After drinking and eating, Hu Laosan fell asleep, Hu Laosan's wife hugged Song Tonghui and chirped for a long time, and when the child fell asleep during the third watch, she sewed and mended clothes under the lamp.

Soon, Hu Laosan's wife seemed to hear the sound of chickens fluttering in the yard, and she thought that a weasel was dragging chickens, so she took a wooden stick and came to the chicken coop. Unexpectedly, before she could stand firmly, she saw a monkey grabbing an old hen and jumping over the courtyard wall. Hu Laosan's wife was startled, and when she stabilized her mind and chased out, where were the monkeys. She cursed and went back to the house. I just wanted to tell Hu Laosan about this strange thing, but I found that Song Tonghui, who had just fallen asleep, was gone.

At this time, a dark shadow was running with the child in his arms.

Under the stars and moon, the black shadow looked at the child in his arms and couldn't help laughing: "Song Tonghui, Song Tonghui, your father is dedicated to avoiding trouble for you, but I didn't expect it to fall into my hands in the end, I stole a fake one for the first time, but this time it's real." ”

Before the black shadow finished laughing, he heard a "bang" under his feet, and suddenly fell into a pit, and the black shadow screamed badly, and was about to jump out, but a large net had been covered above his head, and he was firmly netted.

At the moment, more than a dozen officials surrounded him at once, led by Li Taohe and Chen Shi, and Song Lin followed.

Song Lin stepped forward and tore off the mask of the black shadow, and was dumbfounded: "Huh? It turned out to be you! ”

"Shopkeeper Song, do you know him?" Li Tao said strangely.

"Sort of!" Song Lin muttered.

"What's going on?"

"That was three years ago......" Song Lin seemed to recall something.

……

Three years ago, on the morning of the winter solstice, Song Lin got up as usual to wash up. In front of the statue of the medicine god, he put on three sticks of high incense and told the men to take care of the shop. took his two-year-old son Tonghui to the street.

Today is the winter solstice "Warm Porridge Festival" in Chang'an City, and people come and go on the street. Bustling. Song Lin took his son to the first floor of De to drink a bowl of warm porridge, and then walked to the stall to see a monkey man teasing the monkey. The monkey was about forty years old, five short in stature, skinny, as if he hadn't eaten for a few days, and the few monkeys in his hand were also so hungry that their eyes were green.

After watching the monkey for a while, Song Lin was anxious, so he put his son Tonghui on the threshold of a small shop. Hurried into the latrine. When he came out, he found that his son was gone. Song Lin was taken aback and hurriedly looked around. I suddenly found that my son was being held in the arms of the monkey and teasing him with a gourd.

"Tonghui." Song Lin hurriedly snatched his son and glared angrily at the monkey.

The embarrassed smile of the monkey: "Ling Gongzi is rich and longevity, and he will definitely be rich and noble in the future." ”

Song Lin saw that the monkey man was full of evil anger when he laughed, and his heart was unhappy, and he said coldly: "A little child, whether it is expensive or cheap depends on his creation." ”

After speaking, he quickly hugged his son and walked away. When he walked to the corner of the street and turned around, he saw the monkey trickster staring at him with strange eyes, which made Song Lin feel a chill down his spine......

……

"So, he's the monkey trickster from three years ago?" Li Tao asked.

"Exactly!" Let's talk about it. Song Lin shouted to the monkey man: "Tell me quickly, where is my child hidden by you!"

The monkey man's face was like ashes, and he led everyone to a ruined temple dozens of miles away. Inside the temple, the stolen fake Tonghui is soaking in a steaming urn.

"Son!" Song Lin hurriedly took out the child. I tried my nose, but luckily I still had breath.

Song Lin said angrily: "I have no grievances with you. Why are you stealing my baby?"

The monkey trickster didn't answer, but asked, "I can tell you, but before I have to ask, how do you know that I am going to steal the children of Hu Laosan's family?"

Chen Shi next to him smiled: "You have been tricked, in fact, the child you stole for the first time is the real Song Tonghui." What master fortune telling, exchanging sons with the Hu family, and the lawsuit between the Hu and Song families are all just a ploy set up by King Lantian, in order to make you think that the Song Tonghui you stole is fake, and lead you to show up and steal it again. ”

"Lantian King?" The monkey man was dumbfounded, he pointed at Li Tao and asked, "You are the king of Lantian?" ”

Li Tao didn't answer him, but just said to himself: "After I heard the shopkeeper Song say about the loss of his son, I also felt strange. First, after Tonghui was lost, no one wrote a blackmail letter to Song's shopkeeper, so it didn't look like he was kidnapped. Second, the shopkeeper Song is usually helpful and has no enemies, so it is impossible for the one who stole Tonghui to be an enemy. Third, Tonghui has had eye diseases since he was a child, and no kidnapper will go to great lengths to kidnap a half-blind child to sell, so the person who steals the child is not a kidnapper. The person who stole the child does not want money, revenge, or profit, so he only does it for the child itself, which shows that Tonghui must have something useful about him. Therefore, I asked the shopkeeper Song to pretend to fight a lawsuit with Hu Laosan, so that you think that you stole a fake child and had to steal it again, and we waited for the turtle to be caught in the urn. ”

"Alas! I exhausted my scheming, but I didn't expect to be stabbed by you, King Lantian, this is really providence!" The monkey man looked up to the sky and sighed.

It turned out that the monkey man was also a man when he was young, and once he went into the mountain to collect medicine, he found a small cave, and climbed along the cave to the end, which turned out to be a mountain depression of more than ten zhang in size. The flat ground is full of strange flowers and plants, and there is also a peculiar Ganoderma lucidum grass, which is actually the "Hanzang Guanyin" recorded in the medical book. This kind of Ganoderma lucidum has unique medicinal properties, after people take it, the old man's white hair turns black, the tooth is reborn, the young man prolongs his life, lives a hundred years old, and the dying person can also prolong his life for three years. He was overjoyed, thinking that this Ganoderma lucidum grass could be exchanged for hundreds of millions of gold and high-ranking officials in the world, but unfortunately the speed of Guanyin was not yet ripe, so he made a mark outside the cave and decided to come back to pick it a year later.

Speaking of this, the monkey man sighed, "It's a pity that a year later, the cave collapsed, leaving only a one-foot-sized passage. People can't climb into it at all. Moreover, the stone of the cave is like steel, the axe and chisel cannot be moved, and the steel drill cannot be inserted, so I had to tame a group of monkeys to help me extract medicine. It's a pity that animals are animals, and no matter how hard I try, none of them can pick out the half-cut Guanyin for me. Later, I got a secret book called 'Bone Shrinking Divine Skill', which said that as long as you find a child who was born as a rat in the days of Ziyuezi and teach him to practice the Bone Shrinking Divine Skill, he can shrink his bones like a monkey and climb into the cave to extract half of Guanyin. ”

Song Lin suddenly realized that his Tonghui was a rat, and he was born in the days of Ziyuezi.

The monkey trickster said that he had been looking for many years and had stolen dozens of children to teach them to practice the Bone Shrinking Skill, but unfortunately they all failed in the end. They all died in that little cave. Three years ago, he happened to know that Song Tonghui was also his target. I always wanted to steal it, but unfortunately the Song family was a big family and had strict precautions, so I didn't have a chance until recently. It's just that soon after he heard rumors from the people that the child he stole was fake, and the real Song Tonghui had already been transferred to the Hu family, so he went to the Hu family to steal the child, but he didn't expect that there was already a big net waiting for him. (To be continued......)