The sky shone slightly, and a petite figure appeared at the door of Muramasa's house, he was a calf who was embarrassed and almost collapsed. Once when my father was still alive, I said that in this village, in addition to the Li Zheng that can often be seen, there is a bigger official, that is, the village Zheng, if there is any injustice or difficulty, you can go to him, of course, he is not the biggest, it is said that there is a county order, but according to the current five-year-old calf is basically unable to find the county, let alone the county order, and the village in front of him he knows, once with his father fishing and passing by his door when his father once pointed to his house and said.

Standing at the door, the calf hesitated for a moment or knocked on the door of the village's house, at this time the stars in the sky had begun to disappear, and a golden ray of sunlight slowly climbed out of the col and shone on the earth.

Because of some timidity, the calf's knock on the door was not loud, after a few knocks, he put his ear on the door and quietly listened to the movement inside, for a long, long time, the calf only heard the thumping sound of his chest, and never saw anyone open the door.

So he had the courage to knock hard again, and finally an old voice came from inside: "Who is it, so early in the morning." "Listening to the voice, it should be an old grandfather, could it be that this old grandfather is this village masa.

The little cow took a deep breath, tried to put his face as close to the door as possible, pulled his neck and said loudly: "My Zhang Yi from Mujiaao, I want to sue!" ”

What I heard was a very childish child's voice and scolded a little impatiently: "Whose naughty boy is it, who comes early in the morning to disturb people's dreams, and will tell your parents when you turn around." ”

"Grandpa Muramasa, I'm not a naughty boy, I'm not here to make trouble, it's my father who was killed by the neighbors Debiao brothers, I want to report to the officials, I want them to kill people to pay for their lives."

There was a silence in the room, and it was a long time before the calf seemed to hear some of the sounds of the soo, and then a footstep came in the direction of the door.

The door slammed open, and standing in the door was an old man in a long robe, his hair and beard were all white, but his face was very ruddy, and he looked like the old fairy narrated in the story.

Xiao Niu arched his hand towards the old man like an adult: "I am Zhang Yi of Mujiaao, my nickname is Xiao Niu, my father was killed by the Mu Debiao brothers in the village some time ago, so I came to report to the official." ”

The old man glanced at the child, who was not yet hip-high, and said lightly: "Little baby, is your father Zhang Er?" ”

"Exactly"

"That's it, didn't your father Zhang Lao Er drown while fishing some time ago? His cause has long been reported by your Lizheng, why do you think they were killed by the Mu Debiao brothers, and what evidence do you have? ”

Xiao Niu thought for a long time, and probably knew the meaning of the word evidence, which should be the evidence that could prove that the Mu Debiao brothers killed their father, and this didn't seem to have been found, so he pondered for a moment and said again: "Grandpa Muramasa, I have no evidence, but I see it." ”

"You saw it at the time, why didn't you report it in time." Muramasa's eyes lit up, brushed his white beard, and stood aside and bent over to wait for the calf's answer.

"I didn't see it at the time, it was last night when I was by the river, in

Under the lightning and thunder, I saw a phantom, it was the phantom of Mu Debiao and they killed my father, this is exactly like what I saw with my own eyes. ”

"Phantom, what phantom?"

The calf was speechless for a while, he felt that he could not describe the phenomenon he had seen, and after humming and chirping for a long time, he finally thought of a word: "Ghost, I saw Daddy's ghost last night, and he reproduced the whole incident of his murder by the river... ”

Hearing this, Muramasa was already so angry that he blew his beard and glared, he waved his big hand to stop the calf from talking, and then said angrily: "Enough, enough, what ghosts, what phantoms." Suddenly, he tilted his head and thought for a moment, as if he had thought of something, and asked sternly again: "Are you the little child who said that there are locusts?" ”

"I'm not a fool, at the beginning of the year I told my neighbors that there would be a locust plague, but they didn't believe it, what I said was true, and then everything was verified."

Muramasa couldn't help but take a step back, then glanced at the calf, and then took a step into the leg, until he felt that he was in a safe position and pointed to the calf and scolded: "It turns out that you are the little child who offended the locust plague from the heavens with nonsense, after this happened, I thought that your mother was stupid and stupid, and I thought that you were still young, and I didn't want to look for you so quickly, but I didn't expect you to find the door, come on, grab this kid and lock him in the cowshed, and then call their Lizheng over." ”

The little cow never dreamed that this would be the result, he always thought that the village should be a kind and kind old man who makes decisions for the people, but now he sees that the village is indeed similar to what he imagined, but his behavior is not much different from those neighbors in the village.

As soon as the calf saw that the situation was wrong, he immediately turned around and ran, but the two young men in Tsing Yi rushed over quickly and grabbed him away like chickens, leaving a string of children's cries in the bright morning sun.

