Li Mo returned to his room, thinking about tonight's events and Blake's words, which were really beyond his previous understanding.

Li Mo sat on the edge of the bed, looked at the ancient books on the bedside table, and then looked at the jade pendant around his neck.

"Something that kills people!"

As he spoke, he picked up the ancient book and threw it into the cabinet, then slammed the door shut. "I almost killed ...... you"

After putting the ancient books in the cabinet, Li Mo couldn't help but think of the first time he traveled to the world of Liaozhai. "Beishan County...... Li Yuanfeng...... Beishan County? Kitayama?? ”

Suddenly, Li Mo seemed to realize something.

"The ancient book... Jade pendant... Could it be that grandpa ...... Have you ever been in the world of chatting? Li Mo frowned.

A long-forgotten past came to his mind.

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Many years ago, Li Moyi and his grandfather lived in a remote old village.

It is called Kitayama Village.

When I was a child, the old village will always spread the legend of the demon, people spread it from mouth to mouth, what the desert mountain demon cried, and the fox demon returned to the door on July 15th.

When Li Moyi was a child, he often heard strange coughing sounds late at night in the summer.

Li Moyi didn't know if he really heard it, he only felt at that time that maybe it was because he had heard too many fox demon stories and had auditory hallucinations.

There are many legends, and there are many rules.

There are two taboos in Beishan Village, one is the deep mountains in the north, and the other is the old woman who lives in Beishan.

Although Beishan Village is small, there is an unwritten rule that if a child under the age of 16 dies, the funeral must be simple, and a thin coffin and a thin tomb plaque are completed. In the early years, there were some poor people who could not afford to buy coffins, and when their children died, they buried their children in the mountains of the north, or simply threw them in the mountains.

This is where Kitayama Village gets its name.

The place is a mass grave for children, and the area around Beishan is almost uninhabited.

Except for the old woman.

She is not from the village, and Li Moyi doesn't know when she came to Beishan Village.

She's ugly, almost terrifying. The face full of furrows was covered with thick pockmarked spots, the two blind eyes were like eggs, and the mouth was full of rancid yellow teeth.

She was thin, her skin was extremely rough, and she was covered with abscesses, and the pus was coming out in the heat, and the smell was terrible.

The people in Beishan Village used to think she had leprosy, and they were very careful not to approach her. The old woman also realized that, as a result, she went directly into the mountains of the north and rarely came out.

Even so, people were afraid to see her.

In the days after the old woman came, Grandpa told Li Moyi to stay away from her, not to approach her, and not to go to the deep mountains in the north.

Li Mo listened to his grandfather's words.

In Li Moyi's memory, his grandfather was a very cultured person, but he often spoke out of tune, and on weekdays, his grandfather often lectured to the old men and old ladies at the entrance of the village.

In the village, the children in the village, and the grandfather's peers, all have high admiration for the grandfather.

When the people of the village were in trouble, they would invite Grandpa to visit. And Grandpa was just as happy to help them.

Li Moyi often followed his grandfather to various homes in the village to see the novelty and listen to his grandfather's words.

At one point, however, Grandpa changed his ways. It is inevitable that words and deeds will become solemn. At that time, a child in the village died suddenly.

The person who died, Li Moyi, knew the little playmate who played with him on weekdays, and his grandfather called him Xiao Jiuzi. Xiao Jiuzi was six years old that year. The ninth in the family, there are eight older sisters on it.

There are some old ideas left in this village, and the old couple gave up so many daughters just to give birth to such a son, hoping that the little nine sons can carry on the lineage for them.

As a result, the person was suddenly gone.

The two mouths cried for a night, and Xiao Jiuzi's parents couldn't believe that their child died like this, and they had no choice but to come to Li Moyi's grandfather.

At that time, Li Moyi followed his grandfather.

For the dead are not buried. The body was not yet in the coffin, but on the bed in the room, maintaining the state in which it was originally found.

Grandpa came to the bedside, and when he saw the body on the bed, his face suddenly changed.

The skin of the corpse on the bed was white, as if it had been soaked in water, but it was not wrinkled, unlike the blistered one. The eyes were dark and strange.

Grandpa took off the clothes on the corpse, and a small black pit appeared on Xiao Jiuzi's shoulder.

When the couple saw it, they exclaimed in surprise, "This was killed by the fox demon."

Grandpa asked Li Moyi to go out first.

Li Moyi didn't know what to say to his grandfather, so he had to run out of the house. But he was still curious about how this little nine sons died. So, he leaned lightly on the window and looked in.

