After burying the dog's carcass under the forest on the shore, I returned with an axe.

From afar, I saw the old man leaning on the threshold smoking a dry cigarette, and the rain soaked his trouser legs.

I knew he was worried about my safety, so he sat at the gate and waited for me.

looked at the old man's snow-white silver hair, his old face like a stacked wave, and his worried eyes. My heart was sour, and tears almost came out of my eyes.

"You're hurt? Let's go into the house, and I'll help you with your wounds. ”

When the old man saw me coming back, he didn't immediately ask about the female ghost, but led me into the house to treat my wounds.

There was a charcoal fire in the house, it was very warm, I took off my bamboo hat and clothes and hung it on the wall, and found that the wound on my shoulder that was scratched by the ghost baby was bubbling with black blood, and it was estimated that there was corpse poison.

"The injury is not serious."

The old man smiled with satisfaction and said, "Get rid of the female ghosts, you kid is also half a mountain guard, you did a good job!" ”

His method of dealing with the wound was very simple, he took a sip of warm wine and sprayed it on the wound, squeezed out the dirty blood, and then applied it with a ball of tobacco that he smoked, and simply bandaged it.

When the old man had finished treating his wounds, I wiped the sweat from the pain on my forehead and explained to him the details of how to remove the female ghost.

When the old man heard that the Evergreen Daoist was chasing the ghost baby, his brows couldn't help frowning: "The Heavenly Master's Mansion Lei Fa is the most domineering, but he can't get rid of a ghost baby who has not fully grown up, I'm afraid that people will laugh at him if he says this." ”

"You mean, the old drunkard didn't mean to drink, he didn't want to get rid of the ghost baby, he went up the mountain for another purpose?" I asked.

"It's not enough to lure him out of the mountain, I'm afraid he's going to the one on the mountain."

The old man guessed that the person behind Sun Pu might be the idea of this Evergreen Daoist, or even the Heavenly Master's Mansion, and that his attack on the ghost baby was just a thief shouting to catch a thief.

As for why they did this, it was naturally for the sake of that Dao Sect Supreme Treasure Heavenly Master Sword. Or is there something else besides the Heavenly Master Sword......

Speaking of the Dao Gate Supreme Treasure Heavenly Master Sword, I remembered that before the Evergreen Daoist left, he had looked at the mountain axe a few more times, could it be that he had already recognized this thing?

If this is the case, my situation is very dangerous, and as the so-called Pifu is innocent, they will never allow the heavy treasure of the Dao Gate to fall into the hands of a mortal.

I told the old man about my worries, and the old man nodded and said, "You kid can use your brains, and it's good to be able to take this into account." The Daomen has always regarded us as an evil demon, as long as we have some ability, but those who do not enter the Daomen, are called Yin people, such as those who tie paper, make coffins, and collect corpses, etc., including our mountain guards. In their eyes, there is only Taoism in the world that is orthodox in the world. ”

"But three hundred and sixty lines, the line is the champion, what is orthodoxy? Only strong strength can be called orthodoxy, the so-called right and wrong, in the eyes of the strong are bullshit, this point, you will be able to deeply understand in the future. As for this mountain opening axe, it is not famous in the first place, and there are very few people who know it, plus it has become an ordinary axe at this moment, I am afraid that the only person who can recognize him is the descendants of the strong man back then, but the person in that vein has not appeared for a long time. ”

"Although no one can recognize it, this mountain-opening axe cannot be handed over to you for the time being."

The old man said, with a meaningful smile on his face, patted me on the shoulder and said, "This axe was unintentionally picked up by me when I was patrolling the mountain, and the reason why the Heavenly Master Sword is in the Shuanglong Cave is because the mountain god Niangniang wants to use it to suppress the soul of the resentful dragon in the cave. Now that the Dragon's Soul is in turmoil, you can give this axe to the Mountain God Lady to help her suppress the dragon. After all, she has committed herself to marry you, although our Lao family is not a big family, but it can't be too shabby, this mountain axe should be regarded as a dowry. ”

"An axe as a dowry?"

I was a little stunned, if I hadn't known that the axe was valuable, I really suspected that the old man was crazy. Marriage is a celebratory event, and since ancient times, I have never heard of any family taking an axe as a dowry?

Our Lao family can be regarded as a historical precedent this time.

The old man was not too sad about the death of the old yellow dog, because since he had raised it, he had expected this kind of outcome.

When I returned to my room, my mood fluctuated and I looked at the wedding room that I and the old man had carefully arranged.

Now on the night of the cave room, he is alone in the empty room.

That kind of grievance is estimated to be experienced by men all over the world.

Carefully placing the tablet of the mountain god Niangniang in the inner bed, looking at the scribbled handwriting on the card, I couldn't help but guess what kind of person she was when she was alive.

can drive the three strongest people of the Daomen, as well as the eighteen mountain gods, her identity before her death is probably not simple.

And most importantly, why did they kill the two-headed dragon? Is it just because it is full of evil, and it is a disaster for the world? This reason, while good, is not sufficient.

The old man must have known the secret, but he didn't tell me, and I always thought he was hiding something else from me.

The more I thought about it, the more mysterious and strange the old man became, and I didn't believe that he didn't have the ability to subdue female ghosts and resentful babies.

But I just want me to marry the mountain god Niangniang, is it said that the female ghost resents the baby is not my calamity, and my real calamity has not yet come?

It's all, I'm a mortal, what calamity can I have?

I used to feel very small, but now that I have seen the skills of the Evergreen Dao people, I feel even more small. For a person like me, why would she marry me?

Handsome? Indeed, for an older single young man like me, who is poor and white, the only thing I can do is probably a handsome face.

But the mountain god Niangniang, she doesn't look like such a superficial woman, does she?