In the stench of the cowshed, the calf squatted in the corner and shivered, and he had not eaten a single thing after a night's journey, and now he felt very tired, but he was too hungry to sleep.

But what he is most worried about at the moment is not himself, it is the mother who is a little stupid, thinking that his mother did not eat a grain of rice in a day yesterday, thinking about how anxious she must be when she wakes up early in the morning and can't see her son, she will go out to find it in a hurry, if she runs away, she may get lost, she may fall, and she may even run into a wild beast. Thinking of this, the calf lay on the edge of the bullpen and grabbed the door frame and shouted: "Let me out, please, my mother has not eaten for a few days, he will starve to death, he will starve to death." ”

The calf's shout did not invite anyone to open the door, but it did attract a fierce little man, who opened the door of the cowshed at once, rushed in before the calf could fully react, and struck the calf with a leather whip.

The severe pain swept through his body in an instant, and the calf felt as if his skin was cracked, and he squatted in the corner with his head in his arms and cried, and at this moment a voice stopped, this voice was very familiar, it was Li Zheng of Mujiaao, and he was also their patriarch.

The patriarch was old, and with the help of Mu Debiao and some young people from Mujiaao, he went to the outside of the cowshed, and the village was standing next to him.

"Second Brother Mu, look, this kid is the child of the second child of Zhang Lao in your village, Zhang Yi, who just died not long ago?" The village looked at the patriarch with a gentle face, waiting for his answer.

"Exactly, it's this naughty boy!" The voice of the patriarch's crutches made a crisp sound on the ground, and it seemed to have a sense of hatred that iron does not become steel: "More than ten years ago, when I had just become a lizheng, Zhang Lao Er and their father and son came to settle in our Mujiaao, originally we did not agree, because all of our Mujiaao are surnamed Mu, and they do not close their doors at night, and their lives are very peaceful, I am afraid that something bad about a foreigner will break this peace, but Zhang Laoer's father is a veteran who has been discharged from the army, and there are meritorious contributions, Under the pressure of General Chu, who was stationed in Huainan Province at the time, I had to agree. ”

After all, the patriarch is old, he slowly sat on a chair next to him with the support of Mu Debiao, and Muramasa also sat on the side, although the calf was young, but he could also see that although this Muramasa was older than this Lizheng official, it didn't seem to be like that in etiquette.

The patriarch sat on the chair, his eyes looked at the sky at a forty-five degree angle, he seemed to fall into a memory, and after a long time he came back to his senses and said bitterly: "Sin, sin, this year has been smooth and rainy, if it weren't for this naughty boy's unscrupulous words, he would not have let the heavens bring such a catastrophe." ”

The more the calf looked at it, the more wrong it felt, and immediately grabbed the door frame and shouted outside: "Patriarch Grandpa, it's that Mu Debiao, the two brothers, in order to seize my father's catch, they brutally killed him, you have to punish these bad people." ”

Mu Debiao immediately rushed over, and then slapped the calf in the face, and the calf's entire thin body flew towards the cowshed.

"Nonsense, wronged good people, patriarch, village masa, you have also seen that this demon not only wants to harm the entire village, but also wants to blame others, we can't be soft-hearted."

As soon as Mu Debiao's words fell, they immediately aroused a voice of approval, and several neighbors behind the old man, they stood by Mu Debiao's side without hesitation, shouting together to punish this demon and restore Mu Jiaao to peace.

The calf curled up on his side in the damp and smelly cowshed, he raised his head in the dimness, the cracked skin on his body emitted bursts of pain under the pull, and his face was even hotter, but slowly, he felt that all this pain seemed to be slowly disappearing, he sneered, wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth with his arm and rushed over.

Mu Debiao, who was standing on the edge of the cowshed and still grabbing the door frame and cursing inside, saw that the calf had grabbed his hand and bit it down fiercely.

In an instant, the heart-rending pain resounded in the sky, Mu Debiao smashed it with his elbow, and slapped the calf in the face, but the calf still did not let go, until a small guy rushed over and slapped a wooden stick on the calf's back, only to hear a click, the stick broke into two, sawdust flew in the air, and a depression appeared on the calf's back, and then fell straight to the ground with a muffled snort, and in his mouth, he also bit a piece of bloody flesh, which was Mu Debiao's.

Mu Debiao saw that there was already a piece of meat missing from his hand, and instantly fainted, at this moment, everyone present unanimously believed that the five-year-old child in front of him was definitely a demon, otherwise, no matter what little child could not do such a murderous thing.

In the midst of everyone's discussions, everyone combined with the strange white light scene when the calf was born, and affirmed this matter even more, this is the evil demon, for this kind of evil demon that troubles the world, not only to kill, to make him disappear completely, but also to invite the Taoist master to do some exorcism before it can end.

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