In the dead of night, on the hillside behind the temple, a huge rat sat on the ground in a black robe, his eyes slightly closed, obviously drunk from burning knife wine.

If you look from behind it, it looks exactly like a sleeping old woman.

And this big rat is the one that floated up from the old well, but its size at this time seems to be bigger than when I saw it before, the belly under the black robe is round, the hair on its body is uneven, and it emits a disgusting fishy smell.

Originally, I didn't suspect that the old mother of Li Shan was pretending to be a rat essence, but judging from the various signs of her work, she really manifested herself with the gods, resurrected from the dead, cured the sick and saved people, revived the crops, and blessed the evil spirits.

I'm not pedantic, if this rat spirit really does good deeds as it manifests, even if I pretend to be the old mother of Li Shan, I can turn a blind eye, just like the white lady in folklore, you can also do good deeds, but in recent days, those children in the village have become abnormal, one by one stupid as if they have no soul, this thing is very evil.

At the beginning, there was a seal under the old well, a stone gate, and the fox, yellow and white willows appeared in the village one after another, I guess it was all related to this rat essence, and it was even used to suppress it.

It must have made sense for the senior master to take so hard to suppress a rat essence, and before the situation developed to the point of uncontrollable, I pulled out my saber and stabbed the big rat in the neck.

But just when I was about to succeed, a black shadow suddenly pounced, I saw that it was an old bachelor, and I was out of breath at the moment, if it wasn't for the old bachelor to add fuel and vinegar to tout this big rat essence, it would never have been able to coax everyone so smoothly.

The old bachelor grabbed my wrist, looked solemn, lowered his voice and said, "You don't want to die, follow me down the mountain!" ”

"You already knew that this was a big rat essence, and even helped to do evil, I will first result in this beast and then settle accounts with you!" I broke free of the old bachelor's hand and said.

"You can't kill it, its way is clear, its mouth is like an itch, and once it wakes up, your life will be lost!"

As the old bachelor was talking, the rat spirit suddenly fell to the ground on his back and burped, and the lights in the wing room of the temple suddenly turned on.

I and the old bachelor hurriedly hid in the bushes next to us, only to see two Taoist figures walking out of the room, but when the Taoist boy came to me, I saw goosebumps, where else is this Taoist child, it is clearly two paper people, but the paper people do it vividly, I don't know what method the mouse has made, and he has deceived everyone.

The two paper figures picked up the rat on the ground and helped it into the room, while I was dragged down the mountain by the old bachelor.

The two of us walked to the village without saying a word, and I said in a cold voice: "Old bachelor, when your wife and children committed suicide, I know that you were resentful, and I can understand that you want to take revenge and kill people, but after you forced Zhang Laibao and Zhou Dachun's father to death, do you still want to kill all the children in our village?" ”

"That's not what I intended." The old bachelor said again and again.

"Then what is your original intention, you keep saying that you have been instructed by Lao Jun, but in fact you are secretly colluding with the rat essence and colluding with each other, what are you going to do next?" I asked.

The old bachelor said in a deep voice: "I said that I dreamed that Lao Jun's things were not deceiving, that day I suddenly dreamed that Lao Jun came to my house, saying that the mountain is about to run out of water, let me store water in advance, at first I didn't believe it, but then you also saw it, all things were fulfilled one by one, and then Lao Jun also instructed me to go to a town where no one lived under the old house to dig out a jar of gold bars, said that it was a reward for me, let me the next day with a big gift to welcome the old mother of Li Shan, the Taoist for many years, when the master told me to cultivate to reach a certain level, But when I communicated with the gods in my dream, I thought that I had suffered humiliation for so many years, and God finally opened my eyes, who would have thought that it was a rat essence. ”

"Then how did you find out that Li Shan's mother was transformed by a rat essence, and what happened to dream of Lao Jun?" I asked.

The old bachelor said: "This rat essence cultivation is at least more than a hundred years, it has gone beyond the scope of normal animal essence, and the ability born is naturally different, the same is a hundred years of practice, but the Tao of the mouse essence is not known how much higher than the previous white-skinned anaconda that is also a hundred years old, this mouse essence can not only make everyone who sees it confused, but also can enter people's dreams at will, the Lao Jun I dreamed of before is what she incarnated." ”

"He can enter people's dreams at will, and transform into anyone's form at will?" I suddenly felt frightened and even retched.

Could it be that Xiaobai, who had been with me in my dreams every night, was this extremely ugly rat spirit?