The rain outside the window is getting heavier and heavier, the thunder is incessant, and I don't know how she is now? Will it be dangerous?

This night, in the torment of pain, I fell asleep with anxiety.

I didn't wake up until noon the next day, and as soon as I woke up, I smelled a burst of meat and the smell of meat penetrated into my nose.

But when I pushed open the door of the main hall, I saw the old man stirring a pot of dog meat, busy adding ingredients to the pot.

"Awake? The dog meat will be ready soon, wait for our grandparents and grandchildren to drink two glasses. ”

"Old man, do you want to be so ruthless, Lao Huang just died, you eat dog meat, this ...... This can't be Lao Huang's meat, right? ”

I looked at the old man and seriously doubted that he had secretly dug up the body of the yellow dog I had buried by the reservoir last night.

Otherwise, where did he get the dog meat in this barren mountain and wilderness?

"Nonsense!"

The old man was about to knock me with a pot and spoon, and scolded: "Who are you to be Lao Tzu?" The old dog was killed by a female corpse, can the corpse poison be eaten all over the body? ”

"Hey, I haven't eaten dog meat in years since I got that goblin." As he spoke, he couldn't help but wipe the saliva that was running down his cheeks.

In this way, the old man and I had a dog meat hot pot with a heavy heart.

After eating and drinking, I planned to go up the mountain to see the mountain god Niangniang, but the old man didn't let me go. He said that when the mountain god wanted to see me, she would take the initiative to show up. When you don't want to see me, you can't see even if you search the nine peaks of Heavenly Mountain.

I'm not happy in my heart, I'm also her husband anyway, although I haven't officially married in the church, but I should always be able to see each other, right?

The old man ignored me, and ordered me to stay and recuperate, and went out with a fishing rod by himself.

I'm not a workaholic, but I can't spend an afternoon in a boring room.

So within half an hour, I went out to the reservoir to look for the old man.

Although the mountain reservoir is not as magnificent as the flat reservoir, it is not small, and it took half an hour to find the old man.

He is sitting on a bamboo raft at the moment, holding a fishing rod in his hand, with a stack of peanuts and a pot of rice wine next to him.

I don't know if it's a coincidence, the area where he is the same place where the female corpse disappeared last night.

"Old man, you don't look at how old you are, even if you sit on a bamboo raft and fish, you still bring wine, in case you fall into the water, no one will come to save you."

I stood on the shore and watched in horror, reminding the old man to be careful.

When the old man saw me calling out to him, he put down the flask and propped up the raft. Before he got off the raft, he threw the fishing rod in his hand to me first: "I know that you kid can't be idle, come, help me fish." ”

"I'm not interested in fishing right now."

I stuck my fishing rod on the shore and said helplessly.

The old man got off the bamboo raft, lit a dry tobacco bar and took two sips, and said with a smile: "I let you catch not a fish, you see what the bait is under the hook?" ”

I saw that the line was stretched very straight, and the rod was shaking violently, and my heart was happy.

"The fish is hooked!"

I pulled up the fishing rod at the moment and saw that it was a palm-sized red carp, which weighed seven or eight pounds, and I was so happy.

"Old man, look at my luck, I'm afraid that the biggest red carp in the reservoir has been caught by me, right? Ha ha! ”

I was smug when suddenly a pipe was enlarged in front of me, and then my forehead was pounded hard.

"Smug fart, this is the bait that Lao Tzu put down, it was originally hung on the hook." The old man looked at me like an idiot.

"Are you crazy, old fellow? Fishing with fish? Or is it the best red carp in a fish, I'm afraid it will cost tens of thousands of dollars to sell, what are you going to use it to catch? ”

"Hehe, the kid is knowledgeable, the growth rate of red carp is extremely slow, and it is extremely rare to have such a big one, and it will not grow so big in ten or twenty years. This fish, like the old dog I raised, is a semi-psychic existence. ”

"Using such a spiritual creature as bait is naturally fishing for something bigger than it."

I swallowed a mouthful of saliva and asked, "What are you fishing?" Monster? Is there really one? ”

"We mountain guards, in addition to guarding the mountains and forests, in fact, the most important task is to prevent accidents in the mountains, such as animal sperm, so I'm fishing for such a guy now, otherwise do you think the old man and I are so idle every day?"

I was stunned by the old man and asked, "Is there really a water monster?" ”

"Have you ever heard the story of the Jiaojiao?" The old man asked me.

"I've heard it from the old people in the village before." I nodded.

The story of "Walking Jiao" is estimated to have been heard by people who grew up on both sides of the river or on both sides of the river, and even under the ancient bridges built in some places now, there is still a sharp sword hanging, in fact, the sword is used to cut Jiao.

Legend has it that when the big snake cultivates for a certain number of years, it will become a Jiao, and if the Jiao continues to cultivate, it can turn into a dragon. But the process of turning a snake into a dragon is not easy, in addition to the cultivation of endless years, it is also necessary to take advantage of the time when there is a big flood, and return to the river and the sea through the river, this process is called walking Jiao.

In order to prevent the floods from flooding the villages on both sides of the riverbank and the bridge was crashed, people always hung a sharp sword under the bridge when they built the bridge in ancient times.

Some time ago, there was an incident in a certain place, which caused a lot of uproar.

However, in the end, no one could see the true face of the snake, so I don't know whether this matter is true or false, and there is no way to explore.

Could it be that a Jiao has been born here? I heard that Jiao is not all cultivated by snakes, in fact, yellow eels, dried shrimp, crabs, etc. in the river can also be cultivated into Jiao, and they generally like to cultivate silently in mountain reservoirs, or deep wells and cold pools before becoming Jiao.

After becoming a Jiao, he will be born, waiting for an opportunity for a flood to rise and flow down the river into the sea to turn into a dragon.