Grandpa looked straight at the window and looked into Li Moyi's eyes with a cold face.

Li Mo trembled, didn't dare to stay, and ran away.

Grandpa never blamed Li Moyi. This was the first time he had been scolded.

Li Moyi was bored outside the room.

Soon, Grandpa walked out of the room, his face was ugly, he didn't say anything, and took Li Mo away.

After coming back, Grandpa touched Li Moyi's head and said, "In the future, you have to stay at home, don't go to Beishan, and don't pay attention to that old woman."

In the end, Grandpa sighed and didn't say anything more.

Li Moyi couldn't sleep that night. He didn't know if he was scared or not. He always felt very uncomfortable in his heart. How did this little nine sons die?

There was a rustle of footsteps outside, as if someone was walking in the mountains. Beishan Village is sparsely populated. Families are far away from each other. Facing mountains on three sides.

Li Mo got out of bed, walked to the window, and opened a slit to look out. He saw a faint green flame moving through the woods.

Li Mo was taken aback, and then took a closer look, it turned out to be a person walking in the mountains carrying a blue oil lamp.

It's the old woman! She was followed by a vague figure, and most people could only leave a vague figure under the oil lamp. But this fat and short guy made Li Moyi recognize him immediately.

It's the little nine sons!!

Isn't Xiao Jiuzi dead? How about him? He's not going to follow the old woman up the North Mountain, is he!?

Xiao Jiuzi traveled lightly, and his behavior was not like usual, not like him.

Grandpa usually doesn't let Li Moyi get close to the old woman, if Xiao Jiuzi follows the old woman into the deep mountains, it will be fine!

Li Mo had the courage to shout to that side by the window: "Little Jiuzi, don't go, come back!!"

Xiao Jiuzi's figure stopped, and the old woman turned her head, her terrifying face becoming more and more hideous and terrifying under the cover of green light.

Li Moyi trembled with fear.

Seeing that Xiao Jiuzi hadn't come back yet, Li Mo had the courage to shout again: "Come back quickly!" Don't go with her, grandpa said you can't get close to her!!"

The window slammed shut. One hand pulled Li Moyi out of the window.

Grandpa looked at Li Moyi with a black face, and shouted angrily: "What are you shouting about!"

"Little Jiuzi is going to follow that old woman to the North Mountain!" Li Mo hurriedly said.

"The little nine sons are all dead! That's not Xiao Jiuzi. Go to sleep!!"

"I saw it!"

"Go to sleep! If you don't listen, I'll beat you!"

When Li Mo heard that his grandfather was going to beat him, he was speechless. Although Grandpa never hit him, he was still afraid of being beaten by Grandpa.

Li Moyi obediently lay on the bed and slept, and his grandfather did not leave, sitting in his room.

There were footsteps in the woods, clear or faint, one moment farther away, another moment near, as if someone was approaching, walking far, wandering.

The next night, Grandpa let Li Moyi sleep in his room.

A few days later, Li Moyi followed a few friends to play in the village, and heard a sound of propaganda from a distance, this is someone dead!

The sound traveled far and wide. A few children ran curiously to the entrance of the village.

This preaching will only sound like this when an adult dies.

The sound lasted all morning and then disappeared in the afternoon, indicating that it was Congjian's funeral and that the deceased was no more than 60 years old.

At night, Li Mo heard rustling footsteps. He quietly got up from the bed, bent down to open the crack in the window, the faint oil light moved in the mountains, and the old woman slowly walked towards the depths of the north mountain at the same time, followed by a tall and strong figure, Li Moyi didn't know who it was.

Bang!!

There was a sudden blow on the forehead. Grandpa led Li Moyi away from the window. "Look! I'll spank you until you bloom!"

Grandpa dragged him back to bed. "Sleep!"

This was the first time his grandfather hit him, Li Mo was so frightened that he didn't dare to breathe, so he hurriedly lay down on the bed and went to sleep.

But it couldn't be quiet, so who was it who followed the old woman into the mountains?

Later, after listening to the gossip of the old man and the old lady in the village, Li Mo knew that in the village, it was a middle-aged man in his forties who died, tall and strong, no disease and no pain, and suddenly died like this, but his body was also covered with white spots, sunken eye sockets, and a small black pit in his abdomen.

The people in the village whispered, the fox demon, this is the fox demon's trouble.

The family of the deceased invited the grandfather, but the grandfather didn't say anything, and the matter passed like that.

There are all kinds of discussions in the village, some talk about the plague, and some talk about murder, but at most it is the fox demon who harms people.

Grandpa was often invited to go. But Grandpa rejected them all.