I don't believe it, and I don't want to believe it.

If the rat spirit is Xiaobai, then what is the purpose of her contact with me, is it just for me to cut down the old locust tree at the head of the village?

When I thought about it, I suddenly figured out something.

The first evil in the village was the white fox, and the villagers said that the white fox was in trouble, so it caused heavy rain and thunder and lightning, and I dreamed of Xiaobai for the first time that night.

If the appearance of the white fox can't see anything related to the rat essence, then the white-skinned anaconda is forced out of the old well, then something must be inferred, because the white-skinned anaconda guards the old well all the year round, and the snake is the natural enemy of the mouse, which will form a natural suppression of the mouse, and after the white-skinned anaconda is forced out of the old well, it will come to me immediately.

At this time, Xiaobai helped me get rid of Zhang Meng's family, but asked me to help cut down the old locust tree, because in the village, in addition to my grandfather, there is only me, as for my second uncle, who is not angry, he was confused by the yellow skin essence, so the mouse spirit did not fall into a dream to find him.

It was precisely because he was afraid that the things in the old well would come out, so he asked my second uncle to stop me from cutting down trees.

The purpose of the rat essence to let me cut down the tree is not what it seems, but to ask me to remove the big hedgehog in the tree, because the hedgehog also eats mice, so that among the five immortals, the three immortals who formed a congenital suppression of mice are gone, and the remaining yellow-skinned essence is also driven out of Zhangjiagou, and the sealed mouse essence has no natural enemies to suppress it, so he started from the old bachelor, broke the seal, and crawled out of the old well.

I ran to the side and couldn't help but retch.

No wonder Xiaobai hasn't looked for me since he cut down the tree, it turned out that he dumped me after using me, and this also explains why the rat spirit knew about me dreaming of Xiaobai.

A sense of shame that I had never felt before swept over my heart.

I'm a mouse!

"What's wrong with you?" The old bachelor asked.

"It's fine." I said, waving my hand. "Later, how did you find out that Li Shan's mother was a rat essence?"

When the old bachelor saw me asking, his face turned pale for a moment, and he whispered: "This rat essence, eat children!" ”

"Eating children? Aren't there no children missing in our village? "I wonder if the old bachelor's words are the same as Lele's.

The old bachelor said: "I once accidentally smelled a smell of urine, thinking that whose child did not know the severity of the blasphemy, so I went around the wall to check, but I saw the old mother of Li Shan with her back to me. There was a long tail underneath its robe, and I was so scared that I turned around and ran, but in broad daylight I encountered a ghost hitting the wall! I have been around the old mother temple on the mountain, how can I not go down the mountain, I know that it was discovered by this fake Li Shan old mother, so I had to stop and sit and wait for death, who knows what she did to me, until the children in the village went up the mountain one after another, I wanted to warn these children to run away, but these children are like a demon, they can't hear my words at all. ”

"What else did you see after that?" I asked.

The old bachelor said: "This fake Lishan old mother seems to have deliberately shown me her appearance, after the hat on her head was taken off, it turned out to be a mouse head, it was clearly a rat essence, I was so scared that I was paralyzed, I knew that she deliberately showed it to me." Later, those children lined up one by one to walk in front of her and let her smell, she was satisfied with which child would dig out the child's internal organs on the spot, and sew the belly after eating the internal organs, the child did not cry out of pain, and the wound could not be seen, and those children she was not satisfied with let them continue to eat tribute, I saw that my legs were weak outside the temple, and after those children left, the two Taoist children also sent me down the mountain, let me control my mouth, I was going to run away tonight, I wanted to tell you, but who knew that you went to the mountain, fortunately, the mouse spirit is good at drinkingor you'll die. ”

The words of the old bachelor made me feel sad, what is the sacredness of this rat essence, not only can it hide from the sky and the sea in broad daylight, so that people can't see through her appearance, but also let the child who has no internal organs live, thinking of this, I suddenly figured out what was going on with her means of bringing the baby back to life in public, and it must have been this evil demon method.

"As a Taoist, shouldn't you do something?" I asked, looking at the old bachelor.

The old bachelor sighed and said: "This rat essence has broken through the shackles and cultivated for a hundred years, and it is already a big demon giant, I can barely deal with the mandrill ghost at this little point, where is the opponent of this mouse essence, I didn't see it deliberately let me go, and I didn't take my old bones in my eyes at all!" ”