in order to settle the matter. Don't look at her as a widow, now she is also a rich man. If you can have money, you don't care if it's authentic. If you don't dare to go, go back as soon as possible. When the province does things, it is embarrassing. ”

"She really has a lot of money?" This person looked greedy, but immediately said worriedly, "Isn't it too dangerous, and she doesn't want to find someone to protect herself if she has money?" Can the two of us do it? ”

"It's true that there is money, but the county magistrate personally sentenced it. Dangerous? Hey, it's just that a woman and a child are in danger, you kid don't scare yourself. ”

"Then what should we do when we go, don't alarm them and steal quietly, or tie them up and take the money?"

"If you can't be alarmed, don't be alarmed, after all, stealing is not the same as kidnapping. If you really can't find the money, you will be tied up and tortured. If she finds out about us, even if she's out of luck. ”

"Big brother, I think there's a good way, you can get money if it's less dangerous and small. It's better for us to tie up the woman's child and ask for a ransom, wouldn't it be very safe. ”

"You gave me a bad idea, kidnapping the ticket for ransom, you really think of yourself as a Jiangyang thief. With your little ability, can you beat those fast catchers? If we have that ability, let's go and loot the big house, and still have to live with a widow? The former was slapped and reprimanded by the latter.

Suddenly, there was a strange cry of an owl cooing, and the people who called it were furious.

The former suddenly said with a weak heart: "Big ...... Big brother, do you say that it will be too hurtful to do this, I heard the old people in the village say that if you do something hurtful to heaven and reason, those ghosts and gods will come to the door. ”

"How can we call it hurting the heavens and harming reason" The latter was also weak for a while when he said this, and said boldly: "What kind of ghosts are you afraid of, when we get the money, we will make offerings to Master Guan, and the relevant masters will protect us, which way ghosts and gods dare to do anything to us." ”

"Master Guan will protect us, isn't Master Guan a loyal minister."

"You don't understand that. It doesn't matter what loyalty or treachery he is, he will do things for us after he eats our tribute, or who will provide for him in the future. You don't see that those rich people and big officials have done all kinds of things that hurt heaven and reason, and when they send money to the temple, which one will be punished. Okay, less nonsense. It's here, ready to go. ”

When Wei Zeng heard that the two were going to rob orphans and widows, he was angry. Thinking of what happened to himself and his mother for 12 years, he knew that the life of orphans and widows was not easy, and these two thieves had to do such a hurtful thing for the pension of their husbands. Listen to their tone, if they are discovered, they plan to kill people. Wei Zeng followed the two all the way, trying to stop them, he was just a twelve-year-old boy, and he couldn't fight hard, hearing their fear of ghosts and gods, he looked at the yellow skin in his hand and had a plan.

At this time, the latter was telling the former to lie on the wall, and he stepped on his shoulder to enter over the wall, looking at their unfamiliar appearance, they looked like a thief. The former was apprehensive and looked around.

Wei Zeng hid in a hidden place, pinched the yellow skin in his hand hard, and a terrible cry pierced the night sky. The former was frightened by this, and immediately collapsed to the ground, and threw the latter, who was climbing the wall, into a butt flower. The latter scolded and stood up and kicked the former.

The former was so frightened that he trembled and said, "Wong Tai Sin, it's Wong Tai Sin." ”

The latter kicked him again and said, "What Wong Tai Sin, a weasel scares you like this, get the for me." ”

A "whoosh" sound was followed by another scream of the yellow-skinned man, who was hit on the head by a stone and was bleeding.

"Mom, Wong Tai Sin has appeared. Huang Daxian spares his life, the little one knows that he is wrong, the little one doesn't dare anymore, the big one spares me. The former was so frightened that he fell to his knees and couldn't stop buttoning his head.

"That bastard is pretending to be a ghost and give Lao Tzu out." The latter pulled out a dagger and swung it around, looking for the source of the sound, but there was panic on his face that could not be concealed.

Another scream of the yellow skin and another burst of air were heard, and the latter's arm was thrown to the ground with a dagger. Wei Zeng took advantage of the situation to strike another blow, hitting the latter's left eye, and the latter wailed and covered his left eye and fell to the ground.

When the former saw the yellow skin cry, his companion fell and wailed. Endless fear breaks through the psychological embankment and escapes. Flee all the way, shout all the way: Wong Tai Sin spare my life, Wong Tai Sin spare me.

The latter covered his left eye with one hand and was about to retrieve the dagger with the other. And scolded and said: "Damn, I don't care who you are, don't fall into the hands of Lao Tzu, otherwise Lao Tzu will kill you." Just as the latter was about to retrieve the dagger, a foot stepped on his right hand. The latter looked up in horror and saw a shadow of a stick coming. As soon as it hurts, I don't know what to do.

The former's screams woke up the people in the village, as the lights of the houses lit up. Some men came out with great courage, and the widow came out when she heard the commotion in front of her house. I saw a middle-aged man who was beaten on the head and bleeding and was tied to the tree in front of the door, and someone wrote on the wall of his house: There are thieves who are worried, find a safe way quickly. When the widow saw this, she moved to her mother's house the next day and lived with her family. When the people in the village saw this, they exclaimed that Wong Tai Sin had appeared, and the good deeds built a Wong Tai Sin temple near the widow's old residence, and the incense was flourishing for a while. The thief who was beaten on the head and bled was also sent to the official, needless to say.

Wei Zeng, the party in the case, did not want to increase the trouble after capturing the thief, so he returned to the firewood stack and fell asleep soon. At dawn the next day, listening to the roosters crowing one after another in the village, Wei Zeng got up and drilled out of the firewood stack. Wei Zeng turned a money bag and said to himself: "Mom told me not to be a thief, the money found from the thief should not be considered stealing." As he spoke, Wei Zeng put the money bag in his arms and nibbled on a piece of dry food as breakfast.

Wei Zeng put the dagger in his waist, picked up a few stones and put them in his arms, wrapped them on his back, held a fork-like wooden stick in his right hand, and a weasel caught in the night in his left hand, and then embarked on the northbound road